Monday, November 22, 2010
HOW TO BE LESS SHY
Everyone wants to feel included. No one likes being laughed at. But, if you are an introvert, this might be quite a task at a social gathering. The upside to it is—it’s not your fault and there are ways you can help yourself! Getting over shyness is time consuming and takes practice and getting used by opening up to the others. Being shy is a normal fear, but if it is extreme it might be a social phobia that you are facing that might require therapy. The questions to ask yourself are—what are you scared of? Is it that everyone in the room is looking at you? Or you might say the wrong thing and people laugh at you? When you’ve figured this out, have faith that you can overcome this. After all, Kim Basinger, a well known Hollywood actress had a condition of social anxiety and has now become used to the media and society in general. Read about some ways to overcome your shyness.
Ways To Be Less Shy
Be Well Groomed And Interact
The foremost important step is to dress well. People get naturally attracted to well dressers. If you are in a mall, help people around you. If someone has dropped something or a woman is struggling to carry her baby and her bags, offer to help. This automatically makes a first impression. While doing this, make small talk by saying- “Have a nice day” or “Hope you will be fine”. By doing this, you are breaking the barrier between the two of you. Not so hard, is it?
Practice“Practice makes perfect” – this applies to every situation in life. What you should do is stand in front of the mirror and talk to yourself. You can change the way you stand or the way you make eye contact with the other person. This way you won’t be too scared to talk in public. If you have to give a presentation then try to practice in front of your friend or the mirror first. Then you won’t have to search for words when it comes to the real thing!
Prepare
Before you go to a social gathering, make sure you know the kind of people you are meeting. Stay updated about the current events happening in the world. Even if you run out of topics and are nervous to say anything stupid, you can converse about the latest events. Even topics such as movies and TV shows are welcome.
Breathe
Learn to control your breathing. Some people, who suffer from anxiety and nervousness, usually hyperventilate and lose their confidence. The best way to do this is calm yourself before entering anywhere taking one deep breath and let it go slowly. To breathe well means to breathe from the diaphragm.
Body Language
Showing you are confident, even if you’re not, is the most important step in overcoming shyness. A good posture, where one needs to stand tall and not slouch is a good start. Always wear a smile and look upright! There’s nothing more attractive than someone who can get away with their body language.
Do Something Out Of The Ordinary
Participate in activities that give you a chance to mingle with other people, plus you have loads of fun doing it. Go clubbing or join a book reading club. Indulge yourself a little bit, go wild and dance the night away, or attend some language classes where you meet people from the same background as you. Karaoke nights are interesting too. All these activities will take your mind away from the fact that you are shy and need help.
In the end, if none of this is working, visit a therapist and he will tell you what you can do. Shyness is not incurable!
MANAGE THE COMPLEXES AND BUILD UP YOUR PERSONALITY
There are many ways in which a person can cope with the problem of complexes or self doubting attitude in him but I shall tell you the easy solutions suggested by Norman Vincent Peale, the famous author who has written the best seller, ‘The power of Positive Thinking’. In this he has prescribed ten easy steps to overcome complexes and build up your Personality and confidence. These steps are:
Draw a picture of a successful person:
Every one of us always keeps on drawing some picture of what our future will be but if we project our self as a failure and get demoralized we will not succeed. Our action shall always try to convert these pictures in reality. Norman Peale has suggested us to draw a picture of a successful man with dignified living. The imaginary picture when thought several times over can help a person to imprint it in his mind. Such a positive picture will take us to the road of better personality, free from all the shortcoming and lack of self-confidence.
Cancel your negative thought with a positive thought
We always keep on thinking about our future. The fear in us is due to uncertain things and doubts in our mind. These negative thoughts are the reason we are failing .To eliminate these negative thought we need generate in our mind some positive and bright thoughts, which can cancel out the fear in us. Whenever these negative thoughts c0meinyour mind start thinking of something good.
Identify your obstacles
There are obstacles in your life that may be a cause of worry. If you are suffering from some ailment and you go to a doctor, he will not give you any medicine till the diagnoses you properly. Diagnosis is important for the proper treatment of the disease. Similarly, if you feel there are a few weaknesses and obstacles you need to identify and try to remove them.
