EMPOWER YOURSELF: Create a Better Life in 2012

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Create a Better Life in 2012: CREATE A BETTER LIFE IN 2012 In what ways do you want your life in 2012 to be better than it was in 2011? You can create t...

Create a Better Life in 2012

CREATE A BETTER LIFE IN 2012

In what ways do you want your life in 2012 to be better than it was in 2011?

You can create the improvement you want as you have the power of choice in any given situation.

Begin your transformation process by answering these four questions of 2011:

[a] What went right for me?

[b] What went wrong, and what can I learn from it?

[c] Persons whom I helped?

[d] Persons who helped me?

To answer part of [a] in my case, I completed my sixth book titled, From Humble Beginnings, sub-titled. The Phenomenal, Inspirational Life Story of Dr. Anthony Norman Sabga; and completed a one year program to qualify as a QSCA Law of Attraction Certified Coach.

What’s formula, system, or process will you follow to achieve your breakthrough in 2012? I offer you this process that you can adapt to suit your preferences and perspectives.

[1] Decide in specific terms what you really want.

[2] Determine the reasons why you want it. The stronger the reasons, the easier it will be to overcome the challenges and distractions.[3] Formulate the new action steps to move your intentions forward.

[4] Every day take at least one action in pursuit of what you want.

[5] Review your results weekly, and more deeply monthly to assess how your plans and strategies are working and, if necessary, make relevant changes.

Now that you have decided on your transformation for 2012, GET INTO ACTION. Do not put it off. Delay and procrastination are the enemy of success. Start your breakthrough process today.

If you welcome independent, professional support to increase your delivery of effective solutions, and generate the results you want, contact me at 8686337856 or philipgrochford@hotmail.com

EMPOWER YOURSELF: You Are The Star Of Your Show

EMPOWER YOURSELF: You Are The Star Of Your Show: Dear Champion Achiever YOU ARE THE STAR OF YOUR SHOW 12 moths of 2011 have passed quickly, and you have accomplished many thi...

You Are The Star Of Your Show

Dear Champion Achiever

YOU ARE THE STAR OF YOUR SHOW

12 moths of 2011 have passed quickly, and you

have accomplished many things. It is true that

you did not achieve all your goals fully, but

you were successful in many things. Honor

your successes, and be grateful for your

blessings of achievement.

The La of Attraction encourages us to focus

more on what we want than on what we don’t

want. Your decisions determine destiny. Your

thoughts create your future, so be aware at

every moment of the thoughts that you are

thinking.

Let 2012 be a watershed year in your life. You

can achieve great things. Remember that you have

been designed for success, and engineered for

greatness. Be empowered, unstoppable, and

invincible in 2012. You can do it . Just believe in

yourself, and your potential. You don’t have to be

perfect. Start the process, and you will grow into

your fullness.

You are the star of your show

Philip

Author & QSCA Law of Attraction Certified Coach

http://www.nurturinglifebooks.com

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Did You Take Action For Success Last Week?

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Did You Take Action For Success Last Week?: REFLECTION #17 FROM MY BOOK TITLED, REFLECTIVE EMPOWERMENT Reflection 17. Did you take action for success last week? Wha...

Did You Take Action For Success Last Week?

REFLECTION #17 FROM MY BOOK TITLED,

REFLECTIVE EMPOWERMENT

Reflection 17. Did you take action for success last week?

What action have you taken on the reflections of the previous weeks? Merely absorbing information without acting on it is wasteful, does nothing to bring the best out of you, and does not support living your dreams powerfully.

To be successful, you must take positive action on a daily basis. How have you done in the last seven days. Consider how many days you actually pursued your intentions, and took goal-oriented action. Step up your activities, and you will release your hidden talent. You can do it.

Consider this concept. You now have the possibility to generate energy to

take action in the next three months to fulfill your dreams. Simply follow the one percent (1%) success principle: this requires you every day for the next ninety days to take at least two action steps. Act on one or both of your two highest priority goals you have set for the next twelve months.

The emphasis is on ACTION STEPS, as opposed to thinking, dreaming, speaking, or merely writing about them. GO FOR IT.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Learn From Losing

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Learn From Losing: Reflection #16 from my book titled, Reflective Empowerment. Reflection 16. Learn from losing In life you experience both...

