Reasons To Get Fit With Fit Flops
July 8, 2010 by gfrancis · Leave a Comment
The Fit Flops are the most popular sandal to hit the world in terms of innovative design and features. The reason they are so appealing is that they are good for the body and there’s a large amount of different styles and colours. Other major brands have started to bring our there own fit shoes following similar techniques as Fit Flops.
The Fit Flop shoe is a unique walking shoe that was introduced a couple of years ago with a lot press coverage hailing it as new way to exercise. They are innovative because it is a type of footwear that changes the way you walk, giving benefits not found in other types of footwear.
However with a huge amount of different options from other brands, and sometimes a lot cheaper why should you choose Fit Flops? 4 reasons why are highlighted below
-Work out all the time. Every step you take in the FitFlop improves muscle strength, absorbs shock on your feet and knees and will burn more calories than walking alone.
- Get your legs toned. The reason behind this is the foot board has technology which works your muscles harder than normal. Check the video. They claim to offer shoes that give muscle activation up to 12 % and it is also accepted by many people the shoes help to burn a few more calories.
- You will feel better. The main point is that the sole absorbs more shock due to the technology meaning you get less strain on your legs.
- Time savers. When you are walking you could be working out, so people who want to avoid the gym Fit Flops could be the answer. Just slip them on and start walking.
As you can see, the Fit Flops have a lot of features and benefits that are great for bodycarewithout you having to do anything.
How To Be An Effective Speaker
June 20, 2010 by gfrancis · Leave a Comment
To be an effective speaker, you need a lot of preparations not only on the speech you will deliver but as well as how you dress up. It requires mental and emotional preparation. There are a lot of people out there still trying to figure out how they can become an effective speaker. Here are the steps on how to be an effective speaker:
1. Never memorize your speech. Memorizing can make the delivery of your speech worse. It can make you sound like a robot and when you miss a single word, the whole sentence that you deliver may differ in meaning. It can make a mess. It will make you worry because all you do is stay on the script. Let your words flow naturally. Speak as if you’re speaking in front of your friend.
2. Be prepared. Being prepared means that you need to prepare your materials such as your note cards, projector, presentation, hand outs, etc. If you are bringing hand outs, you must make sure that you have enough copies for your audience. You can bring extras just in case. Be sure that your projector works if you will need one.
3. Be confident. Your audience focuses on you when you speak in front of them. You have to be confident. You need to show it to them. Through your confidence is how your audience will believe in what you are saying. You must make sure that you won’t have any bad breath so that your audience will not go away or take a distant step from you. If you do, use the hydro floss oral irrigator as well as therabreath and read this oramd review . It is important that you brush your teeth and rinse your mouth with mouth wash to make sure that you are pleasing in the eye of your audience.
4. Know your topic. It is more impressive if you know your own material and the subject matter itself. Always be sure that you walk the walk and talk the talk. Some people in the audience may ask you some questions so it is better if you really know the topic.
5. Have some notes. You may use index card to glance with. Many speakers actually use this to have their cue on when to speak. Notes are accepted in public speaking. These notes will make sure that you don’t forget what you are going to say especially the key point of the lecture. Notes are just there to help you. It is always important to really know your topic.
To be a good speaker, all these tips are helpful. Your speech is like a book. It has an introduction, a body and a conclusion and there is a main point. What’s important here is you deliver the main point of your speech and you are able to send the message with confidence to your audience.
Are you unwittingly killing your confidence?
June 6, 2010 by gfrancis · Leave a Comment
Who would like to do that? But strangely enough we often do things that actually sabotage our confidence in our own abilities. We all want to build up our confidence but do you subconsciously sabotage your efforts?
Do you always try very hard to show your ‘Confidence’ but do not actually have any confidence?
