Archive for February, 2009

by Sean Smith, Master Results Coach
Most of us have limiting beliefs that are sabotaging us from being empowered or ever achieving our goals. I want to teach you how and why these unnatural, restrictive beliefs are created.

The recipe is a result of three functions of the brain, each of which is positive by itself. But when you add them together, it’s a recipe for disastrous, painful and dangerous beliefs that often last a lifetime and will cause you to settle for a life of less.

Ingredient #1: Constant Search for Meaning
From the moment you saw the brand new light of this world, you’ve been trying to figure everything out, as well as why people do what they do. So you’ve been seeking answers to the question “why” at almost every turn.

Ingredient #2: Emotional Safety
The unconscious mind’s highest priority is NOT the achievement of your goals. It’s highest priority is to keep you emotionally safe. That’s what it spends most of its existence on — protecting your feelings.

Ingredient #3: Inherent Desire to Be Right
The human mind does not like to be wrong in its quest to figure this world out. Being correct makes you feel more in control. You’ll generally do whatever you can to be right.

Separately, these three functions are positive. But when placed together in a situation where your feelings get hurt, there could be lifelong negative consequences. Here’s how it works…

During the formative years between ages 0 and 7, most of our beliefs are formed, simply by exploring the world and deciding what each experience means.

Example of an Empowered Meaning:
Q: “Why did Mommy feed me when I was hungry?”
A: “She wants to take care of me because she loves me.” (empowering belief)

Once we have an answer to the question, we then go on an unconscious search for evidence to support our new idea because we have an inherent desire to be right. So we collect a bunch of proof every day that this belief is true, whether it’s positive or negative.

When this scenario takes place after or during an event that’s painful or embarrassing for you or someone else you observe, the unconscious mind tries to avoid any similar experiences in the future in an attempt to avoid emotional pain.

So it usually creates some sort of restrictive belief and/or fear in an attempt to understand what just happened or keep you from getting into that same situation again.

To the unconscious mind, NOT knowing why something happened is actually more uncomfortable than adopting the limiting belief! ;-(

Example of a Disempowered Meaning:
Q: “Why does daddy yell and scream at me?”
A: “I must not be good enough for him to like me.” (limiting belief)

Example of a Fear Being Created:
Q: “Why did my mommy yell at me for asking too many questions?”
A: “Asking questions gets me in trouble.” - can become a lifelong fear of asking for what you want

And again, once you have an answer, you’ll search the globe for anything that you can use to support your new idea (so you can be right). Most of us have been collecting disempowering evidence for almost our entire lives, since we made that very first decision in childhood.

That means that most adults are living their lives and making their current decisions according to a Belief System (B.S.) that was created by the wisdom, knowledge and logic of a small child. Isn’t that scary to think about?

But the great news is that since you created your B.S., you can un-create it quickly whenever you’re ready to stop being a victim of your thoughts & emotions, choose empowerment and to start attracting all your dreams and goals!

Enjoy the journey!
Sean Smith

On Nov. 17th, 2005 Sean dropped all of his limiting beliefs in one powerful 12-minute exercise with the help of a coach. Within months, his yearly income became his monthly income and his happiness in all areas of life skyrocketed. He’s now a Certified Master Results Coach passing the same empowerment tools on to thousands of people. Tons of resources to help get you out of your own way are waiting for you at www.EmpowermentTips.com.

Article Source: How All Limiting Beliefs Are Created

by Linda Binns
I’m a recovering perfectionist. I say recovering, because it’s not something that you get over very easily. I have discovered though that being a perfectionist can hold you back tremendously.

Friends had told me that I was “too hard on myself” and that I was a perfectionist before, but I remember clearly the day I finally realized that they were right. I didn’t think I was a perfectionist. I just thought I had high standards, liked to do a good job, etc., and that people appreciated that. What I didn’t realize was that, according to my high standards, I would never, could never be good enough.

