September 18, 2010
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Nuns and Change
Fun book. Too bad I don’t have time to read it. I just like to sap all the good information out.
“Only Nuns Change Habits Overnight” by Karen Scalf Linamen
52 Amazing ways to master the art of personal change
1. Learn from the past
2. Draw your own onion: list changes you want to make, from easiest to hardest
3. Revisit those ashes (of dreams/relationships/ideas that died)
4. Don’t despise small changes
5. Make a list of your doorways (things that cause discontent/pain–these are doorways to change)
6. Lay a brick today (write down a couple castles in the air. write 10 things you could do as bricks for a foundation for that castle. Circle one and do it today.)
7. Keep your dreams in front of you. Like on the wall.
8. Color outside the lines. Think about why you DON’T do things. Is there a real reason?
9. Inspire yourself. What inspires you? Expose yourself to that this week.
10. Make it official. That change? Make the decision. Now.
11. Make one ironclad decision today
12. Turn an idea into a decision
13. Tell a cheerleader. or someone like it.
14. Watch an inspiring movie (mine would be “Life is Beautiful”)
15. Expose yourself to bigger ideas
16. Leave your world and visit someone else’s for a while
17. Take a class
18. Borrow some great habits. Find six people who have made the change you want to make and ask them how.
19. Build on past success
20. Name one thing you would love to change
21. Keep a journal
22. Practice the three Ds to form a new habit: Decide, Discipline, Determination
23. Go overboard
24. Disrupt a well-worn rut
25. Get your ducks in a row
26. Read “Eat that Frog!” by Brian Tracy…about getting “addicted” to the feeling of accomplishment
27. Take advantage of a to-do list (a really cool one is at www.karenlinamen.com , download the amazing to-do list)
28. Don’t ask, “Why?” Ask, “What?” Not “Why am i putting this off?” but “What emotion do i feel when i think about tackling this project?”
29. Try the sitcom solution: devote 30 minutes a day to your change
30. Disengage your brain. Stop over thinking
31. Hire an antiprocrastination assistant
32. Take baby steps
33. Try something new today
34. Brainstorm new approaches
35. Recognize the upside of failure
36. Ban the phrase “I’m a failure” from your vocabulary
37. Memorize this: “Finish each day and be done with it.”
38. Ask yourself “So what can I do?”
39. Pray
40. Keep track of God’s activity–what He’s done in your life
41. Weigh yourself–what is weighing you down? let go
42. Tell yourself you are not a victim
43. Decide, starting today, that you won’t be held back
44. Show your emotions who is boss
45. Out with the bad, in with God
46. Have some faith
47. Write affirmations on the bathroom mirror
48. Read a really great book
49. Create your own adversity-buster resume
50. Create a slogan sign for your change
51. Read Psalm 57
52. Train them dogs (you know, the white dog/black dog that you feed one and it is stronger so it wins…)
She also wrote a book called “Sometimes i wake up grumpy…and sometimes i let him sleep.” it is pretty funny stuff.
Comments (6)
Saved this. I need to get back into self-help stuff, and this is a great way to start! I’m back writing on Xanga now too
and I need to respond to your FB message, sorry I’m so bad at replying to messages!
@GreekPhysique - welcome back! missed you:). i like self-help stuff probably a little too much, but oh well.
this is an amazing list. I’m printing it out. wow!!! thank you
Very inspiring… I’m copying this so I can print it!
@Passionflwr86 -
You should read the book:) she is a funny writer, with good insights!
@spokenfor -
I was pretty excited about it myself. too bad it wasn’t my ideas. grin