Where Does All The Time Go?


What Get’s Your Attention ….on a daily basis?

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How many times have you felt frustrated because you were unable to find the time to do the things that are most important to you?Geen doorgang na 200 m?

How long has it been since you were able to take a day or an afternoon and do just what you would like to do?

Whether it is a quiet time sitting and reading you favorite book, a game of tennis, golf or just spending a leisurely afternoon with a friend, these times seem to get pushed to the side.

Everyday millions of us juggle work and personal obligations trying to get ahead and just keep up with the things that are in front of us. Trying to catch those precious moments that mean so much to us seem to be slipping away. It is no wonder that there are so many self-help books and magazines with titles that promise to give us the fast and easy way to live a simple life. The desire to end the frustration of not having time for ourselves is high.

Believe it or not, you do have a choice on how you live your life. You can continue to do the things the way you are doing them now, or you can do something about it.

So, let’s examine some ways to do something about it. Let’s focus on 5 things you can do now to get your priorities straight.

But, we will first need to look at how you spend your time now.

  1. What gets your attention on a daily basis?
  2. Where does all the time go?
  3.  List how you spend your 24 hour.

Questions to ask yourself:

What is most important to you at this time in your Life?

What are the areas that need your attention? (Like Health, relationship, work or financial.)

Where would you like to spend more time?

Is there a dream or desire where you would like to spend more time?

What needs less attention, More Attention?

If you want to achieve more, spend more time on planning.

So, let’s get back to those 5 things you can do:

  1. Always keep a 3 X 5 card with you and date it; place your top priority (goal) first.
  2. Only list the things you need to do that day.
  3. Be certain the “extra things like shopping or TV” are not eating in to your time that would interfere with reaching your goal.
  4. If procrastination is holding you back, take a look at why.
  5. Check in with you innate (inner) strengths. Ask yourself which of these would be a good tool to use to implement the task.

This list can be made on your computer, but be sure whatever method you use, you can access it where ever you are.

“Consistent winners always develop a “blueprint” and consult with their best advisers. They ask lots of questions and get good input. They know that with a good “map” or checklist they can achieve almost any goal that others have achieved. Without a checklist, even a simple Thanksgiving dinner or family outing can easily become a disaster.” Phillip Humbert

When you attend the Power Surge Teleseminars, you will be able to discover your inborn strengths, learn how to apply them to reach your dreams and end the frustrations when you say to yourself,”Shouda, Couda, Wouda!”

 

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Turning March Madness Into April Gladness

TURNING MARCH MADNESS INTO APRIL GLADNESS

When we think of the month of March some of the things that may come to mind, is the saying, “March Madness” which most often is referring to athletic teams such as basketball. However, we could also bring up thoughts stormy weather with black clouds and rain, tornadoes and strong winds. These are troubling thoughts that could bring on despair and worry.

We can turn those frowns into smiles by quickly shifting our thoughts to memories that those storms blow away unwanted debris, clear our way, and give us much needed rain to bring on the growth of whatever we or nature has sown. It is a long-held belief that it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.

While nobody could possibly tell you with accuracy exactly how many muscles you use when you smile (43? 17? 26?), it’s possible to tell you the minimum number of muscles that are used in the most insincere, subtle, restrained, mouth-only smile or frown. Does it really matter? What we do know is that the worry the frown causes long outlasts a smile, which proves that the storms of life may be necessary to endure to get us to the gladness that nature brings with its spring showers.

April, with its spring showers, brings on the freshness of all of nature and its glory. I live across the street from a park and one of my favorite things to do is to take a walk around the walking trail. It is exciting to me to watch the trees bloom and then turn into leaves, and to marvel at the synchronicity of natures timing. This glorious show is going on now, and everyday there is a new discovery. How often do we take the miracle of nature for granted? I would suggest the next time you are outside (not in your car) to stop and really savor the beauty.

With the storms of March comes the birth of the unfolding of a world of nature’s canvas with the paintings of bursts of colors for us to behold.

With all of the newness of the season of Spring comes the thought of Spring Forward, Bouncing, Bursting and New Life. We can relate these thoughts to our own life with this surging of “New Energy.”

For me, since I am a Gardener, it means another chance to create beauty in my garden.

I have an ongoing joke with myself. Each year I say, “Since I am approaching (whatever year of my birth it is that year, this year it is 85,) I am going to do less planting. Somehow each year I seem to do more. Which simply proves that most often unless you have a serious physical or mental problem (some might question the mental with me!) if you really want something strongly enough you will push through until it is done. If you don’t believe it, just ask Mother Nature.

