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You can buy the book in paperback and Kindle versions at https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-2-0-Yourself-Guidebook-Becoming/dp/B0FX98ZN9F and https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-2-0-Yourself-Guidebook-Becoming-ebook/dp/B0FS7Q3Q9L respectively.
You can also order it via other stockists by quoting ISBN number 979-8266781542.
A downloadable PDF for other e-readers will be available in the new year.
Due to a rather hectic weekend and week, there's no TABT this week, but it will of course return next Tuesday (24th).
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Make a list of every word you use on a consistent basis to describe when you're feeling negative emotions. Then make a list of all the words you use to describe, on a consistent basis, words for when you're in a positive mode. Go on, do it now before you read any further. Two things should be apparent. One, we have a great many more negative emotion words than positive ones. And two, our negative words are much more strongly expressive than our positive ones. So now, take the negative words and look for weaker alternatives. Instead of "enraged" you could choose to say "annoyed" for example. Now, take all your positive words and strengthen them up. Instead of "Fine" you could say "I'm fantastic thank you!" Trust me, after a while, you will feel your mood generally improve.
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Take ten minutes today to audit congruence.
List the values, products, services, or behaviours you publicly promote at work or in your business.
Now look at your actual daily behaviour — at home, online, and in how you spend your money.
Ask yourself honestly:
I promote progress over perfection, collegiate working practices, life long learning and curiosity.
I also promote effective time management, goal setting and goal management.
I'm pretty good with my alignment across the board except I don't give myself enough sleep time, which has an impact by the end of the week. I'd say a 9 or 10 on everything except that, and for that I give myself a 5. And whilst I manage everything else effectively, I still don't exercise enough (I am in pain a lot so I have a ready made excuse which I sometimes hide behind). The poor sleeping patterns and the lack of exercise are areas I must improve in as this does affect my health overall.
A realistic first step is to go to sleep on average 1 hour a night per week rather than force myself to change my patterns immediately. Currently I am not typically settling down till 2am so for the rest of this week I will set a reminder to go to bed at 1am, and settle down no later than 130am. Next week, from Monday, I will settle down no later than 1am, which means bed no later than 1230am.
Negative Words/Phrases I Still Use
Fed up, pissed off, f*^&^*d off, angry, mad, tired, lots to do
Positive Words/Phrases I Use
Great, doing good, busy in a good way, not bad thanks
Improvements to Make
Clearly I need to improve in this area!!
For my negative phrases I need to downgrade all of them. So I am annoyed, peeved, busy in a good way/making progress (for lots to do).
I need to amp my positive phrases, doing great, making progress, being creative, F.A.B. and so on