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		<title>Eight Steps to Manifest Your Biggest Dreams, Step 4:</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<title>Master Your Mindset 31</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Are you following somebody else&#8217;s rules about when and how you can be happy?”]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming An Inspirational Leader with Executive Leadership Coaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Coaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Executive Leadership Coaching removes all the barriers to inspiration. When the leader is inspired, the energy of that inspiration pours through and energizes the entire company. Results naturally skyrocket. Executive leadership coaching is a powerful tool for creating that energy and inspiration. It is about designing a collective future for the company that is so [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Executive Leadership Coaching removes all the barriers to inspiration. When the leader is inspired, the energy of that inspiration pours through and energizes the entire company. Results naturally skyrocket.</p>
<p>Executive leadership coaching is a powerful tool for creating that energy and inspiration. It is about designing a collective future for the company that is so inspiring that the entire company – all of the employees, all of the players – can step into that future and take action in alignment with that future.</p>
<p>I’m not talking about motivating people. Motivation is different than inspiration. Motivation is external and is based on rewards and punishment. Inspiration bubbles up from the inside. Inspiration is the natural inclination to act. It is the lighting of an internal fire, and the result is immediate: powerful energy surges through the entire company. It creates a buzz and a pull towards a common future.</p>
<p>Great leadership is ultimately about inspiration and communication.</p>
<p>Now, there are times when leadership must be stern and drive accountabilities. But the ultimate leader speaks about the future in such a way that the future he or she sees inspires the entire company. And everybody gets behind it and takes action on their own. The results can be so astounding that accountability becomes moot. The leader doesn’t push. He lights the spirits of the entire team with a vision that works – and works for everyone.</p>
<p>That’s the key! The vision works for everybody. There are two common mistakes that leaders make when trying to inspire their team. First, they are inspiring the wrong team. If you speak the vision and people don’t get it, consider you may have the wrong group. You can’t get pigs to fly, but if you have a vision that includes rolling around in the mud, no accountability is necessary for the pigs.</p>
<p>The second mistake inspiring leaders make is speaking the vision one way and one way only. You will know you have the right team when you speak the vision the first time and they all get excited. The next thing to do is discover what that vision means to each individual on the team and learn how to speak the company’s vision inside of the context of the employees. This insures they will get it at the core of their own being. No push will be necessary because there will be an internal drive to achieve the vision.</p>
<p>Executive leadership coaching is about learning to orient your language, your thinking process, and your perspective such that when you speak, everyone around you is inspired to take action on their dreams. And this begets results for the dream of the company, as well. Everything is in sync.</p>
<p>In your business, results will flourish to the point where accountability structures are bypassed again and again. It becomes easy when the leader inspires.</p>
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		<title>The Keys To Mega-Manifesting!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goal Setting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1. Start small, because then you believe in it! You don’t get attached to small things, so results just come. 2. Don&#8217;t focus on Fear. Let go of Fear and you will Mega-Manifest&#8230; 3. Know that you deserve it. You deserve to Mega-Manifest. There is no evidence anywhere that you do not! 4. Manifest Big [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>1.</strong> Start small, because then you believe in it! You don’t get attached to small things, so results just come.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> Don&#8217;t focus on Fear. Let go of Fear and you will Mega-Manifest&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> Know that you deserve it. You deserve to Mega-Manifest. There is no evidence anywhere that you do not!</p>
<p><strong>4.</strong> Manifest Big Stuff! Don&#8217;t worry how long it takes. Worry stops good things from coming to you.</p>
<p><strong>5.</strong> Release your attachment to the outcome. You don&#8217;t need what you want. Your life is already amazing, so why attach to an outcome.</p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> Let The Law of Manifesting Exist! What you want is coming! Say “I’m open to more money coming, however it shows up. Pennies and dollars; people sending me checks; checkers giving me too much change back, even getting a raise!&#8221; Just say, “Thank You!”.</p>
