This post is inspired by my friend over at Bended Brains. On the final afternoon of the summer’s greatest music festival, Bonnaroo, I sat in the comedy tent with several of my closest friends and discussed the past several days among ourselves. We wondered: what does Bonnaroo even mean? To us, it just sounded like […]
Day 18: Write A Personal Mission Statement
June 14, 2012 by 4 Comments
Today, you will need your list of values from Day 17. Our goal today is to write a personal mission statement that you can use to guide your decisions in a consistent way that is in accordance with your values. For example, here is my mission statement: “By expressing myself honestly and without hesitation, and […]
Day 17: Find Your Values
May 31, 2012 by 12 Comments
Today you are going to elicit your deepest values. Your values are the principles that guide all of your behavior. They operate in the background, but they are of immense importance. Knowing what your values are will help you in the future to act congruently with them. Incongruence with your values is the primary cause […]
Day 16: The Map Or The Territory?
May 30, 2012 by 1 Comment
Alfred Korzybski, a scientist and philosopher, once stated that “the map is not the territory”. This simple statement represents the seemingly obvious fact that an abstraction of a thing is not the thing itself. Despite how obvious this seems, many people forget this in their daily lives. A practical example of this would be if […]
Day 15: Reflect On The Past Two Weeks
May 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
We’ve hit the halfway point for this program! Time to break out the champagne! If you’ve been following along this far, and doing the exercises, you should be noticing a difference in your mood, as well as differences in other areas in your life. Just to review, you should have been doing both the gratitude […]
Day 14: Ideal Vision Of Yourself
May 29, 2012 by 3 Comments
For an introduction to stress management, see Day 9. On Day 10, I explored the idea of self-talk. On Day 11, we learned about the technique of reframing. On Day 12, we learned why you must immediately accept yourself as you are. Yesterday, we reviewed why it is important to appreciate the simple pleasures. I could hardly wait […]
Day 13: Enjoying Simple Pleasures
May 29, 2012 by 2 Comments
For an introduction to stress management, see Day 9. On Day 10, I explored the idea of self-talk. On Day 11, we learned about the technique of reframing. Yesterday, you made a commitment to accept yourself. I have written about appreciating simple pleasures here, and one of the exercises you have been doing since Day […]
Day 12: Accept Yourself
May 28, 2012 by 6 Comments
For an introduction to this section, see Day 9. On Day 10, I discuss the concept of self-talk. On Day 11, we go over the critical technique of reframing experiences. “If you looked in the mirror and did not like what you saw, you would have to be mad to attack the image in the […]
Day 11: Learn To Reframe Experiences
May 28, 2012 by 2 Comments
For an introduction to this section on stress management, check out Day 9. For the previous post about monitoring your self-talk, check out Day 10. Two people are riding next to each other on the same roller coaster. The first person is screaming and clutching the armrest in a vice grip, holding on for dear […]
Day 10: Start Monitoring Your Self-Talk
May 27, 2012 by 5 Comments
For an introduction to this section on stress management, see Day 9. Self-talk is the constant internal conversation going on in our minds. Everyone has self-talk, but there are huge individual variations in both quantity and quality. Sometimes we have inner quietness, which is experienced when we are “in the zone” or totally immersed in […]
