Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And when we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Seems like a bunch of motivational fluff right?

Often we don’t see or too easily forget that the people who have flown to great heights had to deal with tremendous adversity beforehand. If you read any biographies, this element is always present.

Your thoughts may change after you view the videos in Famous Failures – Michael Jordan, Abraham Lincoln and J.K. Rowling.

Here are a couple of videos I found of Will Smith talking about this concept:
Will Smith on the Power of Positive Thinking
Will Smith on the Law of Attraction

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Thanks to Lee Alford for sharing this with me.

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’.

Busyness has become so engrained in both our leisure and work lives, that it is hard to imagine a life that is not busy. Because of the choices open to us, we feel we have less time than we ever had to do all the things we want to do. One U.S. study showed that today American’s have somewhat less work time and more free time than they had in the 1960’s.This counters popular arguments that there is a `time famine’ in the West. Despite the fact they have more free time than ever, American’s still believe that life is becoming more rushed (Sheuerman 2005). Given the similarity in culture, the same is likely to be true in New Zealand.

Work also seems to get busier and busier. Technology is partly responsible for this, making it possible to cram more into an hour than ever before. Email is a great example, having made it possible for us to constantly multi-task. In the past, enquiries came to us via a phone call or snail mail. The expectation for returning such enquiries was a few days to a week. However emails have made it possible for us to answer a query almost immediately and people have come to expect this. Emails also constantly pop into our in-box while we are working away at some other task. This makes it very difficult to concentrate for an extended period on one thing. Checking one email when it comes in for instance during another task has been shown to distract us for 5 minutes from the original task. In addition to email, laptops, mobile phones and blackberries now enable us to do work anywhere, any time. This makes for so many more potential opportunities for us to be `busy’ doing work.

Busyness also has an impact on our physical and emotional health. In his recent book Thrilled to Death, Dr H. Heart argues that the myriad of choices and the constant excitement and activity that we experience, particularly as young people, can cause a variety of stress disorders. Heart argues that stimulation is not necessarily a good thing. The over-stimulation our children are experiencing can mean they lose the capacity to experience pleasure in the small things in life.

Heart explains that down-time can be more productive than busyness in the end. For children in particular, boredom can provide the space and time for real creativity. When children have few toys, they can create endless fun and interest for themselves. They might also day-dream, imagine possibilities and think a lot about what they might do in the future. It is also during such `down-time’ that adults often have the best insights or make the most important discoveries. It is a well known fact that the famed mathematician Archimedes made one of his greatest discoveries in the bath – EUREKA!

There is much talk at the moment about the current world financial crisis. Business is already feeling the impact and some redundancies have taken place. It is easy during such periods to become anxious. With less work on, we look for ways to fill the gaps and become `busy’ again. There is always a silver lining to any cloud however. Perhaps one of the opportunities that the current crisis provides is the opportunity to stop and assess who we are and what is important to us. This is true at both a personal level and at the level of business organization. If we have been made redundant, are in work, a Manager or a Business Owner this may be the time to jump off the busyness treadmill and construct a measured and truly productive way forward.

Joyworkz offer solutions to business to help people manage `busyness’ or the lack of it, in their lives and work. The current economic times can be stressful and we offer training to help individuals manage these stresses. We also offer a new 1:1 service called `My Joyworkz’ to help individuals and Managers learn what is truly important to them. If you would like to find out more about how Joyworkz can assist you and your employees at this time, please call or email us 64 9 8345-483 or info@joyworkz.co.nz. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for free no obligation, information. You can also refer to our website www.joyworkz.co.nz.

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.

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.

• pleasure without pain
• happiness without sadness
• life without death
• success without failure
• victory without defeat
• joy without sorrow
• relief without tension
• pleasure without pain
• excitement without boredom
• good without bad
• strength without weakness
• love without hate
• movement without stillness
• hope without despair
• etc

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!

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

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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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