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I CAN, I COULD, I DID!

  • April 8, 2016/
  • Posted By : Marsha Ferrick/
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  • Under : Life Coaching
“I-think-I-can” these words were made famous in a story that first appeared in print with the title The Little Engine That Could, 1920. The story has gone through multiple versions but the gist of the tale is about a long train that must be pulled over a high mountain. Larger engines are asked to pull the train but refuse for various reasons. The request is then sent to a small engine, who agrees to try. The engine succeeds in pulling the train over the mountain while repeating, “I-think-I-can”, overcoming a seemingly impossible task. As the little engine nears the top of the grade that had so discouraged the larger engines, it went more slowly. However, it still kept saying, “I-think-I-can, I-think-I-can.” It reached the top by drawing on determination and then went on down the grade, congratulating itself by saying, “I thought I could, I thought I could.”
The little engine “DID” succeed in its’ mission to pull the train up the grade and down the other side. Positive thinking was clearly involved in the little engine’s success but also action, determination, and grit contributed to the little engine’s final result. He declared “I can”, then took action by pulling the train up the grade, as he neared the hard part he did not give up even though it was getting harder and harder, he slowed down but kept going still repeating, “I think I can.” Repeating the positive self talk.
How often do we not even move to action? How often do we stop ourselves before we try? How often do we quit at the first sign of difficulty? How often do we try to hurry it up and just get through it when what we need to do is slow down, and keep going?
Maysoon Zayid was raised with a “can do” family motto so the fact that she has cerebral palsy along with 99 other problems has not stopped her from being on stage and bringing fun and joy to the world. The next time you are tempted to say “I can’t” think of Maysoon.
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Maysoon, Cerebral Palsy is only 1 of her 99 problems.

 


Misuse of the Imagination

  • March 31, 2016/
  • Posted By : Marsha Ferrick/
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  • Under : Leadership, Life Coaching, Relationships, Team Building
Major Nesmeth was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. For seven years he was confined to a small cage. To keep his sanity, he played an imaginary eighteen holes of golf daily. He would use his range of senses to clearly visualize every swing and shot. After his release he found he had shave 20 points off his old average score. As far as his mind and body were concerned he had played all those games that he had spent practicing, and refining, and perfecting using his imagination.  (Paraphrased from Jane Savoie, That Winning Feeling)
Nesmeth’s amazing improvement in performance is just one example of what research has shown us (Maltz, 1960), the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between actual and vivid imaginary practice. What a wonderful finding! Athletes, and performers of all types have embraced this new knowledge and applied it to improving the skills they wish to master.
Since our imagination is that powerful in helping us improve performance think how you might be utilizing it to sabotage yourself. Do you regularly visual disaster? Worst case scenarios? Doing the wrong thing? Consider what you could do if you did not misuse use your imagination but in fact utilized it to create the relationships, success, and freedom that you want?
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I Believe…

  • January 29, 2015/
  • Posted By : Marsha Ferrick/
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  • Under : Life Coaching

I create my beliefs about myself.

What do I believe that holds me back?

 

What if I believe…

I can…

-change,

—be whatever I want,

——impact the world,

———-change my thoughts, emotions, view of the world, of others,

—————chose to trust or not others.

 

What if I believe…

I am…

-enough,

—-lovable,

——–talented,

———-intelligent,

————-free to choose,

——————continually changing and growing.

 

What if I believe…

My feelings are ok.

-I create my reality.

—-I determine the meaning I give to things.

——–I impact all I come in contact with and beyond.

————I trust myself.

 

What would be my greatest worry if nothing held me back?


Do You Verbally Abuse Yourself? Others?

  • November 19, 2014/
  • Posted By : Marsha Ferrick/
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  • Under : Abuse & Trauma, Leadership, Life Coaching, Relationships, Team Building

“The old saying about sticks and stones was wrong. Names will forever hurt you,” says Natalie Sachs-Ericsson a Psychologist and Researcher. We often consider this verbal abuse if it is done to us by others, yet take a step back and “consider all the hurtful things you say to yourself (and/or your children, colleagues, friends) during the course of a day. Those disparaging comments you inflict on yourself will forever hurt you (and others)” writes Joelene Ashker, Life Coach.  So, STOP with the negative comments to yourself and everyone else. It’s that simple. STOP…Forgive yourself…Replace it with a truth based on the facts of who you are today, not who you were, or who you told yourself you were, or who someone else told you that you were but actually who you are…today. Do it NOW. Do it EVERY TIME…until you do it without thinking about it. What you focus on you become. Focus on being worthless, you will become worthless. Focus on your value and your value will grow. Remember you are in charge of your own garden! Pull out the weeds, and plant the seeds you want to grow! Copyrighted 2014SeedGrowing - Do You Verbally Abuse Yourself? Others?


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