• Inspiration…what is it?

    “Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?”

    No matter how this topic is tackled, the question remains a mystery.

    “Do you need to be inspired to aspire or do you need an aspiration to get inspired?”

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    The same holds true for the second question. Others may argue that in order to have a strong desire to achieve something, you must be inspired. On the other hand, some argue that for you to be inspired, you may need to aspire first.

    This is very much like the chicken and the egg question, right? There is no definite answer. Concerning inspiration vs. aspiration, the best course of action is to discover how to get people inspired, rather than focus on which is the right answer. For some people, inspiration helps them stay motivated and become an achiever.

    So, how do people get inspired?

    The feeling of frustration forces some to seek inspiration. Some need to experience unpleasant circumstances to trigger an inspiration. This path may not be at all pleasant. But who says that the road to greater achievement is always smooth sailing?

    Take for instance the case of an average earner. He just earns enough to make a family survive. On his way to work, he could see other people barely having three square meals a day, hardly having anything to keep them warm on a cold night, practically living on a roofless shanty with paper boards as walls. He wanted to help but can’t.

    He feels helpless for he can’t do anything to alleviate their condition. This feeling of helplessness urged him to promise himself that his family will never experience extreme poverty. This feeling of frustration inspired him to aspire for a better life for himself and for his family. His fear that his family might end up like one of the economically challenged people makes him determined to do something about improving his financial stability.

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    Someone who is successful can be an effective source of inspiration. People tend to look up to somebody who has reached the top. They wonder how it is to be like their idol, so they set themselves on a course headed in their idol’s direction. They study their idol’s past and how he was able to overcome all adversities.

    People who wish to be inspired associate with successful people. Successful people have big ambitions. Being ambitious and dreaming big dreams can keep the inspiration alive. Being ambitious is actually good as long as you do not step on other people’s toes and provides inspiration to fellow men.

    A strong desire can trigger people to get inspired and aspire for it. Again, stay within the confines of good fellowship, not hurting anybody along the way. Some people desire popularity. They aspire to be well known in society. They set their sights higher and aim to be recognized and respected.

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    Love is a strong motivator. There was once a man who pursued his love interest. He was able to get married to the girl of his dreams. His love for his wife motivated him to do his best in his job to provide for his growing family. Love provided the spark and nurtured his dreams to aspire for the best that life has to offer for him and his family.

    Many sources of inspiration can help you in achieving success in life. Arguing about whichever comes first – whether inspiration or aspiration – is not one of them. The important thing is to find your true source of inspiration and to remain focused in the achievement of your goals.

  • Happiness is the Path to the Productive Workplace

    According to the American Dream Project, the average American works between 43 and 51 hours per week. Does that make us more productive? No. In fact, the United States is ranked 8th in productivity behind countries like Norway, Italy, and France. Yet people in those countries work fewer hours. So what will make us more productive?

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    First, it is important to understand that the average person is only productive 5 hours a day, yet our average workday is 8 hours with fewer people taking breaks and vacations than ever before. Second, it is also important to differentiate between the higher living standard of Americans and happiness. Our higher living standard is due mostly to our long work hours and higher spending patterns, yet that standard does not make Americans more productive, nor does it make people happy. In fact, it only serves to make us more exhausted. The American Dream Project goes on to explain that this exhaustion decreases our productivity while pushing us into activities that are not necessarily correlated to happiness, but just escapism.

    So how can employers maximize productivity while decreasing stress? Focus on your employees. According to the Great Place to Work Institute, the companies with the happiest employees are also the most productive. However, contrary to popular belief, money does not buy happiness in the workplace. In fact, there is very little correlation between making over $50,000 per year and happiness in general. For most people, happiness is about low stress, trust, and a feeling that they matter.

    If happiness comes from trust and a feeling that they matter, then what are some things an organization can do to foster those feelings? Primarily, a company needs to have a management team that builds that sense of trust and caring. One way to bring about a caring environment is to provide services that enhance the employees’ lives, like a concierge service.

    Concierge services provided as an employee benefit give employees a tangible view that their employer cares about their personal needs as well as their productivity. This promotes loyalty and productivity. It is a useful and inexpensive way to provide for employees’ needs, and it will help in lowering employee’s stress levels. In fact, one company funded a study that showed 62 percent of employees would like help in getting things done and believed that the help would lower the stress in their lives. Also, 50 percent of those surveyed would pay to have more time with their families.

