"Life With Woody" 10 inspirational quotes than can improve yourself

 It might take a little coffee or probably a few rounds of beer or any other booze you could get your hands-on when it comes to relaxing after a hard day's work. 

Well, yeah I'm guilty about that one as well unless I'm caught dead wearing a lampshade over my head after a few rounds of vodka… half-naked! Okay, bad example and I apologize to everyone reading this after getting nightmares about me in that state of drunken stupor.

Just don't ask how it happened, please.

But what's really interesting is that how do people go through the usual part of life when faced with vein-popping stress? 

I mean, the new age thing like Zen or yoga is one of the good things and it actually works. Is there room for the intellectual side of people who can actually smell the roses-in-a-can while on the move? It kind of had me thinking that there really must be something in this 'mind-over-matter' thing.

Humor is indeed the best medicine there is whenever you are. I mean anyone can pay good money to listen to a comedian just to make you wet your pants after laughing so hard. 

Regardless of what's been happening, and to those who have gone through the ordeal, it's better to just laugh while facing the troubles with a clear mind than anger with a clouded vision. One of my favorite celebrities of all time may have to be Woody Allen.

 Now, this is one guy who gives you the in-your-face bluntness that he pulls out with gusto, even without even trying. You can talk just about anything with a man, and he's bound to mock the subject and you'll end up laughing rather than being upset about it.

Woody Allen has this to say:

1. "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." It sounds good to me, I mean the practicality of all things does involve money but it doesn't have to take an arm and a leg to get it.

2. "I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government." 'Nuff said.

3. "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" This happens to be one of the classic ones. I mean the issue about life's little problems isn't all that bad, until 'he' shows up.

Sure, relationships can get complicated or do have the complications that probably any author about relationships is bound to discover it soon. 

We follow what our heart desires unless you're talking about the heart as in the heart that pumps blood throughout your body.

4. "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions." And if you want more, just keep on asking!

5. "A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'." It sounds, 'practical', I think.

And when it comes to everyday life, he really knows how to make the best out of every possible scenario, and it doesn't involve a lawsuit if he strikes a nerve.

6. "Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats." I never had a boat in my bathtub before. Just staring at it while soaking in hot water makes me seasick already.

7. "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." If it rains, it pours.

8. "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." It could get worse when you're guzzling on beer… or mouthwash, and it happened to me once!

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"Relaxing with a Mental PDA" Your 5 minutes daily program to Stress management

 We all have this favorite expression when it comes to being stressed out, and I wouldn't bother naming all of them since it may also vary in different languages. But when it comes down to it, 

I think that it is how we work or even relax, for that matter that triggers stress.

 Ever been stressed even when you're well relaxed and bored? I know I have.

Since Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful incidents and decrease negative reactions to stress. 

Here are some of the things that can be done by just remembering it, since life is basically a routine to follow like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. You can do a few of them in a longer span of time, but as they say-- every minute counts.

Managing time

Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.

To improve your time management:

• · Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself. 
• · Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time. 
• · Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you. 
• · Manage your commitments by not over- or under committing.
• -  Don't commit to what is not important to you. 
• · Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines. 
• · Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like. 
• Build healthy coping strategies

It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. 

With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.

Lifestyle

Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. 

Try to:

• · Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations. 
• · Have a sense of purpose in life. 
• · Get enough sleep since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping. 
• · Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress. 
• · Get moderate exercise throughout the week. 
• · Limit your consumption of alcohol. 
• · Don't smoke. 

Social support

Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community.

 It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.

Changing thinking

When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body's stress, just as an actual threat does. 

Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.

• · Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress. 
• · Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly. 
• · Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it. 
• · Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. 
• This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. 
• Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style. 

Even writers like me can get stressed even though we're just using our hands to do the talking, but having to sit for 7 or 8 hours is already stressful enough, and have our own way to relieve stress. 

Whether you're the mail guy, the CEO, or probably the average working parent, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your homes, especially your life.

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Why not Watch an Anger Management Movie? + Why Children may Benefit from Anger Management

 Since anger management seems to be a huge problem in society today, there have been many programs developed, books are written, Internet websites created and anger management movies filmed. Although all of this help is in place and available for anyone, not all people with anger issues benefit from the same source.

 For some people attending an anger management program may be effective and cause major changes in their behavior. Being able to steal away alone with a book may be helpful to a person with anger issues. Seeing their problems in print and being able to sort through it in their mind might be a great anger management tool. 

