While having my practice run yesterday, I listened to a number of audio programs mainly delivered by Brian Tracy. Brian Tracy is a world-renowned motivational speaker. He was originally from a poor family on Prince Edward Island in Canada, which most people associate with Anne of Green Gables.
The reason I like listening to his lecture is threefold.
1) His ideas are useful. Most advice he gives is easy to understand and also easy to implement. I believe it's worth sharing with others.
2) His ideas can be trusted. He started from zero, and worked his way up to where he is now by doing what he preaches. I applied some, and got results. They worked for a dummy like me. They sure will work for my friends who know better than me.
3) His English is easy to understand. Brian speaks in ways people can understand his ideas easily. He organizes his argument quite logically. He begins with a clear conclusion, often prefacing it a quote by someone famous. He then gives us a series of explanations regarding why it's important. He often includes counter examples to illustrate what could happen if what he tells important is neglected.
Yesterday one of the programs I listened to was about positive personality and 7 keys to creating it through conscious effort. They are described below. I couldn't remember them all by listening while running, so on the following day I sat and listened to the audio again and again, to make this note. I hope you find it useful.
1) Positive Self Talk (前向きな自己対話)
Psychologists say 49% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go through your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will by default think about things that will make you unhappy, or cause you worry and anxiety.
2) Positive Visualization（前向きなイメージ）
Create a clear exciting picture of your goal and your ideal life, and replay this picture on the screen of your mind over and over again. All improvement in your outer life begins an improvement in your mental pictures. If you completely control the pictures that you play on the screen of your mind, as you see yourself on the inside, you'll start to BE that person with those accomplishments on the outside.
3) Positive People（付き合う人も前向き）
They control your self talk and your mental pictures. Associate with winners. Positive people. People who are happy, optimistic, and who are going somewhere with their lives.
4) Positive Mental Food（前向きな心の栄養）
Just as your body is healthy to the degree to which you eat healthy, nutritious food, your mind is healthy to the degree to which you feed it with mental protein, rather than mental candy. Read books, magazines, and articles that are educational, inspirational, or motivational. Listen to positive, constructive CDs and audio programs in your car and on your MP3 player or iPod. Every time you learn something new, you can improve your life; your brain releases endorphins, which are called nature's happy drug, and you actually feel happier even before you take action on a new piece of idea, you feel happier that you've learned a new idea in the first place.
5) Positive Training and Development（前向きな能力開発）
Jim Rohn said formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune. When you dedicate yourself to learning and growing and become more effective in your thoughts and actions, you take complete control of your life, and dramatically increase the speed at which you move upwards to greater heights.
6) Positive Health Habits（前向きな健康習慣）
Eat excellent food, healthy and nutritious. Eat them sparingly and in proper balance. An excellent diet will have an immediate positive effect on your thoughts and feelings. Resolve to get regular exercise. When you exercise on a regular basis, you feel happier and healthier, and experience lower levels of stress and fatigue than a person who sits on the couch and watches television all evening. Get ample rest and relaxation. Vince Lombardi once said, "Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
7) Positive Expectations (前向きな期待)
Having positive expectations is one of the most powerful techniques that you can use to become a positive person and to ensure positive outcomes and better results in your life. Your expectations become your own self-fulfilling prophecies. Always expect the best.
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