With the advent of Internet and thousands of websites flourishing creative writing has come in demand like never before. On the Internet the foundation of all searches and introductions is through the written word. Hence creative writing has acquired an altogether new meaning in this Internet age. Can creative writing also be a business enterprise? Can money be earned with creative writing? Yes, most certainly. This article illustrates how –
1) Most of the websites have prose written on them. Writing web content can be cultivated into a lucrative business, which can be done full time or part time. Prose writing is something that can be leant by anyone who has good command over the language. Hence most people run a chance at web content writing.
2) Most of the websites have demand for renewal of content, which gives them better ratings on search engines. This demand is usually in the form of putting in articles on topics related with the core trade of the website. Article writing is easy to learn and can earn a good and steady income.
3) Almost all article writing is research based so you do not need to know everything beforehand. Most of the ideas can be researched on the net itself as there is enough research material on all topics available readily.
4) Businesses also require renewal of content on their web pages. If you develop good contacts with companies and give good services chances are that they shall use your services for several written needs of theirs.
5) Blog writing is another opening. Blogs are short articles written in conversational style and on specific topics.
6) Technical writing is another specialized area, which offers writing of user manuals, training guides, e-books, online courses and other such stuff more closely related to services and expertise areas of a certain business enterprise. These require more proficiency but writing these can be learnt too.
7) Many websites are using videos and audios these days. They need scriptwriters for them. So, if script writing interests you this can also be an opportunity. Payments are generally duration based and can be quite profitable.
8) You can choose the areas you wish to explore and develop the requisite skills in that particular area. You can write some samples to show to your prospective buyers. Most companies like to see some previous samples in order to judge your abilities.
9) Slowly and steadily you can develop skills in many different niche areas and subjects. Remember in creative fields there is no upper limit to cap your potential.
10) As a writer you can approach businesses independently or work with content writing companies, which employ writers to provide services to their clients.
Writing is always a creative process even when it is done for business purposes. So it is a good idea to keep everything you write inspired, resourceful and imaginative with depth of thought and ease of expression.
Most people know about the Law of Attraction. It became one of the better known Laws of the Universe when “The Secret” movie and the book became such a phenomenal hit.
It was great because in the recent times, “The Secret” has done an extraordinary job of bringing the information about the infinite potential of our minds to the surface again.
Of all the information that is being revived in the recent years, the information about the functioning of our minds is perhaps the most vital. This is because of a few wonderful facts –
- Our mind is the standard fitted equipment, which we are all born with.
- The mind is the invisible component so we tend not pay much attention to it. But still, we have an innate awareness that it contains phenomenal potential.
- As human beings, we are the only forms of creation on the entire planet, who are the creators of all progress.
- All this progress has happened when some human being somewhere indulges in proper usage of their mind and creates something which causes tremendous improvement in the living conditions.
- Just when we think that we may have reached the peak of improvement someone somewhere goes ahead and creates something better.
- All this gives us wonderful understanding that the mind actually contains infinite potential. Infinite means unlimited. So, this obviously means that even if we keep exploring the upper limits of our minds all our lives, we will only still be scratching the surface.
Now, the only question remains is how do we get to use our mind? This information is not taught even in the best academic institutions of the world.
We need to understand what exactly the Law of Vibration means and how it makes the Law of Attraction come alive in our lives. The following points will make this clear-
- If we monitor something that looks solid from our environment, what do we see? We see that particular object, right? You may now be wondering what a silly question I have asked.
- But see, I wish to focus your attention on the solid nature of the object. What we see with our eyes is just the solid nature of the object. What our eyes are not trained to see is that at the sub-atomic levels, there is great vibration happening in all solid objects.
- In fact, this motion is happening in all the things. It is happening in the chair you are sitting upon. It is happening in the table on which your computer is kept. It is also happening in the computer you are reading this upon.
- This motion is happening in your own human body also because at the sub-atomic levels your own body is also made of exactly the same components that other things around you are made of.
- So, the reality is that we are living in an ocean of motion.
- There is nothing stationary around us.
- Everything that our eyes see is vibrating at a very high speed. And everything else that are eyes do not see including substances in gaseous state are also in a state of vibration at very high speeds.
- When two things come at a same state of vibration they get attracted to each other by the concept of resonance. This is where the Law of Attraction comes into place.
