Amazing team-work (funny video)
April 26, 2009 by Vauna Beauvais · Leave a Comment
I came across a video and I’d like to share it with you, to demonstrate what can be achieved when you have a vision, a shared objective, and good team-work to put it into practice.
Sunday Western
Hill farmers in Wales on a project that really shows off their skills in a most amusing way
Take a look (approx 2 and a half minutes of video)
Your finances and your time perspective are linked
February 18, 2009 by Vauna Beauvais · Leave a Comment
Time perspective means whether you think a long way into the future or a short way into the future. It is also, the amount of time that you take into consideration when planning your day-to-day activities and when making important decisions in your life.
A study was done during the 50’s and 60’s at Harvard University, to find out the reasons for upward social mobility. The researchers were looking for factors that would predict whether or not an individual was going to move upward and be wealthier.
People with long time-perspectives move up economically.
- When you spend weeks, months, years developing your skills and abilities in order to be successful, you have a long time-perspective.
- When you take longer to make decisions, delay gratification, and do not act on impulse then you have a long time-perspective.
- In the extreme, a person with a long time-perspective is thinking and planning 20 or 25 years ahead (which is more than most people).
People with short time-perspectives do not move up over time.
- They don’t have the ability to delay gratification.
- They respond to the impulse to satisfy their desire for fun or pleasure in the short term.
- In the extreme they do not even think about tomorrow - they could have a irresistible urge to spend every penny that they earn, or can borrow, almost immediately.
Elongate your approach to time
When you develop a long time-perspective you develop the ability to delay gratification. You can save some of your money instead of spending it all. You can consider investments. You can resist impulse purchases.
The combination of a long time-perspective and an ability to delay gratification gives you an advantage regarding becoming financially independent.
Exercise:
How do you want your finances to be in 5 years time?
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How do you want your finances to be in 10 years time?
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How do you want your finances to be in 15 years time?
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How do you want your finances to be in 20 years time?
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What is one thing that needs to happen for this to become a reality?
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What can you do to take you into doing that one thing that you need to do to make it a reality?
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What is one thing that you can do this week that will move you towards the thing that needs to happen for your financial desires to be realised?
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Goal Setting Exercise
February 11, 2009 by Vauna Beauvais · 1 Comment
This is a handy format to use to take you through the process of goal setting. Do this exercise to help you, firstly, identify what you want, and then set goals to achieve those things.
The IP belongs to Ian Stwewart co-director of the Berne Institute (psychotherapy Training Establishment)
You will need,
- paper
- pen
- stopwatch
Follow the instructions, below:
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Goal setting exercise. (Ian Stewart). |
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Lifetime goals.
Take 2 mins to list all lifetime goals that come to mind. - ie. everything you could ever want, hope to want, or only dream of during your lifetime. Be free-flowing with your ideas, do not try to filter them by thinking about them too much. After 2 minutes stop writing, no matter what.
Take a 30 second break and do not look at the paper. Do not think about what you have written.
Now, take another 2 mins to amend that list so that you are happy with what you have written. Stop writing after 2 minutes, no matter what. |
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What do I want to achieve in the next 3 years?
Again, take 2 mins to list - once again, go for it. Do not filter! Stop after 2 minutes.
Take a 30 second break.
Now review your list and take another 2 mins to amend the list so that you are happy with what you have written. |
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If I knew that I would be struck dead, by lightening, six months from today - How would I live until then? (Assume that your funeral etc. has been dealt with). Again - 2 mins to list. Go wild, remember!
Take a 30 second break.
Then another 2 mins to amend.
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Now, spend at least, another 2 minutes reviewing all of the answers.
Label the lists, A, B and C. Look over your 3 lists, - spend as long as you want doing this. |
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Go back over lists and change the language that you used into Positive wording, e.g. what will you do? (rather than making the focus what it is that you won’t do), what instead of X?
Spend as long as you need doing this.
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Now contrast the lists, A, B, and C. Question: Are there sharp differences between A (the life time) B (3 yr) and C (6 month) lists?
During your review of the information, and in order to answer the above question in a way that is satisfying to yourself, alter your lists, now, if you wish. Take as long as you need to do this.
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Are there any conflicts? For example, does watching every back episode of Eastenders that have ever been made, conflict with making a million pounds? (it would be real difficult to do both over the next 3 yrs).
Before you despair, know that these conflicts are positive. By identifying them, it gives us an opportunity to a) set priorities and b) make compromises. Just for now, identify the conflicts. |
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Setting priorities. Pick out the three most important from each list.
Label these; A1, A2 and A3. B1, B2 and B3 and C1, C2 and C3. Finally, write down all nine. |
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Congratualtions!
You now have a guide to your goals.
use further exercises on this website to specify further, or to motivate, or to plan action, or to measure sucess.
Effective goals are not static, but they are constantly subject to change.
It is useful to do this exercise again at 6 monthly intervals while you are in therapy, and again at the end of therapy.
You can, of course continue to do this annually in your life, as a matter of course.
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