Whatever happens...

Control the outcome?

Yet since the only thing we control is ourselves, maybe we can be a bit
more specific and say...control the outcome and how it effects us.

Want to control the outcome in the stock market and not have it effect
us? Don't play.

Want to control the outcome of our friends that keep borrowing money? Don't lend.

Want to control the outcome and have everything to go smoothly? It
won't...so we go smoothly.

Any game we choose to be in, contains inherent risks, and if we want to
control the outcome, stay out of the game, otherwise the outcome will
effect us, one way or another - but sometimes the risk is worth the
reward.

Yours in "Controlling Your Outcome" - Coach

Focusing on just...

A few things, sometimes makes the experience better.

No matter what we focus on, the focus raises all of our senses to take
it all in.

Unlike a Buffet...You're eating a crab leg, thinking about the pizza,
and you eat the pizza thinking about the roast beef, and you eat the
roast beef thinking about the waffle....there are too many choices and
they all seem to blend together,.until it all tastes the same.

It can be the same when we are doing anything, with too many choices or
options, our senses can be overwhelmed and our experience and even the
outcome can be diminished from what it could of been, if we just focused on a few things.

So, for a great experience for most of what we do, focusing on the few,
can have a sweet effect on our experience and on the results that follow.

Yours in "Focusing" - Coach

Tough times?

All depends.

This current economic time will pass, and it may not be as bad as it
seems - or could be - only time will tell.

But we can handle anything life brings us...thanks to our amazing brain
and it's cognitive abilities - pertaining mostly to the mental process
of perception, memory, judgment and reasoning.

We just need to be mindful to not have it "effect" us negatively and to
act accordingly... having our choices and actions be in alignment with the
current
condition...that way, we will not be "affected" by the current
condition.

When it rains - it can "effect" us and get us wet, but it won't
"affect" us if we put on a raincoat - pretty simple.

We just need to do what we need to do, until the clouds clear, or
complain, make poor choices and get wet - while we are wishing for
sunshine.

Yours in Choice - Coach