No matter how much I know I need to do some things, it’s a pain. I have to wash the dishes, but nothing much is going to happen if I don’t do it right now. So maybe I’ll procrastinate for awhile, then a little longer. Pretty soon, it’s next week with a big pile of dishes in the sink.
There’s a number of great ways to get around these mental barriers:
Some of you might know that I got hung up in London this week, due to the Eyjafjallajökull volcano blowing its top in Iceland. It was a bit upsetting because it disrupted all my plans for this week, and resulted in a great deal of uncertainty about whether I would even be home for some important events this weekend.
In the end, I grabbed a flight home yesterday, which oddly enough wasn’t even full. I’m still scratching my head over that one.
But here’s the important thing I learned: The universe handed me a great opportunity through all this. (more…)
I think we’ve all become quite weary of those overly cheery types who declare that there’s no such thing as a problem, everything is an opportunity.
No, I don’t buy it either.
Sometimes it seems like I’m hard-wired to look for risks, for dangers. Perhaps I am. So here’s a powerful question that I use to help break me out of that mindset:
What’s the best that could happen?
How many times do you know what the right thing is to do, but lack the courage to act upon it? Humans are wonderful at rationalizing, at finding creative excuses to avoid doing what’s hard. Myself included, of course.
I had a wonderful discussion with about 75 people in Europe yesterday, talking about career planning. An excellent question was raised about being paralyzed by fear – fear of job loss being a primary one these days.
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