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Ego management and the role of gratitude October 7, 2012

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Ego Management, Gratitude.
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One of the tendencies of our ego is that it often focuses on what is wrong with our life situation, rather than recognizing the positives.

This is frequently an automatic default setting of the ego.

To manage this tendency we need to consciously think of the positive areas in our lives that we should be grateful for.

This does not mean developing an exaggerated super-positive attitude in which we try to convince ourselves that we do not have any problems in our lives. Rather it’s a matter of creating recognition that there are balancing factors involving good circumstances.

You might want to take a few minutes from time to time and write down a half-dozen of the numerous  aspects of your life that you are, or should be, thankful for.

 

Ego and mindset management: Focus on the task at hand October 6, 2012

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Ego Management, Goal Setting and Realization.
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One of the difficulties in controlling our mindset is in trying to deal with our ego’s tendency to fill our heads with all of our problems at the same time.

This can lead to our mindset focussing on the overall results we want in our lives rather than concentrating on dealing with immediate tasks on hand that could help in achieving those results.

For example, we might be in more debt than we want and the overall result we want is to remove that financial worry.

In this case we should be looking at finding one step, or one task at hand that we could do to work towards that goal.

Mentally dwelling on our entire life situation and its problems will not accomplish much; but taking one action towards solving one of our problems, and doing this every day can lead to a sense of optimism and accomplishment, and eventually a solution.