Monthly Archive for May, 2006

Do one thing every day that scares you

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Do you have limits? You want to be fearless in front of everything? Well, this is THE solution.

Fear comes from the fact that you THINK you cannot act. But if you do try even though you’re scared as hell, you’ll often realise that those fear didn’t have any fondations. They can be blown away quite fast if you tell yourself you’ll just do it whatever happen. In many cases, death isn’t any near so there’s no reason to be scared.

It’s crazy how much our brain can work in order to protect us against ourself. Imagine you’re in a plane, about to jump out of it to do some parachuting. You’ve never done that before. When you’re about to jump, the brain jumps in and start giving you every bit of information it has against parachuting because fear as a seed into you brain. But if you’ve been jumping out of airplanes for ages, let me tell you the brain simply don’t care anymore because it knows nothing will (generally) happen. This concept is the core idea of doing one thing that scares you every day.

When you push your limits, the number of fears you have start to decrease. With time you start understanding that all those fear are just crap that your brain create to protect you from the unknown but you do also know that this unknown is not THAT dangerous. Approaching girls on the street is something many guys are just going to freeze if they have to but it’s possible. It just takes time and effort. If you do it one step at a time you’ll realise that there’s nothing really dangerous about doing it.

What is really interesting from doing this technique every day is that you experience a good amount of adrenaline through your body. It’s also really great to have done something you thought you could not do. Doing this will make your life at least a thousand time better because there won’t be any barriers for you. You’ll get a better life, more respects from your peers, more control over yourself and will be able to share lots of experiences other might never thought about doing because they are too scared to follow the “Do one thing every day that scares you” mentality. But YOU ARE STRONG.

If you do things you think are not to be done, sometimes you get opposite results: you get what you were looking for. Take this for example: you put money into a saving account which gives you a poor return rate but you do so because you are “scared” of losing your money. You decide it’s time to apply your new mentality and take the money and start buying actions instead. Maybe for the first transactions you’ll have a bit of a rush/adrenaline going on because you aren’t sure of what’s going to happen, but then you are really proud of what you did. Even though you might have made mistakes, by doing what you were afraid of you removed a barrier you had. As time goes by, you learn how actions work and you’ll get better. You’ll make thousands of thousand by it. And now you’re REALLY happy because you to got past what you were looking for: earning something with the money you had. But at the same time you showed to yourself you were able to get over a fear you had. Amazing.

Fear is the only thing that limits you from acting and YOU WANT TO ACT. Don’t let those fears control you for all your life, start showing them who’s the real boss here.

Happiness

It’s been proved that our mood affect our productivity. When you’re sad, you generally tend to not want to do anything, but when you’re happy, you could do almost anything in the world. Happiness though, is hard to generate by itself. Many of us fail to be happy because we’re asking too much from ourself. We want to be perfect and we want everything to be as well. People who maintain such mentality are those you see looking at the ground when they walk. You want to be one of the few who look up in the sky, wondering what life has to give.

Find one thing that makes you happy
If you haven’t took the time to find one yet, do it now, find something which you enjoy and you think would help you get back on the track, may it be a sport, an activity you like, or a show you like to watch.

I hate the saying which says there are others who are worst. I hate it especially because it’s inneffective, here’s why: when we say we’re having trouble, we are looking for answers to our problem, not someone that tells you there’s other people who have worse problems. Their problems is theirs, yours is yours, and you want yours to be fixed. That’s why you’re asking for help. Whenever someone comes for help, don’t ever give him the answer that there’s someone else who’s having it worst, it won’t help him a bit, not even psychologically. It’ll just tell him he felt into that trap where others did as well and he’s unable to get out of it.

How you can become happier
Everyone’s looking for ways to get happier than they actually are. In fact, it’s not really hard to do. Instead of looking at the events which didn’t ended like you expected they would, think about those who ended better than what you expected. Remember your achivements, your strenghts, your qualities. This is all part of what is called positive reinforcement and positive self-talk.

Positive self-talk objective is to make sure you aren’t sabotaging yourself. Many do it inconsciously and they suffer from it’s impact. By giving you a positive message, you’re simply reinforcing the good image you have of yourself. There’s no need to bait on your negative points because they’ll dissapear with time as the positive points will get even stronger. But if you keep self-sabotaging, those negative aspects will take really longer to dissapear. The good thing from not self-sabotaging is that you can only grow. Learn from your errors and keep going forward.

Never EVER let others control your feelings
I’m sure you’ve read that and said, “well, I don’t let others control my feeling, why are you talking about that?”, well, because they actually do. If you’re out with some friends and suddenly they become angry at you, you’ll reply to their angryness with angryness or fear. They controlled your feeling. Instead, stay cool, ask what happenned all of a sudden, there must be a reason to this drastical mood change. When you feel things are weird, stay calm and just look for clues of what might had happen. You can generally fix things quite fast using this method instead of going all aggressive/passive.

By being in a happy mood, you make sure others enjoy your presence. You have an aura which others can’t get away from because it’s contagious. Keep it up and it’ll grow all by itself!