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7 Steps to Unleash Dynamic Energy

Do these Things to Release Dynamic Energy:

1. Set some goal for yourself that you are trying to achieve.

Make that goal big enough so that it will excite your imagination and arouse tremendous interest. Your energies will rise in proportion to the needs you have. If you have a goal to make only fifty dollars a week, it is not a very inspiring goal. If you push that goal and set a figure such as two hundred and fifty dollars a week, instantly your subconscious mind will release the dynamic energy and the dynamic ideas to make it possible to achieve the larger sum.

2. Have some person or persons in your life that you are trying to help. This can be your own mate, your children, your mother and father; whatever it is that you are trying to do for others unselfishly will automatically give you greater energy and more stamina to endure and persist. If you live just for yourself, it is unlikely that you will have more than just enough life-force to exist. Florence Nightingale was the first woman in history to go out into battle to help nurse soldiers. She freed womankind from the restrictions of their sex, and created a new and honorable profession for women. This frail woman was so inspired by her desire to help the sick, that it gave her tremendous energy and vitality.

3. Find work that you really enjoy doing.And if you happen to be in work you despise get out of it as soon as possible. Nothing will so quickly lower the curve of energy as being in work you detest. It has even been known to make some people chronically sick because they are constantly frustrated. This restricts the glandular action of the body and depresses the body organs. But if you are in work you love, your body cells sing with joy and health and energy, they are stimulated, so that you constantly feel good.

4. Have hobbies that give you pleasure as well as relaxation. Dynamic energy is created when your mind is interested in doing something. It is vitally important that you have avocations as well as a vocation. The moments you give to painting, writing poetry or stories, modeling in clay, stamp collecting, rug weaving or whatever hobby you indulge, are moments well spent, for they will serve to release energy which will make your regular work easier and less boring.

5. If you are not already in love with someone, fall in love as quickly as you can.Nothing helps release dynamic energy so quickly and potently as being in love. Science is now aware of the importance of this powerful emotion in our lives. Children thrive and are healthy when loved. When denied love they are sickly and lacking in energy and interest.

6. Set daily goals for yourself that you are trying to achieve.

If you are a salesman, set a certain number of sales. If an author, set a certain number of pages you wish to write. If a student, a certain course of study which you do regularly. It has been found that the mind responds to the challenge of direct suggestion. If you know you are going to play eighteen holes of golf, the body and brain see to it that the necessary energy and drive are created to carry you through that course. If a prize fighter builds himself up mentally to take on a certain opponent, his body will release the energy to carry him into that ring facing formidable opposition. As you achieve these small goals at first, keep raising the level of your goal, until you have reached a high peak of energy and achievement.

7. Each day, when you start your activities, say a series of suggestions that will be energy-boosters to your subconscious mind.

Here are a few you might memorize and repeat every day when you feel the need of inspiration or greater mental or physical energy.

  • I am strong and healthy.
  • I can accomplish anything I desire.
  • I am young and vital, and my body now responds with new energy and vitality to do all my tasks today.
  • I am happy, happy, happy.
  • I find joy in my work and my life sparkles with interest and happiness.
  • I have faith in myself, my work and my destiny.
  • I now extend this faith to the entire world.
  • I am successful, well-liked, and attract friends to myself.
  • I now radiate confidence, poise and inner power.
  • I love everyone I meet, and they will in turn love me.
  • I am rich as any millionaire; with gifts of mental and physical health, free estates of parks, and the golden gifts of friendship, love, peace, happiness and beauty.

Whenever you feel tired or discouraged, or your energy is low, just stop whatever you are doing, breathe deeply for ten or fifteen times, say all of the above energy-boosters, and really mean them, then you will see how quickly your mind recovers its sharpness, and your body becomes filled with new energy and vitality.

Finding Motivation:What to Do When You Don’t Feel

“The measure of your success usually comes down to who wins the battle that rages between the two of you. The ‘you’ who wants to stop, give up, or take it easy, and the ‘you’ who chooses to beat back that which would stand in the way of your success — complacency.” – Chris Widener

In all my interactions with people, I’ve never found anyone, regardless of their level of success, who doesn’t sometimes find themselves simply not wanting to do the things that they need and want to do. It is a part of human nature that there will be times that, in spite of all that we need to do, and even desire to, we will find ourselves not wanting to do anything. And what separates those who will become successful from those who will maintain the status quo, is the ability at those very crucial moments of time when we are making decisions about what we will do, to choose to find the inner motivation that will enable us to conquer our complacency and move on in action.

