The Personal Development Ezine from Gurdy.Net

Issue No: 205 - July 11, 2011

Today's Quick Tip

Take 5 minutes and 39 seconds to watch today's video - seriously! Understand the complex nature of focus, develop your ability to focus and your life will be altered beyond recognition. Starting today, this series of videos will give you a complete and in-depth understanding of and ability to focus. And the quality of your life depends on your ability to focus.

Personal Development Video Mini-Workshop Starts Today

Today's Reflection

FOCUS ON FOCUS - PART 1: THE IMPORTANCE OF FOCUS

YOUR LIFE'S TRAJECTORY

For the next seven or eight weeks I will be focusing on focus! Ultimately, focus is all about paying attention to the here and now. But focus only becomes effective when it is practiced in context - the context of where you are and where you're going in life. In fact, focus on its own is a dangerous thing - you could be fully focused, but on the wrong thing! So ensuring that you understand the context in which you're focusing is vital. But, before we even get that far, we need to understand why focus is the pre-requisite to happiness and success. And that's where this series of videos begins...

Check out all my videos on YouTube - there are over 300 of them!

Don't Forget

FORTHCOMING ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS

One-Day Personal Development Workshops are coming up in Dublin and London this Autumn - you'll find all the details here and you can book your place online

A One-Day Advanced Workshop for existing clients and users of the Online Workshops will be held in Dublin on September 13th - reserve your place here

Today's Personal Development Article

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION AND WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU

The Law of Attraction suggests that we can get what we want out of life. Quantum physics confirms that this is how the universe works. But, which is better, getting what you want or getting what is truly best for you? You'd be better off developing your ability to be clear, present and in flow. Then universal energy can take you on a journey of self-discovery and abundance that is beyond the imagination of the normal mind. You need to be in flow. Read the full article...

Life is lived in moments. Your life today is the culmination of every choice that you've made in each moment up to now. Those choices, normally made automatically, are now in the past - you either learn from them or live in them. What happens next depends on which of these two routes you take.

The normal - and default - choice is to live in the past. You won't be aware of it as you do this subconsciously. Your life, at this moment in time, is obvious testimony to this psychological fact.

Being annoyed, frustrated or guilty about the past is a total and utter waste of this present moment. Each moment offers you a totally new, once in a lifetime never to be repeated, opportunity to be present, to have presence and alter your life. But, even if you waste this opportunity, many more will come along - so don't beat yourself up, another waste of time and energy.

We all set future goals - but the achievement of those goals is a direct consequence of what you're doing now, what you're thinking right now, what state of mind you're in right now. And each and every moment counts. Your life will continue on its current trajectory if you don't mind your mind now. Once you allow your subconscious automatically dictate your thoughts and behaviour you have perpetuated an adult lifetime's habit of sliding down the slippery slope of the repetitive behaviour and flawed thought that leads to unhappiness, frustration, stress and worry.

Once you take charge of the state of your mind, you begin to set your life off on a totally different trajectory. But you have to keep it up moment to moment.

And if, in this moment, you discover that you're wasting your time and energy and, consequently, have missed this moment's opportunity, never mind, it has now passed - another new moment is always waiting to have its opportunity grasped.

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