Turning Blockers into Boosters, Day 2: The textbook I recommend for readers joining me on this year-long quest to turn blockers into strengths defines blockers as “self-defeating habit patterns,” which generally were formed early in life but are not successful or appropriate for coping with adult challenges. Call these internal blockers. However, there are external …
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Join me for a year of turning blockers into boosters
This year I’m committing to doing something every day to turn my blockers — self-defeating habits — into boosters: strengths that will support my success. The framework I’m using comes from the work of Stuart Lichtman. Check him out here. I recommend his e-books and courses. I started using his system in 2005. My results …
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YES, deconditioning IS a medical condition
Dear Instapundit asks, “Is deconditioning a medical condition?” Yes, YES, a thousand times YES! The insight that deconditioning is a medical condition is just as brilliant and apt as Hans Selye’s observation that stress is a medical condition. The diagnosis of deconditioning gets to the root of a syndrome of problems that otherwise would be …
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Day four, scattered clouds
I’m not quite up to par, but tomorrow I expect to feel well enough to finish writing the plans I want to share with my donors and sending the thank-you notes. Please continue to be patient a bit longer. Thank you.
Day Three, mostly cloudy
I am very grateful to all my donors–enough money came in for the car down payment and the first month’s payment, which is a big load off my mind. There also is enough for me to see a doctor who may have a handle on my idiopathic hypersomnia problem. I hope I have my dear …
Day Two: The Storm in My Head
I still haven’t written my thank-you notes to my donors and I owe you all an explanation, except that I don’t know for sure what is creating this feeling of a storm in my head — my idiopathic hypersomnia or a migraine, or a combination, or what. I just know it will pass. Writing heartfelt …
Stumbling out of the gate
Thanks to links by Instapundit and Moe Lane and the donations I received, I was able to make the car down payment this morning. But I have to explain why I haven’t written my thank-you notes yet. I was out of bed and out the door before 7 am this morning (Monday) for a mile …
Pray for Cleo
On Saturday morning, when I came downstairs, I found a splash of red blood on the floor of the den, then a trail of drops of blood or urine mixed with blood — evidence of a kitty with a bad urinary tract infection. It turned out to be Cleo, the 19-year-old kitty we adopted with …
My weight loss in Andrew Breitbart photos
My moment of commitment
Dear gentle readers, I’ve done everything I know how to get through my challenges by myself. But now I’m in a bind that I can’t get out of on my own in time and it feels suicidal not to come clean about my situation and ask for help. My problem is my 16-year-old car …