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SELF IMPROVEMENT AND SUCCESS

Everything that happens to us happens in purpose. And sometimes, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self improvement and success.

I remember watching Patch Adams – its my favorite movie, actually. Its one great film that will help you improve yourself. Hunter “patch” Adams is a medical student who failed to make it through the board exams. After months of suffering in melancholy, depression and suicidal attempts – he decided to seek for medical attention and voluntarily admitted himself in a psychiatric ward. His months of stay in the hospital led him to meeting different kinds of people. Sick people in that matter. He met a catatonic, a mentally retarded, a schizophrenic and so on. Patch found ways of treating his own ailment and finally realized he has to get back on track. He woke up one morning realizing that after all the failure and pains he has gone through, he still want to become the a doctor. He carries with himself a positive attitude that brought him self improvement and success. He didn’t only improved himself, but also the life of the people around him and the quality of life. Did he succeed? Needless to say, he became the best damn doctor his country has ever known.

So, when does self improvement become synonymous with success? Where do we start? Take these tips, friends…
*Stop thinking and feeling as if you’re a failure, because you’re not. How can others accept you if YOU can’t accept YOU?

*When you see hunks and models on TV, think more on self improvement, not self pitying. Self acceptance is not just about having nice slender legs, or great abs. Concentrate on inner beauty.

*When people feel so down and low about themselves, help them move up. Don’t go down with them. They’ll pull you down further and both of you will end up feeling inferior.

*The world is a large room for lessons, not mistakes. Don’t feel stupid and doomed forever just because you failed on a science quiz. There’s always a next time. Make rooms for self improvement.

*Take things one at a time. You don’t expect black sheep’s to be goody-two-shoes in just a snap of a finger. Self improvement is a one day at a time process.

*Self improvement results to inner stability, personality development and dig this …. SUCCESS. It comes from self confidence, self appreciation and self esteem.

* Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self improvement doesn’t turn you to be the exact replica of Cameron Diaz or Ralph Fiennes. It hopes and aims to result to an improved and better YOU.

*Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don’t realize that the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying “hi” or “hello”, greeting someone “good day” or telling Mr. Smith something like “hey, I love your tie!” are simple things that mean so much to other people. When we’re being appreciative about beautiful things around us and other people, we also become beautiful to them.

*When you’re willing to accept change and go through the process of self improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else is. The world is a place where people of different values and attitude hang out. Sometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do the same thing together at the same time, she would most likely decline an invitation for self improvement.

We should always remember that there’s no such thing as ‘over night success’. Its always a wonderful feeling to hold on to the things that you already have now, realizing that those are just one of the things you once wished for. A very nice quote says that “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We are all here to learn our lessons. Our parents, school teachers, friends, colleagues, officemates, neighbors… they are our teachers. When we open our doors for self improvement, we increase our chances to head to the road of success.

Remember, Live Your Life By Choice, Not By Chance.

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The Key to a Better Life

Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle also known as the ‘80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However, 80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although the ratio ‘80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.

Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating things to do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.

But there is more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.

Personal time management involves everything you do. No matter how big and no matter how small, everything counts. Each new knowledge you acquire, each new advice you consider, each new skill you develop should be taken into consideration.

Having a balanced life-style should be the key result in having personal time management. This is the main aspect that many practitioners of personal time management fail to grasp.

Time management is about getting results, not about being busy.

The six areas that personal time management seeks to improve in anyone’s life are physical, intellectual, social, career, emotional and spiritual.

The physical aspect involves having a healthy body, less stress and fatigue.

The intellectual aspect involves learning and other mental growth activities.

The social aspect involves developing personal or intimate relations and being an active contributor to society.

The career aspect involves school and work.

The emotional aspect involves appropriate feelings and desires and manifesting them.

The spiritual aspect involves a personal quest for meaning.

Thoroughly planning and having a set of things to do list for each of the key areas may not be very practical, but determining which area in your life is not being giving enough attention is part of time management. Each area creates the whole you, if you are ignoring one area then you are ignoring an important part of yourself.

Personal time management should not be so daunting a task. It is a very sensible and reasonable approach in solving problems big or small.

