Always Move Forward

If you remember anything from your geometry class in school, it’s probably the fact that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line. 

Moving forward along that straight line always represents the most efficient, productive, and profitable course of action, assuming that you have picked your destination point wisely.

Recently, I heard about the artwork in the design on an Australian coat-of-arms.  There are two animals indigenous to Australia that appear on that coat-of-arms.  They are the kangaroo and the emu.  These two animals aren’t too much alike, but they do share one unique characteristic.  Because of the length of their tails, kangaroos cannot back up.  If they want to reverse course, they have to move forward and execute a U-turn.  Because of the configuration and shape of their feet, emus cannot back up and must always move ahead.  The wise person who designed this particular Australian coat-of-arms understood that we can learn a lot from emus and kangaroos.

As we pursue our passion and move toward success, there are days when the forward progress is evident to everyone around us. 

Then there are other days when the progress is not evident to the casual observer. 

This could mean that no progress was made, or it could mean that you are moving forward in ways that do not reveal themselves immediately.

General George Patton often reminded his officers that he never wanted to receive any messages from the front stating, “We are holding our position.”  Patton believed that armies either moved forward or retreated.  If you are currently stopped in one location, you must be making preparations and plans to move forward so that there is no time wasted or energy expended that does not result in progress.

If you have a goal, a dream, or a destiny in your life that you would like to reach, you should be making progress toward it today.  Make sure that is SMART.
That progress may involve taking significant strides toward those things you want to be, do, or have, or it may simply mean reading a book, meeting a person, improving your attitude, or any number of things that can put you in the right position to move forward immediately when the opportunity presents itself.

I had a great friend and colleague who taught a principle he called “sharpening the saw.”  He told about lumberjacks working in the forest energetically using their saws to cut down trees.  These lumberjacks were paid based on how many trees they cut down in a day, so they worked very hard and consistently; however, seasoned and successful lumberjacks come to learn that there is a time when the fastest way to cut a tree down is to stop sawing and take a moment to sharpen the saw.
When you consider your life’s work and your goals, you are the saw.


There are times you will be rapidly moving toward your goal, and there are times when you are preparing yourself for the next big flurry of progress.
As you go through your day today, always be moving forward or preparing yourself for your next move.


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How to Use Routines to Achieve Goals

Willpower, motivation, self control - these are words that are bandied about to "help" you achieve your goals. They are good words, but the fact is that no matter how much motivation, willpower and self control you build up, there's only one way to truly reach your goals, surmount a challenge, or stick to New Year's resolutions: Breaking them down into small, actionable steps. and that's breaking your goals down into small actions.

Even more important, to me, is to work on them every single day.

In short: Work towards your goal a little bit every day. Or almost every day.

All the self control and willpower in the world won't help you reach long-term goals unless you have a plan to work on them regularly. That's why using your daily routine to reach your goals is the only sure-fire way to accomplish them.

There are 3 reasons why you should work on your goals daily:

1. What you do regularly is more important than what you do occasionally.

Think about that again: What you do typically is more important than what you do sometimes, but not often. It's the classic case of the rabbit and the turtle. By applying slow, steady focus to something regularly, you have a better chance of accomplishing it, then by applying short bursts of energy irregularly.

Here are some examples:

If your goal is to lose weight and you starve yourself for one day a week and lose 5 pounds, but then go back to your normal eating habits the other 6 days, you're not going to sustain that weight loss. If you eat healthfully 5-6 days a week and then splurge for 1 or 2, you have got a better shot at permanent, maintainable weight loss.
The same can be applied daily. If you eat a healthy, normally portioned breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but then snack all day long between meals it's going to be harder to lose weight. On the other hand, if you eat healthy meals all day long and then have one less-healthy snack you see results.
If you go all out and organize your home in one weekend but then don't lift a finger to declutter a space again until your next marathon organizing weekend, your home will be disorganized most days.
2. You're less likely to burn out.

