Friday 30 November 2007

Internet Marketing Success with Daniel Wagner

Great meeting last night with Daniel Wagner in London as he clearly set out to encourage learning about using the internet to develop an income stream.

He talked about your life being a printout of your inner world. In other words, there is a process of manifestation taking place when your thoughts impact on your feelings which determination the actions you will take that influences the results you will get. So if you want to become successful in this business as in any others, start looking at the thoughts you are generating because that will surely influence your results.

So his model of success was, as I followed it:

  • Showing up to learn
  • Modelling from other people who've 'done it'
  • Honing your knowledge and skills one step at a time. And he had some pretty good knowledge to share with the packed room last night that included:

How to research a niche market and develop a niche product
Creating a Squeeze opt-in page
Using Google Adwords
Generating targetted traffic to your website
Affiliate marketing
Using autoresponders to build a list
Joint venture, Blogs, Adsense
Building a funnel
And more

He gave great value and managed to pack a lot into 3 hours. Well done Daniel and thank you.

Blessings for Today

1. I really felt a part of a community of sorts as I connected with a lot of people I knew at the Internet marketing seminar last night and I was garteful for that sense of shared community.

2. For all the new learning and the reinforcement of old ideas, I am thankful.And that there are people like Daniel who inspired us to see this business as a level playing field where anyone can succeed playing even against the 'big guys'. I found that reassuring.

3. That my son's hard work paid off with the French exams. His determination to succeed plus the actions he took around his revision, coursework etc. really paid off for him. And he continues to inspire me.

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Wednesday 28 November 2007

Making a Head Start in Internet Marketing Success

As it turned out, I met up this week with a group of people who like myself are fairly new to the world of Internet Marketing. Although we’re not a mastermind group as such, quite simply, we have all the hallmarks of a great support group. Make no mistake, this is one of the things that will greatly contribute to our success.

Let face it, we’ve all known what its like to struggle on by ourselves but with many more heads together what couldn't we achieve?. We had a great meeting and we've agreed that we wanted to use the group


to support and motivate each other
to act with integrity around each other
to be focussed in our meetings
to share our knowledge and resources as appropriate
to aim to make money online


In terms of the sharing of resources, I wish we’d come across these Head Start audios just perfect for newbies like ourselves that have been created by a guy in Australia called Nathan Hockley.

Check it out here for more information

www.InternetMarketingHeadStart.com/?e=info@livingoutyourdreams.com

The fact that it costs so little at $5US was an added incentive for me to get this great set of 20 mp3 audio talks (5 volumes) explaining in simple terms, (Oh I do like simple!) the basic principles of Internet Marketing. I’ve been lucky to spot it as its only available for another day or so. I’m already up and running with ideas about the how and why of article submissions. Which just happens to be one of the actions I said I would undertake by the time the group next meets in a couple of weeks.

It takes you through all the basics of internet marketing, covering topics such as
Writing articles
Building lists within 24 hours
Traffic generation
Writing killer ads
PLR domination
Email marketing
Secrets of the gurus
Professional forum participation for profits
Increasing the potency of testimonials
and much, much more ...

An amazing resource for so little money. They’re great for anyone who’s struggling to get started online and also for people who don’t want to wade through another manual but would rather listen on-the-go as they’re downloadable to an MP3, ipod, cellphone, PC.

If you are a newbie like myself, its certainly not going to break the bank at only $5 or about £2.50. What’s that? The cost of a pint or a coffee? Check it out here

www.InternetMarketingHeadStart.com/?e=info@livingoutyourdreams.com


I think we covered a lot in our little group and I'm very optimistic for where this collaboration may take us. I hope this is shared by the others and that within the next six months we’ll be celebrating being gurus ourselves and enjoying the fruits of our labours. I’ll certainly be posting more news about how we are getting on.


Blessings for Today

1. The Gasman Cometh. Well, actually he came. And he gave us a clean bill of health, and its something to be grateful for that we set up for whatever the winter may bring. I am so grateful for the warmth in my home. At many levels.

2. I went out for a walk in the garden today and saw the first terrifically blue periwinkle in flower from a cutting I’d taken a few years ago. I can’t tell you haw delighted I was – it was like finding gold in them there hills. I felt really cheered seeing it. I appreciate the little things that bring joy into my heart.

3. I am grateful to my Internet Marketing Success Group for the great start we have made and the feeling of hand-holding in unfamiliar territory. Thank you.

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Tuesday 27 November 2007

Can You Imagine a Life Like This?

If you were to close your eyes right now and spend a few delicious moments just imaging what your life might be like one, five or ten years from now, what would you see happening?

What if your thoughts became your reality, your life? What then would you start to imagine in your life? If you knew the secrets of success lay in the thoughts you have, would you change your vision? Would you live with more passion? Would you see yourself living the good life? Would you let in peace of mind, great health, financial security, the car you really want, the schools you really want your kids to go to, the business you would be running, the relationships you would have, the joyfulness and sense of purpose that would fill your life? Too right you would.

But you know what? Most of us occupy our minds with the detritus of life - the bills we can't pay, the income we can't have, the broken relationships, the lack, the problems. I hold my hands up to spending far too much time lately on a particular broken relationship and I'm not best pleased with myself that I've allowed that to happen. So I'm really drawing more of the same to me. I should know better!

How often do we get good news on The News? Exceptionally. So thats what often occupies our mind. Bad News. And needless to say, when we fill our thoughts with lack and bad news, don't we just seem to generate more of it? We come to accept it as part of the condition of being human.

But what if we had the opportunity to shape our destiny the way we really wanted it and to get excited about our futures? What if we could start right now to create that future by changing our thoughts? Ya Ya Ya Di Da! Off with the fairies again! I know its hard to take in but if we want to improve the circumstances of our lives, we have to start with the circumstances of our thoughts.

And the first place to start is to get very clear about what you want to happen in your life. I heard about this guy called Eric Edmeades who is leading a one day workshop in London on 9th Dec. on Your Best Year Ever. Its an event designed to help people plan, focus and construct their goals that will help them turn 2008 into one of the best. He has a structured approach to helping others succeed in business, career, finance, lifestyle, relationships, travel and adventure and more. I'll be there for sure. I want to hear more of what he's about.

"To accomplish great things, we must not only believe and dream, but also plan and act. "- Eric Edmeades.

