The biggest drawback to accomplishing your goals is to discover your default emotional reactions to external stimuli. We all have them and — unfortunately — we usually recognize other people’s before we see our own. We say, “He always becomes angry when that happens, you’d think he would know better by now.” Or, “She did
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I was just thinking a few weeks ago that most of us tend to view difficult things in life as “How do I remove this ‘thing’ from my horizon?” Kind of like when we meet someone who for some reason annoys us — we immediately turn off and move into “get away from me” mode.
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Are you at a crossroads, needing to make a decision, but not seeming to be able to make the decision? Maybe you’re looking “to be saved” or “to be given an answer”? It doesn’t really work like that. If your goal is to be a more confident, powerful person, then “being saved’ doesn’t really fit
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I was taking The Living to 100 Healthspan Calculator the other day and a question on stress had me take a moment and reflect. The question was, “How do you usually cope with your stress?” The selections proceeded, but the answer that had me transfixed was “Very well! It helps me to get motivated.” I
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