Tag Archives: Personal Development

Affirmations, Choice, Habit Formation, Intentional Thinking

How To Stop The Struggle Inside You!

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“Your mind will always believe what you feed it. That is what it has been doing since you were born. Your subconscious mind doesn’t evaluate the content you are presented with, to determine whether it is right or wrong, or good or bad for you. It just accepts it.

It learns unconsciously through repetition. You and I have been fed some pretty crappy programming while growing up. Our mind’s believed it. It accepted it. It is not the truth! You and I only think it is. Get it? It is not YOUR programming. You borrowed it. We did!

You borrowed it before you knew what you were doing. Hence, you have lived from it as if it were yours. It isn’t! You can change it. That is what we have to do in order to transform. We aren’t responsible for the programming we adopted, but we are for changing it.

Think Positive – Be Positive And Positive Things Will Happen

Once we become aware that we have some crappy, limiting beliefs and programming we are 100% responsible for changing it. If you want your life to change, you have to change some things in your life. The ancients knew this. Buddha knew this. We aren’t our thoughts.

So we can change our thoughts to better serve us. Napoleon Hill pointed out we can begin to believe anything, any new thought, through repetition, and by the intensity of our feelings. This is how we were originally programmed. This is how we change it, too.

Feed your mind what you want it to believe, instead. Choose supporting, positive, helpful beliefs, instead of the limiting ones. Fill your mind with these. Repeatedly affirm with strong emotion, daily. Control your thinking. Manage the process and you become free.

What Consumes You Mind Controls Your Life

Stop limiting yourself. Start  feeding it faith. Feed it optimism. Feed it strength. Feed it hope. We become what we think about most frequently. What we focus on expands. Fill your mind with positive, optimistic material repeatedly, consistently, for long enough.

Your mind will accept it. You will begin living from the new thoughts. You will develop the positive thinking habit. Your life will transform. ‘Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind’. Renew your mind and be transformed!

Do you know the story of the two dogs? A wise old native told his young son that within him were two dogs fighting. ‘Which one wins?’ asked the boy. The wise man replied, ‘the one you feed’. What are you feeding YOUR mind? It makes an incredible difference!

A Negative Mind Will Never Give You A Positive Life – Change It

Feed it gratitude. Feed it positivity. Do it daily. Moment to moment. Make this a part of your mission. That which occupies your thinking determines the results you get. Shift from the negative, less than glorious, crappy, thinking and believing. Do it. You can do this!

Shift from ‘I can’t’ to ‘I can’ and ‘I can learn to do anything’. Anything IS possible when you believe it is! Henry Ford is famous for saying, ‘If you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.’ Think you can! Begin today! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Make it matter and enjoy it!

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Attitude, Emotions, Energy, Feelings

The Real Secret To Making Good Things Happen!

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“There are secrets to making things happen much more quickly and easily. I have been sharing these with you in my blog pages. Put them into practice and you can live a remarkable life. You can get your small and large goals and make your dreams come true!

The principal is you must feel good! One way to do this is to expect unexpected good. Anticipate things always working out. Enjoy the process no matter what. When you are fulfilled, happy and positive now, in this moment, more good things can and do come your way.

Does this mean ‘bad’ things never happen? No. They still may, but you are better equipped to navigate and transform them. If everything is a blessing then there are no bad things. There are lessons and opportunities. Find enjoyment each moment.

Be Patient – The Best Things Happen Unexpectedly – Have Faith

Then, more good things happen to you. You vibrate higher. You attract higher. Like attracts like. The difficulty many people face in setting their goals is they focus on a really big one. This is great! Still, you have to BELIEVE you will make it happen. BELIEVE!

So these people create a really big goal BUT don’t believe that they’re going to get it. They try. They are focused on it. It is soooo big and they don’t have it yet. What they notice is the distance between now and the time they might get it. They know they don’t have it.

They notice not having it. They want it but they don’t have it! What they are really focused on is the lack of it. LACK! They don’t have it yet, so that’s what they end up creating. More Lack! More struggle. More distance. It is a tricky thing this manifesting. BUT simple.

