Erika Slater CH

How are some people apparently able to master things so much easier than others? Some people can physically practice and rehearse something for hours, even sometimes days, whereas some individuals practice and rehearse minimally and they look like they have been doing what they do best before they were even born. What’s with that? Why are some people better than others at certain things even though they don’t have the same training, background or have not sacrificed the same amount of time to hone their skills? Here’s the secret…

Where thoughts go energy flows! Have you ever heard that expression? What about the whole notion of self-fulfilling prophecy – what we think we are or what we will do is a given? You see, in either of these statement scenarios, you have focused on the outcome often times without even knowing that you have. In fact, you might have focused on the “negative aspect of the outcome” in that you expected the worse before it happened even though you hoped for the best. And still you wonder why things never turn out the way you had hoped for them to turn out even though you “hoped for the best”! Want to know why?

Are you one of those people who have a hard time laughing– at life or at yourself? To quote the Joker from the Batman movie The Dark Knight, “Why so serious?” Have you always been the serious type, afraid to let your guard down and smile? Perhaps you were told to “grow up” when you were still very young and all of the “happy” energies of childhood were let out of your sails. Let me ask you, do you have frown lines or happy, smile lines? Your facial lines will tell a lot about your disposition toward humor or lack of it. How about we turn those frown lines to happy lines, or those happy lines to bigger happy lines? Are you game?

Are there times in your life that get real trying for you where you wonder, “How the heck am I going to get through this?” Do you find that as stress builds and builds in your life that you have difficulty coping with any and all situations, even the small ones? Well, it’s time to learn to stop sweating the small stuff so to speak! There will be times in your life when you feel that the proverbial wheels are falling off. Ironically, when it rains it pours in terms of stress. You literally become a stress magnet when bad or not so great things start to happen and they seem to become compounded. You take or allow any small situation that is quasi-distressing and allow it to gain momentum to the point that it appears to be the end of the world. Why does this happen?

Are you a person who constantly lives in the past? Do you constantly have fleeting or direct thoughts on how great it would be to go back in time and relive a moment and change it so it turns out differently? Perhaps the movie Back To The Future is your favorite and you wish you could find a Delorian and get yourself a flux capacitor to take you back to that moment that you regret in order for you to recreate it! Guess what folks? That isn’t happening anytime soon…well anytime ever! It’s time to get over the past and live in the present. Here’s more…

Are you one of those people who have hard time with letting your “ego” get in the way? Are you driven by the need to not only feel like you are always right, but “Are right all of the time!”? If this sounds like you in any way, then perhaps this article is for you. That is if you are not willing to let your ego get in the way of learning how to “not let your ego” get in the way! Egos are an interesting part of our personalities. Ego is often misquoted in the context of which it was intended to mean according to the great father of Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. Here’s more…