Make 2010 Count: Start Living Your True Purpose
This time last year, I began to ask some serious questions. I was in a lot of pain. I was always someone who lived every day in a way that made it count. Life to me was so fulfilling and full of wonder and for some reason I let that stop. I stopped making it count, I stopped making every moment count. What happened as a result was the greatest pain I had ever experienced. I have been through broken relationships, scarred upbringing, physical pain, self-loathing issues and all the rest but none of this even compared to living my life in this black hole of nothingness. This black hole of getting caught in the motions and not making it count and not living up to my true potential.
It was a choice. But I chose to be less than what I was. I chose to not live my life on purpose and I chose to run from my true purpose in life, through fear and self-doubt. With that came so many issues and problems, wake up calls from the Universe to get the big picture. Finally I got it and I asked the question ‘What is it I have to do?’ It was burning inside of me and I knew I was destined to do much better things. I just knew that I couldn’t have had almost 10 amazing years traveling the world and learning so much for it all to be for nothing. I finally understood that the Universe wanted me to do something with all of that knowledge, which I had been denying. I knew it was time for me to do it or I was going to keep suffering.
With that one question, came so many answers and 2009 became a year of incredible growth and preparation. When you ask the right questions you will get the right answers. If you are willing to say ‘Yes, I accept, I will do whatever it is I came here to do, and whatever it takes to do it‘ then you will tap into a powerful force of life.
When you do not live your full potential, when are not walking the path of your destiny, you cut yourself off from life. Underneath these ‘human being’ bodies of ours lies a powerful life force; each of ours is unique, as each of us has a special task to do through the life force. This life power is here to fuel our purpose, and if you aren’t living on purpose you are cut off from the true power of life. So much suffering comes as a result which appears in many different forms. These are all wake up calls for you.
In 2009, I began to learn that I am so much more. I moved back onto my path and my life is so empowered once again. It’s frightening to step outside of your comfort zone to be more, but I know that it is more painful not to. 2010 is the year that counts. What is 2010 going to mean for you? Is it the year that you ask the right questions, to learn and discover that you are worth so much more? To learn that you have unlimited potential, that you have something so unique and worthwhile to contribute.
Make 2010 count. Make each moment, each day count. Why else are you here? To be sad, to be miserable, to be surrounded by problems that never end? Think about how ridiculous that sounds. That is not living, that is not why we are born. It is not in our nature to live this way. This only happens when we don’t make our lives count. Make the decision,as 2009 comes to a close, to make 2010 count.
Forget the New Year’s resolutions. They rarely work. All you need to do is to commit to making it count. When you focus your life in this way, incredible things will happen for you. There’s no need to make resolutions as you will be in the flow of life’s power. You are worthy, you are powerful and you are good. Allow yourself the space to be free and to be who you really are. You have nothing to fear and everything to gain.
Make it count. 2010 is your year, make it count!
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Live Your Life so It’s a Story to Tell
In order to live the most fulfilled life, you have to live it and experience the many different joys of it. It’s so easy to get stuck just living the everyday mundane tasks. And the moments when life offers us the opportunity to experience something new we usually allow our conditioned thoughts of fear of failure and doubt to get in the way and keep us doing only what we know. This is known as the safe route, which at times is a beneficial route but not often if you want to live an exciting life.
I want to share with you a way of thinking or a philosophy that I have employed throughout my life. It works and it has allowed me to live a fulfilled life by trying many different things. It’s simply, ‘live your life so it’s a story to tell’. When you think like this, fear tends to take a back seat, and your a lot braver to try new and different things. It’s all the more exciting if you can share it with someone. It helps you to become an interesting person and it enables you to live your best life.
‘Live your life so it’s a story to tell’ has given me many experiences and as a result lots of insightful wisdom I can share with others. As someone who in their teenage years was very shy and felt I had nothing to contribute or talk about this was an essential philosophy for me to adopt to change the beliefs I had about myself and what I could offer. ‘Live your life so it’s a story to tell‘ has been a huge builder of courage for me. It helps to make me step up to the plate and just do it.As a result of this I’ve created stories of global adventures, dare-devil experiences, profitable investments, disastrous investments, entrepreneur activities, friendships spanning many countries, trying new foods, sports and activities and so on.
I’ve also found one of the most empowering things about this philosophy, is it helps you to get over those challenging times in your life. When things go wrong for me, I often think ‘Well I guess I’ve now got a story to tell.’ This is so empowering as it allows you to get over it. It helps you to understand the real version of the story is now over and you can move on to better things. It allows you to take something positive from the negative.
Enrich your life and make it rewarding. The next time your faced with a decision or an opportunity to do something a little different, out of the box or your comfort zone, take control of your fears and doubts by saying “Why not? At least it will be a story to tell!”
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Have Problems with Trust?
Watch the video for a great analogy to use if you have difficulty trusting yourself, the Universe or others. This analogy will help you to see that if you don’t trust you end up going nowhere and to get to where you want to go.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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Time Management: The Key To Your Success
Managing time is a common complaint in people’s lives. It’s the reason so many people quit in their pursuit of wealth and happiness or why they don’t get started in the first place. Often it’s not the case of not having enough time but of not managing it effectively.