Believe In What You Want So Much – It Can’t Not Materialize

It is quite simple, but tricky. We are always manifesting! We cannot not manifest. This is what most people miss. Either you are manifesting what you want or you are manifesting what you don’t want. You attract what you are. You attract what you focus on.

What you focus on expands. If you don’t have it and you feel bad THAT IS what you are manifesting! You are manifesting not having it and feeling bad. The Law Of Attraction is working perfectly. You just aren’t manifesting what you want. The key is to get out of your way!

If you’re delighted and feel good and you expect to get it you are more apt to get it. You believe it and anticipate it. Then you attract it. If you feel like it’s not happening, it’s a struggle and you’re missing out, then that’s what you get back. It really, truly is that simple.

Think And Speak As Though You Already Have What You Desire

The trick is to develop yourself as a manifestor. Become a positive, magnetic attractor by working your way up to your big goals. As I suggested in my last blog post begin by manifesting things that are smaller and easier to attain. Remember, YOU make it happen!

You are the author and creator! Focus on those things that you can readily believe you can get. Don’t make it so small it is  boring but something that’s a challenge. Just not so much of a challenge you don’t think it’s something you can make happen. Get it? I hope!

Find something that will stretch you and move you in the direction of your larger goal. Remember, start small, so when you surpass it you feel extra incredible. Do you want to make $1 million start by manifesting an extra hundred a month, or an extra thousand?

Remember – This Is Important – Drop By Drop The Tub Fills

Shed a pound in a couple weeks. The when you lose a pound and a half you are excited.  Choose something you can believe in and, be certain, you can make happen. Have fun doing it. This is how you build up your manifesting muscle bit by bit. Smaller to larger!

When you have confidence in yourself as an attractor and as a manifestor, then magical good things will happen for you. If you practice this and practice gratitude every day you will develop these muscles and reliable habits. It will become an unconscious skill.

You won’t have to think about it so much. You will become confident and competent in making good things happen. As you do life becomes so much more exciting. You will create with greater ease and efficiency. You’ll manifest good things effortlessly and with precision! Get it? I hope so! Enjoy the journey. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Make this day magical!

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Act As If, Attitude, Celebration, Creating The Future

The Feel Good Principle: How You Can Be More Have More And Do More What You Want!

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“Would you like to create and attract more of what you want most easily and readily? If so, you must do the following. Please understand you make things happen. They don’t magically happen. It only seems that way because it happens more easily than imagined.

First, yes, imagine it happening. In fact, imagine already having it. Imagine how good it feels to be able to think that, say that and live that reality. If you won a great deal of money, how would you feel? That is what you want to feel right now! Those wonderful feelings.

When you feel your best you are vibrating the highest. That’s just another way of saying you are emitting positive energy. No spooky, airy fairy stuff about that. We are all energy. Consider the difference when you feel less than glorious. Your output is not optimal.

Focus On How Good The Good Is And It Brings More Good

You know the difference. You really do. So, the idea is to feel the best you possibly can most of the time. Celebrate being, doing and having great things before they show up in your physical reality. This is the correct mindset and feeling set to have. Live joyously! Feel it.

Be eager and enthused. You know what happens on Christmas, right? For most people it is a happy time of getting presents. You expect them to come. It is the same way for most people’s birthdays. You expect to get some things. As a kid this may have been exciting.

That excitement, that anticipation for getting toys or gifts IS the kind of feeling you want to recapture. Anticipate good things. Anticipate great things. Be certain they are coming. Feel as if they are already here. Be grateful and celebrate. Enjoy and delight. Be festive. Smile!

You Have Got To Feel Good To Receive – So Feel Your Very Best

This is how you begin to transform your life and make things happen. This IS how you create, manifest and attract. Like energy atttracts like energy. Expect the best by creating the best first. It works. BUT to know it works you actually have to do it. You become it!

You attract what YOU ARE! If you are delighted you attract more delight. Get it? Okay, more next time. Meanwhile, do those positive things that help you enjoy life more. Have fun! Develop your mindset and attitude to be powerful, positive and joyful. Give thanks. Express appreciation. Live fully. Smile more. Laugh lots. Believe. Act as If! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Surprise yourself!

