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Success Strategy tip

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:06:00 GMT

Success strategy tip

In order to be successful in whatever it is you are endeavouring, there are proven formulas to follow, you don't have to rewrite the rule book.

Knowing what to do and doing it are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT things.

Here is a handy tip: Write 2 lists

1. Write yourself a list of 10 things that you do that support your success. Examples may be: getting up early and training, not turning on my computer until 10am, Reading one chapter of a specific subject per day, drinking water first thing and last thing, phoning prospects before 10am or after 3pm, having a coach etc...

2. Then write a list of 10 things you do that do not support your success.

This brings to your conscious mind more of an awareness of when you are in success mode or if you are in sabotage mode.

Spend more time doing the things in list number 1.

Ros Loxton – Great Thinking Life and Results Coaching www.greatthinking.net.au

Lose 5kg before Christmas

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:50:00 GMT

Susie’s Tips for the week ahead

How to lose 5kgs before Christmas
With less than 2 months until Christmas, many of us would like to drop a few extra kg's before the party season. In all seriousness you need to be pretty committed to lose weight at this time of year but it is not impossible. Here are the key things you need to concentrate on:

Choosing a plain salad with 100g chicken, lean beef or fish for lunch and dinner
Alcohol once each week
Skipping for 10 minutes each day
No milk based coffee – plain tea only
Snack 1-2x a day on a piece of fruit or 10-15 nuts
Breakfast as your largest meal
3 cups salad or vegetables each day
1 mixed fruit/vegetable juice mid morning or afternoon
Walk for 30 minutes/day
Enjoy just 1 meal off plan a week or 60 minutes high intensity exercise to compensate for dinners out

By Susie Burrell Nutritionist

Just can't get along with someone

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:48:00 GMT

Just can't get along with someone?

If we are having trouble getting along with someone or several people, it is definitely time to look at our self. The experience we are having is our experience, our feelings, our thoughts.
We can't make other people act how we want them to, and if our contentment or goals are at the mercy of other people acting how we want them to, we stand to experience a vast variety of negative emotions, which, we can project or blame on the other party. This is our mistake!

The answer is, take ownership and take responsibility or your own experience.

If our desired outcome is to interact in a positive way, to have healthy relationships at work or home, to get along with clients, customers, colleges, partners and people across the board, then this will be the experience we will have. If we have a negative experience with someone, it is because we have scanned their information through our mental filters and had a certain emotional and physical experience with that.

Release the judgement and the expectations and replace it with genuinely trying to understand the other parties mind. You don’t have to accept bad behaviour; you just alter your experience with it. Adopt the habit of taking responsibility for how you feel. If we are angry or holding negative judgement, understand we have control to release this... "let go". Stretch yourself and grow your skills to a new level that supports letting go of negative judgement and taking more responsibility for genuinely desiring positive outcomes and interactions.

A great deal of our conflicts or mis communications are a result of us not taking more responsibility to effect a better outcome. Though we feel justified relinquishing our responsibility and blaming someone or something else.

Ask yourself, what could I do or think in this moment that will be more likely deliver a more positive experience and outcome?

At the very least there is always something we can learn.

By Ros Loxton – Great Thinking Life and Results Coaching www.greatthinking.net.au

The art of optimism is a genuine health elixir.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:23:00 GMT

If you want to enjoy a happy life

Learn the ‘art of optimism’....

Look for the positive element in every situation. It is actually like preventative medicine. Granted there are times this practice is particularly challenging, yet it is totally possible, perfect practice makes perfect. This is a practice and a discipline.

It is very easy to find the fault in people, decisions, outcomes and experience. It is a fine and very self gratifying practice to learn the art of optimism and defaulting your behaviour to search for what can be learned or what the positive of any situation is. This actually has a physical or biological effect on your brain that then penetrates into your body. It is just healthier for you. Then by default it is healthier for those around you too. I just had a brief chat with a neighbour who just returned from a 5 week holiday and I learned the 5 things about her trip that she didn’t like! This is an obvious example, and if she had a default habit or behaviour of exercising the ‘art of optimism’ perhaps I would have heard about the 5 most unreal things about her holiday and perhaps she would have had a way better experience on that holiday?

