Gratitude
Posted on April 26, 2008
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“We consider enjoyment to have two primary components; appreciation and gratitude. To fully enjoy something, we must first appreciate it, like it, savor it. This is fun, of course, but when we add the second element - gratitude - we add thankfulness to the appreciation and have full, rounded, heartfelt enjoyment.”
Wealth 101: Getting What You Want-Enjoying What You’ve Got by John-Roger and Peter McWilliams“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” Oprah Winfrey
“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.” Estonian proverb
The Law of Attraction states that you attract to your life whatever you give your energy, attention and focus. With appreciation and gratitude you are focusing on what you have. The more you are grateful, the more you will attract to be grateful for. Look at the people you know that are successful. Is gratitude part of their success?
Is gratitude part of your success?
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Time Marches On
Posted on April 15, 2008
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I really like this line from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, If
“If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run ”
Each minute in our life IS unforgiving. It goes whether we want it to, or not. Each minute gathers into hours, hours into days and days into your lifetime. Where we are today, WHO we are today, is the sum total of those seconds and unforgiving minutes spent. Who we will be is the sum total of the seconds and minutes we are spending now.
And that is why we must spend each minute with sixty seconds of distance run. Kipling didn’t say 60 seconds of frantic sprint. For me distance run means measured, consistent effort. Not each and every minute of course, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But in order to become the person we want to be, there must be consistent effort - this is what personal development is all about.
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If
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run — Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!”
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Persistence Pays - 10 Quotes on Persistence
Posted on April 5, 2008
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“If I have no other qualities I can succeed with love alone. If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed. If I stumble I will rise, and my falls will not concern me.”
Og Mandino in The Greatest Salesman in the World
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” Marabel Morgan
“Never, never, never, never give up.” Winston Churchill
“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions - the hero and the sidekick.” Laurence Shames
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” Colin Powell
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
“Its always too soon to give up.” Norman Vincent Peale
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson.
“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” Hank Aaron
TAGS: napoleon hill, og mandino, persistence, keep swinging, success, success and failure, samuel johnson
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Success
Posted on April 4, 2008
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One of my favorite philosophers/ motivational speaker is Jim Rohn.
Here is a video of Jim Rohn which includes some great quotes on personal development and success, including two of my favorites:
Success is something you attract by the person you become.
Your income is directly related to your philosophy…
Enjoy the video…
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Personal Development Quote of the Day
Posted on March 27, 2008
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“I once wrote down every thought I had for about an hour. I was stunned and amazed at how one thought led to another in this long string of seemingly unrelated ideas.”
Mark Vicente in What the Bleep Do we Know“Emotion also has the power to create what you want. Find within yourself what it will feel like to have, be or do the thing you want, and you will begin to manifest the thing you want.”
Joe Vitale in The Attractor Factor“The process of Visualization is really quite simple. All you have to do is close your eyes and see your goals as already complete.”
Jack Canfield in The Success Principles
THOUGHTS - EMOTIONS - VISUALIZATIONS
What is the relationship between thoughts, emotions and visualization ?
Visualization is the process of creating compelling and vivid pictures in your mind. Creative visualization is visualizing a mental image of a desired object or situation.
Going back to the Law of Attraction, I attract to my life whatever I give my energy, attention and focus, whether wanted or unwanted - by visualizing a mental image of a desired object or situation, I can attract it into my life.
Feelings and emotions put life into thoughts and create powerful visualization. Thoughts that are charged with emotional energy have greater affect.
We can choose our thoughts. Our thoughts can affect our emotions.
We can choose our emotions. Our emotions can affect our thoughts.
By choosing our thoughts and emotions we can create powerful, supercharged visualizations and powerful results.
Remember, thoughts become things.
TAGS: attractor factor, success principles, jack canfield, joe vitale, law of attraction, emotional energy, creative visualization
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Follow your dreams
Posted on March 24, 2008
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When you are clear on your purpose , you can follow your dreams .
In each of us is a quiet voice, telling us to move toward our dreams, to live the life we are supposed to live. What dreams do you have? Is it time to listen to that little voice and move toward your dreams?
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis
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Personal Development Quote
Posted on March 22, 2008
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“Your comfort zone equals your wealth zone. By expanding your comfort zone, you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone……When you are willing to s-t-r-e-t-c-h yourself, you expand your opportunity zone, and this allows you to attract and hold more income and wealth.”
T. Harv Eker Secrets of the Millionaire MindA dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”
Denis Waitley“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anais Nin
TAGS: secrets of the millionaire mind, denis waitley, income and wealth, anais nin, comfort zone, personal development
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The Next Paradigm Shift
Posted on March 18, 2008
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A paradigm is a philosophical and theoretical framework, a viewpoint from which we see the world. What we know about about previous paradigms is that our paradigms are constantly changing. Paradigm shift was first used by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions..