I've had mornings where I have woken up, gone to work, and have been able to work furiously with a razor-sharp focus on the task at hand for several hours at a time, but that is a an anomaly. Maybe I got a particularly good night's sleep (although I usually sleep pretty well) or a had a little extra shot of oomph in my coffee.

Most days, though, I have to work to maintain energy and focus through the day. If I tried to go full-bore I would flounder, often in the middle of a task, and end up exhausted.

Here's an example of this:

You get home from work and decide you cannot go one more day without organizing your closet. You hectically pull everything out and start trying to decide what to keep and what to toss. Eventually, because it's the end of the day and you have already worked 8 hours at a job and your patience and willpower have been taxed, you get overwhelmed, and end up frustrated with your entire wardrobe on your bedroom floor.

The better option would be to choose one item of clothing (skirts, dresses, denim, button-downs), one dresser drawer, or one quarter of your closet and declutter and organize only those items for the evening. The next night, or the next week, do another. This way you can feel a sense of accomplishment without ending up in tears on a Tuesday at 2 a.m. surrounded by your New Year's Eve cocktail dress collection.

If you work a little bit every day, you're less likely to throw your hands up in frustration.

3. You form the habits you need in order to maintain your accomplishments.

If you choose to spend 30 minutes a day on one space, or a little time each day decluttering a different room, or 10 minutes a few times a day, you're able to reach the long-term goal of home organization while forming the good habits that will help you maintain it.

This is because you'll go on autopilot. Anything you do regularly--good or bad-- eventually becomes a habit, and our brains like habits. Habits are easier to maintain.

Learn to harness the power of your routine for good! You may be surprised by how much you can achieve.

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Constipation?! Helping tips!

At some point in our lives, everyone has experienced issues with constipation and elimination. Here are some natural tips you can use to help get your system flowing naturally and more consistently.

Become Aware

Constipation and elimination tend to be sensitive topics that people don’t normally like to talk about. Even if it’s embarrassing, it’s important to become aware of your elimination patterns. Are you someone that goes every day? Once, twice, three times a day? Are you someone who goes once every other day or every couple of days? Notice the timing in your cycle.

It’s also important to notice the consistency. If you only go once a day, is there a large amount of stool? Does it float? Does it sink? Is it small? Is it hard?

Stay Hydrated

It seems simple, but a major cause of constipation is dehydration. Make sure you’re drinking 8-10 glasses of water per day. I recommend 8 oz. every hour. If you drink more than that per hour (some people like to guzzle it down), you will urinate it all out probably within 30 minutes and your body doesn’t have a chance to absorb the liquid into your digestive tract.

If you’re drinking plenty of water and it doesn’t seem to help, add a little bit of oil to your water. You can add coconut, sesame, almond or even olive oil. Just a tiny bit will make a huge difference: it will help moisturize the colon and enable your body to absorb the oil. Since the colon is a dry part of the body, it’s important to make sure it has some degree of moisture so the stool can flow through easily.

Alternatively, you can also just take a tablespoon of whatever oil you choose in the morning or at night before you go to bed.

Get Moving

If you’re constipated due to a mobility problem, that is, if your colon is slow or sluggish regarding moving things through, then you want to increase your exercise. You core muscles, or your abdominals, are especially important: when they contract and expand, that will help the stool move along the colon instead of getting stuck, stagnant and dried out.

Eat Intelligent Foods

Leafy green vegetables (lettuce, kale, spinach and broccoli) act as a colon sweep and are great to help the colon get the stool moving along. My recommendation is to incorporate a leafy green vegetable into every meal, particularly dinner. When you’re eating, consume the leafy greens last. So if you’re eating a pasta dinner and there is spinach on your plate, eat the pasta first and the spinach last. This will help move the stool through your body because raw vegetables are generally cool so you want to eat them last. This way your digestive fire stays stoked through the meal.

