Friday, February 08, 2013
The Good News About Consistently Being In The Zone
"Get In The Zone More Often." - Raj Gavurla
1. Nutrition
2. Health
5. Exercise
The Good News About Consistently Being In The
Zone
1. Nutrition
What you eat really makes a huge difference in all aspects of your life.
Eat right to raise the bar in work, athletics, and free time with family and friends. Put together your nutrition
plan.
Here's mine:
I drink water, decaf tea, milk, decaf coffee. I don't drink caffeine. I
drink decaf. I don't eat refined sugar including artificial sweetners. I eat fruit. I don't drink alcohol. I eat well (a variety of
foods). An entrepreneurial idea is to make me a new drink I can drink. 2. Health
If needed, take treatments and supplements as needed.
3. Spiritual
Read a chapter from a spiritual book to inspire your soul.
4. Work
Produces endorphins like exercise does.
5. Exercise
Do a variety to keep it interesting and fun. Know what to do to avoid
injury, pain, and boredom.
6. Spend time with family and friends
It's rejuvenating to socialize.
It's rejuvenating to socialize.
7. Meditation
Clears your mindset and unclutters your thinking to progress and achieve
goals
8. Listen to something motivational
It will stimulate you and get rid of negativity.
9. Downtime for relaxation
There are a variety. A simple example is to sit on the deck at night and
feel the cool breeze.
10. Prayer
Gives hope and makes the world a better place to live
11. Sleep
Allows your body to rest, heal, and be your best tomorrow.
Here's the great news! Although implementing and doing each of the
above increases your ability to perform "In The Zone", you feel it! You can be "In The Zone" now without doing each one. Get "In The Zone". You feel it! You're "In The Zone!"
Labels: business, entrepreneurship, in the zone, intrapreneurship, life, mindset, mood, motivation, productivity, sports
Monday, March 19, 2012
Have A Great Time Excelling On The Job and In Sports
Statistics show the majority of people aren’t enthralled with their work. Interpreting the statistics meaning forces me to come to the conclusion it’s difficult for them to have a great time because instead of excelling they reached a plateau which causes static thinking, worry, stress, or tiredness. One way to break anhedonia is by applying the following peak performance structure to improve your mindset, mood, and motivation.
Home Routine
What are the daily prep items? These items get you to the job or field with the right mindset. For example, take a shower and shave, eat breakfast, have my gear (clothing and shoes) ready the night before, if you have children send them off to school, if you’re married tell your spouse when you expect to be home and talk about evening plans. Modify the list to your liking. Why do this? So you aren’t scrambling looking for your jacket or tennis racquet at the last minute instead you’re heading to work or the court in the right frame of mind.
What are the daily prep items? These items get you to the job or field with the right mindset. For example, take a shower and shave, eat breakfast, have my gear (clothing and shoes) ready the night before, if you have children send them off to school, if you’re married tell your spouse when you expect to be home and talk about evening plans. Modify the list to your liking. Why do this? So you aren’t scrambling looking for your jacket or tennis racquet at the last minute instead you’re heading to work or the court in the right frame of mind.
Pre-game Routine
Once at work have a set routine to get you settled down. This should take approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Make sure to talk with people about whatever they want to talk about. Examples are “I get a safe driver discount”, “My child made the honor roll so I get a discount”, “my child is having trouble with school”, “my daughter is pregnant and not married”, “what did you think of the game last night?”. Although we separate work from our home life, we are social beings and interaction plays an important part in people knowing you and being a part of the workplace. Sure, you may say my routine is to get the most done in the morning and when most of the people are at the water cooler I’m getting it done. Guess what? Get in earlier or take a break and get to the place people are talking (marketing 101). Otherwise, when you head to the cooler at your time there’s no one there. Yikes! It will make work a lot more meaningful and friendly. Then, get a cup of coffee and check the news, plan your day or whatever else you like to do in the morning. Depending on your sport, instead of grabbing coffee, take two sets of five shots right handed from the right block, mid lane, and left block and then two sets of five shots left handed from the right block, mid lane, and left block, 25 free throws right handed, 25 free throws left handed, and two sets of two three pointers right handed and left handed from five spots. Make up your mind you’ll be there for the entire time. Now you’re settled down.
