Ericksonian Principles

Designing Your Life Plan

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If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn

As an adult, it is up to us to design our life than letting some one  else create it for us. If we see what desires we have in our hearts, then we should follow them. We ought to find what path we want to do for the remaining of our lives. So at the end of our lives, we don’t have to regret what we didn’t do in our lives. We don’t have to have somebody else running our lives, especially if we don’t share the same desires?  Each one of us has to find our path and then follow to the best our abilities. We can leave our own a trail of happiness and be glad we did it. We create the plan for ourselves no one can lead our lives for us. Creating our path is a sign of wisdom and maturity.

 

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In Peace

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You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Peace comes from within not from external events. We don’t need to be in control of external things for us to be peaceful. Sometimes we inadvertently control things and others with our fears. What will bring peace to us is if we surrender to the reality of our situation. Accepting life as it is can bring about peace from within. We’re human beings that have a need to control because we want to protect our vulnerabilities. We don’t want to hurt or experience pain. However, the reality is that pain reminds us that we’re alive, and that’s a good thing. It would be a terrible thing if we couldn’t feel pain. We don’t have to hide our pain from ourselves but to feel the pain of our feelings and then eventually we’ll experience peace in our minds and hearts. We will no longer have to feel threaten..

 

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Set Goals

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If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time. — Zig Ziglar

It is a time waster when we don’t have a direction in our lives. It is important to aim at something that’s in the future so we can do what’s necessary today. A goal is something we desire in the end. A goal or an aim keeps our minds focused on the task at hand. We can’t just wait for something to happen. Instead, we set goals that are obtainable and hope for another day that we have an opportunity to get closer to meeting them. It can be any goal we desire or that we have a passion for doing because that’s what going make us happy. Goals and obtaining goals can make us happy when we set them and then carry them out. If we desire more control of our lives, then we must set goals.

 

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Character, Commitment and Discipline

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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. — Zig Ziglar

Character, commitment, and discipline are elements for a successful life. Most of us know this. However, it is important to be reminded. When we had a hard day, we can say to ourselves that we’re building character. When we get frustrated with something, we can say to ourselves to stay discipline and keep ourselves together. When we struggle to get something done, we can say to ourselves that we’re building character because it is important to us and that we will follow through with what we’ve started. If we want something, it will require all three of these elements. There is no such thing as a free lunch. We’re happier when we earn our keep. We feel good about ourselves because we did something for ourselves.

 

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The Most Effective Way

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The most effective way to do it, is to do it. — Amelia Earhart

If we want to get better at something, we have to do it over and over. Doing something once or twice will not cut it. If we do something that makes us uncomfortable enough times, then we will be less uncomfortable. It is all right to get our hands dirty. It’s nice to give ourselves room and time to grow. We can only learn so much by watching from the sidelines. Getting into the trenches is the fastest way to learn to do something effectively.  Our action is what can move things along. Idleness gets nothing done. Each time we do the new thing, we gain more experiences. We can teach others from what we’ve learned from our experiences.

 

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When We Make Time

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You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. — Charles Buxton

The quote above is an old cliche, but it is also a truism. It can still apply to our lives especially when we say to ourselves that we don’t have the time or enough time to do anything. We can always scale back and prioritize what’s important to do first. We forget that we create time. The things we are doing right now is the time we’ve created. At one point we made a conscious decision to make time to do something and since then it has become an automatic thing we do. When the things we do become automatic, we’re no longer in the present. We need to return to the present or step back to see what things we can scale back to create other desirable things we would like to do in our lives.

 

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Momentum Builds Confidence

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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. — Michael Korda

It is important to have momentum in what we do because it keeps us on track. Momentum is the energy we need to complete our goals. Why should we stop when we have the momentum, we stop when the energy ceases. Goals are already challenging to meet sometimes. It is nice to have something like momentum pushing us forward and not pulling us back. Each goal we complete builds our self-confidence to handle greater goals. Sure higher goal may be a challenge for us to complete but it won’t be impossible because we’re ready for it. We’re ready to complete our next goal because we learn from completing previous goals.  Momentum helps us to keep up the pace we need to achieve our aims.

