Male speakers were a suit and tie usually. When the tie is loose enough to allow deep breathing all is fine as the suit and shoes allow any movement including firm standing. Men dress for power, flexibility, movement when on stage. Men want to be in the best possible shape when speaking. Men want to stand firm and walk firm. They want to have a strong powerful voice.

How about the women, what do they dress for?

Women usually wear short pencil skirts and stilettos. Both reduce the ability to move by using only small steps and each takes a lot attention that could be used for other things. Why are women wearing clothes that limit themselves? When you look at their posture from side you can easily spot the tension they have to build up all the time when speaking.

Your physical balance is disturbed when wearing stilettos. This affects everything you do. When you are a man try it yourself. After that you will be even more amazed why women wear something like that.

Your  ankle joints have a lot to do to keep you “balanced”. Your forefoot has to support your whole weight instead of just part of it. Your knees get pressure that is different from the one they are designed for. So you do everything necessary to create pain and exhaustion while you are speaking or negotiating. Is that what you aim at?

The tension of your pelvis and lower back increases which makes you stiff and reduce breathing and digestion abilities. Most part of the nutrition you take in through eating and breathing is used for your brain function. You are also disturbing the function of your muscles and over time they adapt to that strange situation. The tension reduces the range and variety of your voice.

You feel exhausted and can cause back or neck pain, headache and other diseases. Speaking with pain interferes with the flow of your speeches value. The mislead brain capacity reduce your ability to focus on your topic, your audience and your performance.

On the other hand proper breathing ensures that you have the whole capacity of your voice when speaking. A sportsperson that breathes properly has an advantage over the competing one. Take your advantage, ensure you are breathing properly!

With a bit dedicated practice the right way you learn to breath properly while speaking. YOU free your voice when freeing your breath.

When you know your voice you can play with it supporting your message on stage. These tips & tricks travel by mouth from one to the other as they are easily misunderstood when written down. Experiencing the difference when applying those tips & tricks is making all the difference.

Top Speakers are Top because they set trends, they are authentic, and they shape the atmosphere in the room. Being tensed on stage creates tension in the room, nervousness in you and your audience. Yes, tension is the number one reason for stage fright. When you want to be among Top Speakers set a trend: be YOU! Show the Power of Your Voice.

There are ways you can easily reduce your common tension within your daily activities. By doing so YOU ease it for you to use the higher tension on stage for your purpose.

Find your place and stand up:

Women, stand up! Kick the stilettos and pencil skirt to where they belong.

Women stand up! Start conducting what designers are creating.

Women stand up! Ask designers to support your beauty and grace with their creations.

Women stand up! Set a new trend, wear feminine, chic & useful clothes.

Women stand up! Support your power and messages.

Women stand up! Move with the inborn grace you have.

Women stand up! Show that you are mastering the Art of Public speaking.

Women stand up! Blow your audience away with your power & grace.

YOU are marvellous; enjoy being on stage, showing your beauty and capabilities to the world.

Enjoy being the powerful beauty YOU are.

Larissa Glueck

Photos: sxc.hu & freedigitalphotos.com

Photographer: staircase to success: dinny; golden microphone: katagaci; starter: mzacha; stiletto: lisandra; feet in high heels: zoostory; why do I do this?: freedigitalphotos.com; young businessman: harrykeely

Be certain you know what and why you want to learn from that particular person.

To answer those questions you need to know which skills you need mastering The Art of Public Speaking your way.

You better listen to your intuition and good feeling when finding criteria from which person you want to learn what. Your intuition is The Basic for Great decisions!

Is the person getting your attention right away when you have a look at the website, blog or listen to an audio or watching a video? To decide that takes just a few seconds. These seconds can save you a lot of time when you act according to your intuition.

The next important point is whether this person is able to keep your attention up for a while. This is a sign that you can learn from this person. You learn the most when there is a difference between their and your experiences. Why the person does grab your attention? Why the person does keep your intention up for long? When you answer these questions you know right away what you can learn.

You can figure that out when you have a look at all the internet marketers or coaches out there. Lots of people call themselves internet marketer or coach. Just a few come to mind when you think about internet marketing or coaching. Why do these persons grab your attention and stick to your mind? Answering this question tells you right away what is currently important to you.

