How to Have More Energy

What are the most common causes of feeling flat and lethargic?

Lots of people are living quiet lives of desperation, not invigorating lives of inspiration- not doing what they love nor loving what they do.

They aren’t grateful so they are putting on the brakes in life and lacking the energy and vitality to live.

Are you suffering from a lack of energy?

I think that the people who are in the most risk of ‘suffering’ a lack of energy are those who do not feeling like they are living purposefully; they feel lost, overwhelmed and out of focus.

They are scattered and trying to live other people’s lives.

They are the ones also whose diets and lifestyles are also not all that ideal and are out of alignment.

So using the K I S S approach here are seven simple solutions?

1. Know where you are going- Your energy soars when you are clear on your aim and direction in life.

2. Be Thankful and Grateful – When you are grateful for all that you have rather than dwelling on all that you are lacking, you will discover a very powerful source of energy.
Count your blessings daily .

3. Eat Moderately – Many people try to perk themselves up by pigging out but this is definitely not the way to do it.
It has actually been shown that if you eat less you have an increase in vitality and overall energy.
Biological research also shows people who eat less live longer.
Walk away from the table a little less full and you will have a lot more spark to do the things you want to do.

4. Eat wholesome nutritious foods; become aware of what you eat.
Be sure to “eat to live”; not “live to eat”;

5. Drink Water – lots and lots of fresh clean water – stay fully hydrated.

6. Breathe fully and deeply. Here’s a thought have you ever tried to use your diaphragm with breathing exercises rather than the usual way of just lifting your shoulders to breath deeply – try it you’ll be amazed at the difference.

7. Smile- Smiling can change your physiology and make you look up at life a little different.

Finding Your True Passion

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
– Georg Hegel

Let me ask you this – how do you want to live your life? a life of mundane days where one day slips into the next or a full and passionate life where you are experiencing all those rich rewards that are at the end of the rainbow.

So you ask me how do you discover what you’re really passionate about?

How can you separate the dreams from what can actually be the accomplished?

You could be passionate about ruling the world.

Well you know that you’re not the first to dream of that and here’s the thing it can be done.

Alexander the Great ruled almost the entire known world in his time.

So let me ask you – what is your true passion?

Here are a few questions you can ask yourself to discover those currents that travel deep inside you:-

• Read your own body language.

  How does your body behave at your present job?

  Does it tense up and ache all the time?

  Do you get panic attacks very often?

  Are you so bored that you snooze at your desk?

  Do you keep looking at the clock as break time comes near?

  Guess what if that’s you

  Then you are in the wrong job.

  You simply don’t have the passion for it.

  When you work on a job that you are passionate about, all your aches and cramps will dissolve.

  You will find yourself working extra hours, talking to your friends about your work and simply bubbling with life.

• What did you love doing as a child?

  Your childhood hobbies and obsessions can indicate a genuine passion.

  Education and family pressures often move us away from our true calling.

  Did you love bikes or gardening or trekking?

  Then maybe a career in the automobile or landscaping or travel industries is where you should be!

  So sit back and recall your childhood and write down your memories.

  What made you smile then may still make you grin today and in the future.

• What do you love doing now you are an adult?

  You might very well have passionate side pursuits even today.

  Do you love your moonlighting job more than your regular day job?

  Many corporate types work the night shift as chefs or night school teachers.

  Start spending a few hours every day on your pet hobby.

  It may just hold the key to the real you!

Finding Happiness

Well here’s the thing we all, that’s you, me, your neighbor, the cab driver and even you enemies all have in common, no matter the color of our skin, our age, or our gender, its this we all want to live a happy life.

To find a happy job, happy relationships, happy lifestyle and happy living.

So now what is happiness?

Happiness is an emotion that we describe for when something external is giving us a temporary relief from the unhappiness that we find inside.

Fullfilment, on the other hand, is our infinite natural state when we stop seeking for something externally to bring us happiness.

The only reason we seek to find happiness in our external world is because we aren’t fulfilled internally.

Many fear their infinite nature and believe themselves to be limited.

This fear misleads us to seek who we are in our external world.

Yet, in building our identities externally to find happiness, meaning and purpose will always be subject to the emotional ups and downs corresponding with external ups and downs, or gains and losses.

The “Truth,” however, is that if we were to stop seeking for happiness externally, we would realize that we are happiness itself.

This is what allows us to realize the purpose and meaning of what we call our “Life.”

That is what is it means to be truly fulfilled.

