Embrace Your Future Today

 

Waking to a lazy day is not a problem; the problem begins when do nothing about it. Although the day will come and go one needs to remember that there is still a future ahead of them.

When we start a day we need to set objectives for the day and strive to meet every goal. By the time we lay our head down to sleep our checklist should confirm that everything has been achieved. Failure to do so is the best recipe for disaster in the future; near or distant.

Each day needs to be lived at its maximum like it is one's deadline. When working towards a deadline, we all strive to perfect everything in order to end up with an interesting outcome.

One wise saying goes like, "Work like a slave today to live like a king today." In simple words, every future is prepared in the present moment. No matter what you have or don't have, your effort is what counts towards your brighter future. Hence we need to embrace our future today to enrich it with the best of possibilities.

Self realization is the master key to embracing your future. You cannot determine who you want to be in the future when you do not know who you are. Life is a curve and every instantaneous point is important to complete the graph, especially the beginning. If the beginning is messed up the rest will be difficult to accurately trace. However, if one starts off at the right place and time (which is the present) the rest will be a walk in the park.

After knowing yourself one can be rest assured of being able to choose either path to follow in life. As much as life is a freewill, we still need self-control to choose the right path. Self-control is a feeling that will tell you this is in line with who you are or not. It will lead you to make reasonable decisions rather than grabbing anything that life throws in your face. It doesn't work that way, we need to determine our future through our actions.

But how will one embrace the future before living it? This is a possible question in the mind of man. Embracing might refer to present things but for the future it is still applicable. If we cannot embrace it today, tomorrow we will see it pass before and not be able to contain it. It will come with hardships that we cannot contain even a fraction of it.

Therefore, everyone needs to work in the present for the best of the future. Procrastination is the killer of time, as it is well-known. The moment we delay our efforts today, we will be preparing for a possible failed future.

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Make Your Goals a Habit

 

When we're starting out, it's tempting to treat goal-setting as an all or nothing mindset, where aiming to excel, establish a great reputation and be recognised as successful are the daily focuses of our lives.

Over time we may come to realise that big goals are in many ways like onions, with multi-layers contributing to the finished product, each needing to be nurtured and developed. It's important to make time for them to grow and be recognised as separate components, with the layers eventually coming together to make the ultimate result.

We maybe set aside time to promote ourselves on social media, update our accounts, complete our journal, do some yoga practice, go online for a special class, but it's only when our goals are absorbed into our way of life and become second-nature, a habit, that they become an automatic part of our functioning, pulling together to make a well-rounded quality of life.

By making your goals a habit you're living each day to the full, enjoying what you're doing and are less distracted by how much it advances your route to success. You simply keep going, working with your master plan towards the big picture, whilst incorporating positive practices into your daily life.

You may have identified stepping-stones, actions and decisions that need to be taken everyday to achieve your goal. For example, progressing your business growth may require a specific number of contacts to be made on a regular basis, losing weight may include daily choices about exercise and what to eat, running a marathon may mean covering a certain distance each week. Doing something big or small that becomes a part of your regular mindset and commitment.

Even on relatively inactive days or those times when other things take precedence it's important to make some acknowledgement of your ultimate focus. That way, your actions gradually become a habit. Remind yourself of your goals by having them in plain sight on a vision board, on your screen saver or by writing them in the front of your journal or diary, so that you connect with them regularly, either consciously or unconsciously. Ensure that they're always with you.

You may have high-lighted specific big goals as the focus for your efforts, but habits come about through being a reasonably comfortable, regular commitment, rather than being so big that you risk becoming overwhelmed or required to park other areas of your life. Doing something that's straightforward and relatively easy to include has a greater chance of becoming a habit and subsequently resulting in success.

That's why it's best to break big goals down into smaller segments, bite-sized chunks that don't need too much thought or can be arranged in advance. Otherwise, on busy, stressful days all your good intentions risk being cast to one side, as you default to easier, more familiar habit patterns, or reject them as you deal with pressing matters that require all your attention.

Some people find that making lists is a positive way to introduce a new habit, breaking down a larger goal into achievable actions each day. Setting a timer can help you manage how long to spend on each task, so ensuring there's real focus on the task in hand, whilst also avoiding becoming too absorbed for too long on a single piece of work.

It's good to cultivate the habit of achieving something, however small, each day. That mindset is proactive, motivational and encourages you to intermittently review your plans, raise the bar and move them forwards. Even a quick phone call or email can be enough to make progress.

When that outlook has become a habit, there's an enthusiastic approach to what can be achieved each day; something small on busy days, taking larger steps when there's the time and energy available.

Accountability is often important, having someone to regularly check-in with, who wants to know what you've done, where you're up to, what the likely outcome could be. Scheduling an appointment when you have to explain yourself is incredibly motivational; something that's only too evident on the days before a slimmer's class has a weigh-in!

