Transitions2success

Greetings – thanks for coming back!

Well, what does self-esteem have to do with being successful? Can you be a success if your self-image is rotten? What do youthink? What is the level of your self-image? Are you successful?

Last time I mentioned a book by Dr. Joe Robino about self-esteem. However, I left you hanging, because I didn’t explain much about it or tell you how to get it. This book will make a difference in your life. Dr. Joe’s book is “The Self-Esteem Book: The Ultimate Guide to Boost the Most Underrated Ingredient for Success and Happiness in Life”. (Long subtitle, huh?)

It is a refreshing, easy-to-read guide that presents an effective step-by-step formula for improving your own self-esteem. A healthy level of self-esteem is so important to living a good life, free of regrets, conflicts and worries. Dr. Rubino, in his research, found out that only about 15 percent of us have sufficient self-esteem to be able to live life successfullly. That is incredible and disturbing.

Lacking self-esteem is often so hidden that we aren’t even aware of it. It comes out most in emotionally charged situations. And these situations are responsible for determining the quality of our lifes. It is crucially important to being all you can be and feeling successful in the quality of every area of your life. We’ll continue this discussion next time, but if you have some thoughts, feel free to post them.

Dr. Joe offers a free recording about self-esteem for taking the time to look at the information on his site.

Yes, I am an affiliate for this program, but primarily because I feel it is a vital topic for us all. Feel free to take a look and get the free recording. See if it is something that would be valuable for your life and your movement toward feeling successful.

Blessings,
Dr. Kary

Hey there,
Just a very short post to let you know that I’m back in gear. Hooray! Had lots of computer troubles, then got a new computer. Took quite a while to get up to speed. Let me know what has been happening to you since the last post and what you’d like to know. What success have you had? Looking forward to ‘talking’ to you again.
Dr. Kary

Did you think any more about those goals? What would you like your life to be like? Are you living from paycheck to paycheck? Or even unemployed? The economy is truly frightening right now. There are answers to keeping your private economy in good shape.

And,there are ways to achieve the goals that you hopefully listed. However, it is hard to attain goals when you don’t know what they are. The place to start is to do some intensive thinking about where you want to be five or ten years from now (physically or financially or even emotionally).

There’s a great packet by Gabor Olah that will take some serious study. As soon as I figure out how to do it(!!), I’ll offer it to you as a freebie. He is tough and doesn’t let you get away with only half-serious answers. I’ve read the article, now I need to do the work. He offers worksheets to go with it and points out that it doesn’t do much good to just read it and go on about your way! So, my next goal is to study, think and fill out the work-sheets he provides. Yikes! That won’t get done in half an hour.

And, I did promise you a funny! (I print these up and give them to my mother-in-law to take to Senior Citizens group.) Here are some definitions for success:     

•  At age 4 success is …..not piddling in your pants
• At age 12 success is …..having friends
• At age 17 success is …..having a drivers license
• At age 35 success is …..having money
• At age 50 success is …..having money
• At age 70 success is …..having a drivers license
• At age 75 success is …..having friends
• At age 80 success is …..not piddling in your pants

Enough for today. Hope you are thinking about your goals and what is success for you. So many people are hanging on by their shoestrings, and I sure hope that doesn’t include you. Let me know what your goals are.

Well, what about success? Your success and mine are different. Your success might be to drive that new Beamer or to have that big house on the hill. It might be to fire your boss, or to pay the rent, or feed your fourteen kids!  (Just kidding!)

Do you want to hear mine? I’ve achieved some of my successes. I went to college beginning in my forties, and finally have finished my doctorate in psychology. That’s neat! (But I’m still paying for it!) And another success that I’m proud of is raising my four sons (on my own) who are responsible citizens and good parents. Now I have four wonderful daughters-in-law, and eight beautiful grandchildren. Yay!

However, even though I’m retired, there are still things I’d like to accomplish with the rest of my life. I’d like to make lots of money, buy a new Subaru, pay off my debts (!!!), help my kids, and along the way – help some other folks make some money too. With the economy the way it is right now, there are lots of people who really need a boost.

What goals do you have for your life? Where would you like to be in one year; in five years; in ten years? What will it take to achieve those goals. How do you go about determining what you want your life to be?

Think about it – and leave me a comment. I have a “funny” for you, so tune in tomorrow.