Category Archives: Confidence
Grit True or Grit False?
Angela Duckworth – Grit
In my teens, I began feeling, as many people that age do, a serious lack of … something. Something I didn’t have but which I believed would enable me to live without the constant sense of malaise that gnawed away deep in my inner space. Within me was a strong sense of “I can’t do it”, whatever “it” might turn out to be, and furthermore, I probably wouldn’t ever be able to do it.
A Message to Garcia
One evening, nearly 120 years ago, a man named Elbert Hubbard had something on his mind. He sat down and wrote a 1500 word op-ed piece for the magazine he edited. Nothing special about that.
But those few pages – what Hubbard himself considered a literary trifle – swept round the world, carried from one person to the next, to the next.
Goals that Won’t Die on You
Want a couple of simple hints that could help you inject real long-staying power into your projects and goals?
Hint 1
Have a moveable goal. Often I see people achieve their long-held objective, but soon afterward, all forward progress stops. Example – right up the street are two different coffee shops that closed very soon after they opened. My educated guess is that their goal was something like, “I open my own coffee shop, I open my own coffee shop.”
Showing Is Better than Telling
Doubters Dragging You Down?
A question I frequently receive concerns being surrounded by negative friends, family members or co-workers and how discouraging they can be. A few days ago, I received another such email:
“My husband just doesn’t get it – I try to explain the laws of attraction, but he always rejects the idea, and sometimes ridicules me for my gullibility. How can I get him to stop being so negative and see how important this is? I tried to get him to watch the movie ‘The Secret’ with me, but he just made fun of it and walked out. Is it possible to get results while I’m surrounded by all this negativity?”
Retiring Your Fears
I remember reading somewhere, “Words, said with certainty, can alter our beliefs.”
I really like that. Getting a client to put their own words together with their own actions is a great way to teach them DIY confidence.
About that thing I do, it’s similar to the way a hypnotist will place your pain in a blind spot, except
Too Little Too Late? Phooie!
Ran across two things today within sixty seconds of each other.
First was the graphic on the left. Now, I like this kind of art … always have. If it’s eye catching and says something meaningful, ironic, funny or constructive, I’ll probably enjoy it. And this one, from Lori Deschene’s tinybuddha.com, said exactly what I wanted to hear this morning.
Some folks assume that their expiration date is hopelessly close and begin to act like they’re in their final days – even though those final days might go on for years longer than expected.
The True Price of Success
Success Is Outside
Standing on the beach in the gale-force winds, the kid was looking queasy. We could all see the storm was growing more intense. The rain had already plastered his hair to his forehead and his new black suit was starting to cling to him in ways Mr. Armani never intended.
