Just some thoughts

I love life...i believe it is an opportunity to explore the world in which we live. Its a chance to taste the different smells and tastes that surround us. However one of the most precious gifts we have while here on earth is the gift of friendships. Rather than be busy chasing things..as Zig Ziglar says if we help enough other people get what thye want then we will eventually get what we want. I have some really special people in my life. I must work on these...otherwise life and people will slip away unless i take time to sow love, hope, respect and time into these people. What an opportunity to help others be the best they can be. I have opportunites to speak into lives. I have opportunties to build others up. I have oipportunites to be the best i can be. What a great day.

Urgency

We have one day...we have this moment in which we have an opportunity. Every day we are presented a fork in the road. It is our choice in which one we travel. If we choose to not decide then we choose the path of least resistance...therefore we are walking the road of desperation. We need to be passionate about what we do and pursue the road we want. We can't leave it up to others to decide what road for us to take. Today you have 2 roads in front of the you. Why wait..choose the less travelled road. If you keep doing the same things then you are going to keep getting the same results. It is time to get a sense of urgency and pursue the life you desire.

Power of Focus

In the modern day and age it is amazing how fast paced life can get. We get so busy getting things done that we spend little time working on the things that are most important. It isnt always the big things that cause the hinderances...it can simply be the desk that is untidy. An unkempt bed. A messy car. These are all reflections of what is going on inside of us. The importance of being organised is not just the fact we are more able to focus. It saves the wasted time of looking for things.
For me my desk at home and at work is one of the places I spend a lot of time. Therefore it is important that we follow a system that works.

Here is a forumla that i have found to be very good:

Your office desk is like your second home. You stay and work there for the entire duration of your work hours. As such, you must see to it that you are comfortable and functional working there. You must see to it that it is organized.

But how do you organize your desk? How do you make it work for you? Well, the answer is as simple as the ABC: Arrange, Beautify, Clean.

Arrange

Your desk should have a certain system - and one that works for you. For instance, if you are more of the obsessive-compulsive type, then you would naturally want your items to have a proper order. For instance, all writing materials should be placed near one another and all documents and references should be on the same side.

Another way of organizing the items on your desk is by arranging them according to "frequency of use." What are the items that you frequently use? What are the things that are rarely taken out of the drawer?

Once you already have the complete list of the frequently used items (such as pens, papers, staplers, paper clips) and those that are rarely utilized (such as books, old clients' profile) then you can proceed with putting them in the right places. Make the frequently used items very accessible - and keep the seldom-used items far below your drawers.

Beautify

It's not enough to simply put the right items in the right places - as in the case of arranging the items on your desk. You also need to add aesthetics into your workstation. You can put photo frames, but just don't overdo this. You can even place a jar of candies or cookies for your guests and visitors. For a little touch of elegance, make use of desk organizers or desk business card holders.

Using minimalist lamps, earth-toned bookends and gold-plated pen holders would also be a fine way of incorporating aesthetics into your neatly-arranged desk.

Clean

Regardless of how sophisticated your desk organizer is or how efficiently arranged your desk items are, but if you don't observe cleanliness, your workstation would not be that appealing. Scattered papers and poorly arranged books and documents would always be a sore sight.

Therefore, to complete the perfect look of your desk, make it a point to keep it clean. In fact, make a habit out of cleanliness. For instance, as soon as you get in, be sure to wipe your desk with tissue and alcohol. It will give your desk a sense of freshness and cleanliness. Also, resist the urge to leave things unarranged. Regardless of how busy you are, make it a point to place them back to their respective "compartments."

By doing this, not only will you be inspired to work, but your colleagues would be more than happy to drop by your place because you have a very attractive workstation.

