The Only Bridge Between Your Dreams & Their Accomplishment...

This is really summed up in the verse that says:  "but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live" (Romans 8:13)

Did you get that? Folks, right there is the root of the 'mind over matter' concept: in the context of physical exercise, for instance - you don't always feel like working out (the body doesn't wonna bother, ie 'matter') - but if you listen to your body and do what it wants...(ie if you 'walk in the flesh'), you'll die: sickness, dis-ease, depression, death.

However if you put to death the deeds of the body - if you make your body do what it should do anyway whether or not you feel like doing it - you will live (good health, long vibrant, active life!)

This principle (I just love principles and how they apply across the board, not just in one area of your life)...applies to any area you could think of in which you desire to succeed.

This principle has been variously called 'the secret of success', 'mind over matter', 'bridge to success', etc etc.

This is the principle of 'discipline', folks.

There's no 'shortcut' to your success. There's no quick fix. And there definitely are no 'overnight successes' in real life.

What is your goal?
What is your dream?
What do you need to do to make it happen?

Get this: it'll never happen unless you take ACTION regardless of how you feel about it.
Nike gets it right when they say 'Just Do It'!
Tell your body 'you're not the boss of me!' (remembering that the real 'you' is a spirit, and the body is just the vessel that houses the real you...), then show it who's boss.

This one principle right there differentiates the successful people in life from the failures in life, the 'haves' from the 'have-nots'.

One group of people do whatever they have to do, whatever it takes, no matter the cost and they inevitably achieve their goal, the other group only does what is convenient.

One group focuses on the desired outcome and push through to the finish line...the other group focuses on the process and give up at the first sign of difficulty.

Which group do you belong to?

Your choice!

Play A Different Tape!

One of my clients feels down.


She says she feels worthless, like she is 'a piece of doo doo' (her own words), that the world would be better off without her in it. (Now, after I asked her other questions to make sure she had no actual suicidal intents or plans, and got the 'depression' side of things out of the way, the conversation continued.)


'What makes you feel so bad about yourself?' I asked her.


'I've been told over and over that I'm rubbish: my mom told me I'd never amount to anything because I was rubbish; my first husband told me I was rubbish and beat me up because of it, my second husband called me a rubbish wife and mother and also beat me up til I got the police to get him out, and now my daughter, who I love to bits, tells me when we have an argument, that I'm a rubbish mom, and she hopes she never grows up to be like me. And when you hear the same thing over and over again you start to believe it.'


Wow.


This poor woman had come to believe the worst about herself because of what she'd been told all her life.


She'd been listening to the same tape being played over and over albeit in different players (by different people).


If only she knew then what I'm about to tell you now (I did share the following info with her though, and it made a big difference, but more on that later...for now, read on.).


What she did not realize was that within her own statement lay the key to her breakthrough.


The key sentence which hid the solution to her situation was: 'when you hear the same thing enough times/over and over, you start to believe it.'


That statement is not only true, but it has a sound scientific basis behind it, which I won't go into today.


The human mind is an amazing machine.
When you hear the same thing over and over again, you really do believe it to be true. Whether or not it really is true. Your mind doesn't distinguish between fact and reality. It just accepts whatever you feed it, and causes it to grow as you continue to think about that thing/hear the same thing repeatedly. And what you believe about yourself determines how you feel (your emotions), your actions (behaviour) and eventual results in life.


Do you begin to see how you can manipulate this fact to your own benefit?


The beauty of this is that your mind doesn't care who's saying it, as long as it hears it over and over again, it comes to take it as gospel truth.


In other words, it doesn't matter who's playing the tape, your mind accepts the programming anyway.


So the key to my client's breakthrough, and to yours, is to change the tape you're listening to. Get proactive and become the player of the right type of tape, and refuse to listen to other, contrary tapes.

Be like Russell Crowe's character in 'A Beautiful Mind', who, by the end of the movie had learnt how to overcome his demons such that even though the hallucinations remained, they did not affect his life as they'd done earlier.The negative tape-players won't go away - they'll always be there, but when you've mastered the tapes you listen to, their nasty voices won't affect you at all. You'd be an overcomer.


So begin to listen to a different tape from today. Be the player of the tape, find other players who are playing the same or similar tape and hang around them, read books which 'play the same tape', listen to audios and watch videos which 'play the same tape'.


This is called proactive, creative, bombardment. It doesn't matter who's playing the tape - what matters is the content of the tape. Make it empowering, self-esteem-building, content.


It's the only way to overcome the effects of negative programming which can have such devastating effects on your life.


I leave you this week with a thought.


The tape you listen to determines the calibre of people and circumstances you attract into your life. This woman had listened to the wrong tape all her life, and, having built a strong belief based on the content of that tape, she'd attracted men who had continued playing the same tape, leading to abusive relationships with men who debased her and reinforced her negative beliefs about herself. 


What calibre of relationships (friends, spouse or partner, etc) are you surrounded by right now? How do people at work/school relate to you?
What does your answer say about the sort of tape you've listened to all your life?


