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Gratitude is Under Rated Life Force
Posted by: | CommentsGratitude is a window into the state of one’s sense of self worth.
Iridology is the practice of looking into one’s pupils and diagnosing the body’s state of health. Iridologists see the eyes as “windows” into the body’s state of health.-wikipedia
A person with gratitude is happy they are alive. They see each day as an opportunity to carry out their contribution. That contribution might be helping their family get through life or helping customers solve problems or finding a cure for a disease.
Gratitude is reflected in your words, how you treat people, how you treat events, how you go about your work or fun, and the look on your face. Like looking into your pupils, it is detectable.
The opposite could be said for each item of people who see the glass as half full. Things are always wrong, life is stacked against you, it is not certain things will turn out for the best, you have to be really careful or it will get you, and so on. This attitude is also like looking into your pupils. It might result in sickness and disease.
We can have gratitude right now. Just start thinking of the things you are happy about and your opportunities to make your life better. Life is tough, but having passions make the difficulties seem smaller. Enjoying nature makes every day a possible blessing.
Valuing the worth of others makes seeking better relationships worthwhile. Becoming a part of the environment or community is better than being sequestered. There are communities for every interest.
There is hardly anyone that can’t contribute in some small way. Stephen Covey in the 8th Habit says its our purpose to express ourselves and help others do the same.
It’s a magical tool. You can flip the switch.
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Peak Performance Through Fitness and Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsI think the highest form of mental activity is creativity. Even left brain people can be creative. Mathematicians will say there is a great deal of creativity in math and science.
Creativity is how you make life better or your contribution more meaningful. You lift people out of the process in which they are involved to try new things. Your product or service might be a new thing. How can you spark some one’s imagination to try you?
You have to be loose. Being tied up with tension and anxiety makes it difficult to activate our intuitive, emotional, creative powers. Good health helps your engine fire on all cylinders. Natural food makes digestion easy and allows the body to send more oxygen to the brain.
Exercise releases the endorphins and brings on the serotonin and dopamine. A good muscle burn can put you almost in the same mood as sex. After surfing, I just couldn’t get much mellower. Sex really makes your brain come alive but its hard to type while you’re having it.
When you take care of your body, you start feeling more gratitude and are more positive about your opportunities. The better you feel, the more you want to contribute. Stephen Covey says in the 8th Step, that contribution is our highest purpose.
Shawn Achor in The Happiness Advantage says people that are happy are better performers
It’s a program like cooking dinner. You need lots of ingredients to make it great, but its really worth it when you get into flow or drop into the zone doing your favorite things which may be your work.
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15 Ways to Stimulate Your Brain
Posted by: | CommentsThis is a quick outline summary of an article you should read and is linked at the bottom. Its from BrainZ.
15 Ways to Stimulate the Brain (but probably don’t think about as a plan)
EXERCISE. Cardio, yoga, and deep breathing all increase oxygen to the brain. Certainly better for you than a cigarette.
WATER. Two glasses when you are hungry or tired. I find this is a real pick me up. Drink lots of water with your coffee because coffee is on the way to making you tired in a few hours. Yes, you’ll pee like a race horse.
STIMULATE YOUR SENSES. Colors, pink, can stimulate you and listening to music. I often open another browser and hit youtube for a few songs just to get my mind more active.
BE HAPPY. Of course easier to say than do, but much of my writings if you’re following are how to hit peak performance through health, fitness, and happiness.
PLAY GAMES. Party games and crosswords and soduku and the like. They stretch areas you are not utilizing and maybe help you get out of the box.
WATCH QUALITY TV. What? I don’t watch TV but my daughter loves Jeopardy. Gets your brain firing and reaches back into a lot of the stored info you haven’t accessed for awhile.
SURF THE NET. Who would of thunk? I think it drains as much as stimulates but most people read and make decisions fast while doing so and this can wake us up.
EAT BRAIN FOOD. Protein is the main stimulant. Eats lots of portions of protein during the day. Vitamins also stimulate but see the article for better list. I also take a brain pill Mind Power RX from Physician Formulas.com that has a load of natural stimulants.
FISH OIL. I have to quote on this one: “but the Omega -3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) that do the trick. These fatty acids keep the dopamine levels in the brain high, increase neuronal growth in the frontal cortex of the brain, and increase cerebral circulation.” The key to happiness.
EAT WEEDS. The legal ones, Ginkgo Biloba and Gensing. I take the brain pill instead.
LEARN SOMETHING NEW. I do this daily. It is very stimulating to always have new ideas or new finds expanding what you know. Challenging yourself to out of comfort zone tasks will also stimulate.
