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Maintain a Sense of Humor

John Torquato — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:20:10 +0000

Our mood plays a major hole in our lives. Based on our mood we have different approach to the same problems and obstacles, but usually when we use some sense of humor everything have a better ending.

Do not make your life even more stressful than it is – and it is valid for yourself and for others. Honors your sense of humor. Make sure you can laugh in the face of problems and stress instead of reacting with fear, rage or other kind of bad responses.

Keeping your sense of humor showing up some times, you will experience better days and your problems will be solved like a breeze.Similar Posts:

Score A Winning Goal

John Torquato — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:10:51 +0000

“A successful attempt at scoring” is a general definition of goal.

Let’s break that definition of Goals down a little. When you attempt a goal, does that mean you hit the mark you were shooting for? Or does it mean you tried? And if you tried [attempted] and did not hit the goal you intended does that mean the attempt had no value? When a baby attempts to take the 1st step and falls, have they moved a little closer to walking? Of course he or she has! Success is at every “attempt”

Love Goals or hate them, most successful people set Goals. Can you succeed without them? Some have. What about you? Do you need a goal?

Maybe what we should do first is find out why goals are scary to many. For one thing, what if we set one and don’t achieve it. Are you now a failure? Hey, what is failure anyway?

Failing is actually hard to “make happen”.

When we get right down to it, failure is darn hard to make happen. I was a salesman for some time and it took about 10 calls until I made a sale. Each sale I made $1,000 dollars.

Here’s the question.

Did I fail 9 times and succeed once? So would say yes. You know what I did? I said to myself, it takes 10 calls to make every sale. So each call I go on I get paid $100.00 per visit. Payday just happens to come after the 10th call. How do you think I started looking at those “visits” I needed to make? You got it; they were simply visits, not failures. In fact, I got pretty excited about each one, I knew that each “visit” I did helped me get one step closer to payday. Now it became fun. What happened to stress? Gone. What happened to depression? Gone. What happened to my attitude? It shot thru the roof and stays there today.

Do you see what is happening here?

Do you see where the problem really is? Yepper. It’s all in our head. It’s how you look at the situation.

You can change your success rate today! Did you ever hear the saying; your attitude affects your altitude? Well, the problem is it’s true.

Let’s get back to setting goals.

We don’t set goals because we don’t like to fail. But you just learned that it’s nearly impossible to fail. It’s just the way we look at it that causes the problem. In fact the only true way to fail is to quit.

Remember what I did to turn my “failures” into part of my success on the 10 sales calls I made to get a sale? Well, you can do the same thing with whatever you want to accomplish.

Has this made setting goals easier for you?

Like anything, it takes practice but now you know another way to set goals and be the leader that you’ve been waiting for!

It’s now time to set yourself up to win at everything you do.

You have the only tool you really need to set your goals and win every time. It’s the tool of DECISION. Deciding how you’re going to think about yourself and your business.

You are a winner every time. At everything you do. You never fail. Every step and action you do is part of your ultimate payday.

Your next Goal.

You decide what it is and what is needed to reach payday. All the ingredients all necessary. The rain and the sun. You love the them both. Dance in the rain and bathe in the sun. It’s all just a part of your Success Plan!Similar Posts:

What Type of Car Should I Buy to Save Money?

John Torquato — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:29:22 +0000

If you are thinking of buying a car the first really important question is ‘what sort of a car should I be looking for?’ Some of the questions that need to asked before you rush off are about affordability, lifestyle and where your life is heading. Answer these and the choice of a car will be made much easier.

What type of car should I buy is a pretty common question and a good one to ask before you actually do buy a car. It’s amazing how many people don’t ask themselves this question and end up spending way too much money on cars that are simply impractical for their life.

The first thing to consider is how much money you can afford to spend on a new car. You need to work out out how you can afford to spend each month for the next three to five years in repayments. As well as working out how much you will need for a down payment. Once you do that, you’ll be able to figure out how expensive a car you can buy.

After you have worked out how much you can afford you need to look at your lifestyle. Think of how much you will have to pay for fuel if you have a long commute. Maybe a smaller car with good fuel economy might be better than a big, gas guzzler. Conversely, if you have a lot of kids, dogs etc., a small car might make life difficult for you!

Another factor in lifestyle, is where do you live? Does the sun shine all day, every day, or does it pour with rain, hail and snow? You need to choose the right car for your climate.

The last thing you need to consider when answering the ‘what type of car should I buy’ question is, where is your life heading? If you think ahead a bit about your job will you be staying or moving on somewhere else), time of life (thinking of starting a family or retiring) it will give you some insight into the type of car that you might need. After all it would be no good if you get a two seater and then need room for a baby.