Once at work have a set routine to get you settled down. This should take approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Make sure to talk with people about whatever they want to talk about. Examples are “I get a safe driver discount”, “My child made the honor roll so I get a discount”, “my child is having trouble with school”, “my daughter is pregnant and not married”, “what did you think of the game last night?”. Although we separate work from our home life, we are social beings and interaction plays an important part in people knowing you and being a part of the workplace. Sure, you may say my routine is to get the most done in the morning and when most of the people are at the water cooler I’m getting it done. Guess what? Get in earlier or take a break and get to the place people are talking (marketing 101). Otherwise, when you head to the cooler at your time there’s no one there. Yikes! It will make work a lot more meaningful and friendly. Then, get a cup of coffee and check the news, plan your day or whatever else you like to do in the morning. Depending on your sport, instead of grabbing coffee, take two sets of five shots right handed from the right block, mid lane, and left block and then two sets of five shots left handed from the right block, mid lane, and left block, 25 free throws right handed, 25 free throws left handed, and two sets of two three pointers right handed and left handed from five spots. Make up your mind you’ll be there for the entire time. Now you’re settled down.
Work
This is the fun part. Here you are focused on producing results and sometime interaction with others is fast and real time. If you don’t know, knowing where to get the information is important. Expect the unexpected here because it’s real time. Be proactive as well as reactive. Be quick and concise. Help yourself and others as needed. Of course, you can take breaks. Be sure to do so. You’ll get more done. Try yoga stretches, go for a walk, talk with a friend, or call time out to regroup.
This is the fun part. Here you are focused on producing results and sometime interaction with others is fast and real time. If you don’t know, knowing where to get the information is important. Expect the unexpected here because it’s real time. Be proactive as well as reactive. Be quick and concise. Help yourself and others as needed. Of course, you can take breaks. Be sure to do so. You’ll get more done. Try yoga stretches, go for a walk, talk with a friend, or call time out to regroup.
Recovery
The late Ray Pelletier had a concept known as the “trust bank”. Ray would call his employees and discuss the progress made. Sure he needed an update but the real reason he was calling is to see what opportunities now existed because of the work accomplished, what roadblocks or help may be needed. You can do this regarding your own work or team up with a colleague. The key here is to be confident if you reach an obstacle no matter how small or large you know you can reach out for help without being reprimanded or your colleague knows this is a time for constructive feedback and a solution (what to do) not a time to criticize. Your team will be a lot better.
The late Ray Pelletier had a concept known as the “trust bank”. Ray would call his employees and discuss the progress made. Sure he needed an update but the real reason he was calling is to see what opportunities now existed because of the work accomplished, what roadblocks or help may be needed. You can do this regarding your own work or team up with a colleague. The key here is to be confident if you reach an obstacle no matter how small or large you know you can reach out for help without being reprimanded or your colleague knows this is a time for constructive feedback and a solution (what to do) not a time to criticize. Your team will be a lot better.
Post-game Routine
Here is where you break through the plateau reached. Write the lessons learned and tips picked up. Over time by keeping a post-game notebook your skill level consistently increases. Therefore, it becomes a whole lot easier. This is also a good place to write what you learned about the competition to increase your business winning percentage. For example, you might write there’s now a new process I can use again and again. Or when shooting the ball see the goal, think, feel (natural), think, and follow through with hand up through the goal.
Here is where you break through the plateau reached. Write the lessons learned and tips picked up. Over time by keeping a post-game notebook your skill level consistently increases. Therefore, it becomes a whole lot easier. This is also a good place to write what you learned about the competition to increase your business winning percentage. For example, you might write there’s now a new process I can use again and again. Or when shooting the ball see the goal, think, feel (natural), think, and follow through with hand up through the goal.
Regardless of your level, have a great time excelling on the job and in sports structure gives you a renewed purpose, instant energy, and enthusiasm so you can experience a sense of pleasure. Do it for one week and you’ll be hooked. You’ll think could it really be this easy. Your customers will be thrilled. Now your workplace is a team.
