"Always find time for the things that make you feel happy to be alive."
1. Praying/Gratitude/Reading
2. Health
3. Love, family, ma, spouse,..........
4. Developing a software.
5. Laughing
6. Beach
7. Dance
8. Sunlight
9. Feeling beautiful
A good way to communicate events from a fragment back to its hosting activity, is to define a callback interface inside the fragment, and then have the activity implement this interface.
Clear direct communication.
Answer a yes-no question with a yes-no answer.
Assertive Communication is the ability to honestly express your feelings or opinions without anxiety or anger.
Five phrases:
1. I am not prepared to support that idea.
2. When you interrupt me, I feel angry.
(its about being responsible yourself and your feelings, and using I statements.)
3. You've come home late the past few nights- I am concerned.
(sticking with facts, focusing on behaviour and not accusing.)
4. I see that you are frustrated and I understand your reaction- let's talk tomorrow.
(diffuse a situation that's going to be counter productive. its like putting your conversation on a time-out, so you can re-group and re-think. then come back to it.)
5. Repeating technique.
Avoid arguing or being manipulated.
Cultivate Quiet Time For Your Emotional Health
Spending time alone is really important in order to tune in to your emotions.
1. Practice makes perfect.
Spend some time alone unplugged. Practice just taking a walk by yourself, going for a hike, doing yoga or meditation or prayer. Those are all ways of kind of tuning inward, instead of being so focused outward.
2. A peaceful, centred, emotional person is a gift to everybody around them.
It's important that we are settled and in-tune with our own emotions, so we can be in tune with other people and what their needs are.
5. Acceptance
Our journey to acceptance has allowed us to build a new normal that incorporates the loss as a loss, and in the process we have become wiser.
2. Understand the Difference Between Confidence & Pride
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Your value is equal to others and you have different strengths.
We all have things we are good at, things we struggle with.
3. Recognize Your Unconditional Worth
We exist, that's where our value comes.
Those are nice things, but those are superficial ways to get confidence.
4. Use AND instead of OR.
5. Challenge your inner critic.
Ask, If I said this to someone else, how would they feel?
Why is this so harmful for our relationships?
Because it is dishonest. Its a lie basically. If you're not willing to share what's going on in your emotional life with people you love, then that limits your intimacy.
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What to say instead?
1. "I'm fine."
Sister: "I'm having a really hard day, honestly."
Neighbour: "I'm hanging in there. There's a lot going on. I'm hanging in there."
2. "You're right."
Spouse: "We're not really getting anywhere. I'm not feeling heard. So let's come back to this."
Spouse: "I'm afraid if we keep going, its gonna make the situation worse. Let's call a time-out and come back to this when we cool down."
3. "Whatever."
Neighbour: "I'm disappointed. (and then ask for what you want) Is there room for one more? I would like to be a part of it."
4. "Nothing"
(close) Friend: "We just got back from Disneyland."
What's the emotional message that I'm sending when I'm saying these things just without thought?
And there are some better ways to comfort or validate or help calm people down or let them know that you care.
1. Signals something is wrong.
Anger is just a signal that something is wrong or something needs to be attended to.
Its just information.
Its not a moral issue.
2. Motivates us to make a change.
It helps us set boundaries and take a stand for ourselves or the people that we love.
It is a huge distinction between feeling anger and expressing anger.
Angry feeling is an internal state, internal cues, angry behaviour is aggression, and those are separate things.
Having the feeling is not bad.
Only 10% of the time, aggression follows anger.
3. Empowers when expressed directly.
Express it directly.
I am 'angry' with you.
If you don't address it directly, you are gonna address it indirectly.
4. Improves Relationships.
I am 'angry' about this.
Angry doesn't equal bad.
You mean enough to me that I am gonna share with you this thing that's going on inside of me.
5. Uncovers Emotional Needs.
Anger is generally a secondary emotion.
Primary emotion is what you feel first (sadness, fear, loneliness, hurt, disappointment). Secondary is what you feel most.
Its so important to be able to say what's really underneath that because underneath the anger is usually a soft, vulnerable emotion that's really important information.
There's something underneath that that's driving it.
1. Understand your procrastination patterns.
Its a way that you can gain self-awareness.
"I tend to procrastinate _______".
And you can explore that more about yourself. It can help you deal with what is underneath.
2. Start with just one bite.
I call it 'Chunking'. Breaking it into smaller chunks that it doesn't feel so overwhelming.
How do you eat a water-melon? One bite at a time.
3. Go for "Good Enough".
Perfectionism can drive procrastination. If you give yourself permission to do it OK or fail, you'll actually get more done.
4. Use Deadlines to help focus & motivate.
It’s not procrastination if you plan to do things last minute.
You don't have to feel bad about that, if that's the time you need.
