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These Simple Practices Results In Big Changes!

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“There are some simple practices that result in big changes. Would you like to know what they are? They will work, absolutely, but you do have to do them. If you wanted to be as fit as an athlete then you would need to condition yourself as an athlete does. If you understand this everything becomes much easier.

Here are some of the things you want to do. In doing them life becomes easier and more joyful. You start finding new opportunity and advantages because you begin to develop new positive ways of being as habits.

Habits shape your destiny. Good habits, positive ones mean good things ahead. If you don’t change your habits for the better things end up remaining the same. So if you are determined that your life must change then realize you must change some things in your life.

To Know And Not To Do Is To Not Know

What you resist persists. Stop resisting! Stop fighting. Let go. What you pour your energy into is what you get. If you pour your energy into poverty and negativity you get more of the same. Pour your energy into wealth and health and you’ll get more of those.

What you focus on expands. What you think about you bring about. So manage your thoughts.YOU direct them instead of letting them direct you. You can and you must if you want a different and better life. You must make directing your thoughts a positive habit. How?

Start by being grateful. Celebrate everything. Look for things in your life, no matter how small, and put your positive attention on these. Be appreciative.

Build a list each day and feel how it feels to be grateful. Feelings are the most important. Feel it! Smile and laugh more! Delight more and spread it!

Action Is The Proper Fruit Of Knowledge 

Recite positive mantras or affirmations out loud with enthusiasm and energy whenever you can throughout the day. ‘I am confident’. or ‘I have great health’ assertions.

Speak nicely to yourself and others. Only speak to bless, heal and prosper. Drop negativity and gossip. Focus on the good, leave bad news alone.

Be Positive. Any words that follow ‘I am’ or’I have’ is what you get. So ‘I am stupid’ or “I have no money’ result in those too. Keep it positive and fill your day with positive assertions and affirmations. Use lots of energy.

Visualize what you want as if you already have it! See it! You get what you see and what you say and what you feel! Imagine the ideal you and feel what it is like to be that right now. Do not imagine a better future make it all present. Imagine a better you today!

Aim at what you want. Think intentionally and create deliberately. Use your imagination positively. Stop being a victim. Be responsible for everything in your life.

Practice taking responsibility instead of blaming others and circumstance.  It isn’t rocket science. It is simple and easy. Decide that YOU are in charge and YOU will be.

The Mind Is Only As Strong As Its Weakest Think

Focus on what you want. Focus on where you want to go. DO what you need to do to get there. Keep doing until you arrive. If anything comes up along the way to prevent you,  detour and keep heading toward your destination. Enjoy the journey. Enjoy the process.

Remember it is a process. That means you change as you go along. Everything happens in time. Expect the best but be realistic and give yourself time to change. If you stumble and fall get up, dust off, and resume. Don’t skip days be consistent and persistent.

If you fall, accept it, pat yourself on the back for getting up and resuming. Don’t get angry or down on yourself. It’s okay. You are human, we all stumble.

Those who get up and keep going eventually cross the finish line. It doesn’t matter that it may be tough at times if you want it badly enough you’ll keep going. Those who quit – quit. If you want it, never stop.

What You Feel Is What You Get

Feelings are important! Feel better most of the time and you will feel good most of the time. Put your energy into feeling the best you can each moment.  You life will transform your entire life. Again, it’s not rocket science. Just do it! Make feeling good a positive habit!

If you feel down accept it. It is okay. We all have down moments. Nothing wrong in that. Take it as a signal that you are focused on what you don’t want or on negativity. Use this awareness as an opportunity to direct your thinking back to the positive.

Do something to feel a little bit better. Even just a little bit is important. You don’t have to make a huge leap toward bliss just learn to move an inch or two in that direction.

A leap may be too difficult but you can inch your way out, away from the bad feelings and move towards feeling better. So make small, incremental changes BUT make them.

Don’t wait – begin as soon as you become aware. You want to savor positive feelings not negative ones. SO move as soon as you notice the less than glorious feelings.

Be In Charge Of Your Circumstances Don’t Let Them Be In Charge

If you do this each time you feel down and out you will develop the habit of feeling better.  So don’t get mad or worse, don’t beat yourself up, if you feel down, but stop and then start moving away from the bad feelings. Notice the negative thoughts and change them.

Start thinking more positive. and taking some action or doing something that helps you feel a bit better. Before you know it you will move your self our of feeling bad. Learn that your bad feelings are a signal. Something requires your attention so you can change it.

