Post by Pierre Stephenson on Nov 25, 2009 14:27:37 GMT -5
Hi just thought I'd share this article that I recently read by Scott Hunter author of Unshackled Leadership.
This excerpt is a little long, but worth reading.
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Why do I think Thanksgiving should be a really important holiday?
The law of cause and effect and teaches us that our thinking is the cause of EVERYTHING in our life. I hope you believe me when I say that because there is now an amazing amount of scientific evidence that it's true.
In the 1970s, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation funded the largest research study ever done to determine what makes a successful individual. They surveyed more than 300,000 people in four employment sectors - business, industry, education and government.
The findings speak for themselves. It was found that only 7% of your success is determined by the knowledge you have, only 12% by the skills you possess, and 81% of your success is determined by your attitude!
So let's look at this thing called attitude.
Quantum physicists now tell is that your body is comprised of vibrating energy assembled together to form you. You are actually energy focused into human form. They have also found that how you think determines how you feel, and your feelings and your emotions literally determine the frequency of your vibration. Pretty amazing to think about that. You are fundamentally a body of energy that vibrates at a frequency that is directly a function of your attitude.
And then there is a fundamental law in the universe called the law of cause and effect. For every cause, there is an effect. And how this relates to you is: if you are a bundle of energy and everything else in the universe is energy, then you will attract to you that which is consistent with the energy that you are.
So you want to start to think of yourself as being like a magnet that will attract to you that which is consistent with your energy field that, again, is controlled by your feelings/emotions/attitude.
When you are at the lowest of possible emotions, when you have the worst possible attitude - fear, anxiety, depression, powerlessness and despair - you attract to you circumstances and events which support you in being fearful, anxious, depressed, etc. I doubt you'd call this a formula for success.
When you work your way up the emotional scale to rage, hatred, seething and wrath, certainly not very positive attitudes, you attract to you circumstances and events that support you in being hateful and seething.
Not very good, but better than fear.
Do you know people that are angry? Do you find yourself being angry a lot?
Like all human emotions and attitudes, it's not right or wrong to be angry. But there are consequences. When you go through life angry, you attract to you circumstances and events that support you in being angry.
Not very good.
Here's a pretty common attitude at work: blaming, criticizing, condemning, judging, and thinking badly of. Know people that do this? Do you do it? If yes, guess what you'll get?
I've kept you in suspense long enough. I know you want to know what attitudes, what emotions, will literally guarantee your success. Which moods will bring you what you want almost or literally 100% of the time and bring you what you don't want none of the time. Here's the answer:
Love, gratitude, appreciation, thankfulness, joy, bliss, excitement, enthusiasm, passion and the like.
And here's the most important point of all. What are those things? Where do they come from? Well they are neither the circumstances of life nor do they come from those circumstances. All of those things are attitudes.
They come ONLY from you. They need to be generated.
In so many ways, we live in an upside down world. We are so programmed to believe that we get our attitude, our feelings, and our general sense of whom we are and how our life is from the circumstances of life. It just isn't true.
We here in the USA have at least as much if not more than people anyplace else in the world yet we are also the unhappiest. More anti-depressants are sold in the USA than the rest of the world combined.
Circumstances are just circumstances. They don't inherently mean anything.
You can be incredibly poor and truly happy or fabulously rich and miserable. How you choose to interpret the circumstances of life makes all the difference in the world. And now I hope you see how critical that choice is to your success.
One of my favorite quotes is from Real Moments by Barbara de Angeles. She said 'Happiness is a choice you make in each moment about how you experience that moment, not a state you one day achieve.' And that is so true. We are always at choice. And it's how we choose to experience life that makes all the difference in the world.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. It is supposed to be a time when we pause to give thanks for all our blessings. How about using the opportunity this year to start giving thanks every day, maybe even every hour of the day, for all of your blessings. Start generating an every day attitude of gratitude, appreciation, thankfulness, enthusiasm, passion and joy. You might just come to discover how truly blessed you are. And, given the law of cause and effect, you might just find yourself being showered with blessings!