Is something annoying you the voice or the way the person puts their thoughts? Figure out why you feel that way as it points you to your next important lesson you have to learn. That can be by finding another style you want to use for your own marketing or coaching. Do you experience this annoying communication style in your job or private life and want to learn to deal with it in a constructive way? Or do you know this style because you want to get rid of doing things that way… Each topic that is important to you and is solved add something to your expertise as speaker.

The questions you ask are the white ball when playing billiard. The answers are the way and power you direct into the queue to place the white ball strategically for the next shot. When you have all your coloured balls successfully put into the holes you win. You can also win by forcing the other to make mistakes that let you win. Either way you have to conduct the game to win.

Do you feel touched when listening to a speaker like you do by a good song? Figure out why and you know immediately what you need to learn. You might want to know how to use these strategies yourself when speaking. Find out how you can get access to the person’s knowledge and wisdom to help you Grow You. It is the foundation for your success as speaker.

What do you have to offer in exchange for their teachings? The higher you reward other people for their help the more you get. They have a treasure box you want to learn from. Show that you appreciate that they share their treasures and findings with you.

I had listened to lots of content over the last few weeks. I also watched lots of videos.

Anytime I learned something about myself or about the topic the speakers addressed. The best speakers combine emotional approach and delivering the content in the way that matches your needs best. The Art of public Speaking is all about BEING YOU and EXPRESSING YOU in front of YOUR IDEAL LISTENERS. The best speakers know how they can address different needs of different people in one speech. That enables them to get their audiences acting. Great speakers do that without manipulating their audiences.

Speakers that matches your needs creates feelings in you, either uncomfortable once that cause you to act changing things right away or pleasant once that encourage you to go on the way you do it. The fascinating part is that several people in the audience get those kind of feelings for different reasons.

Learning to create feelings in other that serve your and their purpose is what distinguishes great speakers from average once. Like in a ball game you have the ball and decide what to do with it. When just playing on your own it might be fun. The faster the game and the trickier the shots the better you get. Grab the choice and invite your audience to join your game.

MASTER THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING and you have fun PLAYING with your skills and ENTERTAINING your audience while YOU EDUCATE them.

Larissa Glueck

photos: sxc.hu

photographer: volleyball: lusi; headphon: magstefan; singer: Vixs; pool balls: LotusHead; clay people: classina; direction banner: Moriel

What for people get labelled?

First of all for their body seize. That starts from our birth; people like to give nicknames which include a label: The little ones, who are meant by that? Usually the children in the room or the family are called that way.

People use to call a large skinny person beanpole. I think you will know many more that fits in this category. Do you remember how it felt being labelled that way?

People get labelled for their illnesses: she/ he are a diabetic, alcoholic, addict…..

People get labelled by their jobs: chimney sweeper, who knows the name of this person? There are other jobs in which peoples names get secondary and the job is important.

People get labelled for their accomplishments. This happens rarely. When you are labelled for your extraordinary accomplishments embrace, enjoy and celebrate this award.

What does it do with you when you accept this label you get by others?

Most labels limit you to something. That is ok when it is for your extraordinary accomplishments in your job or personal that you want to be appreciated for. This kind of label is a highly valuable award you definitely should welcome as it is the sign for your success. Still be careful when a label you get exclude further development as you have several facets.

Refuse to accept labels that are limiting you and refuse labelling yourself in a limiting way. Limiting labels belong into the next bin. You want to keep the way open to accomplishing higher levels of development. Reframe the meaning of a label that is limiting you. When you are labelled as little or beanpole or something related to your body seize it is hardly useful to waste your time with thinking about that label in detail.

When the label is related to something that is in your hands to change grab the choice by the tail and find out what symptoms you want to change and what you need to do to reach that. Instead of seeing yourself as a diabetic who keeps you at the status quo or worsen that status you better say to yourself:  I have to find a way that enables me to improve the way I deal with myself and my body to get healthy again.

