Life Balance Transition

16/02/2024

03/08/2023

Have you ever been asked “Have you got two minutes?” or any variation on that? It’s only two minutes, right? We can spare that.

But two minutes can change our life.

When we decide to make a permanent change in our life, it comes down to making that change a habit.

The first few days go well as we’re excited and motivated about it. After a while, the excitement wares off and we say things like “I’ll do it tomorrow”. We’ve lost our motivation; the new habit becomes a chore, and we give up on it.

The vision we give ourselves of our new habit can be overwhelming and this gives us mental resistance – “It’s too hard”. Think about writing a book. Initially it’s no problem, but once the motivation dissipates there’s nothing driving us forward, and we give up on it.

The way around this is focusing on making our new habit permanent by using the two-minute rule. The two-minute rule tricks our brain into thinking that our new habit is not too hard, by breaking the new habit down into a two-minute version of it – like writing a sentence a day.

This makes it easier to start and once we start it’s easy to continue. A sentence becomes a paragraph which becomes a chapter which becomes a book.

The most important part is getting started. Taking small consistent action will let us grow our goals further down the way.

“Little by little you build your power” – William James.

27/07/2023

Great little story follows about recognizing opportunity when it shows itself and seizing it!!

The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia.

The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS. Phillips, the result.

The Warrimoo's position was LAT 0º 31' N and LONG 179 30' W. The date was 31 December 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton broke in, "We're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line".

Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime.

He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the ship's position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed.

The calm weather & clear night worked in his favor. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line!

The consequences of this bizarre position were many:

The forward part (bow) of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere & in the middle of summer.

The rear (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of winter.

The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899. In the bow (forward) part it was 1 January 1900.

This ship was therefore not only in:
Two different days,
Two different months,
Two different years,
Two different seasons
But in two different centuries - all at the same time!

26/07/2023

Jim Rohan:
Don't wish it were easier.......
Wish you were better.

25/07/2023

Getting out of your comfort zone is hard.

But look at the rewards.

“We choose to go to the moon.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things,
Not because they are easy,
But because they are hard.”

President Kennedy

22/07/2023

John Kehoe, in his work on Mind Power, tells us there are six laws of the mind.

#6 – The inner and outer worlds are connected.

As per #1 – we live simultaneously in two worlds.
The outer world influences and affects the inner world.
The outer world bullies, dominates and mesmerises the inner world. We are hypnotised by and transfixed with the outer world.

Just as the outer world influences the inner world, the inner world can influence the outer world.

But the inner world can only start influencing the outer world when we stop reacting constantly to the outer world and letting it dominate our consciousness.

We need to separate our consciousness from the outer world.
The outer world is a totally different independent world, a totally different reality.

We become powerful when we realise we are not limited in the inner world by what’s happening in our life.

We need to work in the inner world to manifest, create and direct the outer world.

21/07/2023

John Kehoe, in his work on Mind Power, tells us there are six laws of the mind.

#5 – Law of insertion.

The law of insertion states we have the power and ability to insert any thought of any type into our mind.

This is probably the greatest law we have but it is rarely used to anywhere near its potential and possibilities.

Remember, thoughts are real forces.
We are not limited in any way to our reality or our consciousness in choosing our thoughts.

Every day we should be inserting thoughts into our mind.

Inserting thoughts of success, personal power, health, abundance and the like.

Why? Well, why not?
We’d think a person to be a fool if they didn’t take advantage of this law.

What do you reckon?
Time to start actively inserting thoughts into our mind that best serve ourselves?

21/07/2023

John Kehoe, in his work on Mind Power, tells us there are six laws of the mind.

#4 – Law of control.

We are continuously experiencing thoughts, but we have the power and ability to either entertain them or dismiss them.

Any negative thought that is persisting in our mind is there because we are allowing it to be there.

The question we should be asking ourselves is how much are we carrying around inside us that we should have dismissed a long time ago? How many past errors, mistakes, roads not taken, problems, difficulties, inadequacies?

How much junk are we carrying around in our inner world that we should have dismissed a long time ago and how long are we going to carry this junk around for? Our whole life?

Time to start dismissing those negative thoughts that don’t serve us.