4 Powerful Ways to Fire up Your Motivation
It is so difficult to go on when everything seems to fail, isn’t it? Are there times in your life when you really want to call it "quits" because you just can't see any good results from allthe hard work you've done? Hold your horses! Never ever, think of giving up. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Take all negative words out of your mental dictionary and focus on the solutions with utmost conviction and patience. The battle is never lost until you have abandoned your vision. However, what if you are exhausted physically, mentally, andmost of all emotionally? Here are some sources of motivation to prompt you in reaching the peak of accomplishment.
1) The Overwhelming Feeling of attaining your Desired End How would you feel after accomplishing your mission? Of course, you will feel ecstatic. You might be shedding tears of joy. Let this tremendous feeling sink in and encourage you to persist despite all odds. When I was studying for the Board Exams, I used this technique to motivate me. I would envision the sweetness of folks calling me a CPA. It would command respect. People will look up tome as a higher level of authority. In addition, I would have better chances of finding a good job. I absorbed all these great perceptions into my inner being in order to achieve my ultimategoal.
2) The Reward System how would you feel if you have entered a contest, but there are no prizes for the winners. It is not very encouraging, isn't it? The same principles apply to your vision. Reward yourself after accomplishing a goal. Set a particular incentive for every objective. Let us say if you have achieved a particular task, you will treat yourself to your favorite restaurant. When you have finished a bigger task, you will go on a vacation. Got the idea?
Just set something gratifying to indulge in after completing a certain undertaking.
3) The Powerful Force of Humanity if you want to succeed, surrounds yourself with the right kind of people who will support and encourage you all the way. Be with people who have the same beliefs and aspirations as yours. Positive aura is generated by this fusion of collective energy from people of "like minds." On the contrary, being with people who oppose your ways of thinking may trigger a negative, yet very powerful, kind of motivation. Has anyone ever said to you that "You'll never get anywhere" or "You're wasting your time with what you're doing?" Didn't it made you furious and determined enough to prove to them how wrong they were? This is what I am talking about. When aggravated, you will do anything to make those who are against you swallow their words. But of course, your main focus should be on the accomplishment of your goal and not for the purpose of revenge. Never let your emotions toward others alter your main objective.
4) Take Care Of Your Health Exercise regularly. Fill your brains with enough oxygen toallow you to do your daily tasks with more vigor and energy. Take regular breaks if time allows. Having the will power to continue despite all hardships is extremely important, but you should still know your limits. If you don't take enough rest, you will not be able to thinkclearly and you will not be able to do your tasks properly. In the process, you will just get more frustrated. Take sufficient sleep and recharge yourself after a hard day's work. Never, ever ignore your health. I've learned my lesson when I sacrificed my health for the sake of success. I've worked very long hours everyday and just got minimal sleep. As a result, I became ill. It's not worth it. Success won't matter if you don't have good health to enjoy it.
Fire up your motivation and live life to the fullest!
