Dan Robey is a friend of mine.  He is the author of a great eBook that contains some great common sense life and career success advice, The Power of Positive Habits.  Check it out at http://www.ThePowerOfPositiveHabits.com.  The other day, I read an article by Dan called “This “Positive Attitude” Habit will Change Your Life!”  Dan always lets me post his articles here.  Check out what he has to say…

Your attitude determines how well you will succeed when faced with a challenge.  Would you like to be able to instantly acquire a winner’s attitude?

Here is a simple positive habit that will change your attitude in seconds. Use this technique for all areas of your life — career success, weight loss, motivation, whatever.

Choose or create a positive mental attitude trigger phrase and repeat it aloud many times each day.  A habit trigger is an event, action, or thought that helps to reinforce your positive habits.

Your trigger phrases will help you to maintain a positive mental attitude. Choose or make up a positive phrase, such as:

“I know I can do it.”
“I can overcome any obstacle.”
“I am reaching my success goals every day.”
“I am getting stronger and stronger every day.”
“Every day I am getting closer and closer to my goals in life.”
“If I believe it I can achieve it.”
“Every day, my mental attitude is becoming more positive.”
“I am losing weight every day.”
“I am getting closer and closer to my goal of a trim and fit body.”

Write your trigger phrase on Post-it notes; place them on the mirror of your car, on your bathroom mirror, carry them in your pocket. Repeat the phrase many times every day.  Remember to say it with emotion, believe it with all your heart. Make it a habit to repeat this phrase at least 30 times a day.

Here is a simple way to turbo charge this habit for AMAZING results!!

Everybody has a smart phone these days. Almost all smart phones have the ability to record audio, if not you can bet there is an App For That!

Download a voice recorder app for your phone. Then record your own voice talking about the goals you are going to reach, talk about them in great detail with enthusiasm in your voice.

Play this recording over and over again, while driving, at the gym, before you go to sleep. It’s called the power of thinking BIG and trust me, it works. Think BIG successful thoughts, record them and play them back over and over!

Sounds like a lot but if it changes your life, isn’t it worth it?

Start your day with it. End your day with it.

The more you repeat your trigger phrases, the greater their effect will be on your attitude.  Whenever a negative thought enters your mind, replace it with your positive-attitude trigger phrase. You will now be building success-oriented positive thought patterns.

This habit will help you achieve a positive mental attitude automatically.

Remember, attitude is everything!

I really like what Dan has to say here.  It’s great career advice.  Attitude is everything.  You have to believe that you can accomplish your goals.  Belief starts with your attitude.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  As Dan Robey, author of The Power of Positive Habits points out, your attitude will determine your response to difficult situations.  If you have a positive attitude, you’ll be more likely to respond positively to tough times.  Trigger phrases are the best way to build a positive attitude.  Here are some trigger phrases that can help you create positive attitude: “I know I can do it.” “I can overcome any obstacle.” “I am reaching my success goals every day.”  “I am getting stronger and stronger every day.”  “Every day I am getting closer and closer to my life and career success goals.”  ”Every day, my mental attitude is becoming more positive.”  Pick one of these trigger phrases – or make one up yourself.  Repeat it 25 to 30 times a day, and you’ll find that you’ll have a positive attitude when you need it most – when things are tough.

That’s my career advice based on what Dan Robey has to say about trigger phrases and a positive attitude.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my daily thoughts on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, please download a free copy of my popular career advice book Success Tweets and its companion piece Success Tweets Explained.  The first gives you 140 bits of career success advice tweet style — in 140 characters or less.  The second is a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened a membership site last September.  It’s called My Corporate Climb and is devoted to helping people create career success inside large corporations.  You can find out about the membership site by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.

Dan Robey is a friend of mine.  He is the author of a great eBook that contains some great common sense life and career success advice, The Power of Positive Habits.  Check it out at http://www.ThePowerOfPositiveHabits.com.  The other day, I read an article by Dan called “This “Positive Attitude” Habit will Change Your Life!”  Dan always lets me post his articles here.  Check out what he has to say…

Your attitude determines how well you will succeed when faced with a challenge.  Would you like to be able to instantly acquire a winner’s attitude?

Here is a simple positive habit that will change your attitude in seconds. Use this technique for all areas of your life — career success, weight loss, motivation, whatever.

Choose or create a positive mental attitude trigger phrase and repeat it aloud many times each day.  A habit trigger is an event, action, or thought that helps to reinforce your positive habits.

Your trigger phrases will help you to maintain a positive mental attitude. Choose or make up a positive phrase, such as:

“I know I can do it.”
“I can overcome any obstacle.”
“I am reaching my success goals every day.”
“I am getting stronger and stronger every day.”
“Every day I am getting closer and closer to my goals in life.”
“If I believe it I can achieve it.”
“Every day, my mental attitude is becoming more positive.”
“I am losing weight every day.”
“I am getting closer and closer to my goal of a trim and fit body.”

Write your trigger phrase on Post-it notes; place them on the mirror of your car, on your bathroom mirror, carry them in your pocket. Repeat the phrase many times every day.  Remember to say it with emotion, believe it with all your heart. Make it a habit to repeat this phrase at least 30 times a day.

Here is a simple way to turbo charge this habit for AMAZING results!!

Everybody has a smart phone these days. Almost all smart phones have the ability to record audio, if not you can bet there is an App For That!

Download a voice recorder app for your phone. Then record your own voice talking about the goals you are going to reach, talk about them in great detail with enthusiasm in your voice.