Learn From Losing

Reflection #16 from my book titled,

Reflective Empowerment.

Reflection 16. Learn from losing

In life you experience both success and failure. When you fail or lose, it simply

means that you did not get what you wanted. Your attitude towards so

called failure should be that you can learn something useful from the process of

disappointment.

Every experience of success or failure has a lesson waiting to be learned.

Learn the lesson from every experience. Losing is never fun. It hurts in so many

different ways, especially when it’s something that you were really looking forward

to, or something that you were passionately involved in, or something that

you wanted badly.

I recall in my mid 20s I was denied the opportunity to be appointed a

Management Cadet Prison Officer, although I had topped the list of applicants

at the interview. I was really disappointed, and resentful of the Senior

Administrative Officer who advised that it was a waste of my talents to be

placed in Prison Administration. How dare him to determine what was good for

me. It meant dashing my plans to become an attorney-at-law.

However, learning from the experience, I went on to obtain a scholarship to

study in the United Kingdom for a degree in business economics, finishing up

being a chartered secretary, and a chartered accountant. Eventually, I retired as

chairman and managing director of a commercial bank.

Instead of having your negative monologues, you have the opportunity to

take time to reflect, rethink, recollect or re-group on what to do differently for

your future success. Follow this process, and you are guaranteed to come out

swinging harder and better the next time. You have everything to gain by examining

the seeds of disappointment, to learn the success story that they embody.

Press on, and learn.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Use Mistakes As Stepping Stones To Success

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Use Mistakes As Stepping Stones To Success: Reflection #15 from my book titled, Reflective Empowerment. Reflection 15. Use mistakes as stepping stones to success Th...

Use Mistakes As Stepping Stones To Success

Reflection #15 from my book titled,

Reflective Empowerment.

Reflection 15. Use mistakes as stepping stones to success

The only person who does not make a mistake is a person who does nothing. As

long as you are doing something, taking some action, being involved in some

activity, you must make a mistake. You are human. You are not perfect.

You do not have all the answers. You are fallible.

When you understand your humanity, you can make use of mistakes.

A mistake is an opportunity for you to learn what to avoid or what to do to

achieve your goal. When the inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison, tried

999 times to produce light and did not succeed, he persisted, and on the next try he

found the solution to produce light. When his friends asked him how it felt to

fail 999 times, and did such failure not discourage him, the inventor responded

by pointing out that he found 999 ways in which light was not produced. He saw

the mistakes that prevented light from being created as stepping stones to success.

Failure is only a bad thing when you stop trying because of it. The greater

your success, the greater number of mistakes you have usually made in

relation to the non-achievers. If you have passion for what you are doing,

and the courage to keep on trying despite ostensible failure,

great will be your reward.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Upgrade Your Belief System

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Upgrade Your Belief System: Reflection # 14 from the book, Reflective Empowerment, authored by Philip Guy Rochford, HBM. Reflection 14. Upgrade your b...

Upgrade Your Belief System

Reflection # 14 from the book,

Reflective Empowerment, authored by

Philip Guy Rochford, HBM.

Reflection 14. Upgrade your belief system

Many people are operating below their full potential. Are you one of them? You have

the power and ability to ignite your passion, and activate your hidden brilliance. Your

thoughts, words, and actions arise from the various beliefs you have on particular

matters. In fact, you have a belief about almost everything, although very often, it is

quite unconscious. Thus, if you are experiencing limitation, struggle, or hardship in

any area of your life, there is a belief in that area that does not serve your intentions

in life.

You have to clarify, change, clear, and contradict that non-serving belief.

Improve your chances of success, by strengthening the three pillars of thinking,

focusing, and action steps. What are you thinking about continuously grows

stronger in your life. Be careful about criticizing, condemning, and complaining

about others and situations. Most importantly, do not criticize, condemn or

complain about yourself.

What you focus on is what will get done because of your systematic attention.

However, be sensitive to the moment, and the opportunities that unexpectedly

present themselves. Being flexible, without compromising your principles, confronts

reality, and optimizes opportunity.

A critical aspect of moving towards a more successful life is to take different

action. If you want to move beyond where you are at present, you have to

take some different action to what you have been doing in the last nine to twelve

months. The same thinking, focus and action that brought you to your present

level of success, cannot take you to the next higher level of success.

