Thursday, September 6, 2007
Are you bored with your work, your relationship or your life?
Being bored is a state of mind when you are fed up and sick of what's going on or the lack of activity around you. Complacency also contributes to feeling bored. Boredom becomes a great concern when it results in procrastination, indecision and feeling listless and jaded.
The best way to avoid feeling bored is to make your life interesting by not sticking to too many routines. Another way is by making daily progress in everything that you do. You need to pay attention to you thoughts and daily activities and find ways not to submit yourself to drudgery and taking things for granted.
Here are a few tips to overcome boredom.
Change your thoughts.
Your thoughts affect your behavior. By changing your mind about the meaning of your emotion and experiences, you will generate a different attitude.
Get inspired with powerful long-range goals.
Powerful goals keep you inspired. You can't feel bored at the same time when you are motivated to build a life.
Fire up your imagination.
Create mental images to stimulate your thoughts. Visualize where you want to be and what you want to become. Use your imagination to experience a situation that you want to happen in your life. The wonderful thing about imagination is you can create anything you wish to experience.
Go through some motions.
Change your physiology. Go for a walk or do something physically outrageous. Write down 10 things you can do and start something from your list to overcome your inertia.
Journal your feelings and thoughts.
One of the ways to become aware of what triggers your boredom is to question yourself and take a hard look at it. Observe and write down your feelings and thoughts for a week and at the end of it, reflect on them.
Create curiosity.
Create your curiosity on what's happening around and inside you. You find life boring because of the repetition or a pattern of some habits or activities. Try to look at and do them differently and get yourself fascinated with other options and possibilities.
Find something exciting, stimulating and entertaining.
Read, hear, watch or do something stimulating, exciting, and entertaining. Go out, see and experience new things.
Avoid boring people and situations.
Get away from people and situations that bore you. You can't just walk out of a relationship but you can give yourself some space to do things that interest and motivate.
Fatimah Musa provides information, tips and quotes to help people become aware that any future success starts with their personal growth. You can visit Fatimah at http://www.about-personal-growth.com or read more articles at http://www.about-personal-growth.com/personal-growth-articles.html
Success: The Slight-Edge Formula
Copyright 2005 Daniel Sitter
Self-improvement; A great deal has been written on the subject, but does any anyone really know how to successfully implement a creative and manageable plan for its accomplishment? The concept involves goal setting, planning, time management as well as patience, faith, understanding and real desire. Too many times, people approach self improvement haphazardly, unfocused and unclear as to exactly what they want. This is not a paper specifically concerning goal-setting, that will be addressed another time in greater detail, but rather a blueprint for the implementation of the plan you generate during your own self-improvement goal setting exercise.
Many times, we set out on a self-improvement course of action with literally no idea of how to proceed, with only a loose idea of what we really want to accomplish. Basically, at this point, it's just a dream of a better day. This is actually not what you want; after all, you expect success. You must believe success is possible and probable. Be expectant. Be confident.
Before you begin, sit down and write out your plan of action. Clearly write your goal, your timeframe, identify the specific steps to accomplish during the journey and the obstacles that you expect to encounter along the way. Yes, write this all down. Review it each evening before bed and again when you awaken in the morning. Keep your plan with you at all times and read it aloud to yourself several times during the day. This will imbed it deeply into your subconscious mind where it will steer you in the direction of your goal.
Jeff Olson talks about the Slight-Edge Formula for success. Imagine an incremental system where you consciously plan to improve just ¼% each day, or even each week. Can you do that? Sure you can. Everybody can. It has been said that "you can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time." The same idea holds true with this concept. The premise is to experience minute improvements on a consistent basis that tend to compound over time like interest. A ¼% improvement in any skill each day is a 1-¾% improvement each week! A 7% improvement each month! An 84% improvement in just 1 year! It's actually higher than that because all of your advances are compounding at an exponential rate! Are you beginning to see the potential of this compounding power at work within you?
The Slight Edge Formula for success is the answer. Do a little each day and reap the rewards you desire over time, while consistently moving in the direction of your goal. You will always get out in proportion to what you put in. Apply yourself. It pays big dividends!
Most people never begin. They may talk a big talk, but they fail to act. Only a few of those who do take action tend to persist over time. Are you one of the few who are determined to make your life different? Do you want changes badly enough? Then begin now. Persist. Make no excuses.
"What's in it for me" or WIIFM is your mantra. What is it that's in it for you that will drive you to pursue the goals that you have defined? Identify this and you have taken the first step toward the success you desire. This can potentially change your life? Nothing will happen until you first decide to get started. You have to make things happen. Do not wait for things to miraculously happen. They will not.
Choose to employ the Slight-Edge Formula into your everyday life events. It is simple, easy to implement and it really works.
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Daniel Sitter, author of the highly anticipated book, Superior Selling Skills and the popular, award-winning e-book, Learning For Profit, has extensive experience in sales, training, marketing and personal development over a 25 year career. http://www.learningforprofit.com
You Expect What You Believe
In life you will get what you expect and your expectations are created by your beliefs.
If you want more out of life you must expect to receive more. So the questions is, just how do we do that? We must learn to create conditions that allow what we expect to receive too actually come to us.
Many people want or wish things to be better but they don't really believe those things will be better so they don't expect anything different to happen. Because they don't expect anything different they don't do anything different.
If you want milk or a loaf of bread you simply go to the store and purchase those things. You expect them to be there. However you did set up that expectation the store did. They have created conditions of expectancy for you. Think about it, you don't doubt or wonder if those items will be in the store, when you want them you just go there. You act as if they are already there. If you get there and they are not there you just go to another store. Now what if the next store you went to did not have the bread and milk would give up on the idea of ever having bread and milk again, certainly not, you would just go to another store. Why would you not quit? Why would you not say something like, this will never work. Nobody is ever going to have bread and milk. The answer is because you really believe they will, and your belief creates expectancy.
If you want to create expectancy in your life, you need to change your beliefs about the things you say you want. Let's say you want health, wealth and happiness or better relationships. If your behavior remains the same your beliefs are in control.
To not do anything to change is to expect things to remain the same. Once you change your belief about what you want to change your expectancy will follow.
For more information on changing beliefs go to DavidNeagle.com
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