Archive for the ‘Belief’ category
April 30, 2009
This post goes right along with the last one, and I feel it is the most important of all in terms of your personal future success. It isn’t really a question, but it does cause you to ask some questions about yourself and what you want to achieve in life.
“Write down ten things you want to accomplish in the next twelve months.
Write them out with today’s date in the present tense. “
Examples: “I have _____”; “I am doing ______”; “I am ______”
Here is the most amazing part of this post. If all you did was write these things down and put them away and then pulled them out in a year, you would be amazed at how many would have been accomplished. More than likely 8 out of the 10 would be completed.
Your next thought would be the if you accomplished that much with no effort, what could you do will a little more effort. You’d be right because the practice of goal setting is a skill. It takes practice. You do it over and over again, and you get better and better at it.
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Creativity, Goals, Influence
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April 27, 2009
This question is powerful and can change your life. Take sixty seconds and write out your answer on paper. This is the next question:
“What one great thing would you dare to do if you knew you could not fail?”
There are no limitations to the answer to this question. Write down the biggest goal you would have. When you’ve written it down, think about this fact, you are your own guarantee that your goal is achievable. The reason I asked you to write your goal down was that your act of writing something out means that you can accomplish that one thing.
You may think that I’m taking things too far, but how hard was it to write down those words? Or did you not even bother because you thought it would never happen?
Write it out and see what happens.
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Creativity, Cultural Ideas, Goals, Influence, Life
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April 24, 2009
This question concerns your work right now, your current occupation or place of employment. Take thirty seconds and answer this next question”
“What part of your work gives you the greatest feeling of importance, pride or satisfaction? What are your peak experiences in your work environment?”
This is a very interesting question. Again, there are no wrong answers, but there is a typical response noted by most. It is almost inevitable that your response to this question has something to do with helping other people. This speaks into who you are and what your desires are for your own life. The moments that you have the greatest satisfaction with your job, are the moments you should seek more of. You should do this because these moments are the most aligned to you life’s purpose and desires.
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Creativity, Goals, Influence, Life
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April 19, 2009
This next question has to do with what you should do with your life. In the next thirty seconds answer this question:
“What have you always wanted to do but have been too afraid to attempt?”
This is a core question that reaches deep into who you are. Something to remember is that the fact that you have wanted to do this could mean that this is what you are to do. Whatever is your hearts desire could be what you are supposed to do with your life. The real answer here is that your experiences and relationships have been directing you toward something that is one step ahead of you. Fear of failure is the only thing holding you back from doing that thing you have always wanted to do.
You always have the choice to proceed forward or hesitate.
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Context, Creativity, Goals, Influence, Life
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April 11, 2009
This next question is one that I’ve heard over the years from many different places. When this question is placed inside this list of questions it is given more importance because is causes the light that is being turned on inside of us to come more and more into focus. The next question you should answer in sixty seconds.
“What would you do, or how would your life change if you had won $1 million dollars tax-free?”
I’m not talking about putting your money in the bank and living on interest. How would your life change? The important thing here is that if you would change your job if you had a million dollars, you are in the wrong job. If you keep saying that you would leave and go somewhere else and quit your job if you won the lottery, you should quit your job now. Your answer is saying that you don’t like your job, but that if you had the freedom to chose that you perceive a chunk of money would give you, you would chose to quit your job.
Life is too short to waste time working a job you dislike. You are doing yourself and your current employer (even if you are self-employed) a disservice. The thought that it could never happen doesn’t change the fact you wrote it down. And the action of writing it down is proof enough that it is attainable.
I’ll say that again: The action of writing it down is proof enough that it is attainable. Think about that for a few days!
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Creativity, Goals, Influence, Life
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April 6, 2009
Take the next thirty seconds and answer the following question:
“What are the 3 most important goals you have for your life right now?”
Don’t spend more time qualifying your answers. Like the last post, write down what comes from your gut – your center. When you answer quickly you may even surprise yourself with your answers. When you let the answers come out unfiltered, an authentic view of yourself and knowledge of your real wants and desires will come out. The key is to always remember that there are no wrong answers.
Some will think that if they write down Money or Influence as goals that somehow thoses things are “bad”. The real truth is that money and influence are things that can produce positive good results if used correctly.
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Context, Creativity, Goals, Influence, Life
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March 25, 2009
“Seeing is Believing” We’ve all heard that quote before, but what does it mean, and how does it impact our own lives. What we spend time looking at has an effect on what we allow into our belief system. What we look at also has an effect on the strength of our current beliefs. I’m not talking about negative aspects. We are familiar with those. What we are not familiar with is the positive influences that can happen because of what we chose to gaze at.
Whether we chose to spend time looking at a sunrise, sunset or a mist rising over a large field in the early morning. These images impact our attitudes during the day and our remembrances of the day in the future. Choosing to look at something that lifts us up inside can have a direct influence on the successes or failures we experience during the day.
Take time and chose to look at something beautiful. See how it effects and changes your perspective and to that end, your life.
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Context, Life
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March 9, 2009
I know that there are several proverbs and sayings from the Far East that concern themselves with water. I’m certain that this paraphrase has been influenced by many of them.
“Be like water – even with heavy rain though the surface is rippled and disturbed, the deep part stays untouched and still. As soon as the rain ceases, the ripples dissipate and the surface is again flat and still.”
The point to this quote is that when the circumstances of life cause ripples, or in many cases waves, on the surface of our lives, it is the stillness of our center that gives us the ability to quickly come back to a peace and “ripple free” life. Focus more time, effort and energy on the place within yourself. When that inner place is tended to, any circumstance will distill away to stillness.
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Life, peace
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March 4, 2009
Toward the end of his life, St. Francis told his fellow brothers, “I have done what is mine to do; may Christ teach you yours”. This quote has had a profound impact on the direction and fulfillment of my life. Often we find ourselves invested in the lives of others. We are wrapped up, litteraly, in the affairs of others. So much so that we let our own lives cruise along without much personal attention to our own direction.
When we are allowed into the lives of others it is easy to find the pull of “fixing” and “helping” them irressistible. We love projects, and people can be the best projects out there; especially when they step back and let us do the work for them. Many times we can see instant gratification when counsel is taken and is a success.
The problem with this relationship is that it easily evolves into a dependant existence and often results in some sloppy care given to yourself because you are “helping” someone else. It may seem hard, but your life is the only one you can truly control, and the only one you are responsible for. Caring for your own life and path is the greatest thing you can do for yourself and for those who you find yourself connected to.
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Context, Creativity, Influence, Leadership, Life
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February 26, 2009
The scriptures teach us to “do unto others as we would have them do to us”, but often we end up experiencing people doing to us what we expect them to do to us. Depending on our outlook and attitude, we can expect and experience negative things or positive things. Like it or not, we are the authors of our own lives. Many will not want to accept this, mostly this is due to an unwillingness to accept responsibility for our lives. It is much easier to let someone else determine our lives that to do the hard work and direct our own paths.
If some other worldly force is pulling and prodding me in whatever direction it wants to, then – success or failure – it’s not my fault. The end result is just marked down to as being “supposed to happen”. The truth is that life itself is difficult and requires hard work from us. Our response should be to pu;; ourselves up from our bootstraps and live life to its fullness, not wimp out and let “whatever will be…..be.”
Categories: Awareness, Belief, Creativity, Influence, Life, Rhythm
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