Imagine yourself successful and always picture yourself successful. Visualize the person you desire to be. Visualize things in the present. Set aside some time each day to be alone and uninterrupted so that you can get comfortable and relax. Close your eyes and begin to concentrate on your goals and desires. Relax. Breath. See yourself in the new environment, capable and self confident.
Use your past successes to reflect on. Whether they be large or small successes it is proof that you are capable of reaching and achieving more success. Celebrate your successes. Find a gesture or a move ( a power move) that you do when you are successful. Jump, cheer, scream, clap, whatever it may be, but celebrate your life and its successes. Celebrate each success and you will be able to recall these when you begin to lose faith in yourself.
Set definite goals. Have a clear direction of where you want to go with your life. Be aware when you begin to deviate from these goals and take immediate action to correct you to your path.
Live life positively. Respond to life positively. Find your happy place. Develop a positive self image. This is your image. Your image and reactions to your life and decisions are completely within your control. If you do not like how you are feeling, change that feeling. You choose to be happy!
Go out an make it a great day.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Why Some People Have it All...
How many times have you met people who seem to have "it all" and yet, all they do is complain about how bad they have it? Then there are others who in spite of having to cope with unusually difficult challenges see themselves as fortunate and even blessed. I think this goes further than simply letting a smile be your umbrella. Rather it's the deeper perspective they hold for themselves and the world around them that colors every event and interaction of their daily lives. For those who see the glass as half-full, the voice is a friendly one. However, wouldn't it be great if those who live in a world of half-empty glasses could change their perspective to bring more joy and satisfaction to their lives?
HEARING THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD
All of us have constant and highly dictatorial voices in our heads that we are so used to hearing that we believe them to be real and wise. This voice is very much in control of many of your actions, much of what you think, what you will and won't say. The inner voice constantly frets about the future... it chatters away about its worries concerning life, people and how things will go. And it seems to us that the voice is just being smart by warning of danger and by being protective from all of the bad people and events in the world or is being smartly speculative... we think it's completely rational, understanding, even brilliant, especially in a world filled with terrorism, natural disasters and economic uncertainty.
WHAT YOU SAY IS WHAT YOU GET
The problem is that the explanations that our inner voices provide about events in the past and predictions for the future leave us stuck with low expectations and a sense of resignation. This voice's confident assessment of future reality may thus lead you to lock yourself into patterns of behaviors in small ways and large ones. For example, you might refuse to go out to dinner with your spouse because "we always argue when we go out to dinner" or "we never have anything to talk about so it's not fun." Another possibility is that you may live with chronic, low-level melancholia because your life never seems to work out the way you would like.
Your voice is really telling you the story of your life -- the reason it is the way it is, why you are the way you are, and who you can blame." Listen carefully, to hear how it drones on in a constant state of sameness and how its themes become the themes of your life. By listening to and following the guidelines of these inner voices, people get exactly what they expect from their lives -- dissatisfaction. But no one really wants to be unhappy in life,we'd all prefer to be happy and fulfilled.
THOUGHTS CAN BE CHANGED
The good news is thoughts can be changed. They can be denied, laughed at and even eliminated -- and you can bring your inner voice in line to harmonize with what you want for your life. You must learn to understand what it is saying and how that affects what you do... what you believe... and who you are.
The point is you are not your inner voice. You are a person who actually has a choice whether or not to listen to your inner voice. Your voice may tell you "you'll never do that"... or "you can't succeed"... when you're considering a new job. Or, it may make excuses that sound more like "I don't have time," "I can't take a class that's so far away" or "my spouse would never let me spend money on that." Beneath those excuses, however, is the real message: "I'm scared to ask for what I want and go for it." The voice may seem like it is keeping you safe, helping you avoid rejection or keeping you from getting hurt... but it is really just holding you back.
With such discouragement coming at you all day, is it any wonder you can't muster a productive attitude and therefore end up perceiving your life as lacking? Be aware that wherever in your life you lack satisfaction, the voice is probably running rampant. Its many versions keep you the innocent victim with a no-fault policy. This, however, is exactly what stops you from believing in yourself. Regardless of how much you have, there is always what you still want. If you're not moving toward getting there, you may well be listening to your own drama or resignation that explains why you can't.
