Random Motivation Articles http://www.articletrader.com/ Articles at ArticleTrader en-us How to Be a Motivational Speaker http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/how-to-be-a-motivational-speaker.html http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/how-to-be-a-motivational-speaker.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:48:06 -0500
1. Find something that you can speak about. The best place to start is with your own life. List down the goals and achievements that you have attained in your life, such as finding the love of your life, the first time you received your paycheck on your first job, or how you started your own business. In doing this, sharing your success or how you attained your goals through your hard work could really inspire people, especially if what you have attained is something special or extraordinary.

2. You must find your specialty, if you want to be a motivational speaker, you must find the area that you are an expert of. Most people hire a motivational speaker to be able to help them in a certain area.

3. Once you have found your specialty, it is now time to find your targeted audience. Your audience should be the people who can benefit from your specialty. If you're area of expertise is on relieving stress on the workplace, then your targeted audience should be career oriented people or corporate offices, since stress is part of their daily lives.

4. It is always a good idea to write your speech before you give out your speech to an audience, this way; you will have an outline or a guide on how to go about your speech.

5. Improve your speaking skills, even if you feel that you are already confident in your speaking skills, there are always room for improvements. How can you improve your speaking skills? You can join clubs, classes or an organization that specializes in developing speaking skills. This way, your skill as a motivational speaker can really improve. Another way of improving your speaking skills is to watch other professional motivational speakers in action.

6. Having your own marketing materials to promote yourself as a motivational guest speaker should be your next step. You can have a media kit, which includes the following: video recording of one of your speeches, business cards, an introduction leaflet, your resume that includes your experience. Testimonial or referral letters from other people who have heard you speak in public.

7. After identifying your targeted audience and preparing your marketing materials, it is now time to approach those targeted audience through sending them your media kit or visiting them in person.



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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> The Benefits of NLP Coaching http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/the-benefits-of-nlp-coaching.html http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/the-benefits-of-nlp-coaching.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0600
Perceptual Positions an NLP Technique

Perceptual positions is an NLP exercise geared to looking at a situation from multiple perspectives. Any given situation has several different perspectives and different information can be gain from each. The first is obviously your own, the second is the perspective from another person that is involved in the situation and the third is a neutral, unconnected perspective. Each of these positions would give you more information about the situation and the opportunity to influence what is happening. A fuller explanation of perceptual positions can be found on my website.

A Business Coaching Example of Using NLP Techniques

There are many NLP tools that a coach might use in the first instance, but for illustration purposes we will restrict this to just using perceptual positions.
The coach might use this technique for themselves initially to get a flavour of what their client is thinking and, if it is a business context how the business views the situation.
A typical business coaching situation might involve a client who has a new role that they have some doubts over. Perhaps they also don't know how to approach their new team and are unsure about what is expected of them.
You could use Perceptual Positions for every part of this situation.

Getting the client to look at the situation from the perspective of their new boss and doing a skills analysis from this perspective would give them confidence. They were employed for the role therefore someone has faith in them and seeing their skills from this perspective will help.
Seeing the role from the perspective of the job and the organisations might yield clues as to direction, goals expectations.
Looking at the new team's perspective and then getting the client to plan their approach from this and the organisation's perspective might give them a different view of how to meet, motivate set expectations with the new team.
Also, getting the client to imagine a future version of themselves that is happy, comfortable and settled in the role may help. But what if you took a neutral, observer perspective on the difference between the two and develop the action plan to take you from the current state to the future state?

Coaching using NLP Techniques

The illustration above was just to demonstrate how a foundation level NLP Tool could be used in multiple ways in a single coaching situation. The reality is that there are many powerful NLP Techniques a good coach will employ for you to get results.
As an example, whatever you happen to be doing there is an ideal frame of mind associated with it. Athletes recognise this as being in the zone or a flow state. Any good coach will have a coach state they have anchored and can fire off to be in the right frame of mind to assist you as a client. If appropriate they could be showing you how to do the same for your role.

