How Far can you SEE?

So many times people have shattered the dreams of others by simple words that cause the person to begin the negative thought pattern and then they start to believe the lies....

People get in a rut and instead of coming out on top they give in to the negative thought patterns which cause destruction, "I'll never get out of this, things just keep getting worse, I'll never be as successful as so an so..."

But I say to you don't believe those lies, that is further than the truth. Those are, lies that has kept, millions from succeeding and reaching financial and self happiness!

Always be positive, always be an encourager to your family, your friends, your children or to any person you come in contact with.

And always remember 'even your words can cause someone to stumble'…

How To Stop Feeling Bad Instantly

As soon as you notice that you’re feeling bad which includes feeling angry, sad, frustrated etc, ask yourself

“What am I focusing on right now?”

Most likely you’ll discover that all you're thinking about is what you don’t want. When you get caught in a negative thinking groove of only seeing what you don’t want, you get trapped in the situation as a victim and you’ll keep attracting more of the same thing into your life. You won't be able to move forward until you change your thoughts.

So, if you want to instantly stop feeling bad so that you can move forwards and also just to feel good again then try one of the following suggestions:

What Do I Want?

As soon as you realize you’re focusing on what you don’t want, turn it around by asking yourself,

“What do I want?”

As soon as you do this, you won’t feel as bad. You've gotten yourself out of the negative rut and you've started focusing on what you do want. You’ve changed your whole point of view with just one subtle change.

Sometimes, you need to think through things a little more than simply the opposite. Here’s an example. You catch yourself thinking, “I hate my job” so you change it around to be “I want a new job”. You will need to consider things like:

• What you would like to do in your new job?
• What skills would you like to be using?
• What kind of environment do you want to work in?
• What type of people do you want to work with?
• What is truly important for you to have in a job?

Otherwise, you may find that you do get a new job but it’s really the same job in just a different place so you’re no further ahead.

By determining what it is you want, then you can start to focus on how you’re going to get what you want. You’ve moved from a passive role to one of action.

Keep a Positive Outlook on Life

You must begin to understand that your life that you are living is nothing more than a mirror image of what is going on in your inside world. If you are a negative person and always feeling sad, depressed, worried, bored, frustrated then that is what your outside world is experiencing. However if you are feeling always feeling positive; happy, inspired, grateful, loving...etc then that is what your outside world is experiencing.
In order for you to continue experiencing a positive outlook on your outside world; you must begin to notice how you feel on the inside. Your inside world creates your outside world. Every single thing in the world operates by the rules of the law of attraction: wealth, success, happiness, love, prosperity, health, you name it. In order to maintain a positive outlook on life you must work on your mental transformation techniques to assist you to make all your wildest dreams come true. You cannot accomplish anything worthwhile in life if you are negative.
So if your outside world is in chaos; you must possess a goal that has become an obsession. This will help you keep motivated to keep striving for the life you desire. It will also help you pay attention to your thoughts and emotions and keep them positive. Unfortunately people who are not striving for a goal that they truly desire; are most likely to focus on the negative, this is how most people have been conditioned. They complain about lack, pain, and things that are not going the way they would like them to. You can choose to live anyway you desire; if you want to complain you are free to complain. If you choose to live with a positive outlook on life; you are free to do that as well.

People with goals succeed because they know where they’ve going.

It takes no particular brains or talent to make a living and support a family. So we have this plateau of so-called “security”, if that’s what a person is looking for. But we have to decide how high above this plateau we want to aim. What’s your goal?

Have you ever wondered why so many people work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in particular, and others don’t seem to work hard, yet seem to get everything? They seem to have the magic touch. You’ve heard people say, “Everything he touches turns to gold.” And you noticed that a person who becomes successful tends to continue to become more successful—and , on the other hand , have you noticed how someone who’s a failure tends to continue to fail?

Well, it’s because of goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. It’s that’s simple.

Think Big, Think Pareto

How much time do you spend on the little things? How much time do you spend on those things that are not wealth generating?

It is so easy for our attention to become enticed into something insignificant and our focus pulled away from what is important. Setting priorities in our activities is one way we can ensure that we stay on track. Look at how your activities and actions assist or impede your progress towards expansion. Your time is valuable. Look at how much of it is spent working on achieving your goals and how much is not.

On April 14, 1912 a great ocean liner, The Titanic sank. One interesting story that emerged from that event concerns a woman, who, alighting into a lifeboat suddenly stopped and, turning around, rushed off stepping over money and jewellery scattered on the decks. She reached her cabin and, ignoring her own jewellery, grabbed some oranges, rushed back to the lifeboat and jumped in. A dramatic shift in priority when an emergency arrives.

Determining a priority will depend on what your goal is at a particular time. The goal of the woman on the Titanic was to survive the open sea. She adjusted her priorities to fit her goal.

