Archive for March, 2009

 

What you are about to read… is so deceptively simple that you might turn the other cheek. Yes, sure, don’t read this article if curing your procrastination with ease is not important to you. Of course I say that with tongue in cheek. I dare write this headline because I had personally used this, and taught teenagers this method as well. If an MTV addict can apply this and overcome procrastination and inactivity, imagine what the resourceful and driven adult would do!

 

You will stop procrastination right in its tracks forever. Actually, for only as long as you take to internalize this information, you will do the necessary things with such enthusiasm because of the rewards it brings, or the pain it lifts!

 

Become Accountable To a Mentor

 

A mentor can come in many different forms. Someone you know that is effective and you want to model is a mentor. Someone who is a friend that is getting ahead in life can also be a mentor. There are so many books out there that teach you to search for mentors in the most inaccessible of places that it literally scares you off. What I am suggesting is simply find a person who wants the same ideals as you and certainly moving ahead, and get in contact with that person.

 

Once you had found the mentor you are comfortable being accountable to, do this next important step.

 

Have a meal with the person and tell your big aspirations. Tell the mentor that you wish to be held accountable for the actions necessary for the goals to manifest. Now this is where the rubber meets the road. You cannot tell anyone who can fog a mirror your goals. People have the tendency to shoot down goals and dreams if they had not done enough Personal Development. The biggest people know that people who are dreamers revolutionize the world. Walt Disney, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were so ahead of their times that you can be certain they were labeled “Crazy”.

 

Interestingly, Walt’s idea of Disneyland was financially supported by another dreamer, Art Linkletter. And, Ford and Edison were part of the same mastermind team!

 

Be held accountable for the plans you create.

 

You don’t have to make a 2 hour long presentation each time you are going to fulfill the promises, all you need to do is this one simple baby step that propels you to the moon.

 

Tell your mentor that you would send him a text message when you commit to a task. Text him again when the task is completed. What this does is that it puts you on the line. If you do not text back, ha! Gone is your credibility that you worked so hard to build! Now that’s a good pain to move away from. You want success don’t you? How would a bad reputation of a liar or “giver-upper” do to your image??? Think about that!

 

Be accountable to a Friend

 

Let me qualify. This friend must want the best for you. That’s why only friends are allowed here. Not people you go drinking with, or your high school roommate whom you play tennis with once a week. You need someone who already knows you are in pursuit of something bigger than a civil service JOB. Or at least, a friend who would be happy for you if you chose to be a go-getter. The reason is this. Many of your friends want you to stay the same. Consistency is a core value that people treasure. Imagine you had friends who behaved one way in a week and totally radically shifted the very next week! You would feel concerned too right??? Tony Robbins was the first I heard to mention about this, but I do not know if that theory originated from him.

 

Do exactly the same texting steps I outlined above. The only difference is that now it is with a friend that values your growth, rather than a mentor.

 

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Procrastination can be frustrating. Instead of beating yourself up for not following through, what I am saying is let someone else psychologically beat you up. The pain of that can be a great motivator. Let someone else see for him or herself how well you follow through with promises! That is a tremendous motivator as well. What you had learnt in this article is definitely do-able.

 

Now, GO Do It!!!

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Have you had that experience when all of a sudden you just had this huge hunch that something is about to happen, and to your surprise, that intuition was eventually translated to reality?

When you feel strongly about something without logical basis to it, that’s called intuition. It comes in three impressions: clairvoyance or “the third eye”, sensing clearly and feeling through listening.

Clairvoyance is when your eye goes beyond what it can see. This is when you know what is happening somewhere.

Sensing clearly is basically what we refer to as “hunch” or “gut feel.” This is the time when you are overwhelmed with a feeling and you can’t explain it and all you can say is “I just know.”

On the other hand, feeling through listening or clairaudience is being able to “listen” between the lines. Intuition also happens at times when a certain sound, whatever it is – be it a car’s honk or a bird’s twitting – ushers in an intense feeling.

They say only a number of people are gifted with intuition. Astrologers even insist that people born under the Scorpio or Pisces signs are naturally intuitive it almost borders on E.S.P. But studies have been sprouting left and right that proclaim that anyone can develop intuition.

Why the need to develop intuition, you ask? Why not let your emotional and psychological state as it is? First and foremost, intuition promotes good communication. It makes you more sensitive to the people around you; it often keeps you from hurting those you love because you are intuitive enough to understand them. Intuition also makes you far more creative than ever. Intuition means releasing more creative juices for any means of expression. Lastly, intuition has a healing power. This healing power is not in the physical sense, but in delving deep into your soul to eradicate some negative energy buried in it.

With that being said, are you ready to develop your intuition? Here are some ways to unlock this gift:

1. Hypnosis

Oh yes, get yourself hypnotized. Hypnosis is not limited to watching a pendulum move back and forth. Perform self-hypnosis or you can avail of hypnotic programs that can strengthen your intuition.

2. Meditation

Meditating means finding peace in yourself. If your mind and heart are cluttered with too many baggage and hurt,  you wouldn’t be able to quiet down that part of you that could eventually initiate intuition. There are so many ways to meditate: take a yoga class, or just simply practice some breathing that could bring you straight to Zen.

