Under pressure, Julien Duret of Lyon, France, jumped to the icy waters in New York City as he rescued two year old Bridget Sheridan. Her perplexed father jumped right after him to save his daughter. Duret handed her to the mortified dad.
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Do you complete what you start?
Many people start many projects and then complete some while leaving many incomplete. Some use the strategy of shooting in the dark with the hope that some arrows will reach the target. While this strategy may work if you have much energy to spare, a more focused, precise and accurate approach will be bull’s eye through time.
It is fine to stop doing something we don’t believe will work. However, if left unfinished, there is nothing we can look back to evaluate to improve. But what if this pattern happens over and over again? For example, let’s say you start a project. Midway, you realize it’s not what you expected and you stop it altogether. You start a second project and leave it hanging and then a third, fourth and fifth. Why is this technique inefficient and leading nowhere?
While working with clients and patients, I look into potential patterns that could be negatively impacting their success. This negative pattern prevents success by not allowing you to learn and improve after failed experiences.
When we are able to complete a task we are training ourselves - that is our minds, our efforts, our successes - to fully understand the process from the beginning to the end. In addition, we are also able to then judge the quality of the end product, whether we want to further pursue the whole project or whether the project will need a lot of work prior to going onto its next phase.
These are some helpful tips to help you complete your projects:
1. Design the project in your mind before getting started. This may include creating an outline of the project from the beginning to the end, mind mapping it in one sheet or summarizing it even before getting started.
2. So, you are the creative type and create as you go? While some artists will take this approach, many others hear the music before writing it, see their pictures before drawing them on canvas, create story before writing it, or construct monumental buildings in their minds before laying any brick on the ground.
3. Once you have a clear idea in mind, look at the pros and cons of your project, anticipating opportunities or challenges again, before you get started.
4. Break down the project in its entirety into different chapters, scenes, stories or whatever units are necessary. This will further give you a better idea of everything you need.
5. Now you are ready to start, follow through and complete your project. If you anticipated both challenges and opportunities well, you will hopefully succeed juggling unexpected difficulties as you go.
6. Avoid shifting gears mid project and try to stick to your original plan unless some unexpected factors play into the successful completion of your project.
7. Evaluate each project and list your lessons learned from each experience. This is the best way to build on experience and be ready for the next challenge.
Do you remember the good or do you remember the bad?
How about you?
Do you always start off by criticizing what you see, hear or experience or do you seek for a balanced analysis?
And, in the end, do you tend to remember what did not work or do you try to remember what you really enjoyed from relationships, experiences and life in general?
A couple of weeks ago, a woman approached me and said: “I love your work, I’d like to invite you to lunch and pick your brain. You know so much about this and that…” I let her go on with her list but, had she read my body language, she would have realized I was not amused. I have been in this situation many times.
Do you use this line with colleagues or even strangers?
How does this feel to you when others say this to you?
It is obviously flattering to some whereas others may feel like the cannibals are out to get them.
Why?
Do you focus on achieving one goal at a time or do you try to reach many goals at the same time?
This has been the theme of the week.
An entrepreneur started a new venture and was concerned when things didn’t go as well as he expected. Although he had a great idea, he didn’t build the foundation to support the project, almost giving up before he had really started.
Do you work through strengths or through weaknesses?
Do you work through strengths or through weaknesses?
Years ago I was chatting with a more senior executive in Corporate America. I mentioned my love of medicine and its integration with business and my dislike of the more tedious financial reports. She immediately said I should focus on developing skills in the accounting and financial aspects of my work, leaving aside my forte as I shouldn’t focus on my strengths but on my weaknesses, she said.
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The Wellness Doctor and Coach Is In! January
Are you ready for a healthy and wealthy 2010?
Most of us are. While many of us are still in recession-mode, many of us also want to move on and make the best of 2010!
Many may have made a resolution to start fresh and join the local gym, others may still have it on their calendar without any set up date.
Many may have gone through downsizing, mergers or bankruptcies and, in the end, we all strive to make this year the healthiest and wealthiest ever.
What are the most 7 common challenges most people face to maximize their health and wealth?
1. “I want to be healthy but it’s hard to start and maintain my plan, I’m too busy:”
Indeed, most people start with high expectations (i.e.: lose five pounds in one week, run on the treadmill for one hour, start meditating half an hour every week or cut work hours)
to then realize their targets are way too high. What happens next? Many people give up altogether.
2. “I have tons of work and I’m the only person who can do this:”
While we perceive a powerful position as being indispensable, this is one of the most common reasons for feeling overwhelmed with an amazing amount of work to do.
3. “I need to make $1,000.000 over the next three months to meet my target by the end of the year:”
It’s excellent to be guided by a specific, targeted goal and yet, if you have not made $500,000 in the last quarter, what makes you think you will be able to double that amount?
4. “I will only overwork for the next month and I will then go back to normal:”
While temporary decisions may be excellent strategies to boost a specific project, we tend to accommodate to doing more without going back to the previous state.
5. “I would love my work only if I could work alone, working with others stresses me out!”
Whether it’s a boss, a colleague, a client or an employee, people-stress may push us to the edge. . .
6. “My work life is perfect, I want to work more… My relationship with my wife and kids? Fine… Well, my wife is busy with her life and the kids don’t speak to me unless they want something. . .”
Most people feel the most important reason for their hard work is being able to provide for their loved ones and yet, many busy executives and entrepreneurs feel
distanced from their driving source of energy.
7. “I know I am gaining weight, my blood pressure is higher and my ulcer is acting out. I’m taking more medications and I can’t change anything in my lifestyle, this is the way it is:”
Most people who are already experiencing stress-related medical conditions minimize the impact their work-style has to do with their current issues until it’s too late. . .
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What are your WINS OF THE YEAR?
Are you looking into your New Year’s Resolution?
How about first listing your Wins of this past year?
Many people look ahead and have trouble enjoying the fruits present in their here and now. While it’s important to have vision in terms of “what next?” it is also important to know exactly where you stand. Most people with a deep sense of JOY take a minute to appreciate their blessings prior to jumping on to the next venture. Think, meditate, enjoy all your achievements of today as they will serve as a foundation for your successes of tomorrow.
What’s your health strategy when taking vitamins or medications?
I foresee what will happen with Gingko now.
Most people will probably continue to take it in case the science is wrong. Their idea is to enhance cognition and eventually prevent memory loss and Alzheimer. Science hasn’t proven its cognitive properties, though, check this recent article published in Time magazine.
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Stay healthy over the holidays
The holiday season brings wonderful feelings, great re-connections and overindulgence.
This is the time of the year where most adults start gaining stuffing pounds carrying them over - and not losing them all - to the following year. A combination of overeating and sedentarism may be the culprit for this cycle.
What to do?
- You definitely want to enjoy yourself and your family during the holiday season but you don’t need to have that third plate for dinner or dessert. Look at the whole buffet before you pile up food on your plate and take your time while you eat.
- Avoid drinking too much during the holiday season. Drinking daily while overeating will make you gain quite a bit of weight fast.
- You’ll start exercising after the holidays? Keep up with physical activity. You have your inlaws, your kids, and extended family? Organize a walk in the afternoon or try some outside games even if the weather is cold. You need to compensate eating more than usual with physical activity.
- Have a plan: If you have already carried over extra pounds from last year’s holidays and the previous holidays, you want to ensure you stop the negative cycle now.
- ENJOY! Have a wonderful time with your family and friends.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
