Ericksonian Principles

Can We Do More Than We Think We Can?

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There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.— Henry Ford

This is a powerful statement from Henry Ford because he’s telling us what we think is what we follow. If we believe that we can’t, then we won’t even try, but if we feel we can, we will be more likely to succeed. It boils done to what we believe. Henry Ford is implying in his statement that beliefs can be powerful. So we can only do what we set out to do. It is in the belief that places a certain amount of limitation or help widening our scope.

 

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Decision to Follow Dreams

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It is up to us to decide what we want to do with our life. We all have dreams we want to follow. But sometimes we allow distractions in our lives because we’re resistant to change. We become resistant when the dream starts to become a reality.  We realized that it’s going to take hard work and time. It is time away from what is familiar and comfortable to us. There’s always a price for everything we do, and we just have to weigh our pros and cons to find out what fits us better. We’ve got to find what we like and what is suited for us.

 

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Forget the Rest

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Don’t stress. Do your best and forget the rest. — Unknown

We can only do one thing at a time. We can only do so much. And what we do can be our best. So at the end of the day, we can say that we’ve done our best, and we must forget the rest. We must let go, so we have another opportunity to work on things tomorrow.  We can reduce our stress significantly if at the end of the day we then can let go of them because we will need our sleep at night.

 

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The Good Things

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If we’re patient today, it will pay off in the long run. Being inpatient only adds to the frustration of wanting quick results. Good things can happen if we just wait and see. We can learn a lot when we wait and see. We have to let things happen after we do so much. We just have to set the stage and wait for an opportunity to arise. Being inpatient only makes the time seem a lot longer.  Patient allows the situation to unfold by itself.

 

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When the Mind Gains Strength

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. — Laurence Sterne

Every once in a while, we need some time to be alone so we can renew our strength. A time of solitude is a time to gather our thoughts and reflect back on our life that we’ve lived so far. Solitude is a place where we may need some tuning up again. It is all right to revisit this place of solitude when we need to clear our heads so we can be at a level of strength to deal with everyday life again. We don’t live in a vacuum, and we will be affected by life’s challenges and worries. Therefore, some time away is necessary for all of us.

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The Next Time

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To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time. — Celestine Chua

Someone who regrets start with the thought, “If only,” and while someone who wants to learn from something “next time.”  Regrets have us to look back on what we could have done but waited until tomorrow when that day never came. But if we act today, then we can measure better how much we have to do to get results we want. After a long day of working on something, we have the opportunity to know what we can do next.

 

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It Just Blooms

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A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. — Zen Shin

We don’t need to compete with another for us to become better. It’s about competing with ourselves. We become free when we’re self-motivating. It’s all right to be ourselves. When we are ourselves, we are saying that we accept ourselves. We don’t have to compare ourselves to another because we’re unique from everybody else. It doesn’t take that much energy to be ourselves than to be someone else. We don’t have to hide from the world. We ought to show the world what we see inside ourselves because not everyone is going to reject us.

 

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The Future Is Tomorrow

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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. — Dean Acheson

So it is better to work on things today because we will know how much we’ve accomplished the next day. The day we start is the day we begin to alter our future. We just have to take action. The more we take action the closer we get in meeting our future goals. So why do we stall in we don’t need to? A part of us wants change in our life, and another part of us wants to stay in our comfort zone. Sometimes, there is an external conflict in want we want to do. We’re never going to be perfect if we’ll waiting to plan out everything before we start something. The sooner we start, the better we are in the long run.

 

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Courage That Counts

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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. — John Wooden

Success is telling us that whatever we’re doing, continue doing it if we want it.  If we see failures of ourselves and others as educational, then it’s okay.  It takes courage for us to fail and succeed. We need to experience both failure and success for us to deal with them. Courage helps us to take the necessary steps to get through the aftermath of success and failure. It is important that we learn something about our struggles so that we can know ourselves better.