To get hold of more information about this free seminar, visit http://www.triumphantevents.co.uk/EricEdmeades2008
This is a combination of practical NLP and real world life lessons that's going to be very rewarding, inspiring, effective and fun.

"Dream big, Plan well, Play hard" - Eric Edmeades

I believe Eric isn't much taken by all this Law of Attraction stuff. He is much more into smart planning. But many roads can lead you there and I don't think the one approach cancels out the others so here's a different mindset approach. However outrageous it might seem.

  • Get a piece of paper now.
  • Write down an many of your dreams, goals, desires, outcomes as you wish. Let your ideas flow. Do not limit yourself or justify why your can't or shouldn't have something.
  • Keep it in your focus every day by reading it through several times.
  • Adding pictures or drawings have a big impact ... paints a thousand words.
  • Build a picture in your mind of having all your accomplishments. Imagine it exactly as you wish it to be.
  • Tap into it as often as you can for example by frequently talking to others about it, putting it on a tape in your car and listening on long journeys.
  • If you are consumed by a passion or purpose for accomplishing these things, that will drive your success.So ask yourself with each accomplishment you desire,- WHY have it? If your purpose is big enough, that will add to your motivation to sieze the opportunities when they do come, to take the action needed to create the reality.
So, what are you waiting for? Start creating this new life for a New Year now. Bring the power of your imagination, your thoughts to developing success in all areas of your life. And share that with the people you care about. Can you imagine a life like this?

Blessings for today
1. I know exactly where my son is - he's sitting right beside me doing his homework and sharing his thouhgts as he goes. I am grateful to have him here doing this.

2. Its the end of the day and I'm tired and I know I have a warm, safe and comfortable bed to go lie in. That will be bliss. I am one of the lucky ones.

3. For opportunities that come along for learning and earning and personal growth.

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Monday 26 November 2007

The Genius Without as well as Within

“I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we’ll get along quite nicely.” Kim Basinger

Does this make sense to you that when you start getting in tune with your inner voice and allowing your intuition to grow, you start to find that you’re getting prompted by external factors as well? Odd how that happens. As you ruminate on a situation and ask yourself for intuitive guidance notice when circumstances around you resonate with you about the situation. Here’s what I mean.

Imagine now that you needed to find the solution to a difficulty and you settled yourself quietly and asked your inner self for an answer. Some times after a while the solution can simply pop into your head from your inner genius. And then, when you think you missed the answer, or to reinforce the answer you’ve come up with, something will happen in your environment that will show you the way. Has this ever happened to you?

It could simply be catching sight of a headline in a newspaper in passing, walking into a room at the very moment a TV presenter is addressing the very thing you are concerned about and giving some hints about where you might look or find answers, being called by a friend out of the blue with the very offer or suggestion that helps the situation. Whatever, it just seems to happen that the solution presents itself in some unexpected way. Loud and clear. Weird when that happens.

Ask you inner spirit for the solution or answer and wait for the genius within or without to manifest the right answer for you. Even if things don’t always seem to go right, trust yourself that ultimately, you will get the right outcome for you.

Can you see how you might be able to use this to develop prosperity in your life? What might you accomplish if you were able to gain insights through the power of your intuition? What rich, intelligent, prosperity ideas might flow? And the best time to let it flow is during periods of quiet and peacefulness when the mind is relaxed. The more you allow your intuitive power to grow, the greater your confidence in whatever you do in your life. During those times of quiet, let your imagination guide you in visualising the perfect outcome.

Furthermore, and especially if you think you’re getting stuck on your own, you can use also the creative energy of a group of people whether it is a mastermind group, a business or family group or simply a group of trusted friends to help you grow your intuition about what is the right thing to do or the answer to a problem.

Catherine Ponder from The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity says “Never underestimate your genius powers! They want to work for you to bring you greater happiness, success and confidence in your ability to receive guidance every step along life’s pathway. Why not let them? Declare often for this purpose; ‘I give thanks that my genius powers of intuition and creative imagination are now released, and that I happily fulfil my divine destiny.’”

To all our success.
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." -Dr. Joyce Brothers.



Blessings for Today

1.I got the chance to do a speed reading mini course today. Its going to be great to advance my efficiency at reading with speed. I am grateful to the folks who organised this and lunch too.

2. My son is busy and studiously learning his french for his exam at the end of the week. He's in full flow and fine humour. Always great for me to see him focussed and fulfilled. He slipped in for a cuddle today and I am so grateful that he still feels he can do this. Keeps us both happy.

3.I'm blessed for all I have at my disposal through many sources, like Success University, for my own personal development and improvement

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Sunday 25 November 2007

The Genius Within

Consider this for a moment. What could you do or achieve if you are able to listen to and understand your own still small voice – the genius within? Here’s a clue. People the world over who have been considered geniuses have known the immense power of trusting and listening to their own inner voices or intuition and creative imaginations. The thing is, they haven't possessed any greater special powers than the rest of us. They have simply encouraged and actively used their intuitive powers.

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." -Albert Einstein.

Think about it. You know how it is when you develop a sixth sense or hunch about something, when something just niggles at you – it feels right or its just all wrong, and you feel you have to follow that hunch because it keeps pinging you. Has that ever happened to you? To some people, it may seem strange or eccentric but many others rely on it for their success, safety, or satisfaction in life, sometimes without even realising that’s what they are doing. Are they crazy?

They say women do it better. I tend to think its because we've needed a different kind of ‘strength’ to keep us and their families growing and thriving and safe. Perhaps men are too busy in their external worlds or perhaps we’ve been mind washed into thinking that this is so. But really, aren’t we all much too busy these days with not enough time to listen to the still small voice?

It all comes down to this. When your antennae are tuned in to picking up the right vibrations, your own genius power is released to start working for you. Have you ever followed where you intuition leads you? Acted despite what ‘reason’ and’ logic’ told you was the thing to do? Now, I’m not saying we should let reason fly out the door, just that when you are following your intuition you are often heeding things for which you have no logical explanation but rather having faith in your own inner prompting. Make no mistake, highly creative people allow this to inspire their creativity, but pretty much all of us have it and use it to some degree.

