I was feeling as though I cannot teach wealth because I am not wealthy. The truth is that I have never earned more than 100k in any financial year. As I think about the wealthy people in Australia and America and in the rest of the world my income by comparison is very tiny. To the Millionaire and Billionaire 100k is a small amount of money. Some celebrities spend that amount on an article of clothing, a charity dinner or a vacation. I have therefore thought about the limited earning capacity that I have. I have pondered the beliefs that I have about my value or worth. I recall a seminar leader once stating, “You get paid exactly what you believe that you are worth”. According to this way of thinking I am worth 100k. I do not believe that I am worth 200k or 300k or more. If I did then I would be earning more money. That to me sounds like a truth, and I know that as I change my belief about myself and my worth, my income will change accordingly. Here I have shared with you my limitations around earning capacity, success and money. I therefore…
Why do I prime? Firstly I have a believing heart, and I have been told in the past by one I would consider wise that certain actions produce certain results. That seems very evident and almost third grade. When I hear a statement like this from one who is wealthy, happy, content and fulfilled, then I will listen and then model what they themselves have done. I attended an event in September 2015 with Tony Robbins. The event was unbelievable for me. I used so much energy as I really wanted to get an extreme amount out of the event. Therefore my investment was tremendous. I really do not think I have ever invested so much effort and energy to one event ever in my life. Considering my diet, I amazed myself and others in the auditorium. Others appreciated the level of energy that I displayed. Prior to the event I read the words to the effect, “one can be excited for a day or a week, but to be excited for 20 years will give you the life of your dreams”. I read this quote and immediately thought to myself. “Impossible”. I thought about the emotions that I experienced…
Smoking in 2016 has got to be the most unrewarding experience that I can think of. Take away the social aspect and what is left? I was working with a client who expressed her desires to quit smoking. During the session I had her list and write down the benefits of smoking. This she did and there were a couple of minor benefits that she could link to smoking. However when we weighed these against the disadvantages of smoking a huge imbalance became evident. It took me only a few minutes to dissemble the benefits of smoking, and to show her how to fill the same needs in a positive healthy way. All that remained was a long list of disadvantages. She was ready to make the changes and for the re-patterning process to be installed directly into her unconscious mind. An interesting concept that I taught was that in order to take control of this addiction, she needed to choose to either shrink the addiction or alternately grow bigger, or outgrow the addiction. As I considered these two approaches and thought about their implications, my mind was drawn to two different schools of thought. The first is the concept…
Seminars, workshops, life coaching and re-patterning sessions. Am I spreading myself too thin? Well, the truth is that I am here, there and all over the place. I have run a couple of seminars, on things that I have been studying for 5 years. Then I go and begin to teach about money like I’m an expert, or as if I actually know something about it. A topic that I have limited understanding about. A topic that I do not have experience in. Some of these topics are foreign to me, and they are ideas and concepts that I myself cannot endorse through personal experience and knowledge. There is something wrong here. What I learned today was that there is a mammoth difference between teaching principles that I don’t believe, and teaching principles that I do. The not knowing or the lack of experience could not fully support the principles that I was teaching. In some ways I felt that my unconscious mind was working against me in the teaching of the principles. There was an in-authenticity about the teaching. Its the old principle that in order to teach it, you must know it. Not just know about it, but…
Many books have been written on love. The famous family therapist Virginia Satir spoke about love for self and being authentic in our communication with others. She taught that love was a powerful healing element that could reshape individuals and families. Her main focus was to empower individuals and families to take full responsibility for all that they saw, heard and felt. As she empowered people to embrace their authentic self, this assisted her clients to create change. She produced results that appeared to others to be miracles, and it also appeared that she was responsible for creating change in others. This is not entirely accurate because she did not really do anything other than create an environment whereby others could understand that their perceptions of reality was not reality. She would explain that the constructs of imagination, and our thoughts either empower or dis-empower. Other authors have likewise had much to write on the subject to love. Many books today speak about the 5 languages. The premise of understanding love languages, is to assist those in relationships to identify the dominant love languages of ourselves and others. I have heard people erroneously declare that this or that person, “does…