The benefits you stand to gain are:

Increased: intelligence, happy feelings and energy, positive interactions with others, expanded ideas and possibilities or creativity and overall increase in general y positive experiences as little as they may be. Two little good experiences are better then one big bad one! Especially if this is in your control to manufacture.

Decreased: negative experiences, stress or depression or bitterness or hopelessness, negative perceptions, negative thoughts about people or circumstances

If you are looking to see the optimistic aspects of any situation you are far more likely to find them. If you have a default behaviour that gravitates toward seeing the negative in situations or people, you will most certainly find that negative. Then you have a physical experience that is either positive for you or negative for you. The more negative experience your body has emotionally and physically the worse it is for you. The more positive emotional and physical experiences your body and mind has, the better it is for you and consequently those around you.

Optimism isn’t weak, it isn’t about not speaking up or just accepting things for the sake of keeping the peace. It is the fine art of developing a healthier habit. It is understanding what is your ego having too much of the say. It is knowing how to hear what people are saying, so you need to stop the voices in your own head long enough to listen and hear and understand. It is about truly desiring optimistic experiences and outcomes that are win/ win and not win/ lose.

It is about understanding we don’t have control over much of life and we do have control over how we perceive it.

Look for the potential in people and situations. Look for your own potential and most importantly, dig what you are about. Dig who you are and what you stand for and what it is that you want to achieve in your life time. What experiences would you like to have and what contribution to this planet would you like to make.

When you help someone else what happens is, in ways you may not be conscious of, you actually help yourself. When you forgive someone or something, you do more for yourself then meets the eye.

The art of optimism is a genuine health elixir.

are you liberated or limited

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:28:00 GMT

Are you liberated or limited by your ‘self identity’?

All that we are and, all that we have, physically and emotional, are a result of our self identity.

So what is your identity, in your thinking?

If you could actually stand in someone else's shoes, to hear what they hear, see what they see, and feel what they feel, you would honestly wonder what planet they live on, and be totally blown away by how different their "reality" is from yours. You'd also never, in a million years, be quick to judge again.

Your identity is what you believe about yourself, usually subconsciously, with unawareness. Very often a good portion of how we identify with ourselves has been formed from when we were children and reinforced through our teenage years. As adults we are basically limited or liberated by what we believe our identity to be. What we believe our potential to be. What we believe we are good enough for or worthy of. There is a massive disparity from one person to the next with regard to their personal limits or liberations in line with our identities.

Becoming profoundly and deeply aware of how you identify yourself is extremely empowering.

It allows us the opportunity to re arrange our self identity to create freedom from the things that otherwise would limit us unnecessarily.

To get some indication of what your self identity is, observe your life.

· The people you have in your life.
· The material objects you surround yourself with.
· The food you eat.
· The clothes you wear.
· The language you use and things you take interest in.
· The money you do or don’t have.
· Your health.
· Your habits or addictions
· Your goals and aspirations.

As an exercise, imagine if you could pick and choose anything you wanted to have in your life with no limits, what would those things be? Make a list.

When you have a list, compare it to what you do have in your life and notice where the differences are.

Try to imagine what kind of identity you would need to have in order to manifest those things you imagined into your life. Is that identity different to the one you currently associate yourself with? You have the ability to choose.

For an insight into your self identity book a focus and clarity session or to read more

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Genuine Success

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:46:00 GMT

Genuine success

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it .But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid the failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden you or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. BARACK OBAMA

I like the way that Alexander Ozar explains our life being a result of our mind....

Every desire or goal, no matter how big or small, positive or negative, begin with a decision and decisions are products of dynamic thought which arise from an activity of a static source -the mind.
How you think your way to your success depends on several factors which is summarized in two sentences:
1.recognize the fact that you have a right to your own desired success just as you are breathing as a living thing.
2.the willingness to remain always in an atmosphere of success.

You setup a chain of processes within you the moment you visualise consciously what you have the right to possess because the mind and the body coexist in harmony. You have a priceless gift in the power to model (makeup your mind) and remodel (change your mind) your world as you want. The power lies within the life and activity in you which is a part of One Super Life forever active, sensitive and conscious.
Come to think of statements like "you've a picture of what I'm thinking or perhaps where I'm mentally going". Your present situation is where you are mentally or in other words your state of mind. Your external world (happiness, health, wealth, lack, failure, fear, etc) is a manifestation of the world inside of you.
If you think and feel wealth, the mechanism in you will automatically create wealthy situations for you and if you think and feel failure you will definitely experience it.