By answering the questions on affordability, lifestyle and where your life is heading, you will be able to make a good decision about the type of car that you should buy.Similar Posts:

Unusual, But Really Working Ways To Build Self-Confidence

John Torquato — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:37:12 +0000

Real self-confidence is when your inner self truly believes and trusts you, overcoming challenges and obstacles. Most people lacks self-confidence in at least a couple of areas of life, turning self-confidence onto something very common for all kind of people. Even well known businessmen, politicians, pop stars and showmen may lack self-confidence!

There are many books and texts willing to teach how to build self-confidence, but most of them have no useful information. Repeating to yourself in front of the mirror that you are great on some of your weakness will not make you more self-confident. Other pretty-to-magical tricks should not work as well.

To feel more confident, you should follow the three following steps:

1. Find out your problematic area. Since self confidence is not something wide general, each person have a different level of confidence in a different area. While you may be extremely confident in using a computer, you might fear public speaking.

2. What are your missing skills? Figure out what are the skills that are missing and preventing you from being confident in a cerain area. Write down these skills and develop them.

3. After you develop the missing skills, your subconscious mind will watch your progress on performing them well some times prior trusting it. When your subconscious mind trust you on performing these skills, you will feel confident.

Do not want to become confident overnight, as it takes a good journey of self-knowledge. Stay focused on identifying and developing your missings skills and you will become confident.Similar Posts:

The Life Coaching You Need

John Torquato — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:09:39 +0000

Have you ever visited a life coach to get help on improving your life, get things done and get over your issues, but in the end you only found more issues to solve?

If it happened to you, your coach probably suggested you attended to more coaching sessions. And if you were lucky, your coach could have offered you a discounted package.

The truth on this case is that you became a money making machine – for your coach. And the time you are using to attend to life coaching sessions is the time you could be using to get things done.

Remember the reason you went to a life coach, and it probably was to have a better life. The less time you spend at your life coach’s office, the better. It is like going to a doctor.

Take action! Do not let your issues be bigger than you are. You can take care of them if you want, but always take action in direction of your goals.Similar Posts:

The Art of Saving Money

John Torquato — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:38:56 +0000

Saving money is not merely an act, it is a form of an art. Without proper knowledge a person will fail to save the required money. Saving money is not a simple act if it would have been then you should not be reading this, and I wouldn’t be written this. After preparing a wisest budget person tend to fail in saving money. Always calculate the taxes that are needed to be paid, so deduct it from the monthly or annual income. The rest thing needs to be identified and evaluation with preciseness and wisdom.

You probably can save hundreds of dollars annually if you would take following steps precisely.

The first step is to limit the access to cash and credit.

This days, credit or debit card is very familiar and widely in used. People often spend their hard money through these cards. Any expense paid with credit card is an extra burden on your budget, if not regulate wisely. Try to avoid the use of credit card as much as you can. The credit you carry over from a month to month on your credit card requires paying additional taxes with the charges. Calculate how much more you pay on the expense which you made through credit card. You will be surprised that for the fun and easy convenience you pay for any expense through credit card but at the end of a month or a year you will need to pay more than they expended money.

Comparison on shopping and avoiding impulse buying.

While going for a shopping the first thing a person should do to prepare a list of the items that are needed, you should determine and differentiate between the necessary things and fewer necessary things If you would determine and prepare the list then you will save you from the impulse buying. You should also compare the price in other stores or with friends to know the prices for the things that you want to buy.

Proper Maintenance of your vehicle.

Proper maintenance of your vehicle will keep the engine of your vehicle in tune up condition. With the tune up engine you will get the good mileage and performance of your car. You can also avoid using your vehicle for covering shorter distances. You can save the money on fuel if you travel on buses, trams or metro trains.Similar Posts:

Improve Your Quality of Life

John Torquato — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:18:02 +0000

In life, we all try to succeed in all the possible ways. We push ourselves hard; we try hard and end up with the additional stress and tension in life. These stress and tension makes the life of an individual more worse. It also affects your other relations, you easily will get irritated and frustrated with the people those are important to you. This all will lead to the unhappy life and hinders the quality of life.

Stress, tension and worrying about the future will never help any individual to get any positive change. Moreover, it will bring negativity in a person and try to demolish all the positive things in your thoughts. A person who seeks to achieve the quality of life should ensure that we should minimize or eliminate the sources of these stresses. Due to such reasons many a time people mix their work life with the personal life. This could result in further tensions, because of the instability in life and imbalance of work and personal life. You can improve the quality of life by managing proper balance and stability on both part of life. One should always leave the work related tension at the workplace and never involves the personal life with the work.

Another important aspect to achieve the quality of life is to acquire the positive thoughts in mind. Every positive thought in mind motivates a person to be creative and to stick to the right path that enhances the quality of life. On the other hand, negative thoughts hinder in every possible way. People feel dull and stressed because negative thoughts bring negative influence in their character and finally to their behavior and views towards the life. So it is important to replace all the negative thoughts with positive ones.