The Real Power of NLP Coaching Techniques

Language (both verbal and non verbal) binds the relationship between coach and client. But language is just a filter on our thoughts and impacts how we represent the world to ourselves.
A good coach is trained to notice these filters in themselves and others and then can open or restrict them to provide a better frame on the situation. A good NLP Practitioner Course will show you how to do that and much more. This is why all good coaches study NLP.
My expectations of a good hypnotic NLP Business Coach to that coaching situation described above would be to linguistically given you change strategies, installed empowering beliefs and set preframes that eliminate self doubt before you have even started the session. All of a saddened you might find yourself filling in the detail and getting results within a framework of fun coaching session.
Anyone interested in getting great performance out of themselves should consider a coach…but if you are unreasonable, impatient and want those results faster then a NLP Coach is a serious consideration.

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Rintu Basu is the only NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion Trainer in the UK. Having worked with businesses, the police service and the financial sector. He is developing NLP Scotland through good quality public NLP training courses as well as an exclusive NLP Coaching practice



Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> The Only True Self Improvement http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/the-only-true-self-improvement.html http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/the-only-true-self-improvement.html Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0600
The higher the moral level of a man, the stronger is his or her desire to improve. Those people who are convenient but do not feel very good about themselves if they miss the feeling that they work on their own improvement, will at least read articles and books how to improve themselves, but as a matter of fact, their reading will be the only one thing that they will really do. On the other hand, there are also people who really want to improve themselves and actively try to follow any well-meant piece of advice how to become better.

However, the problem is that hardly any out of all the available advices which are supposed to show you the way how you can improve yourself is really effective and safe. To be frank, I have to say that the most effective way how to improve is even very uncomfortable.

To understand my point of view, you should know that I believe in reincarnation, in harmony in all Nature and in the balance of all the opposites. I also believe that all people together are one whole and because everything is related to any other thing, in the same way the destiny of each one of us is related with the destiny of all other people.

As opposites reign to us all and balance always tries to be restored, we should avoid any extreme in our life to prevent the opposite extreme in the life of other people. If we are too rich, others will have to be too poor. If we are too healthy, others will have to be too ill. If we are too happy, others will have to be too unhappy. If we are too good, others will have to be too bad.

Because we are one whole, then to improve this whole, one must try to improve both himself and all the other at once. To improve all mankind - to help all mankind, it means to help the most suffering ones first of all. But how can they be helped?

Who is ill and cannot be healed, let him enter new body in the next life of his or her soul by euthanasia, who has suffered a serious accident let him be helped by all other people, who is too poor and does not have enough money to life, let him be gifted by the rich.

Remember that if you helped any other man, you helped yourself because if there will be no excessive suffering on the world, neither you soul will have to excessively suffer, whether it will be in it's present or future life. So any help to any other man in fact is a help to yourself. True self-improvement consists in the restriction of one's own happiness for the purpose of helping all the other people by sharing any above-average possession with them.

Everybody should be averagely rich and averagely happy. Only then he will neither suffer too much nor he will cause any occurence of too much suffering people. Let everybody live in a medium happiness with medium possession and let him have the same price like that of all other people.

Now ask yourself: Are you the rich who will not support the poor with your money? Do you enjoy a good state of health and at the same time do not feel with those who suffer most and you are not willing to bear a part of their big pain on your own shoulders? If it is so, then please stop reading articles and books about self improvement since you will never improve yourself in the proper way. For the only self-improvement is to sacrifice a part of what you've got to help the other. There is no other self-improvement.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> Existential Sex for Successful Work/Life Balance http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/existential-sex-for-successful-work-life-balance.html http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/existential-sex-for-successful-work-life-balance.html Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500
A fairly successful individual named Warren Buffett once remarked that he worried about people who claimed they were going to work at a job they disliked for a number of years before doing what they really wanted to do. "That's like saving sex for your old age," Buffet said. "Not a very good idea."

What I want you to understand is that business is like sex. If you're not having fun you're not doing it right. The converse is also true: if you're not doing it right you're probably not having any fun.

Here’s my business dictum: “He or she who has the most fun, wins.” Tattoo that on your arm. Business is like sex. It's not supposed to be painful

It's been said that virtue is its own reward. Perhaps. Enjoyment certainly is. But it can also be good business, and good management. You're in business for the long haul. If you can make the journey even more enjoyable than the destination--for yourself and your people--you're going to have a better trip. The more odious the journey, the more difficult it's going to be for the destination to be wonderful enough to make the trip worth the effort. The more likely you and everyone with you are to be disappointed once the goal is finally reached.

