Posts in “Health and Wellbeing”
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?
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?
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.
Another executive has been doing great with a simple strategy and was ready to let go with the consistent plan rather than focusing on it for the next few months before jumping into something else.
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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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.
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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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Kids Stress
Do our kids stress more than we did when we were young?
Just as an example, if you feel swamped with the blessings and curses that instant technology brings to you, what about their situation? They have been born in the technology boom.
In addition, there are great disparities in the world of these children: those born into homes where they are well-taken care of and those who have experienced and lived atrocities that no adult or child should ever experience.
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Forever Young
Are you interested in staying young forever? I was honored to participate on a panel with other prestigious speakers at the Anti-Aging Panel at the Florida Conference for Women in Orlando Florida, last week. The panel included Dr. Saralyn Mark, Dr. Deborah Harding and our distinguished moderator was Dr. Carol Scott.
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Balance Work in Life with LOVE
The recession has now grown its spreading roots. Those who didn’t think it was going to hit them have sadly come to terms: the recession is here to stay. Thousands of people have been laid off and thousands wonder if their current job will still exist. Either way, all of us have a family member, a friend or a client in this situation. Listen to this posting as a podcast/MP3: Balance Work in Life with LOVEWhile many have felt the pressure of doing more with less at work for months or years, people are feeling even more stretched to the max. Most of us wonder how long we will be able to sustain such intense pressure. Those who have lost their job are networking, sending résumés and interviewing for a new job. Those who have had their salaries cut down are in search of another part-time job to increase their revenue. And the rest are holding on to several jobs to make ends meet. Everyone has been affected: employees holding on to a job, entrepreneurs striving to survive and investors counting their losses in the millions.
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Should you go to work if you are feeling sick?
In regular times, many argue they can’t “afford” to get sick. More so in a recession, many will rather go to work sick than miss their pay even if this means that they may get sicker at the job or that they may get other people sick at work.
Sometimes, parents send their sick children to school as they can’t “afford” missing work for the same reasons: the children feel miserable at school, febrile and unable to concentrate while the parent worries about their child’s well-being while at work.
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