Shortcut while riding bike home from gym yesterday.
Yesterday’s posts contained a disproportionate amount of links or videos that required more time than you’ve come to expect here.
It happens once in awhile.
Forgive yourself, like i’ve forgiven myself for posting them.
Figure it out.
Be grateful for the insights.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.
We “force” him to go to after school activities simply to be exposed to social situations.
Had to think for a moment, and it bothered me that i couldn’t instantaneously remember the fourth one.
Honesty
Behave admirably
Personally responsibility
Self-control
He learned the first one as a young boy, the other three were added over the years. Behaving admirably was added in elementary school. Three and four added during adolescence.
A teen’s attitude is shaped by many things. One of the most obvious, and most taken for granted, is the home.
PS. “Initiative” was added after entering ninth grade. On deck for this Summer is “fun”.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.
The key to thriving is to never tire from the daily grind. Wishing the 20-something fellow gym regular a happy new year yesterday i asked, “What’s your 2016 resolution?”
He said, unhesitatingly, “To maintain where I’m at.”
i congratulated him on understanding that maintaining our health for a lifetime is the real goal.
Who cares if you run your first 5k or your first marathon, if your drive and determination evaporate after achieving that short-term (yet lofty and noble) goal?
Can’t help but wonder, today, the sixth day of the new year, how many will succumb to the self-fulfilling prophecy of short-term, feel-good, accomplishment. The prophecy being that once the initial, lofty and noble goal is accomplished, we fail to accept that we are actually only at the starting line of the real (even more lofty and more noble) goal.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.
Leaving Washington State in 1984, we moved to Orlando to carve out a life at Disney.
It’s starting (again) and it’s so predictable (again).
What can we do differently this year, assuming the odds are we have never been able to make the change we’ve set out to accomplish?
Nothing.
Pathetic isn’t it?
Years, decades even, of pathetic self-talk.
That’s when i received the gift.
And you can too.
The gift of feeling like a hypocrite – and i mean deeply, painfully feeling it. So painful i couldn’t stand it anymore. Only to fail again. Until one year…
The only antidote is to get so emotionally pissed off that you rise above your past and slay your demonic, self-defeating internal dialogue.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since. This website is about our mental attitude.
To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.
The perfect employee is an artist. Artists do things better or differently then others who offer the same thing.
(Note, remember, we are talking about perfect. Perfect is a tall order.)
The perfect employee starts with someone who has this…
The criteria for the perfect employee would begin with an amazingly positive attitude. Not in a delusional way, but in a way that doesn’t accept obstacles or challenges as permanent. They see everything as an opportunity or a challenge, and never as a “problem”.
The perfect employee would also be a model of physical wellness. Someone who regularly exercises, eats well, rests well, and is a wellspring of energy and enthusiasm.
The perfect employee would have an unbreakable spiritual belief. What they choose is irrelevant. But whatever it is, it is the epicenter of their emotional wellbeing. They radiate good, decent, and noble thoughts and actions. They live to serve others.
The perfect employee is an inspirational leader who has mastered the technical, managerial, and behavioral aspects of their domain. They balance employee, customer, and business as if the three were only one. Not only are they an expert, they are also a game changer, a category of one.
The perfect employee is exceptionally organized, focused, and disciplined. They are intentional with all they do. Their home is a haven for peace, order, and purpose. They have space in their schedule to plan for, and handle, life’s unexpected challenges.
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