Mental Game of Money

UPDATE (25/01/07):

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My Book Wish-List

I enjoy reading books – fiction and non-fiction. My current rate is around ten books a month. Some I get finished in a day, some I get done over two. Others take me up to a week. I wouldn’t call myself a book addict. Mistake. I would call myself a book addict but I do it purely for the awareness and learning purposes. Of course, with that, I totally enjoy what I read. If I don’t like the book at that particular time, I’ll return it or stack it on my shelf until I feel like picking it up.

Reading has been instilled in me when I was growing up. My parents had always thought that it was really important to read a variety of things – magazines, newspapers, books, but more importantly to do it consistently. To be frank, they actually taught me a whole host of personal growth tools without even realising it (eg: consistency!) My father loves to buy The Times, or The Telegraph newspaper. With all the other little news pull-outs that come with it, there’s so much beauty to delve into. I’ve always been fond of travelling, so I remember as a kid, I used to go straight to the Travel section to see what’s available – not that I was going to travel.

My father ensured I read at least two articles a day. I’d also read various story books at times too. It was until around 16 when I really went for the personal development books and to date, I must have gone through over 250. Personal growth is absolutely vital to me. In every book that I dive into, although I have an open mind, I still seek the following:-

1. What can I get out of it?
2. What can I get out of it to share with others?

And I believe that it is through these that I had achieved above 95% in all my written essays in college and at university. I have been told on numerous occasions that I write well. My view is that my writing still needs to be dramatically increased in quality, but I am able to acknowledge the growth in my writing. Just surf back to about eight months ago on this blog and see what I wrote to make that comparison.

Make a choice today to read. Pick up a book and start reading. Don’t force yourself to read more than you can. When you feel it’s time to stop, then stop. Return when you’re ready. We are living in a world where there is a plethora of every single thing. Everything is in abundance. From the UK, we have resources that can take us to the Amazon rainforest without even physically moving. In the same way, Australians can visit Thailand without even going there. We are lucky to be living in an age of bountiful resources – we just have to open our eyes, ears and hearts to all that is available and one curious way of doing that is through books. Expand your horizons.

I always like to keep a large list of books that I wish to obtain. Like Amazon, I call it my wish list. Every now and again, I return to it and I see which is the next one to get and amazingly due to my approriate intending, it usually does manifest into my life. To continue my intending, below is a list of books that I’m working on attracting. Would you like to help me attract?

At this point, I’m currently reading James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces“

Books that I am intending to manifest:

Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind by Nancy Kline

A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett

Unleashing Your Brilliance by Brian E. Walsh
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life by Steve Leveen

Jump Start Your Brain by Doug Hall
Flawless Consulting by Peter Block

Do you have any other recommendations?

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Co-Creative Consultancy: Session 7 & 8

Yesterday evening, I met with Sol for both sessions in a trot, rather than one on Monday and the other on Tuesday. The sessions were different – we walked a bit, we stopped at a restaurant to eat a bit, we went to a school room (we had an event there afterwards!) and we also ate some nuts too! At the same time, we focused on various tasks at hand spanning from the newsletter subscription to how I am going to attract people to come to my event in a month’s time.

We also got creative on the white board with a starting questions “R U happy?” to “When were U most happy?” These questions particularly allowed for me to get thinking and find out the moments when I am most happy and it is in these moments that I am most productive.

On a mutual consent, we also agreed to terminate these sessions but rather spend more time together working co-creatively on something we both want to pursue as a project. The co-creative consultancy came to a point for me where I felt that it was useful to have it, but not particularly needed and didn’t want to work in that kind of relationship – instead, we’ll be working on various projects together so watch this space for news of that!

However, I can thoroughly recommend Sol’s work for you so if you’re interested, nip over to www.effortlessExpression.com 

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Natural Vibrations

Have you ever noticed the difference between sad tears and happy tears? They are both watery, they don’t tend to smell and they have the same feel of wetness, so then what’s different about them? The answer is the taste. Let me explain…

The water in our bodies is like ocean water due to the salt crystals within us vibrating at varying frequencies. The frequencies released by our heart is much higher than that of our brain. The emotional frequency reigns much higher than the mental frequency of the mind. As we say, the emotional heart is much more touching.

