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Need More Incentive – My Daughter Has the Final Word
Charles Prosper
What causes worry? Even though you may not like this answer, it is quite simple. You worry by choice which is reinforced by the habit of choosing to worry again and again and again. Choosing not to worry is as simple as choosing which restaurant you will go to.
Your Repeated Choice to Worry Because an Automatic Habit
It is not the worry that has any intrinsic power over you but rather your choice to reinforce it. And how do you reinforce it? You choose to reinforce worry with the pernicious habit of mentally rehearsing worse case scenarios in your mind until it becomes a whirlwind of maddening automatic thinking.
Repetition Triggers the Automatic Mind
If you listen to a song or a TV jingo long enough and frequent enough, it will start to play in your mind with no conscious effort. Repetition of any mental habit triggers the automatic mind to take over and produce the mental activity whether you call for it or not. So it is with worry.
Worry is Embracing Too Much Future
Worry is embracing the habit of living in too much future (which, by the way, none of us can truly predict).
The Edict of Abraham Lincoln and Albert Ellis on Worry
Abraham Lincoln was once quoted to say “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be,” and as the late great rationally psychotherapist, Albert Ellis, would affirm “I stubbornly refuse to make myself miserable about anything.”
A 5-Step Formula to Stop Worrying
Let me give you an effective technique to stop worrying forever. The key is to use the power of getting your worry thoughts out of your mind and diffuse their power by writing them down on a piece of paper.
1. Take Out a Notebook and a Piece of Paper – Now write down “What is the worst that can possibly happen?” - (in regards to whatever you are worrying about).
2. Write Down the Worst Case Scenario - Write down of list of everything that you can think of that could negatively happen to you.
3. Write Down All of the Possible Options to Solve the Problem – Here you will brainstorm (on paper) a list of all of the possible solutions to lesson the effect or to totally solve the presupposed problem.
4. Decide Which Solution-Option You Will Choose – Accept what you will do in case the hypothetical worst case scenario should happen.
5. Release the Worry and Stay in the Present Moment - Once you know your options and have decided what you must do, there is nothing else to do but to stay in the present and live the day from daybreak until nightfall. Take no anxiety for tomorrow. No more can be expected of you than to live only one day at a time.
Do these five steps repeatedly until they become an automatic reaction pattern, and worry, for you, will be a thing of the past.
Peace and power,
Charles Prosper
Procrastination is an affliction that one time or another grabs hold of all of us. Before I give you an excellent and simple technique for overcoming procrastination, let me say a few general words about this very common experience.
First of all, procrastination has nothing with you being lazy, for no one procrastinates on everything, and everyone has something that he or she will procrastinate about. For example, you may be a person who does his or her taxes on time, but who keeps putting off starting an exercise and healthy diet program. And conversely, there are people who will put off doing taxes but will gladly exercise daily and eat right.
Procrastination has a lot to do with breaking through inertia and getting into momentum. That resistance to taking action is the inertia, and the causes stem from the fear of being overwhelmed.
The key is to start, to continue, to get into momentum, and then to establish an automatic habit of what you previously thought was impossible to do.
The Secret of Visualization to Overcome Procrastination
Though there are many techniques as there have been many books written about overcoming procrastination, I would like to keep it simple yet effective. You can overcome procrastination on a selected issue in 7 days through visualizing 15 minutes a day, at the same time and place each day.
The Technique of Visualization
Let us say that you have been procrastinating putting off getting started with your exercise program. Here is the technique. Sit in a comfortable straight backed chair, preferably without arms. Turn off your phone, and make sure that you will not be disturbed for the next 15 minutes.
Gently close your eyes, and take 5 deep breaths – in through your nose and out through your mouth – the longer and deeper the breaths, the better. Now visualize yourself in a mental movie, with as much detail and you can conjure. See yourself, for example, enrolling in that gym, or see yourself buying your home gym equipment from a sporting goods store. See yourself going home and starting to exercise; experience as much detail in your mind as possible.
At the end of the 7 days, examine how you feel about the idea of enrolling in a gym or purchasing a set of weights. You will be surprised to realize that, unlike just 7 days ago, you now feel like starting. You have created mental momentum. Now quickly push yourself and take immediate action. Continue your visualization-and-taking action routine for another 14 days. I can promise you, your procrastination will no longer be a problem for you.
Peace and power,
Charles Prosper
It was years ago that I first read this suggestion in a chapter of the classic book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie (Pocket Books) which was first published in 1944 and continues to go strong even today after six million copies sold. The chapter I am referring to is chapter 23, the one entitled “How to Add on Hour a Day to Your Waking Life”. Since I am presently in a graduate degree master’s program at Northcentral University to become a marriage and family therapist by the year 2014, I usually find myself studying 3 to 5 hours a day, seven days a week. With this study schedule, it is very easy to become mentally fatigued and to lose mental focus.
How a One Hour Nap Before Your Evening Meal Can Change Your Life
The secret to boundless energy and an increase in mental perspicacity is quite simple. Just go to sleep regularly everyday at the same time for one hour before your evening meal. If, for example, you usually have dinner at 7:00 p.m., then take an hour nap between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. You will notice after just 3 weeks of this daily practice that you will fall asleep at your nap time within seconds, and you will wake up refreshed as though you had just had an entire night’s sleep. Your mind will be clear, and you ability to focus and concentrate on any important mental task will be unparalleled. You will also notice that you will be able to get along with less sleep at night. If you normally sleep 8 hours a night, you will notice that you can now sleep only 6 or 7 hours a night and feel even more energized and refreshed than when you used to sleep a full, unbroken 8 hours.
