How you can overcome doubts

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Do you ever go stale?

232441976 3b656ae066 m1 How you can overcome doubtsWhatever your motivation, no matter how well you plan, and no matter how smoothly things are going, it is going to happen. You wake up one morning without the fire that has kept you pushing on, Something seems missing. Those goals aren’t so golden. The vision isn’t so clear and you just want to roll over and sleep. So what is the problem? Did you get off course or is it just the way the cookie crumbles? Can you fix it and get your activities back on course or have you lost it for good?

There is no warning.

It just happens. You are working hard. You see the vision of where you want to be. You are putting the pieces in place. You start to live the lifestyle that you want. Suddenly and for no reason you begin to doubt. The excitement dies. Work looses meaning and becomes drudgery. Despite all you effort, you slide from focused excitement back into a life of doubt and confusion What does it mean and what can you do about it?

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There are many ways to explain what is going on. You might call it life inertia which wants to pull human activity back from exceptional to ordinary. You might see it as the Devil who fights the extraordinary side of human nature and encourages ordinary and average by planting doubt where none is justified. Whatever the nature of the force, it is hard wired into the human psyche and impossible to ignore. It is easier and more natural to fail than to succeed and something deep inside pulls us back from success.. Success is uncomfortable enough but striving for success before you reach it is torture.

Self-doubt challenge your every action by questioning your worthiness.

 ”Who do you think you are?”

“Why do you think you deserve to succeed?”

“What makes you so smart?”

Self doubt accompanies any journey into the unknown, particularly an ambitious one. Only a strong will can resist the call to fall back to ordinary efforts and expectations.

What can help?

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In my experience, only one things works and that one thing is to ignore all those negative messages and keep going because once you stop,it’s all over. You lose everything and must start all over again.

When you keep moving something always happens to reveal that the negative messages are lies. But sometimes keeping going is hard to do without some help. One help is a companion on your journey who shares your vision and can encourage you when you are down, Another is a mentor/coach who can encourage and cheer you on when you have a good plan and are making progress.

Bottom line when you have a plan which reincorporates real, heart-felt dreams and goals and serious activity which you have vetted with people who know how to have what you want, just keep plugging whatever your mind tells you. You are too close to the action to judge. Sometimes progress is not incremental or measurable along the way. Work is incremental steady effort. Success is sudden and amazing when it comes.

Work your plan and trust your plan.

 

How you can overcome doubts

What is your retirement strategy?

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This is not about investments!

What is your retirement strategy?

Choose, don't settle.

Retirement strategies means more than managing your investments. Having enough money when you retire is important but not the only thing you need to manage. Retirement can mean 10 to 30 years (maybe more) years of your life. What you do with those years will make the difference as you look back on the day you die. Retirement strategy means what you did with those years, how you handled the resources of time, life experience and accomplishment. Were those years satisfying and fulfilling? Did you meet your life goals? Did your life matter? The answer lies with you and how you met the challenge of retirement.

It’s very personal.

Retirement strategy is a personal decision. There isn’t any universal measure of success or failure. It starts with what is important to you. It can be personal and self-satisfying or universal and altruistic. It can be timid or bold. In the end, nobody else’s standards matter. You are the master of your life.

Have conviction! 

Once you decide to make a plan, you have committed to taking control of your retirement lifestyle. You won’t accept just anything. Your life is important and you will do whatever necessary to make it as you want. But what are the options. I see it like this. There are three retirement strategies that you can embrace in your retirement plan. They are all good because they represent your decisions. So long as you have considered the options and selected the one that makes you happy, any strategy can be the right one for you.

Once you pick, you aren’t stuck with your choice. You can change strategy at any time. Don’t get hung up on which is the right one. Start by picking the one that feels right. The worst thing you can do is fail to choose because when you don’t choose a strategy, you aren’t in charge. You don’t know what will happen and somebody else will make decisions for you.

Strategy One: Stick with what’s working.

What is your retirement strategy?

Keep doing what you love.

Maintain your current portfolio of life activities, relationships and environment. Change the amount of time you allocate as needed but don’t change much else. This would be most appropriate when you are pretty satisfied with your lifestyle or it might be what you choose while you try to decide what changes you want to make.

Strategy Two: Learn some new things.

What is your retirement strategy?

Become a master

Choose this strategy when you know that there are some parts of your lifestyle that don’t work they way you want. This doesn’t mean you change everything at once. If you find more than one deficiency then pick the one that is most important and learn something new to make it better. This could mean taking up a new activity and becoming good enough to satisfy yourself. It could mean improving on skills you already have and becoming more expert. Then change your lifestyle to include your new skills.

Strategy Three: Shake things up.

What is your retirement strategy?

See the world!

This is the most risky because you move away from what is familiar and you can’t always get back if you find you made a mistake. It also has the most potential to transform a dull retirement into something outrageous. This strategy could mean moving to another place, traveling more frequently. It could mean making a reality out of a long time fantasy like becoming a beachcomber or a volunteer for a foreign aid program. With this one, there are ways to test out the changes on a short term basis before committing to permanent change but if you don’t feel drawn to a big change in your life, this one may not be right for you.

Your turn! 

I hope you have chosen a strategy and aren’t letting control of your life drift. Leave a comment to let me know which path you are on and how it’s going.

 

Acetaminophen – Is the Government trying to kill us?

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FDA Finally Admits Deadly Effects of Acetaminophen

This is the headline in the July 2010 Issue of Life Extension, the magazine for the Life Extension Foundation. Did you see that news on CNN, Fox or your local newspaper?  I strongly doubt it. Despite all the evidence of the damage caused by acetamenophen, the only action from the FDA is to reduce the recommended doses. There is no warning on the labels for either the name brand acetamenophen products like Tylenol or the generic versions. The public continues to believe that the FDA protects them and that approved drugs are safe and effective while all the time it  gives no respect to natural alternatives that do not have safety issues.

What’s the fuss?

So what damage does acetamenophen cause? The principal damage is to the liver where it causes depletion of glutathione which is the liver’s antioxidant. When glutathione is reduced, it allows free radicals to destroy liver cells. Researchers have suggested that this bad outcome could be eliminated if the acetamenophen were combined with N-acetyl cycsteine. Combining these two over the counter drugs is not allowed by the FDA without expensive testing but you can buy each separately if, for some reason, you feel you must use acetaminophen. When you use acetamenophen alone you stress and potentially damage your liver and possibly cause damage to the kidneys and other organs.

Are there studies?

A study in 2006 said that each year there are 100,000 calls to poison control centers because of the use of acetamenophen. There are 56,000 emergency room visits, 26,000 hospitalizations and 450 deaths, all from the use of acetaminophen.

In addition, there are suggestions that the use of acetamenophen is the reason for the rise in kidney cancer rates of 126% since 1950 and the increase of age related diseases. It is well known that acetamenophen does cause cataracts in mice.

Don’t take it!

Acetaminophen is not the benign and helpful drug that the commercials describe. It has bad side effects especially for the elderly. For young people the impact of the liver damage over time will probably not show up until mid or late life and the responsibility will not be clear, especially since the FDA is carrying the water for the drug manufacturers by not disclosing the ugly facts about acetamenophen use. I don’t use pain killers much and can’t remember the last time I used acetamenophen. I don’t plan to use it in the future and to make sure that my family understands the risks as well.

So where can I find the facts and the documentation?

If you want to check the research and documentation of the facts here, you can find them in the July, 2010 issue of Life Extension. Online here is an older article about the dangers of acetamenophen.

Acetaminophen Is the Government trying to kill us?

Originally posted 2010-06-23 08:06:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter