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Facing The Fear and Anxiety of The Unknown
January 26, 2009 by rosie
Filed under Holistic Wellbeing, Life & Relationships, News
Almost everybody worries about what will happen in the future. The prospect of not knowing if something good or bad will happen to you in the near future can produce a lot of fear and anxiety. As a result, here is a list of techniques and suggestions on how to manage this fear of dealing with the unknown.
Remember: It Might Not Happen
Remember that no one can predict the future with one hundred percent certainty. Even if the thing that you feared does happen there are circumstances and factors that you can’t predict which can be used to your advantage. For instance, let’s say at your place of work that you miss the deadline for a project you have been working on for the last few months. Everything you feared is coming true. Suddenly, your boss comes to your office and tells you that the deadline is extended and that he forgot to tell you the day before. This unknown factor changes everything. Remember: we may be ninety-nine percent correct in predicting the future, but all it takes is for that one percent to make a world of difference.
“One Day At A Time”
Learn to take it one day at a time. Instead of worrying about how you will get through the rest of the week or coming month, try to focus on today. Each day can provide us with different opportunities to learn new things and that includes learning how to deal with your problems. When the time comes, hopefully you will have learned the skills to deal with your situation.
Self-Visualize to Prepare For Challenges
Sometimes, we can get anxious over a task that we will have to perform in the near future. When this happens, visualize yourself doing the task in your mind. For instance, you and your team have to play in the championship volleyball game in front of a large group of people in the next few days. Before the big day comes, imagine yourself playing the game in your mind. Imagine that you’re playing in front of a large audience. By playing the game in your mind, you will be better prepared to perform for real when the time comes. Self-Visualization is a great way to reduce the fear and stress of a coming situation and increase your self-confidence.
Distract Yourself
Remember take a deep breath and try to find something to do to get your mind off of you anxieties and stresses. A person could take a walk, listen to some music, read the newspaper, watch TV, play on the computer or do an activity that will give them a fresh perspective on things. This will distract you from your current worries.
Bottom Line: Worrying Changes Nothing
A lot of times, our worrying can make the problem even worse. All the worrying in the world will not change anything. All you can do is to do your best each day, hope for the best, and when something does happen, take it in stride. If you still have trouble managing your anxiety of the future, then talking to a counselor or clergyman can be of great help. There are ways to help manage your fear and all it takes is some effort to find those answers.
Author: Stan Popovich is the author of “A Layman’s Guide to Managing Fear Using Psychology, Christianity and Non Resistant Methods” – an easy to read book that presents a general overview of techniques that are effective in managing persistent fears and anxieties. For additional information go to: www.managingfear.com
To Do Lists: The Secret to Living an Organised Life
January 20, 2009 by rosie
Filed under Healthy Business, Holistic Wellbeing
Struggling to get motivated now you are back at work? Let me introduce you to (or remind you of) the daily TO DO list!
Following on from our December tip of lists to help you get through Christmas, I would like to share with you one of the most effective ways to get organised.
To Do Lists… Simple, But Effective
A “To Do” list may be the secret to getting through everything you need to get done. So preparation and management of the TO DO list.
Your day will be so much more effective and productive once you have a clear vision of what needs to be done and then action the tasks in order of importance.
- Firstly, write a list of everything that’s on your mind that you think needs to be done.
- Secondly, go back and identify the five most important jobs first, labelling them 1 to 5, where one is the most important. Leave the remainder unnumbered.
- Thirdly, work through the list, completing task one, two and so on.
Never move to the next task until you have finished the previous task. If you manage to complete all five, work through the list again, identifying the next five and so on. Keep adding to the list as more tasks come to mind.
You’ll have a real sense of achievement when you cross off a task, you’ll feel very productive at the end of the day and I’m pretty sure you’ll sleep better, even in this heat!
Author:Katy Macpherson runs office and home organising consultancy Kinetica. Contact Katy today to see how Kinetica can help you organise your office and home: 03 443 6224, 021 154 5511, katy@kinetica.co.nz or check out www.kinetica.co.nz
The Happy Millionaire
January 14, 2009 by rosie
Filed under Healthy Business, Holistic Wellbeing
Short of cash? Don’t blame the economy. It seems like a lack of money leads to stress. But it’s really the other way around. Unconscious stress causes financial self-sabotage.
