THE MAGIC OF THINKING

The Magic of Thinking

Your every action and situation is controlled by the way you continuously think. The magic of thinking is such that, you manifest in your life what you habitually think about. However, every thought you have does not necessarily manifest. Also, your thinking is both conscious and unconscious.

Control your thinking

Begin today to consciously reflect on the stories you keep telling yourself with respect to all aspects of your life. Review your self- talk, embrace, and only focus on positive aspects.

When you think about something, keep your attention on it, and you will begin to see the possibilities Have thoughts about yourself that lift your self-confidence and self-esteem.

Every action that you take began as a thought. Change the thinking that governs your actions, and you will change your life. You have the power to replace negative thinking.

Cleaning your home in preparation for a festive occasion gets rid of things that are no longer useful. You can do the same thing with your life. Examine your habits, values, practices and philosophy that are not now serving your best interests. Eliminate them!

Believe and achieve

Your thinking, and beliefs, set the limits to what you can do. It overrides your potential. Reach deep within you, and feel and think that you can do the job at hand. You will create the result that you want.

Belief governs every situation in your life. Believe on the inner that you can, and see it manifested on the outer. Think, believe, set your mind to anything you want to accomplish, and with appropriate action you will succeed.

Thinking is magical in the sense that you create and manifest the life you want through the thinking process. Think and practice the Law of Deliberate Creation. You have the power and ability to do it.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Ask good questions

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Ask good questions: "Ask good questions Your future depends on your thinking. Questions normally start with the words who, why, when, what, and where. Quest..."

Ask good questions

Ask good questions

Your future depends on your thinking. Questions normally start with the words who, why, when, what, and where. Questions are useful since within the seed of the question resides the answer. Moreover, you achieve your vision and your goals by asking discerning questions. A discerning question is one that goes to the root of the issue, and thereby draws out the truth, or unravels the reality, by exploring differing views.

Frame your questions well. Generally, your first reaction to situations is a negative one. This results from our training that focuses on what is not working, or on what is not right. You look for the exception. You concentrate on the variance, on what is missing, and not on what is present and good. This means that very often your first questions will be negatively directed. You must thus consciously ask a second and third question to get your perspective right through an appropriate positive question.

These simple guidelines create better questions, and lead to better results:

• Let your question begin with “what” or “how” instead of “why”

“when” or “who”

• The question should be personal and so contain the word “I” rather

than ”they” “them” “we” or “you”

• Provide an action step, or be action focused in your question.

These guidelines are intended to make you responsible for what is happening in your life. The “what” or “how” turns your attention inwards, when combined with “I.” The focus on action as opposed to grumbling, or making excuses complete the excellent question. Putting it all together the question becomes ” what can I do? ” You use your talents and brilliance when you act on the answer—you experience your fulfillment!

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Towards Your Self-Mastery

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Towards Your Self-Mastery: " Towards Your Self-Mastery As a human being, you naturally aspire to achieve something. You want to be a contribution..."

Towards Your Self-Mastery

Towards Your Self-Mastery

As a human being, you naturally aspire to achieve something. You want to be a contribution, and to be of value to people around you. Of course, in the process you want to experience joy, happiness, and fulfillment.

However, you have to be in control of yourself in order to make positive changes in the world. Self-mastery in relation to your life simply means that you must have balance in the major areas of your life: finance and career, relationships, health, spirituality, and personal empowerment and recreation.

These underlying elements provide the foundation for achieving balance in your life:

• Let your passion for living give you joy.

• Act consistently to pursue your passion.

• Use every daily 24 hours wisely.

• Fill your mind with worthwhile information, and wisdom.

• Keep company with eagles, and not chickens.

• Keep your positive and negative emotions under control.

• Accept people, and situations, and allow them for what they are.

This will minimize inner frustration, emotional turmoil, worries,

and depression.

Self-mastery is not about perfectionism, nor do you have to be as evolved as Buddha or Jesus to be self-mastered. If you were sent on a quest to find “the perfect tree,” after investigation and discussion you would probably conclude that there is no one perfect tree.

