“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” This sounds as if it could be an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) expression but it’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln. I guess much is not new, it’s just repackaged! Still a great quote.
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Depression and giving up unattainable goals
November 17, 2010
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I found this article in The Economist. It suggests that depression has evolved to protect us from striving to reach the unreachable. Just as pain stops warns us to stop doing something that could be harmful, so depression does a similar thing. The hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops [...]
Read more Grief, trauma, or personal change
September 19, 2010
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Major change, grief, the threatened loss of a job, all of these things can kick off a chain of events that can start with shock. The shock that this has happened, and happened to you, can give way to numbness and then denial. It hasn’t happened really, if I just carry on as before and if pretend it hasn’t happened perhaps it will [...]
Read moreHelpful conversations
August 21, 2010
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Self-development is taking time to reflect on areas of your life where you feel you have yet to reach your full potential – finding ways to improve your confidence, increase your knowledge and fulfill your aspirations. If you want to do this – then this blog is for you. If you want to know even more – [...]
Read more You know what you know, don’t you?
August 15, 2010
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There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don’t know. For me this is a great quote, just a [...]
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