Habits of success

Habits are behaviours you perform on a regular basis. Good habits to cultivate if you wish to attain success in your business include:
•Start each day alone, fully awake, with a period of absolute silence and reflection. Use fifteen to thirty minutes to reflect upon the most significant problem you are facing at that time, to envision how you would like the day to go, and to remind ourselves of what kind of person you are trying to become.
•As you fall asleep each night, reflect on what did not go well in the day and why, as well as what did go well in the day and why. Envision how you want to feel and act when you wake up in the morning.
•Take regular and scheduled days away, which include a long period alone in silent reflection on the problems you are facing, what is working and not working, and what you want your future to be like,
•Take regular, light exercise as part of your reflection periods.
•Spend a few minutes every week reading books on the higher meaning of life; not “how-to” books, but books about leading a purposeful life and that talk about the purpose of life itself.
•On a regular basis, take the time to learn something practical from a master in a trade … even if it is not something related to or of application in your work.
•On a regular basis, take the time to do things for the more needy people around us … not by sitting on charity boards or other similar business-related things, but by physically going out and volunteering in the community.

If you practice these habits diligently, you should not only feel and think better, but you have the energy and creativity needed for success in the business world.

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Being the next Carmen Electra or Paris Hilton might or might not appeal to all you, but there are things that do appeal to you, and you don’t do them.

Maybe this is because you lacked the confidence to reach out for it or maybe this is because you just we’re not sure it was right for you.

In this article I want to help you use lack of confidence as your indicator – showing you when you should clearly hold back and when you should go for it.

The first thing you need to get clear on is what you want. You need to know what your outcome is going to be. When I say this I don’t just mean in any old day-to-day situation, I mean in your life as a whole.

There’s an effective way to look at your life as a whole, gain clarity and boost your confidence all in one shot. Shall I share how with you?

There is nothing more effective in creating confidence than knowing how you want things to work out. When you do this you educate yourself. From the point of knowledge you can make an educated decision and literally pivot your whole life from where you are now to your ultimate destiny… and all the success and happiness you can imagine.

If you know clearly the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of your life then you can look at daily events and never again need to consider if you have the ability or if you can or can’t pull it off.

When you know the ‘what’ and the why’ you look at life differently. You no longer look at your life and question your ability with can I or can’t I or could I or should I questions. Knowing ‘what’ and ‘why’ gives you a new kind of power.

When you know ‘what’ and ‘why’ you look at daily events and never question your ability. You do this because you now know clearly how life is going to be. The question you will now ask yourself is: will I? And this subtle question can change your life.

When you’re focussed on your meaning and direction instead of your level of ability your energy becomes channelled and focussed. It hones in on the outcome with such clarity that your chances of success literally explode.

The most powerful way I’ve found to find the ‘what’ and the why’ and you’re meaning and direction is to work on what your life is all about. You do this by discovering and understanding Life Purpose.

Life Purpose is based on the idea that you have a unique gift and a distinctive way of expressing it that will benefit others. When you discover and understand your life purpose you unlock your full potential.

Know what and know why.

I hope these words have helped you.

Love & Best Wishes

Jo Ball
Coach & Founder, Unstoppable Life

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k Your Frequency

 by: Selena Richardson

From time to time we need to stop during our day to keep our frequency in check. Our frequencies are the ranges of feelings and emotions that we have. Like radio waves, our feelings and emotions vibrate at different frequencies. This is a major part of how we create our reality. And why we need to always be mindful of the frequencies we’re emitting.

Like attracts like and opposites repel. And there is no such thing as coincidence. When something happens to you that seems like a coincidence it’s not. You were just in sync with your vibrations at that time.

You’re at a music store looking for an old CD and right when you’re about to give up you happen to look in a different section for something else. What you find is the CD that you were originally looking for.

If your frequency is low you attract more low frequency events in your life. Remember that there is no such thing as coincidence. For example, you wake up in a bad mood and throughout the day nothing goes right for you. As soon as you get to work, the parking lot is full so you have to park in the garage that’s a block away. Whats worse, it starts pouring down rain and you don’t have an umbrella with you. Okay, that’s a little drastic but you get the point.

We’ve all had those bad days that went from bad to worse every chance it could. But how do you prevent situations like this? Well you need to keep your frequency in check. Remember, like attracts like so if your frequency is low you get more of the same until you change it. You need to pay attention to yourself and realize when your frequency has hit a low point.