The statement below is a form of prayer I created for my situation which i recite five hundred times daily and I tell you my life now is full of testimonies .
I strongly recommend you give it a try.

I am aware of the power, ability and will in me which I received at birth, in union with the Universal Mind and Power, to control and direct my mind to achieve my desired goals.

Getting 'THE EDGE'

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:17:00 GMT

Great Results begin with Great Thinking

Getting ‘THE EDGE’ for you, your business and your team

1. Do you and your business have clear goals and strategies? Yes No
2. Are you and your team aligned and engaged with these goals? Yes No
3. Is the culture in your work environment supportive and positive? Yes No
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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:44:00 GMT

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Getting what you want is knowing what you want

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:18:00 GMT

The very act of committing your goals to paper programs them into your subconscious.

Principle 1. Get in touch with what really turns you on

Finding the “right” focus and the right areas in life that you are excited to dedicate your time and energy and life to, will motivate and inspire you toward the fulfilment of your full potential. The “right” goals for you will liberate your imagination and energy, and give you the drive to overcome the obstacles and difficulties that you will experience on the path to your goal. Only big the “right” goals can keep you excited and working enthusiastically every day toward their accomplishment.

Principle 2. Write your goals in the present tense
Your goals must be in writing, in the present tense, as though they already exist. This can be tricky. Imagine who you are and how you feel once you achieve your goals. This is how you can write them in the present tense. Your subconscious only accepts commands that are worded in the present tense, such as, “I weigh 150 pounds,” or “I earn $100,000 per year,” or “I live in a beautiful 3,500-square-foot, custom-designed home.”

Rewrite your goals daily.

Affirm your goals regularly.

Principle 3. Keep your goals in line with your vision.
Your goals must be in balance and cover the three most important areas of your life.

They must be aligned with how your vision your life to ultimately be.

Principle 4. Know your major definite purpose and your life’s vision.
You must decide what your “major definite purpose” is. What are you and your life about. This is the one goal in your life that is more important than any other. This is the one goal that, if accomplished, will allow you to attain more of your other goals. Align your goals with this and the vision for how you want your life to be ultimately.

Principle 5. Stay present.

Goals and visions while future focused are not meant to detract from your sense of being in the moment and living that moment fully rather then missing out on the present because you are so focused in the future or somewhere else.

success strategy we can all adopt

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:39:00 GMT

I love it when you find a different way to say the same thing, and it seems to make more sense to us. I was reading Health News Digest and I enjoyed the way they explained the following...
We are creatures of habit. In fact, our brain has a center called the Limbic Center, which is the center for our emotions, reinforcements and habits. Have a bad habit? Well, the brain doesn't want us to change it, even if it is a negative behavior and even if it hurts us. How can we start? Start small!

Habits are hard to change. Whatever habit we are trying to make, change or stop, it is hard work. When we start with a small change, one which we know we can do, we set ourselves up for success. And most of us know that one success usually leads to another. When we break down a project into its simple components and start with one component at a time, we usually feel less overwhelmed and this can lead to more motivation and inspiration. I told my client to increase his sleep by starting with only an extra 1/2 hour. Start small.

Motivation grows! As we achieve each small success, we feel empowered to continue. Finally, success is not perfection. Experience a slip, mistake or setback? Let's stop and ask ourselves, what can we learn from it and change? Want to become motivated? Start small and succeed!

Think Positive. Research shows that when we believe in ourselves, when we believe we can do something, we are more likely to do it. When we don't think something is possible, research shows that even when it is, we are much less likely to achieve success. Make it small to achieve a positive outcome!

So, is there something we would like to achieve? Is there one small step we can take to get started which we know we can accomplish? An example of something small would be something concrete such as, "I will replace the butter on my bagel with fresh fruit jam". Notice, I'm not giving up the bagel too at the same time!

So, let's not wait another day to get one small change going at a time. Here's to thinking about what we can do, rather than what we haven't done or should!

