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August 2002 NewsletterHello and welcome to the August Shaping Your Destiny newsletter - dedicated to self-transformation and to your success. I've put a lot in this month's issue, and I hope you find it of interest. In this issue, you'll find 1) What's new at ShapingYourDestiny.com Enjoy this issue, and don't forget to send me any feedback, questions, or comments! Communicate your successes and tips to everyone here who wants to shape their destiny. To your success, Jason
What's New?This month has been a quiet month at Shaping Your Destiny on the web development front. However, we are in the process now of making some major additions to the site to improve its usability and to give you more from it. You can now find a classifieds ad section, where you can place your free advertisements at: http://www.shapingyourdestiny.com/ads.htm There is also a new version of the 20 Little Ways book, available for your download in the e-book section, though it is now almost 3Mb in size: http://www.shapingyourdestiny.com/ebooks.htm Change Is Like a Pair of ShoesChange is something we all go through all the time, though we may not realise it. We cannot actually see change happening, we just see the results of change. Sometimes change is easy, other times it is a long and torturous process. How difficult change is depends a lot on your attitude towards it and your resistance to it. You attitude to change can itself change, and make the whole transformation process much easier to bear. It all depends on your perspective. Imagine change as a pair of shoes, this will help you understand change and how it works. Let me explain. I am sure that you have at sometime in your life had a comfortable pair of shoes. You know the sort I mean. A pair of shoes so comfortable that you really don't want to ever get rid of them and you wish you had bought a dozen pairs at the same time. The fit your feet so perfectly you can almost forget you are even wearing shoes. You know you need a new pair, and may even have them, but you don't want to wear them because you are comfortable with your current pair. Besides, the new pair may hurt your feet, give you blisters or be awkward to wear to start with. So, you resist the new shoes. However, a part of you knows that this new pair would be much better for your feet, and after the initial discomfort would probably be even more comfortable, yet still you resist. Do you know I'm doing this now? I'm wearing my comfortable shoes and they feel good. They have a hole in each heel, and the sole is starting to fall off, but I'm persisting in wearing them. I even have a new pair of shoes under my desk as I write this. But my feet are used to the old comfy pair. The new pair is tighter, and hotter in this summer weather. I know I shouldn't wear my old shoes because they cause a callus where the inside of the shoe has worn thin, but still I persist. This describes change exactly; change of our habits, change of our thought patterns. We stick with the old patterns because they are comfortable. Yet we know we need to change and that the change will ultimately be good for us. Once we get over the initial pain of the transformation, the new pattern will be comfortable and feel good ... until the time comes when we need another new pair of shoes. How Many Worries?Did you know that 92% of our worries are wasting our time and energy? Needlessly, they cause us pain and suffering, when we could easily be much happier? This 92% is broken down roughly as follows:
Have you ever thought about how much of your time and energy is spent on needless worries? Take a sheet of paper and write down all your worries and concerns. Look at each one and decide if it is legitimate or one of the 92% of needless worries. Cross off all the needless worries, and instantly you feel better!! Once you have sorted them out, you can start to come up with strategies to solve the 8% that are left. Breath of EnergyAir is our life force; it is what keeps us alive. It is of vital importance to us, yet many people do not know how to breathe properly. If we look at a new-born baby, that child will be breathing from their stomach in deep and regular breaths. If we look at an adult, the chances are, the adult will be breathing shallowly and/or from the chest. This results in in-efficient processing of the air we breathe, meaning we do not get the most from life. So what is proper breathing then? For a start, try to breathe deeply from your stomach as much as possible. This will not only energise you, but also helps to keep you calm and healthy. When we are agitated or angry, our breathing becomes shallow and from the chest. Moving to deep, stomach breathing will help break you out from a negative state into a more positive state. There is a breathing exercise you can do that will activate your lymph nodes and help to cleanse your body and energise you. For this, you have to breathe in, hold, and breathe out to the count of 1-4-2. For example, breathe in for the count of 3 (the 1 part of the formula). Then hold for the count of 12 (4 times 3), then breathe out for 6 (2 times 3). You can change the numbers and count as fast or as slow as you desire. The important thing is that you hold for 4 times your original count, and breathe out for 2 times your original count. Do this exercise three times a day and you will soon notice that not only has your energy levels increased, but also your health. Wealth BuildingEach month, we bring you a tip or trick for building your wealth. This month, the second of the 9 Keys of Wealth, by Jason Johns. The second key is to use your money to buy assets. Many people think of their home as an asset; but it is not. It is a