Your thinking style improves when your state of mind improves. Never ever take a decision or act when you are under emotional stress. Maintain a positive attitude to get into a peak state of performance. Research in the field of sports psychology has proved beyond doubt that a positive attitude is not just for dreamy eyed idealists.
2) Focus
You might feel that you are a multi tasking genius. But science has again shown that when it comes to performing demanding tasks multi tasking actually makes you dumber.
Success books, there are thousands of them. Some written by quacks who would not know self from help but a few written by people whose works stand the test of time. Developing a habit of daily readings of self help books does make a difference as borne out by personal testimonials. Check out my handpicked selection of self help books.
But could it be that some insights are more valuable than others. Is there really a differentiating insight or strategy that can make a difference of several orders of magnitude if implemented. Or is that an elusive holy grail that can be never found. Is it our intellectual laziness that makes us desire the one thing.
Jim Rohn was one of America’s foremost self help
philosophers. He was at once very profound and yet
very simple to understand. His advice was at once
simple to implement and yet almost magical in its
results. How did he do it?
This is by far one of the better self help programs.
Having read and listened to a lot of such stuff before, I found many gems.
Below are some of my favorite ones:
Tip# 1) When it comes to creating and sustaining your relationships, use your head and not your heart.
This one surprised me. But when I think about it, one of the reasons some of my relationships failed was that I took it too much to heart. As Steve Chandler said, elevate your relationships by bringing them into the realm of your mind instead of killing them by retaining in the heart.
Tip #2) This one is interesting for all public speakers among us. One of my colleagues has a deep baritone voice which helps tremenduously when it comes to making an impact on the audience.
My voice is not and I was resigned to it remaining like that till I heard Steve’s personal experience.
When you listen to his audio programs you can’t help but get impressed with his deep hypnotic voice. It was not always like that. He had a squeaky voice to start with. He practiced speaking at full volume and eventually ended up with such a powerful voice that he does not even need a microphone!
So I am practising to speak like him.
So far it is not working, my friends ask me whether I have a cold
I work out 5 times a week, eat mostly home cooked food and am largely free of disease. So would you consider me healthy. I did until the day I read this wonderful book called ‘Gameplan for Life’ by Joe Gibbs. It is a book based on Bibilical principles. I had a similar reaction reading this as I did Joel Osteen’s book. Read my earlier post about Joel Osteen..
We actually have 4 kinds of health. And health as we normally know of, physical health, is the least important of them all! Continue reading →
