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This is why you may not succeed in 2010

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Let’s face it, you probably made resolutions every new year and you never stuck with any of them. So why should this year be any different?

You see the problem is not with the resolutions or with the economy or anything else you may use as an excuse. The problem is you.

Unless you change something about you, nothing else that you’re trying to change will change. Here’s why.

If you try to change something on the outside without changing you, the way you unconsciously do things, you’ll find that soon all your resolutions will be forgotten and you’ll return to the way you are (your habits).

No matter how motivated you’re unless you change your habits which forms a part of who you are, nothing will change.

Habits can serve you well or they can pull you down. If you have tried to change on your own, come every new years and its just not working for you, then maybe its time you do something different.

Maybe its time you ask for help.

Help with motivation, help with accountability, help with focus.

Two is always better than one.

You can do so much more and get so much farther if you know that someone’s got your back.

There’s someone who can get you of the failed resolutions bandwagon for good.

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How to deal with regrets

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

How to Deal With Regrets

Do you ever have the feeling that you were meant to do something more?

That you aren’t living to your fullest potential?

Are you occasionally jealous of friends and colleagues who get ahead when you can’t?

Have you ever gone to sleep feeling stressed by the number of things on your to-do list… and awakened to the same feeling of anxiety?

When you look back at your life, do you regret any of the dreams you never chased?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, you are not alone.

These are the anxieties and concerns of intelligent people who expect more from life… and therefore more from themselves.

What happens with many could-be super successful people is that they try so hard to meet their many responsibilities that they never get to the things that will really improve their lives.

But, you can find out how to break free of this vicious cycle.

Find out right here…

Everything Counts!

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Why Worry, It Will Only Add to Your Troubles

Monday, December 21st, 2009

I was sitting this morning and looking at a complimentary annual calender from the security company that guard our house.

The calender features beautiful birds from all over the world. I marvelled at the birds with their beautiful features and remembered this verse in the Bible: “Don’t worry about what you’ll eat and drink. Look at the flowers and the birds in the wild. They don’t worry about any of those things, yet your father in heaven provides for them

It continues “Now if God cares that much for flowers and birds that are here today and gone tomorrow, how much more will he care for
you?”

So, I encourage you. Stop worrying about what is not working or the “bad” things that might or might not happen. Instead, focus on what you want and make it happen.

All the best.

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Life’s Golden Rules

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

I have found the following to be some of life’s golden rules. Follow them and you’ll lead a life that can’t help but be smooth and charmed. They under no particular order and one is not necessarily more important than the other. Remember what is written in the Bible… “If you disregard one iota of the law, it is as if you’ve disregarded it all”

- Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you
- If you open something, close it
- If you remove something, put it back
- If you promise something, do it
- If you love someone, show it
- If you do something wrong, apologize
- If you can’t say something good about someone or something, don’t say it at all
- If you have a problem with someone, raise it with the person concerned, rather than with someone else
- Stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything

These are just a few that I can think of right now, but I’ll add some more as I remember them. I’m sure, you too have picked up a few glden rules that you found works for you.

You’re welcome to add them.

Be blessed…

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Do Our Relationships Determine Our Success?

Monday, May 4th, 2009

I saw this great quote today on Twitter. “The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.” Stephen Covey

What does it mean… Is what we do or say not a result of “who we are?”

Not necessarily.

From time to time or when in a particular situation, we may say or do things that don’t reflect who we are in order to:

1) impress someone (get someone to like us by doing what we think they want to hear or see)

2) manipulate others (create a false impression so as to get our way)

However, that doesn’t really show who we are. Who or what we are is what we do and say consistently over time.

By temporarily doing or saying things differently, we may fool one person for a short period of time, but you won’t fool the rest of the
people you come into contact with.

However when you change who you are, people everywhere become aware of it, and will start responding to you differently.

Yesterday I attended church where the focus was also on relationships.

The message was that relationships are at the core of everything that we call “life.”

You don’t have to be a certain way or do things in a certain way. Just be yourself and love people genuinely and people will respond
to you

Get it wrong and you’ll feel that life sucks.

