A great email newsletter I receive is from The Goals Guy. I published one of his articles on peace in the e-zine this year. Gary Ryan Blair – the goals guy - gives you great advice and solid plans for ways to achieve your goals, and just in time for new year he’s sent me a guide to making new year's resolutions that work.
He’s also set up a site of new year’s resolutions and he’s aiming at getting ten million on there! You can check out people’s NYR’s at the site, and even add your own. Go on, put it in writing. You know the stats. Writing down goals gives you a zillion more chance of having them come true (I can’t personally vouch for that last stat) but anyhoo, it DOES make a difference to write goals down, and that way you can also see them every day and keep on track.. And as an added bonus, if you add your ‘Resso’ to his list, he will send you a free t-shirt and his personal guide to making perfect New Year’s Resolutions! You can’t ask for more than that! So pick up your finger and click now, and get those 2007 Ressos working for YOU!
www.goalsguy.net/cgi-bin/SMent/s.cgi?which=2-12-24-2006-23-9&page=/www.10MillionResolutions.com
I’d also advise if you love planning, scheming and generally and getting the most out of life, to subscribe to his newsletter. It only comes once a month or so I think, and there’s always a valuable article in it, apart from the usual advertising guff.
Check it out at www.thegoalsguy.net
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Join Danny Wallace and Do Good Deeds
I just finished reading a great book called Join Me, that my mate Simon lent me. It’s the story of a bloke in London who put an ad in the local paper to join him. He did it as a bit of a joke, didn’t really know what people were joining him for, and it ended up being one of the biggest philanthropic organisations in the world. He put in the first advertisement in 2001, and the organization is still running today, with thousands of people as joinees. Basically all you need to do to join is send Danny a passport photo of yourself, and pledge to do a good deed for someone every Friday.
And because it’s a new year, and because doing something nice for someone else always makes me feel good inside, I think it’s a great New Year’s resolution. I had a mild idea a while ago to do something nice for someone every day, and now it seems just an ordinary part of my life. I don’t go looking for people to help either; they just seem to turn up. And they’re mostly not big things either (the deeds that is, not the people). I move aside to give someone a seat on the bus, I give someone directions; I help someone with their bags… Take the pledge now with Danny and become one of the famous `joinees’ or just take the pledge for yourself and resolve to help someone every day, or to do a good deed for someone who needs it every week. By the end of the year you can say that you’ve done at least 50 good deeds for people in 2007, and why the hell wouldn’t you want to do that?
Danny’s Join me website is at www.join-me.co.uk
You can see what else Danny is up to at www.dannywallace.com
And because it’s a new year, and because doing something nice for someone else always makes me feel good inside, I think it’s a great New Year’s resolution. I had a mild idea a while ago to do something nice for someone every day, and now it seems just an ordinary part of my life. I don’t go looking for people to help either; they just seem to turn up. And they’re mostly not big things either (the deeds that is, not the people). I move aside to give someone a seat on the bus, I give someone directions; I help someone with their bags… Take the pledge now with Danny and become one of the famous `joinees’ or just take the pledge for yourself and resolve to help someone every day, or to do a good deed for someone who needs it every week. By the end of the year you can say that you’ve done at least 50 good deeds for people in 2007, and why the hell wouldn’t you want to do that?
Danny’s Join me website is at www.join-me.co.uk
You can see what else Danny is up to at www.dannywallace.com
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Spirit is Unused Self
In a dream the other night, I was told ‘Spirit is unused self’.
It meant that spirit can be all our (unused) potential; the unlimited possibilities of who we are, just waiting to be given the nod that means `I’d like that for myself’.
In the dream it seemed to mean that it was a pool of unlimited resources that we tap into and take from. When we have used it all up, we are spirit itself.
It meant that spirit can be all our (unused) potential; the unlimited possibilities of who we are, just waiting to be given the nod that means `I’d like that for myself’.
In the dream it seemed to mean that it was a pool of unlimited resources that we tap into and take from. When we have used it all up, we are spirit itself.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Making Decisions Eases Stress
Making decisions eases stress, frustration and worry.
Your heart is your truth, your mind is your illusion, so if in doubt, fear, desperation, or confusion, put your hand on your heart and ask the questions that need to be asked. Do this regularly through the day until you don’t need to do the action, and then until the day that your truth is all there is.
Take action on your truths, no matter how small, but the grander the better if it feels good! Action begets action i.e. the universe is a giant photocopying machine and gives back to you what you put out.
When you’re stressed and afraid and depressed, it’s because you haven’t followed the instructions of your heart. You know what you need to do, what decisions you have to make, but you haven’t done them, usually because of fear. That’s the time to place your hand on your heart and ask your highest self what it is you really want to do.
When things are not easy and graceful, something is not right. You know what it is if you ask your heart. When things are right things move quickly and easily – effortlessly, and with joy.
Your heart is your truth, your mind is your illusion, so if in doubt, fear, desperation, or confusion, put your hand on your heart and ask the questions that need to be asked. Do this regularly through the day until you don’t need to do the action, and then until the day that your truth is all there is.
Take action on your truths, no matter how small, but the grander the better if it feels good! Action begets action i.e. the universe is a giant photocopying machine and gives back to you what you put out.
When you’re stressed and afraid and depressed, it’s because you haven’t followed the instructions of your heart. You know what you need to do, what decisions you have to make, but you haven’t done them, usually because of fear. That’s the time to place your hand on your heart and ask your highest self what it is you really want to do.
When things are not easy and graceful, something is not right. You know what it is if you ask your heart. When things are right things move quickly and easily – effortlessly, and with joy.
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