I know that is seen as ridiculous by many people as a chronic disease hardly can be healed. Why should you believe that something is impossible to reach before you have the proof? At least it opens yourself the way to become your own healer and experience that you can influence your life. when you succeed it was worth the effort, when you miss to reach your goal you can be satisfied as you did all you could do to change it to the better.

When you believe into the common view you end up taking medicine your whole life and experiencing that others know better than you what is good for you.

Getting help is good, when the support helps you to help yourself. This way it takes a while to reach your goal and includes the risk to miss it. It is far better than depending on other peoples expertise without being able to influence the result.

The only label you really want to get and except is the label for extraordinary results you accomplished. The true essence of branding yourself is getting labelled for what you want to brand yourself for.

So what labels do you want to earn? Being known for YOUR Art of Public Speaking? Develop your way to deliver your messages with your pizzazz when being on stage.

Do you want to be known for The Power of Your Voice? Improve your Voice and get heard. That is important for Singers, Public Speakers and anyone who wants to be recognised immediately using the own voice.

Do you want to be known for….? Whatever it is you want to be labelled for make sure you gain mastery in it and earning the medal or award through your accomplishments. That way you gain peoples appreciation because they want to do things that you easily do.

When you are in public show your accomplishments and keep your hard work to yourself.

A music professor once said on a seminar to the students: The tempo of that song could be varied between the limits. It is one thing to aim to be able to play it in the fastest tempo, that belongs in your personal practice room or when working with your professor or other students on it. When you are on stage play in a tempo you can easily play. It is your task to reach the level of being comfortable playing it before you play it on stage.

I agree with that. This way you have protected areas in which you work on your own growing. Embrace getting rewarded for your success when performing in public.

You can reach a lot more that way as you get a feedback for your accomplishments without your own prejudices or that of people that know your capabilities well. You or they might be blind for certain things that a fresh gaze by a new person uncovers.

Reach high when you want to be labelled for your success. You want to collect all the golden eggs of wisdom and capabilities on your way to the top. Develop yourself constantly with discipline as it becomes blissipline over time. When people recognise your bliss delivering and performing in the way they perceive as your best you get rewarded for things you can easily do.

Things you can easily do are the things that you enjoy doing. So you get happier and as true happiness supports your health you get healthier as well. Being happy and healthy enables you to propel your accomplishments and capabilities to higher levels.

Aim high and enjoy to brand yourself for being happy, healthy and a great achiever.

Larissa Glueck

photos:sxc.hu

photographers: golden eggs: barunpatro; Olympic medal: petrenko; figure with label: Jenny Rollo; pills: Leonardini; one way sign: TFawls; Sign for bin: ftibor; success sign: lockstockb; box: ilco

They all speak in a special way. All had developed over time some characteristics. Often they speak louder than necessary when you count in the technical tools they use. This is called POWER VOICE. Most of them acquired the habit to use more tension than necessary to speak clearly and loud.

This shall show the power within their messages. After a while they develop hoarseness. You can hear that when listen to Tony Robbins. This is a pity as it lowers their possibilities to get their message across.

A public speaking skill YOU really need to hone is THE POWER of YOUR VOICE. The value lies within knowing how to use THE POWER of YOUR VOICE in a powerful and sustainable way. As a speaker YOUR VOICE is your most valuable public speaking instrument. String instruments and your voice develop a better and richer sound and character over time when you care about them. Care about YOUR VOICE and increase its value.

You know what, with some little twist you can learn to develop YOUR VOICE POWER while caring about improving it ongoing. When you are a speaker YOUR VOICE is your most important asset to execute YOUR MESSAGE to YOUR AUDIENCE.

Care about YOUR VOICE POWER anytime when you use YOUR VOICE and when you rest it.

You need some willpower and dedication to break with your habitual way to use your voice. THE RIGHT IDEAS, practice and self-discipline to change the way you speak. When you aim high THE BEST YOU CAN DO is honing your voice while keeping it healthy.

For you as speaker YOUR VOICE IS EVERYTHING!

The other thing famous speaker use is their pace. They often speak so fast that you hardly follow them. You have to listen to the same content over and over again. That is for purpose. When you are listening three times to the same it really sits in your mind and develops further.