These are simple things to do. Easy, but not always. You just need to do them consistently. Do not wait to feel like it or to be motivated. Motivation usually comes from doing what you need to do, not before hand as many people mistakenly think. Motivation comes from the act not by getting pumped up.

Many athletes don’t feel like getting up early and going out running or swimming or working out hard. They just know that if they want to win, or get a medal then they must workout everyday without exception. They don’t feel like it frequently but they do it anyway. It becomes habit. They benefit from their positive habits.

Celebrate and Enjoy

Your habits will break or make you. Develop the best positive habits and your life will transform. Stay the same and you will live the same. That is the hard cold truth. Have fun changing. Have fun transforming your life. It can be easier than you think it is, but you will only find that out, if and when you actually go for it. Do it!” Rex Sikes

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Why Don’t You Just Say It Is So?

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“Do you know people who live beneath their potential? You look at them and you see things, positive things, within them that they do not see. Perhaps, you wonder to yourself, will they ever get it? Will they ever see their true potential? Do you know anyone whom you think this of?

Often, we see in others what is accurate about ourself. It’s called projection. At other times, we miss completely what is true about ourselves but do see it in others. Either way, I’d like to point out that you already have everything within you to have an incredible day.

It is a good day to have a good day.

SO go ahead say it! Say it! Declare it! Decide it will be so AND it will be so. Make the day conform to your will. Be in charge of today. Determine that you will enjoy it no matter what. You will find a way.

Live as an emperor. Because as an emperor you can command it! SO decide you are an emperor in charge of your own life and of your day today. Since you are the emperor declare this day your day to enjoy! Command it.Clap your hands and make it so! Celebrate and delight. Say it is!

Be the victor over your circumstances. Declare it to be so. Affirm it. Make it the way you want it to be. Be positive. Exercise your power. Exercise your authority over your own life. Make it what you want!

What you say is what you get. Make today your day. Don’t wait to feel great say you feel great. Do what it takes to feel great! Smile, affirm, put your chin and chest out and shoulders back. Strut. OR enjoy feeling peaceful.  You decide. You declare. You create it!

Stop being a victim start being a victor. Live with passion, enthusiasm. delight and vigor. Make it a point to enjoy the day and you will. Set a smile on your lips and share it with others. Radiate joy and happiness just because you can.

Then give it away to others! Help them have a good day too. Spread it around because what goes around comes around. You will get back what you put out! Be in charge. Take control. Live it and share it the way you want. Be positive and be powerful. Celebrate and be grateful!” Rex Sikes

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How To Grease The Wheel And Make Life Much, Much Easier!

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“A lot of people complain that life is hard. Work is hard. They don’t enjoy it enough. For many it is a struggle. They’d like it to be easier. Wouldn’t you? Would you like life to somehow seem as if everything just fits. It all works, it’s fun. Things come to you much more easily?

It is possible? It comes at a price. There is a cost. It doesn’t come for free but you can have it. It is there and it is yours for the taking. You will be required to do something. Will you do it? If you pay the cost anything and everything can be yours.

Earl Nightengale is known to have said, ‘Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the universe.’ His is an accurate statement.

As you learn to control your mind, using autosuggestion wisely, and adhere to the laws and principles of the universe, life will become a more fascinating and amazing adventure. Things get easier. Good fortune, advantage and opportunity more easily comes you way.

You will discover yourself attracting the right people, events, circumstances and resources to yourself at the right time whenever you need them. Unexpected good will come your way but it won’t surprise you because you will grow to expect good things.

When obstacles arise you will find yourself more resourceful and able to melt them away. What you need when you need it becomes available to you.

Yes, life transforms incredibly! How? By study and applying what you learn. The proper fruit of knowledge is action. To know and not to do is not to know. It isn’t enough to read about things you have to use the things you read about.

‘Act as if’ is mental rehearsal. Practice Visualization, Affirmations, Directed Questions™,  and Gratefulness. All are tools to apply to transform your life. They will shape your focus, your concentration, your will and your attitude. If you read about them but don’t utilize them nothing will be different.

You will be the same. You will remain among the countless 1000’s who never do anything with the information they have. Stop right now and make a decision to make your life different, Create the life you want to have.

Develop the success habits through correct practice and spaced repetition. Consider this: you can read all you want about playing the piano. You can listen to music, but if you never touch a keyboard, play and practice you will never be a pianist. It requires effort.

To be a successful, deliberate, intentional thinker, creator and attractor requires effort. To be happy and successful requires effort. Do the right things, in the right way, long enough and you will develop the skills and talents you need to be happy and successful!

