Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Stop those limiting beliefs.

Dear Reader,

Did you make the decision yet?

The decision to develop yourself so that you can access your whole potential and get what you truly want out of life.

You can do this – Everybody can do this. Why? Because the barrier between you and success is not something that exists in the real world, it's simply made up of your own limiting beliefs about yourself.

Nothing, and no one, can stop us from success. They may temporarily hold us back – But it’s only you who can do it permanently.

So success is really a state of mind, "You can, when you believe you can!"

If you are willing to accept this, you will eventually, and sometimes very quickly, have whatever you are open to.


However, these limiting beliefs are walls that need to be taken down whenever they appear, because they separate and prevent us from seeing and discovering all the opportunities that are around us all the time. Opportunities that can help us to live our dreams.

The very instant we make a decision, things begin to happen around us. It’s as though when a decision is made based on an insight into reality, all else falls into place: Events, people, meetings – everything confirms and reinforces such a decision. Decisions are waiting to be made. Excuses for us not making them, however, can be many.

Why does this happen? It happens because our limiting beliefs are holding us back.

One of the most common indications of limiting beliefs is the presence of our inner critical-voice telling us, for example, that we’re not capable or good enough. This inner critical-voice thus generates, fear and self-doubt about our true and innate capacity to succeed in what we do. So what happens next?


Well, as long as we continue to listen to our inner critical-voice, its affects continue, with the result that our feelings of fear and self-doubt increase. Many people try to avoid the pain from this process by suppressing these feelings of fear and self-doubt. But suppression is not elimination and these feelings will rise again to the surface, because our inner-voice continues to criticize and we never actually stop hearing it, even if this often happens only unconsciously, and so the circle goes on.

This repeated supression of our feelings also takes a lot of energy to little purpose. The reality is we continue to be disconnected, from our true and innate capacity to succeed, because we put our focus on suppressing these feelings, which also takes our attention away from taking advantage of, and often of even seeing, all the great opportunities that are around us all the time...

But we can break this circle by taking care of ourselves!

No one can do it better than you, because you know what you need and you can give it to yourself.


Instead of listening to this debilitating ”tape of criticisms” – make a factual analysis of what caused you to play it. Is there actually factual cause that justifies your self-criticism? Would someone else, with the same background as yours, have handled things so much better?

Probably not.

Comfort yourself and treat yourself the way you would treat a child, ask yourself: “What is it that I need?” “How can I best serve myself?” Continue to comfort yourself. Maybe you want to do something you especially like, something that can help you to relax a little bit more. For example, take a break from what you’re currently doing - and go for a walk, take a bath, listen to music etc.

This process will give you more clarity about your limiting beliefs. And clarity will eventually give you the option of replacing them with beliefs that support you, so you can get what you want from life.

- Replace that critical voice with one that is emphatic and kind. This will build your self-esteem. And it’s a phenomenal way to build courage so you can master your fear and walk right through it, instead of trying to suppress it.

As soon as your intentions are strong, you become a “magnet” and start to attract people and circumstances to make it come true!

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Your Life's Passion

Dear Reader,

Today we're going to talk about our Passions in life and how they can fuel our personal growth, well-being, and successes.

Our Passions are those things that are most important to us, they fill our lives with meaning, excitement and happiness.

When we live in favour with our passions we become more positive, more creative and more confident. Living in favour with our passions naturally stimulates us to do and be better than we’ve ever been before, which automatically leads us to more success and self-esteem.

How can we do this?

The first step is to find out what our Passions really are. This is not always as easy and obvious as it might sound.

We really need to make a proper self-examination, to finally understand what we really want, and perhaps go on to find new underlying passions that are waiting under the surface to be discovered and bring even more joy, success and excitement into our lives.

The most effective way to do this is to use a system that effectively identifies our most important Passions.

The easiest and best resource I've ever found is this test I am going to share with you in just a few seconds. It’s so simple, but so effective. I was immidiately amazed when I first used it a few weeks ago, together with a wonderful book that guides you through this process.

What I find especially interesting is the process it takes us through. It immediately gives you the clarity you need to take the next step towards your dreams. It’s simply a wonderful guide that naturally unleashes our inner-capacity and helps everyone to build a life based on a deeper purpose step-by-step, until you one day create long-term success.

And the best part is that it can be used even if you’ve just started on your journey to finding your source to more self-esteem. Infact this test will propel your motivation so you can develop more easily and have fun at the same time! : )

Enough said. : ) take a look at this one-of-a-kind test, and also take a look at what other people have to say about it.

