Don't blame the weights

Hi Evelyn
 
          
      "Align your thinking with
       wholeness and perfection.
       See and expect only good
       to come to you. Doing so,
       you are sure to experience
       peace, joy, harmony and ease."
                  Kathy Juline

When we read a prescription for life like the one in our quote, it's easy for the
inner cynic in us to try to dismiss it.

"Oh, that's easy for you to say, but that's not the way it happens for me!" But that kind of response is a result of not understanding what the quote is saying.

This quote is not saying that you will never get disruptive or challenging
circumstances in your life, it's saying that with the proper inner work done,
you can move through challenging times with ease and grace anyway!

Our normal human reaction to things not going well is usually some
combination of anger at others along with a "poor me" self-pity party. That
reaction takes a toll on us and others around us.

It also doesn't help and often hurts getting to a solution. So we see it as good. A good opportunity to learn, grow, practice and lead.

When we go to the gym, we don't blame the weights for being too heavy, we use
them to make us stronger. In that way we can use adversity to become more capable and competent in life.

And you will.

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." Peter Drucker

If you're like most people, you have more than one thing to do. You have a bunch of little, easy things and you have a couple of big, complicated things.

It's so easy to fall into the habit of doing the little things first. You can convince yourself that it'll only take a short time and you can get those little things out of the way.

And at the end of the day, what have you gotten done? A few little things, and no big things.

Next day, same thing. So when are you going to get the big, important stuff done?

There's always going to be lots more little things.

Brian Tracy wrote a book about this called "Eat That Frog!" His point is that the big important tasks HAVE to be done first!

He say that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a big raw frog, the rest of the day will be easy!

When I remember this, I get stuff done. When I forget it, I get to the end of the day with the frog still sitting there.

It feels really good to get stuff done. So eat the frog.

"All of us every single year,we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. "Steven Spielberg

Since this is the start of a brand new year, it's a good time to take stock of where we are and where we want to be at this time next year.

One of the things to consider is - who did you become this year?

We're shaped by the experiences and challenges that we encountered. We may have handled them well, or not so well.
How did that affect how you feel about yourself? Do you feel that you handled things well? Or not so well?
What would you change? How would you do it differently?

Think about your relationships. Who supported you, and who did you support? Do you feel that you have built a supportive network of helping
people?
How can you improve that?

If you take these personal and proactive steps to review the year, you put yourself in a position to bring a whole new person to this year's challenges.

And every year you just get better and better.

Happy 2014!

All the best,

Wes