LOL. Good luck with that…
…on Choice
“We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it.” ~ Chris Guillebeau via Choice.
5 Tips for Boosting Your Willpower
Need to get started? Ponder this:
“Who among us has not made a plan to get up in the morning and exercise, but then hit snooze one time too many, sleeping through our morning jog?
We may have been super-inspired by the incredible brain-boosting properties of exercise. We may have had every intention to start an exercise plan and stick to it. But then… we didn’t. Our warm bed sucked us in. We’ll exercise tomorrow. What we need is willpower.
Once we get in the habit of exercising—or of staying calm in the face of a toddler meltdown, of not checking our email after five o’clock, or of doing anything else we want to have the resolve to do—we don’t need to try so hard. But for now, because we are in the habit of pushing snooze—or yelling, or checking email compulsively all evening—we need self-discipline.” via 5 Tips for Boosting Your Willpower | Psychology Today.
Follow the ‘via’ link above to get 5 great tips…
Is Personal Growth a Danger to Your Relationship?
Interesting perspective on growth in a relationship. Is it always good?
“We like to think that, in the romantic ideal, people love each other out of a keen appreciation for their partners’ most fundamental selves. They continue to love each other through mutual growth and change based on a profound devotion to who each other really is. As the partners grow, they make choices that enable them to change with each other and their relationship, making it stronger with every change. But we can never know another person (or even ourselves) that perfectly, and since our selves are what we make of them, we can change them. While we hope our partners continue to love and appreciate us as we change, it is important to acknowledge the possibility that we can change them fundamentally enough to make even the most deeply appreciative partner wonder who we are. One can be legitimately surprised when the person he or she loves seems to be slipping away, replaced by another person who looks just the same but behaves very differently. This can be tragic, but in the end it may lead both people, who once may have been a wonderful fit for each other, to find new partners who are better fits for who they are now.” via Is Personal Growth a Danger to Your Relationship? | Psychology Today.
Follow the ‘via’ link above if you’d like the entire context…
On People Who Do Not Dream…
“While dreaming may be a cultural universal, it is clear that some individuals recall few or no dreams over many years. These individual suffer no ill consequences from their apparent inability to dream. Dream recall apparently is not necessary for mental, physical or cultural health.” via People Who Do Not Dream | Psychology Today.
Perhaps you were expecting something different from the title, but as one of those people who remembers a dream maybe once per year, I’m glad to know that this alone does not make me insane. Follow the ‘via’ link above if you want to know more…
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Are You Moving Forward or Just Running in Place?
Have you been feeling run down and exhausted? Are your days filled with busywork—endless e-mails, reports, and meetings where everyone’s eyes glaze over? Is time at home a perpetual to-do list of cooking, cleaning, laundry, plumbing repairs and household maintenance?
via Are You Moving Forward or Just Running in Place?.
How I Used the Power of Bad Habits to Change My Life
Spread the word! Leo Babauta’s doing a free webinar on bad habits later today. Here are the deets:
Today I’ll be holding a free webinar, “How I Used the Power of Bad Habits to Change My Life“, and I’d love for you to join me.
The webinar will be held today Mon. April 23 at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern, on the Habit Course channel on Ustream. You don’t need an account to watch, but if you’d like to ask questions and chat, I recommend signing up for a free Ustream.tv account.
In the webinar, I’ll talk about my struggle with bad habits, why bad habits are so powerful, and how I used the principles that make bad habits stick to beat them. I then applied these same principles to forming good habits, and will share how I did that in the webinar.
You’ll also be able to ask questions about habits when I’m done with the talk, via text chat.
I hope to see you there!
Join me here at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern:
How I Used the Power of Bad Habits to Change My Life
via Free Webinar: How I Used the Power of Bad Habits to Change My Life.
Get some!
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Foggy Boardwalk Blues
This is the blockbuster sequel to Bill Pevlor’s epic photo Boardwalk in the Fog…
What will he think of next? Visit Pops Digital via Foggy Boardwalk Blues to find out. Hopefully, it will be some daffodils…
Sell The Goat!
Tony Meindl shares this today…
JUDITH LASATER, a wonderful yoga teacher and writer, tells a story about “selling the goat.”
It’s a metaphor for taking a step back and gaining perspective on your life when a situation is troublesome or stressful and it’d be helpful to see it with a new pair of eyes. She suggests, “selling the goat” – which simply means, to let go of your fixed, fearful hold on things and see the situation from a more accurate perspective.
Breathe.
I’m taking her idea one step further. To me, “the goat” represents not only our conditioned way of thinking about things and our habituated response from a negative, limited-view way of thinking, but also, it represents the multitude of distractions in our lives.
You know the ones…
Unsupportive friends. Negative lovers. Disrespectful agents. Toxic relationships. Two-timing partners. Mean managers. Horrible bosses.
These people are not helping or being supportive with where you want to go in life.
Sell it. Get rid of it. Recycle it. Cash it in. Pack your bags. Change your zip code.
Life is too short.
Get more here: Sell The Goat!.
…on Control
“Why worry about things you can’t control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?” ~ Unknown via Dealing with a Break-Up and Learning from the Experience | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In.
…on Being Awesome and Negative
Can’t do it! Impossible…
You can’t be both awesome and negative. Choose one. doodle awesome negative poster – notsalmon.
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…on Knowing Who You Are
“Don’t get confused between what people say you are and who you know you are.” ~ Oprah Winfrey via On the Road with Oprah’s Lifeclass: Deepak Chopra and Perez Hilton « Positively Positive.
What’s Your Ten-Point Manifesto?
Read Gretchen Rubin’s post: What’s Your Ten-Point Manifesto? « Positively Positive.
…on Comfort Zones
“Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.” ~ Jack Canfield via Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone. « Positively Positive.
…on Difficulty
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein via Today’s Quotes: Einstein Says Difficulty = Opportunity!.
Hmmm. I always say ‘the chaos is the opportunity’ — especially when consulting! :-D
Sounds like I was influenced by Einstein on this one…
…on Growth
“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” ~ John Maxwell via Quote: On Growth | Greatist.com.
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