A little tongue-in-cheek but the message rings true.
If you have big dreams and aspire to accomplish a lot, you most definitely need to pay attention to how you do the “little things.”
In fact, the path toward a huge success is over with hundreds/thousands of small steps.
And if you can’t devote attention, drive and passion to the little steps, the big success will always remain just a dream.
Get busy on the little things today 🙂
Happy Monday
-Dr Lindeman
You are NEVER given anything you can’t handle.
Proof? You are reading this right now.
You will always presented with obstacles, or as my brother likes to call them “hurdles” in life.
They key is to just keep jumping. (Or in some cases, if that hurdle is meant for a giant, find another way around, under or through)
I truly hope you are not in the middle a huge tumultuous storm in your life right now, but if you are, I also hope you realize you have exactly what it takes to overcome, and to get to the calm on the other side.
You are THE ONLY person capable of living your amazing, exciting and challenging life.
Have an amazing Monday!
-Dr Lindeman
“Because at the end of the day, love wins.” (Taken from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb).
If you’ve had any bad days lately (pretty sure most of us have), the key to not carrying it over to the next day is to realize that one day doesn’t create a month or year or etc.
The key is to resize that after the 24 hours, that day is done.
Over-with.
Kaput.
The sun comes up again in the morning ($100 you are hearing Annie’s voice in your head now, bet your bottom dollar) and you get another chance at another day.
One way to push toward a better mañana is to end the day with love.
Stop and breathe. Be grateful that you had a day (even if it was “a day”), and find something to love about the day. Even if it is something incredibly small.
Then, take some time to tell someone you love them.
Finally, take some time to tell yourself that you are loved.
End the day with love, because the truth is LOVE AWAYS WINS.
Happy Tuesday!
-Dr Lindeman
I Read this today: “No matter what, you’ll never get today back”.
Truth.
But I also think we can read that and think “we better make today amazing” and that’s not the best policy either.
I think the key is to know today whether an amazing day at work or a mediocre one at best, a day of sunshine, birds singing or stormy and cold. Today cannot be saved.
It must be savored.
So the best policy is to be fully IN it today. Be present, appreciate today for being today. Connect with others, give and receive some love and appreciate the fact that today is finite.
You will never get today back.
-Happy Tuesday!
Dr Lindeman
Your life is determined by which lens you choose to peer through.
Obstacles are a constant.
This year, you’ve probably had to navigate a course filled with them.
Number 1: realize that you’ve passed the test so far, you are still here 🙂
Number 2: look at every obstacle as an opportunity, because that is what an obstacle truly is: an opportunity for change/growth/different thinking/discomfort/improvement.
We can look at the obstacles placed in front of us and bemoan them to our (pessimist) heart’s content…
Or we can change our view point, switch out our lens and see the opportunities that lie hidden within.
Choose your view wisely!
Happy Monday!
-Dr Lindeman
This is so true!
We have a much bigger IMPACT on the world when we help others.
And (if you’ve read any of my other blog posts you know) when we help others we also have a larger, longer lasting impact on our own happiness as well.
The good news is that we are all in a position that we can help others.
Some of us can donate to charities.
Some of us can help our neighbors by bringing in their mail, taking their leaves, etc if they are unable to do so themselves.
Some of us can go grocery shopping for a friend who is ill.
Some of us can lend a helping hand or even a smile to a stranger.
Some us us can send thank you cards to the people that have helped us in our lives.
No matter the method, we can all help someone and I fact lots of someone’s.
So we can all achieve fulfillment.
Have a fulfilling Monday!
-Dr Lindeman
“Speed is about time, but it’s also closely related to endurance and effort. The faster the speed, the thinking goes, the less endurance or effort required. Patience, on the other hand, requires endurance and effort.”- Taken from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb
Later, in the same book (about a page later), she quotes the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm: “Modern man thinks he loses something-time- when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.”
Our world is filled with a lot of hurry, hurry, now, now.
We want results/things/growth/success/our haircut/our food/our dose of dopamine (social media, I’m looking at you)/our purchases/our everything as soon as we give even the thoughts our energy.
Patience is not modern human’s virtue.
The conundrum is that the time spent waiting, the time spent in patience, the time spent just BE-ing bears more fruit for the soul than the actual “getting.”
Spend some time in a cam state today. Revel in the patience, it will bring much better dividends than the pressure-filled moments do.
Happy Thursday!
-Dr Lindeman
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt, until they are too heavy to be broken.”🤔
Warren Buffet
We cannot grow into whom we want to be until we break some habits/anchors keeping us right where we are.
Break old habits, create new wonderful ones.
Examine your day today and find 1 or more habits that you know are keeping you down. Think of habits you would like to employ and create a vacuum to fill with those habits by cutting ties with the old ones.
-Happy Habit Hunting Thursday!
Dr Lindeman
November is all about Gratitude and good vibes (despite all the political mess 🙂
This is a great calendar with daily activities to keep your dopamine/oxytocin flowin’!
Have a HAPPY NOVEMBER and make others HAPPY in the process 🙂
Happy Tuesday!
-Dr. Lindeman
The divide is real.
One huge thing I dislike about elections (especially this one) is the way they tend to AMPLIFY our differences and erode our common ground.
I truly believe we should all support who we want to support.
We should back ballot measures that align with our personal philosophies for our lives, our families, our communities and our futures.
What I dislike is the way that people can stand on their “side of the voting line” and cut off the other side completely.
We are entitled to our views and we are allowed to express those views.
It is disheartening that those views can break friendships, end conversations and erode our peace.
No matter where you put your stake into the ground on the issues, realize we all share that ground, even if where I plant my stake is far removed from where you plant yours.
I am hopeful, that regardless of the voting results, we can start focusing on the commonalities we all share and work toward lessening the divide between humanity rather than increasing it.
Regardless,
I hope you have a wonderful day today (as well as the vast majority of days moving forward 🙂
Happy Monday!
-Dr Lindeman
Dissemination of Inspiration 