Organizing your desk is indeed as easy as ABC. You don't need to have complicated skills or to be


Remember that the clearer and tidier we are the better focused we are:

Fraser

Coaching

I was listening to an audio excert by napoleon Hill today and a phrase that he said made me sit up and listen. He said something along the lines of "...when i was being coached by Andrew Carengie I.." It was just the words that he used...coached. I have always associated the two of them working hand in hand yet I had never seen it from this angle.
Anthony Robbins comments that you find someone who has done what you want and then copy them. What about Tiger Woods? He is coached not by someone who is better than him but by someone who can help get the best out of him. I have been thinking recently that coaches should be further along the journey that us...me. However this isnt the case. They can be in a plce to help us get to the best place we can.
Everyday/night i review what I have done..asking what have i learnt? How hae i improved? A new question I will be adding is what have the people around me taught me today. No thing (Nothing) happens by mere accident..it is al aimed at helping us be the best we can. However am I, are you stopping and noticing the messages the universe is sending?

Here is a link for a great video on coaching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSM1mvMypWU

Thanks


Fraser

some succeed...some fail...why

The successful person knows precisely what he desires, has a plan for getting it, believes in his ability to get it, and devotes a major portion of his time to acquiring it.

The failure has no definite purpose in life, believes that all success is the result of "luck," and moves on his own initiative only when forced to do so.

Too often people blame others for where they are...however one of the traits of the truely successful goal achievers is they reaslise they choose to be where they are.

In the past few days the people of Samoa had to endure something they did not choose. However where they go from now is their choice. Some will see it as a failure and others will see it as an opportunity.

I am presently working with my personal coach and we are putting my life goals into a book. Each of the steps is a chapter in the book. It is a very effective method and I more than willing to share this great approach.

Remember we must be clear about what we want. The clearer we are in our mind the clearer it is out there.We cant afford to be wasting time thinking about what we will be doing..this is done in the planning stages...then it just a matter of doing it.

Lets be on the side that makes the life of our design.

Till next time

Fraze

Faith

It is so important that we have clarity on what we want. The universe does not tell the difference between yesterday...today or tomorrow. It is timeless. Therefore as we work through identifying what we want we need to state and see ourseleves in posssion of the end picture. As`Stephen Covey comments...begin with the end in mind. We need to state what are becoming. I have read hundreds of stories of where people have done this. There too was a time when i was going overseas. There was a group of us attending. I didnt hqave the funds to pay for the trip...yet i knew that i knew i would be going. The leader of the group came to me 7 days before we were due to go and he asked me if i wanted to reconsider. I answered no as i knew the money would arrive.
The money for the tickets and accomodation was all cleared 3 days prior to going. I held the image within regardless of what was going on around me. There is an important thing to apply. The universe sees the difference between what it sees and what is happening and starts shifting things to match the two.

I hope you have a great week and i look forward to next time.

Mama Mia

For months nowwe have been looking forward to going to Moma Mia. It seems an age sine we have booked the tickets. It reminds me of how important it is to take steps to make this moment count. Every day we ae either moving closer to or further away from our goals. Every single thing we do is either a positive of negative thing happening to us. Is this opportunity moving me closer or further away from where I want to go? There is no point asking if its good or bad for me as it will be both. The bottom lne is this task/ opportunity moving me closer or further away?
Many months ago we chose to move to Mama Mia and we took steps to it make happen.
Till next time
Think today and enjoy tomorrow.

Thoughts and health

Recently I have been thinking about the things we think about and how powerful our mind is vital when we are feeling good and when we are feeling low. Otherwise the hour of adversity, poverty or defeat. The other is in the hour of success, when a person begins to feel superior to others because of his material possessions.

At the first danger point, it may be helpful to remember that it seems to be the nature of people to withhold assistance from those who need it most. When you are on the way up, struggling to gain recognition in your chosen field of service, you often feel that no one wishes to give you a helping hand. But once you arrive, everyone wishes to do something to help you - when you don't need it!

"For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." (Matthew 25:29.)

This strange paradox reflects the nature of the law of harmonious attraction through which like attracts like--success brings more success, failure more failure. Whatever you accept from life, good or bad, will surely become a part of you.

Which is only another way of saying that the pictures you form in your imagination, the mental attitude you allow to dominate your mind, translate themselves into their material equivalent through every means that may be available.

