http://www.rockyourday.com Stay Focused, Work Smarter and Stomp Stress Flat, Baby! Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:30:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you have major changes going on in your life, or you're just frustrated about where you are, it's easy to get trapped in a cycle of depression, bad moods and frustration.  I know, I've been there ... and when I'm not careful, I still get there more than I ... http://www.rockyourday.com/how-to-train-yourself-to-be-in-the-mood-you-want/ Last week we talked about changing your game, and one of the by-products of getting honest about what you truly want and going for it is that you'll get pushback from others who don't want you to change the status quo. Maybe your change in game plan rocks the boat, ... http://www.rockyourday.com/coping-strategies/ A year ago, I wrote a post and workbook that has been shared over 17,000 times, and I think it's time to put the spotlight on it again. It's called "7 Steps To Playing A Much Bigger Game," and it's been responsible for a lot of people making huge jumps in ... http://www.rockyourday.com/change-your-game/ Think of a difficult decision you've been putting off for a long, long time.  Something that's really hard to have to deal with, and so you've been putting it off forever. Sit with the emotions that decision stirs up for a minute.  Think of why it seems so scary, so complex, ... http://www.rockyourday.com/dont-make-things-complicated/ (Note: This post was first published in June 2009 - but my Spidey Sense is telling me to send it out again because people need to hear it.) Somewhere on one of my old Brian Tracy CDs there's this great line he says about how in order to really take control ... http://www.rockyourday.com/abandon-your-rescue-fantasy/ Life is incredibly distracting.   No matter how enthusiastically you set goals, it's just too easy let yourself  get pulled away from taking action on them because of daily urgencies and reactive thinking - and then it's weeks/months/years later and you're sitting around, asking "where did all the time go?" The thing ... http://www.rockyourday.com/how-to-keep-urgency-from-ruining-your-life/ J. Paul Getty was quoted for his formula for success: "Rise early, work hard, strike oil."  When I first ran across this quote ten years ago, I had to laugh, because it looked like Getty was saying you have to work hard and hope to get lucky. But fifteen years later, ... http://www.rockyourday.com/how-to-get-exactly-what-you-want/ “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” - George Bernard Shaw I've always ... http://www.rockyourday.com/creating-your-circumstances-part-1/ All of us have at least one area of our life where we feel trapped (either by an external circumstance or by an internal personality trait/habit), and it's been dragging us down for years.  We feel powerless to change it, and miserable at the prospect of being stuck as a ... http://www.rockyourday.com/how-to-stop-telling-your-sad-sad-story/ As you work to change your habits you'll find that it's incredibly easy to backslide into old patterns of behavior you wish you could move away from.  We talked earlier about how wishful thinking makes habit change hard (and how another root problem is that you don't really want to ... http://www.rockyourday.com/habits-3/