How, I hear you ask, can those of us less trusting of our intuition get a better grip of it? Quite simply, developing our internal geniuses is really best done when we can quieten our minds from the busyness of our thoughts, when we can relax and become receptive. But being busy doesn’t necessarily stop it either. It’s just that you need to really listen to yourself and how are you going to do it if you don’t turn down the volume on extraneous noises?

Are there other things we can do then to develop our intuitions? Here are some things as recommended by Catherine Ponder in The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity:

Your intuitive power is a spiritual part of you that wants to lead to your greater good. Have faith and confidence in it. Develop trust. “All that you see in the world about you came forth because of someone’s hunch or feeling that it could be done. You can use your ideas and inner feelings to create a more wonderful world.”

Let yourself accept as you go about your daily life that there is some Higher Intelligence acting in you and for you that wants to help and guide you. If you develop this attitude of mind, you will find you are attracting better experiences to you that allows you to accomplish what you want to. You can do this by affirming in your mind daily.

“Divine Intuition is now showing me the way, producing easily and quickly the perfect outcome.”

As you reprogramme your mind, you’re more likely to find that you get more insightful about the things you are interested in or thinking about. You open yourself to discovering hidden secrets and gems that come up from inside yourself.

Be prepared to be pleasantly amazed when you start to follow your little hunches and begin to see a happy and successful outcome. It is your desire for something good to happen that will manifest for you.
“Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.”

If you're unsure about heeding that inner prompting, just keep asking your mind for direction and you may find that assurance comes simply by asking for it.

“Just what is the perfect truth of this situation? Make it clear to me now so that I cannot possibly mistake it.”

Have you ever found like I have that answers reveal themselves after a period of rest and relaxation – so after a nap or on waking in the morning, the answer just appears in your mind? It was there all along and you just needed that space, that break, to get some clarity on the situation. It’s amazing when that happens, isn't it?

Be prepared for the fact that solutions will come in ways we hadn’t originally thought. Quite simply, the problem or situation has been reconfigured in our minds and we can gain different perspectives on it. We can now choose to accept and act on only the good that will come from the situation.

Blessings for Today
1. I had a terrific time with the new support group. A great sharing experience and I'm very grateful to have linked up with people who are willing to support each other's success. Thanks guys.

2. I am blessed by what I have learnt today that will propel me forward in my business.


3. To my husband for his catering to our needs and his help in fixing things so the group could work, and to my son for his grand good humour and the many wonderful touches of the day.

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Saturday 24 November 2007

Rich Beyond Words

I feel one of the richest people alive today. More than winning the jackpot. Much more. That pleasure is yet to come. Well, here's the story. Frankly, yesterday was an ordinary working day. The usual stuff. I must admit, apart from crashing at home, the one thing I was looking forward to, was getting there and finding out how my son's day had been.

It'd been a day off school, he was planning mega revision with his friend and there was talk of another friend's birthday party that he had some doubts about but that I was encouraging him to consider going to and I couldn't wait to hear how he'd got on.

Ever had a near death experience? Well, I have. Many times since childhood I cheated death. It just wasn't my time. I don't know how many lives I'm blessed with, but for what its worth, it all turned on a sixpence and yet I'm still here.

When my son told me how he'd nearly been killed today - nearly run over by a bus on his way out of the party restaurant - I felt like my life had been spared once more. This could have been a very different story today. Indeed, there might have been no more stories if the unimaginable had happened. And so today I have so much to be grateful for. And I want to shout it to the Universe. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

The bottom line is this, there is nothing more precious to me in the whole universe than the gift of life for my son and so I am today rich beyond what words can express for his affirmation of life. But I'll express what I can anyway.

My gratitude to the guardian angel who protected him, to the Universal Spirit that guarded him, to the friend who pushed him out of the way, to the bus driver who in a few seconds, was more careful at that moment than he otherwise might have been and to any unseen forces that in that moment spared my life too.

I asked my son what he'd learnt from the experience. He was extremely appreciative too and it gave him a treasured perspective on life in general. It reminded him about looking and listening out on the roads. He's usually pretty good and haven't we all for a split second, made a mistake. He tells me its made him want to write down the things he wants to achieve in his life, short and long term and that's great - we all would benefit from doing that. And its reminded him of the government road safety slogan aimed at young people - Don't Die Before You've Lived - Think!

And I think that applies to pretty much all of us. Don't die before you've lived. We're never too old to consider this. How will you live today? What must you accomplish before you die? And I am reminded of the old slogan:

Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life.

So how do you want to live it?

"Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the everyday miracles and get excited about the priviledges of simply being human." Tim Hansel

Blessings for today
1 I am grateful that my son is alive and well and that I am here to testify to this today.

2. Death and serious injury would have given me a very different day and a very different life from today and so I am grateful to all the entities that assisted in what I now have.

3. For the lessons learnt and the opportunity to reflect again on what's important and what we want to achieve in our lives.

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Thursday 22 November 2007

Believe it or not

Its possible to either have your skepticism confirmed or to get really excited at new possibilities for living if you've seen the film The Secret. After all, its a little absurd you'd think to believe in such a thing as the Law of Attraction that states that what you think about and believe, you can bring about in your life. It can't be that easy and nor would you want it to be otherwise we'd live in fear that every wicked or disturbing thought we had would somehow be manifested. How could we live with that?

Well, I figured I'd want to know more. Well, you would, wouldn't you. After all, there's a lot at stake here. What if ... you really could conceive of an idea, believe it could happen and then manage to achieve it? What is the human mind capable of that we cannot even begin to understand?

But, here's something interesting. This idea is as old as the hills. Yes, even long before Jesus was on the scene. It was there all along and crossing many cultures, and I never knew it existed until recently! How can that be?

Well, if there's one book you must read on the subject, its Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. This guy was saying something in the 1930s that a few people cottoned onto and used for their enrichment. But where did he get his ideas from? I've been discovering that quite a few people since then have been sharing the same message that there is a power within and around us that if we use it right, cannot fail us in our endeavour to live more successful lives.

Has it ever happened to you that you were able to think about something and make it happen? What was going on? It sort of shakes you up, doesn't it? But here's the thing. It makes you want to try again to see what else might be possible. My own first experience of deliberate manifestation was shocking to me. I wanted my named called to receive a raffle prize and I 'worked' on it, and when it was I could hardly believe it. Here are some of the steps I took.

