Jun 4
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series accelerator tools

I had a wonderful response from my last article and decided to get inspired to write a follow up. These tools are things that we naturally do anyway but these articles are a way of bringing them to your attention so that you can do them more consciously and use them at will.

So I decided to get into my inspired state and see what else would come to me. That brings me straight onto my first part of my 3 advanced accelerator tools.

i) Inspired State - Flash moments of inspiration occur for us all but how often can you dictate when and where that moment of inspiration occurs for you? You may not always be in that state 24/7 but what you can do is esbalish your mechanism for getting yourself into that state frequently and at your own behest. Think back to a time when you were in an inspired state where ideas came to you easily and naturally. Now find the key elements of the process and replicate them here and now. Once you find those key elements you are in a position to get into that state at crucial moments for your life.

ii) Flow - Flow is when you get into the stream of doing without conscious thought being present. Your conscious awareness can even be elsewhere while your subconscious becomes the main driver. Time also ceases to have it’s place when you’re in your flow state. Your flow state in many ways is similar to dreaming. No one taught you how to dream. It’s just something which is inherent within all of us. The same goes for flow state and is the most natural feeling during any task or activity to be in; when everything just flows seemlessly. Think back to a time when you had such a moment and spot the pattern that got you into your flow state. If you can’t think of one think back a time possibly when you were revising for exams and you were so focussed that when you look up at the clock 4 hours and passed as if it was just an hour or so.

iii) Internal Wisdom - Internal wisdom differs from inspired state in that when in the inspired state you may often get a flash of inspiration while in flow relating to any random subject whereas connecting with your internal wisdom you ask a direct question and get a clear direct answer. Whether you’ve experienced this personal phenomenon before not; I assure you, everyone has access to a limitless supply of internal wisdom. Mostly, like the inspired state, you will get the most succinct answers when you are very centered and focussed.

I’m sure while reading this you felt a sense of familiarity and resonance with each of these zones and now it’s up to you to develop each one consciously and use them at will unconsciously.

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Sep 10

Woooohooooo! :-D

The 100 day mark has arrived. For me this is a true milestone. When I first began this “100 days…” project it just started out as a little idea to keep me blogging regularly. Now I can see that it has the potential to go much further, who knows what else I can achieve with this idea. It’s just the beginning and I know it will go much further. Very shortly I will be begin a new “100 days…” project and it will have a slightly different theme. One thing is for sure, I’d like to make it more challenging for myself.

Throughout this wonderful journey, I’ve leanred many new and exciting things. Each day has brought with it a new adventure and a new understanding in how to live a more purposeful, spiritual life. Spirituality is everything that we do and if you can do it with a spiritual mindset, you will love every moment of life, no matter how challenging it maybe!

Always keep the relativity paradox in mind, you cannot know happiness without sorrow, you cannot know love without fear, you cannot know light without darkness. These things were created to so that we might know what it means to be loved and what it means to recieve it. We enjoy that feeling because we know it’s counterpart!

There are 10 things I want to share that will ehance the quality of your life, remember and use these 10 things and I promise that you will life will be more happy, enjoyable and fulfilled!!

1) Have fun with life! Don’t let your first response to people be about how stressed out or how depressed you are or about how busy you are. Always start you interactions on a positive note. If during your interaction you need to talk about your challenges then do so, then finish where you started, on a happy and light note, sharing what you’ve learned through that encounter, or just share a joke!

2) Challenges don’t disappear, they change form. Notice I say challenges and not problems. Problems are barriers, challenges are hurdles, hurdles can be leapt, it takes a leap of faith. Barries need to be broken down and take much more energy! It may appear to you that other people don’t face challenges, or that their challenges are not as challenging as the ones you face. That’s your own mind creating a story to hold you back from being where it is you want to be. Running away will not take away your challenges, changing jobs because you have a horrible boss won’t take your challenges away, they will change form. When challenges arise, face them head on!

