Monday Motivating Mindset

THE HYPE

 

This weeks Motivating Mindset will help you get out of your own way in order to open up the floodgates and let your wildest dreams rush in.

 

THE CHALLENGE

 

Your Mindset challenge this week is getting in the habit of asking yourself:

"How can I be more allowing?"

 

THE PROMISE

 

Ask yourself this question whenever you meet resistance in your life and it will help reduce your discomfort and attract more success.

 

 

THE TIPS

Most people are familiar with the Law of Attraction made famous by "The Secret", but did you know there is also a Law of "Allowing"?

Don't worry, you are not alone, if you haven't heard of this important universal law.

Yet, those who have heard of it, and applied it into their lives, are happier, more fulfilled and seem to instantly attract whatever they desire into their lives.

Would you like to know how to tap in to the law of allowing in order to bring better results more quickly and easily into your life?

If happiness, joy and abundance is what you really want, then you need to take a moment and consider the question "how allowing am I right now?"

Do you allow others to be who they are? Do you fight against their beliefs? Do you think that if one person gets their way, that you can't get yours? 

How often are you in opposition to the situation? In what ways to you "resist" the people, places and things in your day?

Look at any areas of resistance in your life as prime indicators of areas that are in need of more allowing.

Whenever there is resistance in your life, there will also be accompanying negative emotions.

Resistance is like putting on the emergency or parking brake while trying to drive. Sure you can still drive with it on, but the performance of the vehicle is greatly diminished.

The problem is that many of us fear what we truly want, which is why we put on the brakes to begin with.

We ask, pray, and intend for our desires to be manifested and right before they are, we say "whoa wait-a-minute", "hold-on", "stop".

We think, who am I too have this? Why do I deserve this? Am I even worthy enough? 

Meanwhile, the universe is trying to give you whatever you want, but you are stating to it through your actions that you are unsure if you want it.

Then, when you finally decide that you want something, you decide that you want it yesterday!

However, no matter how skilled or resourceful you are there is always a time lag between the original conception and the manifestation or achievement of the goal. 

Then when it doesn't show up today, you begin to doubt and question whether or not you can even attract it.

A vibrational state like this places counter-thought, and counter-intention, into whatever your trying to attract and acts like a parking brake to your pleasure.

No matter how much you work, and work, you will still not succeed, because the effectiveness of your action is dependent upon your state of being.

This is important to understand, because the more time you put into being against anything, the less time you have to spend bringing positive things into your life!

The creative process takes time! Allowing what is wanted, essentially keeps your attention on the wanted thing, and off of the fact that you don't have it yet. 

Imagine if you could find a way to take your foot off the brake and live life full throttle?

Understanding the law of allowing is easier than you think, but it is the practice of what you know where the challenge lies.

The most important thing to remember is that whatever you focus on will expand into more of it.

If you spend your time, energy and attention focusing on the "resistance" the "disagreement" with whatever is, you are creating a vibrational state to bring you more of the same.

Therefore it is of the utmost importance during the process of manifestation that no matter what happens you remain committed to focusing your energies on that which you intend.

This keeps your vibrational signal oriented in the right direction, and allows you to rendezvous with the people and resources that match up with you.

By not resisting the wanted thing you allow the law of 'like attracts like' to work in your favour.

The law of attraction is able to work more effectively when you don't resist the wanted thing and allow the process to take place, whatever it is.

Do you truly want whatever you want... or are you more concerned about the process in which in manifests?

If you don't care how it comes, only that it eventually comes, then allow your thoughts and feelings about the process to relax. 

By relaxing into your creative process you strengthen your intention and become a more powerful attracting magnet for the things you want, and a more effective co-creator.

For example if you want to be more wealthy and you thought it was going to happen via the lottery, and you ended up getting a promotion would you be upset?

Think about this story and how it parallels in your life. What in your life do you say that you want more of, but are too 'attached' to the details of how it happens?

If you truly desire whatever that is then you will want to spend your time and effort on allowing more.

Even after you bravely recognize the need to become more allowing, you still may get lost in the contemplation of exactly how to do that.

One of the easiest ways to learn is to simply ask yourself the question: "How can I be more allowing?" 

THE SECRET

The art of allowing means you believe it is possible to have challenges, yet at the very same time be absolutely in love with life and excited about the world.

In what areas of your life can you become more allowing?

Can you become more allowing in the relationships you have with your friends, family, co-workers, or even your ex's?

More importantly, it what ways can you be more allowing with the most important relationship of all, the one with your SELF?

Are you your own best friend? How often do you practice allowing yourself to fail, learn and grow without judgment?

Based on the way you have treated yourself for the past week, would you be your own best friend?

If you and your best friend were working together on a project together, would you want them there to support you, or hinder your progress?

The choice is an easy one, of course you would want them in your corner to support you.

