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26 May, 2008 in emotions, health, links, stress | Tags: abuse, adaptation, adapting, adaptive coping behaviour, adjustment, anxiety, appraisal, attainment, behaviour, blogging, care, challenges, children, cognitive-behavioural, convalescence, coping, counselling, counsellors, depression, depressive, despair, disability, disillusionment, distress, emergency, emotions, enjoyment, examination, experiences, exposure, factors, family, feelings, friends, gender, gmc, healing, hope, hospitalisation, ibsen, illness, impact, injury, intervention, invluence, leisure, litigation, medical malpractice, medicine, melanoma, mindset, network, optimism, outcome, pediatrics, perception, physician, positivity, postpartum depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, precipitants, preparation, procedures, protection, psychologists, psychology, ptsd, recovery, rehabilitation, repression, research, resource, response, Richard Lazarus, ruminating, satisfaction, self-esteem, sensitization, skills, social support, socioeconomic status, strength, stress, students, support, surgery, survivors, threat, tolerance, trauma, traumatic, treatment, vulnerability, wellbeing | Leave a comment
28 April, 2008 in thoughts | Tags: bank holiday, calendar, confusion, diy, family, improvement, pay day, positivity, study, thoughts, tidying, time | Leave a comment
- Only two days from pay-day
- Next weekend is a bank holiday weekend
- Going to see family next weekend
- Calendar confusion means I have an extra night spare this week I didn’t think I’d have, for study/tidying/DIY etc.
- Things have been getting better recently, especially since making an effort to be more positive
25 April, 2008 in career, effectiveness | Tags: acknowledgement, anticipation, apologising, appreciation, approachability, assertiveness, avoiding, balance, behaviours, being supportive, challenges, clarity, collaboration, commitment, communication, competence, compromise, concerns, conciseness, confidence, confidences, consideration, control, cost-effective, courtesy, creativity, credit, crisis mode, criticism, deadlines, decisions, decisiveness, defensiveness, delegation, difficulties, direction, discipline, domination, effectiveness, emotion, encouraging, engagement, enjoyment, excuses, expectations, fairness, family, favoritism, feedback, feelings, flexibility, focus, friendships, helping, high-quality, honesty, impact, improvement, influence, influencing, informing, initiative, innovation, integrity, interrupting, interruptions, leadership, leading by example, leisure, listening, long-term, loyal, management, meaning, mistakes, motivation, negative feedback, negativity, networking, open-mindedness, organisation, outcomes, people, performance, personal development, personal improvement, personal values, planning, popularity, positivity, pressure, priorities, prioritisation, procrastination, productivity, professional development, professional improvement, professionalism, projects, punctuality, quick fixes, recognition, respect, responsibility, saying no, self-control, sense of direction, sensitivity, solutions, solving, sphere of influence, straightforwardness, strengths, success, talent, tasks, teamwork, timeliness, understanding, values, viewpoints, wellbeing, win-win, work-life balance, working hard | Leave a comment
This morning a colleague invited me to fill in one of these anonymous 360-degree feedback forms. Being so acutely aware of my own “development points” I never really feel qualified to feed back on other’s professional behaviours, but people seem to keep asking me! While ticking the little boxes I had to work at staying focused, instead of becoming self-conscious of my own imperfections brought to mind by the questionnaire!
Even though my aim is to “downshift” and escape the corporate environment (often one of the most challenging environments in which to develop these behaviours) I will always have to be able to collaborate effectively, and will always want to behave in a way that is constructive and respectful of those around me. It still struck me that the list is a pretty thorough and proven memory aid for achieving that. Here is the list:
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14 April, 2008 in to do | Tags: achievement, anki, budget, car, challenge, china, chinese, colloquial chinese 1, correspondence, ebay, electrician, hsk, japanese, jfbp, languages, lessons learned, mandarin, meditation, minna no nihongo 1, notes, now habit, pimsleur, podcasts, positivity, reading, routine, shower, study, subscriptions, thoughts, transferrable skills, visa | Leave a comment
- Type up “thoughts” notes from last week
- Add to downshifter:
- “thoughts” notes from last week
- “Chinese School” daily schedule
- personal daily tasks/routine
- work lessons learned
- Work – see it as a challenge, “what can I achieve all things considered? what transferrable skills can I learn?”
