Coping Positively With Depression
Stress, depression, anxiety, all words we know the meaning of, but have we felt the real essence of what they mean - bodily ourselves, have we been in or gone through a situation that caused us stress, depression or anxiety. You may have, but haven’t wanted to make a ‘fuss’, been too shy to ask for help, to confide in a friend, a family member - couldn’t cope with what they would think of you - once they all knew about you and your ‘problem’. Read more
Mindsets Right And Wrong
January 25, 2008 by Donald Miller · Leave a Comment
If however you have a growth mindset, knowing that your talents and great abilities will develop over a period of time.
The correct mindset is highly engaging and very practical as it breaks new ground and opens new doors leading you to change and building a new future.
A mindset that has changed, no longer set in stone, enables you to effectively pusue your goals and once again make all your dreams become a reality. It all starts with your mindset.
True success and fullfillment at any stage of life can be achieved by a changed mindset. This is the most important path of opportunity. It is sometimes only realised through mentoring.
Without determination I NEVER would have been successful online, and neither will you. Here are some additional hints. A successful outcome will depend on two things: how you are and what you say.
In short, wealthy people are programmed for success. I finally realized that success is more internal than external. I finally learned that it’s not the tools, it’s the person, who determines their own level of success.
It’s the inner software in their brain that helps wealthy people obtain their goal. They have the mindset that naturally attracts their desired success. How would it make you feel to eliminate your weaknesses and discouver your strengths?
You REALLY need to focus on what you want from life. Determine to identify what is holding you back. Reprogram your thinking from defeat to success. Take aim at your new direction and set sail.
Building a successful future requires COMMITMENT. Imagine how wonderful it would feel to know that you can be the success you have always dreamt to be. You CAN.
One of the steps to take in changing your mindset is acquiring knowledge to create real wealth on the internet. Then the world becomes your office. The best way to do this is to work with successful people and do what they do.
Having a mentor and having a teachable spirit is the best way to teach you success. This increases your efficiency and will lead you to focus on Internet Advertising one of the most highly measurable and effective verticals. See you at the top.
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Author: Donald Miller has majored in Internet Marketing for the past 3 years and now provides a simple and effective system for System Success Mentoring and success mindset It all begins with the correct Mindset.
Your 5 Step Personal Development Plan
January 25, 2008 by Alan Allport · Leave a Comment
While the methods and tools used to achieve the desired personal development outcome may vary from high priced seminars to moderately priced books, there are a number of simple steps that can be used to get you started on the right path to reach your own personal development goal, such as:
1) Identify the Cause The best starting point for a self-development plan is to identify how you arrived in the position you’re in right now. As an example, if your own personal development goal involves weight loss then you should have a look at the lifestyle factors that have led to your weight problem. Commit to paper all the reasons you can think of for your problem and then try to come up with a list of achievable solutions that will get you to your desired goal.
2) Goal Setting You must have a clear goal in mind if your are to achieve any kind of personal development. You must be totally honest with yourself when it comes to determining exactly what you want to achieve. It will be very difficult to successfully attain something you are not very clear about.
3) Make a Plan Having set your goal you should commit to a firm plan of action setting out how you intend to achieve said goal. Wherever possible split bigger tasks into small steps that will be as easy as possible to implement.
4) Focus and Commitment Once you have decided on your goal and worked out the plan that you feel will allow you to reach it, you need to stay focussed and committed to achieving what you have decided upon. Little and often will be the best policy. Make yourself a promise that you will make time every day and stick to this promise. Don’t let distractions deflect you from it. If you do this you will soon find it becomes habit and at that point it will become easier.
5) Look for Inspiration It will be of great benefit to look for inspiration from others that have overcome the same personal development challenge as your own. This can be in the form of books, seminars, courses or even a person from your local community that you may be able to contact to get some tips or advice.
Continuous personal development should be a goal for all of us throughout our lives. Identifying areas that we think could do with some improvement and acting on them will enrich our lives on an ongoing basis.