DON’T WASTE TIME. One of my favorites. We drain the ram from our brain with meaningless escapes during the day; our phones, tv, surfing the net, texting etc.
WORK ON YOUR MEMORY. Now and then force yourself to remember something you don’t really need to remember to see how you do. Memorize songs and sing you yourself where no one can hear. Why should they suffer?
REST. I do all three suggestions. Read fiction before bed. Eat something without sugar. Nap during the day. Rest relieves the nervous system which is an important function of sleep. (meditate) (aerobics) (drinking, short one in the evenings)
SEX. Increases oxygen to the brain. Oxytocin helps you think and seratonin and dopamine follow afterward. Theoretically you should be able to write a great paper while having sex. See, and women think men shouldn’t be looking at the internet. They’re getting smarter.
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If you want another good article on the brain my daughter sent me one this morning that does require more reading http://brainz.org/brain-hacks/
How To Get More Done?
Posted by: | CommentsHow much can we produce in a day’s time? If we have a new project, how long will it take us to complete it? Some projects are open ended and some have exact steps.
My day consists of scheduled tasks, open recreation time, and then the projects on which I am working. My projects require more time than I have in a month, so they are long procedures into which I try to plug a few cogs regularly.
How much I get done in a day is a matter of how much energy I have and how long I can keep up the passion for a task during the day. Because I don’t have a real job, my time is my own.
My mental processing is important. I want as much ram available as possible and as few system leaks as possible. The more energy I have focused, the longer I can work and be productive. I have very little tedious work and mostly creative work. I need maximum balanced mental energy.
I have tried to minimize the daily drains. I don’t watch TV. I only read the news a few times a week or when I am really done for the day. I don’t procrastinate on paying bills or taking care of tasks. I try to keep my relationships on sound footing. I eat very healthy and get regular exercise.
I get up at 5 a.m. when the world is quiet and there is little to distract me. I stretch so that my heart is pumping and I have my coffee. Now the world is my oyster. I focus on the most creative demands first. As the day proceeds I try to do the most demanding tasks in order until I am working on the to do’s that don’t require as much energy.
Peak Performance is the supported by having good health, eating properly, getting exercise., and being happy. No one said it would be easy.
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We Have Many Areas of Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsThere are areas of happiness and there is over all happiness. Some people perform great at work because they are doing what they love or maybe out of fear they are doing it for survival. Then after work, their life falls apart.
Anxiety is usually the result of having challenges for which we don’t see the answer. It is a loss of faith that we can work things through or lack of faith that things turn out for the best. This may come from a general view that the glass is half full.
Happiness can be built from a foundation of behaviors that clip the continuous anxiety out of our lives. Having faith that we can solve our problems and that life is not set against us is the top side of what happiness looks like.
We need to be connected. We need to be connected to our bodies, which usually connects us to nature. Nature, the Universe, or God, has provided answers for 15 billion years now. Everything keeps adapting. We can all adapt to what we face.
We should realize we are the result of generations of survival of the fittest. We are supposed to be here and our brains are geared for happiness. The brain is waiting to produce dopamine for us so that we can have gratitude that we are here.
Start with eating natural, the way all species on earth eat. Get exercise which all species on earth do naturally. Your body is connected to everything on earth. Feel the love. Start adding things you can appreciate or enjoy every day. Look forward to pursuing things that make you happy.
If you can engage in pursuits that are challenging but manageable, the time spent in this engagement will look like being in the zone or flow. This produces happiness. Having more activities that you look forward to, get your life more into flow.
You can work through the anxieties as you realize you are here to pursue your passions.
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Is Your Contribution Making People Happier?
Posted by: | CommentsUp until a hundred and fifty years ago, man was very connected to the earth. He worked in the fields or hunted or certainly had to provide for a lot of his needs without going to the market.
Since then, life has become more simplified, more mechanized, and more distant from a connection to nature. What we are finding now is that success in marketing is connected with giving people an emotional experience. They will pay more if they can enjoy their experience;Starbucks, Iphone, Social Marketing, etc.
In fact, we are facilitating people telling others about experiences they like. Face Book has Like and Google + has +1. Social Buttons on websites could direct likes to numerous sharing centers.
In Extreme Competition, Peter Fingar describes the tectonic changes occurring in the global economy, but they all point to one conclusion. The consumer can now have what they want and when they want it. The super marketers are faced with anticipating what consumers will desire next. The leaders, can do it; Apple.
If what you are doing is not leading to your targets having a better experience, you are probably on the wrong track. This even goes for personal relationships. We have a lot more freedom to unsubscribe in every facet of our lives.
