Invite Harmony into your Life

Inviting harmony into your life means that you will need to exert a little more conscious control over your habits and lifestyle. I believe that if you are to truly become a fully actualised individual, you need to look beyond the obvious, on-going commitment to lifelong learning, consistent growth in financial wellbeing, devotion to your career or business and you need to also engage in regular exercise, pay attention to your nutrition, relax through musical, cultural, artistic, spiritual and family activities.

True harmony can only be achieved when all the facets in your life are working together. It is crazy to focus all your energy on creating financial wellbeing, whilst and at the same time you neglect your health or family. Lying alone in a hospital bed recovering from triple bypass heart surgery, with a massive bank balance, will most certainly not serve you. Have the courage to explore your life right now. Are all the areas of your life working, or are there parts of your life, which are working better than others? You can never become fully self-actualised and live a life of meaning and fulfilment, if you neglect any facet of your life, to concentrate all your energies on building another.

Action Idea: Try to introduce these few crucial success tools into your life:

• Pay more attention to your nutrition, choose leaner source protein and fibre based carbohydrates as your basic food choices.
• Schedule exercise into your week. Ensuring that you get a good 30 – 45 minute cardio workout at least 4 times a week.
• Schedule time to spend with your family.
• Make time to invest into your spiritual endeavours. It does not matter what your circumstances or beliefs are regarding the spiritual element of your life. It is just important that you do not neglect this crucial part of your life experience.
• Give yourself permission, to relax through cultural, musical or artistic activities.
• Ensure that you get sufficient sleep and that you schedule time to rest and recharge your batteries.

The above investments will serve you well and help you to maintain, far more harmony in your life. Better exercise and improved nutrition, will help you to have far more energy. Spending time with your family will help build better family relationships and will see more support and assistance flow to you from your family. As your spiritual awareness expands, your universe will open up and your whole life experience will improve. Your investment of time into music, culture and art will give you time to relax and appreciate the wonders of the world. Finally by getting enough sleep every day and scheduling rest into your week will keep you invigorated and driven.

Learn the art of becoming a super achiever.

Super achievement is never about just work and no play. Block off periods in your schedule for recreation and vacations and obviously include uninterrupted periods for work, where you can focus all your energy on the most crucial priority projects in your life. I have researched a number of the best books, works of art, inventions and even musical compositions. All of the greatest works were produced during uninterrupted time frames.

They could never have been produced during interrupted time frames, where the person producing the master piece, did a few brush strokes, or wrote a few bars, then answered their phone or read an email on their smart phone. Every success I have enjoyed in my life, where I have produced a great audio book, made a DVD or written a book, was done with discipline and even included twelve to fifteen hour days of complete focus, where I focused 100 % on just that one project.

I was able to work at that pace, because I had scheduled rest periods throughout the day. I planned time to rest and recharge my batteries. I made time to exercise, ate well and built time into my schedule around this focused activity, to be with my family. This focused activity was conducted during blocks of time, which included time to work, time to rest, recreate, recharge and exercise.  

The secret to sustainable success is to focus your energy on prime projects during prime time and to use your innovative powers, material, time and energy resources as effectively as possible to focus on carrying out your goal specific activities every day. When you learn the art of effective priority management, you invite freedom into your life. This freedom allows you to have a far better opportunity to make more informed, higher quality decisions. As you know the decisions you make or fail to make are shaping your future, moment by moment.

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Small Insignificant Daily Actions, Add Up Into Super Achievement

How are things going this year, with those big dreams and goals you had earlier this year? Are you still allowing yourself to stand on the side-lines of your life and are you still making those small daily errors in judgement, which are adding up into poor performance and results. Not reading 10 pages of a good educational, inspirational or transformational book every day, does not result in instant failure. Not using your willpower to develop a success habit set, which will support your daily goal specific activities, has no noticeable effect on your life either. Arriving home every night and simply flopping into the chair, pressing the on button, to switch on the TV, feels good in the moment and also does feel like it is negatively effecting your life either. It is the daily accumulation of all these negative behaviours, which over time ads up to the poor results you are currently enjoying.

Or should I rather say can add up into the success you want to invite into your life, in the future. If you work to improve yourself by only 0.33 % every day, you will not be able to even measure the difference after one day has passed. After three days you will be about 1 % better than you were. This will also be pretty difficult to measure. This is why so many people don’t even bother, it just seems like nothing is changing at all. It is only after a year has passed and you look back that you will realise that those small daily efforts to improve yourself, by only 0.33 %, each day, have now resulted in you being 100 % better than you were when you started, a year before.

Success or failure for that matter does not happen in a day, it is the accumulation of great decisions in the case of success and very poor decisions in the case of failure, carried out over time. So if achieving success is so easy, why does everyone not just do what it takes and take those small insignificant daily actions, which will over time result in the success they desire. I do not know the answer to this simple question, but I do know that we have freedom of choice and so, as easy as the actions are to do every day, so easy are they not to do. Not carrying out a goal specific activity for one day or even a week, does not feel like it has had any effect at all. So people neglect to carry the activities they need to carry out every day, instead, looking for instant gratification, in the moment.

