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Stop and Hear the Music - an Urban Legend?

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:25:03 PST

A Violinist in the Metro: Urban Legend?

This is a story that appeared in newspapers, websites and blogs all over the world since 2007 - An urban legend?

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.

Do You Know What Time It Is?

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:27:10 PST

“No matter how persistent the illusion time is, it is still and illusion.”
Albert Einstein

The other day I watched a BBC documentary on ‘Time’ by Professor Brian Cox called 'Do You Know What Time It Is'. The interesting point was that time is nothing but an illusion. It’s a trick.

It is different for each and every one of us as we live in individual bubble-like lives. We have our own perception of what time really is.

They had someone phone Sydney where it was midday from London 11am the day before. Which time is correct? What is ‘now’ here can’t be ‘now’ there too.

Keep looking Don’t Settle.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:18:59 PST

Keep looking Don’t Settle.
Steve Jobs

We are told it is good to have a balanced life. I can remember as a child being told that this was the secret to life. Not too much not too little. Just find the perfect balance.

I have found that this advice is wrong. Not just wrong but completely wrong.

If you have goals that you what to achieve in life then life is not about balance.

Although for some people, having a good working life, home life and church life is their desire and that’s good, if that’s what you want. But for most people they want success or to achieve greatness or personal goals in their lives.

Tiger Woods, Paul McCartney, Steve Jobs and Tom Cruise are all great examples of people that live anything but a balanced life. The one thing they all have in common is they are obsessed with a burning passionate desire for something that has made them the top of their field.

The Power of Space.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:28:01 PST

Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space in lies your power and freedom to choose your response
In those responses lie your growth and your happiness. Author unknown

Between whatever happens to you in life and your response there is a small space in time. In that space you can choose to let go and be in auto pilot by having blind faith in that you will be ok. Or on the other hand you can take over the controls and have complete control of your destiny.

We all have the power of choice.
The more we exercise this power to choose.
The more freedom you get and your space grows larger.

On the other hand the more a person does not choose to use this space wisely.
The smaller this space becomes until there is no space at all.
They spend all their time reacting to everything and anything in life.
More than often they are the complainers.

A hunter does not aimlessly shoot a bullet in the air and complain about not hitting the target.
They aim and take control of the outcome.

The Super-Conscious Mind [Video]

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:24:33 PST

The Super-Conscious Mind (Pt 1 of 4)
Here is a series of videos I found really interesting from the Discovery Channel.

See parts 2 - 4

The Expanding World

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:47:36 PST

A man walking home along the street notices a complete stranger standing ahead of him.

The stranger smiles and politely asks him if he would like $1 million to spend on anything he deeply desires, but he must spend it at the local mall.

The man readily agrees and can’t believe his good fortune.
He walks into the mall and instantly sees a suit. It is a horrible colour and design but he says I will have that and buys it.

Finds an ugly dining table that is outdated but thinks I will have that and buys it. Finds a huge range of books he will never read let alone like them and buys the lot.

This goes on all day until the money is gone.

When the man gets home he complains and rants and raves to the stranger.
Why is my home filled with all these things I don’t want, I don’t like?

The Stranger replies “You were asked to spend the money on what you deeply desire. The choice was yours to choose what you liked not what you don’t like”.

Fear of public speaking

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:48:46 PST

Recently I was invited to speak at an event; while I was sitting in my seat waiting I felt the familiar unwelcome feeling of nerves building-up. The heart starting to beat faster the thoughts of key points I needed to make bouncing around in my head.

I found myself starting to second guessing everything from opening words to reminding myself not to “mmm” and “ahhhh”.

This all brought back to me from many years ago a lesson I learnt about speaking from a group of friends. One of them was a confident young corporate highflyer; she was attending a public speaking course and was trying a few of her newly learnt tricks on us.

What she had us do was to stay seated at the table and talk about something you are very passionate about. We all took a turn and were having a good laugh. Now she arranged the chairs in rows like a hall than asked us to stand up with a fake microphone and talk again about the same topic.

