Fear; I Ain’t Afraid of No Poverty
May 26, 2008
Fear; I Ain’t Afraid of No Poverty
Your Personal Recession Buster
The fear of poverty was not my original choice for the first fear to explore, understand and be comfortable enough with for it to be eliminated from our list of great fears. My original first fear to work on was going to be the fear of death, which is almost the Universal Fear, if one of the fears, can be considered universal. But the world today and the situations within has made me change the order a bit. The only advantage to starting with the Fear of Poverty is it is the worse of all the fears. It attacks us at every level and on every emotion. It is a debilitating fear capable of sucking us dry of all desire, ambition, hope and imagination.
There is a ton of talk about the recession, the price of gas, the housing market and the job market. The more negative talk there is surrounding these issues the greater the possibility of our fears taking over us. But if you have your head buried in the morning paper or staring at CNN, FOX News or your local new channel all day log, listening for the whispers of doom, then you have already set you fate solid. You are on the downward spiral that the fear from poverty will bring you. Poverty and Richness follow two very specific paths, two very distinct paths and two paths that sometimes cross over each other, may run parallel for a while, but eventually head in complete different directions.
Remember: Your Richness, just as your success can be defined in a myriad of ways. Richness of financial wealth is just one, but of course your richness can be anything that you want it to be.
Remember: There are many people in today’s world that have acquired richness of financial wealth only to feel empty and unfulfilled. They search for their richness elsewhere; richness is a state of being as well as a state of your Union.
Fear of Poverty is a state of mind; nothing else; but an extremely strong state of mind. A state of mind that can destroy ones ability to succeed, it effects your ability to reason, wipes out your imagination, all but totally eliminates your ability to rely on yourself, eradicates enthusiasm, deters enthusiasm, undermines enthusiasm, and eliminates enthusiasm, it makes uncertainty your new path, teaches you about the worlds of procrastination, annihilates your initiative and erodes your self-control and will power. It decimates your ability to focus on what you should be doing and allows doubt to replace confidence and procrastination to replace ambition.
You’re getting the point here - right?
Bad - very, very bad.
This is a fear that takes some work to eliminate, but is quite easy to understand why its elimination, understanding and control is of paramount importance to our success. This fear is the most destructive of all the fears as it has the ability to permeate your daily live at every level. It is probably the key reason I stopped reading the daily News Papers (sans the crossword and sports section) and stopped watching news on Television. It just seems that reporters just have to go out of their way to push the negative side of the issue. Now I understand that it is their jobs to report the news, but it has always amazed me the ratio of negative news to positive news on any given telecast. It is an unrealistic ratio if you actually jut think about it for a moment. The more you listen to or hear the negative side of an issue; the negative news (which is the same thing over and over again everyday) the more it becomes part of you conscious and subconscious (even worse) mind. Unfortunately just as we work the positive thoughts into our mind so we can allow our subconscious mind to help us the same rule works with negative thoughts. Those negative thoughts permeate our minds and crush our spirits almost on impact. You have to learn to avoid contact with repeated waves of negativity. The more you hear it the deeper it penetrates the subconscious and the harder it is to remove and the easier it is to believe true and fall prey to the negative.
Imagine how much better you would feel each day when you hear the newscaster report that “there is no recession, it was just a mistake in bookkeeping, and all points show a rapid turn-around.” “On today’s recap of the new, we are not going to spend our entire day talking to you about… and hiring experts on… and sending in news crews for…” This is the news… You know your day is much better when you get your shot of news - in a quickie - and move on with your life. If you continue to believe we are headed for a recession - you will be! Run your day and your life as if there is nothing negative ever on your horizon. If you accept the negative the negative will accept you, take over you and ruin you.
Now that we have realized that The Fear of Poverty is something we really need to understand and control, so we can eliminate it here are a few tell-tale signs of the fear and once you realize these signals, elimination is all the easier.
