MOTIVATIONAL AND INSPIRATIONAL
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Personal - Home and Family ROUGH TIMES ON THE ROLLER COASTER OF LIFE- How to deal with these hard times of recession
Rough times are here, as people experience the stress and anxiety of job loss, an unstable economy and the insecurity of an unknown world. Although the roller coaster ride we are experiencing causes unmeasurable feelings of fear and anxiety, there are ways to prepare ourselves to deal with the tough times ahead. I’ve always loved the awesome majesty of mountains. They are, however, the byproduct of the rivers that formed them: flowing, adjusting, carving, crashing and gently nurturing the land and animals along the way. The river carves its way through, and the mountains answer as towers of strength. Like the river, our lives are forever moving and changing, shaping us as the water shapes the land it flows through… Of the 60,000 people who lived to be over 100 in the United States in 2002, the single most important characteristic they had in common was their ability to be maintain a positive attitude in the face of change… The climb was going well. We were physically ready, following our well laid out plan, and working well as a team. The peak was in sight. Suddenly the storm clouds appeared. We tried to ignore the warning signals: high winds, fast moving clouds, dwindling visibility. Finally we retreated. Mission over… As a mountain climber I’m used to dealing with obstacles in my way. Life hands us different kinds of obstacles…. the kind we can’t see but have to overcome anyway. Our lives are full of them every day: the loss of a loved one, the loss of financial security, someone we love disappoints us, we lose confidence in ourselves, a client throws us a curve ball, and many more… I’m a mountain climber. I’ve climbed mountains all my life. I’ve learned a lot from them: how to have a goal, work hard to achieve it, persist taking one step at a time, and face disappointments and challenges along the way. I’ve learned how to depend on myself to survive and how to work with a team for optimum success… As a mountain climber I have learned that a successful climb depends on proper preparation: physically, mentally and emotionally. In the same way, as we climb the challenges in our lives, we need total preparation and a support system to assure our energy is peaked for high performance. How do we sustain the physical energy to make it to the peak in our everyday lives at home and at work? How do we keep our minds sharp enough to handle the daily intellectual tasks? How do we keep it all together emotionally under the stress and strain of the climb? It’s all about preplanning, prethinking and having the structure in place to support us as we go… This article is about laying an egg in public….getting up in front of an audience and freezing like the deer in the headlights. It’s about panicking and losing myself under pressure. However, it’s also about refusing to let that egg rot and fester. Instead it’s about incubaing it, fussing over it, embracing it, and and watching it hatch into new life and new beginning… Could you be A Highway Time Bomb? How To Manage Stress Before You Hit The Roads
Millions hit the highways during the summer with underlying stress just waiting to erupt as road rage. It is important to define and diffuse the stress that leads to aggressiveness on our highways and avoid becoming part of an escalating problem ourselves… I love playing tennis and always try to win. When I don’t I’m mad at myself and can even feel lousy for a few days. I hate being a ‘loser’. A person who loses – a hopeless waste of space – a failure… LLife is full of stressers brought on by deadlines, competition, work relationships, and other situations beyond anyone’s control. Team-building exercises encourage the creation of strong relationships as a way to create a productive and inspiring work environment that can transform these challenges into opportunities for new growth… Everyone in every business suffers from lack of motivation from time to time. Sometimes we just get tired and run out of gas and need something to inspire us as we climb the mountains of our everyday lives. Our challenges may seem insurmountable. We may just get bored, tired, unmotivated and burned out… How to conduct motivating meetings that inspire productivity… By definition to lead is to go before or with, to show the way. In these erratic economic times, when the leaders in big business are making poor ethical choices for self gratification, it is important that we analyze what makes a person a leader qualified to ‘show the way’ … a person who is able to inspire others to do their best… Moving is tough. Why is it so tough? Because every time we go through a relocation, we go through a grief process that requires us to readjust to a whole new life… Lessons From the Eagle
It is only fitting that I start my first action with a family story that turned out to be a metaphor for my life… Perhaps my mission was to escape the emotional grip of grief, but in fact I was going back to my nature roots to find a measure of peace and emotional balance in a life that had clearly become unstable… There is a seed hidden inside the pine cone; a spirit, or force that may be hidden from view. When fire ravages the land, the seed springs to new life. In the same way, when we are beaten down, the indomitable spirit of new growth is there … waiting to spring to life again. It is the seed in the cone that creates new beginnings… In almost all cultures, the eagle represents power, nobility and freedom. American Indians believed that the eagle was the messenger between humans and God… The cycle that we see in the change of seasons is also a metaphor that describes our personal reality…
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