Just Do It - Just For TodayWritten by Conrad L.Jones
I bought a new treadmill a few months ago with intention of developing a personal exercise program to keep in shape. After I had set everything up, I sat down and put together a pretty interested workout routine in which I'd wake at 6a.m and run/walk for 30 minutes, 3 days per week. Please Don't Laugh I was able to stick with this for about 3 days. It's amazing how good plans look on paper but when it's time for action, they often change. Every time I looked at that monthly schedule and saw what I had to do for month, I'd loose my willingness to get out my warm bed and go on a cold treadmill. I mean, I could always do it tomorrow; but tomorrow never came. Every weekend it was same story; I'd feel bad that I'd missed a week out of my routine and promise myself that this coming week, I'd get things done, but come Sunday, I'd again be apologizing to myself and promising that come next week, I'll start. Now I'm usually able to get things done when I need to, but I've noticed that there are a few things that I have a hard time bringing myself to do especially when I need to do it consistently. I usually have good intentions; but good intentions alone never gets anything done. Is It Just Me??? Why does it seem that when we need to develop a good beneficial habit, that we struggle so much, while building bad habits are so easy. Well, I've learned that some of bad habits that I had, usually are directly related to how I feel about them. Some of them make me feel good so I associate good feelings with them and that makes it easy do them. On other hand, some of good habits either require work, moves me from my comfortable zone, or just don't seem like fun. But should we do only things that's easy, makes us feel good, and seem like fun? If we did, we'd probably be in poor health, die young, gain nothing significant and worthwhile in life, and world would be a totally different place from what we know today.
| | Increase Your Self-Confidence ... Written by Syed Anees Ahmed
Increase Your Self-Confidence ... How to Increase Confidence and Self-Esteem If you want to be more confident and create a higher level of self-esteem - start by tackling projects that you know you can do. Set goals that you know you can achieve, as you achieve them raise bar by setting goals that are a little higher. Keep track of goals that you achieved. Have a closer look at those that you didn't achieve and learn something from them - so that you get better results by applying what you learned next time around. Failures are important - because you will learn from them and that wisdom will propel you to greater success. Understand that you won't succeed all time at everything that you do. The best baseball player hits around .350 - which means he misses 65-percent of time. But every time he misses he learns something - understands what he didn't do right and goes out and tries it again. He works on his swing and mechanics. My point is baseball players don't focus on failure - they learn from it and move on to next challenge. Confident people learn from their mistakes and failures - they don't ignore them or dismiss them. They don't dwell on them. They learn from them and build on that wisdom. Acknowledge yourself. One of things you'll learn in Creating Power system is importance of focusing on your positive qualities. Hey we're not perfect - but if we focus on all that is wrong with us we'll only get down, depressed, unmotivated, and lose our confidence. However, if you focus on your positive qualities, things that you like about yourself - you'll begin to attract people who like you for those positive qualities. We spend a good deal of time on this subject in Creating Power system - because it's important to get your mind to move in a direction that will benefit you. That's what Creating Power does - it teaches you how to train your mind and subconscious mind to focus on what you want so that you achieve your goals.
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