Friday, March 17, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
The Power of Inspiration
The Power of Inspiration
INSPIRATION can be a powerful thing. It can keep you going when all around you cries out. Quit!? It is even more powerful than motivation, as motivation gives you your basic reasons to keep going--it tells you why you want to do what you do, because motivation is based on goals. These, in turn, may be based on necessity want or desire. However, inspiration fills those reasons with hope, possibility and enjoyment and keeps the? Grind? From becoming too, grind. However, just what doe does inspiration consist of? Posit two elements: vision and mission. Proverbs29: 18 say? Where there is no vision, the people perish.? A vision is the first step toward turning your motivation into inspiration. A person with a vision sees down the road. He can sense what twill is like six weeks, six months, a year, two years, five years and more ahead. However, how do you get a vision? you ask. First, you need to narrow your perspective. You cannot attempt to. Ride off in all directions at once, so to speak. Try to decide what it is you are looking for, so you will know it when you see it. In other words, try to have in mind some general goals as to where you want to be six months a yearned. from now. These goals will not only form the basis of your motivation but should also serve to limit to an extent the scope of your activity. Next, try to locate and choose an opportunity (business, career or job), which you feel, is right for you. This may be easier said then done, as there are many choices, which sound good. You may come upon an outstanding one right away, purely by chance. If so, latch onto it. However, you will probably have to pick several at first and study the things, which each one offers and try to evaluate the potential of each one as you see it. Settle on the one, which you feel, has the most potential with the least amount of hassle (preferably one that is totally Internet driven as opposed to one where you have to spend time calling potential prospects by phone). Once you have chosen your company, stand behind it in every way and do not quit or change your mind.B.C. Forbes said. Without loyalty, nothing can be accomplished in any sphere.... Think of yourself as being in it for the long haul, no matter what. In addition, try to envision, based on what you know, how things will be down the road. Keep that picture before your mind, and never doubt. Napoleon Hill said. What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve, and the Bible says, in Hebrews 11:1? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Once the vision is firmly implanted in your mind, let it become your driving force. Let the vision excite you with the possibility of its fulfillment and you will automatically begin the next step--you are on a mission. Your mission is to bring about the realization of the vision. If you keep the vision in mind, you will move forward in the mission, accomplishing enthusiastically step by step that which is necessary to bring the vision into reality. You will have developed a sense of excite-mint, importance and urgency which will keep the fires of inspiration burning in your heart and moving you ever onward and upward.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
It Is All About Attitude
It Is All About Attitude!
Why do we really need the experiences that we have to deal with in our day-to-day life? Does anyone know who can answer my question? Somehow, at heart I do know and understand the answer to this question. However, I have no discipline to do something about it in respect of applying the principle in dealing with my own life experiences.
To a certain extent, we all have some sort of karma to deal with in our lives. I myself, do have karma in this lifetime to deal with, it is my famous four (4)! The vibration of the four deals primarily in stability and commitment being the main concern. This is all very nice from my point of view in life, being a Gemini and having some strong characteristics that are contradictory to the vibration of the four!
In my experience of living through that karma, I am beginning to become aware of the existence of sub division, making it interesting for me to deal with. Four is an earthly vibration and has a great deal of focus upon mundane everyday responsibility.
Do you sometimes feel that your karma is never ending process? If so, then that feeling is not just a part of your imagination, it is a true fact because your karma has been around usually for more than one lifetime. Its roots are far from being the lesson of this lifetime alone! That is what makes it difficult to handle and can make us stubborn when the time comes to deal with it accordingly. Certainly, this was the case for me until my girlfriend introduced me to the words "it is all about attitude".
I was not able to comment upon her statement at that point. I was in need of some time to grasp the essence of those words in my head. I had to allow time for my logical mind to analyze the statement, or else, I might have lost my fun in the process!
How do we define an attitude? An attitude is the way we define something according to what's going on in our environmental circumstances. We must always look to these circumstances objectively, in order that we are ready to make necessary adjustments in the case where any aspects of those circumstances are not working. That reminds me of the saying when being presented with half glass of water, 'is it half full or is it half empty'?
Somehow the word attitude opened something inside of me, although I was not capable of knowing exactly what at this point of my experience in dealing with my karma. I thought about it hard and realized that our attitude does have a great affect and can make a huge difference when dealing with our day-to-day experiences. However, when it come to our lessons in life being a part of our karma, changing our attitude to a more positive and objective one can enhance our situation and facilitate our experience in our lessons by creating the capacity for us to move faster in our growth. Now, back to the point of me dealing with my own karma, it will help me at least to have a better attitude about my lesson, my life and specially my attitude about myself. That's where everything starts, with the self.
So, in the end, whether we have a positive or negative attitude we still must deal with things in our life. So why make it hard on ourselves? Just have a change of attitude!
Why do we really need the experiences that we have to deal with in our day-to-day life? Does anyone know who can answer my question? Somehow, at heart I do know and understand the answer to this question. However, I have no discipline to do something about it in respect of applying the principle in dealing with my own life experiences.
