Category: Rethink

What if the exact opposite always happened?

Apple Safari favorites page
Top line…a window to get “help”?

 

Today is January 28…

Four weeks into 2016 and we should be off to an exciting start to our new beginning.

Right?

Yet the echo haunts us…

“But I don’t do New Year’s Resolution. They never work. I’m tired of failing.”

Self-fulfilling prophecy?

What if it wasn’t?

What if the exact opposite always happened?

 

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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.

 

If Disney ran your mental attitude

Dead Poet's Society
The day Robin Williams died, an email from a 1990’s Disney colleague.

 

If Disney ran your mental attitude, we’d ask four simple questions:

  1. How well are your employees able to articulate your vision?
  2. How engaged are your employees in carrying out your vision?
  3. How clear are your employees on what they are being held accountable for?
  4. How committed are your employees, day in and day out?

There are many more questions but these are the baseline starting points.

 

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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.

 

Does the New Year resolution chatter makes you nauseous?

Seth Godin book
From a few Christmases ago. Seth Godin’s mammoth book.

 

Does the predictable and (mostly) over-hyped New Year resolution chatter make you nauseous?

Promises made.

Promises broken.

Predictable.

Why?

What are we going to do about it?

When?

Is this what happens?

We convince ourselves that hangovers are the price we pay for feeling no pain? (Tweet that)

Magic happens when we convince ourselves otherwise?

Most of us will never know.

Think about it.

And then decide on your next move.

 

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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.

 

Thinking much smaller might be the game changer

Top Disney Keynote Speakers
.think .differently

 

With less than two weeks before New Year’s Day 2016, many of us are spending a little more time than normal thinking about the future – the “new” year.

Where do we center our thinking?

Yearly or daily resolutions?

Changing our focus might change everything.

 

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This website is about our mental attitude. To leave this site to read today’s post on my physical health website, click here.

When was the last time we spent a few minutes visualizing this?

Emily Ann from The Voice Finale
Underdog Emily Ann could upset Jordan Smith.

 

When was the last time we spent a few minutes visualizing our dreams?

The Voice’s 2015 winner was crowned two nights ago. Last night i watched the recorded Final competition. i (gratefully) still don’t know who won. i would bet it’s Jordan Smith.

But after watching Emily’s recorded performances last night, there is the possibility that the impossible could happen. Pretty sure that’s what she and her Family is dreaming of.

What crazy, impossible dreams do i have that are still worth pursuing, even though they are “impossible”?

 

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This website is about our mental attitude. To leave this site to read today’s post on my physical health website, click here.