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!

Finding Happiness

Well here’s the thing we all, that’s you, me, your neighbor, the cab driver and even you enemies all have in common, no matter the color of our skin, our age, or our gender, its this we all want to live a happy life.

To find a happy job, happy relationships, happy lifestyle and happy living.

So now what is happiness?

Happiness is an emotion that we describe for when something external is giving us a temporary relief from the unhappiness that we find inside.

Fullfilment, on the other hand, is our infinite natural state when we stop seeking for something externally to bring us happiness.

The only reason we seek to find happiness in our external world is because we aren’t fulfilled internally.

Many fear their infinite nature and believe themselves to be limited.

This fear misleads us to seek who we are in our external world.

Yet, in building our identities externally to find happiness, meaning and purpose will always be subject to the emotional ups and downs corresponding with external ups and downs, or gains and losses.

The “Truth,” however, is that if we were to stop seeking for happiness externally, we would realize that we are happiness itself.

This is what allows us to realize the purpose and meaning of what we call our “Life.”

That is what is it means to be truly fulfilled.

For as long as someone seeks to fix, improve, or change the external identity so that they may find “happiness” they will be met with both happiness and unhappiness.

They will be met with life’s grand illusionary game, a game that cannot be won, only played.

It’s only when you “let go” of trying to win this “game of life” that you shall free yourself to experience fulfilment and remember the meaning and the purpose of who you truly are.

The Highway of Passion

“When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that
deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”

Let me ask you a very personal question – Is this you :

You have :

a 9 to 5 job getting a good pay,

you have a great family and

all’s well with your world [as you see it].

But deep inside, you know and feel like you’re going nowhere.

The job is not going up either.

You are really stagnating in your career both mentally and spiritually.

Something is missing.

Passion.

The one character that textbooks and instruction manuals and company procedures will never talk about.

Everybody is in such a hurry to get you to fit perfectly into the machine like a well oiled gear wheel, that they actually forgot you are a living, feeling human being.

Even you have forgotten this.

Ask yourself this.

What if I had a million bucks in the bank, what kind of work would I be doing?

Would I chuck this humdrum job and move on to something really exciting?

Like something that I have always wanted to do?

Then ask yourself – why am I not doing that right now?

Is it because of peer pressure or because I don’t want to move out of my comfort zone?

Don’t want to rock my boat?

You are half asleep in your boat already and in a few years, you could be put out to pasture! – permanently

If the boat rocks now, you could be jerked awake and come to your senses.

Your passionate senses.

In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, millions of people lost their jobs.

Many of them took up new vocations and suddenly found that they were finally following their dream.

Many of them are now highly successful in their new found professions.

You don’t have to wait for dire straits to rock you out of your present mediocre life.

You can decide right now, that you want to live and work passionately and make your life worthwhile.

The Highway of Passion is an amazing ride.

And Prosperity is just one of the landmarks on this route!

Get ready for the ride of your life!

more to come – check back regularly

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!

Communicate with Confidence, Clarity & Credibility in Every Situation

Communication happens in many ways.

You need to learn to recognize the Secret Gems of Communicating that will ensure you get your message across effectively.

There are so many ways that we communicate with others that we need to decide which combination of methods to use – whether it be the spoken or written word, body language or visual images, multimedia methods like television, video, cd and dvd and of course the internet.

Secret One – The Spoken Word

We take speaking to others for granted because we do it every day.

However, far too many people fail to realitize just how easy it is for others to misunderstand us (and then we blame them for getting it wrong!)! So we need to improve our communications with others – whether it’s face to face or over the telephone – so that our message is understood.

Secret Two – The Written Word

Being the basis of business communication, it is essential that we master the skills of using words effectively. We need to learn how to communicate better using letters, memos, reports, proposals, notes, summaries, agendas, minutes, discussions and email.

Secret Three – Body Language

Even when we are sitting still our body language is communication with all those in our presence. Unknowingly we are giving off powerful messages of our feelings and attitudes.

Learning the secrets of body language we will be able to influence the outcome of important events in our life.

In our ever more diverse cultural world, it is vital we become aware of the different ways many view the invisible signals that we give off.

Secret Four – Gestures

Gestures and other non-verbal communication such as posture and facial expressions are critical building blocks of communication.

We need to learn a range of gestures to practice that will have a dramatic positive effect on our ability to communicate with confidence, clarity and credibility.

Secret Five – Listening

The two-way nature of communication is often ignored because both sides have failed the skill of effectively listening to the other party’s point of view.

Learn to identify and rectify sloppy listening techniques.

By knowing how and when to eliminate ‘Passive’ listening, constant interruptions and prejudice, two way communications will take on a new and powerful part of our life and business.

Secret Six – Questions

The right questions, asked the right way, open the door to knowledge and understanding.

The art of questioning lies in knowing what questions to ask and IMPORTANTLY, when to ask them.

To communicate with confidence, clarity and credibility we need to learn the skills of choosing the right question, phrased the right way, asked with confidence and authority so that we learn the information we need to be effective in business.

Secret Seven – Taking Notes

Forget relying on our memory when we learn to master efficient methods of recording speech or condensing written communication.

We need to discover the latest techniques of mind mapping, speedwriting, and the use of color enabling us to make effective notes that dramatically improve our ability to make use of the mountains of information that pass over our desk each day.

Can you say “I love you” any better?

Slow down for a few minutes to read this. It is so worth it.

What Love means to a group of 4-8 year olds . .

Touching words from the mouth of babes.

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, ‘What does love mean?’

The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:

‘Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired…’

Terri – age 4

‘Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.’

Danny – age 7

‘Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss’

Emily – age 8

‘Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.’

Bobby – age 7 (Wow!)

‘If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,’

Nikka – age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka’s on this planet)

‘Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.’

Noelle – age 7

‘Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.’

Tommy – age 6

‘My mommy loves me more than anybody You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.’

Clare – age 6

‘Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.’

Elaine-age 5

‘Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.’

Chris – age 7

‘Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.’

Mary Ann – age 4

‘I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.’

Lauren – age 4

‘When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.’ (what an image)

Karen – age 7

‘You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.’

Jessica – age 8

So what you think? – did it bring a smile to your face ?

Look For Hidden Compromises

Another message of inspiration and encouragement, motivation and support for you

This message should only take you a minute or so to read, but if you put it into action it could change the way you live your life.

I want you to think about the vision you have for your future and look for hidden compromises.

Are there any areas of your life where you are settling for less than what you truly deserve?

Are there any past limits or outdated expectations that have crept into your vision?

Are there elements of your future where you have held yourself back from all that you truly desire?

While it is important to be willing to make conscious compromises in life, hidden compromises are those that you don’t realize you are making.

They undermine your vision and ultimately leave you feeling compromised.

It takes courage to live your best life.

Be brave and make sure that the vision you have is for the best possible life you can imagine!

Let it slide!

“Ideas by themselves cannot produce a change of being;
Your efforts must go in the right direction, and one must correspond with the other.”
P. D. Oupensky

Today a message of inspiration and encouragement, motivation and support.

This message should only take you a minute or so to read, but if you put it into action it could change the way you live your life.

Do you sometimes find yourself stressing about things, only to look back a few days later and wonder what all the fuss was about?

One of the great benefits of being clear on your values is being able to work out what things deserve your time and energy (both physical and emotional) and what things are simply not worth the bother.

Today, when you find yourself stressed, tense or anxious about something, ask yourself ‘does this really matter to me?’, ‘will I still care about this in one week / month / year?’

When you know the answer to these questions, you will easily be able to determine if the situation warrants your time and energy, or if the best course of action is to simply let it slide…