For the last two weeks we’ve been giving you ideas on how you can change your response to things that happen to you, thoughts that come into your head, bad moods, etc. The one thing we have neglected to give you is a methodology for learning these new skills. The fact is that learning a new skill can be challenging and one of the reasons that people hesitate to try new things is that they don’t know how to coach themselves.
When I was a kid, I never really participated in sports. I was the oldest and until my younger siblings came along, my parents thought that sports were an unnecessary complication of their lives. I went to Catholic school in Illinois. This means that there was no gym period – because we poor Catholics didn’t have a gym and those Illinois winters are brutal. Also, having gone to school in the Pleistocene period, there was no law requiring that we be exposed to physical education of any sort, thus the beginning of “secretary spread” in first grade.
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Are your inner critics whapping your Best Shot Process a bit off kilter? How do you bounce back when your inner critics are raging?
What in the Heck Is a “WobblingWeeble”???
Well, that would be me bouncing back like the toys in Hasbro’s nostalgic jingle, “Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down.” I whimsically envision myself stalwartly standing up to the antics and attacks of my fierce inner critics:
They go – Whap-Whap-Whap!
While I sing – Weebles wobble but they won’t fall down!
Ok, ok, I suppose some of you are just too young to remember the jingle so take a listen to the old-time “Weebles Wobble”.
Silly as it sounds, this bit of make-believe helps me withstand the onslaught of my very vociferous, willful and shameless inner critics who delight in:
- Distracting me when I’m-on-a-roll
- Contradicting me when I’m forming opinions
- Challenging me when I’ve arrived at a decision
- Disparaging my fledgling efforts to try new tactics
And, worst of all:
- Criticizing my every effort to “do better”
Join My Pastiche – add some fun stuff to my Out-of-the-Dumpity-Dumps List…
Today I invite you to turn on your sound, click play on the following YouTube video and hum along, let the video play in the background while you read on…
What Smalls will you celebrate?
Don’t let the bastards get you down!
I’ve got some new mountains to climb. And they’re scaring me. My guess is that many of you are, like me, experiencing the following: just as I encounter a precipice, just when I need to make a leap of faith, I find my bounce back juice is running low.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to let the bastards get me down! I’m just going to take a deep breath and figure it out as I go. And take it one step, one day, one little win at a time. And gift myself with the occasional wallow without getting stuck in the quicksand. I’ll stumble up the bounce back path, by God I will!
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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???
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