Feeling Alive at the moment

 

How does it feel to be fully Alive at the moment, at the present time. Not how it felt yesterday or how it will feel tomorrow. Nope. Now. How does it feel now?

Close you eyes, feel the moment now. Breath. Breath again. Lower your shoulders and just Relaaaaaax.

It feels good doesn’t it? I forget too, so don’t worry. You’re not alone. If we do this before reacting to negative or stressful situations, I can almost guarantee you will feel good.

Let’s relax, enjoy, and, bask in the moment….

There really is only Now.

Fear vs Courage – How to move forward with your life

Do you ever wonder that when you get excited about doing something, you do it with gusto for a while and then all of a sudden, the same excited feeling disappears? What do you call this? I call this fear. It was like this for me when I joined the gym. I was so excited to finally work out and lose the 20 pounds I’ve put on a year before. I hired a trainer and worked out five times the first week. The second week came and then, I started to have the dreaded ‘internal’ dialogue that said “You’re too tired to work out today, why don’t you just go in tomorrow?”  Tomorrow came and went.  And so did the next day and the next (you get the picture). A month past by and not only did I not go to the gym, I gained an extra 5 pounds! I ate because I felt ‘guilty’ for not going to the gym. I know, it didn’t make sense to me either. But, it happened just the way I said.

 

We are still in the midst of exploring who we are on the inside. By doing so, sometimes fear and his friend ego will go hand-in-hand and tell you to “slow down, think about what you are about to do,  do not  do anything ‘irrational’, or, you will regret this later and so on and so forth.”

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The 80/20 Rule: What is it and How You can Apply it to your Life

The 80/20 Rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, came from the principle of Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist in 1895 who wrote that people in society divided naturally by the 20% who were considered the “vital few” (they are the ones who succeeded in terms of money, influence and upper status), while 80% of the people lived “average” lives.

 

I learned about this principle after graduating from college in the mid-1990’s. I worked as a sales analyst for a major insurance company in the United States. My sales team and I took a leadership seminar with business leader and motivational speaker, Brian Tracy. He explained the 80/20 Pareto rule this way: “this rule says that 20% of your activities will account for 80% of your results. 20% of your customers will account for 80% of your sales. 20% of your products or services will account for 80% of your profits. 20% of your tasks will account for 80% of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth as much or more than the other eight items put together.”

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