A general lack of ambition: This is quite easy to understand isn’t it? I mean once we are pummeled with all the “worries of the world” that we constantly hear, isn’t’ it just easy to not care and to give up? Here is your first signal that you are giving in to that fear. Are you busy making alibis as to why you cannot make it any better? Are you starting to believe the alibis you are conjuring up? Take a look at this great list of alibis and see just how many of them you are currently using. Realize that not one of them have any bearing on your life and your success. Once you understand that you control your future and your drive and desire are the vehicles to your grand riches. You too will realize that time spent coming up with alibis can be used more constructively to create and design your master plan of success.
Worry is another grand thief of your success and a sure signal to your fear of poverty. Why worry about this when you are the reason it can be overcome. If you have faith in you and the things you are doing and your plan and your desire and your friends, allies and family you are quick to realize you are worrying for naught. Stop the worrying. Use the energy that all this worrying is bringing about more constructively. I think it is Time to take a look at the 4-step plan to your success and design and tweak it into your game plan of success. Bye Bye Worry!
Failing to be able to make decisions is another signal and a keynote to fear of poverty. You are so paralyzed by this fear that a simple decision cannot be made much less a complex one. You might want to go back and reread this section titled Curing Abulia which is your step-by-step plan to getting over that fear of decisions. Make a decision - any decision and get on with it. Standing by watching the world pass you by is doing you no good, and as you let each one of your great ideas stay undecided, someone else will be benefiting from it as they have decided to go on with it and take the chance. The old nothing ventured nothing gained works well here. But remember you are allowed to make a mistake, you are not allowed to quit!
Being over-cautious is another indicator. It is understood that you automatically go into hibernation mode with your ideas and your money the minute you feel the fear of poverty. It only adds to the hysteria. Do not forget that your success is just ahead of you and you need to do whatever it takes to get it, including staying focused and confident in your decisions. Amongst the overly cautious are the members of the great Nation of Procrasti-Nation. This is place you do not want to live and you don’t even want to spend a weekend visiting. Those of you who are card carrying members of the great Procrasti-Nation need to take that card out of your wallet and destroy it! Here is an old post of mine called Ya-ttitudeTM Battle Lines Are Drawn that will show you the way to coup that Nation and become a member of the “I want it’s!”
Last but definitely not least is your negative Mental Attitude. A positive mental attitude is your greatest defense against fear - all fears and any fears. To that realize that a negative mental attitude is your fears greatest ally. So you now know which side you need to be on it. Sign on and salute your positive attitude - Your positive Ya-ttitudeTM
We covered a whole lot with this section. I recommend reading this a few times. Or better yet - cut and paste it into a word document and print it out. Read it a few times and then read it a few more times. Make it part of your mind-game against fear.
When you have your plan, your desire, your group of allies and you mind shut tight against negative influences you have not time to fear poverty or no reason to as you know where you are going and when you are to get there. You are one step closer to that success. You are one step closer to achieving your riches!
Next time:
Fear; Embarrassment and Criticism fall by the wayside
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Fear; The Final Frontier
May 21, 2008
Fear; The Final Frontier!
Fear is definitely not the place that “no man has gone before’” but let me take you on this trek. We will seek out the reasons behind those “ten hot-button fears” and see how a deeper exploration and understanding will show you just how easy it is to colonize them; one-by-one!
Let’s start with a simple List of the Ten Fears…
- Fear From Poverty
- Fear of Criticism
- Fear from Embarrassment
- Fear of Illness
- Fear of Disease
- Fear of the Loss of Love
- Fear of the loss of a Loved One
- Fear of Getting Old/Old Age
- Fear of The Loss of Liberty/Freedom
- Fear of/from Death
Remember: You cannot simply announce to yourself that you are going to have faith and “poof” you have faith; if it were only that easy. And, no they haven’t invented a pill for it either.
The best way to develop faith is to find you some quiet place and some quiet time; I really like to do this in bed as I lay down with my eyes closed, fully relaxed and focused. I use what I have learned. The same things you have learned over the previous 4 or 5 posts.