Was this helpful? What other tips do you use to help yourself stay regular? Leave a comment in the area below.

Wishing you much wellness!
 

Namaskar

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Reach Your Goals by Keeping a Journal

A journal can be a powerful tool for achieving your goals. You can even think of journaling as a self-coaching session. In this post you’ll discover the ten benefits of keeping a journal as a goal-achievement tool.


1. Keeping a journal forces you to commit your goals to writing. When you write down your goals you turn vague desires into well-articulated targets you can clearly see and aim for. You’re taking the first step toward turning the desires in your head into something concrete that exists in the material world.
When you write down your goals you’re laying the first brick, or planting the seed.
2. By setting aside fifteen to twenty minutes a day, every day, at a predetermined time to write about your goals you’re guaranteeing that you’re going to spend at least that amount of time each day thinking about your goals and how you’re going to achieve them. In other words, it’s time that you’re going to spend “tending your garden”.
3. A journal allows you to record your progress. If you’ve encountered setbacks while trying to achieve an important goal you may be feeling discouraged. When you feel like you’re losing your motivation to keep moving forward it’s a good idea to take out your journal and look back at the progress you’ve already made toward the achievement of your goal.
In addition, even if you’ve made several failed attempts at achieving a goal, looking back at what hasn’t worked can be helpful in coming up with new approaches which could work.
4. A journal is evidence of past success. Before you start working on a new goal it’s a good idea to sit back with some of your old journals and read about your past successes. This will help motivate you to get to work on the new goal with a feeling of certainty that—just as you’ve been able to achieve other goals in the past—you’ll be able to achieve it.
5. Having a set time during which you’re going to write about your goals each day keeps you accountable. Nobody wants to sit down and write: “I did absolutely nothing to move closer to the achievement of my goals today. Instead, I wasted time watching TV and playing video games, pursuing other people’s goals, or doing busy work.”
Knowing that at the end of the day you’re going to have to sit down and write about what you did that day to move you closer toward the achievement of your goals is a great motivator to get you to do what you’re supposed to be doing. You can even pretend that your journal is an accountability report which you have to hand in to a supervisor.
6. Writing about your goals helps you to uncover hidden fears that may be holding you back, as well as limiting beliefs. A lot of the time we can’t see how we’re holding ourselves back. Writing can help you to get in touch with a deeper part of yourself and bring stuff to the surface that you didn’t even realize was there.
When you’re writing about your goals you may “hear” yourself saying things such as the following:

•  People with my background can’t achieve a goal like this.
• I just don’t have what it takes.
• If I lose weight, then my friends—who are also struggling with their weight—won’t want to hang out with me anymore.

Once you’ve brought your hidden fears and limiting beliefs to the surface, you’ll be able to deal with them. A journal can help you gain self-awareness and bring your blind spots within your visual range.
7. A lot of the time we know what we want, but we don’t know how we’re going to get it. Your journal can serve as a brainstorming tool for coming up with steps you can take in order to achieve your goals.
The brain loves a challenge. Give yours the following challenge: “In the next twenty minutes come up with a list of 100 things I could do in order to achieve this goal”.
Even if nothing you come up with makes any sense, your brain will continue working on the task while you sleep or do other things. Then, the next time that you sit down to write in your journal it’s likely that you’ll be able to come up with an idea on how to proceed that’s both realistic and actionable.
8. Writing about your goals helps you to identify possible obstacles that you may encounter, and create an action plan on how you’ll deal with those obstacles when they arise. Then, when an obstacle does appear across your path, you won’t be caught off guard. Instead, you’ll know how to deal with it.
9. A journal detailing how you solved a problem that others may be having—or how you achieved a goal that others may want to achieve—can be turned into an eBook which you can give away or sell. Creating a product you can make money from can be another source of motivation to keep you moving toward the achievement of your goals.
10. A journal can help you to keep the ball rolling. The last thing you should do before closing your journal for the day is to give yourself an assignment. That is, identify what you’re going to do the following day in order to move your goal along.