To a certain extent, we all have some sort of karma to deal with in our lives. I myself, do have karma in this lifetime to deal with, it is my famous four (4)! The vibration of the four deals primarily in stability and commitment being the main concern. This is all very nice from my point of view in life, being a Gemini and having some strong characteristics that are contradictory to the vibration of the four!
In my experience of living through that karma, I am beginning to become aware of the existence of sub division, making it interesting for me to deal with. Four is an earthly vibration and has a great deal of focus upon mundane everyday responsibility.
Do you sometimes feel that your karma is never ending process? If so, then that feeling is not just a part of your imagination, it is a true fact because your karma has been around usually for more than one lifetime. Its roots are far from being the lesson of this lifetime alone! That is what makes it difficult to handle and can make us stubborn when the time comes to deal with it accordingly. Certainly, this was the case for me until my girlfriend introduced me to the words "it is all about attitude".
I was not able to comment upon her statement at that point. I was in need of some time to grasp the essence of those words in my head. I had to allow time for my logical mind to analyze the statement, or else, I might have lost my fun in the process!
How do we define an attitude? An attitude is the way we define something according to what's going on in our environmental circumstances. We must always look to these circumstances objectively, in order that we are ready to make necessary adjustments in the case where any aspects of those circumstances are not working. That reminds me of the saying when being presented with half glass of water, 'is it half full or is it half empty'?
Somehow the word attitude opened something inside of me, although I was not capable of knowing exactly what at this point of my experience in dealing with my karma. I thought about it hard and realized that our attitude does have a great affect and can make a huge difference when dealing with our day-to-day experiences. However, when it come to our lessons in life being a part of our karma, changing our attitude to a more positive and objective one can enhance our situation and facilitate our experience in our lessons by creating the capacity for us to move faster in our growth. Now, back to the point of me dealing with my own karma, it will help me at least to have a better attitude about my lesson, my life and specially my attitude about myself. That's where everything starts, with the self.
So, in the end, whether we have a positive or negative attitude we still must deal with things in our life. So why make it hard on ourselves? Just have a change of attitude!
Life Changing Attitude
Life Changing Attitude
Do you really believe that there is anything in the world that is impossible?
I am 21 and I had to grow up at accelerated rates because of multiple circumstances in my life. One of them was the divorce of my parents, my mother had no money and my father did not seem to care about my brother and me. In addition, to make it clear "no money" means that we didn't have enough even for food.
Now, I am not saying these things so you can feel pity for me. I am telling you because somehow I managed to survive, I found a Way.
Today I make 2000 euros a month, I know it is not a fortune but at least I have a budget that is 4 times more than the average budget in Greece and this amount grows every minute even as I write this article. By the way, my father makes less money than that.
How did I manage to make it while I did not have a quarter of a penny in my pocket? ATTITUDE is the answer, I never ever stopped learning about anything that could be learned and that made me look like Guru in my circle of influence. Even with no money, I had the most beautiful girls and the highest grades of all. When someone had a problem, I was the one who solved it.
Imagine how it is like to have your own problems and the problems of others. It is great, why? Because you get feedback from all the flanks, imagine yourself like a giant sponge whose only job is to soak information. It gives you an edge over the entire community, simply because people cannot cope with their own problems and helping you with yours is out of consideration. Can't cope? Alternatively, so they think.
You see I wasn't always like that, until family problems "made me" take Responsibility. I had no one to rely upon except myself and to tell the truth I felt like I was Lost in complications and trouble. At that point, I gave a promise to myself that no matter how many troubles I had I Would Succeed in Life. I was so determined that I slept only 3 to 4 hours a day.
What I did find out, was that the key to get what you want is ATTITUDE and not just any attitude but the right attitude. Let's say you want to get rich, in order to get rich and successful you must behave like rich and successful people even if you are starving to death. You must believe you deserve to be rich and I don't mean some superficial belief deep in your head, rather a strong conviction that you do deserve what you ask for.
