What Is Greatness?

Below is an extract from my new free personal growth ecourse Discovering Greatness Experiencing Joy. It’s the third in the series of lessons designed to get you thinking about greatness, ready for greatness and working towards whatever greatness means to you.  If you enjoy reading this extract please sign up to receive each lesson.

“I know that no matter where you are in life, you want more! No matter how well you’re already doing or how challenged you now may be, deep inside you there lies a belief that your experience of life can and will be much greater than it already is. You are destined for your own unique form of greatness…” –Anthony Robbins

What is greatness? I believe that this is a question we all need to answer for ourselves because greatness is something that is unique to us all.  So spend time considering what greatness is for you after I share what greatness is for me.

For me greatness is a feeling that comes when I connect to the universal energy known as God (or Source/Creator), when I stand in complete faith and believe that whatever I have asked for will be delivered. When I pray for others and spend time making people laugh.  My greatness isn’t one thing but a multitude of things that leave me feeling at peace, connected and always confident.

Fear and guilt can not live when my greatness is present.  Scarcity and doubt stand no chance when I am connected to how great I am.  I am vibrant and my natural energy (or aura) attracts people and things into my life like bees to a flower in bloom.

And the important thing to remember are the words ‘when I am connected’ because when I turn away from Source life just isn’t as joy filled as it usually is when greatness is present.

Worry becomes the ruler of my life, and fear about how things will turn out takes over.  With worry and fear around situations in my life alter and all of a sudden life stops working out as well as it once was. Projects fall apart, money stops coming in and worry and fear begin to increase, which in turn brings more of the same.

The good news is that no matter where your life is right now, no matter how bad things have become, at any moment you can choose to turn it around with one simple thought “I can choose to be happy despite my current circumstances”

It was that one thought that began to turn my life around after two years of disconnecting from source to ‘do it my way’ and making a complete mess of it.  I awoke one morning and a voice whispered ‘despite how bad you think things are you can still choose to be happy’  The simple act of choosing to be happy put me on the path of reconnecting back to everything I had turned away from.

I share that story to highlight that on your path to greatness there will be times when you turn away from what is working because you believe that you know best.  Or perhaps everything is working fine and you think you are okay to do it alone, but if you are truly one who has had God in your life then He will patiently wait until you are ready to turn back to Him – and that is usually after messing everything up and landing in trouble!

The gold in this situation (because there always is a lesson to learn or “gold” in every situation) is that I experienced what I was like without greatness and it did not feel good.  I had to experience who I do not want to be in order to know when I am experiencing who I do want to be, which is great.

What greatness means to you and why you would choose to begin the journey of discovering your greatness is something you and your Creator can answer together.  It’s not an easy path. Challenges will be thrown at you thick and fast as a way to heal your past and highlight how and why you limit yourself.  As you heal those past events and unblock your limiting behavior your life transforms.

Discovering greatness is a journey with no end because as soon as you feel you have found the greatness within you something will happen to show you there is still more greatness to find.  It is our key to continually grow and develop towards self realization.

What I can tell you is that it will change your way of being in the world. You will enjoy a continuous feeling of joy – not fleeting happiness – but true long lasting joy no matter what circumstances come your way. Your life as you know it will never be the same.

Are you ready to be great?

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It’s funny how easy we think it is to resist our own destiny rather than go for it!

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

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The Power Is In Your Hands

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!

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Free Personal Growth eCourse

My free personal growth eCourse for 2009 is called “Discovering Greatness Experiencing Joy” and I am now one step closer to delivering it after completing the graphics and some of the content.

I included the words “experiencing joy” because that is exactly what happens when you live from your greatness.  The only time I don’t feel as if life has anything worth celebrating is when I forget to connect to my greatness.  It will focus heavily on the spiritual side of connecting to a Higher Power that I will call God and the benefits that I have experienced from knowing Him as a new believer.

This free faith based eCourse will take you on a journey of questions, quotes, affirmations and stories that will help you begin to look within for your own greatness but only if you are proactive in how you use it.  If you read each lesson and do nothing then your result will be nothing. Instead take each lesson and write out the affirmation or spend time thinking about the question and see how it applies to your life.

What I am asking you to do is actively engage yourself in this eCourse and remember our motto….. free equals high value! This is a high value eCourse that I have given to you free of charge.  If you find it easier to stick to things when you pay for them then feel free to send in a donation

Watch out for the restarting of teleseminars with myself on this topic but also with other experts in the personal development field.

