On your journey towards the fulfillment of your Goals you are going to be faced with many doubts and fears. Most people run away from their fears. The feeling is too much for them to bear so they run like a frightened child in the dark. Your fears are not there too scare you they are there to propel you forward to a greater you.
When you first begin to feel fear and doubt you have to use this as your cue to take action. Jump up and immediately do what it is you fear. If you are frightened to speak to someone for fear of rejection then pick up the phone, and just talk to them. They might still reject you but it won’t matter as you’ve taken action and claimed back the power in your life.
It is so much more powerful to operate your life from this space. Fear can be a powerful friend. It will help you to gain strength, learn your lessons and move forward at a much faster speed than if you ran away. Fear is a powerful friend when used in this way.
Share the video below and comment on how you’ve used fear as a friend and the results you have gotten as a result.
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Anthony Robbins was the inspiration for the name of my blog and website. I’ve followed his teaching and principles for a few years now. Anthony says that there are two things that people want most in life and are striving to get. That is wealth and happiness.
Here is an audio for you from Tony Robbins which outlines the 5 keys to Wealth and Happiness. Sit back with a beverage of your choice, click the play button and enjoy. I hope you learn as much from him as I always do.
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Mike Dillard is an internet marketing guru who earned 10 million dollars in the last 3 years. After years of struggling in network marketing he finally discovered the strategies that top marketers in their field were doing to earn multiple six figure incomes.
I’m currently learning these strategies right now and today I learned a very simple strategy from Mike that can help you to stay focused on your goals and achieve them. It doesn’t necessarily apply to just a network marketing business you can use this strategy for success in any area of your life.
Mike Dillard attributes a lot of his success to a technique he does consistently each day. Every evening before he goes to bed he lists the top 5 things that he needs to get done the next day to lead to the eventual achievement of his goal. What you write down of course will be related to the big picture, which is your big goal. You need to always have this in mind. The way to achieve these goals is through a process of smaller steps or tasks.
Think of your goal as your house, you build it brick by brick, small task by small task. Each day you are completing 5 tasks or 5 bricks. It might be talking to the person on the phone or writing a blogpost or starting a new ad campaign. This consistent activity will bring you results. At the end of a month you’ll have 150 bricks and then in a few months time the house will be finished. Your website will be built, your book finished and your income goals reached.
Only you know what time schedule you are on. You may still be working a full time job and so have limited time to get tasks done. So you have to be able to determine just how many tasks you will commit to completing the next day.Very simply all you need to do is before you go to bed each night write down 5 productive tasks you need to complete the next day. When it comes time to start these tasks the next day, make sure you focus on one task at a time until it is done. The key is to make sure you don’t go to bed before they are completed.This shows your commitment to your goals. When you get committed like this, the Universe stops and pays attention and then begins to help by bringing those goals to you at a faster rate.
Following this simple strategy daily will bring about incredible results in your life. It will propel you forward to the attainment of your goals at a rapid pace and help develop in you the qualities of a determined, committed leader and before you know it you could be earning multiple seven figures each year like Mike Dillard does.
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How to Deal With Your Negative Emotions
Focusing on the positive is such an important thing for you to do if you want to attract great things into your life. You do get what you focus on. But what do you do with all the negative emotions that come up for you in your life? These feelings are real. You don’t want to focus on them and so create a negative world for yourself but you don’t want to ignore them either. Watch the video to see how you can best deal with your negative emotions, so that they don’t bring you negative results, but can be used to help you to bring only great things into your life.
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Will Smith’s Words of Wisdom
You don’t need to hear anything from me on this one, Will says it perfectly. It’s as if my thoughts rolled off his tongue. I’ve always loved this guy as an actor and decent human being, I just love him even more now!
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What an incredible morning I’ve unknowingly had! Life has so many magical qualities to it. One is the pull of life, the moments of one’s day, where life just pulls you in a certain way to arrive at a destination that only life knows. When you just trust in that pull and follow it, unknown surprises and deeper awarenesses are there waiting for you.
Life pulled me this morning, I followed and I grew. After a couple of days of stagnant growth, doubt, fear and questions of life’s purpose I was dragged by life to see the answers and grow to a higher awareness. When you have days like this, when you feel like nothing is going anywhere and doubt feels like the controller of your life, it’s time for you to pay attention because life is getting ready to reveal to you a deeper truth. When you ask the right questions, life will give you the right answers.
I went to a new Starbucks this morning to have tea and cookies with Kalyra. Life took me there and I followed. It was an overcast and cool morning and I was prepared to sit inside on a comfy couch, but life once again guided me to sit outside. I listened and I followed. And outside was a guy on an acoustic guitar playing his songs. Now if you’ve been following my blog, you know that music inspires me, so I was happy to sit and listen.
