Possibility and Potential

Your possibility and potential, are limited by your beliefs. If you’re confident and have faith in your abilities, it’s much easier to succeed. For the less confident person, success can still happen, but you have to work harder for it. 

There’s science behind how powerful we really are when we use our minds correctly and this is why the law of attraction works so well. You need to understand; your thoughts are very powerful and you have the ability to make your life much more fun and exciting. Your thoughts can also bring your life to the exact opposite, where despair and depression rule.

If you’re in a place of despair and can’t see a way forward, there is hope. If you can’t see yourself surviving the next few days, or even hours, I want you to write down your ideal day. Don’t think about it and don’t poo-poo the idea. Just take a moment to write your ideal day. 

If you don’t know what your ideal day could possibly be, just think if right now you had all the money and time you need, what would you be doing with your life? (And don’t say laying on the beach with a Pina Colada, because believe it or not, you would soon get bored with doing nothing.)

If money and time were no barrier, what would be the dream for your life? Write it down and then write the steps it would take to get you there. Are there things you need to learn? Do you need to improve your health, or your diet? Are there things you know you need to wait for, before you can proceed? Do you need more money, or time to make this happen? How are you going to get that money/time? Make your dream as big as you like! There are no barriers to dreams and writing them down brings a little hope into your world.

Once you start focussing on the answers to your questions, the universe lines up with you. Once you start to focus on what you want, instead of what you don’t want, the universe will line up with that also. So far you’ve focused on all the things that can go wrong in life and the universe has given you what you focussed on. So now you need to focus on better things. When you do, you put yourself on a better vibration level and things start to move you towards a better tomorrow. 

You are responsible for your life. You made the choices which brought you here and now you need to make new and improved choices, to take you from a time of depression and despair, to a life of joy, fun and excitement. 

Sure, you can blame others, and at times it might be others, but from here on in, the responsibility is yours. How you react to what’s happened, how you move from your mistakes to a new life of adventure, is up to you. No one can do this for you. You have to do it for yourself. Get in and do the work. 

Once you know this information you can no longer play the victim. If someone out there is controlling you, your feelings and thoughts and you feel like a victim, now is the time to do the work and stop this victim mentality. 

What is the work? Get off the couch, for one. Stop watching mindless tv and start reading books which will expand your mind and your horizons. Books on how other people succeeded. Books on how others overcame what you’re going through. Books on positive thinking and achieving your dreams. 

"You don’t like to read," I hear you say. Learn to like it. What we read, who we hang out with and the actions we take are what make us successful, or not. So read and if you really don’t like to read, get on you tube. It’s all there and you can listen while you work, while you exercise, even while you cook dinner, if that’s all the time you have available. 

Learning new things makes new connections in your mind. Learning new things, strengthens and grows your mind. Information creates awareness and these days you have all the information you need, at your fingertips. This information helps create the life you dream about and the freedom you desire to see in your life.

When you have a vision, one you’re striving towards, it’s easy to be distracted and to lose that vision. You need to know what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. Keeping the vision before you, helps keep your focus. Ask yourself, when something crops up to distract you; will this take me away from my goal, or move me towards it? This will help keep you on track and lessen the disruptions and interruptions to your plans for your life.

Once you build momentum, you start feeling worthy and more confident. Your body can tell and you’ll notice you’re more confident. You walk more confidently, you’ll be less shy around others and you’ll exude an ‘air,’ about you. This ‘air’ is not something anyone can see, but others will be drawn to you and your confidence and even they won’t know why.   

And when things go well, give yourself a pat on the back. Only you know what you’ve been through and how far you’ve come. Give yourself a pat on the back and tell yourself; "Well done!" Because it’s easy to move past your accomplishments and get caught up in the doing. If something goes well, acknowledge it, as this reinforces what you’re doing right. And it will make you feel good about yourself and how your life is going. 

The stronger the emotion you feel, where you place your attention, gives your life greater force. So, regulate your thoughts, think about what you want to see, do the work in mastering your emotional state and you'll find you have the energy to heal and move forward.

All this time, you’ve created your reality, you just didn’t know you were doing it wrong. If you are in lack and emptiness and you spend your life wanting, this is the lack and emptiness you brought about, through your lack of understanding. 

Now you need to turn that around and you can do that by the way you think and feel and it’s a process and it takes practice, but if you don’t quit (because there will be difficulties and road blocks along the way) you’ll get there in the end. 

If you’re doing the work, you’ll start paying attention and your mind will start to believe in in what you’re doing and you’ll see change, but only if you change your thoughts and your actions.

You are way better than you think. You can live the life of your dreams. And quite possibly, courage will be the first requirement. Courage is the key to life. The opposite of courage is cowardice, a life lived in fear. A life lived in fear is a life of hell. If courage is the key to life, then heaven is behind the door marked; “Courage."

The only way to have courage, is to take responsibility for your life. In life, we are meant to overcome. We are meant to bring order out of chaos. An undisciplined life is a life of chaos. When we act courageously and take responsibility, then our chaos will come to order. 

You be the hero in your story. Don’t wait for your knight in shining armour. Act courageously, take responsibility for all that is wrong in your life…and fix it! Make an effort, not an excuse. If you don’t think you have the discipline, study discipline. Discipline is a muscle and the more you exercise a muscle the stronger it gets. Make the effort to practice discipline, don’t make an excuse. 

If you find you don’t have the discipline, try to focus for 5 minutes. If 5 minutes is too long and you forget everything, do it anyway, then do it again tomorrow and the day after, until you remember what you’ve learned. 

Life is lived in micro moments. 5 minutes now, is forming a micro moment. It’s doing the little things every day, working on the small goals in micro moments, that move you towards the fulfilment of the greater good. 

Put effort into your life. Wake up and get excited about the possibilities. Stop being distracted. Stop frying your brain in mindless internet and tv.

When you start something, prepare for failure. Don’t be disillusioned when it comes. No one ever starts at the top. We all fail on our first attempts and if we don’t, we haven’t set the bar high enough. If you want to succeed, you need to fail more often.

Do something every day, that moves you forward towards your goal. Even on a bad day; make an effort. Show up and do the work, every day. It takes hard work to be good at anything. Set yourself the task of being the best.

Practice! Practice! Practice! If your life isn’t everything it could be, change what you need to change and continue to change, until every day becomes your ideal day. 

It’s easy to do nothing, be nothing, have nothing. That takes no effort at all, and what kind of life is that anyway? It’s an unrewarding life. 

Our success is determined by the books we read, the people we hang with and the action we take. It’s that simple. Want success? Read, hang out with others who are successful and take action towards your goals.

I know what I’m talking about. My life was one of depression and despair and I was suicidal 20 years ago. Now I’m an investigative photojournalist and author, as well as an investor on the stock exchange. I love to cook and walk the dog and I enjoy every day.

I know once you make the decision to start, if you don’t quit, you too can be a success and live your idyllic life. Hang in there. Don’t quit. And watch your life move from depression and despair, to a life of overwhelming joy and abundance.