How Can a Few Seconds Be Useful?

By using them to ‘reboot’ yourself! Ctrl-Alt-Del for the mind…

March 23, 2013 0

Do you like me?

Being a WordPress consultant in the WordPress.com community is a terrible thing. I’m always coming across things that I’d like to change or add to my blog as I read your content on your sites. Changing the look and feel of my blog is something that I could do even more often than I do, but recently, I changed to the Splendio theme and I’m quite happy with the results. It’s a little bit edgy for me, but I think the generally upbeat ‘feel’ is consistent with my message of wholeheartedness and self-compassion…

What about you? What’s your take?

March 23, 2013 4

A Tale of Two Coaches: What Kind Are You?

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There’s more to coaching than sharing your expertise. The way you communicate that expertise is as important as the knowledge itself.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

Michael Hyatt shares an interesting story about picking up golf again. More interesting to me is this question; when coaching your Self, which one of these two coaches do you most resemble? Which one would you like to be more like?

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March 23, 2013 0

Crazy Train

Funny. A year ago this time I thought I was doing well to know that I could get off the Crazy Train. Now, thanks to the works of Brene Brown, Tara Brach and Kristin Neff I am realizing I don’t have to react to every opportunity to get on the train; I can respond to those opportunities by sitting at the station and watching the Crazy Train go by. It may seem silly to you, but it’s a big revelation for me…

:-D

Bright, shiny objects!

I’m not much of an Ozzy Osbourne fan but I heard the words to this song for the first time today and I actually thought it was quite good…

Crazy,but that’s how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it’s not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Drivin’ me insane
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I’ve listened to preachers
I’ve listened to fools
I’ve watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role
Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I’m going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words
Yeah
Heirs of a cold war
That’s what we’ve become
Inheriting troubles I’m mentally…

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March 22, 2013 0

4 Quickies To Improve Listening Skills

March 22, 2013 0

Unconditional love

March 22, 2013 0

Meditation, mindfulness, and introversion

mindfulness. authenticity. introversion.

Zen Habits: “But what many people don’t realize is that meditation is perhaps the most important habit if you want to change other habits.”

I have been asking myself more frequently why I am writing about mindfulness and its benefits and yet my meditation – just sitting down and doing it – is pretty non-existent.

Thankfully there are little pockets of the memory of meditation from years past, but it is barely enough.

Then I got two prompts in the same day. An email from Zen Habits about how meditation is the most fundamental habit. An article in Australian Yoga Life magazine on re-energising your focus on meditation. Both reminded me about the importance of commitment, and about placing meditation within the rhythm of your daily life.

Starting small and starting now are great ways to begin a habit. But it’s often useful to unpack why I am resisting…

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March 22, 2013 2

what is mindfulness?

March 22, 2013 0

How we carry

Mindfulbalance

How we carry what has gone wrong for us

is essential to being at home in ourselves,

and present to the world with all of its failings.

Krista Tippett

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March 22, 2013 0

Hack Your Brain to Turn Bad Habits Into Good Ones

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GUEST POST: Nutrition consultant Dr. Michael Roussell tackles how to turn bad habits into good ones — and offers some simple behavior tweaks that can help us get there.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

Good stuff from Greatist! "You can’t erase a habit, you can only overwrite one."

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March 21, 2013 0

Be Thankful For The Bad Things

Live Life Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Live Life Happy

via Be Thankful For The Bad Things.

March 21, 2013 0

A post about ‘nothing’…

March 21, 2013 1

Ask One Question Every Morning

Lifehacker writes:

We often find ourselves trying to figure out ways to be successful; initiating ideas that could be stepping stones towards the goals we set out. Sadly, certain obstacles may set us back in our tracks, and what started off as a plan of action may turn into something we wish we could have done. Little did we know that success comes in different forms—it could happen overnight or it could take months, or even years. The fact remains that what we’re able to accomplish every single day contributes to the likeliness that success is just a few steps ahead.

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March 21, 2013 1

Never Settle For Less

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Know your worth. NEVER settle for less than you deserve.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

The word ‘deserve’ makes me feel uneasy because in my past, what I deserve has led to feelings of entitlement and expectation that lead to disappointment. Still, a healthy self-compassionate perspective is a necessity; only you can find the balance in your life…

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March 21, 2013 0

The Timeless Teachings of “The Road Not Taken”

Road Less Traveled

The folks at FinerMinds say…

For all you poets, romantics and lovers of literature out there, today is World Poetry Day.

To pay homage to all the weavers and rhymers of words, we wanted to share one the top poems of all time (which also happens to be a personal favorite of ours), The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost.

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
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