Finding Benefits or Seeing Faults?

     After listening to Tal Ben-Shahar lecture on Benefit Finders and Fault Finders, I am more aware of the impact this perspective has on our lives. I’ve noticed in myself, my clients, friends, family, and business associates an inclination to view others in terms of finding either faults or benefits. Do we see stumbling blocks or stepping stones? These are choices we all make every day.

     Do we look at the stars each night or take them for granted? Do we appreciate our family, our work, and our every day? Do we take people, our health, and life for granted or do we celebrate all of these incredible gifts? Are we embracing life or living by avoiding?

     Benefit Finders focus on the positive. When you focus on the positive, the good appreciates. When our focus strays to the negative, the good depreciates while the negative is accentuated. 

     When it comes to our relationships, our focus is vital. Where and how we direct our energy, our focus, shapes the quality of our connections to others. We possess the ability to create our experience…the quality of our life is our choice!

     Remember to see the good and acknowledge the difficult. Witness the potential in the seed… Be a Benefit Finder

Releasing Emotional Toxins

     Here's a one-minute video that will make a positive difference in your life. Toxins can play havoc in your life. Whether it is negative thoughts, unhealthy foods, or counterproductive habits and patterns these behaviors do not support your healthful lifestyle. Releasing these emotional toxins will have you feeling better physically and mentally. The video has some great tips for returning to balance in your life.  

     I have always enjoyed the work of Deepak Chopra as his thinking is very much in alignment with my own and use these and similar techniques in my work.

Finding The David Within

     Unleash your Magnificence ... See The David within you and within those with whom you share your life.

     How we view life is all about our perspective. Recently, I came across a photo of Michelangelo's statue, The David. History tells us, Michelangelo was given a huge slab of marble and asked to create something from the stone. The sculpture required hour after hour of work for about a year, beginning in 1498 to completion in 1499. When the art of sculpture is discussed, many believe the artist chips away at the rock and creates the finished piece. Michelangelo, however, felt very different about his work and told us, "in every block of marble I see a stature as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude an action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to other eyes as mine see it."  Michelangelo believed The David was always in the stone and he had only to chip away the excess.

     I believe The David, our own individual and very unique beauty,  is within each of us. We are all magnificent! Our work in life is merely to chip away the rough edges; the outside sources and influences that have us looking at ourselves with limiting thoughts as opposed to unlimited potential.

     How we view life is often, just a matter of our perspective. I can help you with the view!