Yearly Archives: 2009

The thing about goals…


posted in Heart of RichThinking, Inspirational Quotes

Someone forwarded this to me today. It’s from Seth Godin’s blog (he of marketing guru fame).

“Having goals is a pain in the neck.

If you don’t have a goal (a corporate goal, a market share goal, a personal career goal, an athletic goal…) then you can just do your best. You can take what comes. You can reprioritize on a regular basis. If you don’t have a goal, you never have to worry about missing it. If you don’t have a goal you don’t need nearly as many excuses, either.

Not having a goal lets you make a ruckus, or have more fun, or spend time doing what matters right now, which is, after all, the moment in which you are living.

The thing about goals is that (more...)

Changing from poor thinking to rich


posted in Heart of RichThinking, Jane's Blog

At last, I am feeling better, better enough to post here. I’ve been lost in the Land of the Black Hole, where there is no air, no space, no light. No perspective, no love, no connection with anyone or anything else. Along with all this goes fear.

So how did I get out of it? First, I had to acknowledge I was in it. That happened last night. Then, getting out of the hole. Over the years I’ve gathered around me a number of different methods to help me get out of these holes; last night (well, 4.00am to be precise), I threw the I Ching. The words I received with this divination tool were like a blast of fresh air which swooped down into the hole, and out again, (more...)

The emptiness of New Year’s resolutions


posted in Past Newsletters

RichThinking Times Issue 3

Hi and welcome to 2009!

Well, originally I was going to be in touch with you well before now, suggesting you review the old year, set goals for the coming year, and generally focus on how to bring more riches and rich thoughts into your life in 2009. However, as I said in a short blog a few days ago:

How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans!

Well, he/she must have been having a good laugh, because the day after Christmas I was stricken with flu and today is the first day really that I’ve felt well enough to do anything. So here’s a shortened version of my plans, maybe they’re better than the old set!

May you and your family have a truly rich year; may you (more...)

The emptiness of New Year’s Resolutions


posted in Articles

I wonder why it is that so often New Year’s Resolutions are set and then not achieved? The failure rate of achieving them is spectacularly high, unlike other types of goal setting. Why is this?

My take on this is informed by many years of having a successful counselling and psychotherapy practice, where clients would regularly be admitting to me their dreadful secret: they hated Christmas, didn’t want to go ‘home’, and secretly wished the whole thing would go to pot!

But off they would go, grin and bear it, and then emerge into January with all sorts of good intentions, perhaps borne out of relief that they’d survived another Christmas.

New Year Resolutions made in this context are likely not to work, simply because they’re built on (more...)

Starting 2009 with no plans


posted in Jane's Blog

Do you know that old joke:

How do you make God laugh?
Tell him your plans!
It’s been happening for me over the Christmas and New Year period. I’d intended to post blogs, send out emails, draft the first newsletter of 2009 and get it sent out on the 1st January — and what happens? I get flu.

Really badly.

So I haven’t done any of those things, and although I’m much better now, hence the post, I have to take it easy, so all of those above things will happen, just much more slowly.

So watch this space and read later on about how it’s a great thing to have to listen to your body instead of your mind, how everything that happens in your life is part (more...)

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