There are various methods and ideas that will allow you to 'unleash your internal happiness' and get well on the way to achieving your goals:
To access more of your internal powers, talents and higher intelligence - you need to first understand that happiness comes mostly from two things
- personal health / fitness
- mindset
If you can get these two personal things on track first, you are well on the way to achieving absolute happiness through success in both relationships and business
Achieving peak performance in fitness and mindset, awakens the creative abilities that can be applied to virtually any area you wish. This will quickly bring productivity and meaning to your day to day life.
You will suddenly realize inner abilities you never knew you had. At peak health and mind, your motivation, positive thinking and outlook makes you into a lean, happy machine. You will cruise along each day with the power to overcome any hurdles much quicker and with less stress.
Overall, achieving success in health and mind - and improving your outlook and routine will actually give you a sense of purpose and a meaning to life!
Absolute Happiness
Time Wasting
With so many interruptions in our lives today such as: Mobile or Cell phones, instant messaging, social networking, satellite phones and PDA's - we are always contactable and at times these devices can really waste our time if not used correctly.
For most people in daily 9-5 work - what interruptions are killing our time during the day?
Unnecessary Meetings: In the USA alone, estimates say that there can be up to 11 million meetings a day. Many of these meetings are too long and some not even needed. So if you're the host of the meeting, ensure only the needed people are invited - keep it brief and stick to an agenda firmly. When accepting meetings, check the agenda from the host - be sure you are needed 100% and excuse yourself if things go astray. The time you could save is extremely valuable.
Too much work: Taking on too much work, or working too hard can simply ruin your total and overall production. Being overloaded can totally reduce your output and waste more time.
Say to no to additional work if you cannot handle it, and try to delegate where possible.
Red Tape: A massive frustration for many workers in many countries. In an effort to bed down process - many companies have implemented so much process that red tape can prevent anything being done effectively time wise. How to beat it? Know the process well, understand that it does exist and for a reason - try to 'plan' for the red tape and you will minimize its impact.
Poor Attitude: Finally, the evidence of a poor attitude can simply kill your motivation and hamper efforts to save time. Keep upbeat and try to stay motivated. Eat and exercise well, ensure working conditions and equipment are ideal and try to smile! It does help!
Gerry Harvey - Secrets of Success
Gerry Harvey an Australian Millionaire might not be known the whole world over. While his business 'Harvey Norman Holdings' a massive retail chain now reaches into many countries, the story of this self made man is extremely inspiring.
A fan of motivators and self help programs, Gerry Harvey started out selling vacuum cleaners door to door in Australia. He now runs a global retail giant that stretches from Sydney to Slovenia.
Reaching success in the 1980's Gerry Harvey initially hit problems and sold off his original retail giant to fellow Australian icon Alan Bond.
Not one to be deterred, Gerry Harvey simply started all over again and built one of the most successful Australian socks ever.
Gerry Harvey's story, while one of self determination, positive thinking and hard work - his journey succeeded on good strategy, breathtaking gambles and a constant will to win.
It's a great story, and one that many of us can take plenty from. No matter what your situation is at present - think big, put in the effort and use whatever motivators you can.
The book about Gerry Harvey - 'Gerry Harvey - Business Secrets of Harvey Norman's Retailing Mastermind' is a great read and retails for around $20AU
Powerful Self Help Principles
Some really low level yet powerful self help principles are discussed in todays post. Coming from the book 'No Excuse!' by Jay Rifenbary - these are some easy to understand and utilize steps to give you a great personal advantage in life.
- Employing forgiveness as the first step to letting go and moving-on. 'Don't get worked up with people or over little obstacles, as this will hamper your thoughts' Forgive, move-on and let go.
- Living a self esteem lifestyle - gives you greater happiness. Be thankful for whatever you currently have, no matter how small it may seem.
- Elevate your attitude - think like a winner and surround yourself with winners every day.
- Self control - be disciplined in everything you. This is the basis of motivation
- Honesty - be honest with yourself, don't subconsciously tell little lies to yourself.
- Importance of Dreaming - its so important to think big and have a goal, no matter how unobtainable it may seem.
- Learning - upgrade your skills to get what you want
- Understanding peoples personalities - everyone is different and you need to know how people work and understand them to get what you want.
- Family and Friends - put them above all, it gives you personal happiness and joy
- Determination - everyday push yourself that little bit further.
Power of Pesistence
We talked previously about motivation, idea generation and overall the power of positive thinking. Another vital ingredient to any successful person is: persistence. The power of persistence cannot be questioned.
Regardless of the venture, industry or person involved the power of repetition and persistence is unquestioned. No matter if early attempts in your mission are failing, the ability to continually bounce back and keep chipping away at your goals is oh so important.
You do have to fixate on that goal initially, but your continued movement and persistence at achieving your targets is such a vital step. You will find at times, you may look for excuses to avoid repetition. This is common, however the successful folk are able to focus intently on their goal at hand and continue the persistence tactics to get them over the line.
I'd love to hear some readers examples of successful persistence stories, feel free to post comments below this post.
You dont have to be born brilliant
Today I've taken the theme from the book of John McGrath. Australian resident McGrath has successfully created and built an elite Real Estate agency group responsible for the Top 5% of housing listings with Australia.