When I was in my 30’s I started taking piano lessons, something I had always wanted to do and not an easy thing to do if you don’t start when you’re really young. However, I was enjoying it and had a lovely, patient piano teacher. She would give me assignments and I’d go home and practice (never as much as I should) and then the following week I’d go back to her house for my lesson to play the pieces I had studied that week. This particular day I was playing a piece for her that I had studied and could play all the way through in my practice sessions at home. I started. I made a mistake. I started again. I made another mistake. I started again, and so it continued until she asked me why I kept starting again. I explained that I had studied the piece and could play it through without mistakes at home, and I wanted to play it for her without mistakes, so every time I made a mistake I started again (I know, it’s ridiculous now that I’m talking about it, but it didn’t seem ridiculous at the time!)

She said that professional players make mistakes all the time, but they just ‘play through’ them. They don’t stop. Of course they can’t stop if they’re in the middle of a performance. She said that I had to learn to ignore the mistakes and carry on. I could feel the resistance in my body as she said it. Ignore mistakes? How was this possible?

But she’s right. When we are so hard on ourselves that everything has to be just perfect before we do it, we often end up not doing anything at all. Since I’ve learned to identify this behavior in myself it’s also helped me to be able to spot it in others much more easily. I know people who want to start a business, but won’t do it until everything is in place and they know it’s all going to work perfectly. Well guess what, you won’t know that it’s all going to work perfectly until you try, and you make mistakes, and you try again, and you keep refining. You see the big lesson for me was that mistakes are not bad. That’s how we learn. But you can’t wait to put yourself out there until you’ve made all the mistakes ‘in the privacy of your own home’ and so now everything’s perfect and you’re ready to put it out there. Life doesn’t work that way.

I heard a speaker once say that we should celebrate our mistakes. That’s right, celebrate them. Because when we make mistakes it means we’re really living. We’re putting ourselves out there, we’re making things happen. We might fall down, but we learn from that, we get up again and we keep going. You wouldn’t expect your child to start walking the first time he/she tried would you? Of course not, you expect them to fall down, then stand up and try again, and yet we are often so hard on ourselves that we expect ourselves to learn or do something new perfectly each time.

So now I can honestly say that I make mistakes and I don’t beat myself up for it. Hanging on to perfectionism drains your energy. You become not very nice to be around. It also means that other people can feel intimidated around you — like you’re judging them as inferior. I remember back to a job I had many years ago. I had just been appointed secretary to the assistant director of a company. This was the most senior position I’d had at that time and I was extremely nervous. Of course, I wanted to do the job really well — perfectly. I was intimidated by the director’s secretary who seemed so efficient, so knowledgeable. Everybody loved her and she just made things happen. I was so scared of making a mistake — terrified in fact.

Some months later, I had settled into the job and the director’s secretary and I knew each other fairly well and had become friends. She shared something with me that shocked me. She told me that when I started in that job she was intimidated by me!! Me!! I couldn’t believe it. Why would she be intimidated by me when I felt like I didn’t really know what I was doing and was so afraid of making a mistake? It was because I tried so hard to be perfect that I put all my energy into it. This shuts you off from the outside world. It builds a wall around you. People are intimidated and don’t necessarily want to be around you. People identify with people who make mistakes. When I first started public speaking I was terrified of making mistakes, but as I grew into it (and became a recovering perfectionist) I started being okay with making mistakes. You know what? When I make a presentation and make a mistake and am just honest about it, those are the times when people come up to me afterwards and thank me for that mistake and thank me for how I handled it because they can identify with it and they tell me it’s helped them to not beat themselves up when they mistakes.

Letting go of being a perfectionist doesn’t mean you don’t do a good job. Just the opposite. I still have high standards, I put every effort into doing a the best job I can, but I’m not obsessed with it. This means that the energy it took to try and be perfect is available to me. It helps me to be more creative, connect with people more and ultimately, I think, to do a better job.

So go on — make a mistake, and enjoy it! Become a recovering perfectionist, it’s a lot more fun.