That is this price. If you are willing to pay the price the world is your oyster. You will learn that you can literally be, do and have anything you want within reason.

What do I mean by that? Within the scope of the laws of the universe. Chances are you won’t fly or become invisible. But most everything else  (within reason) is yours for the having.

William James has said, ‘The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their mind.’

‘The only thing that will grow is the thing we give energy to.’ said Emerson

Don’t let your knowledge wither and die, or remain untapped within the pages of a book or a blog. Put it to work and make your life marvelous. You will be delighted and surprised but only when you actually use the tools.” Rex Sikes

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Do You Want More Of The Same Or Something Better?

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“Why does it seem you struggle but don’t get ahead? How come things don’t work out? Do you ant more of the same or would you like it to be different? There is a precise reason you aren’t getting what you want. Would you like to know what it is?

If you aren’t getting what you want you must change something! It is true. If you want your life to change you must change something in your life. What do you change? What must you do? What has to be different for you to move forward and have the life you want?

You must not let your present circumstances dictate your thinking!

If you look at what is going on around you and don’t like it and fret about, are anxious about it and don’t like it you are guaranteed to get more of the same. Emerson said, ‘the only thing that can grow is the thing that you give energy to.’

Don’t spend time focused on unproductive things. Stop focusing on problems. You need to let go of what is going on and focus on what you want. You must not let your thinking be consumed by what you want to avoid and do not like. This is what you must change.

You need to focus on what you absolutely DO want!

How do you know what you want? Well, you know that you don’t want, the present circumstances. Use these to help you imagine what you do want. Think of it this way. ‘I don’t want to stand.’ ‘Okay, what is it you do want?’  ‘I want to sit.’  ‘Then focus and put your attention and energy on sitting. Forget about standing.’  Get it?

Use what you don’t want to clarify what you do want. Then remove your attention from what you don’t want. Stop thinking about the present circumstances; what you don’t like and prefer to avoid. Instead, focus on what you want.

Your present is a result of your previous thinking. It rarely reflect what you do want. Stop thinking about what is and place your focus on what you want instead. The same is true of your negative feelings. Use them as a signal to stop to change your thinking.

What do I mean? Your engine overheat light on your dash is a signal alerting you to what is wrong. You glance at it occasionally when driving but you keep your eye mostly on the road ahead where you want to go. You do not spend your time looking at the light or thinking about it.

If it goes on you notice it. It alerts you! It is a signal. You know you something is wrong and a repair or adjustment it needed.  Once alerted you don’t have to continue to focus on the light any longer.

You go get the car repaired. You use present circumstances and your less than glorious feelings to turn your attention  away from the unwanted so you can place it where it is supposed to be.

What you think about you  bring about. What you focus on expands.

Imagine yourself in a dark room.  How do you get rid of the darkness? Do you focus on it? DO you spend your time concerned with the dark and how it will be dark in the future? NO you turn on the light. Once you turn on the light the darkness is gone.

Turn on your light! Realize you control your focus. If it doesn’t feel like it IT only means you need to train it. Just like training a puppy you need to train your attention. You need to condition yourself for happiness and success. That is all but you do need to do it.

How? You do it by repeatedly removing you attention from the unwanted and putting it on what you do want. You repeat this until it becomes a habit. It takes at least a month of spaced repetition to make a habit.  Maybe more or less days depending on how frequently you do it.

If you water and nurture the plant it will grow.

Your ability to control your thoughts. Your ability to concentrate, and place your attention deliberately is a skill you can develop. You learn it and train it as any other skill.  You succeed by devoting yourself to making new positive, reliable habits.

You can do it! It is simple. It requires your dedication for awhile because you are undergoing a conditioning process. You are building thought muscles. Nurture what you want and you will get what you want back in return. Remember this! Keep your focus on what you want and you will get more of that. BECAUSE you get whatever you focus on.” Rex Sikes

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Manifesting Miracles Challenge 101

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“I’d like to point something out about the 24 hour Manifestation Challenge I spoke of in my last post. I know that many will think my finding 100 dollars was coincidence or synchronicity. It well may be. That doesn’t matter.

I shared the example hopefully, so some would understand that while I was at home, doing nothing, nothing seemed to be happening. This makes perfect sense. It wasn’t until I got out and took some actions that I discovered the bill.

My point is to sit home and wish for changes is hoping that somehow magically circumstances change and you are magically delivered the object of your desire. You can chant for gold or you can mine for gold. I think mining will get you there faster.

