Monthly Archives: February 2014

Feb 24
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YourMondayMotivator: I’m annoyed

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I’ve been annoyed lately. Not the kind where you yell, “Numpty!”. The kind where you go “Grrrr.” in your head.

Prepare to be annoyed

When you’re really annoyed and you’re going, “ARGH!!”, in that moment. Because it’s that moment that has tipped you over the edge of, let’s call it sanity, and you’ve lost your cool. Impatience has got the better of you, and you’re upset, and you show it, and you let the person know you’re really annoyed.

That moment %%First Name%% is the culmination of a lot of events and stuff. For example: lack of sleep, lack of exercise, lack of food and lack of time out or space.

Think back to a time when you were really annoyed. …. Got one? …. Great. Now keep going back through the days and weeks preceding that moment. …. Now stop and slowly come forwards and note what you see. How were you sleeping? Did you do any exercise? Were you just eating on the run?

There will be a time when you thought to yourself, “I’m too busy to stop.”. That was your mind telling you you really need to stop and take a moment. That was the time you actually tipped over the edge. It probably just passed you by.

Here’s the hard thing. You need to do a thing a day, or every few days, so you don’t get to the tipping point. It’s doesn’t have to be much. From my experience a brisk walk, 10 minutes breathing, or eating at the table is enough to give my mind a break and enjoy a day.

Those moments when impatience gets the better of you can really wear down relationships. Be they with colleagues, staff or family. Taking responsibility for your own patience is a great start. Being mindful of others is another.

Have a great week.

Glenn

P.S. And I have to say I was very annoyed this morning when I shut down a program and deleted my first draft of today’s MondayMotivator. Oh no! will this one be as good as the first copy? I hope so. Will be shorter. Had to chuckle though right. I am writing about being annoyed. Ha!

 


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Feb 17
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YourMondayMotivator: So, who do you think you are?

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Like the Spice Girls sing who do you think you are is an interesting question because, whomever you think you are, you are. ….

Spice Girls

When you were young you used to play and act and pretend to be people and things you weren’t. You lost yourself in that person or thing for a moment and you were happy. Really happy.

Life has endeavoured to take those moments from most of us and replace them with work, boredom, inefficiencies and stuff. It doesn’t seem a fair trade.

The thing is though you can always be whomever you want to be, at any time. You just have to decide to be that person.

For example if you want to be a better runner you could research how good runners run. Find out what makes them so efficient, and their running appear almost effortless, and then copy them. Maybe get a coach to give you some tips and help you develop the habits of the running style that is most efficient for your body. By acting and thinking like a good runner you would become one.

Yes there are limitations but you would definitely become better and that’s the point isn’t it? You want to be better than you are now. You want more for yourself than you have. You can be %%First Name%%.

First decide what you want to be or do do, research the heck out of it, implement the points you find, keep practising the ones that work for you to develop a habit, and change will follow. Keep it up and the change will be permanent. Be inspired by play and dreams, and the best part of being a child imagination, will quickly instill itself back in your life.

Have a great week.

Feb 10
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YourMondayMotivator: Knowing your fate will set you free.

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I was watching an interview with 50 Cent over the weekend that has really struck a chord with me. Actually I watched several hip-hop artist interviews because they are honest with how they are living to get to where they are – at the top.

They are smart men and very wealthy men who know their audience well. Mostly because they were once their audience and decided to grab a hold of their thoughts and through music fight their way up. And it would have been a fight. To stay alive even.

A lot of these guys have been in life threatening situations that taught them to live and I thought this follows on well from last weeks MondayMotivator.

“The more that you are aware of your fate, the higher the probability you have a chance to live. So you’re a little more free.” — 50 Cent

50 Cent

You are going to die but if you haven’t been in a life threatening situation you are probably just cruising through Life. I’ve been in several life threatening situations that I felt I was very lucky to survive. Some of my own making and some not.

These situations impressed upon me that I am going to die but did they impress upon me the that I have a chance to live?

I believe they did because I continue to push myself to learn and grow. To be better each day. Sometimes I fail at that. But the difference is I can now choose to learn from that failure.

Life threatening situations are different for every one. Having to speak to a big audience can be just as life threatening as dropping a bike at 170km/h. However in reality it’s not. You are not going to physically die on stage, when making a cold call or speaking up about a concern in a meeting.

This week if you’re in a situation that makes you nervous think about the worst thing that can happen – you could get shot 9 times like 50 Cent, your child could be really sick and you have no idea what is happening as they are rushed to hospital – and then relate that back to your situation. … It’s not that bad right? Make a decision, be free and live.

Feb 03
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YourMondayMotivator: Why I think dying sucks … and what I’m doing about it.

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Bit of an attention grabbing headline I know, but it’s something I discuss everyso often and some people think the same way. I say some people because others believe they are heading somewhere else or maybe hanging around.

So dying sucks because I don’t get to see what happens next. I don’t get to experience the wonders of the future. And in that way I envy my grandparents. They have seen more change than I think I will ever see and they have left behind a lot.

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Yesterday I was thinking about what I will leave behind and I realised the only relevant thing that might stick around is the MondayMotivator.

This is because my decendents will have long forgotten about me but people might keep discovering my musings on the Internet. That’s a really interesting thought. It made me think that I need to keep the quality of these up as high as I can, every week.

That’s a big challenge.

So %%First Name%%, have a think about what is going to be left for people to discover about you in 200 years …

That thought puts a smile on my face. Hmmm, what could I leave. … Get thinking. Get creative. And maybe it won’t suck so much to not see what happens because you know they will smile when they discover what you left for them.

Have a great week.