The Core Building Blocks For Personal Development
Use these core building blocks and apply them to the most important areas of your life.
They will give you direction and guidance to start making the changes you require that lead to a full and prosperous life.
Habits
Free yourself from negative habits and allow your true life force to flow.
Habits are your minds way of getting something done subconsciously leaving you free to concentrate on higher functions.
As such they are extremely powerful and useful, enabling you to drive, eat, read and do many other things ‘automatically’.
Although it takes a lot of effort to learn these skills, once learned and then reinforced with repetition these patterns can be replayed time and time again with predictable results, without having to start from the beginning again.
Memorized Solutions
So in effect habits are time saving devices that allow your conscious to focus on more important and higher conceptual thinking whilst delegating learned responses to the subconscious. For example when writing we need to be able to think about what we are going to say rather than the actual mechanics of writing.
The Power of Habits
Although this facility of the mind to delegate memorized solutions to the subconscious to free us from the mundane is extremely powerful it can also work against us. As with most things it can be a double edged sword. Powerful for positive and powerful for negative.
On occasion your mind memorizes things which are not for your betterment. If these become ingrained due to repetition then they can be difficult to remove and quite frustrating when acknowledged.
Even when they are creating serious negative side effects the will to remove them and change can be constantly undermined by the automatic response and behaviour of the subconscious mind.
What is needed is to firstly evaluate the ingrained conditioning, then to identify what positive changes are required, before finally implementing practical techniques to remove and replace negative mind sets and make permanent shifts in perception.
Although all this is not easy, with today’s new techniques and products, it can be achieved.
It takes your willingness to start a process for change – and that can only come from within – from YOU!
Career
When you know your true worth and your life’s purpose you can start to build a career you are passionate about.
When I Grow Up
Most of us spend our entire lives seeking out what our purpose is here in this world. What we were sent here to do.
Some are luckier and know from a very young age that they want to be a train driver etc. etc.
For the rest of us the search goes on and on.
But behind the search is the innate belief that we are special and can contribute in a unique way.
If only we knew what it was that we are ‘good’ at.
Each of us has unique talents. Talents that sometimes we take completely for granted.
For instance we are all able to communicate.
To talk. To read and write.
Yet although this is taken for granted no company in the world with all its immense resources at its disposal has been able to create anything close to a machine that can communicate so well.
What we take for granted is actually the most complex mechanism in the world.
The point is that often your unique talent is staring you in the face and all you need to do is to open up and see things from a different angle.
To unblock the blocks that bind you and allow your true self to shine through.
When you know your true worth and your life’s purpose you can start to build a career you are passionate about.
Money
Achieve financial success and abundance with integrity.
What is Money
Money is a value medium of exchange.
The value of that exchange is set by social consensus.
When you convert money into value you are spending and when you convert value into money you are earning.
The most common perception of the way to earn is to sell your time.
To trade hours for dollars.
However, once you understand that money is a medium of exchange for value you begin to understand that the greater value you can provide to society the greater your earning potential becomes.
That’s why it is so important to find your true skill and talents.
Apart from being more fulfilling it also allows you to trade for greater value.
Those values are set by society and it is your goal to find where you fit in.
It is easy to lose sight of this fundamental truth about money, value and society but if you can keep it in focus then finding your true worth becomes much easier.
Health
Empower your health through healthy habits.
Most people separate mind from body. Other than exercising, eating well and maintaining their normal health they give no thought to the thoughts that they direct towards their own bodies and health.
Perhaps that’s because when the body is functioning properly it disappears into the background.
But the truth is we cannot live without our bodies being in good health.
Usually it is only when someone is in poor health that suddenly they will be keenly aware of its presence and perhaps realize that perhaps they are the consciousness that controls it.
Temple or Tomb
The mind body connection is very real and has been proven to make dramatic plosive or negative influence on every cell of our bodies.
That influence can be channeled to only include positive and liberating healthy thoughts and to block any negative thought patterns that exist.
The mind is real. The body is real. The connection is real.
Start today to enable your mind to develop sound health practices that will serve you well for life.
Relationships
Create and sustain loving relationships that support and help you to grow.
Connecting Relationships
Create and sustain loving relationships that support and help you to grow.
There are many types of relationships from family to friends, acquaintances to co-workers, adversaries to intimate partners.
The one thing they have in common is your power. The power for you to decide to connect or not as the case may be.
You build and expand your relationships by deciding who you will connect with and who you will allow to connect with you.
That is your sovereign right.
But the more you communicate, the more you connect with your fellow human beings the more connected you become.
Shutting out the world, shuts you out.
Negative Relationships
Some relationships however can be negative. If they make you feel trapped or weakened in any way then it is your responsibility to correct the situation.
There maybe negative consequences for doing this but it still has to be done before your power is drained and you are no longer able to break free.
If you so do so then you will regain your power soon enough.
Relationships can be the most complex form of human behavior. They reach right into the root of the mystery of what it is to be a human being alive today. Here and now.
Spirituality
Align your beliefs to your awareness and live more consciously.
Spirituality here refers to the collection of beliefs you have about reality. Your ‘map’ of the world and all that is in it.
This includes how this reality works and also your role in it.
Whether we believe in ‘religion’ or in nothing at all we all believe in something. This belief is our spiritual belief about reality.
As long as that belief is empowering rather than dis-empowering then that is good.
However, it is possible for human being to develop dis-empowering spiritual beliefs that rob them of happiness and fulfillment.
When this happens getting back in touch with a more positive reality ‘map’ is essential.
In this sense it may be beneficial to enlighten your spirituality and to adopt more conducive thoughts and beliefs.
Spiritual growth is an integral part of the process of learning about the mystery of being human and about being all that you can be.