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Change Your Life: Organize Your Life
20 Jul 2009
Are you doing the activities needed to reach your goals? You may be thinking it’s because you don’t have time. Well, that is not the reason. It’s how you organize your life…
Some people believe that to change your life, you have to make a 360° turn. In some cases, yes. But a lot of people, just need to be more organize. We tend to think of organize people, as the character of friends, Monica Geller. In the show, she even had 11 categories for her towels! That is overreacting, not to be organized. My point is, to organize your life, you don’t need to get to that extreme.
Before start to organize everything your house, you need to organize your life, and my that, I mean your mind. Problems are a permanent element in life. If you expect to start doing the things you want to do, when you are out of problems, wait till you die, because that is not the issue. The meaning of change your life, is to change what is inside first. So here are a few ideas to get you started:
Organize Your Life Lesson 1. Define what you want in six months
This is as easy as I can put it. I won’t be talking about goals, or purpose, or the meaning of life. Just set this straight to yourself: what do I want to achieve or where do I want to be in six months? Write three things down in a piece of paper, and put it everywhere. You can put it on your mirror, your car, your fridge, your own, your PC.
Change Your Life: Manage Time
16 Jul 2009
Learn what are the three elements no one is talking about on time management, and discover the basic idea is to manage time.
To manage time, the main element in it is discipline. Remember, your time is… yours.Everyone has duties: kids, family, a demanding boss, home tasks, etc. The real reason why you are not doing what you want, it is not because there are so many tasks, but because you are not managing what you do, to make time for yourself. Let’s say, you need to clean the house and you want to read a book on Wayne Dryer. Why not you using audio self help (audiobooks) to read, while you are cleaning the floor? It is not that you need to put your full attention in a simple task. It is using your time wisely to change your life. Another example, you want to practice your golf swing’s, but you need to take care of your kids. Why not taking your kids with you, and teach them how to play? Or the most common example, “I want to have time for myself”. Then, you need to use the calendar and mark when are you going to have this time, and what you need to do before to make it happen.
Here are quick guidelines on the steps, tools and concepts nobody talks about, to help you manage your time.
Steps to Manage Time
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Change Your Life: Manage Stress
In: change your life| overcoming depression| self development
24 Jun 2009
Are you stressed out right now? To manage stress, here are a few guidelines.
Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences. When people feel stressed by something going on around them, their bodies react by releasing chemicals into the blood. These chemicals give people more energy and strength, which can be a good thing if their stress is caused by physical danger. But this can also be a bad thing, if their stress is in response to something emotional and there is no outlet for this extra energy and strength. My point is, stress is not always bad, but when you feel you are not right, then, to change your life, this is what you need to do to manage stress:
- plan by visualizing expected events.
When you have unimportant event coming, which make you feel now there’s, a great way to release some of the stress you are feeling, like nervousness or fear, is to simply rehearse it. You can do it mentally or by acting. Run it through your mind over and over, the words you will say and the responses you may get. These will allow you to gain self-confidence, and assess self-help motivation mechanism.
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Change Your Life: Become Leader
24 Jun 2009
Leaders don’t have to be born. You can develop your leadership and become a leader using these guidelines.
When a previous article on “change your life, find friends“, I developed the idea that you need to emphasize your persuasion skills to interact better with people, and by doing this, you can be more social. Now, in this article, the focus is not so much making friends, but how to become the leader on that team or a group. The ideas I’m going to share, are based on the book “how to Win friends and influence people”, by Dale Carnegie.
Idea 4 to Become Leader: Leadership: Giving Criticism & Driving Improvement
- Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
To become a leader, you need to motivate people. Praising is a way to open the communication channel with others. It is easier to take criticism after some praise. For example, look for things done well before calling attention to failings. A leader is present not only in bad times, but rewards the good job.
- Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
One great way to talk to people, is to give own examples of your experiences, rather than criticize.Telling a story, instead of giving the recipe, is fantastic to let people grow by themselves, for example, you can tell the story of how and event change your life. Also, the burden of criticism is easier to bear when shared. So, share your experience, even bad ones, with people to make a connection.