No matter which area of your life you intend to improve by following the steps outlined above and committing to the plan you can be assured of achieving your goals and in doing so gain more confidence to not only achieve other personal development goals but do it quicker and easier each time.
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Break free of the shackles and live the completely magnificent unfettered life you were designed to live at http://www.thoughtsintorealitysystem.com. The true secret of thinking positive is laid out for you there in black and white.
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The Magic And Simplicity Of Building Self-esteem
January 23, 2008 by Rick London · Leave a Comment
There is nothing better for self-esteem than building self-esteem. As strange as that sounds, it is that simple.
A lot of people think that one has to be either born with self-esteem, or maybe was popular in high-school and held onto that for the rest of their lives, always succeeding at whatever due to public support. The truth is, nothing could be further from the truth.
This is actually not the case at all. The beauty you had a crush on in high school who maybe relied mainly on beauty for self-esteem later becomes an adult, has children and stretch marks, and a bad marriage. She escapes into television and maybe chemical dependence. It doesn’t always happen that way, but more regularly than you may think.
In other cases, children born into royalty, Hollywood elite families, etc. have much expected out of them from the start. This can erode self-esteem early. I am not saying this happens to all the high and mighty, but it is more commonplace than one might think.
So, once again, self-esteem can do wonders for your self-esteem. That might not make sense if you feel your self-esteem has diminished for whatever reason. My point is, it can be learned for the first time, or be established maybe for the first time in a whole new lifestyle. We have the right to reinvent ourselves.
Were you the star-wrestler in high school with rippling muscles and worked out regularly and was applauded every time flexed? Did you make good grades and were used to positive feedback? Maybe this enhanced yoru esteem early in life. But now life is different. Perhaps you have a big money-making business that does not interest you and you want to sell it. The pay all goes to an ungrateful wife who spends it on fashions and takes vacations with her girlfriends. Look around now. Did the self-esteem go down?
The truth is, as adults, we more often than not, have to create our own self-esteem. And the closer we get to knowing our real selves, the closer we get to higher self-esteem. We no longer get all the unconditional love, attention, and acknowledgment of our deeds we did when we were younger. It builds by the little things we do. Try it, keep a journal, and look at it next year. Read the whole year and see how dramatically you have changed for the better.
Even on a depressing day, drive yourself to a soup kitchen and volunteer. Visit a shut-in; run an errand for someone wheelchair-bound. Tutor a childwith his/her homework. Do something positive to get outside of yourself. You will not get back your self-esteem most likely in one day. But if you find yourself making it a habit of helping others, you will slowly find your self-esteem rising. It is a natural consequence of helping others and getting outside oneself. Maybe it’s physics. The universe works in this fashion. We can fight it or join it.
Iwith depression and low-self-esteem since my teen years (even when I was a popular kid). I always felt alone, even with people. Then I grew up. I became an adult. All of a sudden I was in my late forties. How did it all happen so fast. It was a blur. But now, I’d had a major heart attack and I was keenly aware of my mortality. Heart attack? That was what other people had, not me. I guess everyone thinks that. So I took a week and analyzed my life. I took, (as Richard Dreyfus’ book in ‘What About Bob?’, baby steps. I studied. I researched. I learned. I even went back to college online. Online colleges lured some of them and they continue to study.
All these little things worked toward building my self-esteem and I don’t say build it back. I don’t think I ever had it in the first place. So self-esteem is new to me, and a little goes a long way.
Many people have had it much rougher than me. I have endured much in my life including homelessness, and I am certain there are many others who have even meaner stories, so if I can do it, anyone can. I just take a little time out of each day and do something positive, or create something, work on one of my projects, write a story like this one, to build my self-esteem. I may miss the mark some of the time, but I try to learn to do it right the next time, and still, I take time for myself to do just a little something positive for me or someone else, or both, for no pay, even if they insist.
