This week we are discussing 3 Key Tools for a Productive Mindset or what we like to call How to Stay Happy While Eating an Elephant One Bite At a Time on a Journey of 10,000 Miles.
1. Affirmations . . . or "What Are You Saying to Yourself About Yourself?"
What most people don’t realize about affirmations is that you are doing them anyway. Each morning as you lie there in bed and you think about getting up to face the day you are saying something to yourself. What you are saying to yourself is extremely important not only in what you get done that day, but also in how you feel while doing it.
That’s why we like to choose the thoughts we have on a regular basis. So stand in front of a mirror and repeat your goals, your desires, and your best qualities. When we focus on the positive, we feel good about ourselves. And when we feel good about ourselves we have the confidence to take the actions necessary.
So figure out what thoughts would be useful to you. Write them in the present, as if you already feel that way and make sure to make them positive, not the absence of a negative. more on this topic
2. Chunking Down . . . or "How to Manage Overwhelm"
One of the bigger problems that small business owners have is to manage all of their ideas and projects without getting overwhelmed by all that needs to be accomplished. What we’ve found is that many people get into overwhelm because of the way that they are thinking about a project. What many tend to do is to chunk everything together until they feel like it’s just too much and maybe it is time for a break.
It usually looks like this – “Oh no, did I forget to pay the phone bill? I’d better pay that or the phone will get shut off! I’ll do that after I finish this blog post I’m in the middle of. Don’t forget to call back that potential client! And then I have to get the oil changed on the car. What am I making for dinner again? Oh no, my website traffic has fallen again this week, I’d better call that SEO guy that was recommended to me.” And on, and on, and on . . . until finally you just need to take a break. And once again the phone bill wasn’t paid.
So, here is what we suggest. Chunk it down into bite size pieces. Make sure that it feels very doable. And then calendar it. Once that task is done then you can worry about what to do next. Remember, the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. more on this topic
3. Staying in the Zone . . . or "How to Manage Your Feelings"
This is a huge problem for small business owners. Fear, stress, anxiety and frustration all can and do stop you from getting things done and from taking the big steps you need to take to grow and prosper.
So, what we suggest is that you take a break. Yep, we said it. Step away from the computer. Go outside and take a walk. Maybe get some exercise. Do a sudoku puzzle. Or just sit with a pad and doodle. You need to give your mind a rest from all of that problem solving. Also, feeding your body some endorphins and feeding your mind something creative and whimsical will make you that much more productive when you return to work. more on this topic
We hope you enjoyed this little break from all of your so very important tasks and we look forward to guiding you to more joy and less stress on your journey to taking over the business world. Now, doesn’t that look inviting.
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Hypnosis mp3 Downloads Change Your Life!This is a blog about the power of the human mind and body to transform itself. We are creating a community of people who are engaged in making changes -- changes to their health, changes to their self-confidence, changes to their career success -- all positive changes. Here you'll find information about hypnosis, nutrition, alternative health, and self-help in many forms. Enjoy! 3 Key Tools for a Productive Business Mindset Matthew Walters - Tuesday, April 06, 2010
How Do You Manage Your Mindset? Matthew Walters - Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Success is determined by our mindset. How we think about our experience determines the emotions we feel and the actions we take. So you can begin to realize how important it is to think good, positive, useful thoughts.
