Originally posted August 11, 2010
How can you shape your own destiny? Well, the answer is very simple. Practice gratitude. The rule is you become what you think about. So, if you’re focused on what is working in your life, then more of that is going to come into your life. You need to focus on what you like, what is right, what is working, who loves you. Basically, think about what makes you happy and what makes you feel grateful! If you think about these things, more of those things will come into your life. So your future becomes more and more what you like about your life.
Now let’s look at the other side of it. The drunk monkey in your head is doing all of that talking and all of that thinking. The drunk monkey is focused on what is not working, what you need to be afraid of and what you need to avoid. When you allow the drunk monkey to focus on all that stuff, it attracts more of it into your life. It’s attracting more of what you don’t want, so your life becomes progressively more difficult to deal with. What gratitude does is it literally turns your life in a direction that is more of what you want. It will shape your destiny in ways that you can’t even imagine. Your life is gonna become progressively more joyous as you are practicing gratitude.
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Originally posted February 23, 2009
I was just noodling on the web and ran across someone’s slides on how to create your future. He goes on to tell us the classic way to create your future is to think about life from this perspective… What if there were no limitations? The problem with this approach is that it does not honor The Drunk Monkey!
The Drunk Monkey’s job is to keep you alive by changing, fixing, avoiding or killing anything that might be potentially threatening. The very fact that you and I have that machine running in the background insures that we can NOT think or operate from the mindset of no limitation. Yes, I might be able to come up with a no limit thought. But actually implementing it is a nightmare. Why?
The Drunk Monkey’s job is to run in the background of my life and silently steer my body away from danger. New, different, amazing, mind blowing, out of the box and no limit all represent the unknown which The Drunk Monkey naturally avoids. So my no limit thinking is overridden by my body’s natural aversion to the unknown.
You must illuminate The Drunk Monkey and it’s motives if you are going to be able to make drastic changes. After you can spot The Drunk Monkey trying to protect you from your new future, then you can really make radical changes with minimal fear. If you don’t see The Drunk Monkey running your life, then you are stuck. You are The Drunk Monkey’s puppet.
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Originally posted February 27, 2009
You were born! Amazing! You are reading these words on a computer! Totally awesome. Do you realize how lucky you are? Do you get how fortunate you are?
You are concerned with personal development. Hello! That means you are interested in evolving yourself. That is a very sophisticated pursuit. That is one of the highest pursuits a person can undertake. To be in the pursuit of higher awareness means you are not trying to survive. 80% of the world is just concerned with staying alive. That’s not you. Do you get how lucky you are?
Today just count your blessings, okay?
Originally posted August 12, 2010
A great Gratitude Exercise is what I call gratitude, intention and delegation. Every day I have a group of people that I do this with. Every day I will write out what I’m grateful for: I am grateful for my family, I’m grateful for my kids, I’m grateful for my customers. I just start to write out everything that I’m grateful for. Then my intentions are more about how what I want to feel and what I want to experience that day. That’s how I define intentions in this exercise, so I intend to feel creative. I intend to be inspired. I intend to be empowering.
It’s feeling, being, experiencing states and then delegations. A lot of times the things that I want are a little beyond what I know how to create, so what I do is I use a method that I learned from Jerry and Esther Hicks. I delegate them to the universe. I say, “I’m so thankful to the universe for providing me with three opportunities this month to make $50,000 dollars or something better.” I always add “or something better” at the very end, so gratitude, intention and delegation. Me, personally, I like to do it with a group and have a structure where everybody’s sending it to each other. It is much more powerful.
You’re going to find that practicing gratitude is going to make a huge difference. There is one last thing that will make a huge difference in your world. As you’re walking around throughout your day, spend time appreciating the beauty of everything around you. Just that state of appreciating beauty will put you into an incredible state. Try these techniques: gratitude, delegating, and appreciating beauty. They will make a profound difference in your life.
Originally posted August 24, 2010
Well, it turns out that happiness and sadness both spread like diseases. In a study done by Harvard University and MIT, a mathematical model was put to a study to see if happiness and sadness, if your emotional state infects other people. Guess what? It does.
Over a several-year period, they realized that by applying a traditional, infectious disease simulation to the data they had collected on 1,880 test subjects, the sadness would spread throughout the people who were exposed to it. The happy would spread throughout the people who were affected by it.
I remember my son saying to us at dinner the other day, “It is so weird Dad. When I am here at your house, my complaints disappear so quickly. I am able to maintain my happiness and my joy so much more easily than when I am over at Mom’s.” It just confirmed for me that one person’s commitment to happiness can massively and dramatically affect everyone else in your life.
So what are you committed to? Are you going to spread the disease of the drunk monkey? Or, are you going to spread the disease of your higher self into your life today?
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