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"if you want to live a happy life tie it to a goal not to people or object." Albert Einstein

No. 6.... I am here! I have been pulling apart Einstein quotes and musing how they feel on me & here is the last one, well maybe the last one.

No doubt I will look to Einstein for some wisdom gems later.

Goals and happy life were not two things I would naturally put together.
More to happy than goals, you would think.

Yet when the goals are happening, when you are working towards your goal, when you reach the goal, now that is happy!

I have been playing with goals for a loooong time, not always worked for me, tried different models like SMART and I ended up less than happy with myself.

BUT, the Goals that work for you, the goals that you really want can set you up for a happy life.

So, how can goals give you a happy life? Well, here are a few that make a big difference.

Goals develop focus.

Goals help you to be a quality shopper in life, where you only pick out what you want, what will work for you. You will focus on what you need to be and do to reach that goal, no wasting time on something that is not the best for you.

Now that brings more satisfaction into your life.

Goals develop responsibility.

Goals require commitment and dedication and rely solely on you to make it happen. Yes, you can ask for help but it is your goal, your baby and it is up to you.

Now that brings more courage and pride into your life.

Goals can stretch your limits.

Goals show you that you are always more than you think you are. It maybe one small action to start with, get used to that and then move onto some more stretch because you are seeing more of what is possible. You really don't know how far you can go until you keep moving those goals out beyond your limits.

Now that brings more choices, more joy into your life.

Goals create habits.

To make goals happen, to see them as a reality in your life you need to look at including new habits and systems in your routine. It is tough going if you don't rejig your habits or how you are currently operating because if you don't, you will fall behind in seeing your goal come to life. Your new habits benefit your mind, body & soul and a value add to tying your goals to life.

Now that brings certainty and strength into your life.

Goals develop your thinking.

Here is where it gets really interesting, because your goal maybe a tangible thing, like a job, house, car, finances, relationship, yet what the goal is really doing is helping you strengthen your positive thoughts, visualising how it will be and appreciating what is possible. This kind of thinking spills into all areas of your life, not just the one thing you picked out.

Now that brings a sense of truth and peace into your life.

If goals can develop my satisfaction, my courage, pride..if my goals offer me more choices, more joy. If the goals can bring more certainty and strength, more truth and peace in my life....then that to me is the best kind of happy.

Learn Live Hope

The separation of yesterday from today can be a tricky operation.

A habit that sits idly in the background, one we have stopped noticing.

It is an ego driven limbo and a smoke screen for today and tomorrow.

Don't live in yesterday, learn from yesterday.

this is what happens when you look to the past to map your present and future....

You respond to today and to your tomorrow with the thinking of yesterday.

It is playing like an echo vibrating in your life of what happened in the past.

The view of yourself is through other's assumptions, opinions and dreams.

You are born that way.

You blame that way.

At the very least - the basic view of life is that the past is certain.

Living in the past is a rear view look at your future.

& as for "Live for Today"

You live in the grey zone, it is the uncomfortable zone, there is calm and also clarity.

You master your self awareness.

You understand that yesterday is a lesson building on each experience to create a better future.

Make a fresh interpretation of yesterday to see tomorrow.

Make it difficult for others to offend you.

Get plugged into the moment.

Run the day, not the day run you.

Create hope, create certainty for your future

Create the formula for where you want to go.

Factor in Discipline, Commitment &

Vision in your hopes.

Your thinking creates your outcomes.

Know your musts.

At the very least - you are certainly creating the best way to live life.

Shoot arrows into the distance.

Now, the question: Are you learning from yesterday, prepared to live for today and have hope for tomorrow?

Here is a take away for you.

Listening to "I am the Greatest"

R. Kelly

I am that star up in the sky,

I am that mountain peak up high

Heh I made it

I am the worlds greatest

I am that little bit of hope

when my back's up against the rope

I can feel it

I am the worlds greatest

Can you feel it?

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There are only two ways to live your life

"There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Albert Einstein

Artwork sourced from google images

A few years back, I am in a public forum when someone declared to me, in front of all - oh, you are just an Alice in Wonderland, not everyone has a charmed life.

