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A few weeks ago a wrote an blog twittering about twitter and how we serious, success minded adults need not preoccupy ourselves with adolesence type behavior. This morning I am having some crow for breakfast. Care to join me!
They don’t call me Dr. Success for nothing! I do persevere even when I can’t figure out why! Let me explain. I will admit that I have been making myself familiar with Facebook and Twitter not to create a social network as much to create a web-based business network.
Those of you who play with me know I have a personal motto when it comes to life: Whatever I am doing has to make me happy or make me money. Facebook and Twitter were bringing some happiness in the way of connection to many I love. The money part, however, eluded me and I am personally annoyed by the unending invitations that are really commercials for someone’s work or product.
Then I noticed that I was several times a day wanting to check in and just write a sentence on what I was doing. As we drove out to the Red Rocks yesterday it came to me: Twitter and Facebook were actually helping me to become aware and present to what I was doing and feeling in the moment – that very moment.
Becoming aware of what you are thinking and feeling in present time – and then taking action to embrace, improve or adjust – is a key to life happiness. I must say I never expected that gift from Twitter or Facebook.
I suggest you do the same. These services are free. You will be in community. And you can develop a habit of being aware of your feelings in present time. When you consider how you use your thoughts and time now, using it to become aware and connected might be the change you need to reach your next level of life success.
Sign up. Use them. And follow and make me a freind. See you on Twitter and Facebook.
Showing posts with label Sucess. Show all posts
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Las Vegas Encore to Success
Even Dr. Success™ needs a boost and is in the process of creating her next great Encore to Success. Lucky for me, no place personifies the concept “fake it till you make it”, like Las Vegas. Las Vegas is famous for holding out the promise of a better day and that anything good is possible.
Thanks to a very stalled economy, Las Vegas is allowing you to create your own Encore http://www.encorelasvegas.com/ to Success. For an unbelievably low investment, you can get a room at the spectacular new Steve Wynn resort, Encore http://www.encorelasvegas.com/ and engage your dreams for what is possible in your future.
Surrounded by the finest interior design elements, fabrics you can only wish to afford someday and impeccable service, you have the opportunity to hold on to your goals and remind yourself that change is good and is an indicator we are still growing. Thanks to a reasonably priced salon/spa menu, I was able to luxuriate in a manicure by nail technician extraordinaire, Lydia Gutierrez.
What treating yourself to a night at a resort like Encore allows is for you to remember what it feels like to be surrounded by wealth, luxury, and safety. Retaining those feelings during challenging times is, well, a challenge. Being able to recreate those feelings is, well, necessary for you to continue to strive toward your personal life success. Remember, if you allow yourself to forget what it feels like to have dreams, to experience luxury, and to be pampered, you are actually causing your own mental recession. You may not feel like you control much these days, but you still control how you feel.
So here is today’s Success Challenge: Find a place close to home (for those of you lucky enough to be in or near Las Vegas, you must experience Encore and its majestic spa) and create a one-day, affordable escape. Use to time away to remind yourself of your dreams – not focus on reality!
Wishing you a happy Encore to your success,
Andrea T. Goeglein, Ph.D.
Dr. Success™
http://www.servingsuccess.com/
Thanks to a very stalled economy, Las Vegas is allowing you to create your own Encore http://www.encorelasvegas.com/ to Success. For an unbelievably low investment, you can get a room at the spectacular new Steve Wynn resort, Encore http://www.encorelasvegas.com/ and engage your dreams for what is possible in your future.
Surrounded by the finest interior design elements, fabrics you can only wish to afford someday and impeccable service, you have the opportunity to hold on to your goals and remind yourself that change is good and is an indicator we are still growing. Thanks to a reasonably priced salon/spa menu, I was able to luxuriate in a manicure by nail technician extraordinaire, Lydia Gutierrez.
What treating yourself to a night at a resort like Encore allows is for you to remember what it feels like to be surrounded by wealth, luxury, and safety. Retaining those feelings during challenging times is, well, a challenge. Being able to recreate those feelings is, well, necessary for you to continue to strive toward your personal life success. Remember, if you allow yourself to forget what it feels like to have dreams, to experience luxury, and to be pampered, you are actually causing your own mental recession. You may not feel like you control much these days, but you still control how you feel.
So here is today’s Success Challenge: Find a place close to home (for those of you lucky enough to be in or near Las Vegas, you must experience Encore and its majestic spa) and create a one-day, affordable escape. Use to time away to remind yourself of your dreams – not focus on reality!
