Artwork by Harper Happy Hump Day GOGI's! Our actions are an outward display of how we feel inside. POSITIVE ACTIONS are a result of POSITIVE THOUGHTS and POSITIVE WORDS. My father used to say 'crap in, crap out.' He applied this to the type of music I listened to, the television I watched and the friends I associated with. What you put in your mind and who you allow in your life are manifest in your actions. Choose wisely. They have a bigger impact [...]
Image Credit: Art is a gift to GOGI from GOGI student Oxbow Mercier. —This is an excerpt from page 48 of the How To GOGI book. POSITIVE ACTIONS can help define the new version of who you are creating yourself to be. It is not enough to do something positive one time. It is in the repetition that change becomes lasting. Just like a star professional athlete must practice, the habit of change is formed and the new definition of you emerges through repetition. [...]
Happy Hump Day my GOGI Peeps! Streetwise GOGI Tamara here to share about my ongoing GOGI journey. Our thoughts and emotions are outwardly expressed through our words and deeds. Therefore, when we are happy and our thoughts are positive, our words and actions will display this happiness and positivity. The same would be true of the other emotions we feel. If we are sad, angry, bitter or negative our words and actions follow suit. I am naturally a very upbeat, positive person. In my world the [...]
First off, know that your word choice is more revealing about you than you might think. The words you choose and how you say them almost always help determine what happens.
On Monday 1/7 we start a new GOGI Tool 'cycle'. Come learn about the 12 Tools for Positive Decision Making, starting with tool #1 BOSS OF MY BRAIN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xo5eHaKkS0
The GOGI Tool REALITY CHECK is one of my favorites. REALITY CHECK focuses on forward motion. '10 steps forward and two steps back is still 8 steps ahead.' Forward motion. Resilience. Never giving up. I grew up watching all of the Rocky movies with my father. My mother didn't approve but she always ended up watching the end of the movie with us, where Rocky overcame all odds and beat his opponent. Who doesn't love a 'Cinderella story'? :) Rocky's key to winning against an opponent [...]
REALITY CHECK was added as a GOGI Tool when GOGI students discovered that simply learning the GOGI Tools and practicing them within the safe confines of a jail or prison did not necessarily mean that when they had earned their physical freedom they were perfectly applying their tools for a perfectly reconstructed life on the outside. Actually, it was quite the contrary. Practicing the GOGI tools in a setting of detention or incarceration is very different from putting the tools to use out in the free [...]
In 2008, (was it 2009?) GOGI Girl Teri came up to me with a spark in her eye and a question. "Coach Taylor," she said, "What if I am not my past?" This simple question sparked conversation among the women living in the module at the Los Angeles County Jail called GOGI Campus. Each of the 24 women housed in this small, segregated unit within the 3,000 capacity jail wondered if they would ever be more than the decisions of the past which landed the in [...]
According to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics a total of 631,939,829 passengers boarded domestic flights in the United States during a one year period. As passengers take their seats, they are instructed how to fasten their seat belts, to protect them should their be turbulence mid flight. Passengers are also instructed in the fine art of FOR - GIVE, although they are not informed they are being taught a GOGI tool. You see, when reviewing the safety features of any commercial plane, the flight attendant [...]
I recently had someone say that to me, "It's easier said than done", when I posted about the GOGI tool LET GO on my Facebook page. The GOGI Tool LET GO may prove to be difficult for some when it comes to big things from our past or even our present. Trauma, abuse, guilt, regret, etc. We might think some things are beyond 'Hand/Squash/Toss'. Let's look at it a different way. Let's look at LET GO in two stages. We discussed in our PowerUp! group conference [...]