Now we all stumbled and struggled where moments before in the same room to the same people it was so much easier.

What happened?
Why such a difference?

Lost Car Keys

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:47:59 PST

I was talking to a friend today. He was explaining how he had unexpected visitors stay with him over the weekend. He came home and walked in the door and put his car keys down in an unfamiliar place.

It wasn’t until the next day that he realised that the keys were missing. He started to search around in the normal places and pace around the house.

Funny thing was that he noticed that his mind was starting to overreact by panicking and thinking of a ‘plan B’ by trying to work out other ways of getting to work while he was still searching.

Suddenly he stopped and did something different. Walked to the kitchen, poured a glass of water sat down and relaxed allowing the panic to totally subside away. He then slowly got up and walked into the spare room put his hand around the back of the couch and picked up the keys. From a place he would never normally put them.

The Power House for the mind

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:45:36 PST

Where does the power come from that makes some people so successful?

How can one person reach amazing success?

Yet another and more than often a person with more qualifications, overall higher skill level plus having more odds stacked in their favour is so unsuccessful in life?

Some might say ‘They are lucky’ or ‘They land on their feet’.

But more than often luck has nothing to do with it….

One of the key factors to getting the real power house of success working for you is passion.

The successful person uses repetition with passion over a long period of time. Often they are not even aware of it. They seem to just get caught up in the passion of loving what they do.

In fact most of the people that get this continued success would do what they do even if they didn’t get paid for it. It’s not just about the money.

Negative thinking v Defensive thinking

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:45:06 PST

Have you ever noticed negative thinking comes easier to us than positive thoughts?

That through the day we often think negatively before positive. It is easy to beat yourself up thinking you’re a negative person when maybe you are not negative after all….

Imagine you had an over protective mother that is with you every moment of every day. No matter how fast you run and hide she is there inside your head always.

Warning you of things like:

“Don’t touch that, it might burn you”.
“Don’t run or you might fall”
“Don’t walk or you might be late”
“Don’t be late or you’ll get in more trouble”.

This over protective mother is trying to warn you of every possible accident that might happen to you all through the day. All day chatting to you, fully intending to be helpful by trying to protect you from every possible outcome. Like most mothers she has been there for you since the day you were born.

Reality: It’s the little things that count

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:46:21 PST

“A small leak can sink a great ship” Benjamin Franklin

If we look up at the stars at night what you’re seeing was ‘Now’ for the stars in time millions of years ago.

Not now, not this second as you are seeing it. It is just an illusion as some of these stars may no longer exist. It all happened in the past. You are looking at the past and not the now as it may seem to you.

What has happened to you in your life up to this point is not who you are. It is what you have become from your thoughts and thinking and actions from the past.

It is the small thoughts and the things we do often in our day to day habits to where the real mind power is. As you begin to change your thoughts and no matter how small, your new reality with instantly follow.

Alignment with yourself

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:43:41 PST

Have you ever driven a car that was out of alignment?

It’s hard to hold the steering wheel steady. If you let go the car has a mind all of its own and pulls you away from your desired direction. You quickly find out that you can’t let go of the steering wheel if you want to keep control and stay on the road.

Most things in life are so much easier to deal with day to day when you are deeply happy and aligned within yourself about who, why, where and what you are.

A misaligned vehicle takes much greater focus and much more physical strength just to keep it pointed in the right direction. Your life isn’t any different.

It is just like when you are about to take-off in a plane.
“If a mask should drop down in front of you put yours on first before attending to others”. Success is really all about alignment. When you’re out of alignment, with whom you are and with what you came here to do. You are not completely in control of your actions.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:44:02 PST

As we grow up in life we are educated and trained to fit into a box that society believes that we need to conform too.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

We are taught everything from writing, maths to reading.
We spend all our younger years in schools learning all we need so we can take on the world for ourselves.