I want to help at least 500 people discover their greatness and enjoy living in faith in 2009 but I can’t play this game alone.  Wanna play with me ???

Diane

P.S. How did I discover my greatness today….. well I created a new cover for my eCourse (above) but usually my covers are without images because I just haven’t been able to work out how to add them….. until today!

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Have you prostituted your being?

In Anthony De Mello’s book “The Way To Love” he talks alot about our attachment to people and things.  In particular he mentions our need to be loved by another as if we would die if they did not exist.

When we give up who we are to please another person we prostitute our being. We are no longer ourselves but instead begin to conform to what they want/expect of us. Even when we think we know what it is another person wants there are no guarantees that we will get it right so we live in constant fear of making a mistake.

That is no way to live and it is certainly no way to love.  I am certainly no expert on love but the one thing I have learnt from studying Mr De Mello is the fact that our attachments are the root cause of our unhappiness and at any moment we can detachment from them all and enjoy true and long lasting happiness.

Detachment doesn’t mean you give a person or thing up. You don’t have to detach from your car by selling it and giving it up because that just produces the pain of not having and even more unhappiness. But it is about recognizing that without the car you can remain happy. Without the big house you are still a unique and wonderful human being.

Detaching who you are from what you own is an important part of personal growth.  Your greatest error will be to believe that who you are is based upon what you own and what you have because if you ever have to give them up then you will lose confidence in yourself and who you are.  If you earn 30,000 a month and drive a sports car then suddenly you lose your job, after a few months can’t keep up mortgage payments on your exclusive town house and lose that, the car goes next and you are left unemployed without the trappings does that make you any less important than you were when you had them?  The answer of course is no it does not.

It is an unstable state of illusion if you place all your confidence into the status that you believe a car or house will give you because it’s all relative to the situation. What does that mean…????

Well imagine you live in a neighborhood where everyone drives cars worth £7,000 (dollars, rupees, yen… whatever your currency just include it rather than get off track here!) and you buy yourself a wonderful BMW and your car is worth £24,000. Instantly you believe that your status is above everyone and they believe that too. They automatically believe you must have more money - even if you did buy the car on HP!

You drive around in your neighborhood and everyone looks at your car with envy. The guys all want to talk to you because they want the opportunity to get into and be seen in your car….. you’re the top of the pack!

Today you decide to visit a friend. You drive to your friends house and in her neighborhood everyone drives a car to the value of £45,000 and over. Jags, convertible Audi, Porche, Mercedes….. they don’t even look at you as you drive up because you’re considered a “poor cousin” compared to what they drive.

Now suddenly in this neighborhood your status means nothing… where as just 10 minutes before in your own neighborhood you felt like the top of the pack you are suddenly reduced to nothing worth looking at when you visit your friend.

This is why placing your status in “things” is so shallow and a complete waste of time…. because there will be times when it will make you feel great and other times when it won’t!  It will never help fill the void for what you are truly looking for. It provides temporary relief from feeling like nothing but at any moment if you lost your precious thing you will drop right back down again. Plus you have to work hard to keep it, maintain it and replace it with something better.  You will worry about people stealing, breaking and ruining it and this worry will cause ill health.

How much easier is it to focus on building our inner strength. In knowing that within us is something so strong (that I will introduce as your great ocean of divinity…. or G.O.D.!)

This ever increasing, always available, uplifting and empowering energy within you is your own greatness and when you learn to tap into it nothing and no one can stop you from feeling amazing 100% of  the time. At different times of our lives  we will jump in and out of this ocean depending on our needs but we will always know that at any moment we can return and recharge because it will always be there with unconditional love waiting for us.

Now isn’t that so much better than plain ole stuff!!!

Diane

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Awareness is the key to personal growth and discovery greatness

If there is one thing you need in order to help yourself on this journey to discovering your own ocean of greatness through personal growth it’s awareness.

Without awareness you will continue to do the things that you are doing that keep you stuck, stop you from taking risks, make you hate change and limit you from developing your full potential.

Think about a time when you had no idea about something. You didn’t know that you didn’t know. Let’s focus on being a 2 year old that didn’t know they need to tie their shoe lace…. and let’s face it they didn’t care.

Then one day awareness struck. They understood that they needed their shoes on when they went outdoors and the way to keep them on is tie the laces. Now they care about their shoelaces but they don’t know how to tie them. Then awareness strikes again to let them know that if they really want to be seen as “grown up” they were going to have to learn how to tie those shoelaces all on their own, especially as they were starting school soon.