Yes; there is a method to my madness. A Ya-ttitudeTM to the plan.
With my quiet time and place secured I begin my focused-faith. My mind becomes cleared of all the negative thoughts that may have slipped in through the day. I really like doing this starting with a big smile on my face; it is impossible to think negative thoughts with a smile on your face. That is a great way for you to build a negative-thought-blockade - a simple smile…
Give yourself about half an hour and these two simple steps.
In your mind and your minds-eye express your desire for accomplishment of a purpose and create that definite plan for its achievement; see it as you are living it in your mind-written script.
Start acting on your desires backed with desire and enthusiasm building your excitement as a path to your goals.
Now work these out in your mind. See them coming to fruition. Watch as it happens. You are living them out in your mind. All of those accomplishments you want to achieve are being achieved. Success is already a major part of your life. Your greatest goals are all happening right before your very minds-eye. Your dreams and plans your hopes and wishes they are all becoming reality. The ARE reality. Yes! Watch them unfold and enjoy them as they were already a done-deal! Really work it!
Better than a Hollywood Movie
It is a Ya-ttitudeTM-Movie.
This exercise should be done at least three times a week. I actually work this mind magic at least 5 nights a week; as there will be other mind-games to add to our arsenal soon.
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Fear; I Ain’t Afraid of No Poverty
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Fear; Just Say No
May 20, 2008
Fear; Just Say No!
Just say no to fear, sounds too easy doesn’t it. Oh Ya-I can see you out there rolling your eyes at me and shaking those fingers in my direction; Here are three links from previous posts of mine that I believe will help you with the unnecessary body gestures and movements as well as the “control yourself”-thing;
- Concentration 101.2 and more: Time to Focus
- Concentration: Control Yourself
Those of you have been following along - Should remember - but a refresher course wouldn’t hurt.
Now come back to me when you are ready and let get this conversation started! I really want to get you on the road to replacing your fear with Faith. But it really is just that simple. Just Say No by saying YES to Faith!
Ya-ttitudeTM‘ism: Fear and Faith make lousy bedfellows as they can not occupy the same space.
One directly influences the other and one directly replaces the other. In essence; the more faith you have, in you, in yourself, in what it is you are doing and in the people around you, the less fear you will have. With this in mind you should have realized by now that your level of faith can be such as to entirely eliminate fear!
Now faith defined is an awareness or belief in an ultimate power (that power can be inside or outside of you).
Remember: You can not simply say you have faith - You must continually use it!
Many people have the source of their faith firmly planted in their religious convictions; and I will tell you here as I have mentioned before - I simply do not discuss religion, but you should realize faith is one of those mysteries that comes from believing; strong religious beliefs are a definite plus where your faith is concerned.
Faith is just one of those things you can not take for granted. It has to be active, a chore you must work on every day. If you are to have faith - you need to work on your faith. If you are to achieve your ultimate success, your ultimate desire and your ULTIMATE YA-TTITUDETM - You Must work on and apply your faith - your desires - continually!
Most people who have had their faith shaken or diminished by what the “Great Ones of the Self-Help World” have deemed “The Ten Great Fears.” Eliminating those fears and more importantly the reason or the actual lack of reason behind them will be your first-best method to the Ultimate Faith; Ya-ttitudeTM-Faith!
Ya-ttitudeTM-Faith: Positive Faith through the removal of negatives that are blocking the flow of your faith to both your conscious and sub conscious mind.
Ya!; In order to develop faith you need a conscious effort, but you must allow your sub conscious mind to work on all of those positive Ya-ttitudesTM you are learning and allow the mind to absorb those new positive-faith-feelings you are now developing.
Next Time:
Fear; The Final Frontier!
How about when you comment down here - and YOU know you want to comment - you include some of the things that really affect you. I will be attacking those ten great fears over the next few posts; but I’d love to hear about some of the things that have you slowed in the attainment of your fantastic goals!
