วันศุกร์ที่ 18 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Fear, Anxiety & Resistance - Fears of Creative People - PART THREE
<p>Here are seven more proven techniques to reduce and overcome fear in the creative process:</p>
<p>Approach #4: Baby Steps</p>
<p>However you get yourself to action â" from logic or emotional changes or something else -- the important thing is to take baby steps. Rather than trying to write your novel entire today, aim to write X number of pages every day this month. Rather than committing yourself to generate an entire art show this week, give yourself credit for every action towards that goal: applying gesso to canvas #1; sketching art piece #2; buying supplies for art piece # 3 â" whatever you do, keep track and praise yourself for every positive action towards your goal.</p>
<p>Approach #5: Focus on what you love, not what you fear</p>
<p>Sometimes we get stuck in fear â" we obsess over our anxieties and concerns and fan our fears to terrifying new levels.</p>
<p>To the extent that we can respond to fears with love, we can quell our anxieties. For example, letâ™s say youâ™re afraid to fire up the soldering torch. Why are you trying to do this anyway? Presumably, youâ™re doing it because you love making things. Remember why you love it. Dwell on the specifics of what you love about it. Recall that feeling of â˜flowâ™ â" that healthy high that happens when you find yourself lost in moments of unadulterated . Now break out the striker and start soldering!</p>
<p>Approach #6: Practice taking risks</p>
<p>Martha Beck suggests that you can inoculate yourself from fear by taking a risk every day. This is too scary for me, but it might work for you.</p>
<p>She advocates that each day, you should âœchoose any scary goalâ, then âœtake the smallest scary step possibleâ. Further, she advise that you âœmake backing out as hard as going forwardâ by publicly committing yourself to take this action or by committing money to the cause. You could email everyone you know and tell them youâ™re going to do X, for example, and if you donâ™t youâ™ll donate $100 to a cause you abhor.</p>
<p>Approach # 7: Fake It â˜til You Make It</p>
<p>If all else fails, you may have to pretend. Hide your fears and from others and from yourself. Act as if you are supremely confident. The more you can play the role of a fear-free being, the less fear youâ™ll actually experience.</p>
<p>Approach # 8: Rituals and </p>
<p>If you set up a regular routine for steady progress, thereâ™s little place for fear or anxiety. If you tend to do the same thing in the same place at the same time, youâ™re comfort level will prevent fears from arising.</p>
<p>What would help you?</p>
<p>Can you create a pleasant, regular ritual to aid your progress? Perhaps a cup of tea or some non-distracting music or a preparatory to center yourself?</p>
<p>Tip: whatever it is that give you creative juice â" be it playing your guitar or writing or painting -- make it a habit to do it first thing in the morning. If you start each day with what is most important â" even if only for half an hour â" you will make daily progress, youâ™ll feel better and your fears will dissipate.</p>
<p>Some people find it helpful to put reminders and talismen around them. It could be a small collection of meaningful objects â" or a collage â" or photos that inspire and soothe you. Lisa tape recorded herself at a writing workshop. Whenever she finds herself feeling fearful or doubting her work, she plays a bit of the tape â" itâ™s very inspiring to hear the excitement in her voice when she first described her project.</p>
<p>Itâ™s also nice to collect an Folder of ideas, articles and images that pump up your enthusiasm. This can include the accomplishments of role models as well as your own.</p>
<p>Approach #9: Meditate</p>
<p>One of the proven cures for short-term fear and long-term anxiety is . It doesnâ™t have to be a major undertaking â" even five minutes of quiet time will make a difference.</p>
<p>* Set a timer for five (or more) minutes. Clear your mind and focus on your breathing. If a thought pops up, gently push it aside and return to your breathing.</p>
<p>For best results, do this several times a day, every day. expert Youngey Mingyur Rinpoche recommends numerous very short meditations during the day.</p>
<p>Approach #10: Trick Yourself</p>
<p>When all else fails and you're still steeped in anxiety, trick yourself.</p>
<p>* set a timer for five minutes. Tell yourself âœOkay, Iâ™m scared, but I only have to do this for five minutes.â You may well find that when the timer goes off, your fear has dissipated and youâ™ll WANT to continue working.</p>
<p>Activity:</p>
