Chasing growth, humor, and grace with Dr. Glenn Doyle |
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WEEKLY RECAP November 2nd-8th, 2019 |
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Highlights from the Blog and Facebook |
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| | Saturday, November 2nd (AM) A skill to develop is, when inadequacy thoughts hit you, not just taking those thoughts as Gospel truth because you happen to be thinking them. | | |
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| | Saturday, November 2nd (PM) You are alive— and thus you have the right to be alive. You exist— and thus you are valuable. You don’t have to “prove” your worth to anyone. | | |
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| | Sunday, November 3rd (AM) Insights are important. Breakthroughs are important. Profound moments are important. But none of these are as important as making consistent changes to your daily routine that nudge you in the direction of your goals and values. | | |
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| | Sunday, November 3rd (PM) Practicing self-compassion is not about being “soft” on yourself. It’s about being honest and loyal to yourself, so you can realistically up your game without unnecessary anxiety or self-hate crippling your performance. | | |
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| | Monday, November 4th (AM) Nudging toward your goals on a bad day requires a different skillset than nudging toward them on a good day. | | |
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| | Monday, November 4th (PM) Realizing WHEN you need to engage tools and skills, and remembering WHAT those tools and skills are, is as much an important skill to develop as any other coping strategy. | | |
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| | Tuesday, November 5th (Blog) "SLOW DOWN YOUR DECISION-MAKING." The fact is, MOST people make MOST of their decisions fairly impulsively. They do this because they don’t feel like our modern world gives them a chance to breathe, let alone do serious, nuanced thinking (let alone soul searching!) about their decisions. | | |
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| | Tuesday, November 5th (PM) You don’t have to wait. You don’t have to wait to start thinking and behaving like the person you’re trying to become. You can start this very minute....You don’t have to wait until you earn a degree...You don’t have to wait until you have a certain job title. All of those things might make it incrementally easier to be the person you’re trying to become…but none of them are prerequisites. | | |
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| | Wednesday, November 6th (AM) So many of us get so used to denying, disowning, and maligning those parts of us that we don’t understand or don’t like…which only digs us deeper into the emotional and behavioral hole we’re in. There is nothing within you— no part of you— that deserves to be hated and punished. | | |
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| | Wednesday, November 6th (PM) It doesn’t matter how anyone else handled their trauma. It doesn’t matter what’s worked or not worked for anyone else. It doesn’t matter what the books say, or what your “expert” therapist says. What matters is what works for you. Not what “should” work. Everybody’s a little different. | | |
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| | Thursday, November 7th (Blog): “SUBMISSION, DISCIPLINE, AND ACCOUNTABILITY.” We need to be accountable— to ourselves, and likely to another person as well. Those who are categorically unwilling to submit rarely achieve their goals— if ever. Achieving goals isn’t peripherally about discipline— it’s entirely about discipline. | | |
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| | Thursday, November 7th (PM) You need to know that you’re not alone. Almost everybody reading this (and definitely he who is writing it) can identify. You also need to know that you’re never, ever going to be able to go back to the past and behave differently than you did. The past is the past, and it is gone. Forever. But you also need to know you’re not a bad person. | | |
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| | Friday, November 8th (AM) Be honest with yourself. Say to yourself: “Okay. So I feel tired and cranky today. I’m not so much in the mood to use my tools and skills, or nudge toward my goals. All I want to do is sleep and snack.” Then, having acknowledged what you FEEL like doing…use your tools and skills anyway. | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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