Finding our own happiness and purpose is important if we are going to create happiness and purpose for others.
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Making Our Contribution Main Stream
Posted by: | CommentsWe each have unique gifts. When our gifts are fueled with passion, we can rise to new heights. What is it that we like to do, are good at, and can get paid for or for which we get acknowledged?
The economy is moving toward the collaboration of materials, parts, skills, technology, communication, knowledge, and transportation to deliver great experiences. The IPhone and IPad are just two examples.
I am finding that I am actually getting better experiences from my shopping these days because I think that those who are still surviving are learning how to serve customers. Those who provide bad experiences are getting eliminated.
Business Process Management can be called a lot of things, including downsizing. It is also a term for learning how to improve the end results for any business. Learning how to cut costs and operational time while improving the customer’s experience. That’s profitable downsizing.
The customer is really king in this new age. Terry Schurter and Peter Fingar in their books discuss how 3 billion new capitalists in the emerging economy are accelerating our ability to deliver what consumers want and when they want it.
The high paying jobs (and job security) go to the people who can find a way to contribute to a better customer (or business) experience. To make it fun and be competitive, individuals should operate at their Peak Performance levels.
Operating at Peak Performance or in “flow” means you are passionate about what you do. At this level you are most creative and most in tune with stimulus you receive by your surroundings. You operate at a high level of cognizance.
Getting in tune with your surroundings may begin by getting in tune with your own body, mind and spirit. Get in good health and fitness to reach your optimum. Have gratitude for your gifts. Help others have a greater experience in their lives or work.
Use your gifts backed by your passion to contribute. Make life better. That is the direction in which the new economy is moving. It is looking for team players who can visualize better processes and make them happen.
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Developing Mental Peak Performance
Posted by: | CommentsWe have a pretty good concept of athletic peak performance. It’s probably the person who wins. But most of us don’t make a living as athletes. Most of us need mental peak performance to advance.
Two types of mental tasks summon either the right and/or the left brain. We are either in the logic, calculating, language mode, or we are in the creative, intuitive, emotional mode.
Some tasks do require the whole brain and synthesis of right and left. This is the function of the pre-frontal cortex that organizes our mental process like a conductor.
Three easy ways to power up our brain:
- Eat healthy
- Get Exercise
- Get Rest
The don’t do side would include:
- Don’t ingest negative influences on performance
- Don’t drain brain on meaningless activities (tv, news, texting, gossip)
- Don’t let negative glass is half full or anxiety weigh on brain
Putting it together might look like:
- Eating natural foods supports right and left brain
- Aerobic Exercise at least every other day supports brain waves
- Gratitude and contribution fuel positive energies
- Doing most important work first focuses brain power
- Avoid activities that drain energy and are not contributing or productive
- Avoid procrastination
- Have house in order regarding finances, relationships, and responsibilities
Then if you want to really put it in high gear:
- Spend most important time on passions every day
- Have gratitude that you are here
- Contribute to others to make their lives better
Positive feelings and positive activities put life in “flow”. Flow produces dopamine which is the brain’s chemical for happiness. Shawn Achor in The Happiness Advantage claims happy people perform best.
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Peak Performance is Our Super Bowl
Posted by: | CommentsWe can play everyday in our arena and win! Peak Performance develops when we feel our best and do the work for which we are most suited. One wise person said the trifecta is when we
- do work we like,
- are good at, and
- make the most money or for which we receive the most accolades.
If we do work we like and at which we are accomplished, we could get into flow or the zone. This is engagement that bars distractions and creates dopamine. Dopamine makes us happy.
If we also get acknowledged for this work or make money doing it, then we can probably pursue it for as many hours as we have in the day.
Feeling our best and performing at our best requires attention to our health and fitness. If you don’t take care of your body with natural food and exercise, you will start to work at a diminished capacity. You will need to prop your energy with fixes which in the long run diminish your brain.
The brain needs good food, exercise, water, and a positive attitude. Being grateful and contributing are two attitudes that can make the brain hum. Generally when we are good as something, we want to help others enjoy the same experience. Giving of our expertise is a self perpetuating practice.
Build mind, body, and spirit and engage in activities you enjoy. After 10,000 hours you are an expert and your daily activity and your life begin to flow.
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Getting into Flow is Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsFlow or being in the zone are described as engaging in activities in which we 
are practiced to the exclusion of all distractions. The result is performance at the top of our scale and production of the neurotransmitter dopamine.
We certainly hear being in the zone described in sporting contexts. Flow is the same activity that can be experienced during any activity including writing, cooking, playing music, running, working, or hobbies.
