Shift #5: Shifting from Routines to Rituals The alarm goes off. J.J mumbles, “Good God, its morning.” JJ semi-consciously shuts off the alarm and rolls out of bed stumbling into the bathroom for the morning hygiene routine. After getting dressed for the day, JJ heads to the kitchen and gets a quick breakfast while checkingContinue reading “Five Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset”
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5 Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset and Mastering Your Life
Shift #4: Using the Power of Synergy by Charles Barnard At the close of the weekend long training, the entire group of participants and the leaders proceeded to participate in a challenge. The challenge, as all challenges tend to be, was more about the mental than the physical even though it most definitely wasContinue reading “5 Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset and Mastering Your Life”
Five Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset
Shift #3: Apply HEAT by Charles Barnard Our lives consist of many, many habits. Why does it seem so hard to create good ones? Think about that for a moment. Isn’t it true that you have many habits that get repeated daily? How many of those habits were purposefully created to support your emotions andContinue reading “Five Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset”
Five Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset
Shift 2: Clean Up by Charles Barnard “You are not going anywhere until you have cleaned up your room.” “I’ll do it later, I promise.” “No, you will do it now, and you will play later.” You all can associate yourselves with such a conversation I have no doubt. Short little sayings like, “put thingsContinue reading “Five Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset”
Five Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset
Shift 1: Take Responsibility by Charles Barnard The first shift in thinking by its very definition is an action step. To take responsibility means you must actually do something. It has been said by some that John F. Kennedy became a true leader when he publicly took responsibility for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. TheContinue reading “Five Paradigm Shifts Involved in Mastering Your Mindset”
The Stories We Tell: Your Life as a Genre
by Charles K. Barnard Are the stories you tell yourself literary fiction? Do these stories have artistic value even if they are fiction? Are you – your character, your personhood – the central focus of the story or is it about the events of your life? Are the stories you tell yourself mysteries? Are theseContinue reading “The Stories We Tell: Your Life as a Genre”
The Stories We Tell
by Charles Barnard One summer day, a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to his heart’s content.An Ant passed by, bearing along a kernel of corn he was taking to his home. “Why not come and play with me, instead of working so hard?” asked the Grasshopper. “I am helping to store up foodContinue reading “The Stories We Tell”
Internal Conflicts and Your Mindset
It seems that many of us cringe at any discussion associated with one three letter word. It is a word packed with emotion. It has deep implications when creating public policy and laws. It has deep ties to religious theology, particularly Christian. It has important implications in our mindset and in turn our health. TheContinue reading “Internal Conflicts and Your Mindset”
Training Young Minds
by Charles Barnard When children are born, they are born with an innate curiosity. They desire to learn. Of course, initially that desire operates at the instinctual level. They are not consciously seeking knowledge. During these early imprint years, their environment is helping to establish the beliefs and values around learning that will guideContinue reading “Training Young Minds”
Meekness is a Virtue
by Charles Barnard What imagery comes to mind when you think of someone who is meek? Meekness is often wrongly used synonymously with weakness, which is a misnomer. Meekness or even gentleness misses the essences of the Greek word praus which is the word meek or gentle comes from in biblical translations. To understand whyContinue reading “Meekness is a Virtue”
