Why being a glass half full person is a good thing
Are you a glass half empty kind of person?
The phrase is used to describe pessimists and people who have a negative outlook on life.
I have from time to time been described as a glass half empty kind of person.
I like to think of myself as an optimistic, positive person. I believe that when people put their minds to it they can achieve amazing things.
But sometimes I find it too easy to be critical. Finding fault in things is my weakness, and sometimes it is mistaken for negativity and I get the “glass half empty” label. But it is only when we are dissatisfied with things that things change, and improve. Improvement tends to be because of the “glass half empty” people
The glass half full people are happy, contented with life, pleased with the status quo. You can’t expect them to change anything, why should they when things are fine.
Why change things if you already think the glass is half full?
Why wouldn’t you change things if you think the glass is only half empty.
Be proud of being a glass half empty person. We need people who are not content with the way things are, All progress is dependant on them.
George Bernard Shaw said it better than me when he said,“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
jayant singh
pgdm IIIRD
Monday, May 11, 2009
Why being a glass half full person is a good thingPosted:
Why being a glass half full person is a good thing
Are you a glass half empty kind of person?
The phrase is used to describe pessimists and people who have a negative outlook on life.
I have from time to time been described as a glass half empty kind of person.
I like to think of myself as an optimistic, positive person. I believe that when people put their minds to it they can achieve amazing things.
But sometimes I find it too easy to be critical. Finding fault in things is my weakness, and sometimes it is mistaken for negativity and I get the “glass half empty” label. But it is only when we are dissatisfied with things that things change, and improve. Improvement tends to be because of the “glass half empty” people
The glass half full people are happy, contented with life, pleased with the status quo. You can’t expect them to change anything, why should they when things are fine.
Why change things if you already think the glass is half full?
Why wouldn’t you change things if you think the glass is only half empty.
Be proud of being a glass half empty person. We need people who are not content with the way things are, All progress is dependant on them.
George Bernard Shaw said it better than me when he said,“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
jayant singh
pgdm IIIRD
Are you a glass half empty kind of person?
The phrase is used to describe pessimists and people who have a negative outlook on life.
I have from time to time been described as a glass half empty kind of person.
I like to think of myself as an optimistic, positive person. I believe that when people put their minds to it they can achieve amazing things.
But sometimes I find it too easy to be critical. Finding fault in things is my weakness, and sometimes it is mistaken for negativity and I get the “glass half empty” label. But it is only when we are dissatisfied with things that things change, and improve. Improvement tends to be because of the “glass half empty” people
The glass half full people are happy, contented with life, pleased with the status quo. You can’t expect them to change anything, why should they when things are fine.
Why change things if you already think the glass is half full?
Why wouldn’t you change things if you think the glass is only half empty.
Be proud of being a glass half empty person. We need people who are not content with the way things are, All progress is dependant on them.
George Bernard Shaw said it better than me when he said,“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
jayant singh
pgdm IIIRD
Why being a glass half full person is a good thingPosted:
Why being a glass half full person is a good thing
Are you a glass half empty kind of person?
The phrase is used to describe pessimists and people who have a negative outlook on life.
I have from time to time been described as a glass half empty kind of person.
I like to think of myself as an optimistic, positive person. I believe that when people put their minds to it they can achieve amazing things.
But sometimes I find it too easy to be critical. Finding fault in things is my weakness, and sometimes it is mistaken for negativity and I get the “glass half empty” label. But it is only when we are dissatisfied with things that things change, and improve. Improvement tends to be because of the “glass half empty” people
The glass half full people are happy, contented with life, pleased with the status quo. You can’t expect them to change anything, why should they when things are fine.
Why change things if you already think the glass is half full?
Why wouldn’t you change things if you think the glass is only half empty.
Be proud of being a glass half empty person. We need people who are not content with the way things are, All progress is dependant on them.
George Bernard Shaw said it better than me when he said,“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
jayant singh
pgdm IIIRD
Are you a glass half empty kind of person?
The phrase is used to describe pessimists and people who have a negative outlook on life.
I have from time to time been described as a glass half empty kind of person.
I like to think of myself as an optimistic, positive person. I believe that when people put their minds to it they can achieve amazing things.
But sometimes I find it too easy to be critical. Finding fault in things is my weakness, and sometimes it is mistaken for negativity and I get the “glass half empty” label. But it is only when we are dissatisfied with things that things change, and improve. Improvement tends to be because of the “glass half empty” people
The glass half full people are happy, contented with life, pleased with the status quo. You can’t expect them to change anything, why should they when things are fine.
Why change things if you already think the glass is half full?
Why wouldn’t you change things if you think the glass is only half empty.
Be proud of being a glass half empty person. We need people who are not content with the way things are, All progress is dependant on them.
