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Les Price | The Greatness Connection - Part 3
Episode 2: Developing Your Resilient Mindset

Episode 2: Developing Your Resilient Mindset

by | Apr 11, 2020 | Podcasts | 0 comments

Empowering Strategies for Growing and Transforming 
Your Mental Resilience from the Inside-Out

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift –
while the rational mind is its faithful servant.”

Albert Einstein

In this first episode of the Growing Stronger & Rising Beyond Fear Podcast, you’ll join Les Price for a deep-dive into the fundamental keys for thriving in times of great change.

Together we’ll explore the the 4 keys for reclaiming your power and resilience, and discover the pathway for re-framing fear in times of change, transformation and uncertainty.

You’ll also discover how to bring greater meaning and purpose through crisis, and how to lay the foundation to thrive.

 

Here’s just some of what Les will be sharing …

 

How to change your inner-story and change your life

Why it takes 21 days to formalise a new way of being

The simple 'No Tension' formula for self-actualisation

How to create good mental hygiene and self-talk

2 powerful visualisation exercises for training the mind

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Your Host for this Episode – Les Price

Les Price is an intuitive coach, hypnotherapist, medium and spiritual teacher who has been working in the field of business, personal and spiritual empowerment for over twenty years. As the founder of The Greatness Connection and The Soul Path Academy, Les now uses his gifts to help people globally to reconnect with their soul essence, awaken their greatest dreams and live the magical lives they were truly created to live.

www.thegreatnessconnection.com    www.lesprice.com

 

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How to Rise Beyond Fear and Uncertainty

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Episode 1: How to Rise Beyond Fear & Uncertainty

Episode 1: How to Rise Beyond Fear & Uncertainty

by | Apr 3, 2020 | Podcasts | 0 comments

Discover the Keys to Reclaiming Your Personal
Power, Presence and Resilience

“The most important story that we’ll ever write in life is our own
– not with ink, but with our daily choices.”

Richard Paul Evans, Best-Selling Author, The Christmas Box

In this first episode of the Growing Stronger & Rising Beyond Fear Podcast, you’ll join Les Price for a deep-dive into the fundamental keys for thriving in times of great change.

Together we’ll explore the the 4 keys for reclaiming your power and resilience, and discover the pathway for re-framing fear in times of change, transformation and uncertainty.

You’ll also discover how to bring greater meaning and purpose through crisis, and how to lay the foundation to thrive.

 

Here’s just some of what Les will be sharing …

 

Powerful questions to reinvent yourself through crisis

The 4 keys to creating greater strength and certainty

How to embrace your 'fearful' and 'fearless' self

How to handle whatever comes your way

Finding courage to release the past and create the new

Listen to "[Episode 1] How to Rise Beyond Fear and Uncertainty" on Spreaker.
Download Podcast as MP3

Your Host for this Episode – Les Price

Les Price is an intuitive coach, hypnotherapist, medium and spiritual teacher who has been working in the field of business, personal and spiritual empowerment for over twenty years. As the founder of The Greatness Connection and The Soul Path Academy, Les now uses his gifts to help people globally to reconnect with their soul essence, awaken their greatest dreams and live the magical lives they were truly created to live.

www.thegreatnessconnection.com    www.lesprice.com

 

Bonus Content: Live Presentation

There has never been a greater time for soul-centred leaders and aspiring individuals to ARISE and step fully into their authentic purpose, power and presence.

In this talk presented to a live audience, Les shares 5 fundamental principles for creating greater levels of spiritual alignment, connection and purpose.

The Soul's Calling to ARISE

by Les Price

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Getting Started: The Key to Overcoming Procrastination

Getting Started: The Key to Overcoming Procrastination

by | Jan 12, 2020 | Self Empowerment, Success Principles | 0 comments

“Do not wait. The time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever
tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

Napoleon Hill

 

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Transform Your Results and Kick Start Your New Year Goals?