Play this recording over and over again, while driving, at the gym, before you go to sleep. It’s called the power of thinking BIG and trust me, it works. Think BIG successful thoughts, record them and play them back over and over!

Sounds like a lot but if it changes your life, isn’t it worth it?

Start your day with it. End your day with it.

The more you repeat your trigger phrases, the greater their effect will be on your attitude.  Whenever a negative thought enters your mind, replace it with your positive-attitude trigger phrase. You will now be building success-oriented positive thought patterns.

This habit will help you achieve a positive mental attitude automatically.

Remember, attitude is everything!

I really like what Dan has to say here.  It’s great career advice.  Attitude is everything.  You have to believe that you can accomplish your goals.  Belief starts with your attitude.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  As Dan Robey, author of The Power of Positive Habits points out, your attitude will determine your response to difficult situations.  If you have a positive attitude, you’ll be more likely to respond positively to tough times.  Trigger phrases are the best way to build a positive attitude.  Here are some trigger phrases that can help you create positive attitude: “I know I can do it.” “I can overcome any obstacle.” “I am reaching my success goals every day.”  “I am getting stronger and stronger every day.”  “Every day I am getting closer and closer to my life and career success goals.”  ”Every day, my mental attitude is becoming more positive.”  Pick one of these trigger phrases – or make one up yourself.  Repeat it 25 to 30 times a day, and you’ll find that you’ll have a positive attitude when you need it most – when things are tough.

That’s my career advice based on what Dan Robey has to say about trigger phrases and a positive attitude.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my daily thoughts on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, please download a free copy of my popular career advice book Success Tweets and its companion piece Success Tweets Explained.  The first gives you 140 bits of career success advice tweet style — in 140 characters or less.  The second is a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened a membership site last September.  It’s called My Corporate Climb and is devoted to helping people create career success inside large corporations.  You can find out about the membership site by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned that my wife Cathy had shoulder replacement surgery on November 1.  I’m happy to report that she is doing well.  Her rehabbing is ahead of schedule.

Cathy is a volunteer reading tutor at Carson Elementary School here in Denver.  She loves the kids and they love her.  After her surgery, she received a big envelope full of hand drawn get well cards from her students.  One of them contained some great career success advice – and demonstrated a lot of wisdom on the part of a fourth grader.

The card was a drawing of a three dimensional cube (I was fascinated by those things and drew them over and over when I was a kid) made using highlighters, with these words inside the cube…

Ms. Cathy:
This drawing is made of highlighters to remind you to always looks at all the highlights in life and not the downers.

Wow! Out of the mouths of babes, huh?  The young man or woman who wrote the card forgot to sign it, so I can’t tell you his or her name.  But who cares?  It’s the message that counts.  This young person may grow up to be a career success coach.

Tweet 37 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it.  Don’t dwell on the negative, use it as a springboard to action and creativity.”  In other words, “always look at the highlights in life, not the downers.

Successful people have a habit of focusing on the positive and putting the negative out of their minds.  Positive habits like this are an important key to career success.  Habits are like muscles.  The more you use them, the stronger they get.  Dan Robey is the King of Positive Habits.  His eBook, The Power of Positive Habits, is one of my go-to books when I need to give myself a little boost.  You can get a copy at www.ThePowerOfPositiveHabits.com.

Dan’s book is based on the idea of cognitive restructuring.  According to Dan, cognitive restructuring is learning to identify your personal cycle of negative thoughts, habits, and routines and replacing them with positive thoughts, habits, and routines that will provide you with lifelong benefits.   Or, as our fourth grader says, “always look at the highlights in life, not the downers.”

Today, I’d like to discuss an important positive habit – proactively managing your stress.  When I was a kid about a million years ago, there was a popular song.  I believe it was a show tune.  A couple of the lines went like this…

You’ve got to ac – cen – tu – ate the positive, and
e — lim — in – ate the negative.

I was thinking about that song the other day because during Cathy’s surgery I was rereading Evelyn Brooks’ book on stress management, called Forget Your Troubles: Enjoy Your Life Today.  Shoulder replacement surgery is a very stressful event.

Evelyn suggests that you get S.M.A.R.T. about managing stress…

• S Smash the negative.
• M Maximize the positive.
• A Act.
• R Relax.
• T Target your next action.

Sounds a lot like the advice in the song.  As they say, “there’s nothing new under the sun.”  And, more importantly, as a career success coach, I agree.  It doesn’t matter if you “accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative,” “smash the negative and maximize the positive,” or do a bit of “cognitive restructuring,” you’ll be on your way to managing your stress and becoming a life and career success.

Stuff happens as you go through life; stressful stuff; positive stuff, negative stuff, happy stuff, sad stuff, frustrating stuff.  The important thing is not what happens, but how you react to it.  In other words, smash your negative thoughts; replace them with positive ones.  Don’t dwell on the negative, use it as a springboard to action and creativity.  Maximize the positive in your life by creating positive habits and routines.  When something goes well, take the time to celebrate.  You deserve it.  And, small celebrations when you succeed are a positive habit that will put you in a positive frame of mind, which in turn, will help you create more life and career successes.

