THE PRAYER OF THE GENTLE WARRIOR

The Gentle Warrior, with himself he is at Peace.

The Gentle Warrior, with his world he is at Ease.

The Gentle Warrior is in Bliss.

The Gentle Warrior is above all This.

~ Talks On Walks With The Master (TOWS) ~

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Day 1 The Master always forgives.

Day 2 The Master loves everyone.

Day 3 The Master loves unconditionally.

Day 4 The Master does not judge no matter what views, beliefs or opinions anyone holds.

Day 5 The Master does not judge even those who wrong him.

Day 6 The Master does not discriminate anyone in anyway.

Day 7 The Master does not discriminate based on your outer appearance, your race, color, creed, race or religion.

Day 8 The Master lets it go and moves on, no matter what happens, or what one says or does to him.

Day 9 The Master never holds any grudge, resentment or hate towards anyone no matter how they wrong him.

Day 10 The Master does not take any experience with the outside world personally. It is just an (another) experience to him.

Day 11 The Master teaches out of love, never to preach to enforce.

Day 12 The Master tolerates all, and everyone.

Day 13 The Master is always kind and gentle.

Day 14 The Master is always soft spoken even in the event of injustice, unfairness, rudeness, retaliation, accusations, discrimination, or being wronged.

Day 15 The Master observes silence at all times, to listen more and speak less.

Day 16 The Master uses the least amount of words to make a point.

Day 17 The Master is grateful to everything, everyone, all the time.

Day 18 The Master forgives and forgets all the bad you do.

Day 19 The Master forever keeps upper most in his mind any one time you did good.

Day 20 The Master treats everyone equal, friend or foe, enemy or friend.

Day 21 The Master hates no one, even if he cannot be sure that no one hates him.

Day 22 The Master trusts everyone, every single time, even if they have failed him, betrayed him, hurt him or wronged him.

Day 23 The Master does not blame, complain or explain.

Day 24 The Master does not justify or argue no matter how tempted he might be.

Day 25 The Master never raises his voice even in a disagreement.

Day 26 The Master would always back off or avoid a fight, even if he is right.

Day 27 The Master never loses his equanimity and poise.

Day 28 The Master is ever elegant, kind, gentle and soft spoken.

Day 29 The Master never allows anyone to disturb or disrupt his peace of mind.

Day 30 The Master knows all, and yet says nothing.

Note:

Your 30 days with the Master

Make this your 30 days walk with the Master, one step a day.

Each day live in the philosophy of the day. Your life will forever be transformed. Walk in the steps of the Master, and may you transcend from Student to Master yourself.

The November Crimson Walks with the Master

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1. Be careful who you call Master.

You will download her Definitions. Her wrong values will become your right beliefs.

2. Watch the Actions of your Master.

Be careful of the Actions of your Master, least she tries to sell you, justify to you and convince you why it is OK with what she does, even if it defies all logic and rationale.

3. Beware of the Master who does not forgive when she has been wronged.

You will inherit her hate, pain and resentment.

4. Watch your Master how she teaches.

Watch that your Master teaches unconditionally, for there is no other way.

5. Never get caught up in the Master’s battles. Let her fight her own.

Beware that your Master does not incite you against her Master, due to their differences in the past.

6. Never fall for your Master’s ‘poor me’ sales pitch.

Watch that your Master is not brainwashing you towards her own personal agenda by making you feel guilty that you are ungrateful if you don’t.

7. Never underestimate your Master just because she does not reprimand you.

The Enlightened Master knows all that the student is doing and yet remains an oblivious fool in the eyes of the student.

~ The Gentle Warrior’s Creed ~

by Dev

THE LOWEST POINTS IN HUMAN HISTORY MUST BE THOSE WHEN THE STUDENT STABED HIS OBLIVIOUS MASTER WHO WAS BLINDED BY THE VERY LIGHT HE WAS GIVING THAT STUDENT.         – Dev

THE LOWEST POINT IN THE PROGRESS OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION IS WHEN THE STUDENT STABS THE MASTER IN THE BACK WHEN THE MASTER IS UNAWARE, COS HE IS TOO BUSY GIVING LIGHT TO THAT STUDENT. – Dev

WHAT KIDS DID NOT AND WILL NOT (EVER) LEARN IN SCHOOL

….because its not the school’s business to do so!!!

In Part 1 (please see

http://devology.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/part-1-what-kids-did-not-and-will-not-ever-learn-in-school/),

Bill Gates gave us a mind-boggling insight into the priceless wisdom of his Rules 1-5. In this Part 2 we shall explore the remaining Rules.

Everyone is in search of the secrets to success, but however unwilling to listen to the most successful man alive. It is ironic, but true.

So you, reader of this Blog, I beg of you to pay special heed to what Bill Gates is saying. It makes logical sense for me to assume that he has found the secret to success because he has more money than you, your parents and all your teachers put together.

So I very boldly say to you, on becoming a success, STOP LISTENING TO YOUR POOR PARENTS, YOUR BROKE TEACHERS AND YOUR PATHETIC DEAD END JOB FRIENDS. IF YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOU, START LISTENING TO BILL GATES!!!

Why might you ask, am I suggesting that. Well, look at it this way…kids are a by-product of the environment to which they are exposed to on a daily basis. As kids, the reasoning faculty is yet undeveloped. All in-coming sensory data is processed deductively. This means that all information picked up from their environment can only be accepted, and cannot be rejected by their Unconscious Mind.

The million dollar questions to ask are:

What were you exposed to on an ongoing basis while you were growing up?

What are you continuously being exposed to on a daily basis every single day of your adult life?

Who and what are the major influencers in your life right now?

Who are the people that you spend the bulk of your time with everyday?

While you were growing up, the two major influences in your young life were your parents and your teachers. Research shows that 85% of parents are negative and 75% of teachers are negative. Hahahaha!!! Looks like you ran into a massive brick wall even before you moved into the first gear of your life!

Research on kids states that by age 18, a child will hear the word ‘No’, 140,000 times. Now you know why you naturally think that you can’t do something, even before you try! You are basically screwed even before the word ‘go’! You already assume that you cant, even before you attempt.

“Son, is there anything you want in life?”….No! (…isn’t life supposed to give me everything I want?)

“Would you like to volunteer?”…NO! (…I’d rather if someone else stole the limelight that I crave for!).

“Would you like to try something new?”…No! (…I prefer to suffer in total boredom doing the same old pointless stuff!).

“You fancy that pretty girl, why don’t you walk up to her and tell her that you are interested in her?”….NO! (…I rather suffer in silence…and suffer even more when one day I see her holding hands with a brainless moron!)

Every single day, a child receives 460 negative statements and only 75 positive statements. And you wonder why you feel like jumping off the 88^th floor of the Twin Towers every Monday the last 17 years!!!

The number one ‘dis-ease’ inflicting almost every child today is inferiority complex. This is a feeling of deep self-doubt, lack of self confidence and extremely low self esteem in oneself.

Going by statistics, parents and teachers seem like the biggest culprits. Look, I am not saying this, but the data sure looks to me like it’s pointing in that direction. Blame it on the data!

