I salute the divinity in you!
“SUCCESS REQUIRES NO APOLOGIES, FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS.”
If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!
Put your dream across, and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for “they,” perhaps, do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.
HILL, NAPOLEON. Think and Grow Rich (p. 27). White Dog Publishing. Kindle Edition.
We should make it a habit to exercise our minds, just same way we make it a habit to exercise our bodies (at least some of us try to). We should make it a habit to gather new ideas from sources other than our daily environment. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
For example, a farmer should go to the city often, and walk among the strange faces and the tall buildings. He will go back to his farm, his mind refreshed, with more courage and greater enthusiasm while a city man should take a trip to the country every so often and freshen his mind with sights new and different from those associated with his daily labors.
Everyone needs a change of mental environment at regular periods, the same as a change and variety of foods are essential. The mind becomes more alert, more elastic and more ready to work with speed and accuracy after it has been bathed in new ideas, outside of one’s own field of daily labor.
You should temporarily lay aside the set of ideas with which you perform your daily labors, and enter a field of entirely new (some even unheard-of) ideas. The outcome will be a new stock of ideas which will make you more efficient, more enthusiastic and more courageous, no matter what sort of work you may be engaged.
Do not be afraid of new ideas! They may just be the difference between success and failure.
Ok, so we got an extra day this year, what are we going to do with it? Maybe one of our questions to finding out what to do with it, is to ask “Do you like where you are?”
If we don’t like where we are, does that mean we’re condemned to stay there? Are we also condemned to constantly do penance for where we are? As we mentioned before in a previous blog: Absolutely not. …
Often what keeps us stuck and continually doing penance is the very feeling that we must pay for our lack of action. We become caught in a circle of self-blame, condemn ourselves, feel hopeless, and feed the fire—or slow burn—by reciting like a mantra our history of inertia and self-judged wrong choices. Well, let’s use this extra day to break that dead-end cycle of waste and regret.
On this leap day let’s to stop the incessant self-judgments and accept ourselves on a new basis—to accept that every moment of our lives has been part of an all-encompassing Purpose, and that this Purpose proceeds by divine order.
When you acknowledge the workings of divine order, you see your life not as a consummate failure but as an evolving, orderly progression. Even though we may not see the purpose of each event, meeting or happening at a given moment, each piece fits.
Become freer from the self-defeating thoughts and labels that have kept you down. You’ll start to shed your old habits of negating yourself and ease gently into the splendid clothes of deserving. In these new clothes, which are much more than zipper-deep, you’ll begin to blossom and develop your talents and abilities, as you’ve always secretly known you could.
Let’s now use this extra day and LEAP into new thought patterns and splendid clothes of deserving!
Happy Leap Day!
Let’s talk about procrastination. This is something we all are guilty of from time to time (some more than others!). It is commonly referred to as “the thief of time”, but is is it really? Or is it just the excuse we use to stall or not do something? Some of us go as far as cloaking it is the guise of “getting ready”. Yeah, you know that thing we call preparation.
Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with preparation, the problem arises when we are stuck in constant preparation mode! This is when we are always “preparing” to the do or get something.
We need to stop and assess and identify when the preparation is becoming or has become a procrastination strategy. This strategy is when we tell ourselves that we need to “prepare” for whatever our goals are, and we put off fulfilling the goals because we are “preparing”. It is really a stalling tactic, a con game, and we don’t make a move because we feel we are not fully prepared or we are not ready yet.
We have to “stop the coming and come already“. We need to stop procrastinating, stop the preparing and get to it. Stop making a career out of just laying the foundation, get a move on and start building on the foundation.
At the beginning of a new year we have the tendency to set goals. But what we fail to understand is, that everyday, week, month, year, etc. we should set goals and not just at the beginning of a new year. We should start this by making a commitment to ourselves. Commit to achieving our goals. This is because fulfilling promises (honouring commitments) will help us live in integrity.
If there are setbacks, on the way to our goals, don’t panic! Don’t give up! Just recommit! There is no limit on the number of times we can recommit. All we need to remember is the Universe will always help us fulfill sincere promises.
