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Mistakes are necessary for growth

You can coast, go downhill (usually the same thing as coasting) or you can grow.

In life we will all stumble, fall down and make big mistakes.

The key to GROWTH is accepting those mistakes (not excepting them :), learning from them and using that knowledge/wisdom as fuel toward a better tomorrow.

Growth can only occur amidst struggle.

Growth can only occur when we make mistakes.

BIG growth can only occur when we learn from those mistakes, convert that knowledge into wisdom and push forward with purpose and passion.

So, on this Tuesday, the 1st of September, 2020, don’t be afraid of making mistakes.

Make them.

Learn from them.

Push forward to an UH-MAZING future!

Happy Tuesday!

-Dr. Lindeman

Serve :-)

Too many times the word “service” seems reserved for a select few.

The truth is, we all can (and all should) serve.

Serve your fellow human beings by leading with love.

We share this space in the universe together, we might as well try to make it better for each other.

When we attempt to do that, we most definitely secure a brighter future for all of mankind.

Thank you for your service today!

Happy Monday!

-Dr Lindeman

Upgrade!

We are supposed to have BIG dreams.

In our office, we call them B.H.AG.s. Big Hairy Audacious Goals.

We need to dream dreams that take our breath away!

So don’t match your dreams to you current reality, what’s the fun in that?

Dream big.

Then get busy realizing that those goals.

By taking steps (even little ones) in their direction, you give those audacious goals a trim, and the more steps you take, you can see they aren’t so hairy (nor audacious) after all.

Happy Tuesday!

-Dr Lindeman

Expect more, hope better

This is from “Just Mercy”, a great book.

I love this paragraph.

Times are crazy and everyone is going through some “schtuff” right now.

But we need to recover.

We need to grow.

In order for that to happen, we need to hold each other to a higher standard and then help each other achieve those standards.

Share compassion, love and understanding.

And at the same time, attempt to better yourself so that your levels of all the above are that much higher.

-Happy Thursday!

-Dr Lindeman

Heal thy self

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

Harmony

In the book: Grit by Angela Duckworth, she quotes Will Smith as saying “Harmony is aerodynamic.”

When we can find our passion, when we can align that passion with our work, and even more so when the vision of our team member’s/families/coworkers, our movement toward that vision becomes so much easier.

That is why it is so important to have discussions about your goals with the people on your various “teams” (work/home/etc).

When you articulate your goals and they articulate theirs, you will find common ground and that makes it all the easier to move toward that future.

Work on collaborating to become a supremely aerodynamic force today 🙂

Happy Tuesday!

-Dr Lindeman

 

Hope for the future

I’m gonna drop 2 quotes on you this morning:

“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.”-L.P. Hartley

“But plant your hope with good seeds, don’t cover yourself with thistle and weeds,”-Mumford and Sons, (Thistle and weeds song title)

In the book: Grit by Angela Duckworth, she discusses one of the main differences between people who have a growth mindset vs people with a fixed mindset is that those with a fixed mindset (feeling that achievements have a lower ceiling than others) carry around a feeling of hopelessness for change.

Most of the time this hopelessness comes from a negative past.

As L.P. Hartley eloquently put it, when we travel to the future, we leave the past behind. We cannot let the anchors of our past weigh us down from taking flight toward our future.

By all means, consider your current situation.

But also realize, that with hope, the future will look vastly brighter.

Dream big, plant seeds and sprout forth to a more meaningful and positive future.

Happy Tuesday!

-Dr Lindeman

Check out the song HERE

Growing or fixed?

The picture above was taken from the book: Grit by Angela Duckworth.

It is a really good book.

In one chapter she discusses the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. She discusses the that key to cultivating a growth mindset (which has been connected to higher learning, more successful careers, larger more positive impacts, etc) is realizing that there is hope in your situation. When you can attach hope to any time of adversity, you realize you can decide to improve your current life. If you believe that you are hopeless than growth cannot occur.

The great news is that there is always hope.

So today, when faced with adversity, grab on to a hopeful future, realize you have options for a better tomorrow and GROW 🙂

Happy Monday!

-Dr Lindeman

Love is power

Thank you, Erin (Chiropractic Assistant Extraordinaire) for sharing this!

It fits right in with a great talk a colleague (Dr Kerry Iselin) gave last night.

He discussed how before his afternoon shift, he prepared by increasing his vibration of love. He sits in calm, quiet and just brings to mind the people, things, experiences he loves that day.

This exercise helps him feel grounded, loving, removes stress, fear and worry, and in fact makes him more powerful and ready to serve.

I think Van Gough would agree.

Today, take a page from his playbook.

Think about everything and everyone you love for a few moments before starting in any task, and revel at how much better you feel and your increased ability to accomplish tasks and make a more positive impact on those around you.

Much love to you all!

Happy Wednesday!

-Dr Lindeman