How to go through tough times?

  Written by Musa Baloyi on Sep 9, 2008 3:04 pm

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How to go through tough times?

Catherine Glennie is a motivational trainer. Her inspiring talks, workshop and courses are offered to businesses and the public alike.

For more details e-mail motivator@mweb.co.za, phone 011 658 1951 or go to www.CatherineGlennie.com

I first would like to share my personal experience with you: Call me the Guinea Pig of “How to get through times”

I have read this article in late October 2004 when my life was not working, as I wanted. I was working for a company called arivia.kom in South Africa at the time as a Solutions Developer in IT. I have been with the company for 4 years and wanted to change for greener pastures. I shared a flat with graduate students simply because I could not afford to pay the full monthly rental fees whereas I had prestigious job title.

See some of my accomplishments below ever since I read this article. These accomplishments are meant to show you that if you can follow the suggested strategies "you way would be made plain". I don’t mean to brag in any way whatsoever but, I am just demonstrating that what I am about to share with you would definitely transform your life for the better.

1. I got a new job and worked for Telkom S.A. in 2005. I paid lobola (i.e. Monies that is paid for the bride in African tradition) for my lovely wife Olga.
2. Moreover I also bought my own townhouse and an Audi A4 1.8T from just this career move.
3. January 2006, I was starting a new job at Accenture S.A. My daughter was born on June 1st and that meant more joy & expenses.
4. March 2007, I worked for GijimaAST. I only stayed there for 6 months.
5. In November 2007, I was working for Medscheme
6. Last year 2007 I worked for 3 IT companies. All of sudden a became a job hop of note.
7. June 2007, I started my 18 months journey where I made choices like stop drinking alcohol. I have been alcohol free for the last 14 months now and I would resume in December 2008 as planned. This upsets those who are used to sober Musa especially my mother, wife and younger sister.
8. August 2007, I bought Astra Twin ToP Turbo 2.0. Convertible.  So I have had success in my IT corporate days, prior online marketing or internet marketing. They don’t call me the dollarbillionairemarketer for nothingJ
9. I subscribed to three MLM marketers to learn how to make money online in January 2008.
10. May 2008, I started as part-time Network Marketer
11. Now I am a Full-time Network Marketer

I usually share this article with my friends and some magic seems to happen when one follows these suggested strategies. I am sure you will have your own personal story to tell and share these with your friends and family. All the best for the future…

p.s. I have now changed the headline form “How to go through the tough times” to “How to heighten the good times”

Article starts here….

Achieving success and being motivated is dependent upon managing our states - by which I mean the way we feel in the moment.

This is even more important when our lives are not working for some reason. How we respond in these less-than-perfect situations can dramatically affect our life path for the better or worse.

There's a lot we can do to help ourselves get through the tough times, as well as heighten the good ones. Here are some state management strategies that I find particularly powerful.

Conscious Breathing: I have often written about this success strategy. My personal belief is that conscious breathing is the first contact with the Divine, but this aside, here are some solid scientific reasons why taking the time to quieten yourself and simply focus on the process of breathing brings about enhanced personal states.

Firstly, when you breath deeply into your tummy, you trigger the release of hormones that relax your body.

Conscious breathing is not just for spiritual pursuits. Actors are trained to use deep breathing to quell nervousness before a performance and psychologists use it as a therapy tool.

Secondly, research shows that conscious breathing for 20 minutes changes brain states, where brain circuits which usually operate independently start to synchronise and work together as one whole. Once this happens a person's state of consciousness deepens and widens, and expanded thoughts and perceptions are experienced.

Exercise: The activity of exercise also offers the benefit of shifting your energies dramatically. Feelings of happiness, contentment and personal power come about after exercise not only due to the happy hormones that get secreted during cardiovascular activity, but also due to the activation of both the right and left brain hemispheres. This enables clearer and more logical thinking.

Moreover, adrenaline - stored in the tissues at times of stress - is released, leaving the body cleansed and set up for healthier functioning. Over and above all these, the deeper breathing generally associated with cardiovascular exercise, activates all the breathing benefits too. As a state manager, exercise is superlative.

Fun: Fun is energy in itself. Sadly, when people suffer loss, get under pressure or find themselves overly challenged, they feel disinclined to have fun. In this way they actively disempower themselves.

Getting too serious about life will cause you to lose your way and change your body states for the worse. This is not the only danger of being too serious. Hormonal shifts take place when you are stressed and unhappy.

These open the body to illness and disease - and even more depression. On the other hand, laughter changes the body chemistry for the better.

So get out of yourself. Go to movies. Put on music and dance. Ride a horse. Bungee jump. Stop being so serious. If you don't feel like it, force yourself - you'll be handsomely repaid for your personal discipline.

You need to be forever mindful that success is not going to hand itself to you on a plate however much you beg, pray or visualise.

You need to activate yourself and choose your states, and when you do this, you also activate life. Only then will the mystical dance of success begin.

·  Catherine Glennie is a motivational trainer. Her inspiring talks, workshop and courses are offered to businesses and the public alike.

For more details e-mail motivator@mweb.co.za, phone 011 658 1951 or go to www.CatherineGlennie.com

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