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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 finished dinner, dishes … and was getting ready to head upstairs to bed when I realized I had to balance my bank statements. I’d been putting them off too long and wanted to get them out of the way.
So, I went to the computer to reconcile my quickbooks/quicken accounts with the online statements.
However, I read my emails first … answered a few … and saw one from a friend. She had forwarded an email about a boy who was dying of cancer and wanted Christmas cards before he died.
I went online and checked the validity of the email and it was not spam. There was a new address for the cards, however.
I went back to my friend’s email and forwarded the link for the new address to all of her recipients.
I then went in search of a Christmas card.
There weren’t any in my adjoining closet.
None in the closet downstairs.
None in the office supply storage in the garage.
While I’m in the garage I open the garage door to check on the storm drain. It’s Fall and it’s storming heavily. The leaves wash into the storm drain and clog it. This causes the garage to flood. I’ve racked leaves away 5 times today. I see that it’s clogged again and go out in the rain, at 10 pm to rake leaves.
That done, I’m back to finding the Christmas card for the 5 year old somewhere in Michigan.
Oh yes, I remember Dave and I created a separate box for cards and put it on one of the garage shelves.
But, there’s a large piece of glass in front of the box that we hadn’t moved yet.
So, I began to move it.
But, there were some chairs in the place where the glass should go. So, I moved those.
This almost knocked down a lamp that needed to find a home. I took it into the downstairs room and found a place for it on a table. There were two smaller lamps on this table that I had to relocate. I redecorated the basement (OK, just a the part where the lamps were to go), and went out in search of the card.
First I had to replace the chairs. There was an empty computer monitor box behind the place where the chairs were that needed to go into the attic. I pulled it out. I placed the glass where it needed to go, replaced the chairs, found a Christmas card, brought it and the computer monitor box upstairs, addressed the card and then … began reconciling the bank statements (remember those?).
2 hours later I’m getting ready to go upstairs to bed. And, I will once I finish this email and put the computer monitor box into the attic. Hopefully, there will be nothing in the attic for me to do.
I called my husband Dave to tell him this story. He said his approach would have been, “I’m too tired. I’ll do the card tomorrow. And, the bank statements can wait too.”
Ah, the differences between us.
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Below is the basic information that is discussed on the first episode of the “Unlimited Success and Fulfillment” radio show on October 16 at 1 PM EST. I will also be coaching people live on the show. Tune in tomorrow, or the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month at http://www.divatoolbox.com/diva-toolbox-radio-/hosts/1904-deborah-hill-unlimited-success-and-fulfillment.html, just call in at (724) 444-7444, code 6400#. All episodes will be based upon this information.
Do you think of yourself as a unique powerhouse of dynamic energy, capable of creating a perfect life for yourself? You really are such a person. Creating a wonderful life for yourself is your birthright, and you wouldn’t be here if you weren’t right for the job. You have a wealth of abilities and talents that can catapult you into productive action. You’re an amazing, talented individual – able to build, create, expand, enjoy, triumph, fly. But you may not have the life you’d hoped for.
Walt Disney once said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” If that’s true, why aren’t you the master of your universe, leaping tall obstacles in a single bound? How did this dynamic powerhouse that we call “you” get hung up in pursuit of your dreams? It could be that you are simply standing in your own way. YOU may be your biggest obstacle. How? Your beliefs may be blocking you from being and doing all you can.
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: Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, and smelling. 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. Think of them as programmed vibrations within the brain. These belief “thought patterns” significantly influence our lives.
What we think and what we believe is reflected in the energy inside and surrounding us. Our thought and belief energy is projected from us like a radio tower projects radio waves. These energetic projections tell the universe and the people in it what’s happening in our world. All of the other radio towers around us pick up this signal that we are broadcasting, and they respond accordingly. Everything around us will respond in-kind to this thought and belief frequency. If we believe we’re a failure, we broadcast this to the world and the world responds in kind. Likewise, if we believe we are well respected and successful we project it and it’s mirrored back to us. Others tune in to our frequency and respond to it in much the same way they respond to what we physically say and do.
What we think and believe helps to steer us through life and is mirrored back at us. You can use your thoughts to make what you want in your life happen for you. Here are five steps that you take to do it:
1. Really want something
2. Define it clearly
3. Clear your resistance to having it
4. Ask for it.
5. Visualize having it
6. Have faith. Know it’s coming. Don’t nag.
The above steps work, but limiting thoughts and beliefs may not support your wants and needs.
Your thinking and your beliefs create a vibration that may not support your wants and needs. In order to create what you want, your beliefs must support your needs, dreams and desires. What do you believe? It’s important to pay attention to this if you want to create your perfect life.
There are several indications that you can help you pinpoint when this is happening. The first and foremost indicator is that you aren’t getting what you want after going though the above steps. Here are some more limiting belief indicators (Go to www.theawarenessinitiative.com home page for a free download that elaborates on these and how to change limiting beliefs).
1. Repetitive Patterns
2. Negative Emotions
3. Unproductive thoughts
4. Continual comments from others
We each have our own unique hang-ups or beliefs that we can change. We also share a number of common limiting beliefs. Limiting beliefs may be keeping you from creating the life you desire. You can change them. Armed with this new awareness and technique, you’ll soon be able to replace your limiting beliefs with your own powerful truths.