Change Your Life: Find Purpose
In: change your life| life changing quotes| self development| wayne dwyer
24 Jun 2009
Let me ask you a question, can you tell me your life’s purpose? If you can’t respond immediately, you don’t have it. Finding out what to do about it…
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.” Henry David Thoreau
The first question I asked, is not meant to hurt you. This to help you define yourself and find purpose. Henry David Thoreau was trying to say in his previous life changing quote, that you may go through life without knowing what was all about. If you think we are just born, grow, have a job, have kids and die, then, why are you living? Don’t you feel you would like to change your life?
Every living being has a purpose. For example, without bees, there will be no pollination. So what? Okay, this is what will happen in the words of an expert:
“If all the bees in the world were kill over tomorrow, a situation that doesn’t look entirely unlikely at this stage, it would take nature far longer to recover than our agriculture would demand. New technologies for artificial pollination would need to be introduced while the bees were pensioned off. Food shortages would immediately become an issue, as the available artificial technologies are nowhere near as efficent as the bees. There is no doubt that the industry would continue to function, albeit using a slower model of production. This would result in the hiking of prices for basics like fruit and veg, including anything that might be higher up the food chain.”
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Change Your Life: How To Live Happy
24 Jun 2009
Are you happy? Most people will say no. Find out how to live happier without having to win the lottery.
Happiness is an ambiguous concept. From the Greek philosophers and in every world culture, people have tried to determine how to be happy. In this article, I don’t want to do the same as everyone, they giving you common sense tips. What I will like to try is to help you uncover your own way to be happier and change your life.
We have to start with what you think these happiness. Is it to have a smile on your face every day at every hour? Is it to have the perfect life? And what is the perfect life? To be realistic, I think happiness has been defined by the media. We see beautiful, rich and extroverted people in TV and movies, who seemed to show us what is happiness about and how to live happy. However, you have to understand that this is not real. They are just actors playing a role. Offstage, they may be more miserable than an African child with nothing to eat.
Most interesting, is to find out what happy people do. According to studies, Denmark is the happiest country in the world. BusinessWeek says this:
- Denmark
- Population: 5.5 million
- Life Expectancy: 77.8 years
- GDP Per Capita: $34,600
Change Your Diet, Change Your Life
24 Jun 2009
By changing the way you eat, you can dramatically change your life. Find out the reasons why you need to start a diet today…
In this article, I won’t be talking about diets. There are a lot of diets, that you can define on the web or books. I think most important, is the reason why to do a diet. Most people just start a diet they read about, but drop out after a few weeks. So it is more important to mentalize yourself, before starting anything.
If you visualize your goal first, it is easier to achieve it, then just doing things without a purpose. So, why is it important to change your life and start a diet?
Data from thethe U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States shows that Americans are the fattest people of the planet. But in the short term, maybe being obese is not a big deal. Sure, socially it is difficult to be fat person at school or work. People tend to make jokes about them, or to act different to them. However, the big concerns are on the long term. It can change your life dramatically.
A study by Dutch researchers appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It looked at data collected from 3,457 adults age 28 to 62 in Framingham, Massachusetts, between 1948 and 1990. The results show that, if you are obese by the time you are 40 years old, you will live less.
Change Your Body, Change Your Life
22 Jun 2009
By changing the way you look, you can change your life. Here are several tips that can help you achieve a change…
First of all, I’m not the fashion guru. In this article, I’m not trying to show you how to dress up on how to make an extreme makeover. There are some youtube is that you can watch to do that, which I’ll talk about them later. But for now, let’s clear the concept of changing your body.
It is not about surgical procedure, or a TV extreme makeover. Your body is a reflection what you think about yourself. For example, professional people always dress very professional. They use a amazing suits, and combine all their clothes really nice. They take care of having shiny shoes, and proper haircut, etc.
It is necessary for them, because they have too show and image to their clients. That is, an image of success and had been day DM of knowing what they want in life. This is social psychology. You may disagree me (I actually thought different 10 years ago), but you have to realize you are not alone in this world, you leaving a community, and you are part of it. It is not about what people think of you, and letting it affect you. It is about showing what you desire to be or what you want to show to the world about yourself. For example, that’s why many rock stars dress so cool. They are always ahead of fashion, because they represent fashion. They represent a lifestyle of excesses, by over dressing themselves. Can you imagine a rock star dress with the big white T-shirt and a pair of old jeans? Maybe in the 80’s, but now, it is unthinkable.
