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- Four Important Questions which Improve - or Worsen - your Life. Which do You Choose? - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerDo you want to improve the results you achieve? Better understanding of your subconscious motivation is crucial to reduce self-sabotage and change your life. The ability to make effective decisions makes a big difference! How to make effective decisions How do you make decisions with the ...
Views: 1742(1 vote) - Wolves - the Cherokee Indian viewpoint on the Enemy Within - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerCherokee Indians have an interesting insight on your internal motivation which can change your life. They say two wolves live inside everybody : a black wolf and a white wolf! The black wolf feeds on negativity, it lives to bring you undesirable experiences. It's the enemy within, also known ...
Views: 2058(3 votes) - The Real Meaning of BUT - the Other Way of Saying No! - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerMelody was particularly attractive, and it was a challenge not to stare. I was very interested since I was dating no-one. After chatting for a while, I asked her if she would like to have dinner with me that night. She smiled, "I'd love to have dinner with you tonight, but..." Although she ...
Views: 1503 - Do you Think Consciously or Unconsciously? Part 2 in the Choice Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerThoughts can be seen as one of two types. Thoughts that just appear, random ones you haven't chosen to think. And thoughts that you choose to think. The first are generally far more numerous. Normal thinking - random thoughts - bring the regular consequences which people experience much of ...
Views: 1818(1 vote) - Are you responsible? Totally responsible for your life? Part 1 in the Choice Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerAs an adult, are you responsible for the circumstances of your life? Or someone else? It's comforting to believe that someone else is responsible, but is it true? Other people and situations have had some influence, large or small, but you are responsible. Why? Because you did whatever you ...
Views: 1510(2 votes) - Do your Thoughts Sabotage or Support You? Part 6 in the Self-Sabotage Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerWhere do thoughts come from? Do you have control over what you think? Sometimes, yes, but not always. Thoughts can just spin round and round, ignoring your screams of enough! Some seem to arrive from nowhere, and some thoughts come from your beliefs. Change your Perspective What are beliefs? ...
Views: 1736(1 vote) - Is it Good or Bad? How do You See the Situation? Part 5 in the Self-sabotage Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerThe present moment is here. It's what is. You may like it or you may hate it, but it is reality right now. There's nothing you can do this moment to change it, things are exactly the way they are. Which is not to say your response can't change things in the next second, or day, or next ...
Views: 1600(1 vote) - Are you Being Right - even though you're Wrong? Part 4 in the Self-Sabotage Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerStop Confusing the Issue with the Facts "It doesn't matter what you say, I've made up my mind and I'm not going to change it." Such self-sabotage is widespread, you've probably seen it often. Everybody likes to be right. But when the need to be right is exacerbated by the dislike of change, ...
Views: 1732(2 votes) - The power in Skepticism, the weakness of Cynics and the Gullible. Part 3 in the Self-Sabotage Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerAre you gullible? When somebody says something do you automatically believe them? Or do you automatically disbelieve, assume they have a hidden agenda, and discount everything they say? Both are reactions, yet a reaction, to re-act, to act again as you did last time, has little personal ...
Views: 2433(1 vote) - Change Your Perspective to Become More Effective! Part 2 in the Self-Sabotage Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerWhat do you actually know? is the age-old question of philosophers and statesmen. A good answer, but not the only answer, is that you know what you have learned and experienced in the past. How can you know if you haven't learnt it, or remembered that experience? Which implies your mind only ...
Views: 1538(1 vote) - It's My Thought, so it Must Be True! Part 1 in the Self-Sabotage Series - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerDo you ever find yourself wondering: why did I do that? Something which produced such an unfavorable outcome that you feel a bit stupid? Why do we do such things? Are your thought processes so confused that you can't tell good consequences from bad ones? Or don't you know how to think things ...
Views: 1644(1 vote) - How to Change Bad Habits! What Works - rather than what doesn't - in Breaking a Habit - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerBreaking bad habits is simple but not easy. Just do what works! But you need to avoid the common mistake that gets most people doing what doesn't work to break a habit instead. Explore the difference as you find out why I kept stopping smoking, and see how to increase your personal power and ...
Views: 2236(2 votes) - Be Trustworthy, follow the Golden Rule - its Context can Change Your Life! - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerDisappointed is not the word for it! Not at what his email contained, but at what it didn’t say. Charles was a new friend, we'd met on a personal development course. He was American, I'm English Canadian, and we’d connected. He told me he was a real estate investor. “I do it both for ...
Views: 2453(1 vote) - Experience - the crucial difference between Real Knowledge and just Understanding - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2013 from Cris BakerAre you gullible - do you just believe what other people tell you? Or do you appreciate the vital difference between understanding something and real knowledge? My Brother's Shiny New Red Bicycle Many years ago, I was just five, my older brother was given a bicycle, a deep red bicycle. I was ...
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