You should be sincere in figuring out what drives you the most in your life. What is the reason of your dissatisfaction? Why you want to be above others?

1. Inferiority feeling
2. Delight in control
3. Ambitions and status/fame seeking
4. Retaliation to the people in power or society as a whole
5. Retaliation to  certain people
6. Compassion and sense of justice
7. Striving for a better life
8. Excessive libido
9. Creative drive

Be honest! You are not trying to cheat yourself, aren’t you?

1. I don’t know what I really want
2. Lack of planning
3. Bad priorities setting
4. Overreacting on external signals, getting distracted from your current task
5. Can’t see the results, that is why don’t believe in success

Those who REALLY want to succeed MUST constantly and diligently improve his/her skills.

Seminars, trainings, books, classes, podcasts, webinars, news – whatever it takes to advance your personality. Step by step, no fake excuses and procrastinations. Every day, hour, second and whatever the weather is outside.

Every time I awake at the mornings I feel some disappointment on what my life is. It seemed just yesterday like I had very positive mindset and where all that is now. Damn it.

How to be what some call “infatigable worker”?

“This study establishes the real potential for using iPS cells in cardiac treatment,” says Timothy Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., first author on the Mayo Clinic study. “Bioengineered fibroblasts acquired the capacity to repair and regenerate infarcted hearts.”

This is the first application of iPS-based technology for heart disease therapy. Previously iPS cells have been used on only three other disease models: Parkinson’s disease, sickle cell anemia and hemophilia A. The ultimate goal is to use iPS cells derived from patients to repair injury. Using a person’s own cells in the process eliminates the risk of rejection and the need for anti-rejection drugs. One day this regenerative medicine strategy may alleviate the demand for organ transplantation limited by donor shortage, the researchers say.

“This iPS innovation lays the groundwork for translational applications,” comments Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic physician -scientist and senior author. “Through advances in nuclear reprogramming, we should be able to reverse the fate of adult cells and customize ‘on demand’ cardiovascular regenerative medicine.”

The Mayo Clinic team genetically reprogrammed fibroblasts via a “stemness-related” human gene set to dedifferentiate into an iPS cell capable of then redifferentiating into new heart muscle. When transplanted into damaged mouse hearts, iPS cells engrafted after two weeks, and after four weeks significantly contributed to improved structure and function of the damaged heart, in contrast to ineffective ordinary fibroblasts.

Compared to non-engineered fibroblasts, the iPS cells:

• Restored heart muscle performance lost after the heart attack
• Stopped progression of structural damage in the damaged heart
• Regenerated tissue at the site of heart damage

ScienceDaily (July 21, 2009)

Hope attempts to prove we’re powerless.

We say things like…

-I am not the one in charge here, so there is really nothing I can do.

-I believe my fate is in God’s hands.

-They won’t let me…(government, rich people, or anyone else who appears to have more power)

-What is the use of trying? The odds are clearly stacked against me.

These are nothing more than assumptions. Assumptions are characterized by the habit of taking for granted that something is true when it is not. Questions you must ask are, “Is my assumption true or false? What proof or evidence do I have about my assumption? “

What’s more stupid than a stupid question? The answer is an incorrect assumption.

Think of this in terms of your return on investment. In business we focus heavily on the ROI (return on investment), but we forget to use that same concept throughout the rest of our lives. When we fail to do what we want because of an assumption, we are forgetting about the concept of ROI. What would be the ROI for doing it anyway, even if someone somewhere holds the assumption that it is impossible? If all any of us ever did was follow our assumptions, we would still be afraid of falling off the edge of the earth.

Is it wrong to hope or have expectations? Absolutely not. However, the tipping point where hope turns into defeat is when hope keeps us from doing what we can do in the moment.

From Dr. Robert Anthony newsletter

Hope can be a form of scarcity. There are those who live in hope and those who produce hope. What does it mean to be a producer of hope? People who produce hope are creators. People who live in hope are those who just wish and wait for things to change.

Hope is essential because without it life would be a daunting task. However, there is a dark side to hope that very few people talk about. The difference is in what we do or don’t do with hope.

For most people, hope is characterized by waiting for other people or events to change so that we can be happy or get what we want. In this respect, hope is like the dark side of positive thinking.
Positive thinking rarely brings about change because it is a passive activity. Hope then becomes a waiting game.

What people fail to understand is that hope is only a small part of the equation for success. Without action, hope leaves you in a negative reinforcing cycle of expectations, disappointment and
stagnation.

Hope is the longing and wishing for things we think we don’t have. However, the energy we put into wishing and waiting actually prevents us from receiving what we want.

Hope can be a prison. It is a conditioned belief that there is nothing we can do but sit back and “hope for the best”. The dictionary defines hope as “the desire for something to happen while expecting or being confident that it will come true”. This is nothing more than a waiting game.

Many people create a dream and then wait for a sign from heaven that they are on the right track. When the sign fails to come, they give up and go off onto some new adventure, again waiting for a sign that this is finally “it”.

We are conditioned to wait. We wait for the bus, we wait in line at the grocery store and the bank. In school we raised our hands and waited to be called upon, etc. We wait until our parents, teachers or some other adult tells us that it’s okay to do what we want to do.