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Often our goals and assignments, tasks and obligations become all important. We push and push to fit everything into an imagined box and it never seems to quite fit. The stress builds because our schedule is our all-important road map to success. We are defined by it and we ignore everything else in our path as an obstruction.
The internet goes out and we’re unable to send an email. Our phone drops a call. Our child is ill and we have to miss work. A tire blows out and we spend an hour having it repaired. A friend calls and we don’t have time to talk. Someone cuts us off in traffic or we’re held up at a traffic light and we’re afraid we’ll miss an appointment. WHY IS EVERYTHING GETTING IN OUR WAY?
Consider that life is not a roadmap in one direction. The perceived disruptions to our big plan are not annoying obstacles to, they are a part of life. The objective is not to “get there,” it’s to experience all we can and smile through it. The goal to success includes breakdowns, breakups, bad weather, laughing, meeting people at the tire store, noticing people who cut us off in traffic without swearing, spending time with our children when they are ill …
Who said it was going to be an easy, straight shot to an objective? It’s a misconception. The truth is, life is one continual amusement park or insane assylum. The difference is in how we handle it. The choice is yours.
Smile. Breathe. Relax. Enjoy.
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
I love the expression “Don’t push the river,” which in one sense means: Do things when it’s time, not before. I noticed that if I try to do things when it doesn’t feel comfortable, or I don’t have all the information I need, I end up spinning my wheels, wasting my energy, and coming up with results that aren’t complete.
I noticed that I create benchmarks for myself, and sometimes browbeat myself to meet those benchmarks – to make sure that I complete certain tasks by a certain time. I then feel pressured and stressed if the task isn’t completed on time. I may push myself to make it happen when I’m not ready, or other aspects of my life aren’t in place to complete the project. Projects created this way aren’t done correctly.
We are the masters of our benchmarks and we can move them. Knowing this, we can use the power of intention to bring in the information and creative energy for projects and tasks when it’s time. First, determine what needs to be done. Think about what you’ll need to complete the project. Decide that all of information, resources and time will come together for you at the right time. Use your intuition to notify you when it’s the right time. You’ll notice a strong urge to complete the project that comes from the gut and heart. You’ll be open and ready – excited instead of stressed. Do it when it’s the right time and “the river” will pull you along towards your goal.
More specific tips for time management and project completion to come in my August newsletter. You can sign up for these free monthly insights in the left column.
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
A difference between successful and non-successful people is: Non-successful people work to be as good as others, and to be accepted and appreciated. Successful people work to improve and grow, to be the best they can be. The difference between successful people and fulfilled people is whether they measure success by where they stand against others, or whether they strive to best themselves – viewing others with respect and appreciation as fellow players.
In other words, unsuccessful people see themselves as below the water, trying to get to the surface. Successful people see themselves as swimmers, working to swim farther. Fulfilled people feel a part of the river, enjoying the opportunity to become better swimmers.
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
I want to take a moment to let you know about a recent addition to this blog. You may have noticed a box on the left side of the page labeled “Skribit Suggestions.” Basically it is the old-fashioned idea of a suggestion box, but it has been brought up-to-date with Internet technology.
If you have an idea you’d like to discuss in this blog, or perhaps a question you’d like answered, you can submit it just by entering it through the Skribit box. You can also vote on suggestions made by others.
I began The Awareness Initiative Blog to help you to create a successful and fulfilling life. It is my hope that tools like Skribit offer new ways for you to participate in the blog; so I can better serve your needs and help more people on the road to transforming their lives.
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Most of us meet or have people in our lives that we just don’t get along with – or even can’t stand to have around. These people seem like huge obstacles to our happiness. I’ve found myself thinking things like, “What is his problem?” Or, “Doesn’t she get how rude she is?” Or, some thoughts that are too harsh to share. Sometimes these people are truly harmful to me and need to be avoided. Others may be my own personal gurus.
Often the people I have the most difficulty are my next teachers. They have something to show me that I need to learn. If I avoid these people they show up again and again until I get that I have to learn to accept them. Learning to accept them means I have to change something within myself.
For example, someone who moves slowly may be the person who teaches me patience. I was exposed to several of these “patience” teachers for years – until I finally learned to relax, breathe and even talk to them. Sometimes I still need reminder teachers, such as the slow driver in front of me this morning.
Other people are irritating because they exhibit a behavior that I don’t like in myself. I still squirm when I meet demanding people. I know I’m not like them. OK. I’m just like them in some ways. There I said it, Mom.
Here are 4 steps that you can use to work with difficult people in your life:
1. Determine if the person is a teacher or “trash” (not needed in your life). Avoid the trash and honor the teacher.
2. Look at what bothers you about the person and see if you have some similar characteristics that you are not happy about within you. Learn to accept them in yourself and the other person won’t bother you.
3. Honor your judgment. The assessment of the behavior may be accurate. Next, release the criticism of the behavior and see the person objectively. Once you do this you’ll be able to have compassion and work with him from another level of understanding. You’ll then be able to communicate with him better and work with him.
Sometimes I’m surrounded by people I love and enjoy. At other times I’m forced to spend time with someone who irritates me terribly. When I meet this person I internally thank him for the lesson I’m about to learn.
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