Labels: anhedonia, in the zone, job, life skills, mindset, mood, motivation, peak performance workplace, performance, routines, sports, work
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Mood Up
"It takes an input to change a negative to a positive (mood up)." - Raj Gavurla
I attended a college football game won by a field goal on the last play. During the game, the home team was behind and it was getting worse. This threw the crowd's mood off. The atmosphere in the stadium was not what the team including the home crowd wanted. However, there was time in the game and fortunately to get the mood up the person running the PA decided to play an upbeat tune. Immediately, the mood
was up and the players and crowd responded. What happened? By inputing an upbeat tune it reenergized the stadium's atmosphere to put the team in the right mindset. Since mindset controls the mood (the way you feel, bottom line, or action) the team (players) came back and won the game.
What input are you implementing during the work day or in your family life to keep the mood up? I'm not saying to blast a song throughout the office or home, although, it may work to your delight. However, there are many types of inputs (tip, add a tool, care, humor, take your pick), to get your team or colleague in the right mindset to get the mood up to produce results. This sure would make work a lot better. Or, you can do nothing and just think you don't need one another. Which do you prefer? I prefer to input to change a negative to a positive (mood up).
It is well worth it. Hope to hear from you.
I attended a college football game won by a field goal on the last play. During the game, the home team was behind and it was getting worse. This threw the crowd's mood off. The atmosphere in the stadium was not what the team including the home crowd wanted. However, there was time in the game and fortunately to get the mood up the person running the PA decided to play an upbeat tune. Immediately, the mood
was up and the players and crowd responded. What happened? By inputing an upbeat tune it reenergized the stadium's atmosphere to put the team in the right mindset. Since mindset controls the mood (the way you feel, bottom line, or action) the team (players) came back and won the game.
What input are you implementing during the work day or in your family life to keep the mood up? I'm not saying to blast a song throughout the office or home, although, it may work to your delight. However, there are many types of inputs (tip, add a tool, care, humor, take your pick), to get your team or colleague in the right mindset to get the mood up to produce results. This sure would make work a lot better. Or, you can do nothing and just think you don't need one another. Which do you prefer? I prefer to input to change a negative to a positive (mood up).
It is well worth it. Hope to hear from you.
Labels: colleagues, field goal, football, high performance team, input, mental motivation, mindset, mood, negative, players, positive attitide, sports, win
Friday, July 01, 2011
Making The Team
As a player, it's up to you to impress your coach and help your team win. The reason why an athlete is able to perform a skill at a higher level than another athlete and the reason their team wins is because they have the thinking tools to:
1. Increase their intelligence for peak performance
2. Find their adaptability links to leadership and teamwork
3. Be "In The Zone"
The mindset of talent wins is changing. Sure each of us has talents, however, without increasing your intelligence for peak performance, finding your adaptability links, and being "In The Zone" the talent doesn't become honed and refined into skills. Another misperception is once skilled you aren't able to raise the skill level. Highly unlikely, especially if you want to go from winning a championship on the high school level, then playing and winning a championship in college, and then win a championship on the pro level.
The difference between high school, college, and professional sports athletes is mental. The higher levels have a greater ability to apply thinking tools to consistently play at the top of their game. Also, they form a team which consists of professionals to facilitate peak performance.
Regardless of the level of play, to make the team and win work on increasing your intelligence, finding your adaptability links to leadership and teamwork, and get "in the zone". Through preparation before the game or practice you'll perform at a higher level. The beauty of sports is you'll probably do something during play that you've never done before. That's peak performance. Hone and refine it to win championships.
1. Increase their intelligence for peak performance
2. Find their adaptability links to leadership and teamwork
3. Be "In The Zone"
The mindset of talent wins is changing. Sure each of us has talents, however, without increasing your intelligence for peak performance, finding your adaptability links, and being "In The Zone" the talent doesn't become honed and refined into skills. Another misperception is once skilled you aren't able to raise the skill level. Highly unlikely, especially if you want to go from winning a championship on the high school level, then playing and winning a championship in college, and then win a championship on the pro level.