What sort of goals should you have in relation to your business or investments?

‘Principle: You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.’
- John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader within You

Robert K McKain said, ‘The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.’

When building a business it is easy to become distracted by the mundane and petty things around us.

What is The Pareto Principle?

The Pareto Principle was named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who worked out and developed the concept while studying economic efficiency, by one Joseph M. Juran, a business management thinker.

The Pareto Principle is a method of isolating your time, money, activity or priorities in such a way that you are able to increase those things that will assist you in achieving your goals quicker while at the same time decreasing those things that would impede or stop your progress towards the accomplishment of your goals.

It is also known as the 80/20 principle. It describes a ratio of one thing to another. Sales people know it well and are often taught it in the early stages of their sales training.

Corporations use it to manage their business strategies. For example Microsoft applied the principle in relation to bugs in the software. Microsoft discovered that 80% of the errors and crashes in Windows and Office are caused by 20% of the bugs detected, so that eliminating that 20% of bugs would reduce 80% of the errors and crashes and, sure enough, it did.

Basically it demonstrates that 20% of any time, activity, money, etc will produce 80% of the results.

Here are some examples:

20% of your work will produce 80% of your results
20% of your money will produce 80% of your profit
20% of a book will contain 80% of the content
20% of the people will eat 80% of the food
20% of the people will have 80% of the money
20% of the products will produce 80% of the profit
20% of your customers will be responsible for 80% of your profit
20% of your customers will produce 80% of your complaints
20% of your orders are more likely to be fraudulent orders.
And the other way round.
80% of your work will produce 20% of your results
80 of your money will produce 20% of your profit
80% of a book will contain 20% of the content
80% of the people will eat 20% of the food
80% of the people will have 20% of the money
80% of the products will produce 20% of the profit
80% of your customer will be responsible for 20% of your profit
80% of your complaints will come from 20% of your customers
80% of your fraud problems will come from 20% of your orders.

Sales people know that 80% of their time is spent getting 20% of their sales and 20% of their prospects result in 80% of their commission. The exercise they are constantly engaged in is locating those 20% type of prospects to increase their commission.

A business understands that 80% of their profit comes from 20% of their customers. Their task is to either make the other 80% of their customers produce the same ratio of income as the 20% do or to reduce the 80% that only produce the 20% profit or change them for the 20% type of customers that produces the 80% of their profits.

Imagine what would happen if 80% of your time, energy and money which you spend on problems was reduced to 20%? What a difference that would make!

So if we can understand how to use this principle to reduce problems such as increased expenses, complaints and fraud, for example, to an acceptable maximum. Perhaps we only need to apply our policies of handling complaints and fraud to that 20%? Reducing 80% of our time handling fraud and complaints down to 20% of our time.

Using the Pareto Principle, 20% of your priorities will give you 80% of your production if you spend most of your time, energy, money and personal attention on that 20%.

Isolating those successful actions that resulted in a sudden increase in business; perhaps a special discount offered or a particular phasing in your advertising, could result in an increased flow in business thereby.

Discovering that 80% of the communications in the company are a waste of time due to the same communications being bounced around with no result and putting in place processes to ensure this does not happen can reduce the amount of company time wasted.

Even one’s own communication lines reading that report or email and actually handling it on the spot rather than putting it off with the thought ‘I will handle that later’, will reduce wasted valuable time and energy as the matter will not then require handling twice.

There are so many ways this principle can be applied and it only takes a bit of thought to see how one can apply this in your business. Perhaps 20%?

Choosing Your Attitude

It can be a challenging time when our world as we know it shifts beneath our feet. One of my favourite quotes is "Don't worry about having the carpet pulled out from under your feet, learn to dance on a shifting carpet.

That's the key right now, and it all depends on where your focus is and what attitude you choose to bring to this moment. At no point in time has it been more important to manage your mental state and choose where your mind goes and what you are focusing on. If you are focused on doom and gloom, then it going to be all you will see. If you shorten your focus and become present in the moment, you will be able to see, that you are in fact, right now, okay. You will also be much more likely to creatively deal with whatever comes towards you and still create the life you want.

We have the free will to choose our attitude to what is going on around us. In my book 'Remembering Perfection' in the chapter "Reality and Attitude' I talk about the one thing we have absolute control over is the attitude we choose to adopt when something happens in our lives. Right now, when it can feel like everything is outside of your control, it is quite useful to feel in control of one aspect. So to choose you attitude. If you are affected by the 'credit crunch' ask yourself what attitude can I adopt that would put me in the most positive mindset to handle this well. For example you could stop making it personal to you. By this I mean rather than 'woe is me, the credit crunch is happening to me' simply shift your focus to 'there is a credit crunch' What this does is give you a nanosecond of choice. If you can bring yourself to the present moment you can choose to think creatively, not only about solutions, but also new opportunities you could create. By choosing a feel good attitude it gives you the ability to respond with awareness rather than unconsciously react.