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Beliefs, Creating The Future, Emotions, Expectations

Learn The Secret To Make Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Work For You!

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“You have heard of self-fulfilling prophecy, right?  People want something to work out but they expect the worst. When it doesn’t work out, they say, ‘I knew that wasn’t going to work.’ That’s a negative self-fulfilling prophecy. Most people are familiar with this.

There is a way to turn this around to your advantage. I’ll share with you how this is possible. Once you read about it be sure to apply it and it will absolutely begin to transform your life! Don’t NOT apply it or you only continue as you have. You can change your life right now.

When it comes to creating your future, orchestrate it so everything works for you. Determine the rules. Decide the outcomes. Put it all together so you succeed each step of the way. You get better at manifesting by gathering wins together. Create win after win.

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

Make the rules so you always win! Never break a promise to yourself. For example: You want to shed some weight. Instead of setting one large goal that seems impossible, or that you don’t believe you will easily attain, set smaller goals, easier to hit.

Make it so easy it’s impossible not to shed the pounds. Determine to shed a pound in the next couple weeks. Decide to shed 2 pounds in the next month. That is easy and simple. If you get rid of more than the pound or two, you will have done better than you expected.

Get it! You will have absolutely pleased yourself. You will never disappoint yourself this way. Instead, you win! When you win this way it signals your unconscious mind that YOU ARE a winner. Pick up small wins frequently and you develop the habit of winning.

Whatever You Confidently Expect Is Your Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

You develop the unconscious mindset you are a winner. Do you want to make lot’s of money? If you decide you want to make a million or more dollars, but you don’t believe you can or will, you won’t, if you don’t absolutely feel certain you will. SO set a smaller goal first!

Decide to earn an extra $50 or $100 a week. Make it something that stretches you. It should be a bit of a challenge to keep it interesting, but small enough that you are certain you can do it. The point is to feel certain and to feel absolutely wonderful about this goal.

It is important you believe you can do it! It is important when you think about it you feel good! Feel enthused. The tiny goal should keep your interest but be something you can readily accomplish. Perhaps, it is making $1000 extra a month. Whatever works.

You Will Manifest Outside Whatever You Believe Inside

If you make more than the amount you set you will feel even better than hitting the exact amount. Get it? You win all along the way. As you consistently manifest what you want you condition yourself to go after goals and make things happen. You build the success habit.

You develop the winning mindset. You start small and then graduate to larger and larger things along the way to your big goal. So losing all that weight or making a million dollars will becomes child’s play. Get it? Step by step you make your larger goal happen!

You set everything up so you are always winning. You never lose and you never break a promise to yourself because the steps are small enough for you to complete. Whatever you say you will accomplish, whatever you set out to do, you make happen! This is important.

Success Always Begins With The Decision To Act And Succeed

This is a huge point! Always keep your word! Don’t break promises to yourself or others. Go beyond what you expect to happen. You will thrill yourself. The more thrilled and excited you become the better you feel. The higher you vibrate, the more you attract!

You’ll begin to manifest more easily. By taking the small steps you condition yourself to be a positive, powerful creator. You begin to think, ‘whatever goal I decide to make happen, I achieve! I am a winner! I’m a champion! Whatever I say I will do, I do! I win!’

‘Whatever I want to create, I create! Whatever I want to attract, I attract!’ Get it? Small goal wins become medium sized ones. Medium sized wins become big wins. During this process you are developing reliable habits for making things happen, by doing the right things.

Things Do Not Change We Change – Be The Change You Want

You do the right things, repeatedly, for long enough, consistently, and you develop reliable, unconscious habits that will always positively serve you. You  create new neural pathways. You changed old, less than glorious habits into new, positive, powerful ones!

You prove yourself right. This is known as successful self-fulfilling prophecy. You, made self-fulfilling prophecy work for you. You expect to make it happen and you do! It happens, and you think, ‘I knew this would work out! I’m a winner!’ AND you are a winner!

You succeed! What you thought was possible, is possible. Instead of shedding a pound you lost a pound and a half or two and a half pounds. You made $120 instead of $100. You surpassed your expectations! Every time you do you feel better and better.

