notes from Janey . . .
I didn’t grow up in an overly demonstrative family. I don’t remember my parents ever saying to me, “I love you.” But the thing is, I never doubted their love for me. They didn’t have to say it. Instead, they showed me on a daily basis how much I meant [...]

Source:Love Around the Edges

Warrior Manager - Free Tele-Seminar April 20, 2010

Over the last few months I have been working with “The Institute For Human Potential” (IFHP) in developing the Warrior Manager program. The reason for the collaboration is to provide to you both knowledge and tools that will impact dramatically employee engagement, productivity and performance.

As you might expect, one of the questions that kept cropping up during interviews with key industry leaders was “What is a Warrior Manager? Is it a same as program, or is it something new and do I have to do anything physical?”

notes from Janey . . .
A car passed us one day while Tupelo and I were driving across the southeastern desert of the U.S. in our motorhome, Bailey. As it zoomed by I caught a glimpse of the bumper sticker on its tail end. “Celebrate Diversity,” it read. “Ooh, I like that,” I said, and [...]

Source:Celebrating Our Diversity

Are you bored with your work, your relationship or your life?

Being bored is a state of mind when you are fed up and sick of what’s going on or the lack of activity around you. Complacency also contributes to feeling bored. Boredom becomes a great concern when it results in procrastination, indecision and feeling listless and jaded.

The best way to avoid feeling bored is to make your life interesting by not sticking to too many routines. Another way is by making daily progress in everything that you do. You need to pay attention to you thoughts and daily activities and find ways not to submit yourself to drudgery and taking things for granted.

Here are a few tips to overcome boredom.

• Change your thoughts.
  

Your thoughts affect your behavior. By changing your mind about the meaning of your emotion and experiences, you will generate a different attitude.

• Get inspired with powerful long-range goals.
  

Powerful goals keep you inspired. You can?t feel bored at the same time when you are motivated to build a life.

• Fire up your imagination.
  

Create mental images to stimulate your thoughts. Visualize where you want to be and what you want to become. Use your imagination to experience a situation that you want to happen in your life. The wonderful thing about imagination is you can create anything you wish to experience.

• Go through some motions.
  

Change your physiology. Go for a walk or do something physically outrageous. Write down 10 things you can do and start something from your list to overcome your inertia.

• Journal your feelings and thoughts.
  

One of the ways to become aware of what triggers your boredom is to question yourself and take a hard look at it. Observe and write down your feelings and thoughts for a week and at the end of it, reflect on them.

• Create curiosity.
  

Create your curiosity on what?s happening around and inside you. You find life boring because of the repetition or a pattern of some habits or activities. Try to look at and do them differently and get yourself fascinated with other options and possibilities.

• Find something exciting, stimulating and entertaining.
  

Read, hear, watch or do something stimulating, exciting, and entertaining. Go out, see and experience new things.

• Avoid boring people and situations.
  

Get away from people and situations that bore you. You can?t just walk out of a relationship but you can give yourself some space to do things that interest and motivate.

notes from Janey . . .
It’s been over 35 years since I flew to Europe by myself in 1973. My travel legs are steadier now. My armor is thicker, my patience packed deeper. I’ve endured much since then. Rank smells, huge bugs in my bed, outdoor meat markets and hordes of flies. I’ve been smashed [...]

Source:The Art of Traveling

I’m normaly asked, what do I need to do after breakup even if I’m still crazy about a guy? My reply has always been this, what do you want to do? I can see that this is not the solution you’ve expected but it’s odd that a person you used to dear so much, the one you sacrificed your soul, turns out offending you the most. As they say, ‘love is painful’ even if it’s good someday you’ll pay for it.

notes from Janey . . .
It’s winter in Wyoming. The mercury in the thermometer has headed south, not to warmer climes but diving below zero into teeth-chattering cold. The clear mountain creek and bare limbed trees out our dining room window have been changing every day. The recent cold plays with the water as if [...]

Source:Thawing Your Inner Spirit