CHANGING THE MESSAGE
And so the first step in revising the messages is to discover exactly what they contain. Here's how to do that: For a week or two or maybe even a month, keep a "thought log" detailing the comments you make in your head. This teaches you to hear how your voice talks to you -- about you, about others, about your body and the events of your day. Get to know this voice and really hear the dialogue that plays endlessly in your head. List the excuses ("no time" or "no money," for instance). The point is to become so present to your themes that at last you can see where you have been dwelling. What you discover doesn't have to make sense initially, but if you approach this exercise with humor you can enjoy discovering your hidden influences. This practice begins to separate you from your inner voice.
The next step is to identify your themes. Give them nicknames -- are you a sourpuss, always looking to the bleak side? A know-it-all martyr, endlessly doing for others and never for yourself? Perhaps you are a mean saint or a better-than-everyone-else Goodie Two Shoes. Probably your voice has several themes and this is your opportunity to discover them all.
A NEW VOICE
The most challenging task follows -- putting into practice the commitment to changing your thoughts. Having exposed them and interpreted their themes and messages, the odds are that you've realized these are not the themes you want to be living with. By taking charge of your thoughts you can take charge of your life.
Make rules that help you accomplish this. For instance, you might make a rule that you don't allow yourself to make snide remarks to yourself about people you see on the street. Another one: Your internal voice is not allowed to tell you that life is short-changing you... and it is never, ever to announce negative conclusions about anything you are facing. To be effective, these rules demand vigilance, diligence and discipline -- otherwise your life will slip back to being what it was.
LEARNING TO LAUGH AT YOURSELF IS A MAJOR STEP
No doubt you will find that much of what your voice says concerns others in your life, since your inner voice is practiced at coming to conclusions about what others think, including about you. Your inner voice is really a lot like a bad journalist -- reporting what it decides is true without bothering to check the facts. Challenge yourself to do the research by asking the other person or people for their input about what troubles you. It calls for personal courage, but it can be done with honor and respect. When you "hear" such a fear or concern three times, ask questions. Start by saying something like, I'm saying this stuff to myself and I think you could clarify it for me... since it is about you and I want to know if I am nuts or not.
When walking down the street, remind yourself to love people, not pick on them. Assigns light consequences to yourself if you starts to fret, replacing worries with positive thoughts. "This is the most important work you can do. "It's like building the muscle of the mind. If your thoughts run you and you don't manage them it is a bit like allowing your child to watch television all the time. We know how that turns out -- inconsistent and most likely unhealthy."
Once you introduce yourself to the storyteller inside your head, you can start working at last on the life and relationships your true self has long hoped to have. With effort, your cup may indeed begin to run over.
HEARING THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD
All of us have constant and highly dictatorial voices in our heads that we are so used to hearing that we believe them to be real and wise. This voice is very much in control of many of your actions, much of what you think, what you will and won't say. The inner voice constantly frets about the future... it chatters away about its worries concerning life, people and how things will go. And it seems to us that the voice is just being smart by warning of danger and by being protective from all of the bad people and events in the world or is being smartly speculative... we think it's completely rational, understanding, even brilliant, especially in a world filled with terrorism, natural disasters and economic uncertainty.
WHAT YOU SAY IS WHAT YOU GET
The problem is that the explanations that our inner voices provide about events in the past and predictions for the future leave us stuck with low expectations and a sense of resignation. This voice's confident assessment of future reality may thus lead you to lock yourself into patterns of behaviors in small ways and large ones. For example, you might refuse to go out to dinner with your spouse because "we always argue when we go out to dinner" or "we never have anything to talk about so it's not fun." Another possibility is that you may live with chronic, low-level melancholia because your life never seems to work out the way you would like.
Your voice is really telling you the story of your life -- the reason it is the way it is, why you are the way you are, and who you can blame." Listen carefully, to hear how it drones on in a constant state of sameness and how its themes become the themes of your life. By listening to and following the guidelines of these inner voices, people get exactly what they expect from their lives -- dissatisfaction. But no one really wants to be unhappy in life,we'd all prefer to be happy and fulfilled.
