The other morning Ross and I were lying in bed and talking.
“I wish I could just reach in and rip out all my limiting beliefs”, I said.
“Even the ones I don’t know I have.”
“Why don’t you?” Ross asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Remember, when we did The Silva Method Course with Jeanine Sciacca and she said, the more outlandish and weird, the quicker things work?”
“Yes.”
“Well, why don’t you go into your mental workshop and have aliens or some other weird way to extract all your limiting beliefs?”
“Wow! Yes. Thank you Ross. I can do that.”
And I did.
I used the Silva Method to go into my mental workshop and I had my team extract two big “blocks” of limiting beliefs; one from each side of my head, just near the Amygdala.
It felt sooooo good.
The blocks were replaced with what David Bayer calls Empowered Decisions because a limiting belief is a decision we’ve made at some point in time. We know how to make decisions, so let’s make new ones.
My new empowered decisions have all been infused into a beautiful pink love-heart shaped cushion and placed into my mind to replace all the limiting beliefs.
I feel so confident. I feel so grateful. I feel so positive.
We all have limiting beliefs, some of which we are conscious of and others not so.
This week I encourage you to listen to yourself and become aware of your limiting beliefs, and either choose to turn them into empowered decisions or follow my lead and extract them altogether.
When we talk about manifesting, what thoughts come to mind for you?
For many of us, it’s the attainment of something we have been wanting.
Whether we’ve consciously worked to create our desire, as in visualising, reciting affirmations, journaling etc. or unconsciously, where we’ve simply decided we want something and then seemingly magically it appears, according to Abraham Hicks, “Manifestation represents what you’re doing vibrationally”.
In other words, you attract what is a match for your current vibration.
Abraham says, “Manifestations are ideas. Thoughts are manifestations. When you’re thinking of something, it’s a thought that’s manifested. You have to be in the vibrational vicinity of it before it can occur and if you’re in the vibrational vicinity when it does occur, it just feels logical.”
Recently I wrote out my affirmation statement of how I want to enjoy my day. For me, the idea of being able to walk along the beach each morning and afternoon is really appealing. I love walking along the water’s edge with the waves lapping at my feet.
To my surprise and delight, it only took a few weeks and that was exactly what I was doing.
Ross and I enjoyed a fabulous weekend at Seal Rocks having hired a friend’s motorhome. Each morning and afternoon we walked along Number 1 Beach, relaxing and soaking in the beautiful sunshine, with the water tickling our toes.
What is it you want to manifest?
What are your desires?
If it’s not happening, maybe it’s time to take a look at where you are vibrationally so you can ensure you’re a match for what you want.
The sooner you match your vibration, the sooner you’ll manifest your desires.
Here’s the link to Abraham Hicks for their thoughts and definition of manifestation. https://youtu.be/m1yF4Gb_Eb0
May you enjoy everything you want and then some, in quick time.
This week I was coaching with a client (we’ll call her Stacey). Stacey had some homework to submit from our previous session. She was to create a 5 minute training video using Loom.com.
We’d talked about different ways to train people in previous sessions and Stacey had resisted using Loom. “I don’t like my voice. I don’t want to be seen on camera. I say ‘um’ a lot.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I only know one person who admits to liking their voice. When it comes to being seen, turn the camera off or even better, remember what Frank Kern taught me:
“People are looking at you every day. Get over it.”
So Stacey did.
She submitted the video and we watched it together on Zoom. It was a fabulous video. It was natural. It was authentic; just as if Stacey was sitting next to you, showing you how to do it.
Stacey had even made a mistake in the procedure and corrected it in real time. This was perfect because it showed how easy mistakes can be made and more importantly how they can be easily fixed.
I asked Stacey what she got out of doing the homework.
Firstly, she mentioned that she got it done because I held her accountable to do it.
Secondly, she realised how much time she is going to get back, now that she has a 5 minute training video to show others how to do a job that could take hours of her time, when a senior manager could be working on more productive or strategic tasks.
Stacey also realised that having the library of training videos and procedures means she doesn’t have to continually train people on an individual basis.
“I’ve realised how much time I’ve lost over the years training people who leave the company. I don’t get to recoup that time when they’ve left nor do I get any return on my investment when they leave. I get nothing out of it.”
This is a common experience that can result in a lack of motivation and desire to train new people, which doesn’t help the new team members.
So, if you have the responsibility of training people, have you considered creating videos in Loom.com? You’ll need a gmail account and to use the Chrome browser. It works really well for screen capturing procedures that are done on the computer.
What used to take hours to write and screenshot procedures, can now be done in minutes.
Stacey isn’t the only person I’ve worked with who has resisted using Loom. Yet those who have accepted the challenge and encouragement have become excited to do more.
If you’re resisting, please just have a go. No-one else needs to see your first couple of attempts.
As Les Brown says, “You don’t have to be great to get started, but you do have to start to get great.”
If you’re interested to know more tips and strategies to save yourself time, today is the last day to enrol for the next Loyal Lieutenant Masterclass Series. Imagine how much time you’ll get back when you know how to write the right way and how to effortlessly streamline your work.
Every now and then you hear a quote or a little saying that resonates and becomes a mantra that you live by.
Tonight, I heard two and I wanted to share them with you and give you some context as to why they resonated.
Hopefully they’ll resonate with you too.
Here’s a bit of background. A couple of weeks ago I attended Louise Hay’s “Love Yourself, Heal Your Life” course, facilitated by Jeanine Sciacca.
It was an amazing experience and I met some amazing people.
Tonight, was a catch up for the attendees to check in and see what, if anything had changed or transformed since the course.
As participants shared their stories, Jeanine reflected and heard herself say, for the very first time ever, that we are “Perfectly Spiritual and Imperfectly Human”.