For example, a client of mine who is graphic designer recently looked at the current climate and decided that this was a good time to open her business. She has extensive corporate branding experience and could offer a high quality of design for half the cost of the large design agencies. The attitude she adopted successfully was one of 'it's an opportunity' If she had listened to the doom and gloom merchants she would never have been so positive or successful. Often our fears are mental constructs that we get caught up in, and then it can be challenging to talk ourselves back into calmness and clarity. Once we start to focus on the fear factor the filters in our unconscious mind start to look for evidence of what we are focusing on. NLP talks about these filters and demonstrates how our unconscious mind can only let in approx 134 bits of information each second from the 2 million that are coming towards us. If we start to focus on what is wrong we will begin to see the evidence. For example, have you ever had the situation when you see something for the first time -like a car model that takes your fancy- and then you start to see it everywhere? This is the unconscious mind filtering for something we have taken notice of. With this in mind start to become aware of what you are filtering for, and consciously give yourself a new focus. Our attitude to what is happening is also a filter so start to become very aware of how you are approaching your own life. This is where visualisation can be helpful, ten minutes everyday focused on what you would like to bring into your life and how that will feel is a far better focus than the one you will get by reading all the bad news and watching the news channel 24/7. I am great believer in limiting the amount of doom and gloom we expose ourselves to. I am not saying don't be informed-that would be irresponsible-but I am saying don't watch the repeats of the doom and gloom all day everyday. Get the information that is relevant to your life, deal with it in whatever way you can and then be vigilant as to where your focus goes for the rest of the day.

It is a turbulent time, so to flow with it as smoothly as possible and deal with all that comes will serve you the best. If you catch yourself with an attitude that is making you feel bad, then it is a sure sign that your thoughts are not in a good space. Stop a moment and ask yourself, what attitude would serve me better? It is the one place where you can have total free will, use it- choose to dance on a shifting carpet.

“You always overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a lifetime”

“You always overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a lifetime”

Not sure who that quote is from but I have heard it many times and each time I hear it, it rings so true. I have chosen it as a theme as it seems that many people who are working hard to create the change they want in their lives are beginning to find themselves in a bit of a log jam wishing the whole thing would just move faster.

Speed is something that we are aware of in our society, the quicker you can do something the better. But often it is useful to have things develop at a slower pace so that your ideas can mature and grow into something even bigger, with more impact, than it started out with.

We get enthused with a new project and want to get it going fast and that is all well and good, but to do something well we need to do it well, if you know what I mean. I am constantly reminding myself to be in the moment and trust that whatever is happening is exactly as it should be. I take action, do the best I can in the moment, and trust that the outcome is all part of the plan; even if it is not the outcome I had set my sights on. And, I remind myself that often when I am seemingly frustratingly, annoyingly, delayed something happens that make the whole project even better than it would have been had I pushed it through. People turn up that can add to the idea, resources appear from places I wouldn’t have thought of and by having my idea tested I have refined it into a much better proposition.

Talk to Business Consultants and many will tell you that many businesses have problems in the beginning because they are trying to do too much in the early days. It is the same with all areas of life. We need to be realistic about our goals, especially if we are taking on a new project. In our excitement about a new idea we often can see the end goal but forget there are some other very important goals in between. If we don’t identify and plan for these then it begins to feel like things are getting delayed and we become frustrated.

Have you overestimated what you can achieve in one year? Is the feedback you are getting (and remember there is only ever feedback, never failure) telling you that you are trying to put on the roof before you have put down the foundations? Are you so excited by your dream that you are getting frustrated with the seeming lack of progress?

The biggest gift you can give to yourself is to realise that the timing of a project or goal is more often than not totally in your control. It is like we have set the ball rolling and now we need to be of service to that goal. Responding to its needs, nurturing it and taking action wherever necessary, but, at the same time, taking our own agenda out of the picture and trusting that if we are truly following our heart, our passions, then it will happen. I have been practising this over the last couple of months and although I have not yet totally mastered it (not by a long chalk!) I have found that when I can see my projects through this lens I am able to step back and see what is the best next step. Interestingly what I have found is that when I do this then things do actually begin to move.

So if you recognise yourself in this, if you feel like your plans are delayed, take a step back and survey your life from an outsider’s point of view. What might that outsider see and suggest? How can you shift your timeline to make it an achievable one? Is what you are doing more of a long term goal - very achievable but just needing more time and space to evolve? If so, revise your timelines and see if you’ve missed out some important steps that need to happen along the way. A successful person is one who masters flexibility and instead of pushing against what is happening learns to adapt to what is coming towards them and use the energy inherent in that to really achieve the big goals in the future.

Achieve Success through Correct Positioning

Achieve Success through Correct Positioning