Author: Luis Velasquez

How to build a new habit, the easy way

I recently read a book,  Mini habits by Stephen Guise.    His premise is simple; before we can rely on a habit, we need to train it.   How do you train a habit? According to Guise, the worst thing we could do to start or adopt a habit is making it hard to sustain.   If you want to become a writer, for example, and you commit to writing 4000 words a day.   Or if you're going to start an exercise routine, you commit to exercising 60 minutes a day.   Face it that sounds hard….  I always wanted to adopt the habit of creating content, to write every day.   But my goals were big, 1000 or more words, researched, published, SEO optimized.. it took for ever..  so the habit never stuck. In his book, Guise suggests that to rely on the habit, we need to train it first.  And the way to do that is to make the requirement so small that there was no excuse to skip it.    If you want to for a habit of exercising every day, why not commit to doing just one push up?,  if I want to write every day, why not start with only one word.   I committed to writing every day, with a minimum of 50 words.    The idea is that when you start...

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To transform anything, reframe it.

One characteristic of resilient individuals is to see opportunities where others see catastrophe.  They can reframe things.  They see things in a way that changes the way they think and operate. The great French mathematician Blaise Pascal said: “Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.” It seems he had in mind something similar, the key to transforming anything lies in our ability to see the ordinary with new eyes, to reframe it.    For further details regarding unwanted cheapest viagra from india effects or all other aspects of the body is healthy, although the clinical thought prostatitis can cause premature ejaculation, but the evidence is mere circumstantial. The Difficulties of ED Men who suffer from erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation. order levitra online Reiki viagra 100 mg http://downtownsault.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Paint-Party-on-Portage_UP4Health-Challenge.pdf has solutions to all such mistakes. Illegal Drugs Narcotics and tranquilizers are known as downers as these medicines increase the sexual lowest price for tadalafil interest, but impair the sexual health. To change the way we think we must change the way we see is the core message of an HBR article.    Apple’s popular tag “Think Different” was obviously very successful, and it is a call to action for all of us to see the world with a different perspective and find better ways to add value to the world. Martin Luther King said, “I...

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How are we affecting change?

There is a beautiful quote I recently read. “We spend a lot of time solving problems, when we should be spending more time finding solutions.” Many of us consider ourselves problem solvers.    We see a problem and go into problem-solving mode.  That is an excellent competence to have,    but on many occasions 1- the problem is not for us to solve alone. 2- the problem is not ours to solve 3- the problem cannot be solved now Antioxidants such as vitamin C, cleanses your cialis fast delivery blood from the consumed food. Most of them are included cialis 40 mg in the websites navigation and do not look at all natural, clearly against Google's and Matt Cutts recommendations. You levitra viagra need to be really careful with the dosage and other additional information. Most of the men in the age group of 60 to 80 years are unable to either get the erection unica-web.com viagra online buy or hold the erection for the complete love act. Take the events that are happening in the world right now.  From Covid-19 to racial inequality.   Those two problems fall in the categories above, so what can we do about them? First, we need to understand what we can control and what we cannot.  And then take action in the realm of our possibilities. For me, the biggest worry in my mind, which...

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Megan’s Lesson on Resilience and Adaptation

A 10-year-old named Megan says to her mom,  “mom when I grow up, I want to help cure brain cancer.”    The mom replied…. “What do you have in mind?  Do you want to be a doctor, a nurse,  a researcher?”   No, Megan said, “ I want to use my art skills to raise money for the research others are doing.” Being a brain tumor survivor myself, I was incredibly touched by Megan’s story as told by her mom.   Megan lost her father to brain cancer, and at such a tender age she was turning her grief...

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I Own it, and I Take Responsibility, Do You?

I own it, it is fate, it is destiny, are three ways I have heard people describe their current situation.  Fate is what we do if we don’t deliberately choose a path, destiny is our potential waiting to happen.  I own it, is taking responsibility for our own destiny and making it happen. I remember the day when I decided that I was going to take responsibility for my own destiny.  It was on a run actually,  a run that lasted longer that I had anticipated.   I had been dealing with the horrible consequences of recovering from my...

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