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I love the term 'Living above the Line' and the other day I did a search on it to trace it's origins. I didn't find the name of the person who first coined the term but I did find a school who has it as a poster in each of their classrooms. W.T. Townshend Public School.
Living Above the Line is about taking responsibility for your actions and your results. Research has shown that those individuals who take responsibility for their actions and consequently their results have greater control and therefore have more success in all areas of their lives.
If you Live Above the Line you're more likely to take ownership of your attitude and taking ownership of your attitude affects all areas of your life. It has the added advantage of improving your self-confidence and your self-esteem.
Living Below the Line is about laying blame, excuses, reasons, justification, denial and quitting. None of these behaviours contribute to growing self-confidence or achieving success nor can they be linked to anyone who is successful in any meaningful sense of the word.
The wonderful thing about emotions is that they are ALL normal. Because they are all normal they all need to be acknowledged. That’s right ALL of them!
The challenge with the so-called negative emotions is that you can get stuck in them. However even ‘negative’ emotions have reason or purpose. And once your realize this and take it onboard this gives you the opportunity to utilize the information they give you to your advantage.
Once you’ve made the decision to take full responsibility for yourself and the way you feel that means you can then make the decision to use the way your feeling to make decisions. That’s right.
Learn to take notice of how you’re feeling and acknowledge it.
Tell yourself … 'This is what I’m feeling … '
Then ask yourself …
'Why am I feeling this way?'
'What can I do about it?'
Emotions were never meant to be ignored. They’re meant to let you know how you feel about what’s happening in your world and give you the power to accept it the way it is or change it.
Love life and live it creatively,
Leanne
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I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to love deep and suck out all the marrow of life. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Are you at choice in your life?
Do you take the time to go deep inside yourself and understand what you really want in life?
For so many of us, life takes over ... we get so caught up in doing, that's there's no time to be.
Take some quiet time for yourself and get in touch with what's truly important to you! Once you understand on that on your deepest level the choice to 'Be true to yourself' is so much easier. And the upshot of that is you'll open your life to receive more of what you really want.
And the very bestest thing about that is because you're happier and more fulfilled you'll be able to give more to the people around you and they too will be happier and more fulfilled. This means that if you aren't in a space where you feel you can do this for yourself ... do it for the people you love!
Love life and live it creativley,
Leanne
If you’re looking to feel great about yourself and your life check out our fabulous audios at www.yoursuccessfulmind.com/feelinggreat.html MindRight Programming Tools to put you back in the driver’s seat of your life!
I love the term 'Living above the Line' and the other day I did a search on it to trace it's origins. I didn't find the name of the person who first coined the term but I did find a school who has it as a poster in each of their classrooms. W.T. Townshend Public School.