- Reading list
- The Now Habit
- Meditation books
- Ebay
- Budget done
- VISA transfer (move from penalty savings to Halifax) done
- Car service/MOT (schedule) done
- Shower and lights – fitting (schedule)
- Languages
- Keep going with Anki
- Add Chinese (HSK? Colloquial … when notes done?) done
- Add more from Minna No Nihongo
- When JP notes are done add from JFBP
- Ultimately add from Pimsleur too
- Pimsleur notes from both Mandarin and Japanese – type up and check
- Press on with Pimsleur study II
- Chinese and Japanese podcasts and supporting material!
- Download notes from JapanesePod101.com before subscription renews!
- Catch up with correspondence on FB
- Stay positive!
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13 April, 2008 in emotions, health, stress, wellbeing | Tags: affirmation, anger, anti-stress, anxiety, belief, bitterness, body, canada, cancer, cellular biology, challenges, charities, clinical studies, control, counselling, decision-making, discovery, disease, DNA, emotional health, emotional support, emotions, environmental conditions, fear, feelings, genes, guided visualisation, healing, health, health coach, illness, immune response, immune system, immunity, learning, medicine, meditation, mind, mind-body medicine, mind-body-spirit, mindset, nervous system, non-judgemental, oncology, patients, peer-support, positivity, Psychoneuroimmunology, reading, recovery, relaxation, research, responsibility, self-awareness, self-care, self-criticism, state of mind, strategies, stress, support groups, survival, techniques, terminal illness, thoughts, well-being, wholistic | Leave a comment
by Michelle Hancock
Not a day goes by that the word “cancer” doesn’t scare thousands of Canadians. Like a dreaded scourge, it hovers over us, presumably just waiting to claim its next victim.
But according to scientists in the growing field of mind/body medicine, the disease is not as much an external force as you might believe. Fear and anxiety–our thoughts and feelings–can impact our health just as much as a long list of cancer risk factors. “Psychoneuroimmunology”’ is the scientific term to describe the study of the mind/body connection. Carl Simonton, MD, is an oncologist who pioneered research in this discipline as early as the 1970s. His book, Getting Well Again (Bantam, 1978), shows how “an individual’s reaction to stress and other emotional factors can contribute to the onset and progress of cancer [while] positive expectations, self-awareness and self-care can ontribute to survival.”
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13 April, 2008 in emotions | Tags: achievement, active living, advantage, anxiety, challenges, dreams, failure, faith, fear, fear of failure, goals, health, obstacles, openness, overcoming obstacles, passion, positivity, self-belief, success | Leave a comment
From “The Complete Athlete” by John Winterdyk and Karen Jenson:
Fear of failure (anxiety about not being able to meet an objective) and fear of success (anxiety about achieving a goal) are the largest barriers to active living. You can choose to give in to these fears or you can use them to your advantage. You must believe in yourself in order to be truly healthy and achieve your goals.
Following are some suggestions for overcoming obstacles and living your dreams:
- Discover your passion. What have you always wanted to do?
- Develop your goal and find your own way of achieving it. Don’t listen to people who say the word “can’t.”
- Take small, manageable steps towards your goal. If you’ve always wanted to be a marathon runner, start by jogging every morning.
- Keep positive. Failure is merely a learning experience to help you become your best the next time.
- Be open. If things turn out differently from what you expect, adapt to the change and readjust your goal–just as Silken Laumann did.
- Have faith in yourself. You can do it!
Reprinted from You’ve Got the Power: Emotional and Mental Health at Alive.com
10 April, 2008 in emotions, links, wellbeing | Tags: attitude, challenges, feeling good, happiness, links, myths, optimism, pma, positive mental attitude, positive thinking, positivity, self-esteem, state of mind, techniques, thoughts, tips | 1 comment
A sunny day is a good thing whether or not I go out and do something in the outdoors.
It is not “bad” to stay inside when it is sunny outside.
I am not inadequate or bad if I choose to stay inside or continue with any indoor activities I had already planned when it is sunny outside.
I am entitled to choose how I spend my time and express a preference, irrespective of factors outside my control such as the weather.
