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10 Rules For Being Human
Posted by Antonia Furlong in General on July 22nd, 2009
Ten Rules for Being Human
by Cherie Carter-Scott
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “life”.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work”.
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better a place than “here”. When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here”.
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
“If You Want Something You Gotta Get It – Period”
Posted by Antonia Furlong in Tips and Pointers, Unlock Your Mind on July 20th, 2009
I hadn’t realised how much you can actually learn from some blockbuster movies – there are loads of them out there and not so long ago I posted about “Pay It Forward”.
Well last Sunday night on good old terrestrial TV they were showing “The Persuit Of Happyness”.
It’s a true story about a man’s journey through life to get the things he truly dreamed of and deeply believed in.
He defied all sorts. He lost his apartment, his wife, couldn’t sell a single thing that he had put all his savings into. It all looked pretty grim for him. He would stay overnight in shelters with his son to get him through an apprenticeship that wouldn’t pay a cent in salary and even then he wasn’t guarenteed a job in the end.
When the chips are that far down, the only thing he can do is start finding and thinking through ways for him to get back up. He works through a plan.
There is a great scene of him and his son on the basketball court. He realises what he has just said to his son and so corrects himself…
“Don’t ever let anyone tell you you can’t do something. If you’ve got a dream you have got to protect it.”
“People who can’t do something themselves will tell you you can’t do it”.
”If you want something you gotta get it – period”.
The huge number of sacrifices this guy makes to obtain his dream is extraordinary. It is selfishness to be perfectly honest. But it’s what has to be done to go and get what he wanted. These things do not and will not come easy.
Why? well if it did, what would you learn about it? What value would you put on the thing you got if it didn’t take much to get it?
If you have to make the sacrifices he did then you would truly value every single cent that came in through the door. It’s maybe not what you want to hear, but it’s true.
How many people or stories have you heard that have won the lottery and maintained their wealth? Do you think they learned how to keep hold of it? Do you think they understand the true value of the money?
2 valuable lessons I took away from this film
- Persistence pays off when it’s for the right reasons
- Happiness must be persued; it is not ours to have, no matter what.
I want to leave you with a little story his son tells in the movie…
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This man is drowning. A boat comes by and asks if he needs any help.
“No thanks, God will save me”. The boat disappears over the horizon leaving the man behind.
Another boat comes by a little later on and notices his struggle and also asks if he needed any help.
“No thanks, God will save me” and so the second boat goes on it’s way leaving the man struggling.
Sadly the man does eventually drown and goes to heaven. Once he got there he asks God
“Why didn’t you save me when I was drowning?” and God replies “I sent you 2 boats didn’t I?”
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Always look for the learning in everything you do; the good, the bad and the things that don’t work out as you had expected.
Ask yourself:
“What can I learn from this not working?”
“What else is there for me to learn?”
Until next time,
Antonia
“In The Zone” Available In Pill Format?
Posted by Antonia Furlong in Action, Tips and Pointers on July 17th, 2009
Cloudy days.
So you are on a path to make a change in your life. No matter what it may be or what direction you have decided to take, you are making a change to your current situation. It is scary and you can put it off, however you keep going because you know deep down you have to.
Because of the path you have chosen, you absorb as much as you can from those around you, your mentors, those you have been there and done that, and it can get a bit intense. You may faze out, or end up in a thick fog.
I do. It keeps happening, but I allow it to happen rather than panic because I know I have to allow for my brain, conscious and subconscious process it all.
Overwhelm then comes crashing through the door and then nothing, zero, zip. A grinding halt. Again I let it rather than fight it (other will differ, it depends on what suits). Yes it takes a while to build back the momentum, but coming out the other side when the fog has cleared is clarity. With clarity it does not take long to be firing again on all cylinders and so building momentum is less of a struggle.
Some days are different. I often have to gather up a fair bit of strength to push on through so as to at least take one action if that is all I can rustle up.
Monday was a classic. Had a great start (always at the gym in the mornings after a meditate) and it went a bit downhill before lunch. By 5pm I still hadn’t done what I intended to do.
Instead of moping about it I was determined enough to get up off the sofa, get back in front of the computer and at 8.30pm I was done.
I don’t recommend dinner in front of the computer however it’s hugely helpful having a husband who cooks it and delivers it to you so you don’t actually have to move.
What was really strange about the whole thing was I felt as if I was in ‘the zone’. I only realised it afterwards but where I would normally be distracted and looking elsewhere and listening in on the TV next door. I actually shut it out. My mind closed it off and I continued on. I could feel myself saying “I will just get this done and then I’ll go next door”. I could hear excerpts of the programs but I didn’t ‘tune’ into them.
Anyway, just a realisation. And it is an awesome feeling that I can be like that and it can be like that. I just have to harness it and turn it into pill that will sell for $millions!
Until next time,
Antonia
Exposing The Hidden Cash Reserves In Your Business
Posted by Antonia Furlong in Action, General on June 19th, 2009
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How do you spend you time in your business? Do the things you do every day make you money?
In this video I talk about one very simple strategy to ensure you engage in the most profitable activities in your business. It will uncover hidden cash reserves in your business.
7 Things To Do When Things Get Tough…
Posted by Antonia Furlong in Tips and Pointers on May 27th, 2009
It has been a while since my last blog – I can’t believe how time flies!
To say this has been an easy choice to make, an easy journey to take would be a lie. To be really honest, I have really struggled to find and mantain momentum to deliver.
So what has been going on?
Well I have been masterminding. It has been life changing to say the least. I have found and now work with a great group of like minded entrepreneurs. Being associated with them instantly means I have a bigger game to play and I will have to stretch so far out of my comfort zone. This will be the place I learn the most.
To succeed on any journey, be it different from the rest of the world, you will have your obstacles -
“Obstacles are the things that appear when you take your eye off the end goal”.
Here are 7 things you can do when things get a little tough out there.
1. Take Charge
Things will otherwise remain the same for you. In your comfort zone life just happens, you must go out and make it happen for you.
2. Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Recognise the feelings of what may be holding you back and go and do them. Frightening as they may be, the more you do them the less fearful they become.
3. Stretch
Push yourself a little each day to take action. Something different that you haven’t done before.
4. Grow
You can only become a bigger person than before – you can’t help it if you are facing confront time and time again.
5. Learn
As your world expands from your growth, learn from everything you have done to make this happen. Without knowing it, opportunities will present themselves the more you and your vision expands. Grab them and learn from them. Remember those things that work and keep doing them.
6. Master Mind
The power of a group is second to none. You have to realise this path you have chosen is not an easy one. Best surround yourself with people who are experiencing similar things with you. Share what you are going through, someone will be able to understand and help you through.
Don’t kid yourself that doing things differently will be easy. If they were then everyone else would be doing it.
7. Do A Little A Lot.
Small actions all the time? This will supercharge you. You will see change happening quickly. Progress will keep you lifted, motivated and on track.
As always, let me know how you are getting on.
All the best,
Antonia
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