The Internet is a great source regarding anger management and some may find it helpful to view the different sites and read stories about individuals with anger management issues. However for many people who have difficulties controlling their anger, watching an anger management movie might be what it takes to break them out of their pattern of angry outbursts.

Watching an anger management movie would make the individual actually see, with their own eyes and hear with their own ears, just what anger does to a person and those around them.

 An anger management movie would likely provide illustrations and situations where individuals act on their anger.

 The movie may apply exactly to an individual's current circumstance. It may hit home - so to speak. Watching the actors play out their lives and their behavior may be an eye-opener. 

It may take watching a husband abuse a child or wife, a mother attacking her kid, a child bullying another child, to realize that anger is a significant problem. 

When an angry person is in their situation, they are likely blaming it on whoever gets in the way.

 Being in the picture they are incapable of watching their performance. 

If given the chance to see it on the big screen, they might be surprised and even devastated by their actions. 

Watching an anger management movie would probably be like watching yourself in a similar situation. This may be the tool that works best for some individuals. 

An anger management movie will not only give illustrations of the actual situations involving anger. The movie will likely provide information regarding anger management techniques. 

Using these techniques and the characters in the movie, likely there would be illustrations of people being introduced to anger management techniques and programs. 

The movie would explain the steps to dealing with anger issues.

 This type of anger management movie might be the answer to many people's problems.

 It would be fitting if the anger management movie showed the person in the same situation as the first scene, as a changed individual. Showing how the individual was able to receive help through anger management and turn their lives around, may just be the incentive needed. 

No doubt there are all sorts of anger management movies available. 

The Internet is a great source of information regarding anger management and anger management resources such as books and anger management movies. 

If you think you or someone you know would benefit from watching an anger management movie, it would be a wise idea to get your hands on one.

Why Children may Benefit from Anger Management

Dealing with children who have anger problems may be challenging and require thought and imagination. A child's mind is normally not developed enough to deal with intense feelings of anger. They cope with these emotions in their own childlike manner which usually involves acting out or throwing a tantrum. 

Unaware of the specifics which cause these behavioral actions, children are not prepared to explain or share their feelings. 

Finding programs and resources for effective anger management in children will likely require planning and well thought out programs. 

A person who is developing an anger management program for children needs to consider activities and exercises that may interest children. Sticking a child in a support group setting or arranging an appointment with a psychiatrist will not likely produce positive results.

 Since the child doesn't understand their feelings of anger themselves, it would be difficult to share or talk about them with others.

 Children would benefit from anger management activities designed specifically to address their problems. 

Children are familiar with worksheets, coloring pages, and puzzles. These sorts of activities are used daily in the school setting. Incorporating anger management lessons into these activities would make sense. Anger management worksheets could be disguised as fun and interesting. 

These anger management worksheets could teach techniques and strategies for controlling anger in such a way that children would understand and respond to it. 

Using familiar situations in coloring pages or related words in puzzles may help a child to deal with anger issues without making the situation complicated. 

Children love to play games and have fun. 

Besides using anger management worksheets, it might be beneficial to incorporate games into a children's anger management program. 

Many issues regarding anger in children arise from jealousy and competition.

 Playing games that teach children healthy interaction with other children as well as a fair play would make a difference in their behavior. Teaching children that it's alright to play games and not always be the winner would be beneficial to a child's behavioral development. 

Designing activities that include role-playing might help children to realize that they can't always be the center of attention. 

Anger management for children can be taught in all sorts of ways which will be both productive as well as enjoyable.

When children display signs of anger and upset, anger management worksheets could be used to uncover the underlying problem. 

Listing different possibilities for their anger and having them read over them to see which statements apply to them might be beneficial in treating kids with anger issues. Simple sentences, using everyday dilemmas that a child might encounter could be used in these anger management worksheets. 

Children may not even realize the reason for these worksheets yet they may be providing relevant information that could help in the treatment of their problem. In order to create an anger management worksheet that will benefit children, the individual needs to understand how a child's mind works, as well as what interests them and use this knowledge to develop an effective anger management program for children.

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Looking at the Entire Picture (2nd article)

 To improve your personal life you have to consider the whole pie.

 You have to review your liability, behaviors, actions, emotional responses, and overall standard of living. Once you review the details, you will find it easier to move ahead and make the necessary changes.

 To get started begin with a checklist. 

How are your behaviors?

What are your behaviors? 

Do you engage in activities that lead to negative consequences? 

Do you drink heavily? 

Do you drug? 

Do you smoke? 

Do you associate with the wrong crowd? 

 If you engage in activities that lead toward negative consequences, likely you are not looking at the whole pie. Rather you may act before you speak or do something. 