Do not copy others blindly
We are all unique creature and we all have our own weaknesses and strengths. We must try to strive for something that we can do best. Why feel bad if we are not capable of doing something that others can do?
Get a competent counselor to help you
Knowing one’s self is not an easy task. We start doubting our capability from childhood The low confidence level is rooted in incidents in childhood. We feel bad about our poor competence and develop a feeling of competence and develop a feeling of complex. We need a counselor who can help us know our shortcomings and the ways to overcome it.
Practice the sentence of telling yourself, “I can do it”Repeat the sentence ten times daily. If you are confident that you can do it other too will start getting that felling.
Make a true estimate of your ability.
The ability of a person can be physical, mental and attitudinal. If a person can make a true estimate of his physical ability, he will never feel sorry about the same. Underestimation of the ability will develop and inferiority complex.
God is your creator. He is for you.
When you are feeling alone and not getting any support, and everyone is on the other side of the table, you creator of the universe,. He is with you, why bother about others who are less powerful? All your inferiority complexes will vanish and you will start feeling confident.
Put your self in God’s hands
Try your best, but leave the result in the hand of God. In the great Indian epic Mahabharata, lord Krishna tells Arjuna that you must make all efforts and work hard and leave the results in the hands of God
Remind yourself all the time that you have the energy and power of God.
When you start thinking that you so not have the last bit of energy to complete the final lap in the long distance run, the sense of desperation comes into your mind. If in the crucial moment you allow that thought of slightest complexes to overrule your mind you will lose the race. At such a crucial juncture you remind yourself all the time that you have the additional energy from God to complete the last effort. The difference between a winner and a loser is the last effort, which will come from the grace of the God.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY
There are many ways in which you can improve your memory and the more you work at it, the better it becomes!
Memory is the mechanism by which we are able to store, retain, and recall information. As simple as it may sound, the process is a complex one which involves many different parts of the brain and serves us in a wide variety of ways.
As with so many of our other functions, the saying "use it or lose it" applies as aptly to the brain, as with anything else. The more you exercise your brain and nurture it with a good diet and healthy habits, the better you'll be able to process and remember information.
Before we get into how to improve your memory, it would be helpful to understand how it works.
For example here are parts of the brain used for memory:
The hippocampus is the primitive structure deep in the brain that plays the single largest role in processing information as memory.
The amygdala is an almond-shaped area near the hippocampus, which processes emotion and helps imprint memories that involve emotion.
he cerebral cortex (the outer layer of the brain), depending on what kind of processing the information involves, such as language, sensory input or problem-solving, stores most long-term memory in its different zones.
Memory also entails communication among the brain's network of neurons, which are the millions of cells activated by brain chemicals called neurotransmitters.
Memory can be short-term or long-term. In short-term memory, your brain stores information for a few seconds or a few minutes. It is capable of holding, on average, about seven items at a time.
Long-term memory involves the type of information that requires a conscious effort to retain, and then recall. This would include studying for tests, factual data, or personal events; such as the first time you were able to ride a bike, or recalling your favorite movie. Another type of long-term memory is procedural memory, which involves skills and routines that you perform so frequently that they don't require conscious recall.
Tips on how to Improve Your Memory
1. Exercise your brain. The best way to exercise your brain is to engage in new experiences or expose it to varied sensory stimulation. When you break with routine or do something that is challenging, you create new brain pathways. An illustration of this would be writing, or dribbling a basketball with your non-dominant hand, or taking a totally different route to work. An example of sensory stimulation, would be smelling a particular fragrance while listening to a certain piece of music. To stir up brain activity in yet a different way, you can pick something usually done by rote, or on automatic pilot, and consciously change the way you go about it.
It is also a well know fact that people who engage in activities that exercise the brain, such as reading, writing, and playing card games, can delay the rapid memory decline that occurs as we age.
2. Pay attention. It is very difficult to remember something if you've never learned it in the first place. It takes about eight seconds of intent focus to process a piece of information through the hippocampus and direct it to the proper memory center. If you do not concentrate, get distracted easily, or are doing several things at once, your chances of retrieving specific information will be non-existent.
3. Incorporate as many senses as possible. While there are many different learning styles, such as visual, auditory and kinesthetic (touch), no matter which type you are, you can incorporate all of them in the process of trying to remember something. If you're a visual learner you can read out loud, even recite rhythmically to remember better. If you're an auditory learner, create a mental image or look at pictures as you read out loud. Relating information to colors, textures, smells and tastes is also very helpful.
