Performance is not limited to any one area of our life. We must look at everything, evaluate where we are at right now and move towards balance.
For example, you may be in optimal physical condition and yet your relationships may not be so "optimal".
Consider performance in every aspect of your life; physical, financial, emotional, intellectual, spiritual...Are you at 100% efficiency? Is there room for improvement?
Understand where you are and where you need to be. Create a plan to accomplish each and remember, you are either moving toward your goals or away from them. Keep at it.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Performance Strategies: Overcoming Fear
If I hear the acronym for FEAR uttered one more time, I might just scream!
OK, you need to know, so just for you...False Evidence Appearing Real. Yippieeeee!!!
What an overused cliché. Has knowing that ever helped? Probably not!
To overcome fear, you have to know what it really is. So let's take a look;
Fear is defined as "a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined." (For our purposes we will deal the "imagined" version.)
Impending is defined as "about to happen, imminent"
Imagined is defined as "to form a mental image of something not actually present to the senses."
Now consider that the event of which we are afraid has not yet happened and is therefore fixed at some future point.
As such, it is imagined. So what is the catalyst for all this? It is actually quite simple. Since birth we are "programmed" by internal and external experiences. We are programmed by events and by what people say. Many of those experiences we negatively interpreted and stored in our mind as an ongoing tape recording which automatically plays without our knowledge or conscious attention. We are fooled to think it is there to protect us. It is not. The instinctive mind protects us not the imagined mind.
If we could just step back when it begins to play we would actually have the choice to follow the voice in our head or not.
The key is awareness. We can condition our awareness by noting the typical words we use as triggers. Words and phrases such as "no, I can't, it won't work, it's dangerous, I'll get hurt, that's bad, what if, etc." Once we notice these words (and others like them), we can ask ourselves if the threat is real or imagined. By the way, it's real when an 8 foot grizzly bear is staring at you from 3 feet away and there are no bars or cage.
Successful people act regardless of the fear. Yes they are fearful and yet they will do it anyway. That is an achiement-oriented mind. That is true courage. Withour fear to overcome there is no courage. Be courageous!
OK, you need to know, so just for you...False Evidence Appearing Real. Yippieeeee!!!
What an overused cliché. Has knowing that ever helped? Probably not!
To overcome fear, you have to know what it really is. So let's take a look;
Fear is defined as "a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined." (For our purposes we will deal the "imagined" version.)
Impending is defined as "about to happen, imminent"
Imagined is defined as "to form a mental image of something not actually present to the senses."
Now consider that the event of which we are afraid has not yet happened and is therefore fixed at some future point.
As such, it is imagined. So what is the catalyst for all this? It is actually quite simple. Since birth we are "programmed" by internal and external experiences. We are programmed by events and by what people say. Many of those experiences we negatively interpreted and stored in our mind as an ongoing tape recording which automatically plays without our knowledge or conscious attention. We are fooled to think it is there to protect us. It is not. The instinctive mind protects us not the imagined mind.
If we could just step back when it begins to play we would actually have the choice to follow the voice in our head or not.
The key is awareness. We can condition our awareness by noting the typical words we use as triggers. Words and phrases such as "no, I can't, it won't work, it's dangerous, I'll get hurt, that's bad, what if, etc." Once we notice these words (and others like them), we can ask ourselves if the threat is real or imagined. By the way, it's real when an 8 foot grizzly bear is staring at you from 3 feet away and there are no bars or cage.
Successful people act regardless of the fear. Yes they are fearful and yet they will do it anyway. That is an achiement-oriented mind. That is true courage. Withour fear to overcome there is no courage. Be courageous!
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