<p>1. Identify your top fear or anxiety at this moment.<br />
2. Try at least one of these approaches.<br />
3. Think about what has worked for you in the past â" how have you overcome fear? How can you apply that to your present circumstance?</p>
<p>Fears are a natural part of the creative process. All multi-talented people experience fear, anxiety, worry and resistance at some point. Today we continue our strategies for fighting fear. After youâ™ve identified the true nature of your fears and resistance (see Part One of this series), you can then use proven techniques to manage and reduce them. Part 2 of this series presented three ways to overcome fear and how to manage creative fears. Here are seven more proven techniques to reduce anxiety and overcome fear in the creative process:</p>
<p>Approach #4: Baby Steps</p>
<p>However you get yourself to action â" from logic or emotional changes or something else -- the important thing is to take baby steps. Rather than trying to write your novel entire today, aim to write X number of pages every day this month. Rather than committing yourself to generate an entire art show this week, give yourself credit for every action towards that goal: applying gesso to canvas #1; sketching art piece #2; buying supplies for art piece # 3 â" whatever you do, keep track and praise yourself for every positive action towards your goal.</p>
<p>Approach #5: Focus on what you love, not what you fear</p>
<p>Sometimes we get stuck in fear â" we obsess over our anxieties and concerns and fan our fears to terrifying new levels.</p>
<p>To the extent that we can respond to fears with love, we can quell our anxieties. For example, letâ™s say youâ™re afraid to fire up the soldering torch. Why are you trying to do this anyway? Presumably, youâ™re doing it because you love making things. Remember why you love it. Dwell on the specifics of what you love about it. Recall that feeling of â˜flowâ™ â" that healthy high that happens when you find yourself lost in moments of unadulterated . Now break out the striker and start soldering!</p>
<p>Approach #6: Practice taking risks</p>
<p>Martha Beck suggests that you can inoculate yourself from fear by taking a risk every day. This is too scary for me, but it might work for you.</p>
<p>She advocates that each day, you should âœchoose any scary goalâ, then âœtake the smallest scary step possibleâ. Further, she advise that you âœmake backing out as hard as going forwardâ by publicly committing yourself to take this action or by committing money to the cause. You could email everyone you know and tell them youâ™re going to do X, for example, and if you donâ™t youâ™ll donate $100 to a cause you abhor.</p>
<p>Approach # 7: Fake It â˜til You Make It</p>
<p>If all else fails, you may have to pretend. Hide your fears and anxiety from others and from yourself. Act as if you are supremely confident. The more you can play the role of a fear-free being, the less fear youâ™ll actually experience.</p>
<p>Approach # 8: Rituals and </p>
<p>If you set up a regular routine for steady progress, thereâ™s little place for fear or anxiety. If you tend to do the same thing in the same place at the same time, youâ™re comfort level will prevent fears from arising.</p>
<p>What would help you?</p>
<p>Can you create a pleasant, regular ritual to aid your progress? Perhaps a cup of tea or some non-distracting music or a preparatory to center yourself?</p>
<p>Tip: whatever it is that give you creative juice â" be it playing your guitar or writing or painting -- make it a habit to do it first thing in the morning. If you start each day with what is most important â" even if only for half an hour â" you will make daily progress, youâ™ll feel better and your fears will dissipate.</p>
<p>Some people find it helpful to put reminders and talismen around them. It could be a small collection of meaningful objects â" or a collage â" or photos that inspire and soothe you. Lisa tape recorded herself at a writing workshop. Whenever she finds herself feeling fearful or doubting her work, she plays a bit of the tape â" itâ™s very inspiring to hear the excitement in her voice when she first described her project.</p>
<p>Itâ™s also nice to collect an Folder of ideas, articles and images that pump up your enthusiasm. This can include the accomplishments of role models as well as your own.</p>
<p>Approach #9: Meditate</p>
<p>One of the proven cures for short-term fear and long-term anxiety is meditation. It doesnâ™t have to be a major undertaking â" even five minutes of quiet time will make a difference.</p>
<p>* Set a timer for five (or more) minutes. Clear your mind and focus on your breathing. If a thought pops up, gently push it aside and return to your breathing.</p>