  • Finding a place to quietly mediatate and to check out if this was something I really wanted. Actually I was in a beautiful park with many people around me but still able to enter my own world in peace
  • Creating a mental picture of having the thing I desired and building that picture with all the most vivid images I could.
  • Being in the moment and using all my senses to enhance the feelings of my present state
  • Going through all the steps of achieving my desire right to the end where I knew I had got it and the accompanying feeling that went with having it
  • Declaring to 'the universe' my desire and then my thanks for the achievement of my desire
Is that it? I hear you ask. Mere coincidence! And that would be a reasonable reaction.

The point is, that from what I'd learnt from other people, from reading and watching, I decided to give the Law of Attraction a try. There are now many people world wide who are using this capacity, whatever its called, for healing, personal and comunity peace, enrichment of many kinds and many more, with great success. It could work for me too if I could create the right vibrations that would tap into the universal energy.

Stuff happens. Funny stuff. And we don't know why it works, but it still does. Why I don't know why I can hold a piece of plastic with a few bit of metal wires to my ears and be able to listen and talk to someone on the other side of the world. No, I really can't explain the science though I believe there is a scientific explanation. I can't explain the science of the Law of Attraction either but I believe quantum physics is working on it.

Believe it? I wouldn't try to persuade anyone but I'd say, find out more and see for yourself if you can create the life of your dreams in this manner. Intriguing, isn't it? I'd really recommend Catherine Ponder's book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity and if you're not a religious person, to look at her biblical and spiritual references as simply another expression of a mighty energy outside ourselves which quantum physics is only beginning to unravel.

Blessing for today
1. I give thanks for what I now know about increasing proseprity in my life

2 I give thanks that the £35 in my purse is but a symbol of the inexhaustible substance of the universe and that 10 times this much is now on its way to me and quickly manifests in perfect ways (thanks Catherine).

3. I am grateful that my winter cold is passed and that perfect health is restored to me.

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Wednesday 21 November 2007

Tithing to Thriving - The Magic of Giving for Increased Prosperity

I've been reading the chapter in Catherine Ponder's book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity entitled The Ancient Law of Prosperity. In it she shares her experience of how time again its been demonstrated that the practice of sharing one tenth of your income is one of the most enriching for those who give, making it one of their best investments in successful living, for peace, health and financial rewards.

She says it renders a number of significant surprises for the giver:

1. the amount of money they will have to share for doing good
2. the wisdom and judgement they will have in using the remainder of their income
3. the ease with which they find they can meet thgeir financial obligations
4. how they deepen their prosperity consciousness and their spiritual life
5. how easilty they can go on to give even larger amounts
6.how they wonder why they hadn't started tithing sooner

The reason she states for this hapening is that when you tithe, you are opening your mind, body and affairs to the universe - its life, love, wisdom, pwoer and substance. You are opening the channels for receiving similar things back into your life.

Many very prominent millionaires attribute tithing to their amazing success and it has ever been so for thousands of years for those who knew amd practised this as a standard for increase in their own lives. Catherine says " Tithing is an act of faith, and faith moves on universal substance to enhance and bless the tither. So it is only natural that the faithful tither should prosper, and that problems should fall away from his life."

To whom should we give? Topher Morrison in his seminar The Mental Game of Life says that it should be to a cause that advances mankind in some way. To Ponder it should be to some enlightened or spiritually evolving individuals, causes or organmisations. "The first tenth should go to spiritual work ort workers whose philosophiy is uplifting and helpful to mankind, and one with which you agree." If however you have no spiritual inclination then a secondary form of giving is to a charitable, educational, cultural or humanitarian causes that will develop your prosperity consciousness of sharing.

Another aspect of the giving is that it should be kept a secret or without publicity, and without strings attached or possessive or resentful feelings. Giving systematically to a single cause and freely from the heart is more effective than scattering to many causes and in an inconsistent manner.

"Never be afraid of giving big tithes to one or two causes, if you wish to reap big results in your own life. Nor should you be afraid of giving 'too much' for the benefit of the recipient of your gifts." - Ponder

I would love to have comments from anyone reading this who has had experiences of the success of tithing in their lives that could be shared with others.



Blessings for today

1.My son came home rapping and laughing and generally being in a great mood.And I was happy he was happy.

2. I'm happy also to be able to share what I have with others who do not have much abundance at the moment.

3. I give thanks for the rich bounty of the universe and my share in it.

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Tuesday 20 November 2007

This Giving Thing - How to Increase by Giving Away

One of the most fascinating secrets about attracting prosperity and abundance into our lives is that the more we share what we have and give away freely, the more we get. The practice of giving has been one that has brought ultimate success to individuals and nations that have done it. The early Chinese, Romans, Egyptians, Persians and others have been among those who have deliberately used this success principle and prospered greatly by it.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.- Winston Churchill

Reading Catherine Ponder's book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity has brought this home again to me. And this is particularly pertinent at this time of the year when many of us turn our thoughts to the giving and receiving of gifts.

I have to confess that I have had a particular loathing for what I have regarded as an annual wastefest at Christmas time and as a consequence, I have gone out grudingly and through gritted teeth to brave the crowds going crazy in gay abandon. Its not been an easy journey this one but as I have become aware of the significance of giving with an open heart, to people I really want to give to, its made it easier to give with love rather than with resentment.

Life is an echo -- what you send out comes back.- Unknown

Ten has for many thousands of years been regarded as the magic number of increase so giving or 'tithing' a tenth of your income has been an accepted practice for increasing one's own prosperity for many peoples of many ages in human history. That giving has to be carried out in a certain way, consistently and systematically, giving not the last and least, but the first and best.

Catherine Ponder describes many biblical references including Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Jesus and Paul who all held, practsed and profitted by this ancient secret principle. "The tithe of all things brought they in abundance...and laid them by heaps at the altar." (Chronicles 31:5,6) She links prosperity to knowing God as the Source of all supply and that without a spiritual dimension to giving there can never really be true peace of mind and health of body as well as financial prosperity in accordance with the meaning of the word 'wealth' meaning "well being" and "wholeness."

This gives an added dimension to the whole concept of giving and receiving this Christmas or indeed at other celebratory times religious or not - that we give not out of obligation and with resentment, but with a 'free' heart and that the giving is done with love.