When we are happy, we are vibrating at higher frequencies than when we are sad. Chemically, our water compositions are also changing and therefore the release of tears taste different when we’re in a state of sadness. When there is a greater balance between the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual frequencies, we become one with ourselves and can appreciate and acknowledge all situations equally well as we are in a state of vibrational harmony.

This forms the basis of the powerful Law of Attraction. After all, once an intention is set, we must vibrate at high frequencies to be able to truly manifest what we want. We need to understand that our inner and outer self are working together so in order to manifes our desires, we must not fake our happiness and not mean it internally.

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Corporate Head, Spiritual Heart

I was fortunate to be at a book launch party just a few days ago. I have read over 300 books spanning all elements of personal development from spirituality to time management, muscians' development to work and career, finance to health and business to relationships, but in all that, I have never come across such as special book as Shilpa Unalkat's brand new "Corporate Head, Spiritual Heart: Creating True Success and Fulfillment Without the Hang-Ups"

Shilpa's book talks about implementing spirituality into the corporate world and the instant resulting benefits for the employee and employer. Shilpa, a former well-paid and successful lawyer took a major finance cut to really live the life she wanted whilst being true to herself. Having coached top business firms to being more successful, she now shares the secrets of how spirituality and the act of treating employee's well can really bring about huge profit advancements.

Personally, I don't have a keen interest in the corporate world, but I enjoyed diving into this book and completing it in 4 hours, particularly because of the way Shilpa writes. Her well-spoken English backed up with strong evidence, statistics and fellow personal development books really brings to life the reality that can be created by really making an organisation successful by treating the employees as people, rather than slaves.

The book is divided into two parts, and that divided into chapters. The theory in Part 1 is backed up with Shilpa's vast reservoir of experience from her coaching clients in Part 2 where she shares the most common challenges individuals face. She also shares top personal development tools to enhancing one's current position.

I highly recommend this book. I was fortunate to meet Shilpa a few years ago very briefly for the first time having been introduced by Arvind Devalia. Again, I met her at her book launch a few nights ago but still haven't known her personally. Having now read this book, I feel that I can say that I really know Shilpa – her style, personality and unstoppable confidence just flows out of the book and into me, sharing with me the secrets of a really successful individual, someone I am know calling a real role model.

Get Shilpa's book: "Corporate Head, Spiritual Heart: Creating True Success and Fulfillment Without the Hang-Ups"

Are you Getting Things Done?

We are thirty-two days into the year 2006 and the Chinese year of the dog has just begun. I see a lot of people talking about whether they’ve kickstarted their New Year Resolutions or whether they’ve begun to work towards a particular goal.

For me, it’s important to analyse what I’ve done and how effectively I’ve done it. Have I done it to the best of my ability, therefore using my time appropriately and not wasting any of it, or have I spent some time here and there, instead of using it productively?

If you’re reading this before 3pm on February 1st, I’m currently on the national rail heading to the south of England to meet with some individuals who run a music discussion group there. On the train journey, I’m working on understanding exactly what I’ve done this last month and figuring out the most effective ways for me to operate certain things. Apart from that, I’m also reading Shilpa Unalkat’s new book, “Corporate Head, Spiritual Heart” – I got the book from her book launch in London last night. I remember the last few months of last year, I worked on ensuring the effectiveness operation of my business so that I can spend only the time necessary and no time is wasted.

I’ve noticed that by writing down small lists of things I’ve got to do, it frees my mind of the job of remembering everything that I need to do, and I am able to concentrate fully on actually doing those things. I don’t really work on the basis of priorities, but rather taking one thing at a time and enjoying it thorougly. Over the last few days, I completed a report I thought would take me eight hours, in two hours. I wrote four blog posts in 90 minutes, rather than double the time. I enjoyed spending less time because it all got done well and I wasn’t frustrated with any of the results. By making a short list of what I’ve got to do, I found myself to be more productive and get things done more easily.

Ask yourself, what did you want to do in 2006 that you haven’t yet started? What have you started but not done effectively? What have you wasted time on? Make a note of all these things and one-by-one begin working in small time chunks on it.

I like this description of getting things done from David Allen’s book Ready for Anything:

“Get everything out of your head. Make decisions about actions required on stuff when it shows up — not when it blows up. Organize reminders of your projects and the next actions on them in appropriate categories. Keep your system current, complete, and reviewed sufficiently to trust your intuitive choices about what you’re doing (and not doing) at any time.”

It’s important to start now – don’t leave it till late. There are eleven more months left – utilise them most effectively.

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