Take Back Your Time One of the choices in your life you will be asking yourself is the following question: Would you take back your time if you could trade it for the money you made when you lost the time it took to make it? There is a book, “Take Back Your Time,” edited by John de Graff. It is a collection of essays about overwork and time poverty in our society. Where would you take back your time and reclaim it? Would you schedule activities out of a sense of abundance or out of a sense of fear? …
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Clarity Winners achieve their goal because they have clarified what that goal is be before they have taken any action. Their first step is identifying the goal. Not just what it is but how it looks and feels. They create a vision with that goal clearly established. So often, confusion is what stops us from taking action. Confusion is the results of not having made a plan for where you want to go. Or maybe you have not yet decided where you are going, which adds more fuel to the confusion pot. How will you find the answer? It will …
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Question: What is inner strength? Or should I say, “Wassup? Someone from yahoo answered; “close ur eyes n think of nethin that come to ur mind that soothes ,that wud b the picture of inner strenght” There is wisdom in this honest, from the heart, answer. Just close your eyes, breathe deeply, and think of nothing. Let your mind bring in soothing thoughts. I picture an ocean breeze with the mist of the waves, spraying my face. You might have another scene or place that soothes you. I was enlightened by some of the words from the song, “Find Your …
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When you use your inborn character strengths in a new way, you will have increased happiness and decreased depression according to a report by Gander, Proyer, Ruch & Wyss, 2012. The most prevalent character strengths in human beings in descending order are kindness, fairness, honesty, gratitude and judgment (Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006). In the previous blogs I discussed how kindness, fairness, honesty and gratitude can be used to increase happiness and decrease depression can lead to an increased quality of life and how you can implement your inborn character strengths to make the process with less effort. …
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When you use your inborn character strengths in a new way, you will have increased happiness and decreased depression according to a report by Gander, Proyer, Ruch & Wyss, 2012. The most prevalent character strengths in human beings in descending order are kindness, fairness, honesty, gratitude, judgment (Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006). In the last blogs I discussed how kindness and fairness can be used to increase happiness and decrease depression, leading to an increased quality of life, and how you can call on your inborn character strengths to make the process with less effort. The fourth quality in our …
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When you use your inborn character strengths in a new way, you will have increased happiness and decreased depression according to a report by Gander, Proyer, Ruch & Wyss, 2012. The most prevalent character strengths in human beings in descending order are kindness, fairness, honesty, gratitude, judgment (Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006). In the last two blogs I discussed how kindness and fairness can be used to increase happiness and decrease depression can lead to an increased quality of life and how you can call on your inborn character strengths to make the process with less effort. The third quality …
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When you use your inborn character strengths in a new way, you will have increased happiness and decreased depression according to a report by Gander, Proyer, Ruch & Wyss, 2012. The most prevalent character strengths in human beings in descending order are kindness, fairness, honesty, gratitude, judgment (Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006). Check my latest blog for my discussion of kindness. Future blogs will contain the remaining prevalent character strengths. The 2nd character strength: FAIRNESS Shared rules of fairness often appear as values. When two people look at something and agree to apply the same rules, fairness seems to …
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