Key to Self-Development is the ability to live consciously.

Here I’ll share the 7 keys to consciously living in abundance.

Would you like to get more out of your life? It’s never too late to make a new choice or reverse your life’s course. One way to live a more enriched life is to be conscious of what you’re doing at every moment. This way, you stay connected with your behavior and feelings.

Here’s an example situation: You’ve decided to stop eating potato chips and chocolate. You make a pledge to yourself to watch what you eat. But two hours later, you suddenly realize you’re sitting in front of the television, bag of potato chips in hand.

Now imagine the same scenario, yet this time you behave differently. You spend some time thinking about how to ensure you avoid potato chips and chocolate. You decide to take your junk food over to a friend’s house and leave it there. At dinner, you smile to yourself as you prepare to eat a salad and baked chicken because you plan to thoughtfully focus on eating healthy.

The second scenario demonstrates the concept of living a conscious life. Knowing what you want, choosing how you spend your time, and staying in touch with your feelings are indicators of a conscious life.

There are many techniques you can implement to help you purposely live the way you want to. When you live consciously, you’re no longer a victim of the wind, being blown about this way and that way by the circumstances of your life. You can create the life you desire with conscious living.

Try these ideas to get you started and inspire you on your journey:

1.     Create the life you want one step at a time. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

•    Spend some time exploring what you already love about your life. Also investigate what you’d like to change.

•    Then, think about how you can take deliberate steps to create the life you desire.

2.     Seek balance in your life. For example, if you disagree with someone, take time to consider the other person’s side of the argument.

•    Allow yourself to change your mind.

3.    Live in the present moment. You’ve most likely heard this suggestion before. But what does it really mean to live in the moment? Consider this example:

•    While you’re visiting your mother, think about her and enjoy your conversation and activities together. Avoid making your store list mentally or trying to recall what else you have to do today. Just stay in the present moment with your mother and focus on what the two of you are doing.

4.    Know yourself. Awareness of your likes and dislikes is important to conscious living.

•    Learn what’s important to you. Discover what makes you tick, what drives you, and what you find inspiring.

•    Self-understanding is an integral part of living life consciously because if you know your preferences and motivations, you can then create circumstances that will enable you to accomplish your goals.

5.    Live your own truth. As a teenager, you might have gravitated toward peers who didn’t judge you, which made you feel more comfortable. Perhaps, in actuality, you didn’t have all that much in common with them. As an adult, you can now stay more true to your own beliefs.

•    When you live your truth, you stay faithful to what’s genuinely important to you.

6.    Learn to let go of negativity and situations you can’t control.

•    Conserve your emotional energy for what you actually can change: yourself and your own life. Now that’s conscious living!

7.    Take action. Become interested and involved in the goals you’ve set. Put effort into achieving those objectives and you’ll be well on the road to living consciously.

Altering how you live your life can be an ongoing challenge. Selecting just one of the above ideas and putting it into practice will help you begin your journey toward conscious living. Living life consciously will bring you the healthier, more joyful existence that you deserve.

Aspire ~ Strengthen ~ Evolve

In joy,

~ Loreen

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Self Development Reflection Exercise – I am an agent of peace.

When I enter a room, peace follows me in. The genuine smile on my face dispels the effects of strife and sharing my smile with others makes my joy contagious. The soothing effect of my presence draws people in.

My positive attitude and serene spirit attract people to me like a cool, deep well draws the thirsty. My personality is refreshing to be around because I decline to allow my circumstances to dictate my behavior.

My emotions no longer rule my actions. Instead, I take charge of my feelings and behave in a way that is true to my personal values. Through self-discipline, I rise above my mood and immerse myself in peace.

Regardless of the situation in which I find myself, my responses are serene. Even when time is running out and I feel pressure to act abruptly, I think before I act because calm responses soothe the soul.

I prevent regret by keeping a level head at all times and resisting the urge to become hostile. My positive perspective enables me to keep small things in proportion so I no longer lose my peace over insignificant details.