Linda Binns shows you how to turn crisis into opportunity. She provides practical information, tools & guidance to people interested in personal & spiritual growth. Join her free membership program & get her 9-step e-course at www.harmonyinandout.comLinda Binns is author of Feng Shui for Your Relationships: Changing Your Environment to Create Better Relationships. She has been a Feng Shui Practitioner, Author, Speaker and teacher for over 10 years. Visit www.HarmonyInandOut.com for more.

Article Source: Perfectionism

by Todd Reade
If you want money, fame, success and you are willing to actually work for it then 6 Minutes to Success is worth a look. This system uses a daily video and an associated exercise to help you focus on what is really important to setting and achieving your goals and then triggers you back to those goals on a daily basis.

Normally I am a skeptic when it comes to “self help systems” I don’t really like keynote lectures and people that tell me over and over that you “can do it because I did it”; however, I have been working on the 6 minutes to success system for a while now and I am noticing that my focus, my decision making is becoming clearer and that I am making decisions that are moving me forward rather than just spinning my wheels.

I think the prime difference to this system is that it is not a one-time vacuum project that you listen to once and try to apply every day on your own. This is a daily support and focus activity that actually provides you with a progression through a process that is really totally tailored to your vision of what you are trying to achieve.

I also appreciate that fact that I can manage the task in 6 minutes or even less. I generally take care of it over my morning cup of coffee while my partner is in the shower, not only does this allow me to think back on the exercise during the day, but it also means that I can focus on my money, fame, success rather than worrying that I need to get back to my video and activity.

If you are looking to make a change, achieve more or find money, fame, success - then 6 Minute to Success is a system that will help you to achieve you goals — whatever they are.

- Todd Reade | ww.toddreade.com

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Article Source: Want money, fame, success? Willing to work for it?

by Thomas Turner
Throughout our lifetimes there are many times we should be appreciative of what we have. However, showing gratitude for the many blessing in our life doesn’t come naturally to all of us. Especially, in the highly materialistic society we live in now.

Many parents valiantly try to teach children the practice of showing gratitude and being thankful for the good life that they have.

This can prove to be difficult since the main focus of toy companies today is to make the kids want more. When you don’t provide it for them they think you are being mean.

This exact situation is what makes people show how much they appreciate someone with material objects.

This form of gratitude does give someone the impression that you appreciate them. However, this material possession loses value and in-turn meaning.

What is Gratitude?

Well, in the dictionary it is described as “the feeling of being thankful for somebody or something in one’s life.” But does anyone ever take the time to reflect on what that means to them.

Take a moment and relax. Think about the good things in your life. You’ll find you have plenty to be grateful for.

Each November, American families gather together for the annual Thanksgiving dinner, where they express their thanks for all the good things that they have experienced during the past year. Besides this one-a-year event, there are several other opportunities for us to be able to show our gratitude in small and simple ways.

- While thanksgiving does give the whole family a warm fuzzy feeling. Try to give that feeling all year round. Make everyone who help make dinner special feel appreciated by giving the praise.

- Start a family ritual of finding something to be thankful for at the end of each day. Involve even the younger members of the family.

- Take time out for the family whenever you can.

Express Gratitude With Much Sincerity

People frequently say thanks without really meaning it. There may be a variety of reasons for this, but most often is one’s secret desire to have what the other person has achieved or received. Jealousy does prevent us from being completely sincere sometimes, and here are a few things you can think about to suppress this negative emotion.

1. Being grateful does not require you to spend a lot of time or money. A simple and sincere thank-you note can be worth more than an expensive gift that you just asked your secretary to buy.

2. Learn to say thanks even for the smallest things. Not only will you be able to make people feel appreciated, but you will also be developing a vital habit that will stay with you your entire life.

3. A large part of gratitude is giving something back to the world. Donating cash to charitable institutions is good, but money doesn’t always have to be involved. You may choose to spend some weekends as a volunteer at an orphanage or animal shelter.

