Are you ready to thrive in 2009? Are you clear, being powerful and prosperous? Do you have a quarterly practice that allows you to complete and create new games in your business or life?
If you don't, take a look at the BC Workshop for Business Professionals on Saturday January 10, 2009.
Below, I have included 10 tips by James Ray, a powerful coach, that will support you in thriving in 2009. In our BC Workshop in 9 days, you will work on all 10 tips.
1) Clearly define what inspires you.
There's a big difference between taking action out of inspiration versus desperation. Use this season as an opportunity to hibernate into the recesses of your own mind and define what you choose to create in your next spring.
2) Control your focus.
Energy flows where attention goes. Are you focusing on lack or opportunity?
3) Feed your mind.
What's your constant mental diet? Do you spend hours in front of the scare news or are you reading good books, attending more positive seminars, watching uplifting DVDs and listening to powerful CDs?
4) Strengthen your body.
Your physical health and vitality have a tremendous impact on your performance as well as your mental and emotional fitness. Exercise releases stress and strengthens your body and mind.
5) Inventory your friends.
Doom and gloom attracts more doom and gloom. Jettison those "energy vampires" around you and surround yourself with opportunity seekers.
6) Quiet your mind.
Take time to meditate daily and to slow down if only for a few minutes. Ten to fifteen minutes of meditation will relieve hours of stress and increase creativity and resourcefulness.
7) Rid your life of escapist activities.
Overindulgence in TV, sleep and alcohol only accelerates the problems you're attempting to avoid.
8) Make a daily gratitude list.
Focusing on all the good, gifts and God in your life puts you in the right line of thought, feeling and their subsequent actions, which will attract and create more good, gifts and God.
9) Change your attitude.
Realize that everything that's happened in your life thus far is here to serve you, teach you and help you grow. Find the lessons in your past results, forgive yourself for anything you could have done better and apply the lesson to move forward and create a better future.
10) Get resourceful.
For the next three days, go to a place where you can have uninterrupted time... Come up with 20 new ideas to grow your income, create new results and improve your life. You cannot leave your spot until you have twenty.
And no editing! All ideas are good ideas. Do this for three successive days with 20 new ideas each day. Now take your list of 60 unique ideas and pick the three to five most powerful and leveraged ones to put into action. Pick these three to five based on: ease of implementation, rate of return and speed of return.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
12-23-08 Apache Blessing Power
Our Holiday and New Year Intention!
may the sun...bring you new energy by day,
may the moon...softly restore you by night,
may the rain...wash away your worries,
may the breeze...blow new strength into your being,
may you walk...gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
-apache blessing
may the sun...bring you new energy by day,
may the moon...softly restore you by night,
may the rain...wash away your worries,
may the breeze...blow new strength into your being,
may you walk...gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
-apache blessing
Sunday, December 14, 2008
12-14-08 Gift Power
This week notice the early gifts that your might be receiving from your family and friends for the Holiday season. Below, is a short story on my early gift from my father.
My Early Christmas Gift
This past weekend my mother was invited to a Neil Diamond concert by my sister and her friends. Early Friday morning my mother was so excited to be on her own and having fun with her long time friends from North Carolina that she drove herself to the airport and left me in charge of my father who is experiencing midlevel Alzheimer’s.
Initially I was concerned that I would not be able to play my weekend golf game and enjoy what I love to do, yet I ended up creating just that. It all began on Friday evening when I chose to cook dinner together with my father instead of taking him out. That is when I realized that I had not been alone with my dad perhaps since the day that I was born 57 years ago. He was always with my mother or with one or more of my six brothers and five sisters.
I had shopped for cold shrimp, two big steaks, organic salad and avocados. At home we had left over spaghetti, chocolate ice cream and of course we would have a bottle of Spanish red wine and “Cuban” cigars for post-dinner relaxation.
When I told him my plans, he was fired up. My dad always loved to cook, eat, drink wine and smoke cigars with his friends and family. Every 15 minutes, from the time we started barbecuing the steaks, he asked where my mother was. I patiently told him that mom had flown to North Carolina to go to a concert with Ana and Carol.