So, if we wanted to exist in the happiness state all day, we would engage in activities we enjoyed. Doesn’t seem to complicated. I am sure we all want to engage in activities we enjoy, but often think we have responsibilities or our job that get in the way.
It maybe true, but this also says that happiness is no further away than creating the time to engage in our passions. Don’t have any passions, time, energy?
One way to start creating more energy and getting our world grounded is to start eating more healthy and focus on eating just natural food. Complement that activity with more muscle burning exercise even if you start with 10 minutes a day.
The further you get with healthy eating which leads to getting lean and more muscle burning exercise, the sooner you will start to feel more energized and inspired. Getting our bodies fit creates a real connection to Nature.
The next biggest avenue for safe risk and excitement is self expression. What could you do that is uniquely you that would put something out into the world? You may have to start at step one. Do you want to write, paint, start a hobby, start a small business? What is it that might express you?
The better you get at your new found activity, the sooner you will get into flow where there is nothing but you and your engagement. Happiness doesn’t have to be purchased, it has to be sought.
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Setting Our Sites Higher
Posted by: | CommentsIt is so easy to get caught up in the daily hum drum of existence and maybe survival. Our mind chatter is 
usually about the things we have to get done and then how we are going to get relief so we can do it another day.
It is better to have our thoughts driven by how we are going to fit in our passionate pursuits among the things we have to get done. There are so many things we can do daily that will make us feel better and be happier. Focusing on healthy eating will make our digestion work less and give us more mental energy.
Focusing on getting our most creative and challenging work taken care of when we are at our optimum will create better daily output. I happen to work best in the mornings from about 5 a.m. til noon. Others come alive at night. What do we do at our peak?
I like to stretch and exercise so that my body feels it is getting what it needs. Continuous work on strengthening our bodies has short and long term payoffs. We can pursue vigorous activities for as long as we like.
I like to expand my mind and always have a few books on hand that I want to read. Some of the books are for release and some are for learning. Continuously bringing new useful information into my mind gives me thoughts about what I want to write or what I want to know more about.
My days are set to fulfill my passions and my duties. I also try to take care of things right away so that I am not drained with that procrastinating drag on energy. We can get a lot out of our days and make each one a new adventure rather than another day at the mill.
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How We Hit Peak Performance
Posted by: | CommentsWho doesn’t want to operate at the top of their performance curve? If the Army can make us everything we can be, we should be able to figure out how we can do it on our own.
Most sports specialists and psychologists would say that we perform better and are happier when we are in “flow” or in the “zone”. What does this mean? When we are engaged in an activity in which we have practiced or have expertise and enjoy, we can get lost in the movement. We cease to think of what is going on in the outside world nor do we fear judgement or think about reward.
The brain produces dopamine in this state, so our whole physiology which dates back 500 generations must be geared for this condition. Did our early ancestor hunters get into the zone when tracking an animal that would provide food for the table?
Why does it take 10,000 hours to become an expert? There are obviously some criteria involved in taking the simple human condition to that of peak performance. Peak performance must be the definition of pushing the envelope on our own capabilities and then the egoistic test of whether we are better than all humans.
The pursuit definitely requires discipline. We have to over come the mind’s unrelenting effort to sabotage our efforts and pine for the coach potato position or seek the safety of anonymity to avoid rejection and hurt feelings.
We have to practice our pursuit out of love, determination, passion, or fear for survival. We have to prioritize our growth in this pursuit as we seek new ways to improve our performance above previous levels. Without looking to set any records, I found that I improved my peak performance in my pursuits with daily behaviors.
I started by eating more healthy and removing the bad foods. I continued my already active exercise program with trying to set a few personal records. I found that controlling the mind and engaging it to support my activities rather than undermine them had great rewards.
With the discipline and mind control, I could attack new interests and know that daily chiseling would lead to cracking the most immovable obstacles. My connection to self and nature created a faith that man can prevail against challenges. The glass is half full. We are intended to be happy. We should enjoy our passions with the little time we are present on earth. We have to reach up and grab the gusto.
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Self Expression as a Factor in Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsMammals are very social beings. They can usually be found living in communities. The advantage of living in communities can be for survival but it then has a big communication component. We communicate to take care of basic necessities, but then we like to communicate to express ourselves. Mammals like to play and frolic.
What is it about play that is so fundamentally important? Children love to play, dolphins love to play, horses love to romp and chase. It is an expression of feeling good. It is a form of happiness. And yet with our tremendous mental capacity, we can play in many more ways than the physical.