A great way of learning time management and improving your personal life is to follow several basic activities.

One of them is to review your goals whether it be immediate or long-term goals often.

A way to do this is to keep a list that is always accessible to you.

Always determine which task is necessary or not necessary in achieving your goals and which activities are helping you maintain a balanced life style.

Each and everyone of us has a peek time and a time when we slow down, these are our natural cycles. We should be able to tell when to do the difficult tasks when we are the sharpest.

Learning to say “No”. You actually see this advice often. Heed it even if it involves saying the word to family or friends.

Pat yourself at the back or just reward yourself in any manner for an effective time management result.

Try and get the cooperation from people around you who are actually benefiting from your efforts of time management.

Don’t procrastinate. Attend to necessary things immediately.

Have a positive attitude and set yourself up for success. But be realistic in your approach in achieving your goals.

Have a record or journal of all your activities. This will help you get things in their proper perspective.

These are the few steps you initially take in becoming a well rounded individual.

As the say personal time management is the art and science of building a better life.

From the moment you integrate into your life time management skills, you have opened several options that can provide a broad spectrum of solutions to your personal growth. It also creates more doors for opportunities to knock on.

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John Wimbrey wows the audiences in Melbourne Australia.

Johnny’s inspirational story of overcoming life’s adversities has empowered masses for greatness. He tells his story and much more in his book From the Hood to doing Good. Johnny was marked with one of his first memories in life of living in a battered women’s shelter to growing up on the hard-core streets as a young drug dealer.

After several near death experiences Mr. Wimbrey decided it was time to flip the switch and refused to let his past determine his future. At the age of twenty, he became a temporary licensed insurance agent with no experience, and within six months of being in the insurance industry, Johnny received recognition as a top fifty producer in a national marketing agency.

In less than a two year period, moving from senior agent, to district manager, to regional manager, on to regional Vice-President overseeing the states of Texas and Oklahoma, Johnny found himself in the position of training experienced regional managers to recruit, to manage, and to teach sales development skills for well-known national agencies.

After recognizing the high demand for his services, Johnny decided to use his skills for a higher purpose. His passion is to create success stories by helping others experience financial, spiritual, and emotional wealth. Johnny Wimbrey has been interviewed on national radio talk shows and television networks as a young success story. You can now get involved with Johnny on his 14 day free course.

Johnny outlined all about the course. I have shown my teenagers and they are now using the course.

Success University’s 28 Day Monthly Achievement Programs are the premier personal development courses available on the Internet today.

In this fast-paced society, distance learning has become a reality and is being used by more and more people around the world. Unfortunately, most programs require you to spend hour upon hour at one sitting just to complete a course. With this cutting edge program, you’ll master a new topic of success each month by receiving a short 10 - 15 minute lesson each day, Monday through Friday, over the course of one month. (28 days)

Not only will you be amazed at the valuable and life-changing content in these lessons, you’ll enjoy the fact that they are also entertaining and fun to go through each day. And instead of simply being fed the information, you’ll be given daily action items showing you how to put this new knowledge to use in your daily life. You’ll find yourself eagerly awaiting each day’s lesson!

Here are just the first few courses you’ll enjoy taking when you enroll as a student of Success University…

21 Secrets to Becoming a Sales Superstar - based on the works of Brian Tracy

What is it about those people who can “sell anything?” What are their secrets? Can a person actually LEARN to be a superstar and make the money that goes with the job? YES! says Sales Training guru, Brian Tracy. “The Law of Cause and Effect is the iron law of human destiny. It says that anything that anyone else has done, you can do as well. All you have to do is find out what he or she did and then do the same over and over yourself until you master it.”
In this course, we’ll find out from Brian Tracy just what sales superstars do and what you can do to join the TOP 10%! This is hands on – it’s the autobahn to making it happen in sales. Maybe, just maybe, this is the course you’ll always look back on as your launching pad!
Your Goal Mind - based on the works of Denis Waitley

Would you like to know how your brain works as a tool to help you get what you want in life? Would you like to gain control over your future? Would you like to BELIEVE you CAN do it? YOUR GOAL MIND is the key.
This is a step by step system that will motivate you to fulfill your potential. You begin with your dreams, then learn “imagineering” to turn them into a blueprint for your success. This course puts the power of your own actions together with psychological cues that make all the difference.

