“What are you telling yourself?”
Positive self-talk is not about telling yourself
that bad things in your life don’t exist
or have not happened.
It’s not about telling yourself life will be easy
if you think the right thoughts.
Self-talk is about self-awareness
and recognizing how your thoughts affect how
you feel and ultimately what you accomplish.
Your thoughts are your self-talk.
And, they directly affect the way you feel.
Since your feelings dictate your actions,
it’s important to take notice of the chain
of thoughts and events in your life.
This newfound awareness holds the key to
making the changes you crave come to pass.
Jane Powell
PRINCIPLES TO LIVE BY
Groucho Marx quipped,
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...
well, I have others." Though he is joking,
I wonder if he is actually hitting close to home.
I need to regularly check in with myself and ask questions like,
"Is the thing I'm doing now guided by sound principles?
Principled people are the heart and soul of a society.
But who teaches our young people about character?
Who teaches them how important it is to be honest
and to do what is right?
Even ETHICS classes might not touch on matters of character
. They discuss the medical ethics of cloning,
stem cell research and genetic engineering.
They consider euthanasia, and capital punishment.
And they even look at the ethics of governments
and multi-national corporations.
But one college professor recently made a
disturbing discovery: she assumed her students
shared her principles of honesty, honor, integrity,
and the like. She taught ethics, but assumed
that her students shared her personal ethical standards.
Then one day she dropped an armful of final exams
on her desk in disgust and complained that
over 50% of her students
CHEATED on their social justice exam.
(Do you think they caught the irony here?)
They'd spent months learning about ethical
issues most societies face, but they never
discussed personal morality. They could talk
convincingly about good and bad behaviors
of corporations, governments and societies,
but they cheated on their exams. They just didn't get it:
cheating is wrong. And can we expect societies,
governments and businesses to do
better than the people who run them and live in them?
Principled people are the heart and soul of our lives together
. Church leader John Wesley simplifies it for us.
In regards to what is right and wrong, he says simply this:
"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can, In all the places you can,
At all the times you can, To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can."
I think those are principles I want to live by.
Steve Goodier
Think of all the things you've learned in your life.
And just imagine how very much more there
is that you can now learn based upon what you already know.
Consider how your own unique perspective has grown,
matured and become more valuable over the years.
Imagine all the possibilities that are even now opening
up to you because of how far you've already come.
It's impossible to know exactly what will happen tomorrow,
or next month, or five years from now.
Yet you most certainly are better prepared
than ever to successfully handle whatever
surprises life sends your way.
Now, more effectively than ever before,
you can transform problems into opportunities.
Now, with more purpose and more experience
than ever before, you can work to bring
richness and value to life.
When you face a challenge that seems
impossible to overcome, remember this.
The world is filled with things
that once were considered impossible and which
are now commonplace.
When you woke up this morning,
you broke through to a new level of performance,
of knowledge, of effectiveness.
Now, more than ever, you have what it takes
to move successfully and meaningfully through each moment.
Ralph Marston
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