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 …
Read More1. First, you make a choice and then your choice makes you. 2. Choose value vs. money. 3 Choose age as a number, it’s never too late to start. 4. Choose to focus on solutions. 5. Choose to see reality, if you can’t see reality, your choice will produce substandard results. 6. Choose love instead of fear, love is the total absence of fear. 7. Choose a job that does not feel like work. 8. Genuine choice is difficult to embrace, because it puts so many options and so many assumptions on the table with it. Choose genuine. 9. Choose …
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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 …
Read MoreWhen 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). For the next 5 blogs, I am going to discuss each one of the above prevalent character strengths. The first will be: KINDNESS “Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you …
Read MoreThe next questions might be, “What are my Signature Strengths? How do I find them? How do I engage and express them? Your signature strengths are those that best describe the core aspects of you who you are. Do you find that your everyday journey is easy, fun and rewarding? Or is it tiring, leaving you feeling frustrated at the end of the day. I spent most of my younger life feeling guilty before I closed my eyes at night, never having the satisfaction that I had done all of my “to do list.” What was missing was that I …
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