The question is then, "Are you offering the best support to yourself as your own best friend?"

Every day that you wake up you are responsible for being a partner in the biggest and most important project of all, your life.

Are you offering the best support to yourself when you criticize or complain about something?

Are you offering the best support to yourself when you doubt the creative process?

Are you offering the best support to yourself when you constantly notice what is missing in your life?

Are you offering the best support to yourself when you question why you don't have it yet?

Are you offering the best support to yourself when you spend time blaming or judging people, including yourself?

Are you offering the best support to yourself when you carry around all your failures and mistakes from the past?

Are you offering the best support to yourself when you feel low energy and negative about something?

Are you offering the best support to yourself when you offer resistance to whatever shows up in the moment?

These are only 8 of the many ways that you can check-in with your self. 

Use them to determine how aligned your thoughts and actions are with your intention.

Is it possible that you need to learn how to be more allowing, accepting and/or forgiving?

Are your thoughts, feelings, and actions in vibrational harmony with what you seek to attract?

If you seek to support your self then it is vital to maintain a pure creative vibration aligned precisely to your desire.  

The law of allowing works hand-in-hand with the law of attraction, meaning whatever you place your attention on you get more of. 

As mentioned earlier, if you focus on something positive, something that you are passionate about, related opportunities come to you. 

When your thoughts, your focus and your intent are exclusively on what is wanted, you feel relaxed, joyful and lighthearted about the goal.

Paradoxically, the more joyful you are, the less hard you have to work, and the more powerful and effective are your actions.

In short, allowing is the aligning of your vibration with that of your desire. 

A great question to ask yourself to be more in the moment and go more with the flow is:

"How can I be more allowing?"

Monday Motivating Mindset

THE HYPE

 

This weeks Motivating Mindset will help see that the hidden truth behind your existence.

 

THE CHALLENGE

 

Your Mindset challenge this week is getting in the habit of asking yourself:

"What are the miracles in my life?"

 

THE PROMISE

 

Ask yourself this question and you will start to appreciate all of the intricate and inherent beauty of life.

 

THE TIPS

When you wake up tomorrow morning ask yourself the question: "What are the miracles in my life?"

Take a moment to think about what in your life is so incredible that it makes you want to shout at the top of your lungs?

Ok, ok, if you are like most people then you probably came up with the answer "nothing".

Yet if you knew there was a miracle in the making of your life wouldn't you shout for joy or scream with excitement?

Certainly you would appreciate it right? Because after all, if you didn't appreciate the miracles in your life then why would any one (or thing) give you more of them?

In fact, could it be the case that perhaps your life is already chalked full of miracles and you don't even realize, or appreciate, them now?

When was the last time that you stopped to account for, and appreciate, all of the miracles in your life?

If you still cannot see miracles in your life, then perhaps it is just that you can't see the forest for the trees.

There are miracles right in front of your face, all around you, and surrounding you.

Consider the miracle of your existence and how many sets of grandparents had to physically exist to create you.

How many millions of your ancestors had to pass through the same "event horizon" that you came through?

If anyone of those people were "not in the mood", or choose to do anything else than exactly what they did to procreate, you would not be reading this.

Your genealogy is a miracle unto itself, but put that aside for a moment, and now consider the complexity behind your birth.

When you were first conceived you were a double strand of DNA in a fertilized ovum.

It divided 50 times, and after only 50 replications you had over 100,000,000,000,000 (trillion) cells. 

To give you an idea of how much that is, it is bigger than the number of all the stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

Every second there are about 25 million new cells that are being produced in your body.

Each and every one of those cells does over 6 trillion things per second and has enough power to illuminate the world.

What is even more amazing is that every new cell, just like every existing cell in your body, is instantly aware of what the other cells are doing.

The essence of a human being composed of 60-70 kilos of flesh and a mass of bones was originally contained in a drop of fluid. 

It certainly is a wonder that an intelligent, emotion experiencing human being, with a remarkably complex physical structure, could come into existence from a drop of fluid.

This development was certainly not the result of a random process or the operation of chance, there is an inner intelligence in your body.

It is this inner intelligence that allows the human body to simultaneously think thoughts, listen to music, remove toxins, fight germs, and make love in rhythm all at once.

The rhythm of your heart will beat 3,000 million times during your life, every and every time without you ever having to ask it too. Have you thanked your heart lately?

Day in and day out your blood travels almost 100,000 kilometers round trip from various places around your body back to your heart, without you having to give any directions.

Every year your eyes close, clean, lubricate, and re-open over 13 million times without you ever having to consciously "bat an eye".

Each day your lungs take approximately 23,000 breaths, they do this automatically without your instructions.

Every one of the cells within your nervous, skeletal, respiratory, digestive, and immune system operate with a miraculous intelligence.

If your cells and body is able to do all of these things easily without your instruction, can you imagine what type of miracles could be created if you consciously intended them?

