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How will your life be better once you have set and achieved goals?

Being fully aware of the bigger picture being effected, and the real emotional attachment you have to your goal will be your motivation driving you through the steps you need to take to achieve your goal.

You can find the motivation you will need for any goal if you ask why, what will this mean to me?  What will it mean to me if I don’t achieve this goal?

Motivation, once you’ve found it, is the fuel to act on your heart’s desires. You must find motivation to move your goals from a thought process, to your heart’s desire. To begin the process of finding your motivation, complete this interview. Why? Because it will help you discover what motivates you:

·        What are my goals and when do I want them to be achieved?

·        Why are these goals important to me?

·        Why must I reach this goal?

·        How will my life be better by achieving this goal?

·        What am I not prepared to do and what am I prepared to do to achieve this goal?

You have started the process of exposing the motivating reasons behind the goals you’ve created. This information is paramount because the reasons driving your desire to accomplish these five most important goals reveal the motivating elements behind your entire life. Do you see a recurring statement in the purpose of the goals you have created?  When you step back a bit, can you see a recurring theme?

Often the goals we create are messages from our intuition that we have tended to shut down in our new Technological era: become healthier, smarter, love more, learn, become more spiritual. What message can you discern from the motivation behind your goals?

Today's success tip comes from Lisa Messenger.

With a background in sponsorship, marketing and PR, Lisa is currently the managing director of Messenger Marketing and Messenger Publishing. She is also the author of two books, with a six-part series of books soon to be released.


What are your top tips for success?

1. Dream big -

chase your dreams until they become reality and don't be afraid of your passions. If you believe in them enough, you will find an inner strength to achieve them.

2. Don't procrastinate -

try not to postpone anything for the wrong reason. If you have to put something off, make sure it's because the time really isn't right, not because you're too afraid to start.

3. Ban negative thinking -

become aware of the negative patterns you are perpetuating and de-program them. Replace them with positive habits to create a new way of living.

4. Maintain a positive outlook -

believe that you can take on the world - you can! Remain focused and don't let anyone drag you down. Wherever possible, break from convention and take risks.

5. Find a level of inner peace -

believe in a higher power that will take you beyond your emotional and intellectual boundaries. You may surprise yourself by how exciting the journey of personal discovery can be.

6. Find a strong team -

surround yourself with the best people. Create a brilliant team with brilliant minds.

7. Dump -

leave behind anything you are not passionate about. Pursuing ideas that don't sit well with your personal philosophy or ethics is a waste of time and a drain on your energy.

8. Delegate -

pass on anything that doesn't require top-level strategic thinking. That way you can keep yourself clear for important projects, to think and to dream.

9. De-stress -

deal with any issues that could become unmanageable as they arise. I have found that this is a great way to alleviate stress. I have also found it useful to create an effective 'switch-off' mechanism when I'm out of the office. I have an extremely full life with golf, tennis, boxing, kayaking, writing (I am currently working on a novel and co-authoring six non-fiction books), meditation, walking and going to the movies to keep me de-stressed. I'll pretty much try anything once and have managed to create an amazing work/life balance.

10. Know who you are and what you want -

I can now say that I am content and accepting of who I am. I now have a greater awareness of my values and my beliefs. I think it is important to look deep within yourself to realise who you truly are, where you came from and what made you the person you are today. 

11. Love what you do -

if you don't like what you are doing now, change it! Refuse to live a discontented life.

12. Never give up -

sometimes knowing what we want is the hardest part of life. But when I know what it is that I want, I have an uncanny knack of never giving up until I have made it happen. I have so many dreams and never want to close myself off to opportunities. I suppose that is the true essence of an entrepreneurial mind-set.

Fear does not have any special power unless you give it power by submitting to it - Les Brown


What success is

I'd love to hear from you as to what your idea of success is - email ros@greatthinking.net.au or post it in the forum section of my website - www.greatthinking.net.au

I believe, success is self mastery.  To know yourself and to know how to get the best from your self.
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses.  Knowing your goals and values.  Knowing your limits and your boundaries.  Knowing your love language.  Knowing your personality profile and communication style.  Then, knowing others.

