Ready, Set, Dump

By M-Power

Have you ever gotten an error message from one of your devices that it can’t save your image or document because there isn’t enough memory storage? Recently, this is what is happening in my brain. Thoughts are swirling around my head like sugarplums (or something like that).If you ever feel this way a good hack to clear up some brain space is to do a brain dump. Get a piece of paper, pencil or pen and set a timer for 5-10 minutes. Start writing down everything that comes to your mind. It could be a grocery list, items that need to be picked up, a relationship that is causing some concern. It could be people or places. It could be anxiety and worries. It could be silly and seemingly innocuous. The idea is that by putting these on paper we don’t have to keep track of them in our heads….

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Think to Thank

By M-Power

When we invest in something we do what is necessary to help it grow.  If it is a garden, we prepare the soil, plant seeds or seedlings, water, fertilize, and weed. In relationships one of the easiest things we can do is to be grateful and express that gratitude through thanks. In the garden scenario, it would be easy to kill off the plants. Deprive them of water, or let the weeds take over.  In relationships it is the same. We need to water and weed. We water by expressing gratitude and thankfulness. We look for the tiniest of things that we are grateful for. We weed out the negative thoughts and definitely the negative words that cut and tear the person down.  Over time the relationship will blossom, bearing fruit and we will have much for which to be grateful. DrPaul “Think to Thank. In these three words are…

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Could Kaizen Be Your Answer?

By M-Power

Japanese businesses are known for some of their innovative ideas. Kaizen is one of those. Kai means improvement and Zen means good. Over time as the philosophy has been applied to business and implemented in other fields, it has come to mean continuous improvement.  Kaizen seeks to find small ways to improve continuously so that over time big results can be seen. You can use Kaizen to reach your personal development goals.  Look around you. What small adjustments could you make that would eliminate waste or make something easier for you in your daily life? It could be something as simple as packing your things (or the kids’) the night before so there is not such a scramble in the morning. It could be setting your alarm 10 minutes earlier and practicing mindfulness before you start your day. It could be organizing a space to increase your productivity. Think about…

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Do What You Love for Those That Love What You Do

By M-Power

Do what you love for those who love what you do. I honestly believe that this is the sweet spot for entrepreneurs or other producer minded people. Let’s breakdown the phrase into two elements because it gets thrown around sometimes and discounted even though there is a lot of value there. First is doing what you love just because you love it enough of a reason to make that your life’s work? Dan Sullivan talks about this in his program, The Strategic Coach. He said when you really hit your sweet spot, you meet four criteria: *Number one, you have passion for what you’re doing. You love it. *Number two, you have exceptional skill in that area. So, your sweet spot has to include both. The passion and the skill. *Number three, it adds energy to your life. And this quite frankly is one of the reasons why psychologically it…

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Secret to Positivity

How To Stay Positive

By M-Power

Have you wondered how to stay positive when things are so hard? Our mind is an amazing tool that, when properly used, can assist us to stay in positivity mode no matter what. Take ten minutes to give yourself the gift of understanding how to operate the equipment of your own mind. This video is a quick summary of how our imagination serves us in two separate and important processes of our mind – evaluation and creation. Worry is the misuse of imagination ~ Dan Zadra

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Pathological Positivity

By M-Power

Is there a program or process that propels us predictably to unprecedented personal power, productivity, and profit? Yes. Pathological Positivity. Our planet is plagued with a pandemic of poisonous pessimism. The popular perception of painful or perturbing problems is pathogenically paralyzing. Pathological Positivity programs and positions us to perceive positive possibilities in problems. It inspires and provokes people to apply positive principles and practices even in paralyzing predicaments. Pathological Positivity isn’t just a program or philosophy, it is a personal preference. It is a programmed proclivity to purposefully opt for the positive from a plethora of possible perceptions. This promotes powerful productivity and profit. Pandemic, pestilent and pernicious pessimism is pummeled into powder as professionals apply and promote pathologically positive paradigms. The payoff is phenomenal prosperity. What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.      – Ralph Waldo Emerson Image courtesy of twobee/FreeDigitalPhotos.net about…

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That’s Good!

By M-Power

The motivational master, Earl Nightingale promoted Pathological Positivity when he suggested that we learn to habitually respond to even devastating circumstances by saying “that’s good” – then engage our marvelous minds to discover or create what’s good about it.  As a psychologist, I see the power in this strategy.  Our mind will dutifully fulfill our commands and requests.  If we ask our mind to find out what is bad about something we can certainly find supportive evidence.  If, on the other hand, we ask our minds to find out what is good about something, our minds will get to work on that.  “What could possibly be good about this!?”  Well, that’s not a bad question – get busy finding a legitimate answer instead of assuming that there couldn’t be one. life loans It’s our attitude in life that determines life’s attitude toward us. ~ Earl Nightingale

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Positive On Purpose

By M-Power

Sometimes I am accused of being pathologically positive, like Pollyanna from the 1960 Disney movie. Is this a compliment or a criticism? I wasn’t sure so I rented the movie. I remember as a child liking the movie. It seems that when I got older, I joined in with the other popular opinions that it was just corny and, well, pollyannaish. Watching it this time, I really paid attention to what Pollyanna was doing in light of my positive psychology practice. Here is a kid who was orphaned at an age when she could understand what was going on. Unquestionably a huge and painful adversity. Her father had been a minister, and taught her a game that she liked to play whenever something difficult or unpleasant was happening – the glad game. The game is that you intentionally look for something to be glad about related to your situation. It is…

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