Michael Stuart Kelly Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 July 3 – Self-Esteem Every DayNot all purposes are equal. The key questions about any purpose is this: does this serve your life and well being? Is this a purpose you can be proud of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 July 4 – Self-Esteem Every DayIf you don’t know what your goals are, don’t be surprised when you don’t attain them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 July 5 – Self-Esteem Every DayTo live purposefully is to formulate your short-term and long-term goals explicitly. What is your purpose in life? In choosing to get married? In choosing to bring a child into the world? In starting this business? In taking this job? In attending this meeting? In asking this person for a date? In participating in this seminar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 July 6 – Self-Esteem Every DayTo know your purposes is not enough. You need to think through what actions are needed to achieve your purposes. In business this is called having an action plan. Purposes unattached to action plans are not purposes; they are daydreams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share Posted July 11, 2006 July 7 – Self-Esteem Every Day"Wouldn't it be nice if—?" isn't a purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share Posted July 11, 2006 July 8 – Self-Esteem Every DayOnce you have formulated your goals and purposes and have identified the actions needed to achieve them, you must monitor your behavior to see that it stays in alignment with your stated intentions. It is all too easy to fall off the wagon, to get distracted and sidetracked, to move off in directions unrelated to your goals, purposes, and action plans. Living purposefully entails staying focused on where you are going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share Posted July 11, 2006 July 9 – Self-Esteem Every DayWhat is your purpose in reading this book? What (mental) actions do you need to take to achieve that purpose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 July 10 – Self-Esteem Every DayTo live purposefully, you need to pay attention to outcomes. You need t onotice wheter your actions are producing the results you expected—whether they are bringing you closer to your goal. Perhaps you have a well-formulated purpose, a well thought out action plan, and a pattern of action consistent with your intentions, but the action plan may not be the right one, and you need to go back to the drawing board. the only way to discover this is by paying attention to outcomes. As someone observed, doing more of what doesn't work, doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 July 11 – Self-Esteem Every DayA common cause of business failure is seeing that a strategy isn't producing the anticipated results—and responding by going unconscious. The same policy is a common cause of failure in your personal life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted July 15, 2006 Author Share Posted July 15, 2006 July 12 – Self-Esteem Every DayYou say your goal is to have a happy marriage. What is your plan of action to achieve that result? What do you think must be done to bring about the outcome you desire? And why do you think so? Or do you believe that hopes and good intentions will do the trick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted July 15, 2006 Author Share Posted July 15, 2006 July 13 – Self-Esteem Every DayYou say you want to raise happy, self-confident and self-responsible children. How much thought have you given to what is required to achieve this result? Have you investigated what you might learn from books on this subject? Why do you think that so many parents with the same good intentions as you fail at this endeavor? When you observe that some of your tactics are not successful, do you experiment with other tactics, seek new ideas, or do you stick to the old patterns and blame your children for the poor results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted July 15, 2006 Author Share Posted July 15, 2006 July 14 – Self-Esteem Every DayYou say you want to rise in your company. What do you do to show you are worthy of promotion? What is your long-term action plan to advance your career? For example what new skills are you developing to make yourself more valuable? Or are you merely waiting to be "discovered"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 15 – Self-Esteem Every DayWhat might you do differently if you were to make being happy you’re conscious purpose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 16 – Self-Esteem Every DayDaydreams do not produce an experience of efficacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 17 – Self-Esteem Every DayNo one can feel competent to cope with the challenges of life who was not acquired a capacity for self-discipline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 18 – Self-Esteem Every DaySelf discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 19 – Self-Esteem Every DayOne of the challenges of effective parenthood or effective teaching is to communicate a respect for the present that does not disregard the future, and a respect for the future that does not disregard the present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 20 – Self-Esteem Every DayA purposeful, self disciplined life does not mean a life without space or time for rest, relaxation, recreation, and random or even frivolous activity. It merely means that such activities are chosen consciously, with the knowledge that it is safe and appropriate to engage in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 21 – Self-Esteem Every DayStressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to a fully realized self esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual’s worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements – in ourselves and others – and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self esteem. The root of our self esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 22 – Self-Esteem Every DayA wealthy businessman in his nineties once said to me, “Let me tell you the great thing about making a fortune, and losing it, and making it again. It’s good to get knocked on your back – you learn things you need to know. When I was a young man I thought I was my businesses, bank accounts, and limousines. Then the 1929 depression came and I lost everything and had to begin again. Then I found out that I was not any of my possessions but rather the force inside that allowed me to acquire them. And that is something that no external circumstance can take away.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 23 – Self-Esteem Every DayAt the most basic level, productive work is the application of intelligence to the problem of survival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 24 – Self-Esteem Every DayA productive purpose to which you get yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 25 – Self-Esteem Every DayDo not allow anyone to tell you for what purpose you should live. To be happy and fulfilled, you do need a purpose, but let it rise out of who you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 26 – Self-Esteem Every DayEnergy for which you do not find an appropriate outlet and form of expression can turn into a rage that poisons your soul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 July 27 – Self-Esteem Every DayAnyone who tells you that your basic purpose on earth is to sacrifice and serve others is not a friend of yours – nor a friend of humanity. Who is a friend of yours and of humanity? Anyone who tells you that your life belongs to you and the morality consists of honoring your positive potentialities. The purpose of morality is self-fulfillment, not self-annihilation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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