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    Those statistics reinforce the American Dream Project’s assertion that happiness is not necessarily tied to money, but to lifestyle. If you feel like your company could use a little boost in productivity and employee loyalty, then maybe it is time to really look at what your employees need. Check out concierge services to add just a little light into your employees’ lives and see how your work environment changes to a positive, productive workplace.

  • Be Happy! One of the Greatest Sources of Happiness—Nature

    Nature is one of the greatest sources of happiness. In fact, humans had lived in the lap of nature for millions of years and their stay in modern cities is comparably very very short. Still now majority of them lives in close proximity to nature. In fact, human race is dependent upon nature for its very survival (plants recycle carbon dioxide into oxygen; our food is a product of nature; and we can survive under a very limited range of variables of nature like temperature, etc.)

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    Nature is all free! It is there for everybody to stand and stare and derive happiness and solace from. It does not distinguish between rich and poor, strong and weak, man and woman. Silvery sun is free, golden moon is free, cool breeze, warm seashore, imposing mountains, smooth flowing rivers, dark and inviting forests, all are free.

    It is free, not because it is cheap, but it is rather priceless.

    How much would it cost to make only an artificial island with rivers, forests, mountains, and surrounding ocean?

    Billion dollars, zillion dollars?

    Can one make it? And if one can and afford, will he give it to humanity free to enjoy? Will he not charge some entrance fees? How much?

    When we see the moon, we see it in its entirety, no matter how many millions of people are seeing it at the same time. Has God made a separate moon for each of us, or is it only one moon which each of us somehow sees as his own individual moon? And similarly, the sky, the sun, the ocean, rain and sunshine, all are there for us to possess fully. Each can stare at the sky and claim all of it for his or her happiness. It is all his or her.

    Nature understands your moods. If you are sad, it is also sad with you. But it does not make you sadder. It does not lead you to further despair. It applies gentle balm to your wounds. It sits besides you like a mother, spouse, brother or sister, or a friend and embraces you, talks to you, listens to you patiently, empathizes with you. Slowly it lifts your spirits, makes you to see your little woes, worries, and wounds in the right perspective of infinite time and space. You smile; you laugh; and you are happy again!

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    I am sure, you are keeping your money in the bank and this bank balance gives pleasure and happiness. Even when this money is lying idle or tied down in investments. Sometimes it is money just on paper, as, for example, the value of shares and bonds. When you need something, you withdraw the money and exchange it for some pleasure and happiness. Well, all this is good.

    Yet do you realize that infinite beauty and happiness is lying around you in the form of nature?

    Do you appreciate this fact and draw happiness out of it?

    BE HAPPY!

  • Achieve More by Deleting “Should” from your Vocabulary

    When we talk about our goals, we use the word “should” a lot. Most of us think it’s just an innocent word that helps us get out of boring conversations and confrontations about our bad habits. However, the word “should” poisons our speech and ambitions by inferring that what we’re doing isn’t good enough, and that we would be better off doing something else.

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    When you say you “should” do something, what are you really saying?

    1. It’s an obligation that you’re not fond of.
    We don’t talk about how we “should” do things that we don’t feel obligated to do. If we are excited about eating cake, we don’t say, “I “should” eat cake.” We just do it! However, if we feel obligated to eat celery, it becomes a “should.” If making cookies for the bake sale is a “should,” it’s an obligation. If it were a fun activity, it would be easy for you to just do it.

    2. You’re not going to do it and you have an excuse as to why.
    “I “should” ____,” is usually followed by, “but __.” When you say things like this, you are proclaming to the world that you agree one course of action would be appropriate, and that you’re going to do the exact opposite. Imagine how foolish you would sound telling your boss, “I know that the appropriate thing to do is to stay late and finish the proposal so I am prepared for tomorrow’s meeting, and instead of doing that I am going to go home and take the chance of not finishing it before the meeting tomorrow morning.” If this is what you really mean, why bother disguising with a “should?” Deep down, you know what’s really going on.

    3. You know exactly what you need to do to make things better and you haven’t started yet!
    For all of you out there who “should” stop smoking, who “should” lose weight, or who “should” go back to school, you know exactly what you want to do to make your life better for yourself, and you’re using “should” as a lame excuse not to take action! Of course, standing on the sidelines is much easier than running after the ball, but you don’t win any games that way. If you have a long list of “should’s” and a short list of goals, choose which of those “should’s” you will follow through with and put your plans on paper.