The other people in the room were divided with reactions of giggles, aww now that's an insult, to well aren't you lucky to be seen like that. I am more a lemon to lemonade type of gal and to choose to sit and whine just doesn't sit well with me.

The Alice in Wonderland name calling has stuck with me, as branding can do. I chose to accept it as insight into who I am...a person who has an imagination, believes in miracles, sees magic in the everyday, curious, questioning and ready to run down the rabbit hole. When everything is a miracle you are humbled and the appreciation comes easily for the people you meet, what you do and the path you travel. That is the kind of life I choose.

I have no reference to what a life would be like, when you believe "it is,what it is" & "everything is out to get me". A life where you just don't see magic stuff or fairy dust or stand in awe of a beautiful sunrise, the breathtaking moments that transform the everyday into the magnificent. When you don't see miracles, feelings of boredom, annoyance, impatience overtake your day.

My choice has always been to know that miracles play a part in my life, it is the unexpected and the surprises that transform a life.

As adults we can default to live by the rules, to measure who we are by pleasing others at our own expense. I want to hold on to this childlike insight and have my life expand beyond the rules.

How could I know that the life I design, the goals that I plan will come together...if I don't include a space for miracles?

Here are my top 6 on living a life of miracles

1. Tap into your instincts!
2. Wake up expecting!
3. Sharpen your awareness!
4. Detail your desired intentions!
5. Question the rules you live by!
6. Honour & appreciate your life and the lives of others!

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"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." Albert Einstein

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything". Albert Einstein

Bushland is at my front door, I stop and reflect every morning, take in as much as I can of what is around me, every creature, plant, the landscape, the weather, the life cycles and each time there is insight into my connection and place in this world.

There are gaps in my nature knowledge, my list of why and how questions to ask Google get longer. Looking to nature shows me how much there is to learn and the paradox of the significance and the insignificance of who I am. I will stick with the curiosity and wonder because I know it will keep bringing me back to what is important.

"Looking deep into nature" reminds me of my instincts and my creativity and best of all, the peace that comes when you just take it all in.

Our curiosity of how it works and the intangible rush of spiritual connection that happens when you immerse yourself in the present moment and soak up the sounds, smells and sensations nourishes our existence.

Treating yourself to nature - that is everything.

The most personal and memorable moments are the encounters with nature. The joy felt when walking on the spongy path in the rainforest, the sweet air, standing under a waterfall, now this is therapy. It is a connection to the natural energy.

When working in a busy office, interruptions, deadlines, meetings, the hectic day would raise the stress, the best thing I could do is give myself 10 minutes to walk through the avenues of trees in the nearby park. After just 10 minutes the stress would melt away, I would gradually gain clarity about the problems and many times solutions would pop into my head. The best and most productive 10 minutes you could give yourself.

The sights and sounds of nature take the edge off any situation.

Your perception is altered when you stop and look at the natural world. There is an easy richness and connection fundamental to nature.
If it works for nature, it works for you.

If you want a lesson on how abundance works, look deep into nature. Looking deep into nature has shown me that Abundance is not measured by what you have, but by what you can give away. If you struggle with patience, with scarcity, with your sense of purpose - look to nature. If you are looking for calmness and creativity in your life - be with nature.

Albert Einstein, you said it so succinctly "Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything. "

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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein

For the next few weeks my posts will be centred on quotes from Albert Einstein. Quotes can be just fleeting words in your mind, you acknowledge there is wisdom yet the meaning doesn't stick until you pull it apart and put it back together for your life. You attach meaning when the words come alive for you. So I chose 6 quotes and over the coming weeks I will let my imagination explore the wonders of Einstein's powerful words for my life.

Logical reasoning can be your first go to when working on a problem. You put together a valid argument, the pros and cons, test assumptions, check validity and reach a conclusion.

I have used logic may times to work out what my best path would be and the logistics of getting to where I want to go or want to do. Imagination was of more use when I was younger and yet once at school, I was taught that logical reasoning was the accepted way to show validity, a trusted intellectual method to gain the correct answer...to get you from A to B. No imagination required.