Johnny’s unique message coupled with his dynamic delivery is designed to empower you to become great! I found Johnny to be inspiring and enlightening, as I am sure you will. His message WILL change your life; I guarantee it. Johnny the mark of greatness is upon you!
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Many years ago I went to Tony’s first one day event in Australia. He was amazing and dynamic, and to be honest impacted my life and then our family’s life.

Please have a look at this clip as it is so powerful

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Law Of Attraction: 5 Steps To Getting All The Clients You Need.

by Jen Blackert

How the law of attraction applies when you desire more clients.
Are you struggling to find all the clients you want and need in your business? Are you stressed about the financial side of your business? Are you tired of being stressed ? I invite you to take 5 minutes and learn how to STOP STRUGGLING! Plan and prepare for a huge shift in perspective and prosperity.

1. Stop struggling.

Stop stressing. I am going to tell you how to get what you want. But first you need to stop the fight! It’s not only unpleasing when you are desperate for clients, but it is also not universally unattractive. Just know want you want will come. Be willing to receive. If you have negative energy in mind, that’s what you get – negative results—prophecy fulfilled.

2. Is your unconscious mind wanting something else?

Here’s how to get all your minds aligned. After I left my corporate day job, I discovered I was fighting myself. You see, I didn’t REALLY want clients. I wanted money. I just thought clients equaled money. When I realized that clients would fill my time and take away from my freedom, I didn’t really want them. Once I knew that I could have fun, freedom and financial prosperity by working with clients, I had a shift. Then I was aligned with my conscious and unconscious thoughts and energies.

3 What do you REALLY want?

This might seem silly, but you to know what you want with crystal- ball clarity. How many more clients? How much would each pay? Who would be your perfect client? Would it be a client that really wants to work with you?

Perhaps its $20,000 weekly! Maybe it’s a combination of sales, income or clients. Find what it is and get it really clear in your head. See yourself receiving it and feel gratitude about your vision.

4. Focus energy and attention on what you want.

Give attention and pay attention to success and not failure. See in your mind what your life might look like if you got everything you ever wanted. Imagine how it will feel when you get all the things you ever dreamed! Act like you have already achieved your deepest desire. Feel the success.

5. Follow your intuition.

When you feel like you want to do something, let your logical mind set in and take over. Just do it. This may be the direction you should follow. You’ve heard people say, “Follow your heart.” I say, “Follow what feels right.” This might be a feeling in the pit of your stomach.

Relax and listen. Let go on a regular basis, so you can listen to your inner being. It doesn’t have to be a long amount of time, but do something that makes you feel good whether it is meditating, cleaning, gardening, walking. You will know what is right for you.

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Have you noticed we live in an instant world. We stand in front of the microwave and tap our feet waiting for the microwave to do its thing.

Also in business we expect to get results overnight, or we lose interest very quickly.What’s happened to the world we live in? Everything is at a fast pace, hurry hurry hurry. Sometimes we hear don’t worry it will come, but that doesn’t make us feel any better. We want it now!

But we must realise there are laws we must adhere to. As I sit here and watch the trees blowing in the wind, its interesting to note that the trees had to go through a cycle to get where they are now. Each tree started from a small seed, and then started to grow.

In life we must also follow the laws of nature, there is a season for planting and a season for harvesting. However you can not have the both at the same time correct?

If you are in a position now whether it be in business or your personal life, take one step back and remember its all a process and sometimes we can’t have the now attitude, or the instant gratification situation running our life.

This is not to say you can’t be passionate and focused about what you are doing,but remember everything takes time.

Live your Life by Choice, not by Chance.