Make Your Own Magic

Mining and chanting together may get you there even quicker and easier because you have the appropriate mindset to discover it faster. It may be more inspiring and fun. You have a great attitude and the energy to do what it takes.

Manifesting is active creation. You and I, the creators are responsible for what we create. It means we have a dominant chief aim we focus on. We become passionate about it. Believe we deserve it and will have it. Then we do whatever positive actions are required to get it.

It doesn’t mean sitting there wishing and dreaming and hoping that it somehow shows up in our lap. Having said all this, I am still open to the possibility that things can and may work in ways none of us can understand, figure out or predict. There may be miracles and blessings and magic. Who knows? What do you believe?

I just don’t rely on those. I am open to them and embrace them. I do think if you want transformation you have to make it happen. You create it. You ask, you knock, you seek and you find. It is proactive! Even the word create implies you do something. So does the word attract.

Those Who Don’t Believe In Magic Will Never Find It

You attract or create what you focus on. THAT is the key.

You don’t actually get what you want. Nope, that is what we tell you do to; focus on what you want.  You actually GET what you focus on. So you’d better focus on what you want if that is what you want to get. Sadly, too many people are focused on what they don’t want and what they prefer to avoid so they keep getting more of the same.

What you hold in your mind you can hold in your hand. What you think about you bring about. Whether it is positive or negative, whether you want it or don’t want it; you get what you focus on.  You become what you think about. Remember? You should!

THAT is WHY it IS important to focus on WHAT YOU WANT. Focus on what is is positive and good. Otherwise, you will get anything else by default. Worse yet, you will get precisely what you want you don’t want. What you fear, worry about or want to avoid.

So make sure what you are focused on most of the time is what you want more of! Okay?

I think this next point is important too. It has to do with being grateful, finding blessings and feeling blessed. Anything can and is a blessing. A blessing is whatever you want to be a blessing. Remember, this too! We can find plenty to feel good about!

Until Further Notice Celebrate Everything

Even though I stayed at home working there was plenty to be grateful for or take as a signal. I had a great time at work.  Lot’s of productivity and flow. It was a delightful day. Twice during the day my daughter came in and we had lengthy, positive, connecting loving conversations, which surpass finding a 100 dollars any day. Any day!

Not only that but the 100 I found was money I had lost weeks before. It was weathered and In the same bank envelop with my receipt in it. I didn’t mention this yesterday but my loss turned out to be my gain in more ways than one. Surprise! What I thought lost was found!

The point is blessings are everywhere. Blessings can be anything we call blessings. Live expecting to be blessed and you will find them. Live expecting to be cursed and you will too. Your brain doesn’t care whether you think positive or negative it merely delivers whatever you focus on.

Wake Up With The Thought Something Wonderful Will Happen

Blessings abound but you have to seek and you have to find. You must do something to discover them. You must do something to create them. If nothing else, you at least have to look. I think it is wonderful to take inventory and count them daily!

Unexpected good is awesome. Life is abundant. Never say never, not even to magic. Be open and anything is possible. Believe and you will find. There is so much truth in this. Our expectations shape our perceptions. If we believe we will be blessed in unexpected ways IT IS FAR more likely than if we don’t believe it. Be open! Allow for it!

You will find it the more you let go of prior conditioning, blames, excuses, attributions of responsibility on others, events or circumstances. Let go and be open. There is so much more good going on than our little brains and minds can even begin to comprehend. To get even a taste, a glimpse, a sliver, is magnificent.

There Is Always Something To Celebrate And Be Thankful For

We have been discussing beliefs for a while in posts now so notice magic, coincidence, synchronicity, attraction, creation, we have beliefs around these. Is it possible or not? Easy or hard? It is up to you. Whatever you decide your brain will seek to prove.

Live with power. Find your power. Discover that which you are already. You are completely resourceful, optimistic, positive and powerful. Live fully, with passion and enthusiasm and fun. Delight and celebrate everything.

Whether or not there is magic, know this, you are magic. You are more magical and powerful than you have ever imagined. I hope you discover it soon. BUT, whenever you discover it that will be the right time for you!” Rex Sikes

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I Accepted The 24 Hour Manifestation Challenge And Won!!!

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“So I accepted a 24 hour manifestation challenge. What do you think happened? I was challenged to create or attract some blessings that would constitute a sign or signal that the universe was intelligent and benevolent.

