Program your mind: Say no!

Here are a series of articles on programming your mind for success. In this first article, we are going to discover how to say no on the foods that you don't want to have!

Do you sometimes regret why you took that roti canai, nasi briyani or that cheese cake? Do you feel bad after that? Do you see yourself saying things like, I will not do this again but see yourself doing it again and again and again.
If this keeps happening, you are sure to lose this mental game. When you lose this mental game, your weight will sure to go up and by no time you will join the millions of others who suffer from overweight and obesity.
To assist you on how to take control of your mind here is a tip.. Don't tell your mind what you don't want, rather tell it want you do want.
If you go to a restaurant and when you have a look at the menu and then go,
I can't have this, I can't have that. When you say you can't have, the mind still excepts it has can have. The reason to that is that 'The mind doesn't understand the word NO'.
So, when you say you can't have an ice cream, you are actually telling your mind to consider an ice cream because the brain can't digest the word 'can't'.
When you say you can't have that carbonated beverage you are telling your mind to consider the carbonated beverage.
Rather than saying to yourself what you don't want, you have to tell yourself what you do want.
So rather than saying you don't want an ice cream, you should say I do want an apple.
Rather than saying you don't want a carbonated beverage, you should say I do want a freshly blended fruit juice.
What you are doing is that you are redirecting your mind on what is not healthy to what is healthy.
When the mind is 'healthy' and strong, it can effect the body to be strong and healthy too.
Try it now and experience changes instantly. Have fun.

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Be careful with your words. Especially when it's 'free'.

We have heard the saying 'you can cheat some people sometimes, you can cheat some people all the time, but you can't cheat all the people all the time'.
Well, this experience is not about cheating, but it turned out that way at that moment when the 'free' was used.
I went to pay my phone bill. As the cashier was organizing the money for me, he said 'sir, we can give you a number for free'. My reply was 'zaman sekarang mana ada barang free'. He was surprised and he answered 'numbernya free tapi...', when my ears heard the word 'tapi' I responded 'hah, tapi..'. 'ye la sir number free'.
Well firstly I don't think he knows what I'm saying. That is how can you get something free nowadays. There is definitely something you will need to get with it therefore, the definition of free is subjective. Maybe we all have our own definition of free compared to the real definition of free. Whatever it is, the conversation with the cashier turned out sour and I pitied him cause it was above 9.30pm and he has to end his working day on a negative note because I was one difficult customer.
The lesson is that be mindful with the words that you use at work especially those that you use with your customers. Yes, we have to follow instructions on doing this at work but it's not one size fits all kind of a thing. Everyone is different therefore observe their responses.
The next time you don't get a respond that you were expecting, do the following:
1. Pause,
2. Quickly run thru what you did, if you know the answer, repair it, otherwise
3. Clarify with the customer why they responded that way, otherwise
4. Keep quiet and just move on.

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