George Bernard Shaw said it better than me when he said,“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
jayant singh
pgdm IIIRD
Why you will never get what you want.Posted:
How much do you desire your goals?
Desire is the fire in your belly that will get you where you want to go.Desire is one of the first steps to take towards any goal.
But not just any desire, this desire must be powerful to move mountains, or at least YOU!
Your desire must be able to modify your behaviour if you expect to reach your goal. For example, if your goal is to lose weight and your desire to achieve your goal is not strong enough to stop eating the wrong food, you will not lose weight. The key to this is your desire.
Your desire must mean sacrifice to get what you want.You see, most people do not succeed because people are not willing to sacrifice aspects of their lives.“I wish I could diet more but I really like burgers.”“I can’t exercise tonight, my favourite TV show is on.”When a person cannot give up a favourite TV for his goal, then the desire for that goal is too weak.
To achieve a life changing goal such as losing weight needs huge behavioural change. The desire to lose weight must be cultivated. You’ve got to want it. You must increase your desire until your desire will begin to change your behaviour.
You know your desire is serious when you cannot get to sleep at night because you are consumed with the thoughts of changing.When you miss meals because the thoughts of your desire enrapture you so much and leave your conscious mind room for little else.
Your desire must pull you from one state of being to another state of being. Your old state of being represents your bad habits and slack thoughts. The new state of being represents the changed you, the new you that is able to reach your goal. Remaining in your old state would have meant never reaching your goal.
Once you have reached your new state you will find reaching your goal takes no effort at all. It was the way your state of being that was holding you back. Once you realised you didn’t need the shackles, they just fell away.When desire is strong enough the path to your goal will seem easy, you will be carried along by your new state of mind, your subconscious flowing effortlessly before you defeating all obstacles in the path.
A man went to a man who had knowledge and asked to be taught the truth.The wise man turned to the seeker of truth, “when you want to know the truth, I will tell you.”“But I do want to know the truth, I have told everyone in my village.”The wise man took a stick and played with a leaf on the ground. “When you want to know the truth, I will tell you.”The young man from the village pleaded with the wise man to be told the truth.The wise man looked towards the horizon, “Come with me.” And strode off at a brisk pace with the young man following.Eventually they came to the sea and the wise man waded into the sea waist high. The young man followed him and waited patiently. The wise man then grabbed him and held the young man under water until his lungs burned from lack of air.
jayant singh
pgdn IIIrd
Dealing With Deat
Dealing With Death
I like to think you never really deal with death, rather it deals with you. You have no control over it, only the time and manner. Dealing with the death of a loved one seems the hardest thing in the world. You don’t really understand what sadness really is or it’s depth until you have experienced the death of a close one. Taken away and never to return.
OK sure, depending on your religious belief you may think a number of things may be going on. I think the one where everyone is in white and hangs around on a cloud is the hardest to believe. I this much, we are all stardust and death does not change this.
In fact, it’s not death or what happens at death that’s the weird thing, it’s why the hell we are alive in the first place. I suppose I could pick a religion that is the closest to my belief and then take comfort in that, but then what if it’s not the right one. I mean there are so many to pick from, pagen, christian, jewish, animist, islamic. Have I really got time to check them all out to find the right one? Then there are different splinters within the religion, last count there was about 1,600 different Christian religions.
If God exists, do you think she has made it deliberately difficult?
jayant singh
pgdm IIIrd
I like to think you never really deal with death, rather it deals with you. You have no control over it, only the time and manner. Dealing with the death of a loved one seems the hardest thing in the world. You don’t really understand what sadness really is or it’s depth until you have experienced the death of a close one. Taken away and never to return.
OK sure, depending on your religious belief you may think a number of things may be going on. I think the one where everyone is in white and hangs around on a cloud is the hardest to believe. I this much, we are all stardust and death does not change this.
In fact, it’s not death or what happens at death that’s the weird thing, it’s why the hell we are alive in the first place. I suppose I could pick a religion that is the closest to my belief and then take comfort in that, but then what if it’s not the right one. I mean there are so many to pick from, pagen, christian, jewish, animist, islamic. Have I really got time to check them all out to find the right one? Then there are different splinters within the religion, last count there was about 1,600 different Christian religions.
If God exists, do you think she has made it deliberately difficult?
jayant singh
pgdm IIIrd
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Given up the Coke habitPosted:
Giving up Coke
are you addicted to Coke or any other kind of caffeinated soda drink? I know I am. I can’t get by without my two cans of Coke a day. But I have decided to find a way to stop.
If you spend all day at the computer as I do then snacking is extremely hard to resist. I spend my day blogging, perhaps you do too and part of the day for me is getting my hit of caffeine. When I say Coke I am mean any caffeinated soda drink, diet or otherwise.
Here is why I want to give up.
