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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Asking the Right Questions
This is an chapter from a Tony Robbins book, "Note from a Friend" that I finally got around to read. And I wish I had read it earlier.
This chapter is about asking the right questions.
Enjoy!
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QUESTIONS ARE THE ANSWER
The best way to control your focus is through the power of questions. Do you know that asking the right question can actually save your life?
It saved Stanislavsky Lech’s life. The Nazis stormed into his home one night and herded him and his family to a death camp in Krakow. His family was murdered before his eyes.
Weak, grieving, and starving, he worked from sunrise to sundown alongside the other prisoners of the concentration camp. How could anyone survive such horrors? Somehow he continued. One day he looked at the nightmare around him and decided that if stayed there even one more day, he would die. He decided that he had to escape. And most important, he believed that even though no one before him had escaped, somehow there was a way.
His focus changed from how to survive to asking instead, “How can we escape this horrible place?” he received the same answer over and over. “Don’t be a fool! There is no escape. Asking such questions will only torture your soul.” But he wouldn’t accept this answer. He kept asking himself, “How can I do it? There must be a way. How can I get out of here?”
One day his answer came. Lech smelled rotting flesh just a few feet from where he worked: Men, women, and children who had been gassed and whose naked corpses had been piled into the back of a truck. Instead of focusing on the question “How could God allow something so evil to happen?”, he asked himself, “How can I use this to escape?”
As the sun set and the work party left for the barracks, he pulled off his clothes and dove naked into the pile of bodies while no one was looking.
Pretending to be dead, he waited with the sickening smell of death around him, the weight of all the corpses pressing upon him. Finally, he heard the truck engine start. After a short ride, the mountain of bodies was dumped into and open grave. He waited until he was certain no one was near by, and then ran – naked – the 25 miles of freedom.
What made the difference between the faith of Stanislavsky Lech and that of many of the millions who died in concentration camps? Clearly there were several factors, but one difference is that he asked a different question. And he asked it over and over with expectation certain he would receive an answer.
That’s a Good Question!
We ask ourselves questions all day long. Our questions control our focus, how we think, and how we feel.
Asking the right questions was one of the major ways I turned my life around. I stopped asking, “Why is life so unfair?” and “Why don’t my plans ever work out?” Instead, I started to ask questions that could give me useful answers.
“Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Matthew 7:7
First, I made up some questions to solve problems. These questions prepare me to look for and find solutions whenever a problem comes up.
The Problem – Solving Questions
1. What is great about this problem?
2. What is not perfect yet?
3. What am I willing to do to make it the way I want it?
4. What am I willing to no longer do in order to make it the way I want it?
5. How can I enjoy the process while I do what is necessary to make it the way I want it?
If you have trouble answering any of these questions, use the word could. Example: “What could I be most happy about in my life right now?”
I also ask myself a specific set of questions in the morning when I get up and another set of questions at night before I go to sleep. They set me up for feeling great all day and end my days on a high note.
The Morning Power Questions
1. What am I happy about in my life right now? What about that makes me happy? How does that make me feel?
2. What am I excited about in my life right now? What about that makes me excited? How does that make me feel?
3. What am I proud of in my life right now? What about that makes me proud? How does that make me feel?
4. What am I grateful for in my life right now? What about that makes me grateful? How does that make me feel?
5. What am I enjoying most in my life right now? What about that I do enjoy? How does that make me feel?
6. What am I committed to in my life right now? What about that makes me committed? How does that make me feel?
7. Who do I love? Who loves me? What about that makes me loving? How does that make me feel?
The Evening Power Questions
1. What have I given today? In what ways have I been a giver to day?
2. What did I learn today?
3. How has today added to the quality of my life? How can I use today as an investment in my future?
These questions have been lifesavers for me. They will help you change your focus – and can help you change your life.
The Gift of Great Questions
Once you know how to ask empowering questions, you can help not only yourself but others as well. Once, in New York City, I met a friend and business associate of mine for lunch. He was a prominent lawyer, and I admired him for his success in business and for the practice he’d build since he was a young man. But on that day, he had suffered what he thought was a devastating blow – his partner had left the firm, leaving him with tremendous overhead and not many ideas about how to turn it around.