John McGrath claims that he certainly wasn't born brilliant, rather through self understanding and 'unlearning' his bad habits he was able to chip away at his creation and build a giant.
Its a really good theory from which to base your own ambitions. Many of us feel the successful people are born with a gift. This cannot be further from the truth. A big idea, some powerful thinking - followed by good personal effort and attention can get a good idea to explode and bring success.
So keep it in mind 'You don't have to be born brilliant' - anyone can succeed through the right thinking / mindset and will to win.
Self Help Videos
Plenty of people have listened to self help audio programs, from way back in the days of cassette tape through to later CDs and on-line audio programs.
Today, not only is there access to Self Help Video but there are plenty of 'free self help videos; you can track down using services like YouTube, MetaCafe and similar free video services.
We have listed just a few self help videos you can play below; but for many more - visit YouTube.com and search away to videos on self help that are relevant to you:
1. Self Help through Self Hypnosis Video (Dating)
2. Good general self help clip (Basic, but has good sound and good statements)
3. Overcome Negative Self Talk video
How to work a room
In business or social situations have you ever wondered 'how to work a room'?
Good conversation - from the head, heart and soul; allows you to get your point across without alienating or losing the rooms attention.
I read a great book on talking your way to business and social success. Titled 'What do i say next' - by Susan Roane - its a must read book for salesman, socialites or anyone that wants to know their way around busy conversational rooms.
In this day and age; you need to 'engage others in conversation' the art of mingling can bring success in business and personal fields. Almost everyone knows the value of networking and the art of conversation and knowing 'how to work a room' is the first step to self success in this area.
If you're not someone who can generate scintillating and successful conversation I urge you to have a look at Susan RoAne's book 'What do I say next'?
Steps to Personal Success
When you look and think about successful people and practices - most of the building blocks for this success stems from 4 simple steps.
I'd like to thank 'John Gray' for these useful tips; John Gray - the author of men are from mars, women are from venus gives a great foundation for heading towards success:
Step 1: Set your intention: Work out where you are now and clearly visualize where you need to go to achieve inner and outer success. This is an important start; if you cannot even imagine or think about what you want to do to be successful it simply cannot begin to occur.
Step 2: Get what you need: Know and understand yourself; Know what you are currently missing and how you can get it - progressing this way will allow you to automatically experience inner success.
Step 3: Get what you want: Try to understand the secrets of creating outer success, realise the importance of strong desires and positive beliefs. Followed by passionate feelings, things will snowball and your wants will become reality! Believe and achieve!
Step 4: Remove Blocks to personal success: Blame, depression, anxiety, judgment, indecision, perfectionism are just some of the things preventing people from winning. Block out doubters, hardest of all - even if family members doubt you; stick solid and achieve your aims and goals.
These are a good basic overview of the 4 key steps; I urge you to read the complete book: "How to get what you want, and want what you have!" by John Gray.
The Secret Power of Attraction
For those people who have read the book or seen the DVD entitled 'The Secret' - they will instantly know about this term: "The Power of Attraction"
A so called secret held by some of the most important people in the worlds history books - the power of attraction is reportedly able to help most people achieve what they have been aiming for.
"The Power of Attraction" explained; simply means - what ever thought your mind has (conscious or unconscious) eventually and somehow the body works towards this goal.
For example; if you are thinking daily - I want that new television, and consistently think, study and discuss this - your actually working towards the goal. The body computes this thought and does everything to work towards the wish. The same can be applied to thing you 'Dont Want' - for example, if your constantly saying to yourself; "I never have any money" your mindset will be working against yourself consistently; spending everything you have.
It's an interesting thought certainly; however the book and DVD entitled 'The Secret' backs up this powerful claim with several scientific experts and real world examples. The anatomy of our brains is obviously complex; this theory on 'The Power of Attraction' - certainly is an interesting one to ponder and if true, is extremely powerful for everyone.
Motivation Through Discipline
It seems for anyone that wants motivation; their are plenty of audio, book, visual and live events available where 'motivation kings' will try and pass on their skills and energy to willing participants.
This is ok if you have large amounts of money to spend, plenty of time to take it all in and the commitment to take everything on board for the long term.
For most of us wanting motivation; this isn't always possible.
When I thought about motivation techniques for myself, I thought it was best to look at people I know who are extremely motivated and note some of their traits.
One particular trait kept appearing for all the major motivated people I know. Discipline!
Yes, discipline! Motivation can be achieved through discipline.
Motivation through discipline simply means sticking at a routine you have developed to improve motivation.
For example, if you are someone simply struggling to launch yourself out of bed in the morning. You need the extra push or more motivation to get up and get going. I won't sit here and give you thousands of reasons to get up in the morning - However, if you can set your alarm, or maybe set 2 or 3 alarms to really drive you nuts and somehow force yourself out of bed - then simply employ 'discipline' for the next 30 days - and this will become a form of habit.
Once you achieve motivation for one day, follow it up with discipline (no matter how tough) then if you can stick at that routine for at least 30 days - you will have formed a habit and find it almost automatic to achieve that task.
This motivation through discipline technique can be applied to anything! The workplace, where motivation is sometimes hard. The sporting field a common requirement is motivation here. Virtually anything!
If you have success with the 'Motivation through discipline technique' please write your comments below.