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Have you ever thought of this? When you were young and at school the teachers always reprimanded the dreamers - “You live on another planet”, “You’ve got your head full of silly notions!” and the like.

Then we are in the playground. The boys say, “I’m gonna jump over that garbage can” and the other boys say, “Nah, you’re not good enough, you can’t do that.”

You back up and run your hardest at the garbage can and try to ignore the taunts of your disbelieving friends - you leap - and on passing over the bin, catch your foot and crash down”.

You can still hear the laughing and to this day blush in embarrassment when you think about it. Perhaps your teachers were right - dreams are silly. Perhaps the other kids were right - you’re not good enough.

Do you relate to this? Many of us do. If something like this has happened to you in the past you will know the disbelief and laughter of your childhood peers can cut a very deep wound. But you know there is a wound that is far worse than that? It is the wounding of our intestinal fortitude and the weakening of our lifetime resolve that occurs when we picked ourselves up of the school yard, hung our head, walked away along and thought, “They must be right, - I - can’t - do - it”. Have you said that about yourself and your business? The difference between those who achieve extraordinary goals and those who don’t, is always in their thinking.

The incredibly fun, magical and simple thing about multi level marketing is this. If you can learn to reprogram your childhood self- limiting beliefs - you can do anything…earn an extra $500 per month right up to earning large royalty checks that you’re your whole destiny in life!

Are you ready to reprogram your thinking? Create a vision for yourself - and play with possibility thinking? Create an environment around yourself where you dwell on achievements rather than failures. See yourself leaping over the garbage can - over and above every conceivable obstacle. Any worthwhile achievement must start in the brain. An old prophet once said, “As a man thinks, so he is”. If you aim at nothing, you are sure to hit it!

I have heard it said that Thomas Edison created 800 light globes before he made one that worked! If he didn’t believe he could do what seemed impossible, I am quite sure he would have stopped after the second or third attempt! Is your thinking stopping you achieving your dreams?

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What is creativity? Have you ever heard someone say that person is creative? Do we really understand what a creative person is? Some of those we call creative do not see themselves as creative? Others we do not see as creative may actually be? We do not consider people who are smart creative, yet someone who is creative could also theoretically be a smart individual. But somehow the society norm has mixed the definitions somewhat? Someone who is smart uses their knowledge to solve problems is often considered a creative problem solver but not particularly creative. If they solve a very important problem, we often elevate them to the brilliant status. Creative is reserved for lesser in the minds of society for some reason?

Someone who is creative can be considered to be a dreamer or artist of some type. Often a person we label as creative is merely a person we do not understand or who lives an alternative lifestyle to the social norm or perhaps is somewhat off in our perceptions of what people should be like. Creative people or those we call creative are not necessarily the people we call doers or achievers, not because they are not achievers, but rather because they are not blazing the trail to be awarded with items of acceptance. Such things are simply not important to them. Yet creative people often are doing something and pursuing it with greater vigor than the rest of us, as they are doing it for themselves and in doing so are more fulfilled than the rest of us. That would appear to be a smart way to live.

It is interesting that we do not always consider creative people smart, yet we know those who are musically inclined are smart or they would not be able to what they do. In fact artists are often much smarter than the rest of us. Those famous artists in our past periods whether it sculpture, painting or symphony are always called brilliant or geniuses, but never merely smart.

Many believe that being smart is someone who has one, two, maybe three areas of knowledge memorized or a few piece of paper stating so and can tell you anything about those subjects. This of course is our societal definition of a smart human. We are told education makes us smart but even Calvin Coolidge warns us of educated derelicts.

The creative problem solver or the sculptor who turns nothing into something, that is not only a creative person, fore that person is all of these things; creative, smart, brilliant and a genius? Yet we in the Western World are so quick to label each person, as we thrust him or her into a definitional category and right or wrong we reduce their value to the whole in doing so. I wonder why we do that? Maybe you are a creative person and you can tell us; think on it.

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Do you believe that the best way to deal with procrastination is
to “get tough” with yourself and “just do it?” Many people take
this approach. What is behind it is the sense that
procrastination is essentially a character flaw, a weakness, and
that the only way to deal with it is to muscle past it through
sheer will. But the truth is, there is a more effective way to
approach it that also happens to be much more self-respectful.

Essentially, the idea is to identify what is MOTIVATING the
procrastination behavior, consider it valid, and then address
THAT. For example, you may be putting off doing something
because you actually do not know how to do it. The way to solve
that would be to get some help. Or, perhaps you are avoiding
making a particular phone call because you are afraid of the
outcome. One way to address the fear is to schedule a call with
someone you trust before and after the fear-inducing call, in
order to have support before and after the difficult encounter.

Get the idea? Give up the character flaw idea, and look for
what is really underlying the procrastination. Once you know
what that is, you can usually figure out a way to deal with it,
get unstuck, and get moving again.

