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Category Archives: Personal Development
How To Overcome Stress
Here are a few tips to help you over come STRESS! While this is not an exhaustive list by any means. Remember, that stress is caused by your thoughts. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is. There is the situation or fact, and here are my thoughts about it! Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions you feel. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. The more you think thoughts of the past and of the future, the more the Ego tends to feed stressful thoughts. Always wanting more or being more creates thoughts of stress. The core of stress remains in the Ego of self. Try this next time:
- Just listen to what another person has to say and let it pass right through you. Don’t form an opinion or get angry. Those emotions form stress.
- Try listening to your words. Do they build people up or tear them down. When you use words that tear people down, those feed your ego and that causes stress.
- Try thinking less of yesterday and tomorrow and work to be present and allowing situations and things to pass through you instead of getting stuck on the inside of you.
- Remember that the only way to relieve stress is to feel loved by God and have the peace that passes all understanding.
- Love more. Love is a higher energy vibration that cancels out the lower negative frequencies.
- Remove yourself from people who complain. Recognize that people who complain are highly driven by their compulsive Ego’s. Complaining about things strengthens their Ego and stress.
- Exercise daily and watch consumption of alcohol and overeating.
Always ASK for what you want!
This past weekend we attended a wedding in Kansas City and had to fly. And for those of us who fly for a living, it is always the goal to upgrade, if possible, to first class! But in today’s busy world, that has become more and more difficult. BUT, I have learned, it is always important to ask. Both my wife and I were traveling back from Kansas City on frequent flyer tickets that normally aren’t upgradeable. But as I walked past the counter, I noticed on the large screen, that there were many open seats available in first class and there was only one person on the upgrade list! So, I decided “what the heck”, I am just going to ASK and see if we can upgrade! So I approached the counter and there was a nice guy at the check in. I asked him if it would be possible to upgrade my tickets as my wife and I are frequent flyers and I noticed that there were many open seats! He asked to see my current ticket and within a minute, he said SURE! Not only did he upgrade my wife and I to first class, he upgraded my mother in-law who was also traveling with us! And she isn’t a frequent traveler at all. The moral of the story is ALWAYS ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT in life! Perhaps you may not get it, but perhaps you will. In sales, we were always trained to ASK for the order and to never walk away from a sale until we ASKED the customer to say YES!
REMEMBER, It never hurts to ask even when it doesn’t seem possible!
Just DO IT!
"The Key To Your Success"
Well, I am back and trying to post on a regular schedule again. Today, I would like to focus on a few issues to help you improve your personal and professional productivity. Recently, I have struggled to get back to building my platform and launching my products. I guess I seem to have found a thousand reasons to delay and delay, but now I am determined to have my launch in roughly 60 days before the Christmas season. I am launching an online course titled: Lead2Succeeduniversity Platform Marketing Blueprint. This course will outline the necessary steps required to design and build your personal and or business platform. If you would like to sign up for my FREE 7 Pillars of Lead2Succeed Platform Marketing, please go to:
http://Lead2Succeeduniversity.com
This way you will automatically receive my updates and live events. Now lets talk about the concept of: “JUST DO IT”.
The TWO most important things to do when trying to improve your life and results, is to first JUST START. My grandmother used to say that getting started is half the job and I truly believe it. I am always amazing at when I think about something that must be done, I can sometimes OVER THINK the project and find myself STUCK by inactivity. But when I don’t think so much about the task and JUST START doing one small part, before you know it, I have it completed! And Second, CLARITY is critical. For me, having a clear idea of what I want to accomplish is key. If I am unclear, I tend just to waste time going back and overthinking it again. Clarity is also key in building your platform. Clarity allows you to focus on your message and plan for your branding. All essential to getting noticed online and offline.
Our Thoughts Determine Our Results: Part 5
In the previous 4 posts on “Our Thoughts”, we can see how important it is to become very aware of what we allow our mind to think about. Most people don’t realize that they need to carefully feed the mind with the right thoughts in order to produce the right results. Its just like planting a garden, if you want sweet corn you have to plant corn seeds. So, if you want certain results, you need to plant the right seeds for those results to manifest. That is why having a vision for what you want to accomplish in your life is so important. Followed by a written detailed plan to achieve these results. It is so easy today to get distracted with all of the technology and media available, so a clear concise plan of action is necessary. Its time to make a decision and a choice in your life! What direction do you want to go? Do you have a set plan and goals that will lead you to a certain outcome? Or do you just wonder around on the road that the majority of people are taking. Take the road less traveled and it will make all the difference in the world. Be conscious that you will need a lifetime platform to launch your ideas, products and dreams. Start building your platform today with the right thoughts!
Our Thoughts Determine Our Results-part 4
"Implementing the 4:4 Principle"
We have been discussing how to have the abundant life and the power of the 4:8 principle. To concentrate on the right thoughts and that ultimately drives your motor which produces the right results. We also talked about the power of Autosuggestion and self talk as one of the most powerful tools to put the right thoughts into your subconscious mind. Now lets look a few phrases that you might be saying to yourself that aren’t good for you:
- I can’t remember names
- It’s just no use
- I know it won’t work
- That’s just my luck
- I’m so clumsy
- I don’t have the talent to do that
- I’m not creative
- Everything I eat goes right to my waistline
- I can’t get organized. My desk is a mess
- I already know I won’t like it
- I’m just no good
- I’m too shy
- Sometimes I hate myself for doing that
- I’m such an idiot
- I never win anything
- I’m over the hill man
- Nobody like me any more
- Nobody calls
- I never get a break
- If I were only..(Taller, smarter, thinner) I could..
