Success University 09 (Jun 11 - Oct 11)

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86) Make time to curl up with a good book. It can be either a thought-provoking tome or a guilty pleasure.

87) Invest in fancy bedding. Be cozy and happy drifting to sleep and wake up to a happy morning.

88) Go bowling with friends. Throw back to your younger years, and bonus points for matching shirts.

89) Dance. Alone or at a club, dancing is fun and stress-releasing.

90) Pay off your credit card debt. Debt can be a major source of stress and you'll feel great when you eliminate it from your life.

91) Clean the house. Even if you don't like cleaning, a clean home can drastically improve your attitude.

92) Volunteer at a local animal shelter. You'll get the pleasure of knowing you're lending your time and brightening the day of some furry friends.

93) Find a hobby. Painting, singing, tai chi—it doesn't matter as long as you have an outlet to express yourself.

94) Turn off your phone for a day. Let people know in advance that you are taking a personal day and can only be reached in case of emergency. Savor the silence.

95) Sing in the shower. It doesn't matter what you sing, just make sure you belt it as loud as possible.

96) Stash some money in a secret place so you can discover it later. Pick a spot you're likely to forget so you get a thrill weeks or months later when you stumble on it.

97) Enjoy a guilty pleasure TV show. Make some popcorn and banish the guilt—we all need a cheesy escape sometimes.

98) Go for a walk or jog in the rain. The high produced by exercise will be heightened by the cool rain on your face.

99) Enjoy a cold beer or chilled wine on a hot day. Need I say more?

100) Go to hear live music. Hearing music live puts you in the moment in a way an iPod can't.

http://www.mindpowernews.com/101Happy.htm

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Mindfulness Matters by Bob Tschannen-Moran

Here's my take on what mindfulness is and how we can cultivate mindfulness in our work as leaders. Each ingredient of my understanding represents the opposite of what mindfulness is not.


Mindfulness is focused attention. Mindfulness starts when we bring our attention to what is happening in the present moment. This is best done with a gentle rather than a forceful spirit. Focused attention is not a matter of self-control.

We are not commanding the powers of attention; we are rather inviting our minds to settle down and to focus on something. When our minds wander off, we gently bring them back. Returning to focus is a critical part of mindfulness.


Mindfulness is single tasking. Mindfulness starts with turning off our cell phones! That's a metaphor, of course, for managing our environments so as to support our intention of getting and staying focused.

How many times have you interrupted your conversation with someone to take a call or to attend to an entirely unrelated matter?
How do you think they felt when that happened? Great leaders make people feel special by staying engaged with conversations and tasks until there is a sense of closure.


Mindfulness is seeing perfection. There is a saying in the coaching industry, often attributed to one of the founders of the modern coaching movement, Thomas Leonard: "Everything is perfect just the way it is, even when it's obviously not."

That saying reflects the mindset of great leaders. How can that be? Here is at least one way to understand the obvious: things are what they are, and that means they are perfectly designed for our own learning and growth. Think about it.


Mindfulness is charge neutral. Although leaders have emotions as much as anyone else, both positive and negative, great leaders manage our emotions in real time until we are charge neutral in the contemplation and consideration of events. Whatever is happening now is happening now.

Getting all worked up, one way or the other, can interfere with wisdom. Great leaders learn how to manage our brainstems and their accompanying Limbic systems.


Mindfulness is openness to possibility. Yoda raised that spaceship from the swamp not because he set his mind to it and made it happen. It happened because Yoda was open to the possibility of it happening. What a different take on leadership from mental toughness and determination!

By staying open to and inviting possibility, great leaders generate great results which surprise even us. We don't know the outcome ahead of time, but we trust it can be wonderful.


Mindfulness is noticing novelty. I have written before about the difference between foveal and peripheral vision, most recently in April of last year in my Provision on the rituals of great leaders. Too often we see only what is in our clear line of sight, and then only what we want to see.

