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Mood.  One of our excuses whenever we procrastinate is because we’re not in the mood to do a task.  In reality, our mood doesn’t do the work but action does.  If we wait for the right mood to do a task, we might end up cramming or even lose an opportunity.  It is just with our mind that we think we are not in the mood.  Sometimes, the hard thing is to start a task.  We feel like we are not in the mood when we haven’t started yet.

All we need is a force that would get us to move and start the task.  Sometimes, I command myself to do it.  All it takes then is motivation to get started.  Let your subconscious mind to command you.  Little by little it will make you move and get on the task.  As you have started to get up don’t stop telling yourself to get started until you are actually starting it.

The key here is to get started.  Once you have started doing a task, you will not notice that you were not in the mood to do it.  You will then be working on it continuously.  When you finish it, you won’t regret that you have started and not wasted the time.  You will even be thankful that you have started it earlier than you planned because you are now free of that task.  Just remember always that mood is just an excuse to procrastinate.

Taking action is the first step towards a higher self-esteem. Self-esteem helps you gain more self-confidence. Here are some tips on how you can improve your self-esteem:

1. Know your strength! Knowing your strengths will help you use it in a good way. This will help you choose on which field in your goal you must give focus to. Also, this will help you realize your weaknesses.
2. Be positive. Learn to use past disappointments or mistakes as a lesson in life and start out positively.
3. Be inspired by your past accomplishments. This will remind you that, “I have done it before, I can do it one more time!”
4. Take some risks. At times, you need to take some risks in order to achieve your goal. But weigh things first and take those risks that you are more likely to succeed.
5. Let go of the things that keep you from getting positive like, resentment, grudges, and the likes. Realize that you are far different from other people because we are all unique.
6. Visualize success. The more you see your success in your mind, the more that you are determined to achieve it.
7. Love yourself. Learn to like or love yourself and eventually people will love yourself, too. Nurture yourself, eat well, sleep well, exercise, and play.

Are you having problems keeping your diet during holidays? Then, befriend a mirror.

Yes, befriend a mirror. If you are trying to lose, maintain, or gain weight, befriend a mirror. A mirror can get you motivated with your goal. It can help you keep watch of your figure, especially during holiday seasons where there are variety of foods prepared for the occasion. Check your figure regularly with your friend and see if there has been an achievement to your goal.

Your mirror friend will remind you of your goal. In case that you are getting depressed because it shows a figure far from your goal, remember that the purpose of befriending the mirror is only to remind you of your goal and not to get you depressed. Stay nice with it to see it as a good friend. This means that you stay positive so that you’ll remain confident in achieving your goal.

The mirror will just be your friend who guides you with your goal. It is still you who would have to discipline yourself. You must keep a strong motivation with your goal and be positive with the things around you.

What inspires you? 

Inspiration makes us more energetic in whatever we do.  All of us has our own inspiration.  For me, I am very well inspired to do things that needs focus when there is music.  Some may find it more inspiring to study their lessons while watching TV.  Weird as it may seem but that’s reality.  It’s how they become more motivated to study.  A lovely sunset gives you hope throughout the day.

So what inspires you?  Inspiration gives us a more positive outlook in life.  Just washing the dishes will be more enjoyable when you are inspired.  You appreciate even little things, or details in the things you do.  You will find the sound of the bird so beautiful in a silent day; appreciate the warm water that goes out of your sink; the blessing of the Lord through the raindrops that fall in your head, and; would just say at the end of the day that, “life indeed is beautiful.”

Inspiration makes lessens the pressure we feel especially in our jobs.  The difficulties that we feel gets easier when we are inspired.  Inspiration is what we need when we feel like we cannot do a thing or when we get lazy to do a chore.  It helps us to be more motivated in what we do.

So what inspires you?

Shyness is one of our problems especially when socializing with people.  It sometimes becomes a hindrance in doing what we wanted to do, or what we must do.  It is one of the reasons also for having lower self-esteem.  Generally, the advice for this problem would be to keep your shyness, not to let anybody know that you are shy.  But what will you do if this is the matter?  What mostly happens when you try to hide your shyness is that you get aloof to people.  Worse is you become arrogant to others because you hide your shyness.  You avoid talking to people which becomes a little negative at times.

