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Principles Of Creation, Manifestation And Attraction You Need To Understand

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“You don’t get what you want as much as you get what you are. You recreate and attract what you already IS. Yes, pardon the grammar but what you IS, are presently, is what you get more of. If you are loving you get more love in return.

You create  what you already are. If you want riches in the future you need to feel and be rich right now. You don’t get wealthy by feeling and being broke. While the reality is you don’t presently have money you must feel as if you do. Get it? This is how it works.

You attract what you are. You attract what you think about. You get back what already you have. Those who have get more. Those who don’t lose what little they have. It is Scripture. You make happen, manifest, attract what you vibrate at. Karma, is what goes around.

The Universe Never Asked You To Struggle It Is Responding To You

This is why feelings are important. You feel rich, then you are rich, then you make riches happen. You vibrate wealth and you create it and attract it. Every cell in you lines up to make it happen. You are congruent with it. You are wealthy even when you don’t yet have it.

You are grateful for it before getting it. You live a little in advance of the world. Before it shows up you enjoy having it. Another way to think about this is, you put in your order with the cosmic waiter or waitress. You ordered your food. The kitchen is making it.

You will get it soon. As you sit there it is being prepared. You are eager to have it. You plan to enjoy it shortly. You don’t doubt or worry about the kitchen not making it or the waitstaff not delivering it. You are prepared to eat it. As far as you are concerned it is yours.

To Bring Anything Into Your Life Imagine It Is Already There

It is yours already because you ordered it. This is the same attitude you must have about your future. You put in the order. You saw what you wanted. You affirmed it. NOW it is coming. It is on the way. You don’t need to beg, you don’t need to convince it is yours. It is yours!

Accept it. Allow it. Eagerly anticipate it. Receive it. Be happy it is coming. Be grateful it is yours. Delight in it. You are getting what you wanted. This is the mindset. These are the feelings. You are delighted and secure. You are the person who has what is desired.

You are wealthy the material wealth is on the way. You are love the right relationship is on the way. You are the proud new home owner the house is on the way. You are healthy right now. You are whatever it is you desire for the future, right now IN the present.

Your Thoughts Are The Architects Of Your Destiny – Careful

The gap is only in time. The gap is the time between when the order is placed, the seed planted, and the order arrives, the plant grows and you harvest. You reap what you have sown. How you wait determines whether you get it quicker or slower. Do you get it?

If you go into the restaurant and create commotion and prevent the chefs and staff from doing their job it takes longer to get your food, if at all. If you dig up the plants before they bloom you won’t reap what you sowed. You wait patiently and expectantly. Eagerly is fine.

You know, you have faith, you are CERTAIN it is coming. It is on the way. The seeds are growing and one day the plant breaks through. Your birthday is arriving and you’ll celebrate and get gifts. It will happen. Enjoy. Celebrate and wait with anticipation.

The Only Person You Are Become Is The One You Decide To Be

You anticipate what you know will happen. You expect it. So you are able to enjoy and go about other things. When you think about it you think about how great it is to have it. What you think about you become. You think about how wonderful you are it. Understand?

You create more of what already IS! If you focus on lack and worry about bills and don’t feel you have enough that is what you get back in return. That is what you are seeing, visualizing, affirming, being and vibrating. That is what you create and attract.

You are getting what you don’t want. The universe, your subconscious can only respond by saying yes to whatever you have going on inside of you. Your thoughts and feelings run the show. Worry is negative practice. What you focus on you get.

We Receive Exactly What We Expect To Receive

Stop. Create only what you intend. Become deliberate in what you focus on. Learn to control you attention. What occupies it is where energy goes. Where the energy flows is what you create. So instead, be grateful, for the invisible good you want, as if you have it already.

Delight, live as if. Act as if you are already it. Enjoy, delight, and celebrate. Be thankful. Live in gratitude. Appreciate and continue to look for more to enjoy. Life gets better and better as you do. Savor it and celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Use today to delight yourself and loved ones even more!

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The Second Powerful Way Of Seeing You Must Utilize And Why

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Have you worked with the first way to visualize? I hope so. Get good with it, if you aren’t already. Practice, become deliberate with your imagination. Remember what you can conceive and believe you can achieve. Correct repetition, for long enough, builds skill.

Here is the second important way to visualize. These methods are not in order of importance. We do both of them naturally. When you are able to do these purposefully is when you increase your abilities to perform powerfully and productively. You develop great skill.

You can change how you think and live and what you get in life! Playing with these components strengthens your ability to deliberately use your mind in beneficial and creative ways. The more you do it the more you can do, more easily. You ability grows.

The Subconscious Only Says Yes – Make Sure It Is What You Want

The other way to imagine is to see what you see as you look through your own eyes. If you walked along a beach you wouldn’t see yourself you’d see your surroundings. You might see your hands and body some, but not your face unless you looked in a mirror.

Seeing through your own eyes allows you to feel what you would feel right NOW in that present moment. You may feel things even stronger this way because you are imaging what you see, hear and feel in your body not watching it. The feelings are immediate, now!

