 Some people never give up. And they often succeed.
But they sometimes they do fail. Others fail more often than they succeed. And they don't give up either. Some fear failure with a terrible dread. "What'll I do if it doesn't work?" "What'll people think?" "How will I cope?" Others fear success with an equal amount of horror. "What'll I do if this works?" "How will I keep it up?" "What will people expect of me?" "How will I cope?" Success and Failure are uncertainties. There are no guarantees. You can do nothing, and cogitate for the rest of your life wondering what if you'd done it. What if it had worked? Or you can work like blazes at it, and have the rug pulled from under your feet. But be glad that you used the resources, abilities and talents you had to chase the dream, even if it did elude you this time. Or you can put every ounce of your existence into it, and survive, or achieve, and be glad that you used the resources, abilities and opportunity that this wonderful life affords us, to have ACTED, used your resources, and to have done your best.
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 In training, the key to success is consistency.
Sometimes you may find you’re not in the mood, or you’re short of time, or there’s a pressing problem, or your mind is engaged. All of these things can contribute to either skipping your training entirely or doing it in a haphazard way. To apply yourself regularly and to make sure you get full benefit from every session you do, is a skill Learning that skill and applying it will raise the value of every workout you do. What this means is that whether you are short of time, are under pressure, or distracted in some other way from your plan, you will be able to apply yourself to your program, ensure continuity, achieve consistency, and make sure that you get good results. This is the secret of every successful trainer; consistency. As in everything else in life, you will have good days and you'll have bad days. But because your practice, application, is consistent, it is physically impossible for your mind, body and attitude to not respond. This response overspills into everything else. You'll find that as you decide to deal with the matter of consistency in your discipline of training, you'll do the same in your work or any other area. There's a saying that 'as you do one thing, you do everything.' That means that as you cultivate the habit of training, for 10 minutes or two hours, the mind is inculcated with that attitude, and your training becomes not only a physical workout, but a mental exercise. Of course there will be days when your performance will not be as wholehearted as it is on other days. But that’s life, isn’t it? Though there are days when the intensity may not be in the workout, but keep in mind that you're still making progress. At the end of a three month period, for instance, your mind and body won't know the difference with which you applied yourself on any given day. What they will know, though, is that the work has been done and that they will have responded accordingly. Go to it. 
Those of you have a certain age may remember a lady by the name of Mae West. May was famous for her nonchalant attitude and her a quick one-liners. One of her sayings was “I don’t so much think about the men in my life, as I do about the life in my men!“ May had her priorities organised. Many of us want to live longer, to stay around for a bit more, especially when we get to the middle and more years. Somebody said to me recently “who wants to live to be 100?“, and he then promptly added “I suppose if you ask any 99-year-old, you will get a very definite answer.” While it is a great achievement to extend our lives, we need to ensure in as far as we can that we keep good physical and mental health. Dr James Rippe, Director of Exercise Physiology of Harvard University stated some years ago that physical exercise, done regularly, not only lengthens life, but helps maintain activity, and more significantly, helps to prevent illness. Two factors help to ensure this. The first as lung capacity, and the second is good muscle tone. Both of these factors contribute to a well ventilated system and a vibrant healthy circulation. Regular exercise, good breathing patterns, and a halfway decent diet will get all of these in place for you. Put these in place and Your body will find it physically impossible to not respond. Start today.  I never knew of anybody who didn't at some time or other in their lives, need a helping hand, a guiding word, a piece of useful advice.
