What does it mean to “speed up people”?
Is the world we live in no longer fast enough?
Don't people need to set the brake instead of accelerating?
The answers point to a combination of everything. The problem is not to accelerate, but to accelerate without direction, as in a roller coaster that goes from nowhere to nowhere. It is accelerating when it is time to stop and stopping when it is time to accelerate.
I watch people around me complain of a feeling of constant frustration. Of not being able to get the dreams off the paper or leaving them behind in some curve of the way.
But, as the University of Illinois professor of psychology, O.H. Mowrer said, if happiness represents the main goal of human endeavor, frustration is its antithesis. The word frustrate comes from Latin, meaning to do something in vain. And the investigators on the subject have come to the same conclusion.
According to science, frustration occurs when a person continually acts expecting some gratification or desired outcome but simply does not achieve what he wants. To investigate what happens in the human brain when someone is subjected to frustration, scientists have resorted to neuroimaging. And they found that frustration causes changes in brain activity in the same affected structures when we go through an acute bout of stress.
After a frustrating event, our emotional response is stress, irritation, sadness, anger, and aggression, all of which, combined in different proportions, constitute what we call frustration - or, in short, the opposite of happiness.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that today we are living in an “epidemic of frustration” around the world, economic, political, financial and moral crises fuel our daily frustration. However, if there is one thing, I have learned in my journey is that to succeed - and success here means to achieve what you want in life - you must learn to overcome frustration, which is nothing but the greatest of all. “Decelerators” of people I know.
You may even find yourself accelerating, that your routine is all about running up and down, up and down. However, if all this rush isn't taking you anywhere, it's not speeding up - it's just getting frustrating.
At the root of frustration is the sense of helplessness, of having no control or power to overcome barriers that separate us from our goals.
The work thus begins from the inside out. It is about regaining control and the joy of life, focus and energy, a sense of direction and the power to connect with others, to invest in what we believe and to go from dream to realization. To know how to undertake, how to overcome, and despite obstacles, how to enjoy the course with the pleasure and surrender of those who discovered - or rediscovered - who they are and what they want in this incredible journey we call life.
Thus, from a reflection on what it means to be a “people accelerator”, I came to the following conclusion: it is about putting my experience and my life story at the service of those who want to exchange the frustrating verb for the verb perform - and want to do it fast, very fast!
With these thoughts in mind, I began my research. I found that they confirmed what my experience already told me. Accelerating is a process, a route, as tracing the route is an essential condition for you to safely increase speed.
The starting point is to have a dream and believe in it. What does it mean to believe and why is it so powerful? How is belief distinguished from simple magical thinking? What about beliefs that hinder your actions, how to get rid of them? What beliefs feed you? What is your fuel? What do you think is the destination of your journey? How to reconnect to this destination?
Here we will see what the basis of good relationships is; how to get the right people together to start accelerating. Let's learn how to create a truly powerful mastermind, which Napoleon Hill says means "the coordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people working toward a definite purpose in a spirit of harmony."
As you rescue dreams, revise beliefs, and connect with people, many ideas and options will begin to emerge. Which way to go? Where to direct your efforts and the newly gained life energy? This is a crucial time, as wrong or illusory choice can lead you back to frustration. To distinguish a true call from a "mermaid song," we need to educate ourselves, which involves information, self-knowledge, and preparation.
To think outside the box, to get rid of everything that may be limiting you, to seek the new, to dare - that is what we will deal with here. To accelerate, to the point of reaching the realm of great entrepreneurs, it is necessary to cut strings. Here's how to accelerate your business or career (if you're an intrapreneur) - wherever you are.
Once you are free, it is time to expand, broaden horizons, allow yourself to fly higher and accelerate further. Let's talk strategy, planning, and vision: what future do you want to build and for what? What resources do you need and how to get them quickly? And what do you need to develop to be the person you want to be?
The time has come to learn an essential secret of acceleration: pause. If on a car trip you need to stop for fuel - and if even on a Formula 1 race this is necessary - on your journey things are no different. The risk of accelerating nonstop is fatal: it runs out of energy when you need it most. Let's talk about stress and burnout, and how to avoid them to renew energies and move on with more pleasure, disposition and, why not, more happiness. Professor Tal Ben-Sharar, whose most attended happiness course at Harvard University history, has some important lessons to teach us about it.
Conscious, results-driven action, persistence, strategy, and self-discipline - these are the “weapons” of the good “accelerator,” that of a person who accelerates because he or she knows where to go. This is where the occasion marathon runners begin to distinguish themselves from the true champions. Willpower and self-motivation are the keywords. However, what experience shows us, science proves: we are not talking about innate characteristics, but skills that can be developed. Here you will know-how.
The journey is not over yet and it may never come. This is our great final discovery. The destiny you set out at the beginning is just one step. New ideas will come, new achievements, new achievements. Settling to success is another recipe for frustration. One must know how to recreate oneself, reinvent oneself and even be reborn. The dream goes on as long as we live. And as we invent new ways to accelerate.