September 2011 – Page 3

You Can’t Choose Others Thoughts but Can Own Yours

2011/09/15 Gayle 0

Today I am taking a few days off to celebrate my 14th Anniversary. I still want to leave you inspired. So head on over to Chris Brogan’s Blog and read about untangling you life from those around you. As Chris says ‘We can’t choose how our relatives feel about us. We can’t choose how our loved ones think about us and react to us. We can’t alter how those people at work speak about us when we’re not there. None of that is ours. YOU OWN YOUR HEAD What you can do, however, is work on yourself, is accept yourself as you are right now, is start to fuel your own personal inner fire of belief without any external sources. It’s not that you don’t The rest of the story

Do you hear what I hear?

2011/09/14 Gayle 0

There is a good chance that you have ears. It is more than likely you can hear. But are you listening? I often like to relate a lesson I learned early in life. My father an avid reader would oft sit and read while my mother, a non-reader puttered around the house. My mother talked continually as she went about her tasks. We were on some family outing and my mother related an event happening and my father said, ‘you didn’t tell me that’ and my mother responded with ‘yes I did, I was in the kitchen and you were on the couch when I told you’. To which my father replied ‘Oh, well, just because you are talking doesn’t mean I am listening’. This The rest of the story

Here We Go

2011/09/13 Gayle 0

Diabetes affects more than one in 10 Americans, and an estimated 366 million people worldwide and the global epidemic is getting worse with the numbers projected to keep climbing. The International Diabetes Federation described the number of cases as “staggering,” with one person dying from diabetes every seven seconds. According to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. [Jared Reis, et al., “Lifestyle factors and risk for new-onset diabetes: a population-based cohort study”] getting plenty of exercise—lowered the risk of developing diabetes by as much as 39 percent in women and 31 percent in men. Although I personally believe heredity is the risk factor I face, I am attempting to take the bull by the horns. I am renewing my gym membership and making a conscience The rest of the story

Stop Sabotaging Your Mood

2011/09/13 Gayle 0

Want to solve a problem? You can improve your problem solving skills by inducing a positive mood. If you can get yourself to a positive mood, you can improve your cognitive flexibility. Sound crazy? A 2010 study in Psychological Science shows that inducing a positive mood can improve one’s cognitive flexibility. The question then is how do you get into a good mood and how do you stay there? Probably if you really thought about it, you could find the ‘trigger’ got most bad moods. Perhaps your spouse spoke sharply to you or you were unable to fit into your favorite outfit due to the five pounds you recently gained. Consider in these examples the role that your thoughts play in all this. It wasn’t the event that was the root of The rest of the story

Do you have Brave thoughts?

2011/09/12 Gayle 1

In July of 2011 I wrote a post about tuning in and listening to the words you use when you talk to yourself. The title was You are Exactly what you Think and I am in need of a refresher. Want to know who you are? Tune in to the conversation inside your head. Your thoughts accurately reflect who you think you are. I read a statement last week that said something to the effect that the worst thing someone could say to us in an argument is something we already fear (or know) to be true. The voices in our head know the truth. The voices know if we are procrastinating. They know when we lie (to ourselves or others). The voices also know The rest of the story