I want to increase my energy levels
I want to be healthier
I want to lose weight
Hold on a minute. If you’re happy drinking your daily Coke, maybe you should stop reading this now. I enjoy drinking Coke and if you enjoy it and want to keep enjoying it then read no further. Stop. Although, if you carry on reading you could learn techniques which you want to apply to any habit you wish to give up
Did you know that the Coca Cola bottle is the most recognisable object on the Planet Earth. All the wonderful things man has invented and the most known object for the human race is a container for flavoured, sugary, fizzy water.
Let me go through my reasons for wanting to give up.
I want to increase my energy levels.
Now I know amongst the coding community a good dose of your favourite soda is crucial to grinding out the code each day, but actually it’s a fallacy. The initial energy boost and increase in alertness later leads to a crash in energy levels which is even lower before you first had the Coke.But it’s a short term thing, over time your energy gets lower and lower until you always feel tired.
I want to put a stop to this.
I want to be healthierIt’s not just the Coke. Two cans of Coke wont kill you, but as part of an unhealthy diet it will. When I have a Coke I also feel like having chocolate and a bag of tortilla chips. It increases my sugar levels and as it dips I crave more sugar as in chocolate. Cutting out Coke will help me reduce craving other junk foods in my life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a health nut, I love junk food and therein lies the problem.
By cutting out Coke I will be healthier.
I want to lose weight
If my chosen career had been a lumberjack rather than a blogger I probably wouldn’t have a battle with being overweight. If I can make the tiniest shift in my diet it will be of benefit. Giving up Coke will have a substantial impact in my daily calorie intake.
Instant pleasure vs Delayed pleasure
The instant pleasure comes from the physical hit, the anticipation works on the imagination, teasing the mind into telling the body to reach for the can. The initial thought of anticipation happens long before the taste buds receive the actual liquid.
It is in these initial thoughts where the true battle lies. Long before you fingers clutch the cold can, a thought is implanted in your head that setting off a chain reaction in your head. It’s as if a song begins to play and at the end of the song all you want to do is snap open a can of cold coke and gulp it down. Once the soda song starts playing you just cannot help but sing along with it.
So what gets the song playing? What triggers cause the Soda Song to play in your head? Anything could be a trigger, each person will have their own triggers which you have to figure out. My triggers are:
Noticing the cans in the fridge
Eating plain chocolate
Feeling a little drowsy in the afternoon
Visiting a snack shop.
Being thirsty
When I experience the above, my brain plays the soda song, I feel the bubbles on my tongue, I hear the noise it makes going down my throat, I lick my lips thinking about the taste, I re-experience the pleasure the touch of the cold can brings. My brain goes through the process of enjoying a cold can of Coke and tells me this is good, do it. How can I resist!
If I remove the triggers, I will be able to stop the Soda Song being played and thus reduce my craving for a Coke. I doubt it will completely go but I need all the help I can get. Lets have a look at negating the triggers.
Noticing the cans in the fridge.Easy one, I can stop buying the multipacks from the Supermarket.
Eating plain chocolateI could just stop eating chocolate, but lets be sensible for a moment. If I prepare a healthy drink before I eat my daily ration of chocolate, I will be able to muffle the sound of the soda song. It has to be something I like. In the UK it would be Purdeys, which is an energy drink with ginseng and is very nice and if I were in the US it would be Green Tea Sobe, which is very refreshing. Replacement instead of abstinence.
Feeling drowsy in the afternoonI used to enjoy taking a nap in the afternoon, but work has got so crazy these days I never get round to it, a quick ten minute nap is a great antidote for drowsy afternoons.A cold glass of water sometimes is very refreshing. Taking yourself out of your environment and going for a walk. Getting some fresh air. A quick work out, ten squat thrusts and ten push ups can seem a little masochistic, but it gets the heart pumping.And of course there is always coffee, although some may say that is jumping out of the fire and into the frying pan.
Visiting a snack shopI realised my reason for going to the snack shop was just to get a break from the computer. So now I go for a quick walk around the block. Which gives me a quick burst of exercise and allows me to clear my head.
Being thirstySimple one this, I no longer allow myself to be thirsty and make sure there is always a cold, healthy drink on my desk.
Slowly the Soda song and associated triggers will fade from my memory and healthier ones will replace them.
I have just drunk my last can of Diet Pepsi, the fridge is now empty, replaced with a stash of healthy drinks. I no longer frequent snack shops and get a good dose of exercise by walking round the block every afternoon.
It wont be easy, giving up bad habits never is, but it’s a lot easier now I know what triggers my desire.
jayant singh
pgdm IIIrd
are you addicted to Coke or any other kind of caffeinated soda drink? I know I am. I can’t get by without my two cans of Coke a day. But I have decided to find a way to stop.