Keeping a journal can be a powerful tool for achieving your goals. Live your best life by setting goals, and then keeping a journal which will help you to achieve those goals.


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Important Reasons to Stick to Your Goals

I have exciting news to share with you! Today is the first day of the rest of your life! This is another day to finish what you started and be the person you want to be. It's all about identifying your goals and sticking to them. I use this because it works for me. I find that if I am excited and looking at my goals as another opportunity to be the best person I can be, then the goal won't seem like another daunting chore that I must complete.

I also like to look at sticking to goals as another way to show that I am in control of my life and my journey belongs to me. It is so important to know where you are going and what exactly you want out of life. Think about it for a moment, what does your life look like five to ten years from now? Will you be the person you want to be or will you still be trying to figure that out. Believe me I know how it is and there are many people still trying to figure out what road to take and how they will achieve their goals. Now believe this, this used to be me.

Then one day something happened to me that changed the way I perceived life. I finally figured out that nothing was going to happen for me if I didn't take charge and decide what I wanted for me. This sounds so simple right? Well to many of you it may be and to others it could be very difficult when you are at a crossroad in your life and you have no clue as to which direction to head toward.

In taking charge of my life I had to set some goals and stick to them.  To me was to stick to what was really important in my life and that was to study, work and developed the areas of Arts and Health in a way to be a better human being, that is my path for Life.
Here is why sticking to my goals helped me and I am sure this will do the same for you.

1. They keep you focused
One of the main reasons that many people set goals is for the simple reason that goals keep them focused. There are people who know exactly what they want and exactly how they plan on making things happen for them. Sure they probably get sidetracked sometimes, but the key is that they keep their eyes on the prize. They are always focused on making their goals a reality.

2. Something to strive for
Working on goals is a way of life for many people. It is what their lives are made of. Many individuals live their lives waiting on the next goal, or adventure, to achieve. I love this! They look at life as an adventure. Nothing stands in their way and they don't stop until they have mastered yet another goal.

3. A Feeling of accomplishment
When you set goals and you achieve them, there is a feeling of accomplishment that can come over you. This is such a great feeling! This feeling makes you stick out your chest and hold your head up. This feeling can make you feel like you can conquer the world. Nothing is impossible for you. But to keep this feeling going, you must continue to set goals and see them through.

4. Something to believe in
I met a person once that didn't believe in much of anything until she started believing in herself. She set goals and made a plan to achieve them. She also worked hard to make them a reality and with this new found faith, she learned to believe in her dreams and herself. With every step she took toward each goal, she gained more strength to believe she could do anything she set her mind to. Now she writes about setting and achieving goals!

And as always, stay focused, stay determined, and keep striving for greatness.

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10 Tips To Uplift The Emotions And Create Inner Peace

by Pedro Proff (Life Mentor)

The power of the Life Mentoring approach is all about simplicity. Keeping things simple can be somewhat deceptive, but it can also be extremely powerful. We work to make some lifestyle adjustments to form a powerful package that will support emotional balance.Within this powerful package, there are a lot of simple things we can do to uplift our emotions and create inner peace.
Try some of these secrets today and see what a difference they can make.

Tip 1: Go to bed at a consistent time. Be sure to be in bed by 10 pm/11pm every night. If you can get to sleep a little earlier, that’s fine, but the key is to make sure that you’re getting the right amount of sleep for your body. If you know you need 7 hours, plan for that. If you need 8, make that a priority. Getting enough rest is essential for emotional health. When we have a consistent sleep schedule, we are able to fall asleep more easily: our melanin knows when to kick in and our sleep process begins before we even get in bed.

Tip 2: Wake up with the rising sun. Now that you’ve gone to sleep at 10 or 11 pm, I suggest waking with the sunrise. That varies during the season, but right now (early summer) the sun comes up about 6 am. Waking up early is important for emotional health. If we sleep too long, we build up toxins. If we don’t sleep enough, the mind won’t be fully rested.