When others are longing for peace, they turn to me because I cultivate it in my own life. My mouth utters only words of comfort and encouragement because I like to give people hope. I reduce constraints by focusing on answers.

Today, I choose to look for peaceful solutions to any difficulty that may arise. I abstain from panic and stress by keeping things in perspective and focusing on the good.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. What can I do today to diffuse strife and stress?
2. Are my emotions in control of my actions or does my behavior reflect my values?
3. How does my attitude affect my environment?

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The Self Development Key To Manifesting The Life Of Your Dreams…

Stop Hiding Behind Your Fears And Get The Road Map To Help

Our blueprint is our own; life is wondering and we respond. Do we meekly submit and let life, let those near us, determine where we’re going? Do we serve a maybe in response to life in a muted voice? Or do we persist firm and persist true to our inner most wants; to live a life of virtue and fulfillment – a life of responsibility… free from fears?

All of us may come up with someone else to fault or leastwise find someone else who’s some more faults than ourselves to take the attention off and pose ourselves in a good light. Making comparisons in this way seems to be fabricated into our DNA as well as hiding behind our fears.

When we think about our own lives, conforming to the line ‘I may not be perfect, but I’m not worse than the next individual’ seems all too familiar but behaving poorly or in a more improper way than what we would call for from others, compromises our own wholeness.

The idea that we’re ‘not as spoiled’ as someone else lets us  think that our own actions are okay and guardedly selecting someone with whom we can equate ourselves  only gives the backing we need to justify this to ourselves. It’s all truly handy correct?

This kind of behavior lets us skip out on being responsible for ourselves, to go on  acting badly or to just ‘put our head in the sand’ about specific matters. If our actions are ‘not as sorry’ as someone else’s, does that signify we’re correct?

Is it genuinely just when we commit an act we acknowledge as wrong, to not anticipate being held responsible for it? We oftentimes hurt others in ways we, ourselves wouldn’t enjoy happening to us and this is hiding behind our own fears.

As a matter of fact, a couple of life’s hardest examples can serve as vicious reminders that we have treated someone in some respects how we’d detest to be treated ourselves so how come do we do it? Why do we do something if we’re afraid to face the final result?

An acquaintance once gave me some of the finest, yet most simple-minded advice I’ve ever gotten – ‘don’t be sorry, just don’t do it!’ Its dandy advice that compliments that old adage of ‘Do unto others, how you’d have them do unto you’ and is a wonderful doctrine to live your life by.

Consider it, if you tell yourself this any time you’re mulling over lying to somebody, treating someone badly, speaking out of turn or doing something you shouldn’t behind someone else’s back – and let’s face it, 9 times out of 10 you’re going to get discovered, you’ll never have to be ‘sorry’ ever again.

If you don’t do the risky behavior in the first place, you won’t have the showdown with that individual, there will be no hoo-hah or judging, no relationship unsaved or tarnished and utterly no need to apologize, best of all – your scruples will always be clean and guilt free. It may be rather an easy way to undertake life but it most decidedly works. Alas, doing unto others, how you’d have them do unto you isn’t always assured in today’s society but you’re able to at least be responsible for your own actions. Passing off the fault only displays a cowardice and lack of value for yourself and everyone around you.

We’re responsible for our own lives. No individual is precisely like us; not even an identical twin. Our seeds of joy are our own; our resolves are as unique as our fingerprints. Take responsibility for your own life and stop blaming your fears on others. Learn the right way to banish your fears and move forward today.

Aspire ~ Strengthen ~ Evolve

To manifesting the life of your dreams,

~Loreen

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Being successful doesn’t always require doing the biggest thing right off.

The Self Development Key is…Growing Into Success Works Also

Warren Buffett
Why is he inspiring? He is one of the most victorious investors of all time and became the world’s richest human being at the age of 77.

What can he teach? Being victorious isn’t always about taking on the largest challenges. It’s about continually growing and conquering the feats you can handle.

