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Issue No: 090 - April 26, 2010

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Today's Reflection

IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS

SKIING WITH YOUR EYES SHUT

Do actions really speak louder than words - or, in fact, do your thoughts scream everything else out of the park? You can say things and not mean them - you can do things half-heartedly. If this sounds familiar - don't worry, you're normal. Or do worry - because your thoughts are stopping you from achieving what you want to achieve - your thoughts permeate every waking moment of your day - your thoughts prevent you from wholeheartedly investing your energy into getting what you want out of life... be careful what you're thinking.

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Our ski season is over! The slopes are closed, the snow is receding – like everything in life, the ski season arrived and is now past. The moment in which you started reading this sentence has passed on too – life is made up of unique never-to-be-repeated moments. And we’re missing them. It occurred to me on more than one occasion this ski-season that the vast majority might as well be skiing with our eyes shut – an incredibly dangerous pastime! But the analogy is apt because, in effect, when we wander from one unique moment to the next, blinded by a fog of useless thought (both the thoughts that we’re consciously aware of and, more detrimentally, the subconscious baggage that weighs us down as adults), the manner in which we pass our days is dangerous – perhaps not as immediately life-threatening as skiing with your eyes closed – it’s more of a gentle, easy, not-too-bad, silent suicide.

We’re missing life – it’s passing us and we don’t see it. We’ll all end up on our death beds with some or other regret. Some will leave wondering, as a client said to me recently of his uncle on his death bed, “What was all that about?” Some will die peacefully, none of us will die with all our dreams fulfilled – unless we make those dreams reality, starting today – starting now. Dreams become reality when we start taking real action – the kind of action that can only be taken with eyes wide open. Have you opened your eyes this morning?

This Week's Recommended Read - EFFECTIVE THINKING FOR UNCOMMON SUCCESS by Gerald Kushel ISBN 0 8144 5964 1

Personal Development Article

My mentor, Jerry Kushel, wrote this in the 80s. Simple English – no need to complicate the simple manner in which we “all choose our own thoughts”. I’m not sure how easy this book is to get – but it would be worth searching for - Willie Horton

The Publisher says: Why are some people enormously successful in their professions and in their personal lives? Is it pure luck? Effective Thinking for Uncommon Success shows you that success has nothing to do with luck, or even talent – it’s all in how and what you choose to think. Based on research conducted by the author, Gerald Kushel with nearly 1,200 high achievers, this book reveals a simple but powerful thinking technique that all of us can learn. Kushel’s finely honed method is based on the fact that you have completely free will as to how you think. You decide, from moment to moment, how you act, think and react. Effective Thinking for Uncommon Success shows you how to change the way you think, leading to three-dimensional success, consisting of high job performance, high job satisfaction and high personal life satisfaction. How successful can you be? Effective Thinking for Uncommon Success shows that there is nothing limiting you except the way you think!

first published March 23 2009

CREATE THE LIFE THAT YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT... IN REALITY!

by Willie Horton

People are increasingly resorting to the virtual world to take their minds off the "not too bad" lives that they think they have in the so-called "real world". What is really strange about this is that years of published research and thousands of self-help books explain that your current life is a creation of your own thinking and, by the same token, the life you really want can be created by you changing your mind. Really! In the real world.

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