Playing the Game of Life to Win

Playing the Game of Life to Win

Through this very same process you can Deliberately Create a successful business, more sales, a beautiful home, education for your children, fulfilling relationships or anything else you desire.

However, Deliberate Creation is not something that you can just acceptintellectually. That was my problem in the beginning. I understood itintellectually, but I did not ACT on my beliefs.

There are two kinds of people:

1. Those who play the game of life TO WIN. (Take Action on what they KNOW.)
2. Those who play the game of life to NOT TO LOSE. (Keep collecting more information and avoid taking Action.)

I fell into the second category. I had all the information I needed, but I did not take action.

This is the reason why most people do not have what they want. Their true or hidden goal is not to get what they want, but to avoid failure and disappointment. So they do nothing. They just read and study and accumulate more information.

You always have a choice. You can play the game of life to AVOID LOSING and live an unstable, stressful life of limitation in which, no matter how much you read and study this stuff, you will never CONSISTENTLY get what you want, or..…

You can play the game of life to WIN and DO WHAT YOU KNOW. When you do, your life will no longer be about survival, but about experiencing joy and abundance and creating anything you desire regardless of your current circumstances, the economy or any other perceived obstacle.

When you choose to plant a seed

When you choose to plant a seed, you look for a nice piece of earth, you clear all the rubbish and weeds away. Before you plant the seed, you dig a hole, water the soil, place some compost into the hole, place the seed carefully in the hole,

, the right way up and then pack the soft soil around the seed and fill up the hole, water it again, then you wait. Maybe each day you pop out to see its progress and keep it watered and clear of weeds.

You do not expect it to grow, bloom and flower over night. Although, you do not see how much action is taking place under the soil, you know it is happening. Then as the first shoots start to break through the soil, you feel happy and want to nurture this tiny growth until it is strong and stands alone where you can admire the beautiful outcome of your time, patience, labour and perseverance.

Planting a new idea, that needs nurturing to become a belief is exactly the same process. We plant a seed of a new idea, a change, we don´t always do a very good job of clearing out the rubbish around it, we are very impatient for a result. In our rush we let the clutter and rubbish suffocate and strangle the bud of a new idea.

Even if we have taken the time to clear out and plant the new seed carefully, because we really want the change, we are waiting for the unseen workings within ourselves but we get fraught and disillusioned, then give up on the idea, saying to ourselves.... I knew it would not work anyway! So, the seed gets smothered and dies.

Bring our own seeds to full bloom and fruition takes just the same as planting a seed in your garden. In fact, when I am coaching people I often get them to plant a seed and work with the time of germination; it is like a visual aid to help them see the passing of time and growth process. It helps to keep you focused on your own change and goals.

Change is not in an instant, we did not get our old beliefs in an instant either. It does take, work, dedication and time, but it is so very worthwhile when we nurture and watch the future bloom before us.

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The days are passing

The days are passing, soon it will be a week, that leads to a month and years drift by, looking back over time it is easy to see how we let it slip away. Time is a commodity that we seem take for granted, we always assume that we can do things later, next week, month or when the kids grow up, when we retire, when, when, when.

Each moment, second and minute are precious, unique and unrepeatable, we all have 24hrs in each day and 7 days per week but we do not know how many we have. So why do some people do so much with their time and others seem to struggle to get things done at all?

Direction is the key, when you know where you are going it is easy to get there, even if you get lost or have a few detours, you know where the destination is. Then once you get there you set a new one, and so on. When we go through life and have no personal or professional direction we go in all directions, we take up a lot of time just going round and round in circles.

Just think of what you want to achieve, even if it is getting to work or getting children to school in the morning on time. Set your target, write it out put it up places you can see it, prepare for it and see how much easier it becomes. Talk to your children, make sure their bags, clothes, homework, packed lunch are prepared the night before, all saves minutes in the morning, relieves stress and makes getting somewhere easy and on time.

If you can do this for each area of your life, then you can make things run smoothly, your life, mood and relationships all improve. Then when the odd hic cup or road works causes a detour you are calmer, less stressed and cope well.

Try it and see what a difference it makes

I have a new website Linda Sage mentoring and you can ask Linda sage a question on personal change to be the best you can be in life that you want

Each day is a new opportunity

Each day is a new opportunity to change anything you want to, it does not have to be 1^st Jan, or your birthday, or any special date; everyday is special and you can choose to make it “the day”.  Nobody has the power or the privilege to make that choice for you, unless you let them.

Why spend your days in places, with people and doing things you don’t like, or that do not make you happy, fear of change is often greater than the uncomfortable situation we are in.  We create our limits in our minds, then believe them to be the truth.  One thing I learnt very early on in the field of psychology; ‘the truth” is never just that, it is only the truth as we see it.  Just think for a moment, football, baseball, or any sport when you follow one person or a team, they are the best. If that were “true” then everyone would follow or support just that one team or person and we know that is not true.  Snakes, heights, flying some people are terrified of one or maybe all of these, but not everyone.  The actual snake, height or flight is not different, but our personal reaction is depending on our beliefs of the truth.

It is never too late or too soon to make changes for yourself and to change your truth. It does take work and dedication; a little each day makes a world of difference over time.

The only place to start however, is within yourself, being honest with yourself about your situation and make the decision to change, that is what takes the time.  Once the decision is make….. it gets easier.

Here’s to a very different 2012.

January Thought