- Using your mind you can put yourself in a vibration which corresponds with the vibration of the object of your desire. This is when the Law of Attraction makes it manifest in your life. This is how anything materializes on the physical plane in your life.
Through my work as a LifeSuccess Consultant & Coach I teach people how to use their minds to put themselves in a great vibration, which manifests all their desires.
I work with the best person in the world in personal development, Mr. Bob Proctor.
This wisdom is not easy. But it is definitely something worth learning.
If you can tell me what you want. I can show you exactly how to get it.
I give a showcase of this wonderful information through FREE, ONLINE MasterMind Group Study Programs. If you are just curious you can join in from anywhere in the world and get an overview of this information and develop some understanding about the working of your mind. These are FREE.
If you are ready to bring your dreams to fruition I suggest you move into personal consultations with me in Group Coaching or Personal Coaching or attend my seminars.
Remember, If you can tell me what you want. I can show you exactly how to get it.
Very often in my Coaching Practice people come up to me and ask if it is alright for them to want more than what they really have? Should they not be satisfied with their lives? How much is enough success? And the reason for these questions is that many of us have grown up with the idea that we should be satisfied with whatever we have got and not ask for more.
But come to think of it, success always results when someone somewhere becomes dissatisfied with the present conditions and creates something to improve upon them.
- Imagine, if Edison had not become dissatisfied with how we lighted up our surroundings and not created a light bulb, we’d still be using wax candles for the same purpose.
- Or, if Henry Ford had not become dissatisfied with the way we transported ourselves, and not created a mechanism to manufacture cars at low cost, most of us would perhaps still be travelling in bullock carts and on horsebacks.
- Or, if Steve Jobs had not become dissatisfied with his life and the available technology and not created a different one, we’d not have Apple Computers; and remember him as one of the greatest visionaries of modern times.
- Or if, Dhirubhai Ambani had not become dissatisfied with the way his life was going and not created a great business enterprise his family would still be having the same lifestyle as he had had, and not a massively improved one as they have now.
The idea behind all these examples is to bring to your attention the simple fact that success only happens when someone somewhere becomes dissatisfied with life as it is.
Had it not been so, we’d perhaps still be living in caves in the jungles, and not in beautiful houses in dream cities. Had it not been so, as infants, we’d also not learn to turn, sit, walk, talk, learn or do anything at all.
All progress is a result of some dissatisfaction. The greater the dissatisfaction, the more is the success generated.
Then why is it that so many people grow up with the idea that attempting to attain phenomenal success in our lives is somehow wrong?
Understand that a human being always has to come into the picture whenever some improvement is to be created, anywhere in the world. This is a privilege and a right reserved only for the human beings. The task of creating improvements belongs not to the animals but only to the human beings. This is because we are the highest form of creation and so we do have a huge responsibility also.
Our mind forms the invisible component of our personalities. Since, it is the invisible component we tend not to pay much attention to it. Although, among all the information that is being revived in the present times the best perhaps is the information about the functioning of the mind, and how we can create our circumstances as per our desires when we use the mind effectively.
The mind controls every aspect of your life. Whether you realize it or not, this invisible component governs your life, all your circumstances, and all your results.
You feel dissatisfied when you have a realization that you are capable of achieving more than what you are currently attaining. This is a natural thing as the mind has infinite potential, which means that you have the capability of attaining all that you can ever desire, and more.
Dissatisfaction does not mean unhappiness. You can be very dissatisfied and still be very happy.
This happens only when you know you are doing something about the dissatisfaction, by way of learning and growing yourself, and taking necessary actions to move forward in your life.
You get confused between dissatisfaction and happiness only when you do not take necessary steps to ease the dissatisfaction.
It is only then that you feel you do not have enough options left. You feel unhappy and then blame your dissatisfaction for it.
I am here to tell you that you always have options, when you learn more of the infinite potential you hold within your mind. But for this to happen, you will have to take an honest look at yourself, at what you are doing with your time, and at what you really…really want from your life, because success means different things to different people.
As a LifeSuccess Consultant and Coach, I help people in recognizing what success means to them, and then I help them in attaining the success that they truly desire.
I can help you too with attainment of your own personal definitions of success.
If you can tell me what you want, I can show you exactly how to get it.
The only question now is, do you wish to feel unhappy or do you wish to do something positive about your dissatisfaction? I truly hope you choose the latter.
