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Ask For Help
No one is truly successful alone and you can’t get different results by doing the same things. By asking for help, you benefit from someone else’s perspective and give them the opportunity to help solve a problem.
Just ensure that you ask someone whose opinion you trust and that has experience with similar situations.
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Change The Channel
Blocks arise when we focus on what we don’t want, instead of what we do want.
A good way to remove the block is to spend some time doing something completely unrelated to the problem you are working on.
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Seek Out Sweat Sessions
An effective way to get creative and circumvent blocks is to engage in high-intensity activities that ground you in the present. Anything that gets you into a different environment, preferably one with fresh air and nature, often does the trick.
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Change The Environment
Often, our blocks result from us getting stuck in an unwanted pattern of thought. It becomes a routine and eventually an unwanted rut.
Changing your inner or outer environment disrupts our routines and can be incredibly effective at helping us broaden our perspective. U...
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Hit The Shower
Blocks happen when we are not in the present.
Showers bring our attention firmly back to the present moment and allow us to relax, enabling us to develop more ideas and creative solutions to our problems. They also have positive effects on our health and outlook in life.
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Ask for help
When you feel sad, challenged, frustrated, confused, angry, or just simply overwhelmed and unable to cope, speak to someone you trust – a spouse, friend, parent, sibling or relative.
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Tips To Better Ask For Help
- Demonstrate that you've tried to help yourself. Briefly explain what you've tried independently so they know you've tried to solve your problem for yourself before.
- Demonstrate that you've acted on the person's advice previously so they won’t be weary you might be wasti...
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