<p>For best results, do this several times a day, every day. expert Youngey Mingyur Rinpoche recommends numerous very short meditations during the day.</p>
<p>Approach #10: Trick Yourself</p>
<p>When all else fails and you're still steeped in anxiety, trick yourself.</p>
<p>* set a timer for five minutes. Tell yourself âœOkay, Iâ™m scared, but I only have to do this for five minutes.â You may well find that when the timer goes off, your fear has dissipated and youâ™ll WANT to continue working.</p>
<p>Activity:</p>
<p>1. Identify your top fear or anxiety at this moment.<br />
2. Try at least one of these approaches.<br />
3. Think about what has worked for you in the past â" how have you overcome fear? How can you apply that to your present circumstance?</p>
<p>Fears are a natural part of the creative process. All multi-talented people experience fear, anxiety, worry and resistance at some point. Today we continue our strategies for fighting fear. After youâ™ve identified the true nature of your fears and resistance (see Part One of this series), you can then use proven techniques to manage and reduce them. Part 2 of this series presented three ways to overcome fear and how to manage creative fears. Here are seven more proven techniques to reduce anxiety and overcome fear in the creative process:</p>
<p>Approach #4: Baby Steps</p>
<p>However you get yourself to action â" from logic or emotional changes or something else -- the important thing is to take baby steps. Rather than trying to write your novel entire today, aim to write X number of pages every day this month. Rather than committing yourself to generate an entire art show this week, give yourself credit for every action towards that goal: applying gesso to canvas #1; sketching art piece #2; buying supplies for art piece # 3 â" whatever you do, keep track and praise yourself for every positive action towards your goal.</p>
<p>Approach #5: Focus on what you love, not what you fear</p>
<p>Sometimes we get stuck in fear â" we obsess over our anxieties and concerns and fan our fears to terrifying new levels.</p>
<p>To the extent that we can respond to fears with love, we can quell our anxieties. For example, letâ™s say youâ™re afraid to fire up the soldering torch. Why are you trying to do this anyway? Presumably, youâ™re doing it because you love making things. Remember why you love it. Dwell on the specifics of what you love about it. Recall that feeling of â˜flowâ™ â" that healthy high that happens when you find yourself lost in moments of unadulterated . Now break out the striker and start soldering!</p>
<p>Approach #6: Practice taking risks</p>
<p>Martha Beck suggests that you can inoculate yourself from fear by taking a risk every day. This is too scary for me, but it might work for you.</p>
<p>She advocates that each day, you should âœchoose any scary goalâ, then âœtake the smallest scary step possibleâ. Further, she advise that you âœmake backing out as hard as going forwardâ by publicly committing yourself to take this action or by committing money to the cause. You could email everyone you know and tell them youâ™re going to do X, for example, and if you donâ™t youâ™ll donate $100 to a cause you abhor.</p>
<p>Approach # 7: Fake It â˜til You Make It</p>
<p>If all else fails, you may have to pretend. Hide your fears and anxiety from others and from yourself. Act as if you are supremely confident. The more you can play the role of a fear-free being, the less fear youâ™ll actually experience.</p>
<p>Approach # 8: Rituals and </p>
<p>If you set up a regular routine for steady progress, thereâ™s little place for fear or anxiety. If you tend to do the same thing in the same place at the same time, youâ™re comfort level will prevent fears from arising.</p>
<p>What would help you?</p>
<p>Can you create a pleasant, regular ritual to aid your progress? Perhaps a cup of tea or some non-distracting music or a preparatory meditation to center yourself?</p>
<p>Tip: whatever it is that give you creative juice â" be it playing your guitar or writing or painting -- make it a habit to do it first thing in the morning. If you start each day with what is most important â" even if only for half an hour â" you will make daily progress, youâ™ll feel better and your fears will dissipate.</p>
<p>Some people find it helpful to put reminders and talismen around them. It could be a small collection of meaningful objects â" or a collage â" or photos that inspire and soothe you. Lisa tape recorded herself at a writing workshop. Whenever she finds herself feeling fearful or doubting her work, she plays a bit of the tape â" itâ™s very inspiring to hear the excitement in her voice when she first described her project.</p>