Quote: “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

Growth and Success
Thousands of books and reports have been written about the matter of self development and personal growth. Many alleged experts and gurus have tried to deliver assorted points of views on this matter and a lot of them are right although some have simply missed the boat! Sending many of us into dissimilar levels of comprehending. All the same, it’s up to each of us to choose whether we want to become successful or not.

Here are some essential principles for formulating personal growth and success:

1. Acquire good time management techniques. Make time management a personal issue. Don’t just author a bunch of material in a note book or diary without dedicating to it. Design your day ahead of time. Screen your calls and don’t waste time on frivolous calls. Make blocks of time in which you can sit and form your thoughts. Find a fruitful project to do on a day-to-day basis.

2. Cause your life to be fun! Life is all about fun. Nature is occupied with pure goodness… be part of this experience. Don’t go around making self-justifications or making others life poor. Like everything you do! The mystery of living is that you’re part of a fuller universal picture. Your life is really important within this big plan of being.

3. Formulate and punctuate your personal slogan. Your personal slogan helps to define you. It’s your statement of purpose for success and personal growth. Live by it and perpetually and let it shape your thinking towards a greater level of accomplishment.

4. Be brave and relentless. Having a solid self-will will put you ahead of the game. Your thoughts, inventions and creative ideas won’t be profitable without you being brave and relentless. Don’t stand at the sidelines of life. Get involved and be part of this deep experience of life’s hope!

5. Get in touch with your higher power. Through positive prayers, meditation, service to mankind and everything inside nature let your life soak up the total goodness therein. Forever think positive. Encircle your life with positive people. Take nature walks to regenerate your inner being. Discharge all stress from your life by slow breathing and spiritual exercises. Live in the present!

Daily Affirmation
I am still and receptive to Life and Growth.

Aspire ~ Strengthen ~ Evolve

In a joyful journey of self development and growth,

~ Loreen

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Seems counter intuitive doesn’t it to be selfish?

And yet Self-Development is one of the greatest gift you can give to yourself as well as to others.

So how can you make the most of your solitary moments?

Time alone can either be embraced or eschewed. You might not have much opportunity for solitary moments, or perhaps you spend a lot of time alone and struggle with how to fill your hours.

Regardless of whether time alone excites or frustrates you, here are some ideas about how to make the most of your solitary moments:

1.    Are you a movie buff? Being alone is the perfect opportunity to watch some films you’ve wanted to see.

•    To really make the most of your solitary time, keep a running list of the movies you want to see. Then you can select the ones that will provide you with the most enjoyment.

•    When you know you have some time alone coming up in your schedule, check out a couple of the movies at the library, rent them at your local movie rental store, or use your cable or satellite television services to view the films.

•    Feel free to pop some popcorn and grab your favorite beverage!

2.    Spend time doing what you love. If you have a hobby you adore, you know that there’s never too much time for your hobby. With some occasional alone time, you have some chances to really get into your favorite pastime, whatever it may be.

•    Perhaps you love to write poetry but rarely have the opportunity to sit down and write. Plan to spend your next bit of solitary time waxing poetic.

3.    Getting in tune with nature is a wonderful way to spend time alone. Take a walk outdoors, visit your local park, go to the nearest lake, or visit the ocean if you’re lucky enough to live close to one.

•    Observe everything that’s going on around you: birds flying by, dogs taking their masters for a walk, and children playing in the sand.

•    Becoming re-acquainted with nature from time to time will enable you to gain peace and serenity from your solitary moments.

4.    Read. Reading your favorite novel or biography can be highly enjoyable when home alone. Is there anything as comforting as curling up with a good book?

5.    Make plans. If you’re a Type A personality and prefer to be productive most of the time, consider your solitary moments as little gems of time for planning future productivity. Make a list of all the work tasks you want to accomplish over the next month or two.

•    Try writing out the changes you want to make in your home. Then prioritize them.

•    You could even record goals you hope to achieve over the next 5 years.

6.    Enjoy new games and gadgets. With all the new technology available today, perhaps you’ve been looking for some time to learn all of the ins and outs of your new gadget. With solitary moments, you can explore your new apps or have some fun playing a game.

