Ericksonian Principles

Success, a Character Builder

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Struggles

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Success builds character. Failure reveals it. — Dave Checketts

In other words, how we deal with failure is an indication as to how well we succeed. Our struggle to success is a character builder. We learn to get tougher skin when we struggle. It is just as important to fail as it is to succeed. Success is built upon failures because we continue through the struggles until we get to where we want to go. Struggling is a part of everyday life to help us to learn how to live and interact with the world. Struggling makes us a stronger candidate for success.  Struggle helps us to grow into our potential if we don’t give up but continue the path we set for ourselves. It is tough to look at ourselves in the mirror to see what failure reveals to us. We discover what kind of characteristics and/or traits that are floating to the surface of our psyche. It is really about self-discovery.

 

[bctt tweet=”Success builds character. Failure reveals it. — Dave Checketts”]

 

Lost Time

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Deadline

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Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin

We all know that it is better to use our time wisely than to waste it. We don’t know how valuable time is until we’re faced with a deadline or an external consequence. We’re motivated to complete a task when the time is about to run out instead of using the time we had before. We will never get back the time we had before. The only thing we can do is to make time. We make time by looking at what are the available times we have to complete our task. When we schedule our time into something, we’re defining the amount time to get a specific goal achieved or specific task completed. The time we truly have is now. It’s going to takes some thinking on how best to use our time.

[bctt tweet=”Lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin”]

 

Discipline, Goals and Accomplishments

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Discipline

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. — Jim Rohn

Discipline is about completing every task that will take us to our goals. Discipline has its own reward. Discipline allows us to stay focus in spite of chaos. Discipline assists us in acquiring good habits. Discipline helps us to hold it together when we need to until we’re ready to let it go later. Discipline is difficult, but we’re satisfied after completing each task. Discipline is telling us to keep hanging on because we’re almost there. Discipline is like a friend we take in or a foe we keep out. It is up to us to embrace discipline because we have it to assist us not punish to us. Besides, we punish ourselves enough with our doubts. Discipline guarantees consistency with everything we do; Discipline keeps us on track and in order.

[bctt tweet=”Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. — Jim Rohn”]

 

Motivation and Habit

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340/365 days project - 06/05/2014 [A world of music]

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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

It’s hard to initiate a new project when we’re used to being told what do it. We don’t necessarily have to be motivated for us to start something. It’s about being proactive, and then motivation comes later. Besides, we can’t rely on motivation to continue during difficult parts of a project. As we keep working on it, we will acquire habit to keep us going. It is the self-doubting we have to look out for because we don’t know the what ifs. We just have to work through our doubts just by getting our hands dirty because working with a new project is a trial and error even if we have planned everything out. We will hand out what is useful and keep and what is not useful we just throw away.

[bctt tweet=”Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun”]

The Encourager

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Achievement

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Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already. — Dave Willis

The world has plenty of critics and we can be our worst critic when it comes to perfectionism.  However, we need to listen to our encourager. We need encouragement instead of beating ourselves up when we make a mistake. We need encourager who believes in us and our abilities as we be the encourager for others.  We need to start believing in ourselves so we can learn to be a better person. We’re free when we’re self-reliant. We’re self-reliant because we believe in ourselves and our abilities. It is better to be around those who believe in themselves.  We can permit ourselves to do whatever we want without wondering how perfect we should be.  We want to be connected, but we don’t have to be connected by seeking the approval of others. Instead, we connect because we have the same battles and struggles as the next person and can encourage each other to do our best and be proud.

 

[bctt tweet=”Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already. — Dave Willis”]

 

Mistakes and Idleness

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Harold J. Smith More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”  ― George Bernard Shaw

If we make mistakes, then, at least, we have some stories to tell the next generation.  We make mistakes for us to learn about ourselves. We won’t know much about ourselves if we do nothing with our lives. Making mistakes are what makes us human. When we accept the fact that we make mistakes, then we won’t be afraid to take risks. We don’t have to take big risks to prove to ourselves that we have courage. It’s okay to start with small risks. Learning is about taking risks. Our minds are closed to new things when we’re afraid to learn. Someone with an open mind is willing to learn new things. Our level of anxiety decreases when we’re informed about something new because we have a new understanding that make us more aware of things.

 

[bctt tweet=”“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw”]

Obstacles or Challenges

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Goal ?