Mindfulness encourages us to see the big picture and to notice stuff that is different than we might expect. When such curiosity carries an appreciative spirit, it often becomes the hallmark of innovation.

These are some of the positive attributes of mindfulness that great leaders come to embody and practice on a regular basis. No one does them all the time. But great leaders have a way of doing them more of the time than others. And this doesn't happen by accident. It happens on purpose.

Great leaders set our intention to show up and to carry ourselves in a mindful way. With practice anyone can increase how often and how well this happens. We're never more than one decision away from making it so


Source: Life Trek Provisions

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Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want.

That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it.

Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it.

And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.


--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Spokane, WA on Wednesday, July 7th, 1999 # 138


Source: abraham-hicks.com

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As you look for a better-feeling way to approach whatever you are giving your attention to; as you continue to ask yourself from your ever-changing vantage point, "What is it that I do want?"...

Eventually you will be standing in a very pleasing place—for you cannot continually ask yourself what it is that you do want without your point of attraction beginning to pivot in that direction.

The process will be gradual, but your continued application of the process will yield wonderful results in only a few days.


--- Abraham

Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth and Happiness" # 139

Source: abraham-hicks.com

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You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in San Francisco, CA on Sunday, March 2nd, 1997 # 140


Source: abraham-hicks.com

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You are all perfect and expanding; you are all adored and worthy; you are all here having your exposure to experiences and doing the best that you can from where you are.

You have not been sent here in a test or trial; you're here as creators as part of an expanding Universe. You can't have it both ways.

You can't have, at the root of that which you are, Well-Being, and then have that same root of Well-Being have the capacity to pronounce you evil. It is vibrationally impossible.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Fort Collins, CO on Saturday, June 19th, 2004 # 141


Source: abraham-hicls.com

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These are the 12 rules I live by Craig Ballantyne

1. I go to bed and get up at the same time 7 days per week (9pm and 5am.) I do not deviate from this schedule unless it is due to an important (and this word is not used lightly) work or social function. I stick to a diet of whole, natural foods, avoid caffeine after 1pm, and avoid alcohol within 3 hours of bedtime.

2. I write for at least 60 minutes first thing every morning.

3. I do not check email before 9am.

4. I do not talk on the phone unless it is a schedule interview or conference call.

5. I create a to-do list at the end of every workday and I follow that to-do list starting first thing the next morning. I also perform my daily readings at the end of every workday, and I write in a gratitude journal.

I am thankful everyday for identifying my mission and what I wanted to do with my life at such a young age.

6. I do not engage in confrontations with anyone, in-person or online. This is a waste of time and energy.

If I have caused harm, I apologize and fix the situation.

However, if someone simply doesn’t like something I have done or something that I do or disagrees with me, that is fine, but I’m not going to get into an argument about it.

For any confrontation-like situation, I simply take a deep breath, relax, breathe out, and re-focus my efforts back on my work and goals.


Source: ETR

[kennynah]

These are the 12 rules I live by Craig Ballantyne

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7. I am guided by these two phrases:

a) “Nothing matters.” – By this, I mean that arguing on the internet changes nothing…I can only work towards the major, massive goals that I have set for my life…that I have a vision of helping others, and there is no time to let petty arguments stand in the way.

b) “It will all be over soon.” – This servers me in both good times and in bad.

In hard times, such as bad days, troubled times, or intense physical effort or discomfort, I know that it will all be over soon. A small amount of suffering now will be forgotten later when I will enjoy the rewards of my work.

And in good times, I will remember that life is short, and I must make things count now, and no matter how good things are going I must never let myself become soft and lazy, because I have too much to accomplish in such a short time.


8. Everything that happens to me – good and bad – is my personal responsibility. I blame no one but myself. These are the choices I’ve made – this is the life I’m living.

I will accept the consequences of my actions.


9. I will not stop until I have helped 1 Million men and women transformed their lives – physically, financially, or emotionally.

[kennynah]

sounds like pap during GE campaigns.... talk and talk... but hardly any truths...