Isn't it time you changed tapes and started playing one that says only empowering, success-attracting, stuff? Isn't it time you listened to, surrounded yourself with, people who played the same sort of tape?


Remember, your thoughts determine your behaviour and your behaviour determines the RESULTS you experience in your life (you will NEVER outperform your current self-image or perception of reality...) so make sure the thoughts you entertain are wholesome, productive, empowering ones.


If you don't like the outcomes in your life, go back into your thoughts and change them. Replace the stinkin thinkin with whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; whatsoever if of virtue and if there be any praise, for this will in turn reflect in your life!

Your Best Year Yet! Pt 2

6. Practice genuine love.

Love everyone, whether you feel like it or not. Treat everyone
exactly how you’dlike to be treated.

As Og Mandino puts it in ‘The Greatest Salesman In The World’, when you meet or come across someone today, think to yourself ‘I love you’ – send everyone thoughts of love, whether or not you know them. Then relate to everyone with genuine love.

Not sure what that means? Real love means treating others with kindness, patience, respect, belief in the best, not envious, rejoicing when others do well, not self-seeking, and thinking only good thoughts towards others.

Treat everyone this way unconditionally and your ‘power positioning’
becomes the strongest it could possibly be.

7. Practice genuine detachment.

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Don’t be attached to anything or anyone. When you forgive and love people, don’t do it expecting them to treat you the same way in return. Do it because it’s in your best interest to do so. Do it
knowing that you will receive, though not necessarily from the ones you’ve given to.

Trust that God to do the rest.

If you’re a business owner for instance, you see how this principle alone takes away any fear or pressure you may feel when prospecting or
marketing your business.

As long as you're doing your best, let God be God and handle the rest.

If you’re an employee, think how much more fun your job will be when you give it your best shot, not for your boss to notice, but because you know that God will reward you (with ‘whatsoever you desire’), simply because of the good seed you’re sowing all around you.

8. Practice daily sowing – Take ACTION.

Taking the right action positions you to receive what you desire and believe you’ll receive.

That’s why it’s important to know what you desire in the first place. When you do, then you’ll know which steps to take to help you get there.

With your mind set the right way (see tips 1 to 7 above), you have a solid foundation to base your actions on. The right actions, that is.

Note that the right action means doing the things that move you closer to your goal, to the very best of your ability.

Even if it’s not apparent how something contributes to your goal (eg your current job
may not have any immediate bearing to your desired goal), do everything
the best way you know how. When all your actions are successful, they
add up to a successful life.

Positive thinking is all well and good but you can think positive until you get brain cramps or you turn blue, but if you don’t back your thoughts with the right words and the right ACTIONS, nothing happens.

9. Practice daily giving.

Give something of yourself everyday. Start each day determined to add value to someone’s life. Everything you give is a seed sown, and you will reap it in multiples. It’s a Universal Law – nothing you can do about it:).

If you desire financial abundance, be a regular giver to
those that are less fortunate, or to your church or other place of spiritual support.

Give, not because you expect back from the person
you’re giving to, but because you know that the supply is limitless and in giving you receive from God. And here’s a ’secret’: the very act of giving, sends a message to your subconscious mind that ‘I have’.

Remember, you attract what your subconscious mind dwells on.
So by being a habitual giver, your predominant subconscious mindset
is ‘I have’, and you attract more of that which you give. When you don’t
give because you’re afraid you won’t have enough, you send the message
to your subconscious mind that ‘I don’t have enough’, and you attract
more lack as a result of your fear.

Addendum: Giving goes hand in hand with good stewardship: you've got to be wise in your stewardship of what you've got (finances, etc), for only in that context will your giving bring about GREAT results for you! More on this in future editions of the  'Health & Success Newsletter', as well as the ladies 'Weekly Success Tips for Women' newsletter.

10. Practice Proactive Health Maintainance.

Your body is the only one you’ve got. 

None of your goals matter if it’s in poor shape. Look after the temple you’ve been blessed with. One

remarkable thing about the human body is that anytime you treat it the way God intended, it rewards you with an amazing degree of health, energy, vitality (side effects: good body weight, incredible self-

esteem), and it displays the ability to heal itself as well.

So take care of your body. Treat it with respect. 

First become health-conscious. Then follow that up with the right actions –healthy, balanced diet; cellular nutrition with quality supplementation; regular, moderate exercise and the rest of the Pillars described here: The 8 Pillars of A Healthy Life

Bonus tip:

Commit to lifelong learning.

Ever heard that ‘leaders are readers’ or ‘earners are learners’? Both statements are true. Study personal development material, study material about your chosen field of endeavour, study the Bible, study, study, study.

Spend quality time each day studying and meditating on what you learn. You can only become a better human
being by learning and applying what you learn.

Think you need discipline to achieve what you desire? You bet you will!

But consider this: which price would you rather pay? The ‘price’ of discipline, or the price of regret? Whatever ‘discipline’ you reqiure is short-term, with long-term benefits, unlike regret, which lasts long after the fact.

