Comments on: Self Acceptance or the Drive to Improve?

By: Ann Webb

Ann Webb — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:58:31 +0000

Rene….thanks for the contribution. You definitely know what you’re talking about and I appreciate the “back me up”

A love the idea of a success journal. I do it occasionally, but I was just thinking that if I had a list (of positive accomplishments) that I just kept adding to it would be nice to look at then I really needed a “postive review”!

By: Rene Johnson

Rene Johnson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:40:42 +0000

There are so many good points in this article! I find that often “fear of success” is an underlying blocker, keeping individuals from stepping on to their journey to success. Fears of, who they would become, would they be able to keep it up once they got what they wanted, how would others respond to their changes, and so forth. When fears are present, I highly recommend journaling to my clients as well. Getting worries and fears out of their head and on to paper helps them see them for what they “really” are and see what they have control over, what’s rational or not. Once this exercise is done, they can make a plan to resolve it and regain the personal power that fear was taking away.

I also highly recommend that individuals keep a daily success journal, acknowledging even the smallest progress or success. Too often, I see that self-acknowledgment (which builds confidence) doesn’t take place. But the danger in this is that when something less than desirable occurs it is then viewed as a failure, an “all or nothing” thinking is present. This lessens willingness and desire to stay to the path. Larger goals are made by smaller gains so you must celebrate them. And who is to say if you worked a plan but it didn’t happen the way you wanted it to, that you weren’t still successful. Simply assess, shift and keep going.

Great Blog Ann!

By: Ann Webb

Ann Webb — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:01:14 +0000

Thanks Michelle. You have the best way of saying things! I’ve always noticed that I say the rambly version and you succinctly hit the nail on the head with one powerful sentence!! It’s obviously by your energy & attitude that you live your True North

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:51:07 +0000

I loved this article!! How important it is to remember that you can enjoy the journey without letting it becoem your identity. I loved that sentence! As someone who has taken on the opportunity of transforming her professional life it the last year, being grounded in a higher principle– a commitment to collaborative growth, integrity, and an educated, tolerant, and accepting community can serve as that “true north” and allow me to grow toward my ideal vision without having to measure every day as either a success or a failure.

Thanks so much for the reminder!