Spring Clean Yourself To Perkiness Today!
Any time's a good time to spring clean your mind, regardless of the season ....
Whether it's spring or autumn in your neck of the woods, it's always a good time to live an exceptional life rather than a mediocre one - I'm sure you'd agree? So [member_name_first] treat yourself to the first 5 steps in the Outshine Perky PlanTM today and start spring-cleaning your way to 'exceptional' without further delay:-
1. Get Clear & In Control
I'm willing to bet that you probably spend more time planning your next holiday than you do planning your life - which is quite an amazing statistic since we spend more time on 'life' than on 'holiday'! If you stumble through life with no clear plan or goals in place it's highly likely that you'll end up 'lost' and victim to the daily grind. However, if you get organised and design the life you want to lead you'll feel more in control and will have a clearer sense of direction and purpose. Sit down, work out where you want to go, what you want to achieve, and determine your direction - the clearer you get on all of these points, the perkier you will be!
2. Get Healthy
Now this isn't rocket science - if you're run-down, sick, tired and sluggish you're going to find it a struggle to be Perky. It's as easy as that. There's a truck-load of scientific evidence to show that healthy living can increase your happiness and it's also proven that exercise is as effective as anti-depressant medication in treating depression. Stop putting time into excuses and start investing in your well-being - get fit and healthy today!
3. Get A Bright Outlook
Optimistic positive people live longer, get sick less, are more successful, have better relationships, and are more likely to get promoted at work. Proven facts. Do you really need any more reasons to start having a brighter outlook on life? Decide how you want to see the world, and practice being positive. It won't kill you!
4. Get Together
Good quality relationships contribute to being Perky in various ways - both personally and professionally. They help your sense of wellness and provide a cushion to depression and stress. So get out there, build and maintain positive relationships, and promote perkiness today.
5. Get Perky Now
Live in the moment - stop saying 'When'! Why would you want to postpone being Perky until tomorrow, when you could have it today? No-one else can live your life for you or make you happy so put your Outshine Perky Plan into place today and put 'mediocre' behind you for good.
For more information on the Outshine Perky PlanTM contact us today at info@outshineconsulting.com
What you focus on is what you get!
What you focus on is what you get. If you focus on problems, you will get problems, and if you focus on solutions you will get solutions. Don't exclude all the other options and possibilities around you - choose your focus today and don't lose sight of it when there are bumps in the road.
Take a few moments out of your day, right now, to jot down 3 things you're focusing on. Then write down whether they are problems or solutions. If you are focusing on your problems it's time to reframe them, change your perspective, and focus on the solution instead. Simply having a conscious awareness of the choices that are available to you is the first step to finding focus.
Take a few moments out of your day, right now, to jot down 3 things you're focusing on. Then write down whether they are problems or solutions. If you are focusing on your problems it's time to reframe them, change your perspective, and focus on the solution instead. Simply having a conscious awareness of the choices that are available to you is the first step to finding focus.
What are you contributing?
All too often we focus on what we can get out of a situation or event, rather than what we can give.
I challenge you to spend today focusing solely on what you can contribute to those around you, rather than looking at 'what's in it for me'.
Choose to contribute as much as you can, and realise that you don't have to give up anything to make someone else's day more enjoyable. Some of the smallest gestures in life mean the most.
What can you do today that will benefit someone else?
I challenge you to spend today focusing solely on what you can contribute to those around you, rather than looking at 'what's in it for me'.
Choose to contribute as much as you can, and realise that you don't have to give up anything to make someone else's day more enjoyable. Some of the smallest gestures in life mean the most.
What can you do today that will benefit someone else?
Pain or Pleasure?
John McGrath, CEO of McGrath Estate Agents - Australia's fastest growing real estate company, once said "Remember, there's always going to be some pain in life. I choose the pain of discipline, to create a balanced life that I love living". Donald Trump is another successful entrepreneur who links so much pain to the prospect of being second-best that the thought alone motivates him to be as successful as he is - it's not the pleasure of success that drives him.
