DEAL WITH STRESS AND LIVE LONGER

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2010-12-16T02:58:00.000-08:00

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SELF MOTIVATION: KEY TO GREATNESS

2009-05-19T05:19:00.000-07:00

1. UNDERSTANDING GREATNESS
Greatness is more than success; whereas success is limited to a particular area, at a particular time of one's life, greatness is a wholesome phenomenon. Greatness is a combination of several successes in a person's life that brings him public recognition and personal fulfillment. It is an immeasurable state of achievement in life.

A great warrior is one who has fought and won several battles and wars. In life there are several battles, some are spiritual, while some are physical.

These battles go on in different areas such as finances, family, friends, health, business, education, leadership and even religion etc. When success is attained in all or majority of these areas, then the person who attains such successes can be branded as a great personality.

You are not truly great until other people become successful through your direct or indirect input. To be great in life, you need to be committed to ensuring that you raise several successful people in your LIFE'S NETWORK.

Your greatness is only confirmed by the testimonials from this network of successful people. The bottom line is; you can never be great without impacting positively on other people.

2. WHAT IS SELF-MOTIVATION
Motivation is an inducement with a motive that causes motion or action. There is a motive behind every action and this motive produces a force that enhances the performance or outcome of that action.

A man who is motivated or induced with a motive will naturally perform better than a man without any form of motivation. The absence of motivation produces nonchalance and/or laziness.
Failure is a result of inaction and inaction is a result of lack of motivation, failure also is antagonistic to motivation. It can kill motivation when given the chance. A great man is one who has learnt how to handle his failures and fears.

Self-motivation therefore is the act of staying focused on your motive and translating its power into a productive action with positive result. It is an internal push within a person that causes him to take action in line with his motive. Self-motivation makes you active. It is the activation of a person's life caused by the motives in his heart. I boldly prescribe Self-motivation as the antidote for laziness and failure.

3. ATTAINING GREATNESS
To be great in life, you need to be a proactive person and the motive behind all you do on a daily bases should be hinged on attaining greatness.
When your state of mind is centered around greatness, it will make you to be two things:

A. An active person
B. A peoples person

You need to work and you need to be people conscious if you must be great. You do not necessarily have to do hard work but you need to work hard and better still, you need to work smart. Your aim should be to make as much people as you can successful in life. This consciousness will keep you self-motivated at all times because you will always have what to do and you will always meet people who need your help.

So, stay motivated with good motives and your greatness in life with time will become obvious.
P.S. In order to remain self-motivated and become great, you need to read books, hang around great people and hear things that are in line with your motive: in this case - GREATNESS.

Michael Essien

Strategies For Coping With Anxiety

2008-10-10T14:51:00.000-07:00

This is going to sound like a mixture of common sense and the obvious. Do not dismiss it for these reasons.

List the various symptoms you might have been feeling when you suffered from Anxiety or had a panic attack.

Accept that your anxiety is a real problem.

Review the stresses in your life. For at least four weeks, keep a note of situations which cause anxiety, putting down what you identify as the cause. Analyse your notes for patterns.

Does anxiety occur on particular days of the week, times of day or during specific tasks, situations or when you are with certain individuals?

Allocate priorities to these anxiety-rich situations, i.e. are there some which are completely unavoidable, such as an examination, as compared to others less urgent, such as a date to start golf lessons.

Only you can decide how to arrange the priorities.

Now write about anything which you have found relieves anxiety.

Possibilities might include sports, meeting friends, having a drink, cigarettes, drugs, sex or entertainment.

Analyse each of these.

Are they realistic options or are they self-destructive? Narrow down the choice to things which will enhance your life as well as relaxing you.

Can you rearrange your job to reduce stress? Could you could renegotiate your work, reallocate priorities, delegate more, become more assertive about deadlines, working hours, or pressures imposed on you?

There may even be simple changes you could introduce such as a better chair or a quieter office.

Is your life going where you want it to? Are there priorities which have got lost in the day-to-day mayhem.