The challenge hours were from 5pm Friday to 5pm Saturday. I had been working at home all day, both Friday night and Saturday day. Nothing happened. I stayed positive but nothing happened.

The clock ticked by, and the deadline got closer. I thought, maybe I would go to the mailbox and, perhaps, there would be a letter. It was after 4pm. Nope. Nothing there either. Clock was still ticking away.

Maybe The Sun Rises Just For You

So, I got curious what might, would, could, happen, in the next forty or fewer minutes.  Then about 4:45pm I returned home from the mail box and started cleaning up around the house.

I picked up some debris, trash items, kids throw in street or yard. I was outside, picking up a couple papers and soda cans. I sifted through a few items and found 100 dollars. In my yard. 100 very weathered dollars!

I will take that as a yes! Some will say coincidence. I am fine with that. Some will say we get what we expect and I am good with that. Some will say I am deluded. I am fine with that, AND, I’m 100 dollars better off. I will take that as a big yes.

Count Blessings Not Troubles

I set the expectation that something positive and unexpected would happen within 24 hours (as a challenge test) and within 15 minutes to the end point I made a discovery. I call it a good one or a blessing.

Some will say yeah, ‘that is what you call it’. I am fine with that too. What would you call my discovery? I call it fortuitous. I call it wonderful. I call it, maybe I’d have found it anyway, who cares? I am glad . I call it a yes!

Perhaps, I’d have made many more if I went out and about instead of working on computer both days. Perhaps. AND perhaps, I’d have discovered something on the computer too. Who knows?

Look For Blessings In All Situations

Still, I am grateful. I think I will take the challenge again just to see what else comes up unexpectedly that I might enjoy. Wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t you want to do it again and again?

Hmmmm, maybe I’ll do it everyday. What do you think? Are you a little bit envious or do you you celebrate my good fortune? It can be your good fortune too. If you haven’t been blessed like this and recognized it before, now is the time to start seeking.

Don’t you think? Actually, I do each day. AND each day I find things to be grateful for and celebrate. Still, it was odd and marvelous to be challenged. That in itself is a blessing!

There Is Always Something To Be Grateful For

Everyday there are countless blessings and good things to discover if we only look for them. This world is a pretty wonderful place! Look for all the good. Leave the bad news, and trauma drama alone. Look for and seek blessings and gifts to celebrate.

Remember, we get what we focus on. I was open to being blessed in any number of ways. I didn’t care how or in what way it would come. I was simply open to something, delightfully, good and unexpected happening within 24 hour time frame.

If we seek we shall find whatever we are seeking. Count your blessings and expect more! Be ready for a miracle. Plan for one. You are more likely to receive one if you are prepared to receive one. AND you can still be surprised!

Remember How Blessed You Are

I think everyday we should expect miracles and blessings, gifts and coincidences. It doesn’t matter what we call it. Perhaps, we should just do it and be grateful! Then keep doing it!  Delight and enjoy! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

How will you delight in today?

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What To Do When Life Is Tough And You Don’t Like It!

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“Know this. Some days you are up and on top of the world. Some days you aren’t. Sometimes, things may come along and knock the wind out of your sails. Some days may just seem to drag. Some suck! All of it is what is. That is what is going on.

If you fight it, well you know the saying; what you resist persists, and it is true. If you push back you spend your energy in a fight. Then you get more of what you are focused on; push back. You get more resistance. If you don’t want more of the same yuckiness, what to do?

I say, throw your arms up and surrender. It is what it is! That is what the waitress brought you. Yuckiness on your dinner plate. You can get sad, you can get mad, you can fight her, it, and the establishment, you can threaten, you can blame, you can whine but that is what was served up. Do you really want to do all the rest of that to yourself?

What You Resist Persists

Hopefully not. So don’t! Understand that is what you got and let it go. Drop it, at least as best as you are able. Any time you are tempted to return to it think something else. FOR GOODNESS SAKE don’t talk about it to everyone all day long either. You only keep the bad news alive that much longer. Don’t perpetuate it!

It was what it was. Let it go. It is already in the past an instant later. You were served what you didn’t want. OKAY! Be bigger than it. Don’t reduce yourself to that person in public griping that no one likes. ORDER something else for yourself! You didn’t get what you want, you got slop instead of savory, ORDER something else!

Whenever you may realize you got caught up, got hooked and are fighting the flow, resisting what is, in that instance, drop it. Let it go and focus on what you would prefer instead of what is causing discomfort. To argue over what causes discomfort will only make you more uncomfortable.

