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.

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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.

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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.

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Reaching Your Goals

For some people, the initial efforts are more difficult. Once they are in motion, it’s easier to keep going.

For others, taking action is easy, it’s the long-term commitment they find challenging.

I belong to the second group. I’ve never had much problem throwing myself in the arena. But my interest quickly wanes and I get bored easily.

No matter if you belong to the first or second group, reaching your goals requires sustained effort. I think I will never say it enough; the MOST important success factor is PERSISTENCE.

Create the Habit

Taking action needs to become a second nature. It needs to be ingrained in your subconscious so you don’t even think about it anymore.

It needs to become natural to act, and the only way to change your habit is to do something repeatedly.

This is how you learned everything: from your mother tongue, to driving, to showering and to how you get dressed. Do you think about what leg you put in your pants when you get dressed every day? No, you simply do it by habit.

Do you remember when you started driving? How you had to focus on every task, on what to do with your feet, your hands, keep your eyes on the road. You couldn’t do anything else because driving required your entire focused attention.

After repetition though, you’re able to have a phone conversation, adjust the heating or change the radio channel, all while still driving safely.

This is because, with repetition, your actions are stored in your subconscious, your internal programs, so that your conscious mind is free to do other things.

We need to do the same with taking action. We need to create a habit that is ingrained in your subconscious mind and you don’t even need to think about having to act, it just comes naturally.

Wouldn’t that be wonderful if you wouldn’t even have to think about getting in motion? It would just happen naturally?

Well, that’s a definite possibility, but you will need to train yourself first. You’ll need to break the old paradigm that keeps you in inertia.

Ritualize Your Actions

In order to do that, the best way that I know is to “ritualize”. That means to incrementally add new activities to your schedule that you do over and over so they become second nature and you don’t have to think about them anymore.

We’ll start with something simple: your dream.

We’ll burn your dream into your subconscious mind so that it becomes a beautiful obsession to realize it.

You’ll need 2 things: a little 3 by 5 inch card and a notebook. My notebook is a beautiful leather-bound book that I received while attending Bob Proctor’s Matrixx seminar. I love using it because it brings back all the memories of what I experienced there.

Yours don’t have to be super fancy, but I find that having a nice one helps me write in it.

What matters for today is simply to start. You can always buy a nicer one later, as long as you start writing NOW.

Also, it MUST be handwritten. Sorry for all the computer lovers who keep an electronic journal, but we need to be old-fashioned for this.

The reason is that your handwriting is directly connected to your subconscious mind. You know how difficult it is to copy someone else’s handwriting. However, you don’t have to think about your own handwriting; it comes completely naturally.

You also probably heard about graphology, the analysis of handwriting that tells about your personality. Your innermost persona can be analyzed as it comes out on paper.

Well, the beauty of it is that it also goes the other way: you can program your subconscious mind through handwriting your desires. This is exactly what we’ll do with your dream!

Using 100% of Your Mind

We’ll work on focusing your entire mind (both conscious and subconscious) towards reaching your goals.

Did you know that 95% of your daily actions come from your preprogrammed subconscious mind, while only 5% come from conscious decisions?

By journaling daily, we occupy some of the 95% of our subconscious mind to the realization of our dream… without any other effort than taking 2 minutes daily to write it!

So, think about your dream again and condense it to a single sentence.

It should be written at the present tense as if you have already accomplished it.

It should also have a completion date and be very specific.

Here’s my dream as an example:

I am so happy and grateful now that, by April 16^th 2018, I own a beautiful beach house in Mill Valley, California and a penthouse in Quebec City, Canada and that I give personal development conferences around the world and live happily with my two kids and boyfriend.

So, every day, until the dream is realized, we’ll copy the sentence in our notebook to burn the desire into our subconscious mind.

You also need to write your dream on a 3 by 5 inch card to carry it with you and read it when you wake up and go to bed. Of course, the more you read it, the better.

But for now, that’ll be enough. We don’t want to overwhelm the mind and try to change our habits too quickly.

Our best ally is PERSISTENCE.

Small efforts done on a persistent basis are worth way more than massive efforts done only over the course of a few months.

Take the time to make your first entry in your journal and to write on your card.