When we pause long enough to observe how Nature blesses us, we will be reminded that the storms of Nature as well as the ones in our life are washing away the debris to clean off the canvas to spring into action and bring the glory of beauty to life, in our life and the world around us.

Joci James
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Manage Your Inner Strengths

As stewards of our inner gifts and strengths, we are constantly learning about these resources; their values and our own ability to manage them.

It’s never too late to start fresh and improve your relationship with these gifts and overcome any fears you have about allowing your divine abundance of inborn gifts to surface and flourish.  Get out of the shadows and fear that are so common with this topic!

Abundant living will result by realizing how powerful using your inborn gifts are by and applying the following tips:

  1. BELIEVE YOU ARE DESERVING – Many people hold on to the belief that they are not good enough and are thinking, “Who Am I?”  Therefore, they cannot expect to have much faith in themselves or get their needs, wants or desires met. As a consequence, they have a habit of giving up, giving in, self-sabotaging and finding other ways of stopping their endeavors before reaching success.
  2. CLARITY – Write out exactly what you want and why you want it (why it’s important to you).  Get clear on exactly what your unique strengths are and exactly how you can apply them to your dreams and aspirations.  Decide to lift your faith and envision the vastness of the Universal supply of inner gifts.  Claim what’s yours, and accept these inner gifts as yours.
  3. ATTENTION – Your inner gifts have a way of hiding or going to sleep unless you nudge them and invite them to come out and play.  If you don’t pay attention to them, they can sulk like a child.  So, give them attention and they will jump for joy, come to your aid, and support you in your journey to success.
  4. ENCOURAGE – Write down your achievements every day.  Build a positive relationship with your inner gifts.  Even the smallest ones count!  This is a powerful exercise to encourage the constant flow of actions.  Remember: your inner gifts love having your attention and care.
  5. ABUNDANCE AND PLENITUDE – Every phrase of your journey to success becomes more harmonious, balanced, healthy and happy when you share your inner gifts with others.  When you give using your own unique gifts, the gift is made more special since it comes from your heart.  Giving of yourself will free you from the feeling of any lack within.
  6. FOCUS – Switch your focus to what you have and not what you don’t have.  What you focus on grows!  Be determined to only focus on the positive.  Keep a gratitude journal that you write in everyday. Count your blessings and watch them multiply.  It is true that what you appreciate, appreciates.
  7. JOY AND LOVE – all the above will only work with your faithful practice of love of yourself and -others.With an attitude of gratitude, the blessings of your inner gifts and strengths the flow of energy will reward you with abundance of joy and love.  When you are imagining realizing the success of your dreams, huge shifts will happen as you erase those old stories and begin to have a new relationship with your inborn gifts and strengths.

Remember:

When you realize you possess inner gifts and strengths,

YOU ARE RICH

When you awaken your inner gifts and strengths,

YOU ARE RICHER

When you activate your inner gifts and strengths,

YOU ARE WEALTHY

 

Joci James

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Pick Your Passion, Or…..Pick Your Poision

Fortunately, as a rule, it is not difficult to find something that you are passionate about.  Just think about the things that you like to do; things that are fun, things that seem to come to you naturally. You are free to choose whatever you choose. You are not defined by the passions you choose, but by how you choose to act on them. When you fail to embrace and cherish them, you will not become known by them. When you choose to settle for less than what you know you can achieve, it will be like a slow poison.

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.”  – Dr Howard Thurman.

Passion is a driving force to some activity, object, or concept.  It is the spark that ignites the flame to illuminate the path to your road to success. Without passion, the road will become dark.  You will encounter road blocks, direction, focus and desire.

When there is passion in your life, you will know you have truly lived. Find your passion in your life, become it, let it become you. You will find great things will happen for you and those you encounter.

When there is a question about how you know what your passion might be, always go back to what you like to do, what gives you pleasure. Now, there might be some confusion if you think, “But what if I have so many things I am interested in that I can’t narrow it down?”  In this case, you would still go back to what you like to do the most, the one that can maintain your interest and keep you true to yourself.

Ignite Your Passion:

  • Focus on what is fun and meaningful for you.
  • Start noticing what interests you.
  • Accept your passion as being who you are.
  • Activate you inner strengths
  • Keep true to yourself.
  • Ask yourself, “What makes me come alive?”

“Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen to you and because of you.”  - Alan Armstrong.

When you choose to let your passion and dreams go dormant, you have chosen a slow poison.  Flip the switch!  illuminate your path with the flame of your passion.

Check in with your true spirit. Listen to what your heart tells you. Pursue the things that not only catch your eye, but the ones that catch your heart. You will never let that flame of passion die. The poison of inactivity will not darken your path.

Start mining for the pieces of gold that are your inner strengths, the “nudges” you get when you feel like you are grinning from the inside out. These “nudges” will be your true spirit with a message to follow your passion.

Joci James

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Uncover Your Excellence

Hello,

I’m Joci James, Life Strengths Detective,

I write these blogs to give you helpful tips and solutions to live smarter by uncovering your inner strengths to assist you in making life easier.

Isn’t it interesting how excited we can get when we come across a new gadget, solution or trick to make life easier when we are planning or involved in a project?

I like to cook. Now this may not be your “cup of tea”, but whatever your hobbies or interests are, it would make the project more palatable if you had the tools to accomplish the project with less effort.

I just took the latest edition of “Bon Appetite” magazine out of my mailbox and, on the way up the steps to my front door; I was struck by the headline on the front cover, to an article inside that read, “The One Kitchen Tool You Can’t Live Without”.  I rushed in the house, ripped off the plastic sleeve of the magazine and turned to page 105, only to find out that the one thing you can’t live without is a cast iron skillet!

Now, I’ve been cooking with a cast iron skillet for 60 years.  People have cooked for centuries in a cast iron skillet.  The article went on to detail the skillet’s features. It holds the heat, it doesn’t stick, cooks evenly and, one they didn’t mention, it doesn’t need to be polished.  It does need to be seasoned (oiled) but I have that part down since I can relate – I too am well-seasoned.

We humans seem to be constantly on a search for a new trick or gadget to get our projects done, when all along it might be in our kitchen cabinet, in our tool box or tucked away in a drawer.

This can also happen when we think we are not equipped with the inner personal strengths to accomplish our dreams.

When you are dreaming of your vision of your beautiful life, picturing how it will be, planning your road map of how you will get there, do you get detoured by the thoughts that you just don’t have the talents or personal inborn strengths to accomplish your goal?

I’m encouraging you to search closer for talents you may have forgotten you have – could they too be tucked away in a drawer of your memory?

Unfortunately, we tend to highlight and focus on our so-called weaknesses.  Once our strong talents are discovered they rise to the forefront and become the leader of your intentions.  WHAT WE FOCUS ON WILL EXPAND.

Once we are aware of our inner strengths, the next step is to keep them highlighted, not stuffed in a drawer out of site.  They can only be of assistance to accomplishing a project if we use them.

My electric can opener finally bit the dust after 14 years.  I like to cook fresh food, so I rarely open cans.  However, when I do open a can, I am not happy about struggling to get the job done, telling myself, “You are too weak” or “You’re not mechanical.”  When all along I probably just didn’t know how to operate the hand operated can opener.  Ultimately, I bought a new, fancy, ergonomic, high-dollar, one I had seen in a cooking magazine. It looked fancy and folded flat so that it would fit nicely in a kitchen drawer, but alas!  I couldn’t operate it.  I struggled and struggled until I finally threw it in a drawer and tried again to operate with the old hand-screw type one which was still a struggle.  I finally got the new one out again and placed it correctly on the can.  It worked quickly, without effort, and even has pincers to lift the lid so that the liquid never gets on the lid!  Voila!  It’s all in believing that you (the operator) have the skills and the inner tools to get the job done.

This experience proves that when we are aware of our inner talents and strengths we will not only be compelled to start the project but have faith in our own extraordinary traits to guide us to the success of completing the project.

With the meaningful solutions for discovering your personal strengths provided in the series, “Power Surge Teleseries,” you will be encouraged to close the gap from not believing you already have the inner strengths to completing the task, to being aware that you do have the proper tools.  You also have the knowledge that you are skilled at using them

I have learned through years of feeling incompetent, to complete a project (which deterred me from even starting it) that it was not necessary for me to be well-rounded, to know how to do every part of a task.  All I really need is to discover my inborn strengths and talents and rely on them to light the path to lead me to success.  I also learned along the way that in doing  the process, the steps that were not my strong talents were revealed as either not important or the answer to the unknown was presented.

