Break a negative habit by making its elimination part of a positive larger goal October 18, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Ego Management, Self-Discipline.Tags: achieving goals, controlling ego, ego management, goal setting, personal development, self-improvement
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As part of our programs of personal development or self-improvement, and ego management, we include looking for ways to accentuate our good habits and for ways to reduce or eliminate our bad habits.
I recently came across a comment of someone who eliminated their smoking habit.
This person indicated they were facing a number of serious challenges in their life, and decided that it was foolish to use up valuable energy through the habit; energy that could better put into meeting the challenges in life that the person was facing.
Overall, this translates into a concept of removing the energy-draining properties of a bad habit by making the elimination of the habit a key component in achieving a larger positive goal.
Instead of the focus being solely on the negative aspects of the habit, attention should thereby be given to the positive potential of increasing our contribution to achieving our goals in life and in our personal development key result areas, by eliminating the habit.
Goals and personal growth: “Getting it done.” October 14, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, baseball, focus on the present, goal setting, Joe Girardi, personal development, personal growth, self-improvement
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One of the characteristics we may tend to develop in pursuing a program of personal growth, or self-improvement, is that we sometimes can become overly analytical about our short, medium, and long term goals.
This can result in too much time spent in preparation for a goal and too little time in doing what is required to realize the goal.
We focus too much on the ultimate results we want concerning our goal, but don’t pay enough attention to executing the “do” things that will get us there.
Too much planning, at times, can result in too little accomplished.
MLB baseball manager Joe Girardi, in talking about challenges facing his team in the playoffs in 2012 said the same principles of achievement apply in baseball as they do in life. “I’m talking about everyone that goes through struggles in life or goes through pain in life,” Girardi said.
“We just have to find a way to get it done.”
“You have to make adjustments.”
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