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Concentration: Control Yourself
May 16, 2008
It has been my pleasure to work with some real positive people. It has also been my misfortune to have sometimes worked with and even for those who have not been able to maintain their self-control. Flying off the handle for the smallest of issues and just plain-out losing it on more occasions than being able to control yourself is not a trait or habit you want to claim ownership of; No Duh…Right?
If you can find even one advantage to being a person who will “flare up” at even the slightest provocation, I’d love to hear from you. You do realize that “being out of control” will give the distinct advantage to the “other” person. Your “temper” and your lack of discipline in controlling yourself and your emotions will throw your entire system out of whack. You will no longer be able to concentrate, think straight, focus or hold an intelligent conversation.
Your argument becomes just that - an argument - with no valid points being able to be made as you have now lost control of your thoughts and actions. You cannot win in whatever you are trying to win when you are out of control and cannot focus your concentration and have relinquished to your temper.
Think: How many times do you come up with the perfect “come back” line a while after the situation is over or has passed. How many times does the answer to the problem sneak into your mind like magic after you have calmed down and a few hours have passed. I bet now that you think about it - more times than you would like to admit.
Did you just get one of those…Ahhhhhhhhhhhs…
Ya! When you let your temper control your mind you cannot make quality decisions and you cannot think straight. The answers that popped from the subconscious mind to the conscious mind just could not work their way out through the scrambled thoughts and uncontrolled temper - they remained buried and unavailable for you to use wisely.
Take it one step further; think about the effect it has on those around you. Workers, who are afraid of their own shadows, tend to make many more mistakes than those who are allowed to work in a positive environment. Telling your employees or family or anyone for that matter that they are wrong constantly actually creates an air of “making mistakes” for them. Positive reinforcement works to your advantage much better in these circumstances. I know there are many managers out in the world who believe this “lead from force” or “keep them under your thumb” theories are just great. You might want to inquire about the level of their employee turnover or the amount of money they feel they need to maintain security levels with their staff; or that amount of money they have lost do to the lack of security.
I cannot say these two things strongly enough to you;
1- Negative will always beget Negative and
2- They REALLY do not care what you know until they KNOW that you Care!
Now luckily for all of us interested in self control, some light anger management and the development of a positive Ya-ttitude that I happen to have an affirmation that will help you stay on course. Being able to always stay in control of yourself will have the positive effect on your life, always allowing you to BE in control of your future. Being able to master your situations, no matter what they are, will always keep you moving forward.
All lacks of self control can be mastered by concentration; remember that always!
I am sure there are many people who do not believe they suffer from this; but a closer look at ourselves will show varying degrees of this inhabits almost all of us. Time to rid ourselves of any lack of control - Let us be our own Master!
A Simple Morning Affirmation
Start your morning with something like this.
Make it personal and make it happen.
I will try “today” to eliminate unnecessary hand or eye movements and gestures.
I will try “today” to not worry over any matter or become nervous, irritable or angry.
I fully intend to remain calm in the face of all issues and situations.
I resolve to be totally free of any sign that can show my lack of self control.
At night, just before bed; review how you did today; be honest with yourself.
Rinse and repeat tomorrow…
At first you will find a few violations of you plan - hey we all make mistakes and we all learn from them; but soon enough you will be able to gain total control of your emotions and hence You will always be able to be in control!
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Sleep Deprivation Cured: Sleep Concentration
May 13, 2008
My Last few posts were fairly long, so today I figured I would give something a little shorter to read, but just as important to your success, your life and your Ya-ttitude.
Most of you who have read along over the last few weeks and months or have followed my comments here and elsewhere realize that I preach the division of your day into three equal parts. You need 8-hours for work and 8-hours to enjoy yourself. Enjoying yourself can consist of man things, the betterment of your life, time with the kids, reading writing etc. Today I want to look at those last 8 hours of your day, the hours you should be asleep.
With our hectic schedules and all the pulls and pushes of life I often hear comments like this, “Sleep is over rated” or “I’ll sleep when I am dead, I am too busy now.” Well these comments and the lack of a quality night of sleep are as big a roadblock to your success as not developing a plan or an underdeveloped desire to achieve.
