Category Archives: Motivation
Are You On Track?
Personal Accountability Learning to outperform 98% of our fellows is a skill set which first begins in your mind. Everything is first created in the human mind then translates into the life of individuals as they act out their beliefs … Continue reading →
Create Your Own Path
What do you want from life? It’s a simple yet profound question. Champions of life know what they want and have a desire great enough to become the person they choose to be! Most people just drift through life letting … Continue reading →
Eames House- Places That Inspire 5.08.11
The house glowed — a magical jewel box. Charles and Ray Eames are well-known for their contributions to furniture and industrial design, films, exhibitions, toys and architecture. They approached problem solving as an adventure, combining discipline with a sense of … Continue reading →
Creating Your Vision
“In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” –Robert A. Heinlein The eight critical steps to success are: 1. Vision 2. Values 3. Goals 4. … Continue reading →
Places That Inspire 3.20.11
“When the trees that surround the Chapel grow up, they will become the framework, become a part of the tree forms and branches that inevitably arise from the growing trees adjacent to it. I used the glass so that the natural growth, the sky, and sea beyond became the definition of their environment. This is done to give the congregation protection in services and at the same time to create the sense of outer as well as inner space.”
–Lloyd Wright, Architect Continue reading →
Conversations
In gaining greater self-awareness and using introspection you can be totally honest with yourself and deal with life coming from objective reality. Your present circumstances are primarily the result of your beliefs which created behavior resulting in the results that you have achieved at present. When you change beliefs causing a change in your behavior that will create different results.
Stop, Breath, Center, Observe
When you are having a crisis: Stop!
Don’t act or react.
Breath.
Center.
Observe:
What is the big picture?
Have I felt this way before?
What does this situation remind me of?
How was I feeling right before the event?
(I was tired, I was happy, I was already
upset, I was not paying attention.)
Dr. Maxwell Maltz, MD, FICS
“Am I regularly revisiting the past to gain a true perspective and think with understanding?”
–John C Maxwell, How Successful People Think, pp. 80 Continue reading →
Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is crucial to our wellbeing, our happiness and reaching our goals in life. Our sense of self has the coding so to speak for “the map” we have in our head that tells us who we are and where we are in the world.
Becoming Action Jackson
“Everybody get so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” –Gertrude Stein