I have given away over 3,000 copies of the eBook version of Success Tweets.  Get your free copy at http://budurl.com/STExp.  I mention this because I’m celebrating.  I want to get the positive message in Success Tweets into the hands of as many people as I can.  I’m accentuating the positive, or if you prefer, maximizing the positive.  You might say that 3,000 people choosing to receive a free eBook is not a reason for a huge celebration; but I do – and I’m following my own career success advice by doing some cognitive restructuring – creating a habit of celebrating small successes.  Celebrating small wins is a great positive habit for me.  It will help me manage my stress and not get overwhelmed by the negatives that will invariably creep into my life.  I’m sticking to it.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  As a fourth grader advised Cathy, successful people look at the highlights in life and not the downers.  Follow the advice in Tweet 37 in Success Tweets.  “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it.  Don’t dwell on the negative, use it as a springboard to action and creativity.”  Get competent.  Create positive personal impact.  Become an outstanding performer and a dynamic communicator.  Build strong relationships with the important people in your life.  Positive habits will help you do all of these.  Smash the negatives in your life and create positive thoughts, habits and routines.  Use the negatives that come your way as learning experiences, and positive thoughts, habits and routines to create small victories.  Treat these small victories as a reason for celebration.  Celebrating small victories is a good way to keep things in perspective and build the resilience necessary for dealing with the tough times – and for ac – cen – tu – ating the positive, and e – lim –in – ating the negative.  Take it from a career success coach, positive habits are powerful and will help you become the life and career success you deserve to be.

That’s the career advice prompted by a fourth grader’s get well card for my wife.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my daily musings on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, please download a free copy of my popular career advice book Success Tweets and its companion piece Success Tweets Explained.  The first gives you 140 bits of career success advice tweet style — in 140 characters or less.  The second is a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened a membership site on September 1.  It’s called My Corporate Climb and is devoted to helping people create career success inside large corporations.  To celebrate the grand opening, I’m giving away a new career advice book I’ve written called I Want YOU…To Succeed in Your Corporate Climb.  You can find out about the membership site and get the career advice in I Want YOU… for free by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned that my wife Cathy had shoulder replacement surgery on November 1.  I’m happy to report that she is doing well.  Her rehabbing is ahead of schedule.

Cathy is a volunteer reading tutor at Carson Elementary School here in Denver.  She loves the kids and they love her.  After her surgery, she received a big envelope full of hand drawn get well cards from her students.  One of them contained some great career success advice – and demonstrated a lot of wisdom on the part of a fourth grader.

The card was a drawing of a three dimensional cube (I was fascinated by those things and drew them over and over when I was a kid) made using highlighters, with these words inside the cube…

Ms. Cathy:
This drawing is made of highlighters to remind you to always looks at all the highlights in life and not the downers.

Wow! Out of the mouths of babes, huh?  The young man or woman who wrote the card forgot to sign it, so I can’t tell you his or her name.  But who cares?  It’s the message that counts.  This young person may grow up to be a career success coach.

Tweet 37 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it.  Don’t dwell on the negative, use it as a springboard to action and creativity.”  In other words, “always look at the highlights in life, not the downers.

Successful people have a habit of focusing on the positive and putting the negative out of their minds.  Positive habits like this are an important key to career success.  Habits are like muscles.  The more you use them, the stronger they get.  Dan Robey is the King of Positive Habits.  His eBook, The Power of Positive Habits, is one of my go-to books when I need to give myself a little boost.  You can get a copy at www.ThePowerOfPositiveHabits.com.

Dan’s book is based on the idea of cognitive restructuring.  According to Dan, cognitive restructuring is learning to identify your personal cycle of negative thoughts, habits, and routines and replacing them with positive thoughts, habits, and routines that will provide you with lifelong benefits.   Or, as our fourth grader says, “always look at the highlights in life, not the downers.”

Today, I’d like to discuss an important positive habit – proactively managing your stress.  When I was a kid about a million years ago, there was a popular song.  I believe it was a show tune.  A couple of the lines went like this…

You’ve got to ac – cen – tu – ate the positive, and
e — lim — in – ate the negative.

I was thinking about that song the other day because during Cathy’s surgery I was rereading Evelyn Brooks’ book on stress management, called Forget Your Troubles: Enjoy Your Life Today.  Shoulder replacement surgery is a very stressful event.

Evelyn suggests that you get S.M.A.R.T. about managing stress…

• S Smash the negative.
• M Maximize the positive.
• A Act.
• R Relax.
• T Target your next action.

Sounds a lot like the advice in the song.  As they say, “there’s nothing new under the sun.”  And, more importantly, as a career success coach, I agree.  It doesn’t matter if you “accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative,” “smash the negative and maximize the positive,” or do a bit of “cognitive restructuring,” you’ll be on your way to managing your stress and becoming a life and career success.

Stuff happens as you go through life; stressful stuff; positive stuff, negative stuff, happy stuff, sad stuff, frustrating stuff.  The important thing is not what happens, but how you react to it.  In other words, smash your negative thoughts; replace them with positive ones.  Don’t dwell on the negative, use it as a springboard to action and creativity.  Maximize the positive in your life by creating positive habits and routines.  When something goes well, take the time to celebrate.  You deserve it.  And, small celebrations when you succeed are a positive habit that will put you in a positive frame of mind, which in turn, will help you create more life and career successes.

