Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’
The limits of superstition
September 3rd, 2010
Silver skin shining like moon glow, it would have seemed more in place skimming the fast curves of Monaco than crawling the streets of my small American town. The driver saw me staring and noticeably puffed up. We don’t get many Porsches around here, and he was enjoying what he perceived as my vehicle-envy.
I was thinking: DEATH CAR.
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Tripping over tragic reminders
August 30th, 2010
Like a lot of people, I was wary about wading into the waters of social media. What would I find? Who would find me? But after a few weeks, it had been a wholly positive experience of reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. Then one night my cousin Karla posted a note to me on Facebook that made me realize reconnecting can come at a price.
She’d just heard from someone she hadn’t seen in years. Naturally, her old friend had asked about her children, specifically her eldest son. “You think everyone knows, then you realize they don’t,” Karla wrote. Her 22-year-old son was killed on New Year’s Eve 2001.
TAGS: anxiety, grief, inspiration, motivation, overcome, prepare, Self-Improvement, social media, success |
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Stop being paralyzed by fear
April 1st, 2010
“A Buena Park man who was sitting on railroad tracks with a friend was killed after he refused to heed a train conductor’s warning to get off the tracks, Fullerton police said Friday.”
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True story from the archives of the L.A. Times. In April 1990, two guys were sitting on the tracks, the engineer of a Santa Fe Railroad freight train sounded the horn and tried to brake, one guy moved and survived, and the other didn’t and died.
And why should I care? you ask.
Tackling problems head-on
February 17th, 2010
You’ve probably heard the line from the movie Apollo 13
Faced with these challenges, the real-life astronauts and ground-control experts could have thrown up their hands at the unfairness of life, decided the problems were insurmountable, become overwhelmed and panicked, focused on their inadequacies, or gotten caught up in any of the dozens of excuses we all use for failing to work our problems. Instead, they maintained their focus and pulled off a miraculous save.
The struggle of worry
January 6th, 2010
Do you often find yourself saying that? I do. But when those words roll off my tongue, it usually has less to do with the amount of work, or the wild activity in my schedule, than the worry
When I’m fretting about business issues or family matters or household problems or health concerns, it seems to drain so much more of my energy and enthusiasm—and productivity than I spend on my usual work load.
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3 reasons you fail
December 29th, 2009
As you get ready to embark on a new year of mountain-moving, maybe this would be a good time to think about the successes and failures of the passing year. If it seems you’re still facing the same towering peak you were staring at this time last December and haven’t made much of a dent the past 12 months, maybe you should ask yourself a few questions:
Do I really want to move this mountain? Is moving this mountain in my best interest? Is it within my power to move this mountain? Is the choice mine and mine alone?
Quotes to help you get a grip
October 21st, 2009
You’re already running behind when, as you’re buckling your screaming toddler into the car, you notice he’s wearing two different types of shoes. You back over a toy
on your way out of the garage, get stuck in a nightmarish traffic jam, finally drop off the kids, and wind up being the last straggler to the daily staff meeting. The boss decides to single you out as an example of people who do a poor job scheduling
their mornings. And since you were late, you lost your chance to volunteer for the plum assignments and wind up being assigned to chaperone past board members during the upcoming annual meeting.
You’re having a very bad day. And the clock hasn’t yet struck 9 a.m.