Well how do you bring your vibration back up? By changing the station. Frequencies and feelings are like radio waves, if you don’t like whats on then change it. Switch your thoughts and feelings to something that can bring your vibration back up. Find something that makes you feel good. It can be anything that makes you feel good just by thinking about it – favorite memories, favorite songs, favorite people – anything as long as it makes you feel good.

Picture your favorite thought as a different radio station that you can flip to whenever you notice your frequency going down. The same way you would change the station in your car if you didn’t like the song that was playing. It’s as simple as that.

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Selena Richardson, coach and editor of Creative Possibilities, a free newsletter helping people focus on and reach their goals. Are you ready to create your journey in life? To subscribe, mailto:subscribe@creationjourneys.com or visit the site – http://www.creationjourneys.com for more information on her upcoming courses and on-going workshops.

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Individualistic success models
In individualistic success models, success is not due to the individual’s relationship with his external environment or place in society, but, rather, a matter of individual accomplishment or, in some cases, a measure of his relationship with God. These models had their roots originally in Protestant Calvinism and are the typical ones you will see in “Success” books.
Examples discussed include
The Protestant work ethic model
The American success model
New Age Model
Protestant Work Ethic
According to Max Weber (1904, 1905), it was John Calvin who introduced the theological doctrines which combined with those of Martin Luther to form a significant new attitude toward work. Calvin was a French theologian whose concept of predestination was revolutionary. Central to Calvinist belief was the Elect, those persons chosen by God to inherit eternal life. All other people were damned and nothing could change that since God was unchanging. While it was impossible to know whether a person was one of the Elect, one could have a sense of it based on his own personal encounters with God. Outwardly, the only evidence was in the person’s daily life and deeds, and success in one’s worldly endeavors was a sign of possible inclusion as one of the Elect. A person who was indifferent and displayed idleness was most certainly one of the damned, but a person who was active, austere, and hard working gave evidence to himself and to others that he was one of God’s chosen ones.
Calvin taught that all men must work, even the rich, because to work was the will of God. It was the duty of men to serve as God’s instruments here on earth, to reshape the world in the fashion of the Kingdom of God, and to become a part of the continuing process of His creation. Men were not to lust after wealth, possessions, or easy living, but were to reinvest the profits of their labor into financing further ventures. Earnings were thus to be reinvested repeatedly, ad infinitum, or to the end of time. Using profits to help others rise from a lesser level of subsistence violated God’s will since persons could only demonstrate that they were among the Elect through their own labor.
Selection of an occupation and pursuing it to achieve the greatest profit possible was considered by Calvinists to be a religious duty. Not only condoning, but encouraging the pursuit of unlimited profit was a radical departure from the Christian beliefs of the Middle ages. In addition, unlike Luther, Calvin considered it appropriate to seek an occupation that would provide the greatest earnings possible. If that meant abandoning the family trade or profession, the change was not only allowed, but it was considered one’s religious duty.
The norms regarding work which developed out of the Protestant Reformation, based on the combined theological teachings of Luther and Calvin, encouraged work in a chosen occupation with an attitude of service to God, viewed work as a calling and avoided placing greater spiritual dignity on one job than another, approved of working diligently to achieve maximum profits, required reinvestment of profits back into one’s business, allowed a person to change from the craft or profession of his father, and associated success in one’s work with the likelihood of being one of God’s Elect.
“American Dream” Success Model
The present model of business and career motivation, the one most closely associated with the “American Dream” which emphases individual achievement, competition, and domination has been around for at least the last 50 years.
Unlike the Calvinist work ethic that is based, the motivation for moneymaking is no longer saving for the future, but, what Thornstein Veblen, the famous 19th century economist characterized as “conspicuous consumption.” Luxury homes, luxury cars, fancy electronic gadgets, and exotic vacations create the illusion of wealth. The philosophy of the Amway Corporation, now known as Quixtel in the U. S. is a good illustration of the concepts involved.Amway Corporation is a direct selling organization that produces and markets products using a Multilevel Marketing system (or MLM for short). Multilevel marketing is a form of direct selling in which manufacturers authorize independent contractors to sell their products directly to consumers, bypassing intermediaries and retail stores. Using the garage or a spare bedroom as a warehouse and a home office as a business hub, a distributor makes a profit by buying wholesale from his or her company and selling to customers at retail prices. MLM is also a recruiting business. A distributor is permitted to sign up other individuals to become part of his company’s distribution force–and is paid a commission on the wholesale product purchases made by recruits. Both methods then furnish consumers with new options in acquiring consumer items they desire.
The motivator for work and sole measure of success measured is money and the goods that money can buy:
This is a business, and a main reason people work at any business is to earn money that not only will help them pay their bills, but also meet other goals. Those may be short- or long-term goals, and they could be large (like buying a new house) or small (like saving for a vacation).
A better standard of living is a common motivation and reward for people starting any kind of business. Money – and what it can buy – is the universally recognizable indicator of success that distributors use to motivate and establish credibility for their business.
(http://www.amway.com/InfoCenter/questions/question20.asp)

