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Life Dysfunctions

Posted Oct 18 2009 10:05pm

Life Dysfunctions!  We all have them.  Vern from Aim for Awesome asked the important question.  It's a question many people avoid asking.  It can be a very painful question.

The question is: What Are Your Life Dysfunctions?

A Life Dysfunction was defined by Vern as "something about you that is at odds with society or yourself and that is causing you some discontent".

Our Life Dysfunctions are often apparent to other people.  Sometimes we are very blind to our Life Dysfunctions.  It takes a lot of courage to identify our Life Dysfunctions.

It is impossible for others to change our Life Dysfunctions; no matter how how much they wish our lives could be better or commit to making our lives better.  Only we can identify and turn our Life Dysfunctions into Life Functions.

What is a Life Dysfunction?  I believe a Life Dysfunction is continuing past successful behavior in situations where past success don't work.  For example, for an infant crawling is success.  However, an infant's success is failure for an adult.

The auto industry has discovered that the success of making gas guzzling vehicles has disappeared.  Continuing to make the gas guzzlers resulted in failure.

Adolescence hopefully learn that successful thoughts and behaviors associated with their teenage years fail as they become adults. 

Successful thoughts and behaviors associated with dating fail if unchanged when living in a marriage.

It is important to identify our past successes that have outlived their usefulness.  It is important for us to realize when our past successes are failing us.  If you are experiencing dissatisfaction in your life, it is time to identify your Life Dysfunctions.

If you do not want to live the way you're living anymore, identify and turn your Life Dysfunctions into functional living.  Once you have identified your Life Dysfunctions, all you have to do is make new choices.

Life Dysfunctions are the result of worn out functional choices that have become dysfunctional.  Making new choices can turn Life Dysfunctions into functional living.  You can have the joy flowing from functional living.

Remember, You Live within the Environment Created by Your Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

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