To Sleep; A Chance to Dream…
I am going to show you a simple yet effective and time-tested method to get you mind and body to relax and prepared for a wonderful night of sleep. In turn your subconscious mind will have a chance to drive home a clear path for your success full Ya-ttitude.
The Water Method
Place a full glass of water on a table in your bedroom, (I actually have an aquarium in my room for just such occasions - fish and all) and sit in a chair beside the table. Gaze quietly into the glass; see how calm the water is. Then in your minds-eye see yourself becoming calm, feel your muscles relax and your mind slowing down. Allow this script to write itself in your mind. Write your days end, the time to sleep and regenerate in your personal script. Play it out, feel it happening; you are getting tired and you do so want to sleep now. You can feel your pillow and that soft blanket, the soft edges of your consciousness fading away, as the softness of sleep quickly approaches. You know that ultimate relaxation is here now and play it over in your mind over and over again, feel it and live it as it is actually happening and has happened.
Keep this thought and idea in your mind; “There is nothing to it; there is no problem to fall asleep.”
You are just now starting to understand how important and in how many ways concentration will have an effect on your life, your success and on your Ya-ttitude.
Sleep well…
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Concentration 102: A Ya-ttitude of Desire
May 12, 2008
Concentration 102: Desire
Desire is an important topic where it is related to your success. You will have noticed that I have touched on the subject many times during the writings, starting right from the first post: The 4-Step Plan to Success until this one here; and be sure we will be talking about it many more times. Desire, Your desire is one of the 4 secrets to your success. You really need an emotional desire backing everything you do in order to be successful. This is neither the time nor the place to go at tings half-hearted. Your success will be and is driven by your desire. It does not matter how and what you define your ultimate success; just know that desire is a leading factor in its achievement. Desire is what will bring “it” home for you! Yes, you are correct, there are other major attributes to your success; Desire is one, but of course your written plan, your Master Mind group and your mind shut off of all negative influence are your big four. Persistence in all four of these will get you where you want to be; but your desire to do it, be it and live it will make it happen.
Desire which is one of the hardest emotions to control, as it can bring as much negative into your life as positive if not controlled correctly, is a perfect place to discuss a new exercise for you to work on and perfect on your road to Ya-ttitude.
Concentration on Desire; a Ya-ttitude Adjustment
It is very natural to want to show and tell others all about what you know and what it is you are working on in your everyday life. By working on controlling these urges you will find a fantastic way to concentrate and strengthen your desires into a useful tool for your future.
Remember: You have a full plate of business to take care of in your life, so wasting time on idle gossip or being braggadocio is just not the focus you are looking for if you want to be the best you can be at all times.
The news you gather about others will serve you best locked behind closed doors of the mind. In both your short term and your long term you will be best served with keeping this info to yourself (of course circumstances will change this - but only in rare instances.) If you hear good news, fight the urge there as well - control yourself in both instances. This will really work your ability to control your desires and once you have the ability to control your desires you will attain the ability to focus it to greater use as well; your greater good and greater success.
If you get excited from good news try this. Fight the urge to tell the first person you meet all about the information. I know that this will require all of your will power to fight that desire, but work it, work it and make it happen; especially if this is a habit of yours. Work hard on your will power - I know you can do it and you know you can do it - we both can’t be wrong! Now once you feel you have it under control and the urge has passed and you have gone a while without spreading the news, go ahead and feel free to tell someone. But be sure you have overcome that desire; you have fought those urges and were able to tuck them away and move on! Be sure you have your emotions under control and in check and then go ahead and talk about it. Of course this works the same way with new that is not pleasant. Fight that urge, stow the information away behind those doors of the mind and when you are sure you have complete control then and only then you can share the news.
