Empowering Links: Week of 21st January
Best personal development resources for the week:
Still not getting things done? Read 43 Folders’ most popular, most visited, most-commented-on, and favorite posts about David Allen’s Getting Things Done method to boost your productivity in GTD: Recap for ’07.
Are you using your feelings as an excuse to stay stuck? Find out if you are and what to do about it in this insightful post by Christine Kane; Feeling, Doing, and Choosing Emotions.
If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
Most of us live programmed lives. Tomorrow is set, finished, done, and you haven’t even started it yet.
And we accept that as part of the deal in setting goals and reaching them.
But what about the tomorrow thirty days from now? Or a year?
If you could do those over, would you? How?
and shares 10 ways to be remarkable.
Steve Pavlina gives a very thought-provoking podcast on how to achieve your goals faster. Talk about synchronicity, Eleutherios and I were just talking about this goal-setting method, on how instead of moving towards your goals, you make your goals move towards you. Definitely something I want to go deeper into.
Ever wondered why you do what you do? How you see yourself is a big part of that answer, and Adam gives you a simple metaphor to put it all together.
Last Christmas, I wanted to kick myself. I’d been so caught up in doing tasks that I’d let slide getting gifts for the people I loved and cared about…until they got gifts for me. Like Pam, I believe that no matter how busy you get, there are some things you should not forget, and if you’re like me, you’ll find her tips very helpful.
The other day a friend was sharing his thoughts on something I disagreed on, and instead of understanding first before seeking to be understood, I cut him off and told him why I didn’t agree. I regretted it instantly because I could see I’d hurt his feelings. Liz shares her own experience, and I can relate, because my friend didn’t want to make me feel less, but he just wanted to share something that made sense to him. That day, thank you would have been a better response.
Feeling down in the dumps? Paul gives you some perspective on just how impossibly lucky you are just to be where you are right now.
I agree that a key to self management is self esteem. I would offer that true life inspiration happens when you find something you love to do and make it a part of your everyday experience. Here’s an exercise:
1. Write down 10 things you love to do or that bring you the most joy. I call this the “You List”
2. Then record how many times a day you do one of the things on your list
3. Give each day of the week a rating from 1-10
4. Your best day usually comes out to be the day you do the most things on your “You List”
I can easily relate to the first part of the story, in the past I was one of those people pretending you have done something and then be very uncomfortable when someone asks more detailed questions.
It is not a good feeling and being upfront from the beginning really saves you the embarassment later.