I am not a self help junkie, I am a how to write junkie, that is the first step to recovery. Thank you Anth I have read your blogs and have found inspiration in them.

Bruce chill! Life is full of things that annoy us, and really with all the horrible things happening in the world, why stress over a few errors. I can notice a spelling mistake a mile away but it doesn’t eat at me.

The essence of the writing the joy of taking each new blog and reading it throroughly and the replies, encouraging you, helping you, supporting you and you worry over a few errors. Your life must be really tough.

Loving your work Anth.

I like to remember that life is about experience and the ‘bad’ emotions are as much a part of that as the ‘good’. Without them what would life be.

Love your thought provoking ideas. Keep up the good work.

Also, Anth, I am getting lost with all different areas that one can read and enter your Blogs. They are all so interrelated. Any suggestions? I want to go back to the first e-mail, and lesson you sent and read through all the latest posts in each section.

I have been really tied up in detail and panic recently, over-stretched and very uncomfortable which led me into two thought streams on my walk to work by the sea (a vital time for getting back in touch with the bigger picture on the horizon every day). Yesterday I put some real energy into focussing back on my vision for my life, including my working life. Re-creating the picture as a way to inviting the good stuff back in. Today, lo and behold a call offering a highly skilled volunteer for 8 weeks next month. That’s the sort of response I like! Remembering that discomfort is often an indication that you have an opportunity to change a behaviour. This time is something about shifting from response and over work into planning and investment - a lot to change there, and if you can help make it easy Anth I’m up for it.

The blog is a great idea as the other thought I was mulling over is how we retain and refresh our belief and trust in our ability to transform our lives. I go through wonderful periods where my strength and joy comes from an absolute trust in each moment and suddenly I look up and find that’s gone and I’m back in anxiety and fear. Looking forward to reading other people’s thoughts and hearing more from you Anth. Thanks as always.

Thea

Great post and very thought provoking, here’s to life getting in the way of my final breath for a while yet.

Your post hints at the core of why I called my coaching practice Empirical Coaching. I believe that life is one long journey of exploration and the best way to learn and grow is to get up and live your life to the full. It’s been said by a lot of people but that doesn’t make it any less true that life is not a dress rehearsal – this is the main event. This is why for years I’ve been working with my clients encouraging them to learn to enjoy where they are while moving forward take action and learning on the way. Far too many people are putting off living their lives waiting until life gets easier. The truth is that life is a process and there will always be more to do so it’s important to learn to be happy where you are while working towards what you want.

As far as Take Control Today is concerned I will think about your feedback. The title is supposed to reflect taking control of your own mind and accepting personal responsibility for your life – which may seem a paradox with the above post but I’ll add more detail on that over the coming weeks.

This blog is about taking responsibility for your own life. The keys principles underlying this include recognising you can control of your own mind, learning to be happy now, while working towards what you want, living a life of passionate engagement and moving forwards taking action learning and having fun. While at the same time recognising we are social creatures living as part of the interdependent whole.

Thank you for sharing your passion for life,

Anth.

Lessons I have learned:

Someone above said, “Life gets in the way”! Try saying that with your final breath!Our attitude gets in the way, our lack of persistence gets in the way, our indecisiveness gets in the way, but Life- never.

Life is what it’s all about! Isn’t it!

Take control today! Is a mouth full! Scientists don’t control a lot. They are discoverers, they find, they identify, they label and they move on. Doctors don’t control many of the illnesses that are life threatening like meteorologists don’t control the weather and the list could go on ad infinitum!

To recognize, to discover and label does not mean to control. The very most we can hope for is to understand and try to accept or, failing that, to minimize the effect or maximize the defense, if you will. To iradicate is a very inept word, unless followed by the words “for now”. Iradicate simply means to render to a state of latency and latency, of course, is a temporary state. To control means to create an expectation which ,if not realized, will lead to discouragement or dissapointment which, in turn, leads to dissatisfaction and finally these interfere with that state we chose to call happiness!

Can we do better? Certainly we can! If that is what you are about then I say go for it! If it’s contol then think about the impact. What we humans attempt to control we mess up, we break , we pollute and we eventually destroy!

What we attempt to understand and preserve, in order to better serve others and ouselves, we leave to our fellow humans and to the generations we call posterity!

There are no weaknesses only opportunities! No mistakes, only lessons to be learned which add to our experience and act as reminders of actions we wish to attempt to avoid or which we wish to add to our repetoire and to cherish as useful. This choice is what sometimes makes the difference. We need to learn to make better choices. Life supporting and life endearing choices

My apologies for the length of the dissertation- but not for my passion for LIFE and the discovery and sharing of the true and present value of every human being

Have a happy day!

John