If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. – Marie Osmond
Or you can:
worry about it;
stress about it;
ruminate about it;
wish it were different;
let it make you feel powerless, afraid, lonely, . . . .
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Or, you can laugh about it.
Now.
Whatever is incomplete in your life is a drain on your energy. Incompletes are open cognitive loops that demand constant mental energy (whether conscious or not). I am not suggesting that you’ll never has incomplete things in your life. You will. But it matters what “form” they’re in. I recently realized that there are three…
High expectations are the key to everything. – Sam Walton What I’m about write may be semantics, but with humans, semantics are everything. Many people have expectations, especially of others. They are often hidden, or veiled and rarely if ever discussed. I want you to consider replacing the word “expectations” with either Agreements or Standards….
While no classification system is perfect, or complete, they can be helpful to make distinctions. While reading an eBook the other day I came across one that characterized people as either: Spectators, Losers or Winners. I recoiled a bit at the particular word choice and thought I could improve upon it. With that in mind,…
A little quickie for your Monday morning: The worst phrase, just about ever, is “I can’t do that because… ” I’ve been hearing that a fair bit lately, or I’ve been noticing more lately. Mostly it’s others saying it, but sometimes it’s – in one for or another – in my head. When we say I can’t…
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson’s words describe what coaches believe about people — what I believe about people. That we are whole and capable, naturally. That, to achieve our goals we need only uncover and shed the…
The ancestor of every action is a thought. – Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve been reading more and more about the power of thought. The more I read, and think, the more I believe that our thoughts are the prime movers of our lives. Everything else is tactics.* *** Without a solid understanding of how thought…