Either way you can have powerful feelings. When you look though your own eyes you feel it as if it is happening and how it feels. When you watch yourself on a movie screen it may feel more inspiring and motivating. Do both. Be inspired and feel what it feels like to BE it!

Energy Flows Where Your Attention Goes – Focus Focus Focus

Both of these are great ways to visualize. For example, you want to buy a new house. See the house and imagine yourself in it. See yourself with family and friends. Notice everything about the house in detail. Decor, where things are. Be thorough.

Fantastic. Watch yourself enjoy dinner, party, sleep, whatever you do in the house. Be as detailed and specific as possible and enjoy the good feelings you have as you imagine this. Savor the feelings. Feelings are most important. They send this message to your brain.

Keep the feelings. Amp the feelings. If you feel inspired, motivated, happy, proud, powerful, this is good. You use the mental movie to create the feelings. Your brain gets the feelings and goes ‘Oh, Okay I get it!’ This is an extremely important concept to keep in mind.

Believe In Yourself And Your Ability To Create and Make It Happen

The other way to imagine it is to walk from room to room and see and feel what that is like from your point of  view. Look through your eyes as you did in the beach example. See the people as you would in everyday life. See their faces, hear their voices, feel their touches.

Imagine these people congratulating you on your new purchase. Feel them pat you on the back, shake your hand and hug you. Hear their voices and what they say. FEEL how good it feels to have this home and their congratulations. You did it! You got what you wanted!

Imagine waking up in bed in the new home, eating your meals. Imagine relaxing in the comfort of your home. Enjoy walking the grounds. Park your car in the driveway or garage. Live the experience of being in your new home from your point of view.

To Live In A New Reality You Must First Conceive Of That Reality

Obviously, you don’t just magically make a new house appear. There is a process of acquiring it. The first step is to know what you want and why. This give you the ooomph for all the rest. You make it extremely desirable. Your obsession. What you must have.

You imagine yourself having it. Living it. Being it! This informs your brain. Your brain works on it. You begin to get ideas, intuitions and insights. This is what it means to begin to take inspired action. You must follow through in everyday life. Your brain works for you.

Imagine scouting the house, taking the tour, buying the house, closing on the house, celebrating, moving in, celebrating some more, feeling wonderful, living in the house. Be detailed. Make it vivid. Make it real. Create the process for yourself.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge

Visualize both ways. Affirm it. Declare it with emotion and enthusiasm. Believe it and expect it. Conceive it and believe it! Enjoy creating your future. Feel grateful for what you have! Delight and be thankful! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Live fully this day!

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This Is Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want!

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“How come it isn’t happening for me? Ever ask yourself that? I do all the right things but nothing seems to work. You have tried, quit, tried again, perhaps. You just aren’t where you had hoped you would be. Do you ever feel like this? It can suck, right? It is  no fun at all.

There are a few reasons why that can be the case. We’ll explore a main one in this post. Sometimes, it is so obvious we miss it. Sometimes, it is just so obscure we can’t find it. This post can help, but only, if you apply what you read here in these pages.

When Life Gives You Lemons Why Aren’t You Making Lemonade

Sometimes we bite off more than we can chew. We want too much too soon and don’t really believe we can do it. Keep what you ultimately want in mind but set up a smaller goal first. For example, imagine earning 100 dollars a week more, or 10 K more a year.

We continue on visualization and how to get what you want. I hope you are enjoying this series. Please ask questions or post comments if you have any. We continue into the next post too. So enjoy learning, or reviewing and please apply what you learn and know.

Start smaller and build up. Just as you climb a ladder one rung at at time. Make the first rung of your ladder easy to obtain. Not too easy, it should stretch you but don’t make it so large it seems at possible. Win a few times first and then you’ll have the confidence to go big.

What You Can Conceive And Believe You Can Achieve

Get it? It is mindset first. Get your attitude on and then take inspired action. So see it, hear it, feel it. Imagine it. Conceive it.  Make it real in your mind. As Napoleon Hill stated, ‘Whatever you can conceive and bring yourself to believe, you can achieve.’ It works.

Do it over and over, correctly, for long enough and you create a burning desire for it. You come to believe you can do it. Once you believe it you know you will do it. You become unstoppable and persist until you get the results you want. You transform your life.

From within to without. You make the imagined real. It isn’t magic it is brain science and it has been with us forever. From early on in human development wise people learned to capture and utilize and steer the power of the mind. You can too! You only need to do it!

You Eat An Elephant One Bite At A Time

Even though this has been available for centuries few know it. Far fewer use it. Some, even want to prevent you from using it to get ahead, but now you can. The proper fruit of knowledge is action. To not use what you know is to not know. It is not responsible. Do it!

In my workshops and seminars I help guide you in learning how to do this, plus a whole lot more, so you can make your dreams come true. It is a great experience for participant attendees and you can do this on your own to. Take the time to learn to do it today!

Do it! Take action and the world becomes your oyster. Practice and keep the faith. Keep it light. Have fun. Enjoy the process. It isn’t an overnight miracle. It takes time to get the results. The miracle that does instantly occur is everything changes the instant you start.