After having taken some time off over the New Year, I returned to my local gym for a workout this morning. At a time when many businesses actively market their weight loss, diet, fitness and healthy eating plans to the masses who often are seeking to make a quick shift in their lives, it was refreshing to see the quote below written on the wall of the personal training studio.

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

Following the Second World War, researchers and behavioural scientists such as the notable and esteemed William Edwards Deming, predicated that one of the greatest barriers to human success was developing the initial inertia needed to start, followed by the need to commit to taking regular and consistent steps towards the progress of our goals, each and every day.

We’ve all had experiences in our lives where we have desired to make a change or had a desire to create some form of transformation, and yet somehow were unable to find the willingness, courage or discipline to just start. We all know that it’s very hard to get a stationary body moving, but that once its in motion any energy or effort we apply to it will have an accelerated effect. So how do we overcome our fears of failure? How do we gather the energy and willingness to start? I believe that the answer to these questions are held in the quote that was on wall of my personal training gym.

Start Where You Are

No matter what is happening in your life or where you find yourself, the reality is that we all can find the courage to make a new start.

Whether it be a commitment to eating healthy, the desire to put ourselves out in the world again and begin dating, or the quest to grow and expand our business, there is no better time than the present moment to start. Why? Because the past has been your learning platform, the canvas on which you have painted the foundation of your life so far. But what you choose to paint on your canvas from this time on is not limited by the experiences of your past.

Today simply by picking up the brush and beginning to paint with small strokes, you impress upon the unconscious mind that you are a partner in creation, and that you are ready to create from your true source of genius. Each step we take whether small or great reinforces a path of action, the key is to just start, and then to refine and evolve our process as we go along.

Marketing expert and speaker Paul McCarthy encapsulates this energy well with his catchphrase “Ready. Fire. Aim”. Too many of us spend copious amounts of energy trying to get things perfect and right (aiming), before we choose to take any action. The result is often procrastination, stagnation and an endless cycle of dreams that never come to full reality. Instead when we understand that we are ready now, and take inspired and intuitive action, a new world of opportunity has the potential to open for us.

And while this might seem scary to those of us who are perfectionists, who fear failure and therefore need to see and know the whole picture in advance, training ourselves to move beyond the fears of the ego and find courage to gently and powerfully ‘lean into our passions’ is the key to all great success and achievement.

Use What You Have

What resources, skills, talents and abilities do you already have? What have you already invested your life
mastering so far?

Many of us underestimate the skills, talents and abilities that we already possess. We often take for granted what we can do and accomplish with ease, while many others might struggle or find it difficult to do the same.

The key to unfolding your talents, skills and abilities is to make short inventory of all the things that you have done, the talents that you hold and what brings you fully alive. By reflecting on this list and bringing to awareness the ‘gift that you already are’, you will begin to awaken your potential and see the vast value that you can bring to the world.

Instead of falling for the trap of always seeking the next course, the next teacher, the next business idea or concept, choose instead to start by creating greater awareness and self-value of the person that you already are, and the gifts that you already possess. When you being to see yourself as the magnificent, then magnificent opportunities will present in your life. When you choose to see that your talents and skills are valuable, then people and opportunities that reflect that value will also begin to appear.

So, start where you are, use what you have and begin taking some form of action towards creating what you desire.

Do What You Can

When we look deep into the heart of what keeps us separate from our dreams its often a long list of excuses. While we may believe we don’t have the money to invest, we can all begin to put our loose change away in a jar and begin to save it for an investment portfolio. While we may not feel like we have the time to dedicate to our family, we can all create some space to gather for an evening meal once a week. If you are a budding author, and yet you can only find ten minutes a day to write, then write for ten minutes. If you want to lose weight and gain greater fitness but can only attend a yoga class once a week, then start there.

And if you’re struggling to even commit just ten minutes towards realising your highest life dreams and purpose, then you may need to come back to your reasons for ‘why’ you want them in the first place. When our ‘why’ is not strong enough then we are left at the mercy of the winds that blow, our direction and purpose is at the disposal of the Gods and rather than end up where we choose to go, we will find ourselves drifting in a harbour of uncertainty, inadequacy and despondency.

