Want to Take It to Another Level?

When going outside the known and our comfort zone, when choosing to take ourselves to another level, it’s likely new tools and skills will be needed. This has nothing to do with not being good enough or a reason to be afraid of rejection!

Once we get over our stories – “yes, buts,” “you don’t understand,”  “I was told this is the way it is (or I am),” “there’s nothing that can be done” and countless other reasons we try to legitimize why we do things the way we’ve always done – new solutions can appear.

The answers to get you through any challenge live within you. You’ll either get pointed in a direction, a direct insight will come, you’ll overhear something helpful by chance… somehow your personal GPS will show you the way.

Pay attention to your inner nudges. They provide clues.

Be open to step back and see things in a new perspective. The seemingly impossible may actually be possible with a different approach.

Niels Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922, wrote this:

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

Bohr, who contributed to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, tapped into his creativity to use outside the box thinking, which allowed him to be part of breakthrough discoveries.

Expand your territory. Change your perspective. Open to breakthroughs.

Excerpted from Soulgoals’ Post of March 26, 2018

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Discouraged about Business or Life?

A client came to see me who felt the proverbial wind was out of her sails. During her session, I wrote beliefs she sadly communicated:

• Nobody is attracted to me because I’m fat.
• People will have to know me before they like me, but I’m not going to have people attracted to me because of my appearance.
• I often feel invisible – people may not remember me by name. 

At first, she resisted my writing her beliefs. Later, when she looked at them objectively, she knew they didn’t make sense.   Her beliefs implied she valued the shallow opinions of strangers more than she valued her own.   She realized she acted aloof, before others could be aloof to her, as a protective, preemptive strike. Even if she gave them a chance to act differently, they felt her fear and behaved in a way that justified her belief. Either way, her self-fulfilling prophecy echoed her unconscious whisperings.   She plugged her energy circuits into what strangers might think about her.   I heard writing is God’s way of showing us our sloppy thinking. Our thoughts and feelings become more translucent when we read them later. Writing is a tool to break our hypnotic spell of what’s not real and wake up.     Fearing others gives away our power.   I knew a man who was emotionally volatile and acted like a human powder keg ready to go off at any time. Once he called me on a Saturday at midnight and demanded I never talk to his wife again. She called me several days earlier to ask me a benign question about a discussion group of mine they planned to attend. He threatened me by saying he knew where I lived, and their house was a two-minute car ride from mine.   At first, I backed off afraid he would explode and harm me. Then, I realized that by avoiding him through fear, I gave him my power. I stopped my dealings with him because I chose not to associate with him. Therefore, instead of avoiding him because of fear, I kept my power.   The same is true in the business world. Fear of rejection may be present when making a sale or communicating an idea to others. What if they don’t like our product or idea?   What if they do?     Illusions can create pain.   The moment we spotlight our attention on our illusory perspective, the hypnotic effect is broken. We become present.   “But you don’t understand. Nobody loves me. Look what happened to me. My mother abandoned me as a child, and I spent my life feeling empty.  My husband divorced me. I have no control of my life, and I’m a victim of circumstances.”   All that really happened was that her mother left, and her husband divorced her. How she chose to interpret those experiences, the spin she put on the story, and where she gave up her power was her choice.   Dave Thomas of Wendy’s fame was born out of wedlock, put up for adoption, lived in squalor as a child, and was on his own before age 15. By not plugging his energy into a story of a woeful childhood, he left a legacy as both an entrepreneur with a restaurant empire and a world-class champion for adopting children with the Dave Thomas Foundation.   Where do you plug your energy circuits?   Continuing to look at life in a non-supportive way is addictive.  To see yourself as “less than” is a habit that you have the ability to shift. You CAN change your perspective. How? Choose to. You are so powerful that you can choose to see you and your life in an even more empowering way… and watch as you renew yourself to reflect your new mindset.   Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to identify what depletes your energy.

• What do you plug your energy into outside of yourself? Is it a person, thing, group, belief, past experience or idea?
• When you do this, what or who controls you?
• Are you blindly believing what others tell you is true?
• How does this relate to your energy depletion of discouragement, anger or other emotion?
• If not this, what does?
• What’s another way you can look at this?
• What can you do to get on a new track? Go a step at a time to do this.   

Success Thought:

Recognition of your addictions requires inner work. It requires that you look clearly at the places where you lose power in your life, where you are controlled by external circumstances. It requires going through your defenses… Once an addiction has been acknowledged, it cannot be ignored, and it cannot be released without changing your life, without changing your self-image, without changing your entire perceptual and conceptual framework. We do not want to do that because it is our nature to resist change. Therefore, we resist acknowledging our addictions.
 
GARY ZUKAV, The Seat of the Soul

With a zest for Life,
 
Virginia

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