If the chips are down or your streak of luck seems to have run out, here’s an easy trick to switch direction. Clean up your space! That’s it. CLEAN UP!
A messy, cluttered, or grimy space  leaves no room for clarity or new things.  It most likely reflects your mental space, too.  So spend some time walking around your living space and find ‘stuff’ to give away, sell, recycle or just throw out.  In that process, you are distracted from your current stress, and you open up new areas that will allow the light to shine in.  You can shine a new light on your living space, your mental space, your career, and your life.
Try it. Get an accountability partner to help you on the follow through if need be.  And hey, if it works get back to us and share the good news.

Planning is an important stage in our life. Without planning, we will be lost.

However, some of us are always on the planning mode: what to do, how to do it, and by when. Plans will be written on paper, computer, white boards and even more elaborate materials. Meetings will be held to discuss plans.

What will really take us somewhere is ACTION.

We can plan our vacation until the cows come home, but until we step outside of our house, and get into our preferred method of transportation, it will remain a dream, nothing more than wishful thinking.

What are you doing today to get into ACTION?

Finding a four-leaf clover is a special symbol of good luck. For most of us it’s a rare occasion to find ourselves so lucky.

Lucky Lucy’s favorite is the four-leaf clover. Before lucky Lucy even steps foot into the meadow of four-leaf clovers she knows there are four-leaf clovers waiting for her. She has a very special ‘aptitude’. Lucy ‘knows’ how to find them!

How does she do it? Do you think that Lucy’s ‘knowing’ creates the event? Because she’s absolutely convinced, reality mirrors Lucy’s conviction back to her!

Are You a lucky Lucy?

Imagination is the rich source from which all things spring. Use your ability to think and you will form creative ideas. But thinking alone will not be enough. You must act.

Get a coach and get in action! 

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Well, the profundity of that question is too much for us to actually handle in this tip so we’ll leave you all to think about that yourselves.

For this tip of the week our headline is ‘I Choose’. It is through my choice that I am empowered. The truth  is that I have unlimited choices of what I choose.

Every little thing I do empowers me if I consciously acknowledge my choosing.

As an example, let’s consider Monday morning. I chose to get up and go to work vs. I hate getting up and going to work. The implication of ‘i hate getting up and going to work’ is that ‘I have to’. The thought ‘I choose’ vs. ‘I have to’ are worlds apart.

I got up anyway so there was already a choice that was made. Choice gives us an empowering context. I choose to get up. I choose to go to work. I choose to take conscious responsibillity for my choices. I am empowered out of this.

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”   — Walt Whitman

The Cost Of Procrastination?

It’s a sense of dread…… and anxiety……… and self-reproach….. and of course you know, there’s so much more…….

It’s costly this procrastination, knowing something needs to be done but instead there’s only holding back, or getting ready, or meaning to…….

But you don’t. It doesn’t. The immediate now passes. Then more time passes and it doesn’t get done.

How to get through whatever’s creating the holding back? How to be in action, and stay in action? How to assure achievement of the goal?

Clarity is key. Begin overcoming procrastination by crafting a vision. Be precise. What do you want? See yourself in action. See yourself in possession of the goal. What does it look like? Taste like? Smell like? Sound like? And finally, what does it feel like? See yourself in the picture and in action, in full detail. See it. Feel it. Action will follow. All will fall into place, naturally.

Craft your vivid vision and experience a dramatic shift.

…IT’S YOUR TURN

Move into 2009 well-prepared for success, with a clear vision of where you want to be. Your list of goals will guide you there. As we move into the New Year have you constructed your list of what it is that you want in ’09?

If not, now is the time to Get In Action! This is Not a New Year’s Resolution List. This is Your Future and this can really be fun.

Simple ingredients for goal-setting:

1) your keyboard or pen

2) a chunk of uninterrupted time

3) it helps to have — an Accountability Parnter who can join you in making this FUN! Commit to goal setting independently or getting together in real time.

Last week we talked about distraction as avoidance.  We also promised that this week we will point out the difference between distraction as avoidance and distractions as signposts to a truer path.
So, how to distinguish the differences?  It is My Money Doctors’ opinion that to distinguish the differences, one first needs to become aware of the task at hand.  Are you stalling because the task is deemed too difficult, too cumbersome, too confusing?  Are you feeling overwhelmed and discouraged (while perhaps refusing to acknowledge that), suddenly distractions manifest everywhere and you need to attend to them?  If the result of being pulled by distractions is that nothing is getting done; and if after being distracted, you have the nagging feeling of guilt of not taking care of your original task, then those distractions are avoidances.  One has fallen prey to procrastination.
If one feels the  pull of something intriguing, and there’s a hunch that the task at hand is lacking its importance and urgency, then one perhaps needs to pay attention to the distractions.  Your divine mind just may be telling you in that “small, still voice” that your calling lies beyond what you set out to do.  One way to help yourself to distinguish the difference is to pause when you become aware that you are distracted.  That small step of not doing anything and just paying attention can point you in the right direction and action.  That being said, signposts are fewer than avoidances.  So don’t give yourself easy excuses when you are distracted.

My Distractions Are Infinitely Clever

Have you noticed that whenever you need to do something suddenly your environment is screaming a thousand things that need taking care of and they’re all different from whatever you need to do? It will be anything but what you need to do. “Let’s go for coffee.” Wash the dishes. A terrific show you need to see. A book that begs to be read. Take out the garbage. Empty the closets. If it is an avoidance and not a distraction you won’t even do these things. It’s an Avoidance.

Distraction is exactly what it says it is. It’s something to take you away from the achievement of your goals. When distractions and avoidances rear their ugly head interestingly nothing really ends up getting done. There is often a sense of hanging out in empty space–in the void. There may be a sense of hopelessness. It is the ultimate success-killer.

It is important to become conscious of distractions. This is a first step to getting on a new track & completing our goals.

However, another consideration on this topic is that there are actually 2 points that warrant contemplation:

1.  Ignore the distraction and focus on the task at hand.

2.  To just let go of whatever is the goal. Put the focus of attention to the distractions because they could be signposts for whatever you need/ wherever you want to go.

So how do you distinguish those two? Watch for our next Tip of the Week.Next week we’ll talk about distractions as avoidance and distractions as signposts to a truer path.

While right now it seems that almost every day we are seeing that yet another giant institution bites the dust, we are equally sure that still there are individuals making money. We could say that they are seizing the opportunity hidden in adverse circumstances or a dire situation.

What is your opinion? While lots of others are losing money, do you think there are people making money today?

How will you position yourself for today’s market? How will you find your center and become like the wibbly-wobblie with the solid center that when pushed on from all directions will not fall down? Taking the cue from the wibblie-wobblie where’s your center in difficult circumstances?

We propose that there are three ways to change our circumstances:

1) by changing our thoughts,

2) by changing the images we hold in our minds, and

3) by changing our behavior.

Controlling these three areas of one’s inner world we choose the experiences that we have in our outer world. Changing in this way allows a receptivity to the clear message of Universal mind:

I am being taken care of and abundance is my Divine right.