Are you a worrier? Do you lie awake in bed at night fretting about something that you think might happen? Here are three reasons why you must stop.
Problem 1 – Worrying floods your body with adrenaline which raises your blood pressure, boosts your heart rate and leads to an increase in stomach acid, which in turn can cause ulcers.
This is why you lie in bed with your heart racing. Your mind is a powerful instrument and will make you live through the emotions that you are thinking about.
Goal Setting - Keep Getting Better - How to Continuously Improve Your Performance
By Andrew Grant
Apart from all the great goals that I have set myself and that I am steadily working towards, I have found that one of the most motivating challenges is to constantly improve my performance every day.
Simply being aware of my skill levels, reviewing what I have done and looking for ways to improve has increased my capabilities and efficiency many times over.
Here’s how I do it.
How Does OG Randy Couture STILL Do It at Age 44?
By Paul Greenhill
Here’s the burning question that MMA critics have been asking themselves since the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 74 took place on Saturday night: how does a 44 year old man continue to
perform at such a high performance level against younger competitors?
Truth be told, I’ve often wondered about that same question at times myself, but for a different reason that most of those MMA critics. Most of those MMA critics want to know how OG (older grappler) Randy Couture continues to deliver high-caliber performances, event-after-event, when they’re all ready to notice that he’s lost a step, take the opportunity to throw an H2O (He’s Too Old!) Bomb in his direction (again) and finally proclaim the end of his career (also again)!
Steven Benglas, in his article “The Very Real Dangers of Executive Coaching” (Berglas), makes several criticisms of executive coaches, including; that coaches “sell themselves a purveyors of simple answers and quick results”; that coaches only focus on behavioral solutions, ignoring or worsening possible important psychological issues of the “coachee”; and that coaches “exploit the powerful hold they develop over their clients” (Berglas, p. 88).
To ensure credibility and improve the professionalism of the coaching profession, the International Coach Federation (ICF) has identified core coaching competencies that are helpful in ensuring that criticisms like those of Benglas are reduced or eliminated. The competencies include:
For about a minute, as an exercise, I’d like you to focus only on what you might be eating for breakfast the very next day you finally achieve your #1 goal. Got it? Can you taste it? Goal setting can sometimes be like that…an intense imagination of future events. And it sure makes it a lot of fun!
It might seem unusual to mention hypnosis and goal setting in the same sentence but here we are concerned not with the showbiz version nor with the practices of professional psychotherapists. There is a much gentler version of hypnosis that I will call suggestibility and which can be used to reinforce the setting of goals and subsequent actions.
Failure is not what people want. People want success! I have found this to be true after delivering hundreds of presentations and speeches. Yet, if this is true, then simply speaking: Why isn’t there more success?
What obstacle or obstacles is keeping you from traveling the road to success? Again, after working with young people to established executives, I have come to realize that self esteem is sometimes the biggest obstacle to personal success, professional success and business success.
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