How to Make the World a Better Place
Posted by Doug | Filed under Pick the Brain
Monday is usually a quiet day but not, it seems, on the pick the brain website. There they have a new post about how to make the world a better place. This seems a pretty huge and noble effort for a Monday morning.
Before, though, you start thinking that this is some religious or political diatribe… think again. Take a look at the post and you will see that it’s about making people feel better.
It compares the impact of trash upon the environment with the impact of trash upon people. We’re not just talking about the physical trash that you throw out but the verbal or emotional trash that you throw upon other people.
The post talks about people who complain. Do you really want to listen to someone complaining? Few of us do. Similarly people rarely want to listen about us complaining!
Wouldn’t you feel better if you had an intellectual conversation, even a short one, with another person rather than just listening to their complaints? Of corse you would. Don’t you think also that the other person would feel the same?
The post seems to take the viewpoint that it is better to leave a person feeling better than they did when you found them. Which is a buit like cleaning up the environment but on a more personal, intellectual and social scale.
So why not read the post, it is a good one and an inspiring one, then go out and try to make someone feel better today?
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Tags: A Better Place, Complaint, Conversation, positive thinking, Social environment
Stop Worry
Posted by Doug | Filed under Pick the Brain
Do you find yourself worrying? Possibly worrying about things that might never happen? Well, there’s some good news for you;
Pick the Brain has a new post on worrying or, more specifically, how to stop worrying
Worrying is often not really worthwhile and this is one of the ponts made in the article. It points out that over 90% of our worrying is futile. We either seem to worry about things that do not happen or worry about things we have no control over.
It may be argued that worrying is a precursor to being prepared for any eventuality but when we realise that most of the time, we worry unnecessarily, then we can only assume that worry is a waste of time.
Surely there must be better things we can do than to worry about things that are not going to happen?
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Tags: 10 Skills Most Critical to Your Future, Worry, worrying
Boosting your Self Confidence
Posted by Doug | Filed under confidence, Pick the Brain, zen habits
There may come times when each of us feels a lack of confidence in ourselves, our abilities or our skills. Many would argue that this is only natural but there are times when it can become so extreme that a lack of self confidence can seriously hold you back and prevent you from getting the most out of life.
It is at times like these, and for some people those times may even seem never-ending, that you need to find ways of boosting your self confidence.
Over on the zen habits website blog, you will find a really informative article that presents no fewer than 25 ways in which you can boost your self confidence.
Some of these tips are really simple and fairly easy, such as dressing nicely and grooming yourself well. Others might be a bit more difficult and take time to master, such as stopping negative thinking and replacing negative thinking with positive thinking. Others may seem quite daunting, like photoshopping yourself, this will help you see your image as others see you and it can also be a useful tool to help you change your image.
All the 25 tips are quite simple and straight forward, doing any one of them is almost certain to lead to improvement, doing more is likely to bring only positive benefit and doing all of them … well give it a go and see how your confidence improves.
As an alternative, for those of you who find 25 tips too daunting, there is another excellent article on confidence at the Pick the Brain website. This gives 10 tips for boosting your self confidence and again, each tip is well worth trying.
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Tags: Attitude, confidence, self confidence, Self-Help
