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Spend daily time in
reflection, contemplation, meditation, stillness and silence. Ground
yourself in self-awareness.
Since all that exists arises out of the infinite, you should get intimate
with the infinite so you can have what you want. Meditation connects you
the greater aspects of your self and also to the divine.
Learn to meditate and then develop the discipline to do it daily; make it
a habit, like brushing your teeth.
Contemplation of one’s own internal self and of the external world will
lead to wisdom.
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Gain control of your
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.
Stop allowing your self to get yanked around by other people, by your
culture, by events or circumstances. You are you. You own your self. Take
control.
Think what you want. Feel how you want. Believe what you decide is best
for you.
Create you own ideals. Define your own purpose. Then, live that purpose.
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Develop a strong self-image.
Learn to love yourself.
Get to know yourself. You are an exceptional individual. You are unique in
the whole universe. You are special. You are sacred.
Know who you are and then, love who you are.
Self-love is not egocentrism; it is simply the acknowledgement of your
sacredness.
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Think for yourself. Opt out
of mass consciousness. Utilize your creative imagination.
Look around you. If you want to be average, to be the norm, then think
like everyone else. If you want more out of life, then learn to think for
yourself.
Don’t allow your culture to become your cult. Program your self.
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Set your goals. Create your
own game plan. WRITE IT DOWN.
Write down your goals. Define them. Affirm them.
If you fail to make a plan, then you might as well plan to fail.
Let’s take a look at some research two university studies about written
goals. The results will astound you and, hopefully, convince you to begin
now to write down your own goals.
In 1984, a follow up study was done on the Harvard Business School
graduating class of 1964. All members of the class stated that they had
had, at graduation, clear goals to accomplish in life.
Only 5% of the 1964 class had taken the time
to write down their goals. 95% of this group had achieved those written
goals 20 years later.
Of the 95% who did not bother
to write down their goals in 1964, only 5%
had achieved their expected goals.
Even Harvard graduates only succeed when they plan to succeed and then
commit their plans to writing.
The Harvard study was preceded by an earlier study done by Yale
University.
This study found that only 3% of the
1953 graduating class had written goals.
Twenty years later, in 1973, this 3% of the Yale
graduates had accomplished more than the other 97% combined.
Set your ideals, clarify your goals and then write them down. Carry them
with you. Refer to them often. Map your progress. Plan to succeed.
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Do what needs to be done.
Develop self-discipline.
Become your own disciple. Don’t allow yourself to become distracted or to
become too lazy to do what is necessary to achieve your goal.
Develop the discipline to be what you need to be, do what you need to do
in order to have what you want to have.
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< Be of service. Think
win/win. Find a way to create success or happiness for others.
People succeed by giving others what they want. 'Find a need or want and
then fill it' is an old truism of business. Examine your own ideals.
Are there others who hold the same desires?
Find a way to give others what is in tune with your shared ideals and you
will prosper.
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Educate yourself, then use,
apply what you know. Applied knowledge is power.
Get wise. Apply what you learn to your life.
Many people know the secrets of happiness and success but don’t apply them
and are confused by the lack of harmony in their lives.
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Be visionary. Think ahead.
Use the past. Live in the moment.
Create the future. Use your imagination. Become a visionary.
Turn off your television and turn on your inner vision.
Learn from others’ successes. Learn from others’ failures.
Everything you see was created in the past. Use the past but don’t let it
use you.
Live fully in this present moment. Imagine your ideal future. Make it
real.
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Use your time wisely. Live a
balanced life. Be, do, have.
Remember to take time to play.
It encourages both halves of your brain to function so that your mind can
inhabit and function in a bigger space. Plan, rehearse and then execute.
Don’t just spend all your time doing, without first being.
Frenetic activity is the sign of those who choose to work hard instead of
smart.
It is those who spend as much time being and thinking as doing, those for
whom ‘work is play’ that succeed.
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Speak your truth. Live your
word. Say what you mean, mean what you say.
Above average people talk about ideas, average people talk about things,
and below average people talk about other people.
Talk about your truth, your ideals, what you desire to see manifest.
Don’t spend too much time talking about what is already manifest, what
already exists. That just makes you average. Allow other people to live
their lives. Don’t waste your time talking about them.
You may be advised not to talk about yourself. Don’t listen. It is bad
advice. Speak always, first and foremost, your own truth.
Otherwise, you’ll end up living somebody else’s.
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Enjoy the journey. Be here
now. Be in the present moment. Be a spiritual being.
Happiness does not come tomorrow with the rising of the sun.
It is only available now in each present moment.
Slow down enough to enjoy this moment and each that follow will bring
their own reward. Be grateful for all that you have right here, right now.
You will end up having more to be grateful for in the next moment.
Develop that attitude of gratitude.