Remember that his focus was determining the meaning. In any situation, you can focus on what will make you feel better or on what will make you feel worse – and whatever you look for you’ll find. The problem was that he was asking all the wrong questions: “How could my partner abandon me this way? Doesn’t he care? Doesn’t he realize that this is destroying my life? Doesn’t he realize that I can’t do this without him? How will I explain to my clients that I can’t stay in business any longer?” All these questions already assumed that his life had been destroyed.
There were many ways in which I could have helped my friend, but I decided that I would just ask a few questions. So I started out by asking him the Morning Power Questions, then the Problem-Solving Questions,
First I asked him, “What are you happy about? I know that sounds stupid and ridiculous and Pollyannaish, but what are you really happy about?” His first response was, “Nothing.”
So I said, “What could you be happy about right now if you wanted to be?” He thought a few moments, then said, “I’m really happy about my wife, because she’s doing really well right now, and our relationship is really close.” Then I asked him, “How does that make you feel when you think of how close you are with her?” He said, “It’s one of the most incredible gifts in my life.” I said, “She’s a special lady, isn’t she?” He started focusing on his feelings about her, and he immediately began to feel better.
You might say that I was just distracting him, but I was really helping him to get into a better emotional state, and in a better state you can come up with better ways of dealing with things.
So I asked him what else he was happy about. He started talking about how he should be happy that he’d just helped a writer close his first book deal, and how delighted the writer was. He told me that he should feel proud, but he didn’t.
“If you did feel proud,” I asked him, “how would that feel?”
As he thought about how great that would feel, his emotional state began to change. I then asked, “What else are you proud of?” He said, “I’m really proud of my kids. They really care about people, and they take care of themselves. I’m proud of who they’ve become as men and women and that they’re my children. They’re part of my legacy.”
“How does it make you feel to know that you’ve had that impact?” I asked, and this man – who’d earlier believed that his life was over – came alive.
Then I asked him what he was grateful for. He said that he was really grateful that he’d made it through the tough times when he was a young and struggling lawyer, that he’d built his career from the bottom up, and that he’d lived the “ American dream.” then I asked, “What are you really excited about?” He said, “Actually, I'm excited that I have an opportunity right now to make a change.”
That was the first time he’d though about that, and he had done so because he’d changed his state so radically. I asked him, “Whom do you love, and who loves you?” he started talking about his family and how incredibly close they were.
Then I asked him a really tough question: “What’s great about your partner leaving?” He said, “You know, what could be great about this is that I hate coming into the city every day, and I love being at my home in Connecticut. What’s also great about this is that I get to look at everything in a new way.” This made him think of a whole string of possibilities, and he decided to set up a new office in Connecticut just five minutes from his home, bring his son into the business, and have an answering machine pick up his calls in Manhattan. He got so excited that he decided to look for a new office immediately.
In a matter of minutes, the power of questions had worked their magic. Had his resources always been available to him? Of course, but the questions he’d been asking had made him feel helpless, causing him to see himself as an old man who’d lost everything he’d built. In reality, life had given him a tremendous gift, but he hadn’t been able to see the truth until started asking quality questions.
Another life-changing tool is your physiology. What’s that? Let me tell you about it…
This chapter is about asking the right questions.
Enjoy!
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QUESTIONS ARE THE ANSWER
The best way to control your focus is through the power of questions. Do you know that asking the right question can actually save your life?
It saved Stanislavsky Lech’s life. The Nazis stormed into his home one night and herded him and his family to a death camp in Krakow. His family was murdered before his eyes.
Weak, grieving, and starving, he worked from sunrise to sundown alongside the other prisoners of the concentration camp. How could anyone survive such horrors? Somehow he continued. One day he looked at the nightmare around him and decided that if stayed there even one more day, he would die. He decided that he had to escape. And most important, he believed that even though no one before him had escaped, somehow there was a way.
