Are You “Shoulding” on Yourself?
Feeling stuck? Sometimes we get in our own way by thinking that we should take one particular path to reach our goal. Stop “shoulding” on yourself!
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Feeling stuck? Sometimes we get in our own way by thinking that we should take one particular path to reach our goal. Stop “shoulding” on yourself!
Your most recent anxious moment can be the “one moment” that matters. Go ahead, play it back in slow motion. Trust me, you’ll be glad you did.
“Paint the elephant.” Allow yourself to make mistakes, to get things wrong, and yet … to have a grand time anyway.
Wherever you are right now in the process of change, congratulate yourself for being brave enough to start the journey.
Some thoughts and beliefs are helpful to us — they expand what is possible for us; others can limit our view, and so our experiences of life.
How is the way that you are seeing things influencing what is possible for you? What are other thoughts and beliefs that would be more helpful?
We can all get stuck in ways of looking at life that break us down rather than build us up. Join me in cleaning your own invisible eyeglasses of perception!
There is always more than one way to look at things. In your life, who or what are you seeing in ways that aren’t working? What would a different way be?
How do you deal with finding yourself a puppet to perspectives that harm or hinder you, rather than help you?
I wonder how different our lives would be if we saw beauty, rather than imperfection and brokenness, in more of the “cracks” in the world around us.