However, get it right and you’ll feel that life is great.

The best place to start changing who you are is with the people who are the closest to you. The Universe is infinitely interconnected, so when you genuinely start caring about those who are closest to you, even those who are not so close to you will feel it and start responding to you.

Do this and you’ll find that life, including your business, will suddenly start to feel great.

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The Power of Love!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

As we go through life we encounter different people and based on our initial impression, we form certain assumptions about them. They say “first impressions count,” right?

Based on how things went the first time we met, I may start to think of John as a “lazy person” or of Sarah as “unreliable.” And what happens is that once that first impression is formed, we automatically start to expect this person to “be true” to that label of being “lazy” or “unreliable” and we are likely to get that behavior.

But what if we, in spite of that negative first impression, choose to expect something different. Maybe “expect” doesn’t go deep enough, and is perhaps not the right word, because I expected people to behave differently from the first impression I had of them, but I kept on getting the same behavior.

What if we choose to “see” this person differently and treat him differently. Would they still have the same old negative behavior or attitude that struck us the first time about this person?

The answer is no!

You see… the thing is this. The way we are often, is the way our parents and other people treated us during our childhood. Unfortunately we internalized those experiences and started to believe certain things about ourselves. Once we believed that about ourselves we started to act that way. Perhaps somebody said “I was lazy” or “I was useless and that I wasn’t going to amount to anything.”

The reality is that we believe that.

Now, unless somebody else chooses to look beyond the act I may put up, and choose to love me anyway, I may never change.

We have the power to change our experiences in life, not just in terms of the situations we encounter but also in how people realte to us, purely by choosing to hold thoughts and images of love and appreciation for everyone we meet.

But I guess you already knew that. Maybe its not that you don’t know it, maybe its just that you think it is too much effort, which usually means you don’t think the person is worthy of that effort. After all, every person is responsible for his own life, right?

Everyone is indeed responsible for his own life and you would be absolutely right in thinking that way, except. What if you’re that other peron who needs to be loved, understood and appreciated.

I know that for many years I may not have acted worthy of love and appreciation. However someone somewhere chose to “see” me differently. Someone, somewhere decided that I was worth understanding, appreciating and investing in.

It would then be safe to say that I am the person I am, because someone loved me enough that they chose to not look at me the way I was, but the way I can be.

The German philosopher, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said:
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that”

We all have people around us, including our partners, spouses and children who may act in ways that we don’t approve of. And perhaps we tried to change them physically and gave up because it wasn’t working? Perhaps what we should do, is to see and treat them differently.

Maybe we should start thinking good and loving thoughts about them and visualize them as happy people who have found their purpose in life and who are loving and are loved by everyone. And when we start showering others with our love, we can’t help but basking in that same love as others start showering us with love.

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You are the source: When you move everything moves…

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

You are the source of your life. That means you hold the key to everything that happens in your life. When you breath everything breathes with you. When you move, everything moves with you.

In the same way, when you stop everything stops.

Have you noticed how a plant never seems to grow when you watch it? However when you leave it to do what it normally does and go on with life, it also continuous with its business so that when you return after a while you found that it actually grew.

Everything in life is like that. They take their cue from you. If you focus on what is not working, it will not work. But if you trust that it knows how to do things and you do something else that gives you joy then it will follow your cue.

 You are the source, you are the architect.

You are the one that gives life when you focus on what you want. However, you are also the one who takes it away when you hold beliefs and thoughts that don’t support your goals and dreams.

Life is simple and easy and goes like this.

  • Focus on what you want
  • Find something that you love and do it with passion and everything will magically fall in place.

 What makes it happen is love.

However we complicate life when we doubt if we will get to where we want to go, and become resentful and angry and frustrated.

But you can change all that when you realize that you alone are the source of everything that happens to you and take responsibility for your life. Blaming people and circumstances won’t help you, it will just keep you where you are.

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Fortune favors the brave

Friday, September 19th, 2008

What is the quality or trait most highly valued by the Universe?