The risk is getting breathless and harming YOUR VOICE when speaking fast and loud. With a bit of training that is to solve. an organist trains years and years to master the organ. The better the air is flowing through the pipes the better the sound.  The better you breathe the more you are improving YOUR VOICE VARIETY and its SOUND.

Mastering THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING is only possible when MASTERING USING YOUR VOICE and some other valuable skills.

Watch how people stand, sit and move. You almost see the connection between their poise and voice. When you learn to perceive what is going on in your body right away you gain a valuable tool to change things right away. Your audience hardly perceives what you do secretly. Would that be helpful to know how you can do that?

The tricky thing is to learn it. YOUR PERCEPTION and judgement must be as sharp and reliable as possible when you want to TRAIN YOUR VOICE in a sustainable way. You have to practice, practice and practice the new way to use it while getting rid of the habits that limit your possibilities to develop your voice further. That is some work. It is the best basic for using your voice with all its features.

YOUR VOICE is deeply connected to your personality, thoughts and feelings. You can hear the feelings in the voice of others, when they are sad, happy, melancholic or excited. So others hear that in your voice too. That is why voice trainings are helpful to some extend. HOLISTIC VOICE TRAINING also changes your thoughts and feelings. When you say something nice from heart you can feel the comfortable vibration of love resonating in you. Discovering what you want and do from heart is part of training your voice.

Actors train years and years to gain the highest possible control of their voice. They are trained to show feelings a character they play has. It is exhausting to do it that way. The risk in it is ending up playing round the clock and ignoring who they are.

The very best is to combine voice training with developing your perception and personality at the same time. That way you develop an authentic style to present your message. When you are authentic speaking in the right tone is easy and comforting you. When you speak with love from heart your voice develops healing quality.

The combination I prefer to learn and practice mastering a skill is a playful way. Having a lot of fun learning and practicing facilitates applying it to your daily tasks. Who has time to schedule one hour a day for each skill to train? Cut down the learning hours by learning and applying efficient and effectively what you want to master. Efficient and effective learning includes educating your whole personality.

When shifting your focus a bit you are increasing the learning curve. Any tiny little change increases your learning the way you want when done purposeful. That is fun as you have plenty opportunities to do so. Any situation any moment you learn something and enhancing the POWER WITHIN YOU.

As you know the POWER WITHIN YOU is hear able in YOUR VOICE right away. The more you discover and develop your POWER WITHIN YOU the stronger THE POWER of YOUR VOICE. The more you play using YOUR POWER WITHIN YOU the more playful you can be on stage. The more playful you are the more you can play with YOUR VOICE and YOUR AUDIENCE. The more fun you have the more fun your audience has.

Have FUN delivering YOUR MESSAGE to the world.

Larissa Glueck

Photos: sxc.hu

photographers: world:ehw; clocks:pnijhuis; crystal heart: eidesign; people:scfmp ; organ:ericortner; violins: alixmorse

What about you have you trouble getting a dry and soar throat when speaking? Would you like to prevent that upcoming chronic hoarseness you have when delivering a speech? Would you like to learn  improving the use of your voice to get better public speaking skills?

Your voice is a great valuable instrument when it comes to expressing your thoughts, ideas and convictions.

You can hear right away when a person is happy, sad, angry, anxious or full of joy. You understand that without understanding the words. It is an international language. Think about whom you trust. You always trust people which voice you like.

Start falling in love with your voice and what you can do with it. Tune your voice to express what you want. Keep your voice healthy and vivid.

Your voice helps you expressing YOU.

8 things to train your voice in a healthy way and strengthen your public speaking skills

1. Learn to let breath happen in the natural way.
2. Get rid of any over tension you needed for a special task.
3. Learn to release your eye muscles.
4. Learn to release your neck muscles.
5. Learn to move fluently and smooth.
6. Practice pronouncing in a way that you can easily breath deeply.
7. Speak while you exhale.
8. Learn to release tension in action.

Your life gets easier when you implement all of that in your daily life.

