Would that feel amazing?

“Things turn out best for the people
who make the best out of he way things turn out.”

Art Linkletter

Each day, before you start focusing on your goals, wants, wishes and desires – take a moment to think of one thing that you are truly grateful for in your life.

By focusing on what you already have, you will find it much easier to pursue the things you truly want!

See if you can come up with a different thing that you are grateful for each day and make a note of it in your journal.

Just think, if you do this for a week, you will have discovered and acknowledged 7 things you are grateful for, if you do it for a month, there will be 30 things on your list and if you keep it up all year, there will be well over 300 things in your life that you appreciate.

How amazing would that feel!

Design your reality!

“There is more to us than we know.
If we can be made to see it,
perhaps for the rest of our lives
we will be unwilling to settle for less.”
Kurt Hahn

Today I’d like to start with a question so here it is.

Do you remember what you wanted to be when you were a child?

When you were young you probably believed that anything was possible.

And like most people, as you grew older, you were probably told that you needed to be realistic about what you wanted in life.

Did your dreams get lost along the way?

So here’s the thing I want you to challenge the notion of what is realistic in life and simply focus on what you want.

You may want to start by reflecting back on the hopes and dreams you had for yourself when you were growing up; not so you can chastise yourself for what has or hasn’t happened in your life but so you can get back in touch with all the things that inspired and excited you before reality got in the way.

Remember if you are going to dream why not dream for big things eh!

Create Your Life

“Your life will be defined, as much by the things you say no to, as the things to which you say yes.”
Anon.

When you are trying to create your best life, it can sometimes be hard to resist temptation to settle for an easier, safer, more secure or simply faster option.

Having a choice isn’t a bad thing; a rich and interesting life will always be filled with options, and compromises are an essential part of getting what you want out of life.

What matters, is that even if you do decide to accept a compromise, you use this opportunity to adjust your plans, not to give up on them altogether.

So today, when faced with a decision, ask yourself, ‘will taking this path feel like a good compromise, or will it leave me feeling compromised’.

Once you know the answer, you can say yes or no to the the option presented, safe in the knowledge that you are still pursuing your best life.

The Difference Between Gratitude & Attachment

There is a difference between feeling gratitude and appreciation for something, and feeling attachment to something.

Appreciation and gratitude are states of pure love, while attachment contains fear – fear of losing or not having what you are attached to.

When it comes to something you want in your life, appreciation and gratitude attracts, and attachment pushes away.

If you are feeling afraid that you will not get what you want, or losing what you have, then you have attachment.

To remove the attachment, keep shifting yourself into a state of appreciation and gratitude, until you can feel that the fear has gone.

Be your potential!

“The difference between what we are doing, and what we are capable of doing, would solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Are you a dreamer?

Do you ever find yourself thinking about things you could do, or would do, if only time or money or circumstance would get out of your way.

The truth is more often than not, whilst these factors may be less than ideal, what is really stopping you are self-imposed limits.

Limits of belief… in who you are and what you can achieve.

We all know a story of an entrepreneur who started a business on a shoestring, a mother with small children at home, who wrote a best selling novel and countless others about people who had a less than ideal starting point and went on to create amazing things.

So today, I want you to see yourself as one of those people…

Suspend your limits and start to believe that you really can have anything you want from life, if you are willing to go for it!

Why? – because you are worth it

Till next time

Did you know that 95% of everything you do is determined by your habits?

From the time you get up in the morning, to the time you go to sleep at night, your habits largely control and dictate the words you say, the things you do and the ways you react and respond.

Successful, happy people have good habits that are life enhancing.

Unsuccessful, unhappy people, have habits that hurt them and hold them back.

One of the most powerful positive habits you can develop is the regular practice of zero based thinking. On a regular basis, ask yourself this question:

“Is there anything in your life that, knowing what your now know, you would not get into again today, if you had it to do over?”

For example, is there any relationship – business or personal – that you would not enter today?

What about your business?

• Are there any of your current products or services you would not offer today, knowing what you now know?
• Is there a market to which you are selling that you would not enter?
• Are there customers you would not take on?
• Employees you would not hire?
• Processes you would not adopt?
• Channels of distribution you would not use?
• Sales and marketing strategies you would not follow?

Have you invested time, energy, emotions or money in any relationship or venture to which you would not commit today, knowing what you now know?

If you answer “yes” to any such question, there automatically follows another obvious question:

Why are you still involved in this relationship, strategy, investment or whatever?

No one with a degree of common sense begins something that does not at least appear to make sense.

When we enter a relationship, hire an employee or make an investment, we do so because we are convinced it will benefit us.

Over a period of time, our needs change.

So do our circumstances.

What made sense yesterday may not necessarily make sense today.

