Raise Your Bar: The Power of YesWritten by Catherine Franz
Every one of us lives with a ceiling, a belief ceiling. Some ceilings are lower than others. Beyond that ceiling is all that is not yet known to us -- all possibilities of possibilities. Raising our bar takes conscious awareness and embracing new experiences. Here is an experience that will inch your bar delightfully and positively higher. The exercise isn't hard to understand, hard to learn, nor hard to complete. Yet, you do need to approach exercise with a child-like openness, maybe even a few giggles, and allow harvest of your labor be its own journey.Everywhere and in everything that we do we hear no, no, no and more noes. No on going over a certain speed limit. No to what we eat. The noes keep piling up including how we pay taxes -- now that’s another story that could get each of us going. The noes don't seem to ever stop. With so many noes appearing in our life, it is easy to get stuck in muck of noes. To raise bar so that more miracles can enter, we need to hear yes. We need to add more yes into our life to counterbalance noes to get out of muck. After sending question, "How do I add more yes into my life?" into universe for an answer. The answer fell from my bookshelf as I was pulling out another book. The miniature book was age stuck to its side. "The YES Book," by Christine Christakos and Susan Saucedo. If my memory serves me correctly, I met Christine or Susan ten years ago at an event when book was first published. The book is a list of yes affirmations that these ladies use. And it gave me a delicious idea. So I tried out my idea first on myself and then with clients. Now I would like to share idea, how it grew, and tree trimmings. As I mentioned earlier, don't be fooled with its simplicity. You will find it very powerful as rest of us have. Remember, I said it was simple but you still need to complete exercise to receive benefits. Start and end your day with YES affirmations. Begin your journaling exercise with them, or record on Post- It notes. Begin each exercise by writing word, YES, in caps at top of each page. Be creative with YES, make swirls and twirls with colors and design. Write it once or write it many. I enjoy just writing a page of YES is all sort of creative styles. Whatever tweaks my Twinkie at that moment.
| | The Problem With AffirmationsWritten by David McGimpsey
Do you know problem with affirmations? You know, really, really powerful ones?Affirmations are great. They allow us to program our minds such that, realistically, anything is possible. They are also, however, very dangerous. They are dangerous because everyone does them. Everyone does them and they don't even know it. And that's what proves their power. Every single day people affirm their actions. Every day affirmations become reality. These affirmations are generally known as self fulfilling prophecies. Mary has to attend a party. She is shy and constantly tells herself that no one will like her and that she is worthless, a mere speck in relation to fun and fantastic heavy weights that will be there. What happens at party? Mary's talked herself into being a boring wall flower that no one finds interesting. Brian has to attend a job interview. He has been out of work for six months. He tells himself he is worthless and he can see no reason employer would want to hire him. Guess what? You're right! Brian didn't get job. Why? Because he came across as unsure and acted as though he'd already been denied position.
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