It is the same with human beings. Each of us has his/her own unique way! This concept applies in the same way to self- mastery. Your quest is to be the most excellent person that you can be. Optimize your own uniqueness, and be comfortable with yourself.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: From Achiever To Champion Achiever

EMPOWER YOURSELF: From Achiever To Champion Achiever: " From Achiever To Champion Achiever You have achieved much in your life. However, do you want to be a Champion Achieve..."

From Achiever To Champion Achiever

From Achiever To Champion Achiever

You have achieved much in your life. However, do you want to be a Champion Achiever? If you want to be a Champion, you need to raise your performance in all critical areas of your life: finances and career, relationships, health and diet, spiritual journey, and personal development.

Being a Champion Achiever requires three elements:

• Clarity of your intention

• Passion in carrying out your intention

• Consistent unstoppable relevant action

You must be clear about what you want. Your intention must also be precise, and simply expressed to give you power to accomplish it. Being specific about what you want facilitates your terrific personal response. Generating passion as you pursue your intention is crucial to success.

Passion will give you the energy to overcome distractions and hurdles that present themselves. Passion is produced when your desire is strong and unstoppable. Passion is your emotional response that overcomes matters that are not really aligned to your strong priority key desires. Through new action strive to be a Champion Achiever.

Action is the element that brings together your intention, and the expected results of your intention. Your action must be structured, and consistent. If you are not consistent, you are non-existent. Consider the consistency of the sun that permits times of daily tides to be known far in advance, and phases of the moon to be correctly predicted years in advance.

Moreover, consider the consistency of the action of your heart pumping blood to your whole body, and then resting. This consistency gives you life, and permits the doctor to assess your life condition through your resultant heartbeat. Be the Champion Achiever that you can be!

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Your golden victory is to conquer yourself

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Your golden victory is to conquer yourself: " Your golden victory is to conquer yourself A friend of mine who plays golf regularly said that one of his traits is t..."

Your golden victory is to conquer yourself

Your golden victory is to conquer yourself

A friend of mine who plays golf regularly said that one of his traits is to try to control, and direct everyone and everything around him. On reflection, he saw the difficulty of this fetish to control, as he was not even able to control a small golf ball. At each hole on the golf course, he could not sink the ball in the number of strokes he desired.

Then there is the story of the man who was reflecting on his dying bed. As a young man in his 20’s he tried to integrate the Caribbean People and he failed. In his 30’s he tried to change the people of Trinidad and Tobago to be more National conscious, and he failed. In his 50’s he tried to change his immediate community; he failed. In his 60’s he tried to change his family to become well knitted and thereby impact other families. He failed.

Now in his 70’s, on his dying bed he understood that the only thing he really had control over was himself. He could conquer his fears, foibles and failures. If he conquered himself, he would be the model that would lead others to conquer themselves. The golden victory is thus to conquer your own self. Reflect, and act to conquer yourself. That is, do all in your power to release the uniqueness that you have to offer the world.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: You Are Your Worst Enemy

EMPOWER YOURSELF: You Are Your Worst Enemy: " You are your worst enemy Your thoughts moment by moment define you. This means that your constant negativity about..."

You Are Your Worst Enemy

You are your worst enemy

Your thoughts moment by moment define you. This means that your constant negativity about every matter that confronts you, dull your brilliance, and weaken your success.

You Can Create The Life You Want. You determine your own destiny. God has a permissive will, and a divine will. Nothing occurs unless God permits it, as everything occurs by His permission, but He does not directly make it take place. By His gift of your personal choice you can do whatever you choose. You are responsible for what you reap, through what you sow.

Just as there are physical laws, for example, the Law of Gravity, there are spiritual laws. Both sets of laws work irrespective of who you are. Your present position in life is the result of the manner in which you obeyed both sets of laws. So, don’t blame God for your situation, or anyone else for that matter.

God wants the best for His children. His divine will establishes all the good He wants for you. However, He has given you the gift of choice, and you are free to disregard what good things He has in store for you by not observing His laws.

The law of attraction is a powerful tool for designing the life you want. The law simply states that what you put your attention, or mind, on continuously, powerfully, and with feeling, manifests in your life. This means that you can deliberately create the life you want. Hence, the law of deliberate creation exists.

