Let this year be your best
Another year and another opportunity for broken promises to yourself. I’m talking about new year’s resolutions. We make them each year and then we break them and feel bad. However, if you are wise you make long term goals which are realistic and yet stretch you and you do not base them on an artificial time like the new year. Now each day you can take a tiny step toward that goal.
Next important thing is notice how you are doing. If the tiny steps you are taking move you nearer to your goal repeat them and perhaps take more steps each day. However, suppose what you are doing does not take you nearer to your goal change your tacktic and do something else.
At the moment I’m bringing up a whole slew of blogs like this one and typicaly when working with sftware and computers there is quite a long learning curve and even so things go wrong. My favorite saying from my days as a software engineer (before I became a public speaker and hypnotherapist) is: “Murphy was an optimist.” This refers to Murphy’s law which states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” This was tragically demonstrated in the destruction of two of our space shuttles when a confluence of things which could go wrong but were each highly unlikely happened together.
Murphy was an optimist referes to the fact that if it can go wrong it will go wrong at the most inopportune time as possible. Recently thanks to my own mistake I destroyed three months of work on the computer in a totally irrecoverable way. Once I did everything to undo my mistake and understod that there was no way I could take back my mistake I had two choices:
- Feel dejected and paralysed and feel sorry for myself lowering my self-esteem by calling myself stupid.
- Accept what was and look for a silver lining.
I went for having a positive attitude and decided that I could reedo all the lost work and since I had done it once I could do it better and faster the second time. In fact this blog and a few others I’ll introduce you to in time (as I bring them up) are a result of that mistake.
Now that was twenty one days ago and since then I’ve been working non stop to make anew the lost posts and articles. As I wrote above when you work with computers and new software you don’t know things go wrong all the time. I noticed this most important thing about having a positive attitude:
When you have a good attitude it does not mean that you do not get dejected but it means you continue in spite of feeling dejected and it is interesting that when you persist and take action no matter what soon the dejection disappears and problems become challenges and I don’t know about you but I find being challenged fun.
Some of you may remember that a few years ago I was writing 365 ways to boost your self-esteem and I was writing a new short article each day for two years. I don’t want to make a promisse but I’ll be writing at least one new post here each week and there will be posts by others as well (I’ll let them introduce themselves as they write their posts – I have been bloging for a while).
Actually I’ll introduce myself later on too. Please do return here often and subsribe to the feed. If the rss feed makes no sense to you I’ll explain it in a later post. I want to end this articel about tiny improvemenrs by asking you a question that I’ll answer later:
How much will you improve in a year if each day you improve by 0.1%. I’ll give you a clue thanks to compounding it is much more than 36.5%. So the question is can you improve by more than 0.1% each day? Perhaps today you do it in your health and tomorrow in your relationship etc.
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