Roland Byrd

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When to Double Down on Your Health and Fitness

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Why You Must Double Down on Your Health and Fitness!

I was taking to a good friend just a few minutes ago about the times when we feel like taking it easy or the times we feel like taking a break. And that reminded me of when I used to do bodyweight exercises all the time because with bodyweight exercise especially, as with all exercises and truly all areas of life, you can workout every day, doing the same exercise, if you want too. The trick is, you adjust your intensity every day. Someone who runs can run every single day. There are days when it makes sense to run harder, to push yourself more and there are days when it makes sense to be easier and have a relaxed, healing kind of a run.

Same thing with working out. There are times when you can blitz the bodypart(s) you’re working and there are times when you can take it easier. I worked legs really hard and have jelly-legs as I record this video. The weak feeling that anyone who works out really hard knows, when you have to grip the handrail for dear life when walking down stairs to keep from falling.

When you feel like taking a break, it's time to double sown on your health and fitness!

After that workout I decided to go have some nature time. I’m out here enjoying this gorgeous scene and I was talking to my friend on the phone and we were talking about how sometimes people say they want to take it easy. Coaching clients will say, “I just need to take a break.”

That’s When You’ve Got to Double Down!

When you feel like you need to take a break, that’s when you’ve got to double down because pushing through the resistance, that’s what’s going to help you bust out to the next level!

Pushing through those times where you’re thinking, “I just really don’t feel like it.” Or, “I don’t want to do it.” Or whatever other excuse your mind throws out at you… Those are the times you’ve got to completely and totally double down on it! Get your butt going where you need to go! Get yourself doing what you need to do! Find a way to push through it!

And pushing through it can be taking it easy in the sense that you are working out more gently than you would otherwise but you’re still there! You’re still showing up!

Showing Up Makes a Massive Difference!

Showing up makes a massive difference because showing up tells your unconscious mind how important it is for you to do what you’re doing!

When you show up on the days when you feel like skipping or during the months that maybe you feel like skipping, when you show up now, more and more during those times, you’re programming your grey matter that that’s a non-negotiable. That you are going to go and do the work. That you’re going to put yourself in the situation. That you’re going to grow your way through it.

The people who are on the fitness yo-yo; those who go until they reach the edge of their comfort zone and then they stop exercising until they reach the bottom of their comfort zone—when they are fed up with their lack of fitness—and then they start getting in shape again… And on and on and on they go, bouncing within the walls of their comfort zone. They are always in that narrow window of growth.

To break through that window, to break through to the other side, to get the true success and the long-term health and fitness, you have got to push yourself to show up on the times when you feel like you want to take a break! Even showing up in a way that’s gentle on your body is still showing up.

Sometimes you just have to remember that doing something smaller is way more important than skipping. If it’s a scheduled day, if it’s a planned day, if you have a workout that you’re supposed to be doing, regardless of the type of workout, if it’s your day to workout and you feel like taking a break… I strongly suggest that you SHOW UP ANYWAY!

Get Your Mind Right and Your Body Will Follow!

 

Roland

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Personal Development is Critical to Professional Success

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Personal Development is Critical to Professional Success

Why is Personal Development Critical to Professional Success?

Without a habit of personal development, professional success is often short lived, stifled, or non-existent. You witness it all the time, an intelligent person with marketable skills never reaches their full potential, has trouble getting or holding a high-level job—sometimes any job, never turns a profit in their business, or they achieve success in these areas only to later self-sabotage and lose it all.

Why does this happen? They have personal issues in their lives that have never been adequately dealt with. But we’ll come back to that.

Some people also try to separate their professional lives from their personal lives—instead of healing or growing. They try to act one way professionally and another personally. They often develop different personas, one for each area of their lives. But the truth is segmenting one’s life never works because at the core, our values, needs, and beliefs drive our thoughts and actions in all areas of life.

Life is one indivisible whole

“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole” –Mahatma Gandhi

If you want professional success, you can study or train diligently and make yourself more valuable in the marketplace. And this works. You’ll progress further professionally by improving your knowledge and skills than you will by coasting. But unless you’re taking care of developing and growing as an individual—and that means evaluating your life and taking care of past and present personal issues—you’ll struggle reaching your full potential at best and at worst, you might hit a brick wall and derail your career entirely.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a CEO, mail-room runner, business owner, or professional athlete, if you’re hauling around past baggage it affects your performance in all areas of life. Yes, all areas.

