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If you are feeling a little (or very!) freaked-out, then start by identifying what some of the sources of your anxiety are. Write down as many as you can identify. The idea is to get the unspoken (and the spoken) anxieties out in writing. Just write one idea after another after another – until you [...]

Tags: anxiety, attitude, freaked-out, positive

Lots of people are freaked-out right now – for a variety of reasons.  Before you can start do anything about this – either for yourself or others, you need to identify and clarify what freaked-out looks and feels like for you. 
Note:  Let’s make an agreement right now that this exercise is for those individuals [...]

Tags: attitude, freaked-out, positive, self-reflection

Lots of people are freaked-out right now.  Have you noticed any of the following?

Maybe it’s places that you’re normally patient and all of a sudden you’re not patient. You might be biting people’s heads off when that’s not your normal way.  

Maybe you feel like your bucket is completely empty or your well is dry. [...]

Tags: attitude, fear, outlook, positive

When you are working on ways of staying positive in a freaked-out world, it’s helpful to think about those around you. What does freaking-out look like for some of them?  Here are some possibilities:

Are people running around saying, “The sky is falling!”?
Is there incessant negative talk?
Maybe you’re seeing anger flaring up among people [...]

Tags: freaked-out, positive

Pay Attention to What Makes You Feel Great!
Kathleen Hall, author of Alter Your Life – Overbooked, Overworked, Overwhelmed says, “Whenever you do something that makes you feel great, that releases energy, you have tapped in to what you should be doing.”  As a way of thinking about what makes you feel great and releases your [...]

Tags: energized, energy, Kathleen Hall, positive

As I started saying yesterday, a ‘most excellent’ way for you to diminish overwhelm is to do more of what boosts your energy. So, you may ask, “How Do I Do That?”
I’m sure you won’t be shocked to read that my recommendation for the first thing you have to do is know what it is that [...]

Tags: energy, just whelmed, overwhelm, positive, stress

One of my long-time friends from the university where I used to work sent me this email after listening to the “Staying Positive in a Freaked-Out World” teleseminar I did over Thanksgiving Weekend (contact me for more information).  She said I could post this to our blog (- her name):
I wanted to relay a story [...]

Tags: positive, upbeat

Greetings to all of you readers.  Here’s a thought/quote:
“Don’t worry about *the* world; worry about *your* world.”
This is not to say that we shouldn’t be concerned about the globe and/or the global issues that face all of us.  It is to say that we need to focus on, ‘worry about,’ be concerned with those things [...]

Tags: control, focus, positive, world, worry

Powerful quote:
“Remember, where our attention goes our energy flows.” Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
Pay attention to your attention.  I’m really thinking about this and attending to my intention of positive, mindful clarity.  What am I doing?  Why am I doing what I’m doing?  What is the outcome of this focus and this work?
Would it be easy to [...]

Tags: attention, energy, Patricia Diane Cota-Robles, positive