You Can be Great If You Really Want To

During times of great change it can be a daunting task to stay centered and positive. When the things that we see as permanent begin to crumble it?s common to experience self doubt. Try any of these techniques to shift your vibration and anchor positive self esteem.

1. Be a Complaint Free Zone- become aware of how you communicate, put a bracelet on your wrist or stone in your pocket, and each time you gossip or complain, move the stone or bracelet to the other side. The bracelet or stone acts as a physical reminder to use kinder more positive language. The goal here is to go 21 days without complaining. Most people are amazed at how much they complain. A complaint or gossiping is negative energy that is mirrored back to your self-esteem.

2. Forgive Yourself – the past is the past, the present moment is your point of power. When you release yourself from guilt about past actions you free up energy and boost your self esteem with the power of acceptance. Close your eyes, take a deep breath. Think of a situation that you feel guilty about. Repeat the following phrase until you feel the guilt ease. I love you, I?m sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you.

3. Start a Gratitude Journal – each day, write down five new things that you’re grateful for that day. They can be big or small, what you’re doing here is creating an atmosphere of positive belief that helps you feel good about yourself and boost your self-esteem.

4.Ask for Positive Feedback – asked 10 friends or family members to list your top three strengths. Often times, we can’t see our own strengths clearly, we simply take them for granted. By having others point them out to you, you?re able to honor and celebrate them.

5. Put Negative Nellie on Mute – We all have those little voices in our head chanting negative messages. Negative Nellie often stops us, and drains our self-esteem. Quieting Negative Nellie is essential to healthy self-esteem. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and imagine a radio control, the volume is turned all the way up, you can hear the loud chattering of Negative Nellie, imagine reaching forward and turning the dial quieting the voice of Negative Nellie. Now, turn that dial all the way to zero and push the button off. Imagine your Negative Nellie scampering away because it has no way to voice it’sr negative beliefs. In the silence, experience the freedom from all the chattering in your mind. Savor this feeling; know that you can turn the volume down anytime you wish.

6. Breathe – breathe in a warm hug of love and exhale any blame, faults, and frustrations. Repeat until you find yourself breathing in love, and breathing out love.

7. Connect with Nature – by appreciating the beauty that surrounds you you?re seeing the good. Connecting with nature allows you to tap into the peace and magnificence that silently surrounds you.

8. The Essence of Me – each day, write down 3 great things about yourself. They can be anything: a smile you gave the checkout clerk at the grocery store; the way you tended to your child’s skinned knee; your pretty toenails; anything that makes you feel good about yourself. This celebrates the essence of you and boosts your self-esteem.

9. Confident You – imagine a situation (real or imagined) where you were in your most confident, self assured state. Breathe in that feeling, letting the feeling flow through you. Keep breathing in the feeling allowing it to move through every cell of your body. Now, squeeze your pinky finger and thumb as you take one more breath, allowing the body to absorb the feeling and anchoring that feeling in your body by squeezing your pinky and thumb. Release your fingers take another deep breath. Next time you need a quick dose of self-confidence squeeze your pinky and thumb together and allow the feeling wash over you again.

10. List of High Regards – make a list of 25 achievements you’ve made big and small, anything goes, if you felt a sense of accomplishment add it to the list. Things like graduating high school, landing a job, speaking up to Uncle Ron, giving birth to your children. Keep this list and a visible spot and continued to add to it, read over it, and acknowledge what it took to accomplish these things.

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Living in a fast-paced world can bring anyone to a point where they feel unable to cope with their day-to-day stress factors, so finding great stress management tips to help you make it through the day is always a tough exercise to fit into your daily schedule. However, successful stress management can lead to increased success in many areas of life, from health and confidence to job performance, so it’s worth making time to de-stress. Here are some stress management tips to help you through your day:

1. Give yourself 15 minutes when you first come in the door to sit in a quiet room and simply reflect upon your day. Your brain needs the time to unwind and you’ll be surprised at what you think of!

2. Try to keep your personal space free from clutter, both at work and at home. The more you’re able to keep your physical surroundings clear, the more you’ll feel able to switch gears without feeling drained.

3. Eliminate unnecessary noise from your routine. This may involve tuning out noisy co-workers, wearing earplugs during a train commute home, or getting the muffler on your car fixed. You’ll find that without the need to filter unnecessary noise from your day, your concentration will improve and you’ll be able to think more clearly.

4. Make time to laugh! Laughter releases endorphins which both relax and uplift an individual naturally. Go out of your way to find things that are funny, amusing, or simply make you smile, and you’ll feel instantly less stressed out.

5. Make a budget, and stick to it. Money worries cause huge amounts of stress, and the only way to avoid them is to live within your means.

By following the stress management tips above, you’ll see your stress levels drop quickly.

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Remember sitting in a classroom watching a slideshow that took an eon to endure? The teacher or presenter would succeed in capturing your attention and then try to keep it as they heroically plowed through a monotonous cycle of clicking as the fan chugged along with a gentle hum whose uncanny ability to make you sleep was second to none.

Click, next point, click, boring spiel, click, click, click… and you’re off to greener pastures doodling in a notebook, etching your name into a desk or drooling on your books.

For whatever reason (maybe the ones above may suffice), people in today’s society have given the slideshow a bad name, calling it obscenities like “ridiculous”, “a drag”, and the oh so clever “boring!”

Why do you think that is?

Maybe it’s because slideshows, at least the ones from twenty or thirty years ago, are passe and stink of film canisters with eruditely written content draped in intellectual garb that are sadly, under regular circumstances, not attractive or consumable to the average person.

Don’t get me wrong, (I love vintage media), but when it has lost its ability to reach an audience, it’s time to jazz it up, especially in our generation where everything needs to be relevant, immediate and packaged in a way that people can identify with and perceive as valuable.

Why else would they spend their time on it? There’s so much more out there and believe you me, there’s more out there to distract someone that pose challenges to keeping a steady focus.

Fortunately for the academe, new technologies have come to the proverbial rescue and have made it easier to get attention, keep it and instill knowledge.

Gone are the days (in most places) of the old guard imposing point and click presentations. Our world is now full of rich multimedia audio visual productions that wow and stimulate audiences. They teach, they captivate and they entertain.

However, you might say that the content presented is only as good as the presenter is an entertainer, or, narrator.

Again, and most fortunately for us, technology has provided yet another way to aid poor presenters by employing the addition of a “choose your own adventure” style solution that is entertaining, effective and persuasive… dare I say, even interactive.

What is this catalyst?

Voice over narration.

You see, the use of voice over solves nearly all of the problems a presenter faces in the heat of battle:

A voice over connects deeply with listeners.

A voice over doesn’t get tired, clear their throat, take break to drink, or have stage fright.

A voice over won’t get lost in the presentation or stumble on words.

A voice over makes points clearly and effectively.

A voice over finds a way to enliven the words so that you don’t have to

When looking for someone to narrate your powerpoint presentation or slideshow, check out the voice over marketplace online to find the right voice for your project.

There are literally thousands of people out there who do this for a living so you won’t have any trouble locating a professional voice talent. Either do a search using your favorite browser or just go straight to Voices.com and use the voice talent search engine, browse demos or post a job for best results.