What looms large in your mind’s eye? Is it really as big and threatening as it seems? Or has something in your life magnified your negative perception of the situation?
Have you ever been cruising through your day when suddenly you morph into Eeyore, Disney’s affectionately animated and sad-eyed, flop-eared donkey who mopes: “A mostly sunny day, to some, can look a lot like partly gray.”
I have. And, when that happens, IF I notice the shift, I feel angry, helpless, not in control, puzzled, and, frankly, hijacked by circumstances. How did I get here? What knocked me so low so suddenly???
Continue reading » Ellie Just Morphed Into Eeyore – Now What’s That About???
Or Maybe You’d Like to Play…
PattiAnn reminded us yesterday that alternating work with relaxation can actually make us more productive – and that a little struggle is a good thing. The WhyDoWork.com forum reminds us once again that challenge and persistence play well in both work and play:
Continue reading » Our week in review: Use it or lose it through deep practice of structured procrastination – or better yet, you deserve a break!
Remember the bumper stickers that said, “I’d rather be shopping”? Well, I’d rather be talking. I’ve always been a natural talker. I didn’t realize that I was such a character until I got the opportunity to be in the chorus of Wonderful Town my sophomore year of high school. You need to understand that my only motivation for trying out was that there would be boys there. I was attending an all-girls high school (do I really need to say Catholic?) and there were no boys on campus… except during the play. Well, when the curtain went up on opening night all my parents could say was “You’re such a HAM!” I didn’t even know what that meant.
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What pleasures have you been denying yourself by not using those wonderful treasures stored away in your cupboards and closets? Isn’t it time to break out the “good stuff”? Let us know how that works for you!
Many folks are going through hard times right now. That’s especially true on a couple fronts: the financial front and the morale front. Some have lost jobs; some can’t find new jobs; some worry about losing jobs. All of us, I suspect even those who still feel secure financially, are pulling in our horns, spending less, finding ways to “make-do” or “do without”. And many of you are exercising that third characteristic of resilient people: you’ve become practicing “bricoleurs” creatively using what’s at hand to solve problems.
Continue reading » Got It? Use It!
What little change can you make today?
In last week’s post, Play It Again, Sam, I talked about using habits to help maintain a good mood when dealing with the frustrations that we face every day. Because I’ve been there too, I know that creating new habits is hard work. Now, there is an explanation of how the function of learning works in our brains. In the past what I’d learned was that when we repeated a behavior it carved a path in our brain. The more often we repeated the behavior, the deeper the path, until finally you had a rut – maybe a really deep rut. For good habits, this was really good. For bad habits, this wasn’t so good because it took forever to develop a new habit rut that was deeper than the old habit.
Continue reading » Persistence
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