I find that I confront this issue in my life on a regular basis, so the following success strategies are not merely pie in the sky techniques, but proven ways to get yourself to go even when you don’t feel like doing anything.

Honestly evaluate whether or not you need a break. This is the first thing that I usually do when I find that I don’t want to get to a specific action. The fact is that oftentimes we will have been working very hard, and the lethargy we are feeling is really our body and emotions telling us that we simply need a break. And this is where it takes real intellectual honesty because when we don’t need a break, our mind is still telling us we need a break! But sometimes we do need a break. I’ll give you a good example. I don’t particularly like to exercise, but I do almost every day. Sometimes, I find myself before going to the club thinking about how I just didn’t feel like going. Most of the time I am just being lazy. However, sometimes I realize that my body needs a break. So from time to time I will take a one- or two-day break from working out. The benefits of this are two-fold: One, my body gets a break to regenerate itself. Two, after a day or two, I begin to miss my workout, and eagerly anticipate a turning to the gym. Other examples: Perhaps you are a salesman who has been phoning clients for a week straight, day and night. You wake up one morning and just don’t feel like doing it any more. Well, take a break for the morning. Go to a coffee shop and read the paper. Go to the driving range and hit some golf balls. Take a break and then get back to it!

Start small. I’m at a point in my workout schedule now where a typical workout day for me consists of 30 to 45 minutes of aerobic exercise, and about 30 minutes of weight lifting. So when I find myself not wanting to get up and go to the gym, I will sometimes make a commitment to go and just do a smaller workout. Instead of deciding not to go, I’ll commit to doing 15 to 20 minutes of aerobic exercise and 15 to 30 minutes of weight lifting. This is also good for two reasons. One, I actually get some exercise that day. And two, it keeps me from getting into a cycle of giving up when I don’t feel like moving toward action. Other examples: Maybe you are a writer who simply doesn’t want to write today. Instead of the long day writing you had planned, decide that you will at least outline a couple of new articles. You will at least get these done, and you may have found that you put yourself into the writing mood after all.

Change your routine. I have found that what keeps me in the best shape and burns the most calories for me is to do 30 to 45 minutes on the treadmill every day. Now let me be very blunt. I find running on the treadmill to be extremely boring. Usually I can get myself to do it, but sometimes I need to vary my routine. So instead of 30 to 45 minutes on a treadmill, I will break down my aerobic exercise routine into a number of different areas. I will do 10 to 15 minutes on the treadmill, 10 to 15 minutes on the reclining cycle, 5 to 10 minutes on the rowing machine, 5 to 10 minutes on the stair stepper, and then back on to the treadmill for five to 10 minutes. I still get my exercise, but I’m bored a lot less. Other examples: Maybe you are in construction and you have been working on the plumbing for a week, and it is getting monotonous. Don’t do the plumbing today! Go frame-in the office.

Reward yourself. One way that I motivate myself to do something when I don’t feel like doing it is to tell myself that if I get through the work that I need to, I will give myself a little reward. For instance, I may tell myself if I to get up and go to the club, I can take five to 10 minutes off my treadmill exercise, which will shorten my workout routine, and I’ll allow myself to sit in the hot tub for a few extra minutes. Hey, it works! Other examples: Maybe you are a mortgage broker who feels like sleeping in. Tell yourself that after the next three mortgages you close, you will take your kids to the fair or your spouse to the movies. Maybe you’ll give yourself a night on the town with old friends.

Reconnect the action with pleasure rather than pain. Psychologists have long told us that we humans tend to connect every action with either pleasure or pain. Tony Robbins has popularized this even further in the last few years with something he calls Neural Associations. That is, we connect every action with either a pleasure or pain. When we are finding ourselves lacking motivation, what we are probably finding about ourselves is that we are associating the action that we are thinking about with pain, rather than pleasure. For instance, when I’m considering not going to the health club on any given day, I am usually associating going and working out with having no time, the pain of exercising and weight lifting, or the boringness of running on a treadmill for an extended period of time. What I can do to re-associate is to remind myself that by going in and doing my exercise, I will feel better about myself, I will lose weight, and I will live longer. This brings me pleasure. When we begin to run those kinds of tapes through our minds, we find our internal motivating force unleashed and changing our attitude about the action that we are considering. Other examples: Maybe you are a counselor who really doesn’t want to spend the day listening to people. Your association may be that it will be boring, or that you will be inside while it is sunny outside. Instead, re-associate yourself to the truth of the matter: Someone will be better off because of your care and concern. Think of your clients and the progression they have been making recently and how you have been a part of that.

