Bittersweet: When Bad Comes Along With The Good
In life, there are cycles of good and bad. Times when our lives seem joyful and easy, and times when we’re struggling through what seem like endless difficulties. Then there are times when the two seem to co-mingle. These are the times I call bittersweet. Perhaps you’ve had a bittersweet period in your own life? Usually it begins with something wonderful, followed immediately by something awful. You get a great promotion at work, then your spouse loses his or her job. (more…)
Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Law is: If anything can go wrong, it will. Then there is Otoole’s Commentary on Murphy’s Law: Murphy was an optimist. A related law is the Law of Selective Gravity: An object will fall so as to do the most damage. Corollaries to these laws are:
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Develop An Attitude Of Gratitude
I have to confess to being a big fan of the talent contest, The X Factor. If, like me, you avidly followed the contestants who competed in the run-up to Christmas 2005, you won’t have missed the week where Chico was eliminated. I was very impressed with Chico, not for his questionable talent, but for his magnificent attitude. (more…)
The Psychological Reality Of Positive Thought And Complex Thought
A whole new school of psychiatry has grown up around the development of positive thinking. The key is intercepting negative thoughts. Surprisingly, no matter how positive we think we are, many of us have internal, mostly negative chatter that ties up thecerebral circuits all day long. Much of this chatter is actually pretty idiotic if you stop and listen to it. Most of the time we’re simply ripping ourselves apart. (more…)
The Motivation Of Second Half Thinking
Football matches are won or lost in the second half. It does not matter what code of football is being played, and it does not only apply to football. It is how you finish that counts – in any sport or competition or campaign. It applies to your life. Look at your life as one complete match or look at your current circumstance and assess where you are in terms of the half time break and begin now to strategize the finish. (more…)
Breaking Free From Self-Limiting Habits
‘We need to think differently to shift our paradigms
to a new, deeper, “inside-out” level’; Stephen R. Covey
In the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey describes habits as “consistent, often unconscious patterns which constantly, daily express our character and produce our effectiveness, or ineffectiveness”. (more…)
It’s A Worry
Most all of us go through life constantly worrying about something or other, our job, our relationships, getting older, our bank account, and our children among other things. Do we really need to do all this worrying. After all, most of it is just in our heads and many of the problems never ever really happen they way we think they will. Here are some tips that could help you reduce your worry levels. (more…)
Bouncing Back From Difficult Times
Life happens. It doesn’t matter how positive an attitude you have or how balanced and centered you are, there are going to be times when you are knocked down. Ties when your carefully organized life is turned upside down and you get knocked on your rear end. Life happens. (more…)
Positive Thinking And Paradigms
Positive thinking is a conscious, deliberate action.
For example, positive thinking might look like this: Max decides that every morning he will say to himself, “Every day in every way, I am getting better and better.” (more…)
Positive Thinking, Paradigms And The Devil
I’ve already written about positive thinking and paradigms in another article where the point was that the effectiveness of positive thinking is undermined if we simultaneously hold thought paradigms that are in opposition. (more…)