The benefits of lowering your tension

Deeper breathing widens your ribcage and increases the volume of your lungs. The minimum tension necessary ensure the fullest breathing. With less tension you move easier and have a wider range of your muscles from rest to tension. Your muscles get stronger as they get better nutrition. You need less tension for the same task. Your voice is getting richer as you have more overtones in it.

Releasing tension promptly in any situation enables you to influence the effects that they have for you. The effects can be emotional or physical. You can decide and act the way you decide instead of following your habits or the expectations of others. Letting go of tension increases the range of your voice. Your voice tells right away your feelings. Letting go of tension creates a clearer sound of your voice and uplifts your mood.

Releasing your eye muscles regularly help you strengthen or keeping your eye sight. Your eyesight determines the use of your voice. You can proof that when recording yourself. Look into the distance at the horizon and speak to the sun. Look right in front of you facing an imaginary person and speak. When you listen to the recording you will recognise the difference when you use the same sentence. Good eyesight is always good to have. A wonderful attractive, clear warm and friendly voice attracts people towards you. Good eyesight ensures a better usability of your voice a a valuable skill when speaking in public.

Releasing your neck and throat muscles eases breathing as the air pipe goes through your neck. All the blood streams go through it as well; they lead the fresh blood right into your brain. Your neck muscles correlate with your eye muscles. Releasing them helps you to improve your eyesight. Releasing your neck and throat muscles helps you to increase the performance of your vocal chords.

Moving fluently and smooth is a good sign that you are close to your equipoise. That means you use only the necessary amount of tension and your body is in balance. That ensures proper breathing, digestion, blood circulation and all the other things working well. A great way to strengthen your presence on stage. Your voice range is broader and richer when you are in equipoise.

Pronouncing in a healthy way means speaking in an effective and efficient way. You learn to use your vocal chord in the best way. You learn to breathe properly while speaking. You learn to reduce stage fright through your preparation. You learn what you can do with your voice.

Learn to speak only while you exhale. You need air flooding around your vocal chords. The air from within you was filtered before and is warm. When you ran out of it just let your inhale happen through your nose. After a while you find out how long phrases can be before you have to inhale. You can use that knowledge to strengthen points when preparing speeches. You increase the power of your voice as it is heard without side noises.

Learn to recognise and release upcoming tension right away. This ensures that you can reduce the bad effects on you like upcoming nervousness or panic. It enables you to use only the minimum tension you need. This helps you to keep vibrant and awake longer.  You uplift yourself by letting go of tension. Your voice sounds fresher and you keep your vocal chords healthy.

Enjoy expressing Your Thoughts and YOU with your wonderful unique voice!

Larissa Glueck

Photos: sxc.hu

Photographers: golden microphone: katagaci; on air: martwork; neck: gallore; sunset: ralchinger: light bulb: asifthebes; notepad: nkzs; equalizer: pacoto

It is a huge difference between criticising a bad delivered speech and being in charge to deliver it.

What are the crucial points that make all the difference between a bad speech, an average speech and a memorable speech that moves thousands of people?

First of all the speaker is authentic. Great speakers are showing emotions, hassles, joy, accomplishments and the solutions to stepping up. Some are naturally gifted. The risk lies in doing it professionally as you might end up getting bored telling the same over and over again. You still enjoy it, you loose the pizzazz.

Having  pizzazz in every speech is what a great speaker set apart from an average.

You could see the disappointment of the masses when Susan Boyle performed the second time the same song and missed out to show it. People fall in love with her cheeky grin and the way she performed from her heart the first time.

The art of public speaking lies in mingling tips on public speaking, with public speaking techniques and your personality.

All together applied to a great topic you are an expert in is helping you showing your pizzazz any time you are giving a speech. Piece after piece you have to connect the important tips, techniques and your personality till you get the whole picture.

It is about your perception and creativity to connect the premade pieces with your experiences and knowledge.

Effective public speaking is the result of great preparation.

Effective preparation includes mastering the topic you are talking about.

With that aim in mind you learn all the tiny little details others overlook. Reading lots of books, doing researches in the internet and learning live is part of mastering any skill. You also have to apply the learned as often as possible. You are developing a perspective of that topic which is crucial when you want to become an expert.

Preparation includes knowing YOU.

