As destructive as gossip is normally, turned on its head it can be an incredible force for good.
A recent e-mail from Darren Hardy described the power of reverse-gossip: talking about people, behind their backs, in a positive way.
Read about it here.
It’s akin to (a definition of) true generosity: giving to someone who really needs help, who could never pay you back, anonymously.
Go forth and (reverse) gossip!
“You can’t talk yourself out of a problem you behave yourself into.” – Stephen Covey This is just one of the powerful truths Stephen left us with. There’s a beauty and poetry to the words above that is nearly impossible to add to. So I won’t try… Post-Script: A few hours ago I wrote the…
Is the voice in your head the Voice of Reason (which serves you) or the Voice of Reasons (which acts like it protects you, but really just makes excuses and holds you back)? I wrote that a while ago and it still holds up. We have both “voices” in our heads, but one is louder…
Something just occurred to me: “What about all the folks that say they want to do X, or be better at Y or stop doing Z? They all say they want to change but complain it’s too hard, or they can change for a while, but eventually “slip.” The truth is that the “how” is easy when…
Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil. – Anonymous The mind loves clarity. Without clarity the mind – actually, our emotions – reverts to safety. Safety, for our emotional brain (the limbic system), is habit and routines and whatever has been shown to contribute to our survival (even if…
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. – Emerson When Emerson talks about “ultimate success” I believe he’s speaking of the combination of deciding what you truly want and giving the creation of that your absolute, level best. The only one who can keep you from that is yourself. There’s two, main,…
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…