Pass on This Practice to Your Children

No matter how much you push your kids to eat their vegetables by telling them their are starving kids in other parts of the world it doesn’t seem to get through to them. They don’t see a real connection between poor kids and their yucky vegetables.

Exposing young children to the harsh realities of the world may sound extreme, but it is actually a more effective way of teaching them the value of gratitude. You can do this by taking your child to a soup kitchen or just watching humanitarian shows on National Geographic or Discovery Channel.

When you do decide to start taking this action, make sure you are prepared to answer any questions your child may have. Soon, you will notice positive changes in your child and you can proudly say that you have given them a better life simply by teaching them to be grateful for what they have.

Dream Big

Your journey towards personal growth is largely affected by your attitude of gratitude. However, expressing gratitude is not the equivalent of giving up on your dreams. If you have a higher goal for your career, for instance, by all means pursue that goal.

If it’s a bigger house that you want, start saving for it. If your child is hinting about that new electronic toy, they can certainly have it - by working for it. Teach your child the value of money.

If you have an attitude of gratitude, you won’t find it difficult to find true happiness in all things, whether big or small.

Looking for a better life? There are many other ways to better your life on top of expressing gratitude. You want to know what they are? Go to www.SuperSonicSuccess.com.

Article Source: A Better Life Through Expressing Gratitude

by Jenn Lim
Our quality of life is very much dependent on our attitude in life. Hence, whether it is by choice or by circumstances, what you are today and how you feel is the result of your attitude in life.

The law of attraction states that what you focus on, you are attracting into your life. When you have a positive attitude on life, you will eventually attract the positive things in life.

Thinking positive means you are unfazed by life’s obstacle. In fact, you will not see it as an obstacle but an opportunity. As you wake up every morning with a smile in your face and look forward to the rest of the day with gusto, you will attract positive occurrence throughout the day. People are attracted to you, they want to work with you, do business with you and they want to hang around you.

A positive attitude is also a healthy attitude. You feel purposeful and fulfilled. Your happiness can be seen in your posture; you stand and walk tall, you have a healthy glow in your face and you feel confident.

Your positive energy will propel you into doing the things you love. You are receptive to the positive effect of healthy eating and exercise. You start taking care of your body and your health. You become a healthier person.
Soon your positive attitude and determination will also become an encouragement for others to follow. People look up to you and your positive way of life rub on them; they too want to be a positive and happy person.

We should never underestimate the power of our mind. Our thoughts and our emotions are reflected in the way we look, the way we speak and the way we behave. Positive thinking will improve your life and will definitely have a positive effect on people who are in contact with you.

In our learning curve towards personal success, achievements and happiness, we often meet people who have inspired, motivate and encourage us. Join Jennifer Lim as she share her experience and articles on self improvement in her learning curve website.

Article Source: You can only get better with a positive attitude to life

by SharmenLane
If you want to do anything well you must be consistent in your efforts. If you want to do anything great you must be consistently great in your efforts and always looking to be and do better than the day before.

My most successful coaching clients are the ones who consistently make their appointments. Then they consistently follow through on the objectives for the week. The best athletes are the ones who are consistent. Larry Bird consistently showed up for practice early and stayed late. Which is why he was consistently the best and the one who the team had come to count on at the key clutch moments when the shot needed to be made.

Michael Jordan was the best, he won award after award and game after game. He was the best because he consistently did his best. Not just once, not just one freak shot, he made the shots every time and that is consistency.

When I was in sales the most successful salespeople were those who marketed consistently and made sales calls, consistently. Success is not made through random efforts, but through consistent efforts.

The same thing goes with health and nutrition and dieting. You don’t just go to the gym once and say “whew, glad that’s over and I never have to do it again.” If you want lifelong change then you must be… consistent.

The people who do well in any business are the ones who find something that works and then do it consistently. As a matter of fact, that’s one of the philosophy’s of Walt Disney. He said, the values of the Walt Disney company, are the 4 C’s Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and you guessed it Consistency.