Miracles are in more shapes and sizes than you realize. The more you stay aware and look for them, the more you will find them.

You can begin to increase your awareness about the miracles in your life by continually asking yourself the question: 

"What are the miracles in my life?"

THE SECRET

The truth about miracles is that the most significant miracle is you.

Each and every one of us is a unique living and breathing miracle in the flesh.

and infinitely smarter than you give yourself credit for. 

Yet for some reason the majority of us don't usually recognize this fact in our daily lives.

It is almost funny when people think that there are no miracles, because as long as you live you are a miracle.

However it's not funny to realize that people who don't believe in miracles, or don't see miracles, probably are not living miraculous lives.

It doesn't make any sense why anyone would choose to live anything less than a miraculous life.

Yes believe it or not, no matter who you are or what your situation is, you are entitled to limitless miracles.

We don't have to do anything to earn them, we don't have to be anyone to deserve them, because just our BE-ing qualifies us.

You are perfect as you are, unique as a snowflake, and so important that world would not be complete without you.

As long as you exist there are miracles occurring, miracles to be made, fantasies to be fulfilled, and destinies to be discovered.

Best of all there is only one thing that you have to do differently in order to immediately attract, and experience, more miracles in your life.

All you have to do is choose. Your intention must be set on seeing the miracles in your life versus the misery.

This is important because what you focus on in the mind expands in the physical realm, and will eventually attract more of the same. 

If you spend your time and attention focusing on fear, it only makes sense that you will become fearful, or full of fear.

If you spend your time and attention complaining, whining, playing a victim, you will be provided with more reasons to continue.

In order to attract more miracles you must begin to see and appreciate the miracles that are already in your life.

There are many miracles unfolding right now for everyone, it's just a matter of choosing to see them.

It is a miracle that you awoke this day and with eyes and that can see and a brain that can comprehend. 

Can you commit to starting your day tomorrow by not taking this miracle for granted?

Just the fact that you can and are reading requires further miracles to happen.

Besides being blessed with eyes, you are reading these words because you have a computer, an Internet Service Provider, and a roof over your head.

Although it may not seem like much of a miracle to you, but the majority of the world today does not even have that.

In fact, if you are reading this then you are ALREADY living a miraculous life that millions of people in less fortunate countries are praying to have.

People would literally do anything to have the opportunity to make the mistakes you do, and to experience your failures.

If you are guilty of getting yourself caught up in the mania of the mind's judgment, criticizing, or blaming, then ask yourself this question:

How can I get out of my own way and allow myself to experience the miracle that I am each and every day?

How about committing to telling your loved ones that they are miracles today? How about gently reminding yourself?

When you are feeling low, the ultimate pick-me up is for you to seriously contemplate the question:

"What are the miracles in my life?"

Write down your miracles, share your miracles with a friend, and teach others how to find miracles in their life.

Be the miracle you want, feel the miracle you are, and celebrate your miraculous future.

Monday Motivating Mindset

THE HYPE

 

This weeks Motivating Mindset will help you see things more clearly and live with more clarity.

 

THE CHALLENGE

 

Your Mindset challenge this week is getting in the habit of asking yourself:

"What else could this mean?"

 

THE PROMISE

 

Ask yourself this question in every instance you are searching for meaning and you will gain new perspectives.

  

 

THE TIPS

Have you ever got confused, angry, sad, hurt, frustrated, nervous, stressed, anxious, or upset?

If you are human then you have definitely have experienced at least one or two of these negative emotions.

Chances are, you may even be experiencing them on a daily basis.

If you want to reduce the amount of those feelings in your life a great question to ask yourself is: "What else could this mean?"

Human beings see the world first through our brains and then use our eyes to generate a matching perspective.

We see whatever we believe, i.e. seeing is believing... We also ignore what we don't want to believe... i.e. ignorance is bliss.

In general people underestimate their natural abilities and overestimate their weaknesses.

This means that your situation is probably not as bleak as you imagine, and you're more strong and talented than you give yourself credit. 

Yet we tend to think that everybody thinks, feels and acts the same way, or at least they should in most cases.

You think this way if you have ever got upset at someone with a different approach to doing things than you.

If you traveled with 12 of your closest friends on a trip for a month you would quickly spot exactly just how different you are.

But if during that trip you were faced with a problem that took all of you to solve, you may walk away more appreciative of our differences.

Our perspectives are by design as unique as our fingerprints, with no two being the exact same.

There is a beautiful and divine purpose as to why we all think, feel and act differently.

The truth is that it takes all sorts to make the world go round. 

The sooner that we appreciate and believe this then the sooner the conflicts and wars around the world will end.

You can make a big difference in your life and the lives of others simply by asking one question:

"What else could this mean?"

Answering this question will help you gain perspectives, feel empathy and increase awareness.

