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Want to Live a Richer Life? Don't Let Yourself Do These 3 Things!

If you're trying to bring wealth into your life - whether it's the material kind like money and possessions or the emotional kind like happiness and contentment - you're probably focusing on specific techniques like affirmations and visualizations. You're probably also keeping an eye out for new opportunities that can help you feel happier and become more successful.

That's all well and good, but have you ever thought about the other things you're doing? You know, the things that are counteracting your positive behavior and bringing negativity into your life.

If you want to live a life of abundance and prosperity, don't let yourself fall victim to these 3 things:

1. Telling yourself you don't have "enough".

Every time you grumble about the bills in the mail or pass up that outfit in the window because you don't have the money for it, you're really telling yourself you don't have enough. That way of thinking just breeds negativity and, soon enough, you'll find yourself drowning in it.

Instead, tell yourself you always have enough - whatever "enough" is. Whether it's money, time, or confidence, tell yourself (out loud if you have to) you've got plenty of what you need. That way, you'll be focused on the positives, instead of the negatives. It may take some real effort on your part, but it's well worth it.

2. Spending money you don't have.

A surefire way to get yourself into trouble is by spending money you don't have. It's not a way to get over the feeling that you don't have "enough". You will not be able to "trick" the world into thinking you're wealthy or successful. You'll simply wind up feeling worse.

Instead, start by being "wealthy" on the inside; it's really not that hard to accomplish. All you have to do is act like a wealthy person would - by feeling relaxed, content, blessed, and generous. Once you do that, you can work on being wealthy on the outside.

3. Not taking action.

When you're living in a negative mindset, you constantly feel defeated. If you feel like everything you do is futile, you won't bother doing ANYTHING. After all, it's not going to do any good, no matter how hard you try, right?!

This can be a dangerous cycle, but you can get yourself out of it. However, it will take some work. Pick something you're unhappy with - like your job - and make a conscious effort to change it. For example, start looking for other jobs, get your resume together, or talk to your friends about potential job opportunities they may know about. None of these actions are particularly earth-shattering, but they'll get you moving in the right direction. And, every time you take a small step, it becomes easier to take a big step.

You'll have to work hard to achieve physical and emotional prosperity. It's "easier" to be negative and let the world bring you down, but by thinking, feeling, and acting the right way, you can overcome that negativity and live a richer life!

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Good thinking

If you watched the swimming events at the Olympics, you probably observed the incredible focus the medalists demonstrated. Sure, they're strong and fast. But when hundredths— maybe even thousandths—of a second are all that separate the winners from the losers, it's obvious that something besides strength and speed is at work.

A comment by Flip Darr, a former collegiate swimming coach who played a part in training eight Olympic medalists, sheds some light on what that critical ingredient might be. "I felt in my coaching career that if I would work on [the swimmers'] head[s], their bodies would come along," he said. "A lot of coaches work on their bodies and then at the last moment try to do their heads. The thing is, if they are working with their heads all the time, and working with their head over the body, mind over matter, they will have more confidence when they walk up to the block."

What a great illustration of the value of good thinking. Athletic ability is important, but preparing for the biggest race of one's life is as much mental as it is physical—if not more so. As Bill MacCartney, the former head football coach at the University of Colorado, once told me, "Mental is to physical what four is to one."
That's a powerful argument in the case for good thinking—on the football field, as well as in your office at work. The specific thoughts that increase your effectiveness as a leader might not be the same as those required for an Olympic medal, but the overall commitment to thinking is identical.

As we continue the discussion about thinking that we began in the last issue of Leadership Wired, here are five statements that further underscore the importance of solid contemplation. => http://bit.ly/vP7eZq

Balanced emotions

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Books – the new Prozac?

A friend gave me Sylvia Plath's “The Bell Jar” at a sleepover for my fourteenth birthday. After the other girls fell asleep, I stayed up and read the entire novel. A likely choice for a moody teen-ager already contemplating the inexorable passing of her youth.

So when I heard that a study published this month had found that reading books improves the moods of adolescents, I became curious. Did the study’s authors take the types of books into consideration?

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Thought for Thursday – change

“I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.”

-- Stephen Covey

You can change your attitude and change your life.

It is the energy you bring into the room.  You can have a positive attitude about the events in your life , or you can come from a place of complaint and misery.  You decide.  You can consciously choose to respond in a positive way to almost any event or circumstance-a positive attitude is simple a choice you make.

