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Revisiting Obstacles

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A year ago I wrote about the proper way to think about obstacles.  They aren’t reasons to change course.  They may be lessons we need to learn or tests for our convictions.  If you are committed to reaching your goals then  you need to be  overcoming  obstacles instead of avoiding them.

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Originally posted 2011-01-14 10:22:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Take Charge of Your Attitude

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The posts this week asked two questions about attitude: What gets you up and what puts you down. These are critical questions for anybody who isn’t willing to settle for what everybody else has. If you want something different, you have to fight for it. It is a struggle to keep your motivation and drive even just to get up out of bed in the morning. Getting up is only the start, however because the next task is to counter the negatives that tell everything is hopeless and not to even try.

Clearly the answer is a positive attitude that carries you forward to your dreams. You can’t let someone else control your thinking. So what can you do? How can you keep focused on your outrageous lifestyle goals and how can you fight off the negative forces that tell you you can’t do it? How can you have a positive attitude in a negative world? It is a challenge but a big part of the answer is to get reinforcements. Learn two important keys to developing and maintaining a positive attitude.

Take Charge of Your Attitude

Originally posted 2010-11-12 08:47:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Leaders are not enablers

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969)
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
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Barack Obama (1961 – ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08

Times Change

Dwight Eisenhower ,34th President of the United States was one of the great generals that saved the world from tyranny in World War II.  He was raised as a simple Kansas farm boy, went to West Point and then when the war was over served two terms as President.  He was no intellectual but he understood America.  He lived and valued the principles that were the foundation of our government and the strength of the American people .

It is quite a contrast to see what Barack Obama , the 44th President values.  His mission is to remake the country.  It seems that privileges need to be shared by all.  Nothing said about principles, either his or the American people.  It’s a new world and I wonder how long we will have the privileges that have been so much a part of our counties success in the new country he is building.  What will the new vision he promises us mean to American tracitional values.  Stay tuned to see whether any of our traditional principles will survive.

Originally posted 2010-01-16 10:13:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Retirement Wishes – Make your new life positive

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Do you receive or generate negativity? 

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There have been times in my life when it was difficult for me to be positive. In a negative environment when every action or word seems to carry venom, maintaining a positive outlook is difficult. That is one of the problems with working. You can’t control the environment or the people you deal with. It is different when you retire because you can control the it all.

Retirement is a new beginning

It is easy to look at retirement as continuation of the life that you lived as an employee but it is wrong and so limiting to accept and continue those patterns. We make adjustments as an employee because we do not control very much about life. We can’t control when we work, where we work, how much we make and who we associate with. In truth, there isn’t very much that we can control and so we cope. We accept and tolerate what we do not want and if we are not careful, we become part of the problem. We become generators of negativity.

Negativity makes us blind to opportunities

Negativity can take over our actions and make us defensive and suspicious. Negativity can limit the possibilities that we recognize around us. Negativity can blind us to the fact that we are generating negativity to protect against the environment. We see that the world around us in negative and are blind to our own negativity. If that is the kind of work environment you experienced you are going to take the defenses you learned with you when you retire. You are going to assume that you still have no control or ability to create the retirement that you desire. And you are going to miss the opportunity to make your retirement outrageous because you are wrong.

Break the cage of negativity

When you retire, you regain control of your life because only you make the important decisions about where and what you do with your time, who you associate with and where you live. If you have turned into a generator of negative thoughts, you will never recognize these opportunities and stay in the cage of negativity that you created when you worked. You limit your possibilities. The patterns and behaviors that you developed to protect you from negative surroundings keep you from seeing the opportunities around you when you retire. It limits what you will consider as possible. Your retirement wishes will be puny, weak little shoots rather than mighty oaks reaching to the heavens.

Break out and make your retirement wishes outrageous

Take some time in your retirement – or better yet- as you plan your retirement- to think about yourself and your attitudes. Do you expect good things to happen to you or have you been conditioned to believe that only bad things will come your way. Do you have exciting dreams about your retirement or do you only see a dreary continuation of the negative life while you worked.? If you are negative, give yourself a boost by reading a good book to get you thinking positively and drop the baggage that isn’t making your retirement wishes happen. If you are generating negativity – just stop and open your eyes to an outrageous retirement.

 

Originally posted 2009-06-10 17:15:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Hitting the Bullseye with Retirement Lifestyle

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Who is reading this blog?  and why?

There are several reasons to learn more about my blog readers. First, it is valuable to find out why readers return. And then it is nice to know if the content that you beat yourself up to produce  actually provides value and more specifically, is it the value you intend to produce.

Communication is a treacherous minefield.

Very few of us master the art of communicating  thoughts clearly and many of us suffer from the delusion that people actually understand what we mean to say when they don’t have a clue. Continue reading →