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Your Life Is a Mirror Of Your Internal Experience
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If you’re like me, I’m a sucker for gorgeous landscapes like the one above. I love the beauty of it and can see myself there and feeling the freedom of it’s experience. When I saw this picture though I completely saw the meaning in it.
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Our lives much like the picture are a reflection of what we are experiencing on the inside. The lake can’t reflect anything else other than what is there.
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You’re life is no different.
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Anyone Can Value This Lesson
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Now before you stop reading and think to yourself, “I’m not screwed up and your post is only for people who are,” think about something for a moment. Some of the most successful people I know are always reflecting and improving on them selves.
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My good friend Saiful says it best with his tag line CANI. Constant and Neverending Improvement. So even though you’re doing great in all area’s of your life it’s not a destination you’re looking for it’s the quality of your journey.
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You’re either growing or dieing. There’s no in between.
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If there is chaos inside that you’re not tending to, it manifests itself on the outside in your life. Sometimes in your finances, relationships, friendships, career or all of them. The victim in you doesn’t want to always take responsibility however if you don’t, your life is a never ending roller coaster of negative events.
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How Do I Break The Cycle
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That’s a great question to start with. Accept god into your life, spirit, light, love and good. You must love yourself. When you have unwavering love for god and yourself, the fear goes away. You start to realize that there is nothing that is delivered in your path that is by accident.
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If there is love for you inside then there can not be anything but love for what is on the outside. “You can’t get prune juice from an orange,” as Wayne Dyer says in the book Real Magic. (One of my very favorite books)
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Can you make a bunch of money and it make you happy? You may, or you may think so but it’s always short lived. Your quality of life sucks with out a solid spiritual base. Trust me I know. I overdosed on drugs twice in my early 20′s because I was making loads of cash but didn’t have god in my life as a solid spiritual foundation. When money was my only focus my happiness always depended on the money.
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When I didn’t have any money I always seemed unhappy. Hence the cycle starts all over.
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Have you ever felt like that? Where money always has seemed like your focus? Your wealth is on the inside to begin with. My struggles with money have been deep.
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Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a experiencing a bunch of money and I mean a bunch. I just feel it’s a result of a life well lived.
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To know the problem is one thing. To take action about it is another.
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Steps to Overcome Your Fear
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How do you over come your fear of failure, your fear of judgment, your fear of not being accepted, your fear of being being broke etc. Here are a few insights to overcoming your fear:
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1. ACCEPT IT! Quit fighting your fear and just say, “If that occurred what would be the worst thing that could happen?” Yes this is from the Sedona Method and it’s very powerful.
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Your thoughts are things. There’s certainly something to be said about the power of positive thinking and that it’s very powerful. Once you don’t give your fear anymore power it tends to diminish. You’re now able to fail forward with out worry.
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2. Make it a priority to focus on what you do want rather than what you don’t want. Even though our brains love to focus on what we don’t want because it takes much less effort than thinking about what we do want. There are 4 reasons people settle for less but more importantly 4 ways to overcome them.
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By the way focusing on what you do want is why the book Think and Grow Rich is one of the most touted books by successful people. Because of the principles behind it. Did you know that there are 13 principles that the 500 most successful people in history all shared in common?
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Want to know what they are? Buy the book! Invest in yourself!
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3. Surround yourself with positive influences, people and education. Mastermind groups locally are a great advantage to people who don’t have positive people around them. I’m of the belief that anyone can find a way to be around success minded people.
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Offer to be of service to people who are successful. I could do a whole post on this one alone. When I didn’t have any success I offered my services to someone who was successful and brought as much value to the relationship as possible.
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You see, lots of people won’t do this because they don’t see any money in their pockets after the giving of their time. However it’s not the exchange of money I’m after. It’s the successful persons knowledge, skill idea’s and awareness that I desire. That’s worth more than giving me $10 for me doing some work for them.
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I could go on for a long time on that alone but with the internet these days and having access to blogs, audio programs, video (which I’m about to start up on this blog) and places like Facebook and Myspace with online masterminding you can always have access to people who are more successful than you. (monetarily speaking of course)
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The Most Important Questions You Can Ask
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I have to wrap this post up because man I could go on with this stuff in so much more detail (And I probably will if you let me know you’d like to read it) but I want you to picture something for a second.
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photo credit: autumnal fires
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Picture yourself in the above picture. You find your self looking out over the water one morning asking your self…
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Is it in the realm of possibility that your fear of success could disappear one day? Is it with in the realm of possibility that you could find your self one day soon, looking forward instead of backwards?
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Could you be so focused on the books you’re reading, the relationships you’ve surrounded your self with, and the new projects you’ve started spare time part time to improve your health, wealth and spirit that you are no longer looking back, that you’re only focused on forwards?
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Now is it with in the realm of possibility that just in the fact you’re in such a pursuit that you find yourself more connected, more in love with you and more satisfied than you’ve ever found yourself before?
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Go back to the picture and imagine these possibilities.
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This is what successful people do. Now you now what my good friend Saiful meant and why he’s so excited to live in Constant and Never ending Improvement.
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I wish you love and light.
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