Wowza! I had goose bumps. My belief system is that we are spiritual beings having a human experience and that we are on this earth at this time to experience all that being human has to offer; all the emotions, all the various physical forms (health, sport, senses etc.) and mentally through our thoughts. Yes! Yes! Yes! We are perfectly spiritual and imperfectly human. Thank you, Jeanine.
The second quotable quote: “The cave you fear to enter is the cave that holds the treasure you seek” (source unknown).
OMG! How often do we hold ourselves back through fear, through not feeling worthy, not being good enough or the imposter syndrome?
Let this week be the week you start to change all that.
Let this week be the week you identify the cave.
Let this week be the week that you dare to enter to the cave.
Let this week be the week you claim your treasure.
What is it that you seek?
Ask and have faith because your perfect spiritual essence will help you enter that cave and find your treasure.
How many times have you said or heard, “I won’t bother”?
The reason I’m mentioning it this week is because I’m thrilled to announce that I have recorded an audio version of my book, “The Loyal Lieutenant: How The Second-in-Command Brings The CEO’s Vision To Life” and 10 lucky readers will receive complimentary access to listen to the book rather than read it.
Thanks to Lee Woodward for his skill, advice, mentoring and support, we now have an audio version.
When we celebrated 13 years of Weekly Thoughts a few months ago, I gave away a complimentary enrolment to The Loyal Lieutenant Masterclass Series (which retails for $1997 and which starts on Tuesday 5th September) and received just one reply, so of course, that one reply became the lucky winner.
I was surprised.
It made me wonder whether you have some Limiting Beliefs or are engaging in Automatic Listening, deciding that you won’t win and therefore not bothering to simply hit Reply with a “Yes Please” message.
Or perhaps your narrative goes something like, “Shirley knows me, so she wouldn’t give it to me”.
Remember, our beliefs dictate our destiny, so now might be a good time to reflect on what’s going through you mind at any given time.
There’s a great story about a man who got bogged in snow in a rural area at night. He got out of his car to get a shovel from his boot, only to find he didn’t have a shovel.
Looking around, he could see a light in the far distance. He decided to walk towards the light and see if he could borrow a shovel.
As he walked towards the light he started thinking. “Oh, it’s probably dinner time. I’ll be interrupting. They might be scared by a stranger and shoot me. There might be dogs on the property that will chase me. They mightn’t even have a shovel. They might not want to lend me their shovel.”
As he walked and walked and walked, his internal chatter got more and more negative, until he finally reached the steps of the house with the light.
He walked up the steps and knocked on the door.
A man opened the door.
Before the man could say anything, the stranded motorist looked at him, shook his head and in response to his own negative self talk, answered, “You can shove your shovel up your ……. I didn’t want it anyway” and with that turned and walked off.
Don’t let this offer be an opportunity for you to engage in negative self talk, limiting beliefs or automatic listening.
If you’d like to receive access to the audio version of the book, please click Reply and type “Yes Please”. You never know, the outcome might surprise you. It might actually be more positive than you think or expect.
This week I finished reading Bruce Lipton’s book, “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles”.
It was first published in 2005 and then updated ten years later in 2015.
It was a fascinating book, written by a scientist who explains how our beliefs or perceptions are “programmed” before the age of 6 and “which control our biology for the rest of our lives … or at least until we make the effort to reprogram them.” (Lipton, p173)
Lipton states that our subconscious mind controls about 95 percent of our behaviour. This explains the disconnect we have between our conscious mind where we set goals and desires and our sub-conscious mind which will either be in alignment with our goals or not. Alignment equals achievement, non-alignment means lack of achievement or self-sabotage.
It also explains why will power alone doesn’t last.
Indeed, another great book to read to create lasting change is “Switch” by brothers Dan and Chip Heath.
In their book, they use the analogy of a rider and an elephant. The rider is our willpower, the elephant is our emotions and motivation. Unless the elephant wants to go in the direction of the rider, the rider (willpower) has little control over where the elephant goes.
The good news is that we now know that we can change our programming. We can rewire the brain. We can change our beliefs and therefore our destiny.
The question is, which reprogramming modality to choose?
The answer, according to Lipton, is “the one in which you hold the most belief.”
You would have heard of the placebo effect before, where an inert substance (e.g. sugar pill) causes a perceived beneficial outcome.
Have you heard of the term, “nocebo”? A nocebo is the opposite. It causes a perceived harmful outcome. For example, if you believe that a drug causes certain side effects, you will most likely manifest the side effects.
So what’s the point of our thought this week?
The point is, it’s a huge reminder that we need to accept that we are 100% responsible for our lives and what happens to us, even though we may be consciously unaware. We need to take responsibility and start to become aware of the limiting beliefs we have been programmed with (albeit unintentionally from our parents and caregivers) and do the work to change our lives so that we can all be, do, have and feel what we want.
If you’re not living the life you desire, then take responsibility for changing it. Start to notice your limiting beliefs. Invest in a training program or methodology that suits you to override the conditioning.
You can easily notice your limiting beliefs by listening to what you say, e.g. You can’t get good staff. There are no good men or women out there. It’s hard to make money. These beliefs (perceptions or decisions) are holding you back. The only way to change them is to rewire your brain.
Depending on what you believe, below is a very small sample of different modalities that can help:
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping)
Psych-K (by Rob Williams)
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Silva Mind Control Method
Various forms of energy healing
The important thing here is that it doesn’t matter which modality you choose. The one that will work is the one which holds the most belief.
P.S. Our next Loyal Lieutenant masterclass series is starting in September. If you own a business and are desperate to have some help so you can step back and not have to do everything, reply to this email and let’s talk. It is possible to have a business and a life you love.
