How to Keep Calm and Carry On by Mann Bill;

Author:Mann, Bill;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2019-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Serenity Prayer

The serenity prayer is one of very few quotations I have put on the wall. Whether you are religious or not the call for wisdom applies to us all:

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And wisdom to know the difference.

An Open Mind

Many of the negative thinking styles reflect a closed way of thinking, whether it be jumping to conclusions, catastrophizing, black and white thinking, mind filters, etc. Having an open mind opens our ‘selves’ to other possibilities, other solutions, other eventualities. But more than this we have to be open to accepting that some of those solutions and outcomes may not become apparent until we are further along the change curve and have made further progress in processing the change.

This was particularly true for me following the passing of my wife in 2011. I had no idea how I was going to cope with every aspect of my life that was changing. I did not know what arrangements I could or would need for looking after the children in my absence, how I would balance work and home life, and so on. It would have been very easy to catastrophize, or jump to a conclusion. However, I had to move ahead with the confidence or faith that there would be solutions, there would be a way of dealing with all the consequences, and be open to working these out as I went along.

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