by Elisabet | Feb 12, 2010 | English Blog
Are you among the people who feel affected by uncertain times? The bad news about company results and jobs disappearing? Well, join the club! I’m sure there’s a lot of people in that category.
But don’t become a victim!
There are ways of handling your situation, regardless of what happens in the world. You have the power to decide over your own life. Not the circumstances around you. Unless you let them have power over you……So take control of your life.
So what can you control in this world?
Very little actually. All you can control is yourself – your thoughts, your attitude, your actions etc. So when things happen around you, focus on how you react and respond to that. Because what you focus on becomes reality.
So what will you focus on today? The fact that another company has gone bankrupt, or what you want to happen (something good, something inspiring, something world-changing). Your thoughts create new thoughts and possibilties, and starts to channel your energy towards new, more positive, constructive events.
And everything that we first view as “bad” or “negative” can end up being good. Change is needed, sometimes we need a shake-up, things need to change. And from that change, new ideas can be born, better solutions, greater insights.
So when things feel uncertain around you, decide how you will look at it – and ask yourself what the positive aspect may be of what’s happening. You’ll like the results.
I wish you all happiness and success – in certain and uncertain times. You decide.
by Elisabet | Feb 10, 2010 | Svensk Blogg
Du har ett val. Nu, idag, imorgon och alla dar därefter.
Ett val om
- hur du ska spendera dan
- hur du ska må
- hur du ska tänka
- hur du ska bemöta andra människor
- hur dan ska bli
- hur du ska agera
- hur du ska reagera
- hur du ska må
- hur andra ska uppfatta dig
- OCH I PRINCIP ALLT ANNAT
Du är inte ett offer.
Inte för vädret.
Inte för andra människor.
Inte för omständigheter omkring dig.
Du väljer själv. Ta den kontrollen över ditt liv. Då kan du skapa ditt liv med den livskvalitet som du eftersträvar. Då din situation inte ligger i händerna på andra personer och omständigheter. Ge inte bort den makten. Led dig själv. Lev livet utan ånger och anklagelser. Ta ansvar för din situation. Välj glädje och tacksamhet. Vi har trots allt bara här och nu.
Som Viktor Frankl (österrikisk psykiatriker. överlevare från koncentrationsläger och författare till “Man’s search for meaning”) så klokt sa: “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.”
Så gör ditt val. Är du redo? Ska du välja en bra eller en dålig dag?
Det är ditt val, ingen annans. Du väljer kvalitén på alla aspekter av ditt liv. Rätt mäktigt, va!
by Elisabet | Feb 10, 2010 | English Blog
Last spring I enjoyed following “Britain’s got talent” on British TV. A fascinating TV-show where thousands of people are parading through with their varying degree of talent:-). I’m sure that some of the people that have chosen to audition just do it as a joke, as there were at times absolutely no talent what so ever, unless absurdity is a talent…..
Most people have read and heard about Susan Boyle, who the world took to their hearts. And who came second in the final.
Less known (at least outside Britain) is Stavros Flatley – a wonderful “father and son” act who do a sort of parody on Irish dancing. Absolutely wonderful!
Every time I watch them I am overcome by such a feeling of joy.
They made it all the way to the final and at times I was really wondering if they really belonged in the final, as they weren’t necessarily the best dancers.
But then finally I got it……their talent is to entertain, to make people happy. There can hardly be a worthier or more valuable talent!
Here they are in the final. Hope they make you happy:-)
by Elisabet | Feb 9, 2010 | English Blog
I am often reminded of how inspiring I find Wayne Gretzky, legendary Canadian ice-hockey player. In one of his many interviews he was asked what made him such a good player, what put him ahead of the other players.
He explained that so many players go where the puck is, while he went where the puck was about to go. He had the ability to read the other players’ patterns, to understand what would happen next. You could say that he was good at observing and noticing patterns and to use that information to direct himself to where the puck was heading (and be the first one there!).
Everything in life is a pattern. Nature has patterns. Weather and seasons have patterns. Human beings have habitual patterns, in their thoughts, their feelings and their actions.
The better we can become at noticing patterns, the better results we can get – in all aspects of our lives. Better communication, better relationships, better sports results, better leadership, better parenting – well, you see what I mean – in every aspect of our lives!
If we can become aware of our own patterns, we can change them. If our patterns don’t take us to where we want to be, we can change them. To get better results.
We all get stuck at times, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Laughable:-)
Of course we need to do things differently to get different results. Habits and patterns aren’t always easy to break, but if we can just become aware of them, then we are well on they way to change. And we can start creating a new pattern, one day at a time.
If we can become aware of other people’s habits, we can start to predict some of what’s coming up, so we can approach situations in the best possible way.
A bit like Bill Murray i “Groundhog Day”, who gets the chance to do the same thing over and over again and thereby learn the patterns of what’s about to happen, and be able to change his actions and get better results.
Let’s go where the puck is heading. If it worked for Wayne Gretzky I’m sure it will work for us!
by Elisabet | Jan 26, 2010 | English Blog
As I sit here, early in the year, I think about how valuable it is to look back a bit – ponder what happened last year, note the successes, the challenges – and what I can learn from it all.
It’s soooo easy to just leap into the new year without that moment of reflection, but it’s also a bit of waste then, everything that’s happened.
I choose to look at my life like a project, as a project (correctly done that is!) is reviewed evaluated, so that the next project can benefit from the learnings, and the one after that and the one after that…..
And surely our lives are more important that an old project – it’s our life project after all!
Let me share one of my biggest learnings from last year – which I’m sure will help me have a better 2010.
During Q1 last year we, the company (I run my own business), had less to do than normal. We could feel the financial crisis, everything sort of stopped for a bit, there was a sense of cautiousness. It felt strange and a bit scary, but has in fact ended up being a fantastic experience – it made us think long and hard at what we do, what we offer our clients, what people really need. And we have as a result of this created a number of new exciting products and services! Watch this space….
And that probably never would have happened if we had been as busy as normal, because then we would have just continued running (in the same tracks)! As we then did for most of the rest of the year:-).
So my big learning for 2010 is to make time for reflection now and then – to really ask the question “are we doing the right things”?, “are we investing our time wisely”? (which is equally relevant for my life as a whole as my business). This now gets blocked-out time in my diary.
So place yourself on the windowsill, sit down at your desk, pull up a chair at your favourite café – wherever you feel comfortable, calm and creative – and take a look at the year that’s just passed.
What worked well? How can you use that for 2010? What successes can you repeat?
What didn’t work so well? And what was good with that – ie what you can you learn from that? And how can you use that for 2010?
