Go Slow and Breathe

Just Go Slow Today

Breathe

Inhale and Exhale.

Nervous?

Leave The Chocolate

Choose Orange Juice

Cut off Caffeine

No regrets about Yesterday.

Make One Goal For Today

Take Action!

Celebrate.

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Imposter Syndrome

Do you feel like your accomplishments and talents aren't legitimate despite the opposite being true? This is Imposter Syndrome.

You are not an Imposter.

Limit your social media time. Imposters abound on the internet. Some statistics say the average person spends 145 minutes on social sites.

Let go of negative posts that tend to stick around. Curtail complaints and blaming.

Take a break from your computer. Walk outside, stretch, make a fruit salad. Pick up a basketball and dribble. Stay off your cell phone when you walk. Enjoy the sound of your feet as they hit the pavement. Look for birds, sun spots and make sure you look up above your head.

Keep an interesting book near you favorite chair and read it. Underline. I use pencil, then mark the spot with a post it tab.  If you get your book from the library, keep a journal and jot down sentences or thoughts.

Spend a half hour and clean up your workspace. A real person would clean, an imposter would expect it to just happen. Mommy will do it. Men don't pick up the house. Women should spend time making their faces beautiful. A woman should post her face so others can ohhh and awe.

Spend you precious life on goals and instigate them. The world is full of Imposters, it is an easier road to walk.

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Life Got You Down?

When You're Down Float

 
Saturn has such a low density that, if placed in water, it would float.

float today

be a jellyfish

 swim with the negativity.

you can breathe

you are alive

therefore

positive change is an option.

enjoy your ability to design your own life.

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Barbara Mertus Munyon

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Positive Thinking -vs- Positive Feeling

Picture - Inside the London Tube - Photo Copyright

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Instantaneous Fixes For Today

Justification and principle take a look. Do you feel good when you are "justifiably" angry, hostile, disappointed, hurt or intolerant. Then when you are drained by those emptions you probably will blame the person or situation you were justifiably upset about for making you feel bad.

Grow Up

1.) take responsibility Now for this unjustified emotional response.

2.) set a timer - look outside your window for one minute or walk around the room.

3.) count by seven. when you can't go further, repeat once.

4.) even if you could prove to the whole world that you were right, your body doesn't care.

5.) make a choice. consider your heart, your blood pressure, the individual you blamed.

Procrastinate

1.) make a list of things you absolutely have to do unless you absolutely don't want to do them.

2.) don't do any of them!

3.) you just gained hours of valuable time. Have fun. 

4.) enjoy these hours and  the positive feeling that has interrupted your present moment.

Smile

Final thoughts-  It sounds hokey but it works for me!

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Today - Stay Focused

 

Stay Focused

Hand Statue - Rodin - Digital Adaptation - Barbara Mertus
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You could be distracted today

Your job feels endless

Your tasks at home

overwhelm.

STOP!

Pick one item to accomplish

set a timer for 15 minutes.

Work on one project.

To keep our focus we must BEGIN

Don't think about beginning

Take action for 15 minutes.

Save your project. 

If you haven't finished it 

That's OK.

Put it on your schedule for later today

or tomorrow.

Your goal today is to stay focused.

Complete in 15 minutes or don't complete

that is your choice.

Most important

Return to you task later.

Schedule when you will return.

Action Is The Key To Focus

Action

Action

Action

Leads to accomplishment.

Today - Change Your Response

 

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                                   Your present can shatter!

   this glass in France, 

in the cathedral of Notre Dame -  melted.

To restore hope

when you are broken

Change

your response. 

Today - Remain Flexible

Remain Flexible

To Create A Flexible Future

Change Your Rules

add Confidence,
and Persistence.

You Don't Need To Be Sexy.

Forget Botox
Smile.