Therefore, the final element in the life puzzle is to simply do what you can in each moment.
Rather than buy into excuses, commit a small amount of your energy daily to doing what is most important to you. Because when you choose to value yourself and commit to your life, then life reflects that energy back to you. It rewards you with the sweet nectar of success.

Living Fully on Purpose

As we start a new year it’s a fitting time to tune into the energy and intent of the quote above. Take time to reflect on it and its meaning for you currently. And I am guessing that as you do, you will also find that within you is a great source of potential that is waiting to be expressed and shared in the world.

We can all start now to put fuel to the flames of what is most important to us, however to do so mean giving up the excuses that may have kept us playing small for too long, and to instead find the courage within to take small, consistent and happy steps towards realising the true life of purpose and fulfillment that we have always desired, and that our soul seeks to discover in this lifetime.

Les Price is a transformational life and business coach, author, speaker, intuitive and healer. If you feel you have been holding onto limiting patterns, emotions, feeling and blockages from the past that no longer serve you, and are looking for a safe environment to allow greater freedom and liberation into your life – contact our office to organise a consultation with Les.

Are You Frustrated with Your Life Results?

Are You Frustrated with Your Life Results?

by | Apr 2, 2019 | Self Empowerment | 0 comments

Desperately Trying to Create the Life You’ve Always Wanted,
Only to Find Yourself Feeling Flat and Frustrated?

Frustration is a complex, yet interesting emotion. It’s an emotion that we all will have experienced at some point in our lives, that either has the capacity to enslave us and keep us imprisoned within our own experience, or that can encourage and raise us to greater levels of personal freedom, greatness and fulfillment.

Whether it be consistently receiving rejections after rejection when applying for a new job, a loved one or friend who just won’t listen to reason or simply being stuck in traffic and not being able to move, frustration is a powerful indicator that our soul and spirit may be out of alignment with our highest good.

As human beings we were born to grow, expand, learn and to evolve.  The moment that we experience consistent periods of stagnation or not being allowed to be true to our own self, then frustration often follows.

If you’ve been actively moving forth trying to create the results and dreams that you’ve always desired only to find yourself experiencing greater levels of frustration, resistance and set-backs – then this blog post is for you!

1. Notice Where Your Energy is Flowing

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Your personal energy and emotions are a great indicator of the quality of experience you are willing to attract and accept into your life.

When our energy is high and expansive, we begin to resonate the opportunities, people and events that also help us expand. However, when our energy is in a state of contract or stagnation then frustration, despondency and fear begin to manifest.

Noticing where your energy is going in each moment is therefore critical to maintaining high states of personal effectiveness and performance. More importantly is also understanding whether your actions are being driven from fear i.e. moving away from something you don’t want, as compared from love i.e. moving towards something you really desire and want.

In any situation where you are not experiencing the results that you want, then there is a good chance that you are unconsciously out of rapport and alignment with what you really want on the conscious level. Which is why it helps to then look at the unconscious beliefs and patterns you are continuing to hold onto by simply asking yourself:

What am I choosing to believe about this situation

that makes me react this way?

Awareness of where your energy is being directed to in each moment is the key to greater levels of personal freedom, happiness and fulfillment.

2. What You Resist Persists

Does it feel like you have been hitting your head against a brick wall? If so, I have two words for you. Stop it!

There is a great video from the 1970’s TV show ‘The Bob Newhart Show’ where the actor plays the role of a psychotherapist who is working with a woman who has an innate fear of being buried alive in a box. It’s a great sketch on understanding how we humans can get so caught up in our own stories that keep us stuck and self-perpetuating the same patterns. When all along we have the power to change our reality, by simply stopping or changing the limiting stories we tell ourselves.

Afterall, what we continue to resist – persists.

As human beings we can often find ourselves stuck in limiting patterns where we repeat the same behaviour repeatedly, while expecting a different result. However, if the door to progress is continuously blocked, then it may be a sign to stop, take a breather and change your approach.