 

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Passionately Curious

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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. — Albert Einstein

We’re instinctually curious about the world around us and the world inside us. We’re born to want to know about things. Curiosity stimulates the mind, or we stimulated our mind when we ask a question.  We want to know the answer to every question we put forth. However, not every question can be answered. And not every question should be replied to until we’re ready. The answers may not be as important as we think. When we put forth a question, it means our minds are thinking. We’re seeking to expand our thinking, or we weigh the new information against our background and our values. In other words, we interpret the new data based on what’s important to us. We do want to see what’s behind the door; we want to know how something works. One question is not enough to satisfy our minds. We do want to understand.

 

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Our Story Is Not Over

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One bad chapter doesn’t mean your story’s over. — Unknown

We all have bad chapters in our lives, and we also have good ones as well. Not only we are stronger when we go through difficulties, but we also have a better understanding of things that we didn’t have before. Our future selves cannot go back into the past and give our past selves guidance, however, we can give the next generation some guidance.  We have regrets; however, we can learn from them. Today it is not too late to rewrite our story. Usually, our past is a good indicator of our future. If we don’t want to continue this path, we have to alter our present. Altering our present means doing something other than what we’ve been doing up to now.  It is easier to complain than to do something that’s out of our comfort zone. However, the more we alter our present, the more we rewrite our story.

 

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Pace Like Nature

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is a virtue. Some things take time to learn and then build. Patience is delay gratification. We want results now. We don’t want to wait. Patience is the quickest way to reach an outcome in the long run. If we get impatient with ourselves and others, then it’s going to take longer than before. Patience is a learned behavior that takes practice. While we wait and see the result of one thing, we can work on the other thing. It is all right to redirect our attention into doing something else. Time seem to move quickly when distracting ourselves with other things.

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Success and Failure

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Never let success go to your head and never let failure go to your heart. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

It takes maturity to learn from our failures. Failure can give us a free education.  Failure can prove most valuable to us than success.  It tells us what actions to take and what actions to discontinue. Failure can tell us how much we need to improve before we succeed. Therefore, failure should go to our heads so we can analyze the pattern and to alter our behavior accordingly.  Success is difficult. Success can never be maintained for very long. There are peaks and valleys.  Failures and successes are part of the game of life. We can learn about life from both failures and successes. No one is exempt from failure. We need both our heart and our head working together regarding success and failure. They say we should follow our heart; we need our head to keep us in check.

 

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Cloud of Smoke

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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. — Anais Nin

If we learn today, we will have skills tomorrow and for the rest of our lives. What skills we have today are what we learned yesterday or many years ago. Therefore, what decisions we make today will always influence our future tomorrow just as the past decisions affect what we’re doing with our lives today. What are the most important things we did this morning are now the least important things we do at night. Our priority changes as the day progresses. Although there are patterns and routines we go by, not everything we think is set in stone. It depends on the context. Context is everything. Context clarifies our meanings and helps us to sort through the cloud of smoke.

 

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Inspiration From Hard Hits and Problems

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Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them. — Joni Eareckson Tada

We can all relate to problems and hard hits in our lives. We learn to get through problems as long as we live. Problems and hard hits are part of life and nature’s way of learning how to manage through life without our problems getting us down. We can see clearly inspiration when we see someone pull themselves out of a deep hole or someone triumph over adversity. We can learn that if someone can triumph against all odds, we can also find that strength within ourselves to push ourselves harder up the mountain. The examples of the triumph of others can evoke in us the motivation to strive to be our best self in the midst of problems.

