the Story of the Stonecutter

I was reading Anthony Robbins' book earlier and it was on the Changing Metaphor topic. His story of the stone cutter caught my interest:-

A Stonecutter would pick up a rock, and with a hammer and sharp object and start hammering the rock in the EXACT SAME position each time (read focus).

Chink. Chink. Chink. No result.

Chink. Chink. Chink and on and on. No result.

The Stonecutter would sit there, often for hours with no VISIBLE result.

Then all of a sudden... the 108th hammer into the rock.. and CRACK!! The stone splits perfectly in half.

This is a great metaphor for life, and particularly your business. Keep Chinking away at that rock, keep the momentum. Even without any visible positive sign. Don't stop. Stay consistent

Anthony Robbins - Awaken the Giant Within

Reading Anthony Robbins' Awaken the Giant Within. Here are some terminology in the book which I find interesting and may wish to refer back in the future:-

CANI - Consistent and Never Ending Improvement

"The Japanese have a single word for "constant and never-ending improvement" and it's called Kaizen. Kaizen is from the Japanese words Kai and Zen where "kai" means change and "zen" means good. Yes folks, change is good"

Benefits of CANI include:

• Creates a personal and business momentum that will be hard for your competitors to catch up with.
• Personal satisfaction and fulfillment because it will cause you to grow personally.
• Leads to innovation. Innovation creates leverage.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/5380

NAC-Neuro Associative Conditioning

-a technique for greater personal effectiveness. In short, he instructs readers to associate pain with not taking the action that we know we should take, and associate pleasure with taking action.

STEP 1:

Commit to have more pleasure in life and alot less pain.

One of the ways that's kept you from using that is using language that intensifies emotion

STEP2:

Get leverage on yourself . Eg use the following 4 new words to replace old ones:

Bored/Sien to "Need to do more"

Fxxx to "Annoying"

Shit to "Oh my goodness"

If only I had / 'zhong zi' to "No worry. I'll do it different;y next time"

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RAS - Reticular Activating System

determines what you will notice and what you will pay attention to. To focus and do things that will help to achieve your goal and vision.

"The RAS introduced by Robbins is part of the subconscious mind. It’s a filter, applied to all the enormous data picked up by our senses every moment of our lives. It’s the reason we’re not overwhelmed by sensory perceptions. It’s how we can tune things out.

The Reticular Activation System is always at work, deciding what we see and what we don’t see. And we can control it, to an extent. The RAS reveals to us what we want to see, and veils that which we aren’t interested in. If I enter a room full of things, my attention will be pulled toward whatever is most interesting to me there: a tray of food if I’m hungry; a magazine featuring an article about something I’ve been contemplating; my girlfriend’s face. If you follow me into the room, your attention is liable to fall upon something else entirely. Our raw senses pick up the same data about the same objects, but somehow our focus wanders differently. That’s the RAS in action.

As you expand your interests and turn your eyes toward new things in your world, your RAS opens up and lets more things get through. By learning about new things and being fascinated in new things, you strengthen your conscious mind so that it can handle “more hits” from the RAS. Your consciousness expands to soak up more of your world, and through your eyes, it’s as though the world itself is enriched and enhanced."

Article Source: http://www.xamuel.com/reticular-activation-system/

End of Detox Program

I have just taken my last Melilea shake for the 7 days detox program :) Ah finally it's over!!! I've only been taking very little amount of vegetables, fruits, yogurt, brown rice and steamed fish and tons and tons of water!

The first time i took Melilea i poured in water at temperature level into the Protein Shaker bottle. Either i shook it too long or the water wasnt cold enough, the liquid in the water turned gel-like solid ! I thought this was normal and so i consumed it. Took me about 5 minutes to force myself to swallow everything as not only it tasted horrendous & almost unbearable, its solid form made it hard for me to chew and swallow. Later that day I asked my friend and he told me it's supposed to be in liquid form when taking it :) Also he asked me to take 1 scoop instead of 2 scoops at a time. Opps!

Yeap the taste was really really bad! The first day was the hardest as not only I had to withstand the growling hunger from my poor stomach, I had to consume something that tasted like Chlorophyll grass 3 times a day! Fortunately, i gotten used to the taste by the 3rd day and now its now acceptable.

It was a difficult experience especially the first few days. For the Day 1-3, i noticed a lot of weird things in the stool. I had the urge to head to the toilet and frequented twice a day. However by Day 4, that slowed down and I started to just go once a day for the big one. The color of the stool changed from a mixed of red and black to just normal. By Day 6, the output was getting lower and lower until the final day.

I believe this 7 days detox program was worth doing as I'm currently feeling great and my mind is more awake than than ever before. Its also good to clear off decades of stuck waste in my digestive system. Will I repeat? Maybe but not this year :) I'm going start eating chicken breast tomorrow!!! Oh how I've missed you!!!!