But a coach or mentor can also help iron out any issues, steer or guide you as to available options, help you re-focus after a set-back. Someone who's on your side, who's with you during your struggles, who understands what you're going through can make a massive difference to your motivation levels.

Making your goals a habit is an important contributor to your success, but don't allow yourself to be too tied down by them. Allow yourself to enjoy the journey and maybe even appreciate occasional detours along the way. After all, once you reach your destination you may be at a loss as to what to do next or simply be inspired to start again and set some new goals.

Sometimes it's exciting not to be too rigid about chasing your initial goals. It can be satisfying to enjoy exploring new opportunities and follow where they lead. Unexpected adventures can be a reward in themselves. Take time to value each experience that presents itself as you progress. Then, your goal-motivated mindset will become a habit, as well as a stimulating and enjoyable contributor to your way of thinking.

Susan Leigh, South Manchester counsellor, hypnotherapist, relationship counsellor, writer & media contributor offers help with relationship issues, stress management, assertiveness and confidence. She works with individual clients, couples and provides corporate workshops and support.

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Who Is the Producer of Your Life?

 

A single thought is believed to look like a tree with seventy thousand branches. Every time you rethink an idea you grow more branches on that tree. So a strong thought has had lots of repetition to become stable, and this principle applies to a view whether it is positive or negative.

On average we experience sixty thousand to eighty thousand thoughts per day and ninety-eight percent of them you thought yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. This doesn't say much for our creative ability, does it? Here's another statistic that should lift your eyebrows. They estimate that seventy to eighty percent of all thoughts are negative. Research shows that a fear thought can trigger more than fourteen hundred physical and chemical responses and thirty different hormones and neurotransmitters. Six seconds of negative thought stresses the immune system in such a way that it requires twenty-one hours to recover from it. Tell me, when was the last time you had just six seconds of negative thought?

Eighty-seven percent of illnesses are attributed to our thought life. Studies conclusively link chronic disease to toxic emotions. These emotions can cause migraines, hypertension, strokes, cancer, skin problems, diabetes, infections, and allergies. The feelings that are the most damaging to the body are un-forgiveness, anger, rage, resentment, depression, worry, anxiety, frustration, fear, excessive grief, and guilt.

So how stable or robust a thought tree becomes, depends on the degree of repetition and replay in your mind. During the night, our brain has a cleansing system that washes away thirty-five to seventy-five percent of all of the information we take in. It will clean away those branches that are not stable. The data won't be terminated, but we will struggle to recall it as quickly as other thoughts we think more often.

Let me broaden your understanding a little further on the subject of negative thought and its consequences. A person who invests into self-hatred has a working recipe created from varying hormones in the hypothalamus. Imagine the hypothalamus as a mixing bowl for your emotions, and you have the control to choose whatever recipe the brain is going to prepare. The creation of these recipes is no accident. You, your mind, and your will are the government that oversees and runs these little countries, called your cells.

The hypothalamus transports this hormonal mixture over to the pituitary gland, and then your toxic little recipe is distributed out into the bloodstream. Once this lethal compound is launched, your cells come under immediate fire. These harmful biological arrows intend to wound your physiology. These nasty little darts of destruction connect with millions of receptors located on the surface of your cells and once locked into place, the environment of the cell changes. In fact, so significant is the change, when the cells divide and reproduce, the cell replicates the same type of cell. So what's the big deal, you've got millions of cell receptors. If a few thousand of them are allocated to self-hatred, isn't there enough receptors to go around? Well Actually, there isn't. When these receptors clog with deadly information, it prevents the cell from receiving vital and necessary nutrients like vitamins or minerals. Every receptor is created for a unique purpose.

Your greatest obstacle in this intellectual combat is the stress and repetition of simply leaving this fertile and valuable geography unchecked, unchallenged, and unattended. The contemplation, deduction, and introspection of decades of habitual thinking have made these beliefs comfortable. Your subconscious has hoarded one thought after another, and taken one devastating conclusion and built another one upon it.

Stop for a minute and think about what thoughts make you feel good. Do you realize that you pick the ideas you choose to recall and remember? Are you going to allow second-hand information to govern your mind, or will you choose to be the producer of your thought life? As startling as it might be, you need to recognize just how many of your feelings are being used for the promotion of darkness and negativity. What's it going take to motivate you to jump in the driver seat and start manifesting emotions for the love and light in your life?

If we want

• Strong legs, we perform squats.
• Strong arms, we execute curls.
• Strong endurance, we participate in long duration exercises.
• Strong vision and clarity, we practice imagining.
• Strong gratitude, we fashion our mind around what we are thankful for.

So if we want strong thoughts...

we must consciously decide what thoughts we will allow our mind to have access to. Conscious is the keyword. We are moving from auto thinking to conscious thinking. We have to choose what thoughts we will think and to do that we have to start paying attention to the feelings our thoughts create. There has to be a training period where we develop thought conditioning.

