Learning to Accept Yourself
Written by Jerry on February 12, 2010 – 6:17 am -
You may be surprised at how many people lack the ability to accept themselves for who they are. Many people are able to put on a front so they appear self-confident when they really aren’t.
Even if you’re one of these people, you can learn how to accept yourself. If you’re suffering from low self worth and confidence, you really do have the ability to turn things around!
Why It’s Important To Accept Yourself
It’s important to accept yourself because that alone can mean the difference between a life of happiness and a life of sadness. When you accept yourself, you’re more likely to accomplish more in your life.
Self-acceptance can be seen as a foundation for using the Law of Attraction. After you accept yourself, you can begin to believe that good things are possible for you.
Steps To Acceptance
There are so many methods to learn self-acceptance, and you’ll soon find your own unique way of getting there.
In the meantime, try a few of these:
1. Mistakes are natural. Sometimes you may try too hard to be perfect. Allow yourself to make mistakes because you’re human. You’ll make small mistakes and big mistakes in life, but its how you bounce back from them that’ll make all the difference.
2. Live in the present. The reason you haven’t accepted yourself could be that you’re living your life in the past. Maybe you’re unable to forgive yourself for something you have done or a certain trait that you have. Getting over the past is an important step to build confidence and hope for a brighter future.
3. Avoid comparison. Others have different skills, physical traits and life experiences, which may make you envious. Come to terms with the fact that you don’t have what they have. However, on the bright side, there are many things that you do have that they don’t.
• Each and every person is unique. Be grateful for what makes you different from others, as this is part of your own inner beauty!
4. Be comfortable in your own skin. Sometimes you don’t want to accept yourself because of the way you look. Society puts some serious pressure on people to look and dress certain ways. Remember that people in magazines are can be unhealthy and are usually airbrushed and you shouldn’t strive to look like them. Instead, focus on your positive attributes and overall health. There is nothing wrong with wanting to look as good as YOU can – not as good as someone else does.
5. Think positive thoughts. One of the most important things on the journey to accepting yourself is learning to think positively. It’s easy to forget how much power there is in thought. Use many positive affirmations many times a day until your thoughts are predominately positive.
Take these strategies to heart because, once you learn to accept yourself, you’ll find the Law of Attraction working almost on autopilot!
Never Stop Exploring Life!
Jerry L Saunders, RM
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More Goal Setting for Kids
Written by Jerry on December 11, 2009 – 5:41 am -
How Goal Setting can Help Your Kids
By Winsome Coutts
Ever thought about Goal Setting for Kids? Goal setting is one of the most important skills that a person can learn, and the earlier this skill is learned, the more chances there are for successful outcomes in a person’s life. Adults know that goal setting is all about planning, making progress with that plan and reaching final goals or achievements. Once a child learns how to do this, they can use this tool for more success in school and at home.
Goal setting for kids will help your children to do well on their school tests and in activities such as sports, music programs or outside academic or arts programs – even at home, and with their personal finances. Teaching your child how to be a goal setter will give them a sense that they are capable of whatever they want to do. That’s valuable!
Goal Setting and the Law of Attraction in Terms Your Children Will Understand!
How to help your child be a goal setting child
Goal setting for children is basically the same as for adults, with a few caveats. Because they are young, and not as emotionally or cognitively developed, goals should be smaller and more tangible. The idea with goal setting for kids is to get them started in the life-long frame of mind for thinking, planning and taking action to achieve results. The basic premises of goal setting remain the same. You can help your child learn to set goals by working through these steps with him:
Ask, “What do you want to achieve?” – Help your child describe in specific terms something he would like to do that will take some work/planning (getting an A on his next math test, earning money to purchase a certain kind of bicycle).
Ask, “How will you get there?” – Help him plan out the steps to take and the mini-goals to reach on his way to the ultimate goal.
Establish accountability – Have your child write down what he wants to achieve and what his plan for getting there is. He can read it each day to help him with personal accountability, and he can share it with you, or another trusted adult to help him stay motivated, inspired and on-track.
Achieve – Achievement is not only for the final outcome, but also for the small goals that are met along the way.
Review plan/goals/outcomes – Throughout the process and at the end as well, review with your child the plan and how it is going. Do adjustments need to be made? How does he feel about his progress and where it is leading? How was the goal setting experience for him?
If your child does not reach his ultimate goal, talk to him about what he learned on the way. He still has learned valuable lessons about planning and goal setting, and he’s probably learned about himself. Encourage him to not give up on dreams that are important to him, but that if one plan doesn’t work, he has to revise the plan and try again.
Teaching your child to be a goal-setting child is one of the best things you can do.
You will be giving him or her, a valuable gift that they will use for their entire lives, empowering them to achieve wonderful things in every area of life. Goal setting for kids is a skill that will be built on throughout an entire lifetime.
GO FOR YOUR GOALS – Goal Setting and Visualization for Kids
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Monk Moment 32 Show Your Gratitude
Written by Jerry on November 19, 2009 – 4:13 am -
You already know that gratitude is the key to the Law of Attraction but, showing your gratitude to others makes your life better in many other ways too. This week we are going to talk about 10 ways you can start showing your gratitude today!
Click on the image below to download your Worksheet and get to work!
Never Stop Exploring Life!