I have given away over 3,000 copies of the eBook version of Success Tweets.  Get your free copy at http://budurl.com/STExp.  I mention this because I’m celebrating.  I want to get the positive message in Success Tweets into the hands of as many people as I can.  I’m accentuating the positive, or if you prefer, maximizing the positive.  You might say that 3,000 people choosing to receive a free eBook is not a reason for a huge celebration; but I do – and I’m following my own career success advice by doing some cognitive restructuring – creating a habit of celebrating small successes.  Celebrating small wins is a great positive habit for me.  It will help me manage my stress and not get overwhelmed by the negatives that will invariably creep into my life.  I’m sticking to it.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  As a fourth grader advised Cathy, successful people look at the highlights in life and not the downers.  Follow the advice in Tweet 37 in Success Tweets.  “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it.  Don’t dwell on the negative, use it as a springboard to action and creativity.”  Get competent.  Create positive personal impact.  Become an outstanding performer and a dynamic communicator.  Build strong relationships with the important people in your life.  Positive habits will help you do all of these.  Smash the negatives in your life and create positive thoughts, habits and routines.  Use the negatives that come your way as learning experiences, and positive thoughts, habits and routines to create small victories.  Treat these small victories as a reason for celebration.  Celebrating small victories is a good way to keep things in perspective and build the resilience necessary for dealing with the tough times – and for ac – cen – tu – ating the positive, and e – lim –in – ating the negative.  Take it from a career success coach, positive habits are powerful and will help you become the life and career success you deserve to be.

That’s the career advice prompted by a fourth grader’s get well card for my wife.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my daily musings on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, please download a free copy of my popular career advice book Success Tweets and its companion piece Success Tweets Explained.  The first gives you 140 bits of career success advice tweet style — in 140 characters or less.  The second is a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened a membership site on September 1.  It’s called My Corporate Climb and is devoted to helping people create career success inside large corporations.  To celebrate the grand opening, I’m giving away a new career advice book I’ve written called I Want YOU…To Succeed in Your Corporate Climb.  You can find out about the membership site and get the career advice in I Want YOU… for free by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.

I was reading Bloomberg Business Week the other day and came across an ad for Hilton Garden Inns.  I travel frequently and usually stay at Hilton properties.  I really like the Hilton Garden Inns line of hotels.

As I’ve mentioned frequently, I get inspiration for this career advice blog in odd places.  The Hilton Garden Inns ad was one of them.

The header said, “Climbing the Corporate Ladder?”  This immediately got my attention because I launched a membership site called My Corporate Climb on September 1.

The ad went on to read…

Get warmed up on a treadmill.

Power up in our complimentary fitness center.  Packed with premium Precor equipment in most locations, Hilton Garden Inn makes it easy to stay focused, fit and ready for anything.  It’s just one of the many ways we help keep you successful while on the road.

I can personally attest to the fact that the exercise equipment at most Hilton Garden Inns is terrific.  This isn’t an ad for Hilton Garden Inns, there is a common sense piece of career advice to be taken from this ad.

Tweet 93 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “Becoming a high performer is easier if you’re physically fit.  Increasing your heart rate is a great way to improving your fitness level.”

As a career success coach, I advise my clients to live a healthy lifestyle.  This means eating right and exercising.  You don’t have to become a tri-athlete; every little bit of exercise helps.  Exercise helps you increase your heart rate.  I like to ride my bike to increase my heart rate.  I often ride the exercise bike when I stay at Hilton Garden Inns.

Dan Robey is a friend of mine.  He is the author of The Power of Positive Habits.  I am one of his subscribers.  A while back, I received a great email from Dan on brisk walking as a positive habit – and a great way to increase your heart rate.  Dan is a generous guy and he always lets me repost his posts here.

Check out what he has to say about the power of brisk walking…

Make “Brisk Walking” A Positive Habit

“Not running, not jogging, but walking is your most efficient exercise and the only one you can safely follow all the years of your life.” – Executive Health Organization

Walking as a daily exercise habit can truly be a life-changing positive habit and is one of the most powerful habits for reaching your goal of a healthy trim and fit body.  Over the past 20 years, there have been dozens of studies that have proven the benefits of brisk walking.

Thousands upon thousands of people have improved their health and lost weight by the diligent habit of walking.  If you think that walking does not provide the same benefits as other more vigorous exercises, think again.

A study published by the New England Journal Of Medicine showed that postmenopausal women who walked regularly lowered their risk for heart disease just as much as women who did more vigorous exercise, such as playing sports or running.

This study suggests that walking is just as good for your heart as heavy exercise.  I spoke with study author, Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  She said, “The study provides compelling evidence that walking and vigorous exercise provide similar heart benefits, about a 30% to 40% reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease with 30 minutes per day of either activity.”

I also asked her about the benefits of making brisk walking a positive habit, and she responded, “They could surely walk away from heart disease and several other chronic diseases.  We have also found that brisk walking for at least 3 hours a week can lower the risk of stroke, type 2 diabetes, and breast cancer.

No pain, no gain, is an outdated notion; exercise doesn’t need to be strenuous or uncomfortable.  It can be easy and enjoyable.  Even though the study consisted solely of women, it is likely that men would experience similar benefits from the positive habit of brisk walking.

Here are additional benefits you will receive from your habit of brisk walking:

Walking burns calories and helps you lose weight and burn excess body fat.

Walking can help to improve your posture.

Walking requires no special equipment or gyms.

Walking can help lower blood pressure and help prevent circulatory and heart disorders.

Brisk, aerobic walking will give you the benefits of other exercises, such as jogging and cycling, but without the risk of injuries.

Walking at night can help promote better sleep.

Dan makes some great points about the benefits of developing a positive habit of brisk walking.  Personally, I prefer to bicycle in the summer, and walk in the winter – and use the fitness centers when I stay at Hilton Garden Inns.  Their treadmills are perfect for the kind of brisk walking Dan recommends.

A lot of my career success coach clients say that they know they should exercise, but often can’t seem to “get around to it.”  I have come up with the answer to this problem.  I have printed several thousand stickers that are round and say “TUIT” in big capital letters.  Whenever someone tells me that they know they should do something – like exercise — but can’t seem to get around to it, I give them one of these stickers.  It’s a round TUIT.  I tell them that now they can never say that they can’t get a around to it anymore, because they have a round TUIT.  I have a round TUIT sticker on my computer.  I have another one on my bike.  They are constant reminders to me to keep up good work and exercise habits.