If you spend all day at the computer as I do then snacking is extremely hard to resist. I spend my day blogging, perhaps you do too and part of the day for me is getting my hit of caffeine. When I say Coke I am mean any caffeinated soda drink, diet or otherwise.
Here is why I want to give up.
I want to increase my energy levels
I want to be healthier
I want to lose weight
Hold on a minute. If you’re happy drinking your daily Coke, maybe you should stop reading this now. I enjoy drinking Coke and if you enjoy it and want to keep enjoying it then read no further. Stop. Although, if you carry on reading you could learn techniques which you want to apply to any habit you wish to give up
Did you know that the Coca Cola bottle is the most recognisable object on the Planet Earth. All the wonderful things man has invented and the most known object for the human race is a container for flavoured, sugary, fizzy water.
Let me go through my reasons for wanting to give up.
I want to increase my energy levels.
Now I know amongst the coding community a good dose of your favourite soda is crucial to grinding out the code each day, but actually it’s a fallacy. The initial energy boost and increase in alertness later leads to a crash in energy levels which is even lower before you first had the Coke.But it’s a short term thing, over time your energy gets lower and lower until you always feel tired.
I want to put a stop to this.
I want to be healthierIt’s not just the Coke. Two cans of Coke wont kill you, but as part of an unhealthy diet it will. When I have a Coke I also feel like having chocolate and a bag of tortilla chips. It increases my sugar levels and as it dips I crave more sugar as in chocolate. Cutting out Coke will help me reduce craving other junk foods in my life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a health nut, I love junk food and therein lies the problem.
By cutting out Coke I will be healthier.
I want to lose weight
If my chosen career had been a lumberjack rather than a blogger I probably wouldn’t have a battle with being overweight. If I can make the tiniest shift in my diet it will be of benefit. Giving up Coke will have a substantial impact in my daily calorie intake.
Instant pleasure vs Delayed pleasure
The instant pleasure comes from the physical hit, the anticipation works on the imagination, teasing the mind into telling the body to reach for the can. The initial thought of anticipation happens long before the taste buds receive the actual liquid.
It is in these initial thoughts where the true battle lies. Long before you fingers clutch the cold can, a thought is implanted in your head that setting off a chain reaction in your head. It’s as if a song begins to play and at the end of the song all you want to do is snap open a can of cold coke and gulp it down. Once the soda song starts playing you just cannot help but sing along with it.
So what gets the song playing? What triggers cause the Soda Song to play in your head? Anything could be a trigger, each person will have their own triggers which you have to figure out. My triggers are:
Noticing the cans in the fridge
Eating plain chocolate
Feeling a little drowsy in the afternoon
Visiting a snack shop.
Being thirsty
When I experience the above, my brain plays the soda song, I feel the bubbles on my tongue, I hear the noise it makes going down my throat, I lick my lips thinking about the taste, I re-experience the pleasure the touch of the cold can brings. My brain goes through the process of enjoying a cold can of Coke and tells me this is good, do it. How can I resist!
If I remove the triggers, I will be able to stop the Soda Song being played and thus reduce my craving for a Coke. I doubt it will completely go but I need all the help I can get. Lets have a look at negating the triggers.
Noticing the cans in the fridge.Easy one, I can stop buying the multipacks from the Supermarket.
Eating plain chocolateI could just stop eating chocolate, but lets be sensible for a moment. If I prepare a healthy drink before I eat my daily ration of chocolate, I will be able to muffle the sound of the soda song. It has to be something I like. In the UK it would be Purdeys, which is an energy drink with ginseng and is very nice and if I were in the US it would be Green Tea Sobe, which is very refreshing. Replacement instead of abstinence.
Feeling drowsy in the afternoonI used to enjoy taking a nap in the afternoon, but work has got so crazy these days I never get round to it, a quick ten minute nap is a great antidote for drowsy afternoons.A cold glass of water sometimes is very refreshing. Taking yourself out of your environment and going for a walk. Getting some fresh air. A quick work out, ten squat thrusts and ten push ups can seem a little masochistic, but it gets the heart pumping.And of course there is always coffee, although some may say that is jumping out of the fire and into the frying pan.
Visiting a snack shopI realised my reason for going to the snack shop was just to get a break from the computer. So now I go for a quick walk around the block. Which gives me a quick burst of exercise and allows me to clear my head.
Being thirstySimple one this, I no longer allow myself to be thirsty and make sure there is always a cold, healthy drink on my desk.
Slowly the Soda song and associated triggers will fade from my memory and healthier ones will replace them.
I have just drunk my last can of Diet Pepsi, the fridge is now empty, replaced with a stash of healthy drinks. I no longer frequent snack shops and get a good dose of exercise by walking round the block every afternoon.
It wont be easy, giving up bad habits never is, but it’s a lot easier now I know what triggers my desire.
jayant singh
pgdm IIIrd
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