[Your IT Session 3] What’s Your Lifes Purpose?
September 25, 2008 by DianeCorriette · 3 Comments
The search to discover what your life purpose is really doesn’t have to be that difficult. People spend a fortune in time and money to discover what it might be when really it’s quite simple.
All you need to do is ask yourself!
I know, that’s way too simplistic but consider this…. Who knows you better than you do?
The thing is we have been taught to find answers from our parents, from our teachers, from our boss, from our friends, we are so caught up in discovering answers about who we are and what we should be doing in other people that we forget to stop and ask ourselves.
What have you always loved to do?
There will be something since childhood that you have spent your life doing. Its completely natural to you so you may be overlooking it.
Now’s the time to begin the journey of trusting yourself and the answers you have within you.
Start small. Every day smile at someone, or if someone is unhappy cheer them up. Say thank you to someone, praise someone for a job well done. Begin to be of service to other people in small ways that are completely free and take up seconds in your day and see how that makes you feel.
Also ask the question. “What is my purpose in life? I am ready to discover it and I give thanks for having it revealed to me”
Say that (or even better make up your own line) as often as you can. Say it in the morning, during the day, before going to sleep and allow your unconscious mind time to bring it to your attention.
There is no time limit to this so don’t give up after two days because you don’t have an answer, just keep asking the question and the answer will be revealed to you.
In the meantime while you wait be of service to others in whatever way fills you with joy and you will find that before long your purpose will be revealed.
Diane
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[Your IT : Session 2] What’s your intention for your life?
September 24, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
When you intend something to happen it’s quite powerful. You are not wishing that it happens or hoping that it happens.
Stop and say to yourself “I wish I could find a new job” then try “I hope I find a new job” now say to yourself “I intend to find a new job”
Can you feel the power in that last statement? When you set your intention for something to happen you are letting yourself, your unconscious mind, and The Divine know that there is something you want for yourself.
So what’s your intention for your life? What do you INTEND to happen?
Discovering this can help you move closer towards your IT if you are unsure about what IT might be.
When you declare an intention you can begin to work towards making it happen. You will find that doors open, or that you meet the right people you need, but you have to first declare an intention and before that you have to discover what your intention is.
My intention for my life is to live anywhere in the world, with my children, a wonderful loving partner and my laptop because my businesses are online. I open my laptop and I am in business! It’s my intention to generate an ongoing 5-6 figure monthly income (or more) that comes in while I sleep, play and have fun every single day and to never work more than 4 hours a day to earn it! It’s my intention to own property in Dominica where my parents are from and to spend time writing and speaking to anyone that wants to listen for the rest of my life.
That’s my intention and it gets me up every morning. I am totally inspired by it and when things aren’t working out or even when life has taken a complete downturn I hold the space for this intention to be released.
Understand that whatever you intend life will probably throw the complete opposite at you for a while as your strength and willpower to have what you truly desire is tested. Many people give up on their dreams because of that. Will you?
Your intention must fill you with desire. It must touch you to your very soul. When you think about your intention it must move you into action and inspire you to continue working towards it
Your intention may become your IT or it may just be part of your IT but it is an essential part. Your intention for your life will help you work out what your purpose is in life. These are not separate things and I don’t want you to begin to see them as separate. They are all inherently intertwined. Your intention, your purpose, your IT! They are all one, but for the purpose of this Ecourse I have to separate them out.
Begin to look at what you intend to bring into your life and next time and look forward to our next lesson that will take you on a journey towards your life’s purpose.
Your intentions and thoughts are the prophecies of what you will one day become. This is what is meant by a self fulfilling prophecy. Whatever you think or intend to happen in your mind will happen. So if your mind is full of lack, and disbelief and fear. If you fear you will lose your partner then you will, because your thoughts attract to you the very thing you think about.
- Dr Wayne Dyer
Your IT has been written by Personal Growth Coach Diane Corriette.
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September 22, 2008 by DianeCorriette · 2 Comments
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Reason to Under Achieve No. 10 – Lack of vision and focus!
September 7, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I won’t hit you with all the clichés here! You know the ones I mean. A ship without a sail, a house without foundations, an aeroplane without a pilot type clichés that are all used to tell you the same thing. You must know where you are going if you want to be clear on the fact that you get there!
Having a clear direction to go in, feeling the emotional high when life has purpose, being focused on your desires, these are all things that provide excitement, fulfilment, peace and happiness to life.
It doesn’t mean you then stay moving in this direction forever. Your direction will change as you grow and you will gain the strength to flow with it if you are willing to.
What is your vision? It could be a personal one for yourself and your life, or it could be a professional one for your business. What do you want to accomplish by the end of 2009? 2015? 2020? Do you know yet? If not, why not.