Action Is The Proper Fruit Of Knowledge – Apply What You Know

Once you decide and follow through on your decision you initiate the process. It begins. Just as it takes time for a tree to grow the seed you planted for your future good can take time to manifest, but your life begins to change right away! It is a great trade.

You begin and everything changes. So live with gratitude and appreciation. Be thankful you got on the path. Visualize, affirm, ask positive questions, fill your mind with positive power and know that you are making your life they way you want it to be. You took action.

You made a decision to bring about good things in your life. Be happy. Be persistent. Never lose sight of the good you started. Help others do the same. We benefit when we benefit others. Read and listen to inspiring material. Hang with positive creators. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Make everyday fabulous!

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The First Powerful Way Of Seeing You Must Utilize And Why

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“Do you spend time purposefully visualizing ? If not, it is a practice you will want to embrace. It is so important that you do. Deliberately imagining what you want and how you want it sets your creative mind working  to get it. It opens up your imagination and abilities.

Are you enjoying these posts? I  hope you are. If you have questions please ask them in the comments. If this is your first time visiting and reading, please go back at least a few posts and read from there. We’ll continue on this topic for awhile and return to it frequently.

There a couple ways to imagine things. One is to see yourself in the image as if you were watching yourself in a movie or video. This is a great way to see how you look, move, sound and interact with others. You see yourself where you want to be and with whom.

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

You can be artistic and add vivid color. You can make the size of your mental movie screen larger, much, much bigger, as when you are in a movie theater. You can put it in surround sound or add music. Anything you can do with a TV you can do inside your mind theater.

You can enhance the image and boost your good feelings. You can improve on this movie in your mind so it is even more appealing and makes the feelings stronger. In Neuro Linguistic Programming we call the components you can adjust Submodalities. For example:

Visual: size, shape, color or black and white, hue, tint, light, shadow, location, near or far away and more. Sound: volume, location, timber, tone, pitch, rate (fast or slow) and more. Feelings: touch, rough, smooth, heavy, soft, pressure, a tickle, location in body, and more.

What You Feel Is What You Get – Feelings Are Important

You can vary any and all of these and make any mental experience less intense or more intense. Taste and smells can be important too. Add in anything that makes it more wonderful.  Construct it so it is appealing, inspiring, and motivating for you. Make it incredible!

Make your dreams and goals more desirable, intense and immediate. Movie directors and symphony conductors play with these components.  They utilize them to create feelings in the viewer, or listener; the experiencer. You can too. You don’t have to but you can.

Sports coaches direct players to perform in certain ways.  Be your own coach, your own conductor and director.  Deliberately make the adjustments. Watch your mind movie. Do you like it better? Does it feel stronger? If yes, cool. If not, change it until you do. Get it?

Imagine A Bright Future – In Your Mind Now – And It Can Be Yours

More coming in next post. Take charge. Assume control. Tailor it for the greatest return. Make it wonderful. As you progress you may continue to improve on it. It is your movie make it most appealing. You can always change it back. Just DO IT!

Make it outstanding, lock it in, and visualize it daily! Bless, nurture and encourage yourself as you engage daily. Stick with it through rough spots or times when nothing seems to be improving or happening. You’ll breakthrough as long as you persist. You will!

Delight all along the way. Enjoy it and be grateful. Have fun, practice in the spirit of play. As it has been said, ‘ You can pretend anything and master it.’ Allow yourself to easily grow. Your skills develop faster and you go further when you celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Have a fantastic day!

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The Secrets To Seeing What You Want And Getting It

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“Successful people, through the ages, have always been ones with vision. They have been those who used their imaginations and their ability to visualize themselves as successful prior to reaching the successes they desired in everyday life.  They utilized their minds.

From ancient writings to more modern research the value of visualization and affirmation have been extolled. If you aren’t using these critical tools in your daily life now is the time to begin! Plant the seeds today that can grow into great results in your future.

In this blog post and a few subsequent ones I’ll share more on the power of visualization and some tips for using it to help you make your dreams come true. Remember, you can if you think you can.  Visualization IS the way for coming to believe it is possible!

You Get What You Repeatedly Practice – Practice Is Rehearsal

When you visualize and affirm you are rehearsing and practicing. All coaches and athletes, artists and others know the value of repeated correct practice on performance. Actors rehearse for weeks to open a play. Musicians practice. You get what you practice.

Fewer people seem to realize the incredible benefit of mental rehearsal on performance and the results they get in their everyday lives. ‘To enjoy enduring success on must travel in advance of the world’. Create it in your mind and then the rest catches up.

Sadly, most people rehearse, practice and re-live their failures and disappointments, their worries and their fears. They program themselves for lackluster results again and again. Stop that if you do that. Learn to program yourself for success and do what works.

What You Say Is What You Get – Your Words Are Important

It works either way. Either you program for success or failure. If you do nothing your brain runs on default. If that default setting isn’t getting you what you want then YOU must change it. The great news is YOU can! Take control. Visualize and declare your success now!

I’ll share one powerful way to visualize in the next post. Then another one after that. Build your abilities by implementing what you learn. Apply it and practice it. Begin today. Have fun, take it lightly and enjoy the process. Until the next post, and beyond, celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Have a playful day!