Business is like sex. And sex is the most existential thing in the entire universe: getting there is ALL the fun.

Enjoy. Have fun. I know this is work we're talking about here and they don't pay you all that money because it's easy. But that doesn't mean it can't be fun. The business gurus of Zimbabwe used to say, "If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."

Dance. Sing.

Sure you're anxious to reach your long-term goals. But if you can't appreciate what you already have, what makes you think you'll appreciate whatever it is you're working so hard to get? Don't put off sex until your old age.

WORK at making your job enjoyable. Imagine how great your life would be if you got as much enjoyment from your job as you do from your favorite hobby. Imagine what your people could accomplish
if you could help them have that type of enjoyment, if you could give them as much motivation for the job as they have for their greatest passions in life.

Can you do that? Probably not. This isn't Oz, this is the planet Earth. How much fun can anyone have stripping the hair and fat from dead hogs? But the closer you move in that direction--even if it's only a step or two--the greater the benefits for you, your people and your company.



Walk the Elephant

If you're in management and trying to make the job fun for your people, watch out for simply foisting your own concept of fun on them. One supervisor created dissention by scattering candy dishes around an office where most of the employees were trying to diet. She had Muzak pumped in, and everyone hated the music she selected. Then she decided to fill the office with motivational banners, and insisted that everyone contribute a saying. This, at least, was fun for one person. The last time I was there, his inspiration message still hung proudly by the main entrance: "Walk the elephant and pitch to the giraffe."

You may not find that inspirational. You may even find it confusing, if you don't recognize it as the answer to the ancient philosophical question: "What do you do with an elephant with three balls?"

You walk the elephant and pitch to the giraffe. Let that be an inspiration to us all.

If you’re not enjoying your life now, how long are you planning on waiting before you start.


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Barry Maher writes and speaks on leadership, management, communications and sales. A motivational keynote speaker, seminar and workshop leader, Maher is the author of \"Filling the Glass,\" honored by Today\'s Librarian as \"[One of] The Seven Essential Popular Business Books.\" Other books include \"No Lie: Truth Is the Ultimate Sales Tool\" and \"Getting the Most from Your Yellow Pages Advertising.\" Contact him and/or sign up for his monthly email newsletter at .

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> Cancer curing Super-Machine http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/cancer-curing-super-machine.html http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/cancer-curing-super-machine.html Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500
A pyramid has unique healing properties.

Moreover, by using and sitting under a pyramid, we get a powerful beam of Universal Energy, And, this Cosmic or Universal Energy is a perfect natural remedy for Cancer.

According to the latest research all life is energy.

Every nerve impulse in your body is an electric current.

Every cell in your body is a mini-battery pumping out 70-90 millivolts - when healthy.
Our muscles are powered by chemical energy. The steak and potatoes that you eat for dinner are really just fuel for the fire. Eating is like throwing coal in a furnace.

Digestion is nothing more than a slow form of burning that produces energy for your body to live on. In fact, death itself is defined as the absence of electrical activity in the brain. In the end, all life is energy.

This phenomenon deserves special attention and further research and dissemination, which will help shed light on a new discipline in science and medicine, in particular, helping people fight various illnesses, sometimes even avoiding surgical operations.

The hidden power of the pyramidal form that empowers the vital system of the human body, accelerates the growth of plants, prevents the fast rotting of foods, and keeps the razor blades sharp.

Get what you always wanted! You’ll be amazed on how well and fast this works! But remember – "Be careful what you wish for…".

Its work, depends upon the Universal Cosmic Energy.

In fact, world top scientists and researchers have proved that the pyramid structures are the main focus of the Cosmic Energy.

The modern research also reveals that, in reality, these are the scientific “Machines” and “Devices” standing on the face of the planet Earth.

The researchers and scientists narrate that these Devices and scientific Machines are the "Powerhouses", called “Pyramids”.

Pyramids or pyramidical structures have been proven to stimulate Theta and Alpha brain waves activities.

It is one of the oldest structures on the face of the earth and arguably the best built.

There are more than 15 million books containing explanations about the effects of the pyramids, all around the world.

Pyramids and pyramid structures can be used for non invasive treatment of diseases in which the role of free radicals and reactive oxygen species has been implicated.

