You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated - send to [email protected] ----------- Article Title: Joy Strategies: from No to Yes in 7 Words Author: James Burgess Category: goal setting Word Count: 459 Keywords: spiritual, coaching Author's Email Address: [email protected] Article Source: http://www.7wordsassociates.org/psychology_spotlight.php The article is preformatted to 65CPL.
------------------ ARTICLE START ------------------ Joy Strategies This is unacceptable! Use these words: what, when, where, who, and how, to create for yourself an exact detailed statement of one particular aspect of your circumstances that you want to change. I wonder what options there are? Expand your view of possibility by brainstorming all the factors, discuss it with friends and colleagues, take advice from experts, read books, surf the web, think, meditate and fantasize. Just find a way to get your thinking `outside the box'. This option feels better Perhaps several of the scenarios you imagine will be attractive in different ways. Try to feel how it will be if you put yourself into them. Notice which feelings are awakenedif not the heart, then think again. Okay, let's go for it! Sometimes the urge to act is strong and self-propelling: a compelling motivation has been awakened and out of this everything flows energetically. Without such a condition then you'll have to use willso try to locate that part of you that is powerfully enthusiastic, which needs no force of will and simply moves spontaneously towards the promise of joy. Let's do exactly this shall we? Create a beautiful, written statement of what you choose for yourself in exquiste inspiring detail. Include in it others who will also enjoy the fruits of your creation, and will care and cooperate in its realization Due care and attention Spend a moment to consider anyone at all who will be or may be put out by your succesand pray for their circumstances too in finding an adjustment that improves Que sera sera It's all part of life's rich tapestry: a game of love, truth and joyso let what comes come! It's okay; it's all okay. At first sight the No word might be thought daunting. It's usually the wrong answernot what we want to hearthe response that stops us in our tracks. Or equally, the word we would rather not have to say to someone else because it's not what they want either. It may mean bother. It indicates refusals, rejection, absence and denial also resistance, disagreement and oppositionand a string of other things that are often directly contrary to our sense of what we want. And yet how could we learn without it? Without constraint, what is freedom? Without scarcity, what is abundance? Without selfhood, there would be no relationship. These aspects of human experience actually derive from the fact of limitationas do compassion, patience, rationality and disciplinebecause they wouldn't be needed in a world without it. Learning and growing are punctuated again and again by No. We are stopped from taking a wrong direction, we rethink and reorient ourselves and then continue, having become a little wiser perhaps. Free Questionnaires and Mini Courses are available on the 7 Words website (http://www.7words.co.uk), interactive fun with the "satisfaction index calculator" at http://www.7wordsassociates.org/psychology_spotlight.php ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------
