VOLUME XVI ISSUE NO.12 | DECEMBER 2024 | |
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Self-awareness
There is nothing wrong with stories. Everyone has them. However, not everyone realizes that their stories are "under the hood" driving feelings and behavior. And many who recognize their stories either can’t, don't want to or don't think they can change them.
Self-awareness is recognizing your inner workings - feelings as they arise and the process that links your mindset to those feelings and the behavior they trigger. It is the base for managing your emotions and choosing behaviors that lead to optimal wellness and performance.
Self-awareness requires that you mindfully "step back from yourself" and accept whatever is occurring within and around you.
Out of Control
Feelings being experienced by the OMG group stem from fear of being out of control. That basic fear arises when there is uncertainty about the future. Then the stories kick in to paint scary pictures of what the future will be like. Some obsess and feed the stories. Logic, biases, assessment of history, current events, media analysts filtering the news, and experts making projections influence anxiety.
The MAGA crowd's stories are different. Their stories project greatness. They have confidence that the new leadership will succeed in delivering what they have promised. Many are so confident that they are certain that their vision of America will be achieved and that it will be great.
The reality is that we are out of control. It is not possible to be certain about the outcome of complex changes. It is comforting to create a story about certainty, but it is just another story. We do not know how things will unfold. The future can be great or terrible, most likely somewhere in between. And whatever it will be, it will change.
The Best We Can Do
The best we can do is to be OK with any circumstances, even if they are unpleasant. With that attitude, we can make the best of whatever comes our way. Clarity about what is happening around you and what you are thinking and feeling is a solid foundation for preparing as best you can for the future.
So, Relax. Cultivate self-awareness. Learn to use meditation, and body and breath exercises to calm yourself. Guard against negative influences from your own stories, the media, and those around you. Change your mindset.
How? Check out The Peaceful Warrior's Path: Optimal Wellness through Self-Aware Living https://www.amazon.com/Peaceful-Warriors-Path-Wellness-Self-Aware/dp/1952943272.
Visit www.Self-AwareLiving.com.
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The Peaceful Warriors Path: Optimal Wellness through Self-Aware Living
Overcome stress. Perform at your best. Live in optimal wellness.
The Peaceful Warrior's Path is a practical guide for people of all ages, regardless of physical condition. It provides concepts, tools, techniques, and exercises that you can use every day, no matter where you are or what you are doing, to promote a sense of ease rather than angst. It is a motivational program for living resiliently, ready for anything, with health, happiness, and success, passionately involved and at peace with things as they are-and doing it ethically with kindness and compassion.
When it comes to becoming happier and more effective, what matters is your intention, how open-minded you are, and your willingness to work on yourself to change your mind and open your heart. With the right mindset, intention, and effort you might just experience enlightenment.
The Peaceful Warrior's Path weaves together self-awareness, mindfulness, meditation, stress management, and relaxation techniques, and emotional, spiritual, and social intelligence to sustain optimal wellness and enhance performance in whatever you do.
The Peaceful Warrior’s Path: Optimal Wellness through Self-Aware Living
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How to be Happy Even When You Are Sad, Mad or Scared:
How to be happy...How to be Happy Even When You Are Sad, Mad or Scared is available on Amazon.com. It is a book for children of all ages (including those in adult bodies). Buy it for the children in your life so they can be better able to “feel and deal” - feel and accept their emotions and deal with them in a way that avoids being driven by them. You can order the book at https://www.amazon.com/How-Happy-Even-When-Scared/dp/1072233363
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Performance and Open-minded Mindfulness | |
Open-minded: questioning everything, accepting diversity and uncertainty.
Mindful: consciously aware; concentrated.
Foundation for blending process, project, engagement and knowledge management into a cohesive approach to optimize performance.
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Managing Expectations: A Mindful Approach to Achieving Success
By George Pitagorsky
Success is measured in how well and how regularly you meet expectations. But what exactly \are expectations, and how do you effectively manage them when multiple priorities and personalities are involaved?
Using the case study of a Project Manager coordinating an organizational transition, this Managing Expectations book explores how to apply a mindful, compassionate, and practical approach to satisfying expectations in any situation.
George Pitagorsky describes how to make sure expectations are rational, mutually understood, and accepted by all those with a stake in the project. This process relies on blending a crisp analytical approach with the interpersonal skills needed to negotiate win-win understandings of what is supposed to be delivered, by when, for how much, by who, and under what conditions.
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Managing Conflict in Projects
By George Pitagorsky
Managing Conflict in Projects: Applying Mindfulness and Analysis for Optimal Results by George Pitagorsky charts a course for identifying and dealing with conflict in a project context.
Pitagorsky states up front that conflict management is not a cookbook solution to disagreement-a set of prescribed actions to be applied in all situations. His overall approach seeks to balance two aspects of conflict management: analysis based on a codified process and people-centered behavioral skills.
The book differentiates conflict resolution and conflict management. Management goes beyond resolution to include relationship building that may serve to avoid conflict or facilitate resolution if it occurs.
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The Zen Approach to Project Management
By George Pitagorsky
Projects are often more complex and stressful than they need to be. Far too many of them fail to meet expectations. There are far too many conflicts. There are too few moments of joy and too much anxiety. But there is hope. It is possible to remove the unnecessary stress and complexity. This book is about how to do just that. It links the essential principles and techniques of managing projects to a "wisdom" approach for working with complex, people-based activities.
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