 

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Compasses Toward Growth

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Fear, uncertainty, and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. — Celestine Chua

We can use fear to motivate us or allow our fear to control us. We can use fears as our compass to help us test the water before swimming. Fear can help us to determine whether or not if it is safe to move forward.  We can take small chances to keep our fear in check. We will never be 100% certain about anything. Uncertainties are a part of life. We can feel uncertain and still move forward anyways. As we move forward, we will begin to uncover or erase some uncertainties we have in our mind that are unreal and untrue. When we’re presenting with something that we feel out of control, we experience discomfort. We can learn to be comfortable in an uncomfortable situation. Taking risks will always be a part of life.

 

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A Flexible Approach

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Stay committed in your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. — Tom Robbins

Flexibility is the high mark for growth and understanding. Flexibility requires us to have an open mind to new things. Learning and flexibility can go hand and hand. Everyone has biases. They keep our mind closed which keep us from learning and experiencing new things. When we keep our approach flexible as Tom Robbins suggested, we are trying different kinds of approaches until we find what works and what doesn’t work. Change require us to be flexible, so we don’t injure ourselves physically or psychologically.  If we want to stimulate some excitement in our lives, we must learn to be more flexible. We can be flexible but also cautious at the same time. Right balance will do.

 

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The First Step

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Success will never be a big step in the future; success is a small step taken just now.— Jonathan Mårtensson

We don’t have to wait for success in the far future. We can start now if we haven’t already. So the good new is that if we start making small steps, then we are experiencing success. Success is moving things forward towards our goals. The big part of achievement is our attitude. We’ve got to have the mindset to believe that we’re doing great work today so our lives will be better tomorrow. We don’t have to wait for the our future to feel satisfied. Instead, we can know that each step we manage to take is our success. We can pat ourselves on the back each time we make a step forward toward completing our goals. Success begets success.

 

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Create A Life Worth Living

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“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.  — William James

If we believe that life is worth living, then we look for things that will help us live a worthy life.  We will create a life worth living because we have self-worth. Somebody believes in us, and therefore, we believe in ourselves.  We have something to contribute that makes us worthy. No one is better than another person. It is hard for someone to have self-worth when they have lost everything, like there family, friends, house, etc. For us to still have these things, we can help those who have fallen if they want it. We can only guide and be a light to help them along the way to their own path.  Once upon a time, we needed help and was thankful that someone cared whether it was emotionally or physically.

 

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Believe It

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France

When we dream it, we see our future selves doing great things. Dreaming it is the beginning of our journey. We want to make our lives better and the lives of others. Our actions make things happen, and our dreams are the fuel that keeps us moving toward that goal. But before we act we create a plan to follow so we don’t get off track and modify it as we need to. When we believe it, we see ourselves carrying out the plan. Sure, there are some doubts, however, without a plan, there will be more doubts to deal with. As we follow the plan we see that our doubts diminish over time.  Dreaming it into reality is not an easy task, but it is doable

 

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Be True To Yourself

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Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.— Unknown

If we pay someone for services, we expect to have top-notch services. No one wants to hire someone to do a half-hearted job. Just the same for us, if we aren’t into what we do and our hearts aren’t into, we owe it to ourselves, to take ourselves out of it. Instead, we find something else to do that we find satisfying and make us happy. It is really about how true to ourselves we really are. We don’t have to do this or that thing to satisfy another person or because society says we suppose to do this or that thing. If we’re authentic and feel comfortable in our own skin, then like-minded people will come around us because of us. Real people attract other real people.

 

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Make Dreams, Then Make Realities

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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. —Jesse Owens

Having a dream is nice. Dreams can make us hopeful in the midst of a struggle. With determination, dedication, self-disciple, and effort we still need to keep our eyes on the ball. We still need to be reminded as to why we started. What motivated us to begin in the first place? There are times that we want to give up when things don’t work out. We will make mistakes, put we can learn from them. We can take breaks in between our efforts. We can also reward ourselves each time we reach a milestone. We won’t know what we’re doing at first, but each day we get better and thus become more efficient in our work. We’re competing with ourselves, not with someone else. It is our dream we’re fulfilling not someone else’s. It is our treasure chest of experiences from our determination, dedication, that we will find meaningful and most fulfilling.

 

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