Another link to these two laws is the law of allowing: this law is somewhat difficult to grasp. What you resist persists. Thus, you have to allow what you do not want. That is, you do not resist it, but let it exist neutrally, alongside what you do want.

In the midst of this, you have access to an Inner Guidance that points you to appropriate action. You have to learn how to recognize the urgings of your Inner Guidance, and how to test whether the directions are coming from the logic of your mind, or from the ‘knowing’ that is in you.

The key is that if you follow these three laws of Attraction, Deliberate Creation, and Allowing you can identify, design, create, and live the life you want.

Nurture Your Unique Talents

Nurture your unique talents

International and national icons exude positive energy. However, while each icon is special, he/she cannot excel in all fields. For example, Roger Federer, male tennis champion, cannot excel in boxing. Brian Lara, world cricket champion cannot excel in football. Serena Williams, ladies tennis champion, cannot excel in ice- skating. President Barack Obama, the great politician, cannot excel in baseball. The common factor is that each icon nurtured and developed his or her special skill. What about you?

Each of us has a special part to play in the design of the Universe. Ensure that you play your part well. Reflect and identify the area that people praise you for most. Develop that gift to its fullest. Your unique contribution that you have to make to society may not appear important, but it is. A little salt may not appear important but it makes all the difference to the final taste of the food. So too is the contribution that you have to make to society.

You may ask what can I contribute? Your contribution is to develop fully whatever you are best at doing. It may be your career, family, sports, spirituality, caring for others, or whatever it is that you excel at. Step up to the plate. Raise the stakes. Believe in yourself. Awake and let your brilliance shine. Polish the diamond that you are. You can do it. Think uplifting thoughts, and act with intentionality to achieve your dreams, while fulfilling your life’s destiny. Go for it!

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Your choices determine your future

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Your choices determine your future: " Today’s choices shape your future You decide where you are going to be, what you are going to do, and what you choose..."

Your choices determine your future

Today’s choices shape your future

You decide where you are going to be, what you are going to do, and what you choose to think. No one can take away your power to choose. Your right to choose provides you with the key to unlock any door you dare to want to enter.

You choose your attitude to life. You choose your core values. You need to have relevant and quality information in order to make sensible choices. You thus have a choice to be, or not to be, reliably informed. You can choose to update your knowledge continuously, and create a better universe for yourself. You can choose your friends and associates. You choose whether you have persons around you who can help you with your personal growth, or persons who will not powerfully support your dreams.

Who you are today is as a result of your choices of yesterday. Who you will be tomorrow, or what you will achieve in 5 years will depend on the choices you make currently, from moment to moment. Deliberately choose wisely.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Habits Determine Your Life

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Habits Determine Your Life: " Good habits facilitate your success Thinking form habits, and habits design your life. A good habit is to end each ..."

Habits Determine Your Life

Good habits facilitate your success

Thinking form habits, and habits design your life. A good habit is to end each day a better person than when you awoke that day. How could this be possible? During your waking hours, listen to something new, read something new, do something uplifting, say something inspirational to someone.

By following this new daily design, you will be establishing a habit of growth. You only need to improve yourself by 1% each day. This is an achievable task. But imagine what 1%daily growth will do for you in one year’s time—phenomenal growth. You can achieve whatever you really set your mind to do, as you are the architect of your future.

However, the requirement is that you have to take the required action to deliver your vision. You can do it. Put your mind and energy to deliver the life you want. Be empowered, and be awakened through daily good habits. Yes! You can do it!

EMPOWER YOURSELF: HONOR YOUR COMMITMENTS

EMPOWER YOURSELF: HONOR YOUR COMMITMENTS: " Honoring your commitments generate your success. When you do not keep your commitments, you simply sabotage your succ..."

HONOR YOUR COMMITMENTS

Honoring your commitments generate your success. When you do not keep your commitments, you simply sabotage your success. Failure to honor one commitment is not fatal, but the habit of not keeping commitments will be disastrous.

