Your Own Internal GPS – Trust Your Feelings

Today we’ll talk about your own internal GPS. Once you discover the power of listening to your emotions, you’ll never be lost in the unknown anymore.

You have to trust your feelings.

The rule is very simple, if it feels good; you’re going in the right direction. If it doesn’t feel right, something has to change.

You have to be careful about what you change though.

I was once very unhappy at work and the most important thing to change was my attitude and thoughts towards my work – the solution was NOT to change job.

Of course, changing job can help too, as you can find more satisfying tasks or coworkers.

But if the dissatisfaction lives INSIDE you, in your own thoughts and programming, it will follow you everywhere you go!

So this means that feeling bad indicates you must change something WITHIN yourself.

I know, it can be very difficult.

You shouldn’t even necessarily aim at feeling good at first, simply trying to feel better might be a better goal.

Esther and Jerry Hicks, in their book Ask And It Is Given, list 22 emotional states which make a continuum you can progress on, from the worst to the best.

They say that the goal should be to simply entertain thoughts from the level above your current situation, not aim for the top of the scale right away

This is because results can take time to show up.

It personally took me roughly 6 months to start seeing noticeable results when I started working on improving my attitude.

Of course, I saw improvements even in the first week. But it went up, and down, and up, and down again.

So there are many encouraging periods where you see improvements, but there are also many periods when you wander if all your efforts are worth it.

Honestly, both periods can be a challenge. Because even when you are feeling better, it can be easy to slow down on your personal development exercises and slowly move back into your old paradigm.

So neither your progress nor your setbacks should deter you from persisting in your daily exercises.

The only single way to change your subconscious programming for better, more fulfilling thoughts is with TIME.

Some days you’ll feel you’ve made a tremendous jump forward, some days you’ll feel you’ve taken a step back.

That’s all surface work.

THE REAL STUFF IS HAPPENING DEEP DOWN YOURSELF, SLOWLY AND INCREMENTALLY.

You’re either slowly moving forward, or slowly moving backwards.

This is why I believe so much in the power of rituals: they are the main catalysts of change.

This is very deceiving because we don’t see how these small exercises change us from day to day.

It’s like writing a page a day for an entire year and realizing that we have an entire book written by the end of the year. It never felt like writing a book, and it surely is an easier process than giving ourselves the task of writing a book. Simply focus on the page you have to write today.

The book will write itself, as long as you are PERSISTENT.

This is also why listening to your emotions is very important because they are the indicator of whether you are moving forward or not.

Just like with the book, it’s hard to see if, overall, our year is moving forward or not.

As I said, some days will be good, some will be tough.

But you simply need to have faith that the good days will add up and will change your paradigm for one that is more open, joyous and peaceful.

I built a course on persistence which I recommend if you need a virtual accountability partner to realize your BIG dream.

Also consider reading my other articles on persistence.

Improve Your Life with a Gratitude Journal

You might have heard that using gratitude accelerates the manifestation of your dream.

I took me a while to discover WHY though.

If you are grateful for your current situation, and equally grateful for your visualized situation, then you are creating a “bridge” that connects both together.

We saw before that what matters most is the FEELING you feel towards a situation. Therefore, if you are grateful, and remain in that state because you are grateful for both you current and future situations, then you’re closing the gap between both!

So how do you become more grateful?

Well, like anything else, you practice!

Write a gratitude journal every day and think about what you truly appreciate in your life.

Write at least 5 things you are grateful for. Try to be very specific.

It’s more efficient to be grateful for the nice warm weather at lunch time that allowed you to go for a walk around your office building than simply being grateful for the nice weather.

When you are thankful for something more precise, you are training your mind to focus on the positive in your life, and you eventually create more of what you focus on.

Being grateful also ignites a shift in your perception.

Have you ever noticed how differently people can react to the same situation?

Let’s say you were supposed to go hiking this weekend but it started raining. Some people will go anyway and won’t notice it more than having to wear a rain jacket. Others will be upset and will simply stay at home. Some others will take this opportunity to visit friends and be surprised that their day turned out to be even more exciting than expected.

It’s all the same rain for everybody, but all with very different perceptions and outcomes.

There is always both positive and negative in everything. It’s simply a matter of CHOOSING to view the most favourable perspective.

After all, the rain isn’t affected by your reaction, but YOU are!

Haven’t you noticed that when you get very upset about something, everything else seems to be tainted by anger for the following few hours?

And have you realized that, when you are in a very good mood, even the things that usually bother you seem to bother you less?

Your life becomes a lot more enjoyable when you realize that you have power over things and events through your reactions.

Letting something bother you, or not, is up to you.

When you take ownership of you feelings, you start to realize that you can control them and recognize that you have the power on how your day goes.

Of course, it’s not simply a matter of awareness.

It takes practice to learn to consistently see things positively.

It’s not a linear process either. When you start trying to see things positively, you also have to learn to let go.

You cannot force yourself to “not care” about something that really bothers you.

But you can focus your energy and thoughts elsewhere, on something more pleasant.

Gradually, you will learn to let go of your grip on what displeases you and disturbs your positive vibrations.

Read this article to get more tips on increasing your persistence to reach your goals.