Consider how realistic it is for you to redirect yourself towards your goals.

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HOW CAN I MANAGE STRESS BETTER?

2007-01-03T23:29:00.000-08:00

Helo and Happy new year! welcome to 2007......... Lets talk a little about managing your stress this year.
Identifying unrelieved stress and being aware of its effect on our lives is not sufficient for reducing its harmful effects. Just as there are many sources of stress, there are many possibilities for its management. However, all require work toward change; changing the source of stress and/or changing your reaction to it.

How do you proceed?

1. Become aware of your stressors and your emotional and physical reactions.
-notice your distress don’t ignore it,

2. Recognize what you can change by avoiding or eliminating them completely
-shorten your exposure to stress, take time to eliminate or avoid your stressors

3. Reduce the intensity of your emotional reactions to stress
-don’t over react to things, be positive, don’t be afraid

4. Learn to moderate your physical reactions to stress
-slow deep breathing, medications

5. Build your physical reserves
-exercise, good food, rest, enough sleep

6. Maintain your emotional reserves
-quality friendships, be kind and gentle to yourself, pursue realistic goals

have a nice day.........

Michael Essien

happy new year's eve

2006-12-31T10:09:00.000-08:00

Helo friend
Just to wish you a happy new years eve.
As you prepare to enter the year 2007,
be sure not to get frustrated either by the failures of 2006
or the chanlenges of the coming year.
Stay healthy and keep trusting in God
because He has the answer for all of your life's questions.
belive in yourself and start from where you stoped in 2006
but try changing your strategies and your belief system.
Whatever it is just dont get stressed up.
Life is sweet..............

Always me,

Michael Essien

How Can I Tell what is Optimal Stress for Me?

2006-12-29T05:14:00.000-08:00

There is no single level of stress that is optimal for all people. We are all individual creatures with unique requirements. As such, what is distressing to one may be a joy another. And even when we agree that a particular event is distressing, we are likely to differ in our physiological and psychological responses to it.

The person who loves to arbitrate disputes and moves from job site to job site would be stressed in a job which was stable and routine whereas the person who thrives under stable conditions would very likely be stressed on a lob where duties were highly varied. Also, our personal stress requirements and the amount which we can tolerate before we become distressed changes with our ages.

It has been found that most illness is related to unrelieved stress. If you are experiencing stress symptoms, you have gone beyond your optimal stress level: you need to reduce the stress in your life and/or improve your ability to manage it.

Hey be conscious of your own uniqueness.........

Its always...

Michael Essien

Eliminating Stress ?

2006-12-28T06:29:00.000-08:00

How Can I Eliminate Stress from my Life?
As we have seen, positive stress adds anticipation and excitement to life, and we all thrive under a certain amount of stress. Deadlines, competitions, confrontation, and even our frustrations and sorrows add depth and enrichment to our lives. Our goal is not to eliminate stress but to learn how to manage it and how to use it to help us. Insufficient stress acts as a depressant and may leave us feeling bored or dejected; on the other hand, excessive stress may leave us feeling tied up in knots. What we need to do is find the optimal level of stress which will individually motivate but not overwhelm each of us.

So you see, you need some level of stress to be effective.......Ha!

I leave you for now!

Michael Essien

STRESS MANAGEMENT

2006-12-28T03:33:00.000-08:00

What is stress?

Stress is the wear and tear our bodies experience as we adjust to our continually changing environment:
it has physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or negative
feelings. As a positive influence, stress can help compel us to action:
it can result in a new awareness and an exciting new perspective.
As a negative inf1uence, it can result in feelings of distrust, rejection, anger, and depression, which in turn can lead to health problems such as headaches, upset stomach, rashes, insomnia, ulcers, high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke.
With the death of a loved one, the birth of a child, a job promotion, or a new relationship, we experience stress as we readjust our lives.
In so adjusting to different circumstances, stress will help or hinder us
depending on how we react to it.

We'll talk in details later

See ya later!

Michael Essien