MANDELA SAID IT BEST

It is not often that I repeat the words of others, enough people are doing that already so why should I add to your inbox overload. But there are times, and there are words and phrases that very often do require repeating every now and then.

As most of you are aware by now I am a child of God, and as such believe adamantly in sharing Gods message of love, compassion, and understanding which I trust comes through in my many blogs. Throughout my years of travel and mentorship I have continuously been faced with the insecurities and feelings of inadequacy that many of those I mentor face today. Feelings that are not really justified, but genuine feelings never-the-less.

In 1994 Nelson Mandela made a very powerful inaugural speech that went some way in addressing those insecurities, a part of which I wish to reproduce here. He said:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most.

We ask ourselves, ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?'

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us.

And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Powerfully deep words, words that highlight the fact that we are much more than what we think we are. We have been blessed with the power to think for ourselves, the power to do as we see fit or have the desire to do. But we are so often afraid to stand out from the crowd for fear of not fitting in. We often don't follow our dreams, passions or desires for fear of what others might say or think.

Nelson Mandela used his God given power to change a nation and eventually the attitudes of the world. And he did it from the confines of a prison cell. All that we have to do is change the ways of our personal world, change our thinking, and change how we see ourselves as well as how we see other people.

Surely not too much to ask.

Read his words over and over. Go do as Nelson says - Let your light shine and by so doing give other people permission to do the same. You are indeed brilliant, you are gorgeous, talented and famous. SO LET IT SHINE

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BIRDS CAN'T FLY IN A VACUUM

The other day I was talking with a realtor friend of mine whose ear appears to be continuously connected to her cell phone. You need to know that she is one of the most dedicated and hardworking sales person that I have ever had the pleasure to be associated with. I was praising her on her work ethic when she said that she has to work harder than everybody else due to all the setbacks and challenges that she has to face and is still facing.

When I asked her about what type of setbacks she said that nothing in her life is easy and that she gets frustrated when things don't go her way. That’s when I asked her that all important question, "Did you know that birds can't fly in a vacuum"? It stopped her in her tracks and after thinking for a few moments she asked me, "What the blazes has that got to do with me and me being a realtor".

It has a lot to do with her, as well as all of you reading this blog.

You see, birds need resistance just to get off the ground, let alone fly. They flap their little wings (big ones if it's an eagle) against gravity and with the smallest amount of wind resistance they get off the ground and away they go. Place the bird in a vacuum and it will have to walk everywhere. Not quite what it is suited for.

Another example would be yachts. Hoist the sails and wait for the wind to blow, then tack your sails into the wind and let the angle of the sail go against the wind and ultimately drive the yacht forward.

Everywhere you look success is preceded by resistance, even the basic act of giving birth - that baby has to fight to get out of the mother’s womb, it's not an easy journey, but to succeed the newborn has to struggle. Just like the chick in the egg. The bird has to fight to break the egg if it wants to survive. Break the egg on behalf of the bird and the bird will die.

So you see struggle and adversity are all part of the journey toward success. That’s when my realtor friend looked at me and said, "You mean my struggles are going to continue?" "Yes", I said, "only now go and enjoy them, don’t fight the wind of resistance, learn how to use the wind resistance to trim your sails and look forward to unlimited success."

So my friends, next time that you see a bird flying high in the sky, or hear that baby's first cry remember that they overcame adversity - be ready for a wind of change and don’t live in a vacuum of negativity.

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You Cannot Plough a Field by Turning It Over in Your Mind

I wonder how many hours you have spent lying in bed at night tossing and turning restlessly with ideas, thoughts, and worries going through your mind envisaging varying outcomes relating to your restlessness.

And oh my goodness, the next morning, we wake up exhausted, tired, and wanting to go back to bed instead of facing the day’s challenges that inevitably lie ahead. This is not an uncommon phenomena.

It is a common factor that many writers and poets get inspiration whilst asleep and have note pads by the side of their beds so that they can immediately write down their midnight thoughts – and then go back to sleep again. Waking up in the morning with heads full of ideas.

Inventors and designers do the same - they take their unsolved problems to bed with them and when the brain is resting they get their best ideas in vivid dreams waking instantly, writing down the dreamt solution and then back to sleep.

This process works for these people because they have programmed their brains and thought processes to work in this manner. They are positive thinkers and believe that solutions to every problem and every challenge is just around the corner. Sleep helps unclutter the mind, and pen and paper by the side of the bed tells the brain that you are ready for the answers. And then when you wake up you wake up with solutions, and ideas, that can easily be worked on and followed through the next day.

But at the end of the day this process is only effective because these type of people are dedicated and focused on their work and their cause, meaning that they will not allow anyone or anything to interfere with their dreams, goals, or aspirations.

They say that you can't plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Meaning that you have to get your hands dirty. You have to be goal focused. You've got to just pull your finger out, stop procrastinating and just get down to it. Letting nothing stand in your way.

I know that without even meeting you that you have ideas, thoughts, problems, challenges, affecting your sleep patterns as well as your future financial independence.

So what are you going to do about it? Go to bed early with a pen and paper by your side. Tell your brain to find a solution. Write it down and then get into action.

Remember that you can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

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