Did you? This realisation got me thinking about the word 'useful'. I read in a post somewhere recently about how a sage, I think it was Socrates, on being told what he suspected might be idle gossip, asked three questions. Is it true? Is it good or kind? Is it useful or necessary? If it didn't fulfill at least one, and preferably all three of these criteria, he didn't want to hear it. They seem to be good measurements of merit, don't they? So, perhaps we can take a direction from that. Maybe we find how we can make our conversations, correspondence and general communications, true, kind and useful. Now there's a Mindful Exercise.  “Show me your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
That sounds like an arrogant statement, doesn’t it? But there is a strong truth in it. Apart from characteristic influences, there are judgements and opinions that we often need to discard in favour of our own decisions. That's what we call the courage of conviction, don't we? I doubt there is anyone in existence who has not experienced discouragement, censure or ridicule when they have expressed an aim, a goal, or some ambition that doesn’t sit well with current companions. I say “current” because what happens is that the person aiming to achieve, if he believes in what s/he's doing, in himself, and in the truth of that belief, will inevitably outgrow that level of companionship. He or she may be told that she’s losing the run of herself, getting too big for his boots, living in a fantasy land, and ultimately, to “get real “. All too often, a misguided sense of loyalty to a known circle of companions, ambition can be undermined, and someone can be coerced into submission to the low opinion expressed by companions. I saw a remarkable case of that as a youngster in Wexford, when a pal of mine, a gifted and studious musician, who could, at the age of sixteen, do things with a trumpet that older, experienced and semiprofessional musicians could only dream or talk about. The ensuing discouragement, heartless ridicule, endless criticism, flung like mud at every opportunity, was at first resisted. But because my pal insisted that he wanted to play music with his 'friends', some of the mud started to stick, the resistance weakened, the resolve corroded, and his enthusiasm and ambition were swallowed up in a slurry of envy, ill-will and malevolence. Within two short years, his ambition, and talent, were beaten down to the level of mediocrity, conformity, an acceptable level of average. Peers' intent was completed; my pal's potential destroyed. This then becomes a case in which to practice integrity. Integrity is being true to oneself. That's all. And when we believe in our aims, ambitions, our dreams, we have an obligation to ourselves to take whatever steps are necessary to fulfil them. In that case, we need mental strength and emotional resilience. We need to take time to ourselves and decide how we want our lives to be. To do otherwise is to abdicate the responsibility we have to ourselves, and to those who trust us and believe in us. We need to choose our own path. But we tend to look at what the majority do as the correct thing to do. But that’s not always true. And especially not for the individual who seeks to explore his own potential, who seeks to make the most of what he or she believes life has to offer. We may sometimes need to fly in the face of convention, opinion, and most certainly, approval. Not an easy thing to do, especially if the disapproval is coming from an unexpected quarter. So, when you set yourself a goal, be sure that it’s your personal aim, be clear on what it means to you, and be ready to walk through Hell and High Water in its defense. Otherwise, all you've got is a wish. In correspondence with a gentleman recently, he observed that 'As long as you feel pain, you're alive, as long as you make mistakes, you're still human, as long as you're trying, there is hope.
Pain, mistakes, difficulties, they're all a part of life, aren't they? And what's important to remember is that they will always be there. However, no matter what we've done before, what will determine our lives, and the quality with which we live, is how we think about, and feel about, and how we handle, pains, mistakes and difficulties. In other words, it isn't so much what happens in our lives that shapes us, but how we choose to respond to what happens to us. This is a lesson worth repeating again and again. And again. Have a Great Day and Do Well... Somebody was telling me recently about Steve Jobs and his views on focusing.
Now I suppose many of us have the same views, but as we’re not as famous as Mr Jobs was, our views on focusing wouldn’t have the same impact on the listeners. And that’s fair enough. When someone has made a great success of his life, and by all accounts Steve Jobs did that, it behoves us all to observe as well as we can what he did in his life that perhaps we could emulate. What he said about focus was: “What focus means is saying no to something that you, with every bone in your body, think is a phenomenal idea, and you wake up in the morning thinking about it, But you say “no" to it, because you’re focusing on something else. “ Now that’s a very telling statement. He wasn’t speaking about idle distraction. He was speaking about an exciting idea with bags of real potential, and in spite of the promise of the idea, you stick to what you’re at. The strong point in this statement is that when we start something, we should finish it. That to me, seems to be the lesson in this statement, to hold our attention fast to the task. Start, get to the middle and see it through. And of course, the bright shiny distracting idea will still be there when we’re done. What do you think? Have a Great Day and Do Well... The workshops, starting soon, are about PREPARATION.
You know what's said, 'Fail to prepare, and you prepare to fail', a good reminder for getting ourselves back in the groove, doing what we NEED to be doing, not thinking about it, talking about it, but DOING it. Click the link HERE and take a look. See if this might suit you. They've gone down very well with groups, and individuals. Might be just the thing for yourself. Get all the details HERE They're sharp, to the point and effective in switching on, increasing energy and making the most of yourself and your life. And it won't break the bank. Have a Great Day and Do Well... In 1859, Samuel Smiles wrote "The greatest things in daily life are achieved not so much by the extraordinary powers of genius or intellect, as they are by the extraordinary application of simple means and ordinary powers, with which we're all more or less endowed."
