While we don't always get what we want, we get what we choose.
That was posted on Facebook on the 18th of May.
What we think we want may not be what we are drawing into our lives.
So if what is coming into your life isn't what you want, perhaps you need to examine the choices you are making - large and small - and what energies and actions you are drawing into your life with your choices.
Are your actions aligned with what it is you want?
Are your words and thoughts aligned with what it is you want?
If not, is what you think you want truly what you want and/or need, or are your choices telling you something else?
To attain a goal, you need to keep your eye on the prize, even when you have to pick your way along a rocky path.
If other things are drawing your attention, your energy, your focus - and you are sure of what you want, what your goal is - you will have to find ways to keep the focus on your goal and deal with the obstacles in your path.
CALL TO ACTION: Examine your current path. If it is leading you to something other than your goal, determine why. Is your goal a true one? Does your path have heart? Where is your energy focused - on your goal or on something else? Why?
Until next time, Namaste!
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Beth Henderson, MaxIMIzer
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Showing posts with label awareness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awareness. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
MaXIMIze - Physical Health
This month's focus is on Physical Health, and as I was brainstorming ideas to write on this month, I realized this is a huge topic that covers more than just diet and exercise. We'll touch on things from, yes, diet and exercise to dealing with stress to meditation to journaling to energy flow. Our physical health is the foundation for our being in so many ways, and it is also a barometer, a gauge if you will, of what is going on in the other areas of our lives.
Somewhere along the line I picked up this list of seven things successful people do on a daily basis.
1. Get enough sleep
2. Eat breakfast
3. Exercise
4. Floss
5. Read
6. Save money
7. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
Did you notice that five of the seven items on the list are directly related to physical health? I could write a post on each of those alone - that's how important our physical health, our physical well-being, is.
This is definitely one area where we need to practice extreme self-care, because no one else will do it for us. Others may encourage us to take better care of ourselves, but it is truly up to us to choose to follow that encouragement and commit to taking the best care of ourselves as possible.
To do that, we must stop thinking of paying attention to what we put into our bodies - diet - and how we use our bodies - exercise, or the lack thereof - as four-letter words, bad, or even truly work. Giving ourselves the right kind of nutrition is like putting the best gas and oil in our cars, and getting enough exercise is like getting our cars tuned up on a regular basis. If we can care for our cars - our things - this well, we should give at least that much care and attention to ourselves, right?
So, my first challenge to you this month is to keep track of what you eat and drink, and what kind of physical activity you engage in. Awareness is key in knowing what you are doing right now and discovering what needs to be adjusted.
This may well be a month where bonus posts come up during the week, since there is so much to cover on this topic! So until the next post, namaste!
Somewhere along the line I picked up this list of seven things successful people do on a daily basis.
1. Get enough sleep
2. Eat breakfast
3. Exercise
4. Floss
5. Read
6. Save money
7. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
Did you notice that five of the seven items on the list are directly related to physical health? I could write a post on each of those alone - that's how important our physical health, our physical well-being, is.
This is definitely one area where we need to practice extreme self-care, because no one else will do it for us. Others may encourage us to take better care of ourselves, but it is truly up to us to choose to follow that encouragement and commit to taking the best care of ourselves as possible.
To do that, we must stop thinking of paying attention to what we put into our bodies - diet - and how we use our bodies - exercise, or the lack thereof - as four-letter words, bad, or even truly work. Giving ourselves the right kind of nutrition is like putting the best gas and oil in our cars, and getting enough exercise is like getting our cars tuned up on a regular basis. If we can care for our cars - our things - this well, we should give at least that much care and attention to ourselves, right?
So, my first challenge to you this month is to keep track of what you eat and drink, and what kind of physical activity you engage in. Awareness is key in knowing what you are doing right now and discovering what needs to be adjusted.
This may well be a month where bonus posts come up during the week, since there is so much to cover on this topic! So until the next post, namaste!
