LIST YOUR PROBLEMS!

 

“A problem well-stated, is a problem half solved,” said Charles Kettering. There is something very special that happens when you take out a piece of paper and list every single one of your problems on it. It is very much like that peaceful feeling you get after telling your best friend about something that has been troubling you for weeks. A weight somehow falls from your shoulders. You feel lighter, calmer and freer.

While minds can be our best friends, they can also be our worst enemies. If you keep thinking about your problems, pretty soon you will find you think about little less. The mind is strange creature in this regard: the things you want to remember it forgets, all those things you want to forget, it remembers.

To let go of the mental clutter that your problems tend to generate, list all your worries on a piece of paper. If you do so, they will no longer be able to fester in your mind and drain your valuable energy. This simple exercise will also permit you to put your problems into perspective and tackle them in an orderly, well-planned sequence. Among the many successful people who have used this technique are martial arts master Bruce Lee and Winston Churchill, who once said, “It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.”

 

 

TALK TO YOURSELF!

 

“The words that enlightened the soul are more precious than jewels,” very truly noted by Hazrat Inayat Khan.

Select a phrase that you will train your mind to focus on at different times throughout the day until it begins to dominate your awareness and reshape the person you are. If it is inner peace and calm you seek, the phrase, known as the mantra, might be, “I am so delighted that I’m full of courage and boundless courage.” If it is material property you are after, your saying might be, “I am so grateful that money and opportunity is flowering into my life.”

Repeat your mantras softly under your breath as you walk to work, as you wait in a line or as you wash the dishes to fill otherwise unproductive times of your day with a powerful life improvement forces. Try to say your personal phrase at least two hundred times a day for at least four weeks. The results will be profound as you take one giant step to finding the peace, prosperity and purpose your life requires.

KEEP A JOURNAL!

Gillie Bolton once said “We can only open our hearts to those we utterly trust, such as the accepting page.” Maintaining a daily journal is one of the best personal growth initiatives you will ever take. Writing your daily experiences along with the message you have drawn from them will make you wiser with each passing day. You will develop self-awareness and will make fewer mistakes. And keeping a journal will help you clarify your intentions so that you remain focused on the things that truly count.

Writing a journal offers you the opportunity to have a regular one-to-one conversation with yourself. If focuses you to do some deep thinking in a world where deep thinking is a past. It will also make you clearer thinker and help you live in a more international and enlightened way. In addition, it provides a central place where you can record your insights on important issues, note key success strategies that have worked for you and commit to all those things you know are important to achieve for a high quality professional, personal and spiritual life. And your personal journal gives you a private place to flex your imagination and define your dreams.

A journal is not a diary. A diary is a place where you record events while a journal is place where you analyze and evaluate the. Keeping a journal encourages you to consider what you do, why you have done it and what you have learnt from all you have done. Writing in a journal promotes personal growth and wisdom by giving you a forum to study, and then leverage your past for greater success in your future. Medical researchers have even found that writing in a private journal for as little time as 15 minutes can improve your health, functioning of your immune system and your overall attitude. Remember, if your life is worth thinking around, it is worth writing about.

 

DELIGHTING DECEMBER!

 

Every day is a lifetime in miniature, the supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well. Have you ever pondered over the remarkable fact that thousands of yesterdays have already gone in our lives and thousands of tomorrows are likely to come, but today is the only one – Just One. Hence, the most important day in our lives is TODAY.

What we do today is most important because we are changing a day of life for it. We should seriously consider today as the core substance of life and therefore do something so notable today that it adds substantially to the values of our lives. Truly speaking, “today” is the only component of life that can be organised carefully. We must remember that every day has a credit balance of 1440 minutes or 86400 seconds at its commencement. It is indeed a huge credit balance and we can get the most out of it.

We all have special talents that are just waiting to be engaged in a worthy pursuit. We are all here for some unique purpose, some noble objective that will allow us to manifest our highest human potential while at the same time, add values to the lives around us. Bring more of yourself into your work and focus on the things that you do the best. Stop waiting for other people to make changes that you desire.

Let’s make every minute count.

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2020 is at its end and we all know that it wasn’t a year that we wanted........... Just trying to convert our Depressing December into a Delighting December.