Indeed this applies even to something like paying a bill and as I have started to develop a different consciousness about what I give out coming back to me, I choose to give with an open heart and with truely my best wishes. Including the taxman or the checkout at the supermarket.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.- Oprah Winfrey

Blessings for today

1 I am grateful that I am able to share with others whatever I have.

2. Iappreciate the many gifts I have been given - from the rain that keeps the earth alive to the more personal items.

3.One of the most precious gifts I have ever been given is my son and I am blessed.

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Friday 16 November 2007

A Healthy Spiritual Life

Would you agree that having good health is right up there at the top of the list of living a successful life?

“Some people don’t do well simply because they don’t feel well.” - Jim Rohn

No amount of other successes can compensate for debilitating illness of the body or the mind. It’s a lot easier though, to see where the significance of physical health lies than in another area of health, that is, Spiritual health.

To have a rewarding spiritual life brings many benefits to our lives. By spiritual I do not necessarily mean having a religious life although for many people this is intrinsically linked. What I mean is an experience outside ourselves, sometimes beyond our ability to understand, that nourishes and nurtures our soul. When this impacts on us, it brings peacefulness, joy, wholeness, strength, less stress, purpose and passion, a sense of calm and emotional stability into our lives, imbuing us with a richer, deeper meaning to our existence.

There are many ways to finding and developing that spiritual element in our lives.
There is a website that is an initiative of the Bhrama Kumaris World Spiritual University at www.just-a-minute.org. I found this today and it’s quite a find. It encourages us to take one-minute pauses through our day to create some personal peace in our often-frenetic lives. It offers a range of one-minute meditations and is for anyone regardless of background or beliefs. Going through some of them today was for me a perfect antidote to life’s busyness. And because it’s just for one minute, no one can say ‘I haven’t got the time’.

I think its important to set aside time when you can be alone with your thoughts when you can cultivate that inner life. For some people it may be moments of prayer, or reading a spiritual or uplifting book or listening to music that moves your spirit or uplifts you. I find that sitting in the garden for a few quiet moments, listening to the birds and the rustling of the plants, watching the many engaging sights, smelling the flowers or feeling the sun or the breeze on my skin induces a feeling of calm and peacefulness and spiritual connectedness.

I remember as a child slipping out of school at lunchtimes to go and sit in peace in a nearby church. I would often be the sole person around and those few moments of quiet in the peaceful sanctity of the church replenished me in ways I did not even realise then. Maybe these days they don’t leave churches open for wayfarers to slip in and the way some of us live can make it hard to find that space for quiet contemplation but its never impossible as even a walk in the park can do it. The important thing is to nurture our spiritual lives in whatever way it fits for us and to build that into our aspirations for success.

“Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions; but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.” - Nido Qubein

Blessings for today
1.I am grateful for the many times I get to have those quiet alone moments when I can gather my thoughts and find a stillness in my life.
2. For connectedness with my neighbours
3. For a hot meal provided for me on this cold and frosty night and my family to share it with.

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Thursday 15 November 2007

Thoughts of a Reluctant Millionaire

Opps! I can't believe I said this. I was talking to someone just recently and I mentioned that I was on a wealth creation journey. That created a raised eyebrow or two and a frowning look. The implication was that there was something wrong with wanting to acquire wealth. I heard myself qualifying what I had said by adding that my intention was not to have a ferrari in the front drive or a jacuzzi in the back garden. Phew! Relief! So...you're not one of those people!! For who did I think I was, buying into that get rich stuff??

Like I said, I can't believe I said that for I know by now that thats a sure way of creating a huge chasm between me and prosperity. Doh! I still don't want the ferrari but the jacizzi would be nice....

The point is the ferrari isn't my dream but there is nothing wrong with it as someone else's. We have to look to our thoughts about us and money/prosperity or we stand a good chance of repelling it away from us if what's going on in our heads doesn't match up with what we say we want.

This was a learning moment and I now give myself permission to think and act differently. This is about learning how not to be ashamed and rather to celebrate my success and the success of others. The language I use to myself and also to others is crucial. I now choose to use language of abundance and wealth.

A few other helpful pointers are:
1. To create a dreamboard of the things you want in your life both on a material and non material level. That would include rich people I admire - the ones who can have the money and yet act with full concern and appropriateness for others. Whatever images the mind sees, it is more likely to be drawn to. It increases our prosperity thinking to review our images daily.

2. To recognise that all the spiritual leaders of the world's greatest riligions have promoted abundance and wealth and that it is our right to share in the wealth of the universe. Only so often have we misread or misinterpreted the message and thought that there was something inherently pious about being impoverished. It will help at the level of belief to review what the great spiritual leaders were actually encouraging in us in desiring prosperity. As in Deuteronomy 8:18 "But thou shalt remember Jehovah thy God, for it is he that giveth power to get wealth."

3. In my purse I carry a million dollar 'note'. Why not have two, or three. Again, its about where I put my focus. I understand that there is a feng shui approach that suggests having jars of coins around the house for exactly the same reason, that there is an automatic association with the mind about attracting abundance.

So to reinforce a new way of thinking to create not just wealth but many other areas of abundance and success in our lives, we need to look at what we're saying to ourselves and to others, whether our thinking really matches up to what we say we want, and finally to work at our levels of belief and practically take steps to keep our success and prosperity focussed in our minds daily.

To all our success. To abundance and opportunities galore. I now choose to congratulate all the ferrari owners out there and to celebrate their success.


“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.” Maya Angelou

Blessings for today
1. I am blessed by the opportunities for reflections and developing insight and for the teachings and wisdom of many who have gone before me.

2. I have so enjoyed the autumn sunshine of the last few days in contrast to the dull greyness that we sometimes endure at this time. Its brought out the startling beauty of the autumnal colours outside which have been a joy to behold.

3. I am blessed by the energy and committment of my son. He is an inspiration to me.

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Tuesday 13 November 2007

Health - The Third Pillar of Success

As human beings we are designed as complex beings, not mere physical bodies but as three parts interconnected with each other - the physical Body, the Soul or mind, emotions and intellect, and the Spirit or the part of us that is beyond this world and lives outside our physical beings in communion with some other spiritual entity we may choose to call many other names such as God, Universal Energy or simply Nature.

What is a successful life without health? When we talk about being healthy, a principal flank of being successful, we have to consider a more rounded view of what it means to be healthy. When desease and decay infects any one of our health systems, we run the risk of it spreading to the other parts of our systems.

