How to Survive in Difficult Times
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything…. Mary Hemingway
Stress Reduction
Stress, among other things, is “a disturbing physiological or psychological influence which produces a state of severe tension in an individual”. … a feeling of being out of control or not in synch or balance with things.
What Stories Do You Tell Yourself?
Do you know who you are? I mean really? Do you really know?
Not what you own. Not where you live. Not what you do. Not where you go. Just you. Who Are YOU?
Questions or Answers
Questions or answers? Which would you rather have; the appropriate questions or the right answer?
I would venture to say that the majority of you answered “the right answer”. And that is not surprising considering that is the way we learned.
How to Avoid Burnout
I think we can all agree that times are tough and may be getting even tougher. And the tough times continually are thrown up in our faces. We read about it in the papers, and hear it on the news, and talk about it among our work colleagues and friends. The sad thing is that if we continue to focus intently on the bad and tough times we will be dragged down by it. As I have said in other articles “we get what we focus on”.
The Art of Goal Setting
When I talk about goal setting I am talking about setting goals that will accomplish things that you want to accomplish; goals that you set for yourself so that you will be successful…whatever success means to you. A goal is a specific measureable result that you achieve in a determined time frame. Some people refer to goals as dreams with a time stamp. It may apply to areas in your life such as career, financial, health, spiritual, personal, community, or family. The important thing is that the goals need to be related to your priorities. They need to be related to what you value in life to have a fighting chance of being achieved.
Defeating Inertia
Have you ever had bouts of inertia? Was it a good thing or bad thing? I’m sure that all of us have experienced periods of inertia. Some perhaps for long periods of time and some for short periods. Kind of like procrastination.
Be Yourself, Everybody Else is Taken
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilfred Peterson
Maintaining Motivation
Personally, I don’t believe that you can motivate people. Inspire them, yes; but motivate them, no. Motivation comes from within whereas inspiration comes from outside. Motivation, as defined by the Macqaurie Dictionary is 1) a providing of a motive; inducement 2) purpose, drive. (internal) Inspiration, on the other hand, is defined as 1) a thing or person that inspire 2) a result of inspired activity 3) an inspiring or animating action or influence. (external)
Heaven & Hell
I’m not a particularly religious individual but recently I was reminded about heaven and hell. Most of you reading this will think of heaven and hell as something for the after life. The concept being that heaven is good and hell is not pleasant.