Let that be your thought for the week. Do it simply, with extraordinary application. Have a Great Day and Do Well...  In correspondence with a gentleman recently, he observed that 'As long as you feel pain, you're alive, as long as you make mistakes, you're still human, as long as you're trying, there is hope.
Pain, mistakes, difficulties, they're all a part of life, aren't they? And what's important to remember is that they will always be there. However, no matter what we've done before, what will determine our lives, and the quality with which we live, is how we think about, and feel about, and how we handle, pains, mistakes and difficulties. In other words, it isn't so much what happens in our lives that shapes us, but how we choose to respond to what happens to us. This is a lesson worth repeating again and again. And again. “Show me your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
That sounds like an arrogant statement doesn’t it? But there is a strong truth in it. Apart from characteristic influences, there are judgements and opinions that we often need to discard in favour of our own decisions. That's what we call the courage of conviction, don't we? I doubt there is anyone in existence who has not experienced discouragement, censure or ridicule when they have expressed an aim, a goal, or some ambition that doesn’t sit well with current companions. I say “current” because what happens is that the person aiming to achieve, if he believes in what s/he's doing, in her/himself, and in the truth of that belief, will inevitably outgrow that level of companionship. He or a she may be told that he’s losing the run of himself, getting too big for his boots, living in a fantasy land, and ultimately told to “get real“. All too often, a misguided sense of loyalty to their known circle of companions, can undermine ambition, and coerce the aspirant into submission to the low opinion expressed by companions. I saw a remarkable case of that as a youngster in Wexford, when a pal of mine, a gifted and studious musician, who could, at the age of sixteen, do things with a trumpet that older, experienced and semiprofessional musicians could only dream or talk about. The ensuing discouragement, heartless ridicule, relentless criticism, flung like mud at every opportunity, was at first resisted. But because my pal insisted that he wanted to play music with his 'friends', some of the mud started to stick, the resistance weakened, the resolve corroded, and his enthusiasm and ambition were swallowed up in a slurry of envy, ill-will and malevolence. Within two short years, my pal's ambition, and talent, were beaten down to the level of mediocrity, conformity, and the acceptable level of average normality. Peers' intent was completed; my pal's potential destroyed. This then becomes a case in which to practice integrity. Integrity Is being true to oneself. And when we believe in our aims, ambitions, our dreams, we have an obligation to ourselves to take whatever steps are necessary to fulfil them. In that case, we need mental strength and emotional resilience. We need to take time to ourselves and decide how we want our lives to be. To do otherwise is to abdicate the responsibility we have to ourselves, and to those who trust us and believe in us. We need to choose our own path. This can be counterintuitive. We tend to look at what the majority do as the correct thing to do. But that’s not always true. And especially not for the individual who seeks to explore his own potential, who seeks to make the most of what he or she believes life has to offer. We may sometimes need to fly in the face of convention, opinion, and most certainly, approval. So when you set yourself a goal, be sure that it’s your personal aim, be clear on what it means to you, and be ready to walk through Hell and High Water in its defense. Otherwise all you've got is a wish. With the amount of talk about the Mind/Body connection, you'd imagine that some of the mud being flung at the wall would be sticking. Not always the case. Anything we do in life usually takes place first in the mind. It begins as an idea. As we think about it, it begins to clarify and develop. Then perhaps we begin to regard with a bit more attention. Before we know it, we’re beginning to see it as a possiblility. The next step is that it begins to become something we'd like in our lives, an aim, something we would like to do, or achieve, or see done. But it starts in the mind. What’s important is that it starts as our own idea. Even if it’s a variation of what someone else is doing, it is our individual take on it that will make it ours. A lot of us tend too sit on our ideas, doing nothing with them. This is why designers, engineers, authors, all copyright or patent their ideas. But because many think along similar lines, it isn't until we see someone else DO something with OUR idea, that that we begin to take it really seriously. Because someone has started to do it, reinforces our belief in it. And because we believe in it, we want to do it. That belief influences our thinking, not what we’re thinking about, but how we are thinking about it. And those thoughts affect their feelings. And so, the desire is generated. The desire then influences our action and we begin to take steps to implement our idea. And all this comes about from what may originally have been a nebulous, vague, rough idea of something we would like to do. But it is the force of the thought on our feelings that generates the action. It's what the coaches call "motivation". Observe your ideas. Don’t dismiss them because you think someone else might. Or because of what someone else might think about them. Whether you implement them, or finally dismiss them, let the decision be yours and not the consequences of some imagined disapproval. Nurture your ideas. Guard them well. If after due consideration, you feel strongly about them, believe in them, and in your ability and determination to see them through, honour them. In the last post, I mentioned the advantages of Association when you embark on a project. However, there's a caveat here. Association