Where to start when you don't know where to start

Where do you begin when you are at your wits end and your results do not seem to be working with your beliefs and the things that you seem to be certain of?

This is a question that I am sure has been asked many times by many people since the beginning of time.

The answer to the question lies in clarity and focus. Clarity and certainty of the life and vision that you have for yourself combined with a dedicated focus on the actions required to achieve your desires no matter what the intermittent difficulties may be.

We need to realise and accept that our current lives reflect what we desire and where this statement appears not to be true that we take a moment to re-evaluate our thinking and beliefs.
In my experience we only achieve the lives that we have negotiated for through stating for certain what we believe to be true. . For e.g. business is tough and I’m not sure how were going to make it, I feel tired and fat, etc etc.

I believe that its time to be certain and remove the self doubt that stops us from living the lives that we truly desire. In order to live this life that we desire we have to spend time on discovering what we desire, are passionate about and intend doing with our lives.

Our current lives are only a reflection of our past certainties and no reflection of our future certainties at all. We have to carefully consider what we are thinking and believing daily as these thought will be manifested as certainties in our lives.

The action and behavioural part of our lives is very similar to an iceberg. The part that we experience daily is the top of the iceberg that we see with the larger bulk of the iceberg underwater representing the combined certainty of our thinking and beliefs. The underwater bulk of an iceberg represents at least double the volume of the above water portion.

We often think that if we change our behaviour and work harder with more action that we will change our results. This is the easy part. If we understand that actions translated into results are the last part of the equation then we begin to understand the importance of spending much more time on our thinking, beliefs and certainties in creating a vision of the life we truly desire.

I know that when we spend time on our desires, passions and intentions that our lives reflect them.

Have a great day

What do you see around you that is reflecting your desires, passions or intentions?

With most of the country experiencing a beautiful spring day we had a wonderful opportunity to see more smiles and a generally upbeat attitude all around us.

As the weather heats up Monday nights in the gyms are already getting way busier. Supplement sales are up and folks are back in the gyms, tightening those buns for fun in the sun this spring.

Mountain bike and other riders are out there earlier than ever with more and more runners on the roads enjoying new sunshine and warmer weather.

Everywhere one looks there are loads of really white legs in ever shorter skirts, floral dresses and funky dark glasses. Spring is here.

Most gardens are experiencing a proliferation of birds with the first swallows of summer starting to build their nests. Vegetable gardens are showing real promise and most lawnmower repairman have delivered all the machines that stood in their shops all winter.

How about you? Have you felt the first rays of spring warming you? Has your spirit been lifted by those warm rays on your face?

You can use this time of renewal and growth to take a fresh look at your desires, passions and intentions. Look around you and replace the things you don't like with that which you do.

Go for a walk or a run, call that friend you haven't spoken to, send your folks a thank you card, tell you partner that you love them, smile twice, laugh once, learn a joke , tell the joke, hug someone, give anyone an honest compliment and just take the time to celebrate the awesome gift of life that you have been given.

Have a great day

The Wishbone Effect

 

 

Have you ever wondered what your purpose in life is? Or questioned just what it is that you're meant to be doing here? Many people go through life without asking the question, and then fail to understand their frustration, disappointment or short spells of success.

Then there are many who do question but believe that they do not have the resources and abilities to achieve their dreams and fulfil their purpose.

The challenge is often separating your life's purpose, that which you should achieve and that which you desire in life. I am certain that when you have the opportunity to consider your blessings in life that you may find your dreams and desires a lot more attainable. Consider this before allowing yourself to dream:

You can see… God has placed a hundred million receptors in your eyes enabling you to enjoy the magic of a leaf, a snowflake, a pond, an eagle, a child, a cloud, a star, a rose, a rainbow… and the look of love. How do you expect to see what God has in store for you if you do not appreciate the blessings that surround you? See

You can hear…you have over twenty-four thousand fibres built in each of your ears that vibrate to the wind in the trees, the tides on the rocks, the majesty of an opera, a robin's plea, children at play... and the words I love you. Listen....

 

You can speak... God has given you words that can calm the angry, uplift the despondent, goad the quitter, cheer the unhappy, warm the lonely, praise the worthy, encourage the defeated, teach the ignorant… and say I love you. Speak....

You can move. You are not a tree stuck in one spot while the wind abuses you. You can stretch and run and dance and work, for within you God has designed five hundred muscles, two hundred bones, and seven miles of nerve fibre all synchronized to do your bidding

Your heart is strong. Touch your chest and feel its rhythm, pulsating, hour after hour, day and night, thirty-six million beats each year, year after year, asleep or awake, pumping your blood through more than sixty thousand miles of veins, arteries, and tubing… pumping more than six hundred thousand gallons each year. God has never created such an awesome machine. Use it well...

Your skin is clear and a marvel of creation, needing only that you tend it with soap and oil and brush and care. In time all steels will tarnish and rust, but not your skin. Eventually the strongest of metals will wear, with use, but not that layer that I have constructed around you. Constantly it renews itself, old cells replaced by new, just as the old you is now replaced by the new

Your lungs, the portholes to life support you even in the vilest of environments of your own making, and they labour always to filter live-giving oxygen through six hundred million pockets of folded flesh while they rid your body of gaseous wastes

Within your eight litres of blood are twenty-two trillion blood cells and within each cell are millions of molecules and within each molecule is an atom oscillating at more than ten million times each second. Each second, two million of your blood cells die to be replaced by two million more in a resurrection that has continued since your first birth.