What follows are real life examples of how two of my clients
solved the problems underlying their procrastination:

PROCRASTINATION: I am not writing the letter.

PROBLEM: I want the letter to be brilliant and creative
but do not feel brilliant and creative about it.

SOLUTION: “I realized it was more important for the
letter to be OUT than to be brilliant. Once I decided I could
write a less-than-spectacular letter, it became much easier to
just sit down and do it.”

CONCEPT: Do not get it right, get it written. “Expedient”
is not a dirty word. Sometimes, it serves you better to have the
B+ letter out in the world already, being read, than to have the
A+ letter still sitting in your word processor, unfinished, and
nagging at you.

PROCRASTINATION: I am not unpacking the boxes in my new
office.

PROBLEM: Boring!!

SOLUTION: “I hired my [young] daughter to unpack the
boxes, shelve the books (I had to tell her where), and dismantle
the boxes. She was happy to do the work and earn a little money,
and she thought it was cool to help me. I was happy because we
got to spend that time together AND . . . the job got done.”

CONCEPT: Delegate! If a task seems boring, it is often a
good clue that this is a job to delegate. You may need to
supervise or train someone to do it, but there is likely to be
someone for whom the job would be a plus. Find that person and
work out a deal. Delegation arrangements can be paid or bartered
in infinite creative ways. Do not be stopped by failure of the
imagination.

Here are the steps that you can take when tackling
procrastination. Please note that each step is important. Do not
under-respect any of the steps just because you think you
already know how to do them. And do not underestimate how long
it may take you to master some of these steps. Some people, for
example, find it takes a very long time to learn how to stop
judging themselves.

- Recognize when you are procrastinating.

- Notice if you are judging yourself for procrastinating.

- If you are judging yourself, stop. If you are not judging
yourself, acknowledge yourself for that.

- Identify what is motivating the procrastination.

- Solve the problem that is underlying (motivating) the
procrastination.

- Take the action that you no longer need to procrastinate.

- Say this to yourself: “Well done!”

Good luck - and let me know how this works for you!

If you need more advice and are considering hiring a coach to
help you with challenges like these, contact me at
sharon@stcoach.com for an initial consultation at no charge.

Copyright 2002, Sharon Teitelbaum.

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The seeds you sow determine the crop you reap. This is pretty common knowledge. Knowledge, unfortunately, is only productive in its application, not in its accumulation or ownership.

We desire peace but sow seeds of violence and are surprised when violence is the crop.

We desire abundance but sow seeds of limitation and are surprised when lack is the crop.

We desire meaningful lives but sow meaningless acts and are surprised to reap meaningless lives.

We desire more time and longer lives but sow wasted moments and are surprised to reap time slipping away.

We desire prosperity but sow seeds of scarcity and are surprised when scarcity shows up.

We desire love and sow indifference.

We desire freedom and sow security.

And so on and so forth.

Ah, but, things are the way they are and it is best/easiest to go with the flow rather than fight it. This is the common wisdom…go with the flow.

Society is overwhelmingly materialistic, so we just go with the flow and become avid consumers. The leaders we allow and the media we believe preach fear and war, so we just go with the flow and march off to do battle. Economists and prognosticators talk about lack, limitation and scarcity so we just go with the flow and compete for a little piece of the dwindling pie. Lemmings all, going with the flow to the cliff’s edge.

There is another way to go with the flow and that is to be natural as nature exemplifies. A seed sown, grows into a plant, blooms and produces flowers, things of beauty and wonder. Flowers go to seed and more flowers result. Stars go supernova and more stars result.

Do you want more beauty in your life? BE more beautiful.

Do you want more peace in your life? Be more peaceful.

Do you want more love in your life? Be more loving.

Do you want more abundance in your life? Be more abundant.

Do you want more time in your life? Be more present in the here and now.

Become as the flowers; check out the lilies of the valley.

Prosperity in those things desired is the result of sowing the appropriate seeds, nurturing the seedlings, removing the weeds that crop up and hanging around (or persisting) to catch the blooms.

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When I decided to look into remote viewing, I had the impression that it had some bizarre metaphysical and psychic associations. But, in reality, remote viewing is a natural and ‘taught’ method of probing remote locations in the past, present, and future. As I learned and experimented, one of the important things that I discovered is that you cannot accurately predict the future of any person or event. Of course, some would argue this point and I would probably agree that we can ’see’ the future. But, what I mean is, the future changes far too rapidly based on our experiences and directions for anyone to be truly accurate.

— My crystal ball … —

When you visit a psychic and ask them to tell you about your future, in some cases, they can be quite accurate. But, realize that your future is only accurate as long as you’re heading down the path chosen at the time of the reading. However, if you change your path, your entire future ‘rebuilds’ to accommodate your new direction and experiences.

