Success University courses that made a difference to me in 2008 – Six Of The Best
December 31, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I wanted to share Success University courses that made a difference to me in 2008 – Six Of The Best
Success University has a fantastic business opportunity but I’ve never really made use of it to it’s full potential but what I love are the courses, they are fantastic. You get access to over 150 of the best self help minds on the planet. Every day I can log in and enjoy motivation, inspiration and an injection of personal growth whenever I want to. The only thing missing for me are more spiritual based courses but with the number of new pastors and ministers joining I’m sure it won’t be long.
There are several categories under which are a large range of courses including communication, family, financial, health & fitness, motivation, sales etc etc. I tend to make use of the courses under the headings of financial, motivation and personal development. There are so many great ones included that I haven’t had a chance to explore any of the other categories yet!
Below are the top six that I listened/read/watched in 2008 and not just once either!!!!
A setback is a set up for a comeback Willie Jolley – Video (Top course for 2008)
If you are currently going through a setback giving up is the worst thing you can do because this setback could be your setup for a come back.
Willie Jolley talked about via video what kind of people succeed so you can understand what you need to do to keep going. Listening to Willie made me realise that 2008 was all about a setback and 2009 will be my comeback as long as I am determined to keep going because at the time I logged in I was about ready to give up and get myself a full-time job. This one video set me up to continue on my path.
Charting Your Course by the dream in your heart Gary Eby (6 part audio)
Gary Eby outlines people who had a dream and never gave up
- Walt Disney went broke 7 times and had a nervous breakdown
- Thomas Edison’s teacher called him a dunce and he failed 1400 times at inventing the light blub
- Abraham Lincoln failed at every venture he tried until he became president
Are you getting the picture here? These people went on to make history because they never gave up on the dream in their heart.
It’s all about charting your own course by the dream you have in your heart and never giving up.
Fear of Being Fabulous (audio) by Judith Sherven and Jim Sniechowski (husband and wife)
It was the heading that attracted me to this video because I love talking about being fabulous! This audio laid out why you might have a fear of being as fabulous as you could be!
Master Your Money Type with Jordan Goodman “America’s Money Answers Man”
I realised I had hit upon something when I started reading this information and it started with a few typical sub texts about people and how we view money. I recognised mine immediately. My underlying conversation for spending is “I know if I take one more chance I will hit the jackpot and have everything I ever wanted” There were a few others that people typically say and Jordan has created a way for you to identify what your money type is and how you can master it.
The 8 steps to creating wealth is another of my favourite audios by Marcus de Maria and Marcus did a teleseminar back for us in January 2008 which you can listen to it here. So you get that one for free 
http://inspirationalguidance.com/2008/01/8-steps-to-wealth-with-marcus-de-maria/
Make Your Money Work For you – Vanessa Summers
A wonderful human being who empowers women and couples to be wealthy and successful in any economy, in any market, at any time in order to attract more abundance, make more money and work smarter. I only found this audio this month so have only listened to it once but it’s amazing and I will be listening to it again and again during 2009. Vanessa believes that wealth is important because the more you have the more you have to give to the world in every possible way. She also talks about the fact that in every economic change there is an opportunity to make money and that we are all programmed to react to money in a certain way and we need to overcome that to avoid coming back to the same result.
The great thing about all of these courses and all the others available through Success University is that I can listen to them over and over again. It’s repitition that makes a difference to keep us motivated and uplifted. If you are looking to change your life in 2009 I definitely recommend Success University. Invest in yourself and enjoy Success by joining Success University.
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It’s funny how easy we think it is to resist our own destiny rather than go for it!
December 31, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I typed that line in an email I was sending today
“It’s funny how easy we think it is to resist our own destiny rather than go for it! “
I was talking about my on again off again journey with stepping forward to have my book published and to begin spreading the word of how joyful life can become when we take the time to discover the greatness within and spend time developing a relationship with God (or Source).
I have been one of the most stubborn advocates of that by continually moving away to do work that I decided was best for me and not thinking about Gods plan for my life, but the thing is it never went away. From the moment Inspirational Guidance came to life in 2000 and then I found my souls purpose of discovering greatness my calling has been to share this with the world but I’ve resisted.
The resistance came from not knowing how to share it, what to do, not wanting to be out there talking about it. The insecure child in me doesn’t like being looked at and doesn’t want to do it…… and yet there is a greater part of me that keeps getting called back. This is in my blood and I truly believe it is what God has planned for me.
