What are your dreams?

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

How does your life look sound and feel? Is it the life of your dreams?

That's the funny thing I've noticed about life ... the more you love the life your living the more your life becomes the life you love.

As you move through your day notice how you're feeling. When something nice or good happens make a note of it, be thankful for it.

Make lists. Every night write down 5 things that you love about your life before you go to sleep. How much nicer are your dreams going to be when you do this? And if your dreams are nicer how much better are you going to feel when you wake up in the morning.

So what is it about your life you love?

Love life and live it creatively,

Leanne

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Perception is projection ... or is it?

Perception is projection ... basically this means you can't see anything outside of you that isn't you.

What you see and the interpretation you place on what's happening in the world around you are a direct reflection of your current circumstances. You can't see what's outside of your situation or circumstances.

Personally, this has caused me some angst as I've truly come to understand this concept. And I must admit there have been and are times when I would much rather this wasn't true, as I've had emotional charges on different things that have happened either to me or around me.

But as I've come to appreciate and understand this concept, I've grown to realize what a fabulous tool it is to move me forward in my life.

What you see, hear, feel and what you understand, believe, value, intend and so on, reflects your model of the world. You project your ideas, maps, understandings and mental movies onto the world of objects, people and experiences.

We all built our mental models from the events, experiences and interactions that we've come across in life. We build our ‘rule book’ if you will, from our interpretation of the things others say and do. The 'world' does get in, but not unfiltered. We filter it. In fact, we delete, distort and generalize it based on the ‘rules’ we’ve created as we’ve moved through life.

When I first began assimilating this into my life I found it quite challenging. However as I’ve moved from ‘wishing’ my life was a certain way, to actively finding my purpose and creating the life of my dreams, I’ve found this to be an extremely useful tool.

And one of the big things I’ve noticed is how my outlook has changed. Rather than noticing the things that aren’t going the way I want them to, I’m looking for the things that are going right, that are validating that I’m on the right path.

As my commitment to growing my self as a person has grown, so I’ve found that I’m also being presented with the people and circumstances that are confirming that growth.

So for me, I’m creating a self-fulfilling prophecy based on what’s going right for me, in me and in my world. The more things I notice that are going right, the more right things are going and the more I notice things are going right.

For me, my truth is that perception is projection and it’s all feedback. The more we’re able to stand outside ourselves and look at our lives, almost from the outside, the cleaner and clearer our perception and the more useful and valuable our feedback.

This means that we can actually alter our filters, look for the things that validate the good things in our lives and create more of them.

Is that possible? Who knows? All I can say is it works for me. How about you? What's your experience?

Love life and live it creatively,

Leanne
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Whose Model of the World?

I was chatting with a friend this morning about the people around you appreciating and respecting you as an individual.

Before we go any further, I need you to recognize that what I'm talking about here in this blog, is my model of the world which is neither good or bad, right or wrong, it's just that ... my model of the world. And you more than likely have your own model of the world which may or may not have points of similarity to mine.

In my model of the world I look for similarities and celebrate the differences with the understanding that we are each entitled to have our own model based on our life experiences. And in my eyes differences are actually good because it would be a pretty boring world if everyone thought the same.

The underlying premise in my model of the world is respect for other peoples' models' of the world. (What a mouthful! ;-)

What do you think? How do you view the people around you?

Love life and live it creatively,

Leanne

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From Ask and it is Given: Abraham and Esther Hicks

All-That-Is Is Benefiting from My Existence. No matter what has caused your unique point of view to come about - it has come about. YOU do exist; you are thinking; you are perceiving; you are asking - and you are being answered. And All-That-Is is benefiting from your existence and from your point of view.
~Abraham/Esther Hicks

I came across this awesome affirmation thropugh an internet friend, Linda Miller in Adland and it really captured my imagination. So much so, I thought I'd share it with you.

If I exist, if I am thinking, if I am perceiving, if am asking and I am being answered ... and I don't like what I'm getting then I really have to stop and think ... just what am I asking for?

And the next question would be ... So just what do I really want?

When I get stuck in my stuff, which most people do on occasions, because let's face it, it's not about having stuck our stuff come up that's the challenge, it's how long we allow ourselves to stay stuck in our stuff.

In actual fact having our stuff come up is a good thing and cause for celebration because it allows us to look at the beliefs underlying it, see if it still fits and release it if it's not.

And it's that simple, when we pause and recognize it for what it really is: the Universe allowing us the opportunity to revise our beliefs or our rule book. Simple but sometimes not all that easy: pause, check out the fit, keep or discard and move on.

In the realm of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) there is a process called 'Pattern Interupts' which are questions designed to 'interrupt' a behaviour or a pattern.

