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I was reading an Interesting book from the field of ‘Positive Psychology’ recently that highlighted an interesting take on forming habits that I hadn’t been exposed to before.
Research shows us that adopting new behaviours or breaking old habits may be harder than even we realize and that most attempts to change will result in failure. This is especially true with exercise. The key is to think about change differently; rather than trying to be self-disciplined, we need to introduce ‘Rituals’.
The famous psychoanalyst Erik Erikson suggested in his developmental model that basic trust is developed in the earlystages of life. Success at this development stage results in security & optimism in later life, whilst failure results in insecurity and mistrust. [1]
Trust is the fabric of successful relationships and is the cornerstone of values such as integrity, loyalty and honesty. So, not surprisingly, trust is the foundation of leadership. Research shows that only 49% of employees trust senior management or their bosses. In “The leadership Challenge” by Kouzes & Posner, the number one characteristic that employees ranked in their world wide research as the most desired or admired in a leader was honesty. [2] More than 80% of respondents ranked honesty as the most admired characteristic in a leader. As humans, we will follow someone that inspires us, someone with integrity, someone with strong character, someone we feel like we can trust. Think of great leaders of our time, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill or Barack Obama.
I recently had a compelling, sometimes heated but otherwise light hearted conversation with a good friend of mine about the existence of a higher force. Neither of us was willing to admit or at the least be forthcoming as to what we
believed that could be. The usual concepts were thrown around; God, The Universe, Aliens, Parallel Universes. As you can see we got real deep but neither of us had any factual evidence regarding any of those concepts [Though I think my friend claimed to]. What we danced around was opinions, life experiences and the questions of why am I here? And, Is there a greater purpose?
We discussed world religions, spirituality and science. We discussed the differences and the similarities of all three and how each influences the world. What we may have thought to be at the time to be ground breaking new theory, I am sure it’s nothing that has not been discussed before. It’s amazing the effect a long car ride can have on your creativity and delusions of grandeur.
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We have all experienced hunger and cravings. Something we tend not to realise is these experiences are a much different thing. Cravings are far more specific [i.e. for a particular type of food or emotionally driven] and when you are on a diet they can be quite destructive. The difficulty most of us have is we cannot identify the difference between cravings, hunger and thirst.
What is the difference between cravings, hunger and thirst?
Hunger – is when your stomach has that empty feeling and your tummy is growling and your body tells you that you need to eat. Just like cravings, hunger pangs will pass as well.
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