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Do Your Thoughts Create A Groundhog Day Experience For You?

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Groundhog Day

Hard to believe the movie "Groundhog Day" will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. I just love this movie.

The premise of the movie focuses on an arrogant, egotistical, self center weather man named Phil. He feels it’s beneath him to cover Groundhog Day for the 3rd year in a row. He puts no effort or enthusiasm in covering the story and can’t wait to get out of Punxsutawney.  A blizzard leaves him stranded and he must stay overnight. The next morning he wakes up in horror to discover it ground hog day all over again.

He keeps reliving this day over and over and over again while seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.

Does Your Life Feel Like You Experience Your Own Groundhog Day?

By now most New Years resolutions, promises and intentions are out the door. Life just seems to grab you and keep you in the same place. When this year ends, many of us will find ourselves pretty much in the same place with very little change.

At first our weather man Phil, played by Bill Murray, comes to realize he is going nowhere and decides to take advantage of the town people for his amusement and entertainment.  After all, he does know what they will all do.

The antics eventually become boring and drives Phil to the brink of depression. He remains stuck here and nothing seems to change no matter what he does. Every morning he wakes up to experience the same day again.

He decides suicide looks like the way to escape. However, after every attempt, he wakes up to hear the same Sonny & Cher song blaring through the clock radio alarm. (warning: do not attempt suicide, can prove fatal. All suicide attempts in the movie were done with professionals and a Hollywood script bringing him back to life)

Our weatherman finally resigns to his fate and accepts the fact he will wake up every morning to relive groundhog day. He changes his mindset and thoughts.

He decides to make the best of his situation. The day isn’t going to change. The people and what they do won’t change. He begins to change himself, the only thing that can change.  He starts with an attitude change. He changes his thoughts. He changes his belief system about this "hick" town and the people living in it.  He evolves into a better person.

(movie spoiler ahead)

Near the end of the movie, He feels happy and full of confidence while enjoying the town festivities. The town honors him, he’s made many friends, improved other people’s lives, becomes an accomplished pianist and ends up with the love of the new producer Rita.

Yes, a new day does finally dawn for him.

What About You?

Often our thoughts and belief systems keep creating the same outcome over and over again that it can feel like groundhog day. Nothing seems to change.

Tonight when you go to bed will you wake up to your own groundhog day again ?

Today, just like in the movie, groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow thus predicting six more weeks of winter. No early spring.

Why not take the next six weeks to change one habit, replace one thing in your belief system or change one thought. Make the best of your current situation knowing you possess the power to alter it’s outcome.

Let me know below what is the one thing you’ll change over the next six weeks to end your groundhog day experiences.

Filed Under: Attitude, Belief System, Personal Evolution, Self Confidence Tagged With: Belief System, Groundhog Day, Positive Attitude, Self Confidence, thoughts

Inspirational Video: One Solitary Life

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Years ago, I received a Christmas card with a very moving story. I later learned this story was adapted from a sermon first told by Dr. James Allen Francis at the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles.

To this day I still have the Christmas card with the story "One Solitary Life."

One Solitary Life

Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.

He never owned a home.

He never wrote a book.

He never held an office.

He never had a family.

He never went to college.

He never put His foot inside a big city.

He never traveled two hundred miles from the place He was born.

He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself…

While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies.

He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth – His coat. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.

Twenty long centuries have come and gone, and today He is a centerpiece of the human race and leader of the column of progress.

I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that were ever built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life.

Filed Under: Inspirational Video, Overcoming Obstacles, Videos Tagged With: encourage, encouragement, encouraging, Faith, inspiration, inspirational video, inspiring, Jesus, motivational, One Solitary Life, Overcoming Obstacles

Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment – Step Four

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Let’s do a quick recap for the past three steps of your Self Concept Assessment.

Accurate Self Concept Assessment – Step Four

Self Concept  Self Acceptance

Step One – you created a list of words/phrases to describe yourself in eight areas of your life.

Step  Two – you took all the word/phrases with a minus sign (weakness), put them on a separate sheet and rewrote them in a positive and accurate way.

Step Three – you took all the word/phrased with a plus sign (strengths) and put them on a separate sheet. You took those strength words and created complete sentences for them. Hopefully you tooted your horn when you did.

Turning Your Self Concept Assessment Into A Magical Essence Declaration

Note: This assessment is a condense excerpt from the book Self Esteem by McKay and Fanning

This is where the magic happens – You will use the revised versions of your strengths and weakness that you completed in steps 2 & 3.

Now take these two revised list and join them together into an accurate, fair and supportive self description. There should be no negative or "false" positive, sarcastic words and/or statements.

Your new description should cover all eight areas from your assessment. Ideally it should be at least one paragraph for each of those areas.

It should acknowledge weakness you may want to change. More importantly, you’ll also include the personal strengths (assets) that are undeniably part of your identity, that Magical Essence that make you… YOU.

Embracing Your New Authentic Self Description

Ready to began the journey to change the warped image you see of yourself?

Embracing and making this new self description is the first steps to changing your inner reflection.

I remember feeling very uncomfortable doing this at first, often my inner critic would challenge my "real" self description. I want to encourage to do these steps regardless. In the final wrap up of this series, I’ll share ways to disarm the negative voice within.