If you go through the above list again, you’ll realize that the area you need to discipline really is your thoughts. If you can control your thoughts and keep them on the right things, everything else will fall in place. So that’s what you need to work on more than anything else this year.

Go for it – you deserve it, and you can do it (refuse to think different).

Best wishes, and blessings to ya!

Make this your best year yet! Pt 1

You’ve probably heard the saying that ‘if you keep doing the
same things you’ll keep getting the same results.’ So if you
desire different results this year, you’ve got to do things
differently. If not, you’d qualify to be called ‘insane’
according to Albert Einstein, who defined insanity as
‘doing the same things but expecting different outcomes’.

So take each day at a time with thanksgiving and praise
to the One who’s given it to you and then do what the rest
of this article says…

Here are 10 foundational principles you must be determiined to apply if you desire to see your resolutions or goals manifest this year, if you desire to
make this your best year YET!

1. Know who you are.

Quit focusing on outward things, which are really reflections of
what goes on inside your mind. You are not your body. You are not your possessions.

You are a spirit being made in God’s image.

Your body houses the real you. Your natural state is perfect health and abundance. If your current (outward) reality does not reflect this, it is because you have let your circumstances control your life.




Knowing and acknowledging who you really are, and the implications
of this Truth, and meditating on what it means, gives you a tremendously
powerful positive self-image (which determines your performance level) and
puts you in a position to cause your physical reality to reflect your true inner
reality: perfect health, joy and abundance.

2. Define clearly what you desire.

Do not limit yourself here. I have not asked you to decide what you think you can have or what you think you deserve or what your mama thinks you should have. I am suggesting here, that you should state what *you* would like to be, do and have, which you don’t have right now.

There is unlimited supply from God so do not hesitate to ask big. (You have not because you have not...)

Use your imagination – that’s what it’s there for. You
have an open cheque, so to speak. Fill it in with what you choose.

This is why you are told to ‘Ask for whatsoever you desire…’.
Let that desire be clear in your mind.

3. Believe that what you desire is *already here*.

Everything in this world is energy. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but can be transformed from one form to another – if you took Physics classes you’ll be familiar with this statement.

Well here’s a real-life application of this law.

Everything you desire, everything you could ever possibly wish
for, already exists! It simply exists in intangible form, waiting for to do what you need to do in order to change it to its material version. You know how water can change from steam to
liquid to solid (ice)? Different forms, same substance.

Same thing applies to your desires. Believe this, and you’re fortifying your ‘power positioning’.

This is why you are told to ‘…believe that you receive what you ask for, and you shall have it…’

You will learn more about this and the other tips in this article in the FREE newsletters Weekly Success Tips For Women and The Health & Success Newsletter...

4. Practice daily gratitude for what you desire.

Being thankful for something before you receive it strengthens your faith, and keeps your mind focused on the object of your gratitude.


Benefit: what you focus on is what you get more of (or 'what you focus on expands'). 

An attitude of gratitude also puts into motion the Law of action and reaction – when you give thanks to God for already granting you what you’ve asked for, you trigger a response from Him towards you – ‘whatsoever you desire’.

5. Practice genuine forgiveness.

Here’s what we’re trying to do: cause the thing you desire to be attracted to you.

Unforgiveness, grudges, malice, hatred, doubts and
fear are examples of things that cause resistance and block the flow of that which you desire.

So if you’ve got a grudge against someone, or a feeling of resentment, even if they’ve wronged you, forgive them.

Think about how much God has forgiven you - who are you not to forgive another?

I'm not saying it's easy to do this, but it's a conscious decision you have to make, to forgive someone, even if that someone is YOU.

Do this for *you*. I love this saying “harbouring resentment or unforgiveness against someone is like you drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” So true. The only person to lose in this scenario is you. So just let go. Let them be. Let the blessings
have a free, unobstructed channel to flow to you.


Next post concludes this list of principles. Let me know your thoughts on them.


Please put them into ACTION. I so want you to excel this year - I am fully persuaded that you've come into this planet packed with purpose, potential and ABILITY to succeed.

My First GREEN Smoothie :)

My first Green Smoothie! Yum!!
Packed full of nutrients and fiber as fresh as can be, and oh so filling!

Ingredients (all raw): 

• Broccoli 
• Celery
• Cucumber
• Apples
• Ginger
• Coconut milk

All you need is a good blender: chop the veggies and apples into small pieces (roughly the size of small ice cubes, put them all in the blender, add enough coconut milk to give the smoothie the degree of thickness you're comfortable with.

Play around with all sorts of raw veggie combinations, sweetening with some fruit, to make it more palatable.

Have fun with it, that's the main thing. Variety is also key, and keeps you from getting bored.

Now you have another way to pack in your '5-a day' in one glass! After this glass, any other veg or fruit you eat that day (eg the salad I had for lunch or the steamed veg i had with salmon for dinner) is just a bonus!

How about you? Have you tried any green smoothie combination? Do share your ideas below!

Just Do It! (Complete version)

Just Do It! - Speech by Art Williams