It’s nice to have a mutual understanding. Fewer words are needed. There is less thinking work required. It’s easy and more pleasant. But you won’t grow if you don’t allow your thoughts to be challenged.
Is Your View Always Correct?
Perhaps it could be true. No one else is as good as you. Your sources are the best in the world, your analysis are second to none and you articulate every position with exceptional attention to detail and verbal accuracy.
Or maybe you have a blind spot or two you would rather not acknowledge or didn’t know you had. Consider the possibilities…
Play Cards
It’s great for relaxing, pattern recognition and mental acuity. There’s a great social element too. Even with solitaire (who hasn’t had someone lean over and help them out…)
Try New Things
Try new things if only once a week or once per month. Maybe you could work up to new things daily after awhile.
New things can be good for the mind and soul.
Exciting Can Trump Winning
Winning is great but sometimes the challenge itself is the real reward.
Have Fun Sensibly
Have a great time. Enjoy! Park, dance, sing, play and entertain yourself. Just do it sensibly. No doctors or police. And try to make it something you could happily tell your grandmother and your own 10 year old children.
Pick Up The Pace
Keep accelerating as your holidays wind down. Build momentum in the off season so you can dazzle in the pre season and around in the season itself.
Let’s Go!!
Time to rev things up!!
If You Do The Same, You Get The Same
Think of the next 12 months ahead. How closely will it resemble the last 12 months? Will you eat similar foods, sleep at similar times, work about the same hours on very similar type things? I will guess that you’ll also celebrate the same birthdays, holidays and special moments.
If everything you do is the same, how can you expect life to be or feel differently? You really need to make some small changes or shifts in what you do. Then increase the frequency and/or intensity of these changes so you begin to get demonstrably different results.
Follow Through
If you say you’ll do something, follow through and do it. Do it on the day you said you would do it.