They choose to sit and vegetate in front of the TV because that feels good in the moment. They do not apply their willpower, encouraging themselves, to experience a little discomfort in the moment, delaying their gratification, so that they can achieve the results or outcomes they want. Are you going to continue to sit on the side-lines, taking the path of least resistance and remain trapped in an unfulfilling and empty life? Or are you finally going to do the uncomfortable every day and gradually, over time, build the future you desire, one tiny insignificant action at a time.

Are you finally going to be that person, who achieves their goals, or are you going to allow yourself to remain trapped in the average. Have the courage to finally step away from the side-lines and allow yourself to move toward daily action. Overcome the inertia, which is holding you hostage to a life, which you don’t want and allow yourself to do the small uncomfortable activities every day. These tiny actions will finally bring the meaning and fulfilment you want in your life. Success is not an event; it is the accumulation of numerous good decisions, which over time add up into the great outcomes you want.

Open the door on a future, where you can finally see that you are amazing and by using the simple process of compounding your daily activity, you will soon realise that you have few or no limitations at all. Success is never achieved in a day; it is brought into your experience daily, with consistent and focused effort. Dare to be different and take those small uncomfortable actions every day. They only weigh ounces and cost almost nothing. The weight of regret on the other hand, which will manifest in your life later, as a result of not taking those small insignificant daily actions, weighs tonnes and will manifest in the form of failure, bankruptcy, divorce or damaged health. I don’t know about you, but I choose to be a little uncomfortable in the moment, to take those insignificant daily actions and to enjoy the fruits of my labours in the future.

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Affirming the Correct Behavior, will bring Light to the Dark

When helping individuals within corporations to work effectively with their affirmations. I remind them that they might sometimes feel resistance well up inside themselves, when they are affirming any new behavior. When anyone in your team affirms something, which challenges their comfort zone, they will initially feel resistance. Their little voice will try to keep them trapped in their comfort zone and they will try will to negate the positive change, which they are attempting to introduce. This is a completely natural, knee-jerk reaction, but they can learn to overcome it, if they are willing to keep repeating the affirmations, despite the negative response from their inner self.

That negative voice, which tries to tell them to stop as they are living in fantasy-land, is merely natural resistance to change. The negative feelings they will experience are the result of negative programming and an inert resistance to be moved out of their comfort zones. The good news is that when they feel resistance, they just need to understand that it is just a natural part of the process and they must just learn to let go and press on with the affirmations throughout the day, despite the negative feelings. Over time the clarity that comes with consistent affirmation, will allow them to eventually embrace their new affirmations and they will start to almost subconsciously carry out the new behaviors required.

Remind all your team members that when you start to affirm any new behavior or belief, it is like shining a light into a very dark part of a room, there are bound to be shadows. As they however continue to switch on the lights in the room, by continuing to repeat their affirmations, for a period of about 60 days, the room will eventually be completely lit.  They must keep shining the light of their affirmations into the room and switching on the lights by repeating their affirmations and noting the negative voices and thoughts that arise. In doing this, they are raising their automatic subconscious thought processes to the conscious level. That’s the level where they have control.

Benefits of Encouraging your Team Members to Use Affirmations Every Day

To introduce affirmations which support their individual team members, to introduce new behaviors, which are aligned with the overall vision of the team or organization. Means a leader must first get absolute clarity about what he or she wants to achieve, with their team or organization. This clarity will then have to be clearly communicated to each individual team member, so that they completely understand their individual role in delivering on the overall vision, before any affirmation work can begin. The clarity of vision which is a prerequisite, before any affirmation work can begin and the way this must be communicated to everyone in the team, is the reason utilizing affirmations is so powerful.

Yes, the affirmations encourage each team member to engage in new positive behaviors, which support the overall vision of the team, which is exactly what any leader wants from the individuals in their teams. The real power of affirmation though, is found in the work required before every team member gets to the point of understanding, where they know what new behaviors or beliefs to affirm. As they dig to discover the new behaviors, which will support the overall vision of the team or organization, they will get clarity of purpose and develop a very clear understanding of what they need to do every day to ensure their team succeeds.

Using This Clarity to Support Performance

To firmly place the affirmations, your team members want to introduce into their subconscious mind and reprogram the limiting beliefs they have gathered throughout their lives, they must make a strong commitment to repeat their affirmations with real feeling every day. They must use repetition, association (actually visualizing themselves in the action), and emotion to reprogram their mind to accept the new reality or behavior they want to introduce with affirmation.

As they introduce these new behaviors and beliefs into their lives, it will feel like they are turning the head of a horse to travel in the direction they want to go. As they change their focus, rid themselves of the negative self-talk, and reprogram their subconscious mind, their reticular activating system will help them achieve the outcomes they want, with far less effort. The clarity and focus from all team members, where everyone is pulling in the right direction and everyone knows their individual role required to deliver the vision and goals of the team, will see your teams achieve incredible outcomes. I can help you get the clarity you need and to clearly communicate this to every team member, so that you can begin to achieve the results you want.

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