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In practice and in life, everyone desires to reach the peak as defined by each. The peak you desire could be different from your colleague or best friend. But, we all have a peak in mind.

If you think of the "peak" as a mountain, you begin in the valley and then you begin to scale the side of the mountain until you reach the top… the peak of the mountain. when you arrive at the peak… the celebration begins!

If you were to take a mountain climbing course, you would learn how to safely scale the mountain using a number of skills and tools needed for the climb. Depending on the mountain, will determine the amount of training and practice you will need. Scaling the hill in your backyard is different than heading to the peak of Mt. Everest.

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John looks out the window mournfully. Outside, he sees his neighbor giving his wife a loving peck on the forehead while she tends to the garden. Their kids are kicking around boisterously, screaming for daddy to come join in the game. And daddy does as with all perfect little daddies do.

John can feel the slow-boiling emotion of envy, jealousy and the creeping frustration about life being unfair to him and being so kind to his neighbor and his family members. They have everything they ever want out of life and he has nothing. He got to a point whereby he is fed-up about not being able to find a perfect life like the one that his neighbor has. Life gave him a terrible hand.

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To make things clear from the start, the fear of failure is within us all. Without it, there would be no success or real achievement. It is the understanding of failure as a driving force and what it stands for. I like to think it stands for False Evidence Appearing Real and the secret to overcoming it is to keep this in mind.

There is no success story that is without a fear of failure and in fact failing is a part of the end result. The most example of this is Thomas Edison, probably the greatest inventor of all. When he invented the light bulb, he failed 9,999 times before success was achieved at the 10,000th time. He was called crazy and urged to give up before he killed himself. Each time he failed, he stated he was one step closer to achieving success. What tenacity and persistence!

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Think of your life like a huge mansion. The west wing represents your childhood; the east wing, your adolescence. There is a wing that represents your young adulthood, and one that holds the memories of your more recent adulthood.

There is probably a section of this home that reflects back on your pre married days as well as each child as they came into your life. And of course there is the area that represents the courtship with your honey, as well as the most recent years leading up to now. I’m sure you get the picture by now.

I bet if asked which rooms you spend the most time in they would be the rooms that are bright, have lots of windows, beautiful pictures and comfy furniture. These rooms represent the times in your life that you enjoy re-visiting. The memories that make you smile, laugh and look back on with fond recollection.

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All the greatest human achievements began in someone’s head. The truth is – it’s possible to make your own deep desires and dreams come true for yourself. I’ve broken the process down here into the four Ds: Desire, Dream, Design, Do.

It’s very important that all steps are followed. Without desire, you may end up receiving something you didn’t really want. Without a dream, your plan will be ill-informed and ineffectual. Without a design, the action you take will be based purely on your intuition in the moment and that’s if you ever get started in the first place.

And without doing, well, you’d be living in a dream world…

Desire

Getting what you want begins with locating what it is that you really desire. The interesting thing about this process is that you have to locate the thing which makes you feel explosively enthusiastic and pleasurable about. In some ways you can’t actually choose what that thing is, because some deeper part of you has already chosen.

This process is fairly simple but requires a little self-discipline, awareness, and focus.

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There has been much written on and spoken about when it comes to Manifesting your wants and desires. In fact, David and I did a few shows on that very topic. The one thing that I have found to be true and most important for Manifestation is:

Thoughts have Power!!

We all know or should know by now how the brain works. Electrical impulses send information to all areas of our bodies. Thoughts and images are all forms of electrical impulses. Here is where the connection gets lost for some people. Everything around us is a form of energy. Thoughts are a form of energy, the things that make up every aspect of our daily lives are forms of energy.

In the Law of Attraction Like draws Like. What does that mean? If we put it into to terms of our thoughts it means this, What you focus your thoughts on is what you draw into your life. I know we have all heard that thousands of times but what does that really mean? It’s quite simple, if say you are looking to become an actor, but you have thoughts let’s say right before an audition like, "I don’t think I have what they need" or "I just know there Will be someone there who is better than me", chances are that is exactly what will happen. You called it into being, you made it real. Some would say that is the "Law of Self-fulfillment" and in a way yes it is. I would like you to think for a minute that it is the energy you focused on and in doing so brought into existence making your thoughts reality.

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By Douglas Cartwright

I’m smiling as I write this because I’m wondering: How did reading the title make you feel?

I imagine some of you feel tight and not-a-little resistant inside; some of you will have reacted so strongly that you’re not reading this at-all (!); and others will feel motivated and curious to find out – what’s so important?

Keep reading: you’ll find out.

But first, let me ask you a question: How’s your relationship to the following words and phrases?

• Have to
• Must
• Should
• Need to
• Got to

These are words we often hear as children and teenagers. "You’ve got to shape up your life, son." "A young girl needs to conduct herself differently, young missy."

And ‘Yes’, you read correctly. I asked about your relationship to these words/concepts…because we can develop a bad relationship to ideas in our mind and bodies…really.

Does anyone remember Michael J. Fox playing Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films? Whenever someone called him ‘chicken!’ he’d get really mad and dive headfirst into situations where he ended up in even more trouble!

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The way we approach our life is the same as how we view a glass of water. When someone sees a glass as being half empty, their outlook is a pessimistic one. The contrary to that is someone who optimistically sees the glass as half full.

We can either choose to have an optimistic outlook or a pessimistic one. Unfortunately, a lot of people are not aware that they habitually think of what’s wrong before thinking about what’s right.

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It is identified as the ultimate key to happiness, the door to success, the path to healthy relationships, the essential component of personal fulfillment, and the ingredient for eliminating toxic ones. What is this very important “it”? “It” is self – esteem.

According to the National Council for Self – esteem in Sacramento, California, self – esteem is “the feeling that you are worthy of happiness and capable of managing life’s challenges.” For many, self – esteem is an elusive ingredient. Yet psychologists universally agree that it can be cultivated by anyone. Continue reading →