GAIL'S BLOG

Grow Where You Are Planted

Hopefully sooner rather than later, I will have my new book published.  Here is a small excerpt from it.  I call it “Grow Where You Are planted”.

Sometimes we may not like where we are planted.  We find the soil is too hard, the nutrients are

lacking and besides, the location doesn’t get enough sun.   What we usually do is complain that there is no opportunity here.  We say that the weather is awful and the people are too provincial or maybe too liberal.  We want to go to the city or maybe we want to go to the country. It doesn’t really matter.  You are where you are and you must learn to manage yourself right in this spot.  What a thought?  Often clients come to me because they want to change locations.  They have outgrown an area, a relationship, a job or even a house.  All they know

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Managing Yourself Rather than Your Time

No matter how challenging or changing  are the times, it will be your attitude that will deliver you to happiness or despair.  It is

important to control your attitude and you must learn how to do this.  We invest all this time, energy and money into “feel good” endeavors yet we have not learned how to manage ourselves or our attitudes.

Abraham Lincoln said long ago that a person is as happy as he/she makes up his mind to be.  If you can learn this simple truth, you will never be at the mercy of outer circumstances.  Jobs, people, health, freedom, money, houses may come and go but it will be up to you to manage yourself through these circumstances.  Become aware of the affects of the world on your mind.  What is it doing to you?  Do you know?  What have you allowed to happen to you by your …

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