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Friday, February 26th, 2010
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
You’re at the movies. They’re showing a baseball game and it’s the final inning. The score is tied. The bases are loaded and there are two outs, 3 fouls and 2 strikes on the board. The pitcher is winding up and the batter is in place, ready to hit. What’s the next film shot? The camera pans in to the eyes of the pitcher and then the batter. What are we looking for? Certainty. The person who wins will be the one who is not only confident, but knows deep in his gut that he’s going to be the one who wins. He has the resolve, the intent and the knowing that he will take the challenge and come out on top, no matter what the final outcome. In order to be successful, you need to act from this place of certainty.
We’re seeing the same thing while watching the Olympics. What do they pan on? The face. What are we looking for? Confidence and certainty. How do does the Olympian get there? What does this athlete do just before the music starts or before pushing off for the jump?
People who succeed do so with certainty. They make mistakes, but they move on. Whatever you do – whether walking out the door, making an investment or doing the equivalent of your own ski jump – do it with certainty.
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Fearless? Forget it. New fears always come up. That’s how I know where I’m stuck. It helps to show me my personal obstacles and where my next step is. Here are some ways I handle fear when it shows up in my life:
1. Honor it. Look at where it’s coming from.
2. Address the issue. If it’s founded in truth, take action and fix the problem.
3. Meditate. This is always in order. Cleaning out the mental clutter and realigning with Self is integral to being on the right path and releasing fear.
4. Have faith. I know that everything works out for the best. I believe this and tune into it. Remembering past breakthroughs helps.
5. Love me (and others). Love is the ultimate fear obliterator. Both cannot exist at the same time.
When I first started my business I woke up in the middle of the night in a panic. I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to support myself. Instead of lying around fretting I began to get up and work. When I worked enough I went back to sleep for a few hours. Working was the therapy I needed to heal my fear. And, I made more money to pay the bills.
It’s rare, but I still wake up sometime in fear. First I notice what is on my mind. I address it and take care of it. I then go back to bed. For instance, I have protected all of my assets by placing them in a Living Trust. I woke up at 3 a.m. the other morning with a fearful thought glaring in my head like a neon sign. It said, “You just changed home insurance policies and you put the policy in your own name. It needs to be in the name of the Trust.” Wow. That never would have occurred to me during my waking hours. I got up, emailed my agent (she’s amazing: Janet Taylor of State Farm in ATL). I went back to bed fear-free. When I got back to the computer at 9 am there was an email from Janet saying she’d changed the policy. Fear noted, acted on and issue overcome.
I’ve also noticed from my own and client experiences that fear pops up its head when we actually achieve our dreams. Moving into a new and wonderful way of life means giving up the old, familiar life. Even if the old was painful, it was familiar and somehow safe. Sometimes fear is an indication that we’re expanding. Abraham-Hicks wrote: “Negative emotion means your life has caused expansion, which in the moment of negative emotion you are disallowing. Every time. No exceptions.”
Sometimes fear is an indicator that you’ve made it. When that happens throw fear to the wind, spread your wings and fly.
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Imagine that you’ve decided to travel. You’ve marked the time off on your calendar and are excited to go. What will you need to do to prepare for your trip? I assume there are people who just go to the airport or train station and buy a ticket to some destination. They have no plans or intentions for the trip. It’s an “anything goes” scenario. And, anything goes. They get whatever comes their way.
However, if you’re like me you take a different approach. You first decide where you’re going to go. How long will you be there? What will you see? How will you get there and where will you stay? You’ll check out the climate to so you know what to bring with you. By the time you leave you have a good understanding of what to expect and can imagine or visualize what you’ll do and see on your vacation. This planning and visualization helps you to create the type of trip you’ll have. Barring unforeseen circumstances your plans will be fairly accurate and you’ll have the vacation you’ve dreamed of..
You plan your vacations but do you plan your life? Have you planned your year? What do you want to do within the next year? Do you know what you want to have happen to you? Do you know where you want to go and what you want to do? Planning and visioning your life is as important – even more so – than planning your vacation. Going through the process of creating a Vision Board is an excellent means of planning and visualizing your life. Below is a summary of the steps that you’ll need to take to do so.
Why does planning and visioning work? Einstein revealed to us that everything is energy moving at different rates, including human bodies. Matter is merely energy moving slow enough to be detected by the five human senses. Our thoughts are energetic signals that pulsate through our brains, sending waves of energy through and around us. Our beliefs are repetitive, energetic thought patterns. These belief “thought patterns” significantly influence our lives.
What we think and believe is reflected in the energy inside and surrounding us. We create whatever we believe and think. You can use your thoughts to make what you want in your life happen for you. There are six steps that you can take to get what you want:
1. Really want something.
Remember when you were a kid? “Wanting” came naturally to you. Want something now. Feel it. Taste it. Don’t hold back. Let the thoughts of what you want free flow. The strength of your desire will fuel the signal that you send out into the world.