3) Whatever your religious or spiritual beliefs, don’t hold so tightly to them so to you nothing else is true. Keep and open mind and listen to others when they share. Everyone’s point is valid and there is truth in every way of thinking as it all comes down to perception! There’s no need to challenge anyone else’s beliefs either, respect them, appreciate them, and share yours with spiritual pride. Views are not there to be converted, they’re there to be enjoyed and appreciated.

4) Our childrens education is not just dependent on the teachers. I consider every single child on this planet as my children and I make it my responsibility to educate them. Education doesn’t necessarily have to be of an academic nature, in fact, most often that’s not real education. Real education comes from what children see us do and then, in turn, emulate. Whether we like it or not, we have a responsibility to them as they will always follow our actions. They will adopt our attitudes and they will look to our actions to shed light where for them, there is none. Make it your responsibility to educate every child on this planet. The more we educate them, they more they will be prepared to deal with the challenges they will inevitably face.

5) Learn NLP! NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) has some pretty impressive, no nonsense, tools that you can use for improving your life. It will be one the best investments of your time and money that you can make. You don’t have to become an expert, even learning the basics from any “off the shelf book” and acquiring a basic understanding will improve the quality of your life and your relationships. It will enhance your skills no matter what profession you’re in, whether you’re a house husband, a lawyer, a high powered business woman, it will benefit you!

6) Even if your life is going amazingly well, get a Life Coach! I’m not being biased in this because I am one! :P In fact, when you’re life is going amazing is the best time to get one because they will be able work with you to enhance your performance! If your life isn’t going so great, get one and you’ll be amazed at the results. They don’t perform magic, they just know how to ellicit the best from people!

7) I’ve said it before many times and I’ll say it again! Follow the 5 a day rule! Make sure that you incorporate these 5 things into your day, every day! 1) Meditate, 2) Smile, 3) Laugh, 4) Give, 5) Appreciate! They don’t have to follow any particular order but if I were to say one was mandatory, it would number 5, to appreciate and have gratitude for everything in your life! If you can do that one consistently and regularly then the other 4 will pretty much come naturally!

8 ) If you’re not sure what to do with your life the sure fire way of getting out of that rut is to put yourself out there and try different things. Watching Eastenders, even at the best of times, isn’t going to improve the quality of your life. What will is being social, interactive and experimenting with various activities like a sport or doing some charity work! Activities like that will enhance your focus and give you some clearer purpose and direction. The rule of thumb is to do something that completely takes you away from what you would normally do. If you’re normally on a computer or games console, then get out there and try a new sport or go speed dating! Anything that challenges who you are is worth trying once!

9) So often these days the first thing a person will tell me about is how tired they are! I’m no doc but one of the main reasons why people get so tired is because we’re so used to cars and junk food and living a lazy lifestyle it’s no surprise that lethargy sets in. We’re no longer use to physical exertion! When you feel tired is the precise moment you should get up and do some physical activity, push your body beyond what it’s used to and soon you’ll start feeling less tired! Another reason it lack of “good quality” sleep. Even if you’re consuming small amounts of caffeine, your sleep will be affected. Cut out as much caffeine as possible and was your quality of sleep jump from 3/10 to a 8/10 and you’ll feel more fresh and rejuvenated. You’ll actually wake up feeling like you’ve had enough sleep and be ready for your day!

10) Last but not least, tip 10 is read my blog and make it part of your daily spiritual digest! :lol: Ok that was a joke! You are valuable and important, make sure you make time for yourself on a regular basis. Whether that be 20 minutes a day to have some quiet time or whether you take 1 whole day a month and dedicate it to yourself is up to you but make it a regular ritual! We dedicate so much time to everyone else and unless we take the time to look after ourselves and nuture our well being that any pleasures in life will be short lived. The more you make time for yourself and take a step out of your life and become a spectator with an attitude of gratitude the more you will feel naturally happy and the more you will enjoy life.

There we have it folks, my top 10 tips and learnings from the 100 days of wisdom! Thank you so much to all of you who have left me messages, comments, sent me emails of blessing and well wishes! I truly hope this has been something you’ve not only enjoyed but something that you’ve got use out of too! Stay tuned for the next 100 days series! :-D

With love,

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Sep 4

Life is a paradox!