They went from no awareness of what shoelaces are to complete awareness of what they are and why they are important. They also knew that walking around at school age and not being able to tie their shoelaces would keep them in the category of “baby” and so they worked hard at learning until they got it!

Now you need to discover what you need to be aware of and you are already a grown up so you will need to either wait until an event happens that raises your awareness to something needing to change or you can go within and ask your unconscious mind what needs to change to ensure you are the best person you can be.

We all have the power to ask questions of ourselves and expect an answer (and if you didn’t know that then I just opened your awareness of it) so trust yourself and have paper and pen ready.

You can ask as you go to sleep “What do I need to know about myself that needs to change. Please bring it to my awareness” and answer will be given to you as long as you relax and trust. The answers may come to you in the shower or while exercising so you will need pad/paper close to you at all times!

Eventually as you practise you will receive them at a certain time. I receive all my messages first thing in the morning the second I open my eyes. If my unconscious mind has something to reveal to me that is when I hear about it.

Without awareness you continue to live in denial and it becomes impossible to truly discover your greatness because most of it will be hidden in fear, guilt, negative internal chatter, worry and other limiting experiences that won’t promote growth. Give yourself the gift of personal growth by opening yourself up to the gift of awareness.

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Have you ever dated someone beneath your worth?

That’s the question for today….. Have you ever dated someone beneath your worth?

Have you gone out with someone knowing they were not on your level?  Or maybe you dated them thinking they were way above your level and way too good for you? Do you always compare yourself to other people?

Of course if you truly think either way (that someone is beneath you or out of your league) then you have some internal conversations to change. Like the angel and the devil scenario our internal voice can empower or dis empower us and it’s our choice to decide which one wins.

A long time ago I would get very upset when a friend kept comparing me to another life coach that I decided had achieved alot more than I had.  Whenever he mentioned her name I would become instantly annoyed and internally twisted as I secretly hated her.

Then one day after being particular upset my empowering internal voice asked me something.

“What if you could see that she is no better than you are. You both empower people in different ways. So what if you could see that she is no better than you and you are no better than her. “

Then I thought about people I thought I was better than and repeated the same question “what if I could see that I am not better than they are but we are both the same”.

It was at that moment this part of my life transformed. It was a major shift in me and a major addition to my personal growth. From that moment I have never looked at anyone and thought they were better than I am or that I am better than they are.

From then on I spent my time seeing that within us is our spirit and when I see the spirit in people I see just how wonderfully amazing they are, not based on what they do or what they have but about what’s in their heart.  People are truly easy to love when you can see them from what’s in their heart.

So if you are looking to discover your own greatness and stop comparing yourself to other people I hope you will see this as a major part of your personal growth and begin to look for the wonderful spirit that is within all of us (no matter how we may behave!) because when you do you will realise that no one is “out of your league” or “not as great as you are” - conversations like that disappear.

Doing this opened me up to really be able to talk to anyone and everyone.  It has also helped me to build some wonderful friendships with people that I would have judged in the past and not even bother to get to know.  So do yourself a favor and open yourself up to connecting with people based on who they are.

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When you have a day of incredible happiness and sadness what do you focus on?

It’s been a funny ole day! I’m alot better than I was (It seems the sore throat, fever, flu thing is everywhere in the UK right now!) I had a serious conversation about book publishing (but dont want to say more than that right now!). Someone made an offer on my house (although there is PLENTY of room for improvement on it!!) I ended a relationship that was more draining than uplifting and I am definitely moving away from Women Internet Marketers and closing it all down to focus on writing in the area of personal growth.

A day of happy events and a sad one so what do I focus on? The answer is none of those….

Firstly it would be easy to focus on the negative because as humans that’s what we are naturally inclined to do but it’s much better to see the whole day for what it is…. one day in my life. Nothing good about it and nothing bad. It just is!

I can celebrate and be thankful for everything that has happened because it all happens for a reason and as long as I learn a lesson from it then I will continue to grow.

I was once told that the only difference between success and failure is learning. As long as you learn a lesson from what has happened you will always continue to be successful. Once you stop learning lessons or if you never bother to look for them then you remain stuck and never grow.

