Post Written By Eugene Morgan
“Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.”— James A. Michener
Uncertainty
When It’s Time for Discipline
Post Written By Eugene Morgan
It is time for discipline when we’re too tired to go on. It is time for discipline when we don’t have time to spare. It is time for discipline when emotions and feelings are controlling us. It is time for discipline when our rigid ideas are keeping us away from what we wish to do. It is time for discipline when we began to doubt our self and ability. It is time for discipline when we begin to feel uncertainty. It is time for discipline when we’re disorganized and undisciplined. Discipline helps us move on in spite of life’s difficulties. We need discipline in our lives to keep us together in time of need.
In Facing The Right Direction
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If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~ Zen Saying
When we know we’re facing the right direction, sometimes there is a hesitation to keep walking because of fear and anxiety. If we know that’s the path we must follow to get where we want to get, then we must walk through our fears and anxieties. The future will always be uncertain. But as long as we have a direction and a purpose to move forward, than the uncertainty is mute. It is within us that we can turn our uncertainty into courage. In spite of uncertainty in one’s life being courageous makes it certain.
Leave Your Past Uncertainties in The Past
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If we have uncertainties leave them in the past because they belong in the past. Our anxiety about our future is really about our uncertainties of the past.
We must reconcile our past so we can move forward into our futures. It’s all right to look at our past uncertainties to learn from them, but only to learn.
We need not focus on what happened yesterday because it’s just a memory. We don’t have to react to a negative memory but we can put a positive spin on it.
We can find a way to see the memory differently and not take what already happen so seriously. Instead we can recall our good memories to relive some of the positive experiences.
Uncertainty About Life
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We all experienced feeling uncertain about things. We want to know everything before we begin something.
That’s good to a certain extent but eventually we will have to move past the knowing, because we will truly know something if we experience it. Uncertainties are what we think might happen in the future.
But what we think might happen in the future is really mostly in our heads and not truly real. No one can predict the future, wondering what’s going to happen in the future is just only that— “just wondering.”
Life is about experiencing things through our senses, like seeing the beautiful sky, enjoying an after rain smell, and feeling and hearing the wind blowing against our bodies, and with experiences like these make our hearts sing about how life is wonderful.
Facing Daily Challenges
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Dialog: Question: How’s it going? Answer: Same stuff, different day.
The same things that come into our lives repeatedly are the things we handle in the same way. Maybe if we change our attitudes about things that trouble us, we would be in a better place to handle them.
We are going to face challenges daily in our workplace and in our homes. The same things are going to creep up during our daily lives.
If we just accept them as opportunities as daily challenges, then we can conquer some of these challenges as we make it through the day.
Since we all know that these challenges are repeated offenders, then how come we’re surprised by them? We quickly forget that we have gone through similar challenges before and we can tame our reaction responses and be proactive when they occur in our lives.
So Far So Good: Breaking Down Fears
Written By Eugene Morgan
“A man jumped off the top of a skyscraper. As he passed the third floor window he was heard to mutter: ‘So far so good’.”
When it comes to fear, we don’t jump into something without having some reservations. Most of our fears aren’t about jumping into something that causes death.
The example above is extreme, but sometimes what we fear, feels like we’re jumping into something that causes certain death. But most of our fears are all in our head; they aren’t real.
I don’t recommend anyone to jump. But whatever we fear that we have to jump into, we can have the attitude of the man who said, “So far so good.”
This attitude can help us get through the fear, knowing that whatever event that’s increasing our fear, we can say to ourselves: “So far so good,” whether that’s speaking in a front of a large audience, flying or getting in an elevator. The only thing that’s certain is uncertainty, but we take courage anyways.
Fearing Little is the Only Way Out
Written By Eugene Morgan
“And what do you need to fear? Very little that you need to fear.” Milton Erickson
Fear is a feeling. Fear saves lives. Fear is paralyzing. Fear speaks the truth about something. Fear speaks lies, too. Our assumptions about things can fuel a fear. Fear, if not felt, is projecting into something threatening that doesn’t exist. Fear is very real but a perceived danger isn’t. There are big fears and little fears. Big fears are unmanageable but if broken down into smaller fears— manageable. Erickson, says in his above quote, there is very little that we need to fear.