Consistency creates credibility. Consistency creates results. The great ones are consistent in all they do. More importantly they are consistent at all they do well, and that is what creates greatness.

Through keynote speeches, workshops, training, seminars and self-help products, motivational business speaker and self help guru Sharmen Lane has trained, managed, and coached thousands of individuals and corporations on what it takes to get what they want for their business and personal lives. To learn more, visit www.sharspeaks.com.

Article Source: Consistency

by Kevin E. Beasley
God doesn’t have to be good to anybody. He doesn’t owe us the breath we breathe. I figure if God has given us salvation, that’s way more than we deserve, and I won’t judge Him for not giving me something else. -Rich Mullins

I awoke grumpy on Saturday. I was worried about too much and too little.
I should worry more about how I treat my wife and kids. I should worry more about the separation and independence I feel from God.
I should worry far less about money, absence of money, success, failure, emotional ups, emotional downs, disrespectful children, etc…

I knew I was grumpy and I knew I was treating my family as if I had some control over the things about which I was grumpy. My behavior was one part a facade dancing with reality in a make believe jig attempting to hide the fact that I was powerless over circumstances. Another part, anger, because I knew I was out of control. And yet another part, ungratefulness for the ocean of goodness in which I find myself drowning, breathing my final breath of self-sufficiency as I consider that ALL that is good comes in spite of me. If we could only let that old man empty his lungs, and embrace death so that we could live into the life of dependence.

Hopeless? No… far from it.

Later that day, after a long period of holding my spiritual breath, I gasped for whatever sign of life I could find, and I breathed deeply the “pneuma”, the breath of God. The same breath that hovered over the deep in Genesis 1:2 and also that He breathed into Adam on that first “birthday”.

Oddly enough, my spiritual CPR came as a country song blared from the radio in the kitchen. Can you guess the lyrics of the chorus? I’ll tell you anyway… “Live like you were dying.” Imagine that!

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Article Source: Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Hope…

by Hiten Vyas
Ok. So you’ve finally decided enough is enough. You are going to tackle stuttering once and for all. Below are 10 tactics you may find useful in your journey. I hope they may help:

1. Commit Yourself

What does this mean? I mean to mentally commit yourself to really tackling this and not giving up when the going gets tough. Because guess what? It will… Personal change is difficult and you’re going to need to be committed first and foremost.

2. Become Knowledgeable About Stammering

The fact that your reading this post is a good start! Pick up a ton of books at your local library, or Amazon.co.uk, and read up about stammering. Find out what it’s all about, the theories behind the condition, the mechanics of speech, what treatments are out there. Get surfing on the internet… there is a wealth of information on there. Many people are in the ’same boat’ as you, and know some of what you are experiencing. You can talk and learn from their experiences and the strategies they use. They too might pick up something from your experiences (call it knowledge sharing!). There are many web support forums, national charities, blogs, speech and language therapy resources. You could also attend a local self-help group, perhaps. If you can afford it, how about attending a conference on stammering?

3. Get Those Close To You Ready For The Change

Did you think changing yourself was difficult? Well, what may be equally challenging is telling those close to you. You’re about to embark on a life transforming program. Family, friends may have become comfortable with the way you are. They may even resent you changing, as they themselves could be feeling threatened. Humans are like this in general so don’t worry. Tell them you’re trying some new things out… that you’re still the same person and you would appreciate their support.

4. Do Some Deep Self-Analysis

Armed with your new knowledge about stuttering, put your “researcher hats” on, and really experience what is happening inside you when you’re stammering. Are you feeling tense in particular parts of your body? If so, where is the tension? Are you experiencing a certain negative emotion in a particular situation? What is the emotion about? Where did it come from? Make notes of such useful pieces of information, because you will be targeting them soon enough…

5. Choose A Good Speech Therapist With Expertise In Stammering

If you have the money to find a private speech therapist then finding one who has expertise in stuttering will be handy. Generalists are cool, but specialists will know a lot more about what may be able to help you. Follow the therapist’s instructions and get a good grasp of the techniques they are teaching you. Maybe it’s a fluency technique, or an attitude changing approach. Whatever it is, if it seems the technique(s) may work for you, then remain positive, and keep at it.