You Go Where Your Thought Take You

If you feel you have to be right, put another person in their place, teach them a lesson, well, most likely you won’t and they will only resent you more afterwards. None of us like self-righteousness, even when it may be appropriate. SO give them and the world and you a break.

Cut everyone and yourself some slack. Ease off. Back up, stop, and move forward new and afresh. Going down the wrong road further won’t undo the mistake already made. Stop, turn around, change direction and head towards where you want to go. Heck, laugh it off.

Probably, the best response you can have when you catch yourself being an idiot is to laugh. Not at yourself or anyone else; you wouldn’t want to do that. Let it go and just laugh  at how ridiculous it is to fight what is. There is the saying, no use beating a dead horse. Sorry for that but it is illustrative.

It Is What It Is

Okay, better one, no use crying over spilt milk. OR it is water over the damn. What is IS! What is done is done! Move on from that moment cleanly. The only way to successfully do that is to drop it. Accept it and go on. My favorite analogy and teaching example of going with the flow in our modern age, is traffic.

The zen of not driving or not caring is learned in traffic. You can’t push it but you can try. When stuck and surrounded there is no where to go, so relax you can’t change it until it changes. LET IT GO. That person that cut you off they are already ahead of you leave them be. That person who gave you the finger, bless them; returning it my make you feel right but won’t make you feel much better.

Yes, traffic is the perfect place to let it all go and learn to surrender to what is. Use it to enjoy. Yes, you will be late, but that is what is. You may be reprimanded, docked or fired. Leave earlier next time. It is what it is. Use whatever happens to learn to not react out of anger, or fight or flight, but to let go, accept and respond more appropriately.

Realize You Always Have Choice Even When You Think You Don’t

Celebrate and be grateful you are able to. Celebrate and affirm how wonderful you are. You have all this extra time for yourself to chant your positive mantras in the car or listen to positive motivational audios. Use it wisely rather than loosing your cool. Steer back to positive thinking and feeling good and you will have learned something useful.

If you steer back each time, as best as possible, you are developing a positive habit. Whenever you encounter something less than glorious, something you don’t like and wouldn’t choose for yourself, you are returning to what is good, positive and enjoyable.

You seek a better alternative. Soon you will do it automatically, reliably and habitually. What a wonderful tradeoff. You learned to make your life more grand by default. SO use your not so good times to create better times ahead. Be grateful you can. Celebrate it all and you will live a life of true, absolute celebration!” Rex Sikes

How many delightful things can you discover today!

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Yes! Everything Can Be Different And Better In An Instant!

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“We can change in seconds. Transformation is instantaneous! We can have miracles anytime! The problem is most of us don’t believe it. Do you? Does your being resound with YES!!! OR do you go, ‘yeah, I wish…’ We have been discussing beliefs lately and I’d like to continue. The reason we don’t change rapidly is we don’t believe we can.

According to ancient and modern texts change, enlightenment, transformation, miracles can and do all happen quickly. We do not have to struggle along or incrementally make changes day after day week after week. Change can be right now! Still, most of us don’t think so. That is precisely why it doesn’t happen that way.

If You Think You Can Or You Think You Can’t You Are Right

When we think about changing or our lives and what we want many of us think, ‘you have to work hard, climb the success ladder, be lucky, know someone, and even then nothing is for certain’. When it comes to change we think, ‘well, maybe for someone else, doesn’t work that way for me, it is too hard, too costly,’ or any number of reasons.

When we consider change and transformation our paradigms kick in; our collection of beliefs and attitudes, our unconscious, subconscious, habitual thinking we grew up with, and mostly adopted from others, kicks in. That is what it is supposed to do. Remember, the Reticular Activating System.

The RAS looks for proof in the world for whatever you believe or hold in your mind. If you think it is tough and not likely, well then your RAS will prove you right. Therein is the rub. Most of us don’t think fast, instant change or manifestation is possible, we believe a myriad of other things, so we don’t get to experience it.

‘Oh My, How The World Still Dearly Loves A Cage.’ Tess Lynch

Napoleon Hill said you could develop faith and come to believe anything if you repeated it to yourself enough times while feeling strong emotion. This is the process of autosuggestion and it is an ongoing process. One of the reasons we already get the results and circumstances we live with. It works for the negative or the positive.

If we were to imagine change as fast, see ourselves quickly transformed, repeat emotionally charged affirmations that change is quick, easy and fun, we could begin to discover a new world opening up.

If we have as mantras that we are open to instantaneous transformation and manifestation and that anything can happen, anytime, easily and without effort, perhaps, we would come to believe that.

