Continued from Part 3
When every option has its merits but you can only do ONE – how do you choose the “right” path? Perhaps it’s time to try the fourth of five optimistic approaches to unfuddling your brain. To discover what you want to do, force yourself to make iterative choices between desirable futures.
Paired Choice Comparison Tool
About 20 years ago I arrived at an “aha” moment using a tool called “Paired Comparison”. I needed to understand WHY I wasn’t acting on my long-time desire to go into business for myself.
Continue reading » What Next? – Part Four – Force Yourself to Choose…
Welcome to the Official Grand Opening of BouncebackCafe.com. We’ve been previewing for the last four weeks, making sure that we got the kinks worked out and building up content so that you’d have plenty to browse when you came to visit. Since we’ve just sent out a big announcement to many more of our business and family friends, we wanted to revisit the reasons we’ve chosen the resilience theme for BouncebackCafe.com so we’re re-posting the Why Resilience? article we opened with. Please let us know what you think, whether you agree or disagree, post, post, post.
Originally posted on May 25th, 2009
Have you noticed how people are much more interested in finding ways to cope than they used to be? There seems to be a public acknowledgement that times are tough. As a culture, we all are more aware of the troubles of our “neighbors.” Part of this is the 24-hour news cycle which must be fed constantly, so there are more stories about the effects of the economic crisis, swine flu, etc. Part of it is that we are more in contact with people all over the country thru email, Skype, Facebook, etc, than we ever were before. We “know” more people and their stories.
At Book Club last night I heard about a family in Michigan. One of our Book Club members mentioned that she was talking to a software support person, someone she works with regularly. He told her that his wife and her family members (father, brothers, sisters) had ALL been laid off from one of the Big Three automakers. With only him still working, their family’s unemployment rate was about 80%. Continue reading » Why Resilience?
Continued from Part 2
When you’re facing a passel of conflicting decisions, this, the third of five optimistic approaches to unfuddling your brain may be your ticket to clarity.
Tap into your mysterious inner self – let your various “voices” decide what to take on an anticipated “journey” into the unknown!
In The Life You’ve Always Wanted
, John Ortberg describes bath time with his kids. When he took his daughter out of the tub, she ran in circles singing “dee dah day, dee dah day”, doing the dance she does when her joy is so big that she just can’t hold it in any more. Being a goal oriented adult, he almost missed this joyful celebration by insisting that she hurry over so he could dry her off. She stopped and, looking straight at him, asked the question every adult dreads, “Why?” Upon reflection, he really couldn’t give her an answer. He was just trying to get bath time finished. He had nowhere to go. Nothing he needed to do. He was just being a goal-oriented adult.
Continue reading » A “Dee Dah” Day
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