Yes its true, not all parents and teachers are negative…only 75% and 85% of them respectively!!! Hahhaha!!! Fooled you!

I love what the then incoming President of the United States stated in a speech on his education policy.

“The need for good teachers deserves emphasis. Recent studies show that the single most important factor in determining a student’s achievement isn’t WHO THE STUDENT IS…….IT IS WHO THE TEACHER IS”. – President Obama.

I rest my case!

With that settled, lets look to Bill Gates for more pearls of wisdom, which might be the only way out for most of us who have already been indoctrinated (read, programmed for self destruction) by our parents, teachers and our environment.

Reject Bill Gates formula, live by your parents and teachers formula…and join the ranks of the billions who live meaningless, empty, pathetic and directionless lives, forever condemned to a ‘lifeless existence’.

Those about to fall into the timeless trap of following the formula of your parents and teaches, take a real close look at their lives. That is exactly the kind of ‘pathetic’ life that awaits you in the not too distant future. I wish you good luck in advance!

BILL GATES 11 RULES: RULE 6

Rule 6: Bill Gates

If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 6: Dev

Look, your parents can’t possibly teach you what they don’t themselves know.

Not withstanding, they have given you the very best that they could. Sure, their best may not have been good enough. Nevertheless, they gave you everything possible.

If you blame your parents, then you will arrive at the exact station in life as they have. In short, the station in life of your parents that you so despise, that will be your very station one day.

If you think it’s your parents’ fault and you are waiting for them to correct it, then you are in for a very long wait. While your parents are waiting for the ‘Guru’ to come down from his mountain-top to give them the enlightenment that you feel they need, they are going to continue acting in ‘darkness’. Until the day of their enlightenment arrives, you are doomed to a life of misery, pain, despair, doom and gloom. And, by the way, due to your ignorance and arrogance, you truly deserve it!

Allow me to offer you an alternate way of changing your life forever…

THE DREAM MANIFESTATION PROCESS

To have the life you truly want, this is what you need to do:

i. STEP 1 TAKE TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY

I am the only problem I will ever have, and I am the only solution. – Raymond Douglas Stanford -

This first step is the most difficult of the entire 10 Step Dream Manifestation Process; that is to take total responsibility for the results, conditions and situations in your life right now and be willing to say to yourself, ‘I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL MY THOUGHTS, ALL  MY FEELINGS, ALL MY ACTIONS AND EVERY RESULT IN MY LIFE.’

Yes I know you are saying to yourself that it’s not your fault that your life is in a total mess. You can immediately come up with a million reasons, countless people to blame and the limitless conditions you encountered that have contributed to your current state of affairs. Strangely enough, not a single one of them includes you as the primary cause.

Ya, sure, tell it to my cow!

I am saying to you, if other people, the environment and conditions outside of you are responsible for the way your life is right now, then; there is nothing you can do to change that. In English that means, you are forever screwed!

Yes I know, it is very difficult to accept the fact that you, and only you are the cause of all that is now showing up in your life. However, if you are willing to take responsibility for the way your life is, than you have the power to change it to the way you really want your life to be.

State the Change process by saying to yourself ten times, “For things to Change, I must change FIRST.”

ii. STEP 2 DECIDE

It is in your moments of Decisions that your Destiny is shaped. – Tony Robbins -

Decide how you want your life to look like 5… 10… 20… years from today?

By having an overview of how you would like your life to unfold, you are able to work backwards right up to today and plant those seeds now.

By doing so, you are in essence predicting all your future outcomes by choice. Any decision you make today will determine what shows up in your future. So, you must carefully decide what seeds you wish to plant right now.

I want you to imagine making a decision right now about a single area of your life; in your financial life, for instance. If all things were possible, how much would you like to be earning 10 years from today?

Lets say, you are now earning exactly that amount. How different would your life be? What kind of lifestyle would you be enjoying? How would you feel about that? Ask yourself, was it worth doing whatever you did the last 10 years to enjoy this level of success?

iii. STEP 3 WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME

Things which matter most, must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. - Goethe -

Write down all the things that are important to you right now. Make a list of whatever you think and feel is important in your life right now. Then divide the list of your items into the 8 areas of your life.

The 8 areas of life are Spiritual Life, Intellectual/ Mental Life, Emotional Life, Physical Life, Career Life, Financial Life, Community/ Social Life and Family Life. Make sure you have at least 10 entries under each area of your life. Of course; the more the better. Next, rearrange them in order of priority in every area of life.

Then make a similar list of all the things that would be important to you at age 80.

I would like you to then review both lists and see how they compare with each other? How many items under each area of life are similar? How have the priorities of these items changed over time? Note what features prominently in your lists at the present and when you are 80. That should give you some clues as to what you deem important in your life.

The final step is to ask yourself, at age 80, what is the single most important entry in each area of your life? The fulfillment of this single item would be the most meaningful for you. Now, I want you to set the achievement of that item as the most important Goal in the respective areas of your life.

In doing that, you would be planting the seed of the fruit you wish to harvest at 80.

iv. STEP 4 WRITE A GOAL

The first Goal in life is to have a Goal. - Dev -

If you do not as yet have a Goal, I suggest that be the very first thing that you do. So, what then is a Goal? Well, simply a Dream with a dateline.

If you already have a Goal, I would then ask you to review Step 3 to determine what would ultimately be the single most significant Goal for you. Is there a consistency between what you wrote as your most important Goal for 2010 with that at age 80? That should give you a clue as to what Goal you should be writing under Step 4.

Once you have made a decision on the Goal, write a Goal Statement of the single most important (short term) Goal that you want to achieve by 31^st December 2010.

The next step would be to write a Goal Description of the aforesaid Goal.

Let me give you a little tip on the difference between a Goal Statement and a Goal Description.

Once you have decided on the Goal that you wish to achieve, you need to state it in a single sentence.

An example of a Financial Goal Statement would be as follows:

I (name) am so Happy and Grateful now that I earn RMxxxx and more per month as of 31^st December 2010 providing outstanding service as a Life Coach to all my clients.

A Goal Description is simply a detailed description of the Goal. Here is where you include as many details as possible so as to get absolute clarity of your Goal.

In short, the Goal Statement is a summary of the Goal Description. Conversely, the Goal Description is just an elaboration of the Goal Statement.

v. STEP 5 ACTION PLAN

People with Plans without Actions are Delusional. – Dev -

Write an Action Plan as to what you need to do to make this Goal happen.

You can construct an easy to use but highly functional plan of action on just one sheet of paper.

Step 1: My Dream

On a clean sheet of A4 paper, right at the top write the word MY DREAM and write down whatever your dream is.

For example; To leave a legacy

Step 2: My Goal(s)

Next, below that write down the Goal(s) that you need to reach so that you can leave a legacy.

In certain instances there could be only one Goal, while at other times there could be a number of small Goals that need to be reached for the actualization of the Dream.

If there are a number of Goals that need to be reached, the Goals could either be related Goals or totally independent Goals, but all lead to the fulfillment of the Dream.

The reaching of all these Goals would culminate in you leaving a legacy. The Dream is therefore a direct outcome of your having reached all the Goals. So, in essence; there is nothing that you actually need to do under the ‘My Dream’ column. It is a consequence of you having reached all your Goals.

