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Personal growth: The best day of the week to accomplish goals November 1, 2018

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.
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It might be that certain days of the week are better than others for accomplishing specific self-actualization goals, but the reality is that the best day on the week for working on most goals is…

…the day we are living in right now, today.

Obviously it cannot be yesterday, yet how often we tend to revisit yesterday with “if only”  or, “I should have.”

Intellectually we know we cannot change the past, but we still enjoy revisiting it.

And for procrastinators, among whom I include myself, tomorrow can be very appealing.

But, as Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said, “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

Each of us knows all of this; we just need to remind ourselves of the true importance of today.

 

Dennis Mellersh

 

 

 

 

Making changes: In situations, in ourselves, and our in our perceptions October 30, 2018

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.
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“If we want to change a situation, we first have to change ourselves; and to change ourselves effectively, we first have to change our perceptions.”

This quotation from Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People shows why we find dealing with change so difficult.

The words personal growth or development imply change; without change, growth and development cannot happen.

The reality of a situation and our ability to act on that situation, to change it, will involve the deep internal work of changing how we see things.

And changing how wee see things is one of the toughest jobs we will face in our journey towards self-actualization.

 

Dennis Mellersh