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“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted” David Bly

“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.” Albert Einstein

“To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you” Tony Dorsett

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” Zig Ziglar

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” Colin Powell

“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” Mark Caine

“The road to success is always under construction” Lily Tomlin

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” Jim Rohn

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .” James Allen

“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.” Michael Konda

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom Krause

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” Sven Goran Eriksson

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” Arnold H. Glasgow

“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” John Maxwell

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This is a great article by Fiona.

By Fiona Taylor, mystic, consciousness coach former World Champion Windsurfer & Olympian
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The Law of Attraction has become known as ‘the secret’ since the release of Rhonda Byrne’s best selling book The Secret.

The Law of Attraction is not new to the Personal Development industry or to the spiritual seeker. For thousands of years the mystics, sages and spiritual teachers have known only too well the Universal Law of Attraction.

The early Jewish mysticism known as the Kabbalah, which is based on the teachings of Abraham over two and half thousand years ago talks extensively about reincarnation and the Law of Attraction.

Some of histories great philosophers and teachers including Gallileo, Da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Leibniz, Pico della Mirandola, Sir Francis Bacon, Carl Jung and Plato studied the Kabbalah and understood the Law of Attraction.

The Law of Attraction basically means that what we think, feel and believe we create. What we broadcast out to the universe in the form of our thoughts, emotions, feelings and beliefs we ‘attract back’ to ourself. All thoughts, emotions and feelings are vibrations of energy. All vibrations of energy will be attracted to similar/like vibrations of energy.

If you think good, positive, loving thoughts you will attract those experiences into your reality. If you feel you are unworthy of making money or having a loving relationship, this is what you will create. If you feel you are worthy winning in sport that is what you create. If you feel that you never have enough money that is what you will create.

Is it really so simple?

It is not so much what we think, as thoughts float into and out of our awareness, but what is crucial is how we feel. Our feelings mould our reality whether we like it or not.

So to create what you would like to create in your life you must feel the feeling of what it feels like to already have what you desire. Do not assume it is in the future, but feel as though you already have it. The subconscious mind does not determine between past, present or future. That is why all self affirmations and visualization techniques for manifestation use the present tense. We must feel what it feels like to have what we want – not focus on not having what we want.

Why does the Law of Attraction not always work?

When we broadcast our thoughts, beliefs and feelings out to the universe we not only broadcast out what we are aware of (or conscious of) but we also broadcast out everything that lies in our subconscious and unconscious minds. The subconscious mind is where all our memories and experiences are stored since conception in the womb. The unconscious mind is also referred to as the Soul, and this is where all our memories from all the lives we have ever lived reside.

Our conscious mind (awareness) is not aware of what is being broadcast out to the universe from all the programs running in our subconscious and unconscious mind’s. So when we want something in our life, or we try working harder and harder to achieve something and yet fail over and over again then we need to go deeper and look at what is happening beneath the surface of our awareness. For example, in my windsurfing career unconscious themes sabotaged my conscious efforts to win more events. For five years I seemed to have ‘bad luck’, chaos or illness that prevented me from winning. It made no difference how ‘positive I was’, or ‘how many self affirmations I told myself’, or how hard I trained, the programs running in my unconscious mind simply sabotaged everything.

It was not until I retired from sport and was able to connect with my own unconscious mind – my own Soul Story, that I was able to determine the ultimate cause of the ‘bad luck’, chaos and illness. At the deepest level I had ‘created’ all of it. But in order for me to have realized that I had to take responsibility for Self and acknowledge that I create my own reality.

The entire Self Help industry is based on taking responsibility for our own thoughts, feelings and actions. However, for most people it is ok to take responsibility for all the ‘good’ things in their life, but if they are then told that they also create the ‘bad’ things, then this is a bit hard for their ego/rational mind’s to accept. Only when you connect to your own Soul (and God Self) does the ego finally feel the truth of this – that our consciousness creates our reality.

When we are stuck in the five physical senses we feel separated from everything. We believe that all events happen by random chance. That is the illusion of the five senses. When we tune into our own ‘6th’ sense or Spiritual Intuition we start to connect with All there Is (the God Force/or God/Goddess/All there Is) – Oneness. Only then can we feel the truth.