There are 24 hours left of 2008 and I made a promise to God in April 2008 to do whatever he asked of me and in the last few days he has revealed His plan to me about what I need to do next about getting my book out into the world, which has excited and scared me all at the same time.
Discovering Greatness Experiencing Joy is about my journey towards self realization that I will share with you. It’s about how ultimately destiny will always call you no matter how much you resist and most of all it will be about how easy we think it is to resist our own destiny rather than go for it!
Because the book is about my own journey towards self realization I have to go through it in order to write about it and from the plan that was revealed I realized that I already have experienced a great deal of it and I am on the final part ….. being able to bring into reality everything I desire by thought, faith and action. This is the part I will focus on mastering on a consistent and regular basis. Manifesting what I intend not what life throws at me!
To help me with that I am re-listening to the Science of Getting Rich (which starts on this blog from January 1st 09) and I am also thinking about recording The Master Key by Charles Haanel which is a book in public domain (which means anyone can use it.) I am going to look at putting it on audio and breaking it down one chapter at a time. The Master Key is the book that inspired the movie The Secret and is all about the law of attraction but I prefer to call that the manifestation of our intentions.
Your intentions are powerful. What you intend to bring into your life through your thoughts will always appear so intend great things for yourself.
My desire for you as we leave 2008 and start 2009 is that you receive everything you desire so think positive and dream big.
I want to leave you with the words of Dr Wayne Dyer from his EXCELLENT book “The Power of Intention” and I leave them for anyone who has a desire they have yet to see fulfilled.
“The book that you’re now holding in your hands [The Power of Intention] and all the information it contains, was once a formless idea residing in the invisible domain of the field of intention. I managed to make my own vibrational energy march up to the all creating Source, and allowed these words and ideas to flow through me directly to you. You’re holding in your hands evidence that anything we can conceive of in our minds – while staying in harmony with the universal all-creating Source – can and must come to pass”
Dr Wayne Dyer from his book The Power Of Intention
The Power Is In Your Hands
December 30, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
One of the things I said alot in the past is
“This book changed my life”
Eventually I realized that when I said that I was putting all of the power into the hands of the book. It wasn’t actually the book that changed my life but my willingness to make changes and take action. By naming the book as the thing that changed my life I wasn’t praising myself for what I had done.
I soon changed that to “I changed my life by reading this book”
Which then puts the power firmly in my hands because I did the work necessary to make the changes.
Now of course I realise that it’s not me alone. God plays a big part in helping me to change my life but again I still put emphasis on the fact that it is with God’s love, guidance and support that my life changes.
If I went around believing that God changed my life that would mean when things got tough that I will also believe that God is making life difficult for me – which of course is not true.
Remember at all times YOU are the driving force that is behind how your life is turning out and the books, seminars, CDs and everything else including God are there to support you on that journey.
Part of discovering greatness is taking full responsibility for your life and your current circumstances. Sometimes things happen that we have no control over and at the hands of other people. I understand that but it’s our reaction to it and how we choose to let it impact our life that matters most and that is something we do have control over.
Also remember this is my personal perspective!
What Is Self Realization?
December 29, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
There are two terms I use on here that I wanted to explain so that you have a clear understanding of where I am coming from. They are self realization and personal growth.
What is Self Realization?
My definition is that self realization is the step that happens after personal growth. It’s the ultimate ending and yet the very beginning because we reach a very important time in our life when we not only understand intellectually about our very nature being spirit and our need to return to Source but we actually use it experientially – in other words we learn by LIVING it.
We allow God to guide us and spend more time in a state of constant love and joy. It’s one thing to understand that God can provide us with everything we desire (intellect) it’s a completely different thing to actual use that understanding so that everything you desire actually SHOWS UP in your life (experiential)
I hit the moment of self realization when I realized that I was spending my life searching for something and I was actually searching for myself. Of course I went on to deny it for a few more years because I’m stubborn like that and when I re-connected I did so powerfully, this time including an intimate relationship with God. My experience turned to pure joy.
