Feeling Alone and Not Yourself?

Ok, so you are alone and not feeling the best?

There’s a very good reason why you don’t feel yourself i.e happy, enthusiastic, vitality etc.
That’s because your body is lacking in Oxytocin. You see, we humans are hard wired to rely on this chemical. It’s a chemical that keeps your heart healthy, fights cancer, helps you remember and contributes to the feeling of happiness.

It is a neuropeptide made up of nine amino acids. It is made in an area of the brain called the hypothalamus and also in the heart. One of the simplest consequences is that it makes you less shy and more confident. It allows you to build trust more easily when it’s in higher levels. You will give more to others and trust them more without knowing anything about them. Generally you’re happier and healthier.

Six ways to increase it in your body.

1) Get inspired. Watching movies like Happiness and Oprah are things that would increase it’s production.
2) Get a Massage. Any physical touching, hugging and so forth increases levels.
3) Express Your emotions. Just get it off your chest and say why you feel a certain way.
4) Pet a dog or cat etc..
5) Support a Loved One. Doing things for others. Giving to other in time or money increase it’s production.
6) Give a hug.

This chemical is vital. It fights cancer, regenerates the heart tissue, softens you arteries for reduced blood pressure and many other life extending and enhancing benefits.

We often don’t do enough for ourselves. We are social creatures. Our DNA is programmed for certain behaviors. If we do not oblige we are effectively prohibiting our full potential or even worse killing ourselves slowly.

So go out there and give hugs! Support someone, Give to others and live a long and prosperous life! =)

Yes, You Did Ask For It ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Immediately, you’ll begin reading this, analyzing this text with a preconception affront of your mind, and that concern when listened to frankly and openly, is my friends, ” I’ll tell you, If I asked for it or not ! ! ! ! ! “

Immediately, we put up barriers to protect ourselves. We arm ourselves ready for battle against any opinion put towards us. It’s all very natural.

Well, that is called your conscious. It protects your subconscious from absorbing erroneous information. The subconscious is the real soul of your being. You could imagine the root of the spinal cord being the entrance to the soul. Where one dimension meets another. I’m sure a study of those particular cells and their electromagnetic makeup would throw some interesting light on the subject. But hey, I could be wrong right?

Anyway, your conscious complies with generating the means of supplying the subconscious’s desire.

Your consciousness responds to creating you desires possible, it acts like a on of those things on railways that make trains change track – except a mini one.

Imagine your consciousness as one of these min track changers. And your life, the train.

The mini track changers can change the direction of your life but only a very small degree at a time. It counts on the momentum of your subconscious to carry on propelling your body in that direction.

So, if you wake up one day and ask yourself “how the hell did I get here?” Then it may also be good to also ask “Who the hell is behind the wheel?”

All is not over! Do not fret.

Don’t forget that your direction is carried forward constantly, like a train, and that it does not stop unless something pulls the breaks, for instance death.

You have not arrived where you currently are in life. You are still on the journey. You can still change the mini tracks.

You will soon see that once changed, you will begin to notice it is a slightly different journey. A train does not do U-turns very easily, it would take a decent amount of track to get the train in the opposite direction.

The more mini tracks you can change in your life. The closer you will be in the direction of your choice.

Like my great grandmother used to always say.

“Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves.”

Set the alarm to get up a half hour earlier, go on a long walk, or a jog once a week to start. Before you know it, your momentum will care you to the destination in your vision of your future.

Stop smoking one less cigarette per day for a week. Then one more less per day the following week. You’ll eventually get your goal and you may build your confidence along the way.

“Take the first step in faith, you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step”
—–Martin Luther King Jr.

Confidence Grows With Gains

I’ve been working out hard over the past three weeks and have seen some crazy gains.

I’m currently running the following supplements on a weight gain cycle.

H-drol, Cycle Support, Citrulline Malate, ZMA, Supercissus RX.

Today I weighed in at 166lbs. That’s a 12lbs gain in 3 weeks. I have to admit it’s a great feeling to see that fat around the waist gone, thick abs back again and increase in arm size.

I’m curling 40k + bar sets of 8
I benched 80k+ bar set of 5
Dips 45k + body weight sets of 6

I feel very strong at the moment and continually push myself each time I hit the gym. I took the past two days off from the gym though. My partner has not been around and I think I’ve been feeling a little low with her not around and the winter starting to kick in. But I was back at it today.