Say to yourself: “Nothing is going to cause me to lose control; I will tell no one - I am strong of will and desire and I can do this” Make it personal - Add your name in there - Talk to yourself as if you were doing this to someone else. Drive the control home! YOU Can do it! We know you can - don’t we!
You will find these experiences will benefit you in all phases of life. You will be looked upon as the cool-headed under-control leader, or that level-headed person we all need to go to when we need guidance. You will become that go-to guy in your life and in your Master Mind group. You will have taken another step towards your success and your Ya-ttitude.
Of course you must always look at the specific circumstance when you work this control, obviously there are times you need to react quick and move forward with the information; these exercises will make that quite clear to you.
You were given two ears and one mouth for a reason - work that reason to your advantage.
Remember: “He who rules his spirit is greater than he who rules a city.” -
And that is because you cannot rule the outside until the inside is under control.
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Concentration 101.2 and more: Time to Focus
May 7, 2008
Concentration 101.2 (thru .6) Time to Focus
A key element to the entire study of Ya-ttitude is Focus. While running on the treadmill, aren’t we supposed to find a spot to focus on and go-go-go? I remember when I played ball in my recent past. Our batting coach always reminded us about finding a spot on the pitcher and focus on that – watch the ball come out of that focus-spot and get to hacking. In life, knowledge is great, but focused knowledge is power, Desire is essential focused-desire is unbeatable and energy is always needed but focused energy bring home your success!
Today’s exercises are clearly focused on developing your focus!
101.2
Find a straight-back chair to sit in and have you a seat. Sit back in the chair, chin up and shoulders straight with your back resting against the chair. Then point your right arm out and make sure it is level with your shoulder. Turn only your head and look directly at your fingers. Palms should be downward-facing at this point and your eyes locked on the tips of your fingers. Now, work on keeping your arm perfectly still. Focus on your fingers and watch them intently. Your fingers will let you know if you are slipping in your attention and your control. Try this for one minute with the right arm and then one minute with the left arm at first, but eventually I want you to be able to do this for five minutes with no loss in control. Pay tight attention to your fingers and do not let your mind waiver, as once it does, so will those fingers.
101.3
Fill a small glass with water, and again sit in a similar fashion as in exercise 101.2. Hold the glass in your right hand, with your fingers, not centered in your palm. This time point your arm out directly in front of you. Hold steady now and focus on the waterline in the glass. That line will be your signal if there is a change in your focus and control. Hold that arm perfectly still and straight. Start with your right arm and then repeat this with the left. Being able to do this for one minute at first will be fantastic, but eventually I want you to be able to do this for 5 minutes on each arm. Practice this, hold steady your focus as it will allow you to hold steady your control. You can do it!
101.4
Here is one that you can work on all day long. You can and should do this one in all situations, at home and at work. It is time to watch your body. Well time to focus in on the movements of your body that is. Focus in on the movements of your muscles. The real key here is to see that you are not making unnecessary and unneeded extra motions and movements with your body. Be sure to keep all of your muscles at ease during the day and as you work this exercise. Keep your mind on staying relaxed. Control the tension and remain tension-free. Please pay close attention to anything – events, actions, words and people that may cause you to lose focus and tense up. Be sure to pay very close attention to what or who they are – even jotting down some notes if you can. Work on eliminating all useless gestures: eye rolling and hand waving to name but two. Eliminate the wasted energy by focusing your energy on the elimination of needless actions and movements.
This is an incredible skill and once acquired you will notice two amazing things:
1. How you are able to stay relaxed and at ease in all situations (imagine this skill during a job interview or a salary negotiation with your boss) and
2. How ill-at-ease those who cannot control their bodies are around someone who can. This will allow you an amazing advantage in most situations; imagine how much you can learn from others when you can focus in on them and be relaxed, always.
101.5
Sit comfortably in a chair and then slide it up close to a table. Lay your right hand on the table with your palm facing up. Make a fist, curing all of your fingers and wrapping it up with the thumb folded over neatly.
Time to relax and focus your mind.