Everyone has the same number of hours everyday with many tasks that consume them. What are you choosing to consume your time? Is it the latest Gossip girl episode or hour long conversations to your friends. The key is to prioritize and to do the key tasks first that are going to move you closer to the achievement of your goals.
I’m currently committed to writing one article/content piece a day for the next 100 days and submitting them throughout the web. It is incredibly time consuming and I have to be very tight with my time management. Today I was struggling and as you see through the video I found 5 minutes in the car to create a quick piece of content.
If you are committed to your dreams and goals you will manage your time so you do what needs to be done. If you are committed you will find the time. You will find pockets of time here and there whilst doing your daily chores, to complete tasks that move you forward toward your goals.
As Yossi Ghinsberg says:
‘Dreams are not for sleeping, they should keep you awake at night.’
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Sitting in Starbucks this afternoon my eyes were drawn to a quote painted on a snowflake on the wall. Starbucks’ walls are currently lined with snowflakes with creative Christmas wishes and quotes written inside them. This one in particular drew my attention for reflection and served as a beautiful reminder to me of something that is so easy to forget. It read:
‘I wish everyone could see how much we all have in common’
To me this statement seems so obvious and true and so dear to my heart, but I know to many it is not. Actually most 
people tend to view the world in terms of differences. That is why there is so much hatred, so much violence and sadness that surrounds us each day. It’s viewing the world through the eyes of difference that allows the disease of hatred and fear to be born and grow.
Viewing the world through the eyes of commonality makes our planet such a beautiful place to live. Would you be less likely to lash out and hurt another if all you saw was how they were just like you? I’m sure your hand would quickly retreat and your hurtful words would remain stuck on your tongue if you did.
Sure there are many differences that exist between us all but is this what’s important? Is this what we should focus on and focus on it only in a bad way? How about we instead celebrate the differences and open our hearts to perhaps learn something from another person who may think a little differently than you and enrich your life because of it. Tremendous value would be added to your life as a result of you being able to experience briefly the many different flavours of life.
Differences amongst us all are there for this reason, not to make us feel afraid or inferior. It’s not better or worse it is just different. Understanding this is the underlying foundation for building tolerance. And when you build tolerance, peace, love and acceptance exist and can thrive in abundance. Doesn’t this make for a better world?
The greatest lesson of my life was for me to travel and experience the world. Before that I was ignorant to it, and so afraid of the differences between us all. I viewed the world through these eyes and my world, consequently, was so small. When I began to open up and see the world through the many different colored eyes of belief and experience, life became one magnificent kaleidoscope. I could see me reflected in others and they in me. Peace took root in my heart and began to grow.
When I began to view life through the eyes of what we have in common it became so beautiful. I fell in love with life and became so fulfilled by it. I saw how no matter where in the world I was people still laughed at the same things, cried in the same way, had similar traditions, loved deeply and celebrated passionately. At first it surprised me at just how alike we all were and this in itself is surprising to me now. I discovered it was just the minute details that were different; the truths were always the same. Our bodies are made of the same stuff and underneath that all lies the pure power and essence from which we all come.
The next time you meet someone for the first time look deeply into their soul and see just how alike they are to you. Open your heart to it and you will feel it with such clarity. The differences are so insignificant yet they are there to be embraced. It doesn’t mean you have to change who you are, think like them, feel afraid or inferior; you just have to be open to accepting and loving just how fascinating they and their differences are. Just like you…
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A Positive Way to Deal with People Who Disappoint You and Let Go of the Grudge
Your journey through life is going to present you with many people who are going to upset you, disappoint you , betray you, belittle you and so forth. There is a myriad of ways that people will let you down, it’s just a part of life.With that comes many different ways that you can react to these. You can cry, rage, insult, moan, become a victim or plot awful acts of revenge. All of these don’t add value to your life or propel you forward as much as we love to do them or think they help us.
When we feel slighted or wronged in any way we tend to hold on to those resentful feelings for as long as possible. We stew over them and create a ripple effect by carrying those feelings with us and impacting all those we come across. This is not healthy for our growth or for those who come in contact with our wrath. So how do we deal with it? We don’t just want to let these people get away with it. We need a healthy way to release the feelings and move on whilst at the same time still enjoying a little of the feelings of coming out on top.
We discovered a brilliant way to deal with people who just frustrate you and disappoint you. It’s a brilliant strategy to use these ill feelings to get you catapulting yourself forward in a positive way.We learned this a couple of years ago from our friend and celebrity life coach Johnny Wimbrey. It’s really very effective as it adds a little humor to it, makes it all seem so much less worrisome than it should be and gives you a sense of revenge that we all love! But what it does is it enables you to let go of the grievance very quickly and keep moving forward.
