Turn the blows in your past into pieces of wisdom!

Reborn phoenix rising from its ashes

We all share moments of great pain, suffering and stress in our past.
Moments when we thought we got a sudden, unexpected, blow that challenged our core beliefs, our priorities, and the meaning of our life.

I believe that every single event that happens in our life is for our greater good.
Every aparent loss carries a learning, posses a challenge, and has a purpose.  Even when I am not conscious enough to see it.   The challenge appears when we are ready to take it.  Sometimes we can avoid it.  Sometimes not.

These blows are pearls of wisdom, especially designed for us to grow.  Getting fired from a job... losing a loved person... having a car crashed... it is not an accident.  There is always something essential to learn from it.  Something that our soul needed us to learn... and it didn't find a smoother way to show us.  Once we learn the lesson, we are ready to rise again from our ashes... and endowed with this new piece of wisdom, reborn like a phoenix, we become more, we shine more light, we become stronger.

Take a moment to recall one of the most painful moments of your past.
Remember what happened.
Ask yourself what you learnt from that moment.  What can you learn right now?  How can you use what you learnt for your happiness right now?  How will you use these learnings in your life... in your finances... in your job... in your relationships? Ask yourself once and again what is the pearl of wisdom hidden in this event... ask yourself and write them down... until you fill up yourself with a feeling of gratitude.
Gratitude for what you believed it was a blow, and you now discovered as an extremely valuable experience... a pearl of wisdom you now fully appreciate.

Thank yourself for letting you take the time to heal from the blow and recognize the wisdom behind.
Thank yourself for all the love that you are showering onto you by dedicating this moment to learn from your wounds.  They exist no more.
Thank yourself for all the Good you are now able to share, for the increased courage, strength, and awareness.  You are ready to fly again... have a good journey, dear friend.

Death in life... wake up!!!

You are already dead.
It is just a matter of time that you realize it, but you are dying.

Are you afraid of it? Are you happy about it?
You believe you will live forever... and it is not true.  Not in a physical way, at least.  And you don't know how much time you are left.

What will you do about it?
Will you wait till the end of your days, living others life, others dreams?
Will you keep reviving old memories, anchored in past times?

Life is to be here and now. To enjoy what we currently have. To define our dreams and strive for them from now. Not next week,... not tomorrow.  For next week is too far away... and tomorrow never comes. We have only this moment. Seize it. Juice it. Day after day.  Happy birth-date!

Happy 2011!!!!

I wish you all the best for 2011!

I just moved so I will be busy unpacking and getting ready my new home for some weeks.  I will write you back by the end of January 2011.

See you further on up the road!
Jorge

I have the right to... a challenge!

I have a challenge for you:  Are you able to read the following lines for 11 days just before going to bed?  If you accept the challenge, let me know how you feel every morning when you wake up.

I have the right to...   

I have the right to a better life.  I demand the best for me, and I achieve it.

I have the right to create the future I want.  I create it at every moment, with every step I take, with every book I read, with every person I meet.

I have the right to enjoy my family.  I allow myself to love, to enjoy every moment I spend with my loved ones, to create complicity, joy, shared emotions, games, laughts, and empathy.

I have the right to feel free.  I allow myself to choose, speak and act with all freedom, and I assume the responsibility it takes. Furthermore, I allow myself to choose, speak and act with full responsibility, and I enjoy the freedom this brings to me.

I have the right to grow.  I learn with and in everything I do, and I become more.  Stronger, healthier, wiser, more cheerful, kinder, more respectful and tolerant, humbler, greater, I become simply more.

I have the right to believe.  I believe in myself and in others.  I believe in my abilities, in my skills, even in those that I have not shown consciously yet.  I believe in my inner wisdom, that helps me to find my way, to define it, and follow it, step after step.  I live with a purpose, and I am committed to fulfill it.

My life is a continuous of responsibility and decisions. I enjoy, learn, act, and achieve my goals.

Meeting expectations or making your dreams real?

Do you know somebody who wastes a lot of time trying to meet expectations of others?  Maybe somebody close to you?  
Family, friends, colleagues, partner, sons,... they all seem to demand my time and attention. Sometimes it becomes easy to lose track going from one place to another, trying to meet all their expectations, doing whatever it takes to be on good terms with everybody.

15-minute appointments, runing from one place to another, always looking at the watch... at other people's watch.

And... what happened with my dreams?  where did they go?  The answer is simple, "I postponed them".

This death penalty that we adjudge, conscious or unconciously, leads us to a state of unhappiness and dissatisfaction. To others, we are always the "good boys"..."such a nice guy!"..."always smiling"... and in reality we are hiding our feelings of anger, fear, desperation... to get their approval.

How can we get out of this vicious circle?
Today I will go to bed thinking that tomorrow is a very especial day.  I will wake up and sit at my desk, first thing in the morning, with a watch, a couple of blank sheets, and a pen.  I will write for 5 minutes all these dreams that I keep in my heart, waiting to catch my attention and love.  Five minutes.  Neither one nor ten, only 5 minues.  What it is not written, it does not exist.  Today is Christmas time.  I will write my wish letter.

Next, I will order my dreams in three stages: to be fulfilled in one, five or ten years time.  I will hang the ordered dream list on my bedroom door, or wherever I can see it every day.  And every single day, when I wake up, the first thing I will do is to dedicate TEN minutes of my precious time to pay attention to my dreams, and live them in my mind as if they were already real... feeling that wonderful trip I always wanted to do, feeling living in the house of my dreams with my loved ones

Do you dare to do it? I guarantee that your life will change completely... in only 10 minutes.  Life is about taking decisions.  What have you decided?

How well do you know yourself?

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."
—Lao Tzu

The quest for growth and contribution always starts by looking into our values, strengths and skills to be further developed.

I invite you to book 15 minutes of your time to know yourself better and discover what drives you and what shuts you down, by filling the following Personal Strengths Profile at Anthony Robbins' website, free of charge.

Did you find out something new about yourself?  How would you use this information to enjoy more life?  I look forward to reading your comments!

What do you want? What is it what you really want now?

Stop for a moment what you are doing, forget about the past and future and...

Imagine you have all the means you need to get whatever you want...

what is it what you want?

Imagine you are living wherever you want...

where would you live?

Imagine you share this moment with whoever you want...

with whom would you share this moment?

Imagine you can do whatever you want... 

what would you do right now?

Finally, imagine you are in control of a sofisticated machine able to manifest all of this in your life...

This machine exists.  It is your brain.  It has been design and created to fullfill this purpose, without judgements, whatever you focus on.
The truth is... whatever you imagine, if you focus on it and you experience it emotionally, it becomes real.  Your brain cannot distinguish something you dream that way with what we call reality.  If you consistently focus on these thoughts, they will expand and come alive, they will modify your beliefs first, then your actions, and finally the results you get... until the thoughts become real or you kill them by dispersing your attention.

Remember when you were a child or even better, look at the children around you.  How do they get what they want?
First they dream about something or find out what they want.  Then they focus their attention on it until they get it, consistently,... sometimes up to the exasperation of their parents!  Once they get it, the set a new goal and do the same, again and again, just changing the course depending on the feedback they get, their attention always fixed on their goal.

Let yourself be a child again:  Imagine... focus your attention... and act, consistently, until you reach your goal!