4. Organize Information. A good way to remember new things is to make associations and connect information to what you already know. Building on what you know helps you remember new material. Also, write important things down in notebooks, calendars and post-it notes, then reorganize the information in a comprehensive way in order to retain it.
5. Review frequently and over-learn. Go over what you've learned the same day you learned it, and review it frequently. When you review and over-learn information, it becomes embedded in your memory and therefore, so much easier to recall. It is also much more effective than trying to cram.
6. Use Mnemonics. Mnemonics are a memory tool or technique used for remembering difficult information. They are clues of any kind that help us remember something, usually by associating it with a visual image, a sentence, or a word. For example, "30 days hath September, April, June and November" is a rhyme for remembering the number of days in each calendar month. Another example of mnemonics would be to "chunk" information. Chunking is when you arrange a long list into smaller units or categories that are easier to remember. To remember a long number, you could chunk it into groups of 2, 3 or 4 for easier retention. You can also code and structure information by using vivid mental images. When you make the images colorful or even unusual, they are much easier to recall when you need them.
7. Practice good health habits. Exercise regularly. It increases oxygen to your brain and reduces the risk for disorders, such as diabetes and heart disease. Poor health, of any kind, contributes to memory loss. Likewise, get plenty of sleep and eat properly. Sleep is necessary for concentration and clear thinking, while good eating habits supply the nutrients needed to nourish your brain.
8. Stay motivated and maintain a positive attitude. When you are positive about learning and experiencing new things, you automatically improve your memory. On the other hand, if you tell yourself you have a bad memory, you will actually impede your brain's ability to remember. Maintaining a positive attitude sets up expectation of success.
By incorporating the above tips and strategies into your routine, you will be able improve your memory significantly. Not only will you learn and retain more in school and at work, you will achieve more satisfaction in your personal and business relationships.
GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Good communication skills are key to success in life, work and relationships. Without effective communication, a message can turn into error, misunderstanding, frustration or even disaster by being misinterpreted or poorly delivered.
Communication is the process by which we exchange information between individuals or groups of people. It is a process where we try as clearly and accurately as we can, to convey our thoughts, intentions and objectives.
Communication is successful only when both the sender and the receiver understand the same information.
In today's highly informational and technological environment it has become increasingly important to have good communication skills. While many individuals still continue to struggle, an inability to communicate effectively, will hold them back in their careers and in social and personal relationships.
Important steps for acquiring good communication skills: Know what you want to say and why. Understand clearly the purpose and intent of your message. Know to whom you are communicating and why. Consider any barriers you may encounter such as cultural differences or situational circumstances (gender, age or economic biases). Ask yourself what outcome you want to achieve and the impression you want to leave.
How will you say it? We're all aware by now, that it's not always what you say, but how you say it, that counts. Begin by making eye contact. You inspire trust and confidence when you look a person in the eyes when you speak. Second, be aware of your body language, since it can say so much more than your words. By standing with arms easily at your side you tell others that you are approachable and open to hearing what they have to say. If, instead, your arms are crossed and shoulders hunched, it suggests disinterest or unwillingness to communicate. Good posture and an approachable stance help make even difficult communication flow more smoothly. Make sure you speak in a cooperative, non-adversarial tone. Be nonjudgmental.
Listen. Communication is a two way street. After you've said what you have to say, stop, listen and look for feedback and clues of comprehension. While the person is responding avoid any impulses to cut them off or listen only for the end of the sentence so that you can blurt out more ideas or thoughts that come to your mind. Respectfully give them your full attention. When they are finished, to ensure that your message has been clearly and correctly understood, ask open questions and encourage discussion. Fine-tune your message if necessary.
Reach understanding, agreement or consensus. Once you have had to opportunity to discuss your message and the feedback to it, re-visit the purpose of the interchange. Have you reached common ground, solved a problem or clarified your position? If the purpose was to teach or instruct, have you accomplished your goal? To communicate well is to understand and be understood. Make sure that your message has been received as intended and that any questions or concerns have been alleviated. You can even agree to disagree. There are no guarantees that your communication efforts will be meet with total compliance and agreement. As long as you understand each other, are cordial and respectful, you can still have a successful exchange.
