Fatigue

The great football coach Vince Lombardi once said: "Fatigue will make a coward out of any of us". It is safe to say that he saw the wide range of personalities throughout his coaching career.

Fatigue. Who hasn't experienced it?

There can be tasks that are small that are not completed when in this state of exhaustion. The mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual tiredness that appears when fatigue sets in are tough to triumph through.

Here are some suggestions I have come up with to combat it:

Mid-day workout (find creative ways to fit in 30 mins of intense exercise or stretching at the least)

Mid-day workout that is followed by a shower

Eat an apple, the apple has been found to actually be a stimulant.

Get outside for some fresh air. The stress will lower as you go for some open air.

Drink more water. Fatigue can be directly related to the amount of water one takes in.

Breathe. Stress contributes to fatigue. Breathing takes little time to do, but a good breathing session can help you feel like you re-started a new day.

Try to limit the stimulant traps of coffee, energy drinks and tobacco, they can get you through the week, but can actually do more harm in the long run where fatigue is related. The drop off when discontinuing these can be severe even within the day.

These are a few that I work on. There are many more. Take some time today to write down some for you. Share them with someone- it will help your commitment to overcoming fatigue.

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Gratitude Pause

The greatest emotion for creating attraction. . .

Gratitude

The habit of feeling like there is not enough, that there is a void, fear, doubt, and any other emotion that wraps someone up in what I call the "funk" can be conquered by gratitude.

The exercise today is good temporarily or if it becomes a habit it is good long term and as the habit becomes a characteristic or a part of your character it can effect your destiny.

Stop spinning negative webs, stop for one moment, take out a pad of paper and a pen.

Write 10 things that you are greatful for right now:

1- I can see the computer screen
2- I have 3 beautiful kids that love me
3- I have a great career for my living and the best opportunity in the whole world for my families fortune
4- I walked into work today, some don't still have this capability
5- I am in good health
6- I know that I am on the path to greatness in all 8 areas of my life
7- I know from whom all greatness and blessings come
8- I have the ability to create leaders
9- I work with amazing people who cheer for success, seek it out and will find it
10- I have a supportive wife and she is the greatest person I could ever ask for, she is listed last here because she is deserving of all my love, she helps me grow, she helps me desire to get closer to my creator so I can become more and provide her more of everything.

If you can not put together 10 things then you are not sitting with a pen. There will always be 10 things at any time you can be greatful for. I promise. E-mail me if not we will get your mind right.

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Become clear.

There are so many options in life. So many choices to look at. It is absolutely important to BE CLEAR.

The ideal customer, the ideal business partner, the ideal lifestyle, the ideal relationship. These are all choices that takes time to develop a preference for.

I can decide, for example, that the ideal relationship communication is respectful, one of honor, of gratitude, of patience. I could also decide not to define this. This is a simple choice everyday. I cannot change anothers action in the relationship to have the relationship be respectful, honoring, greatful, and patient. I can decide to be the change.

Too many times in life I have noticed if I am not working towards the vision of what is in my heart to work towards then I allow the world to define for me reality. The best advice ever given for change is- If you want something to change, be the change.

Nothing can cause apathy and feeling of defeat more then not seeing the direction we are heading in. You plot this course.

Get Clear. Decide what you want your life to look like the most. Ensure it is congruent with your values. Then spend the time making decisions that lead toward the realization of this. When you have a hazy vision of future get clear again and ask for help from your Higher Power. Get clear. Live today being pulled by the promise of tommorow.

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The Magic Number

Do you know what the magic number is?

The amount of money Middle-Income America, the masses, would have had to make to prevent Bankruptcy this last year?

The monthly amount if they made just this magic number more they would have avoided bankruptcy?

What was this magic number?

$300 extra in a month

That's it. $300 more and financial defeat would have been avoided

It is so easy to understand that when a family is short $300 to go and put it on a credit card believing the next month will be better. Then it works and they can breathe that month, big problem, the behavior pattern is now set.

Rather then looking for opportunities to gain $300 people have been throwing bad money at debt.

What happened this last year is the behavior stopped working, people's credit limits dropped nationwide. All of the sudden the compounded behavior of throwing credit at monthly financial problems no longer worked.

Bankruptcy hits. . .

How could this have been avoided?

What is the two options one has?

Option 1 spend less- this is true many people over the past 10 years have been attempting to keep up with the Jones'. There is frivolous spending that has occurred. No surprises. Every family should come together and see what is necessary and what is desires. This is always a good idea. It is the basis for a financial statement. (different article different day to address option 1)

Option 2 make more income. Seems logical. Major Warning. When you make more you spend more. The new income must be treated differently.

