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ARTArticleIf You don't Know Where You're Going, Any Road will do! Part 5 in the Change My Life series"To change my life, I have to make a change in my life." This made so much sense to me when I first came across it! One of my goals was to change my life and, since you're reading this article, I guess it's one of yours too. My list was rather long, how about yours?
You want life to become more desirable. Yet to change your life, you need to see change as a good thing! What do you want to change?
Write down your List of Desirable ChangesARTArticleImprove Your Life, Give up what Doesn't Work for You! Part 4 in the Change My Life seriesIf you insist you are right, and someone else is wrong, this stops you looking at their perspective. Why would you waste time looking at something that you already know is wrong? When you know you are right, this prevents you learning anything new, which halts progress.
Yet real progress can be seen as an improvement in your capacity to deal with the world and its vagaries. The secret of success is to enhance your abilities and become wiser.
Increase your UnderstandingARTArticleMind Control By RepetitionIn the world of business, it's said that the three most important ingredients for success are location, location, location. Well, in the world of mind control, the three most vital things are repetition, repetition, repetition!nnn
I'm Bradley Thompson, and (modesty aside) I'm known as a ...ARTArticleOvercome Shyness and Change Your LifeShyness is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a social phobia. Depending on the degree of introversion they have, some people may actually find that it can be debilitating, depriving them of a healthy social life. It not only affects their relationships, it also affects their careers, keeping ...ARTArticlePresenteeism and the Disengaged EmployeePresenteeism is the act of an employee showing up at work without fully engaging their energy, hearts and minds. In many organizations, it is actually the norm. Employees gather around the water cooler talking about what they’re manager is doing wrong, what the company should be doing for them, what a lousy place they live they work in or spending time preparing grocery lists, shopping or surfing the internet, chatting on msn. These are all symptoms of disengagement and emotional distress in the work place.rARTArticleThe Hidden Side of Type 2 DiabetesType 2 Diabetes continues to be in the headlines as a health crisis because more people are getting the disease and not enough of them are doing what it takes to minimize the complications that come with it. This is hard for those around them to understand. Friends, family and co-workers ...ARTArticleWhat If She Acts Like This at 16?Conscientious parents can get themselves quite worried when they think like the title here. On the other hand, it is pretty normal to do so. Say your first grader gets very frustrated with her friend when they are planning a pretend scene, and she stomps out of the room, saying mean things and throwing a book. You notice that this has been happening a lot lately. She has a short fuse, gets easily frustrated, and her behavior suffers. If you confront her, and tell her to apologize to her friend, you might have a bigger fight on your hands. You’re even walking on eggshells around her.ARTArticleWhat Is A Dry Drunk?What is a dry drunk, and the 'dry drunk syndrome', as it is sometimes called? It can best be described as someone who fits one of two conditions. The first is someone who has given up drinking and drugging and not made any internal or emotional changes, they stay the same but the substance use ...ARTArticleWhen is Love Real?Real love is not only hard to find, it’s hard to accept. This may seem counterintuitive, I know, but if you really ponder it long enough to get it, it could change the way you think about love.
All of us have been wounded in some way, whether by early love relationships or later ones. ...ARTArticleA Different Perspective on OvereatingOvereating is so easy to do, and it is becoming a way of life for lots of people. Some see this as an addiction or a disease. Overeaters Anonymous, for example, addresses the problem as an addiction. Physicians see it as an eating disorder. I see it differently. I see it as disordered ...ARTArticleAre You Getting Enough to Eat?Has it ever occurred to you that you may not be eating enough food? The average American is under eating, which is a result of frequent dieting, fear of overeating, and busy schedules. This seems a bit bizarre, considering the average American is also overweight. Is there a correlation?
I ...ARTArticleAre You Striving or Simply Surviving?The Striving Styles Personality System is based on the premise that if we want to know what we are born for, we must know what we are born as. Too often we are trying to figure out what we are meant to be or do without really knowing who we are. This disconnect causes us to look outside of ourselves for answers to questions that can only be answered from within.rARTArticleAvoiding Thanksgiving Day StuffedAre you already starting to worry about overeating during the Thanksgiving holiday? It is such a tradition to eat until you are as stuffed as the bird that you may not even realize how full you get. Few escape the need to unbutton their pants or loosen their belts by the end of Thanksgiving ...ARTArticleBuilding the Health of an Organization and Its PeopleThe Striving Styles Personality System, an evolution of Carl Jung’s Psychological Type, was developed in 2008 by Dr. Anne Dranitsaris, Ph.D. It is an easy, yet profound way of understanding what motivates different personalities and the predominant need that must be satisfied for them to achieve their potential and become who they are meant to be. It differs from other personality typing methods, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, by getting to the heart of what motivates and drives behavior - need satisfaction and the ability to use emotional energy.rARTArticleChallenge Automatic Thoughts- An Anger Reduction TechniqueLearn To Challenge Negative Automatic Thoughts
Four Ways to Argue with Yourself
At its core, optimism is a style of interpreting events that occur in your world. It is your personal theory or explanation of why good and bad things happen to you.