2. Define it clearly.
Next, define exactly what it is you want. Be very specific. The world around us has a lot to offer. The possibilities are endless. It helps a lot to be clear when you’re asking for something. You probably wouldn’t walk into a department store and say, “I want some new clothes.” You’d have to tell the salesperson exactly what you’re looking for. For example, “I’d like a pair of black pants sweat pant, size medium, light-weight, machine washable and less than $60.” It’s important to define all of your desires clearly.
3. Clear your resistance to having it.
Your thinking and beliefs may not support your wants and needs. If your thinking and beliefs are contrary to your desires you will cancel out the desires. You will prevent what you want from coming to you.
In order to be the magnet that attracts what you want your beliefs must support your needs, dreams and desires. For example, I had a client who asked for prosperity and abundance in her life. She was tired of being poor and struggling paycheck to paycheck. When we spoke it became clear that she believed that wealthy people are arrogant and self-indulgent. I pointed out that it would be difficult to attract wealth if she believed she was going to become that type of person. She needed to reevaluate her belief and bust it before she could allow herself to have more money.
If you aren’t getting what you want look at how you may be standing in your own way with limiting beliefs and thoughts. Clear your resistance.
4. Ask for it.
There are many ways of asking for what you want. You can pray, meditate, write it down, tell people about it, scream it from a mountaintop. However you do it, be sure that you’ve opened the path to receiving what you want by asking for it.
5. Visualize having it
Here is where a Vision Board becomes an important tool. Once you’ve defined, cleared and asked for what you want you need to see it happening for you. A Vision Board helps you do this.
Cut out photos, pictures and words that most reflect what it is you want. Don’t overdo it or it will look confusing. Narrow down your selections so they most clearly reflect and express what you want. Tape these to a medium-sized board. Mount the board somewhere where you’ll see it often. Viewing the board will lend power to your projection. You can change these words and graphics, as you need to. Your vision will be as fluid as your life.
6. Let go and have faith that it will come
The above technique is almost magical. If you believe it will work for you it will. You’ve defined your trip, planned it, visualized it – you’re packed and ready to go. Know that the energy that you project will be mirrored back to you and you’ll receive all that you desire. Let it go, let it happen and you’ll be living the life you will be shortly living the life you dreamed.
Tricia Molloy and I are co-teaching a Vision Board Workshop that will help you to take these ideas deeper and project your desires more clearly. This workshop will launch your transformational process to create your dream life. For more information or to sign up go to: http://www.TheAwarenessInitiative.com/store
We are also open to doing this workshop in other locales. Call or email us if you’d like us to come to you.
Deborah Hill • 404-459-0590
debhill@Theawarenessinitiative.com
© Deborah Hill 2010, All Rights Reserved.
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Love this article: How To Be Ridiculous (http://bit.ly/7M9OZj)
“Being appropriately ridiculous is an art. The art of accepting your own mistakes. The art of keep growing until you’re not making them anymore. The art of daring to become so differently from your older version that sometimes you won’t be recognized anymore.
The art of creating an incredibly better you.”
After decades of self improvement and personal growth seminars the most enlightening course was a comedy workshop. I was SO SERIOUS. I knew I needed help and this was the perfect solution. Our material? Our most embarrassing moments and the things we hate most about ourselves. Think about it. Amusement is the highest vibration of energy. Laughing at ourselves is the highest form of amusement. Ridiculous is funny. You do the math. Ridiculous works!
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
This morning I awoke after a rough night of little sleep to a reply from Mary McManus (http://bit.ly/5dKE0c) to my Gratitude Challenge. What a wonderful reply it was. It inspired and grounded me in my day.
Here’s how it worked from the beginning. Mary heard me on the Darian and Darius Blogtalk radio show. Being the tremendous social networker that she is, she connected with me on Twitter and Facebook. She tweets me often, sends love and support, and I reply in kind.
The more I share my knowledge and participate in social media, the more relationships I develop with people like Mary. I’ve made friends, learned a great deal, developed business and have helped others by sending info to others about them. It just keeps growing and going. Social media done correctly is a perfect example of a win-win giving situation.
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
I wasn’t able to get to sleep, and finally dozed off at 5 am. (a long story) My alarm was set for 8 am, as I had a meeting with an insurance agent to redo all of my policies.
The phone rang at 7:48 am! It was not a telemarketer, thankfully, as I would have been VERY rude. It was the agent calling to let me know she needed me to bring a couple things. I was not happy and she was devastated that she’d woken me up. She thought she was calling my cell and would leave a message.
I remained reasonably calm during the call, but wanted to be angry afterwards. That 12 minutes of sleep was precious to me. Why did this happen? Was the world out to get me? (said my grumpy, tired mind) No, it was an obvious opportunity.
My new agent, Janet, is very sweet. She’d worked late into the night to give me great quotes and had been delightful to work with. I knew she was very efficient and effective, and was trying her best to do a great job for me. I had to honor that. I had to let the 12 minutes go and forgive her.
I arrived at the appointment a couple minutes late and decided to be very kind and gracious to Janet. She deserved it! Our meeting went so well and we really connected. We connected so well that I’m going to speak to her group at their annual meeting. Janet is very happy and got my business. I was happier having let go of my resentment and opening to love. AND I have a new speaking engagement. This experience paid off in multiples for all.