What you need to do is to consider consequences before you speak or act.

 If you drink heavily, perhaps you have an alcohol problem. 

There is nothing wrong with admitting you have a problem. 

You will need to seek help. 

There is nothing wrong with seeking help. 

If you have a drug problem, you will need to apply the same rules mentioned when handling alcoholism.

 If you smoke, you want to consider ways to stop. You will need willpower and the goal of quite.

 If you associate with the wrong crowd, you will need to evaluate your situation. 

What do these people bring to your table? Do they give or take from you? 

How do you handle problems?

Every day there is some kind of a problem that has to be thought out and decided what to do about the issue. What are some things that you can go to help? You should always think about the problem before you make a decision on the issue. You will make healthier decisions by looking at the entire picture. If the problem is too big for you to handle alone, ask for help. Talk with friends, family, or experts. 

How about paying your bills: 

DO you pay bills on time? Paying bills is a major problem that leads to many hassles. If you pay your bills on time, however, you can reduce some of these hassles.

 Failing to pay bills only builds stress.

 You will need to set a budget that works within your means to pay your bills on time. Maybe you can get a better paying job, so you make more money.  

There might be some times that you are late but you should try to keep up as best as you can this will help take off some stress.

Do you visit your doctor regularly?

Keeping your doctor visits and exercising will help relieve stress. Visiting your doctor regularly will help you keep an eye on your health. Healthy people live a productive life. 

What actions do you take to improve your life?

As long as you think things out before you make a decision you will work to improve your personal life. You will also need to take steps to reduce stress, by avoiding harmful actions, such as smoking, drugs, or alcoholism. 

You can benefit by paying bills on time, visiting your doctor, exercise the mind and body daily, and so on, constantly improving yourself, till you see the wanted results.

If you have problems quitting on your own, remember help is available. You have many options, including inpatient services, outpatient services, group support, one-on-one services, and more. To learn more about these services go online. You will also find help at local government agencies in your area. 

To improve your life you can also volunteer to help someone. You can wrap a gift this year for a homeless or deprived child. Many things you can do to improve your personal life. 

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LAWS OF MAGNETIC ACTION+LAWS OF MAGNETIC DEVELOPMENT

 FIRST LAW: Relation of Power to "Tone". 

The effectiveness of magnetism in action depends upon harmony of "tone" between its possessor and any other person, and in securing such "tone"  harmony, on any magnetic plane, in any particular psychic state, at any given time, psychic and physical magnetism mutually cooperate. 

SECOND LAW: Magnetic Intention. 

The magnetic intention ("I INTEND MAGNETICALLY") intensifies otherwise unconscious magnetism, and runs through all the mass of general etheric vibrations like a theme in complicated music, imparting to them unity, character, intelligence, and definite and enormous effectiveness in practical employment. 

THIRD LAW: Influence of Purpose. 

In the employment of magnetism, long-run purpose establishes etheric character, and specialized purpose confirms that character if it concentrates the general purpose, but confuses that character, perhaps destroys it, if it antagonizes the general purpose. 

FOURTH LAW: Force of the Ideal. 

The idealism of motive determines the character of etheric vibrations, and idealism of magnetic activities determines the quality of magnetism achieved. 

FIFTH LAW: Sway of Other Interest. 

The general sway of other interest in life, and the particular influence of other interest on special occasions, impart to uses of magnetism enormous effectiveness, and not least in relation to self. 

SIXTH LAW: Reaction of Admiration. 

The consciousness of admiration for others, recognized by them, reacts with tremendous power to stimulate magnetic action. 

SEVENTH LAW: Measure of the Intake. 

In the magnetic life, intake of power is correctly measured by the output of power: inversely in waste, directly in intelligent expenditure. 

EIGHTH LAW: Adjustment. 

Magnetic effectiveness is proportioned to accuracy and fulness of adjustment, to things, to laws, to forces, to times, to situations, to qualities, to facts, to truths, to persons, and only studied experience can discover and establish such adjustment. 

The problems of adjustment to persons are these: 

With inferiors, to put self magnetically, without the appearance of condescension, on their levels for the end in view, applying then the general principles of magnetism. 

With equals, to apply the general principles. 

With superiors, to assume their level while magnetically deferring, without adulation or humility, to such superiority, regardless of its reality or unreality, for the end in view, applying the general principles of magnetism. 

NINTH LAW: The magnetism of identity. 