“The paradigm shift under way today is not just happening in science. It also extends into society and is powerfully impacting our culture. Perhaps the most important shift that is taking place is personal. Over the last couple of decades, many thousands, maybe many millions of people have undergone dramatic transformations in their values, perceptions, and ways of relating to each other and the world”
William Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente
What the Bleep Do we Know
Let’s look at some paradigms or world views that used to be held. The world is flat.
Can you believe that people used to think the world was flat? Here is another paradigm that used to be widely held. Illness is caused by evil spirits. We now know that illness is caused by germs and viruses. From our viewpoint, its easy to see how we have gained so much information over the last century, we have become so much more sophisticated than our predecessors. This begs the question from a future person’s viewpoint 100 years from now, what will they be saying about us?
“Can you believe that back in the 21st century they believed that ….
What do you think will have changed in our paradigms over the next 100 years? What ideas do you hold as valid, that may be disproved? Are you ready for the next paradigm shift?
TAGS: 21st century, paradigm shift, thomas kuhn, viewpoint
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Brain Entrainment
Posted on March 10, 2008
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Brain Entrainment
Research shows that when two different frequencies are presented to each ear through stereo headphones(binaural beats),the entire brain becomes entrained to a frequency equal to the difference between the two tones. For example, frequencies of 200 hz and 220 hz produce a binaural beat frequency of 20hz.
What can we use entrainment for?
Lucid dreams,altered states, meditative states, increased intuition and awareness, accelerated learning, elimination of insomnia; we can use sound waves to carry us into the higher frequencies of consciousness, where profound personal transformations can take place.
Electrical activity in your brain can be measured by EEG (electroencephalography).
The electrical activity changes depending on what a person is doing.
BETA waves (14 - 100 Hz) dominate the normal waking state of consciousness. When attention is directed towards the outside world.
ALPHA waves (8-13.9 Hz) are present during dreaming and light meditation when the eyes-are closed. Alpha is also the state in which the window frequency known as the Schuman Resonance occurs. This is the frequency of the earth’s magnetic field.(More on this later.)
THETA waves (4-7.9 Hz) occur in dreaming sleep.
DELTA waves (.1 to 3.9 Hz) are experienced in deep meditation and deep sleep.
If you can make your brain wave patterns change at will, you can create conditions that are better suited for certain types of activities.
Meditation
Meditation balances the brain through some form of focusing, such as repeating a prayer or mantra, focusing on breathing, staring at a candle or other point of focus, or by many other techniques. As a person meditates, they move from a beta brain wave to an alpha. With (much) practice, the person meditating moves into the deeper theta and finally delta state and experiences expanded awareness and transcendental states.
Brain entrainment using auditory stimuli allows this process to happen much quicker and easier.
Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming is when a person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress. During lucid dreams, it is often possible to exert control over the dream characters and environment, as well as to perform otherwise physically impossible feats.
“In the lucid dream you look around and realize that the whole world…is all something that your mind is creating”
- Stephen LaBerge.
Lucid Dreaming usually takes place in REM sleep. Brain entrainment can facilitate the brain wave states found in naturally occurring sleep cycles, including REM.
TAGS: brain entrainment, personal transformations, deep meditation, lucid dreams, binaural beat, personal development
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What They Live can tell you about Affirmations
Posted on March 8, 2008
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Have you seen the movie “They Live”? Its a B movie starring Roddy Piper. A down and out loner discovers a pair of sunglasses and when he puts them on, he sees that there are aliens all around, taking over the world, controlling what people do with subliminal messages like “obey”, “marry and reproduce”, etc
If I gave you a pair of sunglasses so you could see your “subliminal” messages, what would they be? “I”m not good at math” “I don’t remember names very well.” “I’m not good with money.” We talk to ourselves all the time and the first step to changing our self-talk is to listen to ourselves and replace our defeating self-talk with positive affirmations.
What are positive affirmations?
Affirmations are statements of desirable intention, deliberately meditated on and repeated to implant in the mind. Affirmations are stated in the present and are stated in the positive. Using affirmations is not a magical,woo-woo process. You use affirmations all the time. For example, you decide to buy a car. First of all you start to think “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a new car” Then you start thinking more positively. “I can afford it.” Then you start to thinking of the car you want. (Some of us go right to this step.)
Here are three ways to use affirmations
Words - Repetition
Write your affirmation on a small piece of paper. Keep your affirmation in the present tense. To powercharge an affirmation, repeat the affirmation 1000 times.
Pictures
Create or find a picture that embodies your affirmation. Spend a little time to relax and look at the picture. Feel the emotions as you imagine what it is you want to achieve.
Visualization
Create a daydream, a full color, full-emotion movie in your mind of what it would be like. For example if my affirmation is to be a confident, powerful speaker, I imagine in my mind a scenario of speaking in front of a group, the speech is fantastic and everyone applauds enthusiastically.
Visualize with Mind Movie
Last Word from Jim Rohn
“Remember that affirmations are to motivate you to Action!!”
“Affirmation without action is the start of delusion”
Jim Rohn
TAGS: emotion, intention, positive affirmations, visualization
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