Give these ideas a try and see if you don’t find yourself pushing through into action!

Beating Stress the Positive Way

Regardless, of what anybody says, believe it or not you need stress in your life! Does this surprise you? Without stress life would be dull and unexciting. Stress adds flavour, challenge and opptotunity to life. We need a degree of stress to meet a challenge or goal, to laugh, to love to live.

Stress i that emotional or intellectual tension and exertion that speeds up out heart rate, raises our blood pressure, tenses our muscles and prepares us for “fight or flight”.

Too much of negative stress is destructive to our physical, emotional and spiritual well being. The good news is that there is a winning strategy that can make the stress in your life work for you instead of against you.

Realistically to be alive is to be under a certain amount of stress. Stress is with us at all times. Coping with it is an individual matter. What may be relaxing to one person may be extremely stressful to another? For example to an individual who thrives on keeping busy all the time “taking it easy” may seem extremelyfrustrating and non-productive. Excessive emotinal stress can cause physical illness such as high blood pressure, indigestion, ulcers, headaches, diabetes, etc.

What is important, is learning how to respond to stress demands effectively. It is vital to recognise and deal with stressful situations when or even before they occur. As you begin to understand how stress affects you, you may adopt the following to suit yourself to help ease out tension.

1. Let Go of Stress: Exercise will relieve that “tight” feeling, relax you and turn your frowns into smiles. Walking, jogging, involvement in your favourite sport are some of the activities you may try. Stretching, yawning and deep breathing also help relieve tension.

2. Be a Participant: Loneliness can be just as frustrating as being in an overcrowded situation. Sometimes we can feel lonely in a crowded room. One way to beat loneliness and boredom is to become involved in a positive way with other people and the world around you.

3. Share your Stress: It often helps to talk to sometimes about your concerns and worries. A friend may be able to understand your problems and worries and may see it from a different perspective and may be able to give you a better opinion. In this way you will not only reduce your stress but share your feelings with your friends and be close to their heart as they will feel that you consider them someone special to share such situations.

4. Protect Yourself: Lack of sleep and proper nutrition may cause irritability and weaken our endurance and ability to deal with stress. This can also make one prone to accidents, as one tend to think of stressful ideas while driving or performing some urgent tasks.

5. Be Realistic: If a problem is beyond your control and cannot be changed at the moment, do not struggle with the situation. Everyone experience disappointments in their lives. Learn to accept what is or what is not until such a time that you can change it or until circumstances themselves change. Realise and accept limitations when and where they exist.

6. Change your Environment: You can change your environment by getting away, treating yourself to a good book, playing or listening to to some good and relaxing music to create a sense of peace and tranquility. Change your attitude through concentrated effort using the meditation with prayers in your mind. Count your blessings rather fretting over what you do not have.

7. Check off your Tasks: Trying to do everything at once can be overwhelming and as a result you may not accomplish anything.  Instead make a list of what has to be done and set a priority list accordingly write them off as they are completed. Setting priorities will relieve the stress from you and will induce ability to finish more tasks at hand quickly. It will give you a sense of accomplishment when you see the progress you have made.

8. Avoid Confrontations: Are you always right? Must you be always saying right things to others? Do other people upset you particularly when you do not do things the way you want them to? To co-operation instead of confrontation. It’s better than fighting and always being right. A little adjustment or self control will things work for both and will reduce the strain and ultimately make everyone feel more relaxed and comfortable.

9. Avoid Self-Medication: People try to numb the pain of life’s distress through alcohol, drugs or over the counter medications. These relieve stress only temporarily and do not eliminate the conditions that caused the stress. Thus, one must be willing to face the situation and instead of risking their lives for whole life and causing stress to others should try to analyse the situation and take intelligent decision.

10. Maintain a Positive Attitide: Just as negative emotions can wear the body down, positive feelings can build it up. A cheerful heart does good, better than medicine, but a broken spirit makes one sick. Think about things that are beautiful, good for you and dwell on the good things in others around you. Finding mistakes is very easy but suggesting the correct solution for the mistake is what makes the whole difference.