These questions can be used to focus your mind on what you really want. Question such as:

• So what do I really want?
• Yeah, but what if I could have it all?
• Yeah, but what if it did work?

The next time you find yourself in a position where you're presented with the idea that it's not possible to have something or you've 'received' something you would rather not have ... ask one of these questions and see how quickly you get your answer.

What I've found is ... the quicker and more often I ask myself the questions the quicker the answers come and the better the questions the better the answers.

Can think of any questions to add to the list?

Love life and live it creatively,

Leanne

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The Gratitude Dance

For all of you who have children and those of you who are young at heart, check out this short video produced by the JuniorAttractors.com

Let the fun begin ...




Love life and live it creatively,

Leanne

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Speak Your Truth

The only truth you can ever speak is your own. One of the things I love about life is the way two people can look at the same situation and see two different things, to the point where sometimes I even wonder if we've been at the same place at the same time.

Does this ever happen to you?

Our personal truth comes from the way we interpret the world around us. So much of the way we interpret the world around us comes from the rules we've made as we've moved through our own game of life.

The rules we've created are based on the decisions and beliefs we've made as a result of the way we've deleted, distorted and generalized the information around us.

Let's face it with about 2 millions of bits of information coming at us via the input channels of our 5 senses every second, (Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, Flow) there's no way we're going to manage to catch all of it.

So we develop filters based on our interpretations of our experiences and out of the 2 million bits we process around .000067%. That's a lot of stuff left out!

A really excellent example of this is when we or someone we know decide to purchase a new car. We choose something that's a bit different that we may rarely have ever seen on the road before. And yet the moment we decide upon that particular model and colour, all of a sudden they're everywhere.

A friend of mine opened my eyes to the possibility that within groups the ... let's call it 'yuk' cascades downhill. What she meant was if something happens to you then somewhere in your life you're doing it to someone.

I had never really noticed this in my life before, however once she had presented the idea, the reality of it hit home almost immediately. We had a discussion which I simply couldn't seem to get my point of view across no matter how many different ways I phrased it. In the end we agreed to differ.

A couple of hours later she received a phone call and was telling me about this particular situation and as it dawned on me that it was different circumstances but the same situation we'd had earlier, it dawned on her too.

Now I don't believe this is something which 'HAS' to happen. In my world (Wonderland or Fairy Princessland) I believe that if there is something that happens to us and we don't like it, then that's our opportunity to correct it within us. We don't have to inflict it on others to learn the lesson.

I believe in fact that we can take that bit of information about how we don't like to be treated and make sure that we treat others that way instead of passing the 'yuk' onto others.

I had a conversation with my friend which was my attempt at politely drawing my line in the sand about how I would like to be treated. We again had to agree to differ.

And I was so pleased with myself an hour or so later when I was in discussion with someone else.

I had one of those sitting outside myself experiences where I realized I could end up leaving the person I was in discussion with feeling the way I had felt earlier or I could find a different way to express myself and they could feel good about themselves and maybe open their mind to other possibilities.

It was one of the most mind opening conversations I had ever had, not only was I able to present my point of view in a way which validated the other person and opened their mind to new possibilities but it opened my mind at the same time.

It's so easy to get on our bandwagon and forget that others have their own reality. And although that reality might be different to ours that makes it no less right, it just makes it different to ours.

The bottom line for all of us, is how we view our life is up to us as individuals.

Love life and live it creatively,

Leanne

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Karen Salmansohn says 'Life is not Random'

I'm not sure about you but my inbox is a wonderful place for inspiration.

I've signed up for an array of different newsletters from some incredible people and if I need a bit of a lift or to be inspired, I randomly select one. And one of those great things about life ... whatever I open it's somehow is just what I need at the time. And this morning was no exception as I was trying to work out what to write here.

Life is not 100% random destiny. Life is a lively, interactive fusion of destiny AND free will.
~ Karen Salmansohn

Life is about choices. and the wonderful thing about choices is that we get to make them either by our action or our inaction.

Once we really acknowledge and accept this truth life seems to take on a whole new aspect. For me, and you can choose to accept this for yourself or not ... after all the choice is yours ;) ... I have started looking for confirmation, for serendipity and the co-incidences. And since I started looking for them, boy have they started showing up.

Yesterday I was working through a 'Contrast and Clarity' exercise from a workshop I did with Michael Losier.

My clarity statement was 'the right people and circumstances show up at the right time to move me forward to achieve my goals quickly, easily and naturally.

I just finished writing it and the phone rang ... Oh My Goodness!!

How quickly does the confirmation, the serendipity and the co-incidences start showing up for you?

Love life and live it creatively,

Leanne
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