I speak as someone who is currently having a little tussle with a bad cold and know how run down and lacklustre it can make me feel. It is nothing in comparison with the physical disabilities and pain some people endure and for long periods. However I am working at maintaining Soul and Spirit at a more optimum level and that's why one of the things I need to do today is my daily Blessings. It gives a lift and is good medicine for spirit and soul.

Blessings for Today

1. I give thanks for the Universal Intelligence that helps me know, remember and understand.

2. I am grateful that I know that this cold will pass and good physical health return to me. I am grateful for all the available resources at my disposal to enable me to make a recovery and I realise that for many people around the world, this is not so. I send thoughts out to them for returning health.

3. I appreciate my partner's soft and gentle touch.

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Sunday 11 November 2007

Using the Energy Field of the Masterminding Group

I had the rather pleasant experience recently of being lifted high into the air by the combined energy of four people using just 2 fingers each. This technique required the lifters to try to lift me, having failed to do so on the first occasion, after some mental preparation and creating a combined field of energy which they transmitted through me. My part was to think about being light to lift – and to enjoy the ride. How was this apparently impossible feat achieved? On their third attempt, I was so high in the air it was amazing.

It brought to mind the immense power and energy that can be contained in a mastermind group. After all, this is about harnessing the collective energy and brainpower of a group of individuals to create the lift that will provide each individual in the group with an additional opportunity to grow and develop themselves and their business.

“No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind.”
— Napoleon Hill, Think And Grow Rich


Clearly one of the criteria for the development of such a group is to have the right mix of people and by that I mean people who can create synergy. The success of the mastermind group requires people are committed, participative, open minded and positive. They also need to be focussed around their own goals and yet also able to give positive attention to the person whose circumstances are being discussed at the time.

I have been in a mastermind group where there appeared to be several individuals not able to give this quality of attention to others and nice people that they were, it nevertheless diffused the level of energy of the group. This meant that the individuals who wanted to develop their visions and focus within the group were left with an empty dissatisfied feeling.

It’s a young group that is growing and there is some learning taking place but it is important in any mastermind group to establish a clear structure and focus, and also for people to be trusting and confident enough to challenge each other when one or more members go off at a tangent into their story when they needed to be giving quality attention to another individual. I suspect I could only have been lifted off the ground when my helpers were able to use their combined focus and energy to give their attention to me at that moment

I love the fact that we’ve got the group going. That is a success in itself. We have some learning to do as the masterminding concept is new to some of us. We have the capacity to leverage each other’s collective brain power and to rise to new heights within it.

Blessings for Today
1. I am grateful for all the popel from whom I have learn many and wonderous things today and yesterday. They have opened my eyes and filled my mind with new insights.

2. I am grateful to the author of the book on coping with stress that I have been reading, for its clear, humourous and practical approach that I can use in my own presentations.

3. For getting back home to a prepared meal in the oven. That was worth coming home for! I am thankful to my husband for all his efforts in our home today.

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Friday 9 November 2007

The Joy of Money

When I was a child I used to have a recurrent dream of discovering a hoard of coins as I walked in the streets, and about how I would gather them up in my frock. Sometimes I would find them in a stream like pebbles on the bottom of the water. The feeling was always one of joy and delight. It was a disappointment to awake to find it was all a dream.

At some point in my adulthood many years ago now, I was walking along the riverbank nearby when I happened to notice some coins laying on the riverbed. With delight I went in and fished them out - a few pennies, sixpences etc. I took also a small rock and painted it, a picture of myself as a child with a whole pile of coins in my lap. I have it still and I must fetch it out of hiding as a reminder that its more than OK to have a pile of money in my world.

For many years I gave no thought to financial prosperity and indeed if you asked me, I would probably have given you very negative associations with being rich - money the root of all evil and all that. It never crossed my mind to consider that there is nothing good, spiritual or becoming of a mind of lack and poverty, or that I could in any way share the some of the bounty of this earth. That seemed to belong to other people. It's just taken the last few years to begin to change my mindset. What good can you do if you have much more of it?

I am a supporter of The Smile Train a charity that provides surgery for children with hare lips and cleft paletes. Today a letter came asking for a contribution to continue their work The amount seems small for the amazing gift of life that it offers these children and it is one of my dreams to be able to directly help to transform the lives of 20,200, 2000 children as I go. So what good can I do with more money? Need you ask?

I do meet people now whose lips curl at the idea of making or talking about money. I do know where they are coming from but I also now choose to think differently. "Money can't buy you happiness." we've been told. Well, it can. Used well and rightly, it can open doors and create joy. And lack of money can bring complete misery.

Catherine Ponder in Dynamic Laws of Prosperity puts it like this:
"Lets get the record straight. There's nothing wrong with money, or in our wanting money. It is a god-given medium of exchange, and there's nothing evil about that. The moment we let go of those false ideas that someone ignorantly taught us years ago - that money is evil- we will find that money circulates much more easily and more satisfyingly."


“It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.” - George Lorrimer

Blessings for today

1. All the learning I have had over the last couple of days at the workshops I have attended. I especially appreciate the opportunity to reflect on where I stand in the TA model and how I might like to consider the changes I can make in my life to create good change - like remembering to release more of my inner 'positive child' that brings fun and spontaneity to life.

2.I am grateful to the friends who have rung me tonight to keep in touch.

3. I had a great lunch today at the conference I attended. I really enjoyed indulging for a change.

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Wednesday 7 November 2007

Giving and Getting back

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else." - Peyton Conway March

Whatever the arguements on the Secret Millionaire series being shown on TV, I must own to feeling greatly encouraged that there are people out there with pots of money who want to share the results of their very successful lives with others mainly for the good they can help create in other people's lives or in whole communities.

These were people who worked hard, took care of their own needs and still had money left over that they wanted to contribute back in some way. I have to say that I lay all cynicism aside and commend them for the good they do. Along the way of course they have themselves gained enormously from doing this that has enhanced their own personal growth in many ways. And yes I do believe they are better people for opening their hearts as well as their wallets. And perhaps they understand only too well that what you give out, comes back to you, plus some more.

The gift of contribution is something we can all make whatever our circumstances and this is not just about donating money. In giving to others, and with a bold and loving spirit, we are really creating a climate of increase in our own lives.