When we embrace a spirit of adaptability and a willingness to give up our ego’s need for control or stubbornness, then we free ourselves to a greater reality and expanded opportunities.

The moment you let go of your need to be right, to succeed, to struggle and to strive,
then you crate the space for providence to follow.

3. Where is Your Focus?

Many years ago, I had the opportunity to take part in what was at the time the world’s longest fire-walk over hot coals. Apart from the realisation that as a human being we have an immense capacity to overcome our fears, what this experience taught me was that what we continue to focus on we will create.

During a fire-walk what you don’t want to be doing is looking at and focusing on is the coals in front of you. However, for most people this behaviour is almost conditioned. For if there is a threat of any kind presenting itself to us, the body and minds desire for self-preservation triggers the sympathetic nervous system into its flight or fright response. The result is that people get burnt.

Instead, the coaches and trainers supporting the fire lanes encourage the participants to keep their eyes up, to focus on the end of the coals and to say to themselves ‘cool moss’. All these behaviours condition the mind to create a new state of awareness that is beyond the current experience. By learning how to consciously and unconsciously direct their attention to ‘what the do want’ instead of what they ‘don’t want’ creates the platform for a new reality.

“Where your focus goes – your energy flows”

Therefore, if a part of your is feeling frustrated in any way, take a moment to assess where your energy and focus is pointed. Is at the problem in front of you, the brick wall holding you back, the person who has said no – it can’t be done? If so, begin now to change your focus to what you ‘really want instead’ and why having and feeling that is important to you right now.

4. Ask Yourself a Better Question

Often the patterns and behaviours we continue to create and perpetuate in our lives are defined by the questions and thinking that we hold at the forefront of our awareness and mind.

Change your questions and you immediately change your  thinking. Change your thinking and you can change your focus. Change your focus and you change your feelings. Change your feelings and your entire actions and behaviour may change.

So, look at the predominant question that you keep asking yourself in your situation of ‘being stuck’ or ‘frustrated’.

Is it grounded in fear and blame such as …

  • Why do I keep creating the same mistakes?
  • Why is this person/belief/pattern stopping me?
  • Why am I failing at this?

Instead seek to ask a better question that activates your creative power, presence and potential, such as:

  • Who am I being encouraged to become in order to experience greater flow, freedom and fulfillment in my life?
  • How can I use my great creative gifts and power to manifest a breakthrough in this area of my life?
  • What would be truly possible for me if I was to surrender, release and let go of this feeling of limitation once and for all?

5. What’s the Gift in this Situation?

Every situation we experience in our lives is at some level created in our consciousness in order to teach and help us grow. Your experience of frustration is no different. When we continually push against doors that are closed or continue to keep hitting our own heads against ‘brick walls’ in our lives that refuse to open, then we alone are responsible for our experience. The lesson here is ‘that what we resist – persists’.

So, in these moments its far more advisable to stop, take a  step back, breath in deeply, let go and ask yourself – ‘What’s the greatest gift in this entire experience?’, ‘What’s this situation teaching me?’, ‘How is this experience a blessing for me and others?’

Making a list of at least 100 reasons shy your current  experience is a gift to you and others has the power to help free you from the mindset of ‘being stuck’ and will instead open your awareness and energy to better understand and see the path to freedom and flow that awaits you.

Ready to Break Free and Realise a More Fulfilling Future?

Are you in a place where resistance, frustration and limitation have been stealing the joy from your life?

If you’ve tried everything possible to change your current  situation with limited success, then a transformational breakthrough session with Les may be just what is needed to help you gain the awareness and resources to break-free and step more powerfully and presently into your future.

To find out more about booking a personal one-on-one coaching breakthrough session with Les, makes sure to contact our office.

Winning the Inner-Game of Success

Winning the Inner-Game of Success

by | Mar 24, 2019 | Self Empowerment, Success Principles | 0 comments

Whether you realise it or not, you are an incredible creative being with an incredible creative spirit.