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What You Can Conceive and Believe You Can Achieve

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“Anything humans have made first existed as an idea. It began as a vision which was then translated into reality. This is true whether the item is a chair, a freeway, or a political system. It begins in the imagination. Then it becomes physical reality.

Whatever you visualize repeatedly you bring to pass. What you see is what you get! What you say, the stories you repeat to yourself and others, is what you get. You are always actively manufacturing your reality and results in your life, wanted or unwanted.

Intended or not. People fear the worst. They imagine it, see it in their mind’s eye, and then it shows up. Not instantly, like magic, but eventually. We are creators. What we focus on we get. We must learn to switch our predominant focus to what we want and intend.

Life Isn’t Happening To You –  Life Is Responding To You 

Our difficulty manifesting stems from conflict. Whenever we decide we want something, that instant, part of us responds with doubt, fears, or worry. We don’t believe we can get it, or deserve it, or are good enough. We think others might but not us. Something wrong!

We run interference on ourselves. We imagine the lack, instead of what we want. We are a house divided instead of one united. So it takes much longer while we create not having it. Understand this? In order to get it we must focus on actually having it or being it.

If it is a car we must be a proud new car owner and feel like we have it. If it is riches, or confidence, or success we must feel we are rich, successful and confident prior to actually being any of those things. By imagining we are it we become it. When we become it we get it.

You Are The Creator – Your Thoughts Create Your Life

What we hold in our head we someday can hold in our hand. What we focus on we get. What we think about most we become. We must be congruent and believe we are entitled to it and feel one with it. I know, some readers ask how do we do it? By repeatedly doing it.

We need to stick with it. Repeat it, correctly, consistently for long enough and we will get it. We will come to believe it. We will end up having the faith and the feelings by doing it. It is a 95% mental game and a 5% strategy, know how to do it, game. Why rules over how.

The mind is the key to unlocking the door to everything you want. Why you want it, how you feel about it and think about it. Feel as if you already have it, enjoy it. Live as if! This is where we put most of our thoughts and efforts. Still, we must DO it 95% most of the time.

Life Is Your Call – Make It Wonderful – Live Delightfully

You can’t think about it once and then let doubt rule. You must walk your talk. Stay with it. Keep the dream alive in your heart. Most people will work really hard to try to get it, over work, trying figure it out. They will try this and try that but not rule their own mind.

The mind runs the show. Know how is fine once the mental game is on right. If the head isn’t on straight the  rest won’t matter much.  In my last post I mentioned visualizing your dreams and goals. I discussed  making great things happen through mental rehearsal.

What do you want? Build on your success. Keep moving forward and keep enjoying more of life. Focus on it and stay engaged with it. Delight in your mental rehearsal. Keep in mind you are creating. Oh, by the way, creation can be a messy process.

What Is Meant To Be Always Finds A Way – It Will Show Up

It never works the way we think it should. It can be tumultuous during the process. From chaos stars are born. So don’t dissuade yourself if things don’t seem to be happening. Don’t get bent out of shape and give up if some turmoil or difficulty arises. It is creation!

It rarely if ever happens according to plan. We imagine it. It happens but usually the end result, the culmination in our success, comes as a surprise. Almost as if it were an afterthought. That is why, sages suggest we think, ‘this or something better’ when creating.

We imagine it specifically but we let go of how it will show up. We expect it to come but we give up managing how and when and by what conditions.  Ask and we receive. Knock and wait. Expect and let go. Put in the order and remain eagerly certain it will show up.

You Don’t Play Golf To Relax – You Relax To Play Golf

It is on the way. When and how is not our concern. At least it shouldn’t be. That is where we get into comparing and fearing and worrying it isn’t coming, or it isn’t working, and we divide the house all over again. Instead of being focused on what we wan, we aren’t.

We dig a hole, fill it up, then dig it again, then scatter the dirt, then fill it up, while digging another hole and scattering the dirt and it goes on and on. We must stop, focus, get congruent in our thoughts and feelings. Live in alignment. That is why gratitude can be so powerful.

Remember, stop and smell the roses each time your pursue your goals and dreams. Remember to include thinking about and feeling grateful for all the blessings in your life. Live with appreciation moment to moment and you live well. Feel good about having it.

To  Perform As A Winner – You Must See Yourself A Winner

Feel grateful prior to it showing up. Live with appreciation and you won’t be concerned with micromanaging your creation. You’ll be too busy enjoying life. If you want it and don’t care how or when, but you are eager for it in an ‘oh boy’ delighted way,’ that works.

Then 95% of the time you are loving life, feeling positive and grateful and certain it will come. The mindset is ‘good things always come to me. Things always work out’. Feel blessed. Feel enthused, feel thrilled. Love every second of it! This is how to change your life.

It is simple to get things done. Far simpler and easier that most people think. It is surprisingly simple, even at it’s toughest, when you put your mind to work in positive ways. With the right attitude anything is possible! Believe you can and you can! Understand?

There Are Plenty Of Obstacles In Your Path Don’t Be One Of Them

Enjoy your mental rehearsal. Spend time imagining how wonderful everything ALL is. Enrich the mental experience by adding detail whenever you can. Enrich the sights, the sounds, the feelings. Perhaps, you notice smells or even tastes. Make it as real as possible.

