Where’s Your Focus?

by Jonathan

Focus

How good are you at focusing your time and attention toward things that really matter?  In a world full of constant distractions, how often do you find yourself struggling to maintain your focus on the things that are truly important to you personally? The connection between what we choose to focus on and our current reality is often misunderstood. Increasingly, productivity is being replaced by busy work and as a result, feelings of frustration are overtaking our sense of accomplishment.  Learning to purposely direct your focus will make it possible to reverse this trend. Focusing on priorities while avoiding distractions [...]

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Can You Really Turn Your Passion into Profit?

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In case you haven’t noticed, turning your passion into profits is the single biggest promise making gurus and marketers rich these days. What a great marketing hook. Think about it, who doesn’t want to turn their passion into profit? It’s a dream that is shared by millions of aspiring entrepreneurs, to get paid for living on their own terms and to make a living doing something they love doing. That is probably the primary reason why, worldwide, there are approximately 175,000 new blogs started every single day. It’s a promise that speaks to our very core The freedom to live [...]

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Are You Pursuing Your Passion or Just Being Practical?

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What is your passion? Come on, you can say it out loud, don’t be afraid. Let me help you: “My passion is _______________” There, all you need to do is simply fill in the blank. Oh, are you thinking that you don’t know what your passion is? Maybe I can help you figure it out. Try this, write down a few possible contenders, and then ask yourself the following questions with regard to each one: 1) Does doing it, or thinking about it make you feel good about yourself? 2) Is it something you enjoy doing so much that you [...]

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Why Negative Life Lessons Are So Valuable

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When looking for ways to improve our lives, what is it we usually focus on? Don’t we tend to focus on things that will move our reality in a more positive direction? Typically, we look for ways to experience greater happiness, create more leisure time, or increase our level of success. Regardless of the area we focus on, the intent is usually to make some degree of positive improvement, to notch things up to the next level. While this is a very important part of personal development, it is really less than fifty percent of the big picture. Why do [...]

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Choose the Life You Really Want

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Everything we do in life is a choice, and I think most of us realize that. But what most people don’t seem to realize is that everything we don’t do in life is also a choice. Every day we choose to do some things and to not do other things. Sometimes choosing not to do something is the wisest choice. However, there is a huge difference between choosing not to do something and choosing to do nothing. Most people would like to change their life in one way or another. How about you? Are there areas of your life that [...]

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Is Your Life Getting More Difficult?

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We all encounter a degree of resistance in life, it’s simply unavoidable. But does it seem to you like life has been getting more difficult lately? Do you find that it takes more effort to accomplish things that used to be simple? Isn’t technology supposed to make life easier, more affordable, and less complicated? Theoretically, life should be getting easier, not more difficult. Has that been your experience, or is the exact opposite true? The ability to cope… There seems to be something about technological advancement that makes certain specific tasks easier, while simultaneously making life as a whole more [...]

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The Art of Making Wise Decisions

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When you are making decisions, what do you base them on? Do you ever find yourself searching for information but never finding the answers you really need? Have you ever wondered how the questions you ask affect the decisions you make? Sometimes it seems like the moment you go looking for meaningful answers to important questions so you can make a wise decision, things begin to get confusing. Either there is not enough information available, or there are so many opinions that you really don’t know who to believe. Are we asking the right questions? Making decisions is a big [...]

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Are They Problems or Challenges?

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Like it or not, problems, or challenges, are a recurring part of everyday life. Whether you choose to call them challenges, as I do, or problems, certainly doesn’t change the fact that they happen. However, it does change the way we respond to them and that little shift can make a huge difference in our state of mind! Subconsciously, having a problem means, “There’s something wrong here.” Our mind hears, “This isn’t right, life is not as it should be.” How does this perception affect us? It causes our energy to be funneled toward repairing something that’s gone wrong. Not [...]

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