    If instead of feeling that your day is just one thing you “should” do after another thing you “should” do, turn your “should’s” into definite “will’s” or “will not’s.” While “should” robs you of power and motivation, “will” gives you power and resolve to get things done. With fewer “should’s” in your vocabulary, you’ll find yourself speeding along the road to accomplishment.

  • Waking up to Improve Personal Life

    We all have responsibilities and obligations to accomplish in life. Sometimes life gets us down when demands and obstacles get in our way. Most of the time, it seems as though life is about other people. We often wonder how much of our life is truly your own? When life gets you down, you have to take a step back to look over the areas that cause you stress. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if you were doing what your loved? Perhaps you can acquire assertive skills. Do you need to build your self-esteem? Do you hang around positive influences? Do you live to produce new ideas that help you to improve your personal life? Do you develop great relationships?

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    If you have issues or problems with improving your life, perhaps you can visit a therapist or hypnotherapies. These questions all lead up to improving personal life. For this reason, if you need help you may want to seek advice of professionals. A therapist can help you deal with the problems you may have. Some of us have hidden keys that lead us to success. Inside the hidden messages are keys that open the door that helps one to deal with life changes and challenges, which ordinarily discourages one from taking the right course in life.

    How does hypnotherapy work?
    Hypnotherapy assists one with dealing with many life discouragements by helping us to find the hidden notes the mind. Inside the mind, you have many natural elements that help you to lose weight, quit smoking, manage pain, etc. You have the ability to build self-esteem, confidence, etc as well as counseling yourself to live happier. Hypnotherapy will also help you grow in your personal relationships. The therapeutic method will help you to balance and to live one day at a time.

    Hypnotherapy is a formula used to put people in trance-like states. The person is sort of sleeping. In some instances, a patient may be highly aware. It depends on the person. The therapeutic tactic is designed to bring you to relaxation whilst altering the conscious mind. We all have the ability to induce hypnotherapy. We can do this through meditation. When we meditate, we go into a deep focused state of mind, which usually takes us to responsive ideas or images. We can learn to control the mind, yet when a hypnotherapy process takes place, only the person has the right to control his/her mind. Hypnotherapy is designed to teach one how to master his/her state of mind, including awareness. The goal is to build faith, as well as a good attitude toward life.

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    Each time something happens to us, we develop a different attitude or behavior. Each time this occurs, our emotional responds and physical attaches to the memory. This memory is often repeated. Sometimes we develop unhealthy and inappropriate behaviors and attitudes when something happens to us. We develop bad habits that hold us back. A therapist can work with you to re-direct your way of thinking, actions, etc to start thinking positive. You will acquire healthier ways to handle problems. During the trance, you will feel relaxed. You will also feel awaken to new ideas. As you mind wakens, you will be willing to participate in new and healthier ideas. Before you participate in hypnosis however, make sure that you consult with a qualified doctor and psychiatrist.

    Hypnosis can intensify some symptoms, especially when inappropriate diagnoses are made. If you have mental complications, such as Multiple Personality Disorder, (MPD), currently noted as Disassociate Identity Disorder, (DID), then I recommend you avoid hypnosis. These people self-induce trance-like states and it could cause serious complications if you allow someone unqualified to hypnotize you.

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  • 7 Steps to Realizing Your Goals

    1. Determine precisely what your goals are. What have you always hoped you could do, but have never had the time or money? What would you do if money and time were plentiful? What do you want to accomplish in the next five years? What do you wish you had done in the last five years? What do you feel God wants for your life that perhaps you aren’t doing?

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    2. Ask yourself why you really want the things you determined in step 1). Is it to enhance your relationship with your family or with your Creator? To grow closer to those most important to you? Perhaps if it is financial, is it to better provide for those around you and leave more time for charity and ministry? Without understanding why we want the things we do, it is often difficult to really become motivated to get the things we want.

    3. Write out a list of things that would need to change in your life in order for your goals to come true. Sometimes the only reason we don’t accomplish our goals is that we don’t have a written plan of what needs to be done. Without having the ability to review the goals regularly, we tend to lose our focus. Before we know it, a month or two has gone by, there is no progress, and we are frustrated that we are no closer to the realization of our goals.

    4. Break each goal down into a series of minigoals—smaller accomplishments that, when all are completed, would result in the achievement of your primary goal. When you break your goals into smaller segments, the goals do not appear to be as formidable—just take things one minigoal at a time, and after awhile your primary goal will be accomplished.

