Take Ten is a 28 page, 6100+ word report that teaches people 10 different techniques they can use to relax.
Sections Include:
- Intro
- Why Can’t We Just Relax?
- Take Ten: Ten Relaxation Techniques
- Conclusion
Category Archives: Mindset
Find the Confidence to Get More Done, part 2
Here are the final 11 of the twenty-one proven ideas for building your confidence so you can magnetically attract new clients. Choose and put into practice the ones that best resonate with you.
- Take Action
Speaking of small steps, one of the best you can take for yourself is to stop thinking and “just do it”—whatever “it” is.
Thinking leads to over-thinking, which leads to procrastination, which leads to a loss of self-worth. So be the person who takes action when others are still tossing around possible solutions: While they estimate the cost of new bathtubs, buy a $2.00 all-purpose plug to stop the leak. Tidy your desk. Make those phone calls.
Taking action is empowering. So give your clients the best example, and be that “action person” they look up to, and admire.
Find the Confidence to Get More Done, part 1
Here are twenty-one proven ideas for building your confidence so you can magnetically attract new clients. Choose and put into practice the ones that best resonate with you.
- Use Music
One of the simplest tricks for helping yourself to both take action and feel more confident: Creating your own inspiring musical playlist, and playing it whenever appropriate. (Athletes know this secret and use music all the time, while training at the gym.)
Just as sad music in minor keys can help us process feelings when life deals blows like relationship breakups, so can energizing music or inspiring music actually raise our confidence level to the point where we take action.
Choose your own favorite “theme song”. It will automatically boost your confidence whenever you hear it.
21 Ways to Overcome Procrastination, part 2
While there are common causes and reasons for procrastination, there are even more “cures”. Pick through these twenty-one ideas to find strategies that work for you. This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Tips 1-11 were given in the earlier segment.
- Use Prompts
Sometimes we procrastinate almost by accident. That quick trip to Facebook to ask a key person a question sees us side-tracked by a Facebook Friend’s tragedy or doing unexpected customer service (when we’d already scheduled time to do that in the afternoon).
Put up prompts that remind you. Make an infographic of your favorite inspiring phrases—or buy one. Frame it. Keep it on your desk. Or at least print out motivational “reminder” phrases and stick them where you can see them—on your bulletin board; on the wall over your computer; or anywhere that makes them catch your eye.
For example, if you simply need to be reminded to get started, have a large reminder in site that says “Start right now!” If you need to remember to take care of an important bill or a cancellation, make yourself a temporary sign the day before that says “Pay electric bill!”
And do remember to move your permanent prompts around. Don’t keep them in the same place, or they’ll blend into the scenery in your mind’s eye.
21 Ways to Overcome Procrastination, part 1
While there are common causes and reasons for procrastination, there are even more “cures”. Pick through these twenty-one ideas to find strategies that work for you.
- Banish Guilt
If you’ve been a procrastinator since childhood, it may have been made worse by overly-authoritarian parents or teachers. Procrastination can also be a type of avoidance behavior, where those who feel habitually feel powerless take back personal power in the only way known to them—procrastination on tasks they are ordered to do.
Along with avoidance-based procrastination unfortunately goes its offshoots—guilt and shame. We hear the voices of those authority figures telling us that we “blew it again”, “can’t be depended on”; even all-or-nothing statements like “you’re a complete failure” (usually accompanied by comparisons to a perfect sibling or neighborhood example)—long after we’ve grown up and supposedly left all childhood voices behind.
Guilt and shame have no place in working on becoming the person we were born to be. One good dose of shaming (especially from yourself) and you’re likely to revert to the one defense you’ve truly mastered—the mental equivalent of curling up in a fetal ball in a darkened room—procrastinate.
Learn to banish guilt by using cognitive reframing. Replace those excoriating self-lashes with phrases based in reality. For example, instead of saying to yourself, “I did it again. I’m a complete screw-up!” try stating just the facts. (“I spent an hour of `me’ time. Now it’s time to put that aside and go to work.”)
It feels much better when you take the blame-and-shame out of your procrastination habits, and focus on realistic solutions.