Your brain is the most complex structure in the universe. Within its three pounds are thirteen billion nerve cells, more than three times as many cells as there are people on your earth. To help you file away every perception, every sound, every taste, every smell, every action you have experienced since the day of your birth. God has implanted within your cells, more than one thousand billion billion protein molecules. Every incident in your life is there waiting only your recall. To assist your brain in the control of your body God has dispersed, throughout your form, four million pain-sensitive structures, five hundred thousand touch detectors, and more than two hundred thousand temperature detectors. No nation's gold is better protected than you.

You are God's finest creation.

You have two choices in life. Choose your own purpose and vision or realise that God has abundantly blessed you with more resources than you could ever need and has a clear purpose for you. Allow yourself to believe in the visions that you have had for yourself since birth and full fill the passions of your heart. You know them well.

 

 

 

Higher Success peaks

The Wider the base the higher the peak. Our success and failures are largely controlled by our habits. The actions we fulfill the most of (do most often) will result in the habits that we are best at.

The more you run the fitter you get. The more you complain about someone's behavior, the more irritated you become. The more you look for things to be grateful for daily, the more you see opportunities presented to you.

Consistency of good habits is the key to developing great capacity for success. Focus on the actions that you believe will create great habits leading to awesome successes and attempt to fulfill at least one new action daily.

When you’re running in circles, you have to say- I have to go now

There are times when you may feel over whelmed by all the apparent pressure on you. You're being pulled from side to side, trying to please everyone. You may be experiencing feelings of guilt at not being able to fulfil what others are expecting of you as well as an indebtedness to people that have seemingly assisted you and you don't want to let them down. All the supposedly important stuff is for someone else. Priorities set are not yours and you are wondering how you managed yourself into this position.

When you're running in circles and life just feels like it's getting too much, you need to take a look around, be brave and say – I have to go now.

What is it that you want? What is it that you need? What are your passions, desires and intentions? Have you been so busy pleasing others that you have forgotten what your dreams and goals are?

The more focused we are on other peoples goals and priorities the less time we have for our own. Surely your goals should enjoy priority in your life? Take a break and stop for a moment to appreciate the things you can be truly grateful for. There is so much going on in our lives that we forget to appreciate them. The friends, family, health, careers, fun, laughter, smiles, a full stomach and people that really want you to succeed in your goals and dreams.

You are capable of deciding your own destiny. The question is which path will you choose? Will you choose the path where you are constantly frustrated or the path that satisfies your passions and desires?

Stop, look around and say "I have to go now" and move on with your passions, desires and purpose.

Designing teambuilding programs

The team tasks and structure of a corporate team building day should be designed to help bond your team and build a team vision to take back into the workplace while having fun.

Adventure and fun are used to highlight specific learning outcomes with a team. This involves a program that not only changes the thinking processes within the team, but also looks at applying the learning back into the workplace. You work in teams and compete only with yourself to achieve your own new personal best in life and at work.

These are primarily team-building or networking outings where people can lighten up and have some fun without feeling intimidated or overwhelmed.

Team building programs should be custom built and tailor made for corporate groups. Such challenging activities promote team building, and develop staff communication, motivational skills and leadership while having fun.

Adventure Team Building is an opportunity to revitalize and rejuvenate not only your team, but also the whole organization with outdoor pursuits such as archery, abseil, caving, and rock climbing, skiing, kayaking, fishing, or taking a mountain bike trek, horse riding, driving and more. There are also expeditions, gorge exploring, orienteering, scavenger hunts, rescue games and other multi-adventures intended for relaxing and team motivation. Therefore, Adventure Team Building enables staff to interact between each other, react and act accordingly in similar circumstances, turning unusual collaborative circumstances into experiential learning.

Adventure Team Building can address specific workplace issues; motivate work group understanding, collaboration and cooperation. Experts say that people learn and develop from overcoming challenges, recreational team building provide work groups with instruction and guidance to expand them through a rotation of different problem solving activities.

Outdoor adventure activities, conference energizers and team building exercises may last from a few hours up to a few days enjoying camping, shelter building, barbecues, and al fresco feasts, whilst adding priceless synergy to group dynamics.

To create successful community-building activities appears to be simple, but they require competence, practice and experience. We have found that the best results have been obtained when the program has been well-matched to the needs of the client group, be they recreational, team-building or a vehicle for another agenda.
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Teams need common vision

The word "team" in the corporate world is one of the most abused words in the sense that what is normally referred to as a team is an amalgamation of individuals who share no common vision except that they belong to the organization with the same name.

It probably goes without saying teams need to have a common purpose. If the team leader is trying to save the world but your real goal is to make a better tennis shoe, then that's a challenge that needs to be addressed.

Team-based organizations should have teams that are entrusted with the responsibility for whole processes (outcomes) rather than isolated functions.

Complimentary skills are important too, when everyone on the team has similar skills and interests and abilities, creativity and intelligent risk-taking often get left behind.

Teams are more effective than individuals when organizing and making decisions, but our current methods of building teams continue to focus on individual accountability. Unlike traditional classroom teaching methods, teams should be given challenges to work through and outcomes to work toward.

A collaborative team is a collection of mutually trusting, respecting, and supporting individuals, who need each other's knowledge, abilities, and combined efforts of the group to effectively achieve common goals. Remember that your employees are already geared to operate in groups; all you need to do is integrate teamwork practices and the sharing of outcomes desired and common vision into your organization's operations.

If designed properly, team-based organizations with clear outcomes and shared vision will always have an upper hand in organizational performance compared to organizations where people are not working towards the same vision and goals.
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