Successful people safeguard their mental attitude so carefully that they do not accept from life anything they do not desire. They may meet with unpleasant circumstances which lead to temporary defeat, but they accept these only as temporary means of inspiration to greater effort.

The successful person has learned that "whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe the mind of man can achieve." And this person keeps on keeping on until he converts his stumbling blocks into stepping stones. He knows that with every adversity comes the seed of an equivalent benefit.

At the second danger point it may be helpful to remember that riches of the purse, without the softening influence of gratitude, may become more of a curse than a blessing.

"Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in Vain." (Proverbs 30:8-9.)

Of the two danger points, the second is by far the most treacherous. Most men can manage somehow to live with poverty, defeat and failure. But few men ever learn how to live graciously with success and overabundance of material riches.

Nearly everyone fears poverty and shuns it as best he can unless he learns that poverty can become a great and powerful incentive for personal achievement.

It should be encouraging to the poverty-stricken to remember that most of those whom the world has recognized as truly great, began in poverty, mastered it and converted it into inspiration for personal initiative.

Out of Thomas A. Edison's poverty came the greatest inventor of all times.

Out of Charles Dickens' poverty came masterpieces of literature that have enriched the world.

Out of Abraham Lincoln's poverty came what most Americans believe to have been our greatest president.

Somewhere, between the extremes of too much and too little, there is a safety point at which one may find peace of mind and a labor of love that will provide the necessities of life.

All my experience and observations of others have proved to me that this desirable half-way point is attained by those who extend the space they occupy in the hearts of others by rendering more service and better service than is expected of them.

This habit of "going the extra mile" is the one sure way by which poverty may be converted into riches, failure into success. And it is the one method which has no unpleasant repercussions.

Lastly, it may be helpful if the person who has accumulated great material riches would learn to express to the proper source, his gratitude for his good fortune, through this daily habit:

"O, Infinite Intelligence, I ask not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to make better use of the riches I already possess in the exclusive privilege of directing my own mind to ends of my own choice."

Remember to watch what you think

Power of our mind in health

Recently I have been the most unwell I have been in my entire life. I have been run down with no energy and this past week my shoulder has had an infection. I have been asking myself what is the cause of this? What is my body trying to tell me? Then I was reminded of the power of my mind in the healing process.
There is a story that I came across:

A little while ago we had a visitor from the great state of Texas, who brought with her the largest assortment of self-prescribed drugs I have ever known one person to possess.

She carried a suitcase filled entirely with tranquilizers, aspirin, sleeping pills, bromides, stomach settlers, and nerve pills which she took at regular periods set by an alarm clock.

She ran out of one of her drugs during the night and I had to get out of bed to go down town and get her a new supply. Here was hypochondria (imaginary ailments) at its worst.

The imagination is a powerful thing. It can make people sick and it can make them well. It has been estimated that 75 per cent of the people who think they are sick have nothing wrong with them that their own minds could not correct.

Drugs, properly prescribed by skilled doctors, can be a blessing. In the field of medical research the dreaded disease of cancer is rapidly being tracked down and eventually may be brought under complete control through drugs.

But imaginary ailments which send people to the pill bottle every time they feel the slightest discomfort is a growing evil in America.

Physical pain is wonderful - wonderful because it is nature's language which every living creature understands and heeds. But the person who cuts the line of communication, when pain is sending out a hurry-up call to the brain for help, thereby affronts the Creator who gave man this very necessary signal system.

The person who needs, or thinks he needs, a "pain killer" also needs something more. He needs to find out what is causing the pain.

I have "pains" at times, but I also have a remedy which does a remarkable job of driving them away. It is a simple remedy. I get busy in my garden until I work up a healthy perspiration, or I whip up the keys of my typewriter so enthusiastically that the "pain" becomes disgusted and goes away.

I also have another remedy which serves as a sort of overall insurance against physical ailments. I keep myself so busy doing the things I like to do that physical ailments cannot get into my consciousness.