As You Think So You Are – As You Imagine So You Become

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy because you expected to succeed. You succeeded even more than you expected. Get it? This is how you build a winning cycle. This is how you create momentum and move forward. Make it so you always win, then you always will win, all along the way. Then you will feel even more grateful and celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Attention, Beliefs, Energy, Focus

What Do You See And What Are Your Missing?

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“What are you missing out on because you don’t see it? You don’t realize it is there because you miss it? We see what we expect to see. We often find what we assume is there. Often, we miss that which is right there in front of us. We miss the obvious. Have you noticed?

I’ll provide a simple example. I proofread my blog. I proofread my blog numerous times. I read it out loud and I still I miss mistakes. Fortunately, I have a wonderful person,  Lindsey, who goes through it after I do. She, too, reads it. She catches mistakes that I’ve missed.

You should know this process takes place after the blog has been published and sent out. She emails me the corrections. I correct the already published blog. It doesn’t correct the one sent but corrects the blog at the website. I write in the early AM hours.

Don’t Miss Out On Something That Could Be Amazing

Because I do, I write, review, publish.  She gets it and emails me what I missed. The ideal process would be for her to review and edit first, but that doesn’t work with our schedules. I hope you understand.
I hope you are okay with typos and grammatical errors.

The  point of this example IS that I’m looking for the error but I’m not always seeing them. I miss them. Usually, words like ‘you’ and ‘your’ or ‘the’ and ‘they’ get missed. Sometimes it is an added ‘s’ or even a misspelling. There is a reason why I miss these simple errors.

I wrote it. I know what I wanted to say. My mind knows what the word should be. Even though I read it, out loud twice, I may not catch it. My eyes or my mind deceive me. I miss the typos. This is really cool in some ways because it illustrates what the mind can do.

We Don’t See Things As They Are – We See Things As We Are

Perception is everything. What we believe shapes our reality. What we expect to discover is what we discover. What we expect will happen, often does. This is true whether we look for blessings or for problems. We know what we think so we are likely to find that.

Or, miss that! If we can miss simple things like grammar and spelling errors, imagine what else we might be missing because our brain expects something else.  You might be missing  all sorts of good because you’re focused on the problem in front of you.

This is why mindset is important. This is why attention is important. Where your attention goes, energy flows. If your mind is focused on debt, you’re likely to find it. You’re likely to miss out on abundance. If you’re focused on what’s wrong, you might miss all that’s right.

What I Am Looking For Is Not Found Out There – It Is In Me

The mind can miss little things or big things. Just as when you put down your keys and then can’t find them. Even though they’re right in front of you! If you want to manifest better health, focus on health. Stop paying attention to illness. You get what you focus on.

Stop paying attention to debt. Stop paying attention to what’s wrong and start paying attention to what’s right. Put your focus on the positive and you’ll discover more positive. Put your attention on what you are grateful for and you will find more to enjoy. Stop worrying and start celebrating. In fact, celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Beliefs, Blessings, Mindset, Reframing

How To Handle Unexpected Bad Events

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What to do when unexpected bad happens? Something comes along, out of the blue, that is less than glorious. How can you best handle it so  you don’t create more problems? How can you begin to create more opportunity and manifest good things for your future?

It is all depends on what you think and what you say to yourself and to others. Keep in mind the notion I frequently promote here. Speak only to bless, heal and prosper. Don’t repeatedly tell, and relive, the ‘negative’ story. Stop doing that! Instead, tell one that supports you.

Say, ‘well I didn’t expect that. Some people might say they had a problem. I have a new opportunity presenting itself to examine and utilize my resources. I don’t know what to do about it, yet, but I know everything always works out well for me in the end.’

Train Yourself To Find The Blessing In Everything – Feel Blessed

‘I also know that in adversity is the seed of opportunity. This situation will help me get clear on what I want. Getting really clear about what I want will help me make it happen.’ Don’t judge or label it bad.  Simply say, it’s something you didn’t expect.