Wishing you a happy Encore to your success,
Andrea T. Goeglein, Ph.D.
Dr. Success™
http://www.servingsuccess.com/
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Why Personal Development is So Difficult – Aside from the Fact that We Are Human
Probably the biggest roadblock to our personal development is simply habit. Human beings are creatures of habit. Our brains are literally designed to seek routine – even if that routine is detrimental to us.
A habit is anything we do so often that it becomes almost an involuntary process. To our brain, there are no “good” or “bad” habits. It is just the familiar. We can even become addicted to our own brain chemistry and it’s response to certain stimuli. This is what we commonly call addiction. The serotonin and dopamine that our brain produces spell PEACE to our bodies. We will so often choose the familiar, simply because it is what “feels” peaceful. It is what we know.
From the outside, we stand in astonishment when we look at the choices other people make. Why does someone smoke, or drink, or eat to excess? Why do they stay in abusive or loveless relationships? When we are not pointing fingers, however, we must ask those same questions about ourselves. Why must we wait until circumstances are unbearable to begin to build a new path? The good news is, we don’t!
This is the beginning of personal development. We must be willing to admit the truth about ourselves and any given situation and seek a new and higher reaction. We must build a new process around a familiar experience.
A simple example is day-to-day negativity. How often do we complain in a day? We spend so much verbal energy vocalizing our physical aches and pains. We endlessly highlight our frustrations with our workplace and our disappointments in others. In fact, we spend so much of our voice on the negative, that we will distract ourselves from the positive. Negativity is like any familiar unproductive habit – with awareness, desire and action we can learn a new response to an old and familiar pattern.
One of the basic tenets of Positive Psychology is gratitude. Learning to simply close our mouths to negativity and to speak only words of appreciation is an easy tool in personal development. It is also, however, a paradoxical tool. It is very difficult to learn yet when practiced it is the MOST rewarding skill when acquired. It is the key to all other development, and it magically unlocks doorways to who we may choose to become.
As human beings, we are born with tremendous assets. These assets are our strengths. What we choose to build with those traits is our birthright. It is our life journey. This IS, literally, our “personal” development. Personal development is when we begin to understand we are not our unproductive habits, our net worth or our circumstances but our strengths. Now that is good news.
That is a thought worthy of contemplation.
To your success!
Dr. Success, Andrea Goeglein, Ph.D.
www.ServingSuccess.com
A habit is anything we do so often that it becomes almost an involuntary process. To our brain, there are no “good” or “bad” habits. It is just the familiar. We can even become addicted to our own brain chemistry and it’s response to certain stimuli. This is what we commonly call addiction. The serotonin and dopamine that our brain produces spell PEACE to our bodies. We will so often choose the familiar, simply because it is what “feels” peaceful. It is what we know.
From the outside, we stand in astonishment when we look at the choices other people make. Why does someone smoke, or drink, or eat to excess? Why do they stay in abusive or loveless relationships? When we are not pointing fingers, however, we must ask those same questions about ourselves. Why must we wait until circumstances are unbearable to begin to build a new path? The good news is, we don’t!
This is the beginning of personal development. We must be willing to admit the truth about ourselves and any given situation and seek a new and higher reaction. We must build a new process around a familiar experience.
A simple example is day-to-day negativity. How often do we complain in a day? We spend so much verbal energy vocalizing our physical aches and pains. We endlessly highlight our frustrations with our workplace and our disappointments in others. In fact, we spend so much of our voice on the negative, that we will distract ourselves from the positive. Negativity is like any familiar unproductive habit – with awareness, desire and action we can learn a new response to an old and familiar pattern.
One of the basic tenets of Positive Psychology is gratitude. Learning to simply close our mouths to negativity and to speak only words of appreciation is an easy tool in personal development. It is also, however, a paradoxical tool. It is very difficult to learn yet when practiced it is the MOST rewarding skill when acquired. It is the key to all other development, and it magically unlocks doorways to who we may choose to become.
As human beings, we are born with tremendous assets. These assets are our strengths. What we choose to build with those traits is our birthright. It is our life journey. This IS, literally, our “personal” development. Personal development is when we begin to understand we are not our unproductive habits, our net worth or our circumstances but our strengths. Now that is good news.
That is a thought worthy of contemplation.
To your success!
Dr. Success, Andrea Goeglein, Ph.D.
www.ServingSuccess.com
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