Everything we do is either to avoid pain or to gain pleasure, and these choices are what ultimately shape our lives. More interestingly, we will generally do more to avoid pain than to find pleasure. Take smoking for example - people who smoke typically link a lot of pleasure to lighting a cigarette and smoking it. They also associate a lot of pain with giving up smoking, and as they'll do more to avoid pain than to find pleasure, they continue with their bad habit. That is until the pain of smoking far outweighs the pleasure. Being diagnosed with lung cancer and going through chemotherapy would, for most, outweigh the pleasure of smoking. For some the pain needs to be more intense whereas others may find that financial implications, or bronchitis for example, are 'enough' to satisfy their desire to avoid pain.
Obesity is the same - the pleasure of over-eating is more enjoyable to many than the prospect of feeling hungry or the exertion of exercise. That is until obesity starts to effect their life to such a extent that what used to be pleasurable becomes painful, and when the scales tip and the pain outweighs the pleasure, then and only then, will their behaviour change.
The critical point here is that often people think that our intellect drives our behaviour. That's clearly not the case as even though we know the cigarette or double cheeseburger is bad for us we still reach out for it, because we're driven by what we've learned to link to pain and pleasure, and not by what we know is right or wrong.
So how can you change what you link to pain and pleasure? Firstly, just by having an understanding of how Pain vs Pleasure determines your behaviour put you back in the driving seat of your life. Focus on long-term pleasure and realise the need to break through short-term pain to achieve your ultimate goal. Pick an area of your life that you want to change and ask yourself these simple questions:-
* What pain have I linked to making that change?
* What pleasure have I gained from NOT making the change?
* What will it cost me if I don't make the change now?
* What pleasure will I get out of making the change now?
Take some time out to answer these questions fully and really turn up your emotions behind the answers. Only when you have a strong enough neuro-association with the pain and pleasure linked to an action will you make that all-important change.
To find out more email us today at info@outshineconsulting.com.
Everything we do is either to avoid pain or to gain pleasure, and these choices are what ultimately shape our lives. More interestingly, we will generally do more to avoid pain than to find pleasure. Take smoking for example - people who smoke typically link a lot of pleasure to lighting a cigarette and smoking it. They also associate a lot of pain with giving up smoking, and as they'll do more to avoid pain than to find pleasure, they continue with their bad habit. That is until the pain of smoking far outweighs the pleasure. Being diagnosed with lung cancer and going through chemotherapy would, for most, outweigh the pleasure of smoking. For some the pain needs to be more intense whereas others may find that financial implications, or bronchitis for example, are 'enough' to satisfy their desire to avoid pain.
Obesity is the same - the pleasure of over-eating is more enjoyable to many than the prospect of feeling hungry or the exertion of exercise. That is until obesity starts to effect their life to such a extent that what used to be pleasurable becomes painful, and when the scales tip and the pain outweighs the pleasure, then and only then, will their behaviour change.
The critical point here is that often people think that our intellect drives our behaviour. That's clearly not the case as even though we know the cigarette or double cheeseburger is bad for us we still reach out for it, because we're driven by what we've learned to link to pain and pleasure, and not by what we know is right or wrong.
So how can you change what you link to pain and pleasure? Firstly, just by having an understanding of how Pain vs Pleasure determines your behaviour put you back in the driving seat of your life. Focus on long-term pleasure and realise the need to break through short-term pain to achieve your ultimate goal. Pick an area of your life that you want to change and ask yourself these simple questions:-
* What pain have I linked to making that change?
* What pleasure have I gained from NOT making the change?
* What will it cost me if I don't make the change now?
* What pleasure will I get out of making the change now?
Take some time out to answer these questions fully and really turn up your emotions behind the answers. Only when you have a strong enough neuro-association with the pain and pleasure linked to an action will you make that all-important change.
To find out more email us today at info@outshineconsulting.com.
Pain or Pleasure?
John McGrath, CEO of McGrath Estate Agents - Australia's fastest growing real estate company, once said "Remember, there's always going to be some pain in life. I choose the pain of discipline, to create a balanced life that I love living". Donald Trump is another successful entrepreneur who links so much pain to the prospect of being second-best that the thought alone motivates him to be as successful as he is - it's not the pleasure of success that drives him.