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford

Whatever keeps us away from our goals is a form of an obstacle. Our mind can create obstacles because we have a belief that we can’t do it. It is easier to find reasons why we can’t do something than to learn things to achieve our goals. However, there are real obstacles that we will face. We can see obstacles as challenges. We’re resistant to obstacles than we’re to challenges. We seem to take on a task better when we frame it as a challenge than as an obstacle. We put our heart into our work especially if we know it will be worthwhile. It takes concentration to keep our eye on the ball and so as our life goals. It depends on how we see things.

[bctt tweet=”Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford”]

 

 

Learning and Growth

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Learn to ride

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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. — Anthony J. D’Angelo

 

Our mind is made for learning new things every day. It is a gift that we take for granted. Learning is giving us the ability to grow into what we want to become. We’re at different levels of learning. Therefore, we’re at different levels of growth. We make our own journey through learning. Learning is about adapting to new surroundings. There are things we learn that we need to unlearn, and there are things we forget that we have to relearn. We need to be reminded that once upon a time that our first learnings were difficult, but we managed and learned what we needed to learn. Since then we have a storehouse of learnings that has accumulated over years through experiences. A treasure chest of experiences we can always tap into if needed.

[bctt tweet=”Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. — Anthony J. D’Angelo”]

 

You Think You Can

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Obstacle Course

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Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right. — Henry Ford

The brain only does what we think. If we think we can’t do this or that, then our brain will find a way to prove that we can’t do this or that. However, if we think we can do this or that thing, then our brain will find a way to prove that we can to this or that thing. When we find a way to prove that we can’t do this or that thing, then it means that we have a high expectation that we should be able to do a new thing flawlessly. However, when we find a way to to prove that we can do this or that thing, we have an understanding that it will take time and patience to learn the required skills before we become proficient.  We learn through trial and error not through assumptions to find our way in the world.

 

[bctt tweet=”Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right. — Henry Ford”]

 

The Need to be Appreciated

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Team work
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The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. — Williams James

We all want to feel and be useful in our world. No one wants to feel different than the next person because we want to be a part something. No one wants to be isolated from a group. We desire to have friends, and we like it when someone call us by our name. It is human nature to be wanted in any group. Trust is always a factor. Trust is earned. Trust is usually earned when two or more individual handles a difficult situation together because we’re forced to rely on each other as a team. Every group is a unit. In the unit, each person has to play a part for the unit to function well. Each member of the group begin to learn about the other’s strength and weaknesses, and each member learns to anticipate the other’s needs. We’re emotionally linked together.

 

[bctt tweet=”The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. — Williams James”]

 

Find Your Purpose

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The Purpose of Life

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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. — Gautama Buddha

If we haven’t given our whole heart and soul to something, then we haven’t found our purpose. Besides, it’s never too late to find our purpose as long as we’re alive. If we want our remaining days or years to be meaningful, then we ought to make it our purpose to find what is our heart’s desire in life. Our soul is waiting for us to make the move if we haven’t done so already. Everyone is different when it comes to finding a purpose. One person may want to assist the homeless while another may want to save the environment. We all have unique talents like no other that can bring out our purpose in life. We shouldn’t waste our talents when we can use them for the benefit of ourselves and others.

 

[bctt tweet=”Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. — Gautama Buddha”]

A Good Plan

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Weekend Plans

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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. — Proverb

Whatever we plan doesn’t have to be a perfect plan. When we plan today, we’re oriented ourselves to the future. What we plan today help us to fulfill our dreams for tomorrow. Planning today helps us to have more control over our future tomorrow. So what we’re doing today is what we planned yesterday. Today we have an opportunity to alter that plan. A plan to do something we’ve wanted to do for awhile. There is no direction without a plan in our hand. Planning is an intellectual and a proactive exercise not a reactionary one. We’re forced to be concrete in our planning because we can see specifically what things we need to do to complete our goals.

[bctt tweet=”A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. — Proverb”]

 

Water The Grass Where You Stand

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Spring Grass

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The grass is always greener where you water it. — Unknown

Wherever we go or whenever we leave for new endeavors, we have to make sure that the conditions are right before we do. Sometimes we want to do something else because we have this expectation that things will be better. Things will get better when we change not necessarily things around us change. If our grass is not as green as the other side, then we have an opportunity to water it. In other words, we can create our atmosphere any which way we want it. We have an opportunity to assert ourselves to make things better in our lives and the lives of others. If we can find opportunity, then we must create an an opportunity to nurture our well-being. For us to create something, we must move or act to make something happen. We must water the ground where we stand.