Yet often, we are so busy that we fail to recognize these changes and, out of habit, we find ourselves perpetuating an outdated or outmoded status quo.

In applying zero based thinking, you expose these habitual parts of your life.

Then you can ask a second question:

What are you going to do about it?

Normally, there is one answer: eliminate it from your life. Then move on.

This practice of zero based thinking and taking appropriate action requires courage and commitment.

You must be brutally honest in your self-assessment. And you must be resolute in your determination to change.

Begin now, and make it a habit to regularly ask yourself the zero based thinking question,

“Knowing what I now know, is there anything I would not get into again today if I had to do it over?”

Then take action to eliminate these from your life.

The results can be quite extraordinary, as you eliminate negative, non-functional or even dysfunctional aspects of your life, replacing them with new, positive aspects.

You will have higher energy. You will enjoy greater peace of mind. And you will be far more productive.

The purpose of this blog post is to help focus your attention on those areas of your life that will change your life forever.

This act of observing – focusing upon – these critical life elements ensures maximum return on your investment of time and energy.

Why you ask – well because you are worth it

Focus on what matters!

“Nothing can add more power to your life, than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.”
Nido Quebien

In today’s 24/7/365 life and lifestyle do you ever feel that you are being pulled in lots of different directions all at once, expending energy on a million different things, but never truly feeling satisfied?

If this is true for you, it could be that you aren’t paying attention to what really matters in your life…

So today, when you are faced with different choices, take the time to check in and compare what you are doing with your life values.

When you are clear on what matters most to you, deciding how and where to focus your energies will be become easy.

Real success is not about having it all…

Here’s the thing, the real juice – it’s about having the things that matter!

What the Law of Attraction can’t change

So you read or heard about the Law of Attraction and that incredible powers that you can tap into by following the Universal Laws.

Well here’s the thing, you might call it the small print

The Law of Attraction cannot change anything in your life that you hate.

Why’s that you ask well its because hate prevents the change from coming.

Since the law is giving us exactly what we are putting out, when you hate something the law must continue to give you more of that and that’s the things/people that you hate.

You will not be able to move away from it.

But there is a way and its this – LOVE

Love is the only way.

If you focus completely on the things you love, then you are on your way to a beautiful life – one you truly deserve

Finding Your True Passion

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
– Georg Hegel

Let me ask you this – how do you want to live your life? a life of mundane days where one day slips into the next or a full and passionate life where you are experiencing all those rich rewards that are at the end of the rainbow.

So you ask me how do you discover what you’re really passionate about?

How can you separate the dreams from what can actually be the accomplished?

You could be passionate about ruling the world.

Well you know that you’re not the first to dream of that and here’s the thing it can be done.

Alexander the Great ruled almost the entire known world in his time.

So let me ask you – what is your true passion?

Here are a few questions you can ask yourself to discover those currents that travel deep inside you:-

• Read your own body language.

  How does your body behave at your present job?

  Does it tense up and ache all the time?

  Do you get panic attacks very often?

  Are you so bored that you snooze at your desk?

  Do you keep looking at the clock as break time comes near?

  Guess what if that’s you

  Then you are in the wrong job.

  You simply don’t have the passion for it.

  When you work on a job that you are passionate about, all your aches and cramps will dissolve.

  You will find yourself working extra hours, talking to your friends about your work and simply bubbling with life.

• What did you love doing as a child?

  Your childhood hobbies and obsessions can indicate a genuine passion.

  Education and family pressures often move us away from our true calling.

  Did you love bikes or gardening or trekking?

  Then maybe a career in the automobile or landscaping or travel industries is where you should be!

  So sit back and recall your childhood and write down your memories.

  What made you smile then may still make you grin today and in the future.

• What do you love doing now you are an adult?

  You might very well have passionate side pursuits even today.

  Do you love your moonlighting job more than your regular day job?

  Many corporate types work the night shift as chefs or night school teachers.

  Start spending a few hours every day on your pet hobby.

  It may just hold the key to the real you!

You are a success!

“I live for those who love me, for those who know me true.”
George Linnaeus Banks

It’s hard to believe we are already halfway through the year.

Even though time might fly, don’t fall into the trap of chastising yourself for all the things you haven’t done… focus on all that you have achieved instead.

Today I want you to make a list; your real success list.

Take a couple of minutes to write down all the things you have achieved in the last six months.

Real success isn’t just about life’s big successes, it’s about the little ones too, so think about all the different ways you have honored your values over the last six months; maybe you spent more time with your family, focused on getting fitter, spent less and saved more, or focused on thinking positive thoughts and staying present to the moment.

The more successful you feel, the more successful you will become, so focus on the real success you have achieved in your life and get ready for a brilliant second half of the year.

Take care and remember, real success is not about having it all…

it’s about having the things that matter!