Important

Twice a day for four weeks read your self description statement out loud. This is the minimum requirement to make the changes happen.

It took years of repeated negative and untruths to give you your warp self image.  Visualize taking down the old fun house mirror that reflects your warp reflection and put a new mirror reflecting the true you.

The Law of Repetition will help you learn a more forgiving way to accurately think about yourself when you read your new self description every day.

I’ll see you with our final step on stopping you inner critic from beating you up while you start accepting your true, accurate self image.

Other posts of the series

  1. Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment - Step Five
  2. Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment - Step Four (This post)
  3. Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment - Step Three
  4. Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment - Step Two
  5. Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment - Part One
Filed Under: Overcoming Obstacles, Self Concept, Self Esteem, True Self Tagged With: Self Concept, Self Concept Assessment, Self Esteem, True Self

Inspirational Saying | Promise Yourself

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Choice gives every person the opportunity to change what they don’t want or like in their life. You can choose how you want to react to a situation. You can choice to change your attitudes and your belief systems.

Choice empowers you to live the life you really want to live. One choice can make all the difference… The poem Promise yourself is filled with life enhancing choices.

Promise Yourself was authored in 1912 by Chistian D. Larson, appearing in his bookYour Forces and How to Use Them. Many have found inspiration in this poem. In hospitals, it has been used to help patients recover from illness. In locker rooms, coaches have used it to motivate their players.

May you find it inspiring too

Promise Yourself…

Promise Yourself…

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind;

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet;

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them;

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true;

To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best;

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own;

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future;

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile;

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others;

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble;

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds;

To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

Filed Under: Attitude, Belief System, Inspirational Sayings, Inspirational Video, Videos Tagged With: Belief System, Chistian D. Larson, inspirational video, Positive Attitude, Power of Choice, Promise yourself, Self Empowerment

Mind Power Secrets | The Law of Repetition

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Path Of Repetition

Have you heard the old saying, "a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth?" This happens because repetition is the secret to developing a powerful belief.

And the more powerful your belief, the more powerful your results will be… negative or positive.

All changes in your beliefs, especially limiting beliefs, take place upon the application of the law of repetition.

The Law Of Repetition and How Your Minds Works

How often do you tell yourself and try to convince yourself that you can accept change? Only later to find youself readily get stuck in past memories, frameworks, and schemas?

Until you make the changes at the subconscious level, those changes will not stay in place. Your deep subconscious is the very place where change happens. You’ll find a full article on the here: Power of Your Subconscious Mind

When you have a better understanding of the brain’s inner workings, the subconscious, you stand a better chance to develop a skill set or change a belief system that can enable you to make lasting changes in your brain.

Like a person finding a well worn path through a meadow, each thought, feeling, and behavior is associated with a path through your brain.

Would you choose to take the established path or would plow through the field to create a new one? Most people would choose the path already there… it’s much easier and less work. 

Your brain does the same thing. It is more likely to engage in familiar patterns rather than try new ones. The flow of energy through the brain tends to go through established paths and circuits, which is partly makes our minds appear stable and predictable.

Throughout your life, your brain will always find it easier – but not unavoidable – to go back to these earliest patterns of operating in the world.

Your experiences shape how your brain will grow. Therefore, any plan you want to follow to be happier, successful and more fulfilling, must also address the pathways in your brain in order to have lasting success.

How To Rewire Your Brain For Lasting Success

Repetition will input habits in the nerve cells in you brain, This consequently governs your thoughts and behavior. That well-worn path in the meadow happened by people repeatedly walking it.

The reason why repetition on positive thoughts is so powerful, and necessary, is that we live in a world where thoughts and images of lack and limitation are everywhere.

It requires discipline of repetition to change your deepest thoughts and beliefs about the nature of the world — and that is exactly what you must do in order to change your limiting beliefs that hold your back.

Repetition can be a powerful tool for learning and acquiring skill sets too. There is a kind of strength achieved through the power of repeating oneself. Repetition, repetition, repetition. It works. It works. It works.

Daily Repetition Can Develop A New Habit To Change Paradigms.

A paradigm is our perception of reality, our view of the world. It is our interpretation of events based on previous teaching we have received. Those teaching and experiences shape your belief system.

Paradigms controls your lives. Think of paradigms as a multitude of habits.  Those habits formed through repetition.

We can ultimately break down old paradigms holding you back through a desire to change.

One Tiny Step Repeated Result In Big Changes

The key is to change these habits of limiting beliefs one at a time to allow the flow of what you want to enter your life.

Consistency is very important in using the Law of Repetition. Changes will happen through daily increases of awareness, time and patience.

Repeating a set of effective affirmations three times each day will begin to create a new path in your brain. Just pick one belief… one habit you want for a new path.

Habits are made and broken in a span of 21 to 30 days as a rule. Repetition for that length of time can greatly increase the odds of making permanent change

Remember that your paradigms can be changed and you can do it a little bit each day through repetition.

Empower your thoughts and increase your self esteem and confidence by downloading and watching the FREE Self Empowerment Affirmation Video daily.

Filed Under: Belief System, Law of Repetition, Limiting Beliefs, Mind Power Secrets, Subconscious Mind Tagged With: Belief System, Law of Repetition, limiting beliefs, Mind Power Secrets, Subconscious
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