But the ironic thing here is the one thing we all use every moment of the day for everything we do we get no training for.
Just left to our own devices.

What am I talking about?
Your mind…

Everything you do in your day is first started with a thought in your mind.
A thought first goes through your mind about getting out of bed, having a shower, making a coffee in the morning or a thought is used first to finish that important report. It all starts with thinking.

Yet in school we get no training on how to get the best from your mind or better still what kind of thinking is good for you.
What thinking and thoughts gets results.
What habits you should encourage or avoid.

Outside Inside | Busy being busy

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:43:23 PST

We spend most of our lives busy at being busy.

On the phone, working, driving, texting, twittering, facebooking, catching up for a coffee or watching mind numbing TV. The list of distractions that we are adding we add to our lives is endless.

It seems that we are always looking to the outside for inner satisfaction.

When it comes to finding something truly fulfilling in life more than often we do the same. We look outside of us to fill the empty spaces. This is great to start with in the honeymoon period. But you soon grow use to this ‘new thing’ and very soon you need to work on consistent renewal or replacing it with something else. Just to fill the same empty space as before. This goes on and on.

Siddhārtha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, said,
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without

The ironic thing is the only way to true inner satisfaction is from the inside out. So why do we keep looking on the outside in?

The simple answer is that we still think and act on that seeing is believing. When the truth is believing is seeing.

The Starfish Parable

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:42:38 PST

As a man walked a desolate beach one cold, grey morning he began to see another figure, far in the distance.

Slowly the two approached each other, and he could make out a girl who kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water.

Time and again she hurled things into the ocean. As the distance between them continued to narrow, the man could see that the girl was picking up starfish that had been washed upon the beach and, one at a time, was throwing them back into the water.

Puzzled, the man approached the native and asked what she was doing.

The girl replied, Throwing starfish back into the ocean.

The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.

The old man said, don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish?

You can’t make a difference!

After listening politely, the girl bent down, picked up another starfish,

and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, she said

I made a difference for that one.

The Past and the Future

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:42:04 PST

The Past is not who you are, it’s who you were.
James Ray

I lot of people believe that the past is what has made us and is still shaping who we are today.

To a certain degree this is true but only if you allow it.

There will be some really great moments from the past that have helped to mould you and make you. But for most people they focus of the low moments of falling down and where they feel are their weaknesses.

We can more than often limit our ability to become what we want to be, both today and in the future. We put up walls of limitation with our thoughts where there really are no walls. By choosing to hold on to negative feelings from events from things in the past.

You are a creator

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:44:43 PST

Your day doesn't just "happen."

Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you for you.

All the choices you make in your day, after all, are yours.

You choose your direction, you choose happiness or you choose sadness. You choose to be successful or you choose failure. You might choose loneliness or you might choose friendship.

Every new moment of everyday offers to you a new moment to make a different choice. You don’t need to just simply react to all that happens to you at any given moment. You can choose to act in way that benefits you.

This gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.

Just by simply changing your view point in any situation can be a real life changer.

The Growing Brain

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:09:16 PST

This week during a long haul flight I watched a documentary called ‘The Changing Brain’.

It brought to my attention just how little we understand the brain itself and how primitive we have been to understand how one person is successful and yet another with the same background and schooling is not.

They thought it might be the size and weight of the brain. This has since proven false.
They thought it was the learning in those all-important early years of life. This is a factor.
They highlighted the belief that is out there that you can’t teach and old brain new tricks.
That you were either born with the ability to be a genius or not, just black and white. This is since proven to be false.

The conclusion of the documentary was that now neuroscience understands that the brain is always looking to grow. Looking to find new pathways and connections, in fact they found the more connections the knowledge of learning the more your brain grows.

Do your thoughts and thinking affect your health?

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:46:38 PST

Do your thoughts and thinking affect your health?

At least over a long period of time they must.

