From sewing on a button to changing a flat tire, there are things that it is handy to know. Is there a basic skill that you never learned?
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Month: July 2022
How Do You Maintain Hope?
Maintaining hope is an important skill for anyone. When bad things happen — and they are bound to eventually — hope keeps us going. When times are particularly difficult, how can you avoid becoming despondent? How do you maintain hope?
A positive attitude allows for a better life. It can give you confidence, and in turn that confidence allows yo top make changes that will hopefully be for the better. Improvement in your life circumstances is dependent on efforts to improve. And those efforts, in turn, depend on trusting that things can, in fact, get better.
Listen to a podcast where Michael and Lee discuss a related question: ‘What are you optimistic about?’ We also discuss a bonus question: ‘What makes a tradition?’
In that regard, hope is one of the most important feelings. It is through hopefulness that all else becomes possible.
However, there are times when it is very difficult to stay hopeful. In the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, for example. Or after a long series of setbacks. If you don’t see much growth or improvement, it is easy to become cynical.
So what can you do to combat this? What behaviors or techniques can you employ to keep hope alive in seemingly hopeless times?
Related questions: Why should we be hopeful? How can we maintain wonder? Optimistic or pessimistic? What are you optimistic about? When do you need inspiration?
Treatment Or Prevention?
The old saying says, “A ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Is that really true? How often do you seek treatment, versus practicing prevention?
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What Is Your Go-To Comfort Food?
Everyone needs to eat their feelings every once and awhile. When the mood strikes, what is your favorite comfort food?
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How Do You Demonstrate Your Values?
We all have values that we live our lives by. How do you live those values? What do you to do demonstrate them?
An individual, a company, or a country has values that are important to them. These can may be openly stated, or simply internal. Nonetheless, they exist and are on display.
The first, and most common, value is self-preservation. You want to continue to go on living, preferably improving your lot in life as you go along. In extreme situations, some of us may choose to give up our lives for something we value even more, but that is unusual, to say the least.
Listen to a podcast where Michael and Lee discuss a related question: ‘How do you define success?’ We also discuss a bonus question: ‘Is happiness the most important purpose in life?’
Beyond self-preservation, the values we could possibly have can be many. And the sum total of all possible ones among the population of the earth is truly staggering.
Some may value family and friends, and connections with others. Others, perhaps money and luxury. Perhaps what motivates you is justice, for yourself and others.
Of course, you can have more than one competing for your attention. The reasoning about what to do in any given situation can involve a complicated, complex series of considerations, in order to satisfy your many values as closely as possible.
As an individual, do you know what your values are? What actions or behaviors do you perform on a daily, monthly, or annual basis to live by those values? How do you demonstrate them?
Related questions: What gives a person value? Is value intrinsic or relative? What are your values? How do you set priorities? What is important?