When the stress in your life seems insurmountable, try to apply these ten points to your life and feel the difference what this makes to your stressful situation at that point of life.

Count your life years with smiles not tears………… Keep smiling !!

Beating Your Stress

Regardless, of what anybody says, believe it or not you need stress in your life! Does this surprise you? Without stress life would be dull and unexciting. Stress adds flavour, challenge and opptotunity to life. We need a degree of stress to meet a challenge or goal, to laugh, to love to live.

Stress i that emotional or intellectual tension and exertion that speeds up out heart rate, raises our blood pressure, tenses our muscles and prepares us for “fight or flight”.

Too much of negative stress is destructive to our physical, emotional and spiritual well being. The good news is that there is a winning strategy that can make the stress in your life work for you instead of against you.

Realistically to be alive is to be under a certain amount of stress. Stress is with us at all times. Coping with it is an individual matter. What may be relaxing to one person may be extremely stressful to another? For example to an individual who thrives on keeping busy all the time “taking it easy” may seem extremelyfrustrating and non-productive. Excessive emotinal stress can cause physical illness such as high blood pressure, indigestion, ulcers, headaches, diabetes, etc.

What is important, is learning how to respond to stress demands effectively. It is vital to recognise and deal with stressful situations when or even before they occur. As you begin to understand how stress affects you, you may adopt the following to suit yourself to help ease out tension.

1. Let Go of Stress: Exercise will relieve that “tight” feeling, relax you and turn your frowns into smiles. Walking, jogging, involvement in your favourite sport are some of the activities you may try. Stretching, yawning and deep breathing also help relieve tension.

2. Be a Participant: Loneliness can be just as frustrating as being in an overcrowded situation. Sometimes we can feel lonely in a crowded room. One way to beat loneliness and boredom is to become involved in a positive way with other people and the world around you.

3. Share your Stress: It often helps to talk to sometimes about your concerns and worries. A friend may be able to understand your problems and worries and may see it from a different perspective and may be able to give you a better opinion. In this way you will not only reduce your stress but share your feelings with your friends and be close to their heart as they will feel that you consider them someone special to share such situations.

4. Protect Yourself: Lack of sleep and proper nutrition may cause irritability and weaken our endurance and ability to deal with stress. This can also make one prone to accidents, as one tend to think of stressful ideas while driving or performing some urgent tasks.

5. Be Realistic: If a problem is beyond your control and cannot be changed at the moment, do not struggle with the situation. Everyone experience disappointments in their lives. Learn to accept what is or what is not until such a time that you can change it or until circumstances themselves change. Realise and accept limitations when and where they exist.

6. Change your Environment: You can change your environment by getting away, treating yourself to a good book, playing or listening to to some good and relaxing music to create a sense of peace and tranquility. Change your attitude through concentrated effort using the meditation with prayers in your mind. Count your blessings rather fretting over what you do not have.

7. Check off your Tasks: Trying to do everything at once can be overwhelming and as a result you may not accomplish anything.  Instead make a list of what has to be done and set a priority list accordingly write them off as they are completed. Setting priorities will relieve the stress from you and will induce ability to finish more tasks at hand quickly. It will give you a sense of accomplishment when you see the progress you have made.

8. Avoid Confrontations: Are you always right? Must you be always saying right things to others? Do other people upset you particularly when you do not do things the way you want them to? To co-operation instead of confrontation. It’s better than fighting and always being right. A little adjustment or self control will things work for both and will reduce the strain and ultimately make everyone feel more relaxed and comfortable.

9. Avoid Self-Medication: People try to numb the pain of life’s distress through alcohol, drugs or over the counter medications. These relieve stress only temporarily and do not eliminate the conditions that caused the stress. Thus, one must be willing to face the situation and instead of risking their lives for whole life and causing stress to others should try to analyse the situation and take intelligent decision.

10. Maintain a Positive Attitide: Just as negative emotions can wear the body down, positive feelings can build it up. A cheerful heart does good, better than medicine, but a broken spirit makes one sick. Think about things that are beautiful, good for you and dwell on the good things in others around you. Finding mistakes is very easy but suggesting the correct solution for the mistake is what makes the whole difference.

When the stress in your life seems insurmountable, try to apply these ten points to your life and feel the difference what this makes to your stressful situation at that point of life.