Everything in your life up to this point has been created as a result of the thoughts, beliefs and consciousness you have decided to hold each day. Change your thoughts and your feelings change. Change your feelings and your actions change. Change your actions and your life changes.

And yet while this concept sounds simple, the reality is that many people still continue to find themselves stuck in old patterns, limited by their beliefs and feeling powerless and helpless, unable to fully realise and manifest the life and goals that they deeply desire.

As a purpose-driven leader the light the power to awaken your own greatness and realise your soul’s potential exists in one place – within you. And the moment that you learn to tap into and activate this creative source of purpose, presence and power then your entire life experience has the capacity to be transformed. Learning to harness our innate creative potential is therefore one of the most important endeavours that anyone on a journey of self-realisation and personal growth can pursue.

  • So how can you activate more of your soul’s potential?
  • How can you begin to harness the great creative power and presence of your spirit?
  • How can you set yourself up to win what I call the ‘inner-game of success’?

Top 5 Insights for Purpose-Driven Individuals and Leaders

Here are my top 5 insights to help you ‘Win the inner-game of success’:

Insight #1: Energy Flows Where Attention Goes

Where is your energy and awareness going in this moment? If you are fully present then you will understand that the capacity to change and reshape your life exists within you now, in your ability to choose the direction and focus of your conscious attention.

Whether you choose to focus that attention on what is not right, what you don’t or what is not working in your life, or whether you choose to direct it to towards what you really desire and want to create is totally up to you. It’s in the moments of our awareness, the small tiny gap of mindfulness that separates reaction from response, decision from action and chaos from certainty our greatest potential for change is found. Because it is here that we can choose to redirect our energy and focus to what we want to see flourish, grow and thrive in our lives.

The key is to understand is that what you focus on grows. Therefore, always make sure to direct your attention to what you truly want and desire to create, manifest and attract into your life in each moment.

Insight #2: Fear Will Never Go Away

The moment you set a new direction and path for your life, you simultaneously activate a new paradigm of being in every one of your cells.

While change is not always easy, the moment we choose a new direction or decide to actively transform our lives in some way, the reptilian brain and flight or fright response is activated. The last thing that our ego or consciousness wants to experience is anything that would cause it to change or leave the comfort of the current ‘status quo’. Often this inner-resistance creates internal perceptions that then manifest as doubt, procrastination, a limiting of self-worth or even self-sabotage.

The key therefore is to realise that as long as you are continuing to grow you will always experience some form of fear. In fact most successful people know that the fear they encounter before trying something new will never really go away. So instead of trying to eliminate it or get rid of it, they simply find ways to turn the fear into an ally and friend.

Instead of FEAR meaning ‘Forget Everything And Run’, those who have the courage to awaken the strength of their true spirit and being realise that it can also mean ‘Face Everything And Rise’!

Therefore, what we really should be doing is saying to fear …

‘Thank you for letting me know that I am growing, however from now on you are not directing or driving my creative being, only my true soul and spirit can do that. From now on you can take a back seat and come along for the ride, but my true self, my higher-self and spirit will be the one driving from now on.’

Insight # 3: Begin Now

Are you waiting for success to find you? If so, you had better start running now!

A wise mentor once told me that in Sumo Wrestling there is a saying ‘Always wrestle from the inside of the ring’. Afterall, its no use starting to fight and get your energy moving when you’ve already been pushed outside of the circle by your opponent. Sadly, too many people rest on their laurels, expecting success and opportunity to turn up at their door step, sometimes believing that all they need do is visualise or affirm the best happening and that it will manifest as they wish. However, this is rarely ever the case.

When studying the most successful people throughout history a consistent pattern emerges. While for many achieving success may have literally taken years to realise, all of them were in motion when it happened.

Momentum is a powerful force in the universe. Often the hardest part of any project or movement is the first 15% – the getting started. However, once the human spirit is in momentum and traveling towards a worthy goal it is very hard to slow it down.

So, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances or timing to get started on your passion, your purpose, your ideal life. Start now, lean into it and let success find you along the way. When we are in a state of movement, then opportunity seems to follow. The key as Martin Luther King Jr. once said is ‘You don’t need to see the whole staircase, you simply need to take the next step in faith’.

Insight #4: Expect and Embrace Resistance Along the Way

“Wellness and happiness are the natural states of existence. We are designed by Universal Intelligence to be happy and well in all areas of life. When Universal Intelligence is allowed to flow through our inner-guidance system without resistance, problems not only dissolve, they seek to exist.”– Mahendra Trivedi

Have you ever noticed that the moment one creates a new intention or sets a new goal, that everything within you that has not yet come into alignment or resonance with your outcome or desire begins to surface as an obstacle?

Maybe you decide to set a goal to head to the gym and lose weight, and then all of a sudden your car begins to have issues that need fixing, or your boss assigns you a new task that means you need to spend more time at work. Often our unconscious limitations, fears and beliefs manifest in ways that seek to separate us from fully realising the inner-most desires we seek to create.

The key here is not to judge these things when they happen, but to simply become aware of what our consciousness is creating and bringing forth in each moment. When we can identify the limiting pattern or perception at the core of the obstacle, then we can begin to change our awareness, and in doing so change our destiny.

The realisation is that every obstacle is a blessed opportunity for you to learn, to grow and become more of who you were truly meant to be.

The obstacles are therefore vital to the creative process and are there to help you understand what you don’t want, so you can place your focus, intention and energy on what you truly desire.

Insight #5: Feel into Your Success and Have it Right Now

Dream a little…
 What do you desire for your life, your business, career or relationship in the next 12 months, 5 years, 10 years?

At the heart of every goal or outcome we believe will bring us closer to success is a desire for a feeling. For example, a desire to be promoted into a higher management position at work might seem like a worthy and honourable goal. Yet if we were to delve deeper into this desire and ask ourselves ‘How would having this outcome really make me feel?’, what we might discover is that what we really want is to feel proud of ourselves, a feeling of greater financial certainty or even feeling of self-worth and value.

The difference between wanting and having is simply how we engage with the feelings and emotions behind our intentions. When we choose to see ourselves as already having what we desire, then these feelings create an amplified state of being that literally draws greater success and happiness to us.

The key therefore is to set your intentions and outcomes on greater personal success, but to fully step-in and appreciate having the intentions/outcomes manifest right now i.e. step right into the feeling of what it will be like to have the outcome you desire, fully and completely.

When you can truly appreciate the feelings of being proud of yourself, feeling financial certainty, feeling valuable right now, then what you truly desire has no choice but to follow.

Final Notes on Winning the Inner-Game of Success

Each of us must decide what success really means to us individually. No two individuals are alike, therefore your dreams and desires for realising a life of greatness will also be unique.

The greatest gift that you can give to your soul in this lifetime is the permission to dream freely, to reach beyond your perceived limitations and boundaries, and to create and craft a life that you are proud of.

Therefore, take time to sit and brainstorm at least 50 answers to the following statement …

  • When I’m living my ideal life I am …

Once you have your list of desires choose to bring your intention to them everyday and simply ask …

  • What is next step can I take today to bring this into reality?

With time, conviction and commitment to your highest visions you will begin to find that your inner-world becomes your outer-most reality. Best of all, you’ll also find that your greatest dreams will become the foundation on which your soul’s legacy is formed – one simple step, one choice, one intention at a time.

Ready to Switch on a Greater Light?

On the path of greatness, we are all being encouraged to connect with our true purpose and passion, and to live lives that fully reflect the greatness that is present within our own beings.

If you’re ready to expand your own presence and light in the world and to share your life message in a greater way, then make sure to check out our ‘Be the Lighthouse’ program. A unique 7-month transformational journey for soul-centred and aspiring individuals who know the time has come to awaken their innate gifts and make a bigger impact in the world. Contact our office today for more details on the program.