THOUGHTS CAN BE CHANGED
The good news is thoughts can be changed. They can be denied, laughed at and even eliminated -- and you can bring your inner voice in line to harmonize with what you want for your life. You must learn to understand what it is saying and how that affects what you do... what you believe... and who you are.
The point is you are not your inner voice. You are a person who actually has a choice whether or not to listen to your inner voice. Your voice may tell you "you'll never do that"... or "you can't succeed"... when you're considering a new job. Or, it may make excuses that sound more like "I don't have time," "I can't take a class that's so far away" or "my spouse would never let me spend money on that." Beneath those excuses, however, is the real message: "I'm scared to ask for what I want and go for it." The voice may seem like it is keeping you safe, helping you avoid rejection or keeping you from getting hurt... but it is really just holding you back.
With such discouragement coming at you all day, is it any wonder you can't muster a productive attitude and therefore end up perceiving your life as lacking? Be aware that wherever in your life you lack satisfaction, the voice is probably running rampant. Its many versions keep you the innocent victim with a no-fault policy. This, however, is exactly what stops you from believing in yourself. Regardless of how much you have, there is always what you still want. If you're not moving toward getting there, you may well be listening to your own drama or resignation that explains why you can't.
CHANGING THE MESSAGE
And so the first step in revising the messages is to discover exactly what they contain. Here's how to do that: For a week or two or maybe even a month, keep a "thought log" detailing the comments you make in your head. This teaches you to hear how your voice talks to you -- about you, about others, about your body and the events of your day. Get to know this voice and really hear the dialogue that plays endlessly in your head. List the excuses ("no time" or "no money," for instance). The point is to become so present to your themes that at last you can see where you have been dwelling. What you discover doesn't have to make sense initially, but if you approach this exercise with humor you can enjoy discovering your hidden influences. This practice begins to separate you from your inner voice.
The next step is to identify your themes. Give them nicknames -- are you a sourpuss, always looking to the bleak side? A know-it-all martyr, endlessly doing for others and never for yourself? Perhaps you are a mean saint or a better-than-everyone-else Goodie Two Shoes. Probably your voice has several themes and this is your opportunity to discover them all.
A NEW VOICE
The most challenging task follows -- putting into practice the commitment to changing your thoughts. Having exposed them and interpreted their themes and messages, the odds are that you've realized these are not the themes you want to be living with. By taking charge of your thoughts you can take charge of your life.
Make rules that help you accomplish this. For instance, you might make a rule that you don't allow yourself to make snide remarks to yourself about people you see on the street. Another one: Your internal voice is not allowed to tell you that life is short-changing you... and it is never, ever to announce negative conclusions about anything you are facing. To be effective, these rules demand vigilance, diligence and discipline -- otherwise your life will slip back to being what it was.
LEARNING TO LAUGH AT YOURSELF IS A MAJOR STEP
No doubt you will find that much of what your voice says concerns others in your life, since your inner voice is practiced at coming to conclusions about what others think, including about you. Your inner voice is really a lot like a bad journalist -- reporting what it decides is true without bothering to check the facts. Challenge yourself to do the research by asking the other person or people for their input about what troubles you. It calls for personal courage, but it can be done with honor and respect. When you "hear" such a fear or concern three times, ask questions. Start by saying something like, I'm saying this stuff to myself and I think you could clarify it for me... since it is about you and I want to know if I am nuts or not.
When walking down the street, remind yourself to love people, not pick on them. Assigns light consequences to yourself if you starts to fret, replacing worries with positive thoughts. "This is the most important work you can do. "It's like building the muscle of the mind. If your thoughts run you and you don't manage them it is a bit like allowing your child to watch television all the time. We know how that turns out -- inconsistent and most likely unhealthy."
Once you introduce yourself to the storyteller inside your head, you can start working at last on the life and relationships your true self has long hoped to have. With effort, your cup may indeed begin to run over.
Monday, August 25, 2008
The secret to success of anything...