In our youth, little girls’ minds develop faster and they take to conversation before boys. Boys develop physically faster and they take to the terrible two’s because that’s how they best express themselves at that stage. Later we might use our minds or our bodies or both to express what we feel and who we are. It is our way of playing out our experience of what life means to us.
The more we focus, the more uniquely or skilled our expressions can be. The 10,000 hours of practice makes people experts in their expressions. The term “flow” is said to be the highest form of emotional intelligence, at least as defined by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence. Being “in the zone” is the place a person can achieve with practiced skills to the exclusion of distractions and with disregard to judgment.
Neurologists say that being in flow or in the zone, the brain produces dopamine as our happiness chemical. We are pre-wired to be experts in expressing ourselves and getting rewarded for doing so. Maybe in our search for “happiness” through acquiring and achieving we lose touch with the most elementary mammal desire.
We like to express ourselves and we are often inclined to see if their is a limit to just how good we can be. Why climb Everest? Because it’s the tallest mountain or we would climb something else. Why go to the moon? To see if we can do it. Why practice the violin ten hours a day? Because we want to see just how good we could be.
If you are getting bogged down in daily life and want to find some happiness, key into a passion of self expression. We often use up our time with meaningless activities like TV, marrying our smart phones, and so on when real happiness awaits our arrival.
Get into something that is uniquely you. Write, dance, cook, build, paint, sew, climb, surf, bike, or whatever it is you could practice regularly and improve upon your skills. This is where happiness lies.
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Is Natural a Food Definition?
Posted by: | CommentsSometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. The food industry has adopted the word because it has a favorable connotation with consumers. 
It could generally mean food that has not been processed in a factory. Organic may be a more specific definition when speaking of produce. Organic and natural are the same but organic would mean food was not sprayed with harmful insecticides. Local farmers tell me they use fertilizers and sprays approved as non harmful and still call foods organic.
Meat is a much different story. It would be immoral to call animals raised in factory type conditions in closed spaces and mostly on grain, natural. They are also given hormones to speed up the growth process and then anti-biotics because of the problem incurred from close quarters and eating only grains.
Some meat producers start adding the term natural if they, for instance, give otherwise closed up chickens a door to the outside to feed on a square patch of grass. The term then gets very general when applied to those who raise animals by feeding mostly on grass in outdoor and pasture environments.
They want to include the word natural because of the good connotation and acceptance. Their animals may be fed on grass when there is no snow and then often fattened up and tenderized with grain at the end of the harvest. Even animal producers will say that beef or other meats raised entirely on grass does not taste as good to the average consumer.
So fully grass fed animals are called natural and growers who give their animals access to grass sometimes will call their meat natural. If you are particular, you have to investigate the details. Websites for natural meats will be very explicit.
Animal types that are frequently grown by small producers and raised natural, grass fed, and organically are beef, buffalo, goat, venison, lamb, and chickens. These producers will talk about land sustainability by not using pesticides or fertilizers that will get into the water system. They also point out that animals are humanely handled and harvested as opposed to some brutal factory processes.
A typical advertisement for natural grass fed meat is found on this buffalo site which claims its beef is (http://wildideabuffalo.com/?gclid=CJfasMbHhK4CFaYaQgodCznX2Q)
• 100% grass-fed only
• 100% antibiotic & hormone free
• 100% free roaming
• 100% non-confined
• 100% humanely field harvested
These natural meats are availabe to anyone, but the costs are greatly increased by the specialized dry ice shipping and containers required. It becomes more economical when you can order half an animal. In some communities these grass fed animals are ordered by local markets and restaurants.
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Our Obligation to Natural Food
Posted by: | CommentsIf you eat naturally meaning a lot of food that comes out of the ground, you are getting the best Nature, God, or the Universe can provide. This food and Mother Nature gave its all while growing to create the hundreds of ingredients that can benefit and help make any animal or living being perform at their peak performance.
It would be good karma to acknowledge that in picking these foods you are thankful for the opportunity to build your own body at the sacrifice of another living thing. Killing plants is not considered inhumane, but you realize that they were picked so that you could eat them.
Acknowledging that this food has been provided for your sustenance helps you identify your connection to nature and the earth. We all must flourish and grow stronger. It is part of the design of nature as stated by Darwin that we are in a struggle for survival of the fittest.
It would be great if we used the energy derived from these natural ingredients to give back. The ancients said that God can only give and man can only receive. But we know that after we have recognized that we have received, we sometimes want to give back. We want to make a contribution to the community. We want to help our fellow man.
Just having the bounty of nourishing food that can make us strong should help us appreciate the circle of life. We’re born, we’re nourished, we have the right to pursue happiness, and we die. Gratitude is one of the fine ingredients of living a happy life.
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