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Continuing with our discussion on negative energy escalators in life, yesterday, I received a video from, Bob Proctor, my teacher and business partner. He was featured in the movie and book, “The Secret”. He needs no introduction. He is the ultimate personal development coach revered in over 90 countries of the world.
I am also a part of a beautiful program from Bob Proctor. It is called, “Six Minutes to Success.” In this short videos are sent out every working day to subscribers, with a five-minute exercise. You start your day with these and within a short span of time; you experience growth from within, which initiates you onto a path of success that you have never experienced before. They guide you to achieve stupendous success in every venture you take professionally; and every relationship you have personally. You can enrol on it at https://sixminutes.infusionsoft.com/go/life/neenaday.
Yesterday’s “Six Minutes to Success” video and exercise was targeted towards resentment and guilt. I decided to devote two separate blog pieces on these.
Today’s blog piece is targeted towards resentment. This is one of the major causes of negativity in almost everyone’s life. Resentment is a powerful negative force. Many times we do not even realize that it is existent, yet as sly and powerful as it is, it never fails to control and overpower us.
Now most people would not admit to having resentment towards anyone or anything. This is not because they are lying. It is because most people do not even realize when they are actually harbouring resentment.
Let us examine how –
- Overt manifestation of resentment is in the form of anger towards anyone or anything, we all know that.
- This anger is sometimes expressed and creates ugly situations for all to see. And at other times, it is suppressed and creates ugly situations within ourselves, the resultants of which are felt by us as well as others.
- Inert manifestation of resentment takes many forms like self pity, excessive need for sympathy, compulsive need to control others – many times with emotional tactics, unexplained diseases usually with long-term physical manifestations and many other such situations.
- Most people feel resentment when they believe they are wronged by someone or something.
- Now, this thought of being wronged could just be their perception, still it is very real for them. If they think from the other person’s point of view, they may see their approach also.
- Sometimes, in order to hide certain things from the other people around them, people conjure up certain thoughts in their minds, which make them feel justified. Then they go about repeating these thoughts to themselves until they start appearing real to them. This way, they feel justified but do not realize that they produce resentment within themselves as well as in others around them, who recognize their falsifications.
- One more thing, perhaps the biggest one – you can love someone and still hold resentment towards them.
There are many such situations that we can keep on discussing. But the main point of importance is that resentment needs to be taken away from life.
Sometimes, we do recognize and know our resentment very well. And then we try to “control” or “win over” it by suppressing it. We may think we are actually winning the battle, but the reality is that this does not work.
The only thing that works against resentment is release. Yes, release the resentment you feel towards anyone or anything. And this you can do in a two-step strategy, which you can do in complete solitude –
- Set a time limit to think clearly, and recognize your resentment. Admit it to yourself. After this time limit elapses do not give any thoughts to this. If your thoughts wander just tell yourself that your timeline for this exercise is over. You would be able to switch your thoughts easily.
- In your thoughts give energy to whomever or whatever you feel resentment towards by telling yourself that you wish them to prosper and do well. This way, you would be able to forgive and let go completely. Remember, when you focus on ill wishes they come right back at you. So, it is better to wish well and aid the release process. You feel better immediately.
The above is not easy. But it is simple as it is the only way you can rid yourself of resentment.
Remember, resentment heavily hampers your chances of attainment of success. So, this exercise is worth doing if you wish to move forward in your life.
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We really live in an age of information overdose. There is information just about everywhere, on just about everything. Most of this information is on selling. Whether it comes to us on how to make a wonderful first impression, or how to have the best body language and verbal communication, or how to develop great relationships, it is ultimately selling. I, for one, genuinely know that selling is dignified communication. What I do not like is manipulation while selling. To understand this better let me take you through sales as a profession, and as an activity.
Let us first of all be aware that all of us who are trading our time in return for money, providing certain products or services are in a profession of sales. Be it the humble school teacher, or a renowned doctor, people right across the spectrum of varied professions, are into selling all the time. Selling is not just restricted to the salesman who rings your doorbell, or makes an office call, or the sharply dressed people who show you around in exclusive showrooms. Each one of us is into selling.
Sales as a profession, is an outcome of living in societies. In the earlier times, when state ensured everyone’s survival related requirements, business was restricted to certain communities only. But it is no longer so in the modern day societies. Now, each one of us has to be good at selling our wares. They may be products, services, or even ideas, which lead to both – products and services.
So, the first and foremost thought that we need to get rid of is that any of us can be away from selling.