You are not the only one with this problem. many people struggle with this problem for years. Know what happens when you resist something? even a thought, It persists. Now tell me when you want to be confident? What is your primary reason? Do you dislike being not so confident? Do you hate the idea of low confidence?Do you get bad time due to your low confidence
You may have some unconscious blocks that stops you from becoming a confident person. So, what could these blocks be? You might believe you will never be a confident person, but this belief is not based on fact – it is simply based on your way of looking at things.
What are the common blocks that stop you from being confident.
Don’t Deserve to be confident
Hard to believe but many people have this problem. on the outside you may wish to become confident but on the inside you may do not feel like you deserve to be confident. Its the same as thinking you do not deserve to be happy. Until you resolve this block, it will be difficult to reach your goals.
You are afraid to be confident
Sometimes, people fear success as much as failure because of the changes it brings to their lives. It’s the same with confidence. If you become confident and begin to fulfill your goals and ambitions, it would bring a lot of change to your world. A lot of people find change to be a very scary thing.
You secretly think confidence is equal to arrogance
Perhaps you have met people who seemed overly confident – so confident in fact that they came across as arrogant and rather obnoxious. You may worry that you will become so confident that you will forget who you really are.
You think certain people are born with a confidence gene and are ‘lucky’
You fear what others will think of the new, confident you.
A lot of us place great value on what others think of us. Because a lack of confidence is so prevalent in our society, we are often surrounded by other people who are just as unconfident as we are. This creates a sense of bonding, a feeling of belonging. Our friends and family probably reinforce that. Sometimes we have to change a few things in our life in order to become more confident and the ones who love us may not like this idea. Sometimes they may feel threatened and you may worry that you will lose some friends.
You may belive that you are very shy and you cannot be confident
Surprisingly people thing being shy means you should not be confident. In fact if you are shy overcoming your shyness should be a good reason why you want to become confident
Using Feedback To Improve Performance
May 25, 2010 by gfrancis · Leave a Comment
Executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith wrote, “Feedback is a gift that only other can give.” So, if feedback is a gift, why do so many of us struggle with giving and receiving it?
Power is the culprit for much of the trouble we have giving and receiving feedback. Our motive may be to control people if we give feedback to someone. When we resist feedback, we may really be resisting being changed.
It can be helpful to get clear on the purpose of feedback before we give it. Here we will explain five different types of feedback and ideas for handling each type.
Evaluation Feedback: This type of feedback is probably the most common in the world of work.Unfortunately, it is also the kind that is the least helpful. The timeframe at which evaluation feedback comes is always at the end. The end of the performance year. At the end of a class that took a week. At the completion of a project. Sure it’s helpful for all us to gauge how we did, and we may use evaluation feedback to improve next time. But why not give and get feedback when we can learn from it real time?
Real-Time Performance Feedback: This type of feedback is usually given by someone whose success depends on you; for example your boss. While it may be couched as an observation or something for you to think about, when someone shares performance feedback, they intend for you to change your behavior.
When you sense that someone is trying to give performance feedback, it may help you both to get very clear. Try asking, “what exactly would you like me to stop or start doing?” Once you’ve gotten the feedback, make the change!
Fine-Tuning: With this type of feedback, you generally are hearing from someone who is very satisfied with the job you are doing, but see some areas where you can improve even more. One of the best examples I can give of fine-tuning feedback came from someone who participated in a course I gave. She asked me if she could share some feedback after she told me how much she had enjoyed the course. She then went on to explain that when I nodded my head while she and others were talking she felt rushed. WOW! I had no idea that my head nodding was having this effect on the audience, so her feedback blew me away.
The key to giving fine-tuning feedback is to share the impact a behavior has on you or others. The person giving the feedback is not necessarily interested in controlling you, or even changing you. By sharing how your behavior is impacting them – they give the receiver the opportunity to change or not.
Feed-Forward: Goldsmith came up with this one years ago. It happens when you suggest to someone how to behave in advance of an action, rather than wait for after and risk failure. Years ago my husband was about to present to his company’s executive leadership team for the first time. His boss gave him great feed-forward about how to dress, when to speak, how much detail to go into, etc.
