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You Get What You Focus On

// May 7th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Personal Development

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You get what you focus on. How many have heard that? Seems simple right? But, often the simpler they appear the deeper they run. We need to pull back the layers and find the true meaning.

For instance, you are focused on a getting a new car. It is the perfect car for you. You want that car badly. You have laser beam focus. Since your focus is on strong desire, the results is that you get more of that. More desire, more longing.

Now, what if your current circumstances predict that you are not able get that car right now. You begin to think of the lack of not having the resources to get the car. Again, you are getting more of what your mind is focused on. More feelings of lack, more circumstances that keep you from receiving that new car.

So, what can you do differently? Instead of focusing on your outgoing desire for the car, you instead focus on the internal emotions of having the car. Replay how it feels to have the car. Your mind will behave in alignment with your new thinking. You will begin to attract things, people, and circumstances that will lead you to having the car. It is a subtle difference, a difference that brings the successful use of the Law of Attraction to you.

You get what you focus on, so be careful of the way you focus. Be conscious of your consciousness.

What have you been focusing on that is keeping you from what you desire?

Balance in Your Life

// April 30th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Daily Insight, Personal Development

Are you looking to find Balance in your life and not sure how to do it?

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What does that word mean to you? Many of us seek balance in our lives and sometimes it seems it is just not possible. We juggle our career, family, personal life and usually one area of our life suffers. What is balance, how can we achieve balance in our family and personal life when most people spend 80% of their waking hours at work.

Balance to me is not one or the other it is both. You see to achieve balance in your life you need to move with the flow of your life and your feelings. We need to stop flowing with the external circumstance that are put on us and move inside to our internal flow and what our feelings are telling us. This is the true guidance system of life and such the path to finding balance in all areas of our lives.

Your feelings are the gauge of the balance in your life. When something feels good and right and we are enjoying it, that it is our feelings telling us that this is right and to continue doing more of it. When something feels forced and uncomfortable, that is time to move your focus in another direction. The thing is that if we enjoy something and we continue to do it we bring more of what we enjoy into our lives and the lives of the people around us.

This does not mean if you enjoy watching TV, you just sit on the couch and watch TV. Sooner or later our feelings will let us know that it is time to move to something else. If you disregard that feeling you will notice that sitting around is not so much fun anymore and eventually for most of us we will get off our duff and go do something.

If we can trust our feelings and come from a place of seeking balance and joy in all areas of our life our internal guidance system will work as long as we trust in it. That guidance system is accurate, we just need to listen and go with the flow!

Think of it as a GPS, many of us may have used a GPS and we trust the directions it gives and we find our destination. If you tell yourself you want balance in your life, trust the directions of your feelings and you will reach your destination.

Some tips for learning to listen to your feelings:

1. Ask yourself in the moment what you are feeling, joyful, happy, excited or mad, angry, frustrated. If it is the first feelings of a good and joyful state keep doing more of that, have fun and go for it. When you feel that you are not having fun anymore and you notice that things are forced, it is time to take a break and move to something else.
2. Take time to be in the moment, the only way you can listen to your feelings is to be in-tune with the current moment you are in. If you are thinking of the past or the future your mind is so focused elsewhere you will be late on picking up your feelings until your body is overwhelmed. This leads to stress, frustration, and sometimes illness. Live now, in the moment, it is truly where everything happens.

Balance, how do you find it in your life? Share your tips for our readers!

Life is All about Change, with Change comes Growth

// April 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Personal Development

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How many  of you have heard the saying “the one constant in life is change”? When we resist this constant flow of events it creates stress. Embrace change for it brings with it new and wonderful experiences. Prefer to listen, click here »

How can we embrace change? Most of us try to resist it change. When we do let go, we end up saying to ourselves, what was I afraid of all this time? To learn to embrace change we must look within. We must look at our current life experiences, and see if any areas need to change to provide more of the experiences we desire. The way to change our results, is to change our thoughts and actions.

