When Self-Growth becomes Self-SabotageWritten by Marie-Pier Charron, Life Coach
Many of us invest quality time and energy into our personal development. We buy inspiring books, sometimes with workbooks or journals that complement them. We discuss psychology with our friends - or we look for friends with whom we can have open discussions on subject. There is activity in our mind - at times a little bit of confusion. We encounter so many different lines of thoughts, so many tools, so many exploratory exercises we can do. It's as if we were in middle of a dense, majestic forest...Then, maybe it happened to you, you reach a point where you don't feel satiated anymore after reading hot new self-improvement book... The workshop just feels like another workshop... Philosophical discussions feel more like empty calories... It's not that your head is full: it's more that you are hungry. You are hungry, because you have tasted - sometimes chewed – wisdom you have read or heard, but you haven't digested and integrated it. Don't we benefit from relaxing and taking a break after a good meal? I think none of us have ever seen, written in back of a book, "You don't need to read me – all wisdom is within you”. No publisher would be so open-minded (or masochist)... Besides, we are ones who have to figure out for ourselves how we can best use resources available to us - how we can use them to connect to our own inner wisdom, inspirations, intuitions. Other people's insights are guiding lights. We don't need a zillion guiding lights, in fact we get lost if we are surrounded by too many of them - they point in too many different directions. Their role is simply to show us possibilities, which we can consider... and once we have chosen something to be our truth, we close book, we turn light off, and we get in touch with our own inner guidance. One simple concept can drastically change our life. It can be, "Love yourself", it can be, "Be all that you can be", or "Fear is an illusion"... But none of these makes real sense, no concept will truly transform our life, if it's not integrated in every cell of our body, if it doesn't feel as tangible as if it came from us in first place. We keep reading and listening to “teachers”, and "experts"; but who's best expert, when it comes to you, or when it comes to me?
| | Launch Your SuccessWritten by Pam Murphy, B.S., RRT
Are you happy with your situation in life? Or do you find yourself wondering if “this is all there is”? If you’re wondering you’re a step ahead of lots of other people, who trudge daily to a 9-5 job working to make someone else rich, coming home in evening to dinner and then mind-numbing television until they fall asleep, only to wake up next morning and repeat same safe, comfortable rut. Very little personal growth can take place in and dreams of wealth are not attainable when life is lived in a safe, comfortable rut. It’s so easy to do same thing everyday. And it’s safe and comfortable to do same thing everyday. But if you don’t take action then you’re always going to have what you have right now. Do you want to change your life? Do you want to live life of your dreams? Do you want to have freedom of having your own business? Do you want to fire your boss? Then STEP OUT OF YOUR BOX. So you ask, How do I do that? First you have to decide what you want. What is important to you? When you dream of a better life what EXACTLY do you dream? Be specific when you answer this question. Start a success journal. Put your answer down on paper. What kind of business do you want? Do you want to provide a service or a product? Do you want a business which improves people’s lives? Why do you want business you want? How much money do you want to make? What GOOD will you do with your financial success? How will you give back to your ommunity? What is your business mission statement? Make a list of business and personal goals and specify dates by which you intend to reach each goal. Post your goals where you can see them everyday (i.e. on refrigerator, bathroom mirror, your bedroom door, dashboard of your car, on your desk).
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