Not sure if you saw much of the olympics, let alone the commercials, but this one from Nike offers a great message. When you are striving for a goal and you get knocked down, how fast are you going to get up?
Be Free!
From Lance Armstrong on his bike, to a six-year-old in China learning martial arts, movement is the universal language that connects us all. It’s a language of beauty, drama, tragedy and triumph. And the road to athletic greatness is not marked by perfection, but the Read More...
I do not care who you are, how rich, how poor, how successful or unsuccessful, everyone’s life is a series of emotional ups and downs, highs and lows. If you charted your emotions on a daily or weekly basis, you would notice that they go up and down much like a roller coaster does…. an emotional roller coaster if you will.
As a default setting, humans find it is much easier to go down the emotional roller coaster than it is to go up. When you are at the bottom, it requires more energy to bring yourself back out. How you handle this emotional roller coaster requires a decision on your part. The decision is, are you going to deal with your emotions as an adult, or are you going to deal Read More...
The thesaurus might equate “disabled” with synonyms like “useless” and “mutilated,” but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these associations, she shows how adversity — in her case, being born without shinbones — actually opens the door for human potential.
Aimee Mullins was born without fibular bones, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant. She learned to walk on prosthetics, then to run — Read More...
Today’s Top 10 Tips Tuesday comes from life coach Russell Small (russellsmall.com).
Our challenge to you this week is to consciously listen to what you say to yourself. Jot your dominant thoughts down on a piece of paper. Then look at the list below and identify the limiting self-talk patterns you hold (listed on the left). Take these negative phrases and replace them with the affirming phrases on the right.
Remember, what is within, so without. Our inner world creates the outer circumstance and shapes the events that we experience. Our inner world consists of our thoughts, and beliefs. A belief is a thought with a feeling associated with it. We can consciously choose to change our thoughts and beliefs at any time and by doing so we can improve Read More...
Today, I want to review the 5 Levels of Self-Talk from Shad Helmstetter’s book, What to Say When you Talk To Yourself. Understanding the definition of each level will allow you to recognize what kind of thoughts you are having and how those can work for or against you. This will enable you to move onto higher level of self-talk which will lead you to a more effective and healthier mindset.
There are many lessons you can learn from the natural world, but do you know how to apply these lessons? Let us revisit the concept of flexibility by looking at what the Tao te Ching says about it:
Men are born soft and supple;
Dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
Dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
Is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
Is a disciple of life.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail.
Watch this movie video morning and start you day in an upbeat way. Repeating and feeling this affirmations will also help attract positive results into your life.
I want to share with you one of the quickest and easiest ways to give yourself quantum leaps in your energy level and it hardly takes any time.
What is it? It involves releasing the heaviest and most destructive emotion that you carry around with you. You know what it is? Sadness? No. Depression? No. It is anger.
Anger that you carry around weighs you down and sucks the energy out of your life. I am continually amazed how many people, and even kids, carry around anger for so long that is just unnecessary.
For some of you reading this, there is something that a boss or a co-worker said to you a week ago that ticked you off and you are still mad about it. For others, there is Read More...
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. People tend to keep looking outside of their own self to find solutions to problems that happen within their own self.
Who and what do you focus on? I was reminded of this all-important question as I watched a new instructor teach the Memory Training Workshop last month.
There was a student—THAT student—who seemed confused, asked long, irrelevant, and strange questions, and just kept talking. A good part of the first half of day two was spent dealing with “Sally.”
The instructor’s presentation was rushed and he was uncomfortable. The group seemed quiet and a bit disengaged. During the break, we talked about Sally. I asked the new instructor, “Was she waving her hand to ask questions? Read More...
Today’s Top 10 Tips Tuesday comes from life coach Russell Small (russellsmall.com).