Next, is to begin understanding that as human beings we are all the very same at the core levels. Our circumstances may be different. Our physical realities may be different. But we are all the very same, when it comes to the operations of our minds. Anyone who is blessed with a functional mind operates in exactly the same way, no matter where he or she is located in the world. We may look different but we all feel the same way.
Our conscious mind may function differently but it uses the same ingredients of operations. And our subconscious is exactly the same part of the whole, with no differences whatsoever.
While selling when we try to use various strategies and formulae, we bring in manipulations in relationships that we are trying to build. Yes, communication is extremely essential. But communication should be based on honesty, sincerity and a genuine interest in helping the other person. This may sound like a cliché to some people. But it is the ultimate reality.
Human beings have immense vibration reading abilities as our bodies are basically vibratory instruments. Come to think of our sub-atomic physical structure, it boils down to protons, neutrons and electrons. These sub-atomic particles have negligible mass and immense energy owing to their vibrating at very high speeds. This is true for everything else that we see in physical form also. Owing to this reality we read the vibrations of others very quickly and very instinctively. And, others also do the same towards us. We change the vibrations of our bodies by our thoughts.
So, if we even have a shred of manipulation somewhere in our thoughts, our prospects would read it. Some people have better tuned themselves to read the vibrations of others. Some have neglected this inner ability of theirs. But we all do retain it to some extent. So, it is extremely important to leave aside formulae and strategies and concentrate on developing honesty and sincerity and genuine interest in the other person – your prospective client.
Selling is not just an activity you indulge in professionally. It is something that goes on forever. Try feeding greens to your pre-schooler. Or try to justify an expensive impromptu purchase to your spouse. Or try to convince your parents to let you stay out for that trendiest party on a school night…there are numerous examples of selling happening all through the day in your life and mine.
Selling is not just done professionally where some money exchanges hands. Hold this thought for a while and try to see how much selling you have done today.
Selling is dignified enlightening communication where you do not go about insulting the intelligence as well as sensibility of the other person – your prospective client, or spouse, or kid, or parents or…just about anyone.
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I had started discussing the topic of money in my last blog article. The idea is to understand money as a neutral entity in our lives. Money is neither good nor bad. It is the feelings associated with money, which are good or bad; positive or negative. However, money in reality is just neutral. Let us understand this better.
Most people do not like to discuss the topic of money as it makes them remember their deficiencies, and what they cannot do in their lives. For some, money means more confidence, esteem and power. Either way, the point is that somewhere down the line in modern evolution, money started getting associated to our self-worth. It is mainly because the people with more money tend to enjoy things that those with less money cannot. We need money for everything right from life nurturing food to life saving medicines. But ultimately, money is just an agent of purchase, nothing more and nothing else.
Still, whether we like it or not, somehow many of us feel only as worthy as our bank balance suggests. Funny thing though, as the bank balance keeps changing almost all the time. Does this mean that our self-worth also keeps varying? It is indeed an uncomfortable thing to admit. But if at all anyone sees themselves in this thought, I urge them to keep reading and start pondering over this thought.
I like my mentor, Bob Proctor’s reflection over this. He says, “Most of us are born with infinite potential, some of us are just a little short of money”.
We indeed are born with infinite potential. No one can ever tell us with even a remote shot at accuracy what we are, or are not capable of achieving. This is because all those who have been born with a functional mind have powers within them that they themselves do not recognize and realize. The society has no doubt given us many benefits, but it has also done many damages. The main one is that it continuously teaches us a lesson to conform.
Archibald MacLeish, the famous American writer, poet and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright writes in one of his plays, “The only thing about a man, that is a man, is his mind. Rest everything you find in a pig or a horse.” This is a truth, which is known to just about everyone. Still, people instead of realizing their real worth, tend to associate them with a non-living entity – money. This is not to say that there are no other things that we associate our self-worth to. There are indeed many other things, for example, affection, relationships, physical appearance, how busy we can keep ourselves, etc. But presently, we shall focus on just money.
When our self-worth is tied to money, the latter becomes extremely important to us. What we often fail to see is that it is not money but our own self-worth that we wish to enhance.
Since, self-worth is intangible, we cannot see it. So, we focus on what is tangible. This is incidentally also true for other things mentioned above.
Have you ever noticed how money-making becomes an all time consuming pursuit for some people that they do not even devote any time to spend what they earn? This is because they feel worthy only if they are constantly making more and more money.
