Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
I have heard people claim that the Law of Attraction does not work for them. It’s a really bizarre statement, since how can a law work for some and not for others. If it is a law, then it must by definition work each and every time, for every person, in every situation. What could be happening is that it works differently to how people expect it to work.
The basic premise is that you attract into your life whatever you are aligned with in terms of your thoughts (conscious and non-conscious) and feelings. You are always attracting things into your life, but you may be attracting things that you don’t necessarily want. That being said, there are other laws in the Universe that have not been popularized to the same extent as the Law of Attraction through the movie The Secret.
I came across some material online by Bob Proctor where he talks about the ‘11 Forgotten Laws’ that relate to the Law of Attraction. The way Bob Proctor put it was that the Law of Attraction is a single ingredient in a cake, but you need other ingredients to make it. Over the next little while I’ll cover the different laws, which will hopefully give you some useful information.
Until next time,
V
Tags: 11 Fogotten Laws, Bob Proctor, Energy, goals, Law Of Attraction, Money, Neo-Spirituality, Success, The Secret, Universe
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Changes often happen in our lives so slowly that we don’t even notice the progress. It’s only when we look back to a time in our distant (or maybe not so distant) past that we get an idea of how far we have gone and how much we have changed.
Kids provide a good example. Parents typically don’t see how much their kids really grow and change. Friends of family who tend to visit once or twice a year really notice the difference. It’s that same with many other areas in life.
Whenever you try something new, it is difficult at first, and obviously gets easier as you do it more. The only way to appreciate your growth is to have a frame of reference to where you were in the past. Seeing the growth serves as a good reminder of where you have been and provides motivation to keep moving forward. So find a way to keep track of your progress – it will help you appreciate where you are and will serve as the fuel to keep trucking along.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, Fear, goals, Human Behavior, Inspiration, Personal Power, Success
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Today I have a success/achievement tip for you – benefits of which I you’ll be able to experience for yourself the first time you apply it. How’s that for quick results? Anyway, here we go…
If you have something that you want to do but never get to it, do it first thing in the morning before you do anything else. Anthony Robbins called this ‘the hour of power’ where you take the first hour after you wake up and use it as ‘your time’ for that important activity that you never get to. It can be reading, writing, playing a musical instrument, or going for a run. The activity does not matter – what matters is that you get it done.
This surely requires some discipline, especially if you have to be at work at a certain time and need to wake up an hour earlier to create that time cushion. And it is a lot easier to sleep that extra hour when you know you can too – I would know 
. But all that is still easier than finding time for your activity later in the day. Something always seems to creep up and get in the way. That is why you do your task first thing in the morning before anything has a chance to get in the way. Give it a try and see for yourself….
Until next time,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Inspiration, intentions, Personal Power, Response-ability, Responsibility, Success, Tony Robbins
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Last Friday I summarized the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and pointed out that a similar hierarchy applied to business as well.
When a person starts a business, especially if it’s their first one, they start at the bottom of the ‘pyramid of needs’. This person will do almost anything to get things moving – they will cold-call, randomly visit other businesses, leave flyers, go to networking events, and take on pretty much any job that comes their way. This is similar to the ‘Physiological/Safety Needs’ described by Maslow, only applied to business.
As the business grows, establishes itself, builds a reputation, and clients start coming in, the owner becomes more selective. He or she will stop doing the really uncomfortable things, like cold-calling for example, and will maybe just get someone else to distribute the flyers. The owner may fire some annoying clients and start filtering the incoming prospects so that the business gets to serve a higher ratio of ‘better’ customers (whatever that means for the given business). This is where the business meets the ‘Esteem Needs’ of self-esteem, confidence, and achievement.
When the business becomes a powerhouse to be reckoned with, it will likely develop a bigger purpose. It will want to try to revolutionize the industry by doing something no other company has accomplished, or possibly even tried. It will set grandiose goals and come up with an inspiring mission statement. At this point, chances are, the business only focuses on what the company culture as a whole is really passionate about. It is working on the ‘Self-actualization Needs’.
There is a strong parallel between the individual needs and the ‘business needs’ because it is people who run businesses. As the business grows, more of their individual needs are met, which shifts them up the pyramid, which also shifts their business focus.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Inspiration, Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs, Success
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
I am pretty sure that you are familiar with the Mr. Maslow and his ‘hierarchy of needs’ pyramid. In case you are not, I’ll try to summarize it for you. It is pyramid made of 5 levels of different needs and the lower level must always be met before we can effectively become concerned about the needs on the higher level. The 5 levels are as follows (starting at the lower one):
- Physiological (air, food, water, sleep, etc)
- Safety (security for the ‘self’, stable employment, etc)
- Love/Belonging (friendship, family, intimacy, etc)
- Esteem (self-esteem, confidence, achievement, etc)
- Self-actualization (morality, creativity, problem-solving, etc)
Trying to tackle ‘self-actualization’ needs when your ‘basic safety’ needs are not met, will not be effective according to Maslow’s theory. And it makes sense.
Now to switch gears a little bit, in my conversations with different people who have their own businesses, and from what I gathered from interviews with some very successful individuals, I have noticed that their business approach falls into somewhat of the similar hierarchy. And it seems to be related to how well the business (or the entrepreneur) is doing. [ This post is going to be quite long if I cover the rest of what I want to mention, so I’ll leave that for next week. ]
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs, Success
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
There is this really neat video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_GQqUg6Ts
that explains the 11 dimensions. It took me quite a few viewings to somewhat understand what the heck they are talking about, but to this day I don’t quite get it. In either case the video is quite interesting!