Let’s clarify that personal issues aren’t necessarily show stoppers. They can be relatively minor things, like taking things personally, overthinking situations, and poor time management. Personal issues can also be things like inappropriate language, poor hygiene, relationship problems outside of work, even talking too much or not listening to others. Essentially, all behavior comes from emotional and psychological roots. If you’re behavior isn’t getting you the results you desire, then you must address the root of the behavior.

That’s Where a Habit of Personal Development Helps Build Professional Success.

What is Personal Development?

Simply the continuing study and implementation of improving oneself. It can include books, seminars, video series, daily meditation, and many other facets. And at the core it entails healing what needs to be healed and improving the areas of life you want to improve.

Maybe you’ve already realized the importance of continuing personal development and have integrated daily growth into your life. Awesome, keep it up!

Maybe you haven’t. I can help you get started!

Maybe you can’t think of anything that you must change personally. If that’s the case, please ask yourself, “Is there anything about my life that I’d change?”

If the answer is, “Yes.” Then you’ll benefit from adding a personal development habit to your life!

Here are a few things you can do to begin—or reinforce—your personal development habit.

  1. Daily Meditation. There are many ways to meditate. At its simplest, meditation is taking the time to reflect on the events going on in your life. Meditation can also be clearing your mind of daily clutter by sitting in silence and focusing on your breath.
    1. The benefits of daily meditation are numerous. Among them are increased health, the ability to think more clearly, increased calmness, and improved mental focus.
  2. Goal Setting. Without goals it’s hard to hit your target. Think of your biggest dream. Write it down using language as if it has already happened. Date it with a realistic but challenging achievement date at the top of the page. Review this daily and Start Working Toward Your Goal!
  3. Study Personal Development. There are many sources for inspiration and guidance in the personal development arena. Find books, videos, or online courses that fit you. Start studying and implementing your new knowledge.
    1. I have a few books on personal development. You can read my books or find other authors who work for you. Either way. Get Started!

 

Always Remember:

You Are The Master of Your Destiny!

Roland

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Nothing Happens Without Action

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Nothing Happens Without Action!

IThe Law of action by Roland Byrd book coverf you want to bring your goals and dreams to life you’ve got to take action. And not just any actions will do. You must take actions that drive your dream forward and that streamline the creation process.

But how do you know what actions to take?

How do you know if you’re taking the right actions?

How do you know when to take them?

How do you know if your actions are working?

The answers to these questions are all in my new book “The Law of Action!”

“The Law of Action!”  reveals why you aren’t reaching all of your goals and gives you easy to follow steps to make sure you reach them from now on.

Click this link and add the book to your cart. Then checkout and I’ll send you your signed copy when it’s hot off the press!

Remember; with the New Year approaching, Now is the Perfect Time to start using the Law of Action in your life!

Make this a banner year! Order your copy of “The Law of Action!” Today.

Please share this post with your friends, family, and everyone else you think might benefit from implementing the Law of Action in their lives!

 

You Are The Master of Your Destiny!

Roland

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If you’re serious about making lasting changes in 2016, changes that will impact the rest of your life, pre-order your copy of The Law of Action today! 

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Face Your Personal Demons

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There is light at the end of your darkness

Face Your Personal Demons

Personal Demons are things that haunt us. They might be fears; like fear of failure, fear of success, fear of intimacy, or fear of being alone. They might be feelings of inferiority, inadequacy, self-loathing, or even of being trapped. Personal demons can be habits that are harmful to ourselves and others or they could be secrets that are tearing us apart.

You understand that personal demons are things that stand in the way of your ability to live a fulfilled life. They can mess up relationships. They can keep you from holding a steady job. They can cause depression. They wreak havoc on your dreams.

You Must Exorcise Your Personal Demons!

Get rid of them! Throw them out! Tell them, “Leave now and never come back!”

But here’s the uncomfortable bit. Your personal demons only haunt you because you allow them to. They have no power unless you give it to them. It’s like in the old vampire movies where vampires couldn’t enter your home unless you invited them in. Your personal demons are living in your mind because you’ve invited them in.

What?