The difference between success and failure or happiness and misery can be found in our level of resistance and our willingness to be fully present. We must take action, be willing to make a change, continue to shift our thinking, and take risks. If you’re not willing to do all of these things, you can be 100% certain of the results and your experience. Your life will look exactly as it is and what you’re experiencing right now. If you keep doing the same things you’ve always done; you’ll keep getting the same results, history repeats itself. It's time to change history!
Do you sometimes get in your own way? You can do this without even knowing it...but, then if you really try to feel it, you know you are. Do you find yourself sabotaging your own best efforts? Again, when you allow yourself to really feel if this is true, you know it. Do you find yourself going in the same circle over and over with your finances? The world spins, we don't have to!
Joseph Campbell said, "We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
The personal mindset of money, relationships, health, spirituality all boils down to two pairs of emotions. Those being fear/opportunity and scarcity/abundance. If you fear that world doesn't have enough to go around, that is what your world will be. If you feel that there is plenty for everyone, then it is so. There is opportunity everywhere, but you must be open to receive it. Not just see it, but receive it. You must be ready to take action, and you must be ready to do something that you have never done before. This is where the juice of life is. If you tell the universe you are ready, then you better be ready, because it only does what you tell it to do.
We'll discuss finances here and they are pretty easy at its core. Create more than you spend, save, and when you spend spend wisely. Numbers don’t lie and usually our financial challenges have far less to do with facts and more to do with our relationship to money. Money is an amazing mirror into how we feel about ourselves. Make sure you are seeing what you want to see when you look in that mirror!
The universe allows for mistakes, but history can teach us. This makes us capable of learning, growing and changing. We must go with those changes and make a new history for ourselves.
Do you sometimes get in your own way? You can do this without even knowing it...but, then if you really try to feel it, you know you are. Do you find yourself sabotaging your own best efforts? Again, when you allow yourself to really feel if this is true, you know it. Do you find yourself going in the same circle over and over with your finances? The world spins, we don't have to!
Joseph Campbell said, "We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
The personal mindset of money, relationships, health, spirituality all boils down to two pairs of emotions. Those being fear/opportunity and scarcity/abundance. If you fear that world doesn't have enough to go around, that is what your world will be. If you feel that there is plenty for everyone, then it is so. There is opportunity everywhere, but you must be open to receive it. Not just see it, but receive it. You must be ready to take action, and you must be ready to do something that you have never done before. This is where the juice of life is. If you tell the universe you are ready, then you better be ready, because it only does what you tell it to do.
We'll discuss finances here and they are pretty easy at its core. Create more than you spend, save, and when you spend spend wisely. Numbers don’t lie and usually our financial challenges have far less to do with facts and more to do with our relationship to money. Money is an amazing mirror into how we feel about ourselves. Make sure you are seeing what you want to see when you look in that mirror!
The universe allows for mistakes, but history can teach us. This makes us capable of learning, growing and changing. We must go with those changes and make a new history for ourselves.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
All in the mind?
I have discussed previously various books that relate to today's topic. There is much power in all of these books as to defining our relation with our life. Having all of this information is supposed to make things run smoother...perhaps if you have the keys to the car it will run...but you must put the keys into the ignition and turn the switch for things to work correctly...
Let's begin with Napolean Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich". This book expresses the energetic of positive thought. Not just positive thought, but that thought also backed by true belief. This is where the power lies. If one is to believe that something in one's life is to be they must feel it in their core. Be able to see one's self having already experienced what one is believing to be true and knowing what that feels like to one's own core upon completion. Feeling it, tasting it, smelling it, touching it, being it...
In more simple terms, we create what happens in our lives whether we like it or not. So, as we enter into times of turmoil, we manifested this turmoil through various means of action, interaction, and non-action. In order to break the turmoil one must recognize that one does not need this any longer. Let's say, we have found the pearl to which life was to show us through this turmoil and we can now move on...please...
In so, if it takes just as much energy to have a happy life as it does to have a crap experience, then why not focus on only good. As there is good in everything, this is a doable concept. Leave the negative out.
When you begin to have feeling of something that you do not like or makes your stomach feel not right, this is a good sign that your body is telling you to think differently. Change your thoughts to something good and let the other negative thoughts go.