A Dutch training and business consulting company has researched this pattern over the past 12 years, and the solution is surprising.
“If you are worried about money then the first thing to do is find the internal cause and correct it quickly,” says Jacob Korthuis, president of the PMA Institute and the author of The Happy Millionaire. “The solution is not to go and find another job, or start a side business, the solution is first to remove your internal block to making money.”
“Most people say that they want to be rich, but then act in ways that sabotage themselves,” Mr. Korthuis explains. “That’s because a lifetime of accumulated data is stored in their brains linking pain to making money.”
Mr Korthuis offers talks on dealing with financial stress by dealing with the underlying stresses that cause people to fail financially.
In addition to explaining the root causes of financial lack, he will also show your audience a series of techniques they can use at home to help find and correct their own limits around money, including…
* Why it’s literally never too late to become rich.
* Why luck is not a factor, and why some people seem “lucky” when it comes to money.
* Why “positive thinking” or an “attitude of gratitude” will actually keep you broke – no matter what Oprah tells you.
* Why two children from the exact same upbringing can have completely different financial lives – one can literally be a millionaire while another child slaves at minimum wage.
* Why many successful people fail repeatedly before they make it, and why you don’t have to.
* “Bad clusters” in your mind. How your brain produces them, and how they literally stop you from making the money you want.
Author: Jacob Korthuis (pron.: Korthouse) is a fun, fast-paced interview who has been featured radio and print in Europe. He is located in Orlando, Florida. To interview Jacob, call (321) 948-5811.
For more information and books about this subject, please visit the website www.pmainstitute.com
Shape Up Your Office For the New Year
January 12, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Healthy Business, Holistic Wellbeing
Several years ago, I was having tea with friends at the Four Seasons in Santa Barbara, when the conversation turned to feng shui, the Chinese art of placement. I knew nothing about it and decided to investigate. I made several attempts to learn more by reading about feng shui, but found the books complicated and hard to apply.
Sometime later, I noticed that two local feng shui practitioners were giving a talk at Border’s. My friend Jill and I decided to attend-a decision that seemed quite innocent at the time.
Little did I suspect that it was going to turn me into a madwoman. The lecturers gave us some simple tips about things we could do in our environments to improve the chi (energy flow), along with a description of the bagua (kind of a blueprint for placement). I spent an hour or so in bed that night mentally moving furniture. I decided that my office was completely backwards, feng shui-wise, so the next morning I began rearranging things. Six hours later, my office had taken on a new airiness and was more inviting than it had ever been.
The speakers told us in order to get things flowing ahead we should go home and move 27 objects that hadn’t been moved for a year. I had no difficulty locating 27 things that were ready for relocation. I changed mirrors and hung crystals, I fretted over sharp corners and pondered ways to soften them.
That was only the beginning, however. Feng shui masters had, in fact, developed a list of principles for improving business. For instance, to get the new year off to a prosperous start, they recommend greeting a new stranger every day for 27 days.
One bit of advice perplexed me: “To stimulate a positive cash flow, collect a small amount of water from nine different prosperous financial institutions, and store it in the far left-hand corner of the office.” My bank doesn’t even have a drinking fountain and I couldn’t imagine asking the teller to fetch a bit of water from the employee restroom so I passed on that one.
Other nuggets of feng shui wisdom were more easily implemented. You can add good energy to your business with one or several of these suggestions:
* To invite opportunity to knock, fix your front door. Allow no squeaking, sticking or or wobbling door knobs.
* To further your opportunities, unblock doorways and remove stored items from behind doors.
* To support your vision and commitment, sit at a desk that is spacious, allowing room for the expansion of your ideas.
* To call forth a clear vision, hang a brass chime just inside your office door.
* To think creatively, hang a mirror to the right and to the left of your desk.
What’s particularly interesting to me about this feng shui business is that it’s a wonderful way to become more clear about the metaphors in your life. For instance, after I moved my computer to the other side of my office, I needed a longer cord. The one I had was quite tangled and I was going to just move it when I realized it would be running through my partnership area. “I don’t want tangled partnerships,” I told myself and decided to take time to straighten out the cord.
It can get more cosmic than this, but I will resist my urge to go on about the metaphysical insights gained from moving furniture around.
