Do you check your closet, or look under year bed before turning out the light? Are there monsters lurking around the corner?
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Month: October 2022
What Can You Learn From Loss?
We all have loss in our lives. While we can’t control that loss, we can control how we react to it. We can learn from loss.
It is important to learn from our experiences throughout our lives. After all, the only way to grow and improve, is to learn from what happens to you. While it is possible to learn from your successes and from your wins, the opportunity for self-improvement is much greater from your failures and from your losses.
When you lose someone close to you, or someone who meant a lot to you, the initial inclination is to be sad. That makes sense. The person is no longer around to make you laugh. Or to inspire you. Or simply to sit and talk with.
However, there is a better way to honor their memory. When the person was alive, you learned from them. If you make a list — an actual, enumerated list of the lessons you learned from talking with, listening to, or watching them, it will help you feel gratitude that they were in your life.
That’s one type of learning. In addition, dealing with loss can help you learn about yourself. How do you react to sadness? How do you process grief? How do you commiserate with others?
Loss is a great time for introspection. What can you learn from loss?
Related questions: How do you deal with loss? When is is useful to fail? Why are people afraid of death?
Shopping: In Person Or Online?
With the click of a mouse, you can shop for something and have it delivered to your door. Or do you prefer to do your shopping in person?
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What Is Your Favorite Vacation?
Whether it is lounging on a beach or exploring an old city, your favorite vacation says a lot about you. What is yours?
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What Was Your Last Big Change?
In order to keep improving, things need to change. Some changes are big; some small.What was the last big change in your life?
There seems to be something hardwired in human beings that makes us adverse to change. We like to get into a comfortable routine, and stay there.
This might seem to be for the best in the present, but in order to grow, change is necessary. Even though that may make us uncomfortable, it is necessary.
Listen to a podcast where Michael and Lee discuss a related question: ‘What are you willing to sacrifice?’ We also discuss a bonus question: ‘What do you believe?’
Change can come in all sorts of forms. You might start a new job, or get married, or buy something expensive. Those things might be classified as big changes.
Some things, though, may not seem very big. They might seem positively puny. And yet, in the end, that tiny change might end up having an out-sized impact. Can you think of examples from your life?
So, you can define “big” in any way you like. However you define it, what was your last big change?
Related questions: How have you changed? What makes change possible? Change or status quo? How can you change your attitude? Can people change?