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(and the cumulative cost of stepping in the wrong direction) A step in the wrong direction means that you are two steps further from your goal than if you had taken the same step in the right direction. In other words, if you stepped left instead of right towards your goal, you would be two steps further from . . . → Read More: The Power of Consistency What is worth more? A book of 1,000 pages that tells you how to be happy or a 10-page workbook that shows you five easy simple techniques to be happy? It depends … doesn’t it? . . . → Read More: The value of something. We all know what it’s like to feel bad about doing something thoughtlessly. We wake when it’s too late, after the damage is done. And then there are the things we do over and over again, hating ourselves for it every time. Seemingly unable to stop. But what about the joyfulness of doing something worthwhile, something that makes us feel great every time we think about it. Those times happen too, maybe more than we think they do . . . → Read More: Emotional Intelligence and Virtuous and Vicious Spirals Many of us endure painful situations for years because we learned that “the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know”. But it’s only a half-truth! Partly true because who wants to exchange one devil for another? But not the real truth because we could be booting out the devil we know out the door and taking back control of our own life! That is almost guaranteed to be better than living with the devil we know. Change can be good, change can be great! . . . → Read More: How many times have you heard, “for things to change, you have to change”? Creating a life of balance and harmony . . . → Read More: The MagicLifestyle Golden Triangle What qualities attract good people in such a way that they help one towards one’s own worthy objectives. You can know a person by the quality of the company they keep. . . . → Read More: Magnetic Qualities for Success In the previous post we saw that our ancestor’s strongest instinct was for survival, how survival thinking is hardwired into all mammals; survive today! Alertness is essential for survival thinking where quick reflexes and reaction can make the difference between life and death. That basic instinct is managed by the Lymbic system, always alert, constantly scanning the sights and sounds for signs of danger. This hardwiring was perfectly adapted for survival in the wild, when humans existed at a level not much different to their prey. Alertness, Awareness and Mindfulness (Part 1) These are two servants of the future me, the person I want to become. In the wild, our ancestors strongest instinct was for survival. They were hardwired to avoid pain and pursue pleasure, to avoid being eaten by predators, to find the most nutritious food available and to look healthy and strong to both competition and a potential mate. For our anyone living in a tough environment, survival today tends to be paramount; if you don’t survive today there won’t be a tomorrow! Alertness is what matters, always ready for fight or flight at the first sign of danger. Survival thinking may be the only viable way to think in the wild in a world dominated by life-threatening predators. But it’s a counter-productive way to think when one knows with reasonable certainty that there is going to be a tomorrow, a future. hether we are right or wrong about something, what we believe to be true directs our lives. How many people are living below their potential because they don’t have self-confidence to pursue an ‘impossible’ dream? . . . → Read More: Belief Matters More Than Truth Positivity reveals the science Norman Vincent Peale and Clement Stone would have wished they knew when they wrote their famous books. Here you get to find out why we all experience negativity more intensely than positivity. How negativity serves our short-term survival (escaping from the jaws of a lion) and yet how important positivity is for long-term . . . → Read More: Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson |
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