May
17
2012
“I don’t have enough money. I need more money. If I just won the lottery …”
If I had a dollar for every time I’d heard these statements, I’d be a millionaire!
What is so special about money?
A belief is a feeling of certainty. A global belief is a belief which affects a whole segment of your life. Most of us are unconsciously either blessed or hounded by our global beliefs. Pause after each of the following and notice your answers …
- Work is …
- Food is …
- Men are …
- Life is …
- Exercise is …
- Women are …
- Life is …
- Money is …
Notice your last response. Take a moment and ask it again – you’ll hear the answer in your head.
Are you aware that your belief about money is a key driver in your life? Are you ok with that?
Many hear words like … Evil, …Hard to come by,… What other people have, …Slipping through my fingers? Examples like these mean people are adopting global beliefs which doesn’t serve them. Considering that money is simply metal, paper, plastic and now invisible (electronic), it’s surprising it is given Changing itcould unconsciously alter a whole segment of their life, for the better.
The definitive source of money
The origin of the term money is derived from the Latin words moneta and monēre. These also relate to the Greek goddess of Memory and also have links to meanings such as to remind, warn or instruct. Perhaps the source of money is a clue as to how we can view it most usefully.
Money: “What am I really?” asked the coins as they met the creator
- I am a token to remind you; trade me with others to receive memories you can treasure for a lifetime.
- I’m a sign to warn you from straying from your path; follow your purpose(s) and I will come to you in abundance yet likely lose importance.
- I am a teacher to instruct you towards the things you value.
Years ago at a personal development workshop with Anthony Robbins, I was fortunate to learn about global beliefs and realised that I didn’t have a very empowering view of money. I can’t remember what it was, but one day I committed to changing it. I decided that my new global belief was… “Money is the ultimate tool.”
With that belief conditioned, I have not always had lots of money in the bank, but I’ve always been able to do almost anything I truly wanted including incredible international holidays, gifts to friends, amazing technology, freedom to travel, festivals, cars, education and so much more; I believe those who know me would agree. Money is my Swiss Army knife and I’ve allowed it to flow in, out, and around in my life carving an amazing adventure for me. In addition, I certainly don’t have the stress many associate with money.
Ready… Change … Flow …
I’m not going to go through the full conditioning process I followed, but if you’re ready to change, then try this flow:
- Decide on a global belief you like about money – it should feel good when you say it, ideally making you smile.
- Every time you get your purse or wallet out to pay for something, or have money in your hand, say your global belief, “Money is guiding me. Money is my friend. Money is all around me. Money is always flowing to me. Money is the ultimate tool.”Out loud is best, but in your head is fine.
- Repeat this for thirteen days.
Watch the change, it makes cents!
Tally ho!
“I am not interested in money, but in the things of which money is the symbol.” Henry Ford
“With the wrong tools, even the most talent artist is helpless.” David Woodier
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28
2012
“God also likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside God, he has no one but himself to play with. But he gets over this difficulty by pretending that he is not himself. This is his way of hiding from himself. He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, all the plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening. But these are just like bad dreams, for when he wakes up they will disappear.
“Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself. But that’s the whole fun of it—just what he wanted to do. He doesn’t want to find himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me to find out that we are God in disguise, pretending not to be himself. But when the game has gone on long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self—the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever.
“Of course, you must remember that God isn’t shaped like a person. People have skins and there is always something outside our skins. If there weren’t, we wouldn’t know the difference between what is inside and outside our bodies. But God has no skin and no shape because there isn’t any outside to him.
The inside and the outside of God are the same. And though I have been talking about God as ‘he’ and not ‘she,’ God isn’t a man or a woman. I didn’t say ‘it’ because we usually say ‘it’ for things that aren’t alive. “God is the Self of the world, but you can’t see God for the same reason that, without a mirror, you can’t see your own eyes, and you certainly can’t bite your own teeth or look inside your head. Your self is that cleverly hidden because it is God hiding.
My friends … remember who you are …
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Taken from “the Book, on the taboo against knowing who you are”, Alan Watts. More of the article here http://www.wedietorememberwhatwelivetoforget.com/AlanWatts.html
Feb
17
2012
What are you doing today? Is it what you were put here on the planet for?