However, anyone who has tried to manage their thoughts has probably come up against just how big a task that can be. We have millions of thoughts a day. How can we make sure that each one is positive and useful? The truth is we can't. However what we can do is remind ourselves on a consistent basis of what we want to be true. This can bring your conscious awareness back to noticing what you are thinking and allow you to make any adjustments towards a more positive mindset. This is the basis behind practicing affirmations. You see a well crafted affirmation can help you focus yourself back on to your goals and support you when you come up against resistance. We love affirmations. In fact, we love the idea of using affirmations so much that we created a software program that will automatically remind you of up to 12 affirmations on you desktop. So that while you are working you can be constantly and consistently reminded of that wonderful new reality that you are creating. Some of you have probably downloaded the old version of our affirmation reminder software. We are so excited to announce the newest update, which has the following upgrades:  1 - it works on all operating systems!So you've no longer got an excuse for not achieving those goals. Or staying positive despite your circumstances. Check it out here. It's FREE and you can send it to your friends! You see we believe so strongly in the power of affirmations that we think anyone should be able to use our program. No strings attached. We'd love to hear your comments . . . what's your favorite affirmation to use? how has it helped you? ENJOY THE BBQ AND LOSE WEIGHT TOO! DFC Team - Monday, August 31, 2009
by Lisa Smith, Downloads For Change Weight Control SpecialistIn preparation for the Labor Day weekend, here are some tips on how to do handle holidays, parties, and celebrations as a healthy, trim person through your lifetime. ENJOY THE BBQ AND LOSE WEIGHT TOO!Summertime is almost over. And with the Labor Day weekend comes "one last-hurrah!" of barbecues, picnics, celebrations, and FOOD TEMPTATIONS. When you are trying to lose weight, control your blood sugar, cut back on saturated fats for heart health, this can create failure or the idea of deprivation. You find yourself saying, "I can't help myself" or "It looks so good." So what are you to do? Shut yourself inside and become a recluse? Well, that IS an option, but not one that would make you very happy! What you can do is make a commitment to do things differently from now on. Parties, cookouts, and social events are going to be a part of the rest of your life. It’s time to leave the "kid in a candy store" mentality behind. You can learn to enjoy parties without making your body pay the price. Here are some tips for handling picnics/cookouts, parties, and other celebrations with greater ease (for your mind and body). * The number one thing to do is to have a plan. Stop pretending you don’t know what your pattern is at parties. You’ve had that "ah-ha moment" after overindulging at a party far too many times to fool yourself again. Plan ahead and decide what your strategy is going to be for eating (and even drinking). Then, stick to it! This plan may not be 100% successful the first time, but don't let that be an excuse for giving up. Review your challenges, and resolve to do a little better each time based on what you learned previously. * Don’t eat anything unless it’s on your plate and served all at once (that includes you fixing the plate). Snacking and nibbling makes it difficult for you to know how much you’ve eaten. By the time your stomach feels the stretch and sends the signal to the brain to turn off the appetite, you’ve already overeaten. * Bring a healthy dish to share--something you thoroughly enjoy. This assures that you will have at least one thing you can eat that won’t sabotage your healthy eating efforts, and makes you look like a thoughtful guest. You might even find people asking you for the recipe! * Never go to a social event hungry, unless you are planning to have a MEAL there. You’re just setting yourself up to overeat or eat junk food. Saving-calories-for-later doesn’t work well for SO many reasons. Have a balanced, healthy meal at home if there is going to be a lot of finger food and plan to just have a small dessert at the party. * Drink water or Perrier (NOT soda water or flavored water) instead of alcohol or sugary soda’s, or at least have 1 or 2 glasses of water between alcoholic drinks. This will counteract the dehydrating effects of alcohol, reduce unnecessary calories/sugar, and prevent you from the uninhibited eating that often occurs when you're "buzzed." * Curb your starchy carb intake. BBQ’s are often an overload of starches: bread/rolls/buns, potato & pasta salad, potato chips, baked beans, etc. Filling your plate with high-glycemic, low-nutrition carbs such as these will sabotage your best efforts at lifetime weight loss unless you learn to be smart about them. Either choose to have only one of them, along with a meat and some non-starchy vegetables, or a smaller serving of a few of them. * Dodge or deflect people's well-intentioned urges for you to eat. If someone asks you if you tried "such & such" yet, you can say "Yes, and it was great" or "No, I'm full right now" or try, "Oh, I can't eat that; it gives me gas" (if you are the type of person who is comfortable delivering a line like that). People will continue to offer you food (sometimes even being insistent about it, which is usually based on their own insecurities), but continue to hold your ground and repeat the same phrase again. (If you have a hard time with this, practice some phrases in the mirror until you get comfortable saying them and they will feel more natural when you need them. Otherwise, you can call me to do a private session recording for you to alleviate this difficulty). * Focus on the fun, not the food. Unless the invitation said, "Come to a food-tasting party," there is some other reason for the event. Keep