People that are into hope feel powerless. Powerlessness is a conditioned pattern. Why is it that we can read about people who overcame great odds to accomplish some fantastic feat, but we can’t manage to get to an appointment on time? We are powerless because of heavy traffic, kids won’t cooperate, or some other excuse. If we really faced the truth of the situation, we would see that this supposed powerlessness is a clever disguise to keep us resisting what we can do in the moment.

From Dr. Robert Anthony newsletter

As I realized they mostly come from the childhood. And I liked an idea of considering them as subpersonalities. In other words there are several (not to say hundreds) personalities in each of us coming up on the scene in different life situations. You might have noticed how ofently we repeat our parents behavioural patterns in our own life. They are being transduced from one person to another just like viruses are. And our childhood is the most susceptible time for that transduction. Most of them play a protective role for the individual but they can restrain your freedom either.This is what the book called Embrace Ourselves: The Voice Dialogue Manual written by a couple of Stones about. The worst part of that is you lose your identity because those subpersonalities permanently take control of you mind and body. This is just like “stimulus-response” attitude. No brain just reactions. Some examples are “Loser”, “Procrastinator”, “Lazy”, “Sceptic” and most of them we take from our parents. But wait where are youself than? That is the question I ask myself every single day and suggest you to do the same.

your eyes off your goal

For most people obstacles are just things they feel the lack of. This could me anything . Time, money, knowledge, experience, power, connections and you name it. Once come to your mind they make you stuck and frustrated.

You might be telling youself : Oh, my god, I can’t do that because I got nothing for that. Neither money (or whatever) nor skills (put your freaking version here). These kind of thoughts help you in no way but self-abasement. So why bother about them? Do you want to spend your entire life crying and complaining about how pathetic and useless you are? If you do just go ahead. Who cares?

One of the valuable features of powerful people is the ability to ask the right questions. Dealing with obstacles I used to queston myself with following:

• Who am I? (the host of my own life or what)
• What do I want? (win or lose)
• Why do I want that? (passion or just illusion)
  
• So what is my plan? (detailed one or just useless dream)
• Do I respect/love myself? (or just expecting someone to do that)

Recently I realized that the happiness is simply when you understand yourself.

Brian Tracy

Habits are patterns of thought and behavior our mind and body has become accustomed to. And when we try to change that pattern, our internal mechanism reacts. Sometimes it gets angry, sometimes it gets depressed, and often times it gets stressed. It is important to find healthy outlets for these emotions. Some effective outlets are exercise, finding a hobby you enjoy, or simply changing your environment for the moment and going outside to the park or beach.

Here are 5 steps for changing habits:

1. Awareness: You must become aware of your habits. What is this habit exactly? How is this bad habit or group of bad habits affecting you? How is this habit affecting others?
2. Wanting to Change: You must convince yourself that the change in the habit is worth the effort involved.
3. Commitment: You must be determined to do whatever it takes for breaking bad habits so that you can better control your life. You make a decision that “no matter what” you will change the habit. You do the work required to stop.
4. Consistent Action: It is important to focus on changing just one habit at a time. Then, take consistent daily actions for breaking the bad habit that has been causing problems and take the actions to develop a new one.
5. Perseverance: There will be times when you question whether it is all worth it. You’ll say to yourself that breaking these bad habits is too difficult; that you are too “weak” to change. Your old self, often so comfortable living with the bad habits, is trying to hold on.

Bad habits take time to take root and so do good ones. Realize you are not going to change bad habits over night. Changing them takes time. And the more time you spend sticking to your plan, the easier it will get. So take it one day at a time, and remember, “slow and steady wins the race,” not racing through things haphazardly.

It is full of excess potential being released upon combustion in your car’s engine.Not to say about the food we eat every single day to support our energy costs. The point is any energy excess can/should be spent for something. Some people call this the equilibrium law. Given that one can consider the world as a place full of so called pendulums which vibrate, die out and interact. Every one next to another is accepting the energy from its neighbor and passes that through the chain. Once born any given disturbance is being transferred and causing the excess potential which is in turn can be released in completely another direction. Simply put our life is like permanent energy exchange. What is far more interesting is that the equilibrium can be perturbed not only by real actions but thoughts. This occurs when someone attaches to much importance to anything whatever it would be. Just imagine how different would it feel standing on the ground or balancing on the edge of a skyscraper. In the latter case you are much more concerned about the situation and your equilibrium is shifted. Thus the excess forces would be trying to amortize that energy surplus and either put you down or force you to step back. There is only you who can choose the direction so it comes to your self-control. Once your peace of mind is disturbed you become a source of energy for someone else because your equilibrium is unbalanced. Your gas starts to burn out. Here are some triggers one can use to bowl you down: sense of guilt, discontent, idealization, blame, overestimation, arrogance, perfection, money, hatred, greed and you name it. If you look at this list more carefully you could see that all that things listed are about the importance being attached to whatever it might be. Say you hate someone. It simply means you consider him or her important for you in one way or another. The arrogance is about self-importance, the overestimation is when the estimation is for some reason very important for you. So as you can see we are always facing some kind of excesses in our life and spend our energy to overcome the obstacles but we used to fail in that. Rather we should learn to recognize the equilibrium shifts in our minds and reduce the importance. How can it be done? I am using a simple approach of considering myself as an observer rather than a participant of my own life. It is kind of a game when you rent yourself to the world and watch a movie. Thus you totally reduce any importance to encounter. Do not worry but act since the importance potentials are being dissipated through the action.

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