SELF-TALK LIKE A WINNER!
I was watching a show about people losing weight recently and there was a young man on the show who didn’t know how to think like an athlete. His trainer was getting extremely frustrated with him, as it was obvious he was floundering around. When he finally asked the young man, what the bleep are you thinking when you are doing this exercise, the young guy said, I don’t know what to think!
This prompted me to look at other situations in life when people don’t actually know what to think in a situation. When I exercise, I think to my self, ok you’ve gone 5 min but you’ve ridden 1 mile so keep it up only 6 more miles to go, then after 4 and a half miles I say to myself, you are half way now, good work, push through the pain and keep going. Then I count down the time or the miles I ride. Until I complete he task. If I’m doing resistance training it’s counting the reps and telling myself to feel the burn and push through it. I have a self talk which allows me to work through the pain of excercise in order to make the achievement of a great work out. I finish with endorphins released and fat burning away, muscles pumped and me sweating profusely. But I feel so much better for it.
So what about someone who is studying. Many of us want to take up study but as an adult, it’s a daunting task. So we have to talk ourselves through it in a similar way. Say you have two Uni assignments to do, you would tell yourself, ok 
time to research this assignment and brainstorm the subject. Done that, now I have to complete the essay so it make sence and applys to the requirements of the professor. Just a few more thousand words, now to spell check, ok review, done yes!
It is a great feeling when you are able to submit an assignment ahead of time, because you have talked yourself into the work and you have talked yourself through it.
We use self talk all the time, but how often do you talk to yourself as if you are going to make an achievement? How often do you give yourself set goals within the task as you are doing it to keep yourself moving? What about that great feeling when it’s done!? That is a great feeling.
The difference between winning and losing is in the self talk we encourage within ourselves. If you are always feeling like you can’t win, then learn to apply this to simple tasks like the washing up, or the folding. Take small chunks out of the pile until it’s all done. The feeling of achievement is a boost and it is a stepping stone to the next achievement and the next.
Life is just a set of tasks all set out for us each day, they may vary and they may each have different categories and challenges, but we still have them. From the time you awaken to the time you fall asleep, you have tasks to do.
How about getting yourself a little challenged today and set a new task, talk yourself through it and feel the boost of achievement.
You’ll be glad you did.
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The Artisans Have It!
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Do you ever visit or live in a town with a big artisan population? I love going to these towns. Just recently, my family and I went up to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland to celebrate my mother’s birthday . We ate some cheese at a boutique cheese factory and enjoyed the views to the ocean from the veranda of the old Mapleton Pub.
The thing that strikes me about artisans is the love they put into their work. I think it would be a rare artisan who is not in love with their craft. As we all know, love is so very important in daily life, the expression of love into objects always translates into beauty. Mother Earth gives us this all the time, with the simplest gifts of flowers and birds, butterflies and beetles. But humans are also capable of creating love in beauty.
Artisans can teach us so much about working with love. The appreciation for the time they put into their work is unavoidable. Take a stained glass lamp for example. The artisan will have stained the glass and sketched a plan, they would have soldered it all together and wired it up. Time, and love and thought goes into every piece.
How many of you find that this same process goes into your job? Most of us hate our work and we are only there because it pays the bills. But what if we were to change our view for just a moment? What if we were bored out of our
brains with our job, but we were to make doing the job a game? What if we disliked our colleagues, but we were good at our job; couldn’t we play nice and feel the freedom of not being caught up in the office politics? By putting a little love into our working lives, we too could be like the artisans and find the quality in our work. You always have a choice and it is your choice to stay in a job that is creating a negative issue in your life. It is simple to say, ‘no more, I am looking for a new job’. Or, ‘I am going to find out how to learn more, to get into another industry or to climb the corporate ladder’… Or ‘I am going to feel the heart in this job, so I can at least enjoy it while I am here’.
We all have to work, even those who stay at home have to work. No one gets out of it. For some of my day I do paid work and for some of my day, I do home duties. This is because I have kids. I have to be there for them. It means I have two jobs. I am rarely off my feet watching the TV. Sometimes I hate cooking again or doing the washing again. But I have chosen to put as much love into the mundane tasks in my day, as the tasks I enjoy. I love my job, so I put allot of love into that. I love my family so I put allot of love into the jobs that support them.
I’ll finish this spiritual comment with a quote from my ‘inspirational messages of love cards’
‘Before enlightenment – feed people and wash dishes, after enlightenment – feed people and wash dishes.
The mundane does not have to be dreary, if you put a little love into it.
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