Chasing growth, humor, and grace with Dr. Glenn Doyle |
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WEEKLY RECAP January 6th-12th 2018 |
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| | Tuesday, January 9th:
“It's not about a guru showing you something new. It's about you remembering and using what you already know." So many people seem to be on quests for something new, different, profound, life-changing. And there is certainly no dearth of gurus, teachers, or experts who are happy to offer it to them. | | |
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| | Thursday, January 11th: “Reaching for the stars...with our feet on the earth." It’s not often that our problem is our goals aren’t “big enough.” 'Thinking big' is great in theory. But it’s my experience that most of the time, in the real world, people who are struggling with their goals... | | |
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| | Saturday, January 6th (AM) Think "incremental gains," not "moonshots." There are self-help teachers out there who scorn incremental gains, and tell their clients to focus on "moonshots" instead. How, um, do you think they put humans on the moon? That's right-- they worked on it, every day, getting a little better... | | |
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| | Saturday, January 6th (PM) Have you ever known someone who refuses to take a day off? Who is so focused on "success" or "accomplishment" that the concept of "recreation" has come to be a foreign word to them? Have you ever known someone who eats, breathes, and sleeps their work 24/7...and is scornful of people who don't? | | |
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| | Sunday, January 7th (AM) Think about something you did right. Something that went well. Even a little thing. Something you were proud of. What helped you do that? How did you do that? | | |
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| | Sunday, January 7th (PM) If you were going to do one thing different today than you otherwise would, one thing that would bring you closer to the "you" you want to be...what would that thing be? | | |
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| | Monday, January 8th (AM) You can't just pull a bad habit out of your life. You have to replace it with something if you don't want to get sucked back in by the vacuum of that habit's absence. | | |
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| | Monday, January 8th (PM) Twenty four hours from now will happen. Between now and then, you can do at least one thing to make your life better, something that you wouldn't think or remember to do if you hadn't seen THIS Facebook post. What's that one thing going to be? | | |
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Tuesday, January 9th (PM) There's a difference between goals that inspire you and goals that "scare" you. Some people tell you to set "goals that scare you," assuming that the grandeur of such goals will eventually pry you out of complacency and fuel your desire to chase dreams. It's an interesting theory. The thing is...what do we usually do when something "scares" us? That's right...we avoid it. | | |
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| | Wednesday, January 10th (AM) Future You would like Present You to know that he/she is fully competent to manage the problems that occur in his/her domain, i.e., the future. | | |
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| | Wednesday, January 10th (PM) Remember, you're not actually chasing stuff. You're chasing feelings. The only reason we try to gain stuff, the only reason we buy stuff, the only reason... | | |
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Thursday, January 11th (PM) Maybe the day kicked your butt. Maybe anxiety kicked your butt. Maybe depression kicked your butt. It does happen. The butt-kicking. | | |
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| | Friday, January 12th (AM) No matter where you go, no matter your situation, regardless of whether you're standing tall on the top of the world or slumped over on the floor with the wind knocked out of you...you still have to relate to yourself. | | |
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| | Friday, January 12th (PM) There are probably many people around you focused on what's wrong with the world; what's wrong with our government; what's wrong with other people; what's wrong with the universe. They're entitled to their disgusts and fears. | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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