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5 Personal Characteristics That Will Serve You Well

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To make our way in life, it’s good to have the support of family and friends and also a healthy dose of luck to help us on our way. However, it’s equally, or even more important to look within ourselves for the characteristics which will support our progress and development through the years.

With this in mind, here are 5 Personal Characteristics that will serve you well.

Self-Reliance

Personal_Characteristics_1‘If it’s going to be, it has to be me!’ and ‘You can always rely on number one!’ are modern ways of stating our self-reliance. When the heat gets to be too much for all those around, can you rely on yourself to keep calm and keep going anyway?

Oftentimes, it’s not what happens to us, but how we react that causes us to lose faith and give-in to the problems and issues that come our way. In these situations we may look to others to help us out, but instead, why not rely on ourselves and keep going anyway?

This may seem challenging, but with each positive success, this personal characteristic grows and gets stronger so it becomes easier to challenge ourselves with bigger demands. In the longer term, realising and accepting that there is no ‘knight in shining armour’ waiting to rescue us will strengthen our resolve to achieve our goals ourselves. [Read more…] about 5 Personal Characteristics That Will Serve You Well

Promises, Promises

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Promises_1I was in a meeting a few days ago and the importance of keeping our promises was mentioned. In this context it was all about the importance of keeping to our work commitments once we’d made them, but of course keeping our promises has a much wider remit beyond our work environment.

I would suggest that those who are able to keep all their promises are probably few, after all have you ever made a promise and then broken it? A promise to cook dinner, to walk the dog or get your report in on time? It seems that promises these days don’t have the ring of secureness that they will be carried out and so this challenges the definition we apply to them.

It seemed sensible at this juncture to take a peek in the dictionary to double-check my understanding and this is what it said:

“A declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen.”

That seems straight forward enough. An up-front commitment to do/not do something in the future, so as to ensure a particular outcome, but as I’ve said earlier, this no longer seems to hold true in many cases, and so I wondered whether ‘vows’ would be a better choice for those promises we truly intend to keep.

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New Year New You?

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New Year 2015Can you believe it?  We’re on the very cusp of a brand new year with all the immediate excitement and anticipation! Plus, if you’re like most people, myself included, you’re already looking forward to, and planning for all the changes, or rather, improvements you’re going to make in 2015! 2014 has taught you a lesson or two, and frankly, you don’t want to repeat them. As we stand on the cusp of a brand new year, we know that we are more than equal to the challenges and goals we have set ourselves…bring it on, we cry!

But that enthusiasm is in stark contrast as, once again the old year draws to an end and we feel the inevitable disappointment of things that could have gone better this year, or, worse, we reach the year end with the usual mixed feelings of having started out with great intentions, but somehow, because life threw so many curve balls our way over the preceding twelve months, there was no way we were ever going to achieve the goals or resolutions we had set for ourselves. In fact, we tell ourselves, we’ve done well just to keep our heads above water!

But is this true? Do you feel satisfied with this justification? [Read more…] about New Year New You?

Go With The Flow!

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Go With The Flow

What must it be like, I wonder, to be as calm as a monk, to have the composure of Buddha or the tranquillity of those who regularly practice meditation or yoga or any other type of ‘higher’ relaxation or philosophical practices?

Or, by contrast, how does it feel to have the continual drive, the ‘alpha-syndrome’ of high-flyers to keep pushing their personal boundaries towards greater and greater success, such as Richard Branson, Donald Trump or Angelina Jolie?

It seems these two portrayals are at complete odds. How can one be as calm as a monk and at the same time be as driven to success as, say, Richard Branson? And yet, these successful people appear to pursue and achieve their goals with minimum bother. They appear in control and easily coping with the demands of their chosen career. [Read more…] about Go With The Flow!

Stretching Exercises for the Comfortable

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Stretching Exercises for the Comfortable

How is your exercise routine? Are you a regular, up and out every morning pounding the streets or hitting the gym? Or maybe your workout routine could benefit from a little more oomph?! Whichever workout routine you subscribe to, I’ve no doubt that you are gradually seeing the results of your efforts. If it’s the former, then you’re seeing your body become leaner, more toned and stronger with the added benefit that your stamina is improving along with your flexibility and probably also your eating habits. I’m guessing you’re also feeling more energised and experiencing a more optimistic view of the world. [Read more…] about Stretching Exercises for the Comfortable

Perseverance Pep Talk!

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arainYou’ve been working and working towards you dreams and goals but just recently things seem to have slowed and the visible results you’d previously been seeing are now blending into the everyday. You’ve lost track of your achievements to date and instead you’ve become consumed with the fact that you’ve plateaued, or worse, started to regress. Your motivation is waning and frustration is setting in.

Sound familiar? It happens to us all unfortunately.

But these are the times when we need to muster all the strength we possibly can, plus more, and just keep going. There are many stories of people who have given up on their dream literally a few paces away from the place that would have given them success and then, when they’ve let their dream go they hear of someone succeeding at their goal, in their place. [Read more…] about Perseverance Pep Talk!