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Barriers to Self Esteem

I don’t know about you but everywhere I look there are barriers to self esteem. If you are interested in self development but have low self esteem, the first thing you need to do is fix that. Until you do, it is much harder to accurately assess what you need to learn and change in order to achieve your goals. In fact, if you have low self esteem it can be difficult to even see what your goals are.

Imagine yourself as a dart board. Everything and everyone else around you has the potential to become a damaging dart pin, at one point or another. These dart pins will destroy your self esteem and pull you down in ways you may not even be conscious of. It’s important not to let them destroy you, or get the best of you. So what are the dart pins to avoid, and how can you keep them from hurting you?

Barriers to Self Esteem

Negative Work Environment – Beware of “dog eat dog” theory where everyone else is fighting just to get ahead. This is where non-appreciative people usually thrive. No one will appreciate your contributions even if you miss lunch and dinner, and stay up late. You may find you are working harder and harder for less and less return.

Stay out of this, it will ruin your self esteem. Find ways to manage your work within the normal working day at least 90% of the time. If you have to compete with others, compete on your own terms. Do not be drawn into power games or negative behavior that will make you feel badly about yourself.

Other People’s Behavior – Bulldozers, brown nosers, gossipmongers, whiners, backstabbers, snipers, the walking wounded, controllers, naggers, complainers, exploders, patronizers, sluffers … all these negative behaviors in others will damage your self esteem, as well as to your self development program. But remember, it is not the person that is the problem: it is their behavior.

Changing Environment – You can’t be a green bug on a brown field. Changes challenge our paradigms. They test our flexibility, adaptability and alter the way we think. Changes will make life difficult for a while and often cause stress, but when we look back we will see that change is often the catalyst or cause of self development. Try not to resist it.

Past Experience – It’s okay to cry and say “ouch!” when we experience pain. But don’t let pain transform itself into fear by constantly thinking of the bad things that have happened to you or others in the past. It’s easy to wreck a relationship by bringing with you the issues you had in your last relationship, and expecting your new partner to be like your previous one. Treat each failure and mistake as a lesson, and move on.

Negative World View – Look at what you’re looking at. Don’t wrap yourself up with all the negativities of the world. In building self esteem, we must learn how to make the best out of worst situations.

Determination Theory – The way you are and your behavioral traits is said to be a mixed end product of your inherited traits, your upbringing, and your current environment such as your friends, your work situation, the economy and even the climate of the country that you live in.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that your genetics or upbringing will determine how your life goes. You have your own identity. If your father is a failure, it doesn’t mean you have to be a failure too. Learn from other people’s experience, so you’ll never have to encounter the same mistakes.

In life, its hard to stay firm, especially when things and people around you seem to keep pulling you down. There are many barriers to self esteem that you can help yourself by protecting yourself from. However, building self esteem will eventually lead to self development if we start to become responsible for who we are, what we have and what we do.

When we develop self esteem, we take control of our mission, values and discipline. Self esteem brings about self improvement, true assessment, and determination. So how do you start putting up the building blocks of self esteem? Be positive. Be contented and happy. Be appreciative. Never miss an opportunity to compliment. A positive way of living will help you build self esteem and set you on the path to positive self development.

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How to raise your testosterone level

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Post date February 4, 2016
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There are a few reasons why you would want to raise your testosterone level. Having higher testosterone will increase sex drive and allow you to increase muscle size.

The real goal of steroids is to raise testosterone levels in your body but the trouble is that this is dangerous and stops your body from producing its own testosterone.

Here are some tips to raise your testosterone level

Drop Your Fat Level

If you are carrying a lot of fat then your testosterone level will be naturally low. Not always sure if this is the health of the less-fatness or the extra muscle you got getting rid of the fat but better safe than sorry.

Don’t lose Weight too fast

When you put your body into starvation mode by dropping weight too quickly then your body will think that the problem is permanent and will stop you from storing testosterone.

Kind of like the opposite of the flight or fight response.

Get More Sex

I know that this will come as no surprise but having sex is one way that your body senses that it needs testosterone.

So think about any kind of an arousal response where your body has to perform and that very act or thought of an act will cause you body to raise your testosterone level.

Eat More Peanuts

Research has found that men who ate diets rich in monounsaturated fat — the kind found in peanuts — had the highest testosterone levels.

Try not to eat too much fat but remember that the fat in any kind of nuts will raise your testosterone level.