If we keep on attracting in the same terrible relationships, or losing our job, or over spending our money, or going into debt, or have recurring illness, failing to lose weight or keep it permanently off, or we are unable to increase our income we need to look at the ultimate cause.

The ultimate cause always lies in our own consciousness.

Does a past life affect this life?

Time ‘is an illusion’ according to Einstein, Stephen Hawking and the great scientists throughout history. Time does not exist beyond the perception of our fives senses. As physical beings we experience time as a linear concept with past, present and future. However all time is simultaneous. It is our conscious mind that perceives it in a linear fashion. The Kabbalah uses the analogy that time equals the distance between cause and effect.

All of ourselves that we have ever been (all of our ‘past lives’) are still in existence somewhere in our own mind – or hologram. For example when hypnotherapists work with their patients they realize that all of the memories in a person’s past are still there in their mind. All memories are recorded and present in our mind-field. For example the child part of me who was operated on in hospital at four weeks old is still somewhere in my consciousness.

So another ‘life time’ is happening in another Time-Space continuum (another dimension) and is happening right now. The emotions and memory of any lifetime can be accessed in ‘now time’ (in this life time) and they are what is called ‘lifehoods’.

The soul operates in an open system; it is connected to the universe (or universal mind) and all information that has ever existed and exists can be accessed at this level. The universal mind has also been called the Morphogenic Field by Rupert Sheldrake, a leading biologist and thinker on the human mind.

The rational mind (intellect and ego) operates in a closed system bound by time and space and the five physical senses. This is important to recognize as a ‘past life’ cannot affect this life unless there is an unresolved theme that needs healing and resolution in this life. It means that if you ‘killed someone’ in a ‘past life’ it does not mean that you will ‘pay for it’ in this life. There is no direct link between ‘cause and effect’ from past life to this life because all of our ‘lives’ are happening now. The eternal now.

There have been misleading teachings among all religions in relation to ‘cause and effect’ when it comes to ‘paying for our sins’ in past lives. This is incorrect. Once we take responsibility and realize that we are ‘at cause’ and create our reality we can find any part of us that is creating chaos or pain for us and change it. This is called ‘clearing our karma’. We all have the ability to do this.

We can transform those parts of us that sabotage our desire to make money, have a loving relationship or win a sporting event.

All lives we have ever lived are all happening in the eternal now. The soul is multi-dimensional. It can live in many different existences simultaneously. Quantum science is starting to understand the nature of multi-dimensionality by discovering parallel universes.

So if we dig deep into our own subconscious mind we may find ‘programs’ (belief systems) that are no longer serving us. We all can develop belief systems that are not conducive to success at the subconscious level. If however we have healed everything we can find (via therapy, hypnotherapy, time line therapy, counseling etc) in our subconscious mind and yet still there is no change in our life then it is very common to have a ‘past life’ theme, or several, that are unresolved.

All emotional wounds and unresolved ‘programs’ from other lives exist at the level of the soul – deep in our own consciousness.

These emotional wounds leave imprints at soul level and often have a ‘bleed through’ affect where they affect our current life. And of course we have absolutely no idea that this is in fact happening, unless we have well developed spiritual intuition.

The only way to heal these is to find the ultimate cause – original wound at Soul level.

The unconscious mind affects the subconscious and conscious minds. Our core and unconscious belief systems, perceptions and filters are all shaped by our past life experiences. These deep lifehood wounds and experiences affect our ‘lens’ of the world, how we see, feel and experience other people and events in our life.
So in order to change, heal and transform the unconscious mind we need to find ultimate cause – you cannot simply change these wounds by using the power of your own thoughts to change your thinking. You have to heal the emotional charge that still resides at Soul level. That is why self affirmations and some meta-programming techniques do not work at this level.

Meditation is a great technique to reduce stress levels in the body, however unless we do the emotional processing and transform emotional charges nothing fundamentally changes in our lives.

True enlightenment is the ability to hold more Light in the cells of our body. The only way this can happen is if we transform emotional charges that reside in every cell of our body. That means healing each ‘personality program’ one by one. These are also called ‘personas’. One by one we can transform personas that originated in this life or another life. The less emotional charge we hold in our cells the more room they have to be able to hold more divine Light – Love from the creator – God/Goddess/the universe.