The truth is this: One can’t help but think of starting a project without believing in ultimate success when the discovery of personal inner strengths have been revealed and the knowledge of the faith in the inner guide to see the potential of achieving EXCELLENCE.

Discover how to uncover your fearless power within you by registering for a future teleseminar.

Power Surge Teleseminars are “treasure hunts” that will reveal to your creative power within. You will learn how to reach the strength within you and use it to your full advantage.

Discover how to uncover your fearless power within you by registering for a future teleseminar.

You will be able to uncover:

  • Your fearless Power Within
  • How to reach your strength within
  • How to use your gifts and talents
  • Ways to discover the keys to happiness and success

 

For more information and to register for the seminar go to:

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CLARITY

“If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity.”

– Loretta Staples

Teddy Roosevelt once said, “A frequent deterrent to goal setting is the fear of making a mistake. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”

A CLEAR VISION IS ESSENTIAL

A clear vision is essential to the success to any project or business. If you don’t take the time to map out a clear detailed vision then you are doomed to spend your life achieving the vision of others who do. In the place of a clear vision in your life, you will either be stuck in a business or career you don’t feel good about or will be specific with a clear vision map of what you do want. Unless you do this, you may end up with a sick feeling of thinking you took the wrong turn on your roadmap to achievement and wonder, “How did I ever get here?”

A failure to understand the extreme importance of establishing a clear vision is very common. But to those who examine their true potential by following their Signature Strengths Instincts will outperform everyone else by a huge degree.

The fear of making a mistake is often the main deterrent to making a clear plan of action to reaching your vision. This is where the following formula will help:

Personal Strengths +Desire+Small Action Steps = Vision Reality 

When we start our map of clarity to achieve our vision, and we block it out in small achievable steps, we are assured success. There is no way we can fail and therefore we have won the game already.

History is crowded with success stories of famous people who have won the game and achieved their dreams. One example is Mary Kaye Ash, who had the desire to help single Moms like herself to be able to support themselves and their families. She had no business experience, but I feel sure she used her Personal Strengths+Desire+Small Action Steps to chart out her map to success. Knowing your deepest DESIRES, and matching them with applying your Personal Strengths, and taking SMALL STEPS, you will have a recipe for realizing your VISION REALITY.  When you know what you truly want, and go after it, the results are astonishing!

Most of us were never aware of all of our Personal or Signature Strengths or called on them to create and live a great life. If a desire is burning so deep inside you to achieve your dream vision, why is it that you are not taking the time to define where you want to go? Part of the reason is that we follow our impulses when we don’t have a clear map to where we are going. Often those impulses can mean we face derailment, detours or worse, a complete standstill with a roadblock, and our vision gets stalled or stuffed back in an unfulfilled dream.

Well-known author, Steven Covey, talks about “starting with the end in mind.” His theory is to work backwards. But first you need to know your Personal Strengths, Desires and a Clear Vision. By taking over the decision to achieve your vision yourself, rather than hand over the reins to someone else and their whims, you have decided to take control over your destiny and gain a tremendous sense of control that most people never experience in their entire lives.

Most of us assume we have a direction, so therefore we will reach our dream vision…someday. But this is not the case, and in addition creates the illusion of progress. Building a business, making more money, or getting a promotion are not a dream vision.  A vision is a specific, clearly designed, measurable state. An example of the difference between the compass direction of northeast and the top of the Empire State building in New York; one is merely a direction and the other is a definite location.

Clarity of your Dream Vision is one of the most important steps in manifesting your DREAM LIFE.  A process I have discovered that works for me is the process of knowing that I can achieve my dream by taking small steps and mind mapping my vision to have clarity that the process is doable. Achieve my dream in small steps? you bet! Knowing I cannot fail is the secret to achieving. I never have the fear of starting when knowing I cannot fail is in my mind at the beginning. The trick for me is that those small steps become a leap for my dream becoming a reality.

After spending time getting clear about what you want, I suggest that you prepare A Clarity Through Personal Strengths Vision Statement. This is a statement that details your desire of your vision.

Things flow much more clearly once you can visually see what you want. Remember the Universe delivers to you what you give attention and energy to, not necessarily what you desire.

When you do this exercise, you will undoubtedly experience the powerful feeling of being in control of your destiny, attracting the life and environment of your dreams.

I wish you well in all that you do,

Joci
Life Strengths Detective

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