I didn’t just listen I was sucked into a greater awareness of life and what it means to me, through his music. My questions of the last couple of days were answered and I felt alive and inspired again. Will West is my latest favorite musician. His music and lyrics opened up a space inside of me, a space that allowed me to step into and grow just that little bit deeper.
His soulful, rootsy, folk style music was so uplifting and inspiring. He took me on such a journey back to my treasured life’s journey and I could see so clearly my incredible life, my victories and just what I’m capable of being. I was back in Thailand, listening to David Grey; I was in my early twenties roaming and playing to Bob Dylan; I was expressing life fully in Dublin to the sounds of the fiddle; and I was appreciating the beauty of my own country with Xavier Rudd. Such was the mix of his music, a perfect synergistic blend of soulful, introspective music!! (I bought Will’s CD and was not surprised to find it was titled “To inspire”, that it surely did!! And he is a Tar Heel alumni! Let’s go Tar Heels!!)
I laid my burdens down and breathed again. And here I go another step up and onwards in my journey. My love for this beautiful planet and the many different forms of music it holds runs so deep. My mission became crystal clear to me today. I serve a much higher purpose than me and my story and you and your story.
My love for this planet runs so deep, I’ve experienced so many joys within it. I’ve lived and breathed so many of its mountains, waterfalls, rivers and streams. I’ve danced to so much of it’s music and shared in so many of its diverse stories. My purpose is for life and the planet that gives us so much to grow and expand and to be.
My mission is to help others to live an empowered life to their fullest potential. For when you express who you truly are there is no other option than for the world to become a better place. Will West was expressing who he truly is today and he had a deep impact on me which in turn affects others. A better me, a better you, means a better place for all our children. Mother Earth and the life that exists here is a truly magical place and we need to protect it and raise up it’s higher vibration of love and passion. Love is the creator and protector of all things. Love is the source of all our abundance.
Feel the pull of life, feel the music of her soul and you will come to a deeper awareness of your place and how you can help to serve life and let it continue to play sweet music.
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It’s a whole Different Game of Basketball When you See an Opportunity and Act on It!
On Friday night we had tickets to watch the UNC Tar Heel, Men’s Basketball team (college) play their first game of the season. Team Makepeace are huge Carolina fans and so we always love a night out watching a game. Kalyra ( I mean Craig) is in the Carolina Kids’ club so we often get good deals on tickets.
For those of you who don’t know Micheal Jordan played for Carolina and it is the best team in the nation for College basketball having won the Championship last year. (And yes we did participate in Franklin Street fire jumping to celebrate in the victory. Hey you gotta live and try everything right? ) So Chapel Hill is always buzzing on game night, it’s a great place to be.
Well one of our dream goals is to live in Chapel Hill within walking distance to the college and have season tickets. So on Friday night we arrive right on drop ball time due to horrific Friday traffic. The usher tells us we can sit where we like but not in the roped off sections. We end up in the nosebleeds because we were late. Now the view’s not too bad but still the players are far away and it’s pretty squishy and stuffy.
After the first couple of plays I saw all these empty seats across from us right down below near courtside. We thought that maybe this was the roped off section. So we scanned the stadium, did a little research and saw some pink rope on some sections but not this one. We thought it was a little strange and wondered why they were so empty. After a short discussion we thought what the heck why not just do down there and see if we could get a seat. We only had our cramped up space to lose and we could easily find another one of those if rejected. It was so worth trying.
We walked around and saw reservation signs up for the sections we wanted to sit in and we saw ushers checking tickets. Craig just chose to give it a go and walked straight past the usher with me behind and low and behold the Universe opened it’s doors, the Usher turned his head and we walked down to seats only a couple of rows back from the Tar Heel boy’s bench, right in the Season Ticket Holder sections!
What a difference a change in seats and levels can make. It was a whole different experience for us. We were up close to the game and as a result experienced it as being so much more aggressive and fast then you experience on TV or in the nosebleeds. The energy was alive and pumping. We felt the intensity of the player’s determination to win, we could see all the other little sideline things that go on, the team meetings and so forth. The seats were bigger and more spacious. We were sitting in the section with all the UNC celebs and bigwigs and the place Jordan probably sits when he comes to watch a game. Kalyra got to meet Ramses, the sheep mascot, which she loved and made it so much more enjoyable for her.
We had a great time. Had we been still in the nosebleeds I probably would have wanted to go home early as I never would have experienced the same energy. We felt like it was where we belonged and we were so pumped after this. We just know that we are that much closer now to being real season ticket holders and experiencing every game from that place.