 I don’t know the answer to that question, but what I do know is that “courage” is one of the traits that the Universe values highly. So highly, in fact that the Universe almost always rewards the courageous.

Whenever you go and look throughout history you’ll find that all the greatest discoveries; the greatest feats were accomplished by men and women who had this rare but powerful quality.

Without courage it is impossible to demonstrate faith, and the Bible teaches that without faith it is impossible to please God.

If you want to make your dreams come true you need courage.

  • Courage to be yourself
  • Courage to go on when it seems there is nowhere else to go
  • Courage to believe in your dreams and to do whatever it takes to make it come true when others don’t see it and advise you against it
  • Courage to follow your instincts when the experts point somewhere else
  • Courage to believe that it is possible to do something that has never been done before and to attempt it.

 If you haven’t manifested your dreams yet, could it be that the one thing that is missing in your life is this very quality, “courage.”

Even if you have done all the other things that the law of attraction teaches, there is still one thing that you need to do, and that is to take action. This requires courage and this is where many students of the law of attraction fail.

They want everything to come to them, and although you may get some things on a silver platter you have to do something 90% of the time.

Even the person who wins the lottery, which by the way is one of the easiest ways to become rich, has to purchase the ticket and claim his winnings.

I remember always thinking by myself, I don’t just want to be rich. I wanted to be confident in myself and my ability to accomplish things including creating wealth, and I’m so glad that I didn’t win a lottery or something like that. Because people who win lotteries or fell into money through other ways are so afraid of losing it, because they didn’t work for it and don’t know how to recreate it, should they lose it.

Although it is nice to just have things just fall into your lap, there is a purpose behind having challenges. It makes you strong and gives you the courage to take on bigger goals. It gives you confidence in yourself and in your abilities, that you’ll be able to handle things, no matter what happens.   

So stop worrying about if things will work out or not, just do it and see what happens. Remember, fortune always favors the brave.

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How to Know If Your Breakthrough is Imminent?

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

How do we know that our breakthrough is near?

Achieving success in life is almost down to a science now. We know what we need to do attain our goals and live the life of our dreams. However the road is usually not easy and things don’t always go as planned. All these difficulties cause many people to give up thinking they will never get to their destination.

It is estimated that most of those who give up do so just before their breakthrough. They had already covered 90% of the journey, and all that was left is a 10%. However those people didn’t know that. If they had known, they might have continued on.

 In his book “Think and Grow Rich” Napoleon Hill makes reference to a man called R. U. Darby and his Uncle who went drilling for gold. When they couldn’t find the gold deposits they gave up. However not long after they gave up, gold was discovered just three feet from where the Darbys had stopped. So is there a way to figure out if your success is imminent or is there no way to tell? To answer this question I have done a bit of research. I have looked at the lives of very successful people to see if there was some kind of pattern that I could discern. And what I found is not what you would expect.

What I found is that in most cases just before people got their breakthrough things got worse. People started to experience all kinds of crisis. Sometimes there were multiple crises. These are things that will make you question your sanity and will challenge your very fabric. And this is unfortunately where many fail the test. Those who are millionaires and billionaires today know what I’m talking about. They faced periods of upheaval in their lives and stuck through it. At this time it may seem like everything is turning against you.

Your family may turn against you. You may be accused of being selfish, of only thinking about yourself. The weather may turn against you; equipment that is normally reliable may suddenly start to malfunction. But this is the time when something called “faith” is required. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, of things hoped for. The Bible calls Abraham the called the father of Faith, because he is the first person who is recorded as having shown faith. What did Abraham do? He trusted God to give him a son, even though he and his wife were very old and therefore beyond the age of childbirth.

Abraham later followed the instruction of God to sacrifice his son, the very son that God gave him in a miraculous way. This didn’t make any sense, but still Abraham obeyed, trusting that God knew what he was doing and would somehow offer a way out. Indeed, God provided a way out. He called Abraham just before he killed his son and offering him a ram to be sacrificed instead.

