5 Steps to Overcome Apathy

1. We often feel apathetic when we’ve picked the wrong goals or when have no goals or direction for our life. So, look at what motivates you, or makes you feel alive.

2. Stop listening to others and their views on success. Success really is doing what’s important to YOU.

3. Try to think of some small accomplishment that will improve how you feel – and just do one small thing, and note how good it makes you feel!

4. Look for someone who could function as a role model for you – who didn’t have advantages but made something of life. If they can do it – it means that you can, too!

5. Visualize how great you’ll feel if you keep persevering, and get what is important to you, and the affect it will have on your life!

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7 Tips for Dealing with Stress

1. Make a list of the most important things to do each day, in order of priority. Think of exactly how you’ll get these done – and don’t think about all the other extra things.

2. Be aware of the triggers that cause you to feel stressed and then imagine coping successfully with these, so you stay in control and can keep getting on with life.

3. When you notice your stress rising, try to focus on your breathing, and make sure that this is slow, even, deep and regular.

4. Take some time out to recover and invest in yourself so you feel you’re being supported, and allowed to take your time – instead of feeling pressurized, controlled, or else boxed in.

5. Learn to say “no” and to set some boundaries. You only need to do what’s best for you right now. You don’t have to please others, or to do what others say.

6. Don’t run away from problems. Avoiding them only makes things worse. It’s better to be brave … and then to do what should be done. In the long run, it will help you, and you’ll feel a lot less stressed.

7. Talk to other people to see if they can help. Sometimes it makes a difference if someone else is there, and can listen, and support you, when your life is difficult.

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You Are NOT A Leader If:

You’re waiting on a bigger staff and more money to accomplish your vision.
 
You think you need to be in charge to have influence.
 
You’re content.
 
You tend to foster division instead of generating a helpful dialogue.
 
You think you need to say something to be heard.
 
You find it easier to blame others for your circumstances than to take responsibility for solutions.
 
It’s been some time since you said, “I messed up.”
 
You’re driven by the task instead of the relationships and the vision.
 
Your dreams are so small, people think they can be achieved.
 
No one is following you.    


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7 Questions to Help You Change Your Life

1. If you had all the money in the world, how would you choose to spend your life? 

2. What makes, and when do, you lose yourself…and later realize that you lost all track of time?

3. What lifts your spirits on a dark day?

4. When you are old, and you look back on your life, what things will matter to you the most?

5. What are 3 things that you really hope to achieve in life?

6. What kind of person do you want to be?

7. Who would you say is a role model for a life well-lived?

 

 

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10 Qualities that can make your personality attractive

Someone with an attractive personality:

1. Is warm and friendly towards others

2. Is open and real

3. Knows their own strengths and weaknesses - and neither boasts nor puts themselves down

4. Looks for the good in every situation, and is generally positive and optimistic

5. Doesn’t gossip or pass on others’ secrets

6. Doesn’t gloat when things go wrong for others

7. Is secure and has a healthy self–esteem; is not self-centered and narcissistic

8. Is not highly critical or argumentative

9. Is not possessive and jealous in relationships

10. Makes time for the people they care about

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