For those of you wondering why I am talking about the 11 dimensions while the video title is about understanding the 10th dimension, it’s because dimensions start at 0, being a point. So 11 dimensions go from 0 to 10.
Enjoy the brain cramp!
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, Law Of Attraction, Meditation, Neo-Spirituality, Science Of Mind, Success, Universe
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
At the end of the day, the results are what matters. Whether you took the road less travelled, the longest way possible, or found a quick shortcut, as long as you get someplace that you wanted, great!
You’ve heard the good old “You have to work hard.” A part of me agrees, while another one disagrees. It comes down to how you define ‘hard work’. To the part that disagrees, ‘hard work’ means dull, tedious, boring activities that I don’t want to do. Usually there is a different, more creative, more interesting way to get the same results. But to think that I can just sit back and chill while results magically happen is nonsense.
To come up with the different, more creative, more interesting way to get the same result, I would have to think, evaluate, try, analyze, re-think, re-evaluate, re-try, and re-analyze different approaches and dedicate a lot of time and energy to the entire process. So if I classify that as ‘hard work’, then this is the part that totally agrees.
The conclusion that I can make for myself, regardless of whether we consider something ‘hard work’, ‘smart work’, or not, is that regardless of the path you choose, it will require a considerable dedication of your time and energy. It can be dull or enjoyable, it can be done through physical labour or sitting in front of a computer, but in either case it will take a total and complete commitment to the results.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Personal Power, Success
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
What a difference it makes when you are excited and motivated by what you do. It is a rather obvious statement in and of itself, but the implications are pretty serious. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been on both ends of the ‘excitement’ spectrum. There were times when the things I was doing felt like a total grind and there were other times when I couldn’t wait to get working on something. The difference in the quality of experience, and in how I perceived life at those different times, is tremendous.
It would be amazing if every day work was that challenging, that exciting, and that motivating. If you have achieved that state, that is incredible. Chances are that regardless of what you do, there will be days that feel like a drag. However, iif most of the days are the opposite, then you have probably achieved something that most people only dream of.
I do believe that every person has had the two types of days, even if the days of great excitement were not due to work (though if it was work-related, that should be easier to explore and analyse). Looking into what factors made the day so great should provide you with some valuable insight into what you may want more out of your work. Then, hopefully, as you integrate more of those factors into your daily job requirements, you’ll have more of the times when your vocation becomes your vacation.
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Inspiration, Money, Personal Power, Success
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
If you have been following the World Cup, you may have heard about Paul the Octopus living in the Oberhausen Sea Life centre in Germany, who predicts the outcomes of the German soccer matches. To get a match prediction, two mini tanks are set up with the octopus treats inside, marked with the flags of Germany and their respective opponent. When Paul the Octopus goes for the treats, the country represented on the mini tank is the predicted winner. So far he is been able to predict the outcomes of all five German matches in this World Cup. In the Euro 2008, Paul the Octopus was 80% accurate. So what is going on here?
As per usual, there are two possible explanations. First is that Paul the Octopus can actually predict the outcomes of soccer matches. If everything in the Universe is Energy, and everything is connected, and the concept of time is actually an illusion, then quite possibly Paul the Octopus may have ‘a gift’. On the other side there are skeptics who explain that statistically predicting outcomes of games with such accuracy it is not that improbable – and there is no need to involve anything ‘supernatural’. Picking 5 out 5 correct matches by chance is 3%. So if there were 100 animals picking outcomes of games, 3 of them would get all 5 right. The challenge is, we don’t hear about all the times that the match outcome was not consistent with the foresight.
Whatever the case may be, there is another prediction and another test for it later today. Paul the Octopus picked Spain to defeat Germany. I am cheering for Germany, so I hope that the damn octopus is wrong. If he is right however, I’ll be inviting people over for a Polpi in Umido.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, Neo-Spirituality, Paul the Octopus, Science Of Mind, Soccer, Universe, World Cup 2010
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Yesterday I wrote about how making significant changes in life, especially changes in beliefs, is something that takes time, effort, and energy. In other words, it requires a great deal of focus. Focus is also essential in many other areas of your life where you want to get worthy results, and unfortunately, we have so many things fighting for our attention, that maintaining focus is becoming more and more challenging – we need to focus on being focused.
Focus allows you to concentrate your energy on the task at hand. When you are focused on the task, as opposed to having your mind occupied by other things, you complete it better, faster, and more accurately. The challenge is that we have many things that keep distracting us on the ongoing basis.
One of the worst offenders is email. Most people check their email every few minutes and email clients commonly make some sort of sound to notify you of a new message. That constantly distracts you from what you are doing and eats up a lot of your time during the day. Smart phones are not much better. Now you have phone calls, emails, text messages, and facebook and twitter updates that come to a single device that rings, blinks, and vibrates to notify you of life calling. I noticed that my smart phone was commanding my attention so frequently, that I turned off all notifications except for phone calls. I feel that it saves me at least an hour every day.
Take a look at how you spend your day and pay special attention to the different things that constantly grab your attention without a good reason. Work to minimize those distractions in order to create longer spans of time during which you can give your undivided attention to the important things. Then enjoy the benefits…
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Personal Power, Success
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