This excerpt is a little long, but worth reading.
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Why do I think Thanksgiving should be a really important holiday?
The law of cause and effect and teaches us that our thinking is the cause of EVERYTHING in our life. I hope you believe me when I say that because there is now an amazing amount of scientific evidence that it's true.
In the 1970s, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation funded the largest research study ever done to determine what makes a successful individual. They surveyed more than 300,000 people in four employment sectors - business, industry, education and government.
The findings speak for themselves. It was found that only 7% of your success is determined by the knowledge you have, only 12% by the skills you possess, and 81% of your success is determined by your attitude!
So let's look at this thing called attitude.
Quantum physicists now tell is that your body is comprised of vibrating energy assembled together to form you. You are actually energy focused into human form. They have also found that how you think determines how you feel, and your feelings and your emotions literally determine the frequency of your vibration. Pretty amazing to think about that. You are fundamentally a body of energy that vibrates at a frequency that is directly a function of your attitude.
And then there is a fundamental law in the universe called the law of cause and effect. For every cause, there is an effect. And how this relates to you is: if you are a bundle of energy and everything else in the universe is energy, then you will attract to you that which is consistent with the energy that you are.
So you want to start to think of yourself as being like a magnet that will attract to you that which is consistent with your energy field that, again, is controlled by your feelings/emotions/attitude.
When you are at the lowest of possible emotions, when you have the worst possible attitude - fear, anxiety, depression, powerlessness and despair - you attract to you circumstances and events which support you in being fearful, anxious, depressed, etc. I doubt you'd call this a formula for success.
When you work your way up the emotional scale to rage, hatred, seething and wrath, certainly not very positive attitudes, you attract to you circumstances and events that support you in being hateful and seething.
Not very good, but better than fear.
Do you know people that are angry? Do you find yourself being angry a lot?
Like all human emotions and attitudes, it's not right or wrong to be angry. But there are consequences. When you go through life angry, you attract to you circumstances and events that support you in being angry.
Not very good.
Here's a pretty common attitude at work: blaming, criticizing, condemning, judging, and thinking badly of. Know people that do this? Do you do it? If yes, guess what you'll get?
I've kept you in suspense long enough. I know you want to know what attitudes, what emotions, will literally guarantee your success. Which moods will bring you what you want almost or literally 100% of the time and bring you what you don't want none of the time. Here's the answer:
Love, gratitude, appreciation, thankfulness, joy, bliss, excitement, enthusiasm, passion and the like.
And here's the most important point of all. What are those things? Where do they come from? Well they are neither the circumstances of life nor do they come from those circumstances. All of those things are attitudes.
They come ONLY from you. They need to be generated.
In so many ways, we live in an upside down world. We are so programmed to believe that we get our attitude, our feelings, and our general sense of whom we are and how our life is from the circumstances of life. It just isn't true.
We here in the USA have at least as much if not more than people anyplace else in the world yet we are also the unhappiest. More anti-depressants are sold in the USA than the rest of the world combined.
Circumstances are just circumstances. They don't inherently mean anything.
You can be incredibly poor and truly happy or fabulously rich and miserable. How you choose to interpret the circumstances of life makes all the difference in the world. And now I hope you see how critical that choice is to your success.
One of my favorite quotes is from Real Moments by Barbara de Angeles. She said 'Happiness is a choice you make in each moment about how you experience that moment, not a state you one day achieve.' And that is so true. We are always at choice. And it's how we choose to experience life that makes all the difference in the world.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. It is supposed to be a time when we pause to give thanks for all our blessings. How about using the opportunity this year to start giving thanks every day, maybe even every hour of the day, for all of your blessings. Start generating an every day attitude of gratitude, appreciation, thankfulness, enthusiasm, passion and joy. You might just come to discover how truly blessed you are. And, given the law of cause and effect, you might just find yourself being showered with blessings!