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
In: change your life| self development| wayne dryer| wayne dwyer
22 Jun 2009
Read how by changing your thoughts, you can change the way your life is going right now…
What do you think is the most powerful tool you have in your life? Is it your hands? Maybe it’s your intelligence? I believe the most important tool you have is your thoughts. The way we think is the way we act, and the way we act is what determine our path in life. There are also elements, like our culture or our legacy that influence as external sources of change. However, the way you talk to yourself through your thoughts, will be the powerful influence that will affect your choices, because a situation can be looked as a menace or an opportunity.
In his book “Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. Living The Wisdom of the Dao¨, Dr. Wayne Dryer talks about this topic. Even though he doesn’t talk exactly how to change your thoughts, it is a very profound book that explains the Dao Teh Ching, one of the oldest books of Taoism, were in its 81 verses, describes the taoist phylosophy.
In this article, I will try to explain how to change your thoughts.
Life Changing Quotes
19 Jun 2009
Here are some life-changing quotes that will help you deal with your every day life in a better way.
One off the elements to change your life is to stay motivated. All around us, there are factors that can affect you positive or negatively. Event inside you, your thoughts are so powerful that an event that happened long time ago, can still hurt you now. That is the reason why you need to use life-changing quotes as a motivational tool.
Before we start the least of some life-changing quotes you can use, it is important to let you know how to use them. Just because you read them once doesn’t mean that they will have a significance. I believe it is a lie to say that one life-changing quote will turn 360° your life. The most important aspect in use in this, is when, who and how.
In trying to a response to a question when, you need to read life-changing quotes at least two times a day, in the morning and at night when you go to sleep. What I personally do is instead of printing them, I write them down on a notepad that I always carry. I feel it carries more significance when you write them down with your own handwriting, and change them when you feel they are not working for you. For example, I had a life-changing quotes I personally wrote. First, I wrote something like ¨ I had been taking the wrong decisions, from now on, I will not”. After two weeks, I felt I was judging myself too hard, and you can’t change the decisions you take. It is even better to take decision, than to not even try it. So I changed the life changing quote to ¨ I had been in the wrong state of mind, from now on, I change my thought patterns and behavior so I can change my results¨.
Self Help for Depression
1 Jun 2009
Can you make it on your own? Is self help for depression possible, without asking for help? Read this story to find out…
I found a story about a young boy who committed suicide because all the bulling he was dealing with in his school. His name was Jared Benjamin High, you can read the whole story here. The point is, Jared wasn’t able to find out how to overcome his depression. He didn’t ask for help. Maybe, he just didn’t know he could.
I want you to know this: it is ok to ask for help. You can do it on your own, but you need someone to show you how. Looking for self help for depression is not a lonely road. Here are some of the lessons I learn by myself, I want to share with you, so you don’t get to become another Jared.
1. Ask for help to people who love you
Very common, we ask for help for depression on the wrong place. For example, asking a “buddy” for advice, when he or she actually doesn’t care. You need to think about the people who really love you, cares for you. There is always someone to count on, but be sure to pick the right person. And when you ask for help, tell the truth. Don’t try to hide the facts or your true feelings, get them out, let the other person know how you feel. Share your feelings, even when they are negative.
Change Your Life
27 May 2009
The big question from all people I know is: “How can you change your life?”
Most guys and so called “gurus” will give you “their” answers, on how to change your life. About 5 years ago, I had an car accident that did change my life. I was working as a kindergarten teacher in Houston, and didn´t appreciate all the things that I had back then. I was surrounded by the love of my children and was doing very well economically. I was living independently and had my whole life ahead of me.
However, one day after exiting the gym (which I will make no publicity to…) a car went directly to me and hit me, a tree and a post. The driver was going to park the car and accidentally left his foot on the accelerator. Like a miracle, the post and the tree did help me take less of a hit, but the mark left in my life was overwhelming. I needed that kind of event to change my life and actually realizing the truth: we are lucky to be alive, and each day gives us a new opportunity to change and become better persons.
It may sound corny, but it is actually true. Most people never appreciate what they have, been material things or the love of a partner, friends or family. Another secret does “gurus” don´t want to tell you is this: it is not your fault you can´t change. According to some behavioral studies, it is proved that change faces resistance all the time, and when it is not made fast and the new state is “frozen”, chances are we´ll return to the previous state (which most of the time is unhappiness or dissatisfaction).
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