Forward Thinking™ Gentle Reminder E-Column

Have you ever wondered how to manage your thoughts in specific situations?

Forward Thinking Reminders show you how.

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Five times a year, Mary emails to you gentle reminders and advice on how to manage your thoughts in everyday circumstances and how to deal with the challenges you face in practicing self-awareness, and being on purpose. The e-column topics are chosen from questions raised by readers and workshop participants. You can log in to blog each column and enjoy the lively discussion of fellow readers that follows.

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Volume 5: The Power of Thankfulness: How to be Thankful in Difficult Times

With record unemployment, soaring prices, home foreclosures, and a financial market meltdown, it may feel like a tough time to be thankful. Yet practicing thankfulness is one of the most powerful ways of thinking to bring about a change in our circumstances. This Gentle Reminder offers guidance on how to turn thoughts of fear, worry and hopelessness to thoughts of thankfulness.

Volume 4: Thinking Powerfully

I have received a number of questions on how to resolve a conflict between positive thinking and thinking about what could go wrong. As one president of a company put it, “On the one hand, I want to be a visionary leader and talk about abundance and accomplishment. On the other hand, during difficult economic times, I feel it is my responsibility to worry about what can go wrong and make sure we take protective measures. So, I see this part of what I do as a necessary evil, and it concerns me for two reasons.

Volume 3: Keeping Resolutions

It's about that time when we begin to break the resolutions we made at the beginning of the year. For many of us, this happens year after year and some of us have gotten to the point where we don't even bother to make resolutions. This gentle reminder offers some guidance to help you reformulate your resolutions in order to keep them.

Volume 2: Choosing Our Intentions

As many of you may know, my husband died suddenly on January 5th of this year. This gentle reminder is dedicated to Gregg Simmons, the man of my infinite dreams.

The night of his death I was unable to get warm. I kept saying over and over to myself, “I can’t believe it.” In hindsight, I realize I was in shock.

Volume 1: Breaking Old Habits

Have you noticed that as you move into the holiday season, old, familiar patterns emerge? For example, when you get together with family and friends, do you revert to a certain dynamic? Perhaps you feel sad and alone at the holidays, or maybe you often get sick or worry about money. There’s a reason that we have the same experiences over and over again, and with a little self-awareness, a little self-mastery and a little being-on-purpose, we can break those patterns.