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Yesterday was Yom Kippur – a day when Jews around the world atone for their sins and seek to deeply connect with God. One of the passages in my prayer book is very meaningful to me. It speaks about the journey of life and how we move through it learning our lessons and growing. I think its wisdom is a direct hit, revealing what life is about. I’d like to share it with you:
Birth is a beginning
And death a destination.
And life is a journey:
From childhood to maturity
And youth to age;
From innocence to awareness
And ignorance to knowing;
From foolishness to discretion
And then, perhaps, to wisdom;
From weakness to strength
Or strength to weakness –
And, often, back again;
From health to sickness
And back, we pray, to health again;
From offense to forgiveness,
From loneliness to love,
From joy to gratitude,
From pain to compassion,
And grief to understanding –
From fear to faith;
From defeat to defeat to defeat –
Until, looking backward or ahead,
We see that victory lies
Not at some high place along the way,
But in having made the journey, stage by stage,
A sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning
And death a destination.
And life is a journey,
A sacred pilgrimage –
To life everlasting.
This is a time of great change on many levels. People are realizing that the old systems don’t work, and the present values are shallow. I’m coaching more and more people who are in transition, looking to find where their hearts lie and what they truly value. I feel that what we’re experiencing is a period time that potentiates a huge spiritual shift on this “sacred pilgrimage.” I’m praying for it. I’m looking for a time when people connect with their essential self and with that of others.
May journey year be joyful this year.
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Many of us tend to view stress as emotional or mental, not realizing how much the body takes on when we go through intense periods of work, relationship issues, learning or other stressful times. We expect to be physically tired after running a marathon, but may not realize how much tension our body has absorbed after a mentally or emotionally stressful period in our lives.
We’ve been taught that when we move slowly, or are inactive we’re weak, feeble or listless. Yet, every thing and every other living being idles. My car can’t run constantly. It needs to park or to idle. My dog sleeps by my side for hours while I work. After eating a lion may rest for a week. Even hummingbirds come to an almost dead stop to rest between flights. Every other animal understands that without proper rest we wear down and don’t perform properly. Performance is balanced with refueling and rest. But, many of us humans believe in pushing. Only humans move full speed all of the time, and our performance and joy suffer the consequences.
My physical therapist said: “You don’t need to push to fatigue.” I get the concept.
I’m taking out a new lease on life. I’m adding more value into my contract by releasing the pressure valve – learning to live with ease. Ah, I feel the pressure clouds lifting already and, yes, I’m smiling.
You can read my free article to learn some tips that have helped me to relax, enjoy myself AND stay effective. Go to http://www.theawarenessinitiative.com/article.php. You can also subscribe to receive the new monthly articles.
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Where does real knowledge come from? A great deal of information and insight comes to us without the use of the rational mind. This information comes to us from a place of awareness not connected to rational thought.
Many of the greatest discoveries – those that have changed history and lives – have come from this place. These discoveries and insights were borne from moments of wisdom or understanding that did not come from the rational mind. Sir Isaac Newton found gravity by being awakened by an apple. In a place between the dream and awakened states he had an epiphany and then used his mind to describe it. Albert Einstein had great visions during his naps. He often stated that one of his biggest challenges was putting into words and formulas that which he knew from a place other than his rational mind.
What insights do you receive? Do you notice information coming from other sources beyond the rational mind? Do you honor this information?
Here are some steps to use to notice and validate this information:
1. Watch your thoughts. Pay attention to these “voices” in your head. Where are they coming from? Not all thoughts come from the same place.
2. Write down your instinctual thoughts and insights – the “gut level” feelings you can’t rationally explain it.
3. Watch to see if the information proves to be accurate. How does the situation play out?
4. Write down the outcome.
Next time, add in another step between 2 and 3: Act upon the insight. Do what “your gut” tells you to do and act on it as if it’s true information.
Your success will increase dramatically when you honor your non-explainable intuitive insights.
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Your beliefs seriously influence how much time you take to complete a task or project. They can take much less time than you think. Here’s a suggestion for how you can accomplish more in less time than you originally think is possible.
1. Notice when you first begin to think, “This project or task is going to take more time than I have.” It shouldn’t be difficult to notice this because you’ll probably be fretting and stressed about it.
2. Step back from your emotions and breathe. Disconnect from the thoughts.
3. Objectively calculate how much time you believe you have to accomplish the task.
4. Next, focus on your solar plexus, between your heart and naval, and imagine that the energy in that area is increasing in a comfortable way. While opening that area, tell yourself, “I don’t have six hours to do this. It will be done in three hours. I know it can be done because I only have three hours and I can accomplish anything that’s put in my path. I have complete faith in myself that I can accomplish this. I won’t worry about it because worrying takes time. I will stay focused and believe it will happen and it will.”
5. Repeat this exercise whenever the worry surfaces.
Focus on your task with this belief in tow, and you’ll see your work magically completed correctly and on time.
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