Following on from the Zero Stress System, we are now looking at the dynamics underlying the making of a decision.
Every morning for the history of humanity, the sun has risen to illuminate the world. As it rises, it holds the promise of freshness. The uncertainty of a new day dawning. Yet as it reveals the world below, we see the same old structures and realize that this day will be much the same as the last. read more about can you resolve stress
I don’t always get a chance to reply to comments, but I always read them as they come in. As you are reading what I have written, I’m working on the next installment. I’m developing new materials, planning ahead and going about my normal working and family life. Read more about is freedom stressful
Ok so we’re up to the 2nd step in our 7 Steps to Zero Stress.
Step 1 was to List everything on your mind.
Step 2 is to clarify exactly what the issue is.
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So often I talk to people who are devastated by any sense that they have failed. There seems to be this programming of people by society that they have to be perfect. Read more about failure and happiness
This post about practicing happiness is the second point raised in Brian’s questions. The question of how to apply what you know.
I talked a while back about the 10,000 hour principle. The idea that to become a true expert at something takes 10,000 hours of practice. That’s true in every area of life. Read more about practising happiness
Thanks to those people who took the time to comment after reading the Happiness 2.0 Report. Brian asked some questions that I think we all struggle with from time to time. I’m going to address the first one here and follow on with the second.
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I just realised I’d said to leave your comments below the link to the Happiness Report, but there wasn’t a place to leave them. So I’m setting this up for any questions or comments.
In case you haven’t yet read it, here’s the Happiness Report. Read more about the Happiness 2.0 Report
All week I’ve been working furiously to finish the Happiness 2.0 report. The trouble is that I’m a terrible editor. I start to read through it to make sure it makes sense and I just keep finding more to add to it. So late last night I said enough is enough and I’ve banned myself from adding in anything new to it.
I just need to leave it a couple of days to detach a little from it so I can read through it again and check it makes some sense. I’m hoping it will be ready for you for Monday. But in the meantime I have an idea for a mini project that I think will benefit you greatly.
I’ve given a lot of thought to this report. Not just the writing of it, but the way to deliver it, so it has most impact on you. You see, I think I know what’s going to happen to a lot of people who read it;
I know that for a few these insights will change their way of thinking and so their lives. And so I want to do as much as I can to make a bigger impact on you. And the biggest part of how this impacts you doesn’t come from my writing, but from how involved you are in actively reading it.
So, I have come up with a way that you can get your brain ready to make best use of this report. And I think it could be a really interesting project for us to do for a lot of reasons. I’ve set up a short, anonymous survey asking you a few questions to get you thinking.
The idea is that this will set your views on the subject and then when you get the report you’ll already have an opinion and so you’ll be more discerning.
Plus then I’ll publish the aggregated results. It’s an anonymous survey and so I won’t see your individual answers, just the total figures. Then we’ll have some information to work on more practical steps to really make it sink in. I think this could be very valuable to us and so I hope you get involved today or over the weekend.
You’ll find the form here;
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pneWRKNL9dICXMsJ9MRa_VA&email=true
Sometimes I’ve been asked ‘what my biggest regret is’. I used to think I didn’t regret. I’m not the sort of person to look back. Perhaps there is a mild feeling of regret that particularly in my past business, that I allowed myself to be talked out of strategies that instinctively I knew were right, but were revolutionary. Time proved my instincts were correct. But that doesn’t really bother me.
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