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Choices
Posted by Antonia Furlong in General on July 30th, 2009
A great ‘wakeup’ – by Patrick Powers
I hope you will be inspired to make your life a masterpiece.
If you believe in limitations you will have them but if you believe you can do anything you can. So why not choose the best. I’ve done that and that’s why I’ve chosen to get out of the rat-race.
I hope you make the best possible choices for you. What ever you do – go for it and give it ALL you’ve got
7 Reasons Not To Do It
Posted by Antonia Furlong in Tips and Pointers, Unlock Your Mind on June 24th, 2009
I have found everywhere I look there are all sorts of reasons not to get started on a project, a new direction, a new beginning.
I reckon there are some real beasts in amongst this list and it’s one sure fire way to stay exactly where you are and not change a thing…
1. It’s too hard
There are so many avenues to persue and not knowing what you really wan to persue makes it even easier not to do something!
Where do you actually begin? That’s where you really need to make a plan and make it bite sized and achievable. It’ll only be very easy to give up if it feels like you are climbing Everest and getting nowhere fast.
Always remember to look at how far you have gone. If you have set goals and achieved them, look back at those you have completed. It will inspire you to continue.
2. It’s too expensive
Each and every attempt you try to find the right information it will cost you thousands of dollars. You are probably thinking “Who has that kind of money to invest in something that may not even work?”. Trust me when I say you won’t get it right every time and every dollar spent is towards your education and will have an effect on any future decsiions you make. No one can take away what is in between your ears and what you learn. The best investment you ever make will be in your education. Life is a non stop learning experience!
If you are still not sure look for the testimonials from the real people and find out if they have actually done what it says on the tin! Simple really and it’s the proof it works.
3. I don’t know what to do
Often you will be put off as you don’t know what to do. A good indicator is to do something that you know you will enjoy – it will ensure you kee going. You also want to do something you know people will want. There is no point trying to sell something to people if they don’t need it.
4. I don’t know how to do it
It’s hard to find that step by step guide, the map and the compass to guide you through all the confusion. Many people give you half the answer. There are some clever people out there that instead of giving you the answers, you actually have to go out and do it yourself. What chance have you got to learn anything REAL is something is done for you and served on a platter?
Be prepared to roll your sleeves up and do some of the hard yarns. Get your hands dirty. There is merit in understanding the full process ofdoing something for yourself. It also makes it simpler to leverage in the future.
5. I’m not good enough
This is a really tough one. There will always be that little voice in you that tells you “What makes you the expert?”. Well to be perfectly honest, you are already making moves to learn something new. Already you are a mile ahead of the pack. Take a look around at those closest to you. What are they actively doing to change there circumstances?
Remember to source your information carefully. Your uncle Tom is not probably the best person to get financial and real estate advice.
6. Everyone will laugh at me
Interestingly this is something I was talking about just the other day to an acquaintence. If you were to walk into a room, who do you think the other people are thinking about? I can tell you now, they are NOT thinking about you. It’s only you who is worried about you. You may be given the opportunity by someone to be a fleeting thought in there head. Everyone else in that room is only thinking about themselves and how they are being perceived by others. When I remember that, my whole perspective and energy shifts. Try it. At least you have put yourself out there — it’ll be more than the average person.
And finally the BIGGEST reason not to do something…
7. Fear
In fact it’s the underlying reason for all of the above. It’s a tough one to admit to yourself, however there are many many ways to confront and over come it. Normally the best thing to do is TAKE ACTION. No matter how small, as long as you take action every day towards the place you want to be, you will be 7 steps further towards it by the end of the week. Add it all up and by the end of the month, 30 steps closer. You get my drift.
I really do hope that something in this list strikes you because I have been in exactly your shoes, asking myself all those questions and more. And yet I keep getting back up and ploughing on as I know there is a great life to live out there and it’s not doing the things I was doing 2 years ago in the office job.
I have spent a lot of my time and my money finding ways in which I could get out the rut I was in. I started down one avenue, almost lost everything and had to make an about turn, completely changing plans, directions and focus. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, however the person I have become in the meantime is determined and tenacious.
I want you to really understand what you are capable of when you set your mind to it.
“Embrace Your True Potential” — Nelson Mandela.
I wish you all the best in your endeavours whatever they may be. It an awesome journey, sometime rocky, sometimes smooth sailing. I cannot stress to you how worth it it all becomes.
To your continued success,
Antonia
Are You A Rich Tea Biscuit?
Posted by Antonia Furlong in General on June 17th, 2009
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I have to be honest.
I have wasted hours, days on end even and thousands of dollars trying to find real answers, the secrets if you like, to making more money.
Please please don’t do what I have done.
- Do you feel as if you are going round in circles and not getting anywhere?
- Have you ever felt like you are working endlessly for little reward?
- Do you believe you were put on this planet to do something more than the 9-5 grind?
