Chasing growth, humor, and grace with Dr. Glenn Doyle |
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WEEKLY RECAP December 9th-15th 2017 |
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| | Tuesday, December 12th:
“Doing things we don't feel like doing: a starting point." There are lots of reasons we may not feel like doing something. Some of those reasons may strike other people as more valid... | | |
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| | Thursday, December 14th: “Self-esteem about just feeling better. It's about doing better.” Why might our brains decide we’re not “worthy” of successfully completing a task? Maybe we’ve had experiences... | | |
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| | Saturday, December 9th (AM) Instead of getting angry, judgmental, and savage with ourselves when things go wrong – make a conscious attempt to get curious instead. | | |
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| | Saturday, December 9th (PM) Poverty-- or, more generally, lack-- isn't just a "state of mind." It's a very practical problem. It's a problem to be solved, and a problem that often can be solved... | | |
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| | Sunday, December 10th (AM) Focusing on the past and focusing on the future are tools. Like any tools, they can be used – or they can be misused. A hammer can help you build a house – in fact, it's hard to build a house without hammers. | | |
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| | Sunday, December 10th (PM) Take five minutes and play make believe. Make believe you're exactly the person you're aspiring to be. Make believe the obstacles have been overcome. Make believe you feel exactly as you want to feel. | | |
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| | Monday, December 11th (AM) Can you contribute to making someone else's day 1% better than it might otherwise be? I'm not talking about profound social or societal change. I mean someone in your immediate vicinity. | | |
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| | Monday, December 11th (PM) We don't need to let someone else's level of interest or effort determine our own. A lot of the time, it's easy to take our cues from other people when it comes to how much effort we should put into a particular project. | | |
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Tuesday, December 12th (PM) If something is a priority, treat it like a priority. There's nothing wrong with certain priorities outranking other priorities – we all have hierarchies of priorities, some things that are more important than others. That's normal. | | |
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| | Wednesday, December 13th (AM) Stop banging on doors that are closed. They're most often closed for a reason. We may not like the fact that they're closed. It may not be fair that they're closed. In a perfect world, they may still be open. | | |
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| | Wednesday, December 13th (PM) That person you hate, that person you don't respect, that person you spend at least a part of your day thinking about in a negative way...what's one thing you do, or could, like or respect about them? Hypothetically. | | |
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Thursday, December 14th (PM) We've all wasted time before. We've all wasted money. We've all squandered opportunities. We've all been the not-best version of ourselves, sometimes for prolonged periods of time. Being the not-best version of yourself, making mistakes, making poor decisions, even when you could have made better ones, even when it's "your fault," even when there's "no excuse"...it happens to everyone. You're not the magic exception. | | |
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| | Friday, December 15th (AM) Complete this sentence: "I just want to..." Don't think. Go with your gut. How does that sentence end? | | |
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| | Friday, December 15th (PM) If you want to stay attached to your judgments, feel free - but be realistic about the fact that no amount of your scorn is likely to change another person. | | |
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Dr. Doyle's first event, "Get Back to What Matters: Old Tapes Begone!" will be held in Chicago, IL on January 27, 2018. Stay tuned for more information on how to sign up! |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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