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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
At harvest time, my mind inevitably turns to ‘cycles.’ Life is full of cycles, and harvest is the closing of one of them. The harvest cycle begins with an intention, the intention to grow a crop, and it ends with the actual harvest. In between there was soil preparation, seeding, watering, weeding, etc. Seeing the cycle through to completion took work and a lot of patience and simply ‘allowing.’
Categories: Happiness, Self Growth
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Tags: cycle, cycles, harvest, harvest time, life, life cycles
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Stay focused on what you want. If you find yourself focusing on what you don’t want, whether it be lack of money, loss of friends, illness, getting too fat or your adult children taking big risks, don’t be too hard on yourself. You are bombarded daily with negative media stories and advice telling you what not to do and what disasters may follow if you ignore the advice.
Categories: Alcoholism, Featured, Self Growth
| Tags: Alcoholism, drinking-and-driving, focusing, life enhancement, Neill Neill, Self Growth, stay focused
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
There are two kinds of control over other people: wisdom-based control and fear-based control. The most obvious example of wisdom-based control is in child rearing. You are in total control of your infant child. You help your child grow up healthy and confident by controlling their learning environment. You teach through words and example and you often say no…then there is fear-based control…
Categories: Marriage, Parenting, Self Growth
| Tags: child rearing, controlling, management, Marriage, relationships
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
The relationship between your past and your present is complex. Your experiences, particularly early life experiences, have affected profoundly who you are today. There is no such being as an a-historical person.
Categories: Self Growth
| Tags: identity, life-experiences, past and present, past is past
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
It’s vacation time. Two days from now you have about 1 ½ weeks off work. You, your spouse and two teens are heading off on a camping road trip. You find yourself working like crazy to get ready — there are so many details to think of and organize — and you find yourself wondering why you ever agreed to this type of family vacation.
Categories: Parenting, Self Growth
| Tags: family, family vacation, laughter, vacation
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