Personal Development – Action vs Daydreaming
Personal Development (PD) is one of the hidden pillars of the successful home business and for business leaders in general. The will and drive to build success has to be sustained over time. We actually need to work harder on ourselves than we work on our business to sustain our commitment. Its about controlling and disciplining our minds and becoming more because success is not something we pursue – success is something we attract.

Attracting Success

In order for us to attract success we need to become that person that attracts success. We are not going to attract success if we are not mentally ready to attract success. At least 30 minutes of PD every day. The key here is not to look outward for excuses, fall guys or success – everything is in our hands. There is no outside force that is going to make us change. Invest in books, magazines, etc. in terms of expanding your mind and becoming more prosperous.

Also, no one book is going to answer everything for you, even if you are saying to yourself right now “YES – I have the magic Book”. YES – it is funneling ALL wisdom about everything to me right now”. What you need to look for is material that resonates and moves you the most – start there.

Because the more you do – the more/faster your circumstances will change. It’s not about working hard – it’s about becoming more. So we can achieve more. Personal Development is not an end in itself it is a tool, one of many in your tool kit. Don’t get lost in empowerment or feel good messages. PD HAS to become accompanied by action – it is NOT a replacement for your plan.

Communicate with people and tell them where you are going at every opportunity. Giving your vision a reality through declaration and then implement. Implementation is one of the hallmarks of a becoming a leader.

Being a leader is a process. We can all say the same thing but it is how we language it to our teams. This is a process we are all working to become better all the time.

Practice it — Every opportunity with your team/friends/family/etc. – tell them where you’re going. Is it frightening – YES. Why? Because you committed yourself to take action by exposing your vision to the world.

Problem Solving
The only person who doesn’t have problems is in the cemetery. So all of us are and have been here. Formula for embracing problems:

We all come from backgrounds that say avoid problems
FORGET THAT
We need to get better at facing challenges and solving problems.

Good problem solvers and going over obstacles and being able to talk about to other people about and through it is incredibly liberating. We want to become a person to see a problem as an opportunity to get us where we want to go. We need to embrace problems and work to solve them. Obstacles, challenges, problems are all the same. Why?

The bigger the problem- the bigger the check.

Overcoming Fear

Here’s what I like you do. The great thing about PD is that when you take action you do really feel better. Start manageable and grow. Write a list of what you don’t like to do – what makes you feel uncomfortable.

This lays out action items and it puts you in control. If it we put ourselves out there – we are going to get more of we want so we need to be prepared to put ourselves out there and the first step is to make a list – make it real – get it out of our heads.

After you compiled the list – make the opportunity to do those things. In this world we all have choices – nobody’s forcing us to anything – we need to become willing to do and become more (see time management piece). Then you have to be willing to DO the things to get you where you want to go. No magic – just choice. Am I willing to do that? If you see something to be taken care of – you step up and take care of it.

In general, people are not willing to do the things which are uncomfortable – that is what keeps them where they are. A good leader is someone who is willing to do the things that make them uncomfortable. First, you do it yourself and then tell others to do the same. Your team, family, etc. is thinking the same as you used to – let them that no one is going to put an obstacle in front of them except for them. And that the faster we remove our barriers the faster we are going to move forward.

Becoming a Leader

To be a leader the best thing you can do is to be around leaders

Understand their thinking

Feel their belief and passion

Know that YOU can join them anytime YOU wish
Get Committed — Don’t hold back — Willing to learn

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How many personal development books have you seen at your local bookstore? If it’s a standard retail chain, there are no doubt hundreds of the books spanning wall to wall in the psychology and self-help section, each making use of different personal development strategies and styles.

While to many people this simply suggests a massive amount of ineffective methods, it actually means the exact opposite.

The mind is highly dynamic, and as a result many different personal development strategies can produce results. These three are some of my favorites, all of which produce results and are easy to apply.

#1: Take the stoic approach to personal development.

In life, there are some things that are simply out of our control. All too often these situations and circumstances end up dominating our lives, influencing our decisions, and changing the way we approach events and situations.

By ignoring any decisions that are out of our control we can dedicate more time to those that truly matter, spend more of our minds on the important changes and put an end to worrying about events that are completely external to us.

#2: Treat every event individually.

It’s easy to rationalize false events when you give them years of context and purpose. The problem is that events often happen in isolation, and applying these false contexts to them simply pushes us further away from truly understanding them.

In order to make the most of each life change and event, view it in isolation and don’t assign a false narrative or context to it.

#3: Experiment with different personal development strategies.

Possibly the greatest thing about this massive variety in the domain of self help is that we have access to a huge number of different strategies and approaches.

If one isn’t working for you, move on to the next. Once you’ve found something that works, stick with it. It’s only through experimentation that we find what truly works for us, and personal development is no different than any other domain.

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This is good news and bad news.

The circumstances in which we find ourselves can be quickly changed because subjective reality allows us to make energetic personal changes far more quickly than would happen if we were trying to manipulate the masses of matter formed by billions of other humans.

It is not that we are the only people manifesting change, but we are the only avatars of our subjective reality dream who are doing the manifesting. Here’s the problem. If you are thinking and worrying about some illness, it will come fairly quickly to you. If you are worrying about some financial difficulty, it will come fairly quickly to you. Perhaps you know someone who was worried about some disaster, and lo and behold, it happened to them.

It is of vital importance that you keep your mind on the good. Keep your mind on your desires rather than your fears, and get rid of the fears as fast and as completely as you can.

Be Careful of Self Deprecating Jokes

Stop any joking about your children “giving you a heart attack” or your husband or wife “driving you to drink” or your mortgage making you feel so “sick and tired…”. As Byron Katie says, “Life is always kind.” The Universe will take away anything that makes you unhappy, and your Subconscious will make real anything you talk about consistently. And, it won’t take long.

Jesus said, “By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.” So, as you’ve no doubt heard, “Be careful what you ask for.” Every statement of fact is a request.

In-tuition is being Taught from Within Just as In-curable Means Curable from Within

Once we know enough to be careful of what we say and think, we are ready for the next level of mind control or listening within. This is another area that benefits greatly from the quiet listening of meditation.

This is why you don’t want to go into busy action, having formed your own plan to execute your desire. Let the Universe help. Do be active, but also take time to listen for the promptings of Divinity.

Once you have visualized it in your Conscious Mind, and imprinted the idea in your Subconscious Mind, then your Superconscious Mind packages it for the Creative process. Divinity will partner with you in bringing it into your Subjective reality.

Have faith for this will come as surely as tomorrow’s dawn.

Jesus reassured us, “Ask and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Take action, but listen for directions, adjustments and teachers who appear in your path.

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