is a forceful factor in any area of life. We can have people who inspire, encourage and and help us grow into our aspirations. Or, we can be with people who belittle, discourage and suck the very life from our efforts. Discouragement, like inspiration, can come from the most unexpected of sources. It can come in the plain and obvious form of bold, clear statements. It can come in sugar-coated, whispered, oblique suggestions that are, consciously or not, designed to cause you to hesitate, question, and doubt your course of action. Thus, any of us can be derailed in a perfectly good project for the want of not being true to our aims and beliefs. This brings us back to the power, and the need for, a decision. Being decisive in life simplifies things. When you believe that you've given due consideration to a course of action, weighed it up, and then on the basis that you're right as far as you can see, and committed to that decision, your duty then is to honour your own judgement, stick with it, and do it. If you're wrong, or if for some other reason, it doesn't work out, you're secure in the knowledge that everything possible has been done. Then, you can either change the action to suit the needs, or do something completely different. But the choice remains yours, and you'll have learned from taking that responsibility. So, look closely to your associates. Let yourself become aware of those who tend to contribute to your achievements, and of those who can, intentionally or not, undermine them. Most people, it's my belief, tend be helpful rather than malicious, but we do need to be realistic too, don't we? Having a goal in life, shared with a fellow-human who understands what it may mean to you, and is loyal and supportive, can reinforce the value, and the reality, of that goal. Back to how this affects your training: when you physically train with a like-minded individual, or a group, you tend to reinforce the impact of the training in the mind as well as in the body. And if the companion is familiar with, and concerned in, your aims and your abilities, then it's much more valuable.
The truth is, change can be hard. Change can be forbidding. Why? Because our results come from our actions. Our actions stem from how we think. How we think is driven by our beliefs. To get different (and better) results we have to take different actions. And that means that sometimes we have to change what we believe about life and ourselves, by making the effort to change what we may have believed about life and ourselves for many years. So if you want radically different results from the average, typical, normal results you're getting at the moment, you may have to change from the average, typical, and “normal” thought patterns you're practising, or to be more precise, what we perceive to be "normal thinking". And we all know what happens to those who are “different”, how their actions, ideas, concepts, can be viewed. That's frequently the biggest deterrent to making changes in life; "WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK?", we ask ourselves . Provided our actions don't intrude on the rights, property or freedom of others, we can pretty well decide to be, do, and have anything we want. All we have to do is pay the price. And frequently the price isn't always to do with money. It can be family time, personal relationships, personal stress levels, sleepless nights, frazzled days, that get laid on the altar of success...we can end up achieving what we thought "success" to be, only to be physically, mentally and emotionally bankrupt. What people think of that is their business. If that's the price we pay, and accept it as that, like a hangover after a wildly enjoyable night of revelry, then it's our business and we live with it.(And that’s a philosophy I share with you in Common Sense Wellness™). Like it or not, our ultimate success or failure in our aims in life is largely up to us. It’s our choice, and we’re free to make any choice we wish. But, but, but, we’re NOT free to avoid the consequences of our choices. Choose wisely.... What do you believe to be the most important elements of being fit, healthy and well?
Is it exercise? Food use? Meditation? Regularity in training? Technique in performance? Use of supplements? Anatomical knowledge?, There are many more questions along that vein. And they're all relevant. But the one factor overlooked by so many, trainers and trainees alike, is rest. Rest between exercise sessions is vital. That's when the body's repair system kicks in and lets Nature do the repair work on the body that's just been subjected to the assault of vigorous activity. Taking the time to allow this to happen will double the effects of your efforts. It's how the body, and indeed the mind, refresh and revitalise. There are few sleeps as refreshing and restorative as those after physical exercise. Not only is the sleep usually deeper, it tends also to be continuous. Seven to eight hours uninterrupted sleep helps rest the mind, revitalise the brain cells, and get rid of toxins that can accumulate in the brain, and thus impair cognitive use. This is a vital aspect for living today. Rarely has the Human Race been so subjected to Mental and Emotional speed and engagement, while lacking the inbuilt physical activity to counteract the effects of these trends. The result is that we have to schedule exercise into our lives, we have to plan our food intake if we don't want to stuff ourselves with junk, and we need to organise our lives to allow for rest as well. No rest, no repair. No repair leads to fatigue, strain and burnout. Look at your life and ask yourself, "How can I make the most of my training, food use and myself to maximise my way to sound fitness, constant wellness, and optimum health.?" And when you're writing your answer, schedule in your time for "R &R", "Rest and Recreation". And observe the word, "recreation". that's exactly what rest does. It allows your body, your mind, your nervous system to RE - CREATE themselves. So, have a peaceful and a restful weekend. In about three months from now it’ll be Christmas time.
