The Money Principle Brain Teaser: what are your fears for the year ahead?
Last week I asked about hopes for the year ahead and shared mine. This week, I would like to turn and face some demons – these are the incapacitating fears that paralyse us and prevent us from being all that we could be.
Facing our fears head on is much recommended by the self-help and motivation literature. In fact, one the most useful and powerful exercises suggested by Tim Ferriss (sorry, was going to link to Tim’s site but my computer tells me that it has been reported as an attack page) in his book The 4-Hour Work Week, I find, is the one involving writing your worst nightmares down and then considering what could be done if they materialise. I did it and was amazed by how transferring the fear from my head on a piece of paper (OK, on screen if we are to be precise) completely disabled it.
Fear, though, has the ability the morph and re-surface; so, I thought that the time has come for another go – this time my question is only about formulating fears.
The question is:
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The Money Principle Brain Teaser: what are your hopes for the year ahead?
This past couple of weeks I have been noticing that my mind has started to dwell far too often and for far too long on images of angst and worry. This in turn is affecting my whole life: my dream patterns are disrupted, my working schedule shot, my effectiveness diminishing and my efficiency…well, this is becoming really embarrassing.
I have read on how to deal with such situations, of course I have! After all, I am the kind of person who when visiting the Gulf read books about it rather than going out to explore the sea and the desert. Logically, though, it seems to me that there are two pure ways to ‘tame your mind’: one is to redirect attention and create a habit of focusing on what you want and your hopes, and the other one to face your fear the Yoda way.
The question for today is:
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100 words on bringing up children
Being a parent can be a daunting experience. Most parents worry most of the time about whether they are doing ‘the right thing’. Like in other areas of life we tend to worry about the wrong thing. I agree with Umberto Eco who said that all children start their life worshiping their parents and end up blaming them for all that is wrong with their lives.
The Money Principle’s take on bringing up children:
Irrespective of what you do, your children are likely to end up in therapy. Since it is impossible to ‘do the right thing’ make sure that you enjoy bringing them up!
100 words on life-work balance
People often have problems balancing life and work. Working long hours, even when we enjoy what we do, is proven to damage our health; this also means that ‘our labour can’t reproduce itself’. Put simply, we have no time to rest and we have no time to brush up on, and develop new, knowledge and skills.
Conversely, when we don’t work enough life and having fun can become hard work.
Resolving the balance between your life and your work by work becoming your life is probably the wrong way to go. Why not try to make life your work?
