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What do you know about yourself? What are you stronger in? What qualities would you like to improve? Can you look at yourself from the side to appreciate everything "as is"?
Ці питання пропонує Ерік Бертран Ларссен, починаючи ними свою нову книгу "На межі", яку випустило видавництво "Манн, Іванов та Фербер". І це не теоретичний курс із розряду «Як стати щасливим», а цілком конкретна методика саморозвитку тривалістю 7 днів. Ім'я їй — «Пекельний тиждень». Як стати гарною людиною?
Erik Larssen is a personal trainer of businessmen and Olympic champions of Norway, who "outgrew" the scale of his country and now practices all over the world.
How to start a new life and change in just one week?
When we hear something new, we must first believe the narrator in order to experience it for ourselves. Otherwise, the information will remain empty sound. Erik Larssen is trusted.
Firstly,
his numerous "protégés" - athletes really stood on the podiums of the Olympic Games. Is it possible to change the character?
Second,
Larssen knows what he's talking about: special forces training and deep knowledge in psychology give the most powerful joint effect. After a week, people stop being afraid of any difficulties, having learned what their body and character are really capable of.
How to change in a week?
If you want to become better, you can become better. Many people live in their comfort zone and use only a tiny part of their inner potential.
The main difficulty of any introspection is not to realize, but to correct. Each change is an inevitable exit from the notorious comfort zone. Therefore, it is easier to submit to some of your traits than to fight against them. Self-perception of the individual
But on the other side of the scales - every day of a new life is fully lived! And here you can already think: is this comfort zone so inviolable and precious? Should you try to go beyond it, look at yourself from the side and awaken your strength?
Tips to help you change in a week?
Start your new life with a new plan of action Start your new life with the first week, which does not require you to take a vacation or completely change your routine.
How to organize your working day?
The peculiarity of this program is that it perfectly fits into everyday life, no matter what a person does. But it is natural that very important adjustments are made every day of your new life. The general rules are as follows:
Ascent at 05:00, departure at 22:00
Morning jogging or charging
Healthy food
Ban TV viewing
Restrictions on long phone conversations, SMS and chats with friends during working hours
One day to solve one of your personal problems
How to change in just one week and start a new life? In addition to general rules, each of the seven days has its own program, the essence of which is internal work on one of its problematic qualities. How to change and become better?
You can follow Larssen's schedule, but it is quite possible to make your own - guided by your own knowledge of what in your personality needs improvement or change.
It's easy to change in a week! An exemplary change program
On Monday, for example, we pay all attention to our habits
— to all the actions we do day in and day out. First, you need to identify them: write on a piece of paper all your habits that you can remember - both good and bad. How to get rid of bad habits?
Monday's goal: identify your bad habits, and come up with effective methods that will help you get rid of bad habits and develop good habits.
Tuesday of your new life can be about focus.
How to tune in to the right thing and not get distracted by dozens of secondary ones is the main reference for the second day of the new week. How to organize your life?
On Wednesday, the author suggests stopping and thinking about your time management.
Many people are familiar with the situation when everything is falling apart or you don't know what to do?
So, your task for Tuesday is to work with the distribution of your time. In order to really change, it is important not only to be able to make a plan for a day or even a year, but and put it into practice.
When a person thinks that they are extremely tired, they should ask themselves - what is the level of their fatigue?
A step-by-step system for achieving any goals
Thursday changes those standards and raises the bar:
what used to be a walk in the park will now seem like a walk in the park.
This is the most difficult day, because sleep is canceled at 22:00! Instead of the seventh hour of sleep, do something that has been postponed for a long time. But again, you can postpone this difficult day to Friday so that you can rest properly on Saturday.
The next day is dedicated to how to rest properly,
using every free minute. The most psychologically harmful habits
After all, after a sleepless night, you still have to spend eight hours at work and you need to maintain a positive mood and cheerfulness. As Eric Larssen says, there are many people on vacation. A change of activity, for example, can also be a great form of recreation.
Saturday is the day of internal dialogue.
We learn optimism and life-affirming thoughts in order to change and start a new life!
Saturday is dedicated to how to control your own thinking, weed out negative and obsessive thoughts, how to choose the right words and what questions to ask yourself.
Basics of self-development. Where to start?
On Sunday, take a break and take your time to reflect on everything that happened during these seven days.
What changes have occurred, what have you discovered in yourself, what has changed, what still needs changes for a new life?
Answer these questions honestly and try to understand what was difficult for you to overcome and what you still need to work on in order to change.
The experiment is over
You overcame difficult obstacles and in many cases acted very unusual for yourself. What has changed within you and around you? Take your time with answers, awareness is not instantaneous, it comes gradually, like the dawn.
The feeling of self-satisfaction from the difficulties passed is a very valuable baggage of experience and knowledge that can be taken with you and used in the future when needed.