For example;

Goal 1: Professional Speaker

Goal 2: Dedicate my life to serving the needs of single

mothers

Goal 3: Create a program that helps single mothers cope

with the emotional and financial burden of their day to day living

Goal 4: Win the Noble Prize

Step 3: Steps

The next step is to have a number of Steps under each Goal. These are the steps that must be taken for each Goal to be reached.

Some Goals might have a number of steps and certain Goals might only have a single Step.

Ask yourself; “For this Goal to be reached, what immediate or initial Step(s) do I need to take?”

For example;

Goal 1: Professional Speaker

Steps:

i.      Learn Public Speaking

ii.    Work with a Professional Speaker as an understudy

iii.   Offer free talks (as part of my training)

iv.  Create a Blog to promote myself

v.   Promote myself on FB…etc….

Step 4: Tasks

Now, under each Step (from Step 3), enter a number of Tasks that might be required for a single Step to be  completed.

As in the earlier Step 3, different Steps might require a different number of Tasks. Certain Steps may only have a single Task, however other Steps might need the fulfillment of a number of Tasks to complete a single Step.

For example;

Goal 1: Professional Speaker

Step: Learn Public Speaking

Tasks:

i.      Seek out the different public speaking courses in the market

ii.    Make further enquiries on the selected course

iii.   Register for the course

iv.  Attend the course

v.   Join the Toastmasters for continuing practice

Step 5: Datelines

The last step of the 5 Step process is to add a Dateline to every entry on your sheet. There should be Datelines for all the Tasks, for every Step and for the Goal.

If there is dateline for the Dream, then add that too. For certain type of Dreams there might be no Dateline as it could be a life long pursuit and might be your Life Work which you will choose to do till the last days of your life. If that is the case, just state the word ‘Life-time’ next to your Dream, indicating that this Dream will outlive you (and your cause might be continued by others after you are gone).

For example;

Dream: Leave a Legacy DL: Life-Time

Goal 1: Professional Speaker DL: 31 December 2012

Step 1: Learn Public Speaking DL: December 2011

Tasks: i.     Seek out the different public speaking courses in

the market DL: 28 Jan 2011

ii. Make further enquiries on the selected course DL: 7 Feb 2011

iii. Register for the course DL: March 2011

iv. Attend the course DL: April 2011

v. Join the Toastmasters for continuing practice DL: May 2011

Each time you complete a single part of your plan, place a big red V against it, a mark of VICTORY.

Review this plan at regular intervals to ensure you are on track. If you miss any dateline, review all other datelines and reassign new datelines.

To ensure the successful arrival at your Dream, all you need to do is to complete each Task, each Step and each Goal based on the Datelines assigned.

Place this single piece of paper at a place in your room or office where you can easily see it.

With this simple Plan Of Action, you do not require anyone to check on you, monitor you or enforce it on you. All you need to do is to follow the step-by-step actions with the datelines next to them, onto the next action Step that needs to be taken.

So long as you complete each Step you will arrive at the completion of the entire plan, hence your success.

vi. STEP 6 RESOURCES

All the resources we need are possessed by someone. We just need to reach them. - Dev -

Make a list of all the Resources and assistance you might need to achieve this Goal.  Don’t be ashamed, nor be too egotistical to seek and ask for help. All successful people do it all the time.

There are two main types of Resources that you might require. The first is Physical Resources and the second is Mental/ Intellectual Resources. My experience of having coached thousands of people over the last 18 years, has proved to me that if you can first sort out the Mental Resources, most of the Physical Resources will get resolved.

The Mental resources also govern a great number of the Emotional Resources that you might require during your journey of reaching your Goal.

Once you overcome your Mental Resources, you will always find a way to fulfill, find, source out or locate assistance to resolve any and every Physical Resource.

Among the more important Physical Resources that you might require are People, Contacts, Money, Time and Energy.

The key Mental resources comprise of Ideas, Expertise, Emotional Support and Mindset. Let me state here that the first Mental Resource you must sort out is your Mindset. It forms the foundation for handling all your other Mental Resources and will greatly govern your Emotional Resources.

To help you take a stock check of what is already at your disposal and what you need to source out, take a sheet of paper and draw a line through the centre dividing the page into two halves. On each half of this sheet state all the Mental and the Physical Resources that you might require for this project.

Running down your list, now tick all those Resources that you already have. Underline all the remaining Resources that you will need but you do not yet have. Now, next to this list, write where, who and how you might get these much-needed Resources. As in the earlier step, place a dateline against each of these entries, plus the name of the person (if any) you might need to contact for the acquisition of these Resources.

Next, simply start contacting them.

vii. STEP 7 ROLE MODEL

Modelling success recreates success. - Dev -

Have a Role Model that you can Model against. This is one of the easiest way to acquire success.

Success leaves clues. All those who acquire success ‘do certain things, and they do them in a certain way.’ All you need to do to duplicate their success is to do exactly that.

A million dollar insight I picked up along the way is…

i.               To do ALL the steps these successful people do.

ii.             To do these steps in the CORRECT sequence.

The objective of Modelling them is to in essence:

i.               To model their Definitions. This means we are trying to model their Thoughts, their Thinking Patterns. This would give us an insight into how they Think. And they sure as hell think very differently from the average man on the street.

ii.             To model their Rituals. This means we are trying to model their Actions. Successful people have totally opposite actions from the average loser.

Once we know how they Think (we have accessed their Thoughts and Emotions), and when we begin to Act like them, we will automatically begin to get the same Results as them.

To Model Success, ask yourself 3 key Questions:

Q1: What is that I really want?

Q2: Who has already achieved what I want?

Q3: Once you find her…begin to Model her.

…do what she does, go where she goes, dress like her, walk like her, talk like her…imagine you are her. One day you will begin to THINK like her and ACT like her. Now, if you begin to Think and Act like her, you will begin to get the exact Results that she is getting. I call this ‘The Short Cut to Success’.

viii. STEP 8 GET A LIFE COACH

A Coach can make you go where the Coach has never been before. - Dev -

Get a Life Coach to help you along the journey of reaching this Goal. All successful business people, professional athletes, actors, singers and musicians have a Coach.

Some years ago, a group of consultants interviewed the CEO’s of the Fortune 100 companies to find a common denominator of their success.

They found 10 things that ALL the Fortune 100 companies practiced without reserve, and they were presented in the Kingsfield Reports.

The number one criteria that ALL CEO’s of these Fortune 100 companies stated was HAVING A LIFE COACH. This one requirement was deemed by them as non-negotiable. Almost every CEO interviewed either had a Personal Life Coach or Consultant or had one to advice the company.

Now, if you truly want success, right here in front of you is probably the Ultimate Success Secret. If you are not a CEO of a Fortune 100 company (yet), then you sure as hell need to learn from them.

If you wish to be successful and would not follow this single success formula, then you truly deserve to suffer and struggle while trying to create your own formula. In my book, I would place your name under the category: ARROGANT, IGNORANT AND GILA!!!

In short, you have a ‘Fat Chance’ and ‘Thin Hope’ of getting any manner of success that you dream of. As a matter of fact, your dream will forever remain a dream. And my friend I only have one word for you: You deserve to Fail!!!

