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Who is Steve Pavlina?

Published on February 19, 2008 in Blogs, Educational, Health, Mental, NLP, Nutrition, Personal, Professional and Reviews. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Steve Pavlina, once a felon, is now a personal development blogger who maintains a site at www.stevepavlina.com. His interests vary. While some of his posts are the run-of-the-mill personal development articles that describe how to energize your life and get things done, other articles boarder on the weird. The arena of personal development has no shortage of blogs on the web so the question is, “Is Steve’s blog worth your time?”

First I’ll say this; you will not be bored on this blog! You could spend a day on it reading a wide variety of articles ranging from “How to Give Up Coffee” to “The Meaning of Life.” The articles are generally well written and are frequently backed with Steve’s experience on the subject.

One of the articles I found particularly interesting was “30 Days to Success.” It’s one of those things that you read and think, “It’s so simple! Why didn’t I think of that?” Basically Steve suggests that major changes in your life should have a 30 day trial period. Have you been thinking of starting a new diet? It can be a daunting task to change the way you eat forever, but if you just want to stick with the diet for 30 days, it becomes much less of a mental hurdle. The beauty of this principle is that new habits take about 30 days to form so if you find that you’re reaping health benefits from your new diet after the 30 day mark, you’re much more likely to continue. See what I mean? The principle presented is simple, yet powerful.

Don’t get me wrong. There are some things Steve writes about that I’d recommend a lot more research on before trying. One such idea is polyphasic sleep. Polyphasic sleep is taking many naps throughout the day rather than sleeping in one long span of time. Steve suggests that this is possible because you train yourself to enter REM sleep faster. That statement caused little alarms to go off in the part of my brain that holds a psychology degree. I remember reading that a person will go directly to REM sleep if they’re sleep deprived and exhausted. I don’t think people trying this sleeping method are really training themselves. I just think they reach a point where they’re so exhausted they go right into REM sleep. Polyphasic sleep also seems to ignore thermal fluctuations that your body goes through during wake/sleep cycles. For me, polyphasic sleep left too many questions.

The truth is you don’t have to agree with everything Steve Pavlina writes in order to benefit from his site. There are plenty of good ideas there and it’s definitely worth your time to check it out and play around for a couple of hours. Who knows? One of Steve’s ideas may change your life!

Relaxation

Published on September 9, 2006 in Health and Self-Improvement. 0 Comments

Do you take some time each day just to relax from the daily stress? If you don’t, you should for the benefits.

Relaxation allows you to take some time for yourself so you can analyse what as been going on for the last few days. By taking some time to review your day, you can prepare things or see the good/bad of the day so you make sure they are repeated or not. Relaxation is a time saving activity, simply because your mind as time to restructurate everything that went on today and will be coming soon towards you. Relaxation is pretty much like giving your mind time to create an agenda and store the information you have to know in order.

Relaxation also help you to deal with physical tension and other physical stresses. It’s always better to perform a task when you’re calm because you know you can take your time to analyse everything before you choose an option. When you’re stressed, you’ll generally go with the first idea that comes in mind without verifying what will happen when the idea is applied. You thus give you more risk and this return in the form of even more stress to deal with because things weren’t done meticulously.

Relaxation can take as little as five (5) minutes of your time daily. That’s 35 minutes per week. Here are some examples of what you could consider doing:

  1. Deep breathing
  2. Exercise
  3. Humor
  4. Listening to music
  5. Massage
  6. Meditation
  7. Prayer
  8. Self-hypnosis
  9. Visualization
  10. Yoga

Doing one of these 10 possible technique will enhance your life tremendiously, and it’s not hard to do. It just require some of your time and the results you’ll get from doing it will help you deal with everything in your life much more easily.

If you have anything in mind you’d like to take care of, say, problems you have or things you’ll like to be able to do, take some time and focus on it. Find what it is that you want to be achieved and give your mind the time to look for solution of this achivement to become reality. When you get that solution, “just do it”. You’ll thanks your mind later.

Self-Esteem

Published on July 25, 2006 in Health, Mental and Personal. 1 Comment

Self-esteem is one of the things that leads our lives. If you don’t have a good self-esteem, chances are that you’re not happy with who you are and your life in general, you see things as obstacles. The opposite is that you feel great about everything, enjoy life and see everything as a new way to learn and to appreciate it’s natural ingeniosity. Self-esteem is what makes us act like us.

Self-esteem is deeply connected with our self-image, which is our mental image of ourself. The higher our self-esteem is, the better our self-image is. Self-esteem is our declaration of being able/unable to do things. It’s in some sort, our limits, or what we believe are our limits. We are unlimited beings, the mind is our only limiter. If you believe everything is possible, then it will, if you don’t, you won’t believe it’s possible.

Working on your self-esteem is easy if you believe it is, so think like that. What you want to do is to accept everything the way it is and to stop trying to change already accomplished events because it is impossible to do so (for the moment). Then you have to act like everything is reachable. Never limit yourself or say no to opportunities. Seek those opportunities and enjoy them. If someone invites you to play a sport you know you’re not that good at it, don’t refuse because of self-esteem corruption. Accept and see the event as a way to ameliorate your skills and enjoy doing it. If you do, others will as well. When you act like you would others to, they will respond to that mood and will act like you. This is called mirroring.

Always seek every opportunity under a positive light. If you’re having boring conversations with your mates ask yourself why. Is it because you don’t participate or is it because the subject is not interesting to you or even BOTH of you? If it’s any of these, change subject or tell the other person you’re not interested. Don’t waste your time and energy on unwanted material, although see the “boring” conversations interesting by finding ways to control them, seek possibilities for you to turn it into something enjoyable, try different speech speed, pitch, expressiveness, etc. Even the worst topics can be interesting if you give some of your energy into it.

One important thing about self-esteem is that we often value it by how others perceive us. Self-esteem should be OUR estimation of ourself not OTHER-esteem. Stop relying on others to judge you, because you’ll only find ways to lower yourself which is the mind primary behavior because it defends the organism against future attacks. Believe EVERYTHING you BELIEVE. Make it rock solid. Sure, sometimes you beliefs aren’t strong enough but look for all the possibilities and then establish yourself. What is vital to remember is that no one should define you. Only you should be doing that. Create yourself based upon YOUR choice, not the others. By doing so, you’ll increase your self-esteem and self-image tremendously.