When was the last time you stopped to consider that there might be another way at looking at the situation?

Here is your challenge for the next week...

The next time you are frustrated, confused, angry or upset ask yourself this power question.

Try asking it the next time that you are stuck on a problem or arrive at a dead-end.

Ask it to yourself the next time you are in the middle of a so-called crisis.

Ask a friend this question the next time they are emotional and distraught over something.

The more that you ask yourself this question the more easily you will be able to come up with alternative ideas.

Remember, the answers that you come up with are not the most important part of the process, rather it is simply the awareness of all your alternatives.

To change anything in your life requires that you choose a new path, because you cannot change what you don't know.

A great question to ask yourself to gain awareness and perspective is: "What else could this mean?"

THE SECRET

We live in a world that is infinitely filled with all sorts, shapes and sizes of information.

Our ability to recognize, access and change information creates endless potential and possibilities for our species.

From cloning mammals to Cuban missiles we have the power to use information to both create and destroy life.

However we must always remember that information itself is neither inherently good or bad. 

For instance the Ying and Yang symbol tells us there is a little bit of good in evil, and a little bit of evil in good.

Information will always make the world go round and it will forever just be information.

Ultimately it is the person who uses the information that applies the purpose and meaning to it.

We can use information to empower and improve our lives, or we can use the same information to hinder and hamper our progress.

This choice is entirely up to us and is determined on the basis by the type and quality of questions we ask our self. 

For a specific example of how this might play into your life consider the following scenario or one like it:

You have arranged to meet your partner or good friend for dinner and you arrive on time at a restaurant. 

After about 10 minutes and the person still hasn't shown up you begin to dialogue with yourself and say “typical, she is always late, she simply has no respect for other people”. 

Stop! Wait-a-minute, immediately taking up a position like this is not going to prove very useful for your emotions is it?

Also, think about the type of evening you are setting yourself up for if and when the person does show up. It's not likely going to be a fun and friendly night will it?

Before you are temped to take your next shower in negative emotions, how about if you asked yourself "What else could this mean?"

Just by asking the question you have now given yourself some choices.

Start brainstorming from the other person's perspective and put yourself in their shoes.

Do you think they are doing this to intentionally hurt or upset you? If so, then perhaps it is time to find some new friends or even family to hang around.

If you realize that they probably didn't do it on purpose, then perhaps you could change the internal dialogue in your head to reflect something more understanding and empathetic.

For example you might think "she must really care about me because she is obviously taking the time to look her best”, or “How thoughtful of me was it to pick a restaurant that is notorious for no parking."

Coming from a perspective like this you can see how you can eliminate the build up of negative emotions and free yourself from "reacting" when they finally arrive.

With that perspective how much easier it would be avoid any arguments, make sure you put in a real effort, and try your best to salvage the rest of the night.

Think and reflect for a moment on the last time that you had an argument with a loved one. 

Try and briefly regain those feelings by seeing what you saw, hearing what you heard and feeling what you felt. 

Now take a moment and recreate the dialogue that was going on inside your head at the time. What are you saying to yourself?

Are you asking questions that are helping or are you asking questions that are likely to exacerbate the situation and lead to an argument? 

At times like this we often disappear inside our heads and look for ways to justify our feelings and support our behaviour.

Would you like to put a hugely positive spin on the situation instead by changing your state and outlook?

The alternative is to ask yourself the question "What else could this mean?" to contemplate new and more powerful perspectives.

Monday Motivating Mindset

THE HYPE

This weeks Motivating Mindset will help you live with more purpose.

THE CHALLENGE

Your Mindset challenge this week is getting in the habit of asking yourself:
"What do I want to change in the world?"


THE PROMISE

Ask yourself this question everyday until you find an answer, and then ask it everyday after that to make sure you stay the course.


THE TIPS

Everywhere in this world there is change.

We exist in a world where change is the only thing that is constant.


So if change is the only constant, then ask yourself, is it a good idea for you to have a constant approach to life?

Said differently, does it make any sense to try and stay the same in a world that is forever changing?

Of course not, yet isn't that exactly what we do when we spend all our time and attention thinking, feeling, and doing things the same way?

We call the preference to view life from the perspective of the mind our "identity".

Our identity is a collection of attitudes, biases and beliefs systems that we construct our view of the world with.

Some peoples identity is compatible with their reality, while the majority of other people's paradigms hold them hostage.

The desire to maintain our identity can keep us from fully embracing change.

However when it comes to accepting, handling, and dealing with change, including our ability to change our identity, Henry Ford had the best answer when he said...

"Whether you think that you can, or think that you cannot, either way you are right".

Is your current view of reality getting the job done?

Are you happy with the world that you live in?

If you are not happy, a great question to ask yourself is "What do I want to change in the world?"

Humans have all been given unique problem-solving powers beyond any other biological being on Earth and yet still we complain.