I know, that’s not what you expected. But it’s the truth. If you’re reading this I’m certain you’re ready to hear it. More importantly, you’re ready to do something about it.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any time.—Albert Ellis

Think of it this way, two people are on a roller coaster. They’re sitting in the same car, side by side. One of them is pale and sweating from fear. The other is flush with excitement. The coaster climbs to the top, plummets. It slams through corners. It races over hills. Both people are thrown right, then left, then right. The coaster hits a loop, one final corner, and then comes to a stop on the platform. They both get off the ride. The first person is shaky, with red rimmed eyes, and shallow breath. The second person is whooping and hollering, rearing to go again.

What’s the difference? Both of them rode the same roller coaster. But both of them experienced it differently.

The difference is how they interpreted or internalized the event, the meaning they gave it. It’s the same way with our personal demons. They key is our minds, our thinking. What we do mentally with the things that happen to us determines how these things affect us in the future. How we internalize things can either create personal demons or give new meaning to our lives.

It’s our choice.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.—Dr. Wayne Dyer

Peace is the result

Here’s a process you can use to help exorcise some—maybe all—of your personal demons. It’s one that I’m passionate about because it helped me overcome severe depression and suicidal thoughts years ago. It’s also one of the first things I learned that helped me start truly changing my life. It’s called the Cognitive Thinking Process. Once I was introduced to—and started using—this method it was like beams of sunlight casting shadows of despair from my mind.

 

The Cognitive Thinking Process:

When any unwanted, disempowering or negative thought comes into your mind, apply the following rules to it:

1. Ask yourself, “Is it true?” (Is this reality or imagined?)

1.a Refuse to deal with any thought until you know whether it is true.

1.b If  you  aren’t sure  if  it  is  true  then  either throw it away or go find the truth. (Throwing it away means redirecting your thoughts as we discussed above.)

2. If it is true, then ask yourself, “Whose problem is it?”

2.a Whoever can make a decision to fix the problem owns it.

2.b If you can fix it, own it.

2.c If you can’t do anything about it, then throw it away or give it to the person who owns it. (Giving it to the person who owns it means allowing them to deal with the situation.)

3. If it is true and you own it, then ask yourself, “Am I doing my best?”

3.a If you are doing your best then keep doing that.

3.b If you aren’t doing your best, then figure out what else you need to do and do it.

3.c Only you and God (or your higher power) can know if you are doing your best.

 

That seems like a lot to think about.

But as you do this more and more, it becomes easy. Soon you’ll discover using the Cognitive Thinking Process is habit.

I’ve created a downloadable .pdf of The Cognitive Thinking Process. Click the link to download it. Then print it and put it in a place where you’ll see it often!

Remember

You Are The Master of Your Destiny!

Roland

 

 

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Never Argue for Your Weakness

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I Will Persist! I Will Succeed!

You Should Never Argue for Your Weakness

Has someone ever told you about a weakness they have, something they can’t do, or problems they’re having, and then they go on to explain all the reasons they either can’t change these things or have no control over them?

Have you ever done this yourself?

It’s something I call arguing for your weakness. It’s an unhealthy habit and quickly sabotages your success.

Why?

When a person starts telling others why they can’t do something, change something, or why they have no control over a situation, they’re coming from a place of victimhood. They’re focusing on and reinforcing the negative aspects of situations and life. They’re also forgetting that no matter what, they always have control of the meaning they give an event. And worse, they’re nearly guaranteeing that things will never change for them—at least in that area of their life.

Understand that we all have something about ourselves that we’d like to change or something about our lives that we’d like to change. It might be something big, something that would dramatically improve our lives—if we just made the shift. It might be a little thing that no one but us would really notice. But it’s there. And we know it.

We can approach these a few ways. When we look at these things, we can choose to see the parts that upset us. Or we can listen to the lessons, the things we can learn from the situation. We can also understand the inherent good and seek understanding of that.

What Can You Do?

The next time you discover yourself telling someone—or yourself—all the reasons you can’t do something, why something you dislike is “Just the way it is”, or why you have no control over any situation… STOP IT!

Stop Complaining!

 You Always Have Control Over the Meaning You Give Events.

You Always Have a Choice How You Respond.

It’s Your Life.

You Choose Your Path.

Get out there and Master Your Destiny!

Roland

You Are The Master of Your Destiny!

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