Would you like a round TUIT?  If so, please email me your snail-mail address Bud@BudBilanich.com. Put the words “Round TUIT in the subject line, and  I’ll put up to five round TUITs in the mail to you – free of charge.  Use them for yourself, or give them to your friends who are procrastinators.  Just make sure that you get around to living a healthy lifestyle.  Elevate your heart rate.  Brisk walking is a great way to start.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  Successful people are outstanding performers.  Outstanding performers live a healthy lifestyle.  They follow the career advice in Tweet 93 in Success Tweets.  “Becoming a high performer is easier if you’re physically fit.  Increasing your heart rate is a great way to improve your fitness level.”  My friend Dan Robey, author of The Power of Positive Habits, says that brisk walking is a great way to increase your heart rate and one of the most healthy habits you can adopt.  I agree, almost everybody can walk.  The more you walk, the healthier you’ll be.  Dan points out that “No pain, no gain, is an outdated notion; exercise doesn’t need to be strenuous or uncomfortable.  It can be easy and enjoyable.”  So, like the Nike ads say, Just Do It!  Or as this career success coach says, “Get around to it.”

That’s the career advice that was prompted by the Hilton Garden Inn ad I saw in Bloomberg Business Week.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my daily musings on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, you can download a free copy of my latest career success book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened my new membership site on September 1.  It’s called My Corporate Climb and is devoted to helping people create career success inside large corporations.  To celebrate the grand opening, I’m giving away a new book I’ve written called I Want YOU…To Succeed in Your Corporate Climb.  You can find out about the membership site and get your free copy of I Want YOU by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.com.

I was reading Bloomberg Business Week the other day and came across an ad for Hilton Garden Inns.  I travel frequently and usually stay at Hilton properties.  I really like the Hilton Garden Inns line of hotels.

As I’ve mentioned frequently, I get inspiration for this career advice blog in odd places.  The Hilton Garden Inns ad was one of them.

The header said, “Climbing the Corporate Ladder?”  This immediately got my attention because I launched a membership site called My Corporate Climb on September 1.

The ad went on to read…

Get warmed up on a treadmill.

Power up in our complimentary fitness center.  Packed with premium Precor equipment in most locations, Hilton Garden Inn makes it easy to stay focused, fit and ready for anything.  It’s just one of the many ways we help keep you successful while on the road.

I can personally attest to the fact that the exercise equipment at most Hilton Garden Inns is terrific.  This isn’t an ad for Hilton Garden Inns, there is a common sense piece of career advice to be taken from this ad.

Tweet 93 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “Becoming a high performer is easier if you’re physically fit.  Increasing your heart rate is a great way to improving your fitness level.”

As a career success coach, I advise my clients to live a healthy lifestyle.  This means eating right and exercising.  You don’t have to become a tri-athlete; every little bit of exercise helps.  Exercise helps you increase your heart rate.  I like to ride my bike to increase my heart rate.  I often ride the exercise bike when I stay at Hilton Garden Inns.

Dan Robey is a friend of mine.  He is the author of The Power of Positive Habits.  I am one of his subscribers.  A while back, I received a great email from Dan on brisk walking as a positive habit – and a great way to increase your heart rate.  Dan is a generous guy and he always lets me repost his posts here.

Check out what he has to say about the power of brisk walking…

Make “Brisk Walking” A Positive Habit

“Not running, not jogging, but walking is your most efficient exercise and the only one you can safely follow all the years of your life.” – Executive Health Organization

Walking as a daily exercise habit can truly be a life-changing positive habit and is one of the most powerful habits for reaching your goal of a healthy trim and fit body.  Over the past 20 years, there have been dozens of studies that have proven the benefits of brisk walking.

Thousands upon thousands of people have improved their health and lost weight by the diligent habit of walking.  If you think that walking does not provide the same benefits as other more vigorous exercises, think again.

A study published by the New England Journal Of Medicine showed that postmenopausal women who walked regularly lowered their risk for heart disease just as much as women who did more vigorous exercise, such as playing sports or running.

This study suggests that walking is just as good for your heart as heavy exercise.  I spoke with study author, Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  She said, “The study provides compelling evidence that walking and vigorous exercise provide similar heart benefits, about a 30% to 40% reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease with 30 minutes per day of either activity.”

I also asked her about the benefits of making brisk walking a positive habit, and she responded, “They could surely walk away from heart disease and several other chronic diseases.  We have also found that brisk walking for at least 3 hours a week can lower the risk of stroke, type 2 diabetes, and breast cancer.

No pain, no gain, is an outdated notion; exercise doesn’t need to be strenuous or uncomfortable.  It can be easy and enjoyable.  Even though the study consisted solely of women, it is likely that men would experience similar benefits from the positive habit of brisk walking.

Here are additional benefits you will receive from your habit of brisk walking:

Walking burns calories and helps you lose weight and burn excess body fat.

Walking can help to improve your posture.

Walking requires no special equipment or gyms.

Walking can help lower blood pressure and help prevent circulatory and heart disorders.

Brisk, aerobic walking will give you the benefits of other exercises, such as jogging and cycling, but without the risk of injuries.

Walking at night can help promote better sleep.

Dan makes some great points about the benefits of developing a positive habit of brisk walking.  Personally, I prefer to bicycle in the summer, and walk in the winter – and use the fitness centers when I stay at Hilton Garden Inns.  Their treadmills are perfect for the kind of brisk walking Dan recommends.