 

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Imagining the Possibilities

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. — Albert Einstein

Knowledge is gathering information while imagination is a visual exercise of the mind. When we close our eyes, we open our minds to many possibilities. The many opportunities are endless if we are open to them. If we allow ourselves to let briefly go of our old ideas, then we can welcome new ideas. Using our imagination can free us from our biases or at least temporarily. We can allow ourselves to readjust to new ideas if we want to see beyond what we now know.

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Testing What’s Possible

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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

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You can do what’s reasonable or you can decide what’s possible. — Unknown

We can test what’s possible in a reasonable way. We won’t know if don’t test what’s possible. We have to push the envelope to test to see what works and to understand why certain things won’t work. This is a period when we gather information. This will help us open our minds for possibilities that we never thought about before. If we find ourselves not growing or not getting results, then we have to decide and test what’s possible for ourselves.

 

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A Clear Mind

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Keep your head clear. It doesn’t matter how bright the path is if your head is always cloudy. — Unknown

We even need our head cleared when our path seems foggy at times, so we’re able to maneuver better. For us to keep our mind clear, we need to make explicit what plan to execute. We need to write things down, so we have a better grip on them. And we need to remind ourselves what is our purpose when we first started on our path.  Before we start anything, we can sit at a quiet place and allow our minds to clear up so we can be most effective.

 

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Discover From Experience

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Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. — Victoria Holt

Regrets just bring us down. There are some things we’ve got to learn the hard way. Learning things the hard way is an experience that we needed so to open up our minds to another way of thinking and new understanding about life and self-discovery. It is wonderful when we make good decisions and things work out the way we hoped.  We can’t stop making decisions unless we know that individual decisions will take us off track.  Experiences are our teacher to help us give way to life discoveries.

 

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Don’t Lose the Lessons

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When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. — Unknown

Lessons are like gold nuggets; they give us clues as to where we want to do next. Lessons help us to build character. Lessons are not meant for us to feel or to be lectured to about life, but to give us some wisdom so that we have the opportunity to apply to our life for the rest of our lives.  It doesn’t mean we’re lost or defended when we lose. When we lose, we gain more wisdom than if we’ve won. The lost we feel can be a powerful indicator that there is an important lesson to be learned.  It’s not always important to win most of the time. Besides, how will we appreciate the one without the other? We all have experienced both losing and winning.

 

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Life’s Like A Movie

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Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. — Jim Henson

We can write our script. We don’t have to follow some else’s path. Instead, we are here to figure out our way. We each have a unique set of circumstances that we can draw from that will help determine our path. We keep believing in ourselves to continue to move forward where we want to go in life. We keep pretending so that sooner or later we become what we’ve dreamed of doing. We each have to walk our path for us to grow into what we want to become.  What we become is what determines how we write our ending.

 

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Generosity, Kindness, and Compassion

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Never define yourself by your relationship status, your income, or your looks. It’s your generosity, kindness, and compassion that counts.— Brigitte Nicole

Donating money is a generous offer, but money can only last so long. However, if we give our time to someone, then that may affect that person for a lifetime. Compassion can heal a wounded soul in need and even the soul of the giver. We give without expecting nothing in return because giving satisfies the conscience. Good looks are not everlasting. We can’t stay young forever, but we can always strive to share our kindness.
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Find Yourself In the Present

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In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra

In order words, we’re not defined by our past. Therefore, we don’t have to identify with the past as though that’s all to live for.  Our past is a reflection of what we did and experienced in our lives. Letting go means leaving the past behind us instead of looking into the lens of our past. We can look at what’s in front, and we can plan for our future just as we plan long go. What we do today is the result of what we did in the past. We find ourselves in the present because we are not looking anywhere but our present where we can be at our best.

 

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Out of difficulties

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Out of difficulties grow miracles. — Jean de la Gruyere

Out of difficulties, we learn something about ourselves that we haven’t know before. We’ve discovered how strong we’ve become. We’ve learned that we can rely on ourselves more and make things happen with our actions. Life difficulties can reveal to us our true character to ourselves and others. When we see a challenging and daunting tasking in from us to do, our body has an urge to resist. However, when we proceed with the task, we have conquered ourselves, and that’s extraordinary thus a miracle. We have broken up the belief that we can’t do something difficult if we focus.

 

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