With this quote from Einstein, I am in awe that as a scientist, he valued imagination and its purpose of expanding what is, to what could be. Logic has its purpose, but not at the exclusion of your imagination.

When we look at goal design, it is recommended you start this journey with your intentions, your desires, your imagination. "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it? Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

Imagination before logic. Imagination to open you to everywhere and every possibility and then move your thinking to logical reasoning to formulate and reach the goals.

I don't see Albert Einstein's quote for my life as an either/or, or that one follows the other. A better combination is a mash of the two. A combination of logic with daily imagination fuel the possibilities for each day. When I combine logic and imagination I know it serves me to really cement my intentions and goals. Imagine the possibilities, no reasoning required and it will spark your desire to design your best life. "Imagination will take you everywhere" and you give your life a wider perspective and determination to go from A to B.

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To which do you devote most time to...thinking of success or of failure? Napoleon Hill

It is not a big leap of understanding to know that if your most regular thoughts are about failure, then that is the path you will walk. If you asked yourself the Napoleon Hill question, you may deny that you think of failure....here is an exercise to find out what is really going on in the background.

When you are in those moments, the fleeting moments when you are doing something that you do automatically, those moments when not much concentrated thinking is going on, like walking the dog, hanging out the clothes, sitting in traffic...any of those times where you let your mind go on autopilot.

What thoughts come bubbling to the surface?

The thoughts that run across your mind and you accept.

The thinking that is showing you the cracks between success and failure.
What are the contradictions that occur in your own mind that thwart success?

Use this to your advantage and find out what cracks are showing up. It is all part of shaking up your beliefs and to sort out what is working and not working for you.

Here are a few examples of stray thoughts that show the cracks between success and failure. If and when you give them your time be sure to replace with thoughts of your success.

I am going to be happy when......
It is one of those "go to" excuses that is so very harmful. Success is created with momentum and the 'happy when' thoughts are putting your life on hold. You will be waiting a very long time for when the conditions are right, a long time waiting for success.

I feel guilty for.....

It is said, that guilt is paying interest on a loan that you have never taken, a wasted, useless emotion that is of no benefit to you or to others. Learn the lesson and if you can, right the wrong and let go.

When I have more money, I can do all the things I want to do.

Waiting on the sidelines for your future to just happen to you, sets you up for failure. "To let fate choose your situation invites defeat" The Art of War. Suspend your belief that this is true for you and do now what you can with what you have.

I would like to have.....but I don't have the money/resources/talent or my partner would not approve.
This is a good indicator that your self esteem is weak. You may find yourself in a place of learned helplessness, where you believe you have no control of your external circumstances. When you anchor yourself into these restrictions, you are not free to move into the future. Select new possibilities without the self imposed restrictions.

I am worried about....

Worry is a good indicator you are indecisive. When you devote time to thoughts of worry, it is time for a plan. Time is better spent on a plan, your goal and action.

How come I am always living from one pay check to the next?
These wondering thoughts of "How come" put you in a no win situation. This is a good question, if you are prepared to do something about it. Your success has its foundation in personal balance. Learn about ways to master balance in your health, your wealth and your relationships.

I can't do that, I am too old/too young/ too shy/too poor/too something!
When you limit the possibilities you limit your choices and the opportunities that are out there. When there is a focus on the obstacles, you miss the clear path to success. Pursue excellence and be a creator, not a victim of your circumstances.

Fleeting judgements of others... their physical appearance, what they own and comparing to your own appearance and possessions.
This is an easy one to fall into, our judgements come quickly to us. There are two ways here, the negative judgements fuel criticism and lower our self worth, while positive judgements can magnify the picture we have of our own capability, our self worth and sharpen our motivation.

The mind is a beautiful playground and does what it thinks you want it to.
When you master your fleeting thoughts you can devote more time to thinking of success.

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The Power of Questions

My weekly posts generally start out as a light bulb moment or nagging thought...stuff that I want to write about and this week the nagging thought was," do I ask good questions?" The questions that make you stop and think, questions that check you in and keep you on track. Questions and the style of how I use those questions is a big part of what I do. The power of the right, the deep, the get to the core feeling questions make a big difference for knowing self and for goal clarity.