6. Find What Works For You And Stick With It

Ok. Now, you’re out of the therapy room. You created some fluency when with the therapist. You’re feeling positive. Well, the biggest test is NOW. Taking what you learnt during therapy into the real world. It’s time to be courageous. It’s time to do the things you are capable of doing. Try and use all opportunities to apply your techniques in speaking situations. Tell people what you’re doing. Practice with friends, family, the dog, in the mirror… whatever. Believe me or not, people will admire you for making the effort. They’ll call you “brave, because it’s more riskier for you”. In my own experience, I’ve heard this said a number of times.

7. Create A New Self-Image

Why not try and work on changing your attitude? You could learn how to create confidence. How, you ask? There are number of approaches out there - such as cognitive behavioural therapy and neuro-linguistic programming to name just a couple. These areas have techniques to try and create new positive and powerful thinking patterns and outlooks on life, to help deal with stammering. Get hold of some basic books and you could try out some of the stuff in them. Experience them for yourself. Take a class. Start a new hobby, which will involve you interacting with people. Try public speaking, perhaps?

8. Learn Good Self-Talk

This point is related to point 8. But it’s a little more challenging. Why not try and change the way you talk to yourself. If your internal chatter is usually quite negative, and includes lots of “I can’t…”, ” I shouldn’t…”, “I mustn’t…” “I’m too scared…” etc, then you could reverse them to, “I can…”, “I will…”, “I am…”. Try saying these positively and with conviction to yourself, and let the experience settle. It might feel a bit weird at first, but that’s alright, isn’t it?

9. Treat It Like A Project…

The project in this case - is YOU. You could create a 3 month plan of what you want to achieve, maybe. Then why not break this plan into smaller chunks, of weeks and days? Maybe one week you’re going to practice just speaking using a particular fluency technique on one sentence. The week after you might use the same technique when saying two sentences. Another day you may have planned to ask for exactly what you want when ordering a meal at a restaurant. As we all know, plans are important, but difficult to keep. Try hard, and stick to them.

10. Have Patience

Chances are, you’ve been very hard on yourself for a long time. I reckon it’s time to be kind on yourself, and to learn to let it go. Your goal may be to become more confident. Or it could be how to learn to try and speak more fluently in certain situations. Whatever it is, give yourself time. You’ve most likely been stammering for a long time. Progress also takes time, and tons of patience is needed. You could look at it as an experiment if that helps. You’ll makes loads of mistakes on the way. We all do. It’s our natural fallible nature! But you can keep learning from them to improve for the next time.

Good Luck. I KNOW you can do it.

Article Source: 10 Tactics To Deal With Stammering

by james leer
You are to be congratulated for going the extra mile, even though you are enlightened enough to know that the interest you receive, leveraged back, compounded back, pays you in spades.

And so here is another idea we like to think about, it’s about “getting started”, it’s about “some is always better than none”. It’s about once you take a step forward then you’ll be in a different place and you’ll have a different view, you’ll see different things, different opportunities, and different ways to advance.

I’m talking about some people make splendid plans and they go to seminars for years trying to figure out how to, for instance, put up an internet business… How to trade stocks or options… How to buy nothing down real estate… Or how to become a wealth coach. And then they’ve got so many excuses saying, for instance, the technology’s become too difficult, or “I’m not wealthy myself, how can I teach other people to be wealthy?”

And then others attend a single seminar, start by reading/taking a single course.

Start, not getting it right, but getting it going.

One thing for sure… If you want an excuse, you got it.

Excuses are easy. But do they move you toward your goal?