Don’t get negative. Don’t speak in less than glorious terms. Do not ignore it. Don’t lie about it. Don’t say it is ‘all fabulous’ if you don’t feel that. That only creates internal conflict. Don’t create a conflict. Simply, reframe how you think and speak about all of it. Get it?

Simply say, ‘I have a situation and I don’t know how it’s gonna work out. Ultimately, it’s gonna work out for the best. Things always work out for the best. I’m gonna celebrate the learning and all the opportunities that are now before me. This is an opportunity.’

Count Your Blessings Not Your Problems – Think Differently

‘I have an opportunity to think, feel, be, do and act differently than I had planned. All of it is an opportunity. All of it will work out. I just don’t know how, yet, so I’m going to get clear on what I do want. I’m going to work on what I can make happen.’

Things never work out the way you think they will. There’s always twists and turns and surprises, so you might as well get used to that. Accept it. Life is an adventure. You can plan but, almost always, your plans will change. Life is ups and downs. Life provides contrast.

Adversity helps you. Perhaps, you really do need what is occurring in order to get clear and focus intently on what you want. Perhaps, you  have to intensify your pursuit. Use it to your advantage. It is a good and positive thing that happened. Get clear on your goals.

Be Grateful For Small Things Big Things And All In Between

You can never know how things will turn out. Adventures are filled with good times and challenges. All of them are a blessings. Sadly, you and the rest of us, have been previously conditioned to accept some and reject others. You have beliefs about what is good and bad.

Until now, you may not have believed that these events can be blessings. Most of us were conditioned to dislike the unexpected. We whine, blame, excuse. and accuse. So we lose out and we suffer. We suffer because of our chronic, old conditioned mindset.

Now you have opportunity to go beyond your beliefs and evolve as a person. You can go to a higher level. When everything is a blessing your life becomes incredible! You didn’t get the outcome you expected. So what? Celebrate. It is a gift and a blessing! Get it?

Perception Is Everything – Believing Is Seeing – It Is All Up To You

Still, you may not yet believe this. These kind of experiences, these lessons, these opportunities, will happen over and over again until you learn that this IS how it works. Everything is a blessing. Give yourself room to accept this. Until you do, expect the unexpected.

Begin to believe that everything happens for your good even though you may not be able to see what that is right now. Don’t let defeat define you. Don’t succumb to negativity because ‘crap’ hits the fan. What anything IS is whatever you DECIDE it is. It’s all up to you.

Things happen to you. It can all be good. You just haven’t believed that before. Give yourself permission to. Accept and allow it and your life can transform. Find the silver linings. Consider everything an opportunity, a lesson and a blessing. Give yourself permission to shine! Feel grateful. Express your gratitude. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Surrender to the moments!

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Acceptance, Affirmations, Expectations, Mindset

Do This To Start Succeeding More Quickly

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“There is another reason why you might not succeed as quickly and as easily as you could. Most of us, at one time or another, have been guilty of this. In order to move forward most swiftly, you have to be willing to do somethings that seem counterintuitive, at times.

Stop trying so hard! Stop trying at all. This doesn’t mean you abandon your goals or give up.  You stay true to your ‘definite chief purpose’. You continue to be passionate about it. It stays a ‘white hot burning desire’ but you stop over thinking. You stop struggling.

You let go. Start trusting. Start having peace. Become certain about making it happen. After all, if it is going to happen at all, you are going to be the one making it happen. Trust yourself. Believe. Have faith. Trust your resourcefulness. Know in your heart you can do it.

Trust Is A Decision You Make – Allow Things To Happen – Trust

Expect the best. Let go of worry. Stop trying to figure it out!  Relax. Listen to the still small voice within. Follow your gut. This all comes about by taking charge of your thinking. The results you get and the inspired actions you take come from managing your mindset.

Be positive. Affirm. Stop speaking about your problems and worries. Begin speaking about making it happen. You don’t need to know the details but you do need to expect it will happen. That is faith. Be enthused. Be eager. Have some fun. Play, delight, enjoy the process.

Don’t furrow your brow. Smile more. Laugh more. Put an end to the struggle. Commit to ease. Do little things that move you ahead. Take some action. It need not be massive. Get into the gratitude habit. Enjoy the process. Be glad for the learning and the challenge. Count it all a blessing and you will move ahead more. Get out of your own way! Celebrate everything.”

