Insightful Thought for 12 Dec

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“When something ends, something else begins. Leave your egos at the door, because life is too short to play/work with people who aren’t as committed as you are.”

Thanks to Lee Alford for sharing this with me.

Why Kicking the Busyness Habit Is Good for Everyone

by Dr Kathryn Owler

Did you know that busyness is a recent phenomenon? Studies have shown that the more affluent a society gets, the `busier’ people feel. In New Zealand busyness has become a habit. As Christmas approaches just watch the busy frenzy get into full swing! According to research evidence however, busyness is one habit that could be well worth kicking for everyone’s sake!

As New Zealander’s we carry busyness as a badge of honor. We assume that if we are busy we must have a lot of important things to do. However, some experts argue that busyness is a state of mind rather than merely an activity. They argue that we are so busy being busy, that we may have lost sight of what is important to us. It is interesting that in Russia, the word for busyness is the same as for the word `vanity’. Far from signaling productivity, it implies and empty, unproductive spending of time, `something like walking on a treadmill’ (Greenfeld 2005).

So why are New Zealanders all so busy being busy? Some people argue that busyness results from all the options that we have in developed countries. In countries like New Zealand most of us have an incredible range of choices including how to fill our days, what job or career to pursue, what foods to buy, what car to drive and what sort of person to be and so on. We can end up spending so much time and energy negotiating these choices that we get caught up in `doing, doing, doing’.

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The Cycles of Life…

Have you ever noticed how nothing is ever really consistent?

You constantly experience cycles with everything.

One minute your inspired, focused and feeling motivated about something, the next minute it requires some super effort to just take the first step.

Peaks and troughs, highs and lows. Is that something actually physically changing or is it our mental outlook that changes?

Might be a bit of both, might not be either.

The one thing you can be sure of is that change is always occurring , whether it’s good or not so good.

Embrace it, understand it and accept it. To do otherwise is futile.

Insightful thought for 12 Nov

“You’re either growing or dying.”

With everything that you do, no matter whether it is your band, a business, relationship, job, etc, if you’re not constantly learning new ways to improve or grow then you’re dying away.

It’s an illusion to think otherwise.

Learning does not end when you leave school, especially if you have aspirations of achieving better things in life.

The Dualities of Life…

You can’t have:

And it always seem that when you have too much of one thing, its opposite appears to balance things out.

I really wish at times it didn’t have to be this way but I have to accept that I didn’t write the rules on how life and the universe operates!

Watch The Opus trailer

The Opus is not another movie about the law of attraction but rather a thought provoking look into how a person can and should look into achieving their true potential.

Here’s the video trailer of The Opus which I watched and quite enjoyed a few days ago.

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Why You Should Watch The Opus…

I’ve just finished watching The Opus and I was pleasantly surprised with it.

I was expecting it to be an extension to The Secret about the law of attraction as it featured quite a few similar speakers like Dr. Joe Vitale, Jack Canfield, Dr. John Demartini, Morris Goodman, Marci Shimoff and Bob Doyle.

However, even though they do refer to the law of attraction in this movie, that’s not what The Opus is mainly about.

It’s about making people think about what their purpose is in life, finding a vision and most importantly, taking action steps to get started towards your ultimate vision.

It’s about allowing yourself to dream and strive for things you feel passionate about rather than limiting yourself.

The law of attraction kicks in as part of the action taking process towards your goals they explain. Events, scenarios and people will be attracted to you along the way but you must take action towards a goal to start with.

Success is always accompanied by challenge and it’s during these times that your vision, passion and commitment of utmost importance.

In summary, The Opus is a movie about learning to maximise a person’s potential through vison, planning and action steps which is the important aspect that The Secret missed out when it comes to attracting the future you wish to have for yourself.

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The First Critical Step to Successful Change

Take responsibility for your current situation.

I read about this a little while back in one of Brian Klemmer’s books, and I was recently reminded of this critical step again as I was listening to a Bob Baker podcast - Living a Guerrilla Marketing Mindset.

Examine your current situation and take ownership of it.

It doesn’t mean you’re at fault for what you currently have but the moment you can take responsibility and ownership for it, that’s the moment you empower yourself to enable change!

As long as you feel things are out of your control, you’re powerless to create the change you really want.

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How To Improve The Law Of Attraction

If you weren’t aware already, there are two parts to our mind, the conscious and the subconscious. Our conscious mind is what we’re very familiar with, we make decisions with it every minute of every day.

The issue is that it’s only a fraction of our total mind, it’s the subconscious that’s the real powerhouse!

The Power of the Subconscious Mind
To prove it, think how easily you perform tasks like walking, writing, driving, riding a bike or playing a musical instrument once you learn or train yourself how to do them.

You aren’t consciously thinking of how to perform every little movement your body makes in order to do the action like walking are you? No, you’re not.

In fact, you aren’t even consciously thinking about breathing or pumping the blood around your body. Are you starting to get it?

Train the Subconscious Mind
You can improve the law of attraction by ‘training’ your subconscious mind as it’s the thoughts and habits it holds that it gets to work on, not what you consciously think and that’s catch.

The thoughts you hold consciously with persistence will, in due time, crossover into your subconscious, and then that’s where things start to happen!

Desiring to be slim while holding subconscious thoughts and habits of an overweight person won’t work. Neither will desiring to be wealthy when you have subconscious thoughts and habits of a poor person.

And of course, desiring for anything yet holding the subconscious thoughts and habits of a person who believes its attainment will be hard to get certainly won’t work.

Training Tools
Visualization, affirmations, vision boards, writing down goals, etc are all just tools for you to communicate to your subconscious what you ultimately want it to work on attracting.

If you’re not getting the results you had hoped for, explore what your habits are and they’ll reveal what your subconscious is really working on.

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Do You Know What “The Secret” Really Is?

In 2006, a little independent documentary titled “The Secret” started to spread like wildfire throughout the world.

It was so inspirational, it gave people a renewed hope in life because it claimed you could be, do or have anything in life, large claims huh?!

The Secret is all about the law of attraction, and if you haven’t heard about it by now, you must be living under a rock!

In a nutshell, it states that everything that exists is formed from energy where like energy is attracted to like energy.

Your thoughts are energy at their most basic form hence the law of attraction suggests you attract everything into your life including people, events and various other things.

There are arguments for and against this concept so is it just some airy fairy concept or actually something very profound?

I’ll be exploring this idea a bit more, analysing it in deeper detail as it’s not as cut and dry as ‘The Secret’ DVD initially suggests.

Stay tuned.

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