Maintaining a difficult course under uncertainty

We are all faced with an increasing challenge these days that we tend to internalize as "my problem, nobody's business but my own."

Yet, many of the challenges we face in our daily decision-making and choice behavior are shared by millions and are not our personal problems alone.

Each of us are understood by our common behaviors and categorized as groups, such as the group of over-eaters, or the soccer-mom group, or the group of artist and street-performers largely run out of town (City of St. Augustine, FL) by corrupt city and state law enforcement.

If you know of our shared behaviors and our shared challenges, it can give you fresh insight and add to your internal worry mode we use to brood over our fears and such, that internal dialogue we all indulge.

We need to understand how our personal viewpoint at any given moment can be swept up in an emotional frenzy or focused on adapting as needed within the mental framework.

Rigidly holding on to a set mind just drives you into a rut. We all have to learn first how to accept rapid change, then how to look for alternatives to the set-mind, it's always been done this-a-way way of thinking.

Practically, the idea is not to indulge generalizations about your condition (I'm broke and can't pay all my bills), and keep an open mind about your condition without that limiting conclusion.

Which bills, when are each of them due, how far behind are you, how good is your relationship with creditors, can you call and work something out? There are many variables and each represent an alternative way of solving whatever your original problem was thought to be.

The emotion invested in your heartfelt conclusion sets your mind and shuts off your higher creative powers you might otherwise learn how to access.

More later on our mind-skills and life-skills program under development.