At first, I felt that far too many people "nested" in personal development and never did the business. I was just the opposite. I didn't do anything much in the direction of personal growth. As my organization grew, and grew very quickly, I discerned that not everyone has come along the same path of development. People, all of us have come to the business via different directions having come from various career backgrounds. Many of those career paths are not terribly rich in providing opportunity for a person to develop and grow. We all need to be growing in our journeys here on planet earth.
What I will tell you is that it does not build your business to stick your head in a book or tap your toes to the introduction music of the motivational tapes more an hour or two tops per day. This is NOT income producing activity. You need to be in income producing activity at least 80% of your work week time. I have no more than five suggestions in my "Leaders are Readers" section and then a few more in the "Supercharge and Take it to the Next Level" portion. I separate the two so new business coaches know they can get started quickly with a short list in terms of personal growth. On my short list is the following:
- Watch or read The Secret (www.thesecret.tv)
- Add these important books to your library and make it a priority to read them...
o Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
o You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor
o The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
o The Power of the Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
These are not in a particular order except one and two. Listening to The Secret will greatly assist people in an important mind-set ? that of being in the state of attraction. Don't feel you need to be able to do this perfectly right away. It doesn't happen for most people that way. We are a work in progress so give yourself permission to do your work a little at a time. Whenever I notice a negative thought slipping in I take a deep breath and redirect to a positive place of thought. So first is the mind-set of attraction. Next I want my new starts to spend time with Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich where they will immerse themselves and feel the importance of growing themselves personally. I love the journey he suggests on self-confidence early in the book. Do a team call on confidence and focus on the portion of his writings.
The 4 Hour Work Week is the freshest piece I have read in a long time. Readers will be highlighting and taking notes on the perspectives and checking the websites Tim Ferriss suggests. It will be a book to carry around with you as you grow your business and choose to develop a lifestyle only some people "dreamline". You Were Born Rich is just a timeless piece from a highly respected mentor to so many of us. Bob Proctor helped me understand that we are all born with abundance and what we do with that is up to us. Joseph Murphy's The Power of the Subconscious Mind opens a bright new way in which you use your mind!
The entrepreneurial adventure before us with a business in network marketing has a center is allowing relationship and individual development. DON'T be a gerbil on one of those little tread wheels going round and round and never getting on down the road toward your financial goal. DO hold in high regard the value of personal development. Plan to jog your way through the short list and walk on to whatever you choose to supercharge to the next level. Just make it as easy as possible in the start up to begin your journey of growth.
Over the last decades more and more did we get used to focussing our attention on physical needs and wants. Extensively helped by our society, the media, television, magazines and the world wide web, we have learned to chase external rewards, in stead of seeking a balance between the material and spiritual aspects of our lives. We have allowed ourselves to be distracted by the various pictures of success that society offers us. We constantly compare ourselves with others and we are living according to someone else’s idea of what life should be. So, large amounts of people have lost control of their lives and vast groups of them live a confused and unhappy life, while others are close to different states of depression.
If the under mentioned self motivation tips are followed we will start to live a more balanced spiritual life. Through this self motivation exercise we will acquire self motivation skills which in turn will help us to grow into the balanced spiritual person we want to be.
To be able to grow spiritually we need to look inside of ourselves, and this goes a lot further than to recall certain events that took place today, this week or the past month.
We need to learn to be courageous and willing to find the truths that lie deep within us. Introspection means that we have to look closely and reflect on our thoughts and feelings, our beliefs and our motivations in an objective and self-forgiving way and we need to focus on our areas that need improvement. It is important that we periodically examine our experiences, our relationships, the decisions we take, the things that we attract into our lives.
This provides us with deep insights on what our motivations for certain actions are. It gives us the opportunity to look at the qualities of character we want to sustain and the ones we need to adjust or even change, so that we learn to properly act, react and conduct in any situation in our lives.
Growing spiritually means we learn to be able to live our full potential and we need to make sure that our physical body, our mental body, our emotional body and our spiritual body are in balance. Achieving to bring balance to each of these bodies will lead to our total development.
Growing spiritually also means that we realize that our lives have a purpose and that we are connected to all things. Our purpose puts all our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual potentials into use. It sustains us during challenging times and it gives us a feeling of having a goal to achieve, a destination to reach. After all we all need a purpose, a meaning.
Realizing that we are connected to all things helps us to become more humble and respectful of the people and all things in nature. It makes us appreciative to everything around us and it helps us to go beyond our comfort zone and reach out to others.
To grow in spirit is a day-to-day encounter and the most important thing is that we learn, so that our further spiritual growth is possible.
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