Here are a few more definitions I found on the internet
- self-fulfillment: the fulfillment of your capacities
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being.
www.eckankar.org/glossary.html - The goal at an individual level is to fully realize one’s identification with nature. This involves neither a sense of an independent self nor the loss of the self in the oneness of nature. Self-realization is the full awareness of the self-in-Self.
www.eoearth.org/article/Deep_ecology - The spiritual search takes us in many directions, introduces many new ideas, give promises and via many well meaning teachers. But it is only when we come into contact with a self realized being that our search can be directed meaningfully. …
www.beyondseeking.com/definitions.html - The progressive experiential comprehension of the self as consciousness, as soul and of God. SEE SELF MASTERY
www.eoni.com/~visionquest/library/glossary.html - process that involves the healthy development of people’s capabilities, enabling them to fulfill their own unique natures
quizlet.com/print/4775/
What Is Personal Growth?
Personal Growth is the step before self realization when we are learning about who we are.
How our inner world plays a part in shaping our outer world.
Our purpose for being here.
The games we play that keep us stuck.
Our limiting beliefs and the way we control others.
Our thoughts and how they impact our life and experience.
It’s about self improvement. Improvement of our own self. Many times doing this alone (without God)
Its a process of identifying and healing what isn’t working so that we can continually grow and transform our current way of thinking, feeling and behaving to something more empowering.
It’s about finding our untapped talents and bringing them forth into our lives so that we can enjoy a more creative, spiritual and fulfilled life.
When we don’t grow or improve on who we are it’s easy to stay stuck, unhappy and unfulfilled. Many people die that way.
The only information I could find on personal growth (as an explanation was here on Wiki)
Years of personal growth helps you to connect to your inner self and many people then begin a spiritual journey. It’s the spiritual journey that leads you onto an understanding of the awesome power of the universe (or formless substance as Wallace D Wattles from the Science of Getting Rich likes to call it) which naturally leads on to self realization.
Remember this is my own personal definition of what self realization and personal growth is and I write from this perspective. There is no one way or right way to explain what is a very personal experience. Personal development is about the development of a person and we are all very different so it will mean different things for different people.
When I started my spiritual journey I read something very powerful from Iylana Vanzant which was “Find Your Own Interpretation of The TRUTH”
I invite you to do the same. Don’t take on everything I say and believe it. Use what feels right for you and discard what doesn’t. This is your personal journey of self discovery and no one can tell you how that should turn out.
In all of this remember. Our journey is not a straight path. We can slip off our path and have to correct ourselves to get back on it.
I fell off my path in a major way in 2006 until April 2008 when God whispered in my ear “You don’t think that what you are doing now is really what you are supposed to be doing do you?” – at that time I was on a quest to make money on the web.
I had forgotten myself spiritually and went in the pursuit of money. I had left Inspirational Guidance behind and it’s purpose of empowering women to find passion and purpose. I stopped connecting with Source and lived in my head where I planned mentality what I wanted to do. My plans didn’t work out and it put me in the worst position of my life and yet the best because (to quote Willie Jolley) I realized that this set back was a setup for a comeback!
God reminded me that he had a plan for me and now here I am doing His work.
“To rise above the duality of creation and perceive the unity of the Creator was conceived of as man’s highest goal.”
Paramahansa Yogananda “Autobiography of a yogi”
What’s Your Passion?
December 28, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
What’s your passion and how can you apply it in the real world to benefit people, animals or the environment? by Diane Corriette
That’s the question in today’s audio.
A lesson in getting things done
December 27, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I had a really vivid dream last night about having a suitcase full of stuff at a house that needed collecting. I could have just taken the suitcase with me to the car that was waiting up the road with my children in it but instead I decided to just leave it and get the car to come round to collect it.
When I got to the car we drove round to the house but first I needed to find the owner who had to pay back a deposit. I found him and we went to the house. When we arrived the door was open and the house had been broken into and everything was gone. All the Christmas presents my children had received and everything that was in the suitcase (except my sons school jumper that they left behind for me!)
I was really mad and started screaming at God to put it all back. I was banging the wall crying and screaming at God to bring back everything that had been taken away RIGHT NOW! My youngest son (who always seems to be in my dreams) was there watching me. I woke up upset and annoyed at having lost everything….. and here is the lesson that came to me.
Too many times I need to get something done and I don’t. I put it off for another day. For the last few days I have had a plan to write and get my accounts complete (yes I know it’s Christmas but the kids are away so I’m on my own and completing stuff ready for the New Year!) and because I haven’t been writing but moving it forward to the next day I am not now getting as much done as I wanted to. That has an impact on everything else I need to do and there will be consequences for that.