Yes, I know that is the most challenging part of it. This implicates that you know what your body is telling while you are speaking, the range of your voice and how to play with it, how moving influences you when you are speaking, how to breathe properly, which tools you need to bring your message across and courage to show YOU ……

A high self-esteem as it is the root for confident public speaking.

Excellent preparation also encompasses knowing your audience.

This leads to a huge relieve when preparing a speech. You can tailor your speech to the needs of your audience. That way you are facilitating to reach your goal. You can talk to an interested audience willing to understand your message. Believe me that is the greatest pleasure to talk to an interested audience.

Knowing that you can fulfil the audience demands is raising your self-esteem and enjoying to be in the lime light.

Using their questions to improve your knowledge and expertise helps you serving them better and better each time you connect to them. All this questions are helping you to tailor your research and development to the needs of your target audience. Each time you fulfil that need your expertise is getting stronger.

This is boosting your self-esteem to the next level.

Public speaking fear vanishes when you are well prepared.

Preparing well when you are afraid of public speaking means you have to know yourself better before preparing a speech.

This encloses to know how to deal with nervousness and how to change your thinking and acting to prevent creating fear. You have to really look into the details to find your personal solution.

Knowing you have mastered the topic is one part to reduce this fear.

Learning some tricks to master developing a great speech outline is supporting your self-esteem. Start learning writing speeches. When you understand how they are build up you develop self-esteem.

Self-esteem is the cure for fear.

What really helps is letting go of the fear.

Finding your equipoise is a great way to do it. The fear is saved in your nerves and muscles. You can spot anxious people easily by their posture as it is stiff and their movements are chiselled.

While you are working to let go of this information in your tissues your poise and face expression changes according to your way to think and act differently. When the fear is outdated like an old crushed paper you can easily let it go.

Your face is showing more clarity and vibrancy so you are looking younger. Your movements will get smoother and you gain flexibility. You are closer to the equipoise of your body.

Your breathing gets deeper and this helps you releasing the fear.

Excellent preparation also includes playing with the language.

Effective public speaking includes interest in the language itself. Finding the right words is challenging and fun too. You facilitate that by reading and listening to various topics and authors and speakers. A good synonym dictionary and an etymologic dictionary are helping you to spice up your wording.

Being able to play with the words like with balls bouncing and juggling them is what lets you enjoy public speaking.

Doing the preparation part is what counts.

That is just a scope what is necessary to master the art of public speaking. I am going more into the details in my work as I know the result is higher when tailored to the speakers needs. General tips help a bit give you some ideas to start with.

Mastering a skill includes tailoring it to your own personality, capabilities and needs.

Have fun doing the part of preparation and mastering and soon you will recognise results.

Larissa Glueck

photos: sxc.hu

photographers: balls: chidsey; paper: japur; notepad, books: nkzs; limelight: hberends; puzzle. kisa12; microphone: nighthawk7

Do you blossom? Feel you like you get more and more awake each day?

In case you miss that feeling then it is time for you to change something to the better.

There are several options:

Decluttering: You can DECLUTTER your wardrobe, flat, house…… The most important is DECLUTTERING YOU. Let go of negative thoughts, feelings, people in your life. Let go of all that is hindering YOU to grow!

Seeding: You can seed plants and soon you will see them blossom, growing and getting fruits . SEED new ideas, thoughts, habits and actions. SEEDING what is nurturing you is the most important part. Certainly you had dreamed of something during the long and cold winter.

Nurturing: NURTURE what you have seeded. It is important when you want to gain results. The better YOU NURTURE your new ideas, thoughts, habits and actions the sooner you will see results. NURTURE YOU by nurturing your new thoughts, ideas, habits and actions daily. It needs minimum 30 days to establish the new. You need to NURTURE what you have established regularly to gain mastery in it.

Gathering: It takes a while till you are getting results. It is worth it. Imagine that you already have what you want. Feel it. Go into this feeling as often as possible. You will find it easier to go through the other phases. When you are getting the results: CELEBRATE! Thank yourself and all who have supported you. CELEBRATE: Make something special to celebrate the results. ENJOY this CELEBRATION!