To do this requires deep self exploration, but more often than not a good practitioner who can access this information for you.

A mystic is someone who is able to ‘vibrate up’ and access the information at Soul level, interpret it and then assist people in gaining new awareness. For example when I work with my clients I am able to ‘vibrate them up’ to access and feel this information. This information is downloaded into their conscious awareness so that they can feel the truth of the lifehood wound, or issue that is still unresolved.

All information is energy and all energy simply vibrates at different frequencies. For example the information at the subconscious mind level vibrates higher than our conscious awareness. The information that resides at Soul level vibrates even higher than the subconscious mind level. So it really is about being able to access this information. We all have this ability, however, most people have forgotten how to do this. Most people have under-active spiritual intuition and discernment.

Lifehood (or ‘past life’) wounds affect all of us at some time throughout our lives. In my client sessions and workshops at least 70% of people have a lifehood wound that needs to be addressed and healed that is underpinning all the other chaos in their lives, or holding them back.

In my books Spirit in Sport, and An Olympian’s Guide to Weight Loss I discuss in depth the nature of the Soul, lifehoods and healing emotional wounds. Both these books have an in-depth section on real emotional intelligence and the Sports book also has a section on Spiritual Intuition. For example I lost 18 pounds in 2 days after transforming a ‘past life’ wound at Soul level. My body literally morphed. (I share the details in my weight loss book in detail. You can download the free intro to my books on my website.)

Another example of healing at Soul level is a sporting client who finally placed 3rd at the World Championships in her sport recently. She had not had a top 3 finish for 8 years. She had had a huge ‘past life’ wound playing out for her. Once we healed this wound she was able to get back into the top three in the world in her sport, a place she had been able to achieve over 8 years ago. But because the ‘past life’ wound had been affecting her current performance she was unable to attain such success. Once it was cleared she could get back into the top three.

So if The Law of Attraction is not working for you then it simply means that you still hold unconscious beliefs and emotional wounds that are sabotaging your conscious efforts for change in your life.

The other reason you may not be creating the life you really want as quickly as you want is that your ego wants something for you, yet your Higher Self and Soul wants something else. Many people spend their lives listening to the rational, logical solutions from their ego and society and they ignore their own heart and Higher Self’s will.

Eventually we are all forced, either consciously or unconsciously, to follow the will of our Higher Self. The universe will set up events and situations to mirror back to us what we need to heal and learn from. Often we can experience more chaos before we achieve what we really desire. This is the breaking down of the ‘old’ reality to make way for a ‘new reality’. Often the only way the ego, in its ignorance, can learn, or wake up to what it really needs to know will happen via chaos or crisis. When things are rosy and fine the ego does not grow much. So chaos and change force us to grow to new awareness.

Divine Timing.

If we are not receiving what we think we want then it can often be because our ego has not yet learned what it came into learn. Spiritual lessons are part of why we incarnate. This is difficult for the ego (rational mind) to fathom. However, until certain events happen in our lives, or we meet certain people, or we succeed or fail at something we do not ‘get the spiritual lesson’ that we came to learn. Things are divinely timed for us. They may not happen in the time frame that our own ego wants. Our ego can feel impatient and despondent if it does not get what it wants fast enough.

So when chaos is happening in our lives it is important to remember that it only means the universe is shaking us up for future growth in consciousness. We will always learn from chaos. We simply cannot get attached to it, but trust that we will get through any challenge we face.

One way to get through chaos faster is to completely surrender. Surrender to the Higher Self and ask for inner guidance. Only when the ego surrenders will it be able to grow to new awareness.

The ego thinks it is in control of everything in its life – however that is the illusion of the ego. I discuss the nature of surrender and control in Spirit in Sport and this is discussed in depth at our programs.