Make it vivid and to your liking. After all, it is your movie in your head. Tailor it so that as you view it you feel supercharged and excited about it. It doesn’t have to be ‘rah rah’ cheerleader pumped, but it could be. Make it wonderful for yourself! Delight in it.

When you do this you are putting your order in to the universe. You are informing your subconscious mind that THIS is what I want. You are clarifying and amplifying. Feelings are the most important. So you build it with sights and sounds to really feel it. Get it?

It Is True – Thankful People Are Happy People

Journaling can help you too. Write out in detail what you want to occur. When you write it down you visualize. It is a good practice. Journaling, in this manner, a bit each day is a great habit to develop. Visualize each day too. Get good at it. Really feel it. AND let it go!

Stay with the dream but let it arrive however and whenever it does. Have fun along the way. Remember the aphorism, ‘it is not the destination but how you travel along the way’. Enjoy traveling. Have fun by yourself and with others.  It will happen. Keep the faith. Meanwhile, celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Today, see it, say it, feel it, enjoy it!

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2 Things Successful People Do That Separate Them From The Unsuccessful

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“Not everyone who is successful and rich is a nice person. However, most all of them have things they do in common that separates them from the unsuccessful. There a few things they do differently and routinely that are crucial to adopt if you want success. Here’s one.

In order to make any change you want to be permanent you have to wire it in. You have to make it an automatic, reliable habit.  To do this you must overwrite the old habit with the new thoughts, feelings or behaviors you want instead. You must learn the habits of success.

In order to do this you must do the correct things consistently and for a long enough time. That is what ‘perfect practice’ is about. You do the right things for as long as it takes. This IS how you create new habits. Sadly, most people, won’t do what it takes to succeed.

Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect – Perfect Practice Makes Perfect

That is why it has been pointed out that successful people do the things no one else will do. If you want to think better, more productively, positively and powerfully then you must practice and rehearse that thinking until you wire it in. There is no other way.

Do you want to feel better more of the time? Then you must practice and rehearse feeling good consistently and long enough. The same applies to behaviors. There isn’t any other way. You can’t change being a couch potato, taking a magic pill or wishing it will happen.

You must take charge and do it. How long does it take? It takes as long as it takes. You do what you need to do to make the changes you want, and to make them permanent. Let go of the when, the time, and deadlines and focus on developing the thoughts and feelings.

The Difference Between Ordinary And Extraordinary Is Practice

There is a bamboo plant. Once planted it is watered and nurtured for 6 years. The plant remains underground with no evidence of growth. In the 7th year the plant sprouts and grows 90 feet within 2 months. The question to consider is, when did it grow the 90 feet?

Obviously, it must have been growing the entire time. If it wasn’t watered or taken care of it in any given year it would have died. It was always growing even when you couldn’t see it. The same is true of you when you do the right things long enough and consistently.

Success is the same way. Besides taking responsibility for their success those who are most successful enjoy working at it. They work harder and longer than most others. However, they don’t consider it work. They love it. They enjoy it. It is their passion.

Practice Happy Thinking Every Day – And Be Happy

Because they enjoy it they say things like, ‘I work harder than anyone else but I have never worked a day in my life.’ This is important to understand. They feel good about working for success. If you feel good too you will never work a day in your life either.

The more you decide to enjoy the process the smoother it can go. When you are enjoying something you want it to last or you don’t care how long it takes. This is a great mindset. Then it doesn’t matter how  long it takes because you are enjoying it and benefiting from it.

Enjoy the process of evolving yourself. Take control of your thinking and take responsibility for creating your life and circumstances. Do what it takes for as long as it takes. Enjoy the process and keep the faith even when you don’t see results for a while. Keep the  faith!

The Only Way To Do Great Work Is To Love What You Do

You are growing. You really are. You may not see the evidence for a while. One day, you’ll sprout and an entire new magical life will open up and takes off quickly. That is how it can work for you. Just stick with right practice. Develop your mindset.

Learn to think and feel good most of the time. Do what it takes to be successful and enjoy it.  Do what the others won’t and you will be counted among those who succeed. In the meantime have fun. Keep at it. Do the right things consistently for as long as it takes.  Be grateful and celebrate everything! Rex Sikes

Delight in this day!

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Expert Reveals: How To Overcome Fear

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“What is fear? A thought. A feeling. When you are afraid what are you thinking? What are you feeling? What is going on in your body? Where do you feel it?  How does your heart beat? Do you sweat?

What goes on? Think about it, for a second. When afraid of something what is the process that occurs? There is what you are afraid of and how you react to it. It may seem out of your control.

Realize this. As we evolved our reptilian brain responded to fear in this manner. We pumped chemicals to handle a threat so that we either could fight or we could flee.

Do Not Let Your Fears Determine Your Destiny

We’d either stand our ground and take our chances or we’d run away. We also might just freeze. You know, you’ve seen rabbits when scared. They freeze. Their hearts beat wildly but they freeze.