It has been said, a lie repeated often enough gets substituted for the truth. So we need to change our beliefs. STOP! Right there. SOme of you readers, some people instantly think that will be difficult. AND so it is. For those who think it will be fun and easy SO IT IS.

‘For As He Thinketh In His Heart So Is He’ Proverbs 23:7

The key is to decide what you want for yourself and for your world and to assert and declare it. Deliberately create it. Deliberately create your life and experience don’t allow it to be haphazard.

Own it. Command it! Make it so! YES, your old conditioning might do anything and everything to prevent you from changing. The thought gurus will tell you that. They will say, ‘you need to work hard to get at that deep unconscious programming that holds you back.’ Thy’ll tell you they have the secret why The Secret doesn’t work.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Maybe, it is all up to you and what you THINK about it. What you believe will be the case is what you will get. Maybe, change is easy, fun, effortless and quick. I suggest you decide. CHOOSE! Then maintain it. Yes, you might encounter opposition but don’t let that derail or deter you. You determine how you want it to be.

You Are Where Your Thoughts Brought You

BE a deliberate creator and determine what the circumstances will be instead of being a victim of circumstances and whining and making excuses.  You don’t have to live from old conditioning. You can completely transform. BUT maybe only if you believe it is possible. Maybe, even if you don’t believe it is. Hmmmmm?

You have to open the window of possibility even just a bit. A crack. Consider this, water run through a small opening, as in a small tube, increases the pressure and what can be accomplished. Water run through a small opening can cut steel. You might be amazed at how life transforms when you open up to the tiny possibility that it can.

We’ll discuss this some more in upcoming posts. For now, see if you can’t find ways, inside you, to delight in how marvelously easy it is to entertain positive thoughts of gratitude. Celebrate and delight in everything. Take it all lightly, have fun and enjoy! Live and love and laugh!” Rex Sikes

Be glad today!

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How To Become A Winner And Champion!

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“How does one become a winner and a champion? What does it mean to live as an emperor? What is it like to be a victor? What do these people do differently than the rest of us? Are they different or special? Were they born this way? Can we learn to do what they do?

Yes, we can! That is the good news. The champion, the winner, the emperor, the victor determine and dictate the circumstances. They make the world conform to their idea. They begin with an image in their mind of what they want. They hold it, emotionalize it and bring it into being. They create the results they passionately desire.

They determine the outcome in advance. They use their mental faculties and mental powers and resources to create the life they want to live. They don’t make excuses, they don’t blame, they don’t rely on anyone else. They decide and they make it happen.

They focus each day, they affirm, they develop habits that support them. The learn how to concentrate and focus their attention and put their energy only on the good they desire. They think positive, feel positive and know that what they hold in their mind will be a reality. They know they will manifest what they want or better!

Without a doubt they bring it about. Doubt, fear and anxiety know no place in their being. Whenever they feel less than glorious they switch their focus and move back toward the glorious. They know that whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve. So that is what they do.

They know that what you think about is what you become so they only think about the good they want to make happen. They focus on all the good they want to attract. The look for and find opportunity and advantage.

They know how to attract and work with other like minded people to create and manifest their burning desires. Just as positive thoughts flock together and create exponential power so do people. Together they make their dreams their reality. They create it!

Obstacles and challenges contain lessons from which they learn. Their mindset is strong as steel. Their faith unwavering and steady. Their commitment and persistence and spirit indomitable. The never quit but persist until what they hold in their mind is the reality they live.

They call the shots. They determine how the world will conform to them. Were they born this way? Absolutely not! They became this way through dedicated work on oneself. They focused their attention, gained control of their thoughts, their feelings and their actions and made these work for them.

They conditioned themselves by proper practice and spaced repetition. The visualized, they affirmed, they chanted their mantras. The developed belief in themselves and their abilities. They learned how to tap into their intuition and awareness. Everything they have they learned and developed.

The sowed the seeds, nurtured them and in time reaped the harvest. Having learned how they do it once, they did it again and again. Each win, each success building on each other. They transformed themselves into CAN Do people. The fashioned themselves into unstoppable deliberate creators.

The good news. It is not just them that can do this. Many are from poor backgrounds. Many uneducated. Some downright dumb. But they worked and transformed themselves. They made no excuses.

Not one of them is special or born into it. They are the same as you and I with one difference. They decided to do it for themselves. They made a decision and followed through. I bet there were many who dropped out along the way.

