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6 Simple Tricks for Dealing with Pressure
6 Simple Tricks for Dealing with Pressure Anyone feeling the pressure lately? Stress anyone? If you aren’t careful, pressure can sneak up and overwhelm you. Before you know it, you’re a mess. Sitting in your chair sweating, with your heart racing, dreading the thought of doing any work and facing today and tomorrow. Fortunately there are some things you can do to help manage pressure when you feel overwhelmed. With a little practice, you may even be able to turn nerve-wracking stress into pure motivation! Count Backwards It sounds simple, but counting backwards from 100 is a great way to distract yourself from pressure and reset yourself. This easy trick…
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5 Powerful Tips for Using Positive Affirmations
5 Powerful Tips for Using Positive Affirmations I’m sure you’ve heard that positive affirmations can help you be more motivated and can help you achieve your goals. Did you know there are ways you can supercharge your affirmations to make them even more powerful, dare I say even transformative? If better health is your goal, maybe you want to lose weight and get fit. If your affirmation is “I will lose weight and go to the gym every day,” how does that make you feel? You may feel there’s a “heaviness” about the energy of that statement that isn’t very motivating. The statement focuses on the negative aspects of your…
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Setting Up Your Mental and Physical Environment to Develop Good Habits
Setting Up Your Mental and Physical Environment to Develop Good Habits When you’re trying to develop good habits, the environment you have set up for yourself can have a huge effect on whether you succeed. It can really support your efforts in a positive way when your surroundings are conducive to being successful. It’s a good idea to begin by keeping your environment clutter free. Your focus on good habit development will be tougher if you have to fight through a wall of clutter. For instance, if one of your goals is to be more productive, it won’t help if you have to spend a good portion of your day…
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Use Failure to Succeed
Use Failure to Succeed Do you try to avoid failure? Most of us do. It makes sense too, because failing is not fun. It would be great if we could leap right into success. However, that’s most often not a realistic expectation. You can use tools to help you believe in yourself, and find success. One of the best tools to help you, oddly enough, can be failure. In fact, you can use failure to succeed. When you fail, you can use the experience to figure out what went wrong. You can evaluate the steps you took and try to find the point of failure; where exactly did it all…
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The Power of Mood
The Power of Mood The power of mood is real! Expressions we often use reflect the link between mind and body. The phrase “died of a broken heart” has anecdotal evidence behind it. Suffering the loss of a loved one actually increases the survivor’s chance of a heart attack by 20 times! Someone who is experiencing depression might develop chest pains even when there is no medical reason for it. In fact, one of the symptoms of depression is physical pain. A stressed individual might be said to be “carrying the world on his shoulders” where a related symptom of stress is back pain or shoulder pain. The mind controls…
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Have a Vision Not a Goal
Have a Vision, Not a Goal! If you want to accomplish as much as you possibly can, the most important thing to get right is the vision or goal with which you begin. This is essentially the same as setting your GPS; without a starting and an ending point, you don’t stand much chance of getting to your destination. Unfortunately, many people don’t know how to correctly write goals, and this can ultimately prevent them from standing out in their chosen field. But if you’re setting off to write a goal, you should know that visions are often more helpful than goals, so have a vision not a goal. That’s…
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Fuel Your Brain with Energy and Do Your Body a Favor Too!
What is your fitness philosophy? Are you aware that self development and self improvement really need to include exercise to fuel your brain with energy? Why do you train and exercise? What is it that you hope to achieve by being physically active? Many of us train because we want to look better. Some of us train because we want to be healthier and stave off disease. Others train because they want to perform better at a particular sport or activity they enjoy. I have a different reason for training: I train because I want to change the way I feel and because I want to change my mind set.…
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How to Build a Gratitude Attitude
How to Build a Gratitude Attitude and be Free Right Now If there is one place where we should be completely free, it is in our minds. We all have limitations in terms of what our bodies are capable of doing and in what we’re allowed to do, but our minds should be free to roam wherever we want them to. It’s time for us all to learn How to Build a Gratitude Attitude. Unfortunately, this is not the reality in which most of us live. Instead, our thoughts tend to be dictated by our circumstances, and those circumstances are either largely out of our control or perceived by us…
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How to Let Go of Perfectionism to Be a Happier You!
How to Let Go of Perfectionism Perfection isn’t something anyone can achieve. The magic is in learning how to let go of perfectionism and live a happy life accepting yourself as you are. Here are nine reasons why you should let it go: It frees up your time. When you’re not obsessing about making your body perfect or your project perfect, you have more time to spend on other projects or passions. You’ll feel better. You’ll have less stress which can cause depression, insomnia or other physical problems, from weight gain to high blood pressure. Once you stop obsessing, you begin to enjoy life more. The people around you…
