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“From Good To ‘God’ To Great”

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Above is a simple phrase with a very profound message. The idea is simple – take your good concept or idea, turn it over to the care of the Universe, and turn it into something great! I heard it from Kenn Gordon in one of his wonderful, insightful Sunday talks and have been thinking about it for several weeks now. So, how do you turn your idea over to the care of the Universe?

One of the very important things, I think, is to let go of the idea of how events are supposed to unfold. It is important to have the end result in mind, so that you know where you are going, and you need to trust that you will get there, but what you do not need is to have an image in your mind of all the steps in between. For example, you may have an idea for a new marketing method that can revolutionize the entire field, and expect the largest marketing company in town to jump on board and embrace your concept. If that company does not like the idea, you may think that the idea is not worth much and give up. You see, in this situation, you are letting the picture of ‘how’ it is supposed to happen get in the way of ‘what’ you want to accomplish.

Instead, you can just dismiss their opinion of your idea as just that – their opinion – and talk to several other marketing companies. There is a good chance that the best company to help you grow will enthusiastically join you in your efforts. So try not to get discouraged if things don’t go exactly as you planned – just keep trucking along!

A word of caution though! By turning things over to the care of the Universe, I DO NOT mean that you just get to sit back and relax while the Universe will do all the work. From my experience, the Universe will do what it needs to do in order to make it as straight forward as possible for you to get to where you want to go. But it will not do it for you. So please pay attention to the little nudges and moments of clarity and inspiration from the Universe and be sure to act on them.

Until next time,

V

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If You Lack Commitment To Accomplish Your Goals

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Lack of true commitment is the ’second intention block’ and keeps many people from accomplishing their goals. We set long term goals, but have very short attention spans, and when we live in an environment where everything is becoming faster and takes less time, it makes even more difficult to see the long term goal through. Kenn Gordon used a really cool analogy; we set an intention to create financial abundance in our lives on Monday, and by the time Friday rolls around, we are disappointed and discouraged because our finances did not change. If you want to accomplish your goals, and I am talking about the long term goals here, you need to do what is necessary to make them happen, and part of that requirement is to give it enough time.

It is true, the Universe does not care and does not differentiate between something that we perceive as being a big goal and something that we think is a small goal. However, for everything there is a gestation period, and that is something that ‘The Secret’ did not mention. When you plant a seed, it takes a given amount of time to grow into a plant. When a baby is conceived, it takes 9 months for birth to take place. When a boat passes by in the middle of the lake, it takes a certain amount of time for the wake to get to shore. In each of those cases there are no instantaneous results, but the results are there every time after an appropriate gestation period.

The same applies to whatever it is that you want, except that it is virtually impossible to know the gestation period when you start. With a business, it is hard to know right away how long it will take for it to succeed, unless you are starting a franchise, where the gestation period can be estimated somewhat accurately. If you believe in what you are doing, if you believe in your goal and your intention, you need to stick to your guns and see it though. You need to do whatever it takes and you need to have trust and faith that it will work out in the end.

Sometimes you will want to get a certain client or a certain project and it will slip away from you. That often happens because you were not ready for that client or that project. It may have been too much for you to handle. So keep going. That being said, my disclaimer is that you need to pay attention to the feedback that the Universe is sending back to you. And this is quite often a difficult judgment call. I have seen many people who totally believe in their ideas, but the ideas never take off because they either suck, and in this case, no amount of faith and trust is going to help them. But there are also numerous examples like Google, where people did not believe that they would put a dent in MSN’s and Yahoo’s market share, and thought that Google was insane for thinking that companies would pay them for their Adwords campaign. But boy were they ever wrong! So this is a difficult call to make sometimes, though I am certain if you allow the Universe to nudge you, you will make the right decision.

Until next time,

V

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Tips On Using The Affirmation Triggers

Monday, November 9th, 2009

I have been sending affirmations to myself for a little while now every 10 minutes during the day, every day. A good friend of mine has been sending them to himself every 30 minutes. He, jokingly, said a few times that he does not know how I can keep up with my affirmations settings.

I talked about before, how I think it is very important to feel like your affirmation is true for it to manifest. One thing that I noticed is that I am getting used to my affirmations. I have read them so many times that I memorized them, so I begin to ‘tune-out’ when I read them – in other words, it read them automatically instead of with my full attention on them.

One of the things that I try to do to keep it fresh and interesting is to change my affirmations once in a while. I don’t mean that I change them completely – I just change the wording so that the overall meaning is the same, but the way that they are presented is different. I noticed that my brain is more receptive to the new affirmations for a while.

Another thing that I do is force myself to pause, take a deep breath, read the affirmation, close my eyes, and spend a few seconds putting myself mentally in the world where this affirmation is true. This exercises, I find, is very effective at breaking the routine of reading the same affirmations over and over.

To help you keep your mind focused on the affirmations, consider making them longer. I tend to make mine pretty short and to the point, which makes them easy to remember. My friend, on the other hand, has created his affirmations with a considerable amount of detail. They are longer and are more difficult to memorize, so it forces you to read them instead of glancing at them.

Do you have any tips that you would like to share?

Until next time,

V

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Worlds Shortest ‘Prayer’

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

“I am”

Of course, this is not a ‘prayer’ in the religious sense of the word, but rather in the neo-spiritual sense.

What do people pray for? They pray for a particular result. Yesterday I talked about the process of manifestation and how ‘you become what you think about, and you attract what you are’. ‘I am’ is part of a statement that results in some description of you, meaning that when you become that, you’ll attract the corresponding results.