These are evolutionary responses to threats from the wild. We still respond similarly. Our brains perceive modern day, less than life threatening, threats as life threatening. Our brains don’t know.

Subconscious processes begin and our little conscious minds don’t have much chance once this snowball rolling down a hillside momentum gets going. Emotional flooding it is called.

Fear Kills More Dreams Than Failure Ever Will

Feels like an avalanche. Everything seems to happen at once. The same is true about anxiety, the fear of the unknown. Often, it stems from trying to control circumstances not within our control.

We fear making the wrong decision. We freeze, unsure what to do. Analysis can lead to paralysis. Overthinking isn’t a good thing. So how to deal?

Learn to control your thinking up front, while feeling calm. Take control and decide the thoughts you will think. Yup, affirm them. Positive powerful assertions and declarations that you repeat.

Fear Has Two Meanings – Forget Everything And Run …

Repeat them powerfully, confidently, persuasively. Imagine an actor portraying each and step completely into that role. Stand and shout them. Over and over again each day for 60, 90, 120 days or more.

Eventually, you will come to accept them. Record them on your electronic device and play them as you go to sleep. Listen with headphones whenever you can. Adjust the volume for comfort.

Monitor your self-talk. Put a guard in front of your tongue and a lock on your lips. Only speak positive, with confidence about what you want to think, feel and experience. Speak to bless, heal and prosper.

… Or Face Everything And Rise

Make a vision board and see yourself calm, confident, in charge, enjoying life, laughing, smiling, living as you want to. Imagine what it is like to feel these feelings right now. Where would you feel them?

What part of your body feels the best?  Where does it feel wonderful? How are you breathing? How do you move, stand or sit when feeling in charge and on top of the world? Experience these.

Practice these. How does it feel to feel calm; confident; at ease; relaxed; in charge; peaceful; serene; joyous; happy; delighted; ecstatic? Practice these, rehearse these over and over again.

Skill Comes Of Doing

Your body knows the pathway to fear. Now strength the pathways it knows to security, safety, confidence and all the good feelings you’d rather feel instead. Practice and rehearse. Imagine and visualize.

Assert and declare. Practice over and over again. Correct, spaced repetition will make it a positive, automatic, reliable habit. You can change and eliminate being fearful. You can live with confidence.

Recognize, that your fear response was a signal. It is a signal to pay attention and notice what you can correct. Somewhere along the way, you over emphasized it and it got a little bit out of control.

Whatever We Repeat Again And Again Becomes Our Habits

Reign it back in and use the signal. There is nothing wrong with you or the signal. Learn to control and manage your thoughts. Keep them in check and keep them from spiraling out of control.

Again, this is a reminder. You practice before you need it so when you need it, it will be available. You rehearse just as an actor does so that opening night and beyond everything goes as rehearsed.

Imagine tough times and getting through them easily. Pick only one at a time. Find a comfortable place inside you. Feel it fully. That comfort and strength. Pick something that helps you remember it.

Start Building The Habits You Want By Repeating The Good Stuff

Look around and see something that reminds you of your strength. Remember, an internal picture or memory that keeps you feeling strong. Or pick a special sound or word that you can exclaim.

When you speak the sound or word it affects you. Like the military hoohaa! Or shift your body into a strong, confident position or stance. You can do all three too. Remember, fully what it feels like.

You can make the picture, exclaim the sound and have the positive, strong, resourceful feeling all at the same time too. One or all three is usually more than enough to easily go through these exercises.

The Past Is Gone – The Future Hasn’t Happened Yet …

Remember, fully what it feels like to be powerful and positive and take these feelings, keeping them strong the entire time, into some moment that would be rough for you. NOT the roughest!

Start mild and work your way up. Begin with lessor discomforts. Practice going through the mild times with confidence and calm, with whatever resourceful feeling you need. Keep these feelings.

Maintain the mental image and sound and feeling that you see, hear and feel. Re-live past mild times, at first, with resources and notice you survived and it feels good to go through them resourcefully.

… There Is Only Now – Claim It

Stop and fully appreciate that it feels good to go though an experience resourcefully. Take full inventory and appreciate the change. Notice it and own it. Validate it. Feel it fully. It is yours!

Something else you can do is Interrupt The Pattern. Stop the emotional flooding. The very instant you become aware of the signal. STOP, take a deep breath and do anything else physically.

De-rail the train of thought. Shift focus. Exclaim you ‘hoohaa’ words. Shift your physiology. Move your body differently. Skip, jump, dance, do anything that interrupts the thought processes. Immediately!

Your Future Is Created By What You Do Today – Not Tomorrow

Interrupt the physiological processes and change them. Lead them elsewhere. As you might point out things of interest to a child, to distract, lead your thoughts and feelings into new, different areas.

Catch it right at the beginning, as soon as you notice it. If you are standing in front of a car on a hillside and the brakes give out you can stop it easily if you are right next to it. Put your hand on it as it rolls.

Yup, as it begins to roll all you have to do is put your hand out. There is no momentum yet. If you were 10 or 20 feet down you would have to get out of the way but YOU can STOP it right when it starts.