More Tips for Developing Good Communication SkillsTo obtain a better command of the English language (or any other language), expand your vocabulary by reading and writing more. Look up words you're not familiar with. The better you are able to express yourself, the better your ability to communicate.
Practice your listening skills. Be considerate of other speakers by waiting until they are done before stating your views. Process what has being said before responding.
Learn to understand and appreciate opposing points of view by being open-minded and making an effort to see things from others' perspective. It will in turn, gain you more cooperation and understanding.
Avoid trying to communicate when in an emotional state. You lose objectivity and may say something inappropriate or regrettable. Take time to think your position through before speaking.
Join an organization that encourages you to develop a variety of communication skills, as well as the opportunity to meet new and interesting people.
When you take the time to acquire and hone good communication skills you open yourself up to better relationships, more career opportunities and increased self-confidence. You also reach higher levels of mutual understanding and cooperation while achieving your goals with even greater success. All new skills take time to refine, however, with effort and practice you can develop good, even exceptional, communication skills.
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR PERSONALITY
Do you often wonder how to improve your personality? If you really want to improve your personality, first of all you need to know why you want to achieve this? What’s there that lacks, and how is it going to affect your life if you manage to improve your personality? You can accomplish anything once you know why you want to do it. Anyway, that’s totally a different topic. In this blog post we are going to explore how you can improve your personality, significantly, taking small steps.
• Accept and recognize your weak points: You cannot develop your strengths without knowing your weaknesses. If you keep on living in denial you will never be able to improve your personality. Once you know your weaknesses you can work on them and improve them. So in order to improve your personality first of all you have to accept and recognize your weak points.
• Don’t judge people all the time: People with weak personality traits have this problem — they are constantly judging and evaluating people and they are constantly worried what people think about them and how people react to them. Worrying about others’ reaction is not going to solve your problem. When you stop judging people you can be more relaxed and be yourself.
• Learn to like others: People with great personalities love the company of other people. Don’t think that since they already have great personalities people flock around them; that’s not the case. After a certain point, to be honest, personality does not even matter.
• Expand your intellectual horizon: Intelligent and informed people are generally more cool about themselves and this affects the way they move around and interact. Do as much reading as possible because this fills your mind with ideas and stimulates your thoughts. You will have lots of confidence and you will be able to participate in all sorts of discussions and debates and put your point across convincingly, leaving a great impression.
• Maintain a healthy lifestyle: Eat good food, exercise regularly and get enough sleep. Improving your personality in no way involves looking pretty and having a great physique. Any face can look good if there is a glow on the skin and it looks healthy. Similarly the body of any proportion looks appealing if it is healthy and well-exercised.
• Be useful to others: Help people whenever you can because this can win you many friends and admirers. Don’t do it just to please people. Help them when you really think that they should be helped. To be able to help the others instills confidence in you and this in return, reflects upon your personality.
• Spend less time watching TV: Watching TV actually make us you dumb because you start living in a fantasy world and sometimes this world seems so good that you don’t want to come out of it. It affects you intellectually and it also affects you physically.
• Learn new things: Start learning new things because this will get you in touch with new people. It could also take your mind off how you should look in front of other people. This will also give you a chance to prove yourself and improve yourself work.
• Be in the company of positive people: Don’t be a part of a group just because it is a “cool” group to belong to. Instead, hang out with people who are not bothered about who is cool and who is not.
DEVELOP A CHRISMATIC PERSONALITY
Have you ever noticed how some people captivate everyone they speak to? No matter what they look like or how much money they have, they can walk into a room and instantly be the center of attention. When they leave, people think highly of them and want to emulate them. That’s charisma, a sort of magnetism that inspires confidence and adoration.
Like beauty, luck, and social position, charisma can open many doors in life. Unlike these other qualities, anyone can become more charismatic.
1. Improve your posture. Good posture will give the impression of self confidence (even if you don’t feel that way on the inside). While walking, maintain a relaxed yet definitive upright posture: spine long, shoulders back, head level with the ground. This may feel awkward or overpowering to you when you first practice it, but keep trying.
