Friday, 30 August 2019

Wreaks

I am not in charge or responsible for the wreaks 
others have created in their lives 
and I do not need to save everyone in my life.
 - Brendon Burchard

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Level

Celebrate meaningful struggle and hardship 
because we know those very things 
will free us from one level of life and set us into another. 
- Brendon Burchard

Monday, 26 August 2019

Conformity

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
 - John F. Kennedy

Friday, 23 August 2019

Contribute

The more we are true to ourselves,
 the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.
 - Brendon Burchard

Wednesday, 21 August 2019

Long For

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together 
to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, 
but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. 
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Monday, 19 August 2019

Common Sense

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, 
and doing things as they ought to be done.
 - Source obscure

Friday, 16 August 2019

August 16, 2019 Chautauqua


Beth's Ponderings

   Do you catastrophize? 

   That’s a “fancy” term that means you see something negative happening in any situation - current, future, or just imagined - and then take that negativity to the far extreme.

   I recently heard a woman say that when we look at something big that we want to accomplish, or a significant change we want to make, we are most creative at coming up with worst-case scenarios than we are at visualizing it going successfully.  

   How true! 

   When we plan for a trip, to start a business, take a course, or whatever our dream may be, instead of visualizing ways we can accomplish it easier and better, we say we need to be “realistic.”  That word, “realistic” tends to keep us small in the way we think, and firmly entrenched in our comfort zone (aka rut), which is not what we want at all if we are trying to create something new in our lives.

   Yet, on the other hand, for any given project, we can usually rattle off the top of our heads, almost without any effort, an extensive list of excuses and reasons why what we want to do won’t happen, will go horribly and terribly wrong, or how we’ll be hopeless failures for the rest of our lives.  And, usually, those reasons and worst-care scenarios are so outlandishly not even possible - certainly nothing realistic about them!

   But, what if we switched that around?  What if we were more outlandishly creative with the reasons why what we want to do WILL work and how it will make our lives better?  Not only would that make whatever we are doing more enjoyable to do, and much less stressful, but the added bonus is that we may even discover other aspects that we want to explore deeper, or methods that will work even better for us.

   There is no one absolutely perfectly guaranteed way to accomplish anything.  There are only multiple creative ways that each reflect our  own individual personalities.


   So instead of catastrophizing about your next project, why not be outlandishly creative in planning it.  I dare you!

 Beth

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Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Prior

Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action. 
- Taoist philosophy

Monday, 12 August 2019

Guru

There is no one outside of you who can know your soul, 
your path, or your heart better than you.
 You are the guru. You have all the wisdom,
 all the inner knowings, inside of you...
we already know in our souls everything 
we absolutely need to know about our own paths.
 - Danette May

Friday, 9 August 2019

Correction

Making a course correction as we move forward is progress.
 - Jessica Ortner

Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Self-acceptance

Self-acceptance is an invitation to 
stop trying to change yourself into the person you wish to be,
 long enough to find out who you really are.
 - Robert Holden

Monday, 5 August 2019

Storm

The storm is in your mind, not in your life. 
- Humble the Poet

Friday, 2 August 2019

August 2, 2019 Chautauqua


Beth's Ponderings

   When you take a look at your life, and your typical day, what do you see?  Are you happy and content with what you see, or not? 

   We all know what’s not working in our lives, and what we’re not getting done each day, and the list is usually longer than both our arms!

   But, have you ever stopped to look at what IS working, and what you ARE getting done?

   Sometimes just this tiny, albeit very powerful, shift can really make a difference in our lives.

   Looking at what is working, and, trust me, there is a lot working, or we wouldn’t be able to get out of bed and move through our days, gives us feedback that allows us to focus our efforts to maximum effect, to achieve more of what we want.    

   Focusing on what we are getting done, shows us we are making progress towards our goals and dreams, and aren’t just spinning our wheels aimlessly, because we accomplish a lot during the course of our day, beginning with opening our eyes in the morning. 


   Sure, we all have dreams and goals we want to accomplish, but before we can go conquer the world, we need to acknowledge where we are and how far we have already come.

Beth 

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