1. Do you have to apologize to others for your actions and your words?
2. Are you often surprized by your seemingly uncontrollable response?
3. Do you assume the worst about people or situations?
Five Ways to Stop Ourselves from Overreacting:
1. Don't Neglect the Basics
In the name of taking care of other people we neglect ourselves, our sleep, our food, getting rest, ...
Taking care of your basic physical needs actually helps you keep your emotions in check.
2. Tune In & Name It
Notice the body sensation and name the emotion, defensive, sad, hurt...
3. Breathe Before Responding
Just taking a deep breath calms the fight or flight response, calms the nervous system.
4. Put a Positive Spin On It
If someone offends you consider the possibility that the insult is not about you.
5. Identify Emotional Leftovers
Notice patterns in your overreactions.
[Its important to note that not all intense emotional responses are overreactions. The distinction is whether your response matches the situation.]
2. Embrace Imperfection.
Everyone has imperfections.
I can appreciate myself and value myself, even though I am imperfect.
3. Be Where Your Feet Are.
Mindfulness
4. Add Drops of Awesome. Benefits of Appreciating ourselves:
1. We'll feel good about ourselves.
2. Our mood will improve.
3. We'll be more available to other people.
Self-Neglect is never a good long-term strategy for caring for others.
You get sick. You get emotionally sick.
It just doesn't work for a long term strategy.
Its really really important to identify, what do I need, what am I feeling and let people know what those needs are.
Taking responsibility and identifying and expressing that, is self-care.
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We are talking emotional self-care too.
If we are overwhelmed, depressed, not feeling like ourselves, that's a signal that we need to take a step back and look at what we need and take care of something.
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Race cars have pit-crews.
Assemble a pit crew. Who's on your pit crew. We all need a support system. The higher the stress, the faster you're moving through life, the more critical self-care is.
1. Value Yourself
because when we value something we protect it. its really important to go, "I matter". "what I want, how I feel, what I think matters".
frame it as you would if you are making a decision for your husband, or your children, because we're often more protective of those we love.
2. Tune Into Your Emotions & Thoughts
our emotions and our thoughts are like a compass to guide us.
who we want to spend more time with, who we want to stay away from.
we need to really tune into that to guide us in our relationships.
its important to tune into that and use that as clues. if i am really uncomfortable i might need to set a stronger boundary here. you could say 'i know u care about me but i'd love your advice when i ask for it. that would be really appreciated.' i know you care about me, but this is my boundary.
its ok to stand up for urself.
3. Be Specific.
don't generalise.
i'd rather have specific feedback if i hurt someone or i overstepped a boundary.
i wanna know.
4. Be Firm & Kind.
we can be firm & kind at the same time.
u can be firm without attacking them.
its ok to be intense.
5. Back Up Verbal Requests With Behaviour.
sometimes u need to really back it up consistently with behaviour.
**7:22... its because we're not taking a stand.
like saying 'stop' and lets go into the other room or walk away from a situation, sometimes silence actually is the best, we don't always have to have the words.
Find Your Voice To Say "No"
Its important for us to accept that we have limitations and that's ok.
Everyone has limitations.
We have limited time and energy. And it's our responsibility to decide where we're going to invest our time and energy.
And it's ok. We don't have to feel guilty about it.
1. 'No' is an important boundary.
It separates them from us. Its a way we establish a sense of ourself as different from other people. That's actually a healthy part of development.
'No' says, "I'm the boss of me". 'No' is an important way to say, "I am in charge of me".
It is sort of an empowerment word.
2. Saying 'No' prevents burnout.
Being able to say no limits your commitments so you can take care of yourself and feel happy and healthy and take care of what matters most.
3. Saying 'No' helps you get what you want. When we get overwhelmed and over-committed the first things to go are the most important.
Saying 'no' is important so we can say 'yes' to more important things.
Tips for saying 'No':
1. Knowing and accepting that everybody has limitations and we don't have to feel bad about that.
2. 'No' is an honourable response.
3. 'That just doesn't work for me.' Thanks for asking. That just doesn't work for me.
You are incharge of your own life.
That just doesn't work for me.
No one ever died from being disappointed.
Emotional Energy: An aliveness of the mind, happiness of the heart, and a spirit filled with hope.
E'motion = Energy in motion
Ways we can boost our emotional energy:
1. Pursue your Passions.
Passions and what we feel strongly about are information about why we are on the planet.
2. Live on Purpose.
Taking your passion and taking it beyond yourself.
Having a bigger purpose for why you're on the planet.
3. Just Say "No".
to things you don't wanna do.
What do I want?
What you want really really matters, and its important to tune into that, and if you said no to things you don't wanna do, you'd have more emotional energy.
4. Distance From Draining People.
Setting boundaries in relationships is really important.