Another important aspect of this success model is that one has only one self’s to blame for one’s own success for failure. And yet given the low success rate in Amway, “…the data from one investigative report reveal that only 1,000 of over 200,000 distributors ever achieved the rank of Direct Distributor or higher,” it is also quite clear that the company does not offer success to anyone who enters the business [Bromley, 1995:151]. How can all these well-meaning people not succeed?
The only ideologically accepted explanation is that these well-meaning people had no commitment to “the dream.”
Amway is a performance-based business that rewards people in direct proportion to their effort. The bigger the financial goal, the more time and effort a distributor will need to put into his or her business. With an Amway business, a distributor can work as much or little as he or she likes. The rewards are based directly on the distributor’s accomplishments. (from Amway
The product is irrelevant. It is keeping the dream alive and resisting everything that could possibly rob one of The American Dream that counts. For “the dream” is God’s blessing, the divine will, the American Way, family, morality, and the free-enterprise system. .
Recently, the American success model has been taken a battering. The competition for business markets and jobs is stiff. The faith in business has been eroded by corporate fraud scandals, massive layoffs, and outsourcing. However, at least for now, it remains the predominant success model in today’s America.

New Age Views on Success
New Age philosophy got its name from the belief that we are at the threshold of a New Age. New Agers contend that the world is going through a paradigm shift, a time when accepted ways of thinking and acting change drastically, because of new discoveries.
For example, the invention of writing and of agriculture triggered paradigm shifts that led to a completely new way of living. According to New Agers, we are going through a paradigm shift through new discoveries in physics and psychology.
The judgmental (left)) side of our brain limits our possibilities for creativity. In contrast, the right side of our brain tells us that reality is what we make it. We need to be more creative in order to live up to our possibilities. In fact, some New Agers believe that we are actually gods, possessing mysterious powers that we do not know that have, including the ability to transform reality to conform to our desires.
We have these abilities because there is already an underlying oneness between our beings and the universe. Nuclear physics discovery that matter and energy is the same suggests that everything is made up of the same energy. Hence, we, as energetic beings, interact with the energy of our environment to create our own destinies.
The link between spirituality and money is evident in many New Age “self-help” books that combine techniques for psychological and spiritual well-being with techniques for financial success.8 According to New Age thinking, your spiritual health and financial health are closely related. As a result, the idea that “reality is what you make it” often translates into “your economic reality is what you make it” Being open to new experiences and goes along with taking new risks and investments.
The New Age movement has adapted many of the same tools used by the Eastern and Wicca tradition that we have discussed: crystals, Tarot cards, meditation techniques, astrology, etc. However, they have developed two powerful motivational tools of their own: affirmations and visualizations.
Affirmations are positive statements Simply repeat them to yourself as you go about your daily routine. You don’t even have to consciously “listen,” just play it in the background. Your subconscious mind hears and retains the spoken affirmations and thus begins creating a more prosperous mindset. Your mind will especially pick out the personal issues and focus on them. Examples are:
•There is limitless supply and it is mine
•I release my need for financial insecurity
•I am financially secure
•I am surrounded by loving, giving people
•I release my need to feel needy
•I have everything I want or need
•I release my fear of wealth and wellness
•I am healthy and wealthy
•I allow myself to prosper
•I trust that I will create abundance
•I have more than I need in every area of my life
•I open myself to receive the abundance of The Universe
•I release my need for debt
•I am solvent
•I am safe and secure
•I enjoy a steady flow of positive energy
•I am loved, accepted, acknowledged and appreciated
Active, creative visualization is focused daydreaming. You create in your mind’s eye a vision, a thought, and that thought has energy. As with dreams, your mind seems to work best with pictures. As such, visualizations, coupled with affirmations, are powerful tools of creation. Below is sample visualization (http://www.catanna.com/moneyspl.htm

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