SERIOUSLY SPEAKING - LET IT GO!

Here's a great New Year's resolution and if you can hold onto an awareness of this one - not perfection, only awareness - life will definitely improve!

How about isolating your mistakes?

You know, seeing what ever it was that you did 'wrong' as a one-off...

What a concept!

 DANCE WITH IT!   EXPERIENTIAL APPS           An opportunity to experiment with some fun ideas…

STOP 'PILING ON' IN 3 EASY STEPS!

1)  Awareness - Sensitize yourself to the sound, rhythm, feel, color, mood that internal 'piling on ' has for you.

2)  Catch yourself in the act - "Ah ha!  I'm doing it!"

3)  Create a mental Stop! sign - This one is the biggie… 

Using sounds is great for this: Remember those BEEPS! When a contestant gave the wrong answer?  

Try it!

PILING ON…

It's defined as a quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap and it's illegal in most sports - usually resulting in a penalty… read more

Are you guilty of piling on? 

Think about it…

When you mess up in one thing do you leave it at that, or like many of us, do you start piling on… focusing on every time you ever made a mistake even if the situation was totally different?

Check this one out:

"I said the wrong thing," he reported, "and the room got pretty quiet… So tonight I couldn't sleep and remembered every time I got into trouble for saying the wrong thing… all the way back to elementary school!  It was awful!"

Yeah.  Piling on is truly awful!  One blunder is plenty…

Or how about this one:

Someone does you a nasty - bad enough, right?  But then you spend the next hour thinking about every time anyone ever did you bad!  Ugh!

What do ya think?

Do you pile on?

Why?

THE CHALLENGE OF LETTING GO…

"But," he asked with a really worried look, "but really, what if I'm making a mistake?"

What was he talking about?

Well, in his case, that day, it was about breaking up with his girlfriend…

We've all heard this one hundreds of times over the years, right?

"But," we ask ourselves, "what if I'm making a mistake?"

About what? 

Leaving the old job, taking a new one, moving, choosing a school, a career, a life partner…

What do ya say?

Ever ask yourself this one?

What did you answer?

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