Are You Willing To Be A Beginner?

"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you are willing to be a beginner."~Barbara Sher

Are you willing to be a beginner? Are you willing to submit yourself in order to learn something new? Most people will say, "sure, I can be a beginner" but when put to the test, revert back to their old "I already know that" routine.

Allow yourself the pleasure of not having to know it all and learn some new things!! Our current business society says that you should always know everything and never show weakness or lack of knowledge...How's that working for ya???

Do you know how freeing it is to say, "I didn't know that, can you tell me more?" Do you know what it does for the person who you say it to? It's huge. A validation for them and an opportunity for you to let someone else teach you!

Most people won't allow that to happen, to let someone else know that they don't know something. Think about your favorite/hated politician. What would happen if they were being authentic and said that they didn't know something...instead of obfuscating, spinning, etc? Wouldn't you feel better that they at least had the guts to be truthful? In today's politics, the other side would crucify him for stupidity or something worse.

Don't be a politician. Be yourself, and if you don't know something, take the opportunity to be a beginner! Always be learning. You are never too old.

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"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you are willing to be a beginner."

Where Is Your Focus?

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."
~Robert H. Schuller

We all go through change. Sometimes the problem is that when we do, we keep our focus on what we lost, rather than what we still have or what can now come to us from the change.   Have you done that? I'm sure that we all have. The trick is to look at what we have left.  While what may have been lost was very important to you at the time, something even better is coming right behind it!

One of my favorite quotes is "The place for what you want is currently occupied by what you have settled for." When you lose something, know that it will be replaced by something even better. But what have you settled for? A job that just pays the bills?  A bad relationship?Something less than what you REALLY want?  Why did you settle?

If you want new things to come into your life, you need to get rid of the things that you settled for. Open up that space and it will be filled. That's just the way it works. The other thing to keep in mind is that whatever happens in your life, to be grateful about it and you will get more things to be grateful for!

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"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."

Past Your Comfort Zone There's A Pleasant Surprise

"Somewhere out past where you're now comfortable, there's a pleasant surprise. Beyond what you already know you can do, there are exciting and fulfilling and new things you'll be able to do.

It's a very short distance between what you think you can do and what you don't think you can do. That distance is the size of just one thought.

Once you decide that it is possible for you, it is possible for you. Once you have the thought that it can be done, it can be done.

The world you experience is contained within the world you expect to experience. Expect more, and suddenly a whole new set of possibilities will open up to you.

Ask yourself what you would like to be able to expect. Then go ahead and bring your expectations in line with your desires.

Each day is an opportunity to grow beyond yourself while at the same time more fully expressing your authentic self. Touch your highest vision, expect it to happen, and you'll surely see your way there."

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

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"Somewhere out past where you're now comfortable, there's a pleasant surprise. Beyond what you already know you can do, there are exciting and fulfilling and new things you'll be able to do.

What Are You Prepared to See?

"People only see what they are prepared to see." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

What are you prepared to see? Are you prepared to see abundance or lack? Wealth or poverty? Health or sickness? Emerson really has it right. We only see what we are prepared to see. Here's a thought...change what you are prepared to see! Start looking for new things instead of going over the same old stuff and hoping for a different look. As we wind this year up, now is the perfect time to start looking for new things.

Charles Kettering said "It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions." What are your preconceived notions? That you can't do it? That it's too hard? That it will take too long? Start the process without preconceived notions and you may be amazed at what you start to see.

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"People only see what they are prepared to see."