How To Be More Productive
July 23, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Conditioning, Productivity
In terms of productivity, there are many contributing factors that help people produce consistent excellent results. James explains some of them in this short video.
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Dealing With Stress
June 22, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Conditioning
Have you ever met anyone who is rational when they are angry?
I certainly haven’t and to be honest, I must admit to succumbing to the red mist once or twice in my life 
The reason for this is simple, yet complex. It is to do with the way our brains are built.
Apparently, our brains make up around 2% of our weight but use up approximately 20% of the energy consumed by our body, and this doesn’t change no matter what we are doing. It’s the same whether we are active or sleeping, happy or sad.
Of that 20%, a small proportion is used for our working memory and conscious mind and the rest is used for the unconscious stuff, like regulating bodily functions, emotions, automatic tasks, habits and so on.
A problem arises when we get stressed.
When our brain senses a threat, as in fear, anger, stress etc. it allocates more resources to that emotion because it’s function is for our survival, to protect us as an individual and as a species.
Now, this increased demand does not increase the 20% of our bodies energy resources I mentioned earlier, it robs Peter to pay Paul and our working memory suffers, and onfortunately, rationality does too..
We go into survival mode.
The ramifications of this insight are significant because most of us go through life in modern society with stress levels that are way too high.
Do you think that this just might have an effect on our ability to think and act clearly?
Dealing with the pressures of life can be made alot easier by using someone who understands and is skilled in helping people move forward in life. More and more people are starting to realise that having a coach is a great way to achieve this.
Why not you?
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
The Productivity Coach
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Congruence and Productivity
May 10, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Coaching, Relationships
What is an Emotion?
This is the sixth post and last post on how success and productivity can be stymied by emotional reactiveness.
It is said that emotions are the body’s reaction to a thought. Fair enough.
It follows then to say that if there was no bodily reaction to an event or thought then there would not be an emotion.
In a sense, all you would be left with is an opinion, a viewpoint.
In her book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert puts forward a strong argument that not only do thoughts trigger feelings by the release of chemicals in the brain, but the opposite is also true. Feelings affect thoughts. Just think of a time you were sick. The chemicals communicate in both directions, from brain to body and body to brain.
Who is Driving The Bus?
She has the view (which I share) that the subconscious mind IS the body because that is where the emotional memories are stored.
Whether we like to admit it or not, our subconscious minds run the show.
If we consciously aim for a goal that subconsciously we believe we do not deserve or are not worthy of, then the subconscious will win. It wins because it uses feelings to get its own way.
You are not aware of the real reasons, all you know is you don’t feel good and that is enough to stop you. Of course, gut feelings can be and often are beneficial as well.
All I am suggesting is that you take a look. It may well change your life.
Get Congruent
People who learn to steer their subconscious mind so it is pointing in the same direction as their conscious mind are far more likely to achieve their goals than those who do not.
We call this congruence.
My job as a performance coach is to enable my clients to be as congruent as possible so that self sabotage and other self limiting behaviours are minimised.
Simple isn’t it?
It is okay to write or say this, but it is not so easy to stop the feelings coming up when things aren’t going so well.
Or is it? My job is to help you do that.
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How to Reduce Stress
May 9, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Productivity
What Causes Stress?
James Bryden
We’ve all heard of common solutions to relieving stress. Things like meditation, breathing, diet, exercise and positive thinking all come readily to mind.
Bridging the gap between our western attitude to life focussed on material wealth and an eastern or traditional approach to life centred on our beingness for me is a real key.
Our society today promotes the myth that striving to be more, producing more and having more will ultimately solve our problems and make us happy.
Anything less we are led to believe makes us a failure. Add to that the information overload we all suffer from, it’s no wonder many people suffer from stress, depression, frustration and addictions.
A quick look at health statistics, mental and physical will readily confirm these assertions.
What is Success?
So how do you measure this thing called success? I think before we can measure it we need to define it. It means different things to different people. One of my favourite definitions is:
Progressive Realisation of Worthwhile Pre-Determined Personal Goals.
Coming from this perspective, the enjoyment is in what you do on the way to the achieving of the goal. In a way, the actual goal becomes secondary to the unspoken real goal which is self actualisation.
