Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Motivational Speakers -- Live in a State of Gratit...

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Motivational Speakers -- Live in a State of Gratit...: Motivational Speakers Live in a State of Gratitude My experience has shown me that there is one attitude, which will completely transfo...

Motivational Speakers -- Live in a State of Gratitude

Motivational Speakers

Live in a State of Gratitude

My experience has shown me that there is one attitude, which will completely transform your life. It will help you to invite more wealth and better health into your life, give you access to your greatest potential, help you build and sustain great relationships and make you feel the happiness and joy you deserve. The attitude I am referring to, is an attitude of “Gratitude”. When you consciously discover all the things you have to be grateful for in your life and you focus your energy on inviting the positive emotions associated with them into your experience, you will feel more positive, believe in possibility and feel inspired to take action daily to achieve your goals.

Feeling gratitude is always a choice. It is a simple process of looking around your world, seeing all the wonderful things you have to be grateful for and then allowing the glow of joy and satisfaction to flow over you. The positive state you feel, when in a state of gratitude, will equip you to feel more inspired, you will experience far more self-confidence and self-belief and you will see the world around you from a far more positive perspective. This will allow you to see more opportunities and more easily overcome challenges.

Finding Things to be Grateful for

We have just had the opportunity to enjoy a wonderful festive season, filled with wonderful times with our families and friends. We have enjoyed many memorable and enjoyable moments during the festive season. If you have nothing else to be grateful for, use the wonderful experiences and time with family and friends, as a starting point. You really do have so much to be grateful for, when you really start to look, you will discover far more wonderful reasons for gratitude, than you would believe existed.

Making This Work for you

The way your life turns out in the future, is directly related to what you create. You are a very creative being, who arrived on this planet just like everyone else, naked, ignorant and vulnerable. Everything that happens in your life from that moment on is related to the choices you make or fail to make, the actions you take or fail to take and the thoughts you think.

Creation Process

The creation process is simple. Your thoughts create your expectations, which you turn into your vision and goals for the future. You then craft a set of action plans which you act on daily so that you can create your future life experience.

Driving the Creation Process

The way to drive your dreams and turn them into your reality is through expectation. The greater your expectation, the greater will be the things you will ultimately be able to manifest in your life. Thus the greater your expectation and your resultant belief in your ability to turn that expectation into your reality, the greater will be the possibility that you will manage to convert your expectations into your future reality.

Are your Expectations Limiting your Potential?

Action Idea: Take a close look at your expectations right now. Are they very limited and restrictive, because of your belief in yourself and what you are capable of achieving? If you have very limited expectations about what is possible, then it is extremely unlikely that you will achieve greatness. We seldom, if ever exceed our own expectations. The expectations you have, limited or expansive, have a powerful effect on how your life will turn out, and so if you want to change the way your future will turn out, change your expectations about what is possible for you.

Dare to dream about all the wonderful possibilities that are available to you, believe you can achieve them, create a positive mental attitude, by feeling gratitude for everything, which is working in your life and you will have created the perfect circumstances for inviting all the success you desire into your life.

Author: Andrew Horton Motivational Speakers

http://www.andrewhorton.co.za

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Shift Happens

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Shift Happens: I had the privilege of working with two really great sales teams this week. They have recently undergone a merger between two large organis...

Shift Happens

I had the privilege of working with two really great sales teams this week. They have recently undergone a merger between two large organisations and the two sales teams met for the first time, at the sales conference. As you can imagine there was a lot of trepidation at first, but after spending the entire week together, learning about each other’s product lines, culture and way of doing things, I believe that they left the conference as one united team of driven and inspired individuals, eager to support each other in 2013 and beyond.

Why am I telling you this story, well their first amalgamated sales conference was aptly called “Shift Happens”. You can imagine how the word “Shift” was altered at first, by the two sales teams. Incredibly by the time I left them, I saw one united team of colleges, who had embraced the change and were eager to work together as a team. They were no longer a group of strangers, who felt insecure and unsure of what the future held for them. They had all embraced change, seen the advantages of working in a bigger team and had allowed themselves to turn challenge into something beneficial and to their advantage.

All Progress Requires Change

The lesson we can learn from this team and the wonderful positive “Shift” they managed achieve in such a short space of time, is that as change is now a given in the world we  inhabit, stop fighting against it and accept that the sooner you embrace it and actually use it to grow or identify new opportunities, the better. Make change your ally and see it as not only an integral part of your journey, but in many cases, it actually highlights opportunities, which may have remained hidden form you, had you not experienced the change in the first place. Remember that all progress requires change.