For those who are serious about wanting success (and it is not merely a dream), the very first non-negotiable thing for you to do is to look for a Life Coach.

Should you need help in getting a professional and qualified Life/ Business Coach, please leave a note in the Comments Column at the end of this Blog, and I will refer you to some competent Life Coaches for you to choose from.

Remember, a Coach can make you go where you can never hope to go by yourself.

ix. STEP 9 CELEBRATE SUCCESS

Life is a series of little successes piled one on top of the other. - Dev -

Once you reach this Goal, Celebrate the Success in anyway that you deem deserving.

Yes, a major part of the journey of success is to celebrate it. Of what use is it to have success if you don’t celebrate it. If you watched Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire, you know exactly what I mean. (For those who have not, for God’s sake go watch it! You wish to be a success and you have not watched a movie on how to be a success…geez, give me a break!)

Each time you celebrate any and every success, your Unconscious Mind makes a note of it and makes one more deposit into a folder in your mind titled ‘My Successes’. This is a very important entry because it makes your Mind register that you have acquired yet another achievement. And in future when you attempt new things, this memory of success will cause your mind to believe that you CAN and WILL succeed in future as you have in the past.

The other reason for celebrating successes is to cause you to vibrate at the frequency of success. When this happens, you send out more vibrations of success into the Universe and more success gets attracted to you. This is how you activate the Law of Vibration and Attraction, and keep attracting more success. It puts you into a continuous loop of manifesting success on an on going basis. It has often been said that success breeds success. Knowing how the Laws of Universe and the Laws of the Mind work, it’s an absolute truth.

So each month, each year or upon acquiring each success, celebrate it. Reward yourself in whatever way you deem fit. Do it alone or with your loved ones or your Team members, which eve suits you best.

At my organization SELF MASTERY LEARNING CENTRE, we celebrate success on a monthly basis. Everyone and anyone are welcome. You are free to join us for our monthly success celebrations. There is NO CHARGE for this Success Celebration. It is for FREE. It is just an evening where like-minded people get together to celebrate their successes together and share their victories to inspire others and help each other towards their own success.

If you wish to join us either to celebrate your success with us or to learn how we do it so you might duplicate it, please drop me a note at the end of this Blog and I will ask my Team Member to get in touch with you for more details as to how and when you can join us.

I hope to meet you in person and get inspired by your success story. I would love to write about it in my next Blog so others might be inspired.

x. STEP 10 SET A NEW GOAL

The Mind is forever seeking a target to pursue. You either give it one by choice or it will pick up one from the environment by default. - Dev –

Once you reach your 2010 Goal, set a new Goal for 2011. The Mind is Teleological. This means that it is target seeking, forever seeking for a target to hit. So if you do not by choice give it a target, it will seek one out from the environment by default. However, that might not be what you truly want.

The human mind is a Goal striving mechanism. It must have one Goal or another to seek and accomplish at any one time. It cannot not have a target to pursue. It is simply the way the mind functions.

Therefore, once you achieve one Goal, you need to set a new one. This is the only way you can choose what you want by choice.

Once a Goal is achieved, the Unconscious Mind, due to its nature, begins to look for a new Goal to move towards. Hence, the need for the next Goal. As we know the environment is mostly negative, so if you do not by choice give the mind a Goal, it is going to pick one up from its environment. And if those that you hang out with have no Goals or have puny Goals, then its only natural that your mind will pick that information up and give you a puny Goal to hit as well.

What’s so bad about that you might ask? Well, for one, Robert Kiyosaki says; “Take your 5 best friends / 5 people you hang out with most of the time, take their monthly incomes, add it all up, divide it by 5…that’s exactly your monthly income.” You might want to change your friends after this, or forever sink in the same ship as them. The choice is entirely yours. At any rate, good luck to you…and your loser friends!!!

If you are not sure what Goals you should set or how to go about setting one, please feel free to leave your question(s) in the Comments Column at the end of this article. I will either answer it in my next Blog or send you a write up on it if I have a ready answer for you.

NOTE:

If you need help with any of the above processes, please feel free to reach me (by leaving a comment at the end of this Blog) so as I may offer you any assistance you require.

Last but not least,

DARE TO DREAM AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM,

AND HAVE THE COURAGE TO GO AFTER IT!

– Dev-

To perfectly Balance your Life to make you SPIRITUALLY STRONG, INTELLECTUALLY SOUND, EMOTIONALLY STABLE & PHYSICALLY FIT

HOW TO GO INTO ALPHA?

There are many ways to go into this state of Alpha. We are choosing to go into Alpha by using the ALPHA BRAIN WAVES MUSIC. It is one of the easiest ways to enter the Alpha State because there is nothing that you have to do to go into Alpha. All you have to do is to play it in the background and you do not even have to listen to it consciously. So long as you have it playing gently in the background while you continue to do whatever it is that you are doing, in 15 minutes or less you will begin to experience its miraculous effects.

1.   Sit or lie in a relaxed position and play the Alpha Brain Waves Music in the background. No specific rituals, positions, places or poses are required.

2.   Take a few deep breaths. Take in a fast deep breath at a count of 2. Breathe in through your nose into your stomach. If unsure how, place your left hand on your navel. When you breathe in, your stomach should come out (imagine you are inflating a balloon in your stomach). Hold the breath at a count of 4. And breathe out slowly through your mouth at a count of 8. The stomach will naturally go in as your exhale. Repeat this 2-4-8 breathing pattern 3 times.

3.   Focus on the music for a few minutes. Say your Affirmations (close your eyes if you have them memorized or open eyed if you need to look at them). Visualize your Goal with your eyes closed. If you fall asleep, which is most likely, as you are in a very relaxed state, its OK!

4.   Whether you are doing work, studying, driving, going for an appointment, or need to induce sleep, calm yourself or control extreme emotional states, just leave it playing in the background as you go about doing whatever it is that you need to do. It has a natural effect on the mind and body.

5.   The STRONGLY recommended times to play as background music are:

i.      As you awaken in the morning and as you get ready for work – it will relax you, raise your energy level, stimulate your brain cells and create positive energy and mood.

ii.    As a Sleep-Inducer and to program Goals while removing Mental Blocks. It also causes Natural Healing, detoxification and strengthens your immune system while you sleep. Just put it on and focus on the music, and drift off into a deep sound relaxing sleep.

WHEN TO PLAY ALPHA BRAIN WAVE MUSIC

To optimize the use of the Alpha Brain Wave music, below are some specific ways and times to play it.

1.   Students while studying for exams or while doing homework and while studying late into the night.

2.   Before an important appointment to calm down and be focused. When you feel fear, nervousness, tension, doubt, paranoia, before a presentation or speaking in public, or before seeing a client.

3.   To internalize and program Goals into the Unconscious Mind during Affirmations and Visualization.

4.   To remove Mental Blocks that prevent Goal Achievement or sabotage Success at the Unconscious level.

5.   Calming effect to induce deep or restful sleep when brain wave activity is too high, or worried about daily problems. This state helps the mind to seek for solutions

6.   When you need to work long hours with insufficient rest or sleep, or when you need a short Power Nap of 20 minutes with this music in the background. It energizes and speeds up cell replication.