2. Relax the muscles in your face to the point where you have a natural, pleasant expression permanently engraved there. Face the world and show everyone you’re not afraid.
3. Make a connection. When your eyes come in contact with another person’s, nod and smile subtly with a subdued joy shining forth. Don’t worry about the other person’s reaction and don’t overdo it.
4. Remember people’s names when you meet them for the first time. This takes an enormous amount of effort for most people. Repeat the person’s name when stating your name to that person will help you to remember it better. For example: Hi Jack, I’m Wendy. Follow through with small talk and repeat the person’s name. Repeat it once more when you say goodbye. It’s not just about helping you to remember that person. The more you say a person’s name, the more that person will feel that you like them and the greater the chance they’ll warm up to you.
5. Be interested in people. If you meet a new acquaintance, for example a coworker, a classmate, a friend of a friend, etc. find out about their immediate family and interests. Be sure to ask after the names of family members and remember them. Be careful in that subject though you don’t want to be nosy. If you ask too much they will become uncomfortable. Also ask after their particular interests in life. These two topics will ensure much better small talk than just harping on about school or work. Most people don’t like to think about those things at social occasions unless they have to. Even if it is about networking, you should understand fully the worth of taking a break from talking shop. It is important to refrain from talking up about yourself. Be purely interested and impressed by the person with whom you are speaking.
6. Orient topics toward the audience. This means taking into account topics that interest those around you, even if you are not so keen on them. If you are in a sporty crowd, talk about last night’s game or the meteoric rise of a new team. If you are amongst a group of hobbyists, draw out their hobbies and make remarks related to fishing, knitting, mountain climbing, movies, etc. Nobody expects you to be an expert. It is your level of interest and willingness to engage in topics that makes you an interesting person to be around. Exercise an open mind. Let others do the explaining. If someone mistakenly thinks you know more about the topic, be genuine and simply say that your knowledge is limited but that you are hoping to learn more about it.
7. Praise others instead of gossiping. If you are talking with someone or you are talking in a group of people, and up pops the subject of another person in a positive or negative way, be the one to mention something you like about that person. Hearsay is the most powerful tool in gaining charm because it is always viewed as 100% sincere. It has the added benefit of creating trust in you. The idea will spread that you never have a bad word to say about anyone. Everyone will know that their reputation is safe with you.
8. Don’t Lie. A lie is something you say for which there is some direct evidence somewhere out there that contradicts it. If you tell Mary that you like Jane and Billy that you don’t like Jane, Mary and Billy will talk and your reputation will be ruined. No one will believe a word you say.
9. Issue compliments generously, especially to raise others’ self esteem. Try to pick out something that you appreciate in any situation and verbally express that appreciation. If you like something or someone, find a creative way to say it and say it immediately. If you wait too long, it may be viewed as insincere and badly timed, especially if others have beaten you to it. If you notice that someone is putting a lot of effort into something, compliment it, even if you feel that there is room for improvement. If you notice that someone has changed something about themselves haircut, manner of dress) notice it, and point out something you like about it. If you are asked directly, be charming and deflect the question with a very general compliment.
10. Be gracious in accepting compliments.Get out of the habit of assuming that the compliment is being given without genuine intent. Even when someone makes a compliment out of contempt, there is always a germ of jealous truth hiding in their own heart. Be effusive in accepting the compliment. Go beyond a mere thank you and enjoin this with I’m glad you like it or It is so kind of you to have noticed. These are compliments in return avoid backhanding a compliment. There is nothing worse to a person complimenting than to receive the response Oh well I wish I was as ______ as you/that situation. That is tantamount to saying, No, I am not what you are saying I am, and your judgment is wrong
11. Control your tone of voice. The tone of your voice is crucial. Most people feel insecure somewhere inside and have an inability to accept praise. For this very reason, when you praise, do it subtly and glibly. When you say, you look nice today it should be in the exact same tone that you would use to say it’s a nice day. Any variation from your normal tone will arouse suspicion about your sincerity. Practice giving compliments into a recorder and play it back. Does it sound sincere? Practice until you get it right.. It might not sound right to you, in that case, ask someone for judgement.
Tips
* Developing charisma is an art. The general guidelines above can help you be more charismatic, but your charisma must come from within you and must reflect you as an individual or it will appear fake. Fortunately, everyone has the ability to be charismatic, and it simply needs to be coaxed out. Practice and take note of what works and what needs improvement.