We’ll either have done things we set out to do, or not done them. Either way, the time will have passed. Which is a good thought to have about how we can make the most of the next two or three months. We can do this without encroaching on anything else we do. There’s a great deal of talk today about “making a difference”. However, if we want to make a difference of any kind, we need perhaps to begin with ourselves. These are challenging and disruptive times. We are all learning new ways to live. Some of the changes are small, some huge. None are insignificant. Never more than now is the need for us to be able to adapt our bodies, our minds, and our emotions, to the demands of daily living. Contrary to popular belief, these skills can be learnt and developed and mastered with relative ease. It’s a matter of understanding the principles and the fundamentals. Then putting them into practice on a frequent basis. At any age, at any level of accomplishment, we can enhance our lives enormously by learning how to make the most of our personal resources, our abilities, and our talents. That is the driving principle that informs the strategies and tactics of www.commonsensewellness.ie If you haven’t looked recently, have a look at the website again here: www.commonsensewellness.ie Let this be the first day of the rest of your wonderful life. When Stirling Moss, in an out dated Lotus, trounced the Ferraris of Phil Hill and Richie Ginther at Monaco in 1962, the spectators remarked on how relaxed, how at ease, and perfectly comfortable he looked as he drove lap after exhausting lap on that tight and demanding circuit.
As a performance, it was a tour de force. In the eyes of many, it was Moss' Finest Hour. DJ Carey, the Kilkenny hurler, and a breaker of many stalwart hearts, could waltz through a six-man defence group to billow opponents' nets with another of his blistering exhibitions of artistry. A youthful Cassius Clay, in the 1960s, dazzled the entire world as he danced, jabbed, and bludgeoned his way to the throne of the Boxing World. All accomplished men. And they all had one thing in common: they practised, rehearsed, drilled, and internalised their basic movements. They rehearsed their moves so that they not only got them right, but they couldn’t get them wrong. I heard a story of Michael Jordan, the basketball player, who, in doing an ad for a soft drink company, had to consciously rehearse and practice missing a shot at the net before he could make the miss look natural. The story of the ad was that he then comforted himself with the soft drink. In sport, business, in the arts, in any undertaking in which a man or woman intends to be at the top level, they practice the basics. Ernest Hemingway, no slouch when it came to raising the rafters and having the craic, in his own particular way, was at his desk by five or 6 am every morning, applying himself to his craft, regardless of the monumental hangovers he was reputed to have suffered. “To speak well in public“, said author Howard spring, “we need to think well in private.“ And there is the secret to an effortless performance; practice, practice, practice. The same goes for exercise, reading, relaxing, meditating, using food well, conducting ourselves through our lives. Practice, the age old open secret. Trust can be a poignant, sensitive, even delicate word.
It can rise all kinds of feelings within us. The word “trust“ summons up images of close friendship, dependability reliability, or it may suggest it’s a very opposite, mistrust, treachery, betrayal. A lot of how we interpret the word will reflect our own experiences. I’m often asked why I counsel people to keep their aims, goals, aspirations, to themselves, unless they are speaking to someone in whom they have complete trust, or who will support them 100%. I do this because the reasons why people will undermine, discourage, even belittle the aims of someone else are myriad. If you have a friend who knows you as you are at this particular moment, and have been for many years, it can be very difficult for them to accept that you want to change something in both your lives. Because both lives do change when one life does. If you have been shy, diffident, hesitant, because you don’t feel really well about yourself and how you appear to the world and you’re not really happy in yourself, the change for the better in your life may be a change for the worse in your friend’s life. They may find it difficult to accept the new you. They may find it difficult when you become assertive, positive, confident in your presentation to the world. When that happens, you cease to be the predictable, hesitant, quiet and compliant person they knew. Because they see you differently, they may find that they have to change their attitude and manner towards you, or lose your friendship. I’ve seen this over the years, when a man or woman has lost weight, toned up, got a new wardrobe, and re-asserted herself or himself in life. Acquaintances suddenly find themselves taking that person more seriously, paying more attention to what they say, being aware of the emergence of a new person. This can lead to huge discomfort on the part of acquaintances. They may become lost, unsure of themselves. It brings doubt, uncertainty into their lives. They have to figure out how to handle the change. They may be well out of their comfort zone. But that’s not your fault, or anyone else’s, who decides ( that great word) that there is more to their life than what they’ve been tolerating for ages. That’s why I counsel privacy, discretion, when you talk or think about your aspirations. Let the ideas and plans you have build inside you. Let yourself become acquainted with them. Let them build in the Intensity and Force of your imagination till they express themselves in action, and not get leaked in dribs and drabs, to unappreciative and possibly damaging minds, where they can then get shredded, and ineffectively trail the ground at your heels. Trust people by all means. With discretion. I was listening to a coach the other day saying that he hated the word “mindset”.