<p><strong>7.</strong> Get clear about what you want. You may not know what you want and that&#8217;s okay. The Universe has a very powerful system for clarifying your desire. It’s called Breakdown! Breakdown is Breakthrough and it will clarify your life.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong> Be the essence of your Future now. Be the Essence, and you are already the Reality!</p>
<p>Remember, this is a world of attraction. The real prizes are there for you. Hold this thought, we will ALL Mega-Manifest , as we are intended to.</p>
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		<title>Eight Steps to Manifest Your Biggest Dreams, Step 3:</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<title>Master Your Mindset 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Drunk Monkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“The past is not who you are.  What you say is who you are.  What are you saying today?”]]></description>
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		<title>Replace the Drunk Monkey’s Vision of Your Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Drunk Monkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How you see each situation is not how it actually is. When people are speaking to you, you are listening through your negative future prophesizing machine. You aren’t listening to them. You are listening to what you are saying to yourself about what they are saying. Read that again. This is a disaster when it [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How you see each situation is not how it actually is. When people are speaking to you, you are listening through your negative future prophesizing machine.</p>
<p>You aren’t listening to them. You are listening to what you are saying to yourself about what they are saying. Read that again. This is a disaster when it comes to attracting fulfilling life experiences, which are almost always related to cooperation. If you don’t believe me, imagine your life as completely perfect. Who are you sharing it with? Do you have a lover or a child in your perfect life? Good friends? Are you running a great company? Have good relationships with your team?</p>
<p>The fact that you are making things up about what people are saying to you makes you hard to deal with. It’s not just you, it’s everyone. Consider that you are not listening to anything anyone says. You are listening to your own voice in your head. Your doubts, your worries, your fears. This junk is mucking up everything and you are not truly being present to what is amazing in your life.</p>
<p>As you observe your Drunk Monkey and it’s foolish imaginings today, you become present to the greatness, the kindness, the good nature of people. Notice how, even today, people and situations seem different. Observe the Drunk Monkey making things up about people and situations and then let those thoughts go. See the Drunk Monkey for what it is. “The Negative Future Prophesizing Machine!” Say to yourself, “How could I possibly know what is going on here? I’m imagining things. I’m committed to seeing the good in people. I know that I live a magical life and that things are starting to really turn out for me. This situation is a part of my upward cycle.”</p>
<p>Isn’t that liberating? Doesn’t that feel good? All you did was make something up that wasn’t a negative future. You made up a positive future. You are making things up anyway, why not make up things that make you feel good.</p>
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		<title>Accepting the worst case scenario</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goal Setting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It sounds almost contradictory, doesn’t it? To accept the worst case scenario seems like you would then attract it, right? Wrong. When you accept the worst case scenario, this releases your resistance to it. Your resistance to your fantasy is what keeps it coming. To release it, you must accept it. On one hand you [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It sounds almost contradictory, doesn’t it? To accept the worst case scenario seems like you would then attract it, right? Wrong.</p>
<p>When you accept the worst case scenario, this releases your resistance to it. Your resistance to your fantasy is what keeps it coming. To release it, you must accept it. On one hand you recognize that there is no future. On the other hand you must accept that the negative future is going to happen and make peace with it.</p>
<p>It doesn’t make a lot of sense yet, fearful obsessions are like a hiking trail. The more times you walk down a path, the deeper the groove gets in the ground. The deeper the groove, the harder it is to get off the path. Same is true for obsessing over a potential negative future. The more you obsess the harder it is to get off the subject. The more you focus on the subject, the more the universe makes it true.</p>
<p>Once you <em>get present</em> to the fact that your fearful negative future is just one possibility and you accept that if it happens you will survive, then you are free to imagine new futures.</p>
<p>Consider there is a negative future that you are currently avoiding. Consider that because of this negative future, you are obsessing about being victimized. The obsessing causes you to not be present to the extreme opportunities that are all around you, right now.</p>