His focus changed from how to survive to asking instead, “How can we escape this horrible place?” he received the same answer over and over. “Don’t be a fool! There is no escape. Asking such questions will only torture your soul.” But he wouldn’t accept this answer. He kept asking himself, “How can I do it? There must be a way. How can I get out of here?”
One day his answer came. Lech smelled rotting flesh just a few feet from where he worked: Men, women, and children who had been gassed and whose naked corpses had been piled into the back of a truck. Instead of focusing on the question “How could God allow something so evil to happen?”, he asked himself, “How can I use this to escape?”
As the sun set and the work party left for the barracks, he pulled off his clothes and dove naked into the pile of bodies while no one was looking.
Pretending to be dead, he waited with the sickening smell of death around him, the weight of all the corpses pressing upon him. Finally, he heard the truck engine start. After a short ride, the mountain of bodies was dumped into and open grave. He waited until he was certain no one was near by, and then ran – naked – the 25 miles of freedom.
What made the difference between the faith of Stanislavsky Lech and that of many of the millions who died in concentration camps? Clearly there were several factors, but one difference is that he asked a different question. And he asked it over and over with expectation certain he would receive an answer.
That’s a Good Question!
We ask ourselves questions all day long. Our questions control our focus, how we think, and how we feel.
Asking the right questions was one of the major ways I turned my life around. I stopped asking, “Why is life so unfair?” and “Why don’t my plans ever work out?” Instead, I started to ask questions that could give me useful answers.
“Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Matthew 7:7
First, I made up some questions to solve problems. These questions prepare me to look for and find solutions whenever a problem comes up.
The Problem – Solving Questions
1. What is great about this problem?
2. What is not perfect yet?
3. What am I willing to do to make it the way I want it?
4. What am I willing to no longer do in order to make it the way I want it?
5. How can I enjoy the process while I do what is necessary to make it the way I want it?
If you have trouble answering any of these questions, use the word could. Example: “What could I be most happy about in my life right now?”
I also ask myself a specific set of questions in the morning when I get up and another set of questions at night before I go to sleep. They set me up for feeling great all day and end my days on a high note.
The Morning Power Questions
1. What am I happy about in my life right now? What about that makes me happy? How does that make me feel?
2. What am I excited about in my life right now? What about that makes me excited? How does that make me feel?
3. What am I proud of in my life right now? What about that makes me proud? How does that make me feel?
4. What am I grateful for in my life right now? What about that makes me grateful? How does that make me feel?
5. What am I enjoying most in my life right now? What about that I do enjoy? How does that make me feel?
6. What am I committed to in my life right now? What about that makes me committed? How does that make me feel?
7. Who do I love? Who loves me? What about that makes me loving? How does that make me feel?
The Evening Power Questions
1. What have I given today? In what ways have I been a giver to day?
2. What did I learn today?
3. How has today added to the quality of my life? How can I use today as an investment in my future?
These questions have been lifesavers for me. They will help you change your focus – and can help you change your life.
The Gift of Great Questions
Once you know how to ask empowering questions, you can help not only yourself but others as well. Once, in New York City, I met a friend and business associate of mine for lunch. He was a prominent lawyer, and I admired him for his success in business and for the practice he’d build since he was a young man. But on that day, he had suffered what he thought was a devastating blow – his partner had left the firm, leaving him with tremendous overhead and not many ideas about how to turn it around.
Remember that his focus was determining the meaning. In any situation, you can focus on what will make you feel better or on what will make you feel worse – and whatever you look for you’ll find. The problem was that he was asking all the wrong questions: “How could my partner abandon me this way? Doesn’t he care? Doesn’t he realize that this is destroying my life? Doesn’t he realize that I can’t do this without him? How will I explain to my clients that I can’t stay in business any longer?” All these questions already assumed that his life had been destroyed.
There were many ways in which I could have helped my friend, but I decided that I would just ask a few questions. So I started out by asking him the Morning Power Questions, then the Problem-Solving Questions,
First I asked him, “What are you happy about? I know that sounds stupid and ridiculous and Pollyannaish, but what are you really happy about?” His first response was, “Nothing.”