Now we all know people with negative attitudes .  They are the ones who constantly complain , whine , and moan.   Nothing seems to go right for them. They are the perpetual victims in life. This is because they are operating at a lower frequency , and through the Law of Attraction they are attracting even more to complain about. The reason they tend to stay ''stuck''in their negative lifestyles is because they are constantly focusing their thoughts and energy on their negative present and negative past. By doing so , they are creating the same future over and over.

On the other hand , we also know people with positive attitudes-the ones who always seem to be happy , the ones who really seem to have a handle on things in their life. They are more fun , their energy feels great to be around , and they are operating at a higher frequency.

Surround yourself with these positive , nourishing , uplifting people whenever you can. Spend your time with spiritually evolved people who encourage your growth and applaud your successes. Wrap yourself in a support network of inspirational people with positive attitudes and energy.

You can change your attitude and change your life.

Namaste.

Jack Canfield.

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Free book extract – Attitude is everything

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Your Attitude Makes the Difference

Many things about your life boil down to the hand you have been dealt. You can't change the fact that you were born in that place and with certain givens for your appearance, IQ, or physical skills. Education and training can open some doors for you, but they cannot change your past, make you taller and more athletic, or alter the fact that some people are unfair in the way they treat you.

In spite of the fact that all of us know that most of our life circumstances are beyond our control, we are all still tempted to fret and complain about things that cannot be changed. Of course they cause distress. They certainly put us at a disadvantage in certain contexts. They mustn't be allowed to define and limit us.
The people who do best with life move beyond the temptation to whine and feel sorry for themselves. They face the disappointment and move beyond it. They acknowledge the bad break and look for a way to turn it around. They work from a half-full rather than half-empty glass mindset.

These people have a different attitude than the defeatist and whiner. They have found a way to make lemonade from their lemons.

There is a section in John Baillie's A Diary of Private Prayer that reads . . .

Teach me, O God, so to use all the circumstances of my life today that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.

Let me use disappointment as material for patience;

Let me use success as material for thankfulness;

Let me use suspense as material for perseverance;

Let me use danger as material for courage;

Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering;

Let me use praise as material for humility;

Let me use pleasures as material for temperance;

Let me use pains as material for endurance.

When a given day begins, countless things are headed your way over which you have no control. It may be bad weather or someone's bad temper, a deadline that won't budge or a client equally resistant to change. The one factor you can control through it all is your attitude toward them.

Your attitude today will make all the difference in everything that matters.

Rubel Shelly

Rubel Shelly is a Preacher and Professor of Religion and Philosophy located in Rochester Hills, Michigan. In addition to church and academic responsibilities, he has worked actively with such community projects as Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, From Nashville With Love, Metro (Nashville) Public Schools, Faith Family Medical Clinic, and Operation Andrew Ministries. To learn more about Rubel please go to: www.RubelShelly.com

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Change your mind set, change your life

 

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol Dweck

From Publishers Weekly
Mindset is "an established set of attitudes held by someone," says the Oxford American Dictionary. It turns out, however, that a set of attitudes needn't be so set, according to Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford.

Dweck proposes that everyone has either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities as... well, fixed. In other words, you are who you are, your intelligence and talents are fixed, and your fate is to go through life avoiding challenge and failure. A growth mindset, on the other hand, is one in which you see yourself as fluid, a work in progress. Your fate is one of growth and opportunity. Which mindset do you possess?

Dweck provides a checklist to assess yourself and shows how a particular mindset can affect all areas of your life, from business to sports and love. The good news, says Dweck, is that mindsets are not set: at any time, you can learn to use a growth mindset to achieve success and happiness. This is a serious, practical book. Dweck's overall assertion that rigid thinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a change of mind is always possible, is welcome

“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. I have found Carol Dweck’s work on mindsets invaluable in my own life, and even life-changing in my attitudes toward the challenges that, over the years, become more demanding rather than less. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.”
–Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Education and Psychology at Yale University, director of the PACE Center of Yale University, and author of Successful Intelligence

 

 

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Positive attitude may be the next performance drug

Most of the time, luger Chris Mazdzer can't wipe the Cheshire-cat grin off his face. He's simply a happy guy. Turns out that his positive attitude could be a performance-enhancing drug that, thankfully, is 100% legal.

"I'm pretty jolly," says Mazdzer, who has been a national and junior national champion. "I have that type of personality. I never really get down on anything. When I do, there's something seriously wrong."

According to Trent Petrie, a sports psychologist and the director of the Center for Sport Psychology at the University of North Texas, a positive attitude goes hand-in-hand with confidence.

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