Monthly Archives: June 2009

Author : dennis sullivan

Almost everyone has chosen pessimism That’s why things are going down It’s easy to see Most everyone is thinking pessimistically What’s going on reflects their pessimism That is, there’s more and more for pessimistic people to be pessimistic about How could it be anything else? How could thinking everything is bad lead to good? How does nervousness and anxiety lead to peace and calm?

Stress leads to more stress Anxiety leads to anxiety Pessimism leads to pessimism How it could be otherwise?

If everyone thinks the sky is falling, believe me, it’s falling And the naysayers get to say, see I told you so It’s not the naysayers It’s the followers of the naysayers If nobody paid attention to the naysayers, there would be no more naysayers The mind is fascinated by naysaying It’s even more thrilled by trouble, problems and big crises

Fascination with trouble gets you more trouble Once again, I ask you, how can it be anything else? Am I saying you’re doing it to yourself? That’s exactly what I am saying Whatever you have, whether you like it or not, you have done to yourself Most don’t like to hear that because they like to believe it happened to them, they’re innocent victims of circumstances, scoundrels or crooks That’s convenient to think, but it’s not so Whatever you have—or don’t have you have set it up with your thinking

Don’t believe it You don’t have to It’s your decision You’re free to decide Be the victim and you have what victims create, more victimhood, more things to be a victim about

Refer to several lines earlier Let me phrase it more clearly Positive leads to more positive and negative leads to more negative Lint collects lint is another way to put it You don’t plant chaff and get wheat anymore than planting wheat gets you chaff Optimism is needed Optimism isn’t, hip, hip, hooray Optimism isn’t a big, wide smile, while you’re busting inside Optimism isn’t yeah, yeah, yeah when inside it’s no, no, no Optimism happens when you let go of no, no, no Optimism happens when you let go of pessimism

What is pessimism? Pessimism is, I cannot do it, I cannot have it, I cannot be it I cannot If that’s a person’s mindset, for them it is true Optimism is, I can do it Yes I can I can have it I can do it

It’s simple Whatever you think, you get If you’re pessimistic, you’re going to have a lot more to be pessimistic about If you’re optimistic you’re going to have a lot more to be optimistic about If you put a shoe in an oven, the oven will bake the shoe, it doesn’t care If you put negative, pessimism in the oven the oven will turn out more pessimism

Optimism is needed Not for the world The world is going to do what it’s going to do Optimism is needed for YOU You get optimistic by letting go of the pessimism Ignore the pull of pessimism Decide I am not going to get into pessimism Doing that turns you more optimistic Do it all the time and all the time you are becoming more optimistic Good things come to the optimistic just like not so good things go to those who expect not so good things, called pessimists

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Author : Suzi Elton

Do you have a business that is struggling and you believe you never get any opportunities coming your way? Do you see other business owners have all kinds of good luck but believe luck passes you by ? Do you ever feel there s something you re just not getting about how to create new business flowing your way? Do you wonder what others are doing that you re not doing? Do you sometimes just feel like giving up in frustration? Does it seem that one more business disappointment will simply be more than you can live with?

This is a common part of being in business Though it is common, it is not acceptable Consider the possibility that not only are you leaving money on the table, you aren t even seeing the money on the table What if opportunities come your way as much as anyone else experiences, but you fail to see (or hear) them? Could it be possible that you learn of the same possibilities, but neither recognize nor react to them? In truth, this is what is happening Here are some ideas to help you better see the money on the table

1 An open and positive mental state is the greatest invitation to possibility Strive to retain that openness of attitude This will require you to choose the positive over the negative at all times This extends to people, places, and things If you re making negative choices, you re cutting off the expansive state of mind that attracts opportunity

2 ) Take your attention off yourself Put your attention on others Become genuinely interested in your fellow human beings If you re interested in them, they believe you re a brilliant conversationalist, and most will eventually develop some reciprocal interest in you and your offerings

3 ) Give up fantasies of overnight success Take the long view Develop patience Don t expect to hit a home run every time at bat That is unrealistic and leads to disappointment Disappointment wrecks that positive mental attitude

4 ) Develop relationships People want to work with those they know and trust Attempting to do business with strangers is much harder and not as rewarding, both personally and financially

5 ) A key strength to develop is the ability to hear opportunity in your conversations Be cautious and avoid pouncing on these opportunities Gently inquire and uncover the details and potential

6 ) Pay attention to your intuition or inner guidance Most people experience this as an inner voice or inner knowing, gently guiding them to do or avoid some action This inner voice can be trusted to help you with the timing of your approaches to opportunity

7 ) Make discreet inquiries If you get the intuition that there s potential opportunity, open a discussion about it Test for mututal interest Keep your eyes and ears open

8 ) Make a point of noticing when there is money on the table the potential for money producing business and decide you will pursue these opportunities

9 ) Once you have decided to notice and pursue, it will quickly become obvious that opportunities are all about us at all times You will also notice how oblivious most people are about opportunities

10 ) The biggest spoiler of opportunity is distraction Most people allow distractions to get in the way of both noticing and following up on opportunity There are countless, innumberable potential distractions Almost all of them are simply time wasters Keep your mind and the focus of your activities targeted on opportunities and the actions to realize them You will notice all about you frittering their lives away on fruitless distractions Simply refusing to do so will put you way ahead of your business competitors

