Lean January

Well It has been a lean January as far as BLOG posts is concerned, that's not to that January has not been fantastic!

I have now been back from LA for almost three weeks and what an amazing three weeks! We are starting to generate some great momentum with our business and we are on target to be meeting some of our goals!! So it is safe to say that we are very excited, well I am anyway!!

So whats been happening, why was I in LA? I was in LA to attend our 2009 Kick Off event and it was a whistle stop tour, it was absolutely fantastic! So many great insights from so many great people, people of integrity and are not interested in be-littleing others, why? I would surmise that it is because they are far to successful to try and point out the flaws in others or make slanderous false remarks.

Yes the people I choose to associate with (these days) have integrity, more so than anyone in the past that I have had the opportunity to associate with. Well apart from my Military days, and even some of them were questionable.
Now I wonder why that is? Is it because of some outside force? Is it perhaps because I have moved countries?
The answer in case anyone was wondering is most certainly NO, it is not.
You see what I have learnt on my journey here, and do not get me wrong, I still have some ways to go, is that is that no matter what out external influences are, no matter what our circumstances might be, until we change the way we look at things then nothing will change.

I would like to share this with you if I may;

There was once a Farmer who lived on the edge of town, right off the main road. One day, this farmer was mending his fences when a wagon came rolling up. It appeared to be a new family moving into town. There wasn't a single space anywhere on that wagon that didn't have a box, blanket or frying pan strapped to it or hanging off of it. As the wagon got nearer, a man on the wagon called out.

"Howdy. We're thinking of relocating to this town. Do you mind me asking what sort of folks live in these parts?"

The farmer called back, "What were the people like where you came from?"

"Not a kind bunch," said the newcomer. "They'd stab you in the back just as quick as look at ya."

"Well that's exactly the kinda folks you'll find here."

It wasn't more than an hour or so later when another wagon approached looking much like the last. It was another family looking to put down roots.

"We're fixing to move into town. We were wondering what kind of people we'll find here," says the man sitting on the wagon.

"What were the people like where you came from?" asked the farmer

"Oh they were wonderful! Any one of'em would give you the shirt off his back," said the newcomer.

Then the farmer said, "Well, that's exactly the kinda folks you'll find here."

So what am I getting at with this little story, (which by the way is out of the best personal development program I have ever seen!! Beyond Freedom) We can not out perform our own self image. As long as we are seeing things in a certain way we are going to attract certain people, things, what ever into our lives.

What I am getting at here we do not see the world as it is, we see the world as we are. If we see the world from the point of view of a victim, then we are a victim

So when I referred to my past, I made a lot of decisions out of lack, or a poverty consciousness, that of course set me up to fail.
Now in referring to my past I made mention about some of the people that I used to associate with, and this not limited to the people I contracted for, it includes the people I chose to go into business with. The reason I made mention of this is it has a direct connection to the story I just laid out above. I was seeing the world as I was, I thought that everyone was out to get me because I had made decisions from a lack perspective. When operating from the perspective, no matter how much you think that you are playing win/win you really are not, you are playing for yourself. And because I had made decisions from that lack perspective, others suffered.

So whats changed now? Well I am living at the cause of my circumstances for one, and now I am still seeing the world as I am although now when I look I only see opportunity, I see so many things to be thankful for.
Here is an example, some of the people I used to associate with find it necessary to post blasphemes and false comments about me on the Internet, you see they are operating from a lack perspective. I have a choice, I could be angry and upset about it, and I believe I have every right to be, however instead I choose to be thankful for that. I am thankful for that for a number of reasons;

• It has shown me how much I have grown.
• It gives me more drive and power to complete what I have set out to do.
• It Reminds me of who I am no longer.

Just a couple of reasons there that I am thankful, and it serves me well to reflect upon that from time to time.

So I am thankful and full of gratitude to all the people, who I might ad, don't even use their real names, who have posted ill informed and down right untrue statements about me on the Internet, you know who you are. I know they will be reading this. Instead of empowering themselves they are slowly wilting with negativity.

So, again, thank you, thank you, thank you.