Every day the news has stories of yet another company cutting jobs or thinking about it. In this current financial crisis, it’s wise to think about how you can reduce your outgoings before it hits you personally. Would you like to start finding ways to prepare today? Here’s a few small yet effective ideas to get you started.
(Continued from Part 1 of The Fear of Goal Setting and How to Overcome it)
Let’s say you play guitar and would love to be in a band, but you’re not very good at the moment and are on the verge of dismissing that thought as a possible career. Hold on a moment! Read the rest of this entry
Rejection. Even the word itself can send a shiver down your spine. It has probably happened to us all at some point in our life in some shape or form. It may be that you have offered the hand of friendship and it was pushed away, which is even more painful if it has been initially accepted. Perhaps a relationship breaks down and you find yourself alone when you did not want to be and maybe not for the first time. Or the relationship never even gets off the ground when you had high hopes that it might and misread the signals.
Abraham Lincoln once said that “a goal properly set is halfway reached.”
It’s sad that for most of us, goal setting seems to come somewhere between taking the dog to get his nails clipped and having an annual physical on our to-do list. It’s something we know we really should do, but somehow we just never seem to quite get around to it.
Why is that? The main reason is probably because the idea of goal setting seems such an enormously daunting task. If the thought of setting goals intimidates you, try looking a little deeper to find out why. Read the rest of this entry
Lessons in life aren’t always easily learned. Sometimes, it takes a while for us to recognize that there may be a reason that certain situations in life seem to keep repeating themselves, and each time seems worse than the last. Here’s a thought. Is it possible we’re just not getting the lesson we’re supposed to learn from it?
Ask people to sum up what happiness is in a few words and you’ll get a variety of answers plus a few furrowed brows. It’s a subjective topic, with parameters that are only defined within ourselves. That’s why I say happiness is the loneliest of mysteries, as we each have to find the answers alone that are meaningful to us. Let me share with you an example here from my own childhood. Read the rest of this entry