When you have that kind of convictions and determination people will start treat you the way you deserve. It's a weird thing but most people form an "Opinion" based on things you believe about yourself, so if you believe you are rich you will be perceived like one, if you believe you deserve to be respected you will be respected. In time those same people, will make your "false" conviction come True. The future "You" is made from the present "belief of" you.
The only restriction of what you can achieve is your Imagination. Imagine the best "YOU" in every detail and you will certainly become this "YOU".
Do you really believe that there is anything in the world that is impossible?
I am 21 and I had to grow up at accelerated rates because of multiple circumstances in my life. One of them was the divorce of my parents, my mother had no money and my father did not seem to care about my brother and me. In addition, to make it clear "no money" means that we didn't have enough even for food.
Now, I am not saying these things so you can feel pity for me. I am telling you because somehow I managed to survive, I found a Way.
Today I make 2000 euros a month, I know it is not a fortune but at least I have a budget that is 4 times more than the average budget in Greece and this amount grows every minute even as I write this article. By the way, my father makes less money than that.
How did I manage to make it while I did not have a quarter of a penny in my pocket? ATTITUDE is the answer, I never ever stopped learning about anything that could be learned and that made me look like Guru in my circle of influence. Even with no money, I had the most beautiful girls and the highest grades of all. When someone had a problem, I was the one who solved it.
Imagine how it is like to have your own problems and the problems of others. It is great, why? Because you get feedback from all the flanks, imagine yourself like a giant sponge whose only job is to soak information. It gives you an edge over the entire community, simply because people cannot cope with their own problems and helping you with yours is out of consideration. Can't cope? Alternatively, so they think.
You see I wasn't always like that, until family problems "made me" take Responsibility. I had no one to rely upon except myself and to tell the truth I felt like I was Lost in complications and trouble. At that point, I gave a promise to myself that no matter how many troubles I had I Would Succeed in Life. I was so determined that I slept only 3 to 4 hours a day.
What I did find out, was that the key to get what you want is ATTITUDE and not just any attitude but the right attitude. Let's say you want to get rich, in order to get rich and successful you must behave like rich and successful people even if you are starving to death. You must believe you deserve to be rich and I don't mean some superficial belief deep in your head, rather a strong conviction that you do deserve what you ask for.
When you have that kind of convictions and determination people will start treat you the way you deserve. It's a weird thing but most people form an "Opinion" based on things you believe about yourself, so if you believe you are rich you will be perceived like one, if you believe you deserve to be respected you will be respected. In time those same people, will make your "false" conviction come True. The future "You" is made from the present "belief of" you.
The only restriction of what you can achieve is your Imagination. Imagine the best "YOU" in every detail and you will certainly become this "YOU".
Life Changing Attitude
Life Changing Attitude
Do you really believe that there is anything in the world that is impossible?
I am 21 and I had to grow up at accelerated rates because of multiple circumstances in my life. One of them was the divorce of my parents, my mother had no money and my father did not seem to care about my brother and me. In addition, to make it clear "no money" means that we didn't have enough even for food.
Now, I am not saying these things so you can feel pity for me. I am telling you because somehow I managed to survive, I found a Way.
Today I make 2000 euros a month, I know it is not a fortune but at least I have a budget that is 4 times more than the average budget in Greece and this amount grows every minute even as I write this article. By the way, my father makes less money than that.
How did I manage to make it while I did not have a quarter of a penny in my pocket? ATTITUDE is the answer, I never ever stopped learning about anything that could be learned and that made me look like Guru in my circle of influence. Even with no money, I had the most beautiful girls and the highest grades of all. When someone had a problem, I was the one who solved it.
Imagine how it is like to have your own problems and the problems of others. It is great, why? Because you get feedback from all the flanks, imagine yourself like a giant sponge whose only job is to soak information. It gives you an edge over the entire community, simply because people cannot cope with their own problems and helping you with yours is out of consideration. Can't cope? Alternatively, so they think.
