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“Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.”— Richard Wilkins
Ericksonian Principles
When Feeling Stuck
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When we’re feeling stuck, it means that we haven’t made a change yet. When we’re feeling stuck, it means we haven’t done something yet. When we’re feeling stuck, it means we haven’t made up our minds yet. When we’re feeling stuck, it means we aren’t growing. When we’re feeling stuck, it means we’re doing the same things we have done before expecting a different outcome. When we’re feeling stuck, it means that we’re waiting for something to happen. When we’re feeling stuck, it means that we’re looking in the wrong direction and it also means that we haven’t taking charge of our lives. Taking charge of our lives, feel like we have more control over our lives. We don’t have to wait on anyone or anything to start taking charge of our lives, therefore we no longer have to feel stuck
Happiness….Conscious Choice
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“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”— Mildred Barthel
Trust
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“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”— Benjamin Spock
Trusting ourselves is very important to relating to others. If we don’t trust ourselves, then we will have a hard time building trust with others. The key is building trust. No one is asking to trust anybody. Trusting in another takes time and a lot of experiences together with another, but to begin to trust another starts with relating to the other person. The level of trust in ourselves are the reflection of the level of trust in another. Trusting ourselves means to rely on our own abilities while trusting another’s abilities.
See The Positive Side
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“See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.”— Dalai Lama
There is a positive side to every negative side. If we’re always look at the negative side of things, then we squeeze out the positive side of things. If we want to be fair about it we should look at the negative and the positive side of things equally. As Dalai Lama infers in the quote, if we see the positive side of things, then we will see the potentials or opportunities we can take, and we would want to make the effort to bring things into realities or to change things.
Change Makes Things Move
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Change is always inevitable when it come to personal growth. Change makes things move. Change is for the better most of the time. Change can bring clarity if we let it. Change can bring down walls as well as psychological walls. Change is seasonal like the weather. Change is painful but we’re adaptable. Change can take people apart while it can bring people together. Change does not discriminate. Change is pure and destructive. But change builds mountains so we can climb them. Change can help and bring peace to those who want to receive it.
Acceptance With Fewer Disappointments
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“Learn to accept rather than expect, and you’ll have far fewer disappointments.”— Unknown
When we accept things that we can’t control, then we no longer have to struggle but to embrace them. If we waste our time preoccupied with things we can’t change, then we lose on the opportunities to focus our energies on the things that we can control. When we focus on those things, then our expectations are suitable. The reason being, we know from our own experiences that we’re able to do certain things because we have an expectation in ourselves to do them. Our expectations lead us to disappointment when they’re too high. Acceptance is the first step to getting some satisfaction.
Cheerfulness
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“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.”— Proverb
When we see someone in a cheerful mood, we want to know what is it that makes him or her so cheerful? We all have experienced feeling good after being around a cheerful person. It makes us feel so good for the rest of the day. We feel more alive when we’re in a cheerful mood and that everything seems okay again. Being cheerful makes a difference in health and well-being. Yes, we’re all responsible for taking care of our health just as important to take care of our mental health.
Discovering Our Own Talents
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“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”— Sven Gran Ericksson
Day As a Separate Life
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“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”— Seneca
Can we imagine if we lived and counted each day as a separate life? We could see that the day has a beginning, middle and an ending just as life. If we had a bad day, we would have an opportunity to get up the next morning to live out another day unlike someone who has a lifetime of unpleasant events. A week would be equivalent to seven lifetimes. There would be so many experiences that would enrich our lives. Our days wouldn’t be wasted because there would be so much to do, if a day was a lifetime.
One Step and One Breath At A Time
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“Our way to practice is one step at a time, one breath at a time.”— Shunryu Suzuki
If we practice this lesson in the above quote, we would go a long way in our journey in life. We can accomplish so much if we just focus on one thing at a time instead of trying to rush things along. We would get more satisfying experiences if we just practice accomplishing our goal one step at a time. We may have not learned something as much if we kept our sights at the end of the goal. Accomplishing our goals always feels good at the end but experiencing the journey is what we will always remember and cherish for the rest of our lives.
Begin Now
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“The future is always beginning now.”— Mark Strand
Today is our future. Decisions we have made in our past led us to today. So if we’re dissatisfied with our life today, then it is time to make new decisions toward what we want and desire for our lives. The good new is that we can start making key decisions to alter our lives today. One thing we can do today is to imagine ourselves in the future doing what we want and desire and see how that feels to us. If it’s a good feeling while watching ourselves, then we’re on the right track. Decisions has the power to change our future, therefore we should carefully look at them.
Look for the Alternative
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“Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.”—Unknown
It is so easy to look for the negative side of things than to look for the positive side of things. One of the reasons we look for the negative side of things is because our expectation is too high. Instead, we can see things as they are and see if we can learn from them, and then, find something positive. Or, change what we called a liability into something useful. It is all in the mindset. When we have used the same mindset for so long that’s not producing results then it is time to look for alternatives.
Add To Good Luck
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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”— Norman Cousins
Making Life Changing Decisions
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Making a decision can be life changing. Making a decision can make a difference in one’s life. Not every decision can be easily made. Not every decision we make in our lifetime will lead to positive outcomes. Decisions are meant to help us move forward in life. The decisions we make will not only affect us but it will affect others that are close by and some far away. We don’t have to make a decision right of way. However, some things do require a quick decision. Decision-making forces us to think about what are we going to do next. That’s why we delay in making an informed decision because action follows after it is made. We will never be ready to act unless we decide to.
Finding Our Own Voice
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We shouldn’t ever give up in finding who we are in the world. Since everyone has unique characteristics, everyday we have an opportunity to discover how those traits play out in the world. We each have a unique way of seeing the world, therefore, we have our own voice and we don’t have to imitate another. It is all right to have our personality expresses itself to the world. That’s what most people will remember. Our personality can influence one another on a daily basis.
Make A Difference
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”— William James
Believe it or not our actions do make a difference in either someone’s life or a cause. Sometimes we don’t see the repel effects because it takes time to spread, but it does. Any actions we think are small maybe life changing for someone else. We don’t want to take life for granted when it comes to making a difference. It only starts with one person’s actions to make a difference for many people’s lives. We hope in our own actions that we are good models for someone who’s watching.
A Day For A Life
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“What you do today is important, because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.”— Unknown
The Joy In Looking
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“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”— Albert Einstein
If we want to learn sometime outside ourselves, observe things around us. Sometimes, for us to understand ourselves, we have to look beyond ourselves. The world teaches us things about others and about ourselves and that’s a beautiful gift. We are here to learn and to experience life as we live it and to explore our curiosity about things, things that can enrich our lives and to share with one another. Things we share bring us together and that’s what counts is each other.
Building Confidence
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It is through confidence we do our best work. We begin to realize that we can do what we doubted earlier in the process. Each time we attempt on something, we improve on it each time. Persistence begets improvement while improvement leads to excelling in our work. The more our confidence grows the more we have self-reliance and the wisdom to know to let go of the things we can’t do. But we can lend those things to someone else who has that special talent.