// How Do We Best Improve This Power?

7 Aerobic Exercises to Increase Your Muscular Endurance

• 1.1 Jumping Rope (With a Velites Fire 2.0)
• 1.2 Burpees (Full-Body Endurance)
• 1.3 Running.
• 1.4 Light Barbell Cycling.
• 1.5 Cycling (on a Bicycle)
• 1.6 Static Holds.
• 1.7 Rowing.

Exercises to try

1. Jumping jacks. Jumping jacks are a type of plyometric exercise that can help you jump higher by building lower body strength.
2. Single-leg deadlifts with jump. This advanced exercise builds stability as you explosively jump up using one leg at a time.
3. Burpees.
4. Forward linear jumps.
5. Squat jumps.
6. Rebounding.

1. Resistance Training. According to a research analysis by Chris Beardsley, higher repetition lifting speed training is more advantageous than lifting with lower repetition speeds for the sake of power development.
2. Ballistic Resistance Training.
3. Olympic Weightlifting.
4. Plyometrics.

Here are 10 ways to stop giving people power over you.

1. Establish healthy boundaries.
2. Take responsibility for your emotions.
3. Let other people be responsible for their emotions.
4. Acknowledge your choices.
5. Live according to your values.
6. Forgive, and move forward.
7. Stop trying to prove people wrong.

We often bring out the worst in people when we feel uncertain, afraid, or angry. When someone feels this way, we will experience their worst behavior. Of course, if they feel they are losing too much power to us, they will say or do something that brings out our worst behavior.

If you give power to a certain circumstance, that circumstance will have power over you and control your life. If you decide to give power to resourceful and positive situations, those are the situations that will dictate your life.

If you want to stop taking things personally, question your beliefs.

1. Stop Worrying So Much About What Other People Think of You.
2. Recognize the “Spotlight Effect”.
3. Become More Confident.
4. Think: “Troll-Delete”.
5. Be Too Busy to Care.
6. Stop Giving Your Power Away.
7. Don’t Drink the Poison.

If you tend to take things personally when they are not personal, it is because something has hit a nerve. You are projecting your own doubts and insecurities on other people. You expect people to dislike what you don’t like about yourself. You expect them to doubt your ability to do things that intimidate you.

How to Let Go of Things from the Past

1. Create a positive mantra to counter the painful thoughts.
2. Create physical distance.
3. Do your own work.
4. Practice mindfulness.
5. Be gentle with yourself.
6. Allow the negative emotions to flow.
7. Accept that the other person may not apologize.
8. Engage in self-care.

If you’ve read Don Miguel Ruiz’s “The Four Agreements,” his second agreement, “don’t take anything personally” attempts to explain why we actually do take things personally. The idea is that consciously or subconsciously we agree with what’s being said.

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word. “Speak with integrity.
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally. “Nothing others do is because of you.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions. “Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.
4. Always Do Your Best.
5. Other Books by Don Miguel Ruíz.

Contents

• 1.1 Agreement 1: Be Impeccable With Your Word.
• 1.2 Agreement 2: Don’t Take Anything Personally.
• 1.3 Agreement 3: Don’t Make Assumptions.
• 1.4 Agreement 4: Always Do Your Best.

The Four Agreements – Always Do Your Best

• First Agreement: Be impeccable with your word.
• Second Agreement: Don’t take anything personally.
• Third Agreement: Don’t make assumptions.
• Fourth Agreement: Always do your best.
• Today, I’m going to focus on the last agreement: Always do your best.

Excellence is a learned habit that is not about your knowledge or experience (hard skills), but rather it is about your attitude (soft skills). To do your best means to try your hardest, and to always try to reach excellence in your work. When you are getting paid to do a job, it’s important to always do your best.

Doing your best is trying your hardest, so putting in a 100% effort is imperative. Flaking out on putting in your all can mean the difference between success and failure, so to do your best is to put in all the effort possible into achieving your objectives.

What are the Four Agreements? The Four Agreements is based on the wisdom of the Toltecs, an indigenous people of Mexico who preceded the Aztecs. Ruiz draws on shamanic teachings and combines these with modern insights to provide a guide to freedom and wellbeing, based around four moral pillars.

While sometimes the agreements are oversimplified, this is still a great little book with some heavy ideas. Focusing on any one of these agreements can greatly improve your life and decrease stress; focusing on all four can really be life-changing for many people.

“Don’t take things personally” means you should not let other people’s comments, actions, attitudes, opinions or choices affect how you feel about yourself or your life, even if they are a direct and personal attack.

The 5 Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

• The First Agreement – BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD. Speak with integrity and say only what you mean.
• The Second Agreement – DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY.
• The Third Agreement – DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS.
• The Fourth Agreement – ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST.
• The Fifth Agreement – BE SKEPTICAL, BUT LEARN TO LISTEN.

The Fifth Agreement takes us to a deeper level of awareness of the power of the Self, and returns us to the authenticity we were born with. The Fifth Agreement takes us to a deeper level of awareness of the power of the Self, and returns us to the authenticity we were born with.

The Toltec also were revered for their spiritual teachings: the word “Toltec,” according to Ruiz, means “men and women of knowledge.” Archaeologists describe the Toltec as one of the great Mesoamerican cultures. The Toltec believed that life is a dream and that we are always dreaming, even when awake.

Don Miguel Ruiz