So I said, “What could you be happy about right now if you wanted to be?” He thought a few moments, then said, “I’m really happy about my wife, because she’s doing really well right now, and our relationship is really close.” Then I asked him, “How does that make you feel when you think of how close you are with her?” He said, “It’s one of the most incredible gifts in my life.” I said, “She’s a special lady, isn’t she?” He started focusing on his feelings about her, and he immediately began to feel better.
You might say that I was just distracting him, but I was really helping him to get into a better emotional state, and in a better state you can come up with better ways of dealing with things.
So I asked him what else he was happy about. He started talking about how he should be happy that he’d just helped a writer close his first book deal, and how delighted the writer was. He told me that he should feel proud, but he didn’t.
“If you did feel proud,” I asked him, “how would that feel?”
As he thought about how great that would feel, his emotional state began to change. I then asked, “What else are you proud of?” He said, “I’m really proud of my kids. They really care about people, and they take care of themselves. I’m proud of who they’ve become as men and women and that they’re my children. They’re part of my legacy.”
“How does it make you feel to know that you’ve had that impact?” I asked, and this man – who’d earlier believed that his life was over – came alive.
Then I asked him what he was grateful for. He said that he was really grateful that he’d made it through the tough times when he was a young and struggling lawyer, that he’d built his career from the bottom up, and that he’d lived the “ American dream.” then I asked, “What are you really excited about?” He said, “Actually, I'm excited that I have an opportunity right now to make a change.”
That was the first time he’d though about that, and he had done so because he’d changed his state so radically. I asked him, “Whom do you love, and who loves you?” he started talking about his family and how incredibly close they were.
Then I asked him a really tough question: “What’s great about your partner leaving?” He said, “You know, what could be great about this is that I hate coming into the city every day, and I love being at my home in Connecticut. What’s also great about this is that I get to look at everything in a new way.” This made him think of a whole string of possibilities, and he decided to set up a new office in Connecticut just five minutes from his home, bring his son into the business, and have an answering machine pick up his calls in Manhattan. He got so excited that he decided to look for a new office immediately.
In a matter of minutes, the power of questions had worked their magic. Had his resources always been available to him? Of course, but the questions he’d been asking had made him feel helpless, causing him to see himself as an old man who’d lost everything he’d built. In reality, life had given him a tremendous gift, but he hadn’t been able to see the truth until started asking quality questions.
Another life-changing tool is your physiology. What’s that? Let me tell you about it…
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Thanksgiving or Thanks-Receiving?
I received an article from a Dr. Karen Monroy titled, "Thanks-giving or Thanks-receiving?" this morning.
After reading it, I had to share it with all of you. Enjoy!
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The Universe always works this way. It is always willing, wanting and capable to give--"pressing down into us for good measure" what we are capable of receiving. The Universe needs us to be the kind of person capable of holding the gifts sent our way.
If you have been "hanging-in there," waiting for something to go wrong and fearful of your future, spend time counting your blessings and then counting them again. A Universal Truth: we are only given what we can handle.
If you are not where you want to be, then ask yourself, "What do I know that I am not owning? What is it I am trying to pretend I don't know?"
If you have it good right now, be thankful! And invite others to join you, sharing in your bounty. Remember your invitation for others to join you in being a good receiver is a beautiful gift. How we wear our happiness and prosperity can be a healing balm to those in need, or a beacon of light to call others higher.
An Invitation for You!
I invite you to join me to practice what we know. As we commit to compassionate accountability for ourselves, we will not "should" ourselves or feel guilty if we take a misstep. We will simply affirm our willingness to be good receivers--responsible containers for the good Divine Universal Source Energy is always sending. We affirm the gift of thanks is made manifest in our lives. Always.
May we be ever so humble to receive the blessings of the Universe.
May we use what we are given gratefully.
May we share what we are given lovingly.
May we all be Peace, share Peace, and receive Peace.
After reading it, I had to share it with all of you. Enjoy!
