BREAKING BAD HABITS

When bad habits become a ritual, it's time to break them!

Your Daily Quote - Determination

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 J. Meyer

Goal Setting - Tony Robbins: When Nothing is Working

How many millimeters are you off your goal?

HOW TO ATTRACT POSITIVE ENERGY - 7 SIMPLE WAYS

JOHNNY STONES

How much negative or positive energy we attract is something that is completely in the hands of every individual. While this is an extremely empowering bit of knowledge, it is also a tremendous responsibility that requires us to be careful about all our thoughts, actions and words. The following seven methods will help you lead a life that attracts more positive energy which in turn will lead to  more good things happening in your life.

1. Clean and Organize Everything

Everything from you car to your bedroom has an impact on how you feel through-out the day. When everything is in a state of disarray it impacts the flow of our day in a negative way, whether it just visually bothers us or we have to literally spend energy searching fro something in our messy. Treat your space as if it is sacred to show that you value and appreciate having it, because chances are that many people in the world would love to  live in the luxury that you do. By introducing order and a good flow into places you spend time, it will give you a safe place for wonderful things to enter into your life.

2. See the Positive Energy that is Already Present

A common mistake is to overlook all of the wonderful things that are already present in life. Always look for the good in every situation, so that you can come into the experience with an open mind ready to receive the wondrous grace that is in every moment.

3.  Visualize a Life of Contentment and Peace

Spend the time to visualize a life where you are satisfied and happy. Only when we open up ourselves to the potential for good and positive things will they begin to come our way.

4. Do NOT Worry about the Future

Part of breaking away from negative energy is learning to stop assuming the worst will happen. Learn to anticipate positive things coming your way rather than constantly worrying about imaginary scenarios. Focus your attention on all the great things that are coming your way.

5. Love Yourself- Mistakes and All

Many people hold resentment towards themselves for making mistakes in the past. No one can take the clock back to undo mistakes. Just know that every bad experience is a chance to learn, and the only place you can work on improving things is in the present.

6. Follow the Three Folds Law

The three fold law states that everything you put out in the world will come back to you three-folds. Know deep within that all of the positive energy you put out into the world will eventually come back to you. Whenever making a decision, assess what the consequences in the future may be.

7. Do NOT Speak Negatively

Words are powerful tools that can take life in many different directions. Everything you say can have huge consequences. Learn to think more before you speak. When you are thinking about what you are saying determine whether it is negative or positive. If it is the latter avoid keep your lips sealed and dismiss the thought as something to negative to welcome in your life.

 Source:

http://www.99positiveaffirmations.com/7-ways-to-attract-positive-energy/

How Can I Stick to My Goals?

by Myrko Thum

“I create goals in my mind every night. And every day I try to live them but I end up doing the exact opposite of what I want to do, and I don’t understand why. How can I stick to the personal goals I set for myself?”
“I end up doing the exact opposite of what I want to do…”

Interesting.
First of all, make sure that these goals are actually goals you really, REALLY want. Something with high long-term value. Only those are real goals.
Everything else is just something that would be nice to have today (and may be forgotten tomorrow).
Make it a few but important goals. If you have 20 goals, you basically have no goal. Because you just can’t keep your focus on that many goals.
You can find those goals by going through a proper goal-setting exercise.
If those are real goals you have, and you still have a hard time moving towards them…
I can tell you exactly why this happens.

One word: Fear.
You most likely fear the consequences of what happens when you reach your goals.
The fear of failure goes:
“What happens if I fail? What happens when my big dream won’t come true? What if I just don’t have what it takes? How disappointed and worthless will I feel?”
And the other side, the fear of success goes:
“What happens if I succeed? How will my life change? Am I really ready for that? What new challenges will come to me? Do I really want all that?”
The problem with fear is that it’s coming from the unconscious “reptilian” brain. And that might be in conflict with our conscious goal-setting.
The moment you get aware of your fear, you have a chance to overcome it.