In ten years of doing this, I feel I’ve made me a better person, and given that, made the world a little better place.
I launched Londons Times Cartoons which makes people laugh. I then opened numerous gift stores like LTSuperstore, RickLondonCollection, Justfunnygreetingcards,Justfunnycoffeemugs, Justfunnyaprons, Mirthgirthbirth, RickLondonwear, Justfunnymousepads, Justfunnyhoodies, etc. People order my cartoon gifts and collectibles from these stores and other people laugh and feel better about themselves as well.
When we are around humor or feel humorous, we don’t take life so seriously. If you do not feel you are a funny person, that is okay. Simply expose yourself to humor, on a daily basis. As time goes by, changes eventually happen, for the positive. They did for me, and I was definitely not a funny person.
It won’t happen overnight, I can almost guarantee you. But it will happen if you put forth just a little effort. Remember Bill Murray, once again, in ‘What About Bob’. Baby Steps. And each of those baby steps will build you into the person you always wanted to be, and more.
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Cartoonist Rick London battled depression and low self-esteem for years. He has since taken a path to feeling better about oneself. He makes others laugh with his cartoon gifts & collectibles and Top Internet Offbeat Cartoons Easy Self-Esteem: Even If You’ve Never Had It
Do You Have 2 Opposing Definitions Of Success?
January 22, 2008 by George Harrison · Leave a Comment
Here’s the Clue: “Our Thoughts Are Not Always In Agreement With Our Spoken And Written Words.”
What does that mean?
There are basic energies associated with ideas and words.
All our communication and actions are based on our ideas and words, but, often, it turns out that our ideas do not match up with the definitions of the words we use in daily Life.
You could easily have one meaning at the Conscious Mind level (which is the only one we use during our daily activities).
But, there could be an entirely different interpretation of these words or ideas at our Subconscious Mind level.
If our Conscious Mind and our Subconscious Mind have a disagreement over the “real” meaning of a word or idea, then, Nature has decreed that our Subconscious Mind will get the final, determining vote on the matter, regardless of our Conscious wishes to the contrary.
Unfortunately, the Subconscious Mind has our oldest and most flawed memory patterns as to what words and ideas mean to us.
It would be a mistake to think that these old memories are forgotten. They are still at work 24/7 defining our World and what we’re allowed to do and not do. We have to bring these definitions into alignment with our Conscious wishes in order to succeed.
How is this done?
The most common approaches have been to employ either Psychotherapy or Hypnotherapy to find the root of these patterned responses. But, this can be a lengthy and expensive way to go. I must say, however, that of the two approaches, Hypnotherapy gets the fastest results by a country mile.
Could there be another way to resolve these mis-aligned Minds of ours? I believe so. At least, that’s been my experience.
How do we go about this? If we go directly to the concepts, words and structures where the energies are locked up in patterns, we can affect and change them and bring them into alignment with our present adult definitions, goals and desires.
When I did this, I found this interesting quirk: No matter where the recipient of this process lived, even on the other side of the globe, the effects took place and positive energy was released and progress noted where none had happened before.
The model I’m entertaining on how this is happening deals with a link being made to the SuperConscious Mind via the SubConscious Mind during the procedure.
That would appear to be a little too much to go into in this blog right now, but, if you’re interested further you can visit my link at the end of this article for more information.
How can you use this information now?
Well, I’d say one of the first things I’d recommend (barring using this new approach) would be to carefully examine the words and phrases you use in your everyday life and try to determine if you actually have positive feelings about the so-called positive affirmations that you may be using.
You see, positive thinking is great, but, it will only really work if there is no inner opposition to what’s being said. And, the little kid inside you, may have a different view of what money, success and work mean to Them than the adult You does!
It’s just the way we’re built. The Subconscious Mind will win in any argument or disagreement between the definition or meaning of a word, idea or phrase, no matter how popular or sweet it seems to the Conscious Mind.