- Do you want to have your time back so you can spend it with friends, family and loved ones?
- Do you want to uncover hidden cash reserves in your business?
It’s a maze out there with all the latest technology showing you how to make you millions in 2.5 seconds.
Push Your Game
Posted by Antonia Furlong in Tips and Pointers on April 26th, 2009
Have you ever been a member of a sporting team? Played netball, hockey, anything that requires your active participation?
At school I was on most of the sports team – I loved sport, always been very competitive however it didn’t take me long to realise the team effort required and the skills from the team had on the whole affected my skills and my game.
I used to live in Hong Kong and when I first arrived I played netball. One evening of my first season I turned up to the team trials. There was easily over a hundred of us girls there all trying out for a team either one similar to last season or just find one to be part of for the first time. There was a hive of activity and everyone seemed to know each other all except me of course!
Sound familiar? Being in a place where it feels like you know no-one and everyone else knows everyone?
With my confidence at an all time low, I wasn’t known, very new to all of the try outs and I hadn’t played for at least 5 years, and I playing a position I had never played before. All of these negative thoughts and feeling really affected my game funnily enough.
Not surprisingly I was put into the 3rd division (there were only 3 divisions in Hong Kong), and in the B team of the 3rd division (there were only 3 teams in the 3rd division).
I didn’t feel all that great about the result and would turn up to training that ensued quite deflated as I knew I could do better. I had once before, I was part of a great netball team way back when.
Not long after training had begun and we had played a few matches I notice my skills, enthusiasm and level declined rapidly – I had the wrong attitude to it all. I approached it all wrong, each and every game and each week I went to training. I would just turn up, train, play and leave without breaking into a sweat.
I got bored and instead of continuing along the same game and skill level and instead of quitting (which was the easy route), I knew wanted more, I wanted to be pushed, get really fired up and so I asked if I could try out for the first division one week at training.
It was a shot in the dark perhaps but why not?
In training I would be out sprinted, out skilled and generally massively out performed but it just got me wanting even more – I had to keep up if I wanted to stay at the top level.
From that day on my game, attitude and enthusiasm completely changed. I could no longer play as I had been playing in the 3rd division, the game had changed and it felt like the rules were different.
Unless I changed my approach to it all, I would remain in the third division, miserable and bored and I would have probably left.
Even when you think there is no way you can do something, it would never happen to you and it’s virtually impossible, you have to at least try, give it a shot. You may find your game changes too.
Stretch yourself, put yourself out there and I guarantee you will be amazed at what you can learn about yourself.
Suffice to say I never did return to the B team in the Third division. I became captain of my first division team instead!
Until next time,
Antonia
Telling Yourself You Can’t?
Posted by Antonia Furlong in Unlock Your Mind on April 14th, 2009
How many times have you talked yourself out of doing something by believing in all of the following?
- you can’t do it
- you’ve never been able to do it
- why try? It’ll only fail
- too hard, too expensive, too scary
- don’t know where to begin
- don’t know what would happen
It’s a loud ‘little’ voice shouting out to you about your weaknesses and often it paralyses us and stops us in our tracks. You want to know why we stop?
Quite simply it’s because we listen to it! By that I mean we hear what it is saying, we believe what we hear and we then have it confirmed by others.
We give attention to the negative things we say about ourselves and the negativity and doubt just increases in power and volume. My mentor calls it the ‘scumbag’ voice.
Want to know how to turn the volume down on it? Stop listening. Yep simple solution however it takes a little while to put into action.
The important thing to know here though is there is not only that little voice talking to you. There is yet another, and yes it does get quite crowded in there! This one is often much much smaller and quieter and often remains completely unnoticed – many don’t know it’s even there at all.
This one is your little fan club, your support group, your cheer squad and the complete opposite to the ‘scumbag’ voice. This little voice tells you you are completely and utterly amazing, magnificent, beautiful and can achieve anything you set your mind to.
Great isn’t it? And yes it is in there, honestly, you just have to listen a little harder.
This is the voice I want you to find, listen out for (even if for just a glimpse) and once you hear it, really really listen to it.
Unlike the ‘scumbag’ voice, transfer your complete and honest belief to whatever it tells you – what have you got to lose?
The more you listen the more often you will hear it and the more often you hear it, the louder it will get. I strongly suggest you repeat out loud to yourself whatever it says and write it down. Whenever you find you can’t hear it, go to what you have written. Realise it’ll have all the things you love about yourself, it’ll say you are amazing and then say them out loud, over and over again. Keep doing this and I promise, one day you will believe what you say and you’ll only ever hear the cheer squad!
The scumbag voice will have quietened down completely allowing you to tune into your true self.
This alone will keep you going, keep your momentum going to get back up and dust yourself off, and keep you on track.
– it’s you, it’s intrinsically inside of you to do whatever you set your mind to. You just have to believe it.
As a final thought from Napolean Hill – Author of Think and Grow Rich.
“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
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