Let me just tell you one thing first. This is easier said than done.

There is a great post at Life Clever about flipping your thoughts, but I believe before you can flip your thoughts you first need to be aware of your thoughts. You need to be able to interrupt yourself when you’re experiencing negative thoughts and feelings, and this can be tricky. You might find yourself keeping up with this for a few days, but then you get stuck into something that frustrates or annoys you, or gets you experience some sort of negative thought that you forget to interrupt and flip.

In a presentation I once saw or heard by Tony Robbins, he speaks of undertaking a 1 week trial of positive thoughts. The idea is to only think positive thoughts for one week. This doesn’t mean though that you don’t think anything bad, but as soon a negative thought pops into your head, you immediately interrupt yourself and flip your thought into something positive. And, like I said, this can be challenging, as it means you need to be constantly aware of your thoughts and feelings.

I don’t have problems flipping my thoughts, but I definitely struggle at catching myself when I am in a negative state.

The key to personal development, or any sort of life skill for that matter, is consistency and perseverance, I believe. Unfortunately I’ve been rather slacking in the consistency department lately, when it comes to this blog.
As I mentioned before, I started on my “one-sentence journal”, however that didn’t turn out as easy to keep up as I hoped, but then again I’ve never been much of a journal person. Blogging is my journal.

And to get to the point of this post, so that I don’t just go on blabbing about nothing, there is a few links I’d like to share with you all which I’ve found especially share worthy.

There wass a post from ProBlogger recently which I found especially succinct in explaining my situation on this blog at the moment. When it feels like nobody’s reading your blog

Also, If you haven’t seen the following flash videos from Possibility Virus, I highly recommend you watch them . They’re quite inspirational and highly entertaining

• The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
• 5.75 Questions You’ve Been Avoiding

Have fun.

I recently found out about a LifeRemix from Guy Kawasaki’s Blog. LifeRemix is “a band of bloggers who enrich people’s lives through blogging” and looks a nice resource for people, like me, who are on a journey of continuous personal development and learning.

Anyway, one of the articles aggregated on LifeRemix, and highlighted by Guy, struck me as worth mentioning, as it is something I will try myself. The author of The Happiness Project Blog, Gretchen Rubin, wrote a post about starting her daily “one-sentence journal“, saying

The idea of keeping a proper journal was far too daunting, so I decided instead to keep a “one-sentence journal.”

which I think is kinda how I feel as well. I initially started this blog to journal my experiences, thoughts and feelings on a daily basis, but found it rather difficult to write about something worthwhile telling people everyday or even once every few days. But I still want to remember these times, I don’t want to look back 10, 20 years from now and think, what was I doing? So a one or two sentences at the end of the day is really simple and doable, and since I’ve already dedicated the last 1-2 hours of my days to practicing my writing and reading, this extra thing would fit right in with my current habit.

I’m not sure I’ll post each daily “one-sentence” here on my blog, since I don’t think it of much value to you, but I might post something after a week of my combined one-sentence journal entries, if looks interesting enough and you’re interested.

In our latest VeloCITI program group discussion session we had this week we spoke about Understanding, or more specifically the principle from 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that to be understood you first need to understand. What is the correlation between this and psychological air you might ask? Or better yet what is psychological air?

Let me explain the latter first.

We all pay attention most to what we most urgently need. Let’s say, for example, the air was to be sucked out of the room you were in at the moment. Very soon you won’t be thinking of anything else but getting air, you’re not going to be listening to anything I say, your only thought would be to get air.

Now the same thing is true for feeling understood. We all have the need for people to listen to us, to understand us. Not necessarily so that they can give advice or help us, but sometimes just so that we don’t feel alone, we have someone to understands and is with us, on our side.

If you want to people to listen to you, to understand you, you first need to understand them. Give them the psychological air they need, and they will be free and open to listen to what you have to say and in turn understand you.