Rod's Daily Encouragement

You have no irrational fears You know the difference between caution and fear. Caution is rational and prudent; fear is an emotion that may protect you from doing something foolish, but also may stop you from taking advantage of live changing opportunities. You know that almost all decisions are made under the conditions of imperfect information. Causal Decision Theory First published Sat Oct 25, 2008 from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy “Causal decision theory adopts principles of rational choice that attend to an act's consequences. It maintains that an account of rational choice must use causality to identify the considerations that make a choice rational. “Given a set of options constituting a decision problem, decision theory recommends an option that maximizes utility, that is, an option whose utility equals or exceeds the utility of every other option. It evaluates an option's utility by calculating the option's expected utility. It uses probabilities and

You are an achiever. Social support and encouragement are key! “Because the acquisition of expertise requires substantial effort, the social support provided during the learning phase is extremely important.” – Earl Hunt in “Expertise, Talent, and Social Encouragement” If this is true, then you are a success at living. You look at life and people as giving you support. The universe holds you up and sustains you. You are an achiever because are encouraged to try your best, you always aiming at success, you garner accolades when you deserve them, and best of all, and you serve as an example to others. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide you with even more support and encouragement so you can achieve anything. Positive Psychology You are a wonderful person because you have certain character traits Martin Seligman has listed these traits in a book entitled, Character Strengths and Virtues. I pulled this off Wikipedia because Character Strengths and Virtues is an import

From 10/2/2011 4:36 PM YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL!! Success begins before you feel successful. Success begins when you desire to be successful. No matter your current situation, if you are desirous of personal change, of making improvements in you life, and of taking on new challenges, then you are successful. Since you are willing to take up the challenge of change, regardless of you present circumstances, then you are thriving. Success is a willingness to face tomorrow with a renewed boldness of purpose. You are successful. CLICK HERE TO GET ENCOURAGING BOOKS CLICK HERE TO GET Mindset:The New Psychology of Success FEATURED BOOK: Blurb from Amazon.com  In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success—without effort. They’re wrong. In a growth mindset, people b

You have a mind! The mere fact that you have a mind, a human mind, means that you walk around with the most complex and sophisticated machine in the universe sitting on top of your neck....

You are rich! “You get stronger and wiser every day by facing risk and adversity.” This paraphrases a quote from the book, The Millionaire Next Door.... If you want to read the full article, subscribe to my newsletter, Rods Daily Encouragement at: http://letterly.net/DailyEncouragement