Raising consciousness

The way to inner peace, love and joy is to heal those subconscious programs that are holding us in emotional bondage. The emotional highs and lows from elation to depression, resentment to infatuation are the ego’s emotional journey through life. It is only when we connect with our Higher Self – our Soul that we can access true divine love and joy. Living with joy and love is our natural state of being – beyond the ego. In challenging times the ego gets stuck in the emotional pain and forgets the true loving state of the Soul Self – our True Self. Our evolution in human form is to heal those personas/programs (the Negative ego) in our mind that are emotionally charged and wounded.

The Barakaya programs and coaching assist people to heal those parts of their consciousness that are no longer serving them. This includes transforming limiting beliefs that hold people back from achieving the joy, wealth and loving relationships in their lives.

©Fiona Taylor, www.barakaya.com 2007
(If you wish to use a part or whole of this article please contact Fiona for permission.)

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Dare To Be Yourself, There’s Nobody Like You

By Ineke Van Lint Van Lint

There’s no need for you to imitate anybody else; they already exist. Do you want to be just like your colleague? If the Creator wanted two identical colleagues, then He would have created a copy of the first. If the Creator needed another person just like your neighbor, then He would have immediately created two of them. He never cloned somebody, so why would you? Every snowflake is different. Creation is not duplication.

Instead of copying an existing model, He created a whole new YOU! Why? Because He needs you to be just the way you are! Why bother and try to be somebody else?

Don’t imitate others. Observe them, learn from them, but don’t try to be like them. Learn their skills but then implement them in your own life and move forward on your own road. Because you are walking your own road, you cannot follow the footsteps of somebody else, nor can someone else walk your road for you. They have their road, you have yours.

Why did the Creator give all of us different fingerprints, different ears, different noses? Wouldn’t it have been much easier for Him to make all of us out of a single mold? One model; no differences, no comparisons. He could have done it, but He didn’t. Why not? Apparently He needs us to be individual. He needs us to be different. Certainly this fact adds to the pleasure of the game. If all the characters in the play were alike, then it wouldn’t be much fun to watch. He surely likes us all to be different. And He surely needs us all to be different!

Given the undisputed fact that we are all different, why would you try to be like somebody else? Why change your looks or your body with plastic surgery? Why not be happy with the way you are? I’m not just talking about appearance, but also about talents. Character. Everybody is unique. While longing for talents you don’t have, you are neglecting those talents that you do have. This is rather counter-productive, no? You have been gifted with a unique set of talents, so find out what they are and develop them.

There is no coincidence. Everything in the universe exists for a reason. You are not talented by accident! Neither is it haphazard that you don’t have some talents you would like to have.
If you don’t have a nightingale voice, you were not meant to sing. You can do something else with your life according to the talents you do have, and leave the singing to someone who is naturally equipped for that. If you have no acting talents, you should not act. If you weigh too much, you’d better start dreaming about something else than being a fashion model.

Another undisputed fact is that everybody is gifted with his or her own unique talents. Make no mistake! Talents are not only about activities like singing, acting, dancing, painting, writing or excellence in sports. Your unique talent could be your spontaneity, your enthusiasm, your connection with animals, caring for the disabled, your generosity, being a good teacher or public speaker, being a loving community member, or being a good problem solver. It could be your capacity to love, your natural joy, your brilliance, intelligence, easily assimilating new languages, radiating beauty, having a funny way of expressing yourself, making others laugh, kindness, tenderness, and many more. The list of possible talents is very, very long indeed…

What matters in the end is for you to be yourself, right? To be yourself is to find out what your unique talents are. Unique, you say? Others are spontaneous too! Plenty of people are generous or friendly. True, but your uniqueness lays in the combination of your key talents. Find out what your prominent talents are and how you can put them together. In the synergy and alignment of your key talents lies the beauty of your uniqueness.

It would be a big waste of time trying to be someone else. You are at your best being yourself! The world needs you as you are, exactly as you are! Dare to be yourself. The more you dare to be yourself, the more freedom you will feel. The more freedom you feel, the more you will dare. Daring and freedom support each other to re-create your unique self in an ever expanding celebration of Life. Your life.

About the author:
Written by Ineke Van Lint, psychologist. I help you to find your purpose and realize your goals. You are a unique, wonderful person! Grab your two free e-courses on http://www.theenthusiasm.com.

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