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empowerment | The Greatness Connection - Part 3

3 Keys to Attracting Greater Success in Life

Finding Hidden Opportunities

For centuries there has been continuing debate over whether our ‘destiny’ and ‘fate’ is defined by divine providence, by chance or just pure downright luck.

But the blending of science and the new fields of quantum research are now showing us that maybe our ‘soul paths’ are not so much directed by influences ‘beyond our control’, but more so from our own unique ability as human beings to set an intention, to make a powerful decision for our lives, and then taking constant and consistent action.

As a musician I’ve been avidly following the latest series of American Idol and The Voice Australia. What always fascinates me about these ‘ reality music shows’ is how ordinary everyday people, who often doubt their own abilities, or question their own right to ‘shine on the world stage’, often make it through to the finals, and then on to live lives where they get to do what they really love – and best of all – get handsomely paid to do it!

Even in these latest series we were inspired by the lives of 18 year old Harrison Craig in Australia, and 20 year old Lazaro Arbos from America, both who experienced severe stuttering and social anxiety while speaking, but who had the unique gift of still being able to inspire and touch the lives of millions through their singing. Both summoned the courage, the willingness and humility to put them selves ‘out there’ on the world stage.

Accessing Your ‘Cubic Centimetre of Chance’

Both of them engaged the ‘magic’ that author Carlos Castenda refers to as “their cubic centimetre of chance”.

“All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimetre of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimetre pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.”

So for this month’s post I thought I would share 3 key insights that can help every individual, every business owner, and every leader ‘open up’ to the incredible opportunities that are presenting themselves in front of you each and every day

Insight #1 : Opportunities Are Everywhere – But Get Clear First

It’s a funny paradigm, the moment you start saying ‘Yes’ to life – then life starts saying ‘Yes to you!

Each and everyday opportunities are presenting themselves to us, whether it be a chance meeting in a café, a sign on the car in front of us, a wrong phone call that comes through when we least expect it. The reality is that when we have set a purpose for our lives, when we have gotten clear on our own intentions and life goals, and when we are clear from all limiting beliefs and patterns that hold us back – then life simply re-presents to you what you have been radiating and reflecting internally all along.

In fact UK mentalist and hypnotherapist Derryn Brown conducted an interesting study where went to a small village in country England and found a man who considered himself unlucky, and who believed “good things don’t happen for me”. For almost two weeks, Derryn placed lucky opportunities around him, from winning a lottery ticket on the ground, to organising a big billboard truck with the words “You have Won a Prize – Please Call 9828 2929” passing by right in front of him.

So what happened? In all situations that Derryn presented the man did not even see or recognise a single one! Why? Because his past mental conditioning and programming meant that his brain and consciousness simply avoided the opportunities, almost deleting them from his awareness all together.

The moment the man began to consider the possibility that he was lucky, and that good things could happen for me – his life began to change forever. But first he had to clear within himself first!

So how do you notice, accept and take advantage of these opportunities?

Get clear in yourself first – Only when you feel clear internally, will life reflect back what you truly desire. So get clear on your dreams, get clear on your purpose, get clear on what you are willing to receive, and then watch what turns up in ‘your reality field’.

Insight #2: Step Beyond Fear and Awaken the Power of ‘Yes’

So what do you do when opportunities start presenting themselves to you?? Just say  “Yes”

Yes is one of the most powerful words that we have in our language. It has the possibility to create multi-million dollar business deals, it has the potential to allow us to accept a marriage proposal, it has the power to encourage the first steps that our children take on their life journeys.

But what inadvertently happens as adults is that we become conditioned to our natural ‘fear response’. In the face of opportunity it can become all too easy to say ‘No’ and remain in our unconscious comfort zones, than to say ‘Yes’ and accept the power we have to live an adventure in each moment.

So the lesson? Watch the movie “Yes Man” staring Jim Carey. It will awaken you to the power and possibility to transform our lives, just by using this one simple word.

Then get used to saying to yourself “Yes I can”, “Yes I am allowed”, “Yes I am good enough”, “Yes I am worthy of success” and “Yes I am ready” when the perfect opportunities start presenting at your door!

Insight #3: Give Up the Excuses and Start Moving

The final key to taking advantage of the synchronicities and opportunities in your life is to:

Start Giving Up The Excuses

Its all to easy to make up countless excuses for why our business is not making money, why our marriage is not working, why are lives feel empty and lack meaning.

It is much harder though to look deep within our hearts and souls and admit the truth. That wherever our problems and challenges seem to rise up and manifest – we somehow manage to be there!

In these moments we need to be honest with ourselves. We need to look deep within and ask “Am I truly being the person in this situation that I was divinely created and crafted to be?”

If the answer is no, then look at who you really need to become on the inside, in order for you to experience the nourishment, love, rewards and success you deserve on the outside.

Just Start Moving and Take Inspired Action

Its very hard to attract opportunity to you when you are stagnant, stuck, or not moving. Life energy follows motion, it follows courage, it follows faith and action.