You see I wasn't always like that, until family problems "made me" take Responsibility. I had no one to rely upon except myself and to tell the truth I felt like I was Lost in complications and trouble. At that point, I gave a promise to myself that no matter how many troubles I had I Would Succeed in Life. I was so determined that I slept only 3 to 4 hours a day.
What I did find out, was that the key to get what you want is ATTITUDE and not just any attitude but the right attitude. Let's say you want to get rich, in order to get rich and successful you must behave like rich and successful people even if you are starving to death. You must believe you deserve to be rich and I don't mean some superficial belief deep in your head, rather a strong conviction that you do deserve what you ask for.
When you have that kind of convictions and determination people will start treat you the way you deserve. It's a weird thing but most people form an "Opinion" based on things you believe about yourself, so if you believe you are rich you will be perceived like one, if you believe you deserve to be respected you will be respected. In time those same people, will make your "false" conviction come True. The future "You" is made from the present "belief of" you.
The only restriction of what you can achieve is your Imagination. Imagine the best "YOU" in every detail and you will certainly become this "YOU".
Do you really believe that there is anything in the world that is impossible?
I am 21 and I had to grow up at accelerated rates because of multiple circumstances in my life. One of them was the divorce of my parents, my mother had no money and my father did not seem to care about my brother and me. In addition, to make it clear "no money" means that we didn't have enough even for food.
Now, I am not saying these things so you can feel pity for me. I am telling you because somehow I managed to survive, I found a Way.
Today I make 2000 euros a month, I know it is not a fortune but at least I have a budget that is 4 times more than the average budget in Greece and this amount grows every minute even as I write this article. By the way, my father makes less money than that.
How did I manage to make it while I did not have a quarter of a penny in my pocket? ATTITUDE is the answer, I never ever stopped learning about anything that could be learned and that made me look like Guru in my circle of influence. Even with no money, I had the most beautiful girls and the highest grades of all. When someone had a problem, I was the one who solved it.
Imagine how it is like to have your own problems and the problems of others. It is great, why? Because you get feedback from all the flanks, imagine yourself like a giant sponge whose only job is to soak information. It gives you an edge over the entire community, simply because people cannot cope with their own problems and helping you with yours is out of consideration. Can't cope? Alternatively, so they think.
You see I wasn't always like that, until family problems "made me" take Responsibility. I had no one to rely upon except myself and to tell the truth I felt like I was Lost in complications and trouble. At that point, I gave a promise to myself that no matter how many troubles I had I Would Succeed in Life. I was so determined that I slept only 3 to 4 hours a day.
What I did find out, was that the key to get what you want is ATTITUDE and not just any attitude but the right attitude. Let's say you want to get rich, in order to get rich and successful you must behave like rich and successful people even if you are starving to death. You must believe you deserve to be rich and I don't mean some superficial belief deep in your head, rather a strong conviction that you do deserve what you ask for.
When you have that kind of convictions and determination people will start treat you the way you deserve. It's a weird thing but most people form an "Opinion" based on things you believe about yourself, so if you believe you are rich you will be perceived like one, if you believe you deserve to be respected you will be respected. In time those same people, will make your "false" conviction come True. The future "You" is made from the present "belief of" you.
The only restriction of what you can achieve is your Imagination. Imagine the best "YOU" in every detail and you will certainly become this "YOU".
Monday, March 13, 2006
Power of Positive Beliefs
Power of Positive Beliefs
I am an educator as well as a coach and am interested in what it is that brings out the best in the people with whom I work. Over the last few years I have read a great deal of research on the power of beliefs. I am convinced that it is essential that I hold, and communicate to my students or clients that I believe in their ability to learn, to heal, and to grow.
We have to hold and project these beliefs even when, or perhaps, especially when the person we are working with does not hold them. In a recent study, it was found that teenagers from economically disadvantaged families were more likely to attend college if their parents, especially their mothers, were optimistic about the teen’s chances of enrolling in college.
