Chasing growth, humor, and grace with Dr. Glenn Doyle |
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WEEKLY RECAP November 18th-24th 2017 |
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| | Tuesday, November 21st:
“You can't do everything...so do what you can."
Maybe you can’t do all the things that would be required to bring your life to the level that you’d prefer. When you make a list of all the things that would need to happen, from the big things— career on track, ideal relationship, body... | | |
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| | Thursday, November 23rd: “The beauty of ugly truths.” Being real with yourself about an ugly truth is way, way better than hiding from it. That said— “ugly” is in the eye of the beholder. Not everything we think of as “ugly” (or even “truth”) is always what it seems. Denying and disowning “ugly truths” robs us of our power. | | |
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| | Saturday, November 18th (AM) It's up to us to find little moments of pleasure and meaning in our days. Nobody else is going to do it for us. It'd be nice if the people around us were as concerned with us,,, | | |
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| | Saturday, November 18th (PM) Your results are not a straight up reflection of who you are. They represent a combination of what you did (your behavior) and what the circumstances amounted to (the environment). | | |
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| | Sunday, November 19th (AM) Get in the habit of, when you're curious about something, chasing it down. Too often, when we get curious about... | | |
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| | Sunday, November 19th (PM) There are such things as normal, healthy, negative emotions. Not every emotion that makes us uncomfortable or is painful is unhealthy. | | |
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| | Monday, November 20th (AM) Nobody gets hooked on a “bad” habit because they wake up in the morning and think, “I think I’ll start a bad habit today.” We get hooked on bad habits because they seem to make sense, on at least some level. | | |
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| | Monday, November 20th (PM) If your heart could speak, what would it say? What would it tell you? What might it ask you? What might it need? Don't answer. Just stop for a second, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and listen. | | |
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Tuesday, November 21st (PM) If you can't take a deep breath...take as deep a breath as you can. If you can't focus long enough to read a whole page...just read the paragraph, or the sentence, that you can. If you can't sit still and quiet in meditation for twenty minutes...do it for one minute. | | |
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| | Wednesday, November 22nd (AM) Making yourself stick with a new habit you’re trying to develop can be uncomfortable— but on an even more basic level, it can be boring. | | |
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| | Wednesday, November 22nd (PM) Setting limits is often the most loving thing we can do for someone we love— even if they don’t like it at the time. | | |
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Thursday, November 23rd (PM) Everything doesn't have to be going perfectly-- or even all that well-- for us to feel gratitude for even the smallest thing that IS going well. It's very easy to focus on the things that aren't going well, and feel disappointment, sadness, and bitterness...and we absolutely have a right to feel what we feel. For that matter, we kind of have a responsibility to feel what we feel, without evasion, without sidestepping, without shame. | | |
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| | Friday, November 24th (AM) If you could say the thing you feel utterly incapable of saying right now...what would that be? If you could admit the thing that you’ve been avoiding admitting up until now...what would that be? | | |
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| | Friday, November 24th (PM) What gets most misunderstood about you? What do most people get wrong about you, even if they thoroughly believe they’re right? What is most frustrating about how most... | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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