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If you are a stressed-out entrepreneur or solopreneur, one of the questions that can drive you bonkers is “how can I relax and let go if I have never done it before?”It even saddens me when the answers that all my friends give me make me feel even more overwhelmed.

We’ll take a deep sigh of relief because I am going to reveal the secret that will tend to solve this agonizing question once and forever.

It doesn’t even involve going through mountains or some exotic places for a holiday.

Here’s the thing:

Everybody knows how to relax. You may relax by having a cup of coffee or a smoke.

The problem here is that when you really need to relax, your form of relaxation may seem inappropriate or impractical.

Let’s say you’re driving home after a hard day of work and someone cuts you off.

How can you empty your cup, relax and let go?

Oh! Where can you find that coffee and/or piece of cigar when you desperately need it?

So what shall you do to solve this dilemma?

Now you know you need to use your mind and stop using temporary remedies, coffee for an instance, because you have done it before.

Because of the hustles and bustles of living and fighting with daily stresses, you really have no time to make use of your mind to relax.

So here is what you need to do.

In your mind, you need to picture what unwinding really is when you relax and let go. When you get in touch with such experience, you then discern what it feels like to be relaxing.

Take another deep breath.

It’s really important that you get to absorb this.

Having a coffee or smoke is not the actual solution for your desire to learn to relax and let go. After all, if learning to relax is so stressful, why do it at all?

Simply follow the steps above and you will get to feel relieved out of stress and eventually take the pleasure of relaxation.

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In my over 14 years of working with stressed out entrepreneurs, I am astonished at just how many of them believe that it is OK to be successful and acquire material assets but yet, be unhappy because they are not satisfied doing what they do.

Well, let me tell you: there is nothing that can be farther from the truth.

It tears my heart apart, but most people are unfortunately headed for disaster. And what’s worse, it doesn’t really have to happen.

If you would like to change this misfortune in your thinking (and I realize you do!) here are the 4 most catastrophic mistakes about being unhappy with yourself and how you can avoid them.

Mistake #1: Focus

In life you need to have a focus. Sometimes your focus is determined for you by your parents and loved ones. Whether you’re successful or not is not the point of discussion. The point is, are you happy?
Generally the answer is no, because we have been taught that we have to please others first.
In order to focus, you need to relax. As you start practicing relaxation on a regular basis, you will get more clarity.

Mistake #2: Clarity

So what is clarity?

Let’s say you have all these roads in life and you come to a fork in the road where you have to decide which way to go.
What do you do?

Please remember this: You have no one to give you advice because you are all on your own. This is where your daily relaxation practice comes in handy. You can go inside yourself and find the answer to make your decision.

Now that you understand what clarity is all about, what is the next mistake?

Mistake #3: Purpose

So what is your purpose?

Let’s take a simple example: When you go shopping for groceries, do you take a list and a pen or pencil?

Three possibilities:

1. If you don’t make a list of groceries, you are going to buy items you don’t need and you will probably forget other items that are necessary.
2. If you take a list and no pencil to mark off what you purchased, you may still forget some items although they are on the list.
3. You make your list and you mark off your purchases. You check out and you go home

Now that is focus and a lot less stress

Mistake #4: Listening

What is listening?

A good example is, when you and your partner are like two tape recorders and both of you are speaking at the same time and therefore, nobody is listening.

The challenge is that most people have a “full cup” and they want to empty that cup. It is like wanting to go to the wash room when you can’t hold it any longer.

In order to listen, you need to quite the mind and shut out the inner chatter and outer noises and focus on what you hear so you can understand and appreciate them.

What so important about this information is that it can get you going on your way to success or resurrect an old idea you might have abandoned and inject it with desire and hope.

Cecil McIntosh guides solo-preneurs and entrepreneurs worldwide to manage feeling overwhelmed and to feel happy about yourself again. Get a jump start on your own relax and stress less system with 21 no-brainer shortcut to achieving health and happiness at http://eycfreebook.com You can reach Cecil at http://www.cecilhelpdesk.com

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