Not as I planned - End of week 1

Well ... it is the end of week 1 of my new life and things are definitely moving and changing. Which is great.

Unfortunately not as I had planned.

I was going to be very logical and systematic about it but the universe had other ideas.

I started reading "How to be Wildly Wealth Fast" by Sandy Forester. Instead of reading book from cover to cover and only extracting 1 or 2 items and not doing anything. I decided to read 1 or 2 chapters a night. Meditate on it and plan to do something the next day as revision. Each chapter is only 3 or 4 pages long so it doesn't take long.

First exercise was to design your ideal day. Well my ideal day had not money in it. and I was doing my idea day really but I am still surviving. "Surviving" is a word I use a bit - must work on that.

So I decided to design my ideal profit making day. What would I be doing and make money doing it. No that was interest.

At the same time I have been listening to Derek Gehl and Brett Mcfall and they were talking about doing the profit things first. Do the things that make 80% of your income first. Or work on your business before you work in your business.

So I challenged myself what your happen if I spent 2 hours a day working on products for my business instead of all the other stuff.

Well I open up a word document and starting listing heading and ideas for ebooks and articles I could write. In a way it was getting the information out of my head and onto the paper. Something I had promised myself on Monday.

The list just keeps growing. I was going to write one big ebook with every thing in it but I hate reading big ebook so why write one. Lots of little ebooks with separate topic are more useful to the reader. Articles can spin off from the ebooks or visa versa.

In summary:
I have be doing - Action
I have be getting information out of my head.
I have changed my goals to be more in-line with what I can achieve.
Small bits more often.

How have you been going with your goals?

Leona

Today is the first day of....

Last night I decided (again) that I am going to change my life around from ordinary to extra-ordinary.

I have decided this before but this time I am going to tell you all about it. You can take the journey with me and give me feedback (read - kick in the butt). If you have stuff you want to work through - lets do it together.

I need to work on a number of things - well lots of things really. Maybe I need to starting writing the list of all the ideas in my head - it is so much in my head that my head is foggy.

Then I can play paper shuffle. I can physically sit on the floor and sort paper into piles.

It may not be the most efficient way of putting down idea put I will be about to do some prioritising at the same time. (I know this should be a separate task.)

Major areas are my business and part-time job, my children and me.

When I have finished this I will let you know my next step.

Leona

Holographic Universe shock

I have finally read the "Holographic universe" by Michael Talbot. My husband wanted to know why I was reading it now - our copy is 17 years old.

My excuse is that I had better things to do and I was not ready to get down and difficult with quantum theory. Boy, was I in for a shock.

Let me explain. I have read about out-of-body experiences, near-death-experience, UFO and other unexplainable stuff since I was 10, nearly 30 year ago (Oops there goes the secret about my age - I turn 40 this year).

So I believe in other things outside this 3D world. Things that can't be explained by science. And I had figured out that eventually science will answer the questions they are been repeatedly asking.

For example was is the smallest particle - an atom. What makes up an atom - Subatomic particles. etc etc. Science will eventually catchup to the imagination of sci-fi.

So what was the shock I experienced by reading this book. This book was easy to read, why was I putting it off?

This book was a reminder of how wonderful and powerful our mind is. Are we ready to create our world as we want it?

Just think of all those negative things you have in your life - big and small: wars, traffic jams, bills, debt, family feuds, unemployment, sickness, waiting lists.

• What if you could change all that?
• Does that scare you or excite you?

"The Secret" and "The Law of attraction" teased us about what is possible but are you ready to change?

Yep - you have to change what you are thinking, change what you are believing and change what you are doing. What a big ask.

Some people are truly happy complaining about traffic and governments. See the negative world in all it glory.

• Are you ready to change to be better?
• Yes?
• Just checking?
• This is how you do it. Ask?
• Ask yourself what need to change?
• Ask yourself how it needs to change?
• Receive the answers AND
• Do It.

Be the scientist: list the questions and find out the answers. Stick at it until you have the answers, until you have the change.