Out of all the unnecessary things in this world, nothing is more annoying than a person who continually grieves and grumbles about their problems.

Why? Because we have been given a mouth to vocalize opportunity, eyes to seek out solutions, and a body to bring us forward into action.

Our ability to reason, analyze, interpret, intuit and imagine are unprecedented and unparalleled in the animal kingdom.

These gifts have been bestowed upon every one of us living on this planet and far too often these go unnoticed and unused.

Everyday we have a choice, to either become part of the problem, or choose (even by default) to become part of the solution.

Not many people are prepared to do what they need to do today, in order to make a better tomorrow possible for them self.

In order to be the change you are meant to be in the world you need to follow your passion, find your power and live your purpose.

"You must be the change you seek in the world." --- Mahatma Gandhi

Now is the time to speak your truth, create your community and be good to each other.

Do not look outside yourself for your leader, become a mentor to your self and to others, lead by example.

As U.S. President Barack Obama suggested during one of his inspirational presidential candidate speeches, "we must become the difference that this world needs."

The Ancient Hopi Prophecy tells us that "We are the ones we've been waiting for."

There are many opportunities to get involved in your area, community, country or even continent.

One possible way to get started is by visiting http://www.change.org/ where there they ask the question "What do you want to change in the world?"


THE SECRET

Change does not happen by itself. You cannot change the world without first changing yourself.

We are all connected and no person can exist independently as an island unto themselves.

Yet for some reason we tend to think we are alone, isolated, and independent from the need of others.

But if you become sick, get hurt, or have an accident, don't you need some one else to take care of you?

A lot of people have grand intentions to save the world who cannot even save them self.

If you want to change the world you must change the view of your self.

The ancients taught us that "In order to heal others you must first be healed yourself, that "Healing Yourself IS Healing others".

Incidentally like all good things in life, this must be practiced to completion in order to understand it.

When you have completed healing yourself there will no longer be a world in need of healing rather a world of absolute perfection.

Free to live your life without fear, guilt, regret, or shame. Now you can reconnect with the purpose of why you are here in the first place.

Each one of us was born for a reason, whether that is to be an answer to a question, or a solution to a problem.

The next time you are alone ask your heart the question: "What do I want to change in the world?" and see what comes up for you.

Have you recently stopped to reconsider Where you are living, How you are living, Why you are living and What you are doing with your life?

What could you begin to change today that would result in the largest improvement to the quality of your life and/or those surrounding you?

Changes can happen on many different levels such as in social institutions, in the social behaviour or the social relations of a society, community of people, and so on.

When behaviour pattern changes, in large numbers and is visible and sustained it results in what is referred to as social change.

Among many forms of creating social change are theater for social change, direct action, protesting, advocacy, community organizing, community practice, revolution, and political activism.

What would you change if you knew you could make a difference?

Would you change the way people eat, work, play, think, feel, act, laugh, live, love?

You might wonder if you, your friends or a small group of people can possibly make a difference in such a large and complicated world.

"Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed citizens to change the world. Indeed, it has never been done otherwise." - Margaret Mead

You have the power within you to be the difference that makes the difference.

Even though you may not be aware of it, at any given point in time you may literally be the proverbial "straw that breaks the camels back", or the deciding factor.

An example of such simple things that can make a difference are: a smile, a warm hug, a candy, a toy, a note, a poem, a tune, an encouragement, a meal, gift, or gesture.

It is these small and seemingly unimportant things that add up to make significant changes in the overall outlook of the people surrounding us.

This is important because a significant deviance from culturally inherited values may result in a rebellion against the established system.

Isn't it amazing to think that your efforts could ultimately lead to the change in society that we have been looking for?

If you choose to, you can, and do, make a difference.

Once you decide to make that choice the next question to ask yourself is: "What do I want to change in the world?"

Monday Motivating Mindset

THE HYPE

This weeks Motivating Mindset will help you use your imagination the way it was intended to be used.


THE CHALLENGE

Your Mindset challenge this week is getting in the habit of asking yourself:
"Is this the best use of my imagination?"


THE PROMISE

Ask yourself this question as soon as possible and you will become better able to harness the true power of your imagination.


THE TIPS

Did you know that your Imagination is the most powerful thing you possess?

Here are just a few of the reasons why it's so important...

For one thing your imagination controls your perception.

It's called your 'minds-eye', and if you don't see something in it first, you will not be able to see it in "real life".

This is why for humans seeing is believing, and we only see what we believe.

Your imagination is literally creating the world you live in based on a set of programming instructions that you call reality.

Another reason your imagination is key is because it influences your emotions.

Your imagination stores the pictures, symbols and images of the memories that trigger all of your emotions.

Without these being perceived in your minds-eye, nothing would cause a emotional reaction or generate feelings.

