Personal growth: Which outfit will you wear today? November 5, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: inspiration, life, moods and attitudes, personal development potential, philosophy, self-actualization, visualization, writing
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Just as our clothing projects a message to others, so too does the psychological attitude or “outfit” that we “wear” on any given day.
If someone is in a bad mood, particularly a crabby one, we don’t need to be psychologists to decide we should avoid them.
In most instances, our mood can be a choice, albeit not always an easy one.
We can be:
Tolerant, or easily irritated
Helpful to others, or self-centred
Thankful for what we have or upset at what we don’t have
Cheerful, or sullen and morose
Quick to judge, or open-minded
It’s all part of the difficult internal work we do in our personal development and self-actualization efforts.
— Dennis Mellersh
Personal growth concept: Are we less optimistic as we age? November 1, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: achieving goals, life, optimism, personal development potential, pessimism, philosophy, psychology, writing
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Are young people by nature optimistic, cheerful, upbeat, and assured, whereas older people are inevitably pessimistic, gloomy, despairing, resigned, and worried?
Although some people seem to be naturally pessimistic or optimistic, for most of us our emotional outlook will vary with our real-time circumstances and how we treat the present moment and our present overall stage in life.
When we are young, life seems like a super-highway, with no speed limits and many off-ramps to significant opportunities. At this stage of our growth all things seem possible. There is “lots of time” to do most everything.
So, we tend to be broadly speaking, optimistic.
As we grow older, however, and as we see time literally starting to “run-out” we come to the realization that all things are not possible, there is not unlimited potential, because, simply put, we will not have enough time to do them all.
At this life-stage, we can still be upbeat and optimistic about “life” in general, but we now know that we need to establish our priorities on the basis of a time-available-focused algorithm.
In our self-improvement efforts, we do not come easily to realizing, and more important accepting, that life has a stop-sign.
— Dennis Mellersh
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