Many Creative Geniuses of History Had the Habit of Napping
Thomas Edison was known to keep a cot in his office where he was able to take frequent naps which allowed him to invent and create practically 24 hours a day. During World War II, the phenomenal prime minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill was able to work sixteen hours a day directing the war efforts in his late sixties and early seventies by napping an hour after lunch and then again by napping two hours before his dinner at 8:00 p.m. Henry Ford, as an octogenarian, stayed fresh and fit while running his automobile empire through the practice of frequent napping.
So, the bottom line is this, if you are a creative worker of any sort, and few among us are not, if you have any goal you are working to achieve, don’t stress – just rest - take an hour’s nap each day. You will be glad you did.
Peace and power,
Charles Prosper
Often times, the simplest truths are the most powerful. This is certainly the case with this simple yet powerful technique of dream interpretation that I will offer for you now. This is a technique that I have successfully been using to interpret dreams for at least the last 25 years.
The Secret Lies in the Twilight Zone
No, I’m not talking about Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone. I am talking about your own. Each morning as we wake up from a dream, there is a transition point where, for a few seconds, we are between sleep and wakefulness. If you just think about it for a moment, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You can prolong this state for a few minutes or more with training. (You can also shorten and abort this state by beginning to think about your day’s to-do list; an alarm clock with also abort this state.)
The Trick is to Ask for the Dream’s Meaning in the Twilight Zone
Here is how you get the immediate answer to any dream symbol. As you are naturally are awakening from a dream, stay still and don’t move your body’s position. (Moving your body’s position abruptly with dissipate the dream’s memory in most cases.) As you as passing through the twilight zone, visualize quickly the dream image or the dream scene; as you do this mentally, personify and ask your dream image what it means. For example, you might ask, “Purple cow, who are you, and what are you trying to tell me?”
The First Thing That Pops into Your Mind
Here is the key. The first thought that pops into your mind is the right answer – even if you don’t like what you hear, even if you don’t like what you get, even if you wish it were something else, or even if it is not a logical conclusion that would have resulted after analyzing this image in full wakefulness. It may even feel as though you are making the answer up; this is the right feeling!
This is the twilight zone dream interpretation technique. In over 25 years, it has never been wrong in interpreting a dream image correctly for me. You will always get the truth, but can you handle the truth? “The truth! You can’t handle the truth!”
Peace and power,
Charles Prosper
This entire thought came to me complete as you see it here years ago as an inspired moment one day when I was thinking on the subject of goals and the meaning of life. This is highly philosophical, but this is exactly what came to me.
What is the Meaning of Life?
The meaning of life is the infinite journey of discovery to God which at the same time, but an essential discovery of ourselves. Through the discovery of our unique talents, we fulfill our purpose for which we were born and placed here on this earth for a designated and very limited amount of time.
The Purpose of Out Talents
Our talents are not ours but are divine loans or instruments entrusted to us with which God, through us, may operate. He attempts to inspire us to give service to others with our talents. We, through our love of doing, will often times inspire others to also search for their own unique talents which when found and given will again bless the world and give meaning to its existence.
How To Know When You Have Found Your Life Purpose
The positive signpost of finding one’s purpose and correctly using one’s talents is joy. The joy that will feel is but only the joy that God feels and shares with us at that very moment of its experience. Each person’s joy, by example, thus inspires the next person who is ready to discover his or her joy and talents, and thus find the meaning of life through the divine discovery of God, self and the universe which is made again and again, on higher and higher levels, and all throughout the boundless planes of infinity.
Peace and power,
Charles Prosper
What should I do? This is usually the question that we ask when we are at some crossroads in life. We want a better future. We want a better life. There are a myriad of choices. Which is best? What to do? Quite simply, the choice is either right for you, or it is wrong for you.
We often times don’t get the right answer because we don’t ask the right questions. Never worry about indecision again. I have here a secret to unlock all of the confusion concerning any major decision that you may be now struggling with in your life. Just by first answering the following 10 profound questions, the answer will be as clear to you as the sun rising at dawn.
(These questions are from the enlightening book “The Right Choice” by Debbie Ford.)
Hold any dilemma of decision-making up to the light of these 10 questions, and I promise you, you will know the right path to take.
Peace and power,
Charles Prosper
Do you give enough of your time to your loved ones, or do you give it all to your job, career or your pursuit of success while you neglect your loved ones? Giving also means giving of your time which can be and is depending on how you spend it more precious than the green stuff.
It is funny that you never hear anyone on their death bed say, “ I just wish I could have spent a little more time in the office or a little more time returning calls to customers.” You always hear something like, “If I had only just spent a little more time with my family. If I could have only been there for her when my daughter or son was growing up. If I had just called and told my father how much I loved him and appreciated him before he died.” If. If. If.
Three Powerful Questions You Must Ask Now
I forgot where I first heard this, but it was a powerful wake-up call for me. I only want to ask you 3 questions. 3 powerful questions.
If you had only 1 hour to live:
1) Who would you call?
2) What would you say?
And the third and most important question of them all –
3) Why are you waiting?
Peace and power,
Charles Prosper
