Tuesday, 25 August 2020
How To Use Your Time To Create The Life You Want
How you use your time is just one of the variables to success. I'm not talking about the passage of time because time just is. It's what you do with the time that you have that matters. One of the secrets to success is knowing how much time to spend on the right things at the right time in the right order to get the results you want in your life.
We have so many distractions these days that it's so easy to be swayed off course. So how do you know when you're using your time effectively and when you're not?
1. Get the Balance Right
It's all about balance. If you feel you're working too slowly, how can you speed up such that you're still fully present with the task at hand, you're minimising errors and you're in that alpha brainwave state (where you're fully absorbed in what you're doing)? If work is coming in at a faster pace than your working pace you know you need to reduce the time you're spending on tasks or increase your pace.
If you're rushing around in a state of unhealthy stress (yes there is healthy stress... it's called moderate pressure!) what do you need to do to slow down and bring a sense of calmness and balance back into your being?
If you're being drawn away from what you're doing by social media and time is just passing you by, what strategies and stops do you need to put in place to ensure that you minimise those distractions? It's all about finding that fine line between speed and pace, between stress and pressure, between distraction and taking a break.
How you view what you're engaged in at any point in time is key to how successfully you do what you do. It's about gaining that clarity in your mind. For example if you feel your pace is too slow or to fast on a particular day and you've got a long list of tasks to accomplish that day, get clear about why your pace is the way it is.
Look back at what you were doing yesterday. Did you have a full-on day yesterday, or was your day too easy? In which case should you have scheduled in a lighter day today or a more active one? How did you sleep last night? If you spent the night tossing and turning and hardly slept that might be a clue that maybe your body just needs rest today. If you slept soundly last night this is going to contribute to an extra boost of energy for you.
Look at what you've been eating over the last few days. If it's empty calories that give you the feeling of fullness but lack nourishment, this is going to drain your energy levels. If, however, you've been taking in food and drink packed with E numbers you may find yourself bouncing off the walls. All of these aspects are going to have an impact on the time you spend, so planning your days effectively taking account of your energy levels is crucial.
2. Understand How You Respond
Another indicator as to whether your life is working for you time wise is how well you're moving towards what you want in life. A measure of this is how you're responding at the end of each day to what you've achieved... or not. If you feel disappointed because once again you've not accomplished what you wanted to achieve, perhaps it's because once again you've unrealistically tried to fit too many tasks into one day.
By asking yourself certain questions about the activities you undertake will begin to give you an understanding of how well you're using your time. Do you feel your task is too big, too small, too boring? Maybe you're unclear on exactly what it is you need to do. Perhaps you lack clarity on how you're going to do what it is you want to do.
3. Prioritise Your Activities
Maybe what's needed is some time to clearly define your activity, why you're doing it and to work out a simple strategy that will at least get you moving. Sometimes when you take a few moments to take just these simple steps, your energy levels begin to stabilise because confusion, frustration and uncertainty begin to wane.
Taking some time to simply prioritise your tasks according to their level of importance, timing each one and deciding when you are going to tackle each is an amazingly freeing activity on a mental level that will begin to move you forward. Adopting this more practical approach will also help you to learn more about how you naturally work, and to work in accordance with this.
4. Get Clear on Your Outcomes
The clearer you can be about your desired achievements, the more constructively you'll find yourself using your time. How to do this is relatively simple:
- Get really clear on exactly what you want to achieve
- Map out your strategy for getting there
- Break your project down into prioritised and timed phases and tasks
- Get to work!
- Evaluate on an ongoing basis what's working and what's not
- Make the necessary adjustments along the way
- Stay open-minded to what success will look like
- Keep going until you get to where you want to go (or to the closest version of it)
- Rinse and repeat
Carmen Gilfillan is the founder of Stimulus Development & Training. Stimulus specialises in helping people overcome emotional trauma, experience emotional breakthroughs and live their best lives. We do this through Life & Wellness Coaching, Emotional Freedom consultations and training in the areas of personal, professional and spiritual growth. Check out our website at http://www.stimulus.uk.com to book your free Emotional Breakthrough consultation.
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Sunday, 16 August 2020
Quickly Shift From Fear to Happiness
Some pundits say that the most desired goal of a person should be to live in a state of happiness, as if it's a constant and stable way of being and feeling. That belief puts pressure on us and actually creates the exact opposite effect, counteracting any efforts to gain true happiness.
The truth is that the emotional state of each person varies to a great degree many times during the span of a day. In fact one's emotional state is often much more variable than is typically believed and can change instantly. Indeed, every person alive on this planet experiences a vast multitude of emotional state changes during the span of a day. We constantly shift up and down on the emotional scale as we experience things with our senses.
The changes in emotional state are all from the same cause - a change of the frequency of energy around us and how we interpret it. All of what we call emotions are simply how our brain interprets the energies that our physical senses receive. Those energies may range from the ones we can see, touch, and hear to those that are beyond the capabilities of our physical senses.