How do you know when you’ve made it? We are conditioned, it appears, to always view ourselves as somehow inadequate, not quite making the grade, and so we continue to strive to improve ourselves, to work even harder in order to get better results, accumulate wealth, material possessions or even enlightenment.
It’s struggle that we are sure to lose. But every day we repeat the same pattern, unconsciously striving for whatever it is we think will make us complete.
The reality is, you’ll never make it, you ARE it. You just aren’t aware of it yet.
Be Happy Anyway
It’s a big trap most fall into and in this respect we are like Sisyphus who, in ancient Greek mythology, was doomed forever in Hades to push a rock up a hill. He would nearly make it to the top when the effort would overtake him so he and the rock would roll all the way down to the bottom. He’d then have to start the whole futile exercise over again, with inevitably the same result.
It is all too easy to get caught up in and overwhelmed by the demands we put on ourselves that it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that “Things” don’t make us happy.
Now, please understand there is absolutely nothing wrong with setting goals for anything. We , as human beings thrive on it. It’s the dysfunctional subconscious patterns, habits and beliefs that distort the whole process.
Why not be fundamentally happy anyway, BEFORE and DURING your quest, rather than putting unrealistic and impossible to meet conditions on yourself and those around you? Your sense of self worth stays with you regardless of what happens.
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Conditioning and Productivity
April 27, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Conditioning, Productivity
I was thinking the other day on the different factors that help people produce consistently good results on a day to day basis so I created the following video to explain in simple terms how this happens and more importantly, what to do about it.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
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Negative Beliefs
March 23, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Relationships
Following on from my previous post, “Lightbulb Moment”, examining how success and productivity can be stymied by emotional reactivity.
“The highest form of maturity is self inquiry”. Martin Luther King Jr.
As I continued observing myself during and after times of stress and upset, it reconfirmed what I had learned already. All upsets were an opportunity to learn the truth about me.
Many people won’t look at themselves, maybe because they’re scared of what they may find out.
Angry Man
I worked with a man some years ago who was very angry – he seemed to carry a chip on his shoulder. His whole world view was based on the belief that nobody can be trusted; it’s every man for himself and that people will cheat you if they get a chance. As a result of this belief he attracted the sort of people who lived up to that expectation – very much a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The trouble was that he didn’t realise that when he used the words “nobody can be trusted” that that clearly included himself. He flatly
refused to consider that maybe his beliefs were the cause of his misery.
Blaming others was and probably still is an easy way out for him.
Most of our problems arise from a resistance to “what is”. No amount of moaning and groaning is going to change what has happened, yet we persist.
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” Thomas Szasz
Baseless Fear
The really sad part about stories like this is that the fear of what you might find out about yourself is greater can be greater than the pain you are actually in.
Ultimately this fear is baseless. What is scary is the fear itself.
These types of reactionary upsets can really stop you succeeding and reduce your productivity whether you are at work or not. But in another sense they are like gold and something to be grateful for because they present wonderful opportunities to gain self-acceptance and bring you more into the present.
I’ll cover a simple way of doing that in my next post.
If this resonates with you why not call me on 0421 210 444 for a short chat? You never know, it may change your life.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
“Fast Tracking YOUR SUCCESS… SuccessFULL Living!”
To Find Out the “5 Secrets of REALLY Successful People” go to…
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Alan Watts Perspective on Productivity Life and Music
March 21, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Productivity
This video is a beautiful and clever way of looking at how chasing “productivity and success” can be a huge trap that undermines your enjoyment of life.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
“Fast Tracking YOUR SUCCESS… SuccessFULL Living!”
To Find Out the “5 Secrets of REALLY Successful People” go to…
P: 0421 210 444
Productivity and The Brain
March 7, 2009 by coaching
Filed under Conditioning
See and hear James as he discusses the concept of “maps” in our brain that have a great influence on our behavior.
Committed to YOUR Personal Productivity,
James Bryden.
James is a productivity coach specializing in working with people who are procrastinators and those who want results quickly. His ability to get brilliant results with his clients is quite amazing…
“Fast Tracking YOUR SUCCESS… SuccessFULL Living!”
To Find Out the “5 Secrets of REALLY Successful People” go to…
P: 0421 210 444