<p>Itâ™s also nice to collect an Folder of ideas, articles and images that pump up your enthusiasm. This can include the accomplishments of role models as well as your own.</p>
<p>Approach #9: Meditate</p>
<p>One of the proven cures for short-term fear and long-term anxiety is meditation. It doesnâ™t have to be a major undertaking â" even five minutes of quiet time will make a difference.</p>
<p>* Set a timer for five (or more) minutes. Clear your mind and focus on your breathing. If a thought pops up, gently push it aside and return to your breathing.</p>
<p>For best results, do this several times a day, every day. expert Youngey Mingyur Rinpoche recommends numerous very short meditations during the day.</p>
<p>Approach #10: Trick Yourself</p>
<p>When all else fails and you're still steeped in anxiety, trick yourself.</p>
<p>* set a timer for five minutes. Tell yourself âœOkay, Iâ™m scared, but I only have to do this for five minutes.â You may well find that when the timer goes off, your fear has dissipated and youâ™ll WANT to continue working.</p>
<p>Activity:</p>
<p>1. Identify your top fear or anxiety at this moment.<br />
2. Try at least one of these approaches.<br />
3. Think about what has worked for you in the past â" how have you overcome fear? How can you apply that to your present circumstance?</p>
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วันพุธที่ 16 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Keeping a Safe Distance on the Highway
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<br>What if I was reversing at the time, you may ask? In that case, a lawyer would be advisable. But in most normal situations, if you get hit from behind, the driver of the car that hit you is at fault.
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<br>Sensible drivers avoid this type of accident by always travelling a safe distance behind the car in front. It is not as difficult to judge that safe distance as you might think as long as you remember to adjust the distance depending on the driving conditions. Most experts suggest that it is necessary to make sure you are at least two seconds behind the car in front.
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<br>How can you work this out? As the car in front passes a fixed point you start counting – one one thousand, two one thousand and so on until you reach that point. Simple! Realistically, we all get distracted at times and look at something other than the road, so it is best to maintain a distance of three seconds in normal conditions to be on the safe side. Therefore, consider counting to three one thousand.
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<br>In wet conditions, your car is not necessarily going to stop when you tell it to. Aquaplaning puts you at risk of plowing into the car in front, so keep a four second space between you and that leading car and raise that to five seconds at least in icy conditions.
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<br>So, when deciding what the safe distance between you and the car in front is rain, icy and fog are to be factored in. But there is one more essential factor, and that is the speed you are travelling at. The faster you are going the more space you need to slow down.
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<br>The two second rule is a good start if you want to avoid unpleasant insurance premium increases by learning to judge safe distances accurately. In no time you will not even need to count.
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<br>But, how can you deal with aggressive drivers who barge up behind you flicking their lights? And then there are those horrors travelling at the speed of sound that suddenly tailgate you so closely that you can see nose hairs in need of trimming. They haven't heard of the two second rule and, rest assured, they do not want to hear it from you.
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<br>When in doubt, chicken out. It is galling, but there is no point in standing in front of a charging elephant. The worst thing you can do, worse than getting stubborn and standing your ground, is to take fright and leap sideways without checking that the road is clear. Tailgaters cause fatal accidents when people react out of fear.
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<br>Faced, well not faced, harassed by a tailgater, calmly put your indicator on and move out of the way. Yes, if the driver behind hits you, it will not be your fault, but you might not live to gloat. Your auto insurance premium is important, but so is safety on the road.
