Posts Tagged ‘intentions’
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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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
We are a quick-fix society. Stephen Covey talks a lot about that in his 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and how that is a big roadblock to change. Unfortunately people do not like to hear that, and since it is a profitable business practice to tell people what they want to hear, most self-help books, courses, and seminars sell the quick-fix. The titles of books and their introductions constantly suggest, or even explicitly promote, a complete life overhaul virtually overnight. But it does not work like that, and the problem comes up when people start believing that changes in life are quick and easy. When people do not see the results the next day or two, they get discouraged and give up on the whole thing, labeling all of the self-development materials useless.
Changes that have a lasting, positive impact on your life are never quick and never easy – they take a lot of time and a lot of energy and dedication. Beliefs form a driving force in our lives, and they are the hardest thing to change. We form beliefs automatically and in many cases they do not serve us as well as they could. Unfortunately changing them is as not as easy as it was forming them in the first place. There are tools available, like affirmations and visualizations, that help the process along, but it is hardly a quick process.
So give yourself a reality check. Make sure you grasp the magnitude of the tasks before you. Do know that change is possible, but change is not an overnight thing.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Action, Affirmation Triggers, Affirmations, goals, Human Behavior, intentions, Personal Power, Stephen Covey, Success
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Just to be clear, I know very little about this field – I have never met or even talked to a sports psychologist. My guess is that the job of a sports psychologist is to help athletes work through any mental issues that they may have. So for instance, if a player is afraid to shoot the ball and is instead always looking to pass, I imagine that a team psychologist will address that confidence issue in some way. Or if the player had a really bad game, a team psychologist would help the player get over that game and leave it in the past; if the player has a good game, however, maybe they’ll try to work on carrying that momentum forward. Essentially, a sport psychologist tries to get the player’s mind to help him or her instead of getting in the way.
If that is at all accurate, it sounds very similar to psychologists in other fields – they help you get your own mind to play for you and not against. A lot of self-help materials deal with the very same concept. When you hear players give interviews, they often mention ‘faith’ in themselves and their team and ‘belief’ that they will win. The interesting thing is that when two teams compete for the ultimate prize, players on both teams believe that they will win, but only one team wins. Taking Law of Attraction into the count, who wins? The team that believes more? Or the team that doubts less? What about the fans – in town and around the world? Or do all the beliefs and doubts balance out and a better skilled team wins?
I am just curious to hear what you think…
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, goals, intentions, Law Of Attraction, Neo-Spirituality, Success
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Yesterday I talked about how the vast majority of our thoughts, over 95% of them to be more precise, go through our minds completely unnoticed and uncontrolled. But I also mentioned that this does not mean that we only have 5% control over our lives. The good thing is that a trained thought has much more energy behind it, and thus more power, than an untrained thought.
If you have ever played ‘tug o’ war’, then you’ll know that you get much more power when everyone pulls together. Trained thoughts have a similar effect. If you are not paying any attention to your conscious mind, then your consciousness is responsible for about 5% of your experiences. Under this arrangement, effectively all the thoughts, conscious and subconscious, are pulling at the rope at random.
Exercising trained thought is like having everyone pull on the rope at the same time from the conscious side, while having the subconscious thoughts pulling on the rope without any organization. There will still be a lot of experiences created by your subconscious mind, but suddenly you will find that you have more and more influence on your life as you put some power behind your conscious thoughts.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Affirmations, Energy, goals, intentions, Law Of Attraction, Science Of Mind, Success, The Secret, Universe
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
There is a lot of talk about being balanced and eating a balanced diet and living a balanced life. While that sounds pretty good, after some thought, striving for balance no longer seems like a worthy goal for me. Instead, I go for giving my time and attention to the things that require it the most while keeping my goals in mind. Balance of itself is not a goal for me.
People tend to think that balance is good, that somehow living a balanced life means living a happy life; I don’t think the two are very closely related. James Arthur Ray talks about balance and he brings up a really cool analogy of a scale in balance. When a scale is balanced, there is absolutely nothing happening. There is no movement, no vibrancy, no vitality. Everything is still. On the other hand, if you think about a rocking jazz band, it is anything but balanced. Different instruments dominate different parts of the musical piece and there is a lot of energy, movement, and harmony. Going for harmony seems like a more worthy ideal!
Harmony is a lot more interesting. To me living a harmonious life means living a happy life. There are times when work takes centre stage, while at other times, it will be family or friends or an important relationship. And sometimes it is all about fun! And there is no need to be balanced. The only thing that I make sure I do is keep my mind focused on my goals and keep working towards them.
What are your thoughts on balance and harmony?
Until next time,
V
Tags: goals, intentions, James Arthur Ray, Success
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Today I would like to touch on a point that there is no need to dwell on a particular result – instead just know that the result you seek is a ‘done deal’. This came out of a conversation last week with a friend of mine, which I found very applicable to my life, so I thought I’d share that with you.
Prior to this, I would actually give a lot of conscious thought to the result I was seeking. I would picture it happening this way, then I would picture it having that way, acting as if the Universe was more likely to respond if I visualized the result 100 times. An interesting thing occurred during that entire process of visualization – I developed doubt in my mind. I know that sounds backwards, but it makes sense – I do not visualize having breakfast 100 times because I KNOW that I will have breakfast, so why would it be any different for something else? Then I was doing the homework for the Science of Mind class and a concept that I have seen before a dozens of times jumped out at me – the Universe responds automatically and trying to coerce It restricts the natural flow of energy in the process.
