Showing posts with label focus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label focus. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

SERIOUSLY SPEAKING - BREAKING VOWS

Once we become aware of where we are stuck in our lives, we can begin to see how we are blocking ourselves from forward momentum and success.

With this focused awareness of our blocks from the past, often in the form of old vows, and attention to our current blocking behaviors, most old patterns are changeable!



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WANT TO MAKE SOME CHANGES?

Try this formula:

Focused awareness + strong intention + motivated attention = CHANGE

It goes like this:
First, awareness:  What do you really want to change?

Next, intention:   How much do you want to change it?
                                     a)  somewhat
                                     b)  a little bit
                                     c)  seriously want to
                                     d)  yes, yes, yes!
If you answered 'c' or 'd' take the next step, if not, reconsider the project!

Now pay 'attention' to what gets in your way:

Usually this includes some form of 'playing' Victim!  You know the lines:
                            a)  Other people have it easier.
                            b)  They don't have to work so hard!
                            c)  It's not fair!

It is also where those old, sometimes unintentional vows come in.  That ingrained belief that you should not make the change!

Finally, back to awareness: 

Focus on the balance between how much you want the change versus how much you want to hold onto old agreements and feeling like a Victim…




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Thursday, July 18, 2013

ARE YOU ‘ON YOUR GAME’?


“I just don’t get how you do it,” he said.  “You seem to always be 100% on your game.  100% focused.  The effort for me,” he continued, “is just too hard…”.


So, here’s the paradox:  

In order to be focused, you have to allow yourself to lose focus.

In order to be present, it has to be okay to be not present…


Sounds very Zen and a wee bit 1960’s touchy-feely, right? 

But think about it.

Nothing in nature stays in one position.  Everything is in flux.

Okay, sorry, there we go again with that Age of Aquarius stuff – but have you ever seen the ocean waves not move in and out?



If we fight our natural fluxes – our healthy tendencies to both contact and withdraw – by labeling these ins and outs as defects, then we set up an impossibly rigid and unnatural set of expectations…


What do ya think?  Can you get behind the logic of this one?



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