That is, unless you can change their perspective to match your adult one.
Your Subconscious Mind is working 24 hours a day, every day while your Conscious Mind is only “on duty” during your waking hours. That means, just on the basis of “work hours”, you Subconscious Mind will beat your Conscious Mind every time. And, you aren’t going to be able to “wear it down” by repeating mantras of positive affirmations because it will be working on undoing them while you’re sleeping every night.
But, if you put yourself in a relaxed state and emotionally “reason” with your younger self (the Subconscious Mind) about how it’s definitions of words like “love”, “success” or “money” are no longer needed or appropriate, you can, perhaps make some headway in solving the problem. All these old programs are only there to further your Survival (which is the Subconscious’s main motivation to keep these programs running) and need to be converted into your desired definitions to make you truly Happy
You can do this right where you live and on your own. It costs nothing and might help as I said.
If you decide to have a good hypnotherapist help you with this, make sure you are both on the same page and after the same results. Changing your old definitions of the very words that describe what you’re trying to accomplish in your adult life.
Although this process will quite often require some regression hypnosis work, in the end you’ll almost certainly be pleased with the results. - George
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How To Achieve Your Goals With Positive Thinking
January 22, 2008 by Alan Allport · Leave a Comment
Let’s face it, we all want to feel happy and fulfilled. But most of us don’t feel particularly happy with our lot in life.
When we feel like this, our relationships can suffer. If you want to bring more happiness into your life, stop looking for it externally. You have to start within by learning to feel better about yourself.
To put this in its proper perspective, a positive mental attitude begins with the things that we tell ourselves on a subconscious level. In other words, how a man thinketh is how he will become.
There are many things that will distract us from being successful and happy with ourselves. Sometimes we think in our minds that we are somehow lacking in a certain capacity, or that a task is virtually impossible to complete because of circumstances beyond our control.
Your mind has no doubt been the recipient of much more negative self-talk than positive over the years and this alone is the major reason why presently your much more likely to fail than succeed.
To change the outcome of our situation we must “reprogram” our minds at the subconscious level with thoughts of a positive nature. Then when distractions and negative input comes along from other people, you have to learn to immediately discard them.
Simply let the “garbage in” and then “throw the garbage back out” of your mind. This will let you focus on the positive thoughts that you have placed in your subconscious mind. The result is a clearer perspective of your opportunities for success and the attainment of your goals. The trick here is to keep feeding your mind positive thoughts.
Here are 5 tips to developing a positive mental attitude:
1. Visualize yourself doing exactly what you want to accomplish in your own mind. Practice makes perfect. This is true of mental visualization of the accomplishment of your goal too. Imagine yourself doing what you want to accomplish and walk yourself through the steps necessary to achieve it in your mind.
2. Repetition is the key to success with visualization. Develop a routine of doing it several times a day. Your subconscious is uncritical so the key is to present it with thoughts that you’ve already achieved what you’re trying to achieve. Then it will do all in its considerable power to to bring to your external reality what you’ve visualized internally.
3. Write down your goals on paper. This way you will not forget them. And by reading your goals back to yourself every night before retiring, your subconscious mind will work overnight to bring about positive change for the next day.
4. Your subconscious mind can only react to the thoughts that you give it. To bring yourself success, you have to keep feeding your subconscious mind with positive instructions about what you want it to do for you. This technique will put your success on autopilot!
5. The universe gives to you several times over what you give to others so make sure that you are unfailingly generous.
You must come to the conclusion that you are really the master of your own fate. Your ship really is under your own command, it’s not just being blown aimlessly around by destiny. If your life is not how you want it to be, you do have the power to change it.
The challenge of life is to produce love and happiness in the midst of all the daily pressures we encounter. It is easy to live the way you want to when you start to realize the power you have to change your own thoughts. Let today be the beginning of a happier and more productive life for yourself and your loved ones by developing your positive mental attitude.
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