This is very strange that the Pyramid Energy makes all your wishes, dreams and desires come true!

A pyramid structure helps develop super concentration.

This is also a source of Rapid Manifestation.

So, therefore, you can manifest your desires at the Quantum Level and Etheric Realm, to appear in the physical plane.

As a matter of fact, you can get what you always wanted…by a pyramid manifestation, which is real.

The latest research of the top world pyramid researchers have also proved that you can use a pyramid to "Harmonize" all your remedies and solutions for a more potent subtle energy effect and shelf life.

The modern research indicates that Pyramid increases your Luck, Love, Health, Mind Control, Business, Finances, etc. for you and your love ones.

The experts concluded that this will be perfect word to say that a pyramid is the best of the best "Wishing Machine" around.

According to Dr. Thomas Tassioulas; "The pyramids are a reminder to humanity of the power we have within each of us".

These are super turbo machines that are being used all over the world as an anti-stressor, meditation centre and a wound healing promoter.

Every pyramid emits Universal or Cosmic Rays constantly.

Modern medical science has accepted that the Pyramid Energy is good for multi-cellular organism.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Tassioulas and his companions have proved that after sleeping inside a pyramid, you need less sleep but you feel more relaxed.

It is very interesting that a pyramid structure reduces Geopathic Stress from land and buildings to the extent of 98% within one week.

The hidden power of the pyramid empowers the vital system of pets, animals and the human body.

On the other hand, Washing the face with it brings youth to the skin, increases the body’s natural healing potential, enhances the subconscious mind’s ability to heal the body, helps erase the anxiety, doubt, and fear associated with the healing process, strengthens the power of the aura, helps to clear negative thought forms.

Washing the face with pyramid charged water brings youth to the skin.

Drinking from the pyramid's water makes us more healthy and active.

As a matter of fact, a pyramid increases your overall energy level.

You can make all your wishes, dreams and desires come true, by using a pyramid.

Turbid water becomes clear and pure after putting it in the pyramids for days.

A pyramid or a pyramidical structure increases your Luck, Love, Health, Mind Control, Business, Finances, etc.

The phenomenon is real.

Most of the natural process developing into living bodies are more intensive and harmonious when they enter into the magnetic field of a pyramid.

The pyramid will help you achieve a heightened mental awareness and an “Infinite Field of Wisdom”.

By sitting under a Pyramid, it will augment your success in whatever you want to accomplish with it.

“Buy all the product you will but in the end money can not buy meditation peace of mind...but a pyramid.”

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http://www.pyramid-health.webs.com

You can contact the author: pyramid.health@yahoo.co.uk



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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> Why Do You Need Motivation In Life? http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/why-do-you-need-motivation-in-life.html http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/why-do-you-need-motivation-in-life.html Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0600 Human behavior is always a surprise. We know that we must have to achieve Success in life and we tend to not take action. We have many reasons for not achieving what we want. Many times though we know that logically we are right we tend to move away from it, the reason being Emotions. Emotions is what drives us everyday, every moment. Imagine that you are on your bed and your mind knows that it is good to do exercise, you talk to yourself, “Do you want to do it today? Or shall I start tomorrow?” and you know this emotion that creeps in decides your fate. This small difference could create a huge impact in the quality of your Life.


Firstly for success you need to set your GOALS. If you do not set your Goals, it is very difficult to achieve your outcomes. And you may have defined your goals, worked out a strategy too, but if you do not have MOTIVATION?? You will not even take the first step. Its like owning the worlds best car with all the parts working perfectly, the car has the capabilities to go fast with the greatest fuel efficiency. But if there I no driver and or if the driver does not ignite the car and start it, the car does not even move. Motivation is like that spark for the engine. This is what makes the human engine move. You may have the best talents or acquired the best skills but it you do not have motivation you will not reach far. Motivation is the driver which drives you to do what you are doing.