Some of the emotions resulting from experiencing these energies may seem to be be similar and so are discerned as being the same. But any variation in volume or intensity of an emotion is a complete change of emotional state.
Basically we have categorised all energies as we sense them into two types of emotions - fear and love. Fear is simply lower frequencies of energy. We can experience fear as "a sinking feeling", loss of energy, resistance to moving into action, weakness, and a multitude of other sensations that block forward movement. Love is at the other end of the energy scale and promotes experiencing such as creativity, a desire to become active, greater physical energy, and a sense of freedom.
As you go through your day, notice the fluctuations of your emotions. Practice becoming aware of how they quickly move up and down the scale of energetic frequency from some form of fear to a form of love, from feeling blocked to feeling free, from feeling weakened to feeling energised.
When you've gained the ability to easily and quickly sense emotional energy shifts, the next step is to consciously empower yourself to shift into the higher frequential ranges of emotional energy. You know... happiness. One simple method is to remind yourself of a feel-good that you experienced. In other words, something that you enjoyed with your physical senses. Here is a list of a few that I experienced during my morning recently:
- Touch - A light, misting rain is drifting downward. When I go outside to fill the bird feeders I turn my face up to the sky and delight in the tickling sensation of little raindrops on my skin.
- Touch - When I come back in the house, I settle into my big comfy overstuffed chair, sitting crosslegged in it as I prepare to write my Morning Pages. If furniture could hug, this chair would give award-winning hugs.
- Sight - I look up at the high window and see the raindrops lined up on the gutter. They remind me of people lined up along the street, happily watching a parade.
- Hearing - My cat jumps up on the chair arm to take his rightful place next to me while I do my writing. His deep, rumbling purrs are like comforting music to me.
- Smell - The furnace turns on and I smell the delicious aroma of the essential oil I placed on the new furnace filter I installed this morning. I take slow, deep breaths to better enjoy the spicy scent of the oil.
- Taste - Before I begin writing, I take a deep drink of the water in my glass, into which I've placed drops of Elderberry extract. The water tastes delicately of the berries and is very pleasing.
Throughout the day when I begin to feel my emotional energy level drop because of outside influences from lower frequential energies, which I sense with one of my physical senses, I can quickly and easily recall one of the happier influences such as the ones I listed and instantly I've countered the lower frequency with a higher one. Voila! My emotional state is rescued from a downward slide by the use of the memory of a happier, more pleasant sense experience.
A higher state of frequential energy (happiness!) is easily and quickly created by your awareness of the physical senses you choose to focus on. Shift your own frequential energy state using this simple technique: Make a list of the things around you that bring you happiness. Keep it handy for quick reference during those times that you feel your personal energetic frequency sliding down into the realms of fear. And add to it frequently.
Kathy Wilson helps people create a better life for themselves using a multi-faceted approach. Your needs are unique, and the methods she uses are customised to your specific needs. As her client, you and she may use Life Purpose Coaching, spiritual mentoring and consulting, NLP, vibrational healing, PSYCH-K, Tarot, teaching... whatever is in your highest and best interests. She's a Certified Professional Coach, spiritual teacher, Reiki master, vibrational healer, author of An Inner Journey: Living Your Life Purpose, and has written and published many eBooks and articles. For information about her products, services, and classes, visit her website: http://www.warrior-priestess.com.
Sunday, 9 August 2020
Great Leaders SEIZE The Moment!
There's no place, in genuine leadership, for, blaming, and complaining, avoiding personal responsibility, or resorting to delaying, and procrastination! Rather, real leaders, regardless of position, held, or level/ type, etc, must, proactively, be ready, willing, and able, to move forward, responsibly/ reliably, and SEIZE the moment! Many observers, point to the present behaviour of President Donald Trump, in an attempt to indicate/ demonstrate, some of the potential, inherent dangers and ramifications, of blaming, complaining, avoiding, and procrastinating! Whether, we are considering, the leader of the so - called, free - word, or someone, in a leadership position, in any organisation or group, it is essential, for an individual, to proceed, sooner, rather than later, in a well - considered, strategic manner. With that in mind, this article will attempt to, briefly, consider, examine, review, and discuss, using the mnemonic approach, what this means and represents, and why it matters!
1. Service; sustainable; strengthening; solutions: You're not a real leader, unless/ until, your approach and emphasis, is focused, on the finest, quality service and representation! One must proceed, in a relevant manner, while understanding, the sustainable needs, and requirements, of leading! What good, does anyone do, unless his leading, strengthens, the group, consistently? Real leadership must be based, and focused, on, conceiving, creating, and implementing the finest, possible solutions!
2. Empathy; emphasis: The key to being a real leader, is possessing, maintaining, and proceeding, with the utmost degree of genuine empathy, based on effectively, listening, and learning, from every conversation, and experiencing, and proceeding, accordingly, putting the greater good, ahead of any personal/ political agenda, and/ or, self - interest! Observe where someone, places his primary emphasis!