Such people do not realize that what really increases their self-worth is when they realize and start using their true potential. This is when they start doing what they are put on this planet to do, and their lives become purposeful. This is the only thing that can make us feel truly worthy. It is not money or any other things for that matter, although they are no doubt, extremely important.
Let us dissociate our self-worth from whatever entities it may be falsely tied with. Money makes a good starting point to begin the process. When we do this, only then we truly feel free to see ourselves in a new light. Stripped of all these entities, when we see our own worthiness we experience living a truly worthy life.
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In the last fortnight I was contacted by a person with regards to personal coaching in human potential enhancement, which happens to be my area of expertise. This person came to me through a social networking website, where I regularly post my updates and blog posts.
The first question this person asked me, even before we had a chat on what I could offer him, was “Is it chargeable?”
I am writing this piece as a dedication to this person and many others who may wish to reach me, but hesitate to do so, for the very reason – the pricing of my services.
I offer my due respect to this person because I really think he has asked a marvellous question. Also, I wish to make clear that this piece is intended to be an awareness piece and is not intended to hurt anyone’s feelings in any way. On the contrary, it is intended to offer help to many others who may have similar thoughts going on in their minds.
I decided to write this piece because of the fact that delayed decision making is something that most human potential coaches talk about almost all of the time, but mostly people refrain from touching the topic of money.
The topic of money is perhaps the most sensitive issue in our lives. Still, we refrain from talking about it because this issue makes us highly uncomfortable. So, we have invented pathways to skirt this issue in the garb of decency. “It is impolite to ask a man about his income”, became the norm of decent and civilized living. This was obviously before women became the active earning members of the community. But when women started contributing economically to the society, the same norm became automatically applicable to them as well. I wonder why other rules did not start applying automatically to women in societies all over the world. But that is a topic for another discussion. Here we will focus only on the uncomfortable issue of money.
It would not be wrong to say that our lives revolve around the topic of money. Right from our morning cup of humble tea or coffee to our late night rendezvous at a lavish pub, everything comes at a certain price. We can enjoy only those things that we find ourselves capable of paying for. This is the reality of modern day living. Whether we shun discussing money or we prefer to turn our backs on it, the truth still remains that we extend our hands to receive only those products and services that we consider ourselves worthy of attaining. What we do not realize is that we hinder most of our chances of growth also by doing this.
Delaying making significant decisions that we know can prove extremely important to our progress because of money is something we all have done at some point in time or the other. We sometimes may lose on the opportunity but much more importantly we lose on the precious time. Remember, money will in any case get spent somewhere or the other, but the time lost will never ever be retrieved. The same time that can be utilized in moving forward in life and creating actual improvements translating into increase in money earning capabilities gets lost forever.
I am not suggesting for anyone to take massive and uncontrollable risks. Most people thankfully do not live that recklessly. I am saying rely on your natural instincts. Your inner self knows when you are making the right decision. I can help you in identifying them with better accuracy.
Most of the times when we wish to make expenditures solely for our selves; they are small expenditures as compared to what we incur for other things in our lives. Come to think of it, we often make a compromise only on the expenditures that can create progress for us. Is it because we do not consider ourselves worthy of success?
A big part of my services is to make people understand and change their self image, which governs all their results in life. This includes their relationship with money, which also governs their capability of earning money.
Also, for the record, all my services are not chargeable. Not because I do not like making money. I do. I like making money and have no hesitation in admitting this reality because more money not only means that I can create a better life for myself and my loved ones, but it also means that I can contribute more towards helping others.
Look for more on this topic as this one requires more space than one blog article. For now, just know that delaying reaching any decision because of the fear of the money involved is perhaps the most important of all of the fears and hence contributes towards maximum negative energy in most people’s lives. Still, ironically enough most people do not appreciate it, or rather do not wish to look into it fully. I am here to tell you that unless you face this issue you will never change your present results with money.
Watch out for more on money in my forthcoming articles.
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Recently, a friend came up to me and asked my expert opinion on how success has evaded him in his life. He said that he ‘knew’ he was unlucky because he always could only get to the 99% spot, and never make it to a 100% at anything in life. He was talking about both trivial, as well as grave matters in his life. He felt he never got what he was going after at that particular moment. And this has been a recurring theme in his life.