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Thanksgiving or Thanks-Receiving? - By Karen Monroy
Remember the silly telephone game we all used to play: secretly pass a phrase around a circle by whispering into the ear next to you and see if it came around correctly? I don't know about you, but I never heard a phrase survive that gauntlet. The more members of the circle, the more the phrase was butchered. Remember when the last person in the circle said the phrase out loud and everyone gasped, "WHHHAAATTT?" shocked, amazed and confounded at what "came out" of the circle?
In many respects our own history, as well as our collective history is the same. We remember what we want to. We tell the story the way we think we heard it.
Take a minute to imagine:
You are in a dirty, cold place. You didn't know enough about sanitation so you are infested with all kinds of critters and parasites. Your clothes are thread bare. There are holes in your shoes and nothing much to eat. The harsh living conditions have claimed many of your loved ones and friends. You are sure that you will be following them to the grave shortly. Your mind keeps drifting back to past times when you were surviving, when life was "better".
What were you thinking to get in that ship anyway? Damn! You should have listened to your mother! You should have stayed on that crummy piece of dirt that you didn't own but were going to spend the rest of your life toiling on. There are many reasons to despair; you don't know the land, and you don't know how to be successful in your hunting or farming. You KNOW you don't know. You might even be wondering for what sins is God punishing you. You might be praying to this God for relief, for an intercession, for a miracle.
In the midst of this you are introduced to someone who is living in the SAME place as you--yet is having a completely different experience. They are happy and healthy. They are well-fed, they prosper. The cold doesn't put them asunder and they certainly have enough to share.
You fall to your knees upon seeing the bounty of a dozen stalks of corn and a bird and some flat bread. The same food you would have turned your nose up to (we feed corn to the pigs after all) a year ago is now the most delicious food you ever tasted. Your belly actually hurts when you eat because it was so empty--but you eat anyway--joyfully, thankfully. Giving thanks becomes important to you. You understand the "loft" of gratitude. It makes any circumstance transform. It transforms you.
This isn't the Thanksgiving story from my childhood. Mine was funny construction paper pilgrim hats, and Indian headbands--with enough eau de glue to make an entire class high as a kite. It was gaggles and gaggles of people, days of cooking, planned excursions into the kitchen to pilfer the desserts (they were always made first!). When it came time to eat, we each took turns expressing gratitude. I always heard the tried and true thanks for family, friends, life, and love from the adults. The children were more direct, "my new horse, my new bike, my new...you get the drift. My grandfather used to call us kids "soft". We certainly had no idea how "hard" life could be, and we had no sense of the story of the pilgrims. How could we? We had always had plenty, never knew starvation, and all of our problems were the kind you wanted to have.
The intercession the pilgrims experienced might be where the first "when I was a kid... " stories originated! Parents have been trying to top that story for hundreds of years--but none come close. Why?
Unlike all of the other, "when I was a kid" stories, the Thanksgiving story puts us amidst a Universal Truth: The Mind can only serve one Master, either gratitude or despair--but not both.
What is your most important prosperity organ? Your brain! Your choice to be grateful for the gifts you receive--even if the gifts appear humble.
One journal I ask my clients to keep is the gratitude journal. I am grateful to once again be reminding you of the "rising above" the state of gratitude brings. Gratitude helps us keep from playing that silly game of "telephone" in our heads. The way we keep telling ourselves the story of our "story", again and again...twisting it, obscuring it, and by so doing, placing our self at the mercy of it.
Imagine for a moment you are that pilgrim:
You realize that if you are a good student, you too can be at peace and one with your new home--just like with your new found neighbor. When the ship comes again, with fresh supplies and more people, you have your chance to return--but you know you will not be happy to return to that old survival mode in your old home. While life here may appear to be harsh--it has promise, opportunity, and you now are changed: open and willing to receive the gifts of the Universe, willing to be a good student, willing to Prosper. While everything on the outside had remained the same, gratitude for what you have received has radically altered the landscape of your life.
In our own way, each of us is replaying this Thanksgiving story. We say goodbye to old situations and circumstances--set sail for the "better life" and encounter hardship along the way.
