Comments on: Is Life Getting More Difficult? http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/ Wisdom from Outside the Box Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:32:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5779 Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:15:54 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5779 Hi Cyra, It's a tried and true way to move away from anything. Just give it a strong, negative emotional anchor, and you're out of there. Hi Cyra, It’s a tried and true way to move away from anything. Just give it a strong, negative emotional anchor, and you’re out of there.

]]> By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5778 Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:12:12 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5778 I love this quote: "Positive motivation stems for me from service while negative motivation stems from fear." Thanks Dragos! I love this quote: “Positive motivation stems for me from service while negative motivation stems from fear.” Thanks Dragos!

]]> By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5777 Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:07:49 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5777 Hi Nik, coping is a skill we develop as we continue to face challenges. Sounds like you've got a good handle on it. Hi Nik, coping is a skill we develop as we continue to face challenges. Sounds like you’ve got a good handle on it.

]]> By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5776 Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:05:32 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5776 Nicely said Mike, I agree with your analysis, thanks. Nicely said Mike, I agree with your analysis, thanks.

]]> By: Lana - DreamFollowers Blog http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5755 Lana - DreamFollowers Blog Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:56:56 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5755 This is the question I've been asking mysel a lot lately - Do I welcome the chance to grow, or do I just want to avoid anything that requires effort? You literally read my thoughts Jonathan. This post resonated with me greatly, thank you! .-= Lana - DreamFollowers Blog´s last blog ..<a href="http://dreamfollowers.com/finding-your-life-purpose" rel="nofollow">Finding Your Life Purpose: Do You Know What You Stand For?</a> =-. This is the question I’ve been asking mysel a lot lately – Do I welcome the chance to grow, or do I just want to avoid anything that requires effort? You literally read my thoughts Jonathan. This post resonated with me greatly, thank you!
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]]> By: Dragos Roua http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5751 Dragos Roua Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:52:27 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5751 Yes, sometimes life gets difficult. My approach is to eat up the discomfort and move on. Discomfort is part of our life and it surely has its role... Positive motivation stems for me from service while negative motivation stems from fear. .-= Dragos Roua´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Edragonu-TheChoiceOfAPersonalPath/~3/liDPEFtE79s/" rel="nofollow">100 Ways To Screw Up Your Life</a> =-. Yes, sometimes life gets difficult. My approach is to eat up the discomfort and move on. Discomfort is part of our life and it surely has its role…

Positive motivation stems for me from service while negative motivation stems from fear.
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]]> By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5715 Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:18:51 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5715 Thanks for the great comment and encouragement John. I really appreciate your contribution. Thanks for the great comment and encouragement John. I really appreciate your contribution.

]]> By: Frugal Expat http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5675 Frugal Expat Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:59:31 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5675 I like the idea of using discomfort to creative motivation.. Thanks for the insightful post.. I like the idea of using discomfort to creative motivation.. Thanks for the insightful post..