It’s a huge lesson for me about not doing what I need to do immediately but being lazy and putting it off. If I had just taken the suitcase with me I wouldn’t have lost everything but I didn’t want to. I decided it could wait while I go up the road and bring the car round instead. I just didn’t want to carry it with me so I left it behind.
When I don’t do something purely because I am being lazy and for no other reasons I will experience negative consequences as a result.
That was my lesson for today!
God Word Association
December 26, 2008 by DianeCorriette · 11 Comments
I thought I would start a word association game on my blog so…..
When you think about God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit what’s the ONE WORD that comes to mind?
When I reach 100 words I will make a video that flashes them up one at a time that will run for a few minutes to remind us. I’m looking for all words… good and indifferent!
Leave your comment below….. I’ll start
Serenity
God Bless The Children
December 23, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I was sent the following via email so it seemed like a great time to say “God bless the children” – what with Christmas only 2 days away!
KIDS IN CHURCH
3-year-old Reese :
‘Our Father, Who does art in heaven,
Harold is His name.
Amen.’
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A little boy was overheard praying:
‘Lord, if you can’t make me a better boy, don’t worry about it.
I’m having a real good time like I am.’
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One particular four-year-old prayed,
‘And forgive us our trash baskets
as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.’
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A Sunday school teacher asked her children as they
were on the way to church service,
‘And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?’
One bright little girl replied,
‘Because people are sleeping.’
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A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin 5, and Ryan 3.
The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake.
Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson.
‘If Jesus were sitting here, He would say,
‘Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait.’
Kevin turned to his younger brother and said,
‘Ryan, you be Jesus!’
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A father was at the beach with his children
when the four-year-old son ran up to him,
grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore
where a seagull lay dead in the sand.
‘Daddy, what happened to him?’ the son asked.
‘He died and went to Heaven,’ the Dad replied.
The boy thought a moment and then said,
‘Did God throw him back down?’
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And Now “Princess” shares Psalm 23 with us – The Lord Is My Shepherd
And 2 1/2 year old Zoei Toh sings the Lord’s Prayer
Why Is Tithing Such A rip off?
December 21, 2008 by DianeCorriette · 5 Comments
Why is tithing such a rip off when I get such an uplift and a feeling of love from being in church? Why isn’t it seen as a gift?
Why do so many people dislike the fact that I give money to my church and my Pastor when they go into a shop and buy ciggarettes or stand in a bar and drink alcohol?
Why is it mainly non-believers who don’t believe in giving money to church and who believe it’s a way to get money out of weak people?
Why aren’t motivational events that uplift you for a few hours and then have you return to your old state of worry and fear a rip off?
Why is it that NOTHING has come close to providing me with the peace, joy and serenity I feel since finding my church GoodNews Ministries and yet to suggest that I give them 10% of everything I earn is met with complete shock?
When are we going to realise that giving is about giving from the heart? Have you ever bought something for someone you love just because you love them and you knew they would love it?Well I give because I know Jesus loves it.
My Pastor can’t do anything if I buy him a cow or a chicken – the old days of tithing. Money is the easiest thing to tithe plus it helps the church to function and I have even been encouraged to tithe my time and smiles (yes you can tithe smiles too ) so it’s not always about money but to keep supporting my spiritual development my church needs help.
Please watch this video and answer a question for me…….
What would be on your cardboard testimony?
Diane
P.S. I want to thank and bless Scott McQueen from Just A Thought for bringing this video to my attention today
My cardboard testimony
Insecure, full of worry and doubt……. [turn it over]
Full of faith, joy and peace trusting in His love for me.
Where ever we receive our spiritual nourishment is where we need to invest….. remember that and may God fill your life with love and laughter in 2009
No man can come to the Son unless the Father draws him (or her :-)
December 18, 2008 by DianeCorriette · 2 Comments
No man can come to the Son unless the Father draws him
John 6:44
I wanted to take you on a brief journey of how I got to know God and how it relates to me sitting and writing this today….. bear with me for a few minutes because all will be revealed at the end!
It’s been a long journey finally accepting God in my life and I guess looking back it’s a testimony to just how patient He is! In 2000 I decided to start a new business and I wondered what to call it. Sitting there on my bed the name “Inspirational Guidance” was given to me and I loved it. At that time I didn’t put the fact that I was “given” the name down to God but now I know in my heart it was. When my friends heard the name alot of them said it sounded “religious” or “something to do with God” and I never saw it that way (because if I had I would have never used it) and kept it.