* Don’t mimic others. People with well developed charisma have a remarkable ability not only to sway people’s opinions but also to cause others to emulate their personalities and even gestures. At the same time, however, research has shown that charismatic people do not emulate other charismatic people. Their individuality sets them apart.
* Have a message. Don’t be afraid to be controversial, to push the envelope. If you believe in something or feel strongly about it, communicate that in a respectful way.
FAITH IS THE BASE OF SUCCESS
FAITH CAN MOVE A MOUNTAIN
If you have a faith as a mustard seed you will say to this mountain ‘move from here to there’ and it will move and nothing shall be impossible for you.
……….. Lord Jesus
Faith is the head chemist of the mind. When faith is blended with thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.
Faith is a state of mind which you may develop at will through the application and use of some principles.
Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.
......... Napolion Hill
This is the basic principles of Prayer and Autosuggestion. The impulse of thought which is repeatedly pass into the subconscious mind is, finally, accepted and acted upon by subconscious mind, which proceeds to translate that impulse into its physical equivalent, by most proactical procedure available.
In connection with this, consider again the statement all thoughts which have been emotionalised (given feeling) and mixed with faith, begin to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.
Not only the thought impulses that mixed with faith, but those have been mixed with other positive emotions (like happiness, love, sex) or any negative emotion, may reachm and influence the subconscious mind.
There are millions of people who believe themselves "doomed" to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe they have no control. They are the creator of their own misfortune, because of this negative belief, which is picked up by subconscious mind and translated into physical equivalent.
At this point you have to deceive your subconscious mind by reverse or reinforcing with some positive thoughts and faith or believe. To make this 'deceit' more realistic, conduct yourself just as you would if you were already in possession of the material things/ success level which you are demanding, when you call upon your subconscious mind.
The subconsious mind will transmute into its physical equivalent, by the most direct and practical media available, any order which is given to it in a state of belief or faith that the order will be carried out.
It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as the dominating forces of your mind, and discourage - and eliminate negative emotions.
A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favourable abode for the state of mind known as faith. A mind so dominated may at will, give the subconscious mind instructions, which it will accept and act upon immediately.
There must be a steady and unfailing practice of positive prayer if you are to succeed. And to pray you need faith. Possibility thinking is just another word for faith. You will be controlled by their positive thoughts or negative thoughts. One of the two emotions will dominate and drive you: either fear or faith. If you are not living by faith, then you will automatically be living by fear. Never surrender the leadership of your life to fear.
No force, no emotion is more paralyzing than fear. It stops a salesperson about to make a call, the young man to go for his goals, a job hunter about to seek an interview. In the whole sordid, sorry spectacle of human fears, none is more destructive and defeating than the fear failure.
If you are living by fear, then see this as a flaw for negative thinking. It will not stand up. It will crack for sure. Walk away from negative thinking. Dare to live by faith.
Faith is indeed the greatest miracle – working power imaginable. Faith never fails a person. We fail when we give up on faith. Faith sets you free from downgrading, negative emotions and replaces them with success-generating emotions.
Faith leads to dreaming. Dreaming leads to desiring. Desiring leads praying. Praying leads to beginning leads to deciding. Deciding leads to waiting. Waiting leads to paying the price. Paying the price leads to managing problems which ultimately leads to expecting success.
SELF-CONFIDENCE FORMULA :
Here is the Self-confidence Formula or Prayer of Autosuggestion ....
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action towords its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
I realise the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture.
I know through the principle of prayer or autosuggestion, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of attaining the object back of it; therefore, I will devote ten minutes daily demanding of myself the development of self-confidence.
I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life and will never stop trying, untill I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.
I fully realise the that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use, and the cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve others. i will eleminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude towards others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I believe in them and in myself. I will sign my name to this formula, commit it to memory, and repeat it loudly once a day, with full faith that it will gradually influence my thoughts and actions so that I will become a self-reliant, and successful person.
Five phases to fruit bearing which a seed of faith passes though to get success … Get move your mountain….
1. The Nesting Phase :
When an idea drops into the mind as an egg is deposited in the birds nest. For too many people, faith never gets beyond the nesting phage. Ideas passes through the mind without being taken seriously.