If it isn’t, are you close or at least on the path? How frequently in an average week are you doing something which inspires you? Remember that Inspiration is like Respiration … an unconscious act meaning that you do the things which inspire you because you love them, not because someone makes or motivates you.
Inspiration is like Respiration … an unconscious act
I feel I’ve been in a little winter in my life for the past few months (despite spending my working weeks in Townsville, Australia, where the temperature at midnight is over 25 degrees). What I mean is that I’ve been spending less time on the things which excite, inspire, thrill and propel me and more on being human or human being. As with nature, winter is a time for planning for spring so if you’ve been feeling the same, keep focusing on your preparation for when winter ends.
As a self-confessed eternal optimist I realise I can gloss over some of the challenges others have in their lives however I assure you this does not mean that I don’t have challenges in mine.
I think that people assume that my optimism and self-belief mean that I don’t need support and encouragement and I’m trying to work out if they are right. My theory on balance suggests they are correct. The theory of equality suggests they are wrong. Still a work in progress and I’d appreciate your views below.
Just one key message for you today – what are you doing? Is it what you were put here on the planet for or are you at least on the path or can see the path?
If not, what three things can you do today to be one step closer to showing us the greatness of who you are … because I believe that if we are truly honest, we want everyone to succeed in being the best they can be, ourselves included.
Every second, you get a second chance to do something different …
And again.
And again.
Maybe now, try something different…
Jan
9
2012
New beginnings ... every month
Two thousand and twelve. Yup, here we are over a week in to the New Year and I’m wondering how many of you made New Year’s Resolutions you are being committed and persistent about.
Statistics show that you are likely having challenges and if so, I can help. I’m here to provide a tip which may make this year one of your best ever for you in this area, especially if there are things you’d like to change. The reason I offer this, is because it is what I’m doing myself.
Step 1: Separate the message and the messenger
IMHO a New Year’s Resolution has a primary purpose of helping you turn over a new leaf, start afresh, shuffle the deck or raise the bar. It is about letting go of the old and brining in the new. The messenger is the New Year’s Resolution; the message is the change.
So my question to you is this: can you turn the tide or make a change in your life without using a New Year’s Resolution?
I think we can all agree that of course we can. So if we want to get the most out of the idea of a New Year’s Resolution, we need to succeed in the change, not the Resolution itself.
Step 2: How to increase your chance of success by more than 12 times …
For most of us, keeping committed to something for a year such as exercise, healthy eating habits, reading more or learning a new skill, is a huge and almost incomprehensible challenge. As a result and with the associated pain or loss these activities usually generate, we tend to start off sprinting a marathon and understandably fail before we finish the first mile.
All I’m suggesting is that you implement the old adage about how to eat an elephant…. (one mouthful at a time) … and create shorter timeframes for our resolutions. Personally I feel that one month is a fair, yet still challenging period to start a new habit.
This year my aim is to tone my arms, improve my health, strengthen my abs and lose a bit of weight so I am doing one thing every day … at least 20 sit-ups and 20 press-ups. Since starting I have had to get out of bed only twice when I realised I hadn’t done them that day.
… and I have been pleased with myself and my progress so have also swum 60 lengths three times and been on two runs. The messenger is well on its way to succeed!
Unseen forces will help you succeed ... remember to smile on the way
Unseen forces will help you succeed ... remember to smile on the way
What you can do right now to stay committed?
- Decide to commit to something for a month.
- Select 1-3 activities in which to do this, more than four are strictly prohibited.
- Tell a few key people you care about and ask them to keep you accountable.
Ideally have a calendar or even better, an awesome way of recording your progress and mark off your achievements every day.
By doing this, you’ll be setting yourself up for success all year!
Step 3: Success breeds success
At the end of the month you’ll feel a certain sense of achievement so either carry on the habit, add a new one or simply feel proud of yourself for having achieved that resolution for a month. Ideally use it to catapult yourself forward in the areas you need it.
Check out my blog on the Four Disciplines of Execution for further understanding on how to effectively achieve more.
Good luck and I look forward to hearing your resolutions – I’d love to hear them below…
Nov
24
2011
There’s somebody you see every day, but chances are you don’t think you know them very well.
You probably don’t think of them as a friend and to be honest, you often treat them worse than any enemy.
You talk to them interminably, but frequently only to chastise, berate or criticise their behaviour, the way they look, the things they do and the life they’re leading. In fact, this is the only friend you allow to do this – any others would be dropped after years of this behaviour.