We all think of shyness in a negative way.  Although it really is in general.  If you are already shy, hiding it would even get worse.  You can use it as an asset instead.  But not the very shy type.  You may keep your humility because of that.  Trying to ignore people because you are shy will make it easier for them to label you, or criticize you more, which will make you more uncomfortable.  But if you let people know that you are shy, they may even adjust to your condition.

Telling people that you are shy will give them the idea why you are acting that way.  But of course, you should not depend on that forever, that you will remain that way because people already understand..  You should do something about your shyness.   Develop more self-confidence, believe me, it makes achieving your goals easier.

“Confidence gives you courage and extends your reach. It lets you take greater risks and achieve far more than you ever thought possible”

-Jack Welch 

Confidence really is very important in our life.  It helps us achieve our goals.  Yes, confidence lets us do things that we never thought of doing, learn or experiment on new things, and makes us strong enough to face our problems.  Those who lack self-confidence, are easily discouraged to advance on the things they do especially when they experience a bit of trial.

The confidence of a person can influence others, mostly those who are close to them.  They tend to encourage other people and inspire them to do better and not to give up.  With self-confidence, a person does what he thinks is right and do not base it on what other people thinks.

Most people with lower self-esteem thinks that they are gonna be like that forever.  Well, self-confidence can be learned and developed. You just need to be positive and motivated to have the confidence you need.  But keep in mind that over confidence can also destroy a person.  Just have the confidence that you need and doesn’t hurt other people.

Having low self-esteem is a result of past experiences or influences of other people.  There are a lot of factors that causes low self-esteem to a person.  Here are some of these causes:

• having been abused, either as a child or in relationships.
• too much expectations from you.  People around you may have influenced you for having low self-esteem.  Even the media can influence you with this.  Too much is expected from someone your age or someone like you.  This makes you feel like you are not worthy of what you have.
• Being put-down by other people always.
• Experience of violence, harassment, or discrimination.
• Being with people who are always at the top.  This sometimes makes a person feel so low about himself for looking up to the people who are on top of them.

These are just few of the factors that affects the people’s self-esteem.  These are not the person’s fault.  It develops within him because of those factors.  Knowing this factors can help us realize that we are just being affected by these experiences which resulted to lower self-esteem.

Some people think a limited self image is something you are stuck with. You´re not!

In fact, it is surprisingly easy to cultivate higher self esteem once you know how. And when you establish lasting high self esteem some very welcome changes happen in your life, in an instant:

Read the full article here…

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We always hear it from our teachers, parents, counselors, or we have read it from books, or the internet.  Set your goals right to achieve them.  It even comes to a point sometimes that we are obliged to set your goals.  You are pressured to make a goal and set them whenever you are lectured about goal setting.  It sometimes lead us to make goals that we should have.  Take note of the word “should.”  From this on, you have not set a goal for yourself but for people’s expectations.  Never forget that goals must be from your own.  It must be what you really want.  Not other’s choice for you.

It is really advisable to set your goal.  This is to keep you well-guided with your goals and to keep you in track of your progress.  But setting a goal must not be a pressure to you.  Goal setting is just a tool to help you to achieve your goals. Never force yourself to make a goal just so you’ll have something to put in your goal setting list.  If you have a goal that wanted to really achieve, then you can set it so that you’ll be more organized in dealing with your goal.

Weird as it may sound, but there really is fear of success and it often leads to procrastination. So how does this happen?

There are people who are afraid of succeeding. It is not actually fear of succeeding a certain thing but fear of facing the next step. Like in education, we fear of what will happen to us after we graduate. Because staying in school is like being dependent. You get allowance, you are being fed well, and the likes. But after going to school, allowances will be cut and much are expected from you. Sometimes, we also prolong a project for the fear that we might lose something to work on if we finish it.

Although success leads to another stepping stone, it should not be feared. We must understand that life continues after every event in our lives. You must be ready with the consequences of success. We just have to remember that after every success, we must take a better step in continuing life. We have learned a lot from experience and so we are ready to take another step after succeeding on the last one.

Success should inspire us, give us courage and confidence, make us stronger, and the experience should serve as our guide in taking the next step.