"The Secret" is another book, taken directly from the Napolean Hill book. The concepts are nothing new in this regard. But, it puts things in different terms for different readers. This book was expressed on "Oprah" numerous times to which she expressed to her audience that she was living this. Hey, if it works for Oprah...
There is also a book called "Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets" by Bill Bonner. Part of the concept of this book explains how this same concept of self realization can get caught up and become huge fast due to the volume of people thinking and feeling the same things. Hence, the world can experience a Hitler, and Bush, just as a Ghandi and Martin Luther King. What we do with our information at the time is where this can go as a society. We manifest our life!
"Creative Visualization" is another book that takes these concepts and helps one find ways to make things happen into their daily lives. Through prayer, meditation, or yoga, and other means to silencing the exterior world and connecting to the power of ourselves.
"The Law of Attraction" is another book that helps one learn the process to creating what you want in your life. This works for love, happiness, money or anything. We have the power inside ourselves to make the life we live exactly what we want to experience.
In fact, what we experience happens whether we know this or not. The law of attraction is there whether we know it and follow it or not. Once we know and understand this, we can utilize the power of this law and help create the life we are all wanting.
One must want something first. To know what it is you are wanting is the first step to getting what you want. If you don't know what you want, you will still get something...
If you are wanting good health, happiness, success you must learn to separate these ideals and be able to focus on exactly what it is you are looking for. Since you have the power to manifest exactly what it is you are getting in life, whether you know it or not, it is best to be very specific in what it is you are looking for in life. Letting life know what your desires and boundry's are helps life give you exactly what you want.
We will leave things here for today. More tomorrow.
Let's begin with Napolean Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich". This book expresses the energetic of positive thought. Not just positive thought, but that thought also backed by true belief. This is where the power lies. If one is to believe that something in one's life is to be they must feel it in their core. Be able to see one's self having already experienced what one is believing to be true and knowing what that feels like to one's own core upon completion. Feeling it, tasting it, smelling it, touching it, being it...
In more simple terms, we create what happens in our lives whether we like it or not. So, as we enter into times of turmoil, we manifested this turmoil through various means of action, interaction, and non-action. In order to break the turmoil one must recognize that one does not need this any longer. Let's say, we have found the pearl to which life was to show us through this turmoil and we can now move on...please...
In so, if it takes just as much energy to have a happy life as it does to have a crap experience, then why not focus on only good. As there is good in everything, this is a doable concept. Leave the negative out.
When you begin to have feeling of something that you do not like or makes your stomach feel not right, this is a good sign that your body is telling you to think differently. Change your thoughts to something good and let the other negative thoughts go.
"The Secret" is another book, taken directly from the Napolean Hill book. The concepts are nothing new in this regard. But, it puts things in different terms for different readers. This book was expressed on "Oprah" numerous times to which she expressed to her audience that she was living this. Hey, if it works for Oprah...
There is also a book called "Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets" by Bill Bonner. Part of the concept of this book explains how this same concept of self realization can get caught up and become huge fast due to the volume of people thinking and feeling the same things. Hence, the world can experience a Hitler, and Bush, just as a Ghandi and Martin Luther King. What we do with our information at the time is where this can go as a society. We manifest our life!
"Creative Visualization" is another book that takes these concepts and helps one find ways to make things happen into their daily lives. Through prayer, meditation, or yoga, and other means to silencing the exterior world and connecting to the power of ourselves.
"The Law of Attraction" is another book that helps one learn the process to creating what you want in your life. This works for love, happiness, money or anything. We have the power inside ourselves to make the life we live exactly what we want to experience.
In fact, what we experience happens whether we know this or not. The law of attraction is there whether we know it and follow it or not. Once we know and understand this, we can utilize the power of this law and help create the life we are all wanting.
One must want something first. To know what it is you are wanting is the first step to getting what you want. If you don't know what you want, you will still get something...
If you are wanting good health, happiness, success you must learn to separate these ideals and be able to focus on exactly what it is you are looking for. Since you have the power to manifest exactly what it is you are getting in life, whether you know it or not, it is best to be very specific in what it is you are looking for in life. Letting life know what your desires and boundry's are helps life give you exactly what you want.
We will leave things here for today. More tomorrow.
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