Every act we do define the path of our life. How our life reflects depends up on the choices we make in life. So, it is certainly important to do the needful and correct act that helps to get the enhanced quality in our life. A person with such acts surely get appreciates from every person and becomes ideal in their groups.Similar Posts:

Easy Way to Make Your Dreams Come True

John Torquato — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:02:16 +0000

Dreams are things we aim to achieve and try the best to do so. Unfortunately we can not accomplish all our dreams, beecause we focus on our big dreams and forget the small ones.

Big dreams are things you can not accomplish overnight, such as buying a mansion, a yacht, traveling around the world, getting married, having kids, owning a huge comporation and so on. On the other hand, small dreams are things such as watching a movie you wanted to, start to practice some sport, learn a new language, learn how to drive, ride a horse, buy a pet, and the list goes on.

Instead of focusing only on big dreams, give a chance for your small dreams too. Actually, try to accomplish at least one small dream per month. Doing it your life will be more pleasant and your bigger dreams will be easier to achieve.

What are your small dreams? Write down some and go for them.Similar Posts:

Improving Life With NLP

John Torquato — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:15:45 +0000

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a name that encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming, and it have been around for a long time.

Over the years its methods and techniques have become more widely known, more refined and distilled. Some of these techniques are more powerful and effective than others. So wouldn’t it be awesome if you could get ALL the most powerful techniques — in one compact and efficient package?

NOW YOU CAN!

Someone’s had the foresight to recognize the potential behind such a collection and actually put them all together.

The Ultimate NLP Course

You’ll find EIGHT of the MOST POWERFUL NLP techniques ever.

WHATEVER you want to change or improve, there’s a technique here that’ll help you achieve it.

So, for example, if you need a confidence boost to speak in public or to approach THAT girl, there’s a technique for that.

Or if you want to finally get rid of all that emotional baggage that’s been holding you back for years, there’s a technique for that.

Or if you need to wipe out a bad habit or addiction from your life once and for all, there’s a technique for that.

You name it, NLP can help!

There’s even a technique for INSTANTLY changing the atmosphere of ANY situation! Which means you can quickly and easily put an end to family arguments, or resolve office disputes… Or just use it to make yourself feel HAPPIER!

It’s powerful stuff, but it’s also EXTREMELY practical, too. And it’s something just about everybody could benefit from!

Try The Ultimate NLP Course now!Similar Posts:

Determine What You Are Eating

John Torquato — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:27:49 +0000

The first mantra of wellness is to eat healthy to stay healthy. The foods available around us can diminish our hunger but the same could be unhealthy and can have an ill effect on our body. So, to stay away from unhealthiness the foremost and important thing is to know what you’re eating and does it really suits your body, does the food you eat has any contain that can affect your body in negative aspect.

While shopping for the food items, or if you are having a meal in a restaurant than you certainly have to ask and look for the food labels. A food label tells us many things about what we are eating and having. For instance, %daily values, calorie information, nutrition facts on a food label tell us about how much fat, unsaturated fat, cholesterol, etc., are content in the food we are eating or buying. This information is helpful in many aspects.

Our body requires calories, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and proteins for the proper growth and also for functioning properly. Absence or excessive of some of the requirements of food ingredients can lead to so many problems, such as, diabetes, obesity, weakness, etc. Our body requires a balance and healthy diet in order to stay healthy and to keep functioning properly.

Determine how much calories your body requires.

The calculation of calorie requirements varies from a person to a person. It depends on the body characteristics such as, gender, height, age and activity levels. With the help of this accurate formula, you can calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).

English BMR Formula
Men: BMR = 66 + ( 6.23 x weight in pounds ) + ( 12.7 x height in inches ) – ( 6.8 x age in year )
Women: BMR = 655 + ( 4.35 x weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 x height in inches ) – ( 4.7 x age in years )

Metric BMR Formula
Men: BMR = 66 + ( 13.7 x weight in kilos ) + ( 5 x height in cm ) – ( 6.8 x age in years )
Women: BMR = 655 + ( 9.6 x weight in kilos ) + ( 1.8 x height in cm ) – ( 4.7 x age in years )

Where: W = Weight, H = Height, Age = Years

The above equations will help you to figure out how much calories is required at an ideal state but for daily activities you need to multiply your BMR by an activity factor that more closely fits with your lifestyle.

None or very little activity = BMR x 1.2
Average or light activity for about 2 days in a week = BMR x 1.375
Moderate activities 4 days in a week = BMR x 1.5
Higher activities, exercises and sports more that 6 days in a week = BMR x 1.7
Higher level of activities = up to 2 x BMR

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