If you are in the position right now that you feel you need an intercession or miracle, remember they do happen. Give up your notion you know what the miracle looks like, act like or should be like. What if those pilgrims, said "no" to the Indians because they were expecting the ship to save them?
If you have been on cruise control, lying low, feeling good--remember we all need to take rest because the top of one mountain is the bottom of another. I have learned there are some angels whose only job is to make certain you do not get too comfortable and miss your life. If you feel the gentle tapping of the angels, listen to it. Don't make them put a boot up your *ss.
The Universe always works this way. It is always willing, wanting and capable to give--"pressing down into us for good measure" what we are capable of receiving. The Universe needs us to be the kind of person capable of holding the gifts sent our way.
If you have been "hanging-in there," waiting for something to go wrong and fearful of your future, spend time counting your blessings and then counting them again. A Universal Truth: we are only given what we can handle.
If you are not where you want to be, then ask yourself, "What do I know that I am not owning? What is it I am trying to pretend I don't know?"
If you have it good right now, be thankful! And invite others to join you, sharing in your bounty. Remember your invitation for others to join you in being a good receiver is a beautiful gift. How we wear our happiness and prosperity can be a healing balm to those in need, or a beacon of light to call others higher.
An Invitation for You!
I invite you to join me to practice what we know. As we commit to compassionate accountability for ourselves, we will not "should" ourselves or feel guilty if we take a misstep. We will simply affirm our willingness to be good receivers--responsible containers for the good Divine Universal Source Energy is always sending. We affirm the gift of thanks is made manifest in our lives. Always.
May we be ever so humble to receive the blessings of the Universe.
May we use what we are given gratefully.
May we share what we are given lovingly.
May we all be Peace, share Peace, and receive Peace.
About the Author:
Dr. Karen Monroy holds a PhD. in psychology, and a Masters Degree in Economics and Business.
"I teach, write, and guide clients to Sustainable Prosperity." says Dr. Monroy, who is a pioneer in the field of Spiritual Psychology, and Nuero-economics.
Dr. Monroy explains to clients the structure of their minds--from a neurological, psychological and spiritual perspective clients learn to work WITH their own nature, not AGAINST their nature. She teaches Money IQ Skills, Money EQ skills, and a spiritual basis for moving through the world of form. Dr. Monroy believes all of us learn about these concepts in the world of form (or Earth School as she calls it) as one aspect of our spiritual path. She is also the author of two upcoming books: "Mommy, What is Rich?" and "Expanding your Money IQ-- Spiritual and Emotional Intelligence for Earth School."
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Do You Have a Vision Wall?
One of the most recent activities I have been doing is re-imersing myself back into the study of manifestation, law of attraction, and business focus.
I few months back I remember when I was trying to figure out LOA and I was having such difficulty with it. I have seen the secret and I was reading about it and so forth, but I could never really get a handle of how I can apply LOA in my life.
Then Mark Joyner teamed up Dr. Joe Vitale to create a Law of Attraction course in his Simple-ology program.
The course was designed to be a complete study and application of how to use the Law of Attraction. I immediately purchased it and got involved.
Today I am happy to say that LOA does work but if you don't know how to do it, then it does not work.
One of the homework assignments I had with the course was to create a vision wall.
Of course this was nothing new to me since I heard of it, and I had vision wall on my background of my laptop so I brushed it aside.
But then it hit me that I was cheating the assignment and I had not properly done it.
I literally had create a poster or a collage and actually hang it up by where I do my work.
And I added a few affirmations next to it as well as my intention and automatically I felt a shift in my mentality.
I immediatley became very focused on what I was doing for my business.
So my question for you is do you have a vision board or a vision wall?
Maybe you need one, maybe you don't, but I honestly believe...that even if you feel that you don't need one, it can only improve and build up on with what you are doing.
A vision board or wall is designed to be a reminder for your goals and dreams.
Some people put up pictures, statements, words, whichever you feel more comfortable with, and they constantly remind themselves on a sub-conscious level about what they are aiming for.