Resting: After all the work and progress: REST. There is a reason why nature created seasons. RESTING is part of strengthening YOU. RESTING is necessary to prepare for the next growing.

ENJOY SEEDING and BLOSSOMING!

Larissa Glueck

When you have sleeping difficulties they are either related to thinking the wrong thoughts or doing the wrong things. Doing the wrong things is leading to difficulties to let go and rest as well. It can be that you are eating something that is keeping you awake. Also exciting experiences can keep you awake. Sleeping in the day tensed on the table is what makes things worse.

Excitement is caused by a rush of chemistries in your body. This chemistries are ensuring you are acting fast and powerful. Exciting actions, books, music and movies are interfering with resting.

Nutrition is also causing something in your body. Eating sweets is keeping you awake and nervous. The same is true for any nutrition that is full of carbohydrates as they are transforming into sugar soon after digesting them.

Thinking can help you letting go of old thoughts and habits. When thoughts keep you going round and round worrying, thinking in the box and keeping you from resting you have to act. You have to learn letting go in activity and thinking differently.

This is the tricky part. When you are exhausted you always think about resting and still have difficulties to do so. After a long while you eventually succeed. Till then you suffer. Over the time you get frustrated.

The best you can do to solve that issue you are addressing your thinking patterns, your physical tension and your nutrition all at the same time. Start changing them bit by bit.

Cultivate better thinking, acting and eating habits is crucial for restful sleep. Enjoy walks in nature and start seeing the beauty of nature. This is enabling you to create a stream of small changes supporting each other. It is distracting you from always worrying about the other things.

Start by making frequent breaks. When you start thinking hard, get up do something physical. That can be a walk or visiting a colleague. Make a bit small talk, some jokes anything that helps you get out of being stuck.

Change the topic you deal with. When your mind is stuck you are going to no man’s land. Your mind loves diversification the more often the better. Alternation every few minutes is what your mind enjoys.

Start changing your nutrition. Replace pushing foods and drinks with healthy alternatives. Replace Coffee or black tea with spice or fruit tea. Instead of sweet lemonade, create it yourself with pure water and a slice of lemon in it.

Replace sugar rich artificial and convenient foods with healthy tasteful alternatives. Instead of a piece of cake eat a fresh fruit. Instead of a pre-made meal create it yourself. Instead of the chain fast food, eat nuts, or fresh fruits.

Start changing your movements. Instead of pumping weights choose light movements in nature. Instead of pushing yourself to get fit for the marathon enjoy walks in nature. Play games with your children or go swimming.

Instead of thinking I have to sleep play some soothing music calm and happy. Start learning how you can release your muscles in activity. Whether you recognise this change physical or have difficulties to recognise it go on with it. Practice releasing frequently. So your body gets the information over and over again in various forms. Over time your muscles will adjust to your constant request.

Learn to breathe properly; it calms you down nearly immediately. Start with exhaling deeply. Then allow the inhale. Practise in a save place. You might feel light-headed from it as you are taking in more oxygen. Do it several times. Soon you will recognise how you calm down. When you are pregnant consult with your doctor before practicing the deep breathing.

Over time you get calmer and sleep comes more easily as you learn to enjoy resting. In resting lies beauty. This resting butterfly is beautiful as it is. It has a different beauty when it is flying. You are beautiful when resting as you are looking calm and peaceful. You are increasing your beauty by resting and getting more vibrant.

You will gain the reward by better health and performance. You will learn easier. You are enjoying YOUR LIFE even more.

Larissa Glueck

Photos: sxc.hu

Photographers: buterfly: mmagellan; balloons: somadjinn; smiley: ba1969; sunset: ralchinger; sleeping: nazreth

Since my morning the votes for me are increasing.  I am now one place closer to winning. Two and a half day to go. It is possible that I win. Please keep voting for me. Thank you for your help!

The best of all are the contacts I am making with people I meet only through that. Great ideas are coming from that. And I am constantly winning supporters for the charity which is on its way now. The bank account will be live by next week. I can accept donations as soon as that is working. Wow, that is a great feeling after all the work I did so far. Like the nurturing water create energy by streaming over the millwheel.