liability. An asset is something that brings you money, whereas a liability is something that takes money away from you. A house is a liability because whereas it may increase in value giving you extra money, it costs you money in bills, mortgage, property taxes, upkeep, and so on. The house you live in is not liquid money, meaning that whilst it may go up in value, that value remains locked in to the bricks and mortar and cannot be spent, only used to borrow more money to get into more debt. A house that you rent out is an asset because someone else is paying all the bills, and paying you rent, that covers the mortgage and gives you some profit. Health TipThere is a fine balance in the body between acid and alkaline. If this balance swings too far either way, then illness occurs. Many of our illnesses are caused by excess acidity in the body. To counter this, and to improve your help, ensure that you do not focus too heavily on acidic foods (e.g. citrus), but that you also eat plenty of alkaline foods. One of the best ways I have found to do this is to have fresh melon for breakfast each morning. I don't have this every day, but anytime I start to feel under the weather I start eating melon every morning and cutting back on acidic food. Very soon, I feel much better. Try it yourself and see the difference it will make in your life. The Jim Rohn ChallengeI am sure many of you will have heard of Jim Rohn, the guru of self-development guru's who taught, amongst others, Tony Robbins. He's running "The Jim Rohn Challenge" for people like you who want to make a massive difference in their lives. From this website you will get
http://www.1automationwiz.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=43061 Mentoring and ModellingIf you are wondering how to achieve some of your goals, there are two excellent ways to get some help. You can get a mentor or model someone who has already achieved your goal. Let's explain these in a bit more detail here. A mentor is someone with experience of achieving what you want that will teach and guide you on how to reach it. If your goal is to lose weight then your mentor might be someone who has successfully lost weight and kept it off. A model is also someone who has achieved the goal that you want. However, with modelling, you look at the actions this person took or the qualities that they have and copy them into your life. You have to examine the person's strategy for success, and find out exactly what they did to achieve the goal and then you can copy it yourself. Imagine you are baking a cake. You don't randomly throw ingredients into a dish and hope for the best. You follow a tried and proven recipe to make the particular cake you desire. And so it is with success. The 'recipe' that one person uses for success, be it making a million pounds, loosing weight, or improving their health, is a recipe that you can discover and apply to your own life. One way to do this would be to interview your potential models to find out their recipes, or read their autobiographies if they have one published. Another way would be to use the Internet to research their lives, and read any books they may have published. All of these will give you an insight into their lives and their strategies for success. Modelling is a very effective way of achieving, though it does make some people feel a bit strange to 'copy' another person. Remember when you were a child learning to talk and interact with the world around you. How did you learn? You modelled your parents and the people around you too. This month, think about one of your goals you want to achieve, and then decide if there is someone who has achieved it who could mentor you or who you could model. Discover their strategies for success and see how you can apply them to your life to help you to achieve your goal. Book of the MonthThis month, the book of the month is an audio book - a program on tape that will help change your life. It is called "Lead the Field" by Earl Nightingale. You may have heard of Earl, he ran a radio program in America, and partnered with Lloyd Conant to form Nightingale-Conant Corporation. Earl created and performed over 7,000 daily broadcasts for his radio program, "Our Changing World". He has been inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, and the International Speakers Hall Of Fame, as well as authoring two books and giving countless speeches. His LP "The Strangest Secret" sold well over a million copies. One of his friends described him: "Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion." Now is your chance to share Earl's passion, and let it infuse and revolutionise your life. This program will give you tools and techniques that you need to make an incredible difference in your life. You will be clearer on my goals, and understand even more about how to achieve them. Earl will introduce you to the concept that one of our purposes in life is to provide service to others. Instead of thinking, "How can I earn money", instead think, "How can I provide service to others" and the money will flow. It is a 6-CD or tape set, and this is what you'll get from each side.
Many millionaires credit their success to Lead The Field, so take this opportunity to join them. Remember that Nightingale Conant offers this, and all their products, on a 30 day free trial! Portrait of an Achiever Failed in Business - bankruptcy, 1831 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Elected President of the USA, 1860 You cannot fail unless you quit I hope you've enjoyed this issue of the Shaping Your Destiny newsletter. Have a phenomenal month, and I'll see you back here again in the next issue. Live your dreams! Jason
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