Every thing you are against, weakens you.  Everything you are for, empowers you - Wayne Dyer

A body of work

Some basics
Don't you love to turn around and look at the freshly mown lawn that you've labored over.  You made the effort to get fuel, get the mower, organize when to mow and then you mowed.  It is work and the result of your effort is very rewarding.
My point is, you know how good it will look, you make the effort and you get rewarded.
You don't mow half the yard, and you don't have the blades on a setting that barely makes a difference.
What about your body?  What about doing what is required to see good results.
Muscle burns fat.  Build your muscle in order for your body to be way more efficient at burning fat.
Get fitter - Fit is about how well your engine runs
Prioritise regular exercise at least 4 times a week - Prioritizing it is harder then doing it
Eat 6 times a day.  Not huge portions please, it stops snacking and lets your body know it doesn't need to store
Eat the right foods - Less processed and more natural


Lifes problems wouldn't be called hurdles if there wasn't a way to get over them

Did you know

That American presidents age twice as fast whilst in office.  Stress!
I believe this would be similar with any high stress position or lifestyle.
Managing Stress is pretty vital seeing it is in most of our lives.  We start to accept hectic as normal.  It's not!
We lose sight of ourself and become task managers, moving from task to task filing the gaps in with small grabs of R & R.
We let ourself become defined by what is external from us or what our job title is or material things we own or wear.
So if I ask you, who you are, what is your answer?

No Pain No Gain

Our bodies are very skilled at having a mind of there own. 
A workout for example, we decide to be good to ourself and work out with grand intentions of self improvement.  Once our heart rate increases too much beyond comfortable or our muscles start to burn, we back off the steam to return to a more comfortable level of exertion, exercising at a more comfortable pace though still hoping for great results.  When the results don't come, we let the exercise slip way down on the list of priorities.
In order to gain real benefits and make the effort actually worth while, we need to push past the want to stop at the onset of the pain barrier in order to stay in the fat burning range long enough to make it count. That is why personal trainers were invented, they get more out of you then you will get out of yourself. 
The same can be said for the rest of our life.  If we are to strive for things beyond average we need to push through the pain barriers, push beyond our comfort zones, and for long enough to make it count!  That's why Life Coaches were invented.

Many have given up on the brink of success not realising just how close they were to reaching it!


Midnight Snack - Guilt free

This is not just for the girls...

1 tub of weight watchers cottage cheese
1 table spoon of jam (Charles Jacquin - Red Raspberry)
Use a good jam that has no sugar, preservatives or flavours

Stir it together and eat it
or
Spread nice and thick on a piece of rye toast

energy and pesistence conquer all things


Get off to a good start

Happy New Year!
Now is a great time to write down what you would like to achieve in 2009 and why

Set some goals - Get them down in writing
Identify your emotional attachment to them - what is in it for you that will motivate you beyond your comfort zone
Strategise how it will roll out in order to be achieved - the milestones
Diaries these actions on a weekly basis - the baby steps
Get some accountability to keep you on track - a friend or a coach
Be aware of your habitual limits or your comfort zone - don't let it stop you from moving forward

We don't see the world as it is
We see it as we think it is
We can't out perform our self perception or image

Ha ha ha

One of the most successful inventors was the person who invented the hay-bailer, needless to say they made a bundle.


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

Have a spectacular month, just decide your going to!

Our bodies actually have a mind of their own.
Recently I have been working with a Personal fitness trainer and it became screamingly obvious to me that our bodies are very good at giving us messages that we respond to without questioning them.
The result of responding to these signals and not questioning them is that we become essentially efficient at being lazy!
Our heart rate begins to increase and the muscles begin to feel worked and all the messages we are receiving is to STOP!
STOP running, stop expending energy, stop pushing our self past what we know as our 'comfortable'.
So, what pushes us past our "comfortable"?
Why push past our comfortable? 
What is beyond our "comfortable"?
It is our vision for what we wish to achieve!
It is our wishes, our dreams, our Goals.

Pushing beyond our "comfortable" is harder, tougher, requiring far more effort than we expect it is going to take.  So we set off to lose weight or start a business or learn a new skill or to grow and improve in all sorts of ways and when our experience is equal to our heart rate increasing or our muscles burning....

We have 2 choices...
 
So ...
1.  Take the full leap
or
2.  Take a half a leap and land in the canyon.  The canyon is known as the "valley of excuses".

Let's face it, finding all sorts or excuses for not pushing past the pain barrier and pushing our self past our 'comfortable' is less indignant than admitting defeat or worse, acknowledging that we slacked our way back to where we started.

We have our own power to achieve our own happiness.
Let's say you have power equalling 10 points. 
10 points of personal power to use to create things in your life that you desire.
For everything external from you that you blame for your lack of happiness or lack of self success you lose a point of your personal power.
You actually give your personal power to the very thing you place blame on and make it more powerful.  You feed it when you blame it.
You give your power away with lame excuses and ineffective blaming.

