Stevie Puckett

Tag: personal power

  • Be Expansive

    What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

    Whatever you like about yourself, appreciate that specifically and often. The most important thing is that you feel good. Take it easy on yourself.

    Pay attention to your emotions and do something about it when you notice you aren’t feeling good — change your focus! Be open and expansive about allowing yourself to feel good. It’s not easy to let go of how you’ve been thinking, but it’s worth the effort if you want different results.

    You are where you are, but you can start again at any time. It doesn’t matter what happened before. What matters is what happens next, and your results going forward are directly related to feeling good now.

  • Practice Larger Perspectives

    What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

    When feelings of justified anger arise, find a larger perspective. You can practice diffusing and releasing feelings of anger. Do it for your own wellbeing, not for their sake.

    Looking at all the details of the situation fuels the fire. So take the opposite tactic to snuff it out and redirect your creative energy where it can serve you best.

    Get general and give the benefit of the doubt if you want to get back to the love side of the scale. You can soften your response to frustration or irritation rather than anger. Soothe yourself. Learn to give “outs” to whoever or whatever you feel angry about. Go as big as you need to in order to feel better.

    Give ridiculous outs. Laugh as a silly thought that excuses them pops into your head, and you’ll feel less angry. It’s vital that you do so you can move up to a more powerful feeling on the love side of the scale rather than continuing down the fear side of the scale.

  • Women Explorers

    I’m trying out the reblogging feature after one of my posts was reblogged this week for the first time ever as far as I know. Thanks to Gloria Michael for reblogging my post, “Teaching and Learning.” Very cool.

    This is my first reblog of another blogger’s post. See, “Women Explorers – Journey to the Last Frontier” by Alec J. Rosen.

    Today is the first day of Women’s History Month. Let’s take a look at some women explorers and adventurers that changed world history, for the better: Amelia Earhart, Bessie Coleman, Junko Tabei, Valentina Tereshkova, and Ann Bancroft […]

    Women Explorers — Journey to the Last Frontier …

  • Magical Mindset

    What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

    When there are things about yourself or your life that you want to improve, it is easy to get frustrated. You quickly notice where you are and what you don’t like about it. You begin to talk to and about yourself negatively. That dialog becomes a habitual way of being if not checked. With a lack of attention to your thoughts, you unintentionally begin a process that is the opposite of self-improvement. It’s more like self-destruction.

    There’s a fine line between wanting a change and being patient and kind with yourself versus wanting a change so bad that you impede your own progress.

    A magical mindset exists that can pave the way to inspired action and set the stage for improving any part of your life. It begins by aiming your thoughts in a positive direction so you can feel better immediately and be receptive to inspired action.

  • Key Distinctions

    What follows is an excerpt from my book Bliss Or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts.

    Personal development is an ever-evolving process of making more and better distinctions about who you are and what you want. Life is about choices and those choices accumulate to define the path of your life’s journey. You choose again and again as a normal part of daily life.

    You may not realize it, but you can even make choices each day about how you want to feel. Clarity about how you want to feel will assist you tremendously in making satisfying choices with near-perfect consistency on a day-to-day basis.

    If you decide to do something, then find yourself there unhappy, it’s good to redirect your thoughts. Find something to appreciate. Maybe the only thing to enjoy about it is that you are doing what you decided to do. You are being true to your word and previous intentions for yourself. That feels good. Focus there while you decide what you want next.