Monthly Archive for May, 2010

Achieving The ‘Impossible’

Published on May 20, 2010 in Research. 2 Comments

I define “extraordinary” as ordinary people doing the extraordinary.

This week I asked people to send in their “Impossible” Stories – stories of how they persisted with a dream that seemed impossible to achieve, and they did it anyway. I was inspired by Jessica’s sailing effort – something some people were saying was impossible, and she did it. I can’t begin to imagine how I would have coped when I was 16 with what she did.

I received dozens of stories of courage and inspiration from people all around the world. It seems that ‘ordinary’ people are achieving the extraordinary every day.

Here’s what a couple of “Impossibles” had to share – trust it inspires you to achieve your own dreams!

Well, this is my impossible, I actually have two impossibles that I did. The first one being running 12 kms in the City to Bay Fun Run in Adelaide in 2008. I still remember the feeling of running through that finish line. Was the most awesome and amazing feeling I have ever had. I never thought I would be able to run that distance.

My second impossible was last year I decided to take up singing lessons. Everybody used to tell me that I can’t sing I can’t sing, I heard that ever since I was a child. Well I went last year and did singing lessons and in November last year I performed in front of about 100 people. Again that was something I thought I would never do, but I did it, whenever I think of that performance it brings a smile to my face. Will be taking up my singing lessons again later on this year.

Paula Tresintsis

I was told I was stupid and would not amount to much and had to settle with the circumstances available to an illiterate person. When I was diagnosed in my 40′s with mild autism and dyslexia, I knew what I had to do. After taking myself on, four years later, I sit here writing this email to you and plodding along to a career in being an excellent coach (thank you Sharon). Thanks to my current education with TCI, I am no longer just focused on what society dictates to be special needs, but on the special needs of any being seeking the need to be special and achieve his or her dream, not dependent on their circumstances, religions, gender or educational background.

Life is an adventure, I am striking a cord on the giant steps to progress. Go being emotional literate!!!! Bring it on.

God Bless you and your team.

Rosa Ana Bucknell

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The Law of the Universe by Sir Laurence Olivier

Published on May 7, 2010 in Personal Development. 5 Comments

This is a gift my sister Lisa sent me. Best gift ever! I used to listen to this when I was at home years ago, (I had the single, anyone remember those?) and then I lost it. Lisa found it somewhere amongst some old stuff, framed it and added the words… Breathtaking…

Check out the monologue… scroll down to read the words!

“Stand before me on the sign of infinity,
all you of the Earth.
With the granting of the law of provination
comes the application of change.

I will give you the key.
And with this knowledge, please realise,
comes the responsibility of sharing it.
I will show you the way.

It’s very simple. Throughout the universe
there is order…”

In the movement of the planets, in nature
and in the functioning of the human mind.
A mind that is in its natural state of order,
is in harmony with the universe
and such a mind is timeless.

Your life is an expression of your mind.
You are the creator of your own Universe -
For as a human being, you are free to will whatever
state of being you desire through the use of your
thoughts and words.

There is great power there.

It can be a blessing or a curse -
It’s entirely up to you.
For the quality of your life is brought about
by the quality of your thinking -
think about that.

Thoughts produce actions -
look at what you’re thinking.

See the pettiness and the envy and the greed and the
fear and all the other attitudes that causes
you pain and discomfort.

Realize that the one thing you have absolute
control over is your attitude.

See the effect that it has on those around you.
For each life is linked to all life
and your words carry with them chain reactions
like a stone that is thrown into a pond.

If your thinking is in order,
your words will flow directly from the heart
creating ripples of love.If you truly want to change your world, my friends,
you must change your thinking.

Reason is your greatest tool,
it creates an atmosphere of understanding,
which leads to caring which is love.

Choose your words with care.
Go forth … with love.”

Beautiful is’nt it?

Shaz

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The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything and what John Assaraf has to say about it…

Published on May 7, 2010 in Business Coaching and Personal Development. 3 Comments

By Sharon Pearson

I recently read a book called “The Answer” by John Assaraf and Murray Smith. Outstanding book. Interesting ideas.

John has the runs on the board so he’s worth listening to (note, when finding new mentors, make sure they have succeeded in the area you are going to be mentored) as he has used the exact principles in his book to create several multimillion (and billion) dollar businesses that make a difference in peoples’ lives. That’s more than most people achieve in a lifetime!

The authors build the idea of the book on the notion that ‘everything is energy’. A rock. Water. Anything you can touch. ‘It’s all made of molecules, which are made of atoms, which are made of protons and electrons and neutrons, which are made of nothing but vibrating packets of energy’.

There is no distinction between matter and energy. So the boundaries between the physical world and the world of our thoughts also disappear.

Physicists have discovered a thing called Nonlocality (Einstein called it spooky action at a distance) They took some white blood cells from the mouths of subjects and cultured them. Then they moved the cultures to distant locations (more than seven miles away).

They showed his subject a TV show of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. The subject was a former navy gunner who was actually there, and when he saw a photo of a gunner, his emotions were there for everyone to see – and this is where it gets interesting…

At the exact same moment, the culture that was seven miles away also reacted. The same way.

The same results of the test were replicated over hundreds of miles.

Physicists call this entanglement – the cells are entangled with one another – and no matter how apart they are, they continue to influence one another. And it happens faster than the speed of light.

So how is this possible?

Each subatomic particle appears to exist not as a solid, stable ‘thing’, but as the potential of any one of its various possible selves.

So at its most basic level, physical matter isn’t exactly anything yet. It’s simply infinite fields of possibility.

And get this: the act of observation influences the behaviour of the particles.

This means that subjectivity – the action of consciousness upon a piece of matter – becomes the essential element in the nature of reality.

Consciousness, then, is what the universe is made of. Matter and energy are simply just two of the forms that consciousness takes.

So is this what physicists are saying???

That EVERYTHING is made of thought???

Yup.

“Everything in the physical world is made out of atoms.

Atoms are made out of energy.

And energy is made out of consciousness.”

Your thoughts not only matter, they create matter.

You’ve heard the expression “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

But that’s not how the universe works. The truth is more like this: “You’ll see it when you believe it.”

Your beliefs don’t just reflect your reality, they create your reality.

“Thought is the most powerful force in the universe. Our thoughts are the controlling factor in what we manifest and create in our lives.

The idea precedes the thing.”

My whole business has been built on these principles. Whether I believe in these laws or not, they seem to be working. I’m getting exactly the results I am expecting. Nothing more. Nothing less.

How about you?

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How To Attract Clients

Published on May 3, 2010 in Sales and Marketing. 2 Comments

You’ve trained as a coach and are now ready to grow your business now you need to focus on attracting clients. Get some tips from Sharon Pearson, CEO of The Coaching Institute and one of Australia’s most successful coaches!