your focus on that. Use your mouth for talking not eating. Keep your hands occupied with a bottle or glass of water. Involve yourself in any activities available. (Note: if you tend to eat because you are shy or nervous in social settings, there are many things you can do to learn to be more confident. I used to be shy, too. Hypnosis is one of several things that helped me to become the confident public speaker and leader I am today. If you would like to talk to me more about my transition from shy to outgoing, contact me via email or phone and I will be happy to discuss it with you.) The most important thing to remember is that no one is perfect, and you don't have to master all these things all at once. Changing habits and forming new ones is a learning process. Strive for doing something different and better each time, and it will get easier and more natural. Success in weight loss--in any endeavor, in fact--is the result of doing a lot of little things right over time. There's no magic to it. It's really just common sense. So, go enjoy your BBQ now, without paying for it later! If you want more assistance in living slender, check out the hypnosis mp3 download I co-created with the DFC Team -- Slender Me. 5 Steps for Developing Self Confidence and Self Esteem DFC Team - Tuesday, June 30, 2009
5 Steps for Developing Self-Confidence and Self-EsteemWouldn’t it be great to feel comfortable in your own body? To accept all of you, even the ugly parts? We are all perfectly human and it is that human part of us that makes us loveable. Isn’t it time that you learned to love all the parts of you that make you who you are? It is in loving those parts of ourselves that we begin the process of change. And it is in that change that we start to develop self-esteem (i.e. regarding yourself highly or favorably with respect or admiration). When you hold value for yourself then you begin to stand up for your needs in relationships, you ask for what you want and need in your work and you feel good about who you are and the choices you have made. So today we want to share 5 steps for developing self-confidence and self-esteem. 1. Rewriting the Story of Who You Are Write down two versions of your life story. One will be all of the bad things that happened and all of your failures and the other will be all of the good things that happened and all of your successes. Once you are done notice which list you give most of your attention to. Realize that you are the one who chose which events were important to shaping who you are. Make a decision to focus on the memories that make you feel good about who you are. You’re the one who gets to decide how you want to define yourself, not your family, your friends, your teachers or bosses, not even your spouse. 2. What are You Saying to Yourself About Yourself? Negative self-talk is a strong factor in how you feel about yourself. It is difficult to feel good about yourself when you are constantly criticizing yourself. So notice how you talk to yourself. What tone of voice do you use? Is it your voice or someone else’s? What does it say? Imagine that voice coming from your favorite cartoon character. Now what if it is coming from a small speaker and it begins to sound really tinny? Maybe there is even static and the voice becomes difficult to hear. And it could even have some really funny music behind it, maybe like the theme to a cartoon or funny circus music. Now what if instead you imagined a sweet, rich full voice saying, “I love and appreciate myself and all that I am.” Doesn’t that sound a lot better? 3. Begin to Tackle Your List of Faults Using compassion, write down a list of your bad habits. Choose one and take the next few weeks or months to overcome it. Now go down the list and choose another. Take the next few weeks or months to overcome it. Rinse and repeat. You’ll be surprised how many habits you can change in a year when you take them on one at a time. You’ll also feel great about yourself when you look over the year and see what you’ve accomplished. 4. Ask Yourself a Different Question The one question we ask ourselves that gets in the way of feeling good is “Why”. As in “Why did that happen to me?” “Why doesn’t that person like me?” “Why do I feel this way?” Instead, the key is to get outside of yourself and become curious about your feelings. “Isn’t that interesting that I’m feeling that old feeling again. How would I like to feel?” “What do I need to learn in order to become more confident in this area?” “I wonder why this is coming up for me again? What is here for me to learn?” Take your focus away from yourself and towards the outside world. Let go of wondering what other people think of you. Confidence comes from inside you not from the outside world. 5. Take on a new Challenge Take a public speaking course, learn to rock climb, learn to cook or make pottery, run a marathon or a triathlon, learn a new language; there are millions of new things to learn and taking the time and effort to learn them actually makes you feel good because you’ve accomplished something. Make a list of new things you would like to learn and get to work learning them one at a time. It is always best not to overload yourself as that almost always leads to failure. So set yourself up to win by focusing on one thing at a time and see how quickly you move through the list. You can also check out our hypnosis mp3 program “Free to Be Me” which leads you through several powerful processes that develop self-confidence and self-esteem. And there is a bonus affirmation track that you can listen to all day to keep you focused on what you are creating. Reprogramming your subconscious habit of negative self-talk will allow you to step into that new vision of who you really are, which is a limitless, infinitely loveable person. Now, how does that feel? Why are Hypnosis mp3 Programs so Effective in Helping People Stop Smoking? Matthew Walters - Monday, June 01, 2009
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