Sameness is the enemy of growth. What this means is that you have a real

challenge to move out of your comfort zone. If you want to progress, you have

to do better than you are doing now, and this requires you to make more diligent

efforts than you are making at present. You can rise to your next higher level of

performance. Believe in yourself, and in your potential.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: The Gap In Your Life Must Be Purposeful

EMPOWER YOURSELF: The Gap In Your Life Must Be Purposeful: Reflection # 13 from the book, Reflective Empowerment, authored by Philip Guy Rochford, HBM. Reflection 13. The gap in y...

The Gap In Your Life Must Be Purposeful

Reflection # 13 from the book,

Reflective Empowerment, authored by

Philip Guy Rochford, HBM.

Reflection 13. The gap in your life must be purposeful

Life consists of three main parts: your birth, your death, and the gap between

these two events. The way you live in the gap is the whole purpose of life. If

you consider the sequence of the evolution of a baby, you will notice that it

grows, learns, and is joyful. Similarly, your purpose is to grow, to learn, and to

be happy, joyful, and fulfilled.

Life is very diversified, with many distractions, disappointments, and despair.

But life is also full of opportunities, possibilities, and golden moments.

You can have as your compass for living four elements to guide you. These are

Discipline, Attitude, Success, and Happiness.

Life is controlled by the discipline you exercise. Discipline is doing what

needs to be done, when it needs to done, although you do not feel like doing it.

What NEEDS to be done, not what you WANT to do. Also, if you are guided by

feelings, the negativity in the world will distract you.

Your attitude determines what you will accomplish. There are different aspects

of attitude, but focus on the attitude of gratitude. Be thankful for what you have,

and do not dwell on what is missing in your life. What you put your attention on

grows stronger in your life. Continuously develop an attitude of gratitude.

Success has many definitions. A simple one is achieving what you earnestly

desire. This success principle covers both spiritual and material things. To be a

success, you must clarify what it is you really want, and go after it assiduously.

The target of your success must bring you peace, joy, and happiness, if it is to

have significant meaning for you.

Happiness comes from using your potential, and involves using your powers

in excellence to their greatest extent. Another take on it is, that happiness arises

when you use your talents in the service of others. In short, happiness occurs

when you use your potential to manifest the potential of others. Combine these

elements of Discipline, Attitude, Success and Happiness to the fullest, and you

will soar like an eagle, and be the best that you can be.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Build Your Self-Confidence

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Build Your Self-Confidence: Dear Champion Achiever Reflection # 12 from the book, Reflective Empowerment, authored by Philip Guy Rochford, HBM. Ref...

Build Your Self-Confidence

Dear Champion Achiever

Reflection # 12 from the book,

Reflective Empowerment, authored by

Philip Guy Rochford, HBM.

Reflection 12. Build your self-confidence

Do you know that your mental, spiritual, and financial resources are foundational to achieve what you want? You have what it takes to be the success that you want to be. You have been endowed with internal skills that generate the resources—financial, creative and otherwise. However, you must claim it. You need to accept that you have what it takes. You have to be self-confident; secure in the knowledge that you can, but not be arrogant.

Your greatest weapon is your mind. What the mind can conceive, truly believe, and act upon can be achieved. The question of your self-confidence surfaces again. Do remember that your mind is so constructed that it will not generate a thought in you that cannot be manifested by you. Accept your internal wisdom, and be resolute in your actions.

The research has shown that by the time a person attains the age of 8, he/she has been given so many negatives—no, no, do not do this, and do not do that—the self-esteem and self-confidence of that person are shattered. Parents and guardians spoke these negative admonitions out of love, for the children’s protection.

What they did not know was that every time the child was told a negative, there needed to be eight positive statements to counteract that one negative. In the next reflection, another piece of the puzzle of self-empowerment will be presented.

The good news is that as an adult, you now have the option to bombard your mind with positive thoughts to build your self-confidence. Continue that positive pathway with great intentionality, and that will give you another piece of the puzzle of life that I will present in the next blog.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: The Best and Worst of Life

EMPOWER YOURSELF: The Best and Worst of Life: Reflections # 11 of 260 Reflections From the book, Reflective Empowerment, that was judged by Reader Views as the Walsh Semina...