He didn’t explain why, and left his listeners with no idea why either. Language is powerful. There are words that can lift us or bury us. We are affected not just by the words used, but how they’re spoken. That's what interpretation is about. Our moods, our beliefs, our experiences of life, can give meanings to words that will be different to someone else's. Most of us tend to speak as we think. Sometimes that can be very unhelpful. We’re so keen to make our point that the words tumble out before we’ve had time to formulate them into a coherent sentence, or be aware of how they might sound to a listener That’s when we can land ourselves in trouble. I imagine we’ve all experienced the feeling at times, when we hear ourselves speaking, and as the words fall into place, we listen to ourselves in wonder. And then we find ourselves following up with “What I mean is…“, “That is to say…“, “You know what I mean…“. And of course it’s highly unlikely that anyone does know. And that’s why it’s important for all of us to take time, consider what we're saying, and give ourselves time to choose helpful, simple, meaningful words. Tall order. And not always an easy one to fill. In any communication with our fellow humans, it's a simple expedient to consider how we sound. Being irritated by a missed phone call, an elusive parking spot, a traffic delay, can convey itself into an unintended tone, pitch and impression that undermine the best of intentions. As an exercise in awareness, even if it doesn’t result in perfect communication, it may often give the necessary pause for thought that does prevent disaster. This is one of the great benefits of regular meditation. The body, how it feels, the very physical experience of our existence, tends to become more comfortable, easy, less fazed. The mind becomes more quiet, calm, composed. Meditating, or relaxing the mind, or doing a structured mindful exercise, frequently, usually results in a more comfortable body, and a clear mind. And one of the benefits, just one of them, is how you may find, as you begin to get the habit, that your responses to life tribulations becomes less abrasive, and more effective. But that assumes practice. Your move. As we all know, Health is Wealth...well, it's a figure of speech, a telling one, because we all understand that if we don't have our health, everything else in our lives is diminished in value, even lost.
The peculiar thing is that Good Health is available to most of us. Clinical illness apart, there is no excuse for being unhealthy. And it isn't because of pandemics, the economy, lack of education, no opportunity, exclusion, or any other of the myriad excuses we cough up in our defence that we don't have it. It's the decision to do nothing about it. And no mistake, it IS a decision. Most of us know what to do if we want to get into reasonable shape. We even know how to do it. And that's where we score goals against ourselves; we fail to DO it. According to the WHO, 65% of Americans are overweight or obese. According to a recent article in the Irish Times, Ireland ranks second in the overweight and obesity levels in the EU. Something CAN be done about the condition. And a lot of people who feel tired, run down, out of sorts, can do much for themselves too. It all starts with the decision, doesn't it? And there's the courageous acknowledgement of acceptance too, isn't there? Once we accept that we're in a particular condition, largely of our own making, then we can do something about it. If we've put ourselves in a frame, we can change the frame. That's taking responsibility for our lives and our actions and ourselves. and once we do that, we start making progress. But until then, we're in the land of self-delusion, wishful thinking and denial. Note that I use the word 'we', I've been heinously guilty of this myself at times. Ain't none of us perfect. However, even in the depths of stagnation, we casn see that there may be a way out of our dilemma. And sometimes that's all we need; to know there's a way. Then we go about finding it. Those of you who've studied the power and the simplicity of applying the Reticular Activating System will understand the logic of this. That's why the system of using the Mind to direct the Body, which then reciprocates by reinforcing the Mind, is such an effective and simple way to do it. If that appeals to you, click here for a simple course of action you may like to take. But, whatever you do, DO DOMETHING |
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