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There is another great post on the Pick the Brain website, I’m really becoming a fan of this site. This post is about th at old chestnut, limiting beliefs, and is entitled, How to Beat the Plague of Limiting Beliefs. I guess most of us know what limiting beliefs are, though we may still need help in identifying our own and even more help in overcoming them. This post reminds us, quite rightly that all our limiting beliefs are imaginary …

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Many of us will have heard of the phrase ‘turn a crisis into an opportunity’ but hopefully many of us will not have had to discover what it meant. For myself, I discovered meaning of the phrase when I found myself suddenly out of work. That was my ‘crisis’ and yet I kept telling myself that this was also an ‘opportunity’ but an opportunity for what?

For me, that opportunity was the chance to explore new avenues of work and to take my experience to a wider audience. be

Should you, and I do not wish this upon anyone, find yourself in a similar crisis, it may not easily clear what ‘opportunity’ is open to you. A new article on the Pick the Brain website, entitled How to Turn Crisis into Opportunity offers you some insight and tips into finding opportunity in crisis, particularly the current financial crisis.

According to the article, the current crisis could be an opportunity to take advantage of unfounded pessimism, take advantage of low competition and, my favorite, reassess your life plan. The article offers some interesting ideas and insights but don’t just take my word for it …

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There is an absolutely marvellous post on the Pick the Brain blog. It is provocatively titled Your Money or Your Life and it simply asks the question, which is more important?

At one point, the author asks the reader to recall the three most important days in their life. Most of us would probably choose days such as wedding day, 18th birthday, kids births, retirement day etc.. The author then goes on to ask if you can recall what your bank balance was on those days!

The chances are that most of us cannot. The author points to this as evidence that our life is more important to us than money.

The author goes on to remind us that we are not a bank balance, we are not a credit score and we are not the economy. Our lives consist of good times, meaningful relationships and, for want of a better term, life purpose, most of which had little to do with money.

It is only by focusing upon these important aspects of life that a person can remain centered during these times of financial difficulty.