Not many people know this but before Bill Gates got the big breakthrough that made him a household name, he was actually struggling financially. It was a contract by IBM, the world’s first PC maker that saved him. Others faced rejection. The founder of Hotmail Sabeer Bathia was rejected by 19 Venture Capitalists before he found someone who saw the potential of their idea agreed to support it.

On his non-stop around the world airplane flight Steve Fosset’s instruments indicated that he had too little fuel and would not make it to the finish line. He chose not to trust the instruments and to trust his instincts instead. He made it to the end with the fuel that he had. Non-stop around the world balloonists, Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard, also experienced instrument malfunctions as well as difficult officials in China and India who threatened to refuse them entry into their respective countries. Their instruments also malfunctioned, indicating that they wouldn’t make it to their end destination with the fuel they had. They continued, trusting their gut instead, and became the first people to circumvent the globe non-stop in a balloon. I can give you many more examples of people who had some “impossible” odds against them, yet kept a cool head and made it, in spite of.

So how will you know if your breakthrough is imminent? Look at the things that are happening in your life. Are they getting worse without any seeming cause? Are people going out of their way to make things difficult for you?

Your breakthrough may be just around the corner. So instead of giving up and becoming bitter towards what is happening in your life, accept “what is” and move forward. Forgive those who harmed you or made things difficult for you. Keep on doing the things that you know will bring you the success you crave and before you know it, it will be there.

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Does the Law of Attraction Work – With Examples!

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Does the law of attraction work? Yes it does, and I’m going to give you some examples, both from the ancient times and from my own life.

From the moment that you start to clearly express your desire the law of attraction starts to work for you, by attracting the things you say want.

In order to make the things you want come into this physical plane, the Universe has to arrange people, places, circumstances and most importantly, you.

You see, when you are poor and you say you want to be rich; there are some adjustments that have to be made to you. Poor people believe, think and act in a way that perpetuates poverty and this has to be changed. This is to ensure that you don’t lose everything that you get just after getting it or that the new-found wealth doesn’t ruin you.

You know the saying, “easy come, easy go”, and you just have to look at real-life events to see how true this statement is. People who win lotteries and get instant huge sums of money in other ways are just unable to cope with the demands brought about by this sudden wealth. And as a result most of those who get money in this way lose it just as quickly.

That is why there is a process that has to take place. And sometimes this process can be painful, especially when you resist it.

Whenever something happens to you in life, you have a choice in how you respond to it.

And the way that you respond to it, will determine whether things will unfold smoothly and fast for you or whether things will be drawn out and very painful.

Let me give you an example from ancient times. When the Jews were in Egypt, they were enslaved and mistreated by the Egyptians. They longed for a
better life where they could be free.

God heard their prayers and put the law of attraction into motion. But there was a process that happened, things didn’t just happen instantly. First there was the persecution that got worse, and then Pharaoh refused to let them go as demanded by God through Moses. And just when they thought it was all over after they left Egypt, God led them through a desert.

The law of attraction was still working for them, and they were attracting the life they wanted, but they had to be changed so that they were ready for the Promised Land. In order for this to happen, they had to be put into a pressure cooker of some sort, and the desert as well as all the experiences they had so far, provided that.

Remember I said, the way you respond to what happens in your life, will determine whether things will unfold smoothly and fast for you or whether things will be drawn out and very painful. Here you see a very good example of that.

The Jews resisted their new situation, and some of them even longed back to the life they had in Egypt, which was a life they desired to get out of. The end result of this resistance is that they spent 40 years wandering through the desert.

The journey to the Promised Land would perhaps have taken them 1 year or even less than that, if they had “accepted” what they were going through as part of the process and instead trusted their God.

Today, we are no different. I can tell you stories of all the things I went through because I resisted the process. Why could others have what they want and I couldn’t? I didn’t understand why, but I wasn’t ready and I had to be cut and formed first. It took me years to get to where I am so that I could eventually manifest my dreams and desires, while it took others mere months or perhaps a year.

Don’t wait for years to manifest your desires and attract the life you want

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