If you are hoping that you will get a magical answer that will instantly provide you with the answers you seek then I have some good news and some bad news!
The bad news is there is no magical answer!
The good news is, the best person to tell you what your life purpose is, is you! Yes, that’s right, not the book on how to do it (although it provides great guidance), but you.
Inside you is the answer you seek, all you need to do is begin to listen to it. And here’s some more good news. Your purpose isn’t something you work towards achieving; it is something that lives in your life every single day.
So where ever you are in life right now, that is your purpose, yes you heard me, no matter what emotional turmoil you are in right now you are living your purpose. You may not have connected with it fully, that is why there is turmoil, but it is alive and well within you.
It really is time for you to take back your power. Stop thinking the book will give it to you, stop thinking your Life Coach will give it to you, stop thinking the seminar leader will give it to you. They are just tools, facilitators, catalysts that are there to help you bring it out of yourself.
If you believe “You don’t know” your vision can I invite you to stop lying to yourself. Yes you do. You always have. You may not know how to bring it out of yourself, or articulate it, now that’s something different. But you know what it is.
Are you using “I don’t know” as a way to stay stuck? To ensure you never have to work towards achieving anything, but that you have a great excuse and reason why not?
The question here is “Am I ready to connect to my vision?”
Focus is the other area that women struggle with. We move from one thing to another, thinking that the thing we are working on “is it” only to discover years later that you are unfulfilled again.
When you have found what you love to do, when you have connected with what you are passionate about, every action you need to take is easy. It’s easy, its fun and you love it. You wouldn’t want to do anything else.
But hey, relax, remember this is a journey, and the journey would be far too easy if we all just hit upon what we love instantly. The important thing is you are doing something about being unhappy. You are, aren’t you?
Written by Diane Corriette
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Reason to Under Achieve No. 9 – Impatience
September 3, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I tried for a while but it didn’t work. Or Shouldn’t it be gone by now!
I am always amazed at the number of times clients say to me “but Diane. I have been thinking positively for 4 weeks now and nothings working!”
Let’s have some reality here shall we! When you spend 10, 15, 30 years thinking and behaving a certain way, your way of being does not magically shift overnight! Now whilst I am an optimist and I believe that anything is possible, even I have a limit on this one!!!!
Changing your mindset takes time, taking yourself from negative thinking to positive is a journey. All learning goes through stages called the “Conscious Competence Learning Model!” Here are the stages:
1. Unconscious Incompetence – you are a 2 year old child and you cannot tie your shoe laces, but you don’t know that you cannot tie your shoe laces and it is not important to you.
2. Unconscious Competence – Now you are 5 years old, and you realise that there is something to this shoe lace thing and you want to learn how to tie yours!
3. Conscious Incompetence – Now you are 6 and you have been practising how to tie your shoe laces but you still need to think real hard about it. It doesn’t come naturally all the time.
4. Conscious Competence – You tie your shoe laces without thinking and get on with your day.
The question here is “What action(s) am I ready to take to ensure I effortlessly move through these stages with every new learning experience?”
In the world of personal development you will go through the same stages. How quickly you move through them will depend on your willingness to learn.
If you read a book a year chances are it will take you a long while, if you read a book a week, listen to audios, attend seminars and take action and use what you have learnt, chances are you will move through them very quickly.
The other error women make is in believing that their insecurities will disappear. I am here to tell you that it’s not impossible, but they may always raise their head from time to time!
But here’s the difference. Instead of looking at it as “bad” decide that you are being given an opportunity to look for something that is missing. So if you are negatively speaking that “something won’t work” take a look at whether you have planned enough. Are you in touch with the right people? Have you done everything you could possibly do to ensure this “will work!”
Decide that your feelings of something not working are in fact signals that there may be more that you can do. See your old ways of being as a signal to tell you that something may need to change, or you may have missed something out.
Usually, when people are upset, it is because there is a way they want things to be. If you are upset, use that as a signal that’s telling you there is a way you want something done, or there is something you need to say.
Begin to use these emotional signals to your advantage, create a different perspective for yourself. If you find that actually it is just you being stuck in your old ways, be gentle with yourself, affirm your commitment to think and behaviour differently, and then work towards that.
During this journey you will always be taking 20 steps forward and 5 steps back. This is the way of life. Embrace and accept it, rather than make it wrong. Each step back will allow you to go even further forward if you take the time to listen to it.
Written by Diane Corriette
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Reason to Under Achieve No. 8 – I’m Not Good Enough
September 2, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
This has to be one of the biggest barriers for women. Growing up believing that they were not good enough; and I know it was one of mine, and even now, 15 years later, I can find myself having to work through and overcome this feeling of not being “good enough!”
