Build Emotional Muscle For More Productive and Satisfying Lives

By Bruce E. Robbins

This book is a must read! Why? You will learn HOW, to increase your potential, raise and maintain your confidence to help manage a more rewarding and fulfilling life. It provides core teachings to learn more about who you are by discovering universal emotional issues, ways to identify your personal behavior styles and learning styles. Provided i

• Language: English
• Publisher: Go To Publish
• Release date: Jun 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781647493226

Bruce E. Robbins

Bruce Robbins has been a financial sales professional, trainer, author, and consumer friendly financial advisor. Due to his extremely well received transferrable training programs that address the emotional issues and soft skills to create a solid successful platform that enriches salespeople's productivity, this book is a product of translating those teachings for everyday use. Bruce's open, honest writings and illustrations help people develop their own strengths and manage weaknesses, reduce the unknown of getting started, and advance the understanding of issues that produce growth and develop a more rewarding, successful professional and personal life. As you will see, Robbins sense of humor comes through in ways that reduce procrastination and lack of success. As a long-time successful sales guru, his joy comes from sharing his knowledge with others, like yourself.

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Build Emotional Muscle For More Productive and Satisfying Lives

Copyright © 2021 by Bruce E. Robbins

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

PROACTIVITY AND EMOTIONS

HOW DO WE LEARN BEST

SITUATIONAL BEHAVIORS

GOAL SETTING

GETTING THERE

MAKING IT HAPPEN

CONCLUSION

Dedication

I dedicate this book to the people I

Have worked with, trained, and all those in

the future who use these tools to learn and lead.

Success is always POSSIBLE!

In Appreciation

My deepest appreciation goes to

Dr. Tommie Boyd

Who has been my never-ending

supporter, colleague, and editor.

What is this book about? Building Emotional Muscle is about understanding emotional issues that influence all of us to some extent. My goal is to present this information from a perspective that will make these issues more transferable, usable, and result-producing, so as to provide a tool to help people lead more productive and satisfying lives.

Bruce Robbins is doing some of the most omni-beneficial work to help people today.

- Mark Victor Hansen, CSP co-author of Chicken

Soup for the Soul

Robbins opens your eyes to become the best you can be in whatever you undertake. Informative and inspiring!

- Doris Wild Helmering,

author and long-time syndicated columnist.

I have been familiar with Bruce’s speaking and training skills for quite some time and believe him to be a true professional in all regards.

- Tom Hopkins, President, Tom Hopkins International

Introduction

Productivity relates to all aspects of life, including work, interpersonal relationships, sports, child-rearing, health, etc. It has been said that Knowledge is power— not so. Knowledge is potential power. If it is not employed, nothing happens; the power to employ the knowledge is required. As it relates to knowledge, why is a major component of the total knowledge needed to get things done to have a balanced, successful career and personal life. This is why we are going to devote so much to knowing and understanding why.

Who is this book for? Anyone that wants and is willing to put forth the investment to have a life of less stress, anxiety, more growth and better whole life results. People who want to use this information in addition to other knowledge and experiences have to help others when the opportunity presents itself. To develop more and more confidence because as Joe Nameth stated, When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun, and when you have fun you can do amazing things.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the population has grown up in an emotionally uneducated and repressed and some in no displend environment. We go through life with limited "Emotional Intelligence and Muscle/Power." Therefore, we do not have the knowledge, tools, and power to manage the unproductive behaviors that limit us from getting more out of life.

We will explain why people, including this author, do not benefit from a lot of information and are prevented from accomplishing what they would like out of life. Ways to start and stay the course to achieve selected desires/goals, both personally and occupationally, are addressed.

Who is the author? I do not have a college degree, but I believe I have at least a Masters in Street, Alley, and Life. I have experienced good times, not so good times, serious illness, including those affecting the brain, business, and relationships. I know that my experience has benefited others. It seems I can communicate information in a commonsense, transferable manner that people can grasp and have aha moment(s). My primary motive for writing this book is to help others.

It is not the purpose of this book to attempt to deal with any deep-rooted psychological challenges. The main goal is to provide transferable awareness of the common emotional limitations that produce unproductive behavior and hinder personal and occupational growth. All of what we will be bringing forth can be put under the broad category of what the late Dr. Wayne Dyer called, "Emotional Immobility" - the emotional issues that cripple us and prevent us from having a more enjoyable life.

Building Emotional Muscle also aims to foster a better understanding of certain emotional factors and to merge these with tools to help manage "Emotional Limitations" and increase productive emotional strength. Providing these tools and awareness will arm people that genuinely want to benefit from gaining more "Emotional Intelligence" and increase their power to benefit from the new knowledge. We will also discuss ways to increase progress and bring forth more internal peace, plus help develop more faith and hope because a funny thing about faith and hope when they get in your blood, they are extremely hard to dislodge.

There is a self-evaluation process to help determine one’s current situation to establish a launching point to give the selected path(s) a more direct route to their desired destination. This self-evaluation is vital because "Prescription prior to diagnosis is malpractice!"

We hope to help you not just to treat symptoms, because only treating symptoms does not address an underlying problem. One of the biggest problems we face today is we have been brainwashed into believing there is a quick-fix for most anything; therefore, we have become a microwave, nano-second culture. Rarely is there a quick fix for any underlying problem. This is most certainly the case with unproductive behavior. For example, a runny nose, stuffiness, a sore throat, and fever are the symptoms of an underlying cause, such as the flu. Therefore, the symptoms are not the problem; the flu is.

We will share information about learned helplessness factors. We will provide tools for developing emotional muscle/power to fend off the emotional immobility restraints that are ever-lurking to wreak havoc and limit progress.

There will be important information regarding acquired fears that are the basis for reducing emotional power, strength, and muscle. This will help us chip away at what is not real and have more control over where we want to go.

There will be proven, effective teachings to clearly define goals, action strategies, and activity management tools. This will equip a person to design what they want out of life rather than being susceptible to just accept what life throws out. In effect, people can develop their desired life rather than just living an ordinary or unsatisfying life.

Building Emotional Muscle will raise awareness of many Universal Laws. Knowledge of these laws is extremely beneficial. For example, gravity is a universal law. Jump off a twenty-story building; you know what the results are going to be. A plane loses its engine power; you know what the results are going to be. The following are examples Universal Laws related to the teachings of this publication:

"Progress is not straight ahead consistent." Progress comes in phases, forward, setbacks, disappointments, regrouping, plateaus, rest stops and then moving forward again."

A lightning bolt is a great example of this.

When the astronauts flew to the moon, they were off course approximately ninety percent of the time but used constant course correction to get there. We do the same thing driving down the straight stretch of the interstate, constantly making minor adjustments to stay in our lane. There are always setbacks, delays, course corrections, mistakes.

Simple does not make it easy to accomplish. The action steps and other teachings forthcoming are not complicated for the most part, but simplicity does not remove the difficulty of accomplishment. Just ask people that have stopped smoking, lost weight, built a business, etc.

Simplicity is power. Some of the best examples of this are with professional golfers that are the leaders in a tournament that we see on TV. Having been to a few golf tournaments,