    5. Create a time frame for achieving each of your goals. Often we don’t achieve simply because we don’t create a time constraint. Give yourself a deadline and you will get more done. Remember when you were in college and you finished the semester-long paper the night before it was due—if not the very morning it was due? As much as we don’t like to admit it, we often need deadlines to help us achieve our goals.

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    6. Ask a trusted friend to hold you accountable in each area where you want to improve, grow, or achieve. This should preferably not be your husband or wife, but rather a same-sexed friend from whom you can easily take criticism and who will feel comfortably pushing you a little when you aren’t following through on your goals. When we involve others, we tend to feel a greater sense of urgency.

    7. Celebrate each time you achieve one of your goals or minigoals. We humans tend to like celebration, and it can help motivate you to achieve the next goal on your list.

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    8. Once you have completed your goals and celebrated, look back over the process and ask yourself what you could have done to achieve your goal more smoothly or quickly. This is one of the most critical steps in the long-term realization of goals, because it can help us become more efficient at achieving our goals in the future.

  • Tend To Your Own Happiness

    Many of us wish for more happiness. We want to lead happier, more fulfilling, lives, but the sad truth is that so many of us that wish for more happiness spend much more time tending the happiness of others than we do tending to our own happiness.

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    Happiness does not simply happen. A person does not suddenly stumble across happiness. Happiness is the result of careful tending and a person who wishes to be happy must tend to their own happiness.

    Tending to your happiness does not need to be difficult, complex, or time-consuming. It can be as simple as this four-step formula:

    1. Trash your unhappy thoughts and trends
    2. Envision yourself happy
    3. Needs fulfilled
    4. Desires fulfilled

    Making yourself a happier person really can be that simple.

    Step one is an important one because unhappiness is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Many people are unhappy because they don’t believe they deserve to be happy and they lock themselves into patterns of behavior that make them unhappy. You must trash your unhappy thoughts and trends.

    Look inside yourself and find out what (and when) you think about things that make you unhappy. Is there a specific time of day that you tend to be more unhappy? Is there a specific task or routine that seems to feed your unhappiness? Is there something that you do or think that contributes to your own unhappiness?

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    Once you identify the areas of your life that cause you unhappiness you can find ways to confront it and combat it. Sometimes you can make a change to avoid the trouble spot altogether, but when that’s not possible find ways to make it less difficult on yourself. Adjust your schedule or your expectations if that will make things better. Recruit help when you can. Just easing off one task or freeing up a few hours can make a huge difference in your attitude. When all else fails and you can’t change or share something unpleasant then don’t hesitate to give yourself a reward for accomplishing it. Knowing you will be rewarded can sometimes make difficult tasks more palatable.

    Step two is key. Some people have been unhappy for so long they have forgotten what happiness looks like and feels like. Envisioning yourself happy can help create the happiness habit. Thinking about your own happiness will also help counterbalance times when you are unhappy or working through unpleasant tasks. Think about difficult times as simply stepping stones to happy times.

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    Step three cannot be overlooked. If your basic needs for food and sleep are not met then you will not be able to focus on happiness. Obviously, it is not impossible for hungry, sleep-deprived people to be happy, but most humans are a lot less likely to be happy in that state. Food and sleep provide fuel for both body and mind and the healthier your body and mind then the better chance you have to achieve happiness.

    Step four is the final step to achieving happiness. What do you desire? What do you wish for? What do you dream about? Allow yourself to dream big but don’t overlook small wishes and desires. While a two-week cruise might be great just having a weekend at a local resort might really give the rest, relaxation and escape you might need. Or perhaps you’d really like to lose 30 or 50 pounds but finding a way to work in some exercise a few times a week might give you more immediate gratification while eventually accomplishing your long-term goal.

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    Make a list of your desires, wishes, and dreams — big and small — and keep that list someplace handy. What can you do this week to achieve a small goal? What can you do this month to take a step toward a big goal? Sometimes you don’t even need to accomplish your goals to achieve happiness. Sometimes it is simple enough to know that you are working toward your dreams. Often happiness is found on the path to our dreams. Often happiness is created while we strive to make our wishes come true.

    You can make yourself a happier person but you must tend to your happiness. So often we spend more time tending to our outer possessions than we do tending to our inner ones. You can make a few changes to your life to find a better balance and that will help create more personal happiness for you.