But the difference between you and I is, when this comes up for me I can squash it within minutes! (And if I don’t I acknowledge that I am choosing to keep myself there.)
You can get to where I am too, all it takes is the willingness to continually work through it and admit when this “demon” has bitten into you once again!
I am at the unconscious competence (I talk about that later) stage of my personal development. If a word comes into my head or out of my mouth that is not life affirming I immediately cancel it and replace it with something that raises my energy.
It happens without me having to consciously remind myself to do this, and it took me 15 years to get here. But the time is going to go anyway, so the length isn’t the important part. It is the journey. I started my journey at age 25 and now I am 40 years old I am more powerful in my way of being than I ever was in my 20’s! Just wait until I am 50!
The question here is “How long have I believed I am not good enough and what am I going to do to change this story? (Which is totally not true I might add!)”
Thinking, feeling and believing that you are not good enough is confidence enemy number 1! You need to make a commitment to actively seek personal and professional help to overcome it. The personal help can come from listening to audios and reading books that support you in working through this.
The professional help can come from attending workshops (e.g. Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life or Landmark Education’s course ‘The Forum’).
The great thing is you will meet people all working towards the same goal. Some of these people will become part of your network of people who are all looking for bigger and better things.
Overcoming this belief is a work in progress, but the reward far outweighs the “work”
I want to end this with a plea. If you are a woman with children please watch what you say to them, children are literal creatures and will believe every thought you put in their head.
Please nourish them with positive affirmations about being capable, lovable and able to succeed at whatever they put their minds too.
And please no longer allow other people to indulge in calling your child(ren) names. Not even the little pet “you clumsy thing, you” that Grandparents may lovingly say when they drop the plate of cookies.
Growing up believing you are not good enough is one of the most damaging things to go through. Having said that, when you are willing to work through it, it can provide you with the energy to be the best that you can be; that’s what it did for me.
Reason to Under Achieve No 7 – Wasting Precious Life On Regrets
September 1, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
We all have things that didn’t work out. Things that we would have done differently, and it’s always good to take a long hard look at the impact our actions have in our life and on other people.
It’s also good to spend some time in reflection looking at what you will do differently next time and how you can learn from your mistakes.
But ultimately, you have to LET IT GO! Let go of the past, focus on what’s great in your life right now, and create a compelling future for what will be.
Every minute, hour, week, month and year you waste on blaming, shaming, criticising and regret does nothing but reduce the happiness you can experience in your own life. It robs you of your passion to move forward and look at “what’s next?”
The question here is “What stories can I give up about events in the past, the giving up of which will help me to move forward?”
Take a long hard look at the business deals that didn’t work out, the partner that didn’t support, the people that “did stuff to you.” Are you ready to let it all go?
This is not about blame. Maybe what they did was wrong, but by you continually focusing on it that will not make it right, or change what happened. Is it time to find another way?
Written by Diane Corriette
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Promise Yourself
July 15, 2008 by DianeCorriette · 1 Comment
The Optimist Creed by Christian D Larson from his book Your Forces and How To Use Them
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prospersity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
Promise yourself to look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimisum come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Promise yourself to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living create you meet a smile.
Promise yourself to give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
Promise yourself to think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in words but in great deeds.
Promise yourself to live in the faith that the whole word is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.
Now you can choose to bring this into your life. For the next 21 days promise yourself that you will listen to the audio or print off these words and say them – then see what shows up in your life.
I Choose to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.
I Choose to talk health, happiness and prospersity to every person I meet.
I Choose to make all my friends feel that there is something in them.
I Choose to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimisum come true.
I Choose to think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
I Choose to be just as enthusastic about the success of others as I am about my own.
I Choose to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
I Choose to wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living create I meet a smile.
I Choose to give so much time to the improvement of myself that I have no time to criticize others.
I Choose to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
I Choose to think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in words but in great deeds.
I Choose to live in the faith that the whole word is on my side as long as I am true to the best that is in me.
And so it is.
The need to sit close to me
July 14, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
This event was back in 2005 and I remember being in an office that belonged to a small community group in West London.
The Finance Officer would regularly tell me that he liked being near me, and sitting close to me. One day he walked in to where I was working and asked if he could sit close by. He had no idea why he wanted to he just told me in that moment he wanted to be close to me.
He didn’t touch me and never did but he often came over to sit close by when I was in the office (which was kinda creepy for me…. but doing my good girl routine I said nothing!)
Two elderly women on the London Underground
July 14, 2008 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
I was on a train with a friend. There were two elderly English women on the train – both looking at me – eventually one of them speaks up and says “my sister and I think you look amazing” (the word amazing…. it could have been beautiful – but it was words to that effect!)
