“Banish the Sunday Night Blues!” Listen in, call in, and enjoy a lively discussion about slowing down to enjoy life.
You can do that this Sunday, December 23rd, at 10:00 PM Eastern. I’ll be a guest of Kristen Hallows on her Blog Talk Radio show Job You Desire.
I’m always bothered when I hear people focusing on what went wrong in their lives, day after day after day. These people are suffering from a chronic bad day, and I hate this for them, because it is absolutely unnecessary. It’s not raining five feet away, but they’re carrying their own clouds around everywhere they go.
Sometimes in life you just have to give up. That may seem like a pretty absurd statement from a professional coach and lifestyle mentor, but I think it’s the most important advice I ever got, and the most important thing I can share with a client who’s facing something that is just not humanly possible.
Do you make your own choices or are you constantly letting what other do dictates how you decide? There is a post at Dumb Little
What do you do when you’re tired, irritable, and need to relax?
The irony is that the more we try to cram into our already overpacked lives, the morescattered and fragmented our lives become. And when that happens, we lose sight of what’s most important to us. We are let down, disappointed, confused, unfulfilled.
One of my favorite quotes is Carlos Castaneda’s:
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
I love this quote because it reminds me of how hard I used to work, just because I believed that working that hard would make me happy. It didn’t, and I think that if work was going to make me happy, eighty to one hundred hours a week should have done it.
Businesses have mission statements, so, if you write a personal mission statement will that help you to succeed? There is a post about writing personal
I’m always amazed at what people say about themselves sometimes, and how that really contrasts with what they do. What’s the quote? Something about what you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.
That sentiment means so much to me, because I know that in spite of wanting to be generous, patient, compassionate, and thoughtful, I am often selfish, impatient, intolerant and closed-minded.
In today’s world there is an infinite possibility for information and choices available; to read about this there is a blog, Information Overload and Personal
Have you ever been in a job interview, and had the interviewer ask you if you were “self-motivated?” Have you ever wanted to answer with something like, “Who else, exactly, would be motivating me?”
Most of us do things every day like go to work, for ourselves or someone else, and do the work in front of us to do, whether we want to or not. Before that we got out of bed, got dressed, ate breakfast, took a shower, brushed our teeth.
All of those things take motivation, and if you’re not self-motivated, who’s motivating you?
There sometimes seems to be a backlash in our culture against people who value their spiritual lives and try to improve their spiritual state. In effect, the idea seems to be that smart people aren’t spiritual; that people who are spiritual are somehow stupid enough to be “gulled” into believing something that obviously can’t be true. I really have a problem with this outlook for four reasons:
Sweet Life:
In Harmony. Balanced. Mental and emotional stability and serenity.
Free of discord. No contradictions. No inconsistencies between the beliefs and values one holds and one’s actions.
Want to live a sweet life? Find out exactly how to do it in my post
Where we once felt purposeful, focused, and fueled with passion… these days, we’re apt to be idealistic but scattered, connected but alone. Our lives are brimming over, and yet we’re empty inside.
The main obstacle that gets in the way of most people changing how they want to change is that they cannot determine exactly how to
When we talk about “comfort zones” in self-help, we’re not talking about the temperatures between 67 and 75, or wherever the comfort zone on your thermostat lies. But that comfort zone is a good starting place, actually.
We all deal with change, well or poorly, every day. The challenge for most of is not so much that we have change to deal with, but how well we manage it. Managing change well means less stress, less work, and more time to feel content, joyful, and fulfilled.
Today, my gift to you is a gift suggestion for those folks who live, eat, and breathe personal development, and/or for those hoping to achieve their New Year’s resolutions in 2008.
