Being present matters.
The things that “happen to you” matter.
The primary determining factor of your future, however, is how YOU RESPOND to what happens.
Your response (choice) in any situation (and there are ALWAYS multiple choices) will determine the brightness of your future for you, your loved ones and the world at large.
Respond well 🙂
Happy Tuesday!
-Dr. Lindeman
I saw this on a message from Elephant Journal. It kid of gave me pause.
So true we should not seek help from those who continue to hurt us.
The same goes for ourselves.
If we feel we let ourselves down, we need to push forward from the perspective of whom we want to grow to be.
We cannot create new, positive habits with the same negative thinking that created our old, bad habits.
We need to fathom our future from the perspective of our improved, future selves.
As Coach Klein said in The Waterboy with Adam Sandler: “visualize and attack.”
Picture whom you want to be and then work on doing things to get yourself there.
Happy Monday!
-Dr Lindeman
This story was taken from the book below:
“About 50 years ago a Pygmy named Kenge took his first trip out of the dense, tropical forests of Africa and into the open plains in the company of an anthropologist. Buffalo appeared in the distance-small black specks against a bleached sky- and the Pygmy surveyed them curiously. Finally, he turned to the anthropologist and asked what kind of insects they were. “When I told Kenge that these insects were indeed large buffalo, he roared with laughter and told me not to tell such stupid lies.”
The Pygmy had no concept of a distant horizon, he lived his life in a dense tropical forest. His perception drove his reality.
Sometimes we need to borrow others’ vision in order to see what is possible. Sometimes we don’t have a concept of a distant horizon 🙂
Borrow a BIG vision for your future today!
Happy Thirsday
-Dr Lindeman
It is so easy to worry, especially today.
Uncertainty promotes fear which feeds worry.
Worries are imaginary friends (and I call them friends because we do seem to spend a lot of time with them).
When we ruminate in worry, we rob our soul of joy.
Worry and hope/faith are two sides of the same coin, and we can choose which one to focus on.
Neither our hopes/dreams or our worries/fears have happened, so they both don’t exist. We just give power to them by virtue of our thoughts and emotions.
So we can choose.
We can stop ruminating in worry, and instead marinate in dreams and positive visions for the future.
It really is that simple.
But simple ain’t EASY.
We need to put in some work, to train our minds to focus on hope rather than fear, it doesn’t come naturally.
Get busy working/marinating today, create that habit of doing so and it will become easier.
And the future will taste all the more delicious for us doing so.
Happy Thursday!
-Dr. Lindeman
In any given situation, we always have choices.
In situations of adversity or success, we will always have options, and depending on how we choose, the results can easily flip the situation on its head (adversity—>success, success—>adversity).
Situations never define us, it’s how we react to them that creates who we are, and sets the stage for our future.
We can achieve a victory and then stop practicing. We can obtain the amazing job, and therefore become complacent in learning. We can lose 20 lbs and then decide we can stop exercising.
All of these successful situations are wonderful, but the decisions after the achievement can create a more negative future.
Likewise, we can lose the race, and decide to train harder. We can fail an exam and decide to study more. We can find ourselves in quarantine, and decide to create paths to a better future with our time.
Even when things ‘royally suck’, it’s truly how we react to them that matters most.
We are NEVER victims of our circumstance. We are only truly victims of how we react to them.
You always have options…Choose wisely my friends!
Happy Wednesday!
-Dr Lindeman
TRUE DAT!
Drop mic…
Happy Tuesday!
I just started reading this book (it was recommended by a friend).
I like it so far!
I am not a Cross Fit athlete but the lessons discussed can help in all walks of life.
I like what he wrote about grit.
We all need grit to succeed no matter what it is we want to succeed at!
Grit defies comfort. In order to grow we need to stretch our boundaries. We need to call and get back up. We need to fuel our lives with grit.
Have a gritty Monday, friends!
-Dr Lindeman
Lead every interaction with these thoughts: calm (body), confident (mind) love (heart) joy (spirit)-Cesar Millan
This is a great podcast!
I like this episode where “The Dog Whisperer” discusses how important your energy is (not only with dogs but with humans too).
If we can pause and bring forth calmness, confidence, love and joy, it is amazing how those interactions will go.
I hope your day is filled with all the above!
Happy Tuesday
-Dr Lindeman
This is probably one of my favorite quotes by Martin Luther King Jr.
He said a lot of wonderful, impactful things.
But this, this is such a wonderful reminder that greatness can be found through the service of others.
We can all help brighten the day, lessen the load, and decrease the burden that others are facing through service.
Smile, care, hug, talk, be compassionate and serve your fellow neighbor (we are all truly neighbors on this Earth).
You will feel greater.
And you will have a great impact on their lives.
Be great today!
-Dr Lindeman
I heard something great in church this weekend.
“We need to stop should-ing 💩 all over ourselves!”
I loved it!
If you are exercising, reading, eating well, in a relationship, etc, because you feel you “should” be….stop!
Guilt is a repressor, not a motivator.
Instead, find reasons why you WANT to do those things. If you want to do them to form a brighter future, for instance, latch on to that, and let go of the “should.”
Have a monumental Monday, friends!
-Dr Lindeman
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