Thursday, February 24, 2011
EMPOWER YOURSELF: What Do You Really Want?
What Do You Really Want?
Are you committed to what you really want in life?
You go through every day reflecting on the life that you think will bring you peace, happiness, and fulfillment. It is a fact that thoughts are the father of action. Actions produce habits, and this in turn creates the life you experience.
Thus, you should examine what is happening to you in your key life areas to ensure that you get your heart’s desires. You should have written in clear and specific terms what it is that you want for your life. Congratulations, if you have already documented your plan of direction. Visit the document and confirm that you have not changed your mind. If you have not met this first requirement, get going, and do it.
Next, examine what are the two or three strategies that you have to commit to, so that you can deepen your success. For example, you may need to spend less time being aimless, and doing unrewarding things. Accompanying your strategies should be definite action plans to deliver your intentions. If you are going on vacation, you spend some time planning it. Your life needs planning also.
An interesting point is that your actions may be producing habits that do not serve delivery of what you want in life. If so, then re-assess your actions, and build new capacity consistent with your goals.
You have the power to creature the future you want. The choice is yours to design the future you want, but this has to be with a commitment to dedicated action that is consistent, relevant, and focused. You are the star of your show. Produce it.
Friday, February 18, 2011
EMPOWER YOURSELF: Are you modeling or living aimlessly?
Are you modeling or living aimlessly?
Are you modeling or living aimlessly?
Human beings tend to copy what they see happening around them. Consider how a baby grows. The baby adopts the patterns that are visible around him/her. It starts with walking, talking and emotional responses of those around.
In adulthood, you have the choice of being a model yourself, following a model, or simply just existing aimlessly. When you find your purpose and you relentlessly pursue it, you attract attention of others.
Your path has its difficulties, and as you overcome them, you provide the possibility for someone else to follow in your footsteps. You have shown the way of success in spite of the valleys of despair. If your journey is seen as having integrity, this can lead to your becoming a model for others.
The formula for becoming a model is being on purpose, pursuing your goals relentlessly, and with honor, justice and integrity.
Quite often, before you can become a model, you have to follow a model yourself. You have to learn the basics. How can you learn, unless you have a teacher. The worst possible option is to be neither a model, nor follow a model, but exist aimlessly. You can be yourself a model, follow a model or simply exist aimlessly. The choice is yours.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
EMPOWER YOURSELF: Alternative views of success
Alternative views of success
Alternative views of success
Success is being whom you want to be, and achieving what you want. Looked at another way, success is the progressive realization of your worthwhile goals. However, one Sage makes the point that your need for happiness drives your whole life. He contends that everything you do is in the quest to be happy.
Happiness is a spiritual construct, or a mental device.. Man is body, soul and spirit, so that to achieve success you have to satisfy not only bodily needs and your five senses, but also the spiritual part of your being. It does not matter which religion you belong to, or your concept of God, you have the Divine spark of the Creator within you.
Thus, there are spiritual laws that apply no matter your belief system. Just as the rays of sun shine on the just and the unjust, no matter how they feel about the sun. Similarly, spiritual laws apply without being a respecter of persons. Manifesting your love is probably the most important and powerful tool in your quest for happiness.
How to love when someone hurts you is not easy, but forgiveness is a key to your spiritual achievement. You also have to be big enough to accept the forgiveness of others whom you have hurt. Moreover, you have to learn to forgive yourself for your own shortcomings.
The success that you see in your life is merely the eyes with which you see your world. If you want an improved life, you have to see yourself, and the way in which the world occurs for you, in a different manner.
Your thoughts form you. Keep reaching for a better thought, as your negative urges surface, and you will be on a new path of success.