•    It’s okay to spend some of your time alone engaging in fun and frivolity. These are your moments. Enjoy them!

7.    Meditate to bring calmness, balance, and joy to your life. Practicing meditation is known to reduce anxiety, increase feelings of wellness and encourage relaxation.

•    Delving into meditation will enrich your life in a number of ways. It may even help you sleep better.

8.    Learn something new. If you’ve always wanted to learn more about the history of your country or how to speak Spanish, obtain some books and DVDs to begin your “education.”

9.    Exercise can really make the most of your alone time. As long as your doctor approves, you can start a fitness routine right away. You’ll get that sought-after buzz from exercising, improve your health, and look better too.

Regardless of how much time alone you have, you can make the most of those solitary moments. You can engage in your favorite hobby, get closer to nature, read a book, or learn something new. Make a conscious decision about how to spend your alone time and your life will be changed for the better!

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Self Development Reflection – I ask for help when I need it.

I am humble enough to turn to a friend when I am in need. There are people around me who love me more than I know and they are just one phone call away. My friends and family consider it a blessing to be able to help me.

I am free from apprehension when it comes to asking others for assistance because I would do the same for them if they were in need. I turn to my loved ones for help because the people who support me do so out of love, not obligation.

When I need help, I reach out to those around me without hesitation. It is irrelevant why I need help. Whether life presents a challenge from outside of me or I get myself into more than I can handle, I still reach out for help.

I am grateful to have people I can count on to come to my aid during challenging times. I treasure those friendships by nurturing them. When friends turn to me for help, I go out of my way to meet their needs plus give them a little extra.

Loving others extravagantly ignites the spark of our friendship and causes them to care deeply for me. I accept the love of my friends the same way I expect them to accept my affection. I create a caring environment within my relationships.

Today, I choose to let go of my pride and reach out to those who love me. I give those around me an opportunity to bless me by sharing my needs with them.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. Who can I turn to when I need help?
2. Why should I accept the assistance of others?
3. When was the last time I asked for help?

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Would you like to get more out of your life? It’s never too late to make a new choice or reverse your life’s course. One way to live a more enriched life is to be conscious of what you’re doing at every moment. This way, you stay connected with your behavior and feelings.

Here’s an example situation: You’ve decided to stop eating potato chips and chocolate. You make a pledge to yourself to watch what you eat. But two hours later, you suddenly realize you’re sitting in front of the television, bag of potato chips in hand.

Now imagine the same scenario, yet this time you behave differently. You spend some time thinking about how to ensure you avoid potato chips and chocolate. You decide to take your junk food over to a friend’s house and leave it there. At dinner, you smile to yourself as you prepare to eat a salad and baked chicken because you plan to thoughtfully focus on eating healthy.

The second scenario demonstrates the concept of living a conscious life. Knowing what you want, choosing how you spend your time, and staying in touch with your feelings are indicators of a conscious life.

There are many techniques you can implement to help you purposely live the way you want to. When you live consciously, you’re no longer a victim of the wind, being blown about this way and that way by the circumstances of your life. You can create the life you desire with conscious living.

Try these ideas to get you started and inspire you on your journey:

1.     Create the life you want one step at a time. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

•    Spend some time exploring what you already love about your life. Also investigate what you’d like to change.

•    Then, think about how you can take deliberate steps to create the life you desire.

2.     Seek balance in your life. For example, if you disagree with someone, take time to consider the other person’s side of the argument.

•    Allow yourself to change your mind.

3.    Live in the present moment. You’ve most likely heard this suggestion before. But what does it really mean to live in the moment? Consider this example:

•    While you’re visiting your mother, think about her and enjoy your conversation and activities together. Avoid making your store list mentally or trying to recall what else you have to do today. Just stay in the present moment with your mother and focus on what the two of you are doing.

4.    Know yourself. Awareness of your likes and dislikes is important to conscious living.

•    Learn what’s important to you. Discover what makes you tick, what drives you, and what you find inspiring.

