Blogs of Wisdom
Empowering Others To Make a Positive Change To Their Lives
To prepare yourself to handle negative emotions, you should have a set of mental tricks available to you to help combat the situations that cause negative emotions. These tricks force you to address the situation immediately so that negative emotions do not linger or grow into something unmanageable.
True or false? Those who work the hardest, rise to the top.
It’s a trick question.
It is true that if you put in long hours you will receive short term performance gains. The amount you can produce is related to amount of time you put in. But at some point, the number of hours you put in will produce diminishing returns because the quality of your work is sacrificed.
Three years ago, I released a blog about gratitude. Looking back now, I would call that blog a bit shallow. It lacked depth because I was merely repeating what I read from others. Since then, I have spent more time thinking about gratitude and testing different methods on myself.
The mobile phone insulates us from our own boredom. If there is a moment to spare, we check our phones. We are afraid to miss something. Our phones give us instant gratification, relieving us from... ourselves. But each time we check our phones, we disengage from our own lives. We miss out on the most important thing that we have – the present moment.