The Holographic Universe explains placebo effects. Or Fake it until you make it. Step out of your zone try something new. It doesn't really matter if logically it doesn't make sense. We are not working with logic we are working with mind and beliefs. Your belief and hope will make it work.

Step up and change your world, change your thinking and change your world.

One wonderful example of this was a lady who attended the Christopher Howard Breakthrough to Success Weekend in Brisbane in September 2007. This lady was petrified of snakes. I mean she could not even say the word "snake". Within one day and using only one of his techniques about beliefs. She organised for a snake handler to bring his collection of snakes and lizards to the event to prove that she had conquered her phobia. She spend an hour playing with snakes. Amazing.

Leona

Randy Pausch video

Brett Mcfall suggested this video in his blog and I just have to pass it on.

You tube video about the last lecture by Randy Pausch.

This is very entertaining full of his life lessons. Grab a cuppa and watch this 60 minute video

Leona

what is spritual "growing up"

As a family we when to a spiritual festival on the weekend and it had various practitioners and healers doing their bits. People sitting in circles and mediating listen to lectures about feminine and masculine energies and heart healing.

But most interested me was my Husband's reaction. He wanted all these "lightworkers" to "grow up".

It has taken me a few days to figure out what he meant. After all most of these people were definitely older that us - so growing up did not mean growing old. Most of these people have had a wider range of life experiences so they should be wiser than us.

I admit, initially I was cranky with him for his negative opinion of "lightworkers". To me, Lightworkers are people who work with light and as all of us work with light we are all Lightworkers. If you don't think you work with light then go turn on a light switch. Presto - worker of light .
Or remember the last time you made someone happy. Pesto - lightworker.

So what annoyed me was the "grow up" bit. After all, I am grown up and I think I am wise, although I do still need things to learn.

Maybe he reacted to all the rituals and the lingo: EFT, Mother Earth, Labyrinth, chakars, drumming, balancing, angles, fairies, crystals, circles, harmony. It is very confusing and initially you may be scared that you will do the wrong thing and send the wrong energy to the wrong person etc etc.

But ultimately you are always in the right place at the right time - even thought at time it doesn't seem like it.

But do we need any of it. This is what my husband meant. We don't need rituals to grow and change ourselves and made the world heaven on earth. We can manifest anything we want easy and effortlessly.

But... you knew there would be a but. But our ego doesn't believe us. It creates doubt. So we feel that by doing a ritual or a prayer we have the right formula to "do good". We feel safe with this ritual or method. We feel that in the act of doing, we make it happen. Everyone has their own methods that suit them. So please accept that people do things different. After all that's what makes this world very interesting.

In truth, the driving force of change and spiritual growth is belief. We can create anything if we believe. Rituals reinforce our beliefs and our dreams.
And consequently, if we don't believe that the psychic surgeon will heal us then she/he won't.

So yet again everything comes back to beliefs. But what is a "grown up" belief? Yep, full circle back to "growing up".

• Are some beliefs more "grown up" than others.
• Can beliefs be ranked according to maturity?
• Are older beliefs better or more grown up e.g. say Shamanism over NLP.?

I think all belief and methods have their place to point like arrows to the next stage in growth. What I have not figured out is whether spiritual growing is like a circle or a mountain, maybe it is a spiral. Going around and around in circles getting closed and closer to the top. The ultimate in grown up beliefs?

Oh dear, now I have enter another dilemma what is at the top? What is our ultimate goal with all these beliefs? I think I will but that on hold for a another day.

Do children have a better grasp of grown up beliefs? Considering that children are better are knowing what their beliefs are and manifesting e.g. money from the tooth fairy. Are they more spiritually "grown up " than us.

What do you think?

Leona

Wecome to Crystal Growth

I had taken my own advice and taken a giant leap into the blogging world. I am pushing my boundaries and listening to my heart not my head or the voice of my partner. So I hope you enjoy this journey with me.

I believe that everyone's personal growth is of benefit to everyone else and the world in general. I don't follow any particular religion or doctrines and my views and reading are very eclectic and all over the place. I do not have all the answers and I am growing spiritual all the time.

So this show provide some interesting discussion points for everyone.

Aim for the stars

Leona