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Nuggets of Wisdom
Words to inspire, motivate, and guide you to
Successful
Living
EMBRACING CHANGE
Temperatures
will rise and fall. Winds will shift. Leaves will drop and buds will form.
And with every transition new beginnings will be revealed
September is a time when vacation is over,
children have returned to school, and it is time to re-focus on
achieving our goals. Like the seasons, this is a time
of predictable change. Life involves other, less predictable
changes that can turn our lives in a totally different direction
than we planned. Often we have no say in the activity that
initiates the change. However, it is how we decide to handle change
that makes all the difference in the world.
Following are some tips and other
resources on positive ways to handle the change in your life.
John Lakes at www.mindhacks.org
provides 5 actions we can take to help us embrace change rather than
letting it break our spirit.
1. Drop the Drama
The more drama that we involve ourselves
in makes it more difficult to adapt when change happens to us. If you look
at it from a broader perspective, who really WANTS a complicated life
anyway? But we have been conditioned to feel that complications are
necessary, and there are MANY reasons for them too! Sometimes, drama makes
us feel needed, or special. Sometimes it may be a belief that the drama is
forced upon us, or that it’s an obligation. Learning to detach yourself
from the dramatic baggage will make it easier for you to bend when the time
calls for it.
2. Adapt! The Plan VS the Goal
Someone once told me, that it doesn’t
matter HOW you get to a destination, as long as you get to your
destination. Sometimes, the best laid plans can fail - and for those of us
who are rigidly attached to a plan get hurt the most. Change this mindset,
lose your attachment to the plan, instead, become attached to the goal. Esther
Hicks, from the Law of Attraction, reminds us that with clear
intentions and goals - as well as a positive outlook ‘attracting’ what we
want - can help you become more aware of the actions you need to take to
attain your goal. But don’t forget, change and attraction take effort. Make
a choice to WANT your goal, then make another choice to take actions to
move towards that goal. Everything else will fall into place.
3. Live Simple
Make a choice to live a simple life. No,
I’m not telling you to discard all your material possessions and join a
monastery. I’m telling you to try and simplify the complicated situations
that we place ourselves in. For example, juggling balances between 5 credit
cards, while managing a family, paying off a mortgage, and repairing your
car is NOT a simple existence. This kind of life is complicated, because it
is not organized. ‘Getting
Things Done’ by David Allen is a great book on how to simplify our
tremendously overloaded lives through an easy to use method that is more
common sense than anything else. According to Allen, having a clear mind
also reduces stress, blood pressure, and alleviates plenty of headaches.
4. Look Forward
Change brings new energies into our lives.
Without change, we would be living very boring lives. Choose to EMBRACE
Change! Change brings new lessons, good or bad. Change keeps you on your
toes, stopping you from becoming complacent. Choose to WANT positive change
in your life, and know that with each new adventure Change brings, you can
be one step closer to attaining what you really want in life. Change
happens, whether you like it or not. It’s one of those truths in our lives.
Life itself is about change. Burt
Goldman, who is over 80 years old embraces change even now, his
website, the
American Monk has many great examples on how he allowed change into his
life, and how these conscious changes have led him to learn under great
mind-power masters such as Yogananda
and Jose
Silva, and become an International Hall-of-Fame photographer.
5. Choose!
Change is not always about fate throwing
us a curve ball. We can USE change to our own advantage too. Making
lifestyle decisions such as quitting smoking or eating healthier are
examples of self-initated change. Making a conscious decisions to change
can be a powerful experience that comes with knowing what you want in your
life. But you might say, “I can’t quite smoking or go on a diet because I’m
so used to it!” - SPARE ME THE DRAMA! - If you WANT change, there are
plenty of resources out there that can help you embrace the change that you
want in your life. Weight-loss hypnotists like Dr. Roberta Temes have great
guides that can help you re-inforce this decision to change.
Updates and
New Videos
Several weeks
ago we mentioned that Dr. G attended a Federation conference of
farmers in Elk, Alabama. While there, he connected with the farmers
who will be supplying the East St. Louis Farmers Market. See the video.
Meet the
Regional Director of the Birmingham, AL chapter of the LLIFE movement, Aaron Maxey.
The East St.
Louis Farmers Market building project is looking good. This video shows
how the front of the building is taking shape, a new roof is being
installed, and the inside is in the process of being framed.
On September
25, Dr. G will be one of the keynote speakers at the “Opportunity” East St.
Louis business conference in the Grand Ballroom of the Casino Queen
hotel in East St. Louis. His topic is: “A New Day, A New Way, A New
Community … Change”.
In October,
Dr. G will kick off the Jackson MS chapter of the LLIFE movement.
Dr. Gerald
and the Successful Living Team
LLIFE
110 N. Main Street
East St. Louis, IL 62210
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