‘Our Deepest Fear’

I was speaking with a client today who mentioned that she came across some very powerful words which she decided to start reading everyday because of the profound impact these words had on her life to remind her of the life that is truly possible for her to live. I quickly realised that they were the first few lines from the Nelson Mandela 1994 inaugural speech which was originally written by Marianne Williamson from her book called Return to Love. I mentioned to my client that this speech changed my life many years ago and I would email her a copy which I thought you may like a copy also.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually who are you not to be?

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us.

It is not just in some of us, it’s in everyone! And as we let our own light shine, we

unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others !”

 

Do not allow your deepest fear to stop you from living the life you truly want to life.

More about Positive Self-Statements

Much of your communication to yourself is through self-statements. These self-statements, which form part of the stream of your inner dialogue, determine how you will act out your future. The quality of your self-statements is that they either empower, or they limit you.

Words are the basis of all your self-statements. In your mind you link words to images that will be associated with past experiences, whether positive or negative. Words trigger off powerful associative images, especially if they are backed up by strong emotive feelings. Say to yourself, “I will never be successful”. Now say that again, with real emotion, and it becomes a powerful directive that will program your subconscious mind to create a limited behavioural pattern.

There is no way you can feel inclined to ‘be successful’ when you are making this kind of limiting self-statement. As your subconscious does not have the capacity to discern whether you mean what you say or not, it acts out ‘to not be successful’ as an action. Your subconscious mind is literally programmed by your inner communication. How you communicate with yourself determines your outcome.

You can see how imperative it is that you become aware of the statements you make to yourself. As you move through your day, pay attention to the way in which you talk to yourself, and to your choice of words. Remember – everything you tell yourself is acted upon, because your subconscious mind is unable to discriminate.

Self-affirmations send positive messages to your mind. When you are frustrated because you feel you are not achieving or moving forward in your life, or you find it hard to view yourself differently, or you are not losing the weight you are working hard at losing, or your finances are not improving – then improve your potentiality through affirmative self-statements! You can support your intention to achieve your goals by becoming aware of the limiting self-statements you make. The next step is to replace them with positive self-affirmations and take the necessary actions to close the gap each day.

From the Heart – Developing Your Attraction

“Be whole and present so that you effortlessly draw in to you what you want in life vs. having to sell, seduce or promote yourself” (CoachU 1999)

Attraction is the opposite to promotion or seduction. To be attractive means that good stuff naturally comes to you. As we develop personally and professionally, we prefer to become attractive to opportunities, others, potential customers, ourselves and the future, rather than being better at promoting, marketing, seducing, controlling or manipulating.

Actions to Develop your Attraction

• Create a strong vision of what you truly desire
• Set strong personal and professional boundaries
• Live your life with integrity
• Create a reserve of time, space, energy and money
• Take extreme self-care and invest in yourself
• Live in the present and act on what is important first
• Identify what you are ‘putting up with’ and clean them up NOW
• Acknowledge yourself for every little step you take
• Create a ‘done list’ - instead of a ‘to do list’
• Add value for the joy of it
• Acknowledge others around you
• Find what you love doing and ‘live to work’ – not ‘work to live’

Celebrating Success

In a moment of frustration, my coach said to me…. “Instead of focussing on everything you did not manage to do – I want you to acknowledge everything you did accomplish throughout your day.” This was a difficult concept for me at the time being such a high achiever and perfectionist – it was not good enough for me. Until the following week when I was working in my office and noted this same frustration of not feeling like I was getting anywhere. Then the tones of a supportive voice reminding me once again….”acknowledge yourself for what you have achieved today”.

I obviously was ready to break whatever the frustrated cycle was. I then took out an old exercise book I had sitting in my top draw and started writing what I had achieved.

“I acknowledge you Annette for….

*    cleaning out your filing cabinet and throwing out old documents
*    sending an email to my coach for support
*    making a phone call committing to learn new program
*    clearing email in tray
*    ringing my brother about invite to dinner
*    returning the phone call to client with clarity
*    attending network meeting and connecting with everyone
*    being real with coaching clients and holding their vision
“
As I wrote, I noticed how hard it was for me to look for what I had achieved. What I was looking for was the big accomplishments. Then I realised that the little accomplishments were the foundation of my business and the consistency of those little things creates the big accomplishments. Most of all I realised that I was acknowledging myself and developing a relationship between myself and what I was passionate about in my business.

I decided to use this as a supportive tool regularly and one of the first things I noticed was my list became longer and longer each time I entered into my exercise book – now called “Acknowledgements to Annette”. I discovered that as I acknowledged myself, my mind was open with enthusiasm to look for more positive actions which I had taken throughout my day.

Take time out of your busy day to create your own personal and professional acknowledgement list. You could even try a weekly one if you prefer. Give it a go and see what opens up for you. Enjoy celebrating your ongoing Success.

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“Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”                                                                                                            
– Jim Rohn -
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Become Aware of Your Self-Statements

Much of your communication to yourself is through self-statements. These self-statements, which form part of the stream of your inner dialogue, determine how you will act out your future. The quality of your self-statements is that they either empower, or they limit you.

Words are the basis of all your self-statements. In your mind you link words to images that will be associated with past experiences, whether positive or negative. Words trigger off powerful associative images, especially if they are backed up by strong emotive feelings. Say to yourself, “I will never be successful”. Now say that again, with real emotion, and it becomes a powerful directive that will program your subconscious mind to create a limited behavioural pattern.

There is no way you can feel inclined to ‘be successful’ when you are making this kind of limiting self-statement. As your subconscious does not have the capacity to discern whether you mean what you say or not, it acts out ‘to not be successful’ as an action. Your subconscious mind is literally programmed by your inner communication. How you communicate with yourself determines your outcome.

You can see how imperative it is that you become aware of the statements you make to yourself. As you move through your day, pay attention to the way in which you talk to yourself, and to your choice of words. Remember – everything you tell yourself is acted upon, because your subconscious mind is unable to discriminate.

Self-affirmations send positive messages to your mind. When you are frustrated because you feel you are not achieving or moving forward in your life, or you find it hard to view yourself differently, or you are not losing the weight you are working hard at losing, or your finances are not improving – then improve your potentiality through affirmative self-statements! You can support your intention to achieve your goals by becoming aware of the limiting self-statements you make. The next step is to replace them with positive self-affirmations and take the necessary actions to close the gap each day.