Archive for October, 2007
What do you believe about money?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Are your assumptions making you poorer and more stressed out?
Money may or may not be the root of all evil (I think that’s more likely to people’s constant desire to have everything their own way), but it’s definitely the [...]
The truth about strengths and weaknesses
Why focusing on your weaknesses will leave you frustrated and dissatisfied
Your best friend loves playing softball. She’s good at it and looks likely to make it to college level one day. You’re a total klutz at the game. You don’t enjoy it, but you keep trying because your friend is so keen. She does her [...]
How to avoid many more mistakes than you do now
Slowing down allows you to be more conscious of what you are doing
For most of our lives we make only occasional decisions that are truly conscious. Much of the time, people operate on automatic pilot. Instead of looking carefully and deeply to understand what’s going on and what may be called for, they get a [...]
How to deal with periods of peak activity
Sometimes you cannot avoid being stretched more than you would wish
There are bound to be times when everything seems to come due together: when your best attempts to schedule your life and activities break down and you face a crescendo of activity.
How do you cope? Do you allow yourself to become stressed and anxious? Do [...]
Getting it over with
Don’t let fear dictate the pace
Research from Emory University, published in Science in 2006, shows how dread of what might happen is a powerful force that pushes people into action simply to “get it over with,” even if the more rational course would be to delay. Who knows what may happen in the meantime? Who [...]
Restore yourself by silence
Forget most of those expensive, complex, often chemical cures for stress. Silence is often all you need.
Silence is the great revelation.
Lao Tzu
When you start to feel stressed and anxious, there are few better ways to cope than by finding a place and a space for a period of silence.
Our lives are spent in [...]
Coyote goes wandering
From now until mid-November, I will be away from my office on vacation. I’m not sure what Internet access I will have during that time, since I will sometimes be in fairly remote places. Besides, in line with what I preach to others, I intend to have a complete break from working on my blogs [...]
How to give yourself the best chances in life
The most persistent blockages to your progress usually come from a single source—yourself.
Here are some simple, practical ways to give yourself the best possible chance of living a good life.
Take time to work out what’s most important to you. What’s so important you wouldn’t give it up, save in the most extreme circumstances? What [...]
To prosper, slow down and keep your attention sharp
Life is full of opportunities to learn
Tiny babies do it the moment they’re born. We all enter this world capable of amazing amounts of learning. What’s more, we need to learn. If we don’t, our brains shrivel. It’s “use it or lose it” with a vengeance.
Try these ideas:
Broaden your horizons. Take an interest in [...]
The unending pain of circular reasoning
Why trying to make yourself feel contented by acquiring more is doomed from the start
All too many of us succumb to the kind of thinking that goes like this: “If I get a [new job, new house, new car, new partner—fill in the blank], I’ll be happy.” Of course a whole industry, called advertising, exists [...]