A lot of my career success coach clients say that they know they should exercise, but often can’t seem to “get around to it.”  I have come up with the answer to this problem.  I have printed several thousand stickers that are round and say “TUIT” in big capital letters.  Whenever someone tells me that they know they should do something – like exercise — but can’t seem to get around to it, I give them one of these stickers.  It’s a round TUIT.  I tell them that now they can never say that they can’t get a around to it anymore, because they have a round TUIT.  I have a round TUIT sticker on my computer.  I have another one on my bike.  They are constant reminders to me to keep up good work and exercise habits.

Would you like a round TUIT?  If so, please email me your snail-mail address Bud@BudBilanich.com. Put the words “Round TUIT in the subject line, and  I’ll put up to five round TUITs in the mail to you – free of charge.  Use them for yourself, or give them to your friends who are procrastinators.  Just make sure that you get around to living a healthy lifestyle.  Elevate your heart rate.  Brisk walking is a great way to start.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  Successful people are outstanding performers.  Outstanding performers live a healthy lifestyle.  They follow the career advice in Tweet 93 in Success Tweets.  “Becoming a high performer is easier if you’re physically fit.  Increasing your heart rate is a great way to improve your fitness level.”  My friend Dan Robey, author of The Power of Positive Habits, says that brisk walking is a great way to increase your heart rate and one of the most healthy habits you can adopt.  I agree, almost everybody can walk.  The more you walk, the healthier you’ll be.  Dan points out that “No pain, no gain, is an outdated notion; exercise doesn’t need to be strenuous or uncomfortable.  It can be easy and enjoyable.”  So, like the Nike ads say, Just Do It!  Or as this career success coach says, “Get around to it.”

That’s the career advice that was prompted by the Hilton Garden Inn ad I saw in Bloomberg Business Week.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my daily musings on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, you can download a free copy of my latest career success book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened my new membership site on September 1.  It’s called My Corporate Climb and is devoted to helping people create career success inside large corporations.  To celebrate the grand opening, I’m giving away a new book I’ve written called I Want YOU…To Succeed in Your Corporate Climb.  You can find out about the membership site and get your free copy of I Want YOU by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.com.

Dan Robey is a friend of mine and a very smart guy.  He has contributed several guest posts to this career advice blog.  Dan is the author of The Power of Positive Habits, a great life and career success book.  If you don’t already have it, I suggest you pick up a copy as soon as you can.

The other day, Dan posted a great article on the word “choose.”  He has graciously allowed me to post it here.  Check it out…

Think about the word “choose.”  It may be the single most important word in your life.

Why?

Let’s look at what the dictionary says about the word “choose”

1. To select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: Example: She chose Sunday for her departure.
2. To prefer or decide (to do something): Example: He chose to run for election.
3. To want; desire.
4. To make a choice: Example: He chose carefully.
5. To be inclined: Example: You may stay here, if you choose.

Let’s look at #3 first, “to want, to desire.”  We all have wants and desires, you can “choose” to love or not be loved. You can choose to seek after that which you desire, or simply hope it will magically come to you someday.

Look at #1 “to select from a number of possibilities.”  WOW, this is powerful. A number of possibilities, I would say this is almost unlimited.

Here are some examples:

You can choose to live a sedentary life or an active life.

You can choose to imagine your life as successful or believe that success will never come your way.

You can choose to believe in something when all those around  you say you should not believe in it.

You can choose to take “action” or not take action.

You can choose to gain knowledge by reading newsletters like this one as well as books and magazines that will empower you with life changing information, or you could choose to watch more TV.

Look at #2 from the dictionary listing above.” To prefer or decide” (to do something): Example: He chose to run for election.  Every President the United States has had first choose to seek and/or accept the job.

You see, it is YOU that chooses, YOU have the power to choose the direction of your life.

You can choose to seek success.

You can choose to have a healthy body by choosing what you put in it and what you do with it.

You can choose to use the power of attraction (as discussed in The Secret) by creating a movie in your mind of you succeeding and believing that the success you are visualizing is already yours!

You can choose to take that new job in another city.

You can choose to forgive.

But here is the bottom line.

It is YOU who must choose, no one else can choose for you.

Here is an important question……What will you choose?

Make no mistake about it, even if you choose not to choose you have chosen a direction for your life……that is POWERFUL!

So I challenge you today to look at your life and CHOOSE!

Choose success.

Choose unconditional love.

Choose health.

Choose to take the time to teach your children what you have learned about choosing.

The career success coach advice here is simple common sense.  As Dan Robey points outs, the word “choose” is important to your life and career success.  You can choose a lifetime of happiness, joy, fulfillment and career success.  You can also choose a lifetime of frustration, sadness and no career success.  Tweet 21 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “You’re in charge!  Commit to taking personal responsibility for creating the life and career success you want and deserve.”  Once you choose to commit to taking personal responsibility you are on your way to career success.  Making the choice is the all important first step.  Choose life and career success.

That’s my career advice on what Dan Robey has to say about the importance of making positive choices in your life.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for choosing to read my daily thoughts on life and career success.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, you can download a free copy of my latest career success book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

Dan Robey is a friend of mine and a very smart guy.  He has contributed several guest posts to this career advice blog.  Dan is the author of The Power of Positive Habits, a great life and career success book.  If you don’t already have it, I suggest you pick up a copy as soon as you can.

The other day, Dan posted a great article on the word “choose.”  He has graciously allowed me to post it here.  Check it out…

Think about the word “choose.”  It may be the single most important word in your life.

Why?