I don’t think potential miracle working power of faith more than alack of self confidence. Faith is indeed most fragile at birth.
Greatness doesn’t depend upon your position in life, but upon your respect of the positive ideas that flow into your imagination.
Every person is creative, but a lot of people donot believe in their creativity. I told the bottom ladder employees that they were smart, they believed it. They came up with a solution because they were not well enough informed to know that their suggestion could not be done.
Most of us tend not to do anything about the incredible, magnificent ideas that come to our minds. Years later, when we read that somebody else has turned an idea into a great success, we may lament to ourselves, “I thought about that once. Why didn’t I do something about it?”.
Common people are brilliant it they believe in their own ideas. Most human beings have the same basic brain capacity. The major difference is the attitude that a person has towards his own ideas.
At an international psychological congress in Paris, France, Dr. H.E. Gruber of Rutgers University reported that research has led to the confidence belief that “ Child prodigies are not born, they are developed”.
The Kingdom of God is within you.
………. Jesus
The me I see is the me I’ll be.
Build a positive self-image to develop mountain – moving faith. Your mind`s image of yourself will release powers of self-actualization.
Positive results follow a positive mental picture. This is the irrecoverable law of faith built by God, into the universe. Draw now a positive picture of yourself, believe in your ideas, and faith will survive phase one.
2. The Testing Phase : Ideas must be tested by asking questions that rise out of your own value system and knowledge.
Decision making is easy if there is no contradiction in your value system.
A positive idea implies questions like :
Is this really necessary ?
Is this really human need-filling idea ?
Can it be inspiring to other ?
How do you test the ideas that come into your mind ? I test mine by this universal principle : Will my faith, acted upon and firmly embraced cause my life and my activity to be an inspiration to somebody else to achieve more in his life ?
The truth is everybody is an inspiration to some body else.
3. The Investing Phase :
Investing phase is the point at which you make a public commitment. You commit time, money, energy, and – possibly the most valuable product of all – the pride and prestige to the publicly announced project. At this point many people find their faith faltering. If, by an act of will and prayer, you determine that you will make the public commitment, the odds are overwhelming that you can succeed.
So, faith is like a seed. If a seed is not planted, it can`t bear fruit. But a plant also needs to be watered to sprout. Once it is planted and watered, growth will begin to reach full maturity.
4. The Arresting Phase :
You have started, you have made the commitment. You’ve put your name on the line, you have started your run.
Now problem attack you. Troubles block you. Defeat seems certain. You begin to think you have bitten off more than you can chew. You wonder if you have make a terrible mistake with your investment. The arresting phase of faith is God’s way of testing us before the final victory.
So have faith, believe in yourself and pay heed to the words of Edgar A. Guest:
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you are trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sing,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must – but don’t quit.
He want to make sure : Are you really depending on Him? Will we really be grateful if we make it ? Can He trust with success? Are we going to humble enough to handle the big prize ?
Trust the sun – don’t trust the shadow. Believe in your dreams – don’t believe in your despairing thoughts. Have faith in your faith- and doubt in your doubt. Trust in your hopes- never trust in your hurts. And you will move on eventually, effectively, inspiringly to faith’s final phase the Cresting Phase.
5. The Cresting Phase Yes, the crowning phase of faith is the cresting phase. The mountain top is scaled.
Success finally is achieved.
A bad habit is broken.
A mission is achieved.
You make your country proud; millions of poor get out of the poverty line, their standard of living increased.
Your country becomes prosperous, crores of job created. People get engaged adding GDP to country…..
The money starts flowing your way…
The bones are healed….
A broken relationship is healed…
The emptiness and loneliness of life is filled with new friends and loved one….
A new technique is invented…
God never fails to let the sun outlive the storm. And those who keep on keeping on ultimately survive successfully and in the process are an incredible inspiration to others to keep bravely fighting their battles too.
Now- Believe and you will achieve
You are as deserving and as capable of achieving success as any other person alive in the world today. God created you to be somebody who could be an inspiration to many people. Open your mind to receive possibility thought. They will come like an egg dropped in a nest. Tenderly receive them and be prepared to trust in them through the testing phase, investing phase, the arresting phase. Never abandon the dream until you have reached the Cresting Phase
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