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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 13 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Go Green Recycle Your PPC Campaigns Part 1
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You must be working as a one single team; therefore you should try to optimize your human resource by recycling your pay per click advertising campaign. If you want to generate higher profits from your PPC campaign management, then you can get improved results from recycled PPC advertising campaign. You can recreate your pay per click advertising campaign just like various other recycling programmes going on across the globe. Your in house resources are really important for your company, so instead of wasting them, you should try and optimize your PPC advertisements which will further give you more profits. It is important for you to reduce your work because this will help you concentrate on various other marketing and PPC activities which needs more attention than the paid search campaigns at that particular moment.<br />
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If you are a smart search engine marketer, then you should try and build smart pay per click campaign under your PPC campaign management so that you can recycle the campaign and use it as and when required with little modifications. Share your search engine marketing efforts with PPC campaigns as it will help you recycle your account. You can export your Google AdWords account with find and replace option to convert your account into Microsoft Advertising and Yahoo accounts. If you use Microsoft Advertising or Yahoo accounts under your PPC campaign management, then it will make it easier for you to re-use your pay per click work you have already done for Google.<br />
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This strategy of yours will help you save your effort in creating new pay per click campaign every time. Ideally, as a smart PPC marketer, you should spend less time on small traffic engines and when you have lesser work to do, you can utilize this time for leveraging various new opportunities.</p>
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วันอังคารที่ 1 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
You Need To Know What You Want So You Can Achieve It
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It never ceases to amaze me that people do not identify outcomes they wish to achieve. While the above example is related to a conference, it is by no means limited to that area. Many people engage in activities in their careers and businesses, but they haven't defined what they want to attain. They are completing tasks, but they aren't focused on accomplishing clear-cut results.<br />
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When I was a human resources executive, I often worked with people to determine the appropriate jobs that were needed in their groups. Many department heads would complete job descriptions for key jobs, which described all of the tasks that the employees would be required to do. It took a great deal of effort for me to get these individuals to realize that employees in key positions are not paid to perform tasks, they are paid to produce results. Through much coaching on my part, we were able to identify the outcomes that the individuals were expected to achieve in the various positions.<br />
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Why is it so critical to determine outcomes for a job, a meeting, a department, or any other situation? Because if you don't know what your outcome is, the odds are that you will spend a lot of unnecessary time and money trying to reach a fuzzy target. And there is a very strong chance that the target will not even be reached. Outcomes let you know where you are going. They give you important information about how to use your resources, time, money, and employees. When you know your outcome, you can continually make important decisions is this going to help me reach my goal or will this take me further away from my objective?<br />
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Clearly defined outcomes can also be very motivating. I worked with a coaching client who had an idea about a new business that she wanted to start. When she first got the idea, she was very excited about it, however, she never took action to get the business moving. She continually came up with excuses about why she wasn't doing anything to make the business a reality. I finally got her to sit down and write a detailed description of what the outcome was that she wanted to achieve with the business. That was the missing key. As soon as she wrote down the detailed outcome, she began to do the things that were necessary to get the business started. For her, defining the outcome spurred the action that is required in any business. Five years later, she has a very successful business that she absolutely loves.<br />
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Some people have a great deal of difficulty in trying to determine outcomes. It is because they are looking into a future that isn't certain and they can't identify what it is they want. An easy way to get around this is to imagine that the outcome has already been achieved and then to describe what it looks like. Going back to the situation with the meeting planner, the question that I asked her was, Let's assume it is six months after the conference and you know that it was a huge success. What would have happened to let you know that it was successful? People are much more able to describe the past then they are to identify an unknown future. By asking the question this way, I was able to find out that according to the planner, the criterion for a successful meeting was that the attendees would have the tools they needed to be able to more easily and effectively handle the many changes that were going on in their industry. When I discovered this outcome, I was able to suggest a program that would help the organization achieve this desired result.<br />
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Before you take action (small or large), you need to identify what your outcome is what do you want to achieve? When you do that, you will cut down your time, streamline your efforts, accelerate your progress, and reach your desired goal. When you know where you are going, there is a good chance that you will end up getting there.</p>
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