This whole experience got me thinking about how we ended up in those great seats and all those people who were around us originally, stayed watching the whole game from way up high in the nosebleeds. The answer is simple, we saw an opportunity and we seized it. There is no reason why all the other people couldn’t do the same thing. They were looking in the same direction as us and would have clearly seen all the empty seats below. They have the same legs as us and could have stood up and took some action to claim those seats. But instead they chose to remain in the lesser spot, probably either from fear of being told no or because they didn’t feel like they were worthy to sit anywhere else but far away from the action.
How many people go through life like this? Opportunities pass by everyone daily. Either we don’t see the opportunity or we see it but just don’t take the action to claim it either through fear or feelings of low self-worth. Taking the action to get those seats was easy for us. We really wanted it, and we took a bold step to get it. We didn’t let fear get in our way and we believed that we deserved to sit down there. And what happened the Universe magically opened up for us and gave as an incredible experience.
When you see the opportunity and take the action a whole different ball game becomes yours to experience. One that’s filled with action, intensity, energy, success, space, the best of the best, fun and a whole lot of slam dunking!
Let’s go Tar Heels let’s go! And we look pretty hot for another championship this year mind you!
Carpe Diem everyone! Seize the opportunities that come your way. You deserve it!
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A Powerful Way to Say Your Affirmations to Attract All You Desire
Just a short post with a clever little strategy to help you attract all you desire whilst saying your affirmations. A great trick to use if you are a parent. You need to make your affirmations fun and come from a place of high energy when saying them.
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How to Thrive in Today’s Economy Part 5: Serve Life
On your quest for more in your life, you constantly are searching for answers to questions about things you just can’t seem to understand. Asking questions is an important part of your spiritual journey or personal growth. I always tell my students, if you want to learn you have to ask questions and good ones at that. If you’re not asking questions then you are not seeking the knowledge you need to learn and grow.
The next important step in the process is to keep your ears and eyes open to the answers. Most of the time you don’t know where they are coming from so you need to be prepared for when they arrive. For years, I have been trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together as to ‘What am I doing here? , ’How does life work?’, ‘Is there really something greater than us out there?’ and ‘Does this higher power really support us and have a purpose for us or do things just happen randomly?
I’m sure these questions run through all our minds at some time and we think we’re never going to find the answers and well most of the time we won’t. But as I said before as long as we’re asking the questions we’re moving closer to the answers. The answers sometimes will arrive when you are fully open and ready to hear them. The old saying goes ‘When the student is ready the teacher will appear’
Listening to Yossi Ghinberg’s story was quite a ride of growth and understanding for me but the full impact was to come when I heard how he eventually was rescued. I remember the moment crystal clear as it was when my world and the meaning of it became so evident. I felt myself open up to lightness, faith and a deep understanding of what life is all about.
Yossi, exhausted and in deep pain, was struggling to keep alive. He had heard the sound of a plane flying overhead and knew someone was searching for him. He had to find his way back to the river bank and get to a clearing so that he may be seen, as it was impossible for him be seen from the bottom of the thick jungle floor.
The plane flying ahead was his friend Kevin who had managed to make it back to a village and begged for help. Reluctantly someone agreed to fly a plane over the jungle to search for Yossi but of course nothing could be seen. Kevin though would not give up, he knew Yossi was alive and he had to find his friend. He pleaded with the villagers to take him upriver in a small motorized canoe to look for him. Of course, the villagers said no. They thought Kevin was crazy. ‘He’s dead,” they told him. It’s the rainy season, he is lost and he is a gringo. None of us could survive and we know this jungle” Kevin also didn’t have any money to pay for the fuel and this was a poor village.
Kevin though would not give up, he just knew Yossi was alive and kept persisting. Eventually one man decided to help Kevin. Who knows why, something inside of him drove him to help him, even though he too truly believed that Yossi was dead. 120 miles they travelled upstream. The driver kept wanting to turn around as it was getting too dangerous but Kevin kept pleading to continue, “Just one more bend, please, just one more bend”
Meanwhile Yossi had found a clearing near the river bank and made his way to it. He no longer heard the signs of the plane and defeated, he collapsed by the river bank just behind some small bushes. In his delirious and exhausted stated he heard a buzzing sound in his ears and thought it was those insects continuing to haunt him and so did not pay it much attention.
The driver of the boat finally told Kevin that was it, they had to turn back now, it was just far too dangerous. He pulled the boat up to the bend and began to turn it around. Kevin broke down into tears, he knew that all hope was gone, that his friend was dead. The boat turned and slowly began to make it’s way back home.
At that same instant, the persistent buzzing noise managed to snap Yossi out of his confused state and he realized what the sound was. The hum of a motorboat. He popped his head up over the reeds and saw Kevin in the boat, with his back to him, moving away. He was in shock and in such a bad state that he could not even yell out Kevin’s name and he just watched as his one hope of rescue moved away downstream. Then for some reason, Kevin turned his head for one last look in the jungle and in that turn saw Yossi’s head popping out over the reeds.