5. Invest in Important Relationships.
This is the most important thing you can do to energise your emotional life.
We are born to connect with each other.
Emotional Vampires: How To Deal With Emotionally Draining People
In her book, Dr. Orloff identified these 5 signs that you’ve encountered an emotional vampire:
1) Your eyelids are heavy and you’re ready for a nap.
2) Your mood takes a nosedive.
3) You want to binge on carbs or comfort foods.
4) You feel anxious, depressed, or negative.
5) You feel put down, sniped at, or “slimed”.
How do you manage them?
1. The Narcissist
Have a "Me first" attitude.
They are not able to empathise.
How to Protect Yourself
a. Keep your expectations realistic and don’t expect reciprocity.
b. Don’t depend on their approval for your self-worth.
c. Lead with how they will benefit from something. (They are asking you for something, and you don't wanna do it, say, you know what, I'm not able to help you right now. Give me a week, and then I'll be able to give you what you want.)
2. The Victim
"Poor me".
Their pain is everyone else's fault.
How to Protect Yourself
a. Don’t take on their baggage. (You don't pick up their bags, when they try to say, hey carry this.)
b. Set kind yet firm limits in conversation length and topic. (Oh, you know what, I only have five minutes to talk to you right now, or you know what we've had this conversation 12 times and so lets talk about something else.)
c. Reinforce your limits with body language and action.
3. The Controller
They tell you how to feel, and what to do.
You feel invalidated. What you're doing, or how you're feeling, is not right.
Never tell a controller what to do. That'll backfire.
How to Protect Yourself
a. Confidently assert yourself. ('Thank you for your suggestion. I'll consider it.' And then do whatever you want.)
b. Focus on important issues. (Stick to the important issues only. Don't get in little power struggles. Just pick out the important issues and you're gonna set boundaries with those.)
c. Don’t try to tell them what to do.
4. The Splitter
They'll flip on you.
They feed off of anger, other people's and their own.
There's this back and forth between idealising and rage.
How to Protect Yourself
a. Remain emotionally neutral.
b. Set limits and stick to them.
c. Avoid taking sides.
(4:55) Boundaries will be offensive sometimes. Your job is to protect your own emotional energy, not to make everybody around you happy.
2. Tune in to Your Feelings.
We can't share with other people, if we don't know, what's going on inside of us.
Asking yourself everyday, how am I doing, how am I feeling.
What's going on & be able to share that.
You have to know, before you share with someone else. There are 6 basic emotions: happy, mad, sad, scared, surprised, disgusted.
Start with those 6 and go which one am I?
3. Embrace Your Truth.
Once we figure out how we're feeling, we accept it & not judge it.
What's my next step to get through that?
4. Practice Authenticity.
You can practice being more authentic.
Its a practice like meditation.
Its a choice to show up and be real everyday.
0:47 to 2:12 How we treat ourselves is always in our control. Its so so powerful.
3 Steps to Practicing Self-Compassion:
1. Tuning in, recognising our own suffering.
Mindfulness.
Recognizing your own pain.
2. Show kindness toward suffering. Self-Kindness.
Its more than saying kind things to yourself.
Its actually how you treat yourself.
We can learn how to do that.
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6:38 We can always be there for ourselves.
3. Suffering is a shared human experience.
Everybody has times of success and failure.
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"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
-C. S. Lewis
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Time has been my friend it seems.
So let him write on me.
I choose to call it God's signature.
I've lived. I've smiled. I've cried.
And that's proof.
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Accepting ourselves where-ever we are.
No one's inspired by being criticised, including ourselves.
Life rewards action. Take little steps.
Take some action to take good care of your physical body and health.
My value comes from my soul, not my body.
Own it. Move on.
A phrase that has stuck with me for a long time is, "It's none of my business what anyone else thinks of me".
1. You Never Really Know.
Even if someone tells you what they think of you, you don't know if they are telling the truth.
So, its kind of this thing we can never really know, so that's a great reason to give it up, because we're not gonna know the truth, we can't mind read.
You're not gonna know, so you've gotta let it go.
Be who you are and let that be enough.
2. It's None of Your Business.
The phrase, "It's none of my business what other people think of me". What do I think, what do I want, that needs to be more important than being motivated by other people's approval.
There are 3 kinds of business in life, our business, other people's business, and God's business, and we create pain for ourselves when we get into other people's business and into God's business. -Byron Katie We can't control those things. We can control our business.
3. You Can Be Happy Without Approval.
We're emotionally grown up.
Its ok to consider other people's opinions, but that can't be the driving force especially in those big life decisions.
4. More Energy For What You Can Control.
When you let go of what other people think, it frees up energy for things that we can actually control.
Invest in something that actually makes a difference.
5. Stable Sense of Worth.
When you link your self-worth to someone else's approval, you lose control of your self-worth.
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