“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’” – Martin Luther King


Motivation is the desire to achieve a Goal. Motivation with enthusiasm and energy really move us forward in life. Motivation comes to you in two ways


a. Motivation from the External Factors: When you see something happening you are motivated and you move by it. You succeed in some act of yours and as you see these results you are excited and more motivated to achieve. Yes this must happen always for you, however when you are wanting to achieve big, there is a possibility that you might fail and that’s when you want the highest level of motivation so as to come over the failure and achieve more in life. Though this works you can’t really enjoy this every time and you can’t depend on this for motivation.


b. Motivation from Inside: This is the most powerful form of motivation. At any moment we have all needed resources and we need to tap in the right kind of resources. What creates the Motivation is the Passion or the Interest. The moment you Live with Passion you don’t need anything else you drive you. You are just driven hard to achieve the best in life. Motivation is basically because of certain internal pictures that we run in our mind. Right now if I ask you to close you eyes and recall a time when you felt motivation and feel the same way as you did during that time and intensify the feeling, I am quite sure that you too would have felt the motivation inside you. As I said it is about giving your 100% in these exercises. When you set your Goals they must automatically motivate you. It must give a sense of Drive so that you could go about achieving more in life.


As I said before Motivation acts exactly like the fuel to a car. If the fuel reduces you must be cautious and still ensure that the efficiency of the car if maintained. Else the car might just get damaged and totally halt. Or even if the fuel is totally dry, the car comes to a halt. Either ways it is not good. Same way if you do not stay motivated, you will not be able to sustain the power to continue what you are doing. Say if you set a target for yourself to reduce you weight by 20 Pounds in 1 year then you must just loose your focus and may only target this much later. It does not motivate you to achieve. However if you wish to reduce 2 pounds in 3 weeks it gets you motivated. It is still the same for the simple reason that you not have got into smaller chunks. Small size tasks are easy to achieve and gives you more drive to achieve them. And often Success in one field provides Motivation to Succeed in another endeavor.


How to stay motivated?


1. Visualization: This is a very powerful and easy way to keep yourself motivation. Many coaches across the globe use this visualization technique to keep the players motivated all the time. All you need to do it just see yourself achieving the Goals that you have set and that will definitely keep you motivated. Make a picture of you achieving the goals the kind of benefits that you reap out of this. This will really drive you to achieve more and will never make you procrastinate.


2. Associate Pain not Achieving goals: Apart from giving pleasure to you achieving Goals, associate some pain and see what does not happen when you do not achieve your goals. It could make you feel so embarrassed and make you feel lousy and guilty. This too will drive you to achieve your Goals always.


A boy who was failing in studies, not doing so well suddenly started getting very high grades in school and also started showing lot of interest in studying. The reason was found that the boys father suddenly passed away. And he was the bread winner for the family. His fathers death acted a powerful motivator for that boy. However it is not a must that painful events must happen in our lives but before it happens if we take control of ourselves then we become better.


Any person is successful only because they take ACTION. And Action is possible only when you stay motivated. Only when you have the right amount to motivation do you really achieve in life. This is the long lasting success of any person who have achieved more. So always started motivated and achieve the best in life.




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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> Being A Winner Through Self-Talk - It's As Simple As 1-2-3! http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/being-a-winner-through-self-talk-its-as-simple-as-1-2-3.html http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/being-a-winner-through-self-talk-its-as-simple-as-1-2-3.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Regardless of all the similarities shared - and even their differences - every winner is self-motivated. Self-motivation is based on attitude formation, and attitudes are merely habits of thought. How can you develop self-motivation? Becoming a winner through positive affirmations is as simple as one-two-three!




#1 - Use Affirmations


The most effective way to develop self-motivation is through the proper use of affirmations. Affirmations are also called self-talk, self-suggestions, attitude control, personal reminders, or talking to yourself.




Affirmations are essential in building attitudes and confidence in our own capabilities by reminding ourselves of what we can become. Let's take a look at each key ingredient. An affirmation is:


· Positive


· A declaration or statement


· About yourself


· In the first person ("I…")


· In the present tense ("I am…")


· Specific


· About what you want to be, to do, to have, and so forth.




Here's an example affirmation: "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."




#2 - Repeat the Positive, Over and Over


The repetition of a positive thought - an affirmation - over and over, day after day, affects the subconscious mind, stirring up the creative power within. Objectively, using affirmations does not change anything, but it is on the subjective level that things change.




Why? Because you tend to live up to what is expected of you, whether good or bad. But you not only live up to what others expect of you, you also live up to what you expect of yourself.




