How do you hold on to your “calm” when crisis strikes?
You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
— Pat Schroeder
It happens every so often – things are going really well and then – BAM! – Alarm bells go off in your head and you just know in your gut: Something’s gone terribly wrong! But before we shift directly into the high gear of crisis mode, let’s stop and assess the situation. Let’s buy ourselves a moment or two of calm while we figure out whether this is real CRISIS, a false alarm or something in-between…
I got to thinking about this idea of early over-reaction and its consequences after I read Captain Alan Bean’s story about the U.S. Apollo 12 Space Mission – apparently as a part of their training, student-pilots are taught to recognize when things start to go wrong and, then, before panicking, to ask the question: Continue reading » Is This Plane Still Flying?
Any day above ground is a good day.
— James Reyne
Each new day is an opportunity to start over – to choose how to feel, how to behave… how to live. If yesterday just never seemed to go right, we have the opportunity to declare – Today is a new day and it’s a great day! By setting the intention for the day, we up the odds that it will actually happen.
The 2004 movie, 50 First Dates, tells the story of a young woman, Lucy, who woke each day with no memory of the day before. She had been in an accident which had damaged the area of her brain that stores memories. The result was that although her long term memory allowed her to remember her family and all of her life before the accident, she didn’t remember anything which happened after the accident. Every day Lucy woke up feeling as good as she had before the accident. Every day, Henry had to remind her of what had happened since the accident. But, he didn’t have to include everything. He could set her up for happiness every morning.
In some ways, I am like Lucy. The difference is Continue reading » Good Morning Merry Sunshine
Are you guilty of Splat Head? If you’re multitasking and proud of it, think again…
We cannot control the parade of thoughts marching through our minds. But we can choose which ones we will give our attention to. Picture your thoughts as people passing by the front of your home. Just because they’re walking by doesn’t mean you have to invite them in.
— Unknown
I’m guilty of Splat Head; I multitask as often as I can. How about you? On her blog, Christine Kane writes about multitasking – and she seems equate it to a disease:
Many of us – especially artists, creative types, and the self-employed – catch Attention Splatter. It’s insidious. We’re so good at multi-tasking and being available to all things at all times that we don’t even realize that we’re only half present to any given one of them. Our attention is splattered.
Interestingly enough, as much as we publicly disparage multi-tasking, many of us secretly believe it’s a skill, something that some people do well, and many of us count ourselves as among that “do well” crowd. Somehow those insidious, sneaky little tasks nibble away at our consciousness and lull us into believing we’re better off doing Continue reading » Splat Head!
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