I was thinking about this when I was shopping today and just beginning to wonder about Christmas presents. I thought of the people I have in the past bought gifts for but with a grudging, resentful feeling and through clenched teeth. I won't be doing that any more. We have to consider what is the vibration we give out when we donate or give to others, even when we are paying bills. We will negate our results when we are giving with guilt, resentment, anger, mistrust and other negative emotions. We are only creating the same to be reflected back to us.

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."- Maya Angelou

So if we are wise and wish to raise the level of increase and success in our own lives, one of the things we can do is to start giving and with an open heart. Of course we have to choose wisely to whom we give and I would say rather steel ourselves to not giving in situations where the gesture is empty and meaningless and full of resentment and guilt. Its worth remembering when these obligatory gift exchanges take place this Christmas. If you have to give in these situations, pour a little well being into your gift card so when you write 'with love and my best wishes', it comes from the heart. What matters is the energetic vibration behind the giving. I can't wait to pay my next bill 'with my love and best wishes'!

"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."- Thornton Wilder

Blessings for today
1. My elderly neighbour dropped by today for a chat. This I know can go on for more than an hour and I was desperately trying to get done some household chores so I could get some other work done. It seemed like it was going to be a busy day and I needed all the time I could get. My initial reaction was 'No, not today'. She needed to talk and I was home and I learn to practice patience. Indeed I even enjoyed our chat and realise I am blessed by her presence and the time that I can give to her. When I'm her age, I hope that someone will freely give their time to me too.

2. My son made me laugh with his funny dances and his quirky sense of humour

3. Custard apples! What a terrific fruit. Maybe second to mangos. I am grateful for the sweet bounty of this earth.


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Tuesday 6 November 2007

Thinking Success Thoughts for Self and Others

As I was reading Catherine Ponder's Dynamic Laws of Prosperity in which she described the Law of Increase, I was thinking of the biblical saying which has been instilled in my mind since childhood - 'Do onto others as you would that they should do onto you.' I always felt that this was an excellent value by which to live our lives and that if we could but heed it, what a richness of life we would all have.

It ain't easy sometimes. The worse for me is when I've been deeply hurt by someone else. Its not that I wish them any harm, I just can cut them out of my life quite easily. Now, sometimes that's no bad thing to move on from people who have been poisonous or malicious. Most of the time people don't mean to be any of those things, they just have a different perspective or were thoughtless in their words or actions. What's the significance of this in attracting prosperity in our lives?

Well, Catherine maintains that in order to prosper ourselves, we need to develop prosperity thoughts towards everybody and everything and that acts like a magnet to draw prosperity and success, riches and victory towards ourselves. You help to make it so for yourself just by thinking in this manner towards yourself and others. This means that any contact you have with them should contain thoughts about them of increased good.

That's actually a pretty revolutionary way of thinking. How much good can we think for others who have blown up and killed many people today, who have committed grave injustice towards others, who have taken away children and enslaved others, who have tortured and blighted the lives of other people or robbed you of your property? What does it take to offer them the blessings of our rich thoughts?

Catherines asserts that what you send out comes back to you and will have an corresponding impact in your own life. Do not speak words of ill towards others, rather speak words of good and increase. And equally you have to give yourself words of increase.

By thinking in prosperity and success terms about yourself, you consciously and subconsciously radiate this out and and draw others to you as friends, customers, business associates as never before. People unconsciously gravitate towards you so that your business, your life, your relationships expand with many rich blessings.

Have you ever noticed how most people born into a life of richness seem to maintain that all their lives even if they don't seem to be working for it? They have grown up all their lives with prosperity thinking a part of the very fabric of their being so their conditioning dictates that there is nothing that would create lack. They simply do not think of it.

Anything you can say to yourself and others so that you generate that feeling of success and prosperity is worth taking the time to do. Don't bother with thoughts of failure and feelings of disappointment. If something didn't come right the way you wished it to, start to reconstruct it as only an opportunity for something better to come along or at any rate an oppertunity to learn and to grow. House deal feel through? Man got away? Lost the job? Consider that when one door closes, another opens and that other could well come a much better deal.

"Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way."

Blessings for today
1. I am grateful for the time I had to catch up with some reading when the computer systems went down today. - a case of when one door closes...
2.For the relative safety of the streets I inhabit compared with Afghanistan or many other places in the world today
3.For personal enlightenment and growth that comes from all I absorb around me and for the lessons from Success University that have assisted that growth.

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Monday 5 November 2007

The Right Mental Attitude for Success

Two men looked out from prison bars,
one saw the mud, the other the stars.”

Author Unknown


I completed a course called Your Goal Mind in Success University today that I'd been delaying completing for a while now because of pressure of time. It was something of a marathon to complete all 20 lessons in one sitting that would normally have come to me over about a month but I knew I wanted to do it before starting a course on internet marketing that I committed myself to doing for my mastermind group, and I knew I was going to have to make myself accountable when we next meet.

The good thing about You Goal Mind was that it directly connected with what I have been writing about many times in this blog about establishing clear goals, having a sense of purpose and creating a vision you can sustain with daily practice to ensure success. I will share some of the things I learnt today.

Our mental outlook is an essential part of achieving success. Optimism and excitement are going to go a long way to helping us achieve what we desire. This means keeping an open positive attitude and our goals couched in positive language.

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas Jefferson

‘I want to be in a fulfilling relationship’ is always going to sound better than ‘I don’t want to be lonely’ and ‘yes I can do this’ will be better than ‘I don’t know if I can.’ We may have to stretch ourselves to make it real but its far better to bring that into our focus than to limp along in doubt, fear and negativity. If we can generate some enthusiasm and a positive outlook for what we want its going to keep us well motivated to work towards our goals. When we become excited and enthused, its more of a glide towards than a slog.

"Life reflects your own thoughts back to you" Napoleon Hill

Part of the reason I do this blog is to be able to write about my blessings of the day. This helps to keep me in a positive frame of mind as well as reminding me of some of the good things that I have already got in my life. Some days are easier than others and the challenge is to be able to find something good in even the worst of situations like being grateful for arriving home safely although you’re been stressed to the hilt by poor traffic conditions or appreciating that your children are home safely even though living with them has been challenging.

