Rule 10: Be open to having your beliefs challenged.

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Rule 10: Be open to having your beliefs challenged.

By LBaucom on Monday, March 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Be open to having your beliefs challenged. In other words, hold loosely to your outlook. That does not mean that you have no beliefs, only that they will change and evolve over time. That is the nature of everyone’s outlook or “worldview.” Perhaps authors are more aware of this than others, since we have our [...]

Rule 9: Mistakes Don’t Matter

By LBaucom on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 | No Comments

OK, let me say just a bit more: “Mistakes don’t matter. How you deal with them does.” You see, we often get so caught up in fearing that we will make a mistake that we don’t stretch. We stop ourselves before we even begin, or we freeze up in the midst of trying, all because [...]

Rule 5: We All Have Some Basic Fears

By LBaucom on Monday, January 19th, 2009 | No Comments

We share fear with every living creature. The difference is that we are able to add emotion and thought to the feelings. Sure, some animals are capable of emotions –anger in particular. But as far as we know, no other animal reflects on their fears. Because we are thinking creatures, we take a fear and [...]

Rule 3: Memories Are Just Thoughts

By LBaucom on Monday, January 12th, 2009 | No Comments

OK, this one can be controversial, so hear me out. A memory is merely a thought. It is a thought about something that happened in the past, which we then pull into the present. Some of those thoughts are helpful, but others are not. I am NOT saying that you should ignore painful events from [...]

Rule 2: Recognize a Thought is a Thought

By LBaucom on Friday, January 9th, 2009 | No Comments

The second rule ties directly into the first rule. In fact, it is probably step 1 in watching our mind. What is going on in our mind? Thoughts. What trips us up? Thoughts. The problem is not the thoughts. The problem is that we don’t recognize they are just thoughts. Thoughts are merely constructs of [...]

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