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 19th:
“Maybe it's not about you after all." Whether it’s evolutionary psychology, “shoulding” all over ourselves, or shame programming that’s at work, the result is the same: we spend way more time than we need to thinking, ruminating, obsessing about how others treat us. | | |
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| | Thursday, December 21st: “Yes, we have an impact on others.” We are powerful when it comes to influencing others. Whether we know it or not, and whether we like it or not. While we cannot know precisely how our behavior will impact others, how what we put out in the world will interact with whatever’s going on... | | |
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| | Saturday, December 16th (AM) Anyone who says "leaders" make decisions "quickly" with "limited information," and "amateurs" miss opportunities because they waste time "thinking about it," doesn't understand much about leadership (and also unfairly maligns amateurs . . . | | |
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| | Saturday, December 16th (PM) Who is anybody to tell you why you’re here? If we stick to other people’s’ ideas about the meaning and purpose of our lives, we’re going to be absurdly, needlessly limited. They don’t know what’s in your heart. They don’t know your values. They don’t know your dreams. | | |
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| | Sunday, December 17th (AM) Lying to other people is a bad idea, if only for practical purposes. Which untruths have been told to whom, after a while, gets impossible to keep track of. But as destructive as lying to other people is, lying to ourselves will undermine every single attempt we make to build a life. | | |
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| | Sunday, December 17th (PM) Often, the reason we don't want to let go of things is, we fear what we'll lose by letting them go. We don't quite believe we can manage without whatever it is we're hanging on to. We're worried about the hole, the void that will be left when we let go. The thing is, if it's time to let go of something... | | |
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| | Monday, December 18th (AM) You will fail at some things in life. I promise you that. You'll fail miserably. Spectacularly. Beautifully. The question is not "whether" you will fail at some things, at some times. | | |
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| | Monday, December 18th (PM) Most of us see, not what we "want" to see, but what we've been conditioned to see. We see what we've been rewarded in the past for seeing. | | |
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Tuesday, December 19th (PM) Who tries to influence you during the course of the day? What do they want from you? Really take a sec and take stock of who is trying to get in your head today, and what their goals are. Are their goals your goals? | | |
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| | Wednesday, December 20th (AM) Whatever you're trying to do: divide and conquer. Don't think of the task as a big task. Think of the task as a connected series of smaller tasks. Tasks that can be conquered, one by one. | | |
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| | Wednesday, December 20th (PM) You're not finished. If you think you are, come back to this page, and reread this post, because I assure you: you're not finished. You still have gas in the tank. If you can read these words: you're not finished. | | |
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Thursday, December 21st (PM) What statement is your day, this hour, this minute making about what you find important? You can make this hour, this minute, an illustration of what you think is worth focusing on, what you think is worth doing, what you think is worth thinking about. | | |
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| | Friday, December 22nd (AM) Maybe don't take advice from any teacher, mentor, or guide who doesn't have a sense of humor about him or herself. Maybe don't take advice from a teacher, mentor, or guide who takes themselves, or their teachings, super seriously. | | |
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| | Friday, December 22nd (PM) If someone's trying to sell you on their vision of life by making you feel bad about the way you're living now...pause for a second and wonder to yourself what that person is selling.. You see this a lot, especially around the holidays. | | |
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Newsletter created by Susan Michelle. |
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