You can build up a "sound health consciousness" by a very simple procedure: every night just before going to sleep offer a prayer of gratitude for being blessed with sound health during the day.

When you arise the next morning, express the same sort of prayer for the dynamic energy and fine health you expect to enjoy throughout the day. Do this with enthusiasm and you will be surprised at what a wonderful effect it will have on your physical body as well as your mind.

Then clean out your medicine chest and throw the contents down the drain. Place a neatly printed announcement on the mirror of your medicine chest: "When I need drugs I will have my doctor prescribe them."

There may be times when you will need drugs, but you will display practical wisdom if you don't try to determine for yourself when you need them, or which ones you need. This is the work of doctors.

Of course, you can overdo the "doctor habit" also.

If you will form the habit of thinking of yourself as sound, energetic, and full of the joy of living -- and keep so busy at your work that you feel you can't afford such "luxuries" as physical illness - you will seldom need a doctor.

At birth you came into this world blessed with many miraculous things. One of these was an invisible doctor and a chemist that assimilates your food and diverts it into the health and maintenance needs of your physical body.

You can do your part in helping these servants by keeping your mind free from thoughts of physical pain and ailments.

And when you have a sleepless night, instead of rushing to the sleeping pills, try singing the little song which says, "When you are tired and can't go to sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep."

Whether ailing or not, I know of nothing that will bring peace of mind and sound health more quickly than the habit of counting one's blessings and recognizing them in a prayer of gratitude.

Each night before i retire to bed i give thanks for the day and the things I have learnt and how I have aided others. This is a new day. I am at my peak health.

I look forward to our next meeting.

Fraser

Positive mental Attitude

It is often said that the rich tend to become richer and the poor to become poorer.
My own observations seem to only confirm this...

The Bible puts it this way: “For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” (Matthew 13v12)

It’s also a fact that possessions are to be used, not stored.
Whatever we own, we must use or lose.

Strange, too, is the fact that only one thing is permanent in this universe – eternal change. Nothing remains exactly the same for even a second. Even the physical body in which we live changes constantly. We are either getting on with living, or we are getting on with living.

You can test these statements against your own experience.

When a person is struggling for recognition and advancement, seldom does he find anyone to give him a boost. But once he makes the grade, people stand in line to offer him help.

Through what I call the law of harmonious attraction, like attracts like in all circumstances. Success attracts success. Failure attracts more failure. Throughout our lives we are beneficiaries or victims of a force which carries us inexorably toward success or failure.

The idea is to get on the “success beam” rather than the “failure beam.”

How can you do this? Simple. The answer lies in adopting a positive mental attitude that will help you shape the course of your own destiny rather than drifting along at the mercy of life’s adversities.

You have been endowed with power to think, to aspire, to hope, to direct your life toward any goal you seek. It’s the only thing over which you have the complete unchallenged privilege of control.

But you must embrace this prerogative – and use it – or suffer severe penalties. Truly, whatever it is we possess -- material, mental or spiritual – we must use or lose.

First, clearly define the position you want to attain in life. Then say to yourself: “I can do it . . . I can do it now.”

Chart the steps you must take to reach your goal. Take them one at a time, and you’ll find that with each piecemeal success the next step comes easier as more and more people are attracted to help you achieve your ultimate purpose.
Day by day make a list of 5 things to move you closer to your goal and you will make progress each and every day.

Remember that you can’t stand still. You must move toward success or failure. The choice is yours alone

thoughts become things

The first thing a travel agent asks you when you call is where do you want to go. In our life we have the same question being posed to us....where do we/ you want to go. I am where I am today because of the options I chose yesterday. At my level of awarness it seemed like the best option. However as things unraveled it may not have been the best option. Stephen Covey the authopr of the 7 Habits refers to begining with the end in mind. Before we even start on our goals we need to clearly have a visual image of where we are going and who we are becoming. This is important to ask because we need to continually be looking at the picture and see if we are closing the gap. We may be travelling miles and miles but unless it is on target towards where we want to go then it is of no value. I need to self check my thoughts and ask if they are leading me closer to my destination. Thoughts that we hold and feed in our mind do truely become things. Have a great day.