7.   Heal health problems naturally by strengthening the immune system and creates a conducive cell environment.

8.   To control emotions when too emotional, or uncontrollable destructive emotional states.

9.   Need to generate new and different original ideas. Promotes cell growth. Rejuvenates dying cells.

10. For purposes of Relaxation and Meditation. When stuck in traffic jams. (This is probably the only program of its kind that CAN be played while driving.

~ THE POWER OF ALPHA BRAIN WAVES ~

WHAT THIS ALPHA BRAIN WAVES CD CAN DO FOR YOU

1. Mental and Physical Relaxation

2. Program your Mind for Massive Success

3. Achieve every Goal you set

4. Heighten your Meditation and Spiritual experiences

5. Build Intuition and Psychic Ability

6. Optimum Physical Health

7. Emotional strength and stability

8. Physical and Emotional Healing

9. Release Toxins, Stress and Fears

10. Enhanced Relationships

11. Build Brain Cells & increase your IQ while you sleep

12. Build a Super Power Memory

13. Create a Positive and Motivated Mindset

14. Cope with Rejections and Objections

15. Collapse Old Habits & build New Habits

16. Condition your Mind for Success

17. Detect and Connect with your Life Purpose

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1. Mental and Physical Relaxation

2. Program your Mind for Massive Success

3. Achieve every Goal you set

4. Heighten your Meditation and Spiritual experiences

5. Build Intuition and Psychic Ability

6. Optimum Physical Health

7. Emotional strength and stability

8. Physical and Emotional Healing

9. Release Toxins, Stress and Fears

10. Enhanced Relationships

11. Build Brain Cells & increase your IQ while you sleep

12. Build a Super Power Memory

13. Create a Positive and Motivated Mindset

14. Cope with Rejections and Objections

15. Collapse Old Habits & build New Habits

16. Condition your Mind for Success

17. Detect and Connect with your Life Purpose

WHY GO INTO ALPHA

Lets briefly look at a few of these reasons so that you understand why it is absolutely essential in our pursuit of Success.

1. NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE EMOTIONS

At Alpha, the body naturally releases stress, anger, doubt, worries, fear, panic, paranoia, depression etc. This is because certain emotions can only exist at Alpha.

Anger, depression, sadness, pain etc., all of these negative emotions vibrate at a much higher frequency than Alpha. They vibrate at the frequency of Beta. Therefore when you are in the state of Alpha, you cannot experience the Beta emotions because they do not exist at the Alpha plane.

By going into Alpha you can only experience those emotions that vibrate at the Alpha frequency of 7 to 14 cycles per second.

2. 7 SECONDS OF A PURE THOUGHT

7 seconds of a ‘pure thought’ at Alpha programs visualized images into the nucleus of the human cell. This simply means that it only takes 7 seconds of a ‘pure thought’ to program or reprogram any image or thought into the nucleus of the human cell so that our results can dramatically change.

That is what Visualization is really all about – deprogramming and reprogramming the nucleus of the human cell.

Imagine, all it takes is just 7 seconds of a ‘pure thought’! Pure Thoughts can only be attained and maintained in a state of Alpha.

3. TAPPING THE 6^TH SENSE

Alpha energy is the most rhythmic and also the most powerful frequency that the brain emits. By being in Alpha, we are able to tap and use the sixth sense, because the Alpha energy is the most balanced and cyclic energy in existence.

4. VIBRATE AT EARTH’S VIBRATION

Since the Earth vibrates at Alpha, upon entering into a state of Alpha, the brain attunes the earth’s intense field of energy. Because Mother Nature vibrates at 7 to 14 cycles per seconds, we get in tune and align with the forces of nature. Hence, we are able to go with the flow, rather than against the forces of nature.

5. DETOXIFY THE MIND AND BODY

The human body naturally relaxes, detoxifies and releases toxins by spending a minimum of 15 minutes a day at Alpha. This is because at Alpha, we naturally Mentally, Emotionally and Physically detoxify the body. This allows the body to naturally release all the pent up Mental, Emotional and Physical stress and tension in this state.

6. ALIGN LEFT AND RIGHT BRAIN

Alpha opens up the communication channel between the left and the right-brain hemispheres. This ideal condition allows one to Think with the right brain and Act with the left-brain in total harmony.

This is a left-brain world, so we got to Think right-brain and Act left-brain for optimum results. By being in Alpha, you will be able to Think right-brain, and Act left-brain.

At Alpha the bridge is built between the right-brain and the left-brain. Once there is an open communication between the Conscious Mind and the Unconscious Mind we are able to communicate consistently and congruently. This creates total rapport between the Conscious and the Unconscious Mind, which is absolutely essential for all Goal Achievement.

7. HEALING

15 minutes a day at Alpha strengthens the immune system and creates a conducive environment for the growth of healthy cells.

Just by being exposed to Alpha Brain Waves for a minimum of 15 minutes a day affects your physical body. This strengthens your immune system, prevents diseases and cures illnesses because it makes the environment conducive for the growth of healthy cells in the human body. This prevents cells from mutating, enabling your body to heal much faster by causing the cells to replicate at a much faster rate than normal.

8. REJUVENATE CELLS

Human cells rejuvenate at least twice the normal rate when exposed to Alpha Brain Waves. A cell will rejuvenate much faster, from ten up to a hundred times; even up to a thousand times much faster by being continually exposed to Alpha Brain Waves over a period of time. This is because continued exposure to Alpha Brain Waves makes it conducive for the growth of healthy cells.

9. NATURAL HEALING

At Alpha the body heals its self naturally. By simply spending 15 minutes a day in a state of Alpha, the body rejuvenates itself. Since the cells replicate much faster, therefore the cells are replenished at a much faster rate than they are dying, enabling us to live a much healthier and longer life naturally.

10. HEAL OR HARM

At Alpha one can only help and can’t hurt others. In Beta one can either harm and hurt or help. ‘We prey on each other in Beta but we pray for each other in Alpha’.

When you are in Alpha, you can only think and experience those emotions that are consistent with those brain waves, and at Alpha those emotions are all positive and constructive. Therefore you can only help at Alpha, you cannot do harm at Alpha because those negative emotion do not exist at Alpha.

However, at Beta you cannot help or heal because those positive emotions do not exist at Beta. They are at Alpha.

11. DEPROGRAM AND REPROGRAM

Since all programming happens at the Cybernetic Level, only by going into Alpha can Deprogramming and Reprogramming take place.

All that we need to uninstall, remove, delete and to deprogram – all of them are in the Unconscious part of our Mind; in the Psycho-Cybernetic Mechanism.

However, you need a ‘password’ to have access to this Unconscious Mind, and to the Psycho-Cybernetic Mechanism. This ‘password’ is: Going into a State of Alpha.

Once we are in this Alpha State, we are able to access the Unconscious Mind and remove those programmings that work against us, and put in place new programs that will work for us instead.

12. VAK IMAGERY

Going into Alpha programs all Visualizations into the Unconscious Mind that brings forth manifestation. Installing of these programs and visualizations must happen at the Unconscious Mind because that is where these programs are stored. Therefore by going into the Unconscious Mind, we are able to do VAK Imagery (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) which is a much more superior way of programming than merely Visualizing.