Here are some important FACTS:

• Very few thoughts are self-produced data or self-produced preferences.
• Most of our thoughts are someone else's old thoughts.
• Many thoughts we have are inaccurate.
• Our minds are filled with reactive thoughts created by others.
• Most thoughts have a sponsoring thought... a thought that inspired thought.

Would it not be better that you created your own thoughts?

Whether you realize it or not, You have been producing all of your life, consciously or unconsciously. Are you happy with what you have brought into existence? Bear in mind that Unconscious living is a coping strategy. Conscious living takes courage.

So Imagine tomorrow that you have unlimited resources and therefore unlimited ability to imagine and produce the newer, more conscious, and highly creative version of YOU. You have the power of creation in your hands. And remember, you don't have to create alone. You are in partnership:

1. With your Creator-He watches over and takes care of me.
2. With yourself
3. With others

There are lots of important questions to ask regarding this newly produced version of yourself. You've been a slave to the mediocrity of a world system bent on reducing you, by continuously comparing you to standards that aren't built upon the truth or even achievable. So the first order of business is to stop believing that this system is the truth. You've got a very short list of influencers you can trust, and you are one of them. Tell the mob of shame, blame and lame to take a long walk and forget your address. You won't be needing their advice any longer.

Secondly, see yourself in a position of power. You've got important things to think and say. Your choices impact others and yourself. You are always teaching the outside world what you believe by your actions.

What roles and responsibilities will this person be consciously involved in and purposely making the world a more loving place to exist? How is this person explicitly impacting the love reserve in this country, in this province, in this city?

What kinds of thoughts have been substituted for the old, ego-driven, self-sabotaging beliefs? This person is smart enough to see how self-serving and damaging that thinking was. What thoughts make this person strong-minded and what ideas will this person choose to invest in?

What toxic programs have this person released or done away with? What truth has this person adopted so they can release the offenses of the past, and bring their life into the present?

This person has now resumed their rightful place as "thinker of their thoughts," a job once controlled by the shame mob. So tell me how invigorating it feels to be back in the driver seat of your life?

The human existence was never designed to manage the burden of dark energy long term. Carrying the load of negativity compromises the health and beauty of who you are. So tell me how beautiful it feels to live without the voice of criticism or judgment? Those voices and thoughts were never your own, so share with me how the truth feels when it lands on your ears?

You've got a new purpose and intention for life. Tell me how people will remember you? How will you bring your unique brand of change to this world? What makes this new you jump out of bed and take the world by the tail?

We want to beautify your mind with thoughts and emotions that bless all of you. Your being is thirsty for the language and energy that loves you back to life. Let's renew your mind with the creation of words and thoughts that reveal a blueprint and design for the highest and most beautiful version of yourself. Let's use language to call forth what you are creating and make manifest the power of your words for the future you. It's time for a changing of the guards.

You are not some low-budget film project looking for handouts. You are handpicking the supporting actors, script, and ideas that will generate your next big, box-office hit called BEAUTIFUL YOU. Collaborate with yourself and be deliberate about what you will think.

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The Best Actions Are Thought Out The Best

 

Life and existence are not all for nothing. Like the best plans and actions that are worked out ideally, the better you plan, the more patient you are in it, and the more realistic you are. The better the results always are. Indeed, without patience, planning, repeatable success and realistic thinking, you had better think about permanent failure being an option. For, success, realistically, that is repeatable without depending on luck requires the skill of patience, planning, and realistic thinking at the very least. All avenues of failure explored in a Thomas Edison "fail ten thousand times at creating the light bulb" type way at the very most. For the worst actions are poorly thought out, and done without preparations depending purely on luck without the patience to fail forward to permanent success.

In this vein, I think of the child who stomped on the seed to make it grow quicker into a plant instead of watering, feeding and cultivating the plant.

Impatience with results never works, patience, understanding and tolerance always works like watering, feeding, cultivating and giving time to do the work in reality.

Listen, I would rather consistently fail, know all the things that would fail, and then genuinely succeed knowing all the downfall points, failure triggers and "pot holes" than to succeed once through luck and know nothing about how to genuinely repeat the success.

The best actions and results are thought out the best without question. This in a reality is what I am taking all of these paragraphs to spell out. Success to be repeatable, needs a realistic and full understanding of where failure happens, and that happens in not any other way than practicing then succeeding.

Face it, "normal people" want "something for nothing" as evidenced by all the money spent on national and state lottery tickets. But, it is the "abnormal person" willing to do the work that is really special although that "special status" is genuinely hard earned and worked for with trial, error, and willing to put in the time, effort and understanding to repeatedly succeed. It is those few that are the real "one percent", and the "normal people" that are that "ninety nine percent" that depend on luck and fortune that is not repeatable or realistically inclined.

