North Star Mental Fitness

9/11 Hero

William Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican and an American citizen for 19 years. He was employed at the World Trade Center. In his position, he was the only person on site with the master key to unlock the floors in the North Tower.

William Rodriguez was in the North Tower on 911. He escaped with his life. Istead of being satisfied with escaping the attack, he re-entered the North Tower three times. He saved 15 people. H still was not through with his mission.

He led firefighters of the stairway of the North Tower. As they ascended, he continued to unlock the doors. Hundreds of trapped, frightened and hopeless individuals were released and rescued because of his efforts .

I believe that William Rodriguez is a living example of a man with great mental fitness and courage. To read more about William Rodriguez, I refer you to heavenlystrength to read more about William.

William risked his life to save many. Because of the attack, he lost his job and was homeless. In spite of all this adversity, he has remained focused on helping survivors of 9/11.

Let us think of William Rodriguezand and many like him at this time of the year. Let us realize that we too will have opportunities to express our mental fitness and courage. Our opportunities may not be as heroic and dramatic, but they will still be very important and life forming.

Remember We Live within the Environment Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

The Tea Party

The original Boston Tea Party was on December 16, 1773. A group of Massachusetts Patriots, protested the monopoly on American tea importation granted by Parliament to the East India Company. The members of the Boston tea party seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor.

Once again, the Tea Party has become an important force in American politics. Today, I do not want to look at the Tea Party from a political perspective. Instead, let us look at the Tea Party from the perspective of mental fitness.

From this perspective, the tea party is an exciting group of individuals, who are working together to achieve their mutual goals. The essence of mental fitness is focusing and actively taking care of oneself in all areas of our lives.

The Tea Party is not depending on politicians or the President to make their lives better.

The Tea Part members are focused on taking care of themselves through becoming genuinely and actively committed to change the politics in our country.

Tea Party members are living in the present and not immobilized by the past .

Tea Party members remained focused in spite of the negativity of the press and the ridicule of the current American ruling class.

The Tea Party members are willing to accept the frustrations necessary to achieve their goals.

The Tea Party members know that happiness, freedom, piece of mind and control of their lives is dependent on their efforts and will be destroyed by being apathetic or dependent upon our current government and politicians.

The Tea Party members get It from a mental fitness perspective .

They sense the urgency and necessity of actively committing to changing our government so that people can self-actualize and pursue their dreams.

Remember, We Live within the Government Created by Our Choices or Our Failure to Make Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

What Are the Basics of Mental Fitness?

Politicians! As I read and listen to news commentaries, I wondered to myself if our politicians are mentally fit? Are they taking care of business? Are they more interested in pleasing their special interest groups to the detriment of the country? Since I was contemplating these issues, I decided to post what I think are some of the basics of mental fitness.

The basics of mental fitness from my book, I Live within the Environment Created by My Choices.

THE BASICS OF MENTAL FITNESS

1. I Live within the environment created by my choices.

2. I focus on taking care of me, now.

3. Where I want freedom from the past, I will make new choices.

4. I accept my choices as powerful and realize the content of my choices makes me powerful or powerless .

5. I accept my freedom to make or not make choices.

6. When I make a new choice, it may feel wrong and uncomfortable.

7. I accept the momentary frustrations necessary to care for me.

8. I accept my humanness and "messing up".

9. I accept and experience my higher power.

10. I belong and I actively commit myself to my family, friends, work, community and country.

11. I have quality and balance in my logical, emotional and self-parenting decision-making.

12. Success is making choice to actualize my dreams, achieve my goals and take care of myself so I have freedom, happiness, peace of mind and power over my life.

13. I do what is necessary to be successful and take care of me.

14. I claim my successes and experience the benefits of success which are freedom, happiness, peace of mind and power over my life.

15. I accept others' opinions as separate from me and I will not allow the opinions of others to deprive me from feeling good about my successes.

16. I live in the present: the place of freedom, happiness, peace of mind and power over my life.

It is important for all of us to decide if we and our our politicians are mentally fit! Are our polit Oans making decisions that are best for taking care of our country? Are our politicians applying the principles of mental fitness in running our country?

Remember, We Live within the Environment Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

28 July 4th Quotes

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or
ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any
friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of
liberty.
John F. Kennedy

This nation will remain the
land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
Hamilton Fish

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address, 1863.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
George Bernard Shaw

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
Lee Greenwood

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner

Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is never free.
Author Unknown

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Woodrow Wilson

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling


We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
Robert J. McCracken

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
Woody Guthrie

Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Joseph Addison

Quoations from: All Great Quotes.

Remember, , We Live within the Freedom Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach.

Is President Obama a Helicopter President?

The word helicopter has been used for more than the flying machine.  It is been used to describe parents who hover over their children in order to monitor every aspect of their lives.

The problem with helicopter parents are that they overprotect their children, who never learn how to be responsible and independent.  Their children have "learned helplessness".  These children expect their parents to solve their problems.  They do not have to put forth any energy to solve their own problems or actualize their goals. 

Helicopter parents create dysfunctional children, who never learn how to take the controls over their own lives.  Helicopter children raised by helicopter parents become dependent and weak.  They do not learn how to be independent and self-sufficient.  They are entitled children, who are on course for failure.