The tears streamed down my face, for in that very same instant my questions were answered and I understood the meaning of life and my heart opened up to the truth. That being that there is a power at work that is far greater than me. I don’t understand it but I don’t have to. All I need to know is that it’s there and it is serving a higher purpose and I’m a part of it and that is awesome. I am part of the perfect plan of the Universe. I serve a purpose just by being alive.
Life is perfect and everything that happens, happens perfectly whether we like it or not. It is all part of a plan that serves a greater purpose. Yossi’s rescue was not a fluke or a co-incidence. There was a greater power working here to put everything in place for that one turn of Kevin’s head and that one pop up of Yossi’s. Timed to absolute perfection.
Yossi’s rescue from the jungle has allowed him to use all he learned to change the lives of so many people and to make this world a better place. That is why he experienced those harrowing circumstances. He was strong enough to survive and wise enough to learn the lessons and then do something effective with them.
Because of Yossi I learned to give up the ‘me’ story. It’s not about me, my ego and all my ego wants. It’s about life and the higher purpose. Life serves life, and I am an instrument to help it grow. Life will support me and you to become more but you have to serve life. When you begin to live your life from this place amazing things will happen for you. You just have to trust in the perfection of everything that is happening in your life right now. It might not seem like that to you if you’ve just lost your house or job but it’s all part of serving your higher purpose.
In coming to this realization, my worries and problems seemed to fade away and get smaller. I was able to trust that something perfect was happening here and to let it go and soon that instant will come when I will be rescued and will be propelled into my destiny. The same goes for you. Just let it go and trust in the perfection of life. Remove yourself from the equation and recognize the life force that runs so powerfully through you. When you can open yourself up for this truth,, you allow this life to flow freely from you with such power. Things will get clear for you and come sharply into focus and you will know what you need to do to serve life.
Halfway through Yossi’s talk during the break I met him and he gave me a hug. I felt something so powerful in his embrace, something so warm, so peaceful and so loving. It stayed with me for so long and I couldn’t work out what it was until I had this aha moment. It was life that was coming out from him so powerfully. And life is warm, peaceful, loving, supportive and kind. It supports you, raises you up and allows you to live purposefully when you open up to it.
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Thriving in Today’s Global Economy: Part 4 Serve others
Today’s blog is a continuation from the previous 3 blogs where I discuss the lessons that Yossi Ghinsberg learned through his harrowing experience lost alone in the Amazon jungle. Today we continue on with a profound experience he had which saved his life.
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Yossi was in severe pain. His feet were torn to shreds, he survived off barely any food, and he was covered in painful insect bites. One night a flash flood arrived sweeping Yossi away. He survived and spent days crawling his way through mud and debris on his hands and knees as his feet would no longer carry him. One day when he could go no further he collapsed and begged for his life to be taken.
Somewhere in the middle of his anguished weeping he heard the cry of a woman and he turned and there beside him was a lady on all fours with her head in her hands weeping. Suddenly Yossi sprung into action picked the girl up and started pushing her forward. ‘You must keep going’, he would continue to shout at her for days. ‘We will find a way out but you must keep going.’ He encouraged her and supported her. He knew he had a life to save and in that greater purpose could keep going himself. It wasn’t about him, it was about helping the woman. And then just as suddenly as she came, she disappeared. It was only a day or two later that Yossi was rescued.
Yossi felt the presence of that woman as if she was truly there. In his mind he imagined her and she saved him because she gave him something else to live and work for. Yossi discovered two things through this experience:
1) When you give up on life, life doesn’t necessarily give up on you.
2)Our true power is revealed when we give it away. When serving ourselves, our power is limited and we don’t know what our power is. But when we serve the greater good we live our true purpose. Miracles happen when we serve others. It was through serving and helping someone else (although a figment of his imagination) that Yossi was able to keep going and survive.
The world is suffering today because there are many leaders who are serving themselves only. The current global situation is present right now because of people who are serving themselves only. If only they understood the Laws of the Jungle, everything is interconnected so when you serve something else you are serving yourself as well. True leaders serve others and in doing so survive and thrive. This is abundant thinking. There is enough for all and like Zig Ziglar said ’When you help enough people get what they want in life, you’ll get what you want.’
What are you doing to serve others? How are you helping to show somebody the way and encourage them to live a better life? No matter who you are or what is happening for you right now, there is always someone doing it worse. When you are in your darkest hour reach out to the lady crying in the dark and help her find her way home first and then you will surely find yours.
(Look out for the 5th and final lesson tomorrow. Learning this from Yossi was when the veil of darkness was lifted from my eyes and I understood life. It’s my favorite and most profound lesson and the most defining moment of my life. Get this and life will be sweet for you!)
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