While everyone experiences both setbacks and ...ARTArticleClosing the Knowing Doing GapCollectively, we love to learn about how to improve and develop ourselves. We watch shows, read books, and take courses because we want to learn how to change our behavior. There has never been a time in society when we have had more information about what it takes to maintain a healthy body, have effective relationships and be an influential, effective leader. Yet as a society, we are more obese; divorce is more common that couples staying together, and our children have more learning and behavioral problems than ever before. And we still complain about our leader’s incompetence.rARTArticleCoaching the Entrepreneur with AD/HDThis is the third in a series of articles about entrepreneurs who have AD/HD.
Coaching bridges the gap between where you are and where you want to be. An effective coach works with you to transform your vague dreams of entrepreneurial glory into a focused vision that can guide your way. Your ...ARTArticleCultural Dysfunction and WellnessOrganizations have their mission, vision, systems, mandates, values, policies and procedures that ensure they function effectively. They also have their own unique systems and patterns of behaviour and human interaction. This is the dynamic aspect of organizational life, which influences how people feel when they are at work and how they behave because of those feelings. When leaders and leadership groups are not mindful of the emotional life of the organization; when it is ignored and not factored into the other elements of organizational structure, cultural dysfunctions arise.rARTArticleEmotions, Behavior & the Dynamics of LeadershipLeaders no longer have the protection of a structure of given authority behind which their vulnerabilities remain unseen. The new social norms have transformed organizations into social democracies where leaders are expected to reveal themselves and their irrational side to their staff, to enhance their awareness and sensitivity to group dynamics, and to increase their ability to communicate affect. In summary, it requires them to be emotionally astute and self aware.rARTArticleGot Social Anxiety? Eight Simple Ways to Cope with Holiday GatheringsThe holidays are just around the corner. Here are some easy, simple tips to help ease your social anxiety during holiday gatherings.
1. Smile, Smile, Smile! A genuine smile increases your production of serotonin, the "feel-good" hormone. Smiling has been proven to relax you and put you in a ...ARTArticleHealing Missing Mother Syndrome with EFTWhen I had my very first EFT session as a client, we went straight back to my birth. I released a deep, very painful feeling of abandonment, since my schizophrenic mother was unable to bond with me from the beginning. It was a powerful experience, and it made a believe
and an EFT practitioner out of me.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a simple tapping procedure that gently realigns the body's energy system - kind of acupuncture without the neddles.ARTArticleHow Does Being Fit Change Your Life?Who doesn’t want to be fit and healthy? Probably everyone wants this, but most people I talk to feel it is too hard to achieve or something they just don’t have time to do. They think they have to start out exercising five to six days a week for an hour or more and maintain a rigid diet that ...ARTArticleHow is ADD Coaching Distinct from Regular Coaching?How is ADD Coaching Distinct from Regular Coaching?
By David Giwerc, MCC, President/Founder of ADD Coach Academy, www.addca.com
In order to discuss the distinction between regular coaching and *ADD Coaching it is important to reference the International Coach Federation, the professional ...ARTArticleHow Your AD/HD Affects Your Business:This is the second in a series of articles about entrepreneurs who have AD/HD.
As I mentioned in the first article in this series, it seems that entrepreneurs are more likely than most people to have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or AD/HD. Unfortunately, many of these AD/HD ...ARTArticleHumor Audio Books: Infectious Laughter in the AirComedian David Brenner believes that if a person can laugh, he can live and so went on a national tour right after September 11. Humor is our best defense against bad hair days, aggressive pets, obnoxious bosses, traffic jams, even war and a bad economy. If you want humor read to you, then get ...ARTArticleIntrinsic Motivation and the Striving Styles SystemAmerican psychologist Henry Murray (1893-1988) described needs as a, “potentiality or readiness to respond in a certain way under certain given circumstances” (1938). Human needs are the source of intrinsic motivation for all behavior and social interaction. We all have needs that we strive to satisfy in a variety of ways based on a hierarchy of favorite needs. If the conditions are right, and an individual’s dominant need does get met, they are poised for growth and the exploration of how they can seek greater levels of self-actualization.ARTArticleIs Stress Making You Sick?I read recently that stress can age your cells by 10 years, which is startling to consider. But what is even more astounding is what several people shared with me in the last two weeks. All have serious diseases, and they are convinced they got sick because they overdid things for years and ...ARTArticleStopping to See Your SuccessesHave you ever felt like giving up when you “blew it” and couldn’t meet your goals or guidelines? What if you didn’t dwell on that and instead focused on what went well, assessed whether the goal was reasonable in the first place and then got back on track without making a ...ARTArticleTaking Stress Out of the HolidaysIs your calendar full of to-dos, events, parties or travel plans? Any one of these added to your typical weekly schedule is enough to increase your stress level. Oddly enough, many people don’t perceive they are dealing with all that much stress. On a scale of 0 (no stress) to 10 (high ...ARTArticleThe AD/HD Entrepreneur:This is the first in a series of articles about entrepreneurs who have AD/HD.
The United States is in the midst of an entrepreneurial renaissance. People are literally waking up to the idea that they can work for themselves and make a lot of money doing it. And, while there are as many types ...