Helicopter parents care for their children but unwittingly keep them as perpetual children.

Is president Obama like a helicopter parent? 

Is President Obama's ideology, purpose and programs going to create independent and responsible Americans or Helicopter Citizens who have become helplessly dependent upon the government to make their lives better? 

Is President Obama encouraging and reinforcing independent and responsible behavior from American citizens or is he nurturing programs to make people more dependent and less responsible for their behavior.

is America being transformed into the nation of "learned helplessness"?  Or is America being transformed into the nation of the free and self-directed?

These questions are important to consider on a national level, but also on a very personal level.  Are you waiting for a helicopter parent or president to solve your problems?  Or are you wanting to solve your problems and achieve your dreams without the interference of a hovering presence who wants to control your existence?

From a mental fitness perspective, it is very important to learn to depend on yourself for solving your problems and reaching your goals rather than expecting someone to rescue and save you! 

Remember, You Will Live within the Body, Environment and Country Created by Your Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

Determining Our Destiny

Tuesday, is election day.

Is not a matter if you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent.

Why is election day important?

Election day is an opportunity for taking care of our country and determining the country's destiny!

Election day is an opportunity for taking care of ourselves and determining the nature of our freedom and control over our ives!

Election day is an opportunity to exercise our freedom and determine the quality of our lives!

Your vote is important!  Tuesday we are not only determining our destiny, but also the legacy of our children!

Remember, We Live within the World, Country and Government Created by Our Choices!

 

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

 

 

Democrats or Republicans?

It is not a matter of being a Democrat or Republican!

It is only a matter of being an American and creating our destiny!

Remember, We Live within the Government and Country Created by Our Choices!

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Dr. Hal and the North Star Mental Fitness Program

Tea Bagger's Psychology

The Tea Baggers Movement has been described as a grassroots movement.  The tea baggers present themselves as not being a party.

 

If they are not a party, do they have a shared mindset?  What is the psychology of the tea baggers?  It seems to me that the tea baggers have a similar mindset or shared psychological perspectives.

 

One of my clients sent me an e-mail with the following quotation from Howard Zinn.  This quotation seemed to express shared psychological beliefs embedded in the tea baggers movement.  Here is the quotation:

 

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.  

 

As I read the e-mail, I realized that this brief quotation was an excellent description of self-actualization and mental fitness.  I marveled over the  the brief quotation, because it's encapsulated the secrets for individual success as well as the psychology for changing society.

 

What is the psychology of the tea baggers?

1. Tea baggers are not waiting for some "grand utopian future"; they do not believe that our government can create a "grand utopian future" and they don't want the government to create a "grand utopian future".
2. Tea baggers want the freedom and opportunity to create their own "grand utopian future".
3. Tea baggers want to be and want our government to be honest, accountable and commitment to the Constitution.
4. Tea baggers want the freedom to self-actualize their values, beliefs, dreams and goals without governmental interference and over-taxation.
5. Tea baggers want to pursue their own happiness and individual goals; no matter how small their contributions are seen by others.
6. Tea baggers are demonstrating by living one day at a time, the grass roots movement grows and becomes more appealing to more people.
7. Tea baggers are discovering that the future is an "infinite succession of presents".
8. Tea baggers believe that people acting in a small way toward a common goal can create a "grand utopian future".
9. Tea baggers choose to not be discouraged and defeated by the "bad around us".
10. Tea baggers experience victories and their "grand utopia future", when they daily focus and actualize their identities, dreams, goals, values and our Constitution.
11. Tea baggers are showing the power of action; one day at a time followed by one day at a time, forever.
 

I believe these are some of the empowering mindsets and perhaps the psychology shared by tea baggers.  What is your mindset regarding the tea baggers or Howard Zinn's quotation?

Remember, We Live within the Society Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

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Freedom Is Not An Entitlement

Are you erroneously thinking that "freedom is an entitlement" or that the " world owes you something"?  Are you erroneously looking for the government to take care of you and give you freedom?

Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness!

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Man are created equal,  that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that amongst these are the Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".  This is a quote from the Declaration of Independence.

The framers of our government realized the importance of freedom for each and every individual.  They perceived freedom and the pursuit of happiness to be basic truths and our basic rights given to us by our Creator and codified by the Second Constitutional Congress.

In the North Star Mental Fitness Program, the focus is on training individuals to exercise their self-evident and inalienable rights for living their life under their own direction.  The purpose of the program is to provide tools to help people self-actualize and achieve their own dreams. 

In the North Star Mental Fitness Program, people are motivated to make changes in their lives out of freedom.  No matter how big or small one's achievement becomes, the real goal is to experience increased happiness, peace of mind, freedom and control over one's life. 

We very strongly believe that people are motivated to have their benefits, which are happiness, peace of mind, freedom and control over their lives.  While it is important for individuals to be free in their pursuit of happiness, it is also important that our government must not become destroy these self-evident truths and our inalienable rights.

It is important for our federal, state and local governments to uphold the rights given to us by the Declaration of Independence.

As July 4th approaches, let us celebrate our independence with a determination to ensure that our government does not neutralize our inalienable rights for freedom and the pursuit of happiness.   Let us courageously pursue our dreams in order to experience our freedom and happiness.

Remember, We Live within the Environment Created by Our Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach