The 12 Laws of Performance – Positive Attraction
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“Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending”
- Author Unknown
I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it many more; when you think positively, you act positively, and when you take positive action, you attract positive outcomes. Positive thoughts lead to positive outcomes – simple! Or is it?
One of the most commonly known Universal Laws is the Law of Attraction. In a nutshell, the guiding principle behind the Law is that like attracts like. Positive thoughts attract positive outcomes but by the same token, negative thoughts attract negative outcomes. The bottom line is, the way you think about life has a direct impact on every outcome in your life. So, with that said, all we need to do to attract the outcomes in life we want is to just think positively – so why is it not that simple?
With the best will in the world, it’s difficult to think positively all of the time. Generating a positive outcome is not about never having a negative thought, it’s about learning how to see the positives in any given situation and, crucially, learning how to believe in the positives. For example, everybody has bad days and moments when it feels like Murphy’s Law rules – anything that can go wrong, will go wrong – and when you’re having ‘one of those days’ it can be all too easy to allow negative thoughts to rule your mind. However, if you begin to focus on the negative happenings and begin to believe that everything is going wrong for you then you begin to surround yourself with a negative vibe that will lead to everything going wrong for you. When you focus only on the negatives, you see only negatives so the outcome of your entire day can only be negative – you believe that only negative things can happen to you. But here’s the thing, it’s that very belief that’s attracting every negative happening into your day!
Let’s say your alarm clock doesn’t go off one morning. You wake up in a panic thinking you’re going to be late for work and that leads into a succession of negative thoughts about what the consequences of being late will be. Your negative focus can generate enough negative energy to cloud your entire day – if you allow it to. You believe that because you’ve woken up late, the rest of your day is going to be a disaster, and because you believe that, guess what? Okay, waking up late is not a great start to your day but it doesn’t have to dictate the outcome of the rest of it. Negative thoughts are effectively a magnet to negative happenings so it takes positive thoughts to attract positive happenings.
Telling yourself that things can only get better is a good start but if you’re really thinking that they probably won’t – they won’t! Things can and will get better when you believe they can and will. Positive thoughts backed up by genuinely positive beliefs generate enough positive energy to overcome any negative happenings in your day. Don’t allow yourself to slip into ‘one of those days’, change your focus and make it ‘your day’.
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The 12 Laws of Performance – Can You Feel It?
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“I’m pickin’ up good vibrations…good, good, good, good vibrations”
- The Beach Boys
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Ever had a really good feeling about something? Ever had a really bad feeling about something? What is that feeling; where does it come from?
Everything in the universe is a form of energy and energy vibrates, so everything creates its own unique vibration – your thoughts and feelings included. When you get a ‘good feeling’, you’re picking up on positive energy, you’re feeling a good vibe, and when you get a ‘bad feeling’, you’re picking up on negative energy, you’re feeling a bad vibe. So who or what creates that vibe?
Let’s say you’re on holiday and you’re checking out the local nightlife. You walk into a bar you’ve never been in before and you instantly get the feeling that it’s not somewhere you want to hang around. Nothing physically happens to make you feel that way – no one says anything or does anything to outwardly indicate that you’re not welcome – yet you know you’re not welcome there. You know it because you’re picking up on the negative energy being generated by the people in the room. You can’t see their hostility but you can feel it. The same principle applies when you walk into a different bar and instantly feel relaxed. The people in the bar don’t have to physically hug you and tell you to come in and take a seat, you just feel the positive energy in the environment and pick up on the good vibe that’s being generated.
But, here’s the thing. Just as you can pick up on the vibe being generated by the thoughts and feelings of other people, other people can pick up on the vibe being created by your thoughts and feelings. Think about that for a moment. When you are thinking negative thoughts, you are generating negative energy; you are creating a negative vibe. You might be the one making someone else feel unwelcome or uncomfortable without saying or doing anything! Of course, it’s not only other people you may be affecting. Even if you’re the only person in the room, your negative thoughts will still generate a negative vibe and it’s you who will be negatively affected.
You can create your own positive vibe wherever you go by simply learning to think positively. Imagine that? Imagine being able to feel comfortable in any environment and feel positive in any situation. Thinking positively and feeling confident go hand-in-hand. When you think positive thoughts, you generate positive energy and that positive energy creates the ‘good feeling’ that let’s you know you’re in the right place and you’re doing the right thing.