“Care for our actual houses,” writes Thomas Moore, “is also care of the soul. No matter where we live, we can cultivate this wider piece of earth as a place that is integrally bound to the conditions of our hearts.” But, then, the Chinese knew that all along.
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Want to know more? I highly recommend Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life by Karen Rauch Carter which is written with the Western reader in mind.
Author: Barbara J. Winter is a Las Vegas-based self-employment advocate and writer. She is the author of Making a Living Without a Job. She conducts seminars throughout the US and Canada on creative self-employment. Her newest events are a one-day seminar called What Would an Entrepreneur Do? and a three-day event, Compelling Storytelling. She also publishes Winning Ways newsletter, now in its twenty-second year of helping people turn passions into profits. http://www.joyfullyjobless.com
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Exercise Can Be Cheap – 10 Tips on How to Save Money When You Start a New Exercise Program
January 12, 2009 by hamish
Filed under Fitness & Exercise
Starting a new exercise program doesn’t have to break the bank. On the contrary, your regular exercise will be one of your lowest monthly expenses in your life. Here are 10 tips for those who are short on cash, but also short on ‘time-spent-exercising’.
1. Start with good sneakers. Before you buy any equipment, you must have adequate footwear. Your sneakers must absorb shock and be comfortable. This is your #1 most important investment in any exercise program.
2. Buy used. There is always a selection of used exercise equipment in your local newspaper’s classifieds section. Your local thrift store might also carry some equipment for next-to-nothing. And even the exercise equipment stores often keep used goods stashed in warehouses for folks like you.
3. Consolidate your errands. Spend fewer days running around. Do errands on designated days. Save yourself gas ($) and time (for exercise). And if you forgot something, you might realize you didn’t need it anyway (thus saving you more money!).
4. Know the Fit-Right Formula. Before you buy another gizmo or gadget that won’t get used, know this formula. Ask yourself some critical questions about your exercise equipment needs. Don’t buy the cheaper product just to save money: buying what you will use holds the greater value.
5. Don’t buy compulsively. If you watch TV, resist any temptations by infomercial queens to buy another tummy-flattener. You will not get your whole body in amazingly great shape with just one gizmo, so why let yourself get suckered? That ‘bonus DVD’ and ‘XYZ special deal’ don’t come hand-delivered by a personal trainer, do they?
6. Prepare meals at home. This will do several great things for your health and finances. It will save you time and money from eating out at restaurants. And eating your own home-cooked meals is much healthier than eating out. For easier preparation, use a crock-pot and cook huge meals that provide leftovers all week.
7. Budget for health, not for your abs. One single equipment purchase will not make you look and feel fantastic, no matter how often you use it. Great health includes regular exercise, healthy eating, and an entire lifestyle. When you decide where to spend your money, consider the expenses of a healthy lifestyle instead of one gadget to tone one muscle.
8. Eliminate unhealthy expenses. This should probably be at the top of the list. But the other 7 tips are important for your journey to great fitness, too. Improve your health and your finances by cutting out junk food and fast food. For example, if you bring your lunch to work (instead of eating out), then you’ll have time leftover for a walk or some stretching.
9. Eliminate other costs. Your health is your greatest investment. Without regular exercise, you can’t be healthy. So, instead of reducing exercise expenses, cut out unnecessary expenses like TV and magazine subscriptions (cut the ones you can get at your local library).
10. Don’t Spend – Invest. Exercise is an investment. Every moment spent exercising is a long-lasting investment. Consider the preventable costs of medications, surgeries, doctor visits, and other money spent on disease and poor health. The old expression ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ means a 16:1 return-on-investment.
In tough economic times, exercise remains the best value!
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As a massage therapist and fitness trainer in Colorado’s Aspen valley, Nina works with top athletes, musicians, non-athletes, and weekend warriors. Nina is an Official Sports Massage Therapist for several professional and recreational sports organizations, treating skiers, snowboarders, climbers, and synchronized skiers.
She loves to offer her services in Basalt, Colorado, the red-rock heart of the Colorado Rockies: “There’s No better place to Heal than here!”
When Nina is not relieving pain or helping clients with their fitness goals, she loves to camp, hike, run, backpack, go to bluegrass festivals, and play her banjo. She has been a bluegrass DJ on her local community radio station, KDNK, for over 8 years.
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