It is likely you have extremely high standards for this person but if you were asked to write them down, you’d find it difficult to do, nevertheless you expect them to live by these unwritten rules.
Need I say more? Have you worked out who it is? 
Stop. Listen …
They probably just said something to you.
Can you hear me? Yes, it’s you. YOU! Your best friend in the universe thinks you’re so awesome that they’ve chosen to be a part of you. In fact they’re never going to leave you. No matter what you do they will always be with you. Stop. Listen and appreciate that little voice – your best friend is talking to you.
Unfortunately, often that best friend feels more like a stranger…
So what can you do about it? Here are a few quick tips:
- Treat your body with respect by listening to your inner voice when asked to make a health related decisions i.e. relating to food, drink and exercise.
- Respect and love yourself for exactly who you are with all your ‘bad’ habits, skills, attributes, warts and war wounds. You can’t give something to another if you don’t have it … so love yourself so you can give love to others.
- Listen to yourself. You constantly get intuition guiding you the best direction, but too many people deny it. You don’t always have to follow it, but often it is giving you some great advice.
What do you think – does this make sense to you?
Nov
17
2011
I’ve been in a sad place recently and focusing on it (which has made it quite painful) … and I’ve just realised that this has been a gift – sweet poison.
I’ve noticed that when I focus on what is highest on my values, issues and problems on my plate seem to dissipate and feel less serious or pervasive. The reality of it is that the issues haven’t changed, the people involved have not changed … however I have changed.
I am grateful for this situation to appreciate the fact that when I change, the world changes.
Issues in your life?
Perhaps try changing your perspective or your procedure – how you see it or what you’re doing. Also, focus on the things you love to do instead … where time disappears and you are in the flow.
Gratitude is the remedy for Depression
Feeling depressed, disappointed or hopeless about something? Give your depression a score out of 100 and then read the following statement. C’mon, choose a number and you’ll find this exercise far more powerful.
I’ve written the sentence in reverse so as to serve you by preventing you from seeing this content before selecting a number.
.day per $0.47 about than less on live who people as defined is poverty Cambodia In Think about that for moment and what that would mean in your life. Now select a score out of 100 of your depression – notice if it has changed and use that information in future.
Remember that and feel the gratitude – you deserve it.
Nov
11
2011
Burning Man is a unique art-induced desert festival held once a year in Nevada.
As I sit here on this comfy couch in an exquisite private hillside haven, the lighthouse of Byron Bay is winking its eye at me across a motionless ocean. The twinkling Milky Way shares it’s magic with occasional shooting stars and I’d like to share my story about the experience I had there a couple of months ago … because it is one I shall always remember.
As a man who has travelled to 32 countries and lived in a handful of them, I have been blessed with some incredible adventures such as: playing field hockey on the Kensington Oval in Barbados; rollerskate-hitch hiking in Hawaii; being forced to the floor on a bus in Vietnam at 4am by a soldier; dancing with the 5 times world salsa champion on stage at Star City Casino in Sydney and sailing around the Great Barrier Reef in a catamaran for a friend’s birthday-week celebration to name a few.
I share these with you not to impress you, but to help provide some perspective on what I call normal. Those who know me are more than aware that when life gives me lemons, I tear them open to find the incredible diamonds of life experience hiding inside.
So to Burning Man…
Oct
11
2011
It’s an ordinary day for you at work. You leave … perhaps a little later than you’d have liked to and make your way home. Consider this a Tuesday if you will … do you do anything special?
A ticket to ride
Why not? I did today, and thanks to a little bit of effort on my part, I’m now sitting in Horseshoe bay, Magnetic Island, enjoying a quiet drink and about to order dinner.
I admit that the nature of my work leads me to travel a bit and at the moment I’m working in Townsville for four days. My accommodation is taken care of and I think it’s always quite nice not to have to worry about day-to-day chores.
I woke yesterday morning (Monday) at 4:30am to be on a flight and started work around 9am about 1000km from where I slept. Yes, I was a little tired by the end of the day, but I am aware that life is short and there is SO much fun to be had, so as soon as I made it to my hotel at the end of the day on the 16th floor, I donned my gym-wear and headed for Castle Hill … a huge hill rock in the middle of Townsville. It was so steep and high getting up it, I had to resort to walking which is unlike me.