13. ALPHA AFFIRMATIONS

Affirmations are positive statements about yourself that you say to yourself at the Conscious level, but the programming of these Affirmations needs to be done at the Unconscious level.

Affirmations can be internalized into the Unconscious Mind when you are in the state of Alpha. Therefore by going into Alpha, you are not just merely doing Affirmations; but they become Alpha-Affirmations.

Simple Affirmations thus become powerful Alpha-Affirmations done in an Alpha state of mind by by-passing all Conscious thoughts.

14. INSTALLING GOALS

All effective Goal programming happens at Alpha where the full extend of VAK is maximized. Programming or installing of Goals into the future of your Lifeline are more effective if done in the state of Alpha.

At Alpha, you are able to go beyond the physical (Conscious Mind) and communicate directly with your Unconscious Mind. As you think of your Goal, and if you can see, smell, hear, taste and touch it in your Mind, it becomes real for the Unconscious Mind. This is simply because the Unconscious Mind cannot tell the difference between Reality and Imagination.

Once an idea is presented to the Unconscious Mind, it can only accept and cannot reject it.

15. COMPOUNDING PROGRAMMING

Alpha corresponds to the area of the brain that is associated with experiences from age 7 to 14. Since the mind cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought, it thinks the information has been there for a long time. This is about one of the most powerful reasons why we will want to consciously go into this state of Alpha.

Let’s say, if you were to do a Visualization or Affirmation session to program a certain Goal, you would have to do it over and over again until it gets installed.

However, if you could go into this Alpha state, and let’s say, you are now vibrating at 10 cycles per second and then do your Alpha-Affirmations or your VAK Imagery, as far as your Unconscious Mind is concerned, the effect is the same as if you have been doing this Visualization and Affirmation since age 10.

Can you imagine how many millions of times it would amount to up to this date if you had been doing it continuously from age 10?

At Alpha, (10.5 cycles per second being the optimum) this is equivalent to programming the Visualized Goal millions of times even if you are just doing it once.

16. TIMELESS AND SPACELESS

At Alpha, time is timeless, and space is spaceless, thus removing all physical constrains and limitations. Since there is no time and space at Alpha, you are now no longer bound by any physical restrains of the human body.

This allows you to go back into the past to remove any Mental Block that might stop you from achieving your Goal in the Present or in the Future. Conversely, you can go into the future and install any Goal into the future of your Lifeline.

If a Goal is installed into the future, it must by law manifest itself.

17. RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING STATION

Alpha is the connecting bridge to Spirit, that spiritual dimension that deals with Thoughts.

The Law of Energy states that ‘Energy follows Thought’. The Mind becomes both a receiving and a transmitting station of Thoughts at Alpha. (Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Chapter 12).

Since the Mind is both a receiving and a transmitting station, to activate this receiving and transmitting station, you need to operate at a frequency of between 7 to 14 cycles per second. This will enable you to send Energy of Love, Healing, Peace etc. At Alpha you are able to transmit Positive Thoughts to other people for the betterment of mankind and humanity. As a band-wave frequency, Alpha is a Healing Energy.

18. TAPPING THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

Alpha is where the human intelligence resides. By being in Alpha, you are able to access the Collective Consciousness of all of humanity. Here, all known knowledge since the beginning of time and all Thoughts that have ever been thought of, reside.

At Alpha you are able to tap into this Collective Consciousness, and all information and knowledge become known to you.

19. DIS-EASE

Since 76% of all ‘dis-ease’ is psychosomatic in nature; and is all rooted in Alpha. Going into Alpha brings to consciousness the root cause of these illnesses.

To permanently treat illnesses, we need to eliminate the root cause not the symptoms. By going into Alpha, we are able to trace the root cause and therefore change or rectify whatever it is that is causing these symptoms to appear. If you correct the Cause, then the symptoms show up positively, thereby removing whatever it is that is causing this ‘dis-ease’ to manifest in the body.

20. GENIUS IDEAS

Last but not least, all great ideas that have impacted human civilization came about when man drifted into Alpha knowingly or unknowingly.

All great men have spoken about them going into this relaxed state where ideas came to them.

When Einstein was asked how he came about with the formula E=mc², he said, “I imagined it.” He went into sleep, and thus into the state of Alpha (may be unknowingly or unknown to him). He however knew, every time that he needed an answer, he simply had to relax and the answer would come to him, because he was going into the state of Alpha.

Edison is known to have two ball-bearings which he used each time he was faced with a challenge or he needed an answer. He would pose a question to his mind, hold the ball-bearings in his hand and take a short nap. Just as he was about to fall asleep, the ball bearings would slip from his hand and would cause a sound that would awaken him. He would quickly write down whatever answers that came to him. He is known to have said, “Each time that I’m about to go to sleep, I get the answer.” Of course he did not know that he was going into the state of Alpha or that it was his Unconscious Mind speaking to him.

When the ‘Origin of Species’ was being written, Charles Darwin said he remembers the exact point and time when the idea came to him. He said he was travelling in a horse cart, and had gone into a light sleep when this idea came to him. Of course he did not know that he was going into Alpha.

All great ideas come when you slip into this state of Alpha. At Alpha you connect with Collective Consciousness and operate from the Unconscious level of your Mind. There is no limit to the Unconscious Mind because it is the ‘God-like’ part of you.

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YOU CAN PROGRAM YOUR OWN SUCCESS using ALPHA BRAIN WAVES + ALPHA BEAT + SUBLIMINALS

If only you can see yourself the way I see you. - Dev -

My name is Dev. I am a Mind Science Personal Development Master Coach. Over the last 18 years I have studied and work with one of the Guru of Gurus on the workings of the Mind – Bob Proctor. Bob Proctor is one of the main features in the phenomenal DVD “The Secret” that has taken the world by storm.

AWARENESS

What makes you think you aren’t already programmed?

RESULTS

Success is in direct proportion to the level of awareness of an individual. - Dev -

Everything in life is about Results. In the final analysis, the ultimate measure of the quality of life is results. Whether it is about going for the outcomes that we do want or about changing of a present outcome or about getting new and different outcomes, it is all and always about results.

There are only four kinds of results. No matter what you want in life, you either want more Happiness, more Health, more Wealth or more Success. All your hopes and dreams, every aspiration, every wish you have ever had, they all fall into one of these four categories.

At the end off 2010, there are about 6.8 billion people on earth. Out of these 6.8 billion, 95% of the population are unhappy, unhealthy, unwealthy, and unsuccessful. That means, only 5% of the world population is happy, healthy, wealthy and successful.

With all the advancement in science and technology, only these 5% of the people have been able to make it by 2010. This is a very disturbing statistic by any standards. But let me tell you what is even more disturbing. The statistic has not changed for the last 6000 years of recorded history. These same statistics appeared on ancient Sumerian clay tablets dating back 6000 years. Now, this is truly disturbing.