What has it done for me?
Well it has taken away the chance of my brain demoting myself. In other words, because I actually look good now when I take clothes off I have positive feelings about myself. This allows me to continue to remain or strive for a positive mental attitude. It flows over into other areas of life.

I have to admit, it can be difficult at times to continue to remain conscious of my thoughts and actively guide them towards more rewarding structures of thought. Somehow a feeling of urgency comes over me in life, to try accomplish faster what I want to achieve. I already know in my heart that rushing to get there will not enable a natural and harmonic state of well being. Nor will it assist in the progress of my journey.

Take time for yourself. Allow yourself the freedom to enrich your life with motivational thought, books, audio. Allow yourself time to relax and take in the silence. Try build structure around it. Try to schedule it in if your find it difficult to naturally gravitate towards relaxation.

Ok, I have to be active in keeping structure. I was at one stage spending the time with each of the areas I promte: the mind, the body and the soul, and I felt great from it. Almost like a high. I’d say a week has passed and I have not engaged with the soul. Nor have I engaged much with the mind. I have focused on the body but I think that the lack of motivation I may be feeling at the moment may be because of too much emphasis on one area of my life.

Business and training is all I seem to think about. I need to relax more. Take the time for myself.

Tomorrow I will write a structured schedule for myself. To help me achieve progress in all three areas.

Good night

The Way to Wealth

This is will be my journal.

I realised that I needed to develop a journal about 6 months ago and have found it difficult to do because of the thought of many people knowing too much about me.

Why do I care if people know to much about me?

I am starting businesses as I write this. Nothing major, mostly an online presence at the moment until I can add strucuture and begin networking and calling for business. Nontheless, I do fear that if people know that my business is relatively young then they will not give me a shot of doing the job.

Lesson to be learned!
This thought process, that I cannot succeed early if people know my begingings, and how I am going about it is actually a self-defeatist angle on my progress and success. It is imporatant to note that now more so than ever before in my life that I assume things. And to Assume is to make an “Ass of U and Me”. Really it is. How can I put boundaries around areas of my life that I have yet to explore? If I go into an interview with the mindset that I’m not going to get the job surely it is a self fullfilling prophecy that I will not get the job.

The Yin and Yang both exist is this theology, for whatever one says in the negative is also true in the positive. The premise that “you can do and have anything you want in life” is one preached and taught by many great minds that have come before us. Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Arnold M Patent, John Gray, Charles Haanel, Winston Churchill only to name a very select few.  Should I change my mindset and call into my universe my success through the documentation of my journey, I may just find that my business will flourish and grow because it has been documented from its beginnings

This journal and my success has been on hold for six months because of my fear. I have feared failure.

Only now as I write this down I am understanding that I could not have moved forward in my goal to document my success and leave a path for others to follow because my very lack of documentation was prohibiting me from fulfilling my own goal. I have to remember that this journal is a trail for others to follow. Moreso, it is encouragement and it will be through provoking to those that are now reading it. Why? Because they (scrath that) you can see my fears, you can take a look at what I’m doing, how I am feeling and how I am dealing with the stages of my life. It’s  a big brother approach to life. Imagine you have a big brother / sister and they seem to have put things together and are doing well in their life. Look at this journal as a sneak peak at the their journal you’ve found in their room.

Yeah, it’s a little voyeuristic, but so is big brother on channel 4.

Here’s the WIFM, “What’s In It For Me”, or really You. You get the see the cracks in the surface. You get to see what it’s really like. The pressure, the exhilaration of self subsistence and all that comes along with getting where you want in life. Sometimes it’s hard to take advice from people that have already accomplished. Feelings of inadequacy and other insecurities come to mind. What’s unique about this for you is that you can know that what you are feeling is not abnormal and is not something that should stop your progress or success.  You can see that I have also gone through it and perhaps, hopefully, it will give you some comfort and allow you to keep on pushing forward.

So it with that note that I will begin this journey once more for the last time, only looking forward. I will begin to fill the pages and wish you all the success in the world. If I can ever be of assistance or if you find that this blog changed your life, It would be my honor to hear of it.

From small seeds oak trees grow

Grow into your self!