If any ONE can do it so can the rest of us. If anyone can do it so can you. Drop the excuses. Stop the whining and the complaining. Decide to take responsibility for yourself. Decide to become invincible. Live fully and live the life you want. Stop being a victim and become a victor! YOU CAN DO THIS! NOW IS THE TIME!” Rex Sikes

Delight all along the way!

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Here’s How You Can Feel Good More Often!

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“Would you like to feel better more often? Would you like to enjoy life more? It is far simpler and easier than most people think it is. Of course, that is because most people think from tired, old, worn out, habitual, pre-conditioned programming we got from others.

Wouldn’t you prefer to think for yourself? Wouldn’t you prefer your thoughts and feelings to serve you as they are supposed to instead of you serving them. Too many people fall victim to what is between their ears and they do not have to. Would you like it to be different?

The key to making your life work and getting what you want is your feelings. The better you feel the better everything works. Is feeling good important? Yes it is! Is feeling good all the time important? Yes, but we are human and all emotions are part of being human.

Feel The Best You Can

Still, the goal is to feel the best you can as much as you can each day. This means that when you don’t you make some effort to change it. What does this mean? It means, notice it. When you feel less than glorious notice it. First, become aware.

Usually we do this without too much difficulty because it is less than glorious. The feelings get our attention. Still, to notice it and become aware of it means to acknowledge it. That is what is going on so accept it. It is what it is. That is how you feel.

These less than glorious feelings are a signal that something is off kilter. Something needs your attention and adjustment. The feelings are a signal alerting you so you can change whatever is the cause of them. You can adjust whatever is going on.

As Often As You Can 

Typically, it is your thoughts have dipped. You are thinking less than gloriously. Your attention and energy is on what is wrong, what you don’t like, what you want to avoid or something in your world that is less than glorious. The feelings are alerting you to this.

If your thoughts are on what is negative your feelings will follow. As your feelings follow you create and attract more of the same thoughts and feelings. As a result your actions follow. Less than glorious results follow. You spiral down. Circumstances suck too!

Your thinking you can change. While it may not be that easy for you if you never tried to change it, you can control your thinking. You are going to want to learn to do it anyway so that instead of crappy life circumstances you begin creating and attracting positive ones.

For As Long As You Can

When you learn how to change your thinking your entire world changes. No longer are you a victim of your thoughts but master of your thoughts. They work for you! They serve you. You determine how things will be instead of living at the mercy of things!

As you steer your thoughts back to positive and productive your feelings will shift. You can also do things to shift them. Do something positive for yourself. Take a bath, go for a walk. Exercise, meditate. Enjoy nature, play with a child or a pet, relax, get active. Do anything that works to shift your feelings for the better.

We tend to do is think, if I don’t feel like it then I can’t. I don’t feel like cleaning my room so I can’t or won’t. We don’t have to feel like cleaning in order to clean but that is something we learned. It is incorrect. That is not acknowledging and validating our feelings well.

Our Thoughts Determine How We Feel

On the other hand. If we suffer loss. We should grieve. We want to acknowledge the contribution and the loss of a loved one. We miss the person. Acknowledge what is going on. Allow and accept that you will feel down and sad. It is totally fine.

That is completely normal. This is different from not feeling like working. Don’t fall for your feelings. Utilize them as a signal and learn to adjust your thinking. It may take a little time because we live from habits we acquired long ago. We need to change our habits.

Consider this. You are an incredible being. You have an awesome brain and heart and are alive in inexplicable ways. You are a bio-chemical, electrical phenomena; a life form and a life force. We are amazing! Yet, we take so much for granted and abuse ourselves so often.

Appreciate How Incredibly Amazing You Are

We should live like emperors, at least in our own skins, if not everywhere else. Instead, we live like beggars. We can be happier, healthier, have more enjoyment and delight in all life offers. Sadly, most people don’t feel like it and think crappy thoughts.

Take control and live as fully as possible for as long as possible. Claim your inner and outer riches. Don’t settle for less but enjoy all the positive good there is to enjoy.  Why not? Whether we go around once or multiple times now is NOW!

Decide to live fully. You deserve it. Once you make a real decision everything will start changing! You have planted a seed. It will grow. Encourage it. Change your thinking habits and your entire life will transform. Live to the utmost. You were meant to!

Live victoriously! Learn to be the master of your thoughts and feelings. You don’t force or deny anything. You learn to understand and accept and work with your bio-systems as all of us are meant to. Live gloriously! Help others to do the same!” Rex Sikes

Make your day delightful!

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