Thinks I find along the way
In mindfulness meditation, when you notice a thought, you’ll likely be tempted to dwell on it and take it somewhere. Instead, you can just touch it lightly with your attention and go right to your breath. It doesn’t matter if you were off in space for a long time. In the moment you touch the thought, you can bounce right back.
Source: This is Your Anxious Brain on Meditation – Mindful
This talk from Tara Brach may help with this issue!
Good stuff from one of my favorite thinkers: David Amerland!
If you could see thoughts what would change for you? How much would you be able to improve your own thinking by? Would you be able to prevent bad thought patterns from developing? Would you steal other people’s thoughts and have them as your own? Would the thought patterns you saw transcribed inside their heads allow you to determine how successful people think and emulate them? Would your path through life suddenly become clearer as a result? Would it be better? Would you?
Go to the source: Seeing Invisible Things
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. — Friedrich Nietzsche
This one quote changed my life in more ways that you can imagine in the past 10 years! Ponder it. It will help you get rid of black and white thinking, superiority complexes and most political views. :-D
Source: SimpleReminders.com — You have your way. I have my way. As for the right…
Acceptance is the road to all change. If resisting has failed and frustrated you, try to accept what is. As hard as it is to believe, acceptance can open different opportunities for change than resistance. Struggling can sometimes swallow us even deeper into the quicksand of our problems. Difficult problems take time to resolve. The more frantically you pick at knots, the more entangled they can become. To untangle yourself try relaxing. Gently and patiently work with your difficulties and in time you will be freed from what now seems impossible. You are being called to heal yourself, not to agonize over your mistakes. Quit overthinking; this is what surrendering really means. Don’t focus on your problems and don’t obsess about “fixing” things. Avoid forcing “positive thinking.” These thoughts can be psychological irritants. Just leave yourself alone! When you pick at things, they never heal. Simply relax and give yourself some time. Source: SimpleReminders.com — Acceptance is the road to all change. If…
In 1748, the British politician and aristocrat John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, used a lot of his free time for playing cards. One of the problems he had was that he greatly enjoyed eating a snack, whilst still keeping one hand free for the cards.
So he came up with the idea to eat beef between slices of toast, which would allow him to finally eat and play cards at the same time. Eating his newly invented “sandwich,” the name for two slices of bread with meat in between, became one of the most popular meal inventions in the western world.
Now you are very likely to never forget the story of who invented the sandwich. Or at least, much less likely to do so than if it had been presented in bullet points or another purely information based form.
For over 27,000 years, since the first cave paintings were discovered, telling stories has been one of our most fundamental communication methods.
Here is the science around storytelling and how we can use it to make better decisions every day:
https://blog.bufferapp.com/science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains
A great list from one of the most interesting bloggers I know: Nicholas Bate.
Focused Attention. This is your greatest asset. It has limited battery power and limited bandwidth. Remove distractions and use it with deliberate intent to meet your goals. Ever-increasing Smartness. You have got to be smarter than the robot that wants your job, smarter than a disappearing market and smarter than the guy who hired you. Start here. A Portfolio of Project Bs. From your novel to your photography, from your Portuguese to your pottery class, project Bs keep you alert, keep you thinking creatively and may one day become significant revenue earners. A Return to Basics. Awesome meetings, engaging presentations and leadership which leads. Get brilliant at the basics. Unstoppable energy. M-E-D-S. meditation-exercise-diet-sleep. The details here. A New Environment of Minimalism and Simplicity so that not only can you see the wood for the trees, you know where the wood is, you know how many trees there are and why it is daft to keep just cutting down trees when perhaps you should just get out of the wood. The ability to take decisions, turn those decisions into actions and see those actions through.
Go to the source for more: The 7 Things You Will Need (more than ever) in 2017 – Nicholas Bate
Our brains process some content formats differently than others. Learn how your audience responds to your content to tailor your strategy.
Source: How the Brain Processes Different Types of Content by Todd Lohenry
Seth Godin writes:
Organic chemistry doesn’t care if you believe in it. Neither does the War of 1812.
Truth is real, it’s measurable and it happened. Truth is not in the eye of the beholder.
There are facts that don’t change if the observer doesn’t believe: The age of the Eiffel Tower. The temperature in Death Valley. The number of people in the elevator.
On the other hand, there are outcomes that vary quite a bit if we believe: The results of the next sales call. Our response to medical treatment. The enjoyment of music…
If you believe that this wine tastes better than that one, it probably will. If you believe you’re going to have a great day at work, it will surely help. Placebos work.
We make two mistakes, all the time. First, we believe that some things are facts (as in true), when in fact, belief has a huge effect on what’s going to happen. In the contest between nature and nurture, nurture has far more power than we give it credit for. In countless ways, our friends and parents matter more than our genes do.