The difference between high school, college, and professional sports athletes is mental. The higher levels have a greater ability to apply thinking tools to consistently play at the top of their game. Also, they form a team which consists of professionals to facilitate peak performance.
Regardless of the level of play, to make the team and win work on increasing your intelligence, finding your adaptability links to leadership and teamwork, and get "in the zone". Through preparation before the game or practice you'll perform at a higher level. The beauty of sports is you'll probably do something during play that you've never done before. That's peak performance. Hone and refine it to win championships.
Labels: athletes, coaches, in the zone, making the team, peak performance, sports
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
In The Zone
To be “in the zone”, consistent high performance, our mindset must have a program readily available. Sure, each of us has specific expertise we use to create solutions for our businesses to grow. As a mindset, mood, and mental motivation expert, I want to know how you make your thought process better.
Having worked with business leaders and athletes, one “way to think” so you can be “in the zone”, consistent high performance on the job is to do the following:
1. Refuel by using logical emotion to motivate and inspire your passion to create results – simply create a phrase that includes both logic and emotion. I put logic first to force you to think first. However, logic without emotion is dangerous and emotion without logic is dangerous. An example of a logical emotion phrase I use when at the airport security check is “get through the gate without a hitch”. The logic part of the phrase is “through the gate” the emotion part, usually the reward, is “without a hitch”. It’s a reward because by doing so you save time.
2. Visualize – this is done through stories, thoughts, words, people moment, and images. The story is from a speech or something you read. Thoughts are simply your analysis of the situation, people moment is a snapshot of inspiration, words are from a conversation or something you heard, and images are what you need to see to successfully accomplish your goal. As you use logical emotion and then visualize using one or more inputs, you are then “in the zone”. Your mindset is tuned up for high performance.
Often, we miss this step in accomplishing our goals and tasks. Therefore, our mindset is not primed for consistent high performance. Our results are weakened. When you take a few seconds to program your mindset before attending a meeting, making a sales call, interviewing, and performing your job, you are able to produce “in the zone” results. It’s a lot more fun being “in the zone”.
Having worked with business leaders and athletes, one “way to think” so you can be “in the zone”, consistent high performance on the job is to do the following:
1. Refuel by using logical emotion to motivate and inspire your passion to create results – simply create a phrase that includes both logic and emotion. I put logic first to force you to think first. However, logic without emotion is dangerous and emotion without logic is dangerous. An example of a logical emotion phrase I use when at the airport security check is “get through the gate without a hitch”. The logic part of the phrase is “through the gate” the emotion part, usually the reward, is “without a hitch”. It’s a reward because by doing so you save time.
2. Visualize – this is done through stories, thoughts, words, people moment, and images. The story is from a speech or something you read. Thoughts are simply your analysis of the situation, people moment is a snapshot of inspiration, words are from a conversation or something you heard, and images are what you need to see to successfully accomplish your goal. As you use logical emotion and then visualize using one or more inputs, you are then “in the zone”. Your mindset is tuned up for high performance.
Often, we miss this step in accomplishing our goals and tasks. Therefore, our mindset is not primed for consistent high performance. Our results are weakened. When you take a few seconds to program your mindset before attending a meeting, making a sales call, interviewing, and performing your job, you are able to produce “in the zone” results. It’s a lot more fun being “in the zone”.
Labels: business, in the zone, logical emotion, mindset, results, sales call, sports, visualize
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Most Abused Psychology Intrinsic Function
"Know what you want and need to do." - Raj Gavurla
The flight-or-fight response is the most abused psychology human intrinsic function in business and relationships. It's abused when we don't use common-sense. It is not abused when we use common-sense.
Let's take a look at a sales, customer service, getting work done, athletic, or medical pursuit of yours.
Let's take a look at a sales, customer service, getting work done, athletic, or medical pursuit of yours.
Examples
Sales:
Abused: You sell without listening and using caring thought provoking discovery questions.
Result: No sale (flight response)
Not abused: You learn about the organization to ask caring discovery questions to help the client get what they want. Let the customer decide.