1. I didn't want to have children - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
2. I have never been give the opportunities other people have - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
3. My partner makes me feel incapable - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
4. I am too tired to do anything extra - Lost one of your point and gave it to that excuse
5. I had a poor upbringing - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
6. The government aren't supporting me properly - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
7. Nobody showed me how to do it - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
8. This system doesn't work - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
9. I've had no training - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
10. I don't look as good as X - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse
11. I have never been trained - Lost one of your points and gave it to that excuse

The good news is, you can take points back from the blame you initially gave it away to.  Just decide you are going to take full responsibility of finding ways and acting on those ways to achieve what you would like to achieve.  If you got trapped in a sinking vessel you are going to instinctively find every way to get to air rather than relax and sit back
wasting time blaming what sank the ship for not preparing you for this situation.  You immediately use every thinking
mechanism to establish ways to fulfil your needs, which in this case is air.

In the sinking boat situation the threat of death is very proximate and evident by giving your power away to blame.
In most of our cases, it is more like a slow deterioration leading to death when we allow blame to get in the way of our true happiness and our true potential.

Ten Rules for Being Human 

by Cherie Carter-Scott

Are they rose coloured glasses?

Each month “Great Thinking” Personal Coaching updates its blog link depending on a commonality of theme that seems to uncannily reoccur through the month having an effect on so many of my clients within that month.  Perhaps that is a perfect example and therefore an ideal segway into “Are they rose coloured glasses?

To lead into the meat of the blog...To know and not to do is not to know or sometimes we know stuff but we forget it or it gets overshadowed by other moments, thoughts and information.

You see people and situations through your own “coloured glasses”, your own personal set of filters.  Put on a pair of 3d glasses and everything you see is slightly altered.  I would like to hop into other people’s heads sometimes just to see things how they are perceiving things.

The way you perceive ‘things’ is due to the filters you have developed, your personal filters are not in your eyes, they are in your brain, your thoughts, they are in the maps in your brain that have formed over your years of experiences.  We actually see what we are expecting and assuming.  A small easy example of that is when you purchase a new car, all of a sudden you become very aware of and consequently notice heaps of those cars on the road. A slightly more complex explanation of this is perhaps expecting a certain behaviour or result from somebody that is not exactly positive and therefore finding that result and not being pleased with your perceptions.  (This could explain why you don’t see eye to eye with your Mother in law or your co worker or why you find every cab driver in the city very rude etc).

It is an extremely powerful reality to understand and live by in the corporate or business sector or in families and relationships.  If we look for warts and weaknesses, we will see them.  Then we will behave according to what we have perceived.  That’s not rose coloured glasses.  If we look for potential and strong points equally, we will find those or something shimmering in the dust that could manifest into a positive.  A bit like diamond or opal mining, the gem is there in all its glory disguised within a muddy looking rock you would merely step straight over it if you were not looking for it.  I know I have been opal mining.  I know because I have had a team member I was in charge of leading and coaching who was due to be fired due to my leaders only perceiving the muddy rock.  He is now in a promoted position earning six figures in that same company.  If we look for potential and strong points equally, we will find those, then our own behaviour, reaction and thoughts will naturally occur as a result of this perception.  It is a useful habit to adopt.  “Rose coloured glasses”

It is your classic glass half full or half empty with a bit of a lemon twist.  We perceive what we believe.  It is an extremely powerful reality to understand and live by.  Be mindful to this and question your own set of realities, relationships and experiences.  Is there a common theme of positive or negative?  What colour glasses are you wearing?

Just expect to find the potential in everyone.  Have an awesome month Babes.

Throwing punches under water.

Change – an inevitable aspect of our existence.  Nothing stays exactly the same, though seemingly so in some cases.  An Island looks the same in one persons snap shot lifetime, though, over time the island is constantly moving, growing, shrinking and changing whether you like it or not and wether it suits you or not. 

A pyramid, seemingly steadfast, though over time is eroding and changing.

What doesn’t change is change itself.  Change while constant and often silent can be met with such resistance.  Resistance that is like throwing punches underwater, pointless.  The changing landscape of our societies systems can be in direct conflict with what we have come to know and how we have formed our life around those things we have come to know.  We often resist the inevitable changes – aging, death, relationships ending or starting, development within our community or country or workplace our economy and what we think are our needs.

Our life will constantly present us with change and the need to make adjustments to compensate for change.  Our perception right or wrong of changes will affect our personal experience from that change.  Our capacity to accept and adjust accordingly will have a bearing on our experience and there for our new results.  If change is inevitable, expand your line of sight from right in front of your nose to much further out and understand what the cause for change is.  Then embrace how to make it work for you, it serves you better than throwing punches underwater.   Change is inevitable whether you resist or adjust.