Goal Setting For Beginners - Part 2
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Third, set goals for the 6 aspects of your life, which are: Mental and Educational, Physical and Health, Financial and Career, Social and Cultural, Spiritual and Ethical, and lastly, Family and Home. This guarantees that you will maintain a balanced life as you evaluate and amend the basics of your daily life. This step also lessens the level of non-integrated thinking.
Read More..>>Celebration, Regret, And Remorse
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Recreation and Sports | Leave a Comment
Recently, three events occurred that forced me to experience celebration, regret, and remorse. And as I thought about each one of them, I was able to draw a lesson from each one of them.
Celebration - My teammate, good friend and role model, Mike Fowler, gave an outstanding performance at the ADCC 2007. Mike was able to win two matches against two BJJ legends (Renzo Gracie and Saulo Riberio). This was an amazing accomplishment and I was very happy for and proud of Mike. The lesson here is Mike proves what hard work, commitment to a system, getting a coach, and actually listening to him (unlike me for many years) will do for you. Congrats Mike on an excellent performance and keep up the good work!
Read More..>>Goal Setting - Take Another Perspective
Posted on February 6, 2008 - Filed Under Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Sometimes goal setting becomes even more effective after you have experienced a change in your perspective.
For example, my perspective on earning an income changed from “you have to work your tail off for everything you get” to “it is possible to enjoyably earn big money by writing it once and selling it many times.”
It took communicating with someone who was having a whale of a time actually doing just that, to see that it was indeed possible - and then comparing my perspective of “it might be possible” to his, that “it was inevitable”.
Read More..>>Does Your Mat Attitude Suck?
Posted on January 9, 2008 - Filed Under Recreation and Sports | Leave a Comment
Let’s say that you were taking a test and there was a question that asked you to rate your mat attitude on a scale from 1 to 5. What score would you give yourself? A score of 5 would mean that you’re so tough that Randy Couture wouldn’t want to train with you. And a score of 1 would mean that you sit in the parking lot before class, thinking of all the different ways you’ll probably get your butt kicked in during the training session!
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