Result: Builds a trustworthy relationship or produces a sale (fight response)
Customer Service:
Abused: You do not meet the date of delivery for the product or service and don't inform the client and don't let the client know what happened.
Result: Bad service (flight response)
Not abused: You meet the date and inform client of other products, services, specials, and do something nice for the client that is unique to them. Example would be a fun give away with their name on it related to what was purchased.
Result: More business (fight response)
Getting Work Done:
Abused: You ask someone to do something and expect them to be an expert at it.
Result: May not get what you want (flight response) Not abused: Same scenario except you tell them the reason you are asking for this and tell them it will be good for them to find a solution. Then tell them you already know how to do it and you will spend time reviewing it to show them how to do it correctly if done incorrectly.
Result: Better employee and new skill to keep in their mindset (fight response)
Sports:
Abused: You bench a player for taking bad shots without telling them what to do to overcome it.
Result: You aren't being a coach, friend, or professional (flight response)
Not abused: Same scenario except you coach the benched player to know what to do to take a good shot. Each of us has the same program or a different program in our mindset when pursuing a common goal. When different one of us needs to re-program so the programs are the same.
Result: Increases the players knowledge and understanding of the game to win (fight response)
Medical:
Abused: You yell at your patients.
Result: Your patients don't get better (flight response)
Not Abused: You talk warmly to your patients and even when they are behaving wrongly empathize and give instruction
Result: Your patients get better (fight response) Pay attention to the flight-or-fight-for-good response by using common-sense. You will be in a better mood.
Labels: abused psychology, business psychology, customer service, fight, flight-or-fight, medical, mindset, mood, motivation, sales, sports, sports psychology, work
Your Health and Winning
If you're not 100% healthy, imagine what it would be like to be 100% healthy. Your productivity and performance would increase and you would feel vibrant and have more fun.
Don't think it's bad luck that is causing the problem. There is a solution even if you have a chronic illness or disease. You just need to know how to deal with it to empower yourself.
People you see doing amazing things do so because they work on their health as well as working intelligently hard on their craft. It's not 100% natural although it may appear so. You may be able to do what they are doing or create your own path.
Recently one of the ways I'm enhancing myself is through supplements and nutrition. There's no reason I should feel tired through most of the second half of the day or not sleep regularly. Also if there are problems with alertness and even cognition there may be a simplae supplement you can take. This gives your body what it needs to function naturally so you can focus on your craft.
Either you can beat yourself up (I don't recommend this) or recognize by listening to your body to give it what it needs. There is a deficiency therefore fill it and watch your performance and mindset soar. Don't think you are struggling because you are less talented.
It takes intelligence about yourself to improve your mindset and motivation to go to another New Best Level. Your mood will be much better and you'll have more options and weapons to be successful.
For base supplements to address the mindset:
Don't think it's bad luck that is causing the problem. There is a solution even if you have a chronic illness or disease. You just need to know how to deal with it to empower yourself.
People you see doing amazing things do so because they work on their health as well as working intelligently hard on their craft. It's not 100% natural although it may appear so. You may be able to do what they are doing or create your own path.
Recently one of the ways I'm enhancing myself is through supplements and nutrition. There's no reason I should feel tired through most of the second half of the day or not sleep regularly. Also if there are problems with alertness and even cognition there may be a simplae supplement you can take. This gives your body what it needs to function naturally so you can focus on your craft.
Either you can beat yourself up (I don't recommend this) or recognize by listening to your body to give it what it needs. There is a deficiency therefore fill it and watch your performance and mindset soar. Don't think you are struggling because you are less talented.
It takes intelligence about yourself to improve your mindset and motivation to go to another New Best Level. Your mood will be much better and you'll have more options and weapons to be successful.
For base supplements to address the mindset:
- Protein bar (high in protein & low in sugar)
- Start with low dose of Omega -3 fish oil (if it feels good then increase to recommended dosage)
- Vitamin D 2000 IU to 4000 IU
Labels: empower, fish oil, health, mindset, mood, motivation nerve, sports, supplements, synapses, vitamin D, win, winning
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