For as long as someone seeks to fix, improve, or change the external identity so that they may find “happiness” they will be met with both happiness and unhappiness.

They will be met with life’s grand illusionary game, a game that cannot be won, only played.

It’s only when you “let go” of trying to win this “game of life” that you shall free yourself to experience fulfilment and remember the meaning and the purpose of who you truly are.

Let it slide!

“Ideas by themselves cannot produce a change of being;
Your efforts must go in the right direction, and one must correspond with the other.”
P. D. Oupensky

Today a message of inspiration and encouragement, motivation and support.

This message should only take you a minute or so to read, but if you put it into action it could change the way you live your life.

Do you sometimes find yourself stressing about things, only to look back a few days later and wonder what all the fuss was about?

One of the great benefits of being clear on your values is being able to work out what things deserve your time and energy (both physical and emotional) and what things are simply not worth the bother.

Today, when you find yourself stressed, tense or anxious about something, ask yourself ‘does this really matter to me?’, ‘will I still care about this in one week / month / year?’

When you know the answer to these questions, you will easily be able to determine if the situation warrants your time and energy, or if the best course of action is to simply let it slide…

Want to live to 100+?

If you want to live to be 100 or more, be the person at the party to greet total strangers.

Research shows that having an outgoing personality might be one of the hallmark traits of people who live to a ripe old age.

They recently examined the personalities of adult offspring of centenarians, with the assumption that the offspring have a good shot at living to over 100.

Researchers found that personality might play a role in longevity.

The offspring were not only more outgoing but also had a knack for forming close friendships and for dealing with stress effectively.

It makes sense when you consider other research has shown that these particular personality traits are associated with greater happiness, vitality, and a longer life.

Don’t come from a long line of centenarians?

What you don’t inherit, you can adopt. You can embrace healthy lifestyle choices and develop positive personality traits.

Strategies to help get you started:

• Love your life.
• Nurture the circle.
• Increase the quality and length of your life with strong social ties.
• Mind your mood.
  Most of tend to think negatively.

• For every negative perception, there is a positive perception of the same magnitude.

  Just find it.

A scientist friend who specializes in longevity says that, with personalized drugs, in the next twenty years we will have the technology to live to 150.

Bring it on!

I have so much to do!!!

Boosting Your Brainpower

Here’s a trick that an actor friend of mine swears boosts brainpower.

Next time you forget where you parked, here’s an idea that could get you back behind the wheel in no time at all.

Pinch your right nostril shut.

Yeah that right pinch your nostril closed.

Research shows that pinching the right one shut and breathing through the left boosts spatial memory – the part of your brain that helps with memory and navigation.

In general, you use the left side of your brain to balance your check book, carry on conversations and solve problems that require linear reasoning.

The right side helps you paint like Picasso and recognize faces; it controls spatial abilities.

The right side is also in charge of the left side of your body, but here’s the twist:

The left side controls the right side of your brain and vice versa.

So when you start breathing through the left nostril, it gives the right side of your brain a boost.

Try it

Being Grateful

Remember, if you are criticizing, you are not being grateful.

If you are blaming, you are not being grateful.

If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.

If you are feeling tension, you are not being grateful.

If you are rushing, you are not being grateful.

If you are in a bad mood, you are not being grateful.

Gratitude can transform your life.

Are you allowing minor things to get in the way of your transformation and the life you deserve?

Ways to Show Your Teen You Care

Recently I read an article from a parent about the problems they were having with their teenage kids and it got me thinking.

Teens need to know their parent(s) care.

Teenagers go through a lot of physical and emotional changes.

I reckon if you are the parent of a teen, it is crucial that you make sure they know how much you care about them.

Often parents fear that they are pushing their teens away from them if they show interest in their lives.

The truth is, I believe that teenagers like everyone else need to know that someone, especially their parents), are interested and really care about them

Ways you can show your teen that you care:

• Pay her a compliment.

  Every child, no matter how young or old, needs to hear nice things about themselves.

  If they don’t get it from home, I can assure you they will search for it somewhere else.

  Let her know when she’s done a good job.

  Tell him that you’re proud when he brings home a 4.0 report card.

  Pay them the compliments they deserve.

• Give him choices.

  It is natural for parents to try to hold the reins tighter as your teen gets older.

  The only thing this leads to though, is making him want to pull away from you even more.

  Instead, give him choices.

  Letting him make certain decisions will do several things for him: learn how to make good choices, learn from his mistakes, and take pride in himself.

• Ask about her day.