- If only I had more time, then I could…
You need to take an inventory of your words and thoughts because all of these end up in your subconscious mind that produces your results. Try to minimize and eliminate this type of self talk. Remember, studies show in the United States that about 80 % of the talk is negative. And as a child, between birth and 18 years of age, we are told “NO, you can’t” about 160,000 times on average. And we hear positive verses like “you can do anything” and “you are terrific” less than 10,000 times. So you can image why so many people have issues and difficulties changing their thoughts. Make sure you take a daily inventory of your negative thinking and put a plan in place to change that.
Our Thoughts Determine Our Results-Part 3
"Implementing the 4:8 principal"
As mentioned in part 2 of “Our Thoughts Determine Our Results”, we looked at the power of Autosuggestion and how using Autosuggestion as a tool for making sure we put the right thoughts into our subconscious mind. Now let us dive deeper. The fact is the THOUGHTS we choose, and the feelings we have from those thoughts, and the ACTIONS we act on based upon those feelings is really what ATTITUDE is; Autosuggestion control’s ones ATTITUDE. When people are having a bad or negative attitude, it is because they’ve chosen to surrender their conscious control, and have allowed someone or something to control their thinking. If we allow someone else to MAKE US MAD, SAD or GLAD, we’ve been HAD. A bad attitude can, most likely, be attributed to POOR autosuggesion. We need to understand that our attitude has a drastic impact on the results we do or don’t get in our lives, and that we have the ability to shift or change our attitude through the conscious awareness of the power of autosuggestion. That is why having written goals for what you desire is so important. As you begin to formulate your goals and write them down, you use the process of autosuggestion to keep them on the top of your conscious mind. As you read and repeat them daily, they are directly deposited into your subconscious mind, which is your MOTOR that is running 24/7. As you begin to execute your goals, you will feed a renewed sense of energy and productivity that results in improved habits and performance.
Our Thoughts Determine Our Results-part 2
"Achieving the 4:8 Principal"
In my last post, we talked about putting the right gas into our motor. Or in other words, putting the right thoughts into our conscious mind so that our results are what we desire in life. As easy as this sounds, it becomes a challenge for all us to implement. Today, we will cover one of the most powerful techniques known as “AUTO SUGGESTION”. Autosuggestion is a term which applies to all suggestions and all self-administered stimuli which reach one’s mind through the five senses. Stated another way, autosuggestion is self-suggestion. That is why we always want to analyze what our predominating thoughts are throughout the day. Because these running and predominating thoughts are what we are telling ourselves and this is what is determining our results. Autosuggestion is the agency of communication between that part of the mind where conscious thought takes place and that which serves as the seat of action for the subconscious mind. The dominating thoughts which one permits to remain in the conscious mind (whether these thoughts are positive or negative is immaterial) will reach and influence the subconscious mind, through the Law of Autosuggestion. Lets look at the three ways of gaining control over our mind or other’s minds:
- Agreement: When you get people to say “YES”, they’ll have a hard time saying no.
- Shock: Usually the result of a negative experience (car accident, dramatic event, betrayal of a close friend etc.); shock creates an awareness to the situation.
- Suggestion: This is the most powerful of the three tools. It is commonly used in advertising for example. And autosuggestion. This is also known as “self-talk” (which is choosing affirmations or statements to oneself and repeating them continuously to ourselves). Autosuggestion can work for or against you depending on the quality of your thoughts. This “power” or motor, is always on, so you want to make sure that what you put into your motor will take you where you want to go in life. We have the ability in our conscious mind to accept, reject or neglect any idea or suggestion that comes into our conscious awareness. Autosuggestion requires conscious control and awareness of the thoughts we are allowing into our awareness.
Stay tuned for my next post to learn more about implementing the 4:8 principal.
Our Thoughts Determine Our Results
" Achieving the 4:8 Principle in Life"
Have you ever owned a high performance car? Normally, they require premium fuel to operate as they were designed to operate. If you put the wrong fuel into these vehicles, they typically don’t run at their optimum. Well, such is the same with how we are designed as humans. God has designed in his image, that means, we are designed for high performance and top end results. Each of us has gifts and talents that give us the edge to deliver superior results, but that requires we put the right”GAS” into our engine daily! What high end fuel is to a car, the right “thoughts” are fuel to our body. The secret to a successful life revolves around our predominating thoughts. Our predominating thoughts throughout the day are directly put into our human engine known as our subconscious mind or our unconscious mind. In this part of the mind, thoughts cannot be rejected. So if we are thinking thoughts of fear, angry, jealousy or worry most of the day, we can be assured that these will be directly deposited into our subconscious mind (OUR MOTOR) and they will manifest themselves into our behavior and our results in life. So the secret is being able to control and monitor what we think about and to make sure we are putting only the right thoughts or fuel into our engines.
How to Implement the 4:8 principle
"Learning how to captivate your thoughts"
Have you ever wondered how some people seem to be able to go through very difficult times and stay focused on the getting through it successfully? One key skill to implement is that of the 4:8 principle. This principle comes from Philippians 4:8 which says: “Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praise-worthy-meditate on these things (NKJV)” This verse from the Bible lays out the framework for getting through ANYTHING! It allows you to overcome any obstacle and life challenge. In upcoming posts, we will look at HOW to implement the 4:8 principle, but it is all about having the right mindset which produces the right actions.