He kept repeating "all the way to North Carolina" and he looked at me with a little concern in his face. As he did this, I diverted his attention to the task at hand asking him to eat his shrimp or take a sip of the wonderful wine that we were sharing.
After enjoying dinner, discussing what was happening in the world, and my dad inquiring several times where my mother was, we decided to go sit on the porch and end the evening by smoking his cigars on a cool Miami night.
I chose a 4-inch La Gloria Cubana and he had a 7-inch Romeo y Julieta. As we lit the cigars, I became present to the fact that I seldom made time for my dad or anybody else in the family. So I put my whole attention on my dad for the rest of the night.
I did not have to say anything. I just listened and answered all his questions. The conversation was simple and to the point. He observed and commented on all the Christmas angels, pillows, plates that my mother had placed throughout the room.
As he talked and observed, I would notice his eyes and the way he enjoyed his cigar. I pointed out to him how present he was to the moment and how he was enjoying himself. He told me that was the only thing that mattered because he had a hard time remembering.
He also noticed how my cigar was burning faster than his. I let him know that my cigar was 3 inches smaller but proportionally we had smoked the same. He said it made sense and since he had a bigger cigar he would end up smoking a little longer than me.
Then he heard far away sirens and said "there goes an ambulance." I realized that he was being present to all the sounds and objects around him, but no interior thoughts.
Then as we finished the cigars, I became present to his greatness and felt that I was talking to an enlightened being. I sensed that he was in a state of quietness and fulfillment of everything he had experienced in his life.
Here I was for the first time really experiencing my father, while he was enjoying himself with what he loved to do. So I asked him, is there anything better than this? He simply said "no, it's just life."
Then he looked at me, took his last sip of wine and holding his cigar he continued … "life is very simple it comes to you and you have to be ready to live it and I am living it."
I just closed my eyes and experienced the joy of being aware and present to this moment and the feeling of being ok with 57 years of missed opportunities with my father, because this experience was the best Christmas present ever.
My Early Christmas Gift
This past weekend my mother was invited to a Neil Diamond concert by my sister and her friends. Early Friday morning my mother was so excited to be on her own and having fun with her long time friends from North Carolina that she drove herself to the airport and left me in charge of my father who is experiencing midlevel Alzheimer’s.
Initially I was concerned that I would not be able to play my weekend golf game and enjoy what I love to do, yet I ended up creating just that. It all began on Friday evening when I chose to cook dinner together with my father instead of taking him out. That is when I realized that I had not been alone with my dad perhaps since the day that I was born 57 years ago. He was always with my mother or with one or more of my six brothers and five sisters.
I had shopped for cold shrimp, two big steaks, organic salad and avocados. At home we had left over spaghetti, chocolate ice cream and of course we would have a bottle of Spanish red wine and “Cuban” cigars for post-dinner relaxation.
When I told him my plans, he was fired up. My dad always loved to cook, eat, drink wine and smoke cigars with his friends and family. Every 15 minutes, from the time we started barbecuing the steaks, he asked where my mother was. I patiently told him that mom had flown to North Carolina to go to a concert with Ana and Carol.
He kept repeating "all the way to North Carolina" and he looked at me with a little concern in his face. As he did this, I diverted his attention to the task at hand asking him to eat his shrimp or take a sip of the wonderful wine that we were sharing.
After enjoying dinner, discussing what was happening in the world, and my dad inquiring several times where my mother was, we decided to go sit on the porch and end the evening by smoking his cigars on a cool Miami night.
I chose a 4-inch La Gloria Cubana and he had a 7-inch Romeo y Julieta. As we lit the cigars, I became present to the fact that I seldom made time for my dad or anybody else in the family. So I put my whole attention on my dad for the rest of the night.
I did not have to say anything. I just listened and answered all his questions. The conversation was simple and to the point. He observed and commented on all the Christmas angels, pillows, plates that my mother had placed throughout the room.
As he talked and observed, I would notice his eyes and the way he enjoyed his cigar. I pointed out to him how present he was to the moment and how he was enjoying himself. He told me that was the only thing that mattered because he had a hard time remembering.
