Do You Forget Easily?Written by Jan Tincher
Is it evening and you realize you can’t remember what you’ve done all day? If you are at work and you can’t remember if you did something, why not visualize an 8-10 hour calendar? In first hour square, maybe you’ll see a report you did framed in heavy gold, meaning you did good. The second square, you had a meeting where boss patted you on back and said *Good job!* meaning your meeting with boss turned out great! What did you do third hour? Make a visual representation of it. Do same for every hour -- or even half hour if you want. If you are an at-home Mom, why not visualize an imaginary clothesline in your mind, or something similar that can depict your activities all day. Now, let’s say you baked a cherry pie, went to library, one of kids had a school play, etc. Look at your clothesline, under first clothespin you see a pie and cherries are falling out. You baked a cherry pie. Under next clothespin is a book and you can see on open pages pictures telling what book was about. You went to library. Under third clothespin will be script your child studied for last week. You went to his/her play.
| | Act Like You Want ItWritten by Myrtis Smith
I heard a very intriguing quote other day. It went something like this: "It is easier to act your way into new thinking than to think your way into new actions."How very true is this? How many of us have said I'm going to be a happier person, I'm going to be more spiritual/ religious, I'm going to be more financially responsible. We read books on topic, come up with grand ideas but we never DO anything. The problem is this desire to make changes stay in cerebral realm. We think, think, and think, but we never do. As quote points out, it may be easier to achieve major life changes by using action not by pondering, wondering, or studying. It's "fake it until you make it" philosophy. If you want to be a happier person, act like a happy person. Start smiling and being nice to people even if you don't feel like. If you want to be more financially responsible, start acting like a financially responsible person. Start forcing yourself to put money away every paycheck (even if it's as small at $10 or $20), freeze your credit cards to stop using them. If you want to be more spiritual/ religious start going to church on a regular basis, praying everyday or reading Bible. The point is to start behaving like person you want to become even if you aren't sincere and actions seem forced. Your mind will eventually catch up with your actions. For example, suppose you wanted to be a physically fit person and exercise daily. You force yourself to get up
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