3. Think positive!

A worry-free, fear-free state could do so much to improve your intuitive ability. By staying positive, you attract good energy that would be able to easily recognize imminent feelings and events.

4.  Just let go.

What does this mean? If you are on the brink of making a huge decision, let go of all the inhibitions and head to a quiet place where you could find out where the letting go has brought you. Sometimes you just have to listen to the voice within you, and that voice wouldn’t come out unless you let go.

5. Never expect.

After letting go of the inhibitions and all those things that stop you from thinking and feeling clearly, never expect for an answer right away. Never expect that the “hunch” would fall on your lap immediately. Give it a little time then you’d just get surprised that — wham! — now you have your answer.

6. Believe in your first impressions.

When you see someone for the first time and think that he is a bit too arrogant for your taste, chances are that impression actually holds true. Most of the time, first impressions are brought by intuition.

7. Stay happy!

See? All you need to be intuitive is to stay happy! Happiness attracts immense power and such power includes intuition. In tapping your intuition, your motivation must be happiness and contentment. Given that premise, intuition will fall to you easily.

Intuition is helpful, because sometimes it leads you to something that cannot be achieved otherwise. A lot of lives have been saved by intuition alone. Decisions are easier done if armed by this gift. Develop intuition now and reap benefits you have never imagined.

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The Powers of a Positive Attitude

I am going to ask you to something very weird right now. First of all, I want you to listen to your thoughts. Now tell me, what thoughts fill your head? Would you label them as positive, or negative?

Now let’s say you are walking down the street with these thoughts. Do you think anyone who would meet you would be able to tell you what’s on your mind?

The answer to number one is up to you. But, the answer number two can be pretty generic. Although people will not be able to tell you exactly what you think, they will more or less have an idea of how you are feeling.

Here’s another question. When you enter a party filled with friends, do they all fall silent as if something terrible had happened? Or does everybody there perk up as if waiting for something exciting to happen?

You know what? The answer to all these depends on your frame of mind.

Thoughts are very powerful. They affect your general attitude. The attitude you carry reflects on your appearance, too – unless, of course, you are a great actor.

And it doesn’t end there. Your attitude can also affect people around you.

The type of attitude you carry depends on you. It can be either positive or negative.

Positive thoughts have a filling effect. They are admittedly invigorating. Plus, the people around the person carrying positive thoughts are usually energized by this type of attitude.

Negative thoughts on the other hand have a sapping effect on other people. Aside from making you look gloomy and sad, negative thoughts can turn a festive gathering into a funeral wake.

A positive attitude attracts people, while a negative attitude repels them. People tend to shy away from those who carry a negative attitude.

We can also define attitude as the way of looking at the world. If you choose to focus on the negative things in the world, more or less you have a negative attitude brewing up. However, if you choose to focus on the positive things, you are more likely carry a positive attitude.

You have much to gain from a very positive attitude. For one, studies have shown that a positive attitude promotes better health. Those with this kind of attitude also have more friends. projecting a positive attitude also helps one to handle stress and problems better than those who have a negative attitude.

A positive attitude begins with a healthy self-image. If you will love the way you are and are satisfied, confident, and self-assured, you also make others are around feel the same way.

A negative attitude, on the other hand, has, of course, an opposite effect. So, carrying a negative attitude has a twofold drawback. You feel bad about yourself, and you make others feel the same way.

If you want to have a positive attitude, you have to feature healthy thoughts. This is probably very hard to do nowadays since, all around us, the media feeds us nothing but negative thoughts. A study shows that for every 14 things a parent says to his or her child, only one is positive. This is truly a saddening thought.

If you want a healthier outlook in life, you need to think happy thoughts, and you have to hear positive things as well. So, what can you do? Well, for starters, you could see a funny movie, you could play with children, spend some time telling jokes with friends. All these activities fill you with positive stimuli, which in turn promotes positive attitude.

Although it is impossible to keep ourselves from the negative things around us, you can still carry a positive attitude by focusing on the good things, the positive things in life.

And this positive attitude you now carry can be of benefit to other people. Sometimes when other people feel down, the thing people mostly do is try to give them advice. But sometimes, all they need is somebody to sit by them, and listen to them. If you have a positive attitude you may be able to cheer them up without even having to say anything.

If positive attitude is really great, why do people choose to adopt a negative attitude instead? One who carries a negative attitude may be actually sending a signal for attention. Before you get me wrong, feeling sad, angry, or gloomy is not wrong itself. But dwelling on these thoughts for far too long is not healthy either. There is a time to mourn.

As always, if you are beset by troubles, even in your darkest hour, focus on the good things in life, you will always have hope. Problems become something you can overcome.

You do not have much to lose by adopting a healthy, positive attitude. Studies show that such an attitude actually retards aging, makes you healthier, helps you develop a better stress coping mechanism, and has a very positive effect on all the people you meet every day. So, what’s not to like about a positive attitude? Adopt one today.

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