Here is a suggestion-

Look at an opportunity(not a part time job) that will not take away from your full time career, can be done part time in other words.

Things to look for-
-$500 extra - that's 300 to make up the difference and 200 to save and invest
-Extra $500 is not a difficult task to make.
-A training program that you can show you how to make this income without fail with a few measures taken
-Opportunity to grow. Once you have mastered the extra $500 a month you will want to be compensated very well for showing a hand full of others how to master this

$500 is the new magic number, find the opportunity, few hours a week, $300 to cover bills and $200 to save or invest your lifestyle will not look the same in under a year I guarantee it!

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Webcammax

Webcammax found on http://www.webcammax.com/ is an amazing program. I was first referred to it because I was speaking with one of the industry leaders about using chromakey or what may be referred to as green screen.

The effects of webcammax even the free trial version amazed me. The first thing I realized is that anyone using a webcam can set up a background of their choice either from their own library or that of the settings pre-loaded.

The next thing that I noticed that the masks and special effects are top to bottom cool. My kids enjoyed the Shrek face as well as many of the other characters, it is a beefy program set up to wow anyone who is unaware of the technology. Then there is a rival/competitive record my screen software built in that lagged a little but is still pretty cool. This rivals camtasia. The cost is not to steep, however an instructional video might be nice in order to feed some ideas to the person browsing.

I would be willing to put together some demo videos because the software is just that fun. The next part about this is the large grey effects properties on the trial version. For all the features the trial has it may be good to promote what is to come when you purchase this as a product. The ability to turn this into a video and load it up to youtube is a pretty good idea.

I work on some video conferencing and notice that I look forward to the creation process with this added tool in the tool belt. The amazing thing is hardly anyone knows about it.

I started my son’s Youtube channel with this site, it was very engaging for him and he is constantly on me about the chance to record his next video. He is 7 years old and products like these really give the next generation an opportunity to explore and take their imagination to the next level.
Drawbacks of the program are these:
A little lag time in recording The Picture in Picture feature may or may not be there still?
The record my screen needs to have the option of illumination of the cursor.
The Youtube feature didn’t seem to work, maybe I missed it but are the videos embedded? This would be a very good feature to have.

*** Number one drawback. There is no affiliate link, I have referred this product close 40 people already ****

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Habits Lost Habits Gained

How quick is a habit formed?

I took a 3 day course by Stephen R. Covey writer of the book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the answer was 21 days, this number was confirmed again and again including by an individual who makes close to a quarter of a million dollars a year last night.

Imagine that, the author says it, the books say it, and even true life examples say it Mrs. Loren Mikeal confirms it.

Yet with all the proof a good habit is easy to gain and easy not to.

This is not all though. . . the main focus for this post is why is a good habit easy to loose once it is gained?

When pondering on this question this morning it appears some of my good habits fall off and go back to old ineffective behavior paterns for because of a natural force:

Gravity

To create a good habit goes against gravity, or in otherwords the force of the behavior before. The amount of time spent doing the old behavior was much greater then the 21 days. So after 21 days of applying it is a habit.

It is almost unconciously a habit after 21 days, but if you step away it will become greater and greater a difficulty.

If you decide to take a day away from the new habit formed keep yourself on course with 2 primary actions.

First plan your return and second share that plan with someone who will check back in with you.

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Interview With Will Smith

YouTube It . . . -Trust Me-

There are certain items on YouTube that are absolute golden nuggets of wisdom, the interview Will Smith gave to Tavis Smiley on YouTube is well worth your time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pke9gEZfJXk

If you have lost all hope in actors, this will restore it for this man. You will hear in 6 minutes what some people in a lifetime don't understand.


"I am not afraid to die on a treadmill" say what Mr. Smith. In other words "I will not be outworked". This mindset keeps one out of the comfort zone. If I choose to let those who I know it is in my power to outwork.

"Decide" when we decide the Universe is going to get out our way.

When we are who we choose to be and we go full throttle at the idea or concept of who we are, then we are not going to allow others to define us. I would put it out that the treadmill that we run on is the same treadmill that either exposes each of us as a fraud or promotes us as a leader. We either decide each day to know our purpose and lead or shirk our purpose and fall behind.

Check it out for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pke9gEZfJXk

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Be Like A Duck

A duck looks so mellow on the surface of a pond smoothly gliding gracefully from one spot to the next. This is the part nobody but the duck gets to see. Calm on the surface and underneath the duck is working overtime. The legs are move fast, fast, fast.

