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Motivation Tips

An Open Mind
By:Tarryn Pedersen

What I am going to tell you you all already know. You will recognise it and say, oh yes of course, I KNEW that. But even in the knowing of it, it is generally not in the forefront of our minds.

What is it? It is - who we really are!!! And how we become who we really want to be.

How do we deal with issues that are prevalent in our world, in our society but that we are filtering out - what we don't see. We know it, but we don't see it. We accept to live out lives within systems that appear to not be systems that can nurture us and make us the best we can be.

An open mind is required to hear other points of view, to weigh up what is being said and then to decide - this interests me, or no this threatens me. Either one of those options is correct! There is not right and wrong here, only what serves you best at this time.

Are we the person who gets up every morning and pretty much does the same sort of things every day, every week, every month with maybe a change here and there, as in a holiday. When we return from the break we settle with alarming rapidity into our comfortable little ruts and continue doing what we always have done.

Sometimes though - we think about things. BIG things, like why am I here, I am getting old and I will die, then what? What have I achieved? Am I happy? Do I feel restless? And then after these big seemingly rhetorical questions exhaust us or bore us we continue with out lives and push them to the background.

We could also ask are we happy with the way our world is. Do we like the way society is organised? Does it serve us best? What would be the answer to all these questions? For me, I would have to say, hey there has got to be something more. This illusion we call life doesn't seem to have any blue prints on how to do it properly. Is this a valid statement? Are there any rules or systems out there that will give us what we really want? Can we find it in any systems that man has set up? What would serve us best.?

It all begins with us. What we put in we get out. Of our minds that is! What we think matters Our attitudes matter. Our attitudes alter our reality.

We change our thoughts It changes our attitudes Alters our mindset Opens us to new thoughts Our changed attitudes alter our reality

We each have our own reality. We build our own constructs of "how things are"

If we change our thoughts Our attitudes will change.

Words of wisdom we should all try at www.coachingselfimprovement.com.






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