[bctt tweet=”The grass is always greener where you water it. — Unknown”]

 

 

 

 

365 Days Left

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<Pasarela del Bicentenario, Zaragoza

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How come we think we need a resolution at the beginning of the year to make a change? It is easy to say to ourselves we have 365 days to do this or that. For some of us who procrastinate fool ourselves into thinking that we have 365 days left to start something new. Instead, we ought to make deadline each day or to do list each day and follow it until most things are completed. It is all right to add one new thing to a list to do so we can have variety. If we’re going to try something new, we need to commit to it for a certain period so we know what we’re getting ourselves into. Remember, always at the beginning of doing something new not only starting but also maintaining it will be difficult at first. We just have to be patient with ourselves and not give up.

Celebrating

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Celebrating Christmas at The Armory in Columbus, Indiana U.S.A. on 12-28-2013 A.D.

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Today is a time we meet as a family. Celebrating a holiday while exchanging gifts. Seeing family members that we haven’t seen for awhile. The kids are playing their new toys while the adults are conversing about everyday stuff. We can now rest and sit at a table and enjoy a meal with loved-ones. There are no more running around looking for the perfect gift. All the presents that were once wrapped are unwrapped. The Christmas tree lights are stilling blinking. The smell of newness in the air. It is easy to get caught in the Christmas chaos that we lose the meaning as to why we celebrate each year. It’s about rekindling our spirits and being thankful.

 

 

 

The End of 2015

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We’re nearing to end of 2015. It will be 2016 soon. It is time to reflect back on this year of what we’ve done and didn’t do. What lessons can we learn and apply to our next adventures? A new year can mean a new opportunity to take advantage of new possibilities. A new year can be a new start. We don’t have to wait on what it’s in store for us in the new year. Instead, we can do the things we’ve been holding off on. In the meantime, we can celebrate our time with family and friends and may our thoughts be with those without family for the first time.

 

 

Adjusting A Sail

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Sailing 2011

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I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean

Change can feel like an impossible feat to do. However, a small change can do wonders to our life. A slight reorientation to our situation can make all the difference to how we handle things. Life is already difficult. We don’t have to make an alternation a huge event. It is better to start things small. It is easier to manage our lives when things are small. As long as we live, we will make adjustments to our situation accordingly. Adjustment is another thing we do because it is part of life. Making adjustment to a new situation means we’re accepting the challenge. We’re willing to put ourselves out when we feel it’s necessary.

[bctt tweet=”I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean”]

 

Day Brings New Choices

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Choices, Choices

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Every day brings new choices. — Martha Beck

A new day is a gift to us because it brings new choices. Because we have choices, we have an open mind to things. An open mind is willing to learn new things. Learning new things help us to be better as an individual and to the world. Too many choices can be overwhelming at times. We can only pick the best choices for ourselves and prioritize what choices we make first because choices will affect our future. And we want our choices to affect our future in a positive way. We will make bad choices sometimes. However, bad choices don’t have to define who we’re. We just have to learn from the bad choices.   Our choices are our opportunity to take control over our lives and be free doing it.

 

[bctt tweet=”Every day brings new choices. — Martha Beck”]

 

 

Life is a Matter of Moments

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Moments of light

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Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.— Rose Kennedy

Milestones are meaningless without moments. It is the moments we remember when we make a milestone in our lives. We have moments of struggles, moments of successes, moments of frustrations and also moments of failures. We experience all types of moments. These moments make us what we’re today if we persevere. Those moments become our foundation we can build the next level of our self-development. It is all right to strive for a goal, but it is the moments that make our goals meaningful and worth doing. We experience moments in the here and now and necessarily in the future. We can touch and smells as long as we are present.

[bctt tweet=”Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.— Rose Kennedy”]

 

Run On the Right Track

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Barefoot Runner

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“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ― Will Rogers

It is not easy to stay on the right track, let alone sit there while waiting for something to happen. We can’t afford to wait for something to happen, because if something were to happen how do we know we will be ready for it. We will be more ready if we take action before an opportunity drops on our lap than if we don’t take action. We will likely make mistakes, and we must give ourselves room to make mistakes because that’s how we learn about life. If we want to sit idle, then we can sit idle for a good reason. If we want to take action, then we can take action for a good reason. What we do is an expression of ourselves. It is through our wants and desires that we do the things we do if we hope to fulfill them. We all want a satisfying experience when we express ourselves to the world. We want to feel useful and purposeful in what we do.

 

[bctt tweet=”Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ― Will Rogers”]