I had a lovely shower, delicious grilled fish dinner and a long chat to my wonderful lady when I arrived home.
Today I chose to leave work on time, walk 18 minutes to the ferry and take the $14.50 journey to Magnetic Island. Once there, I took the advice of my Nicki, and spent a further $2.70 to take the bus to the northern bay of the now full-moon-lit island and currently sit in a bar I have only ever been to by sea. (Not that long ago a good friend of mine, Michael, invited me to join him sailing on a catamaran for nearly a week for his 40th birthday and this is the bar we went to.)
I share all this to remind you that there are people who save all year to take a holiday where you live.
Explore your doorstep, do some of the ‘touristy’ things in your neighbourhood … and if there aren’t any, I can almost guarantee you that there are some amazing adventures to be had if you just put a tiny bit of thought and effort in to what’s around you.
I love my life … I like to say I’m lucky, and I do believe I am, however I have to admit that I do put effort in … and if you put a little more in, there is no doubt you could reap the rewards.
I dare you …
Remember, what are you waiting for?
Jun
8
2011
I received a PowerPoint presentation recently with brilliant images from Chris Jordan in his art exhibition entitled, “Running with Numbers, a Self-Portrait”.
The figures in it disturbed me. As a result, I’ve updated the presentation and reposted it here for you to know and choose how to behave as a result.
Are you aware what consumption is doing to us? Check out the presentation and leave your thoughts below (Note: in full screen mode you can see more detail).
What is this made from
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Jun
8
2011
Descent of the Species
This is a story by David Eagleman from his awesome book, Sum, Forty tales from the afterlives. He has taken the concept of the afterlife and turned it on its head, offering a range of alternatives to life after death. This is one of my favourites and Trudi Woodier inspired me to post this today. Thanks Trudi 
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“In the afterlife, you are treated to a generous opportunity: you can choose whatever you would like to be in the next life. Would you like to be a member of the opposite sex? Born into royalty? A philosopher with bottomless profundity? A soldier facing triumphant battles?
But perhaps you’ve just returned here from a hard life. Perhaps you were tortured by the enormity of the decisions and responsibilities that surrounded you, and now there’s only one thing you yearn for: simplicity. That’s permissible. So for the next round, you choose to be a horse. You covet the bliss of that simple life: afternoons of grazing in grassy fields, the handsome angles of your skeleton and the prominence of your muscles, the peace of the slow-flicking tail or the steam rifling through your nostrils as you lope across snow-blanketed plains.
You announce your decision. Incantations are muttered, a wand is waved, and your body begins to metamorphose into a horse. Your muscles start to bulge; a mat of strong hair erupts to cover you like a comfortable blanket in winter. The thickening and lengthening of your neck immediately feels normal as it comes about. 
Your carotid arteries grow in diameter, your fingers blend hoofward, your knees stiffen, your hips strengthen, and meanwhile, as your skull lengthens into its new shape, your brain races in its changes: your cortex retreats as your cerebellum grows, the homunculus melts man to horse, neurons redirect, synapses unplug and replug on their way to equestrian patterns, and your dream of understanding what it is like to be a horse gallops toward you from the distance. Your concern about human affairs begins to slip away, your cynicism about human behaviour melts, and even your human way of thinking begins to drift away from you.
Suddenly, for just a moment, you are aware of the problem you overlooked. The more you become a horse, the more you forget the original wish. You forget what it was like to be a human wondering what it was like to be a horse.
This moment of lucidity does not last long. But it serves as the punishment for your sins, a Promethean entrails-pecking moment, crouching half-horse half-man, with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the alternatives.
And that’s not the worst of your revelation. You realize that the next time you return here, with your thick horse brain, you won’t have the capacity to ask to become a human again. You won’t understand what a human is. Your choice to slide down the intelligence ladder is irreversible. And just before you lose your final human faculties, you painfully ponder what magnificent extraterrestrial creature, enthralled with the idea of finding a simpler life, chose in the last round to become a human.”
A couple of years ago, just after I’d read this book, I was at a festival in central Queensland and I recounted this story. The idea stimulated conversation and we wondered how far this could go. After a while, one friend said,
“Ahh… so that’s why there are so many trees;” without saying a word, I glanced down, grabbed a handful and as I opened my hand, blades of grass wafted through the air …