Decide that in life and in your business you will see the money on the table and follow through to realize your opportunities Opportunity is always there We just need to optimize our opportunity detection skills

Suzi Elton is a success coach working with highly creative types to create income that matches their talent. She has coached hundreds of clients to approach their goals strategically through tiny steps to bring about quantum leaps. Get free Life Purpose exercises, at http://mylifepurposecoaching.com

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Author : Rene Graeber

Most people complain about being stressed out But in a hectic modern world of today, who wouldn’t Stress is considered as any emotional, physical, or chemical factor that becomes the root of mental unrest, and may be an aspect in disease causation

A lot of people associate “stress” with mental or psychological stress; however, physicians and scientists use the term “stress” to indicate any force that damages the balance and stability of the body’s functions

People have to understand though, that even if stress disrupts the function and balance of the body, not all stress is bad A mild level of tension and stress may sometimes even be beneficial; as in the case of feeling slightly stressed with work projects, which can compel an individual to focus better, work energetically, and perform a good job

The same goes with exercise it produces temporary stress on a few bodily functions, yet has indisputable benefits to health It is only during overwhelming stress, or poorly managed stress, that the effects become negative In these cases, a vital goal would be appropriate stress management techniques

Generally, stress is connected to both internal and external factors Internal for the way the body responds to and deals with external-inducing factors job, physical environment, relationships, home, and situations Stress management therefore, can involve doing some changes in external factors that confront a person, or internal factors that strengthen the ability to deal with things that come their way Here are some effective stress management techniques:

Exercise

This stress management technique promotes one’s overall fitness, at the same time as helping manage tension and emotional stress it temporarily diverts one from a stressful situation, and being healthy and fit increases one’s ability to handle stress

Relaxation and Meditation

There are so many ways of relaxation and meditation; some can be learned in class, while others on one’s own This stress management technique helps improve one’s mental and physical well-being and control stress

Time Management

Having a good time schedule is an effective technique to take off critical stress especially with doing the tasks one needs to get done in a day Making sure that one does away with over scheduling helps a lot in not being “stressed out” with unmet commitments

Organizational skills

A well-organized physical surrounding eliminates being confronted with stressful situations of misplaced objects

Support Systems

Developing and cultivating a strong social support network -such as friends, loved ones, neighbors, business associates, and even pets- is healthy for the mind and body

Stress is a fact of life for a lot of people, it may come in different ways or forms, but the importance of not letting it get the better of you, can be a life saver Effective stress management techniques will help one to efficiently cope with stress; remember that early management of stress, means eliminating the potentials of health problems

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Author : Katheryn Hoban

It has taken me a long time to develop patience, and I continue to develop it It might take you a long time too The only way you develop patience is by going through challenging or tedious efforts

Patience brings you out on the other side with a sense of achievement and renewed strength Sometimes to accomplish big changes you have to be patient with the little details: in tedious routines, with challenging people and challenging situations, until you get a breakthrough Roadblocks and obstacles pop up unexpectedly all the time and sometimes you have to create a different pathway to get to your destination

Other times you have to wait it out until something is cleared for you Many times you need divine intervention before you can move through something Patience gets you through those moments of waiting and not seeing any results In some things, no matter how hard you try to change something or create something with impact, it doesn’t work out, even though you know that you are supposed to do it and feel an urgency to do it I have had to learn that things take time, and not necessarily in my time, I have to keep doing what I am doing, and I have to wait for God You have to keep planting and nourishing your seeds before you see the tiny spouts spring up You keep taking the steps, and when everything lines up, and all your efforts blossom, then you will be in the middle of an exquisite garden to bask in

You need patience in many matters: family, friends, the Elderly, children, love and relationships, jobs, schoolwork, doing something creative like singing, writing or painting, making money, paying debts, starting a family, teaching someone, listening to your inner voice, meditating, fulfilling a dream

Things like these always require patience and endurance If you give up too quickly you may never receive what you really want Sometimes you have to be in the right place at the right time, and you have to wait for everything to line up There could be one element that is missing that you don’t know about, but God knows that it is missing Patience is the preparation of a task, the doing and completing of all the details, the waiting and follow through, and then waiting some more

It is doing all the tedious, boring and overly complicated things that will make a something go smoothly, and if necessary doing them over and over again each day and every day until something changes, or you are led by the Holy Spirit to change something, or add something new to what you are doing

Whatever you are building, it takes time and effort First you excavate, then dig, then create a foundation, then the skeleton framework; then you begin to fill inside the structure, build up, and add the finishing touches; then you use and work with what you have built, and you invite others to share it That effort could take a small amount of time or it could take a lifetime Either way, it is the living of it moment by moment that creates the life You don’t wait for your life to happen; life is lived by what moment presents itself next How you deal with each moment is all up to you by the choices that you make Choices require patience, too

We all need to have patience with ourselves Let yourself develop into the person that you want to be, and let yourself be what you really want to become One day you will have developed a tremendous amount of patience, and you will be able to master yourself and handle each moment intuitively copyright 2006 Yoga Kat

Yoga Kat teaches children’s yoga ages 3-6, 7-12yrs and Adults in NJ. The Author of the book DAUGHTER BELOVED and created a children’s affirmation CD and an adult affirmation CD. Available for speaking and reached at yogakat@verizon.net or 201 970-9340–COMING SOON -http://www.thecircleofpeace.com

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