Learn From The Past – Live In The Present – Create Your Future

This is how you prevent emotional flooding. You catch it in the earliest possible moment, shut it down and lead it elsewhere. As with anything, the more often you catch it the better you get at it.

Lastly, realize that fear is a signal. You want to be able to respond appropriately if there is a real reason to fight, freeze or flee. So you should ask with each fear you practice. Is it appropriate to feel this?

It could be. If so, it is worthwhile to know this. If it is not an appropriate fear, then go ahead and change it. The power to change is always within you. Find your resources and live from them.

Master The Past – Create The Future

Re-code old times with new feelings. Build a history of thinking, feeling and behaving as you prefer to do. Slowly, in time, graduate to more difficult times, saving the worst for very last. Important!

You learn to walk a tightrope on the ground first. Then raise it a few inches, then later a few feet at a time. Get good walking close to the ground before walking high up. You can master your fears!

Step by step, bit by bit. Realize, your fears, small or large, are old chronic, habits, that have gotten out of control. You can stop them, prevent them, and exercise power over them. You are in charge!

If You Believe You Can You Will If You Believe You Can’t You Won’t

Re-code the old ways and notice that you are able to do so. You can change the way you think and feel about past memories. Examine them and discover what lesson was hidden in these for you.

Perhaps, all this time you had missed the learning. Now go find it. Reflect on it and benefit from the positive messages you can find hidden. Know that is the past and you are able to feel differently.

You can feel positive about past times that limited you then, but no longer. You can now know that you have the resources and ability to change how you think and feel about them. You can do it now too.

If You Want To Change Your Life – You Must Change Your Mind

You can change less than glorious present moments into positive moments in this very same way and you can extract the lessons you need to learn right now. Being present in new ways is wonderful.

Plus, because you are able to change how you think and feel about what was a difficulty for you in the past, but no longer, it means you are able to move into the future with renewed confidence and vigor.

You can live free from what used to hold you back. You can see a bright new day ahead and feel all the wonderful feelings of living this way right now. Isn’t it wonderful to feel free? Of course it is!

Your Life Is A Reflection Of Your Thoughts – Think Only The Best

Spend time re-imagining yourself as confident and capable of living in new positive ways. See yourself, hear yourself and feel the incredible feelings. Imagine the YOU you want to be as already it!

In your mind imagine yourself doing all the positive things you want easily, having made these changes. Imagine a wonderful, new free future, right now. Not some day, but right here and now. Do it.

Live with the confidence and calm. Live in the delight and the joy that are yours already and that can be yours again and again. Relax, find all the many things to be grateful for. Practice these too.

Positivity Can Change Everything

Find more times to feel your best. Delight and enjoy your ability to evolve yourself. Make marvelous your moments and celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Live wildly enthusiastically!

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The Secret To Getting Consistent Positive Results: It Is How You Do It!

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Repetition is critical. It is HOW we learn and acquire skill. From birth on it is THE process we engage to learn anything. Did you know it must be a very special type of repetition if you want to move ahead?

Is not just repetition that is important. It is correct repetition. What is correct repetition and why? It is doing it the right way. You can repeat practicing mistakes and learn errors instead of the right way.

You can practice a golf swing incorrectly and hamper your ability to play. Practice correctly from the beginning as much as possible. You do it and make adjustments to correct as you go along. Feedback.

Correct Repetition Is The Mother Of Skill

You never fail. You just get plenty of feedback. If you are open to it you make the adjustments to move forward correctly. If you aren’t open to it you are destined to practice your mistakes.

Whatever we practice or rehearse in life we get back. If we practice a bad golf swing the results we get are a bad golf swing. The result is most likely a bad score. This is why correct repetition is important.

Some people spend a lot of money on books and private coaching to learn to swing the golf club correctly. Athletes train and have a coach or a team to help them correctly exercise and perform.

There Is No Such Thing As Failure Only Feedback

When it comes to your life and the consistent results you want to get what is it worth to you? If you want success, the best health and wealth and happiness what are you willing to commit to?

How much time, energy and/or money will you devote to you and to getting your career, your relationships and your life in order. Certainly, you should be able to devote a few minutes each day.

If we practice crappy, negative thinking the results we get back are crappy negative results. If we focus on lack and poverty and problems, because we rehearse these, they stick around.

Whatever We Plant And Nurture We Will Harvest

We make habits of whatever we practice and rehearse in thought, feeling and behavior. We wire in neural pathways. Because of this we find ourselves behaving the same over and over again.

If you want to change, get better results and have only good habits, you have to practice and rehearse only what you want more of. You must take charge and take control. There is no other way.

If you think you can or you think you can’t you are right. It is all up to you. If you do or don’t. Only you will benefit.  Only you will lose out. If you want to change begin today. Do it right.

Don’t Like The Results You’re Getting – Change What You’re Doing

Use what you learn in these pages. Study and apply it. Ask questions. Consider getting some personal coaching. Learn and do whatever it takes to bring you the good you want for yourself and others. Don’t miss out. Commit. Do what you can. Begin right from the start. You’ll enjoy getting positive results. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Power up your day positively!

