You weren’t invited to the party.
You didn’t qualify to the championship meet.
You were rejected from your first choice college.
You didn’t get the job.
All of these are disappointing moments in a person’s life. And I certainly know that when you are disappointed you feel sad, maybe even a little sorry for yourself that things didn’t go your way. After a little while of licking your wounds, you might begin the post-mortim, dissecting every ...
I don’t trust myself. As a result, I consistently plan for failure. To be clear, I don’t plan to fail, but I plan my reaction to failure and actions when it inevitably occurs.
In fact, I am a huge believer in planning for failure. Yes, that goes against the positive thinking model that stresses thinking optimistically in order to achieve the result or goal we are striving to reach. And, while I agree that an optimistic outlook is useful in helping ...
Over the past few weeks, our USAG Optional teams and USAG Rhythmic teams have been competing in their respective state meets. To be crowned a state champion is a huge honor and an awesome achievement, to be sure. That athlete is crowned “the best.” JAG is very pleased to announce that JAG athletes earned 14 said titles. But what often strikes me when reviewing the results is the quite often the person who made the most progress or overcame the largest challenge may not be ...
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.” -Mae West
Recently, I have been doing a good amount of reading on the topic of willpower. A couple of the book I enjoyed were The Willpower Instinct: How Self Control Works, Why it Mattersby Kelly McGonigal, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy Bauermeister and The Skinny on Willpower: How to Develop Self Discipline by Jim Randel.
My fascination with the topic is two-fold. First, I took the VIA Survey of Character ...
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