I’d like to share with you a story about the very first book (manual, to be more exact) I ever published. I wrote it, advertised it, got orders, and shipped it. Then I got it back from about three or four different people, all written over and scribbled in red. Seems I had a lot of spelling and grammatical errors in the work.

That was the humble beginning, that first product I ever sold in the beginning of business that would turn into multi-millions of dollars. It was just a $97 sell of an imperfect product, but it got the chain of events in motion that would make me millions.

Imperfectly done, but DONE, that’s the thing. You can try and get it perfect, but if that keeps you from getting it out the door, there’s no point. Some is always better than none. Getting going is the most crucial step you’ll ever take.

Hey, talk about red ink!… Those people who were sending me that product back marked in red, those were corrections they were giving me! This was great, because I entered them into the computer, and the next time I printed the book out to sell it, it was better!… Those were improvements! I quit getting those nasty correction letters.

It went upwards on from there. The message is: don’t let the perfection bug bite you. You can’t afford it. The most important thing you could ever do in any venture is get going. That’s how you’ll go to a new place, experience a new view, take new actions. That’s how you’ll get feedback. That’s how you’ll know if it’s making money, if it’s adequate for the market, and a thousand and one other discoveries that you can’t imagine grandstanding or preparing.

Get out there and play. That’s how you make money!

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Ted Ciuba, “living legend” and bestselling author of The NEW Think and Grow Rich, Ted Ciuba is one of the world’s top human potential trainers. He helps people find, define, and actualize their passions to transmute their intangible desires into real money. To find out more about Ciuba, how he can help you, and to collect $297 worth of free gifts visit www.HoloMagic.com

Article Source: Getting It Going

by human-power.com
I was having one of those days with the world today - you know… nothing going my way, nobody loves me, I suck. That kind of day. And we all have those right? I know for me, the best solution is to go for a work out. So, I threw on my running shoes, some warm clothes and headed out for a 10k run.

After slipping on some ice, getting honked at by two cars and chased by the dog who always seems to mysteriously get through his electric fence when I run by (yes - I forget every time, and every time he scares the crap out of me), I thought about just calling it a day and going home.

Then, right on cue, my iPod clicked over to a really inspiring tune that got me psyched up and through the remainder of the run - and through the remainder of my day back at the office. The song was “So What” by Pink.

Specifically, the Chorus:

So…
So what!
I’m still a rock star
I got my rock moves
And I don’t need you
And guess what?
I’m havin’ more fun
And now that we’re done
I’m gonna show you
Tonight…

She’s exactly right. Of course, what pop singer Pink is really talking about when she sings “So what! I’m still a rock star, I got my rock moves” is a recent breakup and her enlightened realization that she’s still something, even without her ex. I like it because it empowers me with the reminder that even when I start feeling like a loser in the big world, that I’m still a rock star in my own world, and I do still have MY rock moves. It’s not a bad attitude to have sometimes - not all the time, but when you need strength, I think this frame of mind can push you through the dips.

What are YOUR rock moves? Maybe you are the best drawer in your class, or maybe you can hold your downward facing dog pose longer than anyone else in your yoga class. Or maybe your family loves you because you happen to be the worlds greatest mom or dad - or sister or brother or maybe you are someone’s best friend. YOU ARE A ROCK STAR and don’t forget it. Just because the world doesn’t know it - doesn’t mean it isn’t true, or that you should forget it.

So the next time the world is dumping on you, throw some Pink into the MP3 player and unleash your inner rock star. And sing it loud: “I’m a rock star and I got my rock moves and I don’t need you!” I guarantee you’ll feel much better. Maybe a little silly, but it should scare the dogs away.

About Greg Kolodziejzyk:Greg Kolodziejzyk is a Motivational Speaker , and successful software entrepreneur who holds 2 Guinness world records for the most distance travelled by human power in one day on both land and on water. Greg has also completed over a dozen Ironman triathlons including qualifying for and competing at Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. http://www.human-power.com

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