Focus on your thumb, and slowly unfurl it. Watch it slowly and painstakingly as it moves up and away from the rest of your fingers. Then slowly do the same with your forefinger, watch closely, focus on the movements, pay close attention. Now slowly do it with the rest of your fingers, following the same guides as previous. Once they are all open, reverse the process. Again, slowly, focus in on just the movements of the fingers – focus your attention. Then switch hands and repeat the process. Continue to do this exercise until you have done it 5 times with each hand. Give it time. But over the next few days work on increasing the amount of times until you can comfortably do ten of these.
I bet this exercise will actually make you feel tired; but please continue to train your attention on your movements and your fingers. You must keep your attention at a highly-focused level or the value of this exercise will be lost.
101.6
Place your hand on your knee and fold all fingers except the forefinger into a fist. Your forefinger will basically be pointing out away from your knee. Move your finger up and down, slowly pay attention to only the movement of the finger, nothing else. Up and down at first, then right and left – focusing attentions on the moving finger. This one is much harder than you think as your mind will be looking for much more exciting things to do and think about; how exciting is watching the motion of your finger? This is quite boring for your mind, so you will really need to focus on the finger and work on keeping your concentration locked on the movements.
Make up a bunch of singular-body-movement exercises; Always being sure to focus in on the singularly moving part of your body. It is great training to come up with your own little singular-movement exercises and work on them – always paying attention and focusing in on the moving part only!
Main Point Here is keeping it simple! All your energy and focus must be locked in on that moving part only. You will notice that your mind really does want to wander away from its focus with this one and try to find something more interesting to think about – fight the urge – focus and pay attention!
I know, I know, I know - It sounds too simple and cheesy and corny; much too easy to be effective. Listen to me on this one, you will be absolutely amazed when you will notice (and in a very short amount of time,) that your mind and body control have become remarkable. You will have gained control over all of your muscles and movements and you will have learned incredible focus. Just imagine all the places you can use this to your advantage and all the places this will help you to achieve that ultimate goal and success. Even in simple everyday occurrences these skills will astound you. Next time you are in a bar or a club and you want to walk over to that guy or girl and start a conversation – this is a skill you will thank me for later. Job interviews with no nervousness and uncontrolled hand and body movements, meetings with you in total control even better focus during sex with your lover – Ya! now your thinking.
The person that can concentrate can gain full control over their body with their mind; you become your master not your slave.
Try them – You will be sending me those emails of gratitude shortly!
Note: Many of the excercises are a modernized, easier to use version of excercises originally introduced in 1935 By Dumont Theron. Obviously a man way ahead of his time.
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Concentration 101.1: Time to Relax
May 6, 2008
Concentration…
101.1: Time to Relax…
Find a nice and comfortable place to sit. You know that chair or the corner of the sofa you really, really love to sit and be comfy on; well that is exactly where I want you to start this first exercise. Purpose of the first exercise is to see just how still you can keep.
You know – this is the one those of us with children call time out, but here is a time out for those of us who want to start to develop the ability for concentration-relaxation. This is definitely not as easy as it sounds (flash back to the children). You will have to center your attention on sitting still. Your mind is not to wander off to other things. This is not the time to fantasize about the quiet time you have found or to develop the next great meal plan for dinner – it is solely designed for you to work those concentration skills on being able to hold yourself still. Now be careful to watch and see that you are not making any voluntary muscle movements.
You want to really focus in on the ability to keep your body still and be able to completely relax. First few times you will need to try to do this for five minutes or so, slowly increasing the time of the exercise to fifteen minutes. The real important thing here is to remain focused on the “sitting still.” You need to completely let go of everything you are thinking about, except the being still.
Focus on being still, work on being still, and be still. Focus all of your thoughts and your energy on being still.
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Concentration 101
May 3, 2008
Concentration 101
There are a multitude of exercises that are designed to help your concentration; and I believe later on we may go into a few of them (Hey we are working our way to the best possible person you can be). In almost all of the books I have read on the subject of concentration, the training of certain parts of your mind and body are explained and refined in and during a series of exercises that are specific to one area at a time each building upon the previous; and that is exactly what we will be doing - eventually.