Developing Mental Strength

To thrive in this world of never ending change, it is imperative that you develop a calm mental toughness, as experiencing constant “Surprises” is the new normal. The constant and ever changing world, shortening business cycle, rapid growth in knowledge, globalisation and the never ending flood technological advancements is filling our world with an ever increasing flood of change. If you are to survive and thrive, in this mass of change, it is imperative that you accept change as quickly as possible, embrace it and discover ways to utilise it to improve your experience and that of the people around you.

Change Brings Challenge

As certain as you are that the sun will rise in the East and set in the West every day, so certain should you be that change will unsettle you and that it will bring new challenges into your life.

Action Idea: The best way to deal with change and the inevitable challenges it brings, is to view them as merely an event. They are not what defines you. It is how you choose to respond to and how you choose to utilise change and challenge, to sculpture your future, which will ultimately define you and determine how much meaning and fulfilment you will get to experience.

The uncertainty and challenge, which change brings must be seen as a temporary inconvenience, merely a stumbling block, which can be turned into stepping stones towards your  future success. Build a mental picture where you see every challenge turning into a stepping stone and visualise yourself steping boldly onto each one, as you use each challenge as the fertiliser for your future success.

Author: Andrew Horton Motivational Speakers

http://www.andrewhorton.co.za

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Make the Most of Every Moment in 2013

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Make the Most of Every Moment in 2013: Start 2013 off by taking a thorough look at how you invest your time every day, by using an activity log to record how you are effectiv...

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Make the Most of Every Moment in 2013

Andrew Horton Inspirational Speakers: Make the Most of Every Moment in 2013: Start 2013 off by taking a thorough look at how you invest your time every day, by using an activity log to record how you are effectiv...

Make the Most of Every Moment in 2013

Start 2013 off by taking a thorough look at how you invest your time every day, by using an activity log to record how you are effectively utilising or wasting your time. This process is really simple and requires you to record how you have used your time, on a sheet of paper, at the end of each hour during the day. Do not analyse or question anything at this stage. 

After seven days explore your seven sheets and see how you have done. Look for patterns where you may be wasting time or not using your time as effectively as possible. You will literally astound yourself with how much time you waste each week, after you have analysed these sheets. You will see that you do not have a shortage of time at all, what you have is a lack of focus and commitment towards achieving your goals. 

Internalise your Vision and Goals Daily

Start each day by internalising your vision and goals, by reading them out aloud to yourself before you start each day. Feel committed and driven to do what it takes that day, to carry out the actions you need to perform to achieve your vision and goals. If you can prioritise and focus your energy on the most important outcomes you want to achieve each day, you will see incredible results manifest in your life in 2013 and beyond.

Invest each Hour Wisely  

                                            

Begin each hour of your day this year by asking this simple question “Is the way I intend to use the next hour, the best use of my available time and will it lead me closer towards achieving my vision and goals”? “If it is not then how can I improve my actions in the next hour to achieve a better outcome”? As you keep asking this question hour after hour, you will continually improve the use of your available time and the goal specific results you will begin to enjoy will improve too.

Making Decisions

Whenever you are required to make any decisions this year, ask yourself this question: “Does the action, I will take as a result of this decision, help me to achieve my vision and goals?” This will make it a whole lot easier to make the right decisions going forward. If anything is not aligned with helping you achieve your goals, then have the wisdom and courage to avoid it altogether. 

 

Review your Day

As you finish each day, invest a few minutes to go through your day. Review everything that went well and allow yourself to feel the glow of success, for a job well done. Also explore all the things that did not go according to plan. Do not beat yourself up over these. Learn the lessons they offer and move on. Everything you did not manage to complete that day is moved onto your planning sheet for the next day. If possible all the things you did not manage to complete, must be completed first thing the following morning.

Plan your Day the Night Before

After your daily review, which should take no longer than five minutes each evening, invest time to plan your next day. Take all the information from your daily review and fit all the outstanding matters from the current day, onto your schedule the following day. This planning session should take no longer than 10 – 15 minutes, but when done daily, will save you hours of time the following day. It will also allow you to prioritise and focus your energy and time on your goal specific activities each day.  

Meet your Future

This is time you specifically schedule each day, to focus 100 % on carrying out your goal specific activities. When you schedule time every day to work on achieving your goals, it keeps you focused and driven to carry out the actions you need to do daily to achieve all your goals. The challenge we face is that we get so wrapped up in doing to survive, that we never seem to have time to carry out the goal specific actions daily, which will change our lives. 

 

Make 2013 different and this time around make time available to carry out your goal specific actions and you will change your life. Committing to make time available to carry out the right goal specific actions, will be the best use of your available time. When you reach December this year, you will not have regrets about all the things you should have done, but you will rather be celebrating your success this year.

Author: Andrew Horton Time Management Course

http://www.andrewhorton.co.za