Everything is energy, your thoughts included, and energy vibrates, so next time you’re picking up on a bad vibe, take a moment to question why you’re feeling that way. Could it be the result of your own thought processes? When you learn to think positively, you not only learn how to generate your own positive vibe wherever you go, you learn how to put your energy into creating the positive outcomes you want for yourself in life – what a feeling that would be, right?
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The main thing is…
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
- Stephen Covey
You may know one of those people who have forged something from nothing, or you may be one of these people. Seeking their goals with a determination which is quite amazing. This could be someone in business, in sport or in any other sort of pursuit. The point is that these people seem quite amazing at first glance and our first reaction can be admiration or envy.
Let’s take a second glance. Often these people are amazing at single-mindedly pursuing one goal. This could be profit in the case of a businessperson, sometimes started because of childhood experiences or a desire to change things for their family. This could be awards, recognition, fame or other such things for a musician or an actor. It could be the next record for an athlete. The challenge with this is not the pursuit of these things. It is the imbalance the pursuit often causes.
Sometimes people often lose sight of the importance of other aspects in their lives and become so consumed with their end goal that they often damage or lose the reasons they had for starting in the first place. Forsaking family, friends, relationships. When it is all said and done, what is left when they’ve attained their goals?
The important thing is to know where your heart is, and pursue that goal in a way that is aligned with who you are and what is important to you. Never lose sight of your true reasons and don’t sell your soul regardless of the glittering prizes you may see in the distance. Your future isn’t all about wealth or fame.
It is about the sense of fulfilment you get when you practice your craft or when you’ve provided a suitable environment for your family.
It is about enjoying each moment instead of obsessing over what more you could gain.
It is about knowing when to pause and enjoy your “rich moments” rather than pursuing some future bliss, which may never come.
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Being Grateful and Present
Two men look out between the same bars: one sees mud, one sees stars.
-Frederick Langbridge
We’ve all heard the popular words of Robert Eliot – “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” It would be silly to argue these words, as they ring true to most ears. Worrying about the small things will usually get you nowhere, but what about appreciating the small things?
What are some things we take for granted everyday which could benefit our lives a little more if we appreciated them more?
The key to appreciating these moments is to concentrate on them, rather than letting your mind wander onto other matters. When eating a good meal, truly savour the tastes and the company instead of worrying about the dishes to wash up after you’re done. When phoned by a friend, wonder at the conversation and the marvels which allow you to connect with that friend from a distance, instead of worrying about which bills you haven’t yet paid or how many free minutes you’ve got left on your mobile contract. If you have to walk somewhere, enjoy the colour of the sky, the song of the birds – all of the sights and sounds of the natural world or even those native to a city.
Even seemingly menial tasks can be enjoyed in this way. When washing up after a meal, enjoy the work itself. Concentrate on getting each dish sparklingly clean and on the warm soapy water instead of thinking ahead to what you’d rather be doing. You’ll probably find the whole experience much more enjoyable this way.
The key is to concentrate on the here and now and enjoy this moment, rather than focusing on what has been or what is to come. Each of these small things joins together in the chain which becomes your life, so don’t sweat the negative ones and focus on the positive ones.
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Step Up or Worn Down?
It is easy to succumb to stress in today’s economic climate.
Downturns can be a trying time, but the emotional tax is often not necessary. The problem with worry is that it accomplishes nothing. The key to tackling your worries is to look at the situation objectively and calmly.
Ask yourself some serious questions:
1. What am I accomplishing by worrying?
2. Can I change anything about this situation?
If you answer these questions honestly, you’ll often surprise yourself. For question 1, the answer will usually be “Nothing.” For question 2, you’ll either come up with a yes or a no. If your answer is yes and you can change your situation, then why are you worrying about it? Shouldn’t you be out there doing something rather than fretting about it? Wouldn’t affecting positive change in your life do more for you than sitting around? If your answer is no, then why worry? You can’t accomplish anything by worrying about that which you cannot influence.
History teaches us that success during recession is not impossible. The saying goes “fortune favours the bold”, and in the case of economic recession, this is especially true.
The individuals and companies who took advantage of the Great Depression did so by making bold decisions, by diversifying their interests and by being creative. They didn’t accomplish these things by worrying.
Will you Step up?
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We Create Our Own Luck!
Ever meet people who say that success has everything to do with random luck and not much more?
I know I’ve come across lots of people who believe that luck is the essential ingredient to success, but the truth of the matter is, it’s not!
People who say success boils down to luck typically are people who are jealous of those who achieve success. They have this idea that luck randomly occurs willy nilly! But that’s not the case at all!
You see, luck is far from a random thing! We create it ourselves when we make the choice to choose success! Remember my interview with my friend Lorne Cousin and Madonna
Success is a choice!
Successful people are successful because they choose success!
They choose to be successful.
They outwardly reject anything that isn’t success, and don’t rest until success is firmly within their grasp.
When people make a choice to pursue success and persist until it is theirs, they attract into their lives situations and circumstances that will help them make that success happen.
And yes, some may call that luck.
But at the end of the day, it’s simply what happens when you decide to choose success for yourself.
The ‘luck’ doesn’t come automatically.
It comes when one consciously chooses to focus on success!
Success truly is a state of mind. Many successful people will tell you that their journey to success began when they formulated a vision and a goal in their mind.
Initially they have the idea of what they want, and then they really begin to visualize what it would be like for that idea to become a reality.
They create in their minds pictures of that success happening in their lives, and they get excited about it!
They take the time each day to think of the attainment of that goal…and they feel good about it!
This keeps them passionate about the attainment of that goal!
And in entertaining these thoughts of success attainment, those favourable scenarios, opportunities, etc, come about.
It’s when luck or magic happens!
But as you can see, it doesn’t happen randomly! The ‘luck’ happens when we choose success.
Put it to the test for yourself today!
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Take 100% Responsibility 100% of the Time!
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” ~Joan Didion
Ever come across people in your life who just whine and complain all the time? Now I’m sure you have. In fact, I’m sure we can think of at least five people we have come across in our lives who are notorious for the complain game.
These people complain about their health, their relationships, their lack of money, their jobs…virtually everything!
And it is often these people who aren’t living lives of success. These people typically look at successful people and just think they’re successful because they’ve used somebody or done the dirty to get there!
The bottom line is…
…the complainers don’t take full 100% responsibility for their lives!
They look at disappointments and blame other people and situations!
They look at failures and put the blame on everything else but themselves!
These people are masters of the ‘cop out’! They without fail, fail to take full and 100% responsibility for their lives.
They don’t achieve success, because they’re too busy being victims!
Now, sometimes in life we really can be victims!
We can come on hard times. We may have had abusive parents, or perhaps we had an illness that nearly claimed our lives. Hardships come to us quite often in life.
But we choose to respond to those hardships. We can choose to see the gift in a hardship and take advantage or we can choose to be a victim.
If we were a victim to somebody who wronged us in the past for instance, we can take responsibility NOW and decide, “Yes! I know what happened to me in the past was wrong, but I’m going to take responsibility right now to create for myself the life I want and deserve.”
You can make the decision to take full and 100% responsibility of your life right now!
Instead of inaction, do something! Instead of complaining, take action!
Whatever you do, don’t just sit there and pass the buck! Don’t just sit there and complain until the cows come home about a situation you don’t like!
Address the problem head on. Solve the problem. And take responsibility for your life today!
You know what you want out of life. You know what you want to be happy.
So take responsibility today to make that life happen!
Stop complaining! Stop passing blame! Start taking action to make it happen by being 100% responsible for your life 100% of the time!
Because your life is in your hands, only you can make the changes in your life that will bring about the life you want.
I challenge you today to start living your life and taking full and 100% responsibility for yourself and your outcomes. I guarantee you will start seeing positive results in next to no time!
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Wide Awake
“The truth will set you free but first it will P*** you off” – Werner Erhard
We do many things to keep ourselves asleep and on auto-pilot in this world , see if you recognize any? Drink, food, buying things, t.v. worrying, sex, work.
All these activities (and I have to admit there is some cool stuff in there to enjoy, bar the worrying,) in extreme keep us separate from that “wide awake” state that is “reality”. And, occasionally we wake up to ourselves, to others, to the beauty of the world and to what is “real”.
For many of us this “wake up call” comes late but maybe not too late… To Shine, as we are meant to shine, live as we are built to live and love as we are built to love….
Coaching Points
What do you do to keep your self asleep?
When do you feel wide awake to life?
Switch off the auto-pilot and notice yourself today, take a moment to actually be aware of what you are doing and start creating the life you want NOW!
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