Everything we do is either to avoid pain or to gain pleasure, and these choices are what ultimately shape our lives. More interestingly, we will generally do more to avoid pain than to find pleasure. Take smoking for example - people who smoke typically link a lot of pleasure to lighting a cigarette and smoking it. They also associate a lot of pain with giving up smoking, and as they'll do more to avoid pain than to find pleasure, they continue with their bad habit. That is until the pain of smoking far outweighs the pleasure. Being diagnosed with lung cancer and going through chemotherapy would, for most, outweigh the pleasure of smoking. For some the pain needs to be more intense whereas others may find that financial implications, or bronchitis for example, are 'enough' to satisfy their desire to avoid pain.
Obesity is the same - the pleasure of over-eating is more enjoyable to many than the prospect of feeling hungry or the exertion of exercise. That is until obesity starts to effect their life to such a extent that what used to be pleasurable becomes painful, and when the scales tip and the pain outweighs the pleasure, then and only then, will their behaviour change.
The critical point here is that often people think that our intellect drives our behaviour. That's clearly not the case as even though we know the cigarette or double cheeseburger is bad for us we still reach out for it, because we're driven by what we've learned to link to pain and pleasure, and not by what we know is right or wrong.
So how can you change what you link to pain and pleasure? Firstly, just by having an understanding of how Pain vs Pleasure determines your behaviour put you back in the driving seat of your life. Focus on long-term pleasure and realise the need to break through short-term pain to achieve your ultimate goal. Pick an area of your life that you want to change and ask yourself these simple questions:-
* What pain have I linked to making that change?
* What pleasure have I gained from NOT making the change?
* What will it cost me if I don't make the change now?
* What pleasure will I get out of making the change now?
Take some time out to answer these questions fully and really turn up your emotions behind the answers. Only when you have a strong enough neuro-association with the pain and pleasure linked to an action will you make that all-important change.
To find out more email us today at info@outshineconsulting.com.
Everything we do is either to avoid pain or to gain pleasure, and these choices are what ultimately shape our lives. More interestingly, we will generally do more to avoid pain than to find pleasure. Take smoking for example - people who smoke typically link a lot of pleasure to lighting a cigarette and smoking it. They also associate a lot of pain with giving up smoking, and as they'll do more to avoid pain than to find pleasure, they continue with their bad habit. That is until the pain of smoking far outweighs the pleasure. Being diagnosed with lung cancer and going through chemotherapy would, for most, outweigh the pleasure of smoking. For some the pain needs to be more intense whereas others may find that financial implications, or bronchitis for example, are 'enough' to satisfy their desire to avoid pain.
Obesity is the same - the pleasure of over-eating is more enjoyable to many than the prospect of feeling hungry or the exertion of exercise. That is until obesity starts to effect their life to such a extent that what used to be pleasurable becomes painful, and when the scales tip and the pain outweighs the pleasure, then and only then, will their behaviour change.
The critical point here is that often people think that our intellect drives our behaviour. That's clearly not the case as even though we know the cigarette or double cheeseburger is bad for us we still reach out for it, because we're driven by what we've learned to link to pain and pleasure, and not by what we know is right or wrong.
So how can you change what you link to pain and pleasure? Firstly, just by having an understanding of how Pain vs Pleasure determines your behaviour put you back in the driving seat of your life. Focus on long-term pleasure and realise the need to break through short-term pain to achieve your ultimate goal. Pick an area of your life that you want to change and ask yourself these simple questions:-
* What pain have I linked to making that change?
* What pleasure have I gained from NOT making the change?
* What will it cost me if I don't make the change now?
* What pleasure will I get out of making the change now?
Take some time out to answer these questions fully and really turn up your emotions behind the answers. Only when you have a strong enough neuro-association with the pain and pleasure linked to an action will you make that all-important change.
To find out more email us today at info@outshineconsulting.com.
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