•    Self-understanding is an integral part of living life consciously because if you know your preferences and motivations, you can then create circumstances that will enable you to accomplish your goals.

5.    Live your own truth. As a teenager, you might have gravitated toward peers who didn’t judge you, which made you feel more comfortable. Perhaps, in actuality, you didn’t have all that much in common with them. As an adult, you can now stay more true to your own beliefs.

•    When you live your truth, you stay faithful to what’s genuinely important to you.

6.    Learn to let go of negativity and situations you can’t control.

•    Conserve your emotional energy for what you actually can change: yourself and your own life. Now that’s conscious living!

7.    Take action. Become interested and involved in the goals you’ve set. Put effort into achieving those objectives and you’ll be well on the road to living consciously.

Altering how you live your life can be an ongoing challenge. Selecting just one of the above ideas and putting it into practice will help you begin your journey toward conscious living. Living life consciously will bring you the healthier, more joyful existence that you deserve.

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The only way to a complete destination is by following through

Inspired Action the Self Development Way to A Complete Success

Mahatma Ghandi

Why is he inspiring? He led the group which led India to freedom. This also stimulated other movements for freedom and individual rights across the globe.

What can he teach? Perform through your intentions. Only from following through with the thing you believe in can you take pleasure in fulfillment.

Quote: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Conceive of a world where every voice mail you leave is quickly returned, where anything you call for is complete when you want it done, and where every action you initiate gets completed without a single hitch.   it doesn’t exist; But, many individuals behave as if it does. To see things get done, and get done correctly, you need to remain on top of them.

We’re all guilty of letting things fall through the cracks, but how come? We tend to let matters fall through the cracks when we’re more concerned with checking tasks off our list than we are with making certain the tasks really get executed.  It isn’t sensible to depend upon unreliable people or individuals whom we don’t know, nor should we blame anybody but ourselves for not following through with our tasks.

The key to making certain things get done and done on time is by keeping the ball in your court. Here are a few hints on how you can do just that.

• Don’t take it off the list. Don’t cross items off of your “to do” list till the actual task itself is done.  For instance, if you have “call the doctor” on your list, what you actually mean is something like, “make an appointment with the Dr.”.  Don’t cross this off your list till your appointment is created and confirmed, not simply when you leave a message.

• Assign a date and time. If you’re depending upon vendors, staff, or acquaintances for something, ascertain specifically when you can anticipate action.  Then, let them know you’ll be following up at a committed date and time.  For instance, if you have a payload that your vendor promises will be sent out “this week”, ask them for a particular date, then call the vendor back at least one time prior to that date to make certain everything is on schedule.

• Act on e-mails. Today, many individuals use their e-mail inbox as their “to do” list.  When they answer a message or start an e-mail, their e-mail goes away into the sent folder and is blanked out.  A great technique is to move a copy of the message into a folder called “follow up” and go over these e-mails each day.

• Be relentless with phone calls. Don’t let your forward motion be slowed by busy signals and voice mail.   Be relentless and keep calling till you speak with somebody.  Use your best judgment here and make certain you don’t keep ringing a telephone line that only has voice mail.

Daily Affirmation

I am a determined, persistent, motivated woman striving to achieve my greatest goals and aspirations, and I genuinely believe I will be successful.

Aspire ~ Strengthen ~ Evolve

Taking inspired action to share this story with you,

~Loreen

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Law of Attraction is a Universal LAW – it works perfectly, each and every time.

But, then Why is it that I so frequently get what I do NOT want?

I know that when I first started my journey to self-development or inner enlightenment I wanted more than anything to understand “how” the law of attraction worked. I have always been considered a “positive” person, even called Pollyanna by some… so why is it that the life of my dreams wasn’t instantly manifesting?

What I didn’t realize then was that my unconscious or subconscious mind was wielding 90% of my power and yet… I wasn’t properly accessing it to alter it’s programming.  When I found this quote this morning on Facebook, I couldn’t help but share it:

Whatever the financial situation you are currently in, it is one that you have brought into reality through your thoughts. If it is not what you want, then you have created it unconsciously, but still you created it. When you can see this you will understand how powerful you are at creating. And now all you have to do is create what you want, consciously!

