Choose to Hope

June 28, 2009 By Spencer 1 Comment

Our world and our economies are a challenge right now. Will that be the case forever? Some may wind up wrapped around the axle of the naysayers. They may be looking to the glass of doom and gloom. You know the one that’s half empty. Focusing your attention on negative things and listening too much to the media may spin you into a fluster of fear and stolen positive energy.

Last night I was in a restaurant and to believe the tale that our economy is shot in the tank would not have been the case. This pizza joint was packed with customer. I was not able to find a bad economy in this restaurant.  What does this stay to the naysayers who spread bad information about our desperate economy? Sound more like the media and naysayers bark from their own tree verse of economic doom in a general sense.

What we have is hope. We hope they stop spreading bad news. We hope people listen to positive news and see pictures of success in our economy. We hope the dizzying ride of impending disaster will stop before we throw up. Hope is a good thing and something others cannot take away unless we allow it. Keep hope and build your personal economy with positive actions and results.

You have the power to change your world. You have the power to believe, to hope, to plan, and to take massive action until you succeed. This is building your own recession proof economy. Why not start right now. All it takes is a decision to make it happen.

And, my final note, turn off your radio and television so these purveyors of economic doom will not dupe you. They are only after ratings.

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Juggle With Care

June 22, 2009 By Spencer Leave a Comment

Juggling is so fascinating. Years ago I had the opportunity to watch a man juggling live running chainsaws at Venice beach. I was in awe at this dudes ability. He exuded so much talent. His coordination was spot on. If it hadn’t been spot on he might have easily lost a limb, yet he never did. Bravo!

So think about this. To juggle objects effectively you need practice. And what if juggling those things that are less tangible like goals were also possible? Do we still need practice and can we wind up juggling too many things, thus putting our success at risk?

I know from my experience juggling intangible things like goals can deceive our ability. How so? Well, when we juggle fire, swords, or chainsaws we can use our hand eye coordination to keep things moving. Juggling those things we can’t see so easily may give us the false illusion of keeping all of our goals and task moving easily.

Don’t fall for the trick of too many goal juggling. You can become overwhelmed. Those goals start out light enough and when we add more to our mental plate they become brick, then boulders. Eventually, too much quantity of goals may get too heavy. The risk is we become less effective and may simply drop everything to take a much-needed break from goal juggling.

Decide to juggle like a pro and keep only a few items moving at once. The same goes with your goals. If you choose to put one or two in the air at a time you will have more success faster. Your efficiency will go up and your stress will go down. Over time you will actually accomplish more by juggling less.

As an action item call a time out on your goal juggling. Which goals are worthy really juggling and in what order. Drop those that were mere wishes without a deadline and pose a risk to successful goal juggling. Keep those that matter for your life. Next, prioritize those that are more important for you and pick up two to put in motion. Leave the others on the floor until you master the first two. Repeat as you master each set of two.

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Manage Your Drunken Monkey

June 15, 2009 By Spencer 1 Comment

Inside our minds lives a bad monkey. This monkey exists in the grey matter of our mind to squash our hope and happiness. This monkey’s sole mission is to kill our optimism and possibility. I call this monkey the drunken monkey. It shows up at just the right time to drop thoughts of hopelessness and failure on any positive idea.

Let us explore. Where does this drunken monkey come from? How is it that the drunken monkey has gained so much prominence over our decisions? Why do we give him or her the time of day?

I would be so bold as to suggest that we allowed other people to feed our monkey. This feeding of your drunken monkey has been going on since childhood. Our parents, grandparents, or just an adult might have squashed one of our wild brilliant ideas with a monkey snack like this, “Oh don’t do that. You might fail.” Other snacks were given like, “Stop that or No.” All these small negative words were actually crack snacks for our drunken monkey. Left untamed on allowed to eat at will our drunken monkey grew to own our thoughts and exists to smash all possibilities.

So what if you have healthy drunken monkey wandering wild in your mind? How do you deal with this drunken monkey? Start by doing these six things to extricate your drunken monkey from your mind.

1.  Put your drunken monkey on a diet. Stop listening to the naysayers of life and begin trusting your intuition and ability.

2.  Write your drunken monkey a letter indicating his rein inside your mind is over and done. There are magical powers in the words we speak and write.

3.  Feed your drunken monkey a regimen of positive affirmation. These are poison pills for a drunken monkey.

4.  Read to your drunken monkey uplifting messages, magazines, or books.

5.  Schedule your drunken monkey out of the picture. When you schedule action and follow through you are setting your drunken monkey aside.

6.  Make a deal with your drunken monkey. Tell him or her you will try something for 30, 90, 360 days. If your actions do not produce change, you agree to honor your drunken monkey’s patent saying, “See, I told you it wouldn’t work.”

Choose to shut down your drunken monkey and take control of your destiny. Choose to practice the six actions above, or find your own antidote to stop your drunken monkey. You happiness and future success depend on take him or her out.

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