We discussed in previous newsletters the importance of knowing who we are, having purpose driven goals and how to start resculpturing the mind using the power of questions (see newsletter archive opposite if you are a newer subscriber)

Achieving our dreams can sometimes be fraught with loneliness particularly if that goes against traditional thinking or conventional wisdom. If our childhood years were powerful in contributing to the mindset and beliefs we now hold, then the environment we NOW CHOOSE to create will be powerful to recondition the mind to align to our current aspirations

Creating a powerful environment consists of two broad areas - creating a powerful external environment and creating a powerful internal environment. Let's take a look at external environment.

We need to create and choose an external environment that will support our aspirations. Consider that we process information daily through our 5 senses. Therefore what you expose yourself to regularly will condition your mind. The quality of your life will be determined by the quality of your growth.

Continuous exposure to people in the field of personal development who have gone on to achieve their dreams is essential to momentum and has a very powerful conditioning effect. I continually tend to my personal development for continued growth.

Choose your friends by the life you wish to lead and those who will inspire you and are rich in the qualities you wish to develop. Seek out mentors and teachers who share similar core values. If you are currently surrounded by a lot of negative people, choose how you will lovingly shed that negativity and ceate a new empowering personal community of like minded people whom you can spend time with. Let me know if you would like to develop a community forum through this newsletter group.

In the next newsletter we will look at creating a powerful internal environment...plus an exciting new product launch on a powerful mind tool. Stay tuned!

I have recently been asked how I managed to create an accelerated learning techniques online multimedia teaching product. Well in short I used accelerated learning techniques to develop the knowledge and skill to do this. However even though I wanted to do this, for a long time there was a sort of inertia that set within me every time I thought about it especially when it came to dealing with the internet. Even though my intuition was guiding me to embrace what internet technology could do for my business, I basically flirted with the concept rather than fully embrace and engage with it to make things happen.

Sometimes there are things we wish to achieve differently but we are not ready to make that change. There is a lack of emotional and psychological push or pull that usually signals readiness to go for it. So how do we close that gap? A simple yet gentle process is to define the characteristics, beliefs and values you need to achieve your dreams and expose yourself regularly to the personal development teachings that will develop those things in you. This very process will condition you towards a state of readiness.

Another important aspect is to ask yourself 'what am I ready to bring about in my life right now?' or 'what am I ready to receive or see happen in my life now?' It may be that you are ready for certain aspects of change towards your dreams. It is important to identify that as it will signal what you are ready to see manifested now, and will create momentum towards the bigger picture of your life.

Please feel free to post your comments or questions in a post it area I have created in my blog - click link opposite. My hope is to create multiway dialogue and a community feel where we can each learn from and inspire and encourage each other.

I do apologise for the slight delay in delivery of this newsletter due to technical challenges.

In my coaching practice I come across many people who describe cluttered thinking in the face of some big challenges. yet it has also been my experience that when they take time to stop, take a step back and give room for their thoughts and inner voice to surface from the day to day 'noise' answers to their situation start to appear.

Many say to me that they do not have the time to stop such is the pressure in their lives and my challenge to you would simply be that you do not have the time NOT to pause if you wish to produce the sort of clutter free thinking that will create different solutions.

It has been said that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing repeatedly yet expect different results. So if you feel stuck right now, pause and take a step back even if you inject 5 minute pauses into your day. Allow yourself to become quiet. Focus on nature if that helps relax and quieten your mind, and then listen out. You may surprise yourself with what presents itself to your mind!

In the next issues I wil be introducing a powerful thinking system to help you realise your aspirations.

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In September's newsletter I mentioned that I would introduce you to a powerful thinking system. Well in the early 1900s a man called Robert Hartmann devised a scientific and mathematical system that could measure a person's thoughts based on what he/she currently valued. His system is based in the field of Axiology which is the study of human values and value judgements. The research won the Nobel Prize, and now allows us to accurately measure how we are thinking based on what we are valuing.

Behind every behaviour, personality, decision, emotion and attitude lies a thought. It drives everything mentioned so far and if we are to significantly impact circumstances in our lives we must understand our thinking first in order to know how to master it. From the research mentioned thoughts came to fall in six master categories known as your Six Advisors

These first three advisors are known as external world advisors in that they advise us on matters in the outside world

Empathy/Intuition Advisor which is about the capacity to accurately see the world through another person's eyes

Practical Judgement Advisor which is about the capacity to be fully present in the 'now' and complete tasks in a timely,efficient manner

Systems Thinking Advisor which is about the capacity to think clearly, plan, solve problems and be open to other new and creative ideas

Many of us struggle to appreciate things from another person's view let alone be able to think with clarity and be open to new ideas when we are so caught up with survival and immediate concerns. Furthermore we tend to live either in the past or the future and struggle to really embrace the present, yet now is all we have.

Think of what your world would be like if you were fully open to the present and fully able to show up with all six senses alive to the now and other people and ideas? Use the power of pausing to help you reengage with the now and see what you notice that you never noticed before. Capture what you notice about the way you are currently thinking about life and what your common self talk is before.

In the next newlsetter we introduce three internal world advisors

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