{"id":603,"date":"2011-02-08T06:48:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:38:13","slug":"five-tips-to-help-you-get-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Five Tips To Help You Get Back On Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Some days are a real drag, I know.  You\u2019re tired.  You\u2019re beat.  You just don\u2019t have it in you to tackle the responsibilities that are ahead of you.  I get it.  I understand.  Now snap out of it.  There is no room for a pity party in this thing we call life.  Guess what?  There are many more people who have it worse than you.  Yeah, sure I\u2019m playing the numbers here, but the likelihood is that most of you reading this don\u2019t really have it that bad, and you probably know that.  It\u2019s just that something has gotten to you and you\u2019re just about fed up with all the crap.  Am I right?  Am I right?<\/p>\n

Well don\u2019t give them the satisfaction.  Now is the time to dig down deep and give it all you\u2019ve got.  It\u2019s time to regain your focus and reframe things, but do not let that slight pause stop your progress forging ahead.  As my nutritionist, Joan Buchbinder, always says, \u201cIt\u2019s ok to lapse, just don\u2019t collapse.\u201d  When you think of it, those are great words of wisdom.   Of course, she is talking about eating the wrong foods, but in life in general, it\u2019s ok to stumble, just as long as you get up, dust yourself off and get back at it.<\/p>\n

One of my students from last semester filled out a critique on my performance as a professor; he or she said that I was a Tony Robbins wannabe.  At first, I was a bit put out.  Here I am, trying to bring my experience to the class, to provide insight and help them in the world of marketing, and because I do it with passion, I am being reduced to just a \u201crah rah\u201d motivational speaker.  But then I thought about it.  Even though the student was taking a shot at me, what\u2019s so bad about aspiring to be like Tony Robbins?  I have to tell you, the dude professes some great motivational wisdom and helps a ton of people.  So here I am writing a Tony Robbins-type post (although I have to be honest, I have never read nor seen Tony Robbins, I just remember him from TV infomercials).<\/p>\n

Life is hard enough as it is.  There are plenty of people who will dog you, criticize you, point fingers, and just surround you with nothing but a cloud of negativity, primarily hiding their own inadequacies.  You have all of these outside things impacting your life; you can\u2019t fall into the trap.  You can\u2019t become one of those negative influences, tearing down what you are all about and where you are headed. So I want to tell you what I do when life gets me down (believe it or not it happens).<\/p>\n

First: I hug my kids and my wife and thank them for their love and support. If you do not have kids or are not married, substitute a loved one or a friend.<\/p>\n

Second: I select a playlist of music, put on my headsets and crank the tunes till it blasts the negative feelings out of my body.<\/p>\n

Third: I go do something I truly enjoy to bring back those good positive feelings.<\/p>\n

Fourth: I make a list of the things I need to address and accomplish to get back on track.  Writing it down frames it up and makes it real for me.<\/p>\n

Fifth: I Go Do\u2026<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t let the negativity cripple you and prevent you from forging ahead.  I realize it\u2019s tough, and at times, life is not easy, but find a mechanism to get you back on track. These five steps help me, so I wanted to share, but they are specific to me.  Find those things that help you, and always remember, tomorrow is another day. And if that\u2019s too \u201cTony Robbins\u201d for the cranky people of the world who want to dwell in misery\u2026TOO BAD.<\/p>\n

Screw them and get back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some days are a real drag, I know.  You\u2019re tired.  You\u2019re beat.  You just don\u2019t have it in you to tackle the responsibilities that are ahead of you.  I get it.  I understand.  Now snap out of it.  There is no room for a pity party in this thing we call life.  Guess what?  There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,19,18],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-inspirational","tag-leadership-2","tag-tony-robbins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/louimbriano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}