If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal achieve it. Success results from making and keeping commitments to yourself and others. Goals, projects and relationships that fail are often the direct result of broken commitments. It’s that simple, that profound, and that important. A commitment made, must be honored, as each one is ultimately interconnected with your success.

You should only give your word or commitment when it is important to give, and has meaning in its accomplishment. Thus, do not give your word merely to get rid of the moment. For example, telling someone you will telephone or call him/her with no commitment, or intention to really do it.

Your consistency of honoring your commitments directly impacts your credibility, reputation, trust- worthiness, earning ability, and overall peace of mind.

You can make a difference in this world. You cannot do everything, but you can do anything that you are committed to do.

Start every day right with vision and focus, and finish every day strong and successful, having honored your commitments

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Action! Action! Action!

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Action! Action! Action!: " Action versus thinking Action is the direct route to success. Take responsibility for what you do. Do not blame other..."

Action! Action! Action!

Action versus thinking

Action is the direct route to success. Take responsibility for what you do. Do not blame others for your life. Take prompt decisions, and take consistent, persistent action Don’t just THINK.

Rewind the video of your life. Are you happy with what’s going on in your life? Are you doing what you want to do? Are you materially wealthy, but spiritually poor? Are you spiritually balanced, but materially poor? Are you and your other significant one growing together, or growing apart? Are your relationships working? Are you satisfied with the lifestyle you have?

The kernel of being human is the capacity to desire personal growth, and to act massively on those desires. Your increased happiness starts with acceptance of where you are right now, and your resolve to go to a different place.

You are alive, so there is still possibility. It is only on death that there is no more possibility in this life. Be courageous and strive to live your dreams powerfully. Take a small new action step, and keep the momentum going. You can do it. With dedicated action you can live the life of your dreams.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: EMPOWER YOURSELF: Believe In Yourself

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EMPOWER YOURSELF: Believe In Yourself

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Believe In Yourself: "Your success depends on the belief you have in yourself to get something different in your life. Unless you believe that you can attain it, ..."

Believe In Yourself

Your success depends on the belief you have in yourself to get something different in your life. Unless you believe that you can attain it, you will not. You learned to walk, talk, eat, and think. You passed exams, and you are successfully doing many varied things each day. You have a history of success, and thus you can build on this experience.

A setback in life is that you do not clearly and specifically determine what you want. For example, you may say that you want a house. That is not specific enough. You must determine, for example, the size and cost of house, the possible areas where the house should be, and the time frame in which you want to occupy it. The more specific you can be, the more likely it will be achieved.

A second element to achieve what you want is that you must be passionate about it. Not lukewarm, or cold, but hot, and get joy and fulfillment from its attainment.

Next, develop plans, and strategies to deliver it, including polishing your skill-set in relation to your desires. The plan is your master monitor and control mechanism.

Finally, take massive, consistent, relevant action to materialize your desires. Keep reviewing your progress, and make appropriate changes to your game plan where necessary.

You must believe in yourself to be the success that you want to be. Belief in oneself is half of the battle of achievement. Belief is the self-starting switch that gets you off the launching pad. Believe in yourself and soar like an eagle!

EMPOWER YOURSELF: WELCOME

EMPOWER YOURSELF: WELCOME: "It is my great joy to welcome you on your journey of self-discovery. You can be anything you want to be. You have the power to design the li..."

WELCOME

It is my great joy to welcome you on your journey of self-discovery. You can be anything you want to be. You have the power to design the life that you love and desire.

You can transcend your despondency

Are you distressed, despondent, down-spirited, or depressed? Most persons ex- periencing such feelings are not exploring their full potential. You become bored because you are not taking action consistent with the skill set and talents that you have. Do not make excuses for your condition, but accept that it is your responsibility to change things.

One approach is to decide on a goal beyond the narrow confines of yourself. If you have a goal that helps others, while providing you with personal fulfillment and/ or income, then perhaps you will have something to wake up for in the morning.

There is another approach you can take. Tomorrow morning when you awake, ask yourself, why am I alive today? Document what comes to you in response to that question. Repeat the exercise on your awaking for the next six days (seven days in all). You will also find that your life becomes more meaningful and fulfilled. Be relentless in the quest for your significance.