Rarely do we get much guidance or training on how to best live life. Most of us bumble through in a trial-and-error mode. Many of us end up behaving like everyone else, which is often counter-productive and a perfect illustration of peer pressure at work. Read more
Your “Self-Respect Barometer”
Being Popular vs. Being Respected
Consider the difference between being popular with others in contrast to being respected by others. The following contrasts might get your attention:
What You Believe, You Will Prove
Your state of mind has a huge impact on the way you conduct yourself. Your ongoing beliefs determine a tremendous amount of the way you look at reality and apply those perspectives.Even if your beliefs are completely unreasonable, unrealistic, and irrational, you are likely to continue to proceed with your habits reflective of those beliefs. Therefore, before you begin to change your conduct, it is very important to first take an examination of your beliefs in the first place to determine if they are sane, reasonable, and realistic.
Examples of popular insane beliefs:
IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
Think about your life and how you are living it. For most of us, our lives are filled with some great ups, some painful downs, and a whole boatload of underwhelming vanilla in the middle. We frequently waste a lot of time either watching life go by, or stalling with great intentions to get going real soon.
Love and Marriage
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Regardless of how happy and fulfilling your marriage or relationship is, inevitably you will encounter difficulties and disappointments along the way. Often times it is either because you have become emotionally malnourished, you both feel unloved and/or unimportant, your relationship needs a tune-up, or perhaps the magic has faded. Most marriage partners fail to do the ongoing maintenance of the relationship to keep it healthy.
To rebuild a relationship that has gotten lost over the years, you must have a clear, compelling picture of the relationship you want. Then you both must commit to become equipped with the skills and habits to creating and maintaining that renewed and nourishing relationship.
A relationship lives in words and action, much like a play. If your relationship has become its own version of a bad play, then to make a better play (relationship), you must write and practice good scripts. One way that you can create good marriage scripts is by figuring out what you and your partner want out of the relationship. In essence, it is time to “rewrite the screenplay.” |
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THE PERRY PLAN
THE PERRY PLAN
The Perry Plan… Winning the Losing Game
Finally losing weight and keeping it off.
STICKING WITH YOUR COMMITMENT
The mental side of losing weight.
THE PERFECTION OBSESSION
Hello All,
If you need to be perfect and the thought of alphabetizing your cans of soup gets you all tingly and excited, then go ahead and obsess about order.
On the other hand, you might want to attach some Common Sense to your perfection obsession.
Happy Turkey Day!
Dr. Mitchell Perry Read more
INADEQUATE OR ARROGANT? IT’S A CATCH 22!
Hello:
What would you rather do:
operate from weakness and remain afraid of disapproval, or
operate from strength and trust your judgment?
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ACCEPTING COMPLIMENTS
When we get reinforcement from others, most of us routinely discount and invalidate the compliments. The paradox is that we prevent the very thing we want.
Dr. Mitchell Perry
ACCEPTING COMPLIMENTS YOUR SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY Read more
NEED TO EXERCISE? BRUSH YOUR TEETH!
Hello:
EXERCISE?
EMBRACE THE OBVIOUS!
Remember: DOING IT RIGHT IS SECONDARY!
DOING IT IS PRIMARY.
It is easier to turn the boat to make course corrections and improvements after the boat is moving.
Dr. J. Mitchell Perry
NEED TO EXERCISE?
BRUSH YOUR TEETH! Read more