Not just a June thing…

June 7, 2024 by Leave a Comment

As Pride Month is both acknowledged and celebrated, my mindset is focused on the strength involved in the many different areas of life and why we pause for one month to wave flags of recognition. The quality someone possesses which helps them to overcome adversity may be physical, it might be mental. Many personal situations call for different forms of strength and deserve more than a calendar representation.


My feeling is that designating a month-long observance is extreme, such recognition should be an everyday occurrence in accepting individual capacities for particular ways of thinking, feeling and believing. At month’s end, people tend to move on until the next yearly observance rolls around and brings a repeat of retail marketing and other factions focused more on financial gain than the personal battles of so many individuals. We see this with so many observances for our veterans, historical and other events. Whether it is one day set aside for remembrance or one month, people move on and too easily forget.


What is overlooked are the character strengths involved with the word “pride”, wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence. As far as I’m concerned, these six virtues of positive psychology are benchmarks for anyone embracing life patterns that give them a voice and productive goals as human beings. Daily encouragement of children to become aware of their strengths allows them to develop more self-confidence, self-awareness, and a deeper appreciation and value for how each of us is different.


There is such a positive impact with encouraging individuals to explore and understand their individual character strengths. We all need to be supportive, not just for a moment, one day, or a given month, rather each and every day. Simply helping others to develop true pride by encouraging their creativity, perspective, and bravery, as they pursue whatever their chosen path in life is, that in itself denotes the ultimate measure of strength.

From the Writer’s Workshop… Write a post based on the word  “strength”.
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Decisions…

May 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment

We all have bad days, disappointing weeks, and downright difficult months, especially where these past few years have been concerned. All are part and parcel of life that we can hardly avoid, something everyone has experienced in their chosen career.


The stage is then set where smart people remain in bad jobs, leading to burnout, anxiety and depression, all impacting their physical and mental health, reminding them that they have the power to push through and come out stronger on the other side.


Bad choices made by an employer are demonstrative not of their commitment to their staff but focused more on their own agendas. The need to work in a healthy environment and feel valued and respected ends up being a persuasive line of thinking, one that renders workers immobilized and incapable of leaving that job.


We start to question ourselves, wondering if we’re running away instead of staying when things become difficult; are we lacking, does this job legitimately suck and am I right to leave? Let’s face it, work has challenges for everyone and there certainly is no such thing as a perfect job but it’s definitely hard to persevere when things are shitty in the workplace.


Aspiring to be the kind of people who lean in when there are challenges and make a difference during the hard times is important but when do we know when it’s time to make a move? The obvious answer is that if you’re made to feel unimportant or disrespected in any way, it’s time to leave but, if you honestly feel motivated, engaged and valued at your job, there may be reasons to keep digging your heels in and continue doing your best.


Ask yourself if you are the same person when you started this job, do you have the same values, interests and priorities? If not, it may be time to leave because you’ve evolved in one direction and your employer in another. The longer you stick it out, the more acutely painful the gap between your values and your employers will become.

From the Writer’s Workshop…Write a post in exactly 12 sentences.
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Let it flow…

May 24, 2024 by Leave a Comment

We have all experienced situations where things which are difficult to find or obtain create a mindset of fear, insecurity, and control. Taking things too seriously generates feelings of hopelessness that, if you fail, the world will end. This is short sided, focused on short term decisions and a reactive approach to life, rather than planning ahead instead and trusting that waiting or missing something now will pay off long term. We focus on not having enough, being good enough, not having enough time or money and making bad choices. Such fear is an illusion when you allow these thoughts to limit creative opportunities where you can do your best.

Not feeling abundant or good about yourself or life in general may mean you are not necessitating the simple process of getting your possessions, your time, your finances, and your documents better organized. This does a great deal to cultivate an abundance mindset. With organization, you begin to see how many things and how much time you actually already have in your life. The operative word here is organization and achieving that can be the most difficult hurdle, even a roadblock, to get past. Realizing that we have more than enough of things we deem important in life can be the biggest challenge of all but one well worth the time and effort involved with being successful.

Once we reframe that mindset to one of abundance, to a place where there is an understanding of enough time, money, success and happiness, comes the realization of trust and acceptance, along with a deep sense of inner worth. Such a mindset takes a proactive approach to life with the understanding that there is more than enough of all we have felt was lacking. This allows us to share and do so freely. We can then acknowledge the accomplishments of others, focusing on all that is positive.

From the Writer’s Workshop…Write a post based on the word abundant.

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