]]> By: John Duffield http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5671 John Duffield Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:54:11 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5671 Top of the morning/afternoon/evening to you Jonathan! Thanks for another interesting and informative article. Over the last 30-40 years I've watched this technology tsunami arrive and wondered. I see kids today spending virtually all their time playing monolithic violent games or twiddling smartphones to create too many texts. Some youngsters of my aquaintence haven't seen sunshine for months....and don't have a clue what it's like to scuba dive or bicycle across the country. But I've also noticed the "confusion" you speak of here. A curious example is in the food we eat. Pretty much every day you'll see people on T.V. pitching additives or foods that supposedly keep various diseases at bay. How can we choose amongst all the health tips real and bogus out there? Soon you and I will have to take college courses just to learn what to eat. Then there's the vast sea of success and happiness advice hurled into our lives by a supreme example of technology. The internet. If you want confusion, this sucker is the place to go for it. The internet offers a gazillion choices for anything. Bottom line? We're snowed under by choices and it's getting worse by the day. Even so, in truth technology has nothing to do with our "coping angst". Certainly there are literally millions of folks out there desperately seeking direction for their lives. And for sure the rise of technology has spawned choices faster than anyone can keep up with them. But the problem is this. The direction everyone needs for their lilfe is not out there in the techno-landscape. It's "within" each of us and we must learn how to let it out. A little analogy will illustrate what I mean. Imagine someone trying to find their way home through the woods as it begins to snow. As snowstorm gets worse, the inumerable flakes get in the way of the trail ahead and this person is lost. But now imagine he or she has an "internal compass". Now it doesn't matter how dense the snowstorm is, because this man or woman doesn't need the "external landscape" to show him or her the way home. Same for you and I in this increasingly complex technological world we're in. If we don't have our own "internal compass" to guide us, we'll just be confronted with too many choices and no way to decide amongst them. We might think our problem is in a technology that dumps so many options on us. But it isn't. Our problem is.....we haven't learned what keeps our internal compass from coming back into our lives. Keep up the great writing Jonathan. Like one of your readers said.....there are people needing good advice like yours on every street corner these days. Ciao. John Duffield .-= John Duffield´s last blog ..<a href="http://ourcryforhelp.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/what-is-real-vision/" rel="nofollow">What is Real Vision?</a> =-. Top of the morning/afternoon/evening to you Jonathan! Thanks for another interesting and informative article. Over the last 30-40 years I’ve watched this technology tsunami arrive and wondered. I see kids today spending virtually all their time playing monolithic violent games or twiddling smartphones to create too many texts. Some youngsters of my aquaintence haven’t seen sunshine for months….and don’t have a clue what it’s like to scuba dive or bicycle across the country. But I’ve also noticed the “confusion” you speak of here. A curious example is in the food we eat. Pretty much every day you’ll see people on T.V. pitching additives or foods that supposedly keep various diseases at bay. How can we choose amongst all the health tips real and bogus out there? Soon you and I will have to take college courses just to learn what to eat. Then there’s the vast sea of success and happiness advice hurled into our lives by a supreme example of technology. The internet. If you want confusion, this sucker is the place to go for it. The internet offers a gazillion choices for anything. Bottom line? We’re snowed under by choices and it’s getting worse by the day. Even so, in truth technology has nothing to do with our “coping angst”. Certainly there are literally millions of folks out there desperately seeking direction for their lives. And for sure the rise of technology has spawned choices faster than anyone can keep up with them. But the problem is this. The direction everyone needs for their lilfe is not out there in the techno-landscape. It’s “within” each of us and we must learn how to let it out. A little analogy will illustrate what I mean. Imagine someone trying to find their way home through the woods as it begins to snow. As snowstorm gets worse, the inumerable flakes get in the way of the trail ahead and this person is lost. But now imagine he or she has an “internal compass”. Now it doesn’t matter how dense the snowstorm is, because this man or woman doesn’t need the “external landscape” to show him or her the way home. Same for you and I in this increasingly complex technological world we’re in. If we don’t have our own “internal compass” to guide us, we’ll just be confronted with too many choices and no way to decide amongst them. We might think our problem is in a technology that dumps so many options on us. But it isn’t. Our problem is…..we haven’t learned what keeps our internal compass from coming back into our lives. Keep up the great writing Jonathan. Like one of your readers said…..there are people needing good advice like yours on every street corner these days. Ciao. John Duffield
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]]> By: Karlil http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/is-life-getting-more-difficult/comment-page-1/#comment-5644 Karlil Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:06:17 +0000 http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/?p=2457#comment-5644 Hey Jon. In the past, I had a hard time coping with depression. These days, I'm doing better as I'm more control of my thoughts. I think it's important to acknowledge that misery and pain cannot be avoided, and at some point, it will come to you no matter how lucky, happy and positive you are. In the end, it's all a matter of how one choose to accept the reality that has been laid out in front of him. Safe to say, I have been coping well, at this point. .-= Karlil´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Personaldevelopmentpro/~3/bYhVNT8tiR0/" rel="nofollow">41 Reasons Why Life Is Awesome</a> =-. Hey Jon. In the past, I had a hard time coping with depression. These days, I’m doing better as I’m more control of my thoughts. I think it’s important to acknowledge that misery and pain cannot be avoided, and at some point, it will come to you no matter how lucky, happy and positive you are. In the end, it’s all a matter of how one choose to accept the reality that has been laid out in front of him. Safe to say, I have been coping well, at this point.
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