I read once about a teacher who was given a list of student names with numbers ranging from 125 to180 after their names at the beginning of the school year. Believing that she had been given a class of gifted students, she worked hard all year to provide opportunities for these students to do well. At the end of the year, she asked for another class of gifted students since they had all performed outstandingly. She was told that the numbers were their locker numbers, not their IQs.
In transpersonal therapy, the belief held by the therapist or healer about their client is an important component of the therapy. There is solid research to back this up. Marilyn Schlitz at the Institute of Noetic Sciences is carrying out some interesting research on internationality, which she defines as the "projection of awareness, with purpose and efficacy, toward some object or outcome." In his review of the research on human interconnectedness, Braud claims that the mental and emotional processes of one person can directly influence the mental or physical processes of another person. Hibbard claims that she experiences "the use of internationality in psychotherapy as an extremely potent form of spiritual healing." Benor, who began as a skeptic of spiritual healing says "Just holding an intent brings healing energies and spiritual awareness into the therapy."
Elizabeth Targ refers to medical research that demonstrates the powerful positive effects of the belief of the physician in the treatment offered. She also cites Braud and Schlitz' work on distant internationality which dramatically demonstrates the ability of one person's thoughts to influence the physical state of another person.
She urges medical practitioners to "consciously activate their own images of wellness for each patient with whom they work." In order to help our students or our clients to let go of self-defeating beliefs and to hold life-affirming beliefs, we have to hold those for ourselves as well as about our clients. I use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), which is a powerful process for reducing or eliminating old, unhealthy, negative beliefs and allowing life-affirming beliefs to surface.
For more information, you can reach her at http://www.thestressreductioncoach.com
I am an educator as well as a coach and am interested in what it is that brings out the best in the people with whom I work. Over the last few years I have read a great deal of research on the power of beliefs. I am convinced that it is essential that I hold, and communicate to my students or clients that I believe in their ability to learn, to heal, and to grow.
We have to hold and project these beliefs even when, or perhaps, especially when the person we are working with does not hold them. In a recent study, it was found that teenagers from economically disadvantaged families were more likely to attend college if their parents, especially their mothers, were optimistic about the teen’s chances of enrolling in college.
I read once about a teacher who was given a list of student names with numbers ranging from 125 to180 after their names at the beginning of the school year. Believing that she had been given a class of gifted students, she worked hard all year to provide opportunities for these students to do well. At the end of the year, she asked for another class of gifted students since they had all performed outstandingly. She was told that the numbers were their locker numbers, not their IQs.
In transpersonal therapy, the belief held by the therapist or healer about their client is an important component of the therapy. There is solid research to back this up. Marilyn Schlitz at the Institute of Noetic Sciences is carrying out some interesting research on internationality, which she defines as the "projection of awareness, with purpose and efficacy, toward some object or outcome." In his review of the research on human interconnectedness, Braud claims that the mental and emotional processes of one person can directly influence the mental or physical processes of another person. Hibbard claims that she experiences "the use of internationality in psychotherapy as an extremely potent form of spiritual healing." Benor, who began as a skeptic of spiritual healing says "Just holding an intent brings healing energies and spiritual awareness into the therapy."
Elizabeth Targ refers to medical research that demonstrates the powerful positive effects of the belief of the physician in the treatment offered. She also cites Braud and Schlitz' work on distant internationality which dramatically demonstrates the ability of one person's thoughts to influence the physical state of another person.
She urges medical practitioners to "consciously activate their own images of wellness for each patient with whom they work." In order to help our students or our clients to let go of self-defeating beliefs and to hold life-affirming beliefs, we have to hold those for ourselves as well as about our clients. I use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), which is a powerful process for reducing or eliminating old, unhealthy, negative beliefs and allowing life-affirming beliefs to surface.
For more information, you can reach her at http://www.thestressreductioncoach.com
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