Tag: life
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Traps of comparison
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” Jordan Peterson It’s a common trap to start comparing ourselves to others. We think this or that person is more successful and happier than us. Do we really know this for sure? We can really only see one aspect of a…
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Get curious
“Be curious, not judgmental.” Walt Whitman Do you ever catch yourself judging others for their behaviour? Maybe someone was late for an important meeting, or somebody was acting cold towards you. You jump to conclusions… The person was late because they are lazy, or they don’t care about the meeting. The person acting cold is…
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Slipping into the negative
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will” Zig Ziglar Do you ever notice your thinking slipping too far into the negative? It’s easy during these troubling times. We have a global pandemic, an economic crisis, and divisions among society. Simply reading the news can spike up your cortisol levels and…
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Journaling can change your life
“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.” Anne Frank The cost of busy We get so caught up in the business of our lives that often we don’t really know what is going on inside. How are we?…
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Release the non-essential
It’s not the daily increase, but the decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” BRUCE LEE Western society generally promotes the idea of accumulating more. Advertising and marketing messages bombard us. The common thought seems to be earn more and spend more. It’s all about visual cues of “success” through a bigger house, a nicer car…
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React to judgments not events
“If any external thing causes you distress, it is not the thing itself that troubles you, but your own judgment about it. And this you have the power to eliminate now.” Marcus Aurelius The stoics are the most practical practical of philosophers. Even though it was written almost 2,000 years ago, Marcus Aurelius’ book Meditations…
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Is it helping?
“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.” Alan Watts Anxiety has a habit of creeping in. It might start slowly, but soon we are caught up in a vicious loop of worry and stress. The pressures of life and work overwhelm us. You have a big project due.…
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Manage your energy, not time
“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.” “Performance, health and happiness are grounded in the skillful management of energy.” Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement There is a constant pressure to always be on, in today’s fast pace, complex, and digital world. Work and life have melded into…
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Should work feel authentic?
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life” Steve Jobs “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” Oscar Wilde Have you ever had the feeling that your work feels inauthentic? You don’t necessarily feel it all the time but it slowly creeps in and lingers below the surface. It started out…
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Reframe those obstacles
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”