Whoever designed life had a great sense of humour. S/he obviously knew that making life easy would not be fulfilling for the human spirit so they decided to create the paradox project and built it into the fabric in life in many ways to keep us guessing, not because they felt like being cruel or deliberately frustrating us, but to challenge us and our way of thinking. For me, life isn’t there to be figured out, it’s there to take us to the next evolutionary jump in conscious, to facilitate eternal growth.

Let me clarify.

Anyone who’s been to a Tony Robbins seminar will know very well one of the paradoxs I’m talking about. In him seminars, Tony talks about the 6 human needs. Two are those needs are a paradox as one is the need of “certainty” and the other is the need of “uncertainty”.

That’s just one example, here are a few more that I want to contribute to the philosophy of paradox.

In order to become selfless, you must first become selfish. In order to become selfish you must first become selfless. What do I mean? Are you ready for this? Are you sure? :lol: You cannot help others until you help yourself. You cannot help yourself until you help others. If you want to change the world you must first change yourself. To clarify, if you want to be in a better position to help others or to help the world, it makes perfect sense to prepare yourself for that task. In preparing yourself you will find that other people will come to you for your support and your guidance. The selfishness comes in the form of valuing yourself and yourtime. The selflessness comes from not turning people away when they need you. It will forever be a paradox the you will face on whatever path of growth that you choose

There is another law that I call the law of simple complexity, or, as I call it, the simplexity! :P In the process of learning knowledge, everything will seem simple as easy. As you learn more and things may seem more complex and difficult to grasp. Then ultimately you realise it was a simple principle behind the whole thing and so you have one again returned to simpleness. I believe that no matter how complex this universe may seem that ultimately it is made of simplicity.

You will find these paradox’s wherever you go and in whatever you do. Their purpose is also a paradox. It’s not meant to be understood, it’s meant to be enjoyed!

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Aug 23

People talk about six degrees of separation, but that’s just on the physical layer! When we get down to metaphysics, there are not six degrees, it’s zero degrees because ultimately we are all connected. When you go back to the big bang singularity, you, me, the car you drive, the tree across the street, the rat in your garbage were all just a mass of vibrating energy until we chose to explode in the great cosmic awareness that we are today. As Pythagoras stated everything in this universe will return to it’s original state so sooner or later, you, me the car you drive, the tree across the street, the rat in your garbage will all coalesce again into one single mass of vibrating, infinitely dense energy. Everything in this universe is forever connected.

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Aug 22

It’s not about the sight you see, it’s about the sight you see it with!

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Aug 21
100 Days of Wisdom…Day 96
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Isn’t it funny how when you stop looking for “it”, “it” shows up knocking at your door!

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Aug 20
100 Days of Wisdom…Day 95
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Kitaro Nishida said: “If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think that there can probably be no greater happiness than this.”

While I was reading this quote in my little zen companion book on my desk at work, it made me realise the simple truth that as children we become so eager to become adults and when we become adults we become eager to become like children.

I had written this a few days ago and just after I had written this a person I am life coaching came to me and said those exact words, almost word for word in a conversation we were having. It’s something we all realise and yet we repeat those mistakes onto our children by letting them rush into adulthood only to find that they don’t like what they see and want to go back to their childhoods.

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Aug 18

It can be quite easy to get overcome by someone’s negative energy when you’re in their presence. What it will be worth doing on your part is instead of focusing on their negative energy, focus on your positive energy and then what you will find is that your positive energy will envelope and transform them.

This may sound like a bit of new age mumbo jumbo but try it for yourself and see. If you notice someone, a friend or stranger, being totally negative and only sharing their stories of what’s wrong in their life, stop them in their tracks!! Then, don’t talk about what’s good in your life but rather find out what they like or enjoy and then fully participate with them in that enjoyment, show interest and ask questions to get them excited. You’ll see for yourself how fast the energy and dynamic of their persona will change!

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Aug 17
100 Days of Wisdom…Day 93
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You can only learn new knowledge fully once you’ve fully lived it and applied it to life. That is called wisdom and when you have wisdom you’re in a position to then share that with other people. Anything else is just empty words.