Then two years ago God sent a man to talk to me about Him through a business networking group and when the man asked me “Do you believe that Jesus died for our sins” I said I didn’t and he never contacted me again. I decided if that is what being a Christian is about I will leave it thank you!
All the time I was searching for something and thought I would find it in things and people but it just wasn’t working.
At the beginning of this year 2008 I had a good friend who kept inviting me to church but I just didn’t want to go. In fact the thought of going to church filled me with physical dread. I was literally scared about walking into a church! She kept asking and I kept saying I will but never made it.
Then around April this year my inner voice asked me “Do you think you are doing what you are here to do?” – at the time I was working towards financial success (and making a complete mess of it) and during meditation it was revealed to me that I had forgotten my spiritual beliefs and needed to come back to them. I made a promise to the universe that I would do what ever I was told to (because thats what you do when you’re in trouble…. ). I always believed in a higher power just never associated it to God. I believed mainly in the angels and using them.
In June this year I was given my first bible (well my second… I bought one years ago and then got rid of it) and the women who handed it to me told me that God had a plan for me that will be revealed. At the time I smiled nicely and thanked her for the gift. She encouraged me to go home and just talk out loud to God…. which I must say I still have not been able to achieve yet! Not sure why I find it so difficult but for now I do. I found myself really wanting to know more and asking her alot of questions. I was ready to look into who God was for me.
Around the same time I decided I was too fabulous be to single and joined a dating site.
In August 2008 someone handed me a postcard about an event. I looked at it ….. saw church and ignored it. At the bus stop my inner voice was loud in my ear telling me to look down at what I had been handed. It was a weekend event at a church and I decided to go. I have been attending twice a week ever since (I’ve missed a few but not many). A few weeks after being introduced to Jesus Christ I also meet a man through the dating site and suddenly my feeling of something missing disappeared and I felt fulfillment but I could never work out was it God or the man because they both came along at the same time.
Well four months later the man is no longer in my life and I am still feeling fulfilled and full of joy. Nothing that is happening in my life is able to affect me because I have faith and a wonderful feeling of serenity. I have been reading my bible and learning about God’s laws. If you look at when I started writing about my journey on this blog I complain about the law of “no sex before marriage” and yet now I am willing to accept that – not because I have been told to but because I have a love for God that makes me want to. Its a personal choice.
When I prayed I felt nothing and now I pray with reverence knowing I am in the presence of the Almighty but also with a true feeling of love in my heart for God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
And now I come full circle and have decided to dedicate more of Inspirational Guidance towards knowing, learning about and loving God. Not that I am any kind of expert. I can only teach what I learn myself and by sharing it my aim is to connect with others who believe and perhaps plant a seed in those who are searching.
Even in these few short months I have learnt and experienced the power of God within me and it would be wrong of me not to share that with you. This is NOT about religion but about a relationship. It’s also not about “hell fire” preaching telling you that you will go to hell unless you believe in Jesus. It’s about experiencing the love, joy and peace that fills deep within you when you have the guided by the Holy spirit.
I don’t believe I have any answers for you right now but I do believe I can be used as a link to bring you towards wanting to know more. It was by accepting Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit that teachings have now been made available to me to raising my awareness. Church has been a place to be uplifted from praising Him and listening to the Pastor (who’s excellent). I also love the sense of love and community I have experienced from attending but ultimately most of what I have learnt has come because I ask God for wisdom and guidance.
I have now made the decision that in 2009 my blogging will become more God focused.
At first I worried about how my current readers will react because after all many of you are here to read about personal development but even the areas I write in likeknowing yourself, “Discovering Greatness” and finding passion and purpose I understand that without God they will never truly be fulfilled.
For those who receive this via email of course you are free to unsubscribe (the link is at the end) so you no longer hear from me because as I end 2008 and begin 2009 my faith in and love of God compels me to share it online and as always I will share honestly, using examples from my life and with no other intent but to support the discovery of your greatness.
Peter 4:14
If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
This morning during prayer I asked for forgiveness about the fact that I had put being worried about upsetting my readers before God. I still have no idea what the future holds and where this journey is taking me but I have complete faith in God’s vision for my life and whatever will happen next.
If you haven’t signed up for my free eCourse “Discovering Greatness Experiencing Joy” I encourage you to do that if you have a desire to learn how to tap into the best of what is within you and experience true joy (not short term happiness)