At the same time, sometimes we get carried away. We work to amplify our beliefs by willfully confusing ourselves about whether the truth is flexible. It makes belief a lot more compelling (but a lot less useful) if we start to confuse it with truth.
But belief is too important and too powerful to be a suspect compatriot of the scientific/historical sort of truth.
We can believe because it gives us joy and strength and the ability to do amazing things. That’s enough.
Go to the source for more: Seth’s Blog: Which kind of truth?
I encourage you to follow his blog!
Bryant McGill writes:
If you want a great life try being kind. It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life. If you are rude, cynical, negatively-sarcastic or pessimistic, your life options are going to be very limited. Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don’t know the difference. Be careful with people’s feelings. Elevate your thinking and comportment. Many people live in an induced spiritual coma; they are inherently vicious, and are completely unaware of their malady. They exist in an unconscious, mean-spirited and competitive state of being — always ready to pounce on their next victim. There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person. This piggish coarseness looks like impatience, intolerance, rudeness, vulgarity, selfishness, self-righteousness, ignorance, condescension and mockery. I know what it looks like because it was once in me. Maybe you are a pig and don’t even know it. Have you ever considered it? Maybe you don’t just have “bad luck” — maybe you are caught-up in a stampede of ugliness. The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs. Maybe you’re not a pig but you know someone who is, and you want them to awaken to virtue and righteousness so they can have an incredible life instead of suffering unnecessarily. If you want an incredible life and you have a bad attitude, and are mean to people — you can just forget about it. If you are cynical, pessimistic, judgmental, shallow and petty, you don’t deserve success, because success is empowering, and petty people should never be given power. You have to earn the right to an incredible life by being an incredible person. Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity. There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude. You can only access the beautiful world through faith by truthfully embracing beauty and caring. Be open to others; give people a chance. Be open to yourself; give yourself a chance.
Source: Life like a real-life Jerry Springer Show? by +Bryant McGill Your life is no…
Dr. Steve McSwain shares this from Bryant McGill:
Many have said that happiness is an inside job, but be sure to put some emphasis on the word “job.” First, accept that you have responsibility in your own happiness. Stop blaming the world, your past, bad luck or other people. Accept the fact that you have some power and choices in your life. Then begin to use your power and choices.
The most insubordinate obstacle you will encounter is your own limited thinking. How long are you going to keep waiting for happiness to come your way? I guess you’re waiting for happiness to knock your door down and drag you out of your x-year-long streak of “bad luck.”
Quit making excuses, quit denigrating yourself and quit lying to yourself about your lack of ability. Tell the truth; you can, you will and you are. You are not going to move forward unless you firmly commit yourself to change. You must be stubborn about what you can do, not stubborn about why you can’t. Be adamant about your standards.
You may live in a harsh world at times, but you can have a beautiful inner-life, and a beautiful outer-life always begins with a beautiful inner-life.
What are you waiting for?Go to the source for more: What comes to those who wait? Many have said that happiness is an inside job…
Every human being feels vulnerable and afraid when it comes to uncertainty most of the times; however, these challenging situations can be ideal and wonderful paths to evolve and grow. Dr. Brene Brown’s successful research on human connection reveals that individuals who are happier are more likely and willing to readily accept the unknown. In addition, being vulnerable to a certain extent enhanced their mental and physical wellbeing.
You can find the other 9 here: 10 TED Talks That Will Improve Your Thinking and Life
Our ancestors evolved a frightened brain for survival in harsh conditions. Today, unnecessary and unwarranted fear can make it harder to speak from the heart, dream big dreams and stand up to the manipulations of advertisers and demagogues. A Courageous Brain: Not Manipulated by Needless Fear is a Commonwealth Club National Podcast where Dr. Rick Hanson, Ph.D., explores the practical neuroscience of courage in ourselves, our homes, offices and politics. Go to the Commonwealth Club for more information.
Source: A Courageous Brain: Not Manipulated by Needless Fear – Dr. Rick Hanson
Listen here…
In my opinion, Dr. Steve McSwain is one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on the topic of spirituality and interfaith issues. He is an awakened or enlightened Southern Baptist minister — a category which most would consider to be an oxymoron. This interview is a long, but worthwhile, overview of his perspective on God and religion.
In the spirit of full disclosure, Steve McSwain is a client of mine, but he’s a client of mine because I discovered his thinking on the Huffington Post website and started tracking him in my feed reader. I curated and commented on his content and over time, we eventually entered into a support agreement. I’m now one of his ‘internet plumbers’ helping him on a wide variety of issues from email to social media and I’m happy to help him ‘get found’ on the internet so that more people can be exposed to his thinking…
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