Let’s look at what the dictionary says about the word “choose”

1. To select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: Example: She chose Sunday for her departure.
2. To prefer or decide (to do something): Example: He chose to run for election.
3. To want; desire.
4. To make a choice: Example: He chose carefully.
5. To be inclined: Example: You may stay here, if you choose.

Let’s look at #3 first, “to want, to desire.”  We all have wants and desires, you can “choose” to love or not be loved. You can choose to seek after that which you desire, or simply hope it will magically come to you someday.

Look at #1 “to select from a number of possibilities.”  WOW, this is powerful. A number of possibilities, I would say this is almost unlimited.

Here are some examples:

You can choose to live a sedentary life or an active life.

You can choose to imagine your life as successful or believe that success will never come your way.

You can choose to believe in something when all those around  you say you should not believe in it.

You can choose to take “action” or not take action.

You can choose to gain knowledge by reading newsletters like this one as well as books and magazines that will empower you with life changing information, or you could choose to watch more TV.

Look at #2 from the dictionary listing above.” To prefer or decide” (to do something): Example: He chose to run for election.  Every President the United States has had first choose to seek and/or accept the job.

You see, it is YOU that chooses, YOU have the power to choose the direction of your life.

You can choose to seek success.

You can choose to have a healthy body by choosing what you put in it and what you do with it.

You can choose to use the power of attraction (as discussed in The Secret) by creating a movie in your mind of you succeeding and believing that the success you are visualizing is already yours!

You can choose to take that new job in another city.

You can choose to forgive.

But here is the bottom line.

It is YOU who must choose, no one else can choose for you.

Here is an important question……What will you choose?

Make no mistake about it, even if you choose not to choose you have chosen a direction for your life……that is POWERFUL!

So I challenge you today to look at your life and CHOOSE!

Choose success.

Choose unconditional love.

Choose health.

Choose to take the time to teach your children what you have learned about choosing.

The career success coach advice here is simple common sense.  As Dan Robey points outs, the word “choose” is important to your life and career success.  You can choose a lifetime of happiness, joy, fulfillment and career success.  You can also choose a lifetime of frustration, sadness and no career success.  Tweet 21 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “You’re in charge!  Commit to taking personal responsibility for creating the life and career success you want and deserve.”  Once you choose to commit to taking personal responsibility you are on your way to career success.  Making the choice is the all important first step.  Choose life and career success.

That’s my career advice on what Dan Robey has to say about the importance of making positive choices in your life.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for choosing to read my daily thoughts on life and career success.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, you can download a free copy of my latest career success book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

Dan Robey is a friend of mine.  I think his eBook The Power of Positive Habits contains some of the best life and career success advice ever.  If you don’t have it, go to http://www.thepowerofpositivehabits.com to get a copy. 

I get the occasional email from Dan.  The other day he sent out a powerful email article full of life and career success advice called “If You Don’t ‘Take Charge’ Who Will?”  Dan allows me to repost his articles.  I’ve excerpted the latest one here…

Perhaps the most important decision any person can make is the decision to take personal
responsibility for their life.

What does that mean?

Let me give you some examples.

I cannot tell you how many times I have listened to people complain about how they are always getting sick.

As they are explaining their various health problems to me they pause to lift a cigarette to their mouth. When I tell them that they are only making their situation worse by smoking cigarettes, they shrug their shoulders and say “you gotta die from something.”

I always ask the non-smokers with health issues this question:

“How many times a week do you elevate your heart rate to 70% of its maximum for 10 minutes or more?”

The answer I get 90% of the time is “never.”

No wonder that have health issues, they live a sedentary lifestyle. If you want to be healthy you have to move, and move often….stay still and you will be doomed to live a life filled with health problems.

The most important decision you can make in your life and career is to take personal responsibility for it.

If you have an addiction kick it. There are numerous support groups to help you….no excuses.

If you are overweight and unhealthy get fit and in shape. Read books about healthy diets, healthy lifestyles, don’t accept anything but the best for yourself. 

Be proactive!

You have to live with the consequences of not taking positive steps to prevent sickness and disease in your life, and it is you that can take the steps to bring wellness back to your life.

It is YOU who has to live with YOUR health problems.
 
It is YOU that can take charge and learn how others conquered their health problems….let them show you the way. Soon you will know more about your personal health challenges than any doctor knows about them.

It is YOU who may have chosen to live a life of mediocrity.

YOU have the power to change every aspect of your life.

YOU can choose to study the laws of life and career success and change your life to one of amazing success.

The tools are all yours for the taking. Read the bible of success, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Read it over and over again until it is a part of who you are, a person who will succeed no matter what obstacles may appear.

Take responsibility for your life and career success today!  You can change it all if you want!  You can be a winner if you want!

You can be the person you want to be if you only WANT it enough!

Decide today to take responsibility for your life and career success!

Read the books, do the research, ride the bike, take the long walk, join the gym!

Go for it and don’t stop until you reach your goals!

Here is the best advice I can give you moving forward with your new life.

“Don’t re-invent the wheel!”

Decide what it is you need to accomplish and find someone who has already reached your goal. Find out how they did it and copy their model.

This advice applies to your career success, health, child rearing, relationships etc. Find the experts and let them teach you.

I agree with Dan.  Experts can help you create the life and career success you want and deserve.

I think of myself as an expert in life and career success.  That’s why I write this blog – to help you create the life and career success you want and deserve.  That’s why I send daily life and career success quotes to my subscribers.  If you’re not a subscriber and want to start receiving these daily quotes go to http://www.BudBilanich.com and sign up.  It’s free.