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Expert Reveals: How To Accelerate And Apply What You Learn

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“People have asked what is the best and easiest way to learn to make changes? How does one master this material? I am so glad readers want to know. Learning is simple and fun. It is what we are designed to do. We can learn easily and fairly quickly.

As I and others suggest read everyday. Find some great inspirational material and immerse yourself daily. A good time is first thing in the morning after a period of time doing affirmations, visualization and a list of gratitudes. Read quality inspirational material.

Read every day as much as you can. I recommend at least a chapter but if you can’t do that read as much as you are able, a few pages, a few paragraphs, a few lines. Just read. Highlight and take notes. Study the material, pause and think. It is not a novel. Reflect.

It Is That We Think We Know That Keeps Us From Learning

Ask yourself, how the material relates to you? How you will apply what you learn? How and when and where and with whom would you use it? What will you do to apply it? Think about it. Imagine it. Relate it to your life and what you want to accomplish. Study.

Go back and re-read the material a week or two later. Review it. Re-read your notes. Attempt to put the material you learned into your own words. Share what you are learning with others WHO ARE interested. Discuss the material. Help others. Consume and digest.

I often find a chapter that is meaningful to me and read it everyday for a month. Yes, sometimes you have to fight the urge to gloss over it because you have become familiar with it. Learning comes from repetition over time. You want to continue to re-expose your mind.

If You Are Not Willing To Learn No One Can Help You

If you read only once and keep moving you aren’t  really absorbing it. You exposed yourself to the concepts but didn’t take the time or the repeated exposures to to actually learn it. Reading over and over again is a very healthy, worthwhile practice. Don’t be in a rush. Relax.

Between readings your mind works on it. You have real life experiences. When you return to read the same material you will find things that you didn’t know you have read. You will discover new things there that you missed before. Why? You changed in between.

From the last reading your brain, your reflections, your use of the material has helped you evolve some. From this new place you are able to notice more things. When you return to reading you will have grown more able to see what is there. It will surprise you!

If You Are Determined To Learn No One Can Stop You

You can listen to audio books while driving. I prefer to listen while sitting home with a notebook and pen. I do what I have already described. Take notes. Lots of them. Then I go back and review my notes regularly. I re-write them from time to time. I listen repeatedly.

As for affirmations and visualization and list of gratitude. I do these daily too. A short while in the morning devoted to each. Plus, I love to do affirmations while I drive. Sometimes, I split the drive, affirmations and then I’ll listen to a positive audiobook. I enjoy this.

Affirmations should be spoken out loud whenever possible with lots of positive energy and enthusiasm. Shout them, say them with conviction and really mean it. Visualization gets easier and more vivid with regular practice. Some don’t see so clearly at first.

Education Is Not Learning Facts But Training The Mind To Think

It will get better the more you do it. You build muscles from repeated exercise. Your ability to visualize deliberately increases too. Be specific, as vivid as possible and imagine that you have already accomplished your goal. Savor those wonderful feelings,

Use Directed Questions™ routinely. Anytime throughout the day is good for affirmation and questions. Decide on the end point of what you want, your goal, and ask yourself questions that direct you there and specify how you feel on the way. Feeling is most important.

Adjust your mind and body throughout the day to feel your best. If you get agitated or upset, down or anxious, bring yourself step by step, inch by inch to feeling better. Think worst, better, best. Eventually, you will feel better. Move in increments toward that way.

Remain Curious And Keep Learning

Smile more, laugh more, move your body. Walk, skip, sing, dance. Shake things up, do new things. Vary your routine add in some novelty. Meditate, relax. Be curious, take in nature, be playful as a child would be. Have fun learning. It isn’t all serious.

Each element I described requires one thing very important. If you don’t do this you won’t learn much of anything. You must take action. You must apply it. If you don’t apply it you haven’t learned it. Information, knowledge is only power when you use it. Apply it.

To not use it is to not know it. You can learn ABOUT something without ever experiencing any difference. You can read about France but if you never go there all you know is information. Information won’t change you by itself. Use it. Do it. Repeat it!

Learning How To Learn Is One Of The Most Important Skills In Life 

Somethings you can learn in a few minutes but they take a life time to master. You can learn to juggle 3 balls in a short while, perhaps not five minutes, but fairly quickly. To become a great juggler requires lots of practice. To be world class even more dedication.

For you to learn you must be exposed to the material. You must think about it , examine it, reflect on it and review it. Repeat. Put it in your own words, understand it and apply it repeatedly. Correct mistakes. Apply again. It is a continuous conditioning process.

Little bits studied and applied well help you learn quicker. It is better to do a little well than a lot in a shoddy fashion. Bit by bit you increase you abilities. Everything grows exponentially together. Stay with it. Learn! Make it your own. Play with it. Stay with it. Delight!

Learning Is A Treasure That Will Follow Its Owner Everywhere

That which you do daily, as long as you continue, becomes a habit fairly soon. You want to develop positive, powerful, habits that support you in getting what you want. Attitude is everything. The more fun and enjoyment you have while practicing the better.

If you do this you will be delighted to discover yourself easily learning and incorporating the new material into your life in ways that can surprise and amaze you. You can find yourself more easily and readily making the changes you want quickly. Enjoy it! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

Have a fantastic day!

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