To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
— Chinese Proverb
Today is the one year anniversary of my “new job.” I’m amazed at how much this experience has changed me.
I have developed and delivered training for about 15 years. Although one can always learn, most projects I’ve been involved with don’t really stretch me. Yes, I have to learn about the topic I’m working on, but because I’m very good at learning new businesses and the software systems that run that specific business, it’s usually a joyful and fun experience. Learning new businesses is something I Continue reading » Persistently Stubborn
Do you remember a time when you felt “bulletproof”?
Superman was impervious, and Wonder Woman had those awesome bracelets, but the average person (or superhero) needs to find a realistic way to avoid those small but potentially deadly projectiles. The first – and best – course of action is obviously to just avoid getting shot at in the first place. Barring that option, however, the next best thing to do is to duck, dodge, or otherwise evade the bullets that life will inevitably throw at you.
— Aaron Potts
Sometimes it’s really difficult to summon up the gumption to forge ahead with goals which, in morning’s light seemed achievable, but which now, after a frustrating day of stumbling effort, suddenly seem impossible to achieve. That’s when I have to dig deep… and, in the words of Corey Adler Leidersdorff, “Go back to the time when everything was possible… remember when you were bulletproof, when the world was full of promise.”
Surprisingly, I do remember feeling bulletproof – surely that sense of invincibility was an illusion. Yet it carried me ’round sharp corners and through tight spaces. Call it chutzpah or call it naiveté – whatever it was, it pulled me through before I had a chance to get discouraged.
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller
Not so this day. This day started in a burst of arrogance and high spirits – Continue reading » Dodging Bullets
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
— James Cash Penney (JC PENNEY)
It’s only the middle of January and already it’s been a challenging year. Within my small group of friends and coworkers, there have been three deaths in our families and two major automobile accidents. Today, the Ladies of Literature had their annual meeting to toast the new year and pick our books for 2012. One of our members said that 2012 had to get better from here. Another member predicted that we just might look back on 2011 as a really good year once we saw what Continue reading » Together We Can Do More
Make 2012 the year you commit daily acts of random kindness – it’ll escalate wellness all over the place!
Double Whammy: The occurrence of two SUPER AWESOME things/events at one time
— UrbanDictionary.com
Today I’m advocating that you turn your attention, your efforts, your energy toward doing random acts of kindness for others. And already a voice inside your head objects: Wait a minute! It’s the beginning of a new year and I really need to focus on my own goals! But that’s what Dan Rockwell, a.k.a. the Leadership Freak, calls “wrong-headed thinking”:
We’ve all heard people wishing they had more opportunities. This happens for two reasons:
- Comparing our opportunities with others makes us want what others have. Envy and greed are, however, partners with emptiness and frustration.
- Wrong-headed thinking about opportunities. Opportunities are not primarily about getting. Getting is the result of opportunity not the opportunity itself.
Opportunities are your chance to add value before receiving benefit…You have more opportunities than you can imagine because opportunities are about giving. The more value you add, the greater the opportunity.
Ok – so here’s the good news: I’m not suggesting you spend all day doing good – nope, I’m only suggesting that you devote about three minutes a day to this “doing good for others” thing. And the best news of all: your actions will create a cascading double whammy effect.
Do the Double Whammy Twofer
Two wellness increases for the price of one… that’s what you get when you perform random acts of kindness:
- You reduce your stress by doing something good for Other People (OPs).
- OPs then have something good to put on their What-Went-Well List at the end of the day which increases their sense of well being.
There you have it, wellness spread like peanut butter on bread – all over the place! But in only three minutes??? Come on, how can that be? Well, I’m suggesting that you do TEN of what Jason F. Wright dubs the Continue reading » Escalate Flourishing with a Double Whammy Two-fer
I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
— Don Young
One of my favorite whines has to do with how I look. Yes, I’m getting older and I’m showing my age (where I can’t help it), but that’s not what I’m referring to.
My problem is I’m showing my stress. For all of us who are carrying a little, or a lot, of weight around the middle, there’s good and bad news attached. The good news is that the weight that you’re carrying is less about a lack of discipline or an unwillingness to give up cake/chips/muffins/buttered popcorn, etc. than it is about the amount of stress in your life. The bad news is that if Continue reading » Making Stress Your Friend
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