Concentration to eliminate nervousness, worry, temper and fears of all kinds are tops on the lists and there are many more aspects of life that concentration and the development of concentration are incredibly effective upon. Who could disagree with working on eliminating all of these habits by refining specific concentration methods to do so; it is a great way to redirect the bad habit and working on your concentration will in the end be a fantastic tool you can use to your full advantage.
I am a huge advocate of developing various methods of concentration; and as I said earlier, we are definitely going to go over my top-ten list of concentration tools. But the fundamental flaw I have always thought existed in the teaching of concentration is the order in which exercises are brought about.
No, its not that I want to retool your ability to stop twitching as a nervous habit first before anything else or adjust the level of concentration you have in regards to your temper third of all, though I actually believe that there is a quasi-order, but the order is not so dependant as is the faith in your own concentration.
Ahhh - we have touched the first anchor point. Yes! You need to believe you can do it. What good is all the techniques and training if in the end you do not have faith in your own abilities? So - Before I even start to give you the tools that will drive your concentration levels so high you will amaze yourself, or before I show you ways to use your concentration to do anything - first - its time to work on faith concentration.
Ya-ttitude’ism:
Faith Concentration - A belief in the power to concentrate.
I purposely placed this idea here prior to getting into a series of exercises that would not have done a thing for you, because you would have doubted them and worse you have doubt in yourself and your abilities. I know there are those of you out there, I can see you - shaking your head and rolling your eyes at me, that are so afraid of failure that you have no desire to try any of these ideas. Of course you mask that fear behind some really great “jokes” about the concepts, or you will simply ignore the idea and move on with your less-than-successful life all the while sure that YOU have all the answers and there is nothing out here that can help you.
You need not be afraid of failing in this or in anything else. There are two major points’ right here and right now - so stop shaking your head and rolling your eyes long enough to read the next paragraph (or two). Those of you who are ready to take your lives to the next level help those who are afraid by sitting real close to them now - or giving them positive vibes as you read this next section, your positive vibes will help them eliminate their negative vibes and together we all can get to the next step.
Fear vs. Faith (One)
The beauty about this match is that YOU have full control over the outcome. You see, fear and faith make horrible bedfellows, and cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Now this is quite advantageous. As you increase your faith in you and in what you are doing, about to do, getting ready to do and have done - you automatically have decreased the fear in the same operation.
The greater the faith - the lesser the fear
Complete faith in you and your actions - No more fear at all in you and your actions. It really is as simple as that. There is no secret to it - just believe in you and what you are doing. Of course that belief has to be real and has to be there because you know that there is no way to stop you from getting what it is you want. You know that because you will do whatever it takes to makes your goals and dreams a success and do it to the best of your abilities while always taking the high road. Ya - there is a catch - there is no lying, cheating or stealing allowed. You can do everything and be anything as long as you are doing it the right way.
We are the sum of all we have been (Two)
There is never a need to be afraid of failing. The thing you need to be afraid of is the inability to decide. Of course you are going to fail, and I am willing to bet you have failed a few times prior to reading my stuff too. Hey - we all fail; it is what makes us what we are. The failures are the building blocks, the ingredients to the recipe to our successes. So go for it! - fail a little - even fail a lot - but the only way you will be a failure is when you allow that failure to get in the way of your success.
There are few obstacles in life that will not succumb to consistent, sustained, intelligent, positive action. When you are discouraged after you’ve failed at something, remember some of the greatest inventions in life were born from some of the greatest failures. The average person quits after a failure, which might be exactly why there are so many average people and so few great ones. You’re a great one on the rise - because there is no quit it you!
You need to read this section a few times. I am going to take a pause - just here so you can read and reread this a few times. Think about why you are going to be the best at what you are doing. Why there is nothing that has a chance of stopping you as you move towards your ultimate success and why you are now another step closer.
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