P.S. My primary intention with this blog is, to give you lots of free tips and information, but I really can't stop myself from sharing a great resource like this when I come across it.

Take a look at Your Passion – the test, and enjoy! You'll be glad you did.

To your ever-expanding Success,

Julia Nestler

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

A passionate life for all of us.

What is Passion?

The answer is as unique and fantastic as each and everyone of us. And each of us has a unique answer to this question, haven't we?

We all come into this world with a special purpose that only we can fulfil, and with unique gifts, only we can apply.

We are designed to share these gifts with the world and experience the joy, enthusiasm and sense of fulfilment that comes with it...

When we do this, we truly love what we’re doing and this (what we love to do) forms our Passions.

Our Passions are the things that are most important to us. They fill our lives with excitement and joy. It can be our family, a business idea, health and so on..

When we live in alignment with our passions, we love our life.

Now, as we become more and more aware and knowledgeable about our source of self-esteem, which also means understanding ourselves more deeply – our passions have a tendency to change – until one day, we at last experience a wonderful feeling of inner-certainty deep inside us that tells us we really have made choices that will bring long-term success and a sense of deep fulfilment into our life.

Taking care of our self-esteem is therefore vitally important for achieving a life filled with quality and a wonderful sense of flow.

However, let us live a life in alignment with the passions we have today. We can all do this, no matter where we are in life, and even if we’ve only just started the journey in search of our source of self-esteem.

What we can do is to simply identify our current passions, and live in accordance with them...Doing this will, during this transition-period of our lives, lead us to other wonderful passions...until one day, we finally make reality of those deeply held dreams that have so patiently been waiting within our hearts.

There‘s no downside to this approach, it will only give us a chance for more happiness and excitement on our journey to long-term success!

How, exactly, can we do this?

Next time, I’ll introduce you to a wonderful tool I found not so long ago. This simple, yet effective tool will begin to open doors for you that you can't even begin to imagine today.

To your success,
Julia


Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Moving forward to Success - Step 2

Dear Reader,

Have you experienced how powerful it is to change the focus of your thinking from the problems you face – and to instead – focus your thinking on potential solutions to each problem as they occur? And have you ever experienced how brainstorming such solutions on paper works to stimulate your creativity and ability to find even more solutions, which finally leads us to better choices and more meaning and fullfillment in our lives.

We once came to this world to live in happiness and harmony. Deep inside, we all know this because one of the deepest desires we have in common as human beings is to live our lives with inner-balance and a sense of flow.

The good part is that we all have the ability to do this. We have a source of Self-esteem and trust within ourselves that can accomplish this. So one of the most important things we can do for ourselves is to find this source.

Once we have done that – and I would like to to emphasize that we all can, no matter what our background looks like – nothing can stop us from living the lives of our dreams!

However, we need to remember that it’s ok to be were we are now – let us be grateful that we have Self-esteem within us. And we have another fantastic opportunity to be grateful for: We have a second gift - a gift that gives us an ability we already use today (though maybe not to its fullest potential)...and that is - to be the creator of our circumstances. Yes! Some of you might have objections and doubts, but when you realize that you, and only you, are the creator of your circumstances, a whole new world is opened up for you. Try to get aligned with this thought, and it will help expand your awareness, which will enable you to see things in a more positive and constructive way so you can start to be successful right now, at this very moment, just by realizing that you have this gift and the potentially infinite power it gives you.


So what’s holding us back? Why are so many people NOT living the life of their dreams?


The two main reasons are limiting beliefs and conditioning, thinking that prevents us from achievement and happiness and keeps us in a “comfort-zone” with a feeling of becoming stranded and helpless.

However, problems are there to be solved, aren't they (?) :-)

Your best antidote to fear and ignorance (which is an extension of limiting beliefs and conditioning) is your deep desire to live the life of your dreams and the knowledge of how to make this desire real.

Desire is our motivator, and together with knowledge, it expands our awareness. A natural follow of this new level of awareness is that it gives us the power to automatically discover which direction leads to the best outcome of our current situation and towards our dreams.

You have the desire and the knowledge, even if you might not see it right now.What I can do is to contribute with some information that together with your desire will open up your own knowledge so you can expand your awareness which will naturally lead you to more and more success.


Personal growth is the key to attaining the life of our dreams.

Till next time, Love and Success, Julia.