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    Be Present: Declutter Your Mind, Beat Stress, Be Productive, Find Your Passion & Achieve Success
    Be Present: Declutter Your Mind, Beat Stress, Be Productive, Find Your Passion & Achieve Success
    Be Present: Declutter Your Mind, Beat Stress, Be Productive, Find Your Passion & Achieve Success
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    Be Present: Declutter Your Mind, Beat Stress, Be Productive, Find Your Passion & Achieve Success

    By Dr. Michael Ericsson

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    Be Present: Declutter Your Mind, Beat Stress, Be Productive, Find Your Passion & Achieve Success

    If you want to Build Self-Control, Beat Worrying & Shyness, Develop Good Habits & Influence People, then this is your book!

    This book consists of proven tips and techniques on how to develop self-discipline and achieve your goals.

    What are you waiting for? Kick off your bad habits now and start learning how to control and change yourself—for the better.

    What You'll Learn in Be Present: Declutter Your Mind, Beat Stress, Be Productive, Find Your Passion & Achieve Success...

    How to Live a Meaningful Life with Less
    How to Defeat Procrastination
    How to Wake Up Early, Energized and Motivated Everyday with Morning Routine
    How to Perfect Your Body Language
    How to Master Your Time and Get Things Done
    How to Master Perfect Habits
    How to Increase Your Self-Control
    How to Bring Positivity in Your Life
    How to Be Productive
    How to Improve Your Charisma
    How to Become a True and Effective Leader
    How to Meditate and Have a Greater Life
    And Much More...

    This book will help you to get to know yourself better and learn how to focus on your strengths in order for you to become self-disciplined and successful.  

    I would like to encourage you to begin the journey by looking at yourself and accepting what you see. There can never be another you so be all you can be for the time being.   

    The next step is to follow the strategies and tips detailed in this book and change your life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Michael Ericsson
    Release dateAug 15, 2018
    ISBN9781386618782
    Be Present: Declutter Your Mind, Beat Stress, Be Productive, Find Your Passion & Achieve Success

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      Be Present - Dr. Michael Ericsson

      Chapter 1 – How to Develop Emotional Intelligence

      The skill ability to manage and express our own emotions is important, and so is our skill to respond, read and understand the emotions of people around us. Experts define this ability as Emotional Intelligence.

      Why emotional intelligence is very important? Emotional intelligence creates an impact in different parts of our lives, such as the way we behave and communicate with other people. If you have a great emotional intelligence, you can understand your own emotional state as well as others. Your emotional intelligence serves as your level of understanding the emotional aspect of relating with people in order to establish genuine relationships, achieve greater success at work and live a more fulfilling life.

      Emotional intelligence affects:

      Your mentality. Unmanaged stress makes impact in your mentality, making you amenable to depression and anxiety. If you cannot manage or understand your emotions, there is a good chance that you will suffer from mood swings which can ruin work or personal relationships and leave you feeling unhappy.

      Your physical being. If you are unable to defeat stress, this can lead to severe health problems. Unmanaged stress speeds up the aging process, contributes to infertility, raises blood pressure, suppresses the body’s immune system and boosts the risk of stroke and heart attack. In line with this, the vital step to improving your EQ is by learning how to manage stress levels in your body.

      Your work performance. Having an emotional intelligence helps you shove the social complexities of your workplace, lead and encourage workmates and most importantly, excel in your performance. Today, a lot of companies view emotional intelligence as important as their employees’ technical ability hence they require EQ tests when hiring.

      Your relationship with others. By managing and understanding your emotions, you’ll be able to express how you understand and feel the emotions coming from your family, friends and work colleagues. Also, this allows you to interact with them more effectively and develop a meaningful work and personal life.

      Motivation. Individuals who have a high level of EQ are usually motivated. In other words, they have the willpower to put off abrupt results for longer success. Motivated people loves taking challenges and are very productive in their work.

      Leadership. Determination, purpose and charisma are three of the many traits commonly used in describing a leader. Nonetheless, most leaders possess a single quality and that is having a high EQ. In terms of leadership, emotional intelligence gives individuals a range of skills like inspiring/influencing others, navigating social networks and managing successful relationships. Each person possesses these skills, but for them to become effective leaders they need a high level of EQ. In today’s work setting, emotional intelligence has become a very important factor for team collaboration, efficiency, productivity and success.

      Social awareness. You can fully understand the concerns, needs and emotions of others, feel comfortable with them socially, pick up the missing pieces of their emotional cues and recognize their efforts.

      Self-regulation. This refers to the person’s ability in controlling impulses and emotions. People who know how to self-regulate usually don’t allow themselves to become too jealous or angry towards anyone. They don’t create hasty, careless decisions in life. Integrity, accepting change, thoughtfulness and the right to say no are among the few characteristics of self-regulation.

