Join us Monday, January 29, 2024, for a workshop designed to help you break free from the ruts that block your progress toward your goals and new habits! This workshop is held on Zoom, so EVERYONE is able to attend. Visit our CONTACT page to request payment details and registration information.
We are predisposed to NOT retain information when we get it from a situation that we consider a state of ‘failure’. Layer in shame, need for approval and pressure to perform, and we really get in our own way to move forward. Also, we can override this predisposition when we understand it.
This is a great podcast on how we can get out of our own way. Click HERE to listen to this Apple Podcast.
No matter who you are, it’s guaranteed that at some point in life you’ll make a mistake. Many of us find failures to be uncomfortable — so we try our best to ignore them and move on. But what if there was a way to turn that discomfort into an opportunity? This week, we begin a two part mini-series on the psychology of failure and feedback. Psychologist Lauren Eskreis-Winkler teaches us how to stop ignoring our mistakes, and instead, start to learn from them.
I was so happy to speak at the Northern Lights Special Education Cooperative Paraprofessionals Conference on January 15!
We unpacked the ‘magic power’ of the serenity prayer (and by ‘magic power’, I mean ‘brain science’), discovering why, and how, speaking this simple request can make such a difference in how we navigate a demanding job (and world!). It can be simply a statement of intent, without directing it to ‘god’ or whomever.
I described ‘prayer’ as any statement of clear intent, spoken wholeheartedly, and with mindful focus on the outcome.
For the purpose of this workshop, I just start it with ‘please….’ And encourage people to direct it to whatever force they feel directs their life… god, goddess, universe, self, vibration, nature, aliens (ha!)… the ‘to whom’ doesn’t really matter, it’s the wholehearted intent behind it that created the changes that are being spoken of.
A central point of the workshop is that this principle isn’t modern. It was really put forth by the stoic philosophers – ‘there are things for you, and things not for you’ – spend your valuable resources in places that matter (things that are for you), and not where they are wasted (things not for you).
1. Get ok with the idea that there is an awful lot that you have no control over.
2. Use your resources (gifts, skills, energy) where they matter.
3. Get skilled at evaluating which is which, and letting go of the stuff that isn’t yours to carry.
We (modern humans) have this compulsion to be everything to everyone, and this workshop is mainly to give people permission to lay down the stuff that isn’t theirs to carry without feeling like that makes them somehow inadequate.
Stay tuned – this will be offered as a webinar in the near future!
Julie OConnor Consulting 