August 2011 – Page 2

Chart Your Progress

2011/08/22 Gayle 0

Write it down! It seems to be the catch phrase of goal setting these days. Want to lose weight? Keep a record of everything that passes your lips. Want to save money? Keep a record of every dime you spend. Record keeping is a useful tool and milestones Are Crucial to reaching a goal. Milestones tell you if your efforts are working. They’re also the benchmarks that you can use to know if you are moving in the right direction toward your goal. However, extreme record keeping can become overwhelming, causing you to stumble and fall short of your goals. What I am doing is what I call recordkeeping light. I started, for example, by writing down everything I ate for a week. This created a The rest of the story

Do you control your thoughts or do your thoughts control you?

2011/08/20 Gayle 0

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” ~ Hugh Downs The world around you may have control of parts of your life. You may have to meet the demands of an employer. Your obligations to family or Church or any number of other organizations may demand your time. Nevertheless, you are the captain of your thoughts. You and you alone control your mental attitude. Will you remain a slave to negative thoughts? Will you become the master of a positive mental attitude? The choice really lies solely in your hands. No one else can control your thoughts. No one can determine your reaction. Napoleon Hill Said ‘When you control your The rest of the story

Overcoming Your Perspective Crisis

2011/08/19 Gayle 0

“We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.” ~ Stephen R. Covey Have you ever been angry or upset with a situation, only to learn later that you had made an assumption about someone’s motivation or their world that was wrong? You expended unnecessary time and energy based on a perceived slight. Are you living your life harboring hurt? Tragically, assumptions and misunderstandings happen in all types of relationships; between friends, family, lovers, co-workers and even someone you know only casually. It is easy to assume that the person with whom we are interacting has all of the life experience, and information we bring The rest of the story

When to Give Up on a Goal

2011/08/18 Gayle 0

Last week we talked about persistence. The tenacity to pursue a goal until you reach it. In that post I encouraged you to believe that success was just around the corner. While I still believe this is true, I also wish to point out the law of diminishing returns. The law of diminishing returns says that there comes a point in time when it just doesn’t make sense to keep going. According to licensed psychotherapist and life coach Alyson Mischel , ‘the key to staying healthy – but still striving enough to make progress in your personal and professional lives – is to know when to call it quits’. According to a study in the journal Psychological Science, Canadian researchers found that people who failed to The rest of the story

Are you Regretting your Regret?

2011/08/17 Gayle 0

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar Do you ever look at your life and feel great regret? We all know that Regret is a negative conscious and emotional reaction to personal past acts and behaviors. We all know that we can’t change the past. So then how do you keep your past from interfering with your present? Or the future? Are you so stymied by the past that you are unable to move forward? Well, my friend, SNAP OUT OF IT! I know what you’re thinking – it’s not as easy as it sounds. Yeah, I know….I’ve been there and done that. But……..you can learn to lower the volume of your The rest of the story