Goal Setting - Handling Constructive

Goal Setting, Health and Parenting Ezine

In today’s article
• Goal Setting – Handling Constructive Criticism
• Health: One Vegetarian Day a Week
• Parenting: Presenting a united front


Goal Setting – Handling Constructive Criticism

There will be many times in your life when you get criticism; sometimes constructive, and lets face it, sometimes not. How you deal with this criticism is vital to your future success.

For most people the first reaction that they will have for criticism, is a knee jerk reaction where they feel hurt, and in need of defending their actions and offering a countercritisim.

Today, we are going to explore accepting criticism for what it is worth. Now before we go into the details, we would like to clarify that we are not asking you to roll over and accept all criticism; what we are suggesting, is that sometimes the criticism may be true and that the criticism, however badly delivered, could be a good learning experience.

Next time, you are giving criticism, take a deep breath, say thank you for pointing that out to me. Have a quick think, to see if the criticism is accurate. If it is accept it and say…you are right (etc). If you don’t think it is accurate. Simply, say…I will take that on board. You will quickly learn that this will make you feel a lot happier, and if the other person is saying criticism for malice, they will soon loose interest.

We had this experience not to long ago. I was driving with my wife next to me, when she made a comment on how close I was driving to other cars. My first reaction was a knee jerk one, and I took offence. After I had a quick think about it, I realised that there was merit in her words. ‘Your right…I do sometimes drive to close to other cars…thank you for pointing it out to me, I shall try and drive safer’. My wife felt acknowledged, and I started driving safer. Win-Win.

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Healthy: One Vegetarian Day a Week

In today’s article, we look at the concept of have one vegetarian day a week, and the benefits it can have not just for yourself but for the planet.

The concept is not a new one; research has shown that if you stop eating unhealthy food one day a week, you give your body a chance to recover and heal itself. For example, cancer it the cause of mutating cells and genes, this can be directly related to food or environment, particularly, where you body doesn’t have a break from a particular food or environment.

However, we have been reading “Your Heart Your Planet” by Harvey Diamond. Which provides a very different view on being vegetarian one day a week. The view is that, if we are harming ourselves, we are harming the planet. There are two fantastic quotes in the book:

1. 90% of grain produced in the US goes to feeding livestock, and
2. 60 million acres are used to farm crops for human consumption, 1.2billion for livestock.

Also the water levels used to feed livestock are incredible.

So today, we want you to consider being vegetarian for a day as a way to be healthy and also as a way to help the health of the planet. And best of all, there are so many good vegetarian foods, that the day should be a treat rather than a chore.
Parenting: Presenting a uniformed front

Children not only discover things about themselves, but they help parents discover things about themselves to. Any experience that your children have and go through will impact on you personally, as well as on your relationship.

While you and your partner may have different views on how to deal with these situations (eg tantrums, problems with teachers, or boyfriends/girlfriends etc), it is important that you are consistent and have the same view in front of your children.

Before making decisions, if possible discuss with your partner first, and try and reach some middle ground on how to deal with the issue. Of course you won’t always agree, that’s part of married life, but if you provide consistent decision-making, and are consistent in front of your children, you will be doing your child, yourself and your marriage a favour.

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In other views

Your editor, has been watching MTV on cable, because of the Australian ARIA awards. He is a big fan of Australian music, especially Silver Chair, who took out three awards.

Because he has been watching MTV, he has been exposed to MTV shows. Normally he isn’t shocked by many shows, but one show did…’Scarred’.

To paint the picture, it is people crashing skateboards or bikes, and doing serious injuries – this must be where it gets its name from. The injuries are nothing short of horrific; yet you feel like you can’t turn away.

At the start of the show, you are giving a warning not to try any of activities you see – quite strange considering they are accidents. At least, the show will make you appreciate how healthy you are, and may actually be good for your kids to watch if they are considering doing tricks on skateboards or bikes.

Cheers

Andrew Collings