Positive thinking is key to inspired living. It inspires confidence in your-self  and your circumstance. Without positive thinking, a mind can wander into a negative mind set, thinking the worst and believing the worst will happen. Yuchhh, nasty.

So how can we remain positive, confident and look forward to our lives?

This morning I tried out a new way …

While I casually munched on a ham and cheese baguette and sipped my mocha, I wrote down in my notebook, all the positives in my life right now. I wrote a list of ten things and surprisingly for me, they came out very quickly. I started with work positives as it was easier. After I had listed five positives at work, I felt a swirl of energy inside of me, positive energy. I then felt ready to delve into my personal life.

Five personal positives later and I had a full list, an impressive list. It was clear, I have a lot to be happy about right now.

So I looked at my list … and I thought …. “What will happen, if these positives remain positive and grow into bigger positives?

I’ll pick out one positive and I’ll share with you my thought process …

The positive was … “My training and nutritional regime is working. In the last two weeks I have gained muscle, dropped fat and feel fitter and healthier.”

I took this positive and imagined the process continuing and growing upwards, like a plant.

I will grow bigger, more shape across my back. I’ll have bigger stronger arms. My legs will be able to withstand football again. I could run a half marathon. I’ll get leaner and I’ll be able to see my six pack. My consciousness of my body will weaken to the point where I’ll enjoy looking at my body in the mirror and have no psychological problem stripping off my t-shirt on a hot summers day in front of friends.

My confidence will soar. I’ll get much more attention from women (and I’ll accept it). I’ll buy medium size mans clothes instead of small. I want to fill a larger t-shirt with muscle and I will.

This is all going to happen. It is the logical progression of what is happening today. All I have to do is keep doing what I am positively doing. It’s about focusing on the positive, so that it sparks all the inspiration you need.

I did this process with the remaining nine positives in my list. I felt great afterwards and I still do. Writing about it now has catapulted the process further and deeper. Focus on what you have and imagine how it can grow, with your continued effort and determination. Get excited and involved in your imagination. Let it run wild.

I’d love to hear about the positives in your life right now and the logical positive projection for that positive. Drop me an email at the address below or feel free to leave a reply comment to this blog.

Warmest wishes,

Dan

dan.elman@wellbeingnetwork.co.uk
 

It’s August

 :-)

One of our two annual “ceasefires” where working life slows down to a more moderate pace and we have the opportunity to relax a little.

It is lovely to spend some of this time distracting ourselves from any discomfort in our lives with holidays and summer fun.

If you do have discomfort in your life or business, another good use of this time is to take the opportunity to make plans and changes to ease or erase the discomfort.

We can start with a quick life or business inventory to check in with score the important aspects of your life out of 10, where 10 is exactly as you would like things to be and 0 is absolutely not.

The main areas in our personal life are: love and relationships, work and wealth, fitness and health, lifestyle and location, spirituality and meaning.

The main areas in our business life are: communication and relationships, management and profitability, future strategy, location and facilities, purpose and motivation.

You may also want to subdivide some of these areas into specific opportunities you have to make improvements, like particular relationships or areas of health. All of the areas where you have scored less than 10 are opportunities, and the ones with the lowest scores are where improvements will make the biggest difference.

Now arrange the list with the lowest scores at the top. Take the first item on the list (the one with the lowest score). Imagine what 10 would be like. What it would feel like, what would it look like, where would it be, who would it be and so on. Articulate it as clearly as you possibly can, use pictures, use sounds, use anything that makes it clearer for you.

Now identify anything that stands in the way of that 10 feeling happening and develop a strategy for moving the obstacles out of the way and allowing that 10 to happen all of the time.

If one of the obstacles turns out to be this process or any part of it, or the questions are difficult to answer, you might like to take advantage of my three for the price of two August offer and I can help you.

If you want to really stretch for the 10 in all areas of life you might like to join us for The PIE Retreat in October.

With love

nx

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It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
–Sir Edmund Hillary

A little known fact about Feng Shui is that it is as much about timing as it is about spatial layout and environmental design.  Feng Shui consultants use two calendars known as “10 000 Year Calendar” and the “Tung Sing” almanac to determine the most auspicious timings for key activities.

The “10 000 Year Calendar” contains the qualities of each year, month, day and hour. For instance, we are now in an earth rat year, a metal monkey month and August 3rd is a wood pig day.  This might all sound a bit bizarre, but the universe is full of energy patterns and energy qualities and the elements and animals represent these dynamics very accurately.

Anyhow, anyone with an ounce of awareness can grasp the fact that spring is generally a time of optimism, new beginnings and de-cluttering! Whereas winter feels a little more lethargic and the reduced daylight hours make us want to sleep more and be cosy and snug. Summer sees us getting up earlier to greet the day and autumn feels crisp and somehow transitional. Some climates don’t have such marked seasons as Europe, but the energy changes are still to be seen in the colours of the vegetation and the behaviour of the wildlife.

The feng shui calendars go beyond the general cycles of seasonal change to pinpoint smaller cycles of birth, peak and decline and these cycles may suit some people more than others. They may also suit some businesses more than others due to the nature of the industry.

New product launches or shop openings:
You wouldn’t want to launch a new product or open a new shop on the Void day with the Remove aspect and with an energy pattern (or kua) that drains away from the business owner or manager’s natal kua.  But you might want to have a space clearing ceremony or a de-cluttering performed on this day so that you are getting rid of the stale energy.

Sales presentations:
I was invited a few months ago to give a brief talk at a property developer’s event where the focus was on selling overseas property. I was really looking forward to the event, as the MD is a really creative and open-minded soul, and a few celebrities were lined up to introduce the event. I looked in the calendar about a week in advance and was a little concerned that there was a star in the day that meant “Avoid Property Selling” and it bugged me…. However, I stayed positive and thought, oh well, am sure it will be OK, but about 12 noon on the very day itself I received a call saying it had to be cancelled as the property developers could not attend. I have asked the MD to let me know of any new dates for the event, so that we can avoid this troublesome star.

Re-financing
If your company needs to talk to the bank manager or business angel then do so when the natural forces are in your favour. Feng Shui timing accounts for approximately 30% influence on our overall luck – isn’t it worth stacking the odds in your favour?! Talk to your bank manager on an Establish day or a Settle day, rather than a day that clashes to you or has negative lunar mansion portents.

Some days I can sense there is a Grasp day or a Moon Blessing day, as there is something tangibly clear and vibrant about the energy of the day. I also know that some days are dreadful for me, and it is these days that I will use for filing, cleaning the car, book-keeping and other dull and undemanding tasks, so that I am ready and prepared to make the most of the good days for networking, public speaking, designing and visiting clients. 

For information on our Date Selection Service please click on this link: http://www.fengshuiagency.com/dateselection.html

Sarah