Do Compound Exercises

One of the tricks that bodybuilders have known for years is that they gain more muscle by doing compound exercises. Compound exercises are the ones that use more than one muscle group. Start thinking of only doing bench presses instead of doing flyes.

Do leg presses or squats instead of leg extensions. Doing squats especially employees a lot of muscle fibers which will raise your testosterone level.

Low Reps Per Set

Besides doing compound exercises try to make sure that you are doing less reps per set. It may seem like as much work to drop and do 12 reps but it really does exagerate your bodys response by doing a higher for 4 to 6 reps pers set.

A Finnish study found that this workload produced the greatest boosts in testosterone.

Three Sets Of Each Of Your Compound Exercises

And here is the last of the trifecta of exercises. Do three sets per exercise. More sets than this will tire your body and overtrain leading to lower testosterone levels and too few sets will stop your body from getting that testosterone response

Remember. Your muscles have to be pushed but at the same time you do not want to tire yourself too much or your body will become scared of famine and will slow your metabolism and testosterone levels, this is the first way that you will be overtraining and is critically bad for you.

Get Lots Of Rest Between Workouts

The other side of the overtraining part is not resting enough after your workouts. Get lots of sleep and make sure that you are not pushing yourself with too much cardio.

Reduce Alcohol Intake

Alcohol is very very bad for testosterone levels. Anytime that you have a drink it will drop your testosterone and stop your from being able to have a healthy testosterone level.

I hate to be a party pooper but anytime that you drink alcohol you affect your testosterone level (and yes I do drink beer here and there so I am not trying to pull prohibition type crap on you)

Eat Lots Of Small Meals Every Day

There is one very good way to raise your testosterone level and again it is by making your body think there is abundance. Eat many small meals a day instead of three big meals a day.

These smaller meals will prove to your body that you are healthy and there are no dangers around.

Keep The Fat In Your Diet

Fat is an important part of the testosterone equation. When your fat intake drops too much it affects your bodys ability to heal as well as many of the other metabolic parts of your systems.

Make sure that you are more concerned with the quality of your food than the fat and keep your fat level at around 30% of total calories…this is actually 15 percent of the amount of food because as we all know fats have twice the calories of carbs or protein.

This will raise your testosterone level easily and for most people can be the easiest way to bigger and fatter so watch out!

Sleep Lots

This goes hand in hand with resting but even more so. Your body only produces testosterone while you are sleeping. This is one of those sleep rhythm things that it is better to know about then it is to know the details of.

Now that you know how to raise your testosterone level put all of these together and you will be stronger, fitter, aqnd apparnetly even better in bad with all the practice trying to raise your testosterone level.

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The Spot Reduction Myth

Ever noticed those infomercials about exercise equipment? I am sure you have. These are pretty expensive equipment and they promise to flatten your abs so that you can make your body hot body like your favorite celebrity.

These gadgets promise to help you lose fat in specific areas. such as the stomach, the chest, etc. Basically, these companies are just exploiting the gullibility of the common masses.

Most people believe that in order to lose belly fat, they only need to work on the belly. This is a big misconception and a major reason why so many people fail to lose successfully.

Spot Reduction is a Lie

The fact remains that no matter what you do, your body will not let you lose fat in any specific area in particular. You maybe doing abdominal crunches all day long in the hope of losing belly fat quickly, but maybe astonished to find that you have lost only a few inches after weeks of hard work.

What is more, what you have lost may not be fat at all but your valuable abdominal muscles. When you exercise, your body decides in which area it should burn fat. Thus spot reduction of fat is totally impossible.

That is why it pays to do exercises that involve your body as whole, rather than specific parts. Exercises which involve your entire body offer you permanent loss solution. Instead of wasting money on expensive loss gadgets that simply sell on hype, join a fitness center or a gym, if you are serious about loss, that is.

Lose Weight All Over with Cardio

One of the best ways to lose quickly is by doing cardiovascular workouts. Cardios are very helpful in helping you get rid of your fat belly. You don’t even need to do cardios for hours to notice any tangible results.

If you only run on a treadmill for at least half-an-hour daily, that would be enough for you.

Along with regular workouts, it is also essential that you control your food intake. When you are looking forward to losing those obstinate pounds, it is essential that you eat raw fruits and vegetables instead of fried meals. When you consume fewer calories than what you burn, you will inevitably lose weight.

I hope this article gives you an idea of how to get rid of fat belly quickly. Now go ahead and use this plan. Take ACTION, because only people who take action succeed in life. Weight loss is not hard at all and you don’t need to spend millions of dollars to get fit and healthy.

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