MARCH 2019

Business Tips:

15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

Our management is doing a new study on the John Maxwell curriculum with the book called the 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. We recommend you pick up a copy or listen to it online if you have the technology to do so. We will be exploring these laws as a team this year.

              The goal in the study is to help each of us learn how to grow and develop ourselves so we have the best chance of becoming the person we were created to be.

~ The Law of Awareness ~

           You must know yourself to grow yourself. No one can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. – Lowe Do you like what you are doing now? What would you like to do? There is a definite relationship between finding your passion and reaching your potential. Can you do what you would like to do? If you are not any good at what you would like to do, it probably needs to be a hobby, not a career. Do you know people who do what you would like to do? Will you pay the price to do what you want to do? When can you start doing what you would like to do?

Personal Tips:

~ Resolution 4: Vision ~

RESOLVE TO: To align my conscious with my subconscious mind toward my vision

The ant & the elephant – Jack Canfield, in his book The Success Principles, wrote that people have control over only three things in life: “the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the action you take.” The conscious mind thinks in words, while the subconscious mind thinks in images. The images formed in the subconscious mind lead a person toward his dominating vision, but this visualization process is little known and rarely applied by most people.

Author Vince Poscente in The Ant and The Elephant, described the difference between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, teaching that the conscious (ant) mind, in one second of thinking, stimulates two thousand neurons, while the subconscious (elephant) mind, in a second of imagining, stimulates four billion neurons. That’s four billion neurons to two thousand neurons; literally, two million times more neurons are stimulated in the subconscious mind than in the conscious mind in a second of mental activity. Since “neurons are the cells essential for brain activity,” according to Antonio Damasio, a noted brain researcher, the subconscious (elephant) mind’s four billion neurons are the brain’s prime mover for high-performance achievers.

 “Scientists are discovering that the brain is a visionary device—that its primary function is to create pictures in our minds that can be used as blueprints for things that don’t exist. “The ant and the elephant” analogy teaches us how to create successful results through the power of programming the subconscious mind with the positive thinking and visions from the conscious mind.

Henry David Thoreau, a famous American transcendentalist, wrote, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation,” believing few ever accomplish what they truly want, instead, quietly resigning themselves to their fate. The “quiet desperation” is the result of a civil war between the ant and the elephant. A battle is started between the two, both fighting for control over which direction to move, causing a protracted civil war, with frustration, indecision, and inaction as the predictable results. The civil war short-circuits a person’s success, not his environment, history, or talent.

The power of alignment - If a person becomes the script they feed to their elephant, then by changing the food it is fed, they change the script, thus changing their destiny. Richard Brooke sums it up nicely: “Your mind doesn’t care what you want—or what you are willing to work hard for. It only cares that you perform in accordance with what you expect of yourself.”

Who is feeding your elephant - The expectations that are fed to a person’s elephant become their reality. Sadly, most people’s subconscious minds are deluged daily by the images fed to them from their television sets, addictions, hurts, and hang-ups. Make no mistake, the elephant mind will be fed; the only questions are: What is it feeding on? And who is feeding it? To seize one’s future, a person must assume responsibility for feeding their elephant mind the proper food needed to reach their goals and dreams.

Control the inside conditions - In order for a person to assume responsibility for their mind, they must first identify what conditions they have currently created through their thoughts and actions because they are the thought food that one’s ant feeds to their elephant. By identifying what a person is feeding their elephant, one can accurately predict their future.

Uniting the ant and the elephant - Many people will discipline the ant to perform work, creating habits that produce routine results, like waking up, driving to work, scheduling one’s day, performing various tasks, all routinized by the daily ant habits. Claude Bristol, author of The Magic of Believing, instructed one to feed the elephant through the ant, when he wrote: “This subtle force of repeated suggestion overcomes our reason. It acts directly on our emotions and our feelings, and finally penetrates to the very depths of our subconscious minds. It’s the repeated suggestion that makes you believe.” To truly have the subconscious and conscious to work together. You must visually convince your brain of the predicted future thereby programing the elephant subconscious to act as if it is living it and then following up with the ant tasks and thinking of the conscious over time. You will find that as you learn what to do here, you will arrive at a destination properly guided. Woodward, Orrin. RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE

Life Skills:

Faith, Family, Fitness, Finances, Friends, Fun, Following, Freedom; we call these the 8F’s in life.

Many of these categories can tell one where their priorities are in life by measuring the time one would spend in one of the above categories. I know we don’t have it all figured out, but we have a lot of great sources that speak into these items and we welcome your comments. Please feel free to drop us a line concerning any of them.

THE DAILY DOZEN - WATER

This year we are going to use this concept to explain 1 word per month that if made into a habit, we believe your life will, no doubt, improve.

              Drinking more water can help with weight loss. This means that drinking 2 liters of water every day can increase your total energy expenditure by up to 96 calories per day. The timing is important too and drinking water half an hour before meals is the most effective.

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Something I want you to know:

Your ability to attain awareness and develop vision contribute greatly to how you will live life to its fullest.