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Turning Passions and Goals into Reality

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goals into reality

Turning your passions into reality requires you to do many things to make your passion really happen. These six things can assist you make it happen.

Believe

The most important thing to success comes down to self belief. Believe in yourself and you God-given abilities. You come into this world with the talents, gifts and abilities to make your passions a reality. Self belief is not about impressing others. In fact, you can still believe and pursue your passion without telling anyone. Believe and you feel empowered about the success of your endeavor.

Attitude

Your attitude will make you or break you. You need to maintain a complete positive attitude. Stay positive at all times. Don’t let the little things get you down or upset you.  You live your passion while seeing every obstacle as a learning experience.  You need to keep a positive outlook on everything you do with your business and your passion. 

A good attitude will help you experience more success in all areas of your life. Thing will begin to work in your favor more often when you maintain a positive attitude and outlook. It all comes down to the way you look at a situation and how you respond. A positive attitude makes a big difference .

Polish Your Idea

It can take time to implement your idea. You may need to do some prepping. Perhaps you need to layout a plan. What details will you need to consider? Stay flexible and let inspired action guide you.

Take Inspired Action

Your intention, not the action creates the desire in your passion.

You create first with thought. It is the thought of your desire, the focus of positive energy toward it that will build the conduit to your desire.

We often attempt to force the outcome. We want to move things along a little quicker, we get impatient, we want results right now. Forcing the outcome pushes away your desire.

Action based in fear move you away from your goal. Fear comes from the lack of belief and trust. Fear based action draw upon the negative and therefore will create negative energy around it.

Taking inspired action feels free flowing, like you could do it all day. It should feel effortless because of the excitement and passion about moving toward your goal.

You can reduce the need for action to a very minimum. Allow yourself to focus on what you desire until you feel the positive energy begin to move within you.

 Focus on your intent and do not take action until you feel positive emotion within you. In that moment you will know what to do. When you take action it will be the right thing at the right time.

Organize Your Life

Organize your life around your passion. Organize your time to participate in healthy activities like exercise. Make sure you get plenty of sleep too. Clean out the clutter by getting rid of unnecessary stuff and find "places" for what you keep. Whatever electronics or paper system you use, make it work for YOU not the other way around. Organizing tasks around the things you find passionate, will make you more successful and productive.

Visualize and Meditate

Don’t underestimate the importance of visualizing if you want your passion a reality. Meditation and visualization help you to see and experience the outcome of going after your passion. Visualize your idea with feelings to bring it into manifestation.  Meditation allows your ideas to manifest inside of you so you will make it happen. 

Start living the successful day that you have always dreamed of through visualization. For example, see yourself waking up at your ideal time, brew coffee, read the paper, talk on your blog etc. 

What tips or ideas can you share on this topic? Tell me about your experiences about living your passion in the comments below. Please share this article with your social networking friends. Just use the button to the left.

Filed Under: Attitude, Believe In Yourself, Goals, Visualization Tagged With: believe in yourself, Gems of Success, Goals, inspired action, meditate, Passion, Positive Attitude, Self Belief, visualization

Self Love Connection To Self Belief

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You must believe in yourself in order for anyone else to believe in you.

Self Love Self Belief

Millions of individuals fail to live the life they always wish to live. They often give up on their big dreams and ambitions the moment they encounter their first obstacle.

Two big reason why people give up when obstacles come across their dream path:

1. The goal/dream didn’t really generate from their heart… in other words it wasn’t a true hearts desire. A true hearts desire/goal/dream invokes passion and makes you unstoppable unless…

2. You deny your hearts desire because you don’t believe you deserve it or can accomplish it. You don’t believe in yourself and your abilities.

People who believe in themselves know deep inside they can accomplish what ever they put their mind to doing.

Not believing in yourself signals a lack of self love. You need to love yourself first or it makes it hard to believe in yourself.

What is Self Love?

The dictionary defines it: The instinct or desire to promote one’s own well-being; regard for or love of one’s self.