And, drum roll please, I am putting the finishing touches on a career success membership site called My Corporate Climb.  Once the site launches, members will have access to all of my writings on career success.  I will hold a monthly live Q&A call where members will be able to ask me any question they want about how to create their life and career success.  Also, I will share two interviews with members every month.  One will be with a successful executive who will share how he or she created his or her life and career success.  The other will be an expert in career success who will share his or her perspectives on what it takes to create the career success you want and deserve. 

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  As Dan Robey suggests, the best way to create the career success you deserve is to find experts and learn from them.  My latest project, The My Corporate Climb membership site, will launch soon.  It will show you how to create your life and career success.  I will keep the price very low so anybody who really wants to learn how to create life and career success will be able to join and stay a member.  I’ll let you know when it’s ready.  When it is, I’ll have a special offer for my subscribers.  So, if you’re not already a subscriber, this is a great time to do so.  Go to http://www.BudBilanich.com and enter your name and email in the box provided.  It’s that simple.

That’s my career advice on the importance of learning from experts.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my daily musings on life and career success.  I value you.  I appreciate you.  And when the time comes, I hope you’ll join me and other career success seekers on the My Corporate Climb membership site.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, you can download a free copy of my latest career success book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.

Dan Robey is a friend of mine.  His book The Power of Positive Habits contains some great common sense ideas on creating the life and career success you want and deserve.

The other day I received an email from Dan about how to create an important positive habit — a positive attitude.  Check out what Dan has to say…

Here is a simple positive habit that will change your attitude in seconds! Pick a couple phrases from the list below and every morning look in the mirror and repeat the phrase.

• ”I can overcome any obstacle.”
• ”I am reaching my success goals every day.”
• ”I am getting stronger and stronger every day.”
• ”Every day I am getting closer and closer to my goals in life.”         
• ”If I believe it I can achieve it.”
• ”Every day, my mental attitude is becoming more positive.”

Write down your trigger phrase on post-it notes; place them on the mirror of your car, on your bathroom mirror, carry the note in your pocket. Repeat the phrase many times every day, remember to say it with emotion, believe it with all your heart. Make it a habit to repeat this phrase at least 30 times a day. Start your day with it.

The more you repeat your trigger phrases, the greater their effect will be on your attitude. Whenever a negative thought enters your mind, replace it with your positive-attitude trigger phrase. You will now be building success-oriented positive thought patterns.

This habit will help you achieve a positive mental attitude automatically.  Remember, attitude is everything!

Dan’s trigger phrases are what I call affirmations.  Tweet 16 in my career success book Success Tweets says, “Use affirmations to realize your vision of your career success.  Affirmations are statements about the future stated in the present tense.”  Affirmations can help you build your self confidence and career success.

Self-confidence is an important key to life and career success. It is an upward spiral.  Self-confidence leads to career success, which leads to increased self-confidence, which leads to higher levels of career success, and so on.

You might be saying, “That’s great, but how do I become self-confident if I’m new in my job or if I haven’t had a lot of success to bolster my self-confidence?” 

 That’s where affirmations come in.  There’s an old saying, “Fake it till you make it.” In other words, act as if you are a career success already. This will help you succeed. Your success will help you build your self-confidence.

How do you fake it, till you make it?  As Tweet 16 in Success Tweets suggests, begin with affirmations. If you’re in a new job, tell yourself something like, “I have the skills and desire to succeed in this job,” several times a day.  Or pick one of Dan’s trigger phrases – like, “I am reaching my success goals every day.”  If you repeat an affirmation often enough — Dan sugests 30 times a day – you will begin to believe it. This will help you perform at the level necessary in order to actually succeed in your job and find the career success you want.

Affirmations are positive self talk. The idea behind affirmations is simple.  When you think of the things to which you aspire, like becoming a career success, and then tell yourself that you are a career success, you will believe that you can become a career success. More important, you will be more likely to do the work it takes to make your career success aspirations come true.

A word of caution here, affirmations alone are not enough to guarantee your career success.  You have to do the work.  Spend the time necessary to accomplish your goals.  Volunteer for projects that will get you noticed.  Become an expert on your company, its competitors, and your industry.  In other words, repeat your affirmations several times a day, then bust your butt making them come true — and you will become a career success.  It has to happen.

The common sense career success coach point here is simple.  Successful people are self-confident.  Your self-confidence will improve as you begin to realize your life and career success.  The self-confidence => career success => self-confidence cycle is an upward spiral.  You have to enter the cycle somewhere.  You might not have a strong track record as you begin your career, move into a new job, or start a business.  Therefore, you have to “fake it till you make it” by “acting as if” you already are a career success.  Find ways to bolster your self-confidence until you have some real successes on which you can build. 

Follow the career advice in Tweet 16 in Success Tweets . “Use affirmations to realize your vision of your career success.  Affirmations are statements about the future stated in the present tense.”  Affirmations are a great tool for helping you “fake it till you make it,” and for becoming a life and career success.

That’s my career advice on the power of developing a positive attitude habit.  What do you think?  Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my thoughts on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Finally, Bill Knepper of Tallahassee FL identified the song title and artist that I was looking for in yesterday’s post.  The song is “Meet in the Middle.”  The artist is Diamond Rio.  Bill also informed me that the lyrics continue with – “We’d gain a lot of ground, because we’d both meet in the middle.  Ain’t no road to long when we meet in the middle.”  Thanks Bill.  I’ll put a signed copy of Success Tweets in the mail to you today.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, you can download a free copy of my latest book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s a whopping 395 pages of common sense career advice explaining each of the tweets in Success Tweets in detail, go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.