Slap Upside the Head: Two years ago, a colleague who is also a great friend sat me down and said, “You are making yourself and others miserable. What do you think you’re doing?”
This is the kind of feedback that only great friends can give. It is very personal feedback that should only be shared because you care about someone and are concerned. In his book, Who’s Got Your Back, Keith Ferrazzi gives some great examples of this feedback along with the assertion that we all desperately need people in our lives who care enough to give it.
Slap upside the head feedback is not given with the intent of controlling or even changing for the sake of the person giving the feedback. The feedback is given because they understand your personal goals and see how your behavior is keeping you from reaching those goals.
Summary
Those giving feedback: Think through before giving feedback what the most appropriate form would be to achieve the intention you have for it.Don’t forget that if you are not someone’s superior, it is not appropriate to give evaluation feedback. You can lead a horse to water . . .
Those on the receiving end of feedback: remember that we are all unaware of how we come across at times, and feedback is the way we learn about these areas and have the opportunity to correct them. Even when you don’t agree with it, view feedback as a gift. If it’s evaluation or performance feedback, you have a chance to change in order to do better in the eyes of others. If it’s fine-tuning or slap upside the head feedback, you have the choice to change or not.
Wendy Mack is a consultant, speaker, and change catalyst who specializes in helping leaders mobilize energy for change, For more articles and resources on leading and communicating change visit: www.WendyMack.com.
Guided Meditation Selection Tips
April 22, 2010 by gfrancis · Leave a Comment
When selecting a guided meditation to use there are a number of things that it is wise for you to consider. While meditation has grown in prominence during the previous few years various new age practitioners have released guided meditation products on disc and mp3 to help persons in conjunction with their practice, however all of us bear individual preferences and so locating a proficient fit is imperative. Having meditated with a number of these over the years for varying reasons I have distilled a few simple points to aid you in selecting the right guided meditation program.
Hearing the sound from the meditation practitioner leading you is vitally significant. What you are searching for is a voice which calms you and places you at peace, if the sound grates or else is within any manner less than pleasing to you it follows that you ought to maintain your search open for one you might take pleasure in. Frequently persons miss this and believe that the meditation itself is with fault, honestly the meditation shall be ok, only designed for someone different.
The tune, if there is one, underneath the meditation is additionally key. If the voice is satisfactory and the harmony is likely to distract you since you dislike it just keep searching for a more effective choice. Of notice on this matter at hand are a quantity of products available that specifically function upon brainwaves. The rhythms used are commonly recognized for binaural beats, and function upon frequencies inside the mind, all of which maintain various purposes. Certain are superb in support of stress reduction, others in support of concentration, brain development, brain power, creativity, health improvement and in addition relaxation. While applied inside a guided meditation or else any meditation the attainments turn out to be magnified. Present are various exceptional products in the sphere of this grouping and definitely I commend both Tom Kenyon and Kelly Howell on behalf of the works they have shaped.
Additionally monitor the language, should you have undergone NLP training subsequently you would understand the consequence for phrasing and language patterns. Checking for someone saying what not to do is important as this can be counterproductive due to the patterns it creates in the mind. Obtaining a guided meditation that uses clear positively framed language is likely to accomplish a much enhanced amount in support of you than one informing you to evade or else not carry out an activity.
A matter to bear in mind is how and wherever you are seeking to listen to your guided meditation. A meditation room now a beneficial undisturbed space in your habitat could aid you well, and in that bear in mind how you would listen to the disc alternatively mp3 you are utilising. An iPod or else individual disc player are massively cost efficient ways to have the benefit of the meditation and save you commissioning a stereo and speakers, in addition in conjunction with noise reducing earphones you secure the capability to concentrate more profoundly inward.
Whatever your meditation intention is, if you are presently studying how to meditate, focusing upon new age type meditation practices meant for increasing your brain power, disappearing to further plateaus of spiritual healing otherwise in the quest of stress mitigation subsequently I trust this assists you. I wish you well and beautiful meditations, Namaste.