We are all capable of doing very stupid things and making very huge mistakes so that also makes us capable of learning from them and making a fresh start (My fresh start from my stupid mistakes started 28th November 2008!). So what that means is there is hope for us all

Hindsight is a wonderful tool. It will take you back and make you look at what you did wrong. It will make you wish that you didn’t do that one thing, or say that last word, or spend that last lot of savings the way you did and if you could only have your time again…. if you could only go back and change it you just wouldn’t do the same thing.

Well, chances are you probably would… because the whole thing was set up so that you learn a lesson so don’t beat yourself up too much (talking from experience here ) just know that it’s all part of the process.

As long as we continue to learn our future can only get better so our mistakes are actually a great tool to help us get to where we want to be. Our mistakes are an important part of our ultimate success.

What would be really stupid is making the same mistake twice

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Sometimes its right in front of you if you only allow it in

I seem to be going through a series of life lessons, which is great because I get to share them with you and sharing real life experiences is always so much better than not because that’s what personal growth is all about…. continuing to grow by learning from lessons life throws at you.

This weeks lesson has to do with trying too hard and then letting go.

I woke up and my earring was missing. I knew it was there before I went to bed so there was only one place it could possible be…. in my bed. So I searched with my hand close by and couldn’t feel it. I spread my arm out a little wider and still couldn’t feel it. I got up on my knees and searched every where and still couldn’t find it. I remembered seeing it in the mirror when I was in the bathroom before going to bed and now my mind convinced me that maybe it fell out when I was washing my face so I went into the bathroom and searched for it then went back to my bed to search for it.

The more I couldn’t find it the more frantic my search became until I decided (about an hour later) that it’s just not here and I’ve lost it. I put my knee on the bed to get back in to bed, felt something sharp and there it was!

What’s the lesson?

You can spend hours, weeks, months or maybe even years frantically looking for something that you desire but if you just let go of your frantic desire and attachment for it then give the universe a much easier chance to naturally bring it into your life.

We have all heard of the stories of women who desperately try to get pregnant and after years of trying and then adopting or just deciding to spend their life in different ways they fall pregnant!

Sometimes we have to let stuff go to let it in - and if I am honest letting go and just finding it was alot nicer than the frantic search I put myself through.

Now all I need to do is relate this to my life as I sit back and wait for whatever it is I am supposed to do next. My friends don’t quite understand why I wouldn’t just take the first job thats offered to me whether its something I want to do or not. After all it’s money isn’t it! But despite that the majority remain supportive and those who have known me for years understand that whatever I am going through right now I will get through it and continue to grow.

I know my journey back up has started when a few weeks ago the message I received was “you can still be happy despite what’s going on in your life” - adopting that has helped me to stay at peace and remain focused (well as focused as you can when you are in my head )

Watch out for the next lesson which is the digital camera and a USB connector!

Diane

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A lesson looking far for what’s near

Last week i wanted to transfer a number of photos from my digital camera to my laptop. The USB connector I use to do that is always in the same drawer in our dining table so I went looking for it and it wasn’t there.

I asked my daughter if she had used it and she said she hadn’t so I began a day of searching for this one small connector! We had just had our house decorated and a number of books and other stuff had been moved about so I was convinced that it had been placed somewhere and it wouldn’t take long to find.

I cleared out two cupboards, got rid of a lot of rubbish, hunted high and low before deciding that it was lost and I should just buy another. That whole process took a day!

The next day my daughter had a few photos she wanted to upload to her laptop. Picked up my camera in it’s case, opened up the very small pocket on the front and took out the USB connector!  It was there all the time.

What’s the lesson?

Well the first one is a little like the book Acres of Diamonds. You can go searching all over for something and what you are looking for is right there in your own backyard.

Both this lesson and my previous lesson about my earring focused on teaching me that the thing I am searching for is right there in front of my face if I only stop looking outside and around! Now I just need to figure out what I am frantically searching for….. but don’t worry because God has it all in hand and when it’s time to reveal it He will, so actually what’s even better is I DON’T have to figure out what I am searching for.  All I have to do is stop long enough to allow God time to reveal it to me!

You can also contribute to your personal growth by learning lessons about the events that take place in your life if you take the time to write them down in a journal or diary.  What makes journalling powerful is that you get to record everything that happens and the possible lessons behind them and eventually you notice a pattern.

That pattern is there to help you grow and develop if you are ready to face it and change it.  Just don’t be too hard on yourself or beat yourself up because that doesn’t help. Recognise the pattern and see what you want to do about breaking it if it is negative.

Of course I have a blog and share all my lessons with the world…. there is that option too!

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