Comments on: Do You Even Believe You Can Get Your Life Balanced?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:51:03 +0000

I believe that I have gotten things into somewhat of a balance before, however that balance is quickly lost and I don't understand why. I think maybe the belief was there but not the action! Guess I have something to work towards as I try again! I won't give up! Jenny's last blog post..Say What You Need To

By: Believe to Act « MSO MusTek: Classroom, Studio, & Beyond

Believe to Act « MSO MusTek: Classroom, Studio, & Beyond — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:45:07 +0000

[...] you don’t believe that you can find balance in your life, then you won’t. I’m contemplating this even as I type . . [...]

By: Lodewijk

Lodewijk — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:48:47 +0000

@Tim - I agree that mastering the internal dialogue and the language we use to "talk" to ourselves is of vital importance. They are the tools that we use to create the gap that enables us to choose. Stephen Covey talks about this in his book. Humans are able to break the direct relationship between stimulus and response. That direct relationship is what you describe in your comment: ...make decisions as such speed and at such an unconscious level that it seems autonomic... We can create that gap because we have Self Awareness, Independent Will, Creative Imagination and Conscience. The gap enables us to come up with a variety of responses and choose the one that 's the best for us. And the language we use in that gap determines for a great deal what the variety of choices we can come up with. Lodewijk's last blog post..Productivity Secrets

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:32:28 +0000

@ Alex - I agree in the main, but what powers choice? The language we use internally would be my answer to that The fact is that a lot of people make decisions as such speed and at such an unconscious level that it seems autonomic and they genuinely feel like they have no choice and no options. If at that stage we just tell them they have, it rarely helps. It can with some people, but with others it just makes them retreat even further. If we can work on the language we can work on offering up more choice. Tim Brownson's last blog post..The Discomfort Zone

By: Pollyanna On Ecstacy: Why Positive Thinking Just Doesn’t Work | Work Life Balance | Time Management Tips | Wake Up Early

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:37:03 +0000

[...] not the end-of-the-world that we make them out to be. In reality, we can get off our asses and do one little thing today to turn the tide. In reality, we may feel like absolute crap and have no motivation, but [...]

By: mercurial scribe

mercurial scribe — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:24:27 +0000

Brilliant and timely for me. Thanks for the encouragement and good post! mercurial scribe's last blog post..A Hard Truth

By: Alex Fayle

Alex Fayle — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:45:39 +0000

Wow, Dave – you don’t hold back on your opinions, do you? heeheehee

@Tim
You ask what powers belief. My answer is choice. Everything we do is a choice – every attitude we adopt is a choice. We choose to believe (or not) and then choose to act (or not). We then see the consequences and make more choices.

Life gets messy when we allow those choices to happen unconsciously or allow others to make those choices for us.

@Dave
Thanks for the Clay Collins link – I agree completely – I think it’s all be done before but just has a new name… http://somedaysyndrome.com/journey/?p=397

Alex Fayle’s last blog post..Introducing the Lab-Rats

By: Faking It « In Other Words

Faking It « In Other Words — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:41:52 +0000

[...] get further ahead in preparing for my site. As Dave Navarro said in his latest excellent post: ” “You don’t believe, you don’t act.” Lack of confidence can be [...]

By: Dave Navarro

Dave Navarro — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:11:01 +0000

@Michael –
That is one of the single best tips I learned years ago – “emotion can be driven by motion.” Getting up, taking action can snap you out of a funk fast.

@Tim –
“The Secret” is AWFUL. Clay Collins says it best here.

@Sonia –
“The loser fairy” – I about spit out my rum and coke just reading that …

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:04:31 +0000

I like this post a lot. I think so many folks get caught up in "I suck at this and that's never going to change, so what's the use." Sometimes they look for magic pill after magic pill that's going to miraculously get them off their ass, or sometimes they just disappear into TV and cheetos. Either way is tragic. Knowing you actually can get off your ass, that you were not doomed at birth by the loser fairy, is a necessary prerequisite to actually doing it. Sonia Simone's last blog post..Happy Birthday To Me