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Attitude, Emotions, Focus, Rehearsal And Practice

An Actor’s Thoughts: The Importance Of Focus

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“Why do I write about distraction and the importance of being focused? As an actor, concentration is everything. Energy flows where your attention goes. You must pay attention! This is true for everyone. What you focus on expands. Your thoughts do matter.

An actor must be of one mind. If the actor’s attention is split, part on the character the actor portrays, and part on remembering one’s lines, the performance will suffer. The actor’s full attention must be on the character created. This is why you rehearse and learn lines.

The actor rehearses to be free of distractions and free in the moment, as the character, to take advantage of opportunities that present, during the scene. The actor must listen and concentrate on the others in the scene. Attention is everything. Remember this!

Practice Creates Confidence – Confidence Gives You Power

This is true for all of us; everyone. We can learn from the actor’s commitment and dedication. The actor spends time memorizing and rehearsing so, when performing, it appears fresh, as if it is occurring for the very first time. BUT it is well rehearsed. It is practiced!

All of us can benefit from rehearsal and practice. Athletes and teams rehearse and practice. Musicians and all performing artists practice thousands and thousands of hours to be able to perform in real time. All skills require we wire them in; golf, swimming, piano, cooking.

Jugglers and tightrope walkers practice to get good and to make it look like they are doing some things for the very first time. They practice making it look dangerous and scary. Sometimes, it really is. They wouldn’t think to attempt something without wiring it in!

Every Practice Session Is A Learning Process – Learn Success

Why should we expect any less of ourselves when it come to making our lives great and our dreams come true? Manifesting what you want, making it happen, IS a skill. It requires practice. Managing your thoughts and feelings and actions require the same commitment.

Spend time each day affirming and visualizing what you want and you will get better at it. Take inspired actions toward your goal, get up off your butt and do something in that direction and you will get better at it. Read and fill your mind with positive thoughts.

Everyday do something. Even if it is only a little bit, it is better than nothing. Imagine. Act AS IF you already are and have what you want. The more time you put into creating it, the better you get, and the closer you get to actually having it. Practice, practice, practice!

Knowledge Is Useless Unless And Until You Put It Into Practice

When the going gets tough you get what you practice. You weather the storms better when you travel in advance of the world. You prepare for all events and circumstances by training and conditioning your responses. EMTs, firefighters all train to be ready.

Don’t expect any less of yourself. Commit to being the best. Don’t rely on magic, rely on you. YOU are much more likely to make it happen than wishing will make it happen. Practice success skills. Practice feeling happy and successful. Practice gratitude! Enjoy.

Be thankful. Practice positive thinking and attitude. Practice feeling joyful and enthused. Practice abundance. Feel abundance! Practice manifesting and creating. Make it happen. Practice getting along with others and support them. Practice listening and paying attention. Practice positivity. Practice focus. Practice speaking only to bless, heal and prosper. Practice celebrating! Practice feeling delighted! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Don’t miss the marvelous while focused on the mundane!

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Decision, Focus, Intentional Thinking, Responsibility

Are You Failing Because You Are Distracted? Yes!

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“My recent blogs were devoted to two concepts; why you fail and is media, and more, distracting you from your goals and dreams? There are many factors that usurp your power. If you aren’t able to realize the power you have, you may never maximize your potential.

The distractions, those deliberately imposed, and those that simply arise in daily living, compete for your attention. They rob you of focus. They lead you astray when you succumb to them. Your thoughts become diluted so the results you get are weakened.

If you are distracted, you may never realize your true self and what you are capable of achieving. Because you are ‘caught up’ you miss out. Napoleon Hill called it ‘drifting’, as a cork bobs along in the current. There is no power in drifting. Power is in your focus.

Everything Is Energy – Your Thoughts Begin It …

Power is in your decisions and determination. Power is in managing your thoughts, feelings, and actions. If anything can distract you, it will lead you away from what is most important. If it can take you away from pursuing your goals and dreams, it will. You lose out.

