Download the 4 Barriers to Growth mp3
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If you are reading or listening to this, I would guess that it is because you have a strong desire to improve the quality of your life and to grow. It is amazing to me how in our quests to grow how often we seem to get stopped. It makes us wonder what is wrong with us.
Well you know what I find out that when we get stopped or block in our quests for growth it is usually not the result of a character flaw nearly as much as it is the result of one of what I call the Four Emotional Barriers to Read More...
“The only thing constant is change.” I heard that for the first time while watching the Broadway production of Jekyll and Hyde when I was in my early twenties. I’ve always remembered it because it struck me as one of the most simple, yet profound, statements I’d ever heard.
Everything, everyone, everywhere will always change. We are wise to accept this because it is an inevitable part of life. Yet, humans resist change more often than not. Why is this? It’s the one of the only things we can truly count on. But with change comes uncertainty……the unknown….the unfamiliar. This is why it can also be uncomfortable. It can be like Read More...
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As a natural part of our evolution, we are faced with constant changes. In addition to our biology, the world around us is also changing offering a wealth of opportunities and choices.
Every morning when you wake up, you make a choice – you choose to grow or you choose to die. Now I am not suggesting that Read More...
We just finished celebrating Halloween and, I don‘t know about you but, I am still eating Halloween candy. Halloween is a time when we often think of and dress up as good vs evil, dark vs light, angels or devils, trick or treat, are you a good witch or a bad witch? Ok, so that one was more Wizard of Oz but you get the picture.
Do you view life in this same fashion? There are good things in life and there are bad things in life. Is that how you see it? What if instead, you chose to embrace BOTH the positive and negatives…..together, as they exist.
Like it or not, you cannot have pleasures in life with out also enduring some pains along the way. Read More...
By Robert Seiler of College-Study-SKills.com
How can you tell how effectively you’re studying?What I’m about to tell you can really turn your grades around if you can get your head around it. Don’t pass it off as something simple and perhaps not worth thinking about because I believe it’s one of the easiest ways to improve your grades if you bother to make it a part of how you study.
Before I tell you what it is I want to ask you a question.
Let’s say there are two music students who want to learn the piano but one of them is unfortunately deaf. Which student do you think will be able Read More...
By Robert Seiler of College-Study-SKills.com
Have you ever touched a hot iron and then pulled your hand away really quickly to avoid getting burned? Did you have to think to yourself, “Gee! – this iron is hot – I better not touch it any longer because it’ll probably cause a really bad burn on my hand.” The answer is obviously NO! You wouldn’t have had any time to think about what you should do and pulling your hand away is automatic.
It’s what we call a ‘reflex’ action. It doesn’t involve much, if any, thinking because by the time you think about it, it’s too Read More...
By Robert Seiler of College-Study-SKills.com
One of the most effective ways of learning naturally is by making mistakes. I’m sure you’ve heard people say that we learn by making mistakes.How many times have you also heard people say “don’t make mistakes”? Lots of times I bet.
In tennis, and any sport, mistakes and correcting them, is called practice. You know immediately whether you’ve made a mistake in tennis when the ball goes out of court, and you try to correct that mistake the next time. This is called ‘learning how to play tennis’.
In other words, learning is simply a Read More...
“Why in the world would you want to do that?” “Why, did you do it?”
These are common questions that many people hear after they do something that to the outside world would appear to cause pain or suffering of some sort. Things like climbing a mountain, or hiking the Appalachian Trail, or competing in an IronMan triathalon, or adopting twins are just a few of the events that come to mind.
I know this because I have either asked these questions or heard them myself. Personally, I have climbed Mt. Elbrus in Russia, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and just completed my first IronMan this fall. And the answers can vary from person to person but I wanted to share with you my favorite answer. My Read More...
Download Own Up to and Grow with Mistakes mp3
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No one particularly enjoys making mistakes yet none of us are perfect. Mistakes are an inevitable part of life. I don’t know anyone who is truly living and doesn’t occasionally trip up and make a mistake.
We don’t do ourselves or those around us any favors by covering it up, denying it or trying to place the blame somewhere else. But this is often the response when we fear what others will think about us Read More...
When our clients are exposed to our company, they are often impressed with how we really stress the concept of Freedom – and well they should be. Our central core value is Freedom, our web address is deliverfreedom.com, heck- it’s the name of our company! At the same time I see that the vast majority of individuals I meet do not have the kind of professional or personal Freedom they really desire and deserve. Do you?
The role of our choices is central to how much Freedom we experience. In fact, we define Freedom as “the capacity to exercise choice”- and when I say exercise, I literally mean exercise like a muscle. The more you properly exercise a muscle’s capacity to Read More...