The magnetic value of adjustment expresses the force and completeness with which the individual can identify himself with another person, suggesting oneness through attitude, gesture, act, eye, tone, language, and telepathic sympathy. 

TENTH LAW: The use of reactions. 

Magnetic skill exhibits in the manner in which beneficial reactions are received and utilized, negative or indifferent reactions are ostensibly ignored, yet constituted stimulation for further persistent magnetic action, and hostile reactions are refused, without ostentation, but with determination (if worthwhile) to "win out" through better adjustment and increased magnetic endeavor. 

ELEVENTH LAW: Magnetic attack. 

Magnetic success demands the direct attack when etheric harmony of "tone" is assured, but the indirect method otherwise; that is, such attack-methods as will secure that harmony. 

TWELFTH LAW: The conquest of antagonism. 

Magnetism ostensibly ignores, and refrains from, exciting antagonism; but, when antagonism is evident, rejects it and proceeds on the indirect attack, or openly accepts it and adopts the direct or the indirect method as the one or the other promises speediest and most perfect harmony of "tone". 

THIRTEENTH LAW: Mortal antipathies. 

Success-Magnetism conquers the influence of deep-seated natural antipathies only by avoiding their causes. 

FOURTEENTH LAW: Re-adjustment.

 The etheric life is an unceasing reaction, and magnetism, therefore, demonstrates itself by squaring with every issue and making of every change and every defeat a new opportunity. 

FIFTEENTH LAW: Control of output. 

It is important to know when to open the circuit that is, to cut off the current of magnetic force as it is to know when to close the circuit to pour forth magnetic influences. 

SIXTEENTH LAW: Concession.

 Concession becomes magnetic in its timeliness. If premature or belated, it defeats magnetism. 

SEVENTEENTH LAW: Harmonic conditions. 

Magnetism enhances through beauty of personal surroundings, in cleanliness, order, adornment, art, literature, music, and the like. 

EIGHTEENTH LAW: Sovereignty of will. 

Is the director of native and unconscious magnetism and the creator and director of developed magnetism. The power of will is indispensable to magnetic power. 

NINETEENTH LAW: Energy in magnetic action. 

The projection of magnetic influence proportions to inner, conscious intensity of psychic and nervous states. Exploding powder in the gun calls for the man behind the weapon, and the soul within the man, and powerful vibrations within the soul's arena, and magnetic intention within the vibrations, and psychic energy within the intention. 

TWENTIETH LAW: Self-control. 

Magnetic power becomes effective precisely as mastery of self, in restraint and in handling, approaches perfection. 

TWENTY-FIRST LAW: Magnetic handling of self. 

The attitude of magnetism, the magnetic intention, and psychic pose, "I stand positively magnetic toward this person or this situation,"  constantly maintained, ultimately instructs in all the arts of magnetic self-handling through the law of auto-suggestion, and realizes in the practical form its own ideals. 

TWENTY-SECOND LAW: The magnetic mask. 

The mask of magnetism achieves effectiveness when it covers personal states and purposes in a manner positively to attract, and in that manner alone. 

TWENTY-THIRD LAW: Magnetic consciousness.

 Intense magnetic consciousness without thought concerning it secures, by its uplifting and stimulating influence, the greatest exaltation of personal powers when employed. 

TWENTY-FOURTH LAW: Magnetic faith. 

 Deep and vital faith in the certainty of magnetic success renders all latent and developed magnetism dynamic if that faith is thrown into action. 

TWENTY-FIFTH LAW: The demand in use.

 In the application of magnetism to any task, intense, persistent demand upon the Universal Forces swings them directly into the effort. 

TWENTY-SIXTH LAW: The affirmation in use. 

When, in the application of magnetism, one affirms, mentally, intensely, persistently, "I am receiving and exerting power," he unconsciously calls to aid all the success-elements and makes himself a center toward which the Universal Forces inevitably gravitate. 

TWENTY-SEVENTH LAW: The magnetic telescope. 

The magnetic attitudes, faith, demand, and affirmation, constitute a magnetic telescope through which the distant goal of success is magnified and all nearer obstacles, lures, and irritating conditions are closed out of view. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH LAW: Magnetic accumulations. 

Magnetism, through correct application to life, not only develops in the individual, but accumulates in his environment, and reacts beneficially without direct personal supervision. 

TWENTY-NINTH LAW: The personal atmosphere. 

The personal atmosphere exactly reflects the inner self, and it furnishes a perfect field for magnetic effectiveness only when the self and the body are clean and buoyantly healthy.  

THIRTIETH LAW: Subordination of physical magnetism. 