Tip 3: Walk outdoors. Breathe deeply when you go for a walk outside. Focus on taking in fresh air and stimulating your respiratory system. The perfect time to go for a refreshing walk is as the sun is rising: just as it brings energy to the earth, it activates the energy centers in the body.

Tip 4: After you go on your walk, eliminate. Sometimes people suffer from constipation that causes headaches or a feeling of dullness. Low moods and a sense of sluggishness often accompany constipation as well. Drink some warm water with a little bit of lemon essential oil or lemon juice, or STAGO solution to get the digestive system moving. If that doesn’t help you to eliminate, eat some prunes, figs or even cooked apples at night before you go to bed to get that sludge moving along.

Tip 5: Eat intelligent foods. These are organic, unprocessed, non-GMO foods that are quickly digested because there are no toxic chemicals that the body has to sort through or filter out. These foods give your body natural fuel and boost immunity. Apples, pears, almonds, yogurt, walnuts, cloves, almond milk, kale, spinach and broccoli are just a few examples of intelligent food.

Tip 6: Give yourself a nice daily body massage with yummy oils. Coconut oil, sesame oil, argan or even almond oil is perfect. A massage increases circulation and helps clear toxins from the tissues. It will invigorate the body, calm the mind and sooth the emotions.

Tip 7: Practice Yôga, Chi Kong or Tai Chi. Even as little as 10 to 15 or 20 minutes in practice of postures will stimulate the digestive fire within and cleanse the colon of toxins. They are also great for uplifting low moods.

Tip 8: Add spices to your intelligent food. Like: cumin, turmeric, cayenne pepper and black pepper. Spices help the body assimilate food and create less toxic buildup in the colon.

Tip 9: Spend a few minutes by yourself in peace and gratitude. Think about something for which you are grateful. This can be done any time through the day, maybe even during your morning walk. Allow yourself to be completely wrapped up in that feeling of gratitude. When you do that, the anxiety dissipates and you welcome in a warm, loving and positive energy, creating a sense of inner peace.

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Acting Techniques - Part 4

Shakespeare for Self-Knowledge

 

 

 

"To be or not to be: that is the question"

 

It's an intense, gratifying process that makes us grow, makes us better people and is liberating.

 

Thought is power but even greater power is speech, who doesn't have power in Shakespeare's plays doesn't speak, but as people, not characters, speaking Shakespeare is great power.

 

 

Shakespeare creates "people", he gives them life and all that comes with it: fight for (or conflict with) power, love, insecurities, doubts, image, mask, ego, internal and external conflicts... In my opinion, it's impossible to say Shakespeare writes about only one theme, unless you simply say: Shakespeare writes about the human condition.

 

Shakespeare makes us believe in the appearances to show the reality.

 

Shakespeare holds the human condition responsible, with compassion, exposes it but doesn't blame it.

 

"All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players."

 

Come find out more about you and the meaning of "To be or not to be", by acting Shakespeare. 

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Acthing Techniques - Part 3

You Are What You Speak

 

Our voice is our biggest instrument.

You can tell almost everything from a person by her voice, it's important for our everyday life, shows our strong points, our fragilities, our origins, points of view, interest, etc..., in fact, words become almost superficial in a face-to-face talk, because you understand the meaning of the speech by the voice, hence sarcasm, irony, etc.

In our society, we create a vocal mask, that allows us to fit in and survive, but also creates a lot of tension points.

 

That mask creates the quality of the sound (meaning the way, it occupies the space) and the resonator (meaning the place where is amplified in the body).

 

Our body is the place where our voice is amplified, with nothing more than air and the vibration of our vocal chords, so everything in our body (e.g: our posture, the way we relate with the air and articulation, some points of tension can prevent the vibration of the vocal chords, etc.) affects our voice.

 

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