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Aug 16

Life has no meaning or purpose except the meaning and purpose we choose to give it. So, now you know, what does life mean and what purpose does it hold for you?

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Aug 15

From guilt to gratitude!

Why be even more tough on yourself if you’re having a genuinely bad day? Being tough on yourself is the worst way to overcome that feeling as you’ll just dig yourself deeper and deeper into it and then you’ll just end up feeling even worse! When you punish yourself with guilt and frustration you doom yourself to repeating the same cycle over and over. The next time you have a bad day, instead of cursing yourself and trying to make yourself feel guilty, try this approach. Say to yourself; “I’m having a bad day and on this day, because I feel bad I will do whatever it is I feel like doing! Whether that doing a movie marathon or eating all the foods you know are bad for me! I’m thankful for this time, as it makes me appreciate even more the good days that I have!”

When you no longer punish yourself and you turn your guilt into gratitude, you will find that automatically you will start to feel much better faster and before you even know it your bad will be over and it’ll end up being a great and productive day! I had one such day recently and automatically without even realising it I was cursing myself and in turn that was making me feel even more like shit! When I realised what I was doing, I turned it around, I accepted the bad day for what it was and just did the things I loved doing like I watched a few movies back to back and I ate tonnes of food! Instead of feeling guilty about any of those actions I changed my inner dialogue to one of gratitude and made the conscious choice that I was going to enjoy the “bad” day and lowen behold, before I had even realised, it had turned into a good day!

The next time you catch yourself cursing or making yourself feel guilty, turn on the gratitude switch instead and I gaurantee that the guilt and cursing will extinguish rapidly!

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Aug 14

Luck may favour the prepared but life favours the grateful.

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Aug 13

There are always exceptions to the rule. Those who find the exceptions to the rules of life are the ones who will live it to the full! In essence, become the exception to the rule if you truly want to shape this world into a better place.

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Aug 11

Special Relativity

For me, it’s not about special relativity so much as relativity which is infinitely special. It’s with the true gift of contrast and relative experience that I enjoy the greatest things that I can possibly imagine. So everyday I give extra special thanks for the special relative universe I have the great gift of being a part of.

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Aug 10

I see the world as a reflection of myself.

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Aug 9

A truly important question to ask yourself when facing a tough decision is this: 10 years from now, looking back at this very decision, would I like to look back with pride and gratitude at the decision I made? Or would regret suit me better?

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Aug 8
100 Days of Wisdom…Day 85
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We are not inherently born good or bad, we choose what we become along the way. Yes there are other factors involved, like parental influences, peers, environment, among others. Ultimately though, no matter the external factors it is always the inner voice that dictates what we do and that inner voice is always under our control. Choose every action consciously!

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Aug 7

Post 300!

Yes this is my 300th post on this blog and it seems like not so long ago that it was my 200th!

In every pursuit it’s easy to hit a plateau. Lets say for example you decide that you no longer want to use the lifts at your office and you decide you want to use the stairs from now on! You work on the 5th floor and so every day you walk up the stairs. Now what will happen is that you’ll expect yourself to get used to the stair climbing pretty quickly!

However, it doesn’t quite work like that. For the first week or two you may even find yourself getting more tired and more puffed out by the time you reach the top and then you’ll hit a point where you get so tired where you feel like you want to stop doing it! That is exactly the point at which you must continue!

If you give in at that point, you’ll enter the world fruitless repetition where you may try again in about 6 months but the same thing will happen again! It’s at that point where you get the most tired that you must choose to continue because it’s when you push yourself when you least feel like doing it is the time that you will grow the most and when you will overcome the plateau!

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Aug 5

It is not your job in life to “make” others happy. Do not fall into that trap. You and only you alone are responsible for you well being and happiness. As soon as you try and put that torch into someone else’s hands you set yourself up to be hurt. Instead, find ways of making yourself happy and then through your happiness, increase other peoples enjoyment of life. Yours will increase concurrently!

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Aug 4

We truly have amazing power within us, are you truly tapping into your full potential?

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