In case you haven't heard the news or stopped to think about it yourself, we are all motivated by emotions.

This is powerful because 99.99% of the time we do what we feel right?

Ask yourself now.. "what determines your emotions?"

Because if you are serious about changing your actions then you must first learn how to change the emotions that are driving your behavior.

If you look at whatever makes you sad, miserable or upset, you will uncover that your imagination (perspective) is what pulls you down.

Contrarily, whenever you have accomplished something that makes you happy, you will discover that your imagination also lead you there.

Therefore in order to take control of your emotions you need to take control of your imagination.

What we do over time is what creates our results, and why we do what we do is based on our reality.

Both your results and reality are governed by your imagination, which means you have the power to change either of them at any time!

When you come to understand the power of that statement, you will also fully realize the eloquence of Albert Einstein when he said:

"Imagination is everything, it is more important than knowledge".

Have you ever stopped to consider that right now you are either using your imagination for better or worse?

Now that you know the importance of your imagination the best question to ask yourself is: "Is this the best use of my imagination?"


THE SECRET

Are you are stressed, overwhelmed, frustrated, hopeless, complacent, or bored with life?

Could the only reason you are not getting everything you deserve possibly be you?

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” -- Oscar Wilde

You first dream and envision your happiest future with your imagination.

You then use your imagination to motivate you through the tough times until you succeed.

You set your target on your next goal and seek out the next opportunity with your imagination.

This is the never-ending cycle of creation. This is the expression of your true self, the journey of your soul.

If somehow, somewhere you mixed up along the path then a powerful question to ask yourself is: "Is this the best use of my imagination?"

What is one good way to use your imagination you might ask?

How about beginning by using it to imagine all the things that you want in life.

Not the superficial things that don't bring you any joy, only the type of things that tug on your heart strings.

Start imagining these things in your minds-eye more often, picturing what it would be like to have them right now.

If you are serious and actually want to start manifesting this reality then you better start feeling it with your heart while you do it as well.

Keep picturing your greatest joy, being thankful and patient about the process.

The very worst that will happen is that you spend a lot of time feeling the joy and appreciation.

Nothing sends that something faster into your hands than the feeling of gratitude.

The favorite thing for God or the Universe to do is to fulfill our fantasies and wishes.

We get what we believe we deserve, which is why it should go without saying, it is important to be careful what you ask for.

Ingrid Bergman knew this in 13 simple words, "Success is getting what you want and Happiness is wanting what you get."

Monday Motivating Mindset

THE HYPE

This weeks Motivating Mindset will empower your everyday living.


THE CHALLENGE

Your Mindset challenge this week is getting in the habit of asking yourself:

"What truly improves my life?"


THE PROMISE

Ask yourself this question and you will fast-track your path to success and happiness.


THE TIPS

The New Year always brings with it many hopes for new directions to take, old dreams to pursue and overall improvements to make.

If you are looking to make improvements to your life the first question to ask yourself is "What truly improves my life?"

If you feel down on your luck, with no energy to motivate yourself and improve your life than you are normal.

In fact, when it comes to people there is something that over 70% of the population has in common, that being, the propensity to settle for less than they deserve.

In Canada and America for example, nearly 7 out of 10 people work 9-5 jobs just to pay the bills!

But if you work just for the money, you may be rewarded by the ability for physical fulfillment, that meaning the access to physical goods and tangible services.

However without passion behind your payroll, your chosen work occupation will not provide any spiritual, emotional, or mental satisfaction.

Said differently, people are spending 1/3 of their lives doing something that provides them with 1/4 the fulfillment in their lives.

To make matters worse, the 1/4 that money can provide doesn't always work out to be the case, many people go to work full-time, or have two jobs and cannot still meet their expenses and commitments.

If this is the case, then you could look at it in the way that people are spending 33% of their time in an area that produces less than 25% of their happiness.

This is a major problem since we seek to experience fulfillment on all four of these levels in order to feel balanced, in harmony and successful.

When it comes to improving your life you must consider all four levels to lived a balanced life no matter what category you are trying to improve.

How can you be more emotionally, spiritually and mentally involved with your work to help balance out the equation?

When you are finished finding and testing ways to improve your results in one area then it is time to move on to another "category" of improvement.

Some common categories that people choose for improvement include: Health, Wealth, Relationships, Personal, Career, etc..

Asking yourself "What truly improves my life?" will help you brainstorm a more balanced approach in existing areas and also improve the overall categories that contribute to your success and happiness.


THE SECRET

Improving your life is really about being able to get better results in the existing areas of your life.

There are many ways to improve your life, but they all start with a choice to do better in order to get better results.

You must empower yourself to make better choices by understanding the power of your attitude towards any improvements you wish to make.

If you believe the change(s) will be hard, long and difficult then guess what, you are right!

Alternatively, if you choose to believe that the change(s) will be easy, fast and effortless then guess what type of experience you will attract.