One of the best ways to picture the effects of affirmations on your attitude is to understand the Theory of Displacement. Imagine a seesaw: one end of the board is loaded with the negative responses and the other is weighted with positive ideas. Since childhood, a great deal of input into our attitudes has been negative. For whatever reason, society, family, and acquaintances often seem to have a natural negative bent about them.




When you to use positive affirmations repeatedly, you gradually shift the weight in a positive direction. First you balance the seesaw, then you positively tip it in your favor. By choosing to use positive affirmations, the law of displacement reverses the imbalance; the negative is outweighed by the positive.




#3 - Win, Win, Win!




Self-talk that is controlled and focused gives direction and impact to your goals for self-improvement. It results in greater utilization of your potential for success. Whatever your goals, affirmations will help you win! Now that you understand why affirmations are so powerful, and how winners use self-motivation to their personal advantage, it is time to create your own affirmations.




First, decide what you want to change. What attitudes, habits, and personality traits do you want to develop or change? Describe your desire or goal in specific terms. For example, "I want to use my time more profitably by making 20 percent more sales presentations each week."




Next, create the affirmations that you need. These affirmations will support the change in your personality, attitudes, or possessions that you have listed as desirable. Here's a proven affirmation: "I have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying; I will by all means try."




Third, write your affirmations down on paper. Your affirmations must be written down, because writing crystallizes thought. In turn, thought motivates action. Then visualize the affirmations that you wrote down as current reality. Your affirmations - in the present tense - are the tools that let you experience how these new conditions really feel. When you can mentally see yourself through using visualization, doing or being whatever you affirm, you are already on the road to success.




Last but not least, repeat your affirmations over and over. Repeating your affirmations again and again, also called "spaced repetition," helps you to visualize success and displace whatever negatives you need to replace with positives.




Begin and end each day with your positive affirmations. Keep these two things in mind: affirmations never substitute for action, and affirmations also require patience. Self-talk your way to self-motivation and success!



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Paul J. Meyer may be a New York Times best-selling author, but it is his success as an entrepreneur that has made him a millionaire many times over. To learn more about becoming a winner through using positive affirmation, order Paul's very practical book, Self-Talk & Self-Affirmation for Winners today, available at www.pauljmeyer.com or Amazon.com.



Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> The importance of the moment http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/the-importance-of-the-moment.html http://www.articletrader.com/self-improvement/motivation/the-importance-of-the-moment.html Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500
We live our daily lives never really aware of how important the moment we are living in is to us, accepting it at face value. It could be seen to be taken for granted that we just live, without ever venturing into understanding how important such moments of now are to us.

It does not take much thinking to rationalize how real the moment feels to us, also to understand that the main existence that we live in is defined in the now moment frame. Everything we do or proceed to do becomes known eventually in the now moment and will be defined and utilized within this frame of existence that has no logical understanding in real time.

To try and understand such a place it is best to view it through daily life and the activities that we do. Imagine that you are at work and you are proceeding to do a job that you do not really find that interesting. Your mind starts thinking about the task at hand and tries to determine how much work you still have to do in the future. That is hard for the mind to take in, and if it is a lot of work to do you start to feel heavy and overtaxed in the body. This heaviness is the pressure from thinking about how much work is still to be done. Your mind is then focusing on the future in the now moment.

Imagine then that you start to do the task even though you feel annoyed at it and tired. Then you make mistakes over and over. Now your mind is focusing on the future of how much work has to be done, but it is also pressured by the past of what mistakes you have made already. It makes the task seem even more tiresome and overwhelming.

If you were to however take your mind from the future and the past and place it in the now moment, how would the task then be seen? You would not look at how much work there is still to do, and how many mistakes you have made. Instead you would have all your focus on the now and concentrating on the task that is at hand. It is amazing then how fast the task actually then gets done. When you are at full concentration on what you are doing in the moment, not only is your mind busy on something that is important to finish, but it is also not being constantly distracted by past and future.

One thing that is forgotten in all of this is that past and future are created in our mind. They are distractions away from what we are meant to be doing and tend to cause mishaps in the moment because of the fact that we are not focusing on what we are doing. The mind can only focus on one direct thing at a time. Many people think that they can do more things at once. However logically this is not totally true. The body, yes, can move a number of parts in ordered physical sequence. The mind then can make the body continue this over and over in a robotic nature. However if you mind were to wander too far away from the moment you will see how many mistakes you will make from not totally concentrating on the task at hand.