I have a friend at work who explained to me that he went to a property development seminar many years ago. He further explained that he played to win and he wanted to believe that he could create wealth and make a lot of money in property. He explained that he paid over a thousand dollars to do the course, and at the end of the course he was invited to go to another course that cost $5000. At that point he pulled out and he was very glad that he did. He learned several years later that the seminar leader was imprisoned for property fraud. This whole experience taught him that self development seminars do not work. He had wasted time and money, and this fraudulent seminar leader had lied, cheated and was corrupt. This created a reference point in his mind for all self improvement seminars. Furthermore the principles and ideas taught in the seminar never did one bit of good for him. He had lost, and so do most people who attend a seminar. His philosophy is as follows. ‘They lose. They don’t change. They are still the same, and that’s just the way it…
Has there been a period in your life in which you were ‘burning the candle at both ends’. Goals, dreams, ambition constantly require effort and energy to constantly produce outstanding results. I have just returned from a well needed holiday at the Gold Coast. It was wonderful to be with the family and enjoy quality time with them. There are so many ‘pulls’ and ‘tugs’ in the world, that often we need to re-evaluate where we are heading and what we are creating. Love, marriage and relationships are pulling us in one direction, while career aspirations are tugging us in another direction. We invest time toward being physically fit and healthy, while feeling the need to contribute and provide service to those in need. I once attended the medieval festival where a jester was balancing on a small plank, that was balancing on red ball. He then began to juggle. As I think about this scene, I believe that this is a great analogy for life, and the many pressures and competing forces that demand our attention. Having a family holiday was fantastic, and it reminded me how critical it is to ensure that the family, the fundamental unit of…
I love my wife so very much. I think that she is incredible. Her insight and understanding is remarkable. Often we will sit and discuss things that I have been studying for weeks only to discover that she had been trying to teach me the principle I had just learned for years. A friend at work once told me, “When the student is ready, the master will appear”. I guess that as a student I was not ready for the ideas or principles that my wife has been painstakingly striving to teach me. However, over time I slowly began to understand things on a higher level. I became ready. Over time I had put myself into a position in which I could learn, really learn. How slowly do we learn? In my experience it is very slowly. I had a vision open up to my mind that revealed to me how little progress I had made in my life. To me it was a shock, as I had previously thought that I was doing really well. I was proud of the changes I had made, and believed that I was making great progress. In reality, I am boxed in by…
Energy is defined as the strength and vitality required to sustain physical or mental activity. Energy is required to fuel our body and to stimulate our mind. Does energy come from the food we eat, or does it come from the mind? We have all heard stories of incredible individuals who were able to push through fatigue, exhaustion, hunger and other deprivations to reach their goal. In the Queensland Police Service if a member wants to qualify for the Special Emergency Response Team, he or she must undergo a final test that involves deprivation of food, shelter and sleep over a period of three days. The test is extremely difficult and many fail. How is it that those who pass this test can still function? The answer is mental toughness and the will to succeed. Energy abounds in those who have a big enough “WHY”. Those who survived concentration camps attest that survival is a mental, and not a physical condition. Even when the body lacks nutrition and fuel for energy, the body is still able to somehow produce energy. In Understanding energy, we first need to understand that our mind plays an integral part in determining out energy levels. …
A woman described the pain in her knee as 8 out of 10. Huge amounts of pain in her knee. I showed her how to eliminate all the pain in about 10 minutes. Both her knees were pain free. I received a text message this morning telling me that the pain is gone, and that I am a miracle worker. Today I spoke to a women with pain filled shins. She described the pain as level 5 as she walked. The pain was gone after we did the mental exercise. All it too was about 10 minutes. Headaches, back aches, cramps and pains all disappear so easily that it’s almost a joke. My hip was sore the other day. It was so sore I could not touch my toes without bending my knees. The pain and discomfort as in my right hip. I used the technique on myself and it took me three goes. I’m a little slower than others. I have more of a skeptical mind then some. So I really need to concentrate to have the technique work perfectly. I used it a little while ago when I was experiencing pain in my tooth. I learned something very…