That is why, social networking, popular books, movies, music, gossip, bad news, is dangerous. It takes you out of the game. Your focus isn’t on who  you can become, and what you can accomplish, it’s caught up in the bad news and banter on your feed. Focus is everything!

Energy flows where your attention goes. What you focus on expands. You become what you think about most frequently. I’m not saying there isn’t room for entertainment or frivolity that makes you feel good. There is plenty of room for it. It’s how much time is spent?

… Your Emotions Amplify It – Your Actions Increase Its Momentum

If most of your time is caught up in media distraction, daily distractions, traffic and nuisances in work and home life, then less time is spent focused on what you want. If you get what you focus on,  how will you get what you want, if you’re not focused on it?

You have to control what you pay attention to. That is why it is important to read and listen to material that inspires and motivates you to continue your pursuit, daily. It is why you need to hang out with positive like minded people who are making things happen.

It is the reason you attend seminars and events and invest in yourself. All of these help you to stay focused on your goals and dreams, and expand your imagination to include more good things. Spend more time on what is important, and less time on what isn’t.

Take Back Your Attention – Energy – Time And Emotions 

Affirm and visualize. Enjoy making your world what you want it to be. Contribute to others positively, and allow them to contribute to you. That is much better for you than the latest bad news or gossip. The goal, of the powers that be, is that you spend money trying.

If you become what you want to be, you live life on your terms. You have choice and power. You can opt in or opt out. If you are always struggling you are spending your time, energy and money to become. If you never become you keep struggling. Get it? It’s a cycle.

Put an end to the distractions. You get nowhere drifting and being wishy washy. Focus! Focus yourself. Become a laser beam and enjoy the process. Find the people, things, and circumstances you are grateful for and focus on these, instead. You’ll get more bang for this buck than discussing headlines. Get it? Practice gratitude. Live fully. Delight in life. Manage your thoughts and your feelings and actions and results will align. FOCUS! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

ENJOY!

Discover delight each instant!

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Is Media Trying To Addict You And Dumb You Down?

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“Lots of news. Lots happening. Daily breaking news. Media messages bombard us on TV, newspapers, blogs, internet, social media. We are hit with thousands of messages every moment. We can’t escape it any more than we can escape microwaves and cell towers.

Some think the media manipulates us. It could be that is accurate. It can try, at least. It can wear us down so we are apathetic and don’t care anymore. A lie repeated often enough can be substituted as the truth. We get dumber, not smarter. Yes, it can have this affect.

It may be that it’s designed to make us feel helpless or hopeless. It may be done to control our thinking; tell us what to think and believe. We are products of our family, peer groups and society. Manipulation is not that big of a stretch, to think it not possible.

Simplify Your Life – Learn To Say No – Keep Your Power

However, it doesn’t control you, unless you let it. If you let it run your thoughts, then, yes, perhaps, it has that power to influence. It can’t control you, but it may influence you. If you don’t let it, it can’t. You are in charge. There is a question you might ask about media.

Do I feel more empowered and in charge by what I see and hear daily or do I feel more helpless and hopeless? Evaluate the affect you think it has on you. If you feel less than glorious, less in charge, more helpless and hopeless, then you can act to change it.

There is no reason to remain a victim. Pay attention. Everything is designed to make you an addict. Food additives, MSG, HFCS, and others in processed food. Nicotine in cigarettes. Alcohol. Media which includes movies, books and music. They want us consuming.

Want More Time Freedom Energy And Money – Start Saying No

People are addicted to news. People are addicted to BAD news. What we focus on is what we get. I don’t know if it is nefarious. Are there powers trying to dumb down the people for total domination? Perhaps. More likely, just trying to get you to part with your dollars.

Claim your life and your mind and your time and your health back. Take it all back and put yourself in charge of you. Decide what you want and whether or not it gets you closer, or further away, from your hopes, goals and dreams. You are either thriving or dying.

Put a premium on your time because that you NEVER get back. Instead of struggling decide and determine to make life fun. Make it an adventure. Enjoy it. Delight and thrill. Transform it through the renewing of your mind and heart. Practice gratitude. Limit the negativity. Promote the positivity. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

ENJOY!

Magic happens every moment!

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