When you ask the right questions to expand how you view your own life it turns into right choices. Precise questions weed out the fact from fiction and shake you out of the slumber of "this is the way it is".

We know good questions make a difference in our connecting with others, it makes sense then to ask yourself good questions to connect with your sense of self. Watch out though, it is not the demanding put on the spot questions....tell me the 3 reasons why you chose your job? (groan)...No, questions which are more the gentle intuitive style that brings out the best in you and the best in others.

The power of precise questions has the ability to expand your ideas and to challenge your view.

This week, I put the focus on how good am I at asking questions. How many questions have I asked of myself or of others that were of quality? I wanted more questions that are precise and come from my curiosity to discover and understand.

I want to get better at this questioning, move away from just the general safe questions and more into the juicy, how do you know type questions. Questions that would deepen my intentions and guide my choices.

If you start with just the general questions of "what would I like to be doing in six months" you can just so easily accept conditioned responses and in a short time, those answers carry no meaning for you and dissolve.

Your questions spark the goals of possibilities, a statement of purpose and a willingness to design your life. When you reflect on what you want from life, the goals you desire, you start from what is most important, what stirs you, what will have you cry out YES! Precise questions that will strengthen your ability to stay to the finish.

The power of precise questions activates your own unique path and purpose.

Questions like:

What would happen if...?
Just suppose you could...?
What lead you to believe .......?
Why do you do....?
What do I desire?
What do I want more of?
What do I want less of?
How come I keep doing......?
Why is my life so amazing?

& one last word from Ghandi

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My Fabulous Life

Do you know what message you are following?

Your thinking, your beliefs are getting in your way.

What if this message is not taking you toward your goals?

I am a believer that whatever you think will happen is going to happen. It is from this place of belief that I am gradually and stubbornly slow to understand that my thoughts, the messages I tell myself are the triggers to how I feel, how I act, how I see a problem, the goals I prepare and reach for, how I make my decisions, the risks I am prepared to take. I keep reminding myself that my thoughts, my beliefs are the basis of how I show up in my life. It is up to me to make it fabulous.

The times I ask myself why is this happening to me, why is it so hard, why does this problem keep happening, why are my plans not coming together, this is the opportunity to reflect on the core beliefs that are giving me grief.

It is the times when I am in a slump, when I just can't see the good or the possible in a situation I am more aware of the hidden beliefs that are dominant in my mind. These are the times when those beliefs gain momentum and constrict my energy, fill me with doubt, cause the body to ache and tighten. The beliefs of how much value, self worth and esteem I have and how prepared I am to show up. The beliefs that limit my ability, that hold me back or sabotage my efforts and result in frustration when it is not working out.

What if, you view the tough times, the slump, the depressive state as an opportunity to look at things in a new way? What if, you accept the challenge and face it with courage, to open your heart and mind and examine the message you are following, the beliefs that are showing up as a pattern in your life and holding you back from a fabulous life. It does not have to be like this. Your attitude to the problem is now you are a truth seeker and declaring to yourself this is a good time to say those limiting beliefs are not in my best interest and this is the best time to create a new way of looking at things.

One's destination is never a place,

but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller, 1891-1980

A Fabulous Life is Yours to Create

What matters is what you do now

Awareness of what you believe is an opportunity to focus on what you want

Your perspective expands, your thinking is creative

You will choose what serves you and drop what doesn't serve you

You feel good more of the time

Things that bothered you, situations that challenged you are your moments of expansion.

Progress is made as you keep looking for better ways of being and doing.

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My Fabulous Life

Do you know what message you are following?

Your thinking, your beliefs are getting in your way.

What if this message is not taking you toward your goals?

One's destination is never a place,

but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller, 1891-1980

A Fabulous Life is Yours to Create

What matters is what you do now

Awareness of what you believe is an opportunity to focus on what you want

Your perspective expands, your thinking is creative

You will choose what serves you and drop what doesn't serve you

You feel good more of the time

Things that bothered you, situations that challenged you are your moments of expansion.

Progress is made as you keep looking for better ways of being and doing.

Unlock your best future

My words are centred in the desire and intention to help people bring about their best and connect to their best future.
http://isucceed.info