      Self-Awareness. People with high EQ values self-awareness. They fully understand their emotions. In line with this, they don’t let their emotions overrule them. People who are self-aware are confident – they trust their own intuition and don’t let their feelings go beyond control.

      In addition to the importance of having an EQ, here are tips on how to improve it:

      Self-evaluate. What are your strengths and weaknesses? Do you have the willingness to accept your flaws? Write them on your journal. Read and reflect on it.

      Know when enough is enough. Always remember that your emotional intelligence involves not just your capacity to look within but also to be present in the world you’re part of.

      Ask yourself this question: How do I feel right now? Start doing this by rating your entire sense of well-being on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the highest and 1 as the lowest). If your feelings are quite extreme, take some time of thinking about associations or ideas that are connected to those feelings.

      Listen to your body sensations. Listening to your body sensations (i.e. a flutter of the heart when you saw the person you admire so much) and the core feelings they’re associated with allows you to process your reasoning powers.

      Don’t be judgmental of your feelings. Try not to let go of your feelings before having the chance to think of it. Healthy emotions often go up and down – like a wave fading and rising naturally. Here, your purpose is to cut off that wave before it finally peaks. In other words, reflect on your feelings before letting them go.

      Connect your feelings to your thoughts (or vice versa). When you feel that something strikes you beyond the ordinary, ask yourself What do I think about it? Some of our feelings can contradict others, and that’s normal. Listening to your feelings (and connecting them to your thoughts) is like listening to the testimonies of witnesses in a court room.

      Don’t change or interrupt the subject. If emotions are uncontrollable, we can avoid them by distracting or interrupting ourselves. Sit down for a while and ask yourself, How I am feeling right now? It may probably take some time for your feelings to arise, but if you allow that time to stay interrupted, it wouldn’t be hard for you to control your feelings.

      Ask someone for encouragement. Some people barely realize that others are able to judge their thoughts or feelings. Ask someone (a friend, relative or work colleague) how you’re coming across your emotions. Make sure that the person you’re asking has enlightening answers.

      Examine how your behavior will affect others. If your decision will affect the people around you, place yourself in their position. Ask yourself, How will these people feel if I did this?

      Be responsible of your actions. If you hurt a person’s feelings, apologize. Do not shrug off what you did or ignore the person. Forgiveness is the best way to make things right.

      Chapter 2 – How to Realize Your Goals

      IT IS SIMPLE TO REACH your goals if you know what they are. Thus the first step towards achieving something is to set your goals clearly. What is it that you want to accomplish in life? Do you want to be a music icon similar to Michael Jackson? Do you desire to be the greatest soccer player the world will come to know? Or do you desire to be a lawyer in ten-years-time.

      In order for you to attain your goals, you need to ensure that your goal is in alignment with the S.M.A.R.T. criteria. S.M.A.R.T stands for S=Specific, M=Measurable, A=Attainable, R=Realistic and T=Time bound. If your objective is unclear, not quantifiable and too fantastic to be true, you would end up discourage and desolate. How could you wish to accomplish something which is unrealistic and impossible to attain in the first place?

      For instance, setting a goal that you can fly without the use of any device after a year is wishful thinking, not a goal. If you set up a goal of becoming the best ballet dancer in the world knowing that you are club footed in the first place and that dancing is the least of your capability is taking it a little bit to the extreme but it's yet possible.

      However, strengthening your talent or strength would provide you a bigger chance in achieving your goal than overcoming your weakness. So, if you have discovered that your unique talent lies with singing, why not set a goal that is in line with it? If singing is also your passion, you have a better chance of reaching your goal if it is align with singing.

      Don't set a goal just because other people have that goal. Set goals that you know you can reach. Set goal that is within your skills and talent to attain. Utilizing your unique gift and your passion in attaining your goals would be far easier than aiming for something which you could not hope to achieve.

      Of course, there are people who had overcome adversities and were able to accomplish goals which were deemed impossible. However, why stress yourself unduly when you can be your best in your area of expertise? This is the wisdom of discovering your unique power and passion in life. So that you may set goals that are in line with your capability and passion thereby giving you a much better chance of achieving them.

      Chapter 3 – How to Master Great Habits

      Habits, whether good or bad, are difficult to break. They have been an integral part of your system that they come automatically. One good example of this is your morning routine. When you wake up and escape from your bed, you go to the bathroom, wash your face, brush your teeth and take a bath. After which, you dress up, eat your breakfast and go to school. If you miss doing something, you may feel like something is missing. That will cause a domino effect that can make you unproductive and moody.

      Cultivating good habits is quite a challenge. You have to break some bad habits and incorporate the new good ones into the picture. It does not happen immediately, as well. It is part of self-discipline formation. It would need time and determination.

      But before you can proceed with creating a habit,

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