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.
I’m not an early riser, never have been. I generally work late into the night and sleep later than most normal people. Consequently, I’m not at my best in the mornings. I wrote on Zoochblog about a recent weekend where I drove with friends from one end of Colorado to the other to participate in two separate bicycle races. The first was on Friday evening, a 7.2-mile time trial in Salida Colorado, 2.5 hours southwest of Denver, and the second was a 34-mile road race in Wray, 3.5 hours northeast of Denver at 7:30 am Sunday morning. Twelve hours of total travel time, whew!
Have you ever had a day when nothing goes as planned? You’ve missed deadlines, the car won’t start, traffic is awful or you’re late for a presentation. You are experiencing anxiety and extremely discouraged but you continue to mask to others that all is well. Hey, we’ve all been there. When no one is there (or you prefer not to share) you must motivate yourself to go on and get through this mood. Try these three self motivating strategies to get back on track.
Mission Statement
The Power of Habit
One of the most influential forces to shape many of our actions in life is the power of habit . Habit is often overlooked (perhaps because of its simplicity) when we consider why we do or don’t do certain things. If a person were to ask: “Why do I come home from work and sit in front of the TV instead of going for a walk?” or “Why do I go to the refrigerator every time I’m bored?” it seems too easy to answer “Because I’m used to doing it” . But the reality is you do it because it has become a HABIT.
This leader - this genuine man of God, Philip, having been involved in what could be regarded as tremendous success in Samaria north of Jerusalem has a most astonishing intervention once that phase of work is completed. In Acts Chapter 8 in the New Testament, an angel comes to him and speaks to him, “Go south to the road - the desert road - to Gaza.” This is the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, which is on our news bulletins regularly.
Philip is being removed from the scene of exciting revival to the wilderness - from the fertile valleys of Samaria to the desert - why?
Have you ever experienced the state of procrastination? All of us have one time or another! Procrastination is the number one killer of success.
It is the single most common state that keeps people from taking action Knowing that there is an important task at hand, you keep putting it off.
Have you ever had to start work on a project but kept doing everything else that would delay you in getting started? You cleaned your desk, got a drink of water, checked your emails, walked around and finally said, ‘I think I will do it tomorrow!’
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