As a side note, they are a great way to start an affirmation, or an intention for yourself or for your life. I encourage you to come up with a couple of new, inspiring affirmations for yourself and then use the Affirmation Triggers to remind yourself of what is in the process of becoming.

So do you see how ‘I am’ is the worlds shortest ‘prayer’? Think about the power of those two words…

Until Monday,

V

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Nothing Manifests Without Intention

Monday, October 19th, 2009

I had an interesting conversation with a good friend of mine who brought up a point that without intention nothing would manifest in this world. It is a very simple, yet a very profound statement at the same time.

How do you get any result in life? Whether it is to go to school, grab a snack, or go see a show, it all starts with a quick thought “hey, I should do that” and an intention to actually do it. People invented a car because they had an intention to have a better way of transportation than horses and they invented the airplane because of an intention to fly.

That is why achieving something in your life also starts with an intention. Many times the intentions are installed by someone else, like your parents, and many of the your current results in life are there because of those ’subconscious’ intentions. To achieve something different, however, you need to set some conscious intentions for your life (you can call it goals or affirmations). After you set your intention, you’ll need to trigger your brain to think actually think about it on the regular basis. Intention cards are a great method – this is where you write down your goal, intention, or affirmation on a card and read it as often as possible. Affirmation Triggers is a good alternative – it’s a free service that will send your own affirmations to your phone at regular intervals. Sorry for the plug :)

So, everything starts with an intention, or in other words, a thought, so what do you think about?

Until next time,

V

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Knowledge vs Action

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

I couple of weeks ago I heard about the ‘Centre For Spiritual Living’ and decided to check it out. I was afraid that it was going to be a church wearing a mask of spirituality, but I was pleased that it wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, there are quite a few similarities between this Centre and a church, but that is like the similarities between science and religion. The message was not a typical religious message, and that was very pleasant to the ears. They said that, “we are not a church, we are a centre; and this is not a religion, it’s a philosophy”.

Last week Dr. Kenn Gordon was speaking about knowledge and application. This is something i heard from almost everyone I have ever come across in self development programs and books, everyone from Tony Robbins to Bob Proctor.

Knowledge is potential power. It is what you do with it, the application of knowledge in other words, that brings you power. Just knowing something is not very useful, it seems. Bob Proctor, in his Born Rich program, was saying that you can memorize the entire program and still have no improvement in your life unless you apply your knowledge. And if you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Having a lot of facts, figures, and ideas stored in your head does not give you much besides the satisfaction of knowing.

The power, and the results that follow, come from actually taking action based on those facts, figures, and ideas. Your power and your results come from putting one foot in front of the other, time and time again, and from the never-ending drive to go forward. So, if you have been sitting around with a lot of knowledge in your head and are talking virtually no action, it is time for a little change. Set a goal and do something RIGHT NOW to move yourself closer to the goal. It may be a phone call…it may be finding a book…it may be searching the web. Whatever it is, go and do it NOW!

Now, back to the Centre For Spiritual Living. I was also pleased to learn that there are “Science of Mind” classes offered through the Centre. I have gone to the introductory class, but we did not do much else but introductions. Next week we are diving into a pretty thick book, The Science Of Mind, by Ernest Holmes, so it should be interesting!

Until next time,

V

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Benefits Of Creating Your Own Affirmations

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

There are many websites out there that offer you long lists of affirmations, whether in written form or in an audio format. Some websites will sell you CDs with affirmations recorded on them, while others offer you an email service where a random affirmation will be emailed to you daily. In many ways, and this is just my humble opinion, these services offer a good value, but they all miss a big aspect of affirmations.

Affirmations are supposed to be personalized, positive statements stated in the present tense. The more personalized the affirmation are, the more effective they become. To me, as I said in one of my earlier posts, affirmations are synonymous with intentions as well as with goals. James Arthur Ray talks about how he likes to set intentions instead of setting goals, since the term ‘goals’ is overused and we, as a society, are somewhat accustomed to hearing it. Then, after thinking about it, I decided that affirmations and intentions are really the same thing. And you are supposed to use them in the same way too – you are supposed to keep your mind focused on them as much as possible by doing whatever your need to do (saying them out loud, writing them down on a card and reading the card regularly, etc). In other words, affirmations, intentions, and goals are all positive statements about something that you want to accomplish in your life or statements about the way you want to be and act.

So here’s my problem with the pre-made affirmations. They may sound personalized, but they are not personalized since you did not come up with them. Now don’t get me wrong, I think that it is possible to take an affirmation that someone made, make it feel personal, and internalize it. That being said, I think that it’s a lot easier to internalize an affirmation that you made yourself as opposed to an affirmation made by someone else.

You can use Affirmation Triggers to come up with a list of your own affirmations and then use this FREE service to send your own affirmations to your phone at regular time intervals to make it easier to keep them fresh in your mind. I would love to know what you think of the service.

Until next time,

V

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Affirmations, Intentions, and Goals

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

For the purposes of this blog, affirmations, intentions, and goals are the same thing. Here is why:

I agree with James Arthur Ray about how the word ‘goals’ is a little too overused and thus has lost its punch. So ‘intentions’ is a great replacement. And since affirmations are positive statements about you, life, or the world, intentions done properly can be called affirmations. ‘Affirmations’ is also a more popular term, so that is why it became the name of my website – www.affirmationtriggers.com.

So, use whatever term makes more sense to you.

Until next time,

V

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