We know we can accomplish whatever we put our minds and hearts to do, because we have the Power within us. When we are divinely inspired, we find strength and resolve to accomplish our intentions, our goals.
Let us now envision the result we want and imagine the feeling of having it. Our faith and confidence will grow with each goal we achieve. Commit!
The way you look at life is an indicator of your expectations, it is based on what you have been taught you’re worthy of and capable of achieving. These expectations come from external influences such as family, community and institutions and the internal influence of your ego. These sources of your expectations are largely based on the beliefs of limitation, scarcity and pessimism about what is possible for you. If these beliefs are the basis for how you look at life then this perception of the world is what you expect for yourself. Attracting abundance, prosperity and success from these limiting viewpoints is an impossibility.
Take an inventory of how you look at the world, asking yourself how much of your life energy is focused on explaining away potentially optimistic viewpoints by preferring to see inequities and inconsistencies in the abundance-for-all philosophy?
Can you change the way you look at things? Can you see potential for prosperity where you’ve always seen scarcity? Can you change what is by simply changing the way you see it? YES YOU CAN!!!
– Excerpts from “The Power of Intention”, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Here is something worth thinking about:
“The more you try to protect, defend, prove or explain yourself, the farther you drift from authentic confidence. If someone does not want to accept you, no sales job is sufficient, and if someone accepts you, no sales job is necessary. Likewise, if someone wants to keep you guilty, no apology is acceptable, and if someone is willing to love you, no apology is necessary.”
We need to be true to ourselves, we need to love and accept ourselves. The quickier we learn this, the happier we will be. Stop trying to get people to see things your way, if what you are doing truly please you and makes you genuinely happy, then keep doing it. The people who around will benefit from a happier you, if they don’t, then they will leave as they should:-).
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony“….. Gandhi
Research has shown that kindness has a positive effect on the immune system and in the increase production of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful and blissful.
So a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient and extender of the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons witnessing the act are also similar beneficiaries.
So imagine that, kindness extended, received and observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved!
So today let’s commit to at least one act of kindness
Our thoughts go out as energy waves and attract conditions and circumstances to us that have a similar energy frequency. Many people say, Well, if that’s true, why do I think about something and not get it? They might say, I think about a good and loving relationship, winning the lottery, and a slender, healthy body, but I’m not getting those things!
The answer is simple; there’s something inside that is in conflict with their desires.
You are the sum of all your life experiences. Old recordings stored in your subconscious may be keeping you from your actually believing you can have the relationship, the job, the winnings, or the healthy body you desire. They combine to nullify the energy that is going out to help you achieve your current desires.
The law of attraction is a wonderful law and it works for everyone, all the time. It attracts people, places, and things to help you fulfill your dreams. It also brings challenges and struggles.
To make the law of attraction work for you, you must pay attention to three things: your thoughts, your feelings, and the way you respond to opportunities.
We get what we think about, we get what we talk about, we get what we feel in our guts, whether it’s good or bad. Our life experiences are the result of whatever is going on in our minds or coming out of our mouths. Life does not happen to us, it happens through us.
This excerpt is from the 2007 book Sacred Secrets: Finding Your Way to Joy, Peace and Prosperity.
It is the new year, so now’s a great time to:
1. Wipe the slate clean.
2. Focus upon what you really want.
3. Chart your course.
Right?
Well… only if you want to risk having to repeat these steps for the same wishes next year! Maybe this is splitting hairs, but here’s an adventurous alternative:
1. Give thanks that life is… just as it is (and that it’s been… just as it’s been). Because of it, you’re now “READY.”
2. Define what you want in terms of the end result. Don’t worry about the hows, or even the course. KNOW that what you want is ALREADY yours in spirit, by divine LAW, just focus on the certainty of this ownership, understand it, claim it, and “it will be on earth, as it is in heaven (spirit).”
3. LET THE UNIVERSE show you the way via your impulses and instincts that appear as you take inspired action. Don’t worry that your first steps seem silly or futile. And if you don’t know what to do, do anything! Go! Get busy! Do not insist on intermediary successes, only upon the end result.
2012 is going to be your year (it already is)!!
Namaskar! 