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The 5 Year Rule

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Before getting upset, ask, “Will anybody really know or care about this five years from now?”

If the answer is “no,” take a deep breath, relax, and let it go.

Most things will be “no.”

If the answer is “yes,” you have a crisis on your hands and getting upset about it will not help you deal with it. Instead, come up with a rational plan to move forward.

This does not mean deny your feelings, rather deal with them when the crisis is over.

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Believe in the Best

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Believe that everything happens for the best.

You have two choices in what you believe about what happens:

  1. You can believe that everything happens by chance; randomly. We are just leaves in the wind.
  2. You can believe that everything happens for a reason.

There is no right nor wrong choice.

However, if you choose to believe that everything happens for a reason; you might as well believe it happens for a good one.

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What Are You Saying to YOU?

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The words we use to describe ourselves make a difference in what we end up doing.

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Think about the words you use to describe what you want.

There are four stages in the process.

  1. I need… (acceptance)
  2. I can… (realization)
  3. I will… (commitment)
  4. I am… (actualization)

For example, if we’re talking about weight loss, one’s self-talk progresses through the three stages like this:

  1. “I need to lose weight.”
  2. “I can lose weight.”
  3. “I will lose weight.”
  4. “I am losing weight.”

Acceptance is usually painful so most people try to avoid it. However, once accepted, the next step is to find support to reinforce that it can be done.

After realization comes commitment. [Read more…]

Don’t Wait Until Things Settle Down

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Don’t wait to do what you want until “things settle down.”

You know how it is.

I’ll do what I really want “when the mortgage is paid off,” or “when I retire,” or “when the kids are grown” or…

As my grandmother used to say, “Man plans and God laughs.”

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If we had a crystal ball, life would be much easier wouldn’t it?

We would know when things will be busy and when we’d have time. We could schedule “health issues” for when there wasn’t much else going on. We would know how much time was left so we could make sure we did everything we planned to accomplish before we passed.

Alas, we do not have such an ability so we can’t delay as the reality is that things will only “settle down” at the end of life. And when that happens, it won’t matter what we never did, will it?

Don’t wait. Enjoy now. Live large.

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