So right there and then I decided that I would pay more attention to whether I am dwelling or not and I have had an interesting, almost immediate, set of manifestations, but more on that tomorrow.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, intentions, Neo-Spirituality, Success, Universe
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Today I would like to share another visualization with you that I took from one of Tony Robbins’ tape programs. It is a visualization that should be done at the beginning of your day since it is supposed to build the day to come. Here is what you do:
Picture yourself at the end of the day, and see yourself looking back at the entire day that just ‘passed’. Look back at the meetings that you have had during that day with the desired outcome. Reflect back on the calls that you made and the responses of the people on the other end of the line. Think back on the family dinner and the warm, loving, invigorating conversations that occurred. Reflect back on all the tasks that you finished during the day and all the things that you accomplished. Pretty much look at all the areas of your day as already complete with the desired outcome.
When you are finished remembering your day, come back to the present moment and feel excited about the day you are about to live. Make it your intention to build your day in your reality much like you just did in your mind. At this point you should be pretty energized to live your day to the fullest! Repeat the next morning!
Until next time,
V
Tags: Action, Affirmations, Energy, goals, Inspiration, intentions, Law Of Attraction, Success, Tony Robbins
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
It dawned on me recently that pretty much everyone hopes that they will attain certain results, but very few people actually expect to do it. And in my opinion, while hope is much better than the state of, say, depression or despair, it is not enough to get what you truly want in life. That is where you need to come to a place of expectation.
Tony Robbins spoke about an interesting experiment of hope vs expectation. People were asked to think of something that they really want to have or experience. When they were asked to hope that it will happen, they described their inner feeling as being passive, seeing a possibility of both, the success and failure, and described the mental images as primarily black and white. When the same people were asked to expect, on the other hand, they described seeing themselves as more proactive, saw a successful outcome, and described their mental imagery is being primarily in colour. Try this for yourself, and tell me about the differences you experience between hope and expectation.
If you think about it, since we live in a creative Universe that responds to thought and feeling, a feeling of hope is rather wishy-washy. You hope when you are not certain, but when you are certain, you expect! You don’t just hope, you expect to step onto a solid floor when you get up in the morning. You need to get to the same place of expectation when it comes to everything else that you want to achieve and experience in life, but more on that later.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Affirmations, Energy, goals, Human Behavior, intentions, Law Of Attraction, Success, The Secret, Tony Robbins, Universe
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Earlier this week I wrote about how your power comes from taking action, and yesterday I encouraged you to do one thing from your ‘ideal life’ that you can do right now. If you look at self-development materials, there are dozens of strategies presented that you can benefit from. If you read a book on client acquisition and retention, there are also countless creative ways that you can use to benefit your business. All this choice can be overwhelming, which often can result in choice paralysis.
I think this is a very appropriate post for today, considering that tomorrow we enter the year 2010, and many of you are likely making New Year’s resolutions. I suggest that that you forget about all of your resolutions, but one. Pick one thing that you can do differently this year based on the image of your ‘ideal life’. This can be something regarding your-self, it can be something regarding your relationships, it can be for your business, or it can be something entirely different. When you narrow all your resolutions down to that one thing, make up your mind that you will start doing that one thing, and doing it well! This should make the whole process a lot less intimidating, thus increasing your chances for actually following through.
On that note, I want to wish you all a Happy New Year!
Until next year,
V
PS. Next post will be on Monday…
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Inspiration, intentions, Success
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
This week I want to continue with the success/money theme, but bring the topic down to earth and hopefully get you to think about some application. And I will start the week off by sharing with you a visualization that I go through on the regular basis, which I call ‘The Ideal Life’. It is one of my favourite visualizations and I do it when I go to bed. I know that some do not recommend activating your brain before sleep, but it seems to work for me. In any case, try it out whenever you feel like it and stick to what works for you.
So, this is what I do…I start with myself and spiral out to my surroundings. The first thing I visualize is how I want to feel and respond to different situations when living my ideal life. Things like ‘calm’ and ‘in control of my emotional state’ quickly come to mind. Then I picture my body as I want it to be – healthy, fit, flexible, at 175lb. Then I move on to the clothes that I wear throughout the year – I picture the way I want to dress. Whenever I focus a lot on the ‘ideal wardrobe’, I tend to get rid of a few things the next day and get one or two items that fit the picture. Once I am done with the ’self’, I move on to more external things.
I picture the different relationships in my life – existing and otherwise – and how they are developing. I picture my bedroom, my home office, my house with surroundings. I picture my workplace and the employees. I picture my car. I visualize going through the day – waking up, doing yoga, getting dressed, going to work, coming home, etc, etc. I picture other things that I am doing, like travel, skydiving, skiing, etc. I imagine the different situations that I want to find myself in, like going to a chalet by some hot springs in the winter with close friends or family. I look at the different aspects of my ideal life and at times give more attention to some parts than others.
Since I do it as I am going to bed, I rarely get through the entire thing, so sometimes I will start at another point – not my inner self. I truly enjoy this exercise and hopefully you will as well. I would love to hear you feedback and experience with this visualization.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Action, Affirmations, goals, Inspiration, intentions, Success, Universe
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