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SUCCESS, ELBOW GREASE AND A LITTLE LUCK
I like to think that as a professional psychotherapist & coach, space in which I work in my office is a smaller reflection of our much larger culture here in USA.
Let me explain. Our culture is constantly on move towards faster, more convenient ways of doing things. I'm caught up in this moving current as much as next person. For example, when I began writing and putting up websites, year was 1998. I had a pentium 120 with 24 megabyte of ram and a 2400 bps modem. As I write this article I am using a superfast AMD chip computer with 1 gig of ram and a blazing fast cable modem connection to internet. I love it! The internet connection alone has saved me hundreds of hours in my online work.
But notice last word I used in previous paragraph -- "work." I put in a minimum of 10 hours per week for my online work alone. My wife edits my articles, so we'll see how accurate I am when she reads my last statement. She often says I spend much more time than that. ;-)
I enjoy both new creations that make life easier, as well as researching and writing how-to articles to help people move towards success in their lives.
Last week, during one of my sessions, a client was complaining that "nothing was working." She asked why there weren't any guarantees and was extremely frustrated that her doctor had not found correct medication for her illness.
The psychotherapy and medical field is not an exact science. .. yet. So, I most definitely empathized with how she was feeling. On other hand, I asked her how many specific depression recovery tools she had learned about while she was in treatment. She couldn't recall exactly, so we worked together and came up with at least 12 different, proven skills she'd been taught to fight depression.