I asked him a simple question, “What do you really want?” And he was quick to tell me that it is a ‘relative’ thing. I repeated my question, with an emphasis, “Think and then tell what do you really want?” But he still evaded the most important aspect of this question…the thought part. And he kept on going on the same track of how things he want changed with time and how he could never attain what he wanted.
Amidst the barrage of his narration, I managed to make a small two-minute presentation to him regarding the basic concepts of functioning of the mind. But when I reached the most important aspect of the presentation, which in my experience makes most vociferous people go completely quiet and think, this person, had me stop, because I knew I would not make any further progress there. The point in my presentation where I start talking about the intellectual faculties of the mind is where all argumentative speech usually ends and the thought process starts. But not with this man. He was adamant in defending his point of view that he was ‘clear’ in his mind that he was ‘unlucky’.
The bottom-line that he did not see at all was that he tried to evade the question, “What do you really want?” He covered it up with baseless argument but never took the time to answer the question, or even think about it.
This is the ground reality. Most people never think about what they really want. They settle down in life for what they feel they can get based on their past results, or the results of people whom they come in contact with. But they never give serious thought to what they really want.
Why is it so? The reason is that thinking makes us uncomfortable. Now, some people may say that I have gone off my rocker. We think all the time. Don’t we? And the answer is, “No, we don’t.”
Thinking is a conscious activity, and not some involuntary process that goes on in the mind.
Most people cannot differentiate when they do active thinking from when they are just indulging in involuntary mental activity. This is because they never think consciously. And when a question is popped in front of them, which demands that they think, they evade the answer because it makes them uncomfortable. They are so used to the cosy comfort of involuntary mental activity of thought that active thinking makes them uneasy. They have the capacity to think but never use it because of the discomfort it generates.
Little do they realize that this is one of the biggest contributors of negative energy in their lives. Not knowing what you really want makes you directionless. It also makes you argumentative because you know deep in your heart that you are directionless and do not want others to see you this way. This makes you collect a lot of trivial information because it makes you seem knowledgeable. There are several other manifestations to this malady.
Think about it. “What do you really want?” Then go about answering truthfully. Remember, if you cannot be truthful even to yourself, who else can you ever be truthful to?
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We talk about eliminating negative energy from our lives all the time. All the people in human potential coaching and personal development talk about this. Come to think of it, we are surrounded by information that can help us grow, if we really wish to. There is plenty of information available on removing negative and introducing positive thoughts. Search for the shelves on your local bookstore. There are books available on “How to…” of every kind that is conceivable to a person. Trust me; there are books available on topics that are not even conceivable to most people.
Every day we meet people who talk about having more of positive thoughts in life. They may be our bosses, or our teachers, or our friends, or someone else, and then they go about sharing some sort of gossip about someone who is known to you as well as to them. Is this behaviour not totally antagonistic to what they advocate?
I came across an elderly lady recently, who is a friend of my mother. I was meeting her after a long time. After exchanging the usual pleasantries, she went into a long discourse about how she recently overcame an illness just on the power of her ‘positive thoughts’. She rambled on for good about fifteen minutes as to how her ‘inner power’ helped her get rid of her knee-joint pains, preaching to me to incorporate positive thinking in my life so that I could have a better life.
This was all so far so good. Then I asked her about her daughter-in-law, who is about my age, and had attended the same college as me. She is quite well known to me from earlier days, so I know that she is a great person with a fantastic outlook in life. She and I have also kept in touch regularly through social networking sites so I know that she had only changed for the better. But the mother-in-law had a different opinion. Yes, you guessed it right. Her next discourse was on how her daughter-in-law had left no stone unturned in making her life miserable by her ‘modern attitudes’.
However the icing on the cake still was – how her own ‘positive thinking’ made her a winner in every domestic battle she has had.
This small episode made me think in a big way. How many times we ourselves indulge in maligning others through gossip? This may be done with simple intentions, and actually makes us feel better about ourselves. Many-a-times, it gets us a few laughs and we feel that no harm gets done to anyone. But is it really so?
What about the energy that we are sending out to the universe? If the natural laws are what they are, and they do what they do, they must give us back all the energy that we send out. So, even though we may feel that we are in a ‘positive’ state of mind, when we gossip, we send malicious energy out, and it must then return to us.
The real essence of any change lies in doing what we know and not just knowing what to do.
There is a great lot of gossip all around us. Let us start by curtailing it before we can boast of having positive thinking.
