Tell us about your “success triggers”. What are some of your chained behavior patterns that sweep you from “getting started” to “into-it” project completion?
Who me? Procrastinate? Nah.
Why is it that sometimes I just find myself stuck avoiding a project and other times I find myself mid-project before I even know I’ve started? What’s behind procrastination and what can we do to short-circuit it?
I have several important and urgent things I need to do. (To understand the distinction between important and urgent, see: Yuni library – Urgent vs Important) And apparently they are things I really don’t want to do. Because here I am up since 5AM and now it’s 3PM, and I’ve found oh-so-many other things to do during that time. And I’ve not even started on the important/urgent gotta-do things. What’s going on?
Continue reading » Getting Started vs. Procrastinating
Can you believe that it is ALREADY August 21st? This year has just flown by and HORROR of HORRORS, Christmas has arrived – in the stores. I went to Costco the other evening and there they were, the first displays of Christmas stuff. I AM NOT READY FOR CHRISTMAS!!! Repeat after me, “I will not do my Christmas shopping until at least Halloween!”
Yeah, right! I know that the reason these things are appearing now is because the retailers are all nervous about the Back-to-School and Christmas seasons. What really makes it worse is that product inventories are down so much that there is a sense of urgency to buy things before they disappear.
Continue reading » The Teacher Appeared While I Was Distancing Christmas – and of Course, There are Dogs
I’m finding teachers in places I go and places I’ve been. What about you – where are your teachers appearing. And what are you ready to learn these days?? Share?
I guess I subscribe to the saying that when you are ready to learn a teacher will appear.
So there I was Sunday ruminating (during Church no less) that I used to be comfortably and securely an “I inside a We” and now must be a “me, myself and I” again – someone I’ve not been for forty-seven years – not since I first started dating my husband. (Yeah, looking back it was pretty much love at first sight – scary huh?) That’s not to say I felt subsumed by the partnership. No, it was more of a “we’ve got each other’s back” inner knowledge that sustained. We each were our own persons within our “we-us” and me, I’ve always been pretty darn independent and assertive. Or so those near and dear tell me. They tease that you don’t want to cross Ellie – no you don’t.
Continue reading » A Teacher Will Appear…
What habitual reactions help you?
According to Wikipedia, habits are routines of behavior that tend to occur subconsciously and are repeated regularly. That seems like a good description of a habit and I’m going to add to it. I think habits are routines of behavior and thought that tend to occur subconsciously and are repeated regularly. Subconscious thoughts are thoughts that are there but that we don’t give them our attention. I am suggesting that we don’t pay enough attention to our thoughts and how we talk to ourselves.
Continue reading » Play It Again, Sam
Experiment with distancing yourself from your worries and let us know how this works for you.
Have you ever found yourself stewing over something that happened and didn’t go well for you? Berating yourself because you blew it big time and you’re mortified remembering what you said or did? Castigating yourself for your oh-so inappropriate reactions?
Continue reading » Distance Yourself from Your Worries
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