As Henry Ford once said "Whether you think you can or think you cannot, either way you are right."

The question "What truly improves my life?" will help you brainstorm areas that will truly make a difference.

If you come up with lots of different areas for improvement than you will want to stick to just one or two at a time.

The best way to focus your time and attention is to ask yourself: "What area of my life, if changed for the better, would make the biggest impact to improve the quality of my life?"

Once you have determined a good area to focus your efforts and before you go to work to change it, consider the following questions:

"How does this improve my life?"

"What will this improvement add to my life that is missing now?"

"If the proposed idea doesn't work, how can I tweak it to still make improvements?"

Asking yourself these questions will give you a little bit of insight as to whether or not this improvement will work out as good as you imagine it would.

There are two things that have consistently improved the quality of life for people throughout the ages.

One of those things is "technology", and it's ability to allow us to do things more effectively and more efficiently.

Technology is a car that enables you to get from point A to point B faster. Technology is an e-mail that you can use to communicate with others in the comfort of your own home.

Technology will continue to improve life if implemented with care and consideration. What is the purpose of the technology? What is the technology enabling for you?

With the right research technology is something that has the potential to improve lives.

The second thing that has improve the quality of life for people throughout the ages was once described in a Beatles song.

The title was "All You Need Is Love" and it is a fitting title for the universal secret for improving lives for everyone involved.

When you do some thing out of love then the rest of your life will tend to fall into place as well.

An example of this is the famous artists, musicians, actors and athletes that make massive amounts of money doing what they love.

Passion or a love for what you do is only equalled by the purpose for which you do it.

Doing something you enjoy for yourself is good. Doing something you enjoy for yourself that benefits others is even better.

Your purpose in life is to find some place, some thing or some one that you are passionate about.

In order to zero in on your passion, ask yourself the question "What truly improves my life?".

Monday Motivating Mindset

THE HYPE

This weeks Motivating Mindset will help you weld the power of your mind.


THE CHALLENGE

Your Mindset challenge this week is getting in the habit of asking yourself:

"What is the value of my attitude right now?"


THE PROMISE

Asking yourself this question as many times as possible will inevitably increase the value of your attitude.

THE TIPS

Ask yourself this question "What is the value of my attitude right now?" immediately when you wake up tomorrow morning.

Take time to reflect what the value of your thinking will produce at the end of the day.

The value of the seeds you plant now is the potential quality of the harvest you'll reap later.

The thoughts that you allow now will lead to the feelings that you have later.

The feelings that you have later will govern your future actions.

Your actions are the bridge between your results, meaning if you want anything you are going to have to do something to get it.

Therefore if you want to be of value, produce value and have a valuable day it all starts with your attitude.

Ask yourself "What is the value of my attitude right now?" to ponder the compensation you might get for your thoughts at this moment.

Do your thoughts make you feel like a winner or more like a loser?

Does your attitude make you more confident in the long run or ultimately more insecure over time?

A good healthy attitude is one that you can question time after time because your true motivations will be mapped within your spirit.

Only your higher-self knows the path to happiness and joy and you can only follow that path by listening to your higher-self.

The biggest challenge is that your higher self speaks very softly and often not at all.

Your lower-self, your ego, knows how to say the right things at the right time to manipulate you.

Ask yourself "What is the value of my attitude right now?" to see if your thoughts are coming from your higher or lower self.

The answer that you get back will be in the form of your feelings.

Thoughts from your lower-self will leave you feeling less worthy and deserving.

On the other-hand, thoughts from your higher-self will make you feel like taking inspired action!

Always be aware that both possibilities and potentials exist inside of you at all times.

Through the power of choice we decide whether to adopt an attitude with increasing or decreasing value.

Ask yourself "What is the value of my attitude right now?" to ensure you are exploring the situation in a way that will truly benefit you.


THE SECRET

The best way to determine whether or not something is beneficial is with a question, and that is:

"What is the value of this attitude in the future?"

What will continuing to think this way do over time?

If you have an attitude that makes you feel small and insignificant how will that effect you in a month from now?

If you have an attitude of lack that keeps you financially challenged how will that effect you in a year from now?

If you have an attitude that produces a continual feeling of guilt, shame, of anger what would that attract back to you?

The human body is like one giant magnet, and we also know that when it comes to magnets, like attracts like.

The mechanics behind this phenomenon is what's widely known now as the Law of Attraction.

Many people are starting to realize that the truth is that you do attract the incessant thoughts and dominant feelings held within yourself.

The Law of Attraction will attract back to you the value of the attitude that you are choosing right now.

In the future you will be living the circumstances in which you attracted previously, so think wisely.

Ask yourself "What is the value of this attitude in the future?" as a starting place for positive results.

If you could look back a month ahead from this point today, what would you say about the value of your attitude about things were?

