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Be Careful of the Negatives!
Want to move on in life? Then the time has come to substitute the negatives in your life with the positives. Here I will show you how to take the negative de-motivators in your life, and replace them with positive motivators; this in turn will have the effect of increasing your morale, ambition and productivity.
Many of us go through life unaware of the amount of negative influences in our lives. Our senses are bombarded every day with negative messages from the media, the people around us, and the most destructive of all from ourselves. Read more »
Does your life lack meaning?
Joni was advised to see a counselor by her doctor. The reason was there was no medical reason why she was experiencing chronic fatigue. The cause seemed to be emotional, and she sought help in discovering that cause.
Joni was a successful marketing consultant, in a loving marriage for 19 years. Superficially, everything in her life was fine; she had enough money, great friends, a secure job and a fantastic relationship. But, each morning she awoke, she was fatigued and depressive. Read more »
Words Do Shape Our Destiny
David had run in to a little problem with his affirmations. “Whenever I say the word ‘winner’, I get a little uneasy and doubtful” he told me.
Each time David affirmed that he was a winner; he felt a stirring within that made him feel that it was a mis-match. This is what psychologists call cognitive dissonance, it simply means, that David was trying to believe two things that were opposed to each other. Deep inside, David knew that he wasn’t really a winner and this brought about a strong feeling of self-doubt.
Susan also had a problem with the word “young”; this stirred up within her a strong feeling of mis-match. She had no problem with “youthful” but her mind kicked up a fuss whenever she tried to impress “young” into her self-image.
She explained, “At the age of 70 I’m not young. And I would not want to go back to my youthful days for all the tea in China. They were unhappy times…it took many years for me to gain the peace and knowledge I have now.” Read more »
Change the way you think
I try to take time out, in order to take a closer look at my life from the inside out, e.g. am I treating people right, do I exercise patience, am I empathetic towards those in need, do I forgive easily, do I treat others as I would like to be treated?
Tough questions to ask one’s self, but they are essential in keeping your life free from unnecessary baggage as well as keeping it on track.
My conclusion about the way we treat people every day seems to be directly or indirectly linked to the amount of anxiety we are currently experiencing at that moment. Of course there are other factors, much deeper factors, factors that have been established Read more »