Another word: Beliefs.
If you set goals that are in contrast to your beliefs and your values, you will get inner resistance.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t set those goals.
On the contrary.
After all, compelling goals have the power to pull you towards a better life. That’s the power of goals: they work best if you really want to make a change.
Run a Check on Your Beliefs
What you can do is to get awareness about your beliefs.
For instance complete the following sentences:
“I want to reach my goal, but _________.”
“I haven’t reached my goal, because _________.”
Fill in the blanks and you will find some interesting limiting beliefs.
This is pretty powerful stuff. So do it!
And then you can even change your beliefs, so that they don’t limit you, but support you in your goal achievement. What a concept!

The third word: Habits.
When you set new goals that pull you out of your comfort zone and need you to form new habits, or give up old habits, you will feel resistance.
That’s something we call habit gravity.
The moment you start to form a new habit, your old habits that are in contrast to your new habits will pull you back down.
For instance when your goal is to start running every morning, you might do it the first 2 days. Then your old habit of sleeping longer will show his ugly face and resist the creation of your new habit.
So you have to escape this habit gravity. And that’s done by…

The last word: Focus.
You can radically improve your goal achievement if you learn how to focus your mind on your goals.
If you’ve set a powerful goal, a goal that is representing what you deeply desire inside, then your mental focus is your tool to make this goal your reality.
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” ~ Stephen Covey 
People think focus means to decide what to focus on. But in reality, this is not the main thing.
The main thing is to say no to all the things you could do, but which would distract you from your goal. To stay focus you need to learn to say no.
So learn stay focused on your goals and you’ve gone the next step.

http://www.myrkothum.com/reach-your-goals/

John Assaraf - Having It All

John's book is amazing. Use snippets of the recording of his book as part of your daily "hour of power"
Elena

Your Daily Quote - Your Dreams

Hold fast to your dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
― Langston Hughes

Your Daily Quote - Goals

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

The Importance of D.O.D: Desire, Optimism and Dream

 By Bonnie Goldstone

Are there things you would like to do? Have you set some plans in motion, penciled in dates on your calendar? Do you have some activities or even personal goals you would like to include this year?

As I sat down with my pen and paper to put down my ideas of the things I want to do and experiences I wish to create, I came up with this acronym.

D.O.D.

D - Desire:

What do you want to do or create this year? What do you truly desire? Take 5-10 minutes to quietly ponder the possibilities.

Simply allow yourself to open up to your hearts deepest desires. Maybe you want to travel, take a course, or move to a new location. Think of it as a game.

Wouldn't it be cool to... lose weight, become stronger, join a yoga class, or participate in a marathon? Wouldn't it be fun to shop for new clothes, to climb a pyramid, or go sailing?

I like to use self-hypnosis to get into that deep relaxed state where my conscious analytic mind is quiet and I can listen to my inner voice. I believe it is a good idea to consider desires in many categories of our lives.

For example, we may want to brainstorm ideas around our wealth and prosperity, yet we don't want to ignore our relationships or health.

Taking time to consider all aspects of our life and what we desire in each area is a positive step in creating balance and happiness in our lives.

If we focus only in one area, career and money for example, we may miss opportunities to grow and flourish in our relationships. Both are important to our happiness.

O - Optimism:

When an idea comes to you, allow yourself to expand on it in a positive way.

Sometimes we squash our ideas before we even allow our minds to completely formulate the complete idea. Do you do that sometimes?

Maybe you came up with the idea you would like to participate in long distance bike ride. You don't even own a bike, so you immediately dismiss the idea. Stop. Allow yourself to have some fun with the thought.

What would it feel like to go on a long distance bike ride? Who would you go with? What would you see? What would you have to do before hand to make this happen and is it something that would you would enjoy? Does this idea stir up some excitement for you? If it does, allow yourself to begin to...

D - Dream:

When you acknowledge a desire, whether it is a desire to travel, learn something new, change a habit or create something, and then you add a splash of optimism... you get a DREAM.

Continue to allow that idea or thought to grow and intensify; allow your mind to expand on this desire.

This is how DREAMS begin.

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Your Daily Quote/Affirmation

I believe the world is plotting to do me good today. I can't wait to see what it is.