It is easy to be distracted by memories of the past and dreams of the future. The mind likes to wander in and out of created scenarios that lead it away from the living and existing in the physical moment. What is past and future anyway for it to be so important to continually focus on?

Past is the ordered sequence of events that you want to remember, which is choice based depending on what you wish to determine as important to revisit in your mind. Future is the moments that we would like to live out and the possible sequences that we wish to proceed to. The most important however is the now moment. That is where all is lived out and understood. Without the now moment there is no past or future, and without many now moments there is no time or meaning to the lives that we live.

If you have to live an experience out anyway, why live in past and future, why not experience life in the moment. Now is where it starts, it is what will define you and make you. The now moment is the most important place to be, it is where you truly exist.





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If you sit back and analyze how you read this article your style of reading will be evident to you. Generally people tend to read by moving from one word to another, in the same manner as the child does. Adults very often read by moving from one block of words to another in a continuous way. Occasionally we might go back on a line of words, when they are not clear to us. These disruptions to the flow of the reading are known as ‘skip backs’.

The most common problem that hinders speed-reading is sub-vocalization. As your eyes move from one word to another, you will find movement in your tongue or the throat region. That is because you are reading the words silently within yourself. Such sub-vocalizations lead to a mismatch between the reading speed and thinking speed.

One way to overcome this habit is to consciously count one to ten as you keep reading so the focus is on the content rather than on sub-vocalizing the information. As you work on this, you will soon find that you begin to process the words in your mind, an area called ‘thought stream’ rather than your tongue or throat. Through speed-reading you can keep pace with your thinking speed without any brakes in the form of ‘skip backs’. This greatly enhances your reading and comprehension skills.

Another way is to speed your eye movements. Draw two vertical lines and wrap the text within them. Now move your eyes in ‘Z’ pattern over this text at a slightly faster speed. Since your eyes move over the words, and do not rest your eye to read word by word, you will automatically learn to fill in the gaps. In time not only do you learn to read faster, but also comprehend the information faster, which helps in increasing your recall abilities.

So speed-reading is simply not about how quickly you can read. It involves much more of your brain centers and attention and thus in the process, it greatly enhances your comprehension and creativity skills. Since speed-reading is a kind of non-linear style, it combines well with mindmapping, which is based primarily on non-linear ways of absorbing information.

Mindmapping uses concise words, pictures, color, associations and other visual aids to convey the essence of an idea or information. By constant use of mindmapping, you learn to ‘fill in the gaps’ and increase your cognitive skills. Mindmap thus is a complementary tool that helps your thinking, comprehending and recalling skills.


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Second is direction. This comes after you have made your decision to follow your dreams. Direction is like having a map to know where it is you are going. It is very important to know where you are going and also it brings clarity.

Third is desire. This is when you truly step into your purpose and desire to accomplish your dreams and your visions. Desire creates momentum and if you truly desire to achieve it, then nothing will stop you. Desire is what drives you and makes you take that step towards your dreams.

Forth is to always dream big. If you aim at nothing you will surely accomplish it, so aim at something and aim high. Look at it as if you were a kid again. Kids have great visions and they dream up some amazing stuff of what they want and when they want it. They see no obstacles in there way and are fearless. Stop letting your fears crumble your dreams. Fear is false evidence appearing real. “A man without a vision will perish.”

Fifth is to believe. Believe all things are possible and believe you can achieve what your heart truly desires. Believing is very powerful. Believe you have already achieved your dreams and feel what that feeling is like and cherish it. That feeling will propel your actions toward your dreams. Remember when you were a child and you truly believed in Santa Clause and that he was going to fit down a chimney? Or you even believed so much that when you looked out your window you saw him flying in the air waving at you, now that is belief. “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13)

Sixth is to ask for what you want, if you have no idea what you want, how will you ever receive what it is you want and desire. Write down what you want, set goals and work towards them by visualizing and meditating on what it is you want. Be specific when you write down what you want, down to the detail of exactly how you want it to be.

Seventh is to have faith. Faith is stepping out into the unknown and fully trusting what you cannot see. “We live by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) Children are great examples of faith; put your child like faith on and believe. Step out on faith and live the life you were designed to live. “Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.”






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