We may have conquered the highest mountains and the deepest oceans, but our mind is still wild and untamed. We may have conquered outer space, tamed the highest mountains and dwelt into the deepest oceans. In the age where computers and technology reign supreme we still have not mastered these 4 most basics requisites for success. What this simply means is that we have learned nothing whatsoever over the last 6000 years as far as happiness, health, wealth and success are concerned.

This is the basis of this very special, one of a kind audio.

MIND POWER TOOLS

Mind power without control is nothing. - Dev -

TOOLS TO HELP YOU DEPROGRAM AND REPROGRAM YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Lao Tzu -

BRAIN WAVES

There are 4 different kinds of Brainwaves or brainwave frequencies. The brain must vibrate at one frequency or another at any one time.

The lowest brain wave frequency is Delta. This frequency of the brain is between 0.1 to 4 cycles per second. The next brain wave frequency is from 4 to 7 cycles per second and this is called Theta. The next brain wave frequency that is between 7 to 14 cycles per second is known as Alpha. Finally, at 14 cycles per second and above, to about 30; even going up to 40 cycles per second is known as Beta. Our interest here however, is with the Alpha brain wave frequency.

ALPHA STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

The major difference between Beta and Alpha is that at Alpha we get 90% of all our Results. At Beta, which is our wakeful stage, we get only about 10% Results.

This being a left brain world, to function at optimum levels, we need to Think at Alpha and Act at Beta. This is paramount as Alpha is the domain of Thoughts and Beta is the world of Actions and Behavior.

Beta has got to do with the physical body and the physical world. At Beta we operate from the Left Brain and primarily work with our Conscious Mind.

At Alpha we operate from the Unconscious levels of the Mind. At Alpha we operate from our Right Brain and this gives us 90% of our Results. This Alpha state of being is associated with our Mindset and our Attitude. However, the Beta state is preoccupied with the acquisition of Knowledge and Skill.

At Beta, we are predominantly concerned with Behaviour and Actions. It is of the physical world. Here, we make sense of the world by what we See, Smell, Hear, Taste and Touch. It is governed by Time and Space.

However, Alpha is the domain of Thought. Thoughts are the most potent form of energy in the Universe. It is at Alpha where we work with the ‘Identity’, because the Identity always influences our Behavior.  So if we make some changes at Alpha with regards to our Identity, our Behavior must follow suit at Beta. This is the easiest and most effective way to cause Transformation (permanent and long lasting change).

Alpha is the spirit world where there is no time and space. This means we are able to go forward and backward into time in this state of Alpha.  This is what Einstein meant by ‘Time being Timeless and Space being Spaceless’!

At Theta is when we go off to sleep, and Delta is when we are in a coma Spiritual Ecstasy!

Our interest here is with the state of Alpha. The reason we want to go into Alpha is because there are many positive, productive and beneficial reasons why we should by choice go into this Alpha state.

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~ THE POWER OF ALPHA BRAIN WAVES ~

WHAT THIS ALPHA BRAIN WAVES CD CAN DO FOR YOU

1. Mental and Physical Relaxation

2. Program your Mind for Massive Success

3. Achieve every Goal you set

4. Heighten your Meditation and Spiritual experiences

5. Build Intuition and Psychic Ability

6. Optimum Physical Health

7. Emotional strength and stability

8. Physical and Emotional Healing

9. Release Toxins, Stress and Fears

10. Enhanced Relationships

11. Build Brain Cells & increase your IQ while you sleep

12. Build a Super Power Memory

13. Create a Positive and Motivated Mindset

14. Cope with Rejections and Objections

15. Collapse Old Habits & build New Habits

16. Condition your Mind for Success

17. Detect and Connect with your Life Purpose

Master Coach Dev,

I have been a Professional Salesman for 34 years. I was a Life Insurance Leader for 21 years and an MLM Leader the last 13.

Master Coach Dev, in your professional opinion, what sets the winners and losers apart? Is there a Success Formula that you can you suggest? Thank you. Keep up the great work of Touching Lives.

Quality Leader Frankie

Hong Kong

ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT

Activity is the application of all that we know and all that we feel, combined with our desire to have more than we have and become more than we are.

LIFE is not designed to give rewards in proportion to our needs but to the level we deserve. Whatever life has handed to us, it is our responsibility to DO something with what we have been given. That is how we change obstacles into opportunities – by taking all that we have and all that we are and putting it to work.

Sooner or later we must convert knowledge and good feelings (positive attitude) into activity. The better we feel about ourselves and our opportunities, the greater our chances for success.

But by just knowing and having a positive attitude will not bring results, as knowing and doing are poles apart! They merely determine our potential for achievement. Whether we actually achieve our goals is ultimately determined by our activity. Completing the picture of your dream requires action.

If we have a sincere desire to go for our Goal, than we are compelled to find every possible means to implement all that we know and feel. Every single day of our life, we need to do a little bit more what we already know. We must find ways to demonstrate on the outside all that we possess on the inside. Otherwise, our dreams will die inside of us and the desires of our hearts remain unfulfilled.

Why some people fail and others succeed can sometimes seem unfair. Some seem to receive so much and yet merit so little. Some good people seem to have so little while the dishonest seem to have so much. The answer might well be that we do not work at achieving our Goals…and they do. We do not take all that we are and put it to work. They do.

We do not stay up late at night developing new plans to achieve our dreams and work hard day after day to make those dreams a reality. They do. We do not learn all that we possibly can about our industry and our markets. They do. We do not make every effort to get around the right sources of influence, to associate with those people who can help us to achieve our Goals. They do. While we are dreaming about the promise of the future, they are doing something about it. And they are doing it consistently and with an intensity, and a level of commitment that would put many of us to shame. And so if life does not seem fair sometimes, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Imagine how different our world would be if we made a commitment right now to put into action all that we currently are, wherever we currently are, and with whatever we currently have. What if, starting right now, we converted our dreams into plans and our plans into refined activities that would lead toward the achievement of our Goals? What an incredible difference we could make! What a life we could then share with our families and what an inheritance we could leave to the next generation – all because we cared enough to do something with our lives and to put our skills and talents to work.

If we want to succeed, sooner or later our level of activity must equal our level of intent. Talking about achievement is one thing; making it happen is something altogether different. If we seem to take more joy in talking about success than we do in achieving it, then all the things that we should be doing and could be doing on any given day never seem to get done.

We already know more than we need to know to achieve our goals, to succeed. All we need to do now is begin to DO what we already KNOW! – Dev-

Finally, we must discipline ourselves to convert dreams into plans, and plans into Goals, and Goals into small daily activities that will lead us, one sure step at a time, toward a better future. Remember to ponder all that is possible, that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible. As said the ancient warrior, ‘It is better to aim the spear at the moon and strike the eagle, than to aim at the eagle and strike only a rock!’

Below is a 6 Step process to achieve any Goal you desire. Make it a habitual part of your Professional Life.

STEP 1: DECIDE

WHAT?

We must first decide what we want to achieve and be.

WHY?

Our mind must have order, which must be in specific images of what we want to achieve and be.

HOW?

We must decide on our:

Goals and Life Purpose

A New Self Image

WHEN?

Now!

STEP 2: INTERNALIZE

WHAT?

We must plant the images of our New Self Image into our Unconscious Mind.

