Motivation

Train Your Mental Toughness # 2/4 - Discover Your Purpose

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Hello there, and welcome back; this is our #2 article –from a 4 articles series– on how to thrive in life through mental toughness.

Last week we talked about the need to Focus on Yourself First; today, we’ll move on to a second step: Discover Your Purpose.

 

 Discover Your Purpose

15 years ago, I started investigating and experiencing various personal development and peak performance systems and technics through, attending seminars and workshops that had a big impact on my view of the world and life in general; and my state and performance improved significantly because of it.

One of the most valuable benefits I got from all that experience was a crystal clear view of my passions and purpose.

 

Here are some questions you need to ask yourself that will help you realize if you are on course or off course on your life journey:

  • What are you conditioned to think you are supposed to do with your life?
  • What do you feel you should actually be doing with your life?
  • What do you think you should actually be doing with your life?
  • Do you have some intuitive feeling that you’re on the wrong path?
  • . Or is there instead an inner voice telling you that you in did are on the right path?
  • What is the one thing you think you’re here for? What is that thing you’d be chasing if nothing else was holding you back?
  • What is that special thing you’d be doing if you knew you couldn’t fail?
  • What would you do differently if you knew you had only one year to live?

 

Answer all these questions with total honesty, and see where their answers lead you.

For me, it was a really powerful insight that led me to abandon a work path that was slowly but consistently consuming me. The answers to these questions gave me the guidance I needed to pursue my true dream.

I hope they can do the same for you.

 

Next week we’ll find out how to determine the path you want to follow.

Stay strong!

 

 

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The 30-Points Creed of a Passionate Mind

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1.    If anything goes wrong, fix it!

2.    When given a choice … take both!

3.    Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.

4.    Start at the top, then work your way up.

5.    Do it by the book … but be the author!

6.    When forced to compromise, ask for more.

7.    If it’s worth doing, it’s got to be done right now.

8.    If you can’t win, change the rules.

9.    If you can’t change the rules, then ignore them.

10. Perfection is not optional.

11. When faced without a challenge, make one.

12. “No” simply means begin again at one level higher.

13. Don’t walk when you can run.

14. Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, tolerance, and a bulldozer.

15. When in doubt THINK!

16. Patience is a virtue, but persistence is a blessing.

17. The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

18. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.

19. The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!

20. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite.

21. You get what you incentivize.

22. If you think it is impossible, then it is …. for you.

23. An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.

24. Any breakthrough is preceded by a crazy idea.

25. If it were easy, it would have been done already.

26. Without a target, you will miss it every time.

27. Bullshit walks, hardware talks.

28. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

29. The world’s most precious resource is the passionate and committed mind.

30. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.

 

 

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How to be Happy when Life seems to be Crappy

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Let's discuss the 7 ways to be happy:

1. Three Walks

Research has proven that people who are physically more active are also happier in their day to day life. Exercise provides people with a greater feeling of enthusiasm.  It doesn't take much: half an hour of brisk walking three times a week improves happiness.

2The 20-Minute Replay

Studies have found that re-playing positive experiences improves people's lives and happiness.  Writing for twenty minutes about a positive experience dramatically improves happiness. Why? Because you actually re-live the experience as you are writing it and then re-live it every time you read it.  It helps us remember things we like about ourselves, people and our lives.

3. Random Acts of Kindness

Psychology Studies have proven that people who are kind to other people tend to be happier than people who are usually not. It's been found that kindness produces the most reliable well-being in any person who practices kindness.  Carrying out random acts of kindness every week will dramatically improve your happiness.

4.  A Complete Unplug

The richest, happiest and most productive lives are characterized by the ability to fully engage in the challenge at hand, but also to disengage and seek renewal.  Downtime after work helps people recharge. Turn off your phone after dinner, try to avoid as much as possible thinking about work issues while relaxing at home, don't use the Internet while on vacations, etc.

5.  Hit flow

When you get absorbed in what you are doing you are being challenged and demonstrating your skill - you are in your flow. People who find challenge and satisfaction of accomplishment tend to be happier.

6.  2-Minute Meditations

Brain scans (as part of Hospital Research), have shown that people who meditate show increase brain activity associated with compassion and self-awareness while stress levels shrink. Studies report that meditation can "permanently rewire" your brain to raise levels of happiness.

7.  Five Gratitudes

Make it a habit to write down five things you are grateful for from the past week.  As Charles Dickens wrote:  "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not your past misfortunes, of which all men have some" 

 

One of the core values we have as a company is to inspire and empower people in all aspects of their lives. Additionally, if you want to read about our Custom Software Solutions and Consulting Services, please visit www.isucorp.ca