Jack Canfield

Your Daily Quote - Focus and Target

“I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.” 
— Zig Ziglar

How Incredibly Successful People THINK

Success is a mindset game!
What beliefs stop you from achieving your vision?

Your Daily Quote - Opportunity

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandler

Napoleon Hill: Laws of Success: ORIGINAL

I know this is a long one, guys, but even if you watch the first 5 minutes only, it's quite worth it!

Elena

Your Coach to Success

Your Daily Quote - Goals

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo

Your Daily Quote - Responsibility

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Lou Holtz, multiple NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) coach of the year

Modelling Genius

Source: http://www.the-secret-of-mindpower-and-nlp.com/Modelling-Genius.html

Modelling Genius – an NLP technique

The technique we are suggesting on this page is the same whether you have insight and confidence or whether you don’t.  

As always, we suggest you read through the instructions completely before starting the exercise.

If you find meditation music aids your concentration, play some softly in the background.  

Now, put yourself into a frame of mind where you can relax and go inside yourself – into your own particular zone, so to speak.

Go to wherever you go to think, study or meditate, or any other place which you feel is good for your peace of mind.  Sit comfortably and preferably with your feet on the floor.  

Now find a spot on the facing wall that you can concentrate your attention upon.

Modelling Genius with peripheral vision

As you concentrate upon that spot, and without moving your eyes or your head, become aware of the edges of your vision.  

This is what we refer to as your peripheral vision.  Become aware of how high and low you can detect images and movement.

At the same time as you do that also become aware of how wide you can detect image and movement even though you are still focusing on the spot on the wall opposite.  

Continue doing this and see how much wider you can open your vision upwards, downwards and sideways.

Now, as your awareness of everything around you is growing – and still concentrating on the spot -  become aware of what is happeningbehind you and stretch your peripheral vision to its furthest limits.

If you are finding it difficult to see the back of your head, imagine a ball at the back top edge of your head and stretch your peripheral vision until you can visualise it there.

Modelling Genius using an altered state

Now become aware of the way you feel in this state.  People will vary but you may feel an intense state of concentration or detachment and your general awareness may grow.  

However it feels to you, it is an altered state which should aid your concentration and understanding.

This is also a very good state in which to acquire knowledge and understanding, so if you are studying for an examination, for example, try putting yourself into this state each time you have a study session, and put yourself back into the state at the time of the examination.  Your recall and results should improve.

For these purposes, however, think now about what you want to achieve.  

Look deeply inside yourself and see where you have the qualities that you believe you require in order to get where you want, and if you can’t recognise some or all of them consider other people, living or dead, who have obtained or achieved precisely what you wish for yourself.

Make a note of the qualities or skills that you think you desire and, in this state, envisage those people who have been successful in the field you are thinking about and make a note of them also. 

Modelling Genius by research

You may at this stage need to do a little research to identify individuals on which to model yourself.  

If it is a particular sporting achievement that you wish to emulate or successful business person, that is fairly straightforward. 

Research them in libraries, or on the net, read biographies, look for interviews with them on Youtube or other  suitable media, but above allfind out everything you can about how they achieved their success.

It will not always come from their own mouths because successful people do not always know precisely how they have achieved what they did, so you may also need to rely upon your own observations and those of other commentators.  Saturate yourself with as much information about them as is possible.

It may be that you will need to look at more than one model of genius to fulfil the particular criteria you are seeking.  The same applies no matter how many you study. 

Modelling Genius with an interview

If you can get an interview with one or more of them, so much the better.  You may be saying to yourself right now, “But that’s impossible”.  My response is, you don’t know until you ask.  

There are many superstars and successful people out there who are happy to share their knowledge with those who wish to emulate them. 

Think of it this way:  if your request is refused or ignored, you are in no different a position than you are now.  But if they say yes, where might that lead? 

There is certainly nothing to lose.  Remember the old cliché,Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and act upon it.

Modelling past genius

When you are considering who to model, remember those great people who are no longer with us.  

On this site you will find a number of mock interviews with those we consider to be Real Men of Genius and Real Women of Genius. 

They are designed to whet your appetite and to give you a flavour of the talents and characteristics which they displayed during their lifetimes – and that we all have within us – as well as some of their principal achievements.

