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B'SD 15 Tevet, 5778 2017 came and went, 2018 arrived and some of us are thinking "So (blankety-bank) what?!" At this time of year, when people are mourning and regretting their lives and choices so far, it can be quite invigorating to meet up with an energizing idea. I hope that you'll enjoy this one: 5 Rules for Life. And this one, too: HOW to be Happy.
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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.
Fill your time and effort, including your thoughts, with an exciting sense of purpose.
B'SD 20 Elul, 5775 I've been busy tending other people's needs (I'm cooking my wholesome menu for other people so they can heal as I do) and lacked time to update the blog. But with Rosh HaShana, Jewish New Year coming soon, I've focused on time to post today's message.
But what about the goals/resolutions people tend to make at New Year's time?
I prefer to avoid making resolutions. I'm old enough to know that people tend not to keep the promises they make to themselves.
Let's look at self-improvement a bit differently this year.
One reading of the
book
lets you know of my preference for
self forgiveness and self respect.
I'd like to share some related thoughts with you: Goal-setting tends to scare the goal-setter. You come up with excuses about why this or that didn't "work out," knowing all the while that it was YOU who didn't do necessary work. "It" had nothing to do with the failure.
Your failing, perhaps, was to decide that you're not good enough, or that life's not good enough, until your goal - or someone else's - is met. That's a brutal approach to life. Enthusiasm dies when tiny parts of the goal are reached, or not. There's more to you than that.
Instead of pinning your hopes - and self-worth - on a goal, focus instead on processes that work for you. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge is full of options you can take. You know of others. Use them to your advantage.
Keep plugging away with methods and mindsets that help you to feel and to function better than if you did not think and behave that way.
Appreciate the things going right in your life, too. Some of them can be BIG surprises.
Pay attention when people compliment you. Focus on the goodness within you. And appreciate yourself for doing things so right that other people appreciate you, too!
Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.
Fill your heart, mind and soul with self appreciation.
B'SD 16 Shvat, 5775 (I'm posting this message a bit earlier than so I can travel to see some friends without missing a blogpost.) Life comes with plenty of agony. It also comes with options. I recently interacted with people who were purposely causing pain to others to attract sympathy or respect in a vengeful manner. Not a good idea.
I coach people to understand that "X, Y and Z did not cause your pain or problem.
Punishing them for it is pointless.
Push back the anger and fear.
Be your best self, and come out cultured,
kind and compassionate.
You'll respect yourself more over time. Other people will, too."
I hope you'll let me know your thoughts about that. Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.
Smile when you look in the mirror. You're doing your best and passed a test.
B'SD 5 Shvat, 5775 Sorry about last week's silence; I was busy with international company and putting some long-pursued goals into motion. Stand by for updates about that ;^ ) Shvat is the month of spring, when Israel's trees and flowers bloom despite bracingly cold temperatures. Our skies are sunny and clear, after months of rain.
A time of renewal, this is a propitious time for beginning new projects and reaching for new goals. As we learn from this Temple Institute post, Shvat is a time to recharge our inner growth, too. Here's a helpful infographic about the Jewish New Year Holiday for Trees, coming up in about 10 days. With all that spiritual and emotional energy running in your body and soul, how about recharging your health efforts with humor, cost-cutting information you need and tips for getting along with everybody involved?
Last night I met some of the most remarkable people for audience members on the way to, at, and on my way home frommy speaking engagement.
Each was a "doer" who'd made significant achievements in their lives. Proud of themselves for staying the course in tough times (widowhood, prejudice, poverty, illness, politics, religious issues), they wanted to hear me speak for one reason: "You and your book are all about how to achieve goals!" one person said. "We've heard about you," or "We've read about you" remarked other listeners.
I was awed. Before me were people who'd innovated solutions to problems admirably. They had suffered and refused to continue suffering. They had DONE something to end the stalemates they and other people were in.
One woman asked me how I go on with my future, though my vision remains less than what's considered "normal" and that I must compensate for those deficits.
"I refuse to surrender to despair," I replied.
As one listener remarked "That's what all of us have in common. Victims say 'I'll try.' They make some sort of attempt and give up because of difficulties they need to overcome. Leaders say and believe 'I commit to X' and then they do all the hard work to achieve their goals. That's why we want to read your book. It's showing ill people how to achieve their goals."
One woman bought multiple copies for her acquaintances to read!
