Self-Care

As I am busy tackling big goals, tending to my responsibilities, and living up to my commitments to others, I have to remember to take care of myself.

This means working out and eating right, but there is more than that.  Getting enough sleep is one very important component of feeling well and keeping a positive attitude.  

Then there is just being kind to yourself.  High performers often sacrifice for their goals and take hits in the name of progress or for others; but this can be exhausting to the mind, body and spirit.  Saying no is ok.  

Take care of yourself.  In the end, it’s the best way for you to take care of others and give your gift to the world.

The distortion of your own ego

Your ego wants to protect you from getting hurt emotionally.  So it makes you do things and see things to protect that from happening.  The problem is it keeps you from facing what you must to get rid of your fears, prejudices, jealousies, and limitations and from being free.

We all have to look through the lens of our own ego.  But turning our attention back toward ourselves to question this filter all our experience passes through and is created from, is far more productive than trying to make the world fit through our ever narrow definition of what makes us happy and why.

Throw your napsack over the wall

Are you 100% committed to your accomplishing a big goal?

Throw your napsack, filled with positive belief and action, over the wall of your dreams.

Critical Witness of Reality

If you don’t see things right, you can’t do the right thing about them.

If you are only seeing things from your point of view, or how your fearful ego sees them, or through any other distortion, you are likely overlooking elements of the situation and hurting your ability to understand it or make it better.

Move outside your interests, and be a critical witness of reality, including your own faults and shortcomings.

Overcoming adversity makes us stronger

“Any adversity overcome is a self-doubt removed and an important advance in self-esteem”. -Dr. Mardy Groethe

Knowing that you can overcome problems and challenges of the body, mind and heart makes you more confident and stronger the next time you face down something like it again.

You did it before, you can do it, and even more, again.

Forward…

Good checks evil

“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing”. – Simon Wiesenthal

Are you good?  

Is fighting evil, then, your obligation?

Human Seismographs

People that have seen trouble are far better at seeing it coming again than those who haven’t.

Pay attention to their warnings.

Normal. Average. Common.

Are you achieving mediocrity on a regular basis?

No glory in that….

Bust a move!

The sound no one else can hear

It’s the voice in you.  What is it saying?  

If you are still enough, long enough, you can hear it.

If you ignore it, don’t worry; it won’t go away.

Be different to make a difference

If you are the same as you were yesterday and last year, and the same as everyone else, you’re not going to change anything.

You have to be different to make a difference.

Do you want to change in some area?  How can you be different to make it come about?