TGIM

This TED video is going to make you Thank God It's Monday.  Shawn Achor is an incredible presenter.  He had me hooked with the title:  The happy secret to better work, but when he said the line, "The reason I am here today and the reason I get up excited each morning is Positive Psychology!" I was sold.  Great investment of 12 minutes of your time. Thank you, Andrea

Three F's to Live By

Forgive

Focus

Future

Forgive the past.
Focus on the present.
Create your future.

Need I write more? 

Peace is a process - whether it is world peace or personal peace.

Thank you,  Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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P.S.  I took this photo at the Stanford Shopping Center in September 2011.  I titled it in my folder:  Bee Love

Remembering the 'Firsts'

Marissa Mayer's appointment as the CEO of Yahoo! has created a lot of conversation.  Initially, I was saddened at the focus.  I felt the stories were paying attention to Marissa's personal life in a way that would not have happen if a 37 year old male had been appointed to the position.  Then I needed to find some good -- which of course I did -- in the way of Fast Company looking back at women who helped to open doors of opportunity by widening the conversation to include the entire population.  Well done, short, retrospective.   

http://www.fastcompany.com/1843050/pioneering-stories-from-the-female-trailblazers-who-came-before-marissa-mayer?partner=homepage_newsletter

An opportunity to be grateful.  An opportunity to say 'Thank You'.  An opportunity to remember hope springs eternal.  Enjoy. 

P.S. Thank you, Stew Gibbons for another outstanding photograph.
Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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Urgent and Unimportant

Want to share a 4x4 that Ben Dean of Mentor Coach used in our Blue Sky Thinking class last week.  This 4x4 is known as the Covey Time Management Matrix.  See https://www.stephencovey.com/  for more about work Stephen Covey and his company has developed.

The question I will put to you is simple:  How much of your life is spent doing things that are urgent and unimportant or not urgent and not important?

Cannot help but then ask:  Is that serving your desire to achieve your goals?

Oh, it is Monday...Peace, Andrea
Andrea T. Goeglein
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Action, Synchronicity and Freedom

Dr. Carlos Letelier did not wait for magic to happen to create his successful oral surgery practice.  He continually took action, so he was prepared when synchronistic opportunities presented themselves.  The result -- he created a life of freedom for, and with, his family. 

As a young man, Carlos traveled the world with a backpack and as little as $50 in his wallet.  He took action to follow his dream to travel, and believed, and did find, odd jobs everywhere he traveled to support his dream.  He continually sought opportunities to learn.  He used those opportunities to continue his education (where he meet his wife and business partner). As a young man, those opportunities looked like medical training.  As a young doctor, those opportunities looked like securing the assistance of a first rate consulting firm to build the foundation of his practice.  He is reserved, yet adventurous.  He is a risk taker, yet grounds his optimism with preparedness.  He feels fear, yet never allowed fear to stop him from taking a risk. 

By stepping out of his comfort zone – leaving his native country Chili, where his entire family of origin, including his identical twin remain today – he allowed unrelated events to come together to pave the stepping stones of his life.  He did not dream of being an oral surgeon as a little boy.  He did not dream of living in Las Vegas.  He is doing both very successfully.

What Carlos did was follow his heart, informed by his head.   That is synchronicity in action. That is how magic happens.  That is how miracles occur.  That is the energy your dreams need to become reality.  When grounded optimism meets prepardness, synchronicity is in action.

Dr. Success Challenge:  In the United States this is what I call Freedom Week.  What action are you willing to take to free yourself from your fear of clarifying your passion and living a life on purpose? 

Thank you Sarah Stuart https://www.facebook.com/magic.sarah.stuart for the graphic used on this blog.

And in the words of Dr. Hew Len, "Wishing you peace beyond all understanding."

Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD

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