With your conscious choice you have the ability to increase the value of something just by paying attention to it.

Paying attention to something with the intention of adding or increasing value is referred to as "appreciation".

The focus of your attention should be on appreciation, coincidentally the most valuable use of your time in the moment.

These moments of appreciation will naturally begin to compound together and over-time this will become "momentum".

When you focus your attention on appreciating the moment you set the next moment for more to be appreciative about.

Momentum is simply the feeling that your past efforts were made with the intention finding appreciation for every moment.

Ask yourself "What is the value of this attitude in the future?" to see if you are setting yourself of future failure or success.

With continual practice you will begin to hear the soft whispers of your higher-self more clearly and more often.

Use the new voice in your head, the true navigation system to lead you to the promise land of your highest intentions.

Monday Motivating Mindset

THE HYPE

This weeks Motivating Mindset will help you live guilt and regret free.


THE CHALLENGE

Your Mindset challenge this week is getting in the habit of asking yourself:

"Will being offended solve my problem?"


THE PROMISE

Ask this question at every minor and major case you find yourself offended and you will be able to better respond to those situations in the future.


THE TIPS

The next time something or someone rubs you the wrong way, and before you give it too much of your energy and attention, stop and ask yourself:

"Will being offended solve my problem?"

The universal answer to that question is... Never!

Ask yourself "How many times has being offended solved anything in my life?"

And the universal answer to that question is still... Never!

Yet being offended, passing judgement and criticizing situations is something that we all do, many of us on a daily basis.

Being offended does nothing to satisfy the situation, and it certainly doesn't benefit the person or thing that offended you.

It is good to detach yourself from these situations because many times the offender doesn't even know they committed the crime.

Asking "Will being offended solve my problem?" is the first step in effective problem solving.

Instead of focusing on the reasons to be offended, or justifying your revenge, take a look at what is really bothering you here.

Becoming and staying offended cannot help you, but challenging yourself to look at the reason why you were offended in the first place can help you tremendously.

Anytime you are "overly opinionated" about anything it is reason for you to explore deeper.

There is no shame, guilt or regret involved with getting to know what offends you.

In fact there is nothing wrong with being offended, the problem becomes when we don't know or don't care why.

To know why you are offended is a chance for you to get familiar with your values.

Everybody must strive to put our values and motives under the microscope of truth.

Why not? After all we expect to keep our Government and Elected Officials in-check.

Why shouldn't we take the same approach of scrutiny and standards to the main motivator behind our own behaviour?

Ignoring the reasons why you are offended will not shed any insight whatsoever into what to do about it, or how to get over it.

Whenever you feel emotion about something or someone it is more a reflection of yourself than of what you think caused the feelings.

You are responsible for self-governing your feelings and asking yourself "Will being offended solve my problem?" will help you put your thoughts, feelings and behaviour into clearer perspective.


THE SECRET

Asking yourself "Will being offended solve my problem?" helps remind you that being offended is not at all productive.

If you want to be productive one of the first questions to ask yourself whenever you feel offended is "what does this situation say about me?"

What do the thoughts and feelings that you have towards this situation say about you?

Being offended in a situation only shows people the way in which you judge others.

Continuing to remind others of how and why you are offended can only bring you more of being offended.

This can be summed up by the saying "you get out what you put in". Putting in complaints doesn't grow roses.

If you had a banana and you continued to cut it up into pieces, no matter what at the end of the day you would still have a banana.

You would never cut up a banana and expect to have orange slices right?

Being able to see why you were offended and what that insight reveals about what you are made up of on this inside is priceless.

With humility and practice you will develop the ability to respond better and offer a more balanced perspective.

A well-balanced perspective comes from being able to ponder yourself in the equation, both as the problem and as the solution.

This detached state of being is called introspection, or reflection and is generally accomplished through meditation.

With gentle introspection you will see reflections of both the conscious and subconscious programs that operate your world.

Yet for some strange reason many people fear stillness and shy away from taking a serious look inward.

Maybe because unless you grew up with a Yogi next door we were not taught how to meditate or exposed to the value of it.

Whatever the reason, it is an illusion that we can some go through life and avoid getting to know our self.

It is in our best interest to get to know the person we are stuck with no matter what.

No matter where you go, there you are, so the faster you get to know all aspects of your self the better.

Keeping the above metaphor of a self-government in mind, wouldn't you like to know if your elected "body" was doing a good job?

If you wanted to keep things accountable you would definitely require studies and analysis.

Don't be afraid to study your self, your motives, your behaviours, your thoughts and your habits.

Be your own best friend, become tag team partners with your self and together you will wrestle the challenges of life.

The better your relationship with your self, the better results that you will get.

When you are not getting the results that you are looking for, or find yourself emotionally attached to something, ask yourself "Will being offended solve my problem?" to move forward faster.