We can sabotage ourselves with negative thoughts.
Scientists have shown that for every positive thought
we have in an hour we have 75 negative thoughts. And
that's in normal times -- not under the rough economic
conditions we're experiencing today.
Dr. Martin Seligman, Chairman of the University of
Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, has created a
program that studies the science of positive
psychology. You can read more about his work at
http://webletter.lighthouse.org/cgi-bin5/DM/y/eqZj0N4Xjl0PpS0CYqM0A8
On a recent Oprah, talk show host Montel Williams
discussed his experiences with having MS for the last
decade as well as other health problems. He stated
that, when he changed the way he looked at his
experience with MS, he realized it was an opportunity
instead of something that was "out to get him."
Each of us has a challenge: to achieve a "confidence"
balance -- a balance between possibility and reality,
between hope and despair. Relying on unachievable hope
and unrealistic possibility makes us just as
ineffective as being barred from action through
unrelenting despair and unrealistic pessimism.
Listen to a three minute presentation about achieving
such a balance by Park J. Palmer, founder and senior
partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal at
http://webletter.lighthouse.org/cgi-bin5/DM/y/eqZj0N4Xjl0PpS0CYqN0AA
To find your confidence balance, start keeping a
"gratitude journal." Write in it at the end of each
day -- even if you can think of only one small
grateful thing at that moment. After awhile, you'll
begin to see how being grateful opens your thoughts to
another way of looking at the world.
Read about how Dan TeVelde has addressed this balance
issue in "What My Experiences as a Mainframe Computer
Programmer Have Taught Me" at
http://webletter.lighthouse.org/cgi-bin5/DM/y/eqZj0N4Xjl0PpS0CYqO0AB
Then, join this week's discussion on the eSight
Networking Forum by replying to this question:
At what time in your life did you find your
confidence grow?
Please post your submission at
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Read all the postings at
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Invite your friends and acquaintances
to submit their comments at
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Liz Seger
Facilitator
eSight Careers Network(tm)
http://webletter.lighthouse.org/cgi-bin5/DM/y/eqZj0N4Xjl0PpS0CWPF0AR
PS: Ben Dean, Ph.D., has posted his "top 10" list
for positive psychology books on his blog at
http://webletter.lighthouse.org/cgi-bin5/DM/y/eqZj0N4Xjl0PpS0CYqR0AE
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