  I know your life is busy we live in an 24 x 7 world.

  You have a career; you’re worried about making ends meet; you’re thinking about how you can better your family.

  Don’t forget to take the time to stop and ask your teen how her day was.

  She may not be willing to give you a run-down on all the details, but show your care.

When all is said and done we really do love them don’t we?

What is FEAR?

Is it false evidence appearing real or is it something different to you?

If you consider yourself a person of fear, you should know how your fear could cause serious problems. Sometimes it may only take a tragic moment is all it takes to reveal a violent reminder of how one’s lacks mortality and control over one’s life.

Often mother’s teach their children to never trust man. Today, women are independent and don’t have that need to depend on their husband if a marriage should break up. Some women often enter into a marriage, with an escape clause in case the marriage should fail. This is due to the woman being afraid of her husband doing to her what one’s father may have done to one’s mother.

Other women are afraid of infidelity. They are afraid of feeling trapped. Women at one time pulled together to gain strength over men. Today, the relationship between men and women are ending. Often women will devote 100% of her to a marriage only to see it fail by the man. This is devastating for the woman involved. Often, if there are female children at home, this action will actually warp a child’s mind against the opposite sex. Could this be the reason so many children turn out to be gay? Many children soon turning into adults have sworn that they would never let anything like this happen to them. Many times things are said and then the same pattern reoccurs again.

You can guard your emotions. One hates to end up in counseling to save a marriage or to stay sane. Women try so hard to console their partners and share love for just that one, when inside she is actually dying. Many times women figure out that at the base of the problem, it had all been her fault for placing her trust in the wrong person.

If one puts all their trust into people, one will surely fall short in their expectations of life. Today there is a widespread of fear when it comes to trusting men. There is often a lot of stress that comes when one is attempting to be in control of a relationship that will ultimately rob one of all the joy and happiness in their life. One should live in freedom, not in fear.

The first step for releasing your fear is to give up total control. So often, the windows of one’s soul become clouded from so much fear. When this happens, one often looks upon one’s life with distrust and dread.

Often fear is looked upon as a feminine emotion. Because of this, one may discourage fear in their daughters. There have been times when children were punished for showing fear. Years have passed for many women and they continue to live with fear. This emotion can start to affect others in one’s life. Emotional communication is how one releases their true emotion to others. This emotion is naturally transmitted to those that are closest to your situation. Often those closest to you will notice the reflection and isolation by means of one’s looks, words and body language. Don’t let fear conquer your life and well being. Speak out and let it be known. Seek the proper help you deserve to live a fulfilled life.

One seldom stops and thinks back to understand as to why one can’t see how much like their parents they have become, when one was so quick to harshly judge them. When one judges their parents, one’s understanding becomes darkened, and the fear sets in to repeating their failures and surplus. One must begin to deal with their fear to establish positive habits and responses.

Each individual has a different level of tolerance to fear, depending on how well one has learned to cope when things don’t go their way or when one is faced with an unbearable situation that they must deal with.

And what do you think ?

Drop Pounds And Inches With Positivity

Ok so Xmas is over and some of us may may have gone a little overboard with the food and all the special festive treats and spoiling ourselves – hey we’re worth it and Xmas only comes once a year – yeah !!!

Lots of people attempt to lose weight at this time every year.

They go on elaborate diets, take diet pills, even starve themselves in an attempt to drop a few sizes.

The one thing they almost always fail to do is change their way of thinking and their attitude.

Will A Positive Attitude Aid In Weight Loss?

While there is no firm proof that a more positive attitude can help someone lose weight, a positive attitude is certainly proof enough that it can conquer many things.

Being positive towards yourself about your own body and weight can be a huge step towards loving yourself, which will in turn make it easier for you to take care of your body.

Maintaining a positive attitude will do wonders for your weight loss efforts.

With a positive attitude, you will be more prone to making better food choices.

You’ll be more apt to exercising instead of vegging out in front of the television.

Most of all, you’ll be kinder to yourself when you make mistakes.

How To Apply Positivity Towards Your Weight Loss Goals

The first thing you have to do is firmly decide within yourself that you are going to lose weight.

But even more, you must let yourself know that you love yourself, no matter what shape or size you are.

By loving and accepting yourself, you will make it a whole lot easier to do what must be done to get the excess weight off.

Next, set some positive goals for yourself.

If you are constantly looking at the bad things, the things you want to change about yourself, you’ll never get very far.

You must first learn how to see the good things that you like about yourself.

Remember that beauty is only skin deep.