Once you have let go your excuses, its time to take powerful action towards creating what you want. This action is inspired action – not force. It is the action that presents seamlessly and magically when ‘preparation’ seems to meet ‘opportunity’.

In these moments, you know in your heart that you are on track. That life and the universe support you, and that your destiny is assured. All you have to do is say ‘thank you’ and take action to claim the destiny that awaits you in that moment.

Remember ‘The universe loves speed’
and it takes courage to follow your own heart and soul.

It takes faith to act when the path is not clear. It takes resilience to get back up again and hold true to your greatest dreams, even when all around you say that what you desire to create is ‘not possible’, ‘not practical’ or ‘not realistic’.

All great leaders were once visionaries with an almost impossible dream. So do not be afraid. Do not hold back. Instead light the flame so that all those who see and recognise your light will be inspired to do the same.

And if you really want to get clear in yourself and unlock the hidden opportunities in your life make sure to book in for our next Soul Path Intelligence™ program. You can find out more at www.soulpathintelligence.com

The 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse

  • Are you still holding onto your past?
  • Do you find it hard to live in the present and to create the future you have always dreamed of?

 

Then Maybe What You Need is a ‘Detox’ of the Soul …

I have just come across this great book by speaker, movie maker and writer Debbie Ford, who is also the best-selling author of The Dark Side of the Light Chasers and The Shadow Effect with Deepak Chopra.

What’s great about this book is that it provides simple but effective daily practices to help you activate some of the ‘key agents of change’ to help you navigate through releasing emotional and spiritual toxicity from your past, challenging you to become grounded in the present, and inspiring you to activate your greatest gifts to create your ‘ideal’ future.

7 Key Lessons and Insights from Within …

Insight #1: You must understand that divine consciousness (your soul’s journey) and human consciousness (your ego’s path) coexist and are operating within you all the time.

Insight #2: You are designed to reinvent and recreate yourself, over and over again for the evolution of your own soul.

Insight #3: There is a ‘golden essence’ within you that has been covered within ‘human clay’ of past upsets, hurts and disappointments. While this clay provides you protection and safety, it keeps you separated from your divine essence. Therefore the job of every human being is to break through the clay and reveal their true ‘golden essence’ to the world.

Insight #4: You must recognise that there are thousands of life-draining beliefs and if you attach to any of these negative beliefs, and call them your own, they become your limitations. That’s when you literally “Ease God Out” (EGO).

Insight #5: All real change requires risk. You must take risks everyday of your life. You must get up each morning and ask not “What can I do that is the same today?”, but in fact the complete opposite: What can I do that is different?

Insight #6: Your soul’s mission is always to serve you in the grandest way it can and to support you in growing and evolving in new ways. Therefore, are you going to follow the path that you’ve always known? Or are you going to roll the dice and bet all your resources on a power greater than yourself, a source that literally has the power to change everything in your life?

Insight #7: The world is waiting for you. To follow the call to new, uncharted lands, you must first be willing to trust the possibilities that exist within you. The opportunities and possibilities are endless when you honour your soul, value yourself first, and commit to follow the inspired guidance of your heart in each moment.

The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse – A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul’s Deepest Purpose by Debbie Ford, published by HarperOne 2009 is available at Amazon.

Small Acts of Courage

  • Ÿ         What do you want the rest of your life to be about?
  • Ÿ         In the absence of all fear, who would you not be afraid to be?
  • Ÿ         If life handed you a ‘golden ticket’ what dream would you manifest?
  • Ÿ         If you won $70 million how would you spend the rest of your life?


Why ask these questions? Why ask them now?

Because at this point in time humanity as we know it rests on an all important threshold – a threshold that holds within it the potential for great change and tremendous transformation on all levels. However in order for this global and world change to take place, it requires a new generation of leader, men and women who are willing to rise up and find the courage and strength within themselves, to first transform their own lives in doing so transform our world.

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

There is no coincidence that you have been drawn to this place, to read this article, and to question and delve into the relevance of it for your life.

For you are one of the many ‘spirited warriors’ and leaders around the world that at this time in humanity’s consciousness is being called, summoned and gathered to be the force of change, first in your own life, second in the lives of those you love, and finally as a powerful example in the world.

So how do you embrace this new quest, this new mission?

The Answer:   Exists simply in being willing each and everyday to embrace, engage and enact ‘small acts of courage’ in your daily life.

The greatest barrier to all human evolution and growth is the ego’s fascination and preoccupation with the emotion of fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of financial security. Fear of not being safe. Fear of being hurt or abandoned. Fear of being rejected. Fear of being unloved.

The good news however, is that in each of the situations that you experience fear, you are also presented with a unique opportunity to choose in favour of your highest self, to choose in favour of your soul, to choose to embrace courage.

So each day, as you go about your daily lives, take a moment in the morning before you start your day to expand your own consciousness, your own internal capacity to move beyond the mind’s limits that keep you captive, and instead seek to find your power, unleash your potential and BE courageous by answering the following questions:

  1. Where in life is my soul calling out for more joy?
  2. What am I afraid would happen if surrendered and let go of my attachment to success?
  3. What one small act of courage can I take today that would bring me greater happiness, joy and fulfilment?