I hear all the time from business guru's...You Need to Have a Why and so on and so on. If you're not working, means your why is not big enough!
Truth is, people have a big why, they just haven't found a way to bury it into their sub-conscious and un-conscous mind. They are bombarded with limiting beliefs that their big why becomes smothered by negative and destructive thoughts and beliefs.
So actually creating a vision board or wall, however it is whether you have a list of words or pictures, a vision board can help you remind you of your goals and dreams.
So go to Staples, get a board, or a white board, or just make a print out from your computer, it doen't matter how because the point is to have fun with it!
No dream is too small or too big for this board of yours so have all the fun you want. Be a kid again!
I few months back I remember when I was trying to figure out LOA and I was having such difficulty with it. I have seen the secret and I was reading about it and so forth, but I could never really get a handle of how I can apply LOA in my life.
Then Mark Joyner teamed up Dr. Joe Vitale to create a Law of Attraction course in his Simple-ology program.
The course was designed to be a complete study and application of how to use the Law of Attraction. I immediately purchased it and got involved.
Today I am happy to say that LOA does work but if you don't know how to do it, then it does not work.
One of the homework assignments I had with the course was to create a vision wall.
Of course this was nothing new to me since I heard of it, and I had vision wall on my background of my laptop so I brushed it aside.
But then it hit me that I was cheating the assignment and I had not properly done it.
I literally had create a poster or a collage and actually hang it up by where I do my work.
And I added a few affirmations next to it as well as my intention and automatically I felt a shift in my mentality.
I immediatley became very focused on what I was doing for my business.
So my question for you is do you have a vision board or a vision wall?
Maybe you need one, maybe you don't, but I honestly believe...that even if you feel that you don't need one, it can only improve and build up on with what you are doing.
A vision board or wall is designed to be a reminder for your goals and dreams.
Some people put up pictures, statements, words, whichever you feel more comfortable with, and they constantly remind themselves on a sub-conscious level about what they are aiming for.
I hear all the time from business guru's...You Need to Have a Why and so on and so on. If you're not working, means your why is not big enough!
Truth is, people have a big why, they just haven't found a way to bury it into their sub-conscious and un-conscous mind. They are bombarded with limiting beliefs that their big why becomes smothered by negative and destructive thoughts and beliefs.
So actually creating a vision board or wall, however it is whether you have a list of words or pictures, a vision board can help you remind you of your goals and dreams.
So go to Staples, get a board, or a white board, or just make a print out from your computer, it doen't matter how because the point is to have fun with it!
No dream is too small or too big for this board of yours so have all the fun you want. Be a kid again!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Are You Expanding?
Ask yourself this one question right now and really give yourself an honest answer.
Are you expanding?
Really think about and find out if you as a person is expanding and growing.
Are you?
Think of yourself as a company. You have a fantastic an amazing product that can change the world. You know it's amazing and so far you're doing ok but in order to achieve the full effect of your dreams what your product can do for the world you need to do some drastic changes. In other words you need to expand.
You need to expand your skill sets in order to have you market better, you need to surround yourself with more successful leaders to have the best advice available, you need to have people in New York contact the people in London and three-way into Cape Town South Africa. You need bigger, better, faster, and more efficient sales team. Therefore you need to find the best raining material that will make your sales team better.
This is work!
And let's not fool ourselves, we as people are pieces of work! It doesn't mean we are broken, and it does not mean we need an epiphany in order to start. We are great the way we are. But what if we started meditation 20 minutes a day. What if we said no the dollar menu at McDonald's and chose to make a healthier lunch. What if we started to make improvements on the little things in our life. Wouldn't that result in big results in the end? Isn't that expanding ourselves? Expanding our awareness? Expanding our lifespan with better health?
Life is about irony. But your life is what can you to make your world and the people around and in it a better place?
If we don't grow we die. A plan can only stay in the beginning stages of photosynthesis for so long before it dies and never reaches its full potential.
Start today, not later, not tomorrow, not when you finished reading that book, start today and make that small first step for your world.
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