The duck can teach a valuable lesson. Never underestimate what it takes to be successful. It will take massive action and activity. The part you witness of the individual who has it all will appear very much like the duck, however I can guarantee if you followed around this individual and for a month and compare there activities you will see below the surface the kick of the DUCK.

We have been inundated with examples to tell us otherwise, instant success, take this and immediately your results look different, the training sequence on movies that last only 2 minutes and the individual is a champion. Throw this philosophy away, it is an outright myth. The only true way to have more success is to become more.

When you become more then you are able to make things on the surface appear easy, but underneath better not stop those legs from churning.

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This One Ingredient

There is one thing that is missing with most people who are not where there want to be in life today. This one thing can make a huge difference. This one concept will bring someone from the down and out to the down right dynamic.

What is it?

Enthusiasm. If you don't like your results you've been getting. Look at the attitude that you've had when you've been going about trying to achieve them.

You don't deserve what you want if you don't act like you are excited to get it.

If you don't know what excited, enthusiastic, passion looks like, become a student of it. There is nothing that I have found more to be more attractive then an enthusiastic person who is going about the most crucial activities with what appears to be endless energy.

The worlds obstacles seem to magically remove themselves out of the way. It is an amazing feeling.

To prove this climb on a bike and try to ride it real slow and see how fun it is. Then get on a bike and ride as fast as you can, feel the wind in your face, feel the strength of momentum, feel the exact opposite feeling of awkwardness. I am not kidding get on a bike today, if you don't have one go to a bike shop and test ride one. Who knows it may take an activity like this to wake you up if you've been walking around half dead in fear.

Enthusiasm is a gauge to be constantly aware of. If you don't have your meter set high enough you don't have a white hot burning desire for what you are attempting to do. If you need more excitement, act it, and you will feel it. Use any nervous energy as the fuel to get you going. Trust me it works.

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Hard Work vs Productive Work

It is very easy to be busy doing tons and tons of work and be getting no results, and no where nearer to the goals you have set.

It is a form of fear. There is a time to plow and then there is a time to seed or sow the seeds in the field. Fear plays a role. I know a lot of people who are hard workers. They will work from start of the day until the finish. They are doing a whole lot of busy work.

I don't know what the seeds are with your life pursuits, but fear will cause your to work extremely hard on the things that matter least and allow your mind to be comforted as the things that matter most are neglected.

Take some time to slow down. "Slow to grow." Write down the 3 most important things about your job. Spend time thinking about how you can get these three things knocked out as early in the day as possible.

You will no longer do the small things out of fear you will do the small things that consumed your day out of momentum. When the 3 biggest most important tasks are out of the way. What I refer to as the "Main thing" then a whole new set of energy will carry you through the rest.

Try it. Write down and fill in the blanks. The three most important areas of focus today are ________, _________, and _________. If you have more make about the 3 most important tasks this morning are, and the 3 most important tasks this afternoon.

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Partnership

There is an arrogance and a pride that exist that is beyond the "I can do this". Confidence is "I can do this", "arrogance is "I can do this all by myself".

If you have the mentality that you can do something all by yourself then a caution sign should be placed in front of you. Huge warning, rocks ahead.

I don't care how big and bad you are. One person is only going to be able to do so much. "You can tell the size of the person, by the size of the problem that gets them down." Jeff Olson.

I am going to be in your face for a second here and tell you that I have been searching for a leader that had no one. The leader who did it all by them self. I can tell you NO ONE ever has. I don't care who you give me. The leader does not exist.

I will say it is a law given by God himself that everyone must inter depend on each other to fulfill their full creation.

I will take this into passionate areas of mine. Starting with sports. Michael Jordan, had a coach, even when he had to go it alone and was shooting by himself after he was cut from the High School team. He was not pushing so hard to go solo into his dreams, he was pushing so hard to qualify for more supervision/coaching of his skills.

Even as I am writing this Michael Phelps is back to making his 5th gold medal in the World Championship of swimming after taking home the record of Gold Medals in the Olympics. He is back to being a fabled athlete having tested positive for Marijuana a few short months back. He is a solo athlete. He did it alone right? Wrong, wrong absolutely wrong. His 5th medal so far was on a relay team for one, and his coach was the father figure that made Michael Phelps so strong with his grueling workout schedule. Phelps did not even know what to expect, and his coach constantly made the workouts more psychologically, mentally and emotionally difficult.

The list goes on and on I challenge anyone to give me one example of a leader who got there alone. Come on give me one.

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