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January 2003 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the January Shaping Your Destiny newsletter
- dedicated to magically and radically changing your life so you
can live your dreams.
In this issue, you'll find
- What's new at ShapingYourDestiny.com
- The Secret of Motivation
- Wealth Building Tip
- Book Review
- Internal Dialogue
- Health Tip
I hope that you all had an excellent holiday season and have had a
great start the New Year. I wish you all the best for this year and
hope that your goals become your reality.
Any questions or comments on this newsletter and the website are
always welcome, and I hope to hear your stories of success.
To your continued success,
Jason
Jason@shapingyourdestiny.com
What's New?
Also, don't forget the updated e-book "The Power of Effective Studying"
is available for free download from
http://www.shapingyourdestiny.com/ebooks.htm
The Shaping Your Destiny forums are now open at
http://www.shapingyourdestiny.com/forum/index.htm
If you are concerned about your health and what the products you
use in your house contain then visit http://www.shapingyourdestiny.com/neways
to discover toxin free products!
The Secret of Motivation
When we want to instigate change there are just two motivational factors
you need to be aware of:
We move towards pleasure, and away from pain. The reasons behind us
doing anything are to avoid pain or to get pleasure. Analyse some
of your actions and see if you can see the truth in this. It is very
important that this concept is thoroughly understood because it gives
you a powerful tool to implement change in your life.
If there is something you want to stop doing then you need to
link massive pain to keep doing it and massive pleasure to not doing
it. Imagine that you are eating too much fatty foods, for example.
To associate pain with this you might imagine yourself a few years
in the future and see how you look, bigger and unhealthier. Project
yourself further into the future and see the ultimate result from
eating fatty foods - high cholesterol and heart problems. Then associate
pleasure with giving up fatty foods, imagine a long and productive
life, living long enough to see your children grow up and have grand-children
for you. This process associate's pain with what you want to stop
and pleasure with stopping, which gives you a lot of leverage against
your sub-conscious and makes the change happen.
The same process applies for something you wanted to start doing,
exercise for example. This time you associate pleasure with exercise
(more energy, a slimmer figure, feeling good about yourself) and
pain with not exercising (less energy, a plumper figure and not
feeling so good about yourself).
It is very important that when you are visualising yourself here
you must be fully associated with the picture, i.e. be in it experiencing
it, not just watching it on a big screen. This works because the
sub-conscious does not know the difference between what you imagine
and what you actually experience. Being fully associated anchors
the pain or pleasure into your sub-conscious who will very quickly
agree to change.
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle
them, and pretty soon you have a dozen"
Wealth Tip
When you are looking to build your wealth and your business there
is a vital key to success that so many people overlook.
"Serve others and so you will become wealthy"
By looking at your business or services and asking "How can I
better serve other people" you will find your business grows beyond
your wildest dreams.
Anthony Robbins sat down many years ago and asked himself this
very question. Within a year his net worth had skyrocketed from
$40,000 a year to over $1 million! He continually asks himself this
question and now has more money than he knows what to do with.
Providing a valuable service to other people will guarantee your
success.
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other
people."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Book Review
Creating
Money - by Orin and Daben
This is a step-by-step guide to the art of manifesting using advanced
energy techniques, magnetism, and the spiritual laws of abundance.
It contains easy to use spiritual processes to magnetize abundance
in every area of your life. You can learn how to magnetize and draw
to you small and large objects, sums of money, clients for your
business, and contacts such as publishers, agents, an employer or
employee. Discover and create your life's work, transform limiting
beliefs, create miracles, and draw to you what you want.
This book approaches creating money from a spiritual point of
view and is extremely effective. It can be used in conjunction with
the Creating Money audio tapes available from http://www.orindaben.com.
Order
Your Copy from Amazon.com
"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface
but paddle like the devil underneath."
Jacob Braude
Internal Dialogue
All of us chatter away to ourselves in our mind during the day. This
is an almost constant stream of dialogue emanating from our conscious
minds chit-chatting about anything and everything - most of it inane.
Through the use of meditation techniques and practising mindfulness
(being in the present moment) we can quieten this mental chatter.
For many people, this internal dialogue can be negative. It may
say things like "You should have said …" or "Why didn't you
…" or "You're not as good as …" and on and on ad infinitum.
This is like have a CD playing constantly in your head programming
you with negativity! It helps to decrease the quality of your life
and hold you back from being an achiever.
Using what you have learnt in the previous section, you can begin
to reprogram your internal voice so that it becomes more encouraging
and supportive. Imagine it becoming some cheerleaders and a marching
band cheering you on and celebrating your life rather than a grumpy
old man grumbling about life.
When your internal voice starts speaking negatively you must counter
it with a strong positive suggestion. If you are trying to learn
a new language your internal voice may say "Ha - you'll never manage
this - you're awful at learning." You then focus yourself on a positive
affirmation and ignore the negative words. You may say something
like, "I learn easily and quickly". Repeat it 3 times forcefully
and in a positive voice and this will start to counter-act the negative
programming.
If you repeatedly notice your internal voice focuses on certain
topics or traits then you can use affirmations or other techniques
(such as the pendulum technique discussed earlier) to focus on these
areas to change the programming.
The inner voice is normally in a voice you respect and listen
to. Perhaps it is the same as one of your parents or a teacher from
school. Whether you admit it or not - it has an effect on you. It
sabotages you from within, sapping your energy and making you feel
bad about yourself.
What do you think would happen to the meaning of the words if
instead of it being spoken in this forceful voice you respect, a
comedy cartoon character spoke it?
Do you think you would take the voice seriously and listen to
it? Do you think it would have any affect on you at all? I imagine
you would probably laugh loudly at it and ignore it.
When you hear your inner voice speaking negatively to you, turn
the voice into the funniest comedy voice you can think of. You can
also repeat the words it just said in the comedy voice and you will
soon find that their effect on you diminishes significantly.
Though this technique sounds simple and perhaps laughable it is
incredibly effective. Try it next time your internal dialogue is
being negative and putting you down and see what happens.
"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging
my own character."
Isabelle Eberhardt
Health Tip - the 80 / 20 rule
When anyone starts eating healthy one of the first things they
do is deny themselves food they enjoy but deem "unhealthy". This
denial in itself creates desire and cravings. Then if you submit
to your desire and have what you want, you then feel guilty about
not sticking to your new eating program.
Instead of denying yourself what you desire and creating these
negative feelings, what if you could eat some of what you wanted?
This is where the 80 / 20 rule comes in. Ensure that 80% of what
you eat is healthy and good for you. The other 20% of what you eat
can be anything you want whether it is healthy or not.
This simple technique ensures that you still eat some "bad" food,
whilst remaining healthy.
I hope you've enjoyed this issue of the Shaping Your Destiny newsletter.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact
me.
Live your dreams!
Jason
Jason@shapingyourdestiny.com
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