Vision, Plan, Problem Solving Checklist

 Here’s a checklist one can use to help assure good and complete planning.  I’ll be adding more links to it, but I’ll notify you when I do.

Vision, Plan, Problem Solving Checklist: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q96bM-wr76UHmWKh1i2RZA3cWBdA_mJjIBLagMT8ypQ/edit

Two who will add greatly to your wisdom for life...

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Dr. Jordan Peterson - Soundly based thinking, deeper
      https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog/
Sadhguru - Soundly based thinking, deeper
      https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/blog

Very, very knowledgeable and wise, not afraid to confront untruth or dysfunctionality.

Knowing how reality works, so you can work it!

By knowing what is true, I mean knowing how reality works. People didn’t create the laws of nature that we have to live by in order to be successful, but if we can understand these laws we can use them to achieve our goals. This makes me a hyperrealist: someone who embraces reality and works with it well as it is—not someone who wishes it were different and complains that it is not to their liking. #principleoftheday:

Think for yourself to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true, and 3) what you should do to achieve #1 in light of #2  . and do that with humility and open-mindedness so that you consider the best thinking available to you.
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I recommend that you get the free app  “Principles In Action, Ray Dalio“ and that you authorize notifications, so you can integrate these more into how you run your life.

"Build in" gratitude reminders/enhancers

We automatically let our poor lower brains go into overdrive on trying to protect us from possible dangers, but we fail to fill in the "safe" side, the "feeling good" side of living life!

I suggest you find a few blogs that specialize in gratitude reminders, like welovegratitude.com. 

The Thinking Of A Happy Person - As A Model

One of the happiest people I know did me the favor of sharing with me an "affirmations" writing she did a few years back.

I can see why she is so happy with a viewpoint and philosophy like that.

You may enjoy reading The Viewpoints And Affirmations Of A Happy Woman. You can link to the page it is on by clicking on the link below. The page is called Examples Of Philosophies Of Happy People.

It is easier to formulate good affirmations, statements, and declarations (all part of the Affirming/Empowering part of the Psychology section) from already written examples, picking and choosing and adapting them to what fits you .

An excellent, powerful philosophy will totally transform one's life and happiness. I recommend that you complete one for yourself, as it will save you alot of "misfires" and unnecessary unhappiness.

Keith

Links:

Examples Of The Philosophies Of Happy People:

Empowering Self-Conversations

Philosophy Of Life:

I Was "Notting" Instead Of "Having"

After being a huge advocate of appreciating what you have instead of seeing all that you don’t have or how far one falls below one’s ideal, I caught myself doing the opposite…the opposite of gratitude, of “having”.  I went into “not having”.

I was not having all the progress I wanted.  I was not having great energy at night, but I was having overwatching of tv (political commentary programs) and idly eating.  I was not getting as much writing done as I wanted to.  I was not being super-strong, super-powerful…able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...  I was not even being what I thought was productive enough.  I was not..."notting" myself toward not feeling so happy.

Here I am trying to be an expert in this - and finding that even I am subject to the laws if I violate the process... 

But now I see that I am just living my life as it is, with beautiful days to be appreciated, looking at great views, reading some wonderful books, discovering some wonderful things – and at the pace that is my pace for now.  Yes, I’d prefer something magnificent and being a model of perfect living, but I see that what I am doing and how I am living is a wonderful gift - and I need not compare it to fantasyland.  

I'm glad I saw this and wasn't just stuck in it, in just being unaware...

It need not be more.  It is more than enough.  I am grateful, deeply grateful.  Life is phenomenal.

I am so grateful for the special chance to be alive. 

I’m happy. 

Me

Yesterday, I didn’t live a full 24 hours, though I did exist.  I did live some hours though and was deeply touched by a movie (The Help).  So what, if I was human and lived only part of the potential...  That is just what is so.  But what is great is that I did live at least a few of the hours, a few at a higher level and some not so high – but all a gift – all something I might not have had if I hadn't been born.

And…I’m grateful deep within my heart and soul...and life is good...  

I Am So Grateful For This Privilege

As I begin this blog, I begin a new part of my adventure.

I am so grateful for this opportunity to contribute what I can.

nd I am so grateful for this opportunity for myself to have something I do that helps me focus on what I am grateful for, as this will automatically do.

I hope that those who read this "get" the idea and the viewpoint of gratitude.

It's simple:

See what I have,
Appreciate what I have,
Don't be unhappy about what I don't have, for that means nothing, when I have so much.

I need to also remember what Buddha said: Unhappiness is created by wanting more, but failing to appreciate that we already have more than enough.

Indeed, I feel blessed, for I have so much more than I need.

In this moment, I sigh in great gratitude.

KahunaKeith

Links:

Some of my postings to my own journal:
http://www.thelifemanagementalliance.com/Psychological/Gratitude/GratitudePostingsJournalExamples.html
What to be grateful for
http://www.thelifemanagementalliance.com/Psychological/Gratitude/ExamplesWhatToBeGratefulFor.html
Gratitude section:
http://www.thelifemanagementalliance.com/SiteMapIBIIGratitude.html