Sunday, February 23, 2014
MaXIMIze - Increasing Awareness - Moving from Unconscious Incompetence to Unconscious Competence
I think I have mentioned Entheos before in this forum, perhaps in my previous blog posts. Brian Johnson, the CEO of the Entheos Academy, has a series called Philosopher's Notes, where he synopsizes books by various philosophers and such, capturing the Big Ideas encapsulated in them and showing how these ideas are very relevant to us living our best lives now. Recently, I was listening to his talk on Flow, a book by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi, and Brian introduced a quad principle of moving from unconscious incompetence through conscious incompetence to conscious competence and finally to unconscious competence.
Serendipitously, I recent bought and read a book titled Reinventing Yourself by Mario Alonso Puig. In Chapter 11, titled "Hope for Victory and You'll be Victorious," I was introduced to these ideas again, as well as the story of the man - Matthias Alexander - who, as a way to overcome a physical difficulty that threatened his very livelihood, discovered this method to work through roadblocks very successfully.
Let's tackle the four parts of this principle one at a time.
Unconscious Incompetence - the state of being where one does not know how to do something and is not even aware that he/she does not know how to do something or the value of doing so - deal with personal finances for example.
Conscious Incompetence - the state of being where one knows he/she does not know how to do something and that something is a valuable skill to learn - balancing accounts, saving appropriately, not buying on impulse, paying bills on time, etc.
Conscious Competence - the state of being where one has learned the new skill and is consciously working to apply it consistently - taking the time to think about need versus want when making a purchase.
Unconscious Competence - the state of being where the skill has become so ingrained in one's psyche that it is an automatic response - saving 10% of one's income.
To understand and remedy an issue, one has to realize he/she has an issue. So, in the case of personal finances, if we are having difficulty getting to our personal goals in that area, whether it be as simple as buying a new outfit or as complex as saving for one's retirement or a child's college costs, we need to first realize we have an issue. Then we need to work to remedy the issue by learning and applying the appropriate skill-set needed. And, as we continue to learn and apply those skills, we can see the progression from conscious incompetence to unconscious competence.
This falls right in line with our discussions on goal-setting and identifying and dealing with roadblocks in relation to achieving our goals.
What steps are you going to take today to move from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence in your life?
Next week, we will address falling off the wagon - and how we go about getting back on without too many bumps and bruises.
Until then, namaste!
Serendipitously, I recent bought and read a book titled Reinventing Yourself by Mario Alonso Puig. In Chapter 11, titled "Hope for Victory and You'll be Victorious," I was introduced to these ideas again, as well as the story of the man - Matthias Alexander - who, as a way to overcome a physical difficulty that threatened his very livelihood, discovered this method to work through roadblocks very successfully.
Let's tackle the four parts of this principle one at a time.
Unconscious Incompetence - the state of being where one does not know how to do something and is not even aware that he/she does not know how to do something or the value of doing so - deal with personal finances for example.
Conscious Incompetence - the state of being where one knows he/she does not know how to do something and that something is a valuable skill to learn - balancing accounts, saving appropriately, not buying on impulse, paying bills on time, etc.
Conscious Competence - the state of being where one has learned the new skill and is consciously working to apply it consistently - taking the time to think about need versus want when making a purchase.
Unconscious Competence - the state of being where the skill has become so ingrained in one's psyche that it is an automatic response - saving 10% of one's income.
To understand and remedy an issue, one has to realize he/she has an issue. So, in the case of personal finances, if we are having difficulty getting to our personal goals in that area, whether it be as simple as buying a new outfit or as complex as saving for one's retirement or a child's college costs, we need to first realize we have an issue. Then we need to work to remedy the issue by learning and applying the appropriate skill-set needed. And, as we continue to learn and apply those skills, we can see the progression from conscious incompetence to unconscious competence.
This falls right in line with our discussions on goal-setting and identifying and dealing with roadblocks in relation to achieving our goals.
What steps are you going to take today to move from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence in your life?
Next week, we will address falling off the wagon - and how we go about getting back on without too many bumps and bruises.
Until then, namaste!
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