What I have found to be really helpful is doing a personal inventory. A look at each area of my life and the results I am achieving in that area. If the results are what I desire I keep doing more of what I am doing. If the results are not what I desire, then I look at my thoughts and actions that I am currently implementing. I look at ways to change these thoughts and actions to achieve the results I desire.

Here are 10 areas of your life that you can do inventory on. Look within to change the outer results.

1. Personal Appearance
2. Personal Life
3. Social Life
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5. Health
6. Attitude
7. Time Management
8. Business Associates
9. Working Habits
10. Wealth

Do this personal inventory and decide on things you want to “change” and you will create the results in your life that you desire. People attract what they are, resistance to change only creates suffering. Do not hold yourself back, let go and let god! Enjoy this game of life! Life is all about change, with change comes growth!

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What are your thoughts? I would love to hear some comments on how you deal with change!

Relaxation, Meditation, success from slowing down!

// April 20th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Personal Development, Success Tips

Tension Tires… Relaxation Renews!

Successful people achieve results. They are able to accomplish more in one day than most people do in a week or even a month. What is the secret to most of these outstanding results orientated people? How can they continue to work at such a highly productive rate day in and day out.

I personally found this incredible success principal two years ago and it has allowed me to grow in every area of my life. I am able to do more in less time than ever before. I now spend about 20-25 hours a week on work and make 4 times the income. What is this magic practice? Relaxation…or what most people know as Meditation!

That is right meditation, allow yourself to relax and you will find yourself getting more done in less time. You see, stress slows us down, if we are stressed and tense we actually accomplish less even though most of us feel we are so busy and that we could not do anything more. Stress is not created by the situation or circumstances we face, stress is created by the way we respond to those situations.

Meditation allows us to calm or mind and body and clear the stress and tension. Some of the benefits of Daily mediation practice are, eliminate stress, improve health, improve problem solving, and allow us to be more productive. Research has scientifically proven that meditation is a safe and simple way to balance your physical, emotional, and mental state and its countless values have been known and practiced for thousands of years.

Here are some tips to start the practice of meditation:

1. Practice at least twice a day, ideally do it 3 times— morning, afternoon and evening.
2. Make sure you are in a place that you are comfortable, it is also best to sit up so you do not fall asleep.
3. At the beginning using a guided meditation audio will help you learn the practice. As you get better at it you will find you will not need the audio anymore.
4. Have fun and enjoy this time with yourself and discover all the power you have within you.

I have included an audio of a guided meditation technique called Mindfulness Mediation. Enjoy and Relax! You can also download this meditation audio here»

You can also order the full audio CD “The Art of Meditation” from Amazon

Mindfulness Meditation Part One

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Mindfulness Meditation Part Two

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Make Things Happen

// April 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Personal Development

“Happiness comes from you making things happen for you instead of you waiting for things to happen to and for you”

I like this quote, you see if we let circumstance predict how our life is being shaped we stop the flow of our true self being expressed. This leads us to a state of resentment and if left long enough can lead to dis-ease.

True joy comes from freely expressing ourselves and our internal desires. We can carve our life out in front of us, or we can sit and wait for it to been given to us. You can look at the current economic situation and you can see what happens when we let things be given to us.

It is our responsibility to make things happen for ourselves. You see if you are seeing some things in our life that are not what you would like them to be, the only way to change it is to change it for ourselves. We are the only one that knows what those changes need to be. How can we expect or wait for someone else to do it for us when they do not know what it is that needs to be changed.

Ask yourself these two questions and the answers will give you the direction to take:

1. What is it that I you are really excited about right now?
2. What, if any, action have I taken to achieve that in which I am really excited about?

If you answered nothing in question two then you know what you need to do to make things happen for yourself.

You have something that you desire to accomplish, you are excited or passionate about. If we take no action towards it and sit and wait for it to happen then what? You see we need to know what we desire and we need to express that by making it happen for ourselves.

“Happiness comes from you making things happen for you instead of you waiting for things to happen to and for you”

Get out and play!