Building in some mini rewards can really help also to keep our motivation high and we’re really going to need to be self motivating or have some kind of group or person with whom you ccan keep yourself motivated, if we are to succeed. These reward should be meaningful to us. Going to the football match with Uncle Sid won’t mean anything to me but for someone else will be really meaningful and motivational. It may be helpful to consider such rewards after each step or each 3 steps or whatever that we take towards achieving our goal.

We cannot do everything or know everything so gaining the advice, help and support of others can also have a positive impact on our success. If someone you talk to cannot help, they may know someone else who can within their broader network or circle of acquaintances. Even the most successful of people have found this one of the most profound resources for their success.

Napoleon Hill in his famous book Think and Grow Rich wrote of the significance of bringing people together to share experiences and to provide support as one of the most enabling factors in the success of people he studied like Henry Ford and many others.

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens” – Kahil Gibran

Blessings for today

1. I am so thankful for the many choices of courses and learning I am getting from being a member of Success University. Having full access to so much richness of thought and experiences has enriched my life.

2. I am reminded to build in a reward for myself on having completed a course so I have elecetd to go and give my son a huge hug and tell him what he means to me.

3. I'm so thankful I had booked myself a day off today so that I could take care of myself as I had picked up a winter flu bug. I hope the chicken soup helps take care of that.

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Sunday 4 November 2007

It Works - The Little Red Book by RHJ

This miniscule and famous Little Red Book takes a look at how we can make dreams come true following three simple rules. I was led to reading it as I pursued my own interest in the Law of Attraction and followed on from other books I had been reading on the subject.

This little book in simple terms explains how to achieve prosperity and happiness using the power of our thoughts and the Omnipotent or Great Power that some people may call God or The Universe or some other manifestation outside ourselves. It is not necessary to have any religious belief or deity in mind. It cuts through all the scientific, psychological and theological explanations for why the Law of Attraction works and distils it down to the bare facts, the plan of action and the 3 rules of engagement. It is well worth reading. It takes minutes.

It is easy to dismiss the idea of an overwhelming Power able and willing to comply with our expressed desires. However it urges we but follow a simple course of action one of which is to be really clear and earnest about what it is that we want. Mere wishing for something does not does not allow us to connect with our omnipotent power to bring about the results we seek. There must be a sincere and truthful desire also. Many times we say we really want something but that conflicts with some other need in us and this sends out mixed and confusing messages to the Power and we are then unlikely to obtain results.

The plan consists of
Ø Writing down what you want in order of importance and without limits, changing daily if needed if you have second thoughts about them until you know what’s just right for you, even things that seem unattainable. Be very specific about what you want in detail, which countries you wish to travel to and for how long; exactly the kind of man/woman you are looking for to share your life with; exactly how much money; the style, colour, price, model of car, and exactly when you want these things. However be careful what you ask for that it is to serve the greatest good for yourself and others for it is possible to ask for things that will ultimately make your life and others’ miserable
Ø Reading the list 3 times each day
Ø Thinking often of the things you desire and keeping it just to yourself and the Power within

It tells us that it is not necessary to know just how our desires will come to us. Doubts and scepticisms are natural and will arise and if they do, just reread the list. We are encouraged to associate with people who support us but not to discuss what we are doing with them

There is a law it asserts which works at all times when we are in tune with it. As we see our dreams being manifested, simply express gratitude with our whole hearts. This power is beyond understanding. We can only be truly thankful for what we are given and share the benefits with others.

Blessings for today
1. To be able to prepare with love a meal for my family. I don’t always go at this very readily but today I have enjoyed feeding and filling and seeing the relish with which it is received.
2. To share a dance with my son. I enjoyed his energy.
3. The reminder I got from re-reading ‘It Works’ about connecting with some other energy outside and within myself and a chance to mediatate and reflect again about what's really important to me.

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Saturday 3 November 2007

The Impossible Dream

As I've been think about turning a dream into reality, the lyrics have been popping up in my head of the song To Dream the Impossible Dream

To dream the impossible dream....
To reach the unreachable star....
This is my quest

To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

Sometimes when we're set on a dream, there is a little voice lingering inside that might want to tell us we're on a fool's errand.
'What you want perfect health?'
'How many millions?' 'You want to get to the moon ....don't make me laugh!'

What do most of us want? Health, Wealth and Happiness with fantastic relationships. Nowt wrong with these dreams. Dream away. But then we have to set some goals that are attainable that will move us in the right direction. The dream is what will drive and motivate us. The goals are what will get us there. The greater the motivation, the more persistent we can be to pursuing those goals. We need to fire up those dreams and then get on with the business of going for the goal.

Make the goal something you really can achieve, even if its simply to find out more information about the dream. What resources do you have or can call on from others to help you?Decide how long you can expect to have achieved a step in your goal plan and make it your aim to action that plan within that timeframe.

If your dream is to be slim and glamorous. Hold that thought, that image, in your mind. Now what goals can you set around this? How much? By when? Is it achieveable? Who can help me?I want to start taking exercise... so is walking 2 days a week for 20 minutes starting on Monday achievable? Can I book myself in for a consultation with a stylist by Saturday? If my friend came with me would that keep me motivated?

If the dream is to have a happier marriage, is it achievable to spend 10 minutes each day just sitting and chatting without arguments, to go out once a week by yourselves beginning in Friday, to do something or say something nice to each other once a day?

The point is to break up the impossible dream into small specific achievable goals whether the dream is to create lightbulbs, find a cure for cancer, become CEO of a company, dance with Brad Pitt, have your dream home or whatever, and to consider what goals you can put in place to get you there.

Here are some quotes to inspire.

There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by (goals). There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them. - Jim Rohn

You'll fail at a 100% of the goals you don't set. - Mark Victor Hansen

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible. - Nido Qubein

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. - David J. Schwartz

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms carry out your plan - Paul Meyer. Let us take it as read that he means goals not harmful to self or others.

Blessings for today
1.I rapturously sing the praises of trees. At this time of the year, I often catch my breath with the beauty of the changing leaves and its a blessing indeed for me to live in an environment where there are so many around me.
2.I went to an Asian food supermarket yesterday and I was in awe of the vast array of different kinds of foods, spices etc. and I thought that from just one culture (or indeed many) comes the wisdom, skills and experience that allows me such rich choice for culinary delight.
3. The smiles I received back from the women I encountered out on the streets. People I did not know and from cultures I was barely familiar with, with whom this brief exchange was a moment of glow.

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