Sorry, I Don't Do Guilt Trips

                                                        "Guilt is to the spirit,

                                                      what pain is to the body."

                                                     - Elder David A. Bednar

Do you have a tendency to feel guilty over a lot of things that you have done or didn't do?

If you do, you are not alone.

Many people are walking around with huge feelings of guilt.

Guilt is a very destructive emotion. 

Unfortunately a lot of people were raised with a lot of guilt, and they are having a hard time letting go of it. 

Anything little that some people do, and that they don't think or feel is right, they create huge guilt over it.

How do we learn to deal with guilt?

We learn to forgive ourselves. We can't change what we did so why walking around feeling guilty over it. If we would have known better back then, we would have done better. We learned and now we know, and in the future we will do better. Forgive and then let it go.

Forgiving is a very healthy concept. We must learn to forgive ourselves. What we did yesterday we cannot change. But we can learn from it, let it go and move on.

If someone has done something to us, we mustn't  hold a grudge or resent them, let it go. It doesn't mean that we will allow this person to do the same thing to us again. We simply have to move away from the person or the situation and then let it go.

It's time to let go of thoughts that are negative and not moving us in the direction that we want to go. These thoughts are holding us down, slowing us down and they are preventing us from moving in a more positive direction with our own life.

Wrong thinking won't lead us to a happy and joyful place. We must learn to let it go.

                                               No amount of guilt can change the past

                                          and no amount of worry can change the future.

Stop feeling guilty and set yourself free.

No one can cause us to think something that we don't want to think. We have complete control over our own thoughts and our mind.

We must learn to forgive ourselves and forgive others.

How about starting to love ourselves instead? 

It's time to respect of ourselves. 

We must have a healthy respect of ourselves and what we are capable of creating and doing.

Carrying bad thoughts of anyone and anything is not doing anyone any good. 

Forgiveness will allow things to grow in our life and it will cause us to have more energy, be happier and healthier.

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Thoughts Create Reality

                           Choose your thoughts wisely for they are the energy

                                                    that create your life.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all this thoughts.

Have you read the book..... As A Man Thinketh, written by James Allen?

It's a great book that emphasizes that we are what we think. So if we want a better life we must think better thoughts.

As a Man Thinketh is a self-help book by James Allen, published in 1903. 

Described by Allen as "A book that will help you to help yourself," it is in many ways the first self-help book.   

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.

Disease and health, like circumstances are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly.

The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrances of disease, while impure thoughts, even if not physically indulged will soon shatter the nervous system.

Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace. The body is a delicate and plastic instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts by which will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it.

From the book....As A Man Thinketh

                                           Karin Glannstam - Personal Success Coach

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Energy Flows Where Your Attention Goes

                                        "Where your focus goes, your energy flows.

                                     Focus on what you want, where you are going

                                            and what you are actively creating."

                                                              - Les Brown 

Do you usually focus on what is missing in your life? 

Or.....

Do you focus on what you already have in your life?

Do you usually focus on what you can't control? 

Or.....

Do you focus on what you can control?

Do you usually focus on what happened in the past or what you fear in the future? 

Or.....

Do you focus on what is going on in the present?

If you usually focus on what is missing, what you can't control and what happened in the past and what you fear what will happen in the future....what type of action will you take to change your situation and to make your life better?

You probably won't do much.

How about if you focus and are grateful for what you already have, what you can control, you live in the present moment and look at the future with hope and faith, what type of action steps will you take? 

You will probably take a lot of action to change and make things happen in your life.

                                                   "Focus on where you want to go.

                                                            Not on what you fear."

                                                                 - Tony Robbins 

In the end..... what we decide to focus on and what it means, will determine what we will do. 

It will ultimately determine what kind of action steps will will take to improve our situation and our life. 

                                                       If you don't like something,

                                                     just take away it's only power:

                                                               Your Attention.

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Your Energy Introduces You Before You Even Speak

                                               "The higher the energy level, 

                                               the more efficient the body.

                                              The more efficient the body, 

                         the better you feel and the more you will use your talents 

                                            to produce outstanding results."

                                                        -Tony Robbins

Your energy level that you bring to the world is very important.

If you would take an honest look at yourself, your habits and how you show up in the world on a regular basis, what is your energy level on a scale from one to ten?

                                         "Your energy level introduces you

                                                before you even speak."

Energy is a very important ingredient in any relationship, whether it's business, romantic or friendship.

Would you want to date a person with a low energy level?

Would you do business with a person with low energy level?

                                                 "Energy is contagious:

                                               either you affect people

                                                 or you infect people."

                                                      - T. Harv Eker

How much energy are you putting into your own relationships, personal and business?

You must always remember that you are going to get the same energy back as you put into something.

Energy is a habit, and it is an inside job.

                                                        "To reach the top,

                                you must have the energy to make the journey."

In the end, you are responsible for the energy you bring.

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You Are Who You Hang Out With

                                                    "You are the average of the five

                                        people you spend the most time with."

                                                          - Jim Rohn

Take a good look at the people that you spend most of your time with.

Are they winners that are going somewhere in life? 

Or are they people who like to complain, blame and spread negativity around themselves wherever they go?

Our relationships will determine 85 percent of our happiness or our unhappiness.

If you have bad personal relationships they will drag you down worse than a sea-anchor.

A bad boss can destroy all your joy in work. And one negative co-worker can cast a darkness over an entire office, because of their negativity. 

                                             "You need the right people with you,

                                                              not the best."

                                                              - Jack Ma

I remember many years ago listening to Tony Robbins talking about how important it is to ask yourself a couple of important questions when you are about to hire someone. 

What I also find interesting with these question are that you can also ask yourself the same question when you are dating someone and you feel like you want to take the relationship to the next level.

Here are three important questions

1 Can they do the job?

Do they have the skills and the experience?

2 Will they do they job long term?

What are their goals and also what is their true nature?

3 Are they a team fit?

Do you fit together? 

                              "You need to associate with people that inspire you,
                                    people that challenge you to rise higher,
                                            people that make you better.
      Don´t waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth.

                                              Your destiny is to important."
                                                       - Joel Osteen

Make sure that you associate with people that will inspire you and lift you higher. People that will make you better.

Select your relationships with care.
Only associate with people that you like, respect and enjoy being around.

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How To Create A Compelling Future

                                Let go of the past, so you can open the door to your future.

Do you want to have a compelling future to look forward to?

Who doesn't!!!

I know I do.

Here a few things I have learned from Tony Robbins when it comes to creating a compelling future.

                               "A compelling future is the food on which our souls thrive."

                                                              - Tony Robbins 

First we must take a look at the way things are right now. 

We must be totally honest with ourselves when we look at where we are at this moment.

Always write everything down on a pieces of paper, because things do look different on a piece of paper than they do stuck in your head.

Second we must see it better than it is. 

Time to create a vision. This might take a little time and it also needs to be written down on a piece of paper.

Everyone needs a compelling future. If you have a compelling future, something to look forward to, it will make it easier to deal with what is going on right now in your life, because you can see your future, in advance. 

The third one is to now start creating it the way we see it.

Time to start creating your future. Start developing a game plan that will take you from where you are today, to where you want to be in the future.

                                       "Your future depends on what you do today."

                                                             - Mahatma Gandhi

Here is a quick tip!

Stop focusing on what isn't working and what you don't like and don't want. 

Shift  your focus to what you want and what is already working. 

Your thoughts will create your reality and your future, and if you want something new and exciting in your future you can't focus on the opposite. 

You have control over your own thoughts, so make sure you focus your thoughts in the direction you want to go.

                                    "The best way to predict the future is to create it."

                                                        - Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

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