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All kinds of trainings may they be business trainings, sales trainings, trainings for people of educational institutions, which I like to call educating the educators, or any other types of trainings, they are all eventually human potential coaching. This is because through trainings we are ultimately creating improvement in the human component of any type of organization.
One unique quality about the human component is that human beings are eventually all the same all over the world. You would say, “Oh! No, they aren’t.” Human being is the only species in the world, which shows maximum variation in all of the animal kingdom. You may be right, but only on a very physical level.
If we strip ourselves of the obvious physical differences, most of which are created by us because of our cultural conditioning, we will come to realize that we are all actually the same. We feel happy on the same kind of things, and we feel sad over the same kind of things. If someone likes us, we like them back. If someone says something bad to us, we do not like the situation. We all feel same kind of emotions of love, hatred, peace, happiness, kindness, compassion…and so on…But this does not mean that we can use the exact same techniques to train the human component in different areas of the world, and even in different types of organizations in the same part of the world.
This may rather feel like a contradictory statement. But it is really not so. This is because the human component is a tricky proposition to work with as each one of us is also unique in our own way. So, we are all the same and also uniquely different at the same time. This makes us very…very interesting…really.
This also brings about certain deep understanding about coaching and consulting -
- We cannot be trained with a single mass approach for anything. Yet, if we take an approach, which touches us at our core levels we can develop programs that can bring us as close as is possible for us to create positive results in our lives.
- This happens only when we develop an understanding that we are actually spiritual beings living in physical bodies. Our physical selves may be as different as they are, but our spiritual core remains the same. It is universal and it is our final reality.
- Only the coaching programs that are directed towards our growth and development at the core levels are actually helpful.
- We respond wonderfully well to anything that empowers us. That’s the main idea behind all training programs.
- So, the main aim should always be to have the empowerment of the human component. More empowerment means more results in the long run.
- The feeling of empowerment means that it should last long after the seminar is over. It also means that it gives long-term tools to the people attending, which they keep using lifelong and enriching themselves.
I am very fond of a quote by Zig Ziglar. It reads, “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
Self motivation is the best type of motivation as no one, but you are aware of what your goals really mean to you. Empowering trainings provide you tools and techniques to use, and to build upon your motivation levels, for a lifetime.
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There is more information available on goal setting today than was ever available in any other time in the history of civilization and education. This is fairly good because whenever there is awareness about something – then, and only then, any kind of progress can also be envisaged.
The next plausible question should really be – why is it so that so few people actually go about setting the goals? The answer obviously lies in their lack of awareness of the process of goal setting.
Below are a few points that I feel would throw some light on goals and goal setting. If you like what you read here please feel free to contact me for further discussion. I will try to answer your questions. And, if I cannot answer them, I will most probably know someone who will be able to answer your questions. In any case, I will get you an answer.
1) Goals are very personal because they are something you get emotionally involved with. It is rather rare, although not impossible, for two or more people to get emotionally involved with the exact same goals.
2) When two or more people set exact same goals it happens in team situations, more often seen in professional areas. But even then there are always some personal areas involved. Your professional goals also need to touch your core before they become close to you, so that you give them your best try for attainment.
3) This simply means that when YOU set YOUR goals, you have better chances of achieving them rather than when someone else sets them for you.
4) Understand that all goals need to have a personal perspective otherwise you will not be able to adequately emotionalize them.
5) Goal setting is an intellectual process done by using your intellectual faculties, also known as your higher faculties. Napoleon Hill in his iconic book, ‘Think and Grow Rich’ says, “After studying 5oo of the most successful people in the world he came to the conclusion that these people became successful not because they had abundance of generalized or specialized knowledge, but because they had developed their intellectual faculties to such a level that they could acquire anything that they set their minds to, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.”
6) What are these intellectual faculties? They are our higher faculties using which we can make better choices and decisions, which then reflect in every area of our life.
7) Ask a small kid and they would in all probability know about our five physical senses. But ask a well-educated grown-up about the intellectual faculties, and they would at best be guessing. Contact me if you wish to know more about intellectual faculties and I will explain them to you in about ten minutes.
8) Understand that goal setting is an intellectual process; and goal achieving is a spiritual one.
9) This most important ingredient is almost always left out. When it is included, it is done with an element of ignorance, as an involuntary part. The goals get achieved but the process remains unclear.
10) An understanding of the spiritual process of goal achieving ensures that you achieve all goals that you set out to attain.
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