Funny thing is we all know this and yet very few do something about it.

There are plenty of things in life that we know are slowly moving and affecting us yet we don't question them. Just because of the speed.

Like shadows from the sun slowly moving throughout the day yet we rarely notice them. The second hand on a clock also moves slowly hour to hour, day to day. We know there is movement but the speed is so slow we don't necessarily notice it. Yet we do not question it.

Help with visualization

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:41:14 PST

I have just received an email asking to help with visualization.

Saying “I am just not good at this I close my eyes and then my mind wanders all over the place and I see everything but what I want to see. I have been trying over and over.. Help". Marie

I have had this question more than once so let’s take a quick look at it.

The mind processes most of our thoughts in images.

Start by doing something very simple like this that you know.

Get and apple and place it on the table in front of you stare at the apple and start to imagine the taste and eating it while keeping your eyes open. When you are ready slowly close your eyes and do the same. Picking up the apple in your thoughts and slowly eating it. Hear the snap and crunch of that first bite. Feel the fresh flavor filling your senses etc. It doesn’t have to be an apple it could be anything.

Fun with Empowerment

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:40:34 PST

Have you ever noticed that if someone unexpectedly comes up to you and gives you a little encouragement even something very small, just how much better it makes you feel?

Or on the other hand if someone tells you the opposite or tells you that you look a little pale and unwell. You suddenly feel worse or quickly check yourself in the mirror. In fact, now that they have brought this to your attention you start to feel like you could be a little off colour when you felt amazing just a few minutes ago.

The mere suggestion sends the subconscious into overdrive.

A little word of encouragement or empowerment can change your day. It can make you feel like it is all worthwhile and puts a smile on your face and spring in your step.

If this makes you feel so good then just imagine how it makes the people you care about the most around you in your day to day life feel; if you were to be the one offering the empowerment.

Same job for life

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:40:53 PST

The era of the same job for life is over, thank goodness.

The time of people getting up in the morning and facing every working day with the dread of another boring dreary day at work is over.

If your parents were like mine they worked where their parents worked whether they wanted to or not. If they had hopes and dream to be something different there was always a major battle that split brothers, sisters, marriages and families.

People that go to work and spend the day clock watching, waiting for the next break or live for the weekends are missing out in life. There is something out there for everyone, for all tastes, hopes and dreams.

Dream up the world you want to live in and then make it happen.
Bono

Keep it simple - Less is more

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:40:11 PST

Keep it simple - Less is more

Often in life we find that less is more…

Steve Jobs says: That often in the morning he looks in the mirror and asks himself.

If today were to be the last day of my life, would I still want to do what I am about to do today?

If the answer is no for too many days in a row, then it is time to change something.

Have you been saying no for too long in your life?

If so, what should you be changing?

Less is more:

The first thing that should jump to your attention is the things you would say no to for the above question.

Stress – Why do we stress?

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:39:18 PST

No one likes it and the crazy thing is we all do it.

When I was a child I found that when I did a maze puzzle backwards by starting at the destination and working back to the start. It wasn’t much of a puzzle at all. Every option quickly became much clearer. And it is this approach I want to take to stress.

After years of reading and research I have found that over 90% of stress is caused by this.

You have a 'very important to you' personal goal on your agenda and other items that are not so important keep getting in the way.

Mix and Match – Law of Attraction:

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony Parker) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:38:45 PST

Routine is the enemy of growth

I have had a few requests for more information on the 8 Simple Ways to tune into the Law of Attraction: 8: Mix and Match.

Years ago I was told this story by a fellow worker.

The Ham Sandwich Effect:

If you love ham sandwiches, I mean you really love them. More than anything else you could make for your lunch it would be a fresh a ham sandwich.

Every day you make yourself the best ham sandwich in the world. Tasty fresh soft bread with fresh ham. Simply the best. You take one to work and eat the ham sandwich every day without fail. It’s what you love to eat, it’s what you desire.