Jerry L Saunders, RM
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Stop Begging! Start Manifesting
Written by Jerry on October 30, 2009 – 4:08 am -
Stop Begging! Start Manifesting
by Bob Proctor
Do you remember that first spark of hope you felt when you watched The Secret? I clearly remember the desire that filled my heart, knowing that – Yes, I can make my dreams come true – FINALLY!
But how many of you soon saw that hope dwindle into frustration? How many of you (and be honest now) started muttering things like:
- “It seems to work for other people, but I just can’t get it right.”
- “I’m frustrated that sometimes I can get it to work, but sometimes I can’t. What’s the trick?”
- “Why am I having so much trouble?”
- “I think the universe is against me.”
- “I’m trying very, VERY hard but still nothing is happening!”
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. About 97% of people also couldn’t make the Law of Attraction work for them the first time round. Think about it, just like anything else, you have to practice many times before you see success. A child doesn’t learn to walk without falling over a couple of times, right?
But in practice, everything is easier said and done. When you’re frustrated, it’s hard to stay positive. And it’s especially harder to stay positive when the evidence all around you is screams negativity like the unstable economy or senseless acts of violence such as those recently seen in Mumbai.
And do you know what happens when you fail to stay positive? That’s right – you start attracting negative things in to your life.
So how can you make the Law of Attraction work for you – without getting frustrated? How do those who successfully implement the Law of Attraction do it with such confidence and finesse?
Well, here’s three quick tips so you will never feel frustrated or tired of begging from the universe, because you know how to start manifesting like a pro.
1. Allow Yourself To Receive
Just like a lost child who approaches a police officer and asks, “Excuse me Sir, can you tell me how to go to the post office? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you?” Well, if the child goes on and on asking, the police officer can’t even give an answer, right?
Well, it’s the same thing with your mind. If the only thing your mind is doing is transmit, transmit, transmit, the universe — which is trying to respond — can’t give you a single thing because you’re not allowing yourself to receive!
So, have the confidence in yourself and stop exhausting yourself by running around person to person begging for riches, and then wondering why nobody is dropping a penny in your cup (Hint: It’s because you’re running away too fast for them before they can even reach for their wallets).
Just think of your desires and leave it out there, go away, and trust that your cup will be filled with gold coins (or whatever it is you asked for) when the time is right.
2. Be Patient With Yourself
Receiving takes time.
Sadly, many people give up just a couple of steps before the finish line because they’ve decided that if it’s not working by now, it’s never going to work at all. Worse still are those who throw in more and more energy because they think that with more resources, the results will come faster.
This is like expecting 9 mothers to conceive and deliver a baby in 1 month. You also can’t bake cookies in half the time by doubling the temperature. You’ll incinerate those cookies to ashes!
In simple terms: Everything in this world has a natural development time, and this fact will not change no matter what resources you throw at it.
So relax and be patient. Remember that you too, as part of the universe, are also governed by the laws of the universe, and you cannot change the natural development time.
If you remember this, you will less likely work yourself up into frustration, or worse, push yourself into a downward spiral of negativity.
3. Support and Educate Yourself
Like the child who is learning how to walk, you need support. You also need to guidance on how to do it, and also the role models to look up to.
Many people give up because they think that “The Secret” is the “be all and end all” solution. Well, it’s NOT. “The Secret” is just a small portion. It was never intended, and has never been, the whole answer.
Coming to the conclusion that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work when all you ever did to educate yourself was watch “The Secret” 19 times (without looking at changing the habits of other areas of your life) is like coming to the conclusion that exercising is not an effective way to lose weight because all you did is run on the treadmill for 2 hours a day (but you’re still stuffing yourself with fried foods and cheesecakes).
So seek and be hungry for new knowledge. Also, make an effort to be amongst people or communities where you can support each other, learn from each other and also share new knowledge that you have found.
While the Law of Attraction is not an overnight delivery service, it will indeed deliver, if you do your part too!
Check out the site here – 11 Forgotten Laws
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25 Things To Be Grateful For
Written by Jerry on October 13, 2009 – 4:38 am -25 Things You Can Be Grateful For
If you have read the 9 Minute Guide to a Happier Life or have been a reader of Cutting Edge Wisdom for a while, you know that I firmly believe in keeping a Gratitude Journal.
If you life has been really negative for a long time it may be a bit of a challenge, at first, to find 3 things every day that you are grateful for.
So I’ve created a little "cheat sheet" here to prime the pump and get you started.
Here are 25 things you might be grateful for:
- Being employed.
- Having a roof over your head.
- A car that runs.
- Food in the cupboard.
- Freedom to choose your leaders.
- A significant other that cares about you.
- Healthy children.
- Being alive.
- Being healthy.
- Living in more comfort than 90% of the worlds population.
- The ability to read.
- Being able to speak your mind without fear of being jailed.
- Good books to read.
- Inspiring music to listen to.
- Heat inside when it cold outside.
- Air conditioning inside when its hot outside.
- Internet access to reach out to the world.
- Being able to send a letter across the country in a few days for less than 50 cents.
- A mind that can think original thoughts.
- The ability to start a part time business from home for a few dollars.
- Being able to control your thoughts and thus create your own reality.
- That quarter you found on the side walk last week.
- Clean clothes to wear.
- Clean water to drink.
- The fact that you are changing your life for the better, right now!
Hope you are starting to get a few ideas of your own to add to the list. Never underestimate the power of being grateful and …
Never Stop Exploring Life!
Jerry L Saunders, RM
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