Or, if you want to take the achievement of your dreams to the next level, check out my course on persistence!

How to Accomplish Goals whether Financial, Personal or Career related

How to Accomplish Goals whether Financial, Personal or Career related

Do you have all the money that you’d like? Does it come to you easily?

But what is money exactly?

Money is a tool we use to measure the value of things.

The money you earn is a compensation for the value you provide.

If you trade your time for money, which is what we call a job, then the amount you earn is limited by your physical presence, the usefulness of your work, the ability to replace you, and the quality of your work.

Even if you are a lawyer who charges $1000 per hour, you are still limited by the number of hours in your week.

So the key to making a lot of money is somewhere else.

What you need to do in fact is to detach your income from your physical presence.

How do you do that? You create information product! It includes blogs like this one, songs, books and eBooks, online courses, reviews, etc.

Of course, this requires some upfront work. But once your product is recorded, it’s simply a matter of selling it. And if you created something of value, it will be no problem to find people to sell it for a percentage of the profits.

So again, just like your salary, it’s a matter of value. When you work at a job, you get paid for the value you provide in return of your time spent at work.

When you sell information products, you get paid for the value you provide to each individual who is interested by your product.

Makes sense?

But you don’t focus on making money, you focus on adding value. Put your attention on helping others. Ask yourself how you can help people doing what you love.

Of course, the main challenge will be to find the persistence to create a quality product.

This requires time and effort, so that’s when this course comes in!

It gives you the tools you need to stay focused and to bring your project to completion.

Another important aspect of earning money is to have the right mindset. As you will see in the course, what you believe is crucial in the determination of the outcome.

If you don’t believe that you can earn a lot of money, by creating an information product or by doing anything else, you won’t even AIM at making a lot of money.

So I hope that you dream requires a lot of money. Because if it does, and as you visualize it more and more, your requirement for more money will increase as well.

And when you have a need, you brain will automatically start looking for ways to fulfill that need.

Your mindset will gradually shift to welcome ideas of wealth.

And the ability to handle a lot of wealth is closely related to personal growth.

As T Harv Eker says it: if you work hard on your job, you make a living, but if you work hard on yourself, you make a fortune.

When you start working on yourself, through meditation and exercise, or by expanding your knowledge, you’ll naturally attract opportunities.

Focus on feeling worthy and you will become what you visualize.

Click here to get the first FREE lesson of the Winners Shine course on Reaching Your Goals.

To read more about developing persistence click here.

How to Set Your Goals and Achieve Them? Celebrate!

How to Set Your Goals and Achieve Them? Celebrate!

In the beginning I often forgot to celebrate my successes.

In fact, my entire concept of successes was screwed up. I saw success as a major accomplishment that had to be absolute perfection to be worth anything at all.

I only started moving forward after I recognized success as:

1. Something small
2. Something imperfect
3. A process

Success is not getting to the top of the ladder; success is every additional ladder rung that is now behind you.

You must have heard the cliché that success is not a destination; it is a journey. Well, I can assure you that you won’t find true happiness until you understand the full extent of that quote.

There is always more you can get, more you can achieve, so you’d better enjoy the process because you will never reach the ONE final goal!

It never stops because not wanting expansion means entropy and death. This is the basic nature of our ever-expanding spirit!

Simply doing this program is a success in itself. Even if that’s all you do toward your personal development, that’s already a big achievement.

Most of our subconscious minds are programmed to disregard “small” successes and keep us in procrastination.

But, if you start celebrating even your smallest successes, you will gradually gain momentum and realize bigger and bigger accomplishments.

A common problem is the failure to see the connection between the small steps and the big goal.

The most important part is to BELIEVE in your dream! Because if you don’t believe you can achieve it, you won’t put in the efforts to realize it.

Belief is what will lift you up the ground until you see the materialization of your efforts.

Oprah herself said it: you don’t get what you want, you get what you believe!

In order to believe, you need to act as if the accomplishment was a given fact, which it is if you act towards it!

That’s what differentiates successful people from others who aren’t; your reaction when you face adversity. Those who keep going eventually succeed, it is a law.

Think about all the visionaries, the inventors and the idealists. Most people thought they were crazy at first. Nobody could ever invent a flying machine. There’s no way we could be connected to all the data in the world on a wireless device. All races will never be treated in the same manner.

All successes really are a matter of WHEN they will come to fruition, not a matter of WHETHER they are possible or not.

Bob Proctor’s definition of success is: The PROGRESSIVE realization of a worthy ideal. The important word here is “progressive”. You are successful as long as you try, you have failed only when you quit, and you keep trying until you believe it is possible!

As I said initially, what matters now is to celebrate. We need to improve our definition of success by celebrating every step of the way. That way, you remain motivated along the way and your perseverance doesn’t wane because the goal seems to be far and unreachable.

The reward needs to be proportionate with your action. It doesn’t matter so much if you lie to your life coach. What matters tremendously though is if you lie to yourself!

Are you proud of your accomplishments? Are you proud to have taken the first step towards your big dream?

If you have taken the actions you were supposed to, go ahead and enjoy the reward you promised yourself!

If not, you have to be fair with yourself and postpone the reward you have accomplished what you were supposed to.