After some work with a professional, and long-time-involved, remote viewer, I began to understand that the past, present, and future have already occurred. This is why, through remote viewing, we can meander around the strange worlds and times in which we live, and will live.

It may sound strange, but consider that one cannot see what might happen, but only what ‘has’ happened in the future. Indeed, the future is just as much based on your present existence as is your present based on the decisions and experiences of your past. You cannot change your past to alter your present, but you can change your present to adjust your future!

— I am stuck in a horrid future! —

On the contrary, you do have three choices! The first is to continue down the path you’re heading and just accept the consequences of what could potentially occur. The second is to make minor, short-term alterations in your life and hope for the best. However, the final choice is to pick a desired destination in the future, and work backward to define the future you want for yourself!

The first two choices work and they will get you there just the same. However, the third choice is the best option to take as you are dictating your future and defining how to get there. This might sound like a contradiction to everything I said earlier about the future ‘already happening’. But, many of us have been brought up to accept things as they are and believe that our futures are already ‘written in stone’.

Actually, even though a new future does ‘come into existence’ every time we make a decision or perform an action, it is not written in stone until it passes us by. At that point, you need to just accept that you are where you are because you allowed yourself to be there.

— What’s next? —

If you believe in visiting your psychic on a regular basis, by all means continue to do so if it makes you feel better. But, realize, that everything that they tell you of your future is only a glimpse of what could be based on what is currently happening in your life. You have the choice to change it, at will!

Take hold of your future and turn it into what you want it to be. Don’t just let it flounder about until it ends up someplace close to where you would like it to be. Pick a point in the future where you want to be, then plan backward to today to figure out how to get there. Once the plan is set and you’re in motion, go back to your psychic and see what they say!

About The Author

Edward B. Toupin is an author, life-strategy coach, counselor, Reiki master, remote viewer, and technical writer living in Las Vegas, NV. Among other things, he authors books and articles on topics ranging from career success through life organization and fulfillment. For more information, e-mail Edward at etoupin@toupin.com or visit his sites at http://www.toupin.com or http://www.make-life-great.com.

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Last month I was invited to participate in a charity golf tournament in Las Vegas to celebrate the life of the late dancing legend Gregory Hines. The event was held to raise funds and awareness of the tragic disease that took this entertainer’s life.

Although we were focusing on this serious matter, it was a true pleasure to meet all the celebrities and people whom I would not normally have the opportunity to meet while living here in San Diego. However, what really left an impression with me the most was a conversation I had with Gregory Hines’s father, Maurice.

I went up to him and simply asked this question: “What was it about Gregory’s upbringing that made him such a leader in his art?”

“Well, it’s like this,” began his proud dad in an authoritative manner. “All we did was watch what he loved to do and then encourage him to continue doing it. You should’ve seen his eyes light up when he was only a child dancing for the family. When we put a ball in his hand, he didn’t share the same passion so we simply took it away.”

“That’s it?” I asked in a surprised tone.

“Yes, it’s as simple as that,” he replied. “You see so many people try to push their kids into doing something that they themselves want, rather than supporting their children in doing what they want.”

Which brings me to this topic.

Where could you be right nowor even better, where could you be tomorrow if you surrounded yourself with a network of positive support to assist you on your journey?

There’s an old saying that goes, “We are the five people that we associate with the most, and our income is an average of those five people.”

If you don’t like the path you’re on, I suggest that you take a look around you to see who you’re associating with. After all, water truly does seek its own level.

“How do we change this?” you ask.

Here’s what I did, and I invite you to do the same.

A few years back, I looked around and noticed that all I did was hang around with other salespeople such as myself. Realizing that I wanted more from my life than to simply sit around talking about the great deal or the money I’d made that day, I sought out a new group of people to associate myself withpeople who could help me on my new journey to become an author and motivational speaker. I ran ads on the Internet and in the newspaper seeking new people to associate with and “soak up the success” with, so to speak.

When I couldn’t find such a club, I decided to create one of my own. I called it the Influential Men’s Group. We met once a month and discussed our ideas and plans to make them become realities. Most important, we supported and held one other accountable to see those dreams come true.

As I write this now, I think to myself how grateful I am for all the wonderful people who’ve come into my life this past year. Due to this great group of people, I’ve gone from a business owner/salesman, to a number one best-selling author. I’ve been published with my heroes and industry greats such as Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen, Tom Hopkins, Bob Proctor, Peter Lowe, Cynthia Kersey, Steven E., John Assaraf, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and the internationally acclaimed artist Wyland, just to name a few.

I share this with you not to impress you, but to impress upon you to be careful of what you ask for. You may just get it.

In closing, I ask you once more: Where could you be tomorrow, by surrounding yourself with supportive, like-minded people who truly want you to succeed?

We are the company we keep. Choose your company wisely.

Best wishes, and keep smilin’!

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