No you can’t have the world immediately. No changes sometimes cannot be easily identified or touched. But that does not mean they are not there. Look at “theories” they cannot be seen and their progress could be hard to identify and they certainly can’t be touched. However, because of a theory, great feats and accomplishments have been made. We found that the world was indeed NOT flat. How popostorous a round world sounded at one time!

I had a great day at the gym yesterday. I benched 90k 5 sets and 3 reps. Absolutely brilliant! I went for weigh in today and I am now standing at 162lbs. That’s a 8lb gain in two weeks. It’s great to know that I’ve been able to shed 15lbs of fat and now I begin to replace the 15lbs with muscle! Yes!

These things just take time. For 3 days I was hoovering at 18/9 and finally I smashed through 160.

To help me gain size I’ve switched to high reps with medium weight to low reps with heavy weight. It seems to be working a treat.

I’m taking into consideration trying to break the 4 min mile. I think I have a plan with a combination of lifting, sprinting and underwater swimming that may help me achieve it.  I haven’t completed decided and it’s still up for more thought.

Nontheless, I am hitting the smaller muscle groups hard to prepare them for could be coming ahead. Muscles like the abductor and inductor muscles that are around the hips.

My thought is simply that if I can do reps of wieghts for over 4 mins at a time at a decent rate, then when running on the track for 4 mins I should be able to propel myself  through the 4 min barrier without too much lactic acid build up and fatigue.

I’ve run a 3.59 1500m in college, that 100m short of a mile or about 12-16 seconds.

To those out there that are ready to give up or think it can’t be done. Remember the old proverb about a man that try to bring down a wall of bricks. He chipped away endlessly and finally just about ready to give up, he gave one extra smack of the chisel and witnessed then wall crumble in front of him.

How many entreprenuers do you think have this story? I know of many! Listen to Richard Reed, co-founder of Innocent Smoothie. He can testify to not ever giving up.

You may not be able to see it or touch it but that does not mean it is not on it’s way! Keep moving, keep working, keep motivated, take action now, not tomorrow, but Now!!!

Have fun all

Create Your Ideal Self!

This blog should have started when I started this whole concept six months ago. However, a quick catch up in what I’m doing.

I used to be a competitive athlete. Running 60-100 miles per week. Since my college days 5 years ago, I had put on 20 or so lbs. Some of it mature muscle mass as it regularly occurs in late 20′s, the rest fat around the gut. Everymorning I got up to put clothes on I felt fat and ugly, before bed taking clothes off, I felt fat and ugly, in the shower I felt fat and ugly. You get the point right. Most of it occurred through binge drinking and smoking episodes that lasted weeks.

I decided to turn it around. If I was going to feel good on a daily basis, I needed to have positive reinforcement in my life everyday. Not negative enforcement. My goal was to cut out all the negative statements that roll around in my head everyday. Or at least cut out the ones that are shouting the loudest. This way I don’t have to work has hard to remain positive. In fact, positive statements would come naturally without effort.

With that, I lost 7Kilo, about 14lbs over three  months. This was through running, aerobic exercise, dieting, reducing caloric intake, fasting etc. I’m not saying I starved myself, but remember we are animals, we were suppose to hunt for food. Not every hunt would have been succesful. Our bodies are prepared to go a day or two without food. Our society has conditioned us to have three to four meals a day. But it’s not necessary. As long as you eat right.

Anyway, I started at 169lbs and made it down to 153/4. I got my six pack back was starting to looking ripped but also skinny. I look at the those muscle magazines and I just think yes, I would like that body. I’m not saying i’m gay or that I want to look like a meat head, but rather like a men’s health and fitness type of body. Bigger, ripped and healthy. So that’s where I’m heading. That’s my path.

I started towards this goal about a 1 week ago and I have already put on 6lbs. I’m up to 159lbs. I’m eating like a horse but I am also lifting very heavy weights. This type of thing is very hard to do naturally. To loose the weight I drank lots of coffee and took the likes of Animal Pak supplements that help to increase the rate at which your body burns energy and fat. I am doing likewise to gain weight. I’ve bought a 10lbs bag of whey protein and some supplements like citruline malate, fish oils, and Hdrol.

The most important thing to realize here is that you can be anything you want. It doesn’t matter about weight, height or anything else. It can be all done. If the mind can conceive it the body can achieve it! Just tell yourself you can, imagine what it would feel like to have succeeded and then take action. Not later, nor tomorrow, but Now!