Tips and Bits February 09

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:22:00 GMT

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us

Who do you'think' you are?
Our identity in our own mind is just that, in our own mind!
Our self perception, who we think we are, creates our experience in our life. We experience life through our own personal filters we unknowingly have developed over time.
We are a physical entity and a thought entity. Our blood flows, our heart beats our breathing happens as with many other bodily functions, seperate from our thinking. Our thinking can however and does effect our body, we have a physical experience in accordance with our thoughts. A very basic one is if we are stressed our body holds tension.
In short, it pays to have useful, productive, healthy thoughts and expectations. How could a bitter, selfish, unkind, unhappy, self degrogating or hateful thought create a positive physical reality? How could a negative expectation deliver a positive result?

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life, not so much by what happens to you, but by the way your mind looks at what happens

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The voices in your head
We have voices in our head non stop. It is our voice, our thoughts, and if we actually verbalised these thoughts and voices in our head as they occur, we would be viewed by society as insane. The only thing in life that we really have any control over, is our thoughts. If we think usefully, positively, with humility and without ego, we can be our own best friend. It would seem to me that positive, useful, kind hearted thinking may have more chance of creating that type of physical reality as well.

Being organised = $$$
Global meltdown or not we can always appreciate ways to be more efficient with money, being organised has many financial benefits. For example you need to make sure you have an effective system for creating and following up invoices. Never ever be too busy to do this....
Read on:    http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,24902469-5017672,00.html

Benefits of Strength Training:

* Increases muscular strength
    * Increases strength of tendons and ligaments
    * Improves flexibility & range of motion of joints
    * Reduces body fat and increases lean body mass (muscle mass)
    * Potentially decreases resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure
    * Positive changes in blood cholesterol
    * Improves glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity
    * Improves strength, balance, and functional ability in older adults
    * Raises your metabolism which causes you to burn more calories 24 hours a day
    * Reverses the natural ageing process which begins around age 30, such as muscle wasting, slowing of metabolism, poor   posture etc.
    * Energizes the rest of your day after your workout.
    * Improves your muscular endurance.
    * Makes you less prone to lower-back injuries and pain.
    * Decreases your risk of developing adult onset diabetes.
    * Decreases your gastrointestinal transit time, reducing your risk for developing colon cancer.
    * Improves your posture.
    * Improves the functioning of your immune system.
    * Lowers your resting heart rate, a sign of a more efficient heart.
    * Elevates your mood
WEB LINK: http://getfitforlife.com.au/index.php?content_id=35

What is your main goal for February?
First of all, you need to write it down and schedule in the steps it takes to make it happen
Here is a great tip to help you do that - www.dailyblogtips.com/put-the-big-rocks-first/

Success
It's not a matter of luck, circumstances or fate, but a direct consequence of having specific measurable goals with a plan of action to achieve them.

Great Thinking Recipe- Turkey Lasagne
It's really yummy (turkey mince costs much less then chicken mince)
I know, it sounds weird!!!
Ingredients
500g turkey mince
onion
egg plant
zucchini
sweet potato
wholemeal lasagne sheets
sesame oil
2 -3 cups milk (I use lactaide as dairy free option)
Chicken stock
vegetable stock
1 1/2 cups water
parmesan cheese
White sauce:
Add milk and 4 tablespoons of wholemeal flour and 1 tablespoon of vegetable stock and stir until thickend
Pre heat oven to 200 degree C and prepare/oil a lasagne dish
Turkey:
In a saucepan:
Fry diced onion in a splash of olive oil, add turkey mince and the a tablespoon of sesame oil then add water with a table spoon of chicken stock mixed into it.
Slice approximately 2m thick, egg plant, zucinni, sweet potato and lightly fry to slightly precook.
Layering
First lay down sheets of lasagne, then the turkey mince, then more lasagne eggplant then more lasagne sheets, then sweet potato and zucchini then more lasagne sheets and then pour over the white sauce and sprinkle lightly with some grated parmesan.

Bake for approx 30 mins

Laughter - lifes medicine
Cheeky monkey - funny clip
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=GhB_72yymEs

Great Thinking - with Ros Loxton
The absolute best time and money you can ever spend is on self improvement/growth
Learn how you tick, how to get more out of yourself and your life
How to bridge the gap between what you have and what you want
Sharpen your personal tools
Stretch yourself beyond your normal activities and either call or email Ros to organize a Coaching for Clarity and Focus session
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain
Contact details:   ros@greatthinking.net.au   m:0400 292 355 www.greatthinking.net.au


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