Film Projector

Our body is much like a film projector. It is displaying/projecting the images we hold in our mind. What am i filling my mind with throughout the day? Am I getting caught up with the gossip, recession and doom and gloom that is rampant around me? I choose to create my relaity. This is the best day I have ever had. I have life. I have breath. I have hope. I have abundance. When i continue to fill my mind with these throughts my subconscious begins to act on them as it is unable to tell the difference between and real and an imagined one. That is what top athletes do...imagine the perject jump, throw and race and then on the day there body is simply projecting the thoughts of their mind. What are you thinking today?

Rabbit Hole

http://www.myamazinguniverse.com/reckoning/movies3.html
This is a movie looking at the power of our thoughts. It is just under 2 hours. I found that it ran without one stop, therefore a great thing for home broadband. I have tried to locate the film via DVD, but even after emailing the host site i have had to resort to only watching it here online.
Following watching the movie you will not be the same. How could I be the same after watching it. Be prepared to find new things and learn new things and most importantly..change. The things we think about are the things we create. It seems so simplistic...yet the more I study and learn about the theme the more i can see how real and true this is. Everything will stay the same until I change my thoughts and fill my mind with thoughts that will lead to change which which will result in change of actions and different results.

Water Crystals

I was reminded of the research of Dr Masaru Emoto and his investigation in regards to the fact that positive printed words had an impact on distilled water. Humans are made up from 90% water. Therefore what impact do words have on us? What thoughts do we allow to remain in our mind?
Every day we have experiences that are nutural. The only thing that makes them positive and or negative are our responces to it. Emoto's research shows that when we allow positive things to enter our mind our being changes.
Today I choose to focus in on what I am in the process of becoming.

attitude

WE cant control what others do to us, but we can control what we do in responce. Are you like my car keys? When i drop them they fall to the table where they remain till someone picks them up. Are you like that? You remain on a high till you are in a low and thats where you stay until you are picked up by someone else? Or are you like the bouncy ball? When a bouncy ball hits the table it bounces right bqack. You have the choice to be up and or down. You choose your responce. Choose to be always looking for the good, dont leave it to others to make a difference.

Choices

I came across a piece of literature that contained an idea that changed my life. It explained that every thing around us that has been made by human beings is the expression of an idea, and that you and I have the ability to create ideas. Think about... it, every company, regardless of how large it may be, is nothing but the expression of a single idea that was once in the mind of one person.
What will you do today?

Interesting reading

I came across a piece of literature that contained an idea that changed my life. It explained that every thing around us that has been made by human beings is the expression of an idea, and that you and I have the ability to create ideas. Think about it, every company, regardless of how large it may be, is nothing but the expression of a single idea that was once in the mind of one person. Unfortunately with most people their ideas are still born. They never breathe the stuff of life into them.

What a thought? To die without knowing what we could acomplish in our life....This is our day. We need to take steps towards our dreams an goals daily.

Decision

I have been watching Beyond the Secret over the past week. It is quite different from the Secret. However it continues to build on the great series. The group discuss the importance of visualising and then they highlight the fact that we must take action on our goals. They wont happen by merely thnking. However if we take one step each day we have begun on the journey.

Beliefs

What do you believe? Where do these thoughts come from? For a long time I have held the thought that it was a sin to be rich. I though having money was evil. However as i have looked at what i believe and why i believe it i have started to walk into freedom. Just image that you are walking to the car and you hear foot steps behind you. Your first belief is that it is some stalker from the local neighbourhood. You start to walk faster and faster. As you increase your pace so does the foot steps behind you. The steps are running behind you. You are about to scream when you hear the person call out your name. You turn to find that it is a work make running to catch you before you went away for the weekend. What caused the confusion. Your belief. The thoughts we think are vital to what we do and achieve. Keep an eye out as i add to the blog ideas and suggestions on how to get laser focused and achieve all that you can.