With so many caught up in the hypnotic rhythm of the “bad economy”, the “recession”, the “depression” – it’s no wonder that many find themselves also caught in a terrible financial situation.  But, despite what you may want to believe… it’s NOT the economy’s fault, NOT the government’s fault nor the fault of the banks… it’s the result of your subconscious, creating EXACTLY what you believe.  You create your own experience whether you want to accept it or not.

The challenge is to change your experience to be what you truly desire.  And to do that you have to harness your true power – your power to co-create.  It’s not as simple as “changing” your thinking.  Especially since many of your “thoughts” emanate from your subconscious mind.  And many of us remain unconscious to those thoughts.

But, there are things we can do to harness our power and attract abundance.  Here are just a few ideas:

1. Be an observer… watch for your “feelings” – your feelings are a reflection of your inner thoughts – your subconscious thoughts.  Before they manifest into emotions – you can assess your feelings and have a pretty clear idea of what you are subconsciously thinking.

EX] – feeling anxious – what is it that you fear?  What is it that may be a limiting belief leading you to have that fear?

2.  Meditate - to make a closer connection with your higher self.  Just getting in touch with your inner light can help to strengthen the connection with the Universe.  This will heighten your awareness of your feelings and thereby your subconscious thoughts as well.

3.  Ask yourself empowering questions. Noah St. John calls this “afformations”.  Many of us are used to affirmations but… have also seen or experienced the negative results from them.  You can’t trick your brain anymore than you can trick the Law of Attraction!  You cannot make it believe a lie and therefore produce magnificent results for you.

Ex] – You look in the mirror and state clearly with conviction – ” I am rich” – now.. how do you feel?  Like – Nah… I’m not rich, I’m struggling to pay the bills.  Say it again… different result?  Nope

Now try this – look in the mirror and ASK – “Why am I so wealthy?” – now… how do you feel?  Like – hmmm…. I’ve got a great family, I’ve got a wonderful home, I live in a great country… etc.

That’s the beauty of asking empowering questions or using “afformations” instead of affirmations.  When you ask questions… your brain MUST start searching for the answer.  So, when you propose positive empowering questions you start to retrain the brain to search for the “good” the “positive” the reasons that you are wealthy. Your outer experience then will reflect what you are “predominantly” thinking, so you just have to shift your 90% power machine (the subconscious mind) to predominantly thinking in the direction of your desires.

Pretty cool – huh?  Now, don’t go using it against yourself and asking those negative questions that we so frequently do “unconsciously” like… “why am I so broke? – find yourself thinking that… or even stating it aloud -shift your focus – ask instead “why am I so wealthy?”

Aspire ~ Strengthen ~ Evolve

In joy,

Loreen

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Self Development Reflection Exercise – I am the change I want to see in others.

Each day I work to offer positive change to others. When I am upbeat and happy, others see the value of that mindset. It’s easy to be happy!

There’s so much to be thankful for and I find joy everywhere I look. As I become more positive, others follow my lead.

To encourage others to change, I show them the value of my own transformation. The more I show them my inner beauty and happiness, the more they want what I have. As I transform myself, others around me want to improve too. Through intentional growth, I can improve the world, one person at a time.

Self-improvement is important to me. As I grow, I see more of the good in others. Every change I make brings me closer to the person I truly want to be. I enjoy finding new ways to do things better. Each day, I focus on being the best “me” I can be. If I have a setback, I regroup and try again because discouragement has no place in my life.

I understand that everyone makes mistakes. I avoid getting frustrated if I fail to do something just right. As long as I am growing, I am happy, even if my changes are small. Seeing my good works affect the lives of others brings me great joy.

Today, I am the positive change I want to see in others.

Self-Reflection Questions:

What can I do to bring more positive change into my life?

1. How can I persuade others to change by becoming more positive?
2. Is there more I can do to bring beneficial growth into the lives of other people?

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