<p>What is the worst case scenario, you are avoiding? What is the future, you are making sure doesn’t happen? What is the future, that if you accepted, right now, it would free you from obsessing?</p>
<p>Consider that you are living your life on a delay. Just try it on. Try this thought on like you would a potential outfit. You don’t have to admit it, just look and see. You are viewing life through your expectation of the future and therefore not even seeing what’s really happening. Your head is in the proverbial sand! It’s no wonder you are not manifesting everything you want in all areas of your life. You are not wired to be present to your actual situation. When you are present, it’s easy to attract manifest success because amazing opportunities are all around you. When you are present, manifesting an amazing life is effortless.</p>
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		<title>Master Your Mindset 29</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 10:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Drunk Monkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“You don&#8217;t see others. You see your opinion, conditioning, expectations and generalizations. You see your model of the world.”]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>“You don&#8217;t see others.  You see your opinion, conditioning, expectations and generalizations.  You see your model of the world.”</em></p>
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		<title>Thriving vs. Surviving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get present to the power of your mind. The more you understand the mind, the faster you’ll experience peace and contentment in the moment. The more quickly you get there, the more quickly your dreams will fall in your lap. You are someone committed to having it all. You want the money, you want the [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get present to the power of your mind.  The more you understand the mind, the faster you’ll experience peace and contentment in the moment.  The more quickly you get there, the more quickly your dreams will fall in your lap. </p>
<p>You are someone committed to having it all.  You want the money, you want the freedom and you want the joy of existence.  Yet, you are not wired to create that as your reality.  You are likely wired to be a Forceful Success.  The only question is “Will you generate success in a way that brings you extraordinary pleasure with ease and flow or will you do it the traditional way and experience hard work, suffering, breakdown and tragedy along the way?”</p>
<p>Your mind is the key component.  Actually, getting beyond your mind is more accurate.  How you choose to view your situation will either create suffering or joy.  You can suffer or you can make feel joy…it’s your choice. </p>
<p>The problem you will face over and over is not being aware of the mechanics of your mind.  Success will be drawn to someone like you either way.  The only question is do you want to succeed and suffer or do you want to succeed and feel joy?  So let’s begin to understand how you are being misled by your perception of the world.</p>
<p>Begin noticing that every aspect your being is designed to survive.  Start to observe that your attitude, personality, mind-set, opinions, your qualities and characteristics are all designed to keep you alive longer.  Each of your aspects are not designed to be goal achieving mechanisms, their not designed to bring you more happiness or peace and they are certainly not designed to give you satisfaction.  If anything, the way your mind deals with the world will do the opposite.  You will begin to realize that you are a survival machine! </p>
<p>MAJOR PROBLEM:  You aren’t going to survive!  Everyone and I mean everyone is going to die!  Right?  Are you going to escape death?  No.  Then why spend time avoiding the unavoidable?</p>
<p>Survival is an illegitimate pursuit.  There’s no need to survive.  The very fact that you are reading these words tells us that you are someone who is living an amazing life.  You are someone who already has a powerful influence over your world. </p>
<p>Let’s face it; you probably already have a car, house, clothes, electronics and many other luxury items.  You are likely already a consumer which concludes that your life is not about survival.  Consider your life is about pleasure.  Your life is about getting what you want and having it all.  You are in pursuit of joy, freedom, peace, happiness and all kinds of other pleasurable feelings.  Why do you want more?  What do you think it will give you?  In the end, you want to feel good.  We hate to break the news to you but, that’s not a survival situation.  Yet, start to consider the lengths you go to survive in non-survival situations.</p>
<p>It is amazing to become of just how much you’ve been surviving, all the while, pretending like you’ve been living.  You are about to be hit with the harsh reality that all of your suffering, heartache, pain, frustration and anger are self-induced and even more importantly are a misperception.  What will totally blow you away is the realization that suffering repels all of the success you are seeking!</p>
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