All you do is imagine yourself driving down the road in your dream car with the top down and your hair blowing in the breeze. It’s a gorgeous summer day you’ve got your sarong and thongs (flip flops)on and your on the way to the beach. First you want to visit your friend (the one who has annoyed or disappointed you) You pull into their driveway and hop out of the car, the picture of wealth and happiness. They are watching you as you walk up to knock on the front door, carrying a box.
When they open the door you greet them with your biggest smile. And Say “G’day I was just on my way to the beach and just thought I’d drop you a box of your favorite doughnuts to let you know I was thinking of you on one of my many days off.” You hand them the box of doughnuts, give them a huge smile and a wave and drive off down the road to the beach in your flashy sports car.
What a great picture! It keeps you focused on your goal of wealth and happiness. It makes you feel light-hearted about it all and you can chuckle thinking how good it will feel to prove the person who upset you wrong. A much more positive picture. You can have your revenge without vicious and hateful feelings and you can easily let it go.
Now, when someone offends us, my husband and I usually just say ‘Put them on the doughnut list!’ , then immediately we have stopped thinking about the person and how much they have wronged us. We have a chuckle, feel like we’ve won and our day is not destroyed. In a quick sentence they are out of our minds and we can move forward. It’s a powerful way to turn your frustration and anger into a motivating force.
Just put them on your doughnut list!!
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Think Outside of the Box
Your whole life is spent surrounded by boxes, you live in a box yet you are told to think outside of the box. How can you do this when life is lived in a box? You are not the box, you do not need to be dictated by the box and conform to it because of your fears.
The natural laws are not part of the box, they are part of the ever expanding Universe and when you realize you are this planet you will break free from the box. Life will become a great adventure for you and will become very big. You get back to who you are, a powerful, limitless being with so much to offer the world.
When you live in the box you are restricted to four walls and corners. There is no space for you to expand and flourish in abundance and worth. Outside of the box you are extremely powerful, there are no limits to your growth. You can be, do and have whatever you want.
But it’s up to you, to recognize the box you have placed yourself in and to be daring enough to step out of it. Once you do your possibilities become endless. Break free from the box and see what I see.
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What! Have you gone mad Caroline??? You want me to turn off my TV, close my newspaper and shut off the world around me. I could never do that. How will I ever know what is happening around me in the world? How will I survive, I long for my daily news broadcast to hear the number of rapes and murders that happened that day? How will I know what country is bombing who or what politician is lying and who is the latest celebrity to spend time in jail?
The sad thing is I used to be the same way. You become so accustomed to the automatic lifestyle of turning on the TV, radio or opening the newspaper and immersing yourself in the daily, depressing, disasters in the world around you. Have you ever stopped for a moment to think about what sort of an impact this is having on you, your family and your home environment? I bet you haven’t. We don’t; we unconciously go about doing things the way we always have and not stopping to really think about the damage it is causing you.
Think about it. After you’ve heard all the bad stories of the world, how do you feel? I bet you’re not jumping up for joy with how wonderful life is, how happy it makes you feel, and how the Earth is such a beautiful, loving, miraculous place. Is this what you talk about throughout your day. No, I can guarantee not. After beginning your day with negative news your day will remain in that frame of thinking. You’ll be mad at the world, and think everyone is crazy and it’s such a messed up place and you’ll take that negative energy with you throughout the day. You can’t think that it does not have a negative impact on you and your happiness. It does.
Traveling as much as I have and spending months on the road, I’ve gone for long periods of time with no association with the outside world at all. I’ve been completly shut off from media. Traveling allows you the opportunity to live each moment in the present and just enjoy the beauty of the now. You become so in love with life and the planet and all you see is how precious and magical everyone and everything is. This is the truth and this is all you see as you immerse yourself in the truth of life. When you don’t have interference every day with negative news, and soap operas, then you can witness a pure and magical world. Which is what it really is.
Of course, living a day to day life I’ve easily slipped back into a life on the couch and media bombardment. I saw how awful it made me feel and how out of touch I was with reality as a result. So over the last 6 months I have made a concerted effort to go on a media fast. (except for watching sport) I love it. I spend my days doing productive activities, laughing and playing with my daughter and husband, reading empowering books, learning incredible new things, growing as a person and just seeing the world as a happy, beautiful place again. There is so much more peace and joy in my life as a result.
I have no idea what is happening in the world. I know if it’s that bad that I need to know someone will surely tell me. I don’t know how the stock market is doing, I have no idea if a hurricane is approaching or if we are out of a recession yet. I don’t need to know. My life is powering ahead as a response. Like attracts like. The further I stray from negative news the more powerful and happy my life becomes.
Now when I hear of negative news stories or happen to see it somewhere in passing, I feel absolutely sick to my stomach. I am not immune to it anymore. I feel so depressed because I can’t see life as being that bad and I hate hearing about it. I’m not shutting myself off from reality. It’s just a reality I choose not to focus on, it’s not a reality for me. Why? Because I like my happy, peaceful world so much better where people are loving and kind and spend their days in joy. Spend some time away from media and you’ll begin to experience this more too.
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