Posts Tagged ‘attitude’

Feel Crappy? Here is how to change it immediately.

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Here is a Tip to improve outlook on life to improve your health.
It is called the Psychosomatic Response or The Mind-Body Connection

We all know that a more positive mind and attitude will lead to better health and greater levels of overall happiness. But how can we quickly get there anytime we want, in just a few seconds? Here is how.

The Mind-Body have a remarkable connection. Both are organs with independent thought but have the ability to control/influence the other.
For example, have you ever had a dream that you were flying? Or being chased? Or playing a sport? Or being embarrassed in public? Of course you have. We all have. The remarkable part is not that we all have had these dreams or even what the dreams may mean; but what is truly remarkable is that our mind was imagining it and our body was BELIEVING it; yet we were sound asleep in our bed.

Psychologists call this the Psychosomatic Response or Mind-Body connection.

Now, since we know this exists inside all of us, as a peak performance coach, I have learned to teach my clients how to reverse the process so that they can use their BODY to convince their MIND that something is happening. And the end results is that they can change their mental outlook in a few seconds, just by changing their BODY posture (see Chapter 5 in 8 Ways to Great: Peak Performance on the Job and In Your Life).

For example, if you are feeling down and blue or unmotivated, all you have to do stand up-straight, shoulders back and force yourself to do a super confident walk; you know the kind of walk you do when you just had a great day or did something really wonderful and are feeling great. All it takes is just a few steps up and then a few steps back and your mind switches on like a light bulb and says, “Hey, my body is looking confident and energized, so I guess I should be confident and energized too!”

Its that simple, in just a few seconds, you used your BODY to convince your MIND to change what it was thinking/feeling much in the same way your MIND is able to convince your BODY while you are sleeping that it is doing something it really is not.

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This is What I do; But This is Who I am

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

About five years ago, I was riding the long island rail road during the summer at rush hour.
Nothing much in this world is more miserable than that if you have ever been on that train. Loud, crowded, hot, and did I mention crowded?

No one is talking let along smiling. Then I hear this voice. Laughing, making jokes, chatting with people. I peek across the aisle and see the train conductor smiling, talking to people, playing with the kids on the train. And it seemed that the less people wanted to smile or talk, the more this guy amped up his energy level. He really was not put off by the attitudes of the passengers. He was doing his thing and smiling every step of the way.

A few minutes passed and he come to collect my ticket. I asked him what it was that allowed him to be so joyful on such a miserable, hot and crowded train ride. After all, this was the only train ride I was taking that day, but it was his full time job and he probably had spent 8 plus hours on this route today and every day this month.

He said to me three things that have forever been branded into my mind.
1) What is there not to be happy about, I am getting paid to play on the biggest train set in the world.
2) He then pointed to the numbers on his hat and said, “This is what I do.”
3) He then took off his hat and showed me a picture of his three children and said “..but this is who I am.”

It took me years to fully appreciate what he meant and five years later, I am still working on it. I am grateful to him for sharing this lesson with me.

I think the biggest lessons we can all learn from this are that we always have the ability to choose our attitude and to keep things in perspective no matter what the circumstances.

Dr Doug

CNBC Special - Where the Jobs Are

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Hope you had a chance to watch the CNBC Town Hall special last night that I appeared on with Jeff Taylor (founder of Monster.com and Eons.com) and Jim Citrin (executive recruiter of Spencer Stuart)
here is a link to the Web Extra, where Jeff, Jim and I answered some questions from the audience.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29761734

Thank you all for your continued support and feedback.

Dr Doug