Remember, courage is not something that you need to find.

It doesn’t exist outside of you. It is part of your essential nature, it is an inherent and everlasting aspect of your soul already. All it needs is for you to stand in your power and embrace it.

To respond with courage, when life would want you to react. To stand-up and be counted, when life would have you hide. To take responsibility, when life would have you blame outside influences. To speak your truth, when life would have you keep your feelings hidden. To be your authentic self, when life would have you give in to other’s expectations and needs.

Every moment is an opportunity to show the world your truth. To be COURAGEOUS.

Life Wisdom for Today

“Feel the fear, but do it anyway!” – Susan Jeffers

 

Awaken Your Soul Path – Melbourne Workshop

Awaken Your Soul Path – Melbourne Workshop

A Unique Seven Week Program to Help You Awaken
Your Soul Purpose, Develop Your Intuition, Create More Fulfilment
and 
Set Sail for a Greater Life!

 “At the heart of every human being is a calling for greatness,
a desire to experience a life of greater purpose, greater happiness and greater fulfilment.

It’s not just in some of us, it’s in all of us!”

A new Melbourne ‘Awaken Your Soul Path’ workshop has now been scheduled for October 2012.

This workshop series held over 7 weeks will help you to connect more closely with your soul purpose, gain greater clarity and direction, and help you develop your own intuition and connection to source, so you can create and enjoy a happier, more meaningful and fulfilling life.

1. Do you have a clear and compelling vision for your life?
2. Are you doing what you love and living your life on purpose?
3. Is your energy flowing clearly towards your most important life goals and dreams?
4. Is your identity and presence attracting the right people, places and opportunities?
5. Are you receiving the other 99% of your highest good?
6. Is fear or limitation holding you back from living your greatest life?
7. Are you really happy?

 What If There Were a Way to Connect More Closely With Your Soul
 and Awaken Your Greatest Potential?

The Awaken Your Soul Purpose  program will provide you with the resources, insights and practices to help you re-awaken your soul’s highest potential and create a life of greater happiness, purpose and fulfilment.
Awaken Your Soul Path Program

  • ŸLearn how to connect with your unique soul path and life purpose which will help provide you with a revitalised sense of clarity, focus and direction in life.
  • Activate your personal destiny by learning how to set and create powerful intentions for your life, which will allow you to realise your dreams and goals more rapidly, and with greater ease and flow.
  • Discover how to actively reclaim your power and develop new levels of self-belief and confidence in your self, so that you can be the master of your own life and destiny.
  • Learn to clear limiting beliefs and patterns that may be holding you back from receiving and experiencing your highest good.
  • Create greater levels of internal alignment between heart, mind, body and soul, which will allow you to liberate your life-force energy and bring greater happiness, enthusiasm and fulfilment in your life

Best of all you will have the opportunity to take one goal that you are most passionate about in your life and use it as a special ‘Soul Intention Project’ for the duration of the 7 week program. Just imagine what it would be like to accelerate your results, and achieve more with less time, effort and stress!

This program will help you reconnect with your soul purpose, reclaim your power,
and develop the confidence and self-belief to live your greatest life.

Next Program Commences:             Wednesday 24 October
Where:                                                Living Now Centre, Seaford

Investment:                                        $350  (Payment plan option available)

Special October 2-for-1 Offer:          Bring a friend and pay for just one ticket.

Download Brochure (PDF):              Download PDF

For Bookings and Information Regarding this Workshop
Call Les on 0414 298 203 or  email info[@]thegreatnessconnection.com

 

Expand Your Personal Presence and Wealth

In this short video masterclass I’ll be sharing some key principles that will help you to Expand Your Personal Presence and Wealth potential, and show you how a few simple shifts in your personal mindset can awaken your highest potential.

Have you ever wondered how some people are able to channel and direct their inner-most gifts and abilities with next to minimal effort, and yet still manage to attract greater success, wealth, happiness and opportunities into their lives?

Living a life of greatness requires a commitment to expanding and stretching your own self-esteem, self-value and self love. As you change and expand your own personal vision for what is possible in your own life, you also shift your energetic make-up that has the potential to attract new and greater opportunities into your life.

While the Law of Attraction is not new, it’s fundamental essence is operating at all times in our lives. What we continue to think about and invest our energy and focus in – is often what we attract into our lives.

In his great book the Millionaire Mindset, author and wealth educator T.Harv Ecker shares the simple yet profound reality that our thoughts are powerful and literally shape our results in each moment. In fact right now we all have an internal blueprint based on our past conditioning and upbringing that defines the results that we are co-creating.

However the good news is that by simply learning to shift your wealth and personal presence – you can have an immediate and often dynamic shift in your own personal prosperity. Remember:

Thoughts + Emotion = Behaviour -> Actions -> Results

Therefore in order to shift your own internal set-point, you must first be willing to become someone that is capable of holding, keeping and attracting ‘more’ into your life.

Too many people hold a very limited perspective and identity of themselves that is firmly centred in the ego’s need to stay safe, comfortable and consistent.

But living safely until your death is not what you were created for!