As soon as the website is up the first mentors and sponsors can have a look at the guidelines. I am certain lots of people are applying for both. Phones will be ringing of the hook.

The interest in it is getting up and up through the contest. Soon I will be on air with a radio show which is creating even more exposure for what I am up too.

Step by step I am getting up till I reach what I am aiming at.

Joining the contest is really pushing me forward.

Do a research, be open what contest you can join.  Contests are helping you to be challenged and go a step or two further on your way to reach your dream. Take your Chance! You only know what you win by participating.

Have some fun to CHALLENGE YOURSELF on YOUR WAY to YOUR DREAMS!

Larissa Glueck

Photos: sxc.hu photographers: Calling: harrykeely, watermill: awestlan

Also you might have your way to decide, there is still room for improvement, a better way or just a twist to get better results.

When you sometimes scratch your head what is the best option, or how should I decide and when should I decide? Than it is high time to improve your perception, set of criteria and the way you deal with yourself. All of that influences your way to decide.

The aim of each decision should be that you can face yourself in the mirror, right away, tomorrow, next week or in years.

Over the time the quality of your decisions is getting better and better or worse.

Excellent decision makers are sometimes wrong too. They have learned to learn from their mistakes. They are more often right than wrong. They know that the most crucial part in making decisions is them. That is the reason they develop themselves year after year, day after day. They know that developing oneself is the only way to stay on top.

What does influence your decision?

Your perception is influencing your decision as it influences the information you get. When you are wearing glasses there is only a small area in which the lenses give you clear vision. This also depends on your current state as well as your vision as well as your voice adapt immediately to your conditions.

Over the time you get used to that limited perception. You turn your head to see what is in another direction and miss the information in the side areas. You see the world through two frames. So you might get an information to late or miss it totally.

You have to deal with less than the best information you can get. What are you going to do with the information you have? Are you just collecting them? Or are you connecting them to the information you already have? How do you connect and use your information.

YOUR WAY to deal with information you get influences your way of thinking and deciding.

Some are collectors of great information and store them. Lots of old books, outdated technique and other things. They do so because they suspect the information can be useful. It is because they are so focussed on collecting they miss the part of connecting the information to each other and letting go of outdated. People who are good in that need some help to connect those information and create something new out of it.

Some are quite good in creating something new of the information they get. They eat lots of information too nurture themselves. Then they develop in a puppet to develop something new and beautiful out of it.

They are quite skilled to use their creative intelligence. They often are thankful when someone helps them to organise their ideas and support them using those and blew life into their ideas.

Your way to deal with yourself influence your perception. When you are always tensed you reduce the range of your  muscles and make circulation of nutrition through your body difficult. That reduces the function of your cells, muscles, organs and whole system. That affects your eyes as well as your digestion, blood circulation, breathing…… You feel always the power inside you that wants to get used so that your body can release the tension. Like a runner before the start.

What now? Start developing your perception, make it more reliable and trustworthy. Take the information you get and appreciate it. Then decide upon it. While you do that learn to deal with yourself in a way that improve your perception. Learn to let go of tension and strengthen your muscles and hone your skills.

Let go of limiting believes and convictions. Let go of the tension that is coming with limiting thoughts and feelings. start challenging yourself. Do the opposite from things you commonly do or at least vary them a bit. Each day one or two, this stimulates your brain and body cells. Over time this will lead to new insides and ideas. It also lead to different results.

Enjoy discovering how let go opens beautiful decorated yet closed doors wide for you.

The better your perception gets the better information you gain. The more tension you let go, the stronger your muscles get and the more you can get from your brain. Letting go means learning and developing in all areas of life. It increases the way of deciding and opting by improving your perception and set of criteria.

YOU get the best YOU by honing your skills and improving the interaction within YOU. That interaction within you provides you with the tools you need to come up with the best decision.

Opt for the BEST you Can: YOU at your best! Discover what is inside you!

Larissa Glueck

Photos: sxc.hu

photographers: uter: CITT; frames for eyeglasses: dinny; boks: nkzs; caterpillar: im2c; runner: mzacho; skyscrapercleaner: sebadanon; door: sarei