He also noticed how my cigar was burning faster than his. I let him know that my cigar was 3 inches smaller but proportionally we had smoked the same. He said it made sense and since he had a bigger cigar he would end up smoking a little longer than me.
Then he heard far away sirens and said "there goes an ambulance." I realized that he was being present to all the sounds and objects around him, but no interior thoughts.
Then as we finished the cigars, I became present to his greatness and felt that I was talking to an enlightened being. I sensed that he was in a state of quietness and fulfillment of everything he had experienced in his life.
Here I was for the first time really experiencing my father, while he was enjoying himself with what he loved to do. So I asked him, is there anything better than this? He simply said "no, it's just life."
Then he looked at me, took his last sip of wine and holding his cigar he continued … "life is very simple it comes to you and you have to be ready to live it and I am living it."
I just closed my eyes and experienced the joy of being aware and present to this moment and the feeling of being ok with 57 years of missed opportunities with my father, because this experience was the best Christmas present ever.
Are You Aware of Your Current Reality?
Below you will find a simple evaluation form that will support you in being aware of your Current Reality in different areas of your life.
These areas include career, environment (automobile and home), family, finances, friends, fun and recreation, intimate relationships, spirituality, well-being (physical and mental) and your overall life experience.
Try to avoid conscious thoughts. Instead, take a few minutes and evaluate yourself in each area by noticing your feelings instead of your thoughts about where you are. By thinking, you evaluate yourself from a past reality versus the present moment.
You will notice different feelings that come out of where you choose yourself to be in each area of your life. Before you can shift your current reality, you must clean up any misalignments (or out of integrities) that you are holding. In other words, you must face the brutal facts of your current reality and deal with them.
The intention of this process is for you to be complete and OK with where you are in any area of your life. Once you let go, there is a whole new realm of possibilities available from which to create.
You are now ready to create a new vision for your life that is real for you now. We will cover creating a new personal vision in our next newsletter.
Until next time, please notice the feelings that you are experiencing by being in integrity and in how life is working for you and all those around you.
Current Reality - Personal Evaluation
POOR 0 FAIR 0 GOOD 0 VERY GOOD 0 EXCELLENT 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0
Automobile 0 0 0 0 0
Home 0 0 0 0 0
Family 0 0 0 0 0
Finances 0 0 0 0 0
Friends 0 0 0 0 0
Fun & Recreation 0 0 0 0 0
Intimate Relationships 0 0 0 0 0
Spirituality 0 0 0 0 0
Well-being - Physical 0 0 0 0 0
Mental 0 0 0 0 0
Your Overall Rating 0 0 0 0 0
These areas include career, environment (automobile and home), family, finances, friends, fun and recreation, intimate relationships, spirituality, well-being (physical and mental) and your overall life experience.
Try to avoid conscious thoughts. Instead, take a few minutes and evaluate yourself in each area by noticing your feelings instead of your thoughts about where you are. By thinking, you evaluate yourself from a past reality versus the present moment.
You will notice different feelings that come out of where you choose yourself to be in each area of your life. Before you can shift your current reality, you must clean up any misalignments (or out of integrities) that you are holding. In other words, you must face the brutal facts of your current reality and deal with them.
The intention of this process is for you to be complete and OK with where you are in any area of your life. Once you let go, there is a whole new realm of possibilities available from which to create.
You are now ready to create a new vision for your life that is real for you now. We will cover creating a new personal vision in our next newsletter.
Until next time, please notice the feelings that you are experiencing by being in integrity and in how life is working for you and all those around you.
Current Reality - Personal Evaluation
POOR 0 FAIR 0 GOOD 0 VERY GOOD 0 EXCELLENT 0
Career 0 0 0 0 0
Automobile 0 0 0 0 0
Home 0 0 0 0 0
Family 0 0 0 0 0
Finances 0 0 0 0 0
Friends 0 0 0 0 0
Fun & Recreation 0 0 0 0 0
Intimate Relationships 0 0 0 0 0
Spirituality 0 0 0 0 0
Well-being - Physical 0 0 0 0 0
Mental 0 0 0 0 0
Your Overall Rating 0 0 0 0 0
Are You in Integrity?
