Frustration. Confusion. Fear. What do I do? What’s the right answer? What’s the right course of action? Why can’t I figure this out? What’s the lesson? What am I missing?
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Of course some degree of self-awareness is natural, but if you are stuck inside your head more often than you would like, unable to express yourself authentically and unabashedly to others, then here are a few ideas you may find useful.
1) Let yourself ease into it. Whether early in the morning at work or early in the night at the club, take it easy. Even if everyone around you is already chatty, laughing, having fun, and you feel like you don’t belong, still give yourself time to shift gears into social mode. You don’t have to go racing out onto the track from the get-go. Realize that most people need time to warm up the engine, as it were, before they can go for a spin.
Posted in Step Up | Tagged charisma, confidence, courage, dating, how to, interpersonal, philosophy, writing | 5 Comments »
You are not in control.
There are invisible hands
behind the scenes
pulling the strings
that move the world.
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Willpower, the workhorse of the conscious mind, is relatively tame compared to instinct and habit, the twin engines of the subconscious mind. Yet without willpower, you and I become nothing more than passengers riding along a predetermined course. The subconscious, the unthinking part of the mind, controls our thoughts and actions under times of great stress, fatigue, hunger, insecurity, and fear. If you are driving and a car comes barreling at you unexpectedly, there is no time to think about your speed, the other driver’s speed, whether to veer to the right, veer to the left, stop, or even how to brace for an impending collision. All of this is weighed and determined instantaneously by the unconscious mind. Continue Reading »
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Like a chunk of carbon under tremendous pressure, if you do not collapse into a thousand crumbs, you will metamorphose into a matchlessly hard diamond. The process of strengthening, toughening, restructuring is measured not in days and months, but in years. No one said it was going to be easy, that it would take only a single book, a single inspirational speech, a single wave of achievement to mold your mind into a success engine capable of driving you unstoppably toward your dreams.
Posted in Master Your Mind | Tagged metaphor, pain, persistence | 1 Comment »
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