The Best and Worst of Life

Reflections # 11 of 260 Reflections

From the book, Reflective Empowerment,

that was judged by Reader Views as

the Walsh Seminars Award for Best

Personal Growth Book of the Year, 2010.

Reflection 11. The best and worst of life

The story goes that an Emperor commanded his wise men to roam the world, and return to him when one of them learned the secret of life—the best and worst of it. In due season one of them returned with the answer.

When questioned, in answer to what was the best thing in life, the wise courtier stuck out his tongue. The Emperor was puzzled, but he put the next question of what was the worst thing in life? In reply, the wise courtier stuck out his tongue again.

The Emperor was annoyed, and asked for a good explanation, or death would be the wise courtier’s reward. The wise one explained that with your tongue you could be loving, kind, supportive, compassionate, inspirational, teach others spiritual truths, praise your Maker, and speak a healing word, among many other

positive interactions.

The wise courtier quickly added that your tongue could also be used in quite the opposite way. It could be used to curse, lie, defame,

malign, libel, blaspheme, deceive, and produce many other negative energies. The Emperor reflected on something he had read in the Holy Scriptures that, Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Proverbs 18:21.

What then is the lesson to be learned from this episode dear Champion? You need to be extremely conscious of what you do with your tongue from moment to moment. In fact, the admonition in Psalm 141:3 can be very instructive for your personal growth, as it thunders, Set a watch O Lord before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Choose Your Transformation

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Choose Your Transformation: Reflections # 1 to 10 of 260 Reflections From the book, Reflective Empowerment, that was judged by Reader Views as the Walsh S...

Choose Your Transformation

Reflections # 1 to 10 of 260 Reflections

From the book, Reflective Empowerment,

that was judged by Reader Views as

the Walsh Seminars Award for Best

Personal Growth Book of the Year, 2010.

Over the past 5 weeks I have sent out these 10 Reflections below

to support releasing your life’s best performance. Have you been

galvanized into new action, or heightened action that you were

already taking? Please give me feedback on how you are doing?

Reflection 1. You can transcend your despondency

Reflection 2. Believe beyond the present moment

Reflection 3. Beyond hope

Reflection 4. Building relationships

Reflection 5. Pain is a barometer for action

Reflection 6. Cherish and polish your gift of speech

Reflection 7. Five Pillars of Commitment for your success

Reflection 8. Mistakes are necessary for success

Reflection 9. Transcend wrong opinions others have of you

Reflection 10. Think and plan instead of worrying

You have to move beyond reading for added information, to

reading for your transformation. You can choose to be

blotting paper or a seed. As blotting paper, you merely

absorb and hold the information—no personal growth. As a

seed, you grow, make a difference to your environment, and

contribute.

If you keep doing what you are doing, you will continue to

get what you are getting. However, you know that you want

to change what’s happening in your life. Develop new habits

that will align you to be the Eagle that you are. Soar to

greater heights by letting me know what’s keeping you back.

Offer your feedback in the comments section below,

and I will respond to you.

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Think And Plan Instead Of Worrying

EMPOWER YOURSELF: Think And Plan Instead Of Worrying: Reflection # 10 of 260 Reflections from the book, Reflective Empowerment, that was judged by Reader Views as the Walsh Seminar...

Think And Plan Instead Of Worrying

Reflection # 10 of 260 Reflections from

the book, Reflective Empowerment,

that was judged by Reader Views as

the Walsh Seminars Award for Best

Personal Growth Book of the Year, 2010.

Reflection 10. Think and plan instead of worrying

Why should you worry that something may happen? Worry cannot solve an

impending danger. Ask yourself: can I do anything about the matter? If you can

make no difference to the situation, your worrying is pointless. If you believe

you can make a difference to the outcome of what you are concerned about,

then you need to do some thinking about it—advance thinking, acting,

and not advance worrying.

When you think about the matter as opposed to worrying about it, you begin

to see the possibilities. When you think through the possibilities, and determine

what choices you will make in the matter, you can then plan for the outcome

you desire, and act.

Anticipation is one of the signs of true wisdom. You gain the advantage by

doing things before they need to be done. Position yourself ahead of time, like

the goalkeeper who anticipates where the striker is likely to place the ball, and

then positions himself in goal before the player shoots the ball. Don’t worry and

be in a flurry. Rather think, plan, act, and achieve.