Self love emanates a strong sense of respect for and confidence in oneself. Self love gives you the power to overcome the doubts about your own worthiness for success. Self-love gives you the ability to connect with your dreams. You then support yourself with encouraging thoughts and empowering actions.

When you love yourself, you accept yourself unconditionally. You believe in your own abilities, even if other people rally against you. Rarely does one succeeds without experiencing individuals resisting their ideas at one point or another

Self Love Protects You Against Your Critics

Generally, when you choose to pursue your hearts desire, you’ll find people will put you down. Especially if they failed to do something or gave up on their own dreams. These put downs often generate from your own family and friends.

Self love leads to a strong belief in yourself . This belief allows you to move forward even under the pressure of criticism.  You will start to question our own abilities and give up your dreams when you don’t believe in yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself you’ll wind up discarding yourideas.

Those empowered with self belief will continue to pursue their hearts desire no matter what. They will enjoy the glory of success because they learned to love themselves.

Begin Your Success Journey With Self Love

Start loving yourself by beginning to see the wonder of you… your Magical Essence.  

You must first remove the distorted image of yourself. These resources can give you a good start.

You’ll find the Accurate Self Concept Assessment a wonderful tool, especially if you used along with free Guidebook located in the Power Peeps Club

Write a Declaration of Empowerment and post it where you can read it every day.

Every week do one of the items in the Recipe For Self Love

What are YOUR thoughts about Self Love & Self Belief? How do you plan on cultivating your self love? Share your comments below. Share this article with your favorite social networks – just use the buttons on the left

Ann Rusnak

Filed Under: Believe In Yourself, Self Acceptance, Self Love Tagged With: believe in yourself, empowerment, Gems of Success, Love Yourself, Self Belief, Self Love

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

Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment – Step Four

By Ann Rusnak 1 Comment

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

Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment – Step Three

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Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment – Step Three

Accurate Self Concept Assessment – Step Three

Inner Strength Self Concept

How are you coming along with your Self Concept Assessment? It took me awhile to complete mine. Some parts of it made me feel very uncomfortable. Especially doing step three: Acknowledging your strengths.

My self esteem was practically nonexistent. Doing this Self Concept Assessment was no easy task. Especially growing up with critical parents. I felt everything about me was wrong.

Society also hesitates in commending someone who acknowledges their strengths. You can find yourself labeled a braggart, boaster, audacious just to name a few.

The current politically correct attitude that resides in America today doesn’t help. There is a big emphasis on "equality" and "fairness" and nobody should do better than somebody else.

God gave you those strengths and talents to make your dreams happen. (Believe in Your Inner Gifts)

Today you will enthusiastically acknowledge your assets… your talents… your strengths… the very things that make you… YOU!

Step Three – Listing Your Strengths – Assets – Abilities

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

I want you to toot your own horn… be audacious… acknowledge the things to appreciate about you.

You’ll need a fresh sheet of paper and your Self Concept Assessment.

Write down all the items with a plus sign from your assessment.

Look over your weakness list and scan for where you wrote corresponding strengths. Are they on your strengths list? if not, put them on your list .

Try to think of other special qualities or abilities you didn’t mention yet.

  • What compliments did you receive?
  • What about successes, awards, prizes and good marks you received?
  • What obstacles and adversities did you overcome?

Keep reviewing your list and continue adding to it.

Now go over your list of strengths, item by item, an rewrite them in complete sentences. Make sure you use synonyms, adjectives and adverbs to elaborate. Replace any negatives with positives.

If you’re like me, you spent years polishing and dwelling on your negative qualities. It’s really important to devote equal time to your strengths.

Toot Your Horn

Be bold and toot your horn loudly… so loud it begins to drown out your inner critic.

A great way to counteract your tendency to downplay your strengths is to pretend you’re writing a recommendation letter for someone you really love and want to see succeed.

Keep reading over your list and embrace your qualities and strengths.

We’ll blend all the work you did on your self concept assessment in Step Four. This will give you a powerful tool to eliminate your warped 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
  3. Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment - Step Three (This post)
  4. Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment - Step Two
  5. Self Esteem | Accurate Self Concept Assessment - Part One
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