In the subordination of physical to psychic magnetism, each finds its greatest effectiveness according to the relative development of both orders. 

THIRTY-FIRST LAW: The fixed idea.

Long-continued association with some fixed, great and attractive idea sets into operation certain deep, subconscious operations of the soul, which, for a time unrecognized and unmanifest in life, gradually and surely coordinate all individual powers thereto, induce a working of the whole system in harmony therewith, and finally emerge in the objective life and consciousness as a unified, actual dynamic force. 

The idea has swung the individual, has transformed him, has harmonized and intensified his faculties and his personal ether, has come to sovereignty in his personal atmosphere, and from there exerts a dynamic force upon other people and life's conditions. 

This article has tried to saturate you with the idea of success coordinating with its necessary elements and has thus endeavored to swing your whole being into the mighty belief that large success is also for you. 

LAWS OF MAGNETIC DEVELOPMENT

FIRST LAW: Discovery of the endowment.

The limits of magnetic endowment latent in every normal person emerge only through prolonged effort in the culture of magnetism. 

SECOND LAW: Difficult environment. 

Magnetism develops in direct proportion to the difficulty of the environment. 

THIRD LAW: Magnetic intention. 

Magnetism evolves solely through the multiplication of endowment into the environment by the persistent magnetic intention. 

FOURTH LAW: Free adjustment. 

The culture of magnetism imperatively demands that central adjustment of the self to all powers which realizes in absolute psychic freedom. 

FIFTH LAW: Concentration. 

The magnetic multiplication of endowment into the environment is only possible to intense, persistent, and unified concentration to the methods of Success-Magnetism. 

SIXTH LAW: Purpose-ideals. 

Growth of noblest magnetism depends, in the larger sense, upon general adherence to a single, preeminent, ideal life-purpose, and, in the particular sense, upon specialization of the individual in studied magnetic conduct related to that end. 

SEVENTH LAW: Receptivity. 

The highest magnetism realizes through magnetic laws in proportion as the inner self maintains alert receptivity to the Universal Forces. 

EIGHTH LAW: Demand. 

The silent, persistent demand of the self upon the Universal Magnetism makes it a center toward which the Forces naturally gravitate. 

NINTH LAW: Affirmation.

 Continuous, intense affirmation of actual possessed magnetic power stimulates the success-elements, maintains receptivity, emphasizes demand, harmonizes and intensifies inner etheric vibrations, and induces a positive movement of the universal ether and its forces inward toward the central self. 

TENTH LAW: Psychic energy. 

All personal magnetism involves psychic energy developed and directed by magnetic intention. 

ELEVENTH LAW: Self-control. 

Magnetic energy concentrates through psychic control of its tendencies. 

TWELFTH LAW: Magnetic quality. 

The inner psychic attitude the character of magnetic intention determines the quality and effectiveness of the effort to multiply endowment into the environment, and, therefore, the kind and degree of magnetism attained. 

THIRTEENTH LAW: Self-valuation. 

Other things being equal, magnetism unfolds as gratifying, but unostentatious, self- valuation develops. 

FOURTEENTH LAW: Use of self. 

Under conformity to other magnetic laws, the highest magnetism issues only from the constant best use of self at its best to the best advantage. 

FIFTEENTH LAW: Magnetic heroism. 

Self-pity, complaint, and all kindred states confuse, weaken and waste every variety of magnetic power, while heroic acceptance of conditions for their betterment, and courageous assertion of self as master, conserve, and enormously develop the noblest magnetism in proportion to the sway of the magnetic intention. 

SIXTEENTH LAW: Action and reaction. 

Highest magnetism involves not only studied cultivation but, as well, the magnetic utilization of stimulating reactions induced by intelligent employment. 

SEVENTEENTH LAW: Recovery. 

Whoever, on the occasion of any psychic (magnetic) failure or defeat, dedicates the whole of aroused desperation to the recovery of ground, infallibly induces a stress in the etheric life around him which ultimately draws to his aid, with the onsweep of worlds, the Universal Forces. 

EIGHTEENTH LAW: Reproduction. 

"Everything is transmitted, everything is transformed, everything is reproduced" (Ochorowicz); in physical and psychic health alone, therefore, are the Universal Forces transmitted through perfect etheric vibrations, transformed through effective etheric conduction, and reproduced in magnetism by adequate and harmonious psychic control of etheric capabilities. 

NINETEENTH LAW: Superiority of culture. 

The crude values of natural magnetism, the automatic functions of unconscious magnetism, demonstrate at their best solely as they climax in full conscious magnetic culture.

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