Read them and see where they lead you.  Some will match your own ambitions more than others.  

Where you find one or more of them particularly inspire you, research them in greater depth.  

Find out more.  Model yourself on them, discover your own genius, and maybe you too will, one day, inspire others by the way you live your life.

Modelling Genius and returning to the altered state

Finally, when you have accumulated all the information you feel you need on which to model the qualities or abilities you desire, recreate the state you started with at the beginning of all this by looking at the spot on the wall and following that exercise.

When you have achieved that altered state, review all the information you have and compare it with what you were looking for in the first place and think creatively how to use that information.  Be prepared to surprise yourself!

Here are some giants of the past to start you off:

Real Men of Genius Articles:

·         Abraham Lincoln

·         Albert Einstein

·         Antoni Gaudi

·         Carl Jung

·         Charles Darwin

·         Charles Dickens

·         Christopher Wren

·         Confucius

·         George Washington

·         Hannibal

·         Horatio Nelson

·         Isaac Newton

·         Julius Caesar

·         Lawrence of Arabia

·         Leonardo da Vinci

·         Michelangelo

·         Mohatma Gandhi

·         Napoleon Bonaparte

·         Nicolas Copernicus

·         Oscar Wilde

·         Rembrandt

·         Robert Burns

·         R L Stevenson

·         Socrates

·         Walt Disney

·         William Shakespeare

·         Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Real Women of Genius Articles:

·         Eleanor Roosevelt

·         Florence Nightingale

·         Margaret Thatcher

·         Marie Curie

·         Mother Teresa

·         Queen Elizabeth I

Reframing, or Using Positive Language - Part 2 of 2

As discussed in part 1, the Reticular Activating System (RAS) of your brain acts as a filter, as a gate-keeper to your subconscious mind. It allows “in” not any random bits of information, but only the ones that the mind is interested, and more importantly – the ones that your subconscious mind recognises.

Here is a classic example. You are at a party, with lots of noise, music, and people talking around you. In that sea of unintelligible sounds, someone mentions your name. You become alert, as your RAS filtered through something familiar. Similarly, in the sea of information, your subconscious mind processes and assimilates only information that it can relate to, that is familiar.

Hence, my question to you is: what kind of information would YOU like to let into your mind, and let your subconscious to process as reality?

This is exactly how the power of manifesting works, the Law of attraction. What your RAS works with, is sounds, words and images. What you focus on and what is familiar, is what you will get.

So what would you prefer to be familiar to your mind: words like “bad”, or “fantastic”? DO you see how the two answers from part 1: “Not too bad”, or “I’m fantastic!”, are so drastically different? In the first instance, you feed your RAS with the familiarity of the word, and state, of “bad”, and this is what the subconscious mind works with. For the rest of the day. For the rest of your… reality.

Watch yourself for a day or two. Notice what noises you wake up to, watch the words you use, and the thoughts you go to bed with. Is there something that can be reframed in a more positive way?

Be positive, so that you attract positive things

Here is the formula to a more productive day, to a healthier state, and opening multiple opportunities in front of you:

1.    Start the day with your affirmations:

“I am a great person.”

“I look fantastic.”

And reframe into the positive where necessary: don’t tell yourself: “I’m not a failure.”, but instead say “I’m a successful young person getting closer to my dream.”

2.    Watch and reframe the language you use relating to how you feel, and what you will achieve:

Not too bad àGood, great, fantastic!

I feel terribleà I don’t feel my best.

This plan will fail à This plan might not work (all that well).

You can reframe in the positive virtually anything!

3.    Finish the day with gratitude, or acknowledging the good things that happened to you. The more grateful you are, the more the universe will give you.

Because, as Napoleon Hill said, you can achieve any realistic goal if you keep thinking of that goal, and stop thinking any negative thoughts about it.

Elena Alexandrova-Long

Your Coach to Success

ENVISION Life Design

Best Methods to Build Rapport - Anthony Robbins

Rapport is a relationship of power.

Rapport is created by a feeling of commonality. How do you create that?

Your Daily Quote - Control

If you feel like everything is under control, you are moving too slow.