Do we not all wish? Even if we are genuinely willing work hard, do we not all wish? Usually to get past "wishing", we must give backing. That, right there, is my point also. Depend on fortune, get something that usually cannot be repeated. Depend on effort and understanding, and repeat genuinely. That is the bottom line in reality and the key choice of existence.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.

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You Will Never Succeed More Than You Fail And That's A Good Thing

 

We Will Never Succeed More Than We Fail

How do you define success? Think about your answer over the overcoming paragraphs, since our thoughts about success may not be entirely accurate. For example, most people believe success is about winning and fewer failures, where in fact it is the opposite.

I was watching the American television presenter Steve Harvey, recently who said: "I have failed far more times than I have succeeded. You will never succeed more than you fail... That's just not how it works. I've pitched over 200 show ideas in Hollywood, out of those 200 they have picked 5 in 33 years of pitching."

So what Harvey is telling us is that his success rate within the last 33 years of pitching ideas to Hollywood is 2.5%. Yet, he is one of the most successful television presenters and comedians, with a net worth of $200 million USD.

To present a similar example, consider the following quote from the basketball legend Michael Jordan: "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

Are you getting the sense that success is not about repeated wins, but not giving up until we achieve our goals or dreams? How about you? Have you experienced success that changed your life?

I'm not talking about fame or financial windfalls but the success we experience with our health, relationships, career or finances. The one common denominator, as Steve Harvey points out, is that we will never succeed more than we fail; and that's a good thing. We've got to be working away at our goal, to have any chance of achieving success.

Failure Sharpens The Saw Of Our Character

In a recent documentary hosted by David Attenborough, a pride of lions living in Africa were followed by a camera crew over twelve-months. In it, he mentions a lion will fail 9 times out of 10 when hunting prey. A lot can go wrong during a kill, which forces the lion to abandon the hunt.

Therefore, it must try more often in order to feed itself and the pride. Success is the same where it requires commitment and perseverance to achieve our goals. Even then, there are no assurances we will prevail. It takes a strong mindset to achieve success. If we experience repeated failures and setbacks, it can affect our self-esteem.

Have you experienced this with a goal, whether it be personal or professional? It is my experience coaching people over the years; it is rare to meet someone who has the resiliency to keep going in the face of defeat. We need to have a powerful vision for our life, if we want to achieve success. Chances are, the failures and setbacks will stop us in our tracks if we are not committed enough.

To paint another example, the Navy Seal BUD/S program is designed to weed out those unfit to serve on the front line. The attrition rate is 80% and higher, and that is just the selection process to get into the program.

The attrition rate is high because the program aims to select those who are mentally, emotionally and physically skilled at frontline warfare. I appreciate our lives are not as demanding as the Navy Seals program, but success also has a high attrition rate because of the resiliency required to succeed.

According to the American author Stephen Covey, failure sharpens the saw of our character because it boosts our personal growth and resiliency. Covey spoke of the need to establish strong habits, and hence why he called it sharpening the saw.

Success Leaves Clues

Are you getting the sense that success is about who we become, which determines whether we succeed? Zig Ziglar said: "It's your attitude, not your aptitude that will determine your altitude." Those we regard as successful have accumulated a lifetime of personal growth to get to where they are.

When I read their biographies, the common denominator is the setbacks they experienced, such as repeated failures, delays and insurmountable odds to reach the pinnacle of their field.

The thing that stands out the most is their strength of character and the resiliency upon which they create their life. We must fail and fail often, if we wish to achieve any form of success. Moreover, we must examine our failures to see whether we are growing in proportion to them.

However, we mustn't consider ourselves a failure because failing is not indicative of our self-worth. Failure is a signpost we are trying and the more we try, the greater our chances of succeeding. It bears repeating: we've got to be doing the work to have any chance of success. We've got to be in the arena doing the gritty work no one sees or will praise us for.

Knowing this, I invite you to consider an area of your life where you are hoping to succeed. What do you think is holding you back? You might say economic conditions, the Coronavirus pandemic, or something else. May I remind you Jeff Bezos' wealth grew by $90.1 billion during the pandemic. Bill Gates and other notable billionaires' personal fortunes also grew during the pandemic.

The point I wish to make is that even during a global crisis, successful people thrive and we can use that to propel us forward. So, take out your journal and write 3 to 5 recent failures you experienced, whether personal or professional. What have you learnt from them? Write how you can use the growth to succeed in the future?

There's a well-known quote attributed to Tony Robbins who said: "Success leaves clues." So what clues is success leaving you? Could it be that your failures are sharpening the saw of your character? Journal your answers and take an introspective look within yourself, to see where the opportunities exist. After all, you will never succeed more than you fail because life shape us into the person we wish to become, when success finally arrives on our doorstep.

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