3. Integrity; ideas; ideology/ ideals; imagination/ innovative: Real leaders must maintain genuine integrity, and never resort, simply, to some path, of least resistance, of settling, for, good - enough, and/ or, the same - old, same - old! Ideas, based on common ideology, and ideals, rather than self - interest, etc, combined, with possessing a well - considered, developed, imagination, permits basic innovation, for the greater good!
4. Zealous; zero - based: Instead of, simply, lacking imagination, and proceeding, in the same - old, same - old, way, a real leader must be willing, to think, outside - the - box! An essential component should be, to use zero - based, budgeting, in order to create, an organisation, ready for contingencies, etc! One must proceed, in every aspect, in a zealous manner!
5. Efforts; excellence; endurance; enrich: Shouldn't a leader's efforts, focus, on enriching his group, and constituents? To do so, he must have real endurance, to continue forward, when lesser individuals, may, give - up! What good, is a leader, if he doesn't demand his utmost degree of personal excellence?
Never procrastinate, but move forward, in a well - considered, timely manner, and SEIZE the moment! Are you ready, willing, prepared, and able to be a real leader?
Richard has owned businesses, been a COO, CEO, Director of Development, consultant, professionally run events, consulted to thousands of leaders, and conducted personal development seminars, for 4 decades. Rich has written three books and thousands of articles. His company, PLAN2LEAD, LLC has an informative website http://plan2lead.net and Plan2lead can also be followed on Facebook http://facebook.com/Plan2lead
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Sunday, 2 August 2020
When Things Look Bleak, Live Your Life One Day At A Time
Slow Down And Reassess Your Priorities
How are you coping at the moment? What are your chief concerns? How are you dealing with it? Even though we're living in tenuous times, it is important we check in with ourselves regularly. People cope in different ways, some better in stressful conditions, while others internalise their stress. We ought to deal with what is affecting us, instead of repeating the patterns of the past. Whist the pandemic may appear bleak at the moment, it doesn't mean it will be permanent. Mankind has faced many challenges throughout history.
Regrettably, many people will succumb to the virus and their families and friends will be affected. It is tragic when people lose their lives to a disease beyond their control. But we mustn't live in a constant state of fear because what we dwell upon may come to pass. We should focus on taking the smallest step to secure our dreams and best future. Life will improve, there are no two ways about it. We have experienced these challenges before and will overcome them again.
In times like this, our attitude determines our altitude; how high we soar above our challenges.
It is how we respond in times of crisis that determines whether we stay stuck or look for positive solutions. Man's greatest discoveries were made during some of the darkest periods in human history. Mankind is resilient and can overcome any of life's challenges, with the right mindset and attitude. Knowing this, what actions could you take to deal with your worries? Does it involve giving attention to your mental, emotional and physical well-being? Perhaps it requires less interaction with social media and the news, or reaching out to friends and loved ones more often?When we take each day as it comes, we become present to the moment, rather than hope for a future that may not arrive as we expect.
I'm getting the sense that this pandemic is teaching us to slow down and reassess our priorities.
It is inviting us to place value on the importance of family, friendships, purpose and living in the present moment. Being grounded in the now helps us anchor ourselves to our present moment experience. It reduces the stress of living in the future, and we become grateful for each moment we're alive. So, when things look bleak, we ought to live one day at a time and savour what we have.
Live Each Day As Though It Were A Precious Gift
Does it make sense that scurrying from day to-day does little to bring you peace of mind? It only compounds to the stress experienced before the pandemic. In a recent video blog titled: Although The World May Never Be The Same, You Can Still Find A New Normal, I outline five ways to find a new normal going forward. I explain that we are being invited to create a new paradigm for our future, rather than bring the old with us. This will mean letting go of how the future should be and allow life to fill us with: peace, harmony, cooperation and togetherness.
We ought to think differently about how we live, otherwise we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
As you know, this pandemic has ruined many lives and businesses, not to mention the financial burden on world economies.So, let's hunker down and learn the lessons instead of blaming others for the way things are. Yes, we're all in this together because our choices impact others. For example, not wearing a face mask in public can have a devastating effect on thousands of people. This is an opportunity to look into ourselves and examine our motives, to see whether they are aligned with a new world being ushered in. So, what are you giving your attention to right now? What do you hope to create going forward? What do you want to see in the months and years ahead? Begin where you are now and live each day as though it were a precious gift, instead of lamenting how things should return to normal.
The normal we once knew wasn't working, so life is giving us the opportunity to write a new script.
Savour every moment because life has a way of turning at the drop of a hat. Take inventory of your life, no matter your age and decide what you'd like the world to look like. Your actions have a ripple effect, in ways you can never imagine. Act locally but think globally, goes the saying. So, after you finish reading this article, go back to the questions at the beginning and answer them as best you can. Check in with yourself regularly and optimise your mental and emotional well-being. After all, when things look bleak, living one day at a time opens you to infinite opportunities that you may not have seen before.
Do you want to lead a remarkable life? Are you committed to taking action despite your fears and doubts? If so, download your FREE copy of my eBook NAVIGATE LIFE right now, and start your amazing journey of greatness today!
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