WHY?

We have to integrate our Thoughts, Feelings and Actions in order to move our images into reality.

HOW?

We have to internalize the images by going into a state of Alpha.

WHEN?

Daily.

STEP 3: PLAN

WHAT?

Planning is the tool that outlines:

What to do? When to do? Who to do?

WHY?

People don’t plan to fail but fail to plan.

HOW?

Define Goal and dateline. Breakdown and list activities or work plan. Prioritize to do the hard things first. Work backwards from end to start. Block time. Delegate or contract out.

WHEN?

Plan daily.

STEP 4: DO

WHAT?

Steps 1-3 are useless if not done.

WHY?

Only the doing gets things done.

HOW?

We do / move into action only if we are motivated.

WHEN?

Daily.

STEP 5: CHECK

WHAT?

Activity level and activity deviations.

WHY?

To provide information to make modifications and corrections.

HOW?

If all planned activities are completed – seek new ways to further improve. If not, identify cause and provide solutions.

WHEN?

Daily.

STEP 6: LEARN

WHAT?

Learn form mistakes and successes.

WHY?

Learning from mistakes makes us wiser, learning from success makes us confident and competent.

HOW?

List down mistakes and successes and ask : how it happened, why it happened, what can I learn?

WHEN?

Daily.

Control your Mind. Control your Destiny. - Dev -

Master Dev,

I met a close friend of mine after 18 years. Three years ago she gave up her job as an Engineer and joined an MLM company. She is doing very well and asked me to join her. I am very tempted.

Last year I was offered junior partnership in my law firm. How can I be sure that joining her is the right decision? Please advise. Ten years from today, I don’t want to regret any decision I make today. How can I be certain I am making the right decision?

Your Student

Deidre, Penang

Hi Deidre,

Can I ask you, what do you usually do when you have a particularly tough decision to make? What have you done in the past when your options were not at all clear?

Just like Deidre, when faced with a difficult decision, how many of you wish you had a tool, an approach, a concept, a formula or a strategy that could help you make the right decision?

Deidre, I would like to offer you a simple, practical and fast method of arriving at any decision you desire. It will create absolute clarity, give you priority to your choices and help you decide what’s important to you, based on your most important values.

It is called the Rocking Chair Test.

The Rocking Chair Test will help you see your long-term options in the present. You will have the benefit of knowing how differently your life would have gone had you made an alternate decision. It’s almost like viewing a parallel Universe and having an insight into the outcomes of opposing decisions that you make on any single issue.

At any rate, if any decision that you make passes the test, then you will know that it was a good choice.

The Rocking Chair test is a great tool when it comes to making difficult life changing decisions.

Like Deidre, maybe you need to decide if you should quit your job and start your own business?

Maybe you need to know if you should follow your childhood dream and do what you really feel passionate about?

Maybe you need to be certain of taking a risk and doing something new and different that you have never done before?

We all come across questions like these during our life. And if you are like most people, you probably just shut them out, choose the safe choice, and go with the familiar, even if it means sticking with the boring dead end job you despise.

We all want incredible results in our lives. But we also want to do things that are safe, practical, pragmatic, secure, logical, realistic and normal. We are unwilling to do anything New and Different because it’s a risk. I say to you, YOU MUST BE GILA!    - Dev -

The rocking chair test is a great way to ensure you live your life without regret because it helps put things into proper perspective based on what’s important to you right now and in the future.

What decisions are you presently struggling with? What decisions are stopping you from having the life that you desire? What one decision do you keep putting off that could turn your life around?

If you feel you must make a decision but fear that it might be a wrong one, then I suggest you take the “rocking chair test” right now and make a better decision for tomorrow, and your life might never be the same again. And all it took was one well-informed decision.

The Rocking Chair Test decision-making process imposes no risk because it helps you make an educated decision based on what outcomes are important to you.

It allows you a peek into the future. A glimpse at the possible outcomes tells you what decisions you need to make today, that will lead you to the preferred outcome in the future.

It is like going into the future and looking at where your life ends up based on the decisions that you made in the past. You then get to come back into the present and make exactly those decisions.

Powerful stuff!

As Tony Robbins often says: It is in your moments of decisions that your destiny is shaped.

The Rocking Chair test is unbelievably simple, and yet dramatically powerful.

All you have to do is to imagine yourself as an old man or an old woman, nearing the end of your life. As you sit and rock on your porch and contemplate upon your life, just ask yourself if this decision will have any meaning to you in the future. Will you be proud or ashamed of your decision? How will this decision have affected the course of your life?

How different would your life have been had you made a totally opposite decision?

Deidre, the next time you reach a fork in your road of life and are not sure which way to go, I suggest you just find a quiet spot, get relaxed and get on your imaginary rocking chair.

THE BUSINESSMAN’S ROCKING CHAIR TEST

To illustrate the simplicity and power of the process, let me give you an example of how you could use the rocking chair test in a business situation.

Lets say; you are hesitating about jumping into a new business venture (as in the case of Deidre). Think about sitting on your porch when you are 80 years old in a rocking chair. If you are already 80, pretend you are 100.

As you rock in your chair pondering about your business decision, decide if you would regret missing that opportunity and possibly enjoying the benefits for 50 years or so. Or would you be happy that you skipped the opportunity and didn’t have the stress that it may have caused you over those 50 years.

If there is a chance that you will miss out on a huge opportunity to grow your business, and the downside will not kill you or put you in jail, and you cant make a decision, I suggest you may want to take the rocking chair test.

Just imagine yourself as an old man or woman, maybe in your 80’s. Then sit yourself down in your rocking chair, get comfortable and look back at your life. Look back to where you are right now struggling with the decision of what to do.

As you move into your future, ask yourself:

What if I never did this?

How would I feel?

Would my life be different?

Do I regret not taking the chance?

Is this something that would haunt me and I would always wonder about?

Do you find yourself feeling like something is missing? Is there a sadness or longing?

Or is there great pride and comfort of having made that decision?

Get specific and feel your way through the answers.

What if I just stayed here in my job, would I regret not taking the chance to explore my options when I was younger?

What if I didn’t at least try to follow my dreams, would it be something that I would always look back upon and wonder, what if…?

In life, we find we are more disappointed by the things we didn’t do then the ones we did. So if you are feeling regret as an imaginary 80 year old, take it to heart.

Use this tool as a shot of courage to go for something that you really want out of life.

Next time you are trying to decide which way to go, put the rocking chair test to work for you.

The rocking chair test allows you to live your life fully and release regret.

Too often, we don’t take risks now because the downside seems too scary, but what if the upside totally changed your lifestyle? What if for the next 50 years, that one decision brought in more money than you could spend? What if that one decision totally turns your life around? Then would it be worth it?

I will tell you this much, it’s much better to wear out than rust out, and it’s much better to have a few cuts and bruises on your way to success by taking a few risks, than it will be to play it safe and settle for a normal, frustrating, meaningless existence.

Sydney Harris said…

Regret for things we did, can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do, that is inconsolable.

Dear Reader,

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I look forward to meeting you in person at a Life Coaching session or in one of my training classes. I wish you clarity and certainty in every decision you will ever have to make for the rest of your life.

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