Is life working for you? Are there areas in your life that are good and yet you would like to make them better? Are there areas in your life that are not working?
Looking at where you are not in integrity and where you are not being honest with yourself could possibly make a difference in what you are up to in your life.
Bringing up the areas of your life that are out of integrity allows you to address those areas and provides the freedom to have your desires fulfilled. By being clear and in integrity, you will find yourself with fun and ease, creating and fulfilling intentions in areas of your life that you consider important.
Below are two simple techniques to bring you back into integrity and have you feeling complete and powerful:
1) Complete Integrity Diary
Set aside 30 minutes to complete the process. Be honest and real and ask yourself:
a) With whom have I not kept my promises and commitments?
b) Where have I gone against my values and standards?
c) When am I not being who I say I am?
When: Yesterday? Last Week? Last Year? Last X Years?Where: Family, Business, Relationships, Well Being, Spirituality.
Write down whatever feelings or thoughts come into your mind for each of the above questions.
2) Standing Meditation
Get into correct standing meditation posture. If you have not learned standing meditation, you can do the following technique sitting down.
You can also review the standing meditation technique in the following article:
http://www.bizchampions.com/StandingMeditation.html
Relax, quiet down, scan your head, neck, shoulders, spine, hips, down your legs, and then back up. Notice any tightness, pain, thoughts, and judgments that you are feeling from doing the Integrity Diary.
Hold your attention on your body until you release the negative charges that you are experiencing. Do this process for at least 5 minutes.
You will be ready to create new intentions once you feel relaxed, clear, flowing and at ease with your integrity.
Until next time, please notice the feelings that you are experiencing by being in integrity and by how life is working for you and all those around you.
Looking at where you are not in integrity and where you are not being honest with yourself could possibly make a difference in what you are up to in your life.
Bringing up the areas of your life that are out of integrity allows you to address those areas and provides the freedom to have your desires fulfilled. By being clear and in integrity, you will find yourself with fun and ease, creating and fulfilling intentions in areas of your life that you consider important.
Below are two simple techniques to bring you back into integrity and have you feeling complete and powerful:
1) Complete Integrity Diary
Set aside 30 minutes to complete the process. Be honest and real and ask yourself:
a) With whom have I not kept my promises and commitments?
b) Where have I gone against my values and standards?
c) When am I not being who I say I am?
When: Yesterday? Last Week? Last Year? Last X Years?Where: Family, Business, Relationships, Well Being, Spirituality.
Write down whatever feelings or thoughts come into your mind for each of the above questions.
2) Standing Meditation
Get into correct standing meditation posture. If you have not learned standing meditation, you can do the following technique sitting down.
You can also review the standing meditation technique in the following article:
http://www.bizchampions.com/StandingMeditation.html
Relax, quiet down, scan your head, neck, shoulders, spine, hips, down your legs, and then back up. Notice any tightness, pain, thoughts, and judgments that you are feeling from doing the Integrity Diary.
Hold your attention on your body until you release the negative charges that you are experiencing. Do this process for at least 5 minutes.
You will be ready to create new intentions once you feel relaxed, clear, flowing and at ease with your integrity.
Until next time, please notice the feelings that you are experiencing by being in integrity and by how life is working for you and all those around you.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
12-0708 - Stand by Me Power
As you enjoy your Holdidays notice how you stand for your beliefs, family and friends.
The following video was sent to me by a friend and fellow coach Juan Esteban. It's a video created by someone with a huge passion to show another, more positive side of our world and humanity through the power of music.
This guy had nothing more than an idea, frequent flyer miles & battery operated equipment.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_ma2h0idk
The following video was sent to me by a friend and fellow coach Juan Esteban. It's a video created by someone with a huge passion to show another, more positive side of our world and humanity through the power of music.
This guy had nothing more than an idea, frequent flyer miles & battery operated equipment.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_ma2h0idk
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