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Have you ever gotten home after a fabulous day where everything went your way, only to be overcome with a great sense of depression after watching the news for an hour?  I have.  The sad part is, for many years I didn't know why I suddenly felt drained and depressed.  After all, I had just had a fabulous day.  What happened?

You see, everything in nature operates under the same Universal Laws.  Just like we plant seeds in a garden to grow something such as corn or tomatoes, our thoughts are idea seeds we plant in our subconscious mind.  These thought or idea seeds grow and manifest just as our plant seeds grow and manifest. 

James Allen put it best when he said "Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.  If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."

Not only is James Allen beautifully describing our thoughts as seeds, he is also giving us words of caution.   In a garden you plant in the earth, if you do not tend to and nurture the garden, you will grow unwanted weeds.  The same is true for our thought seeds.  If we don't tend to and nurture our thoughts, we will be growing things in our life we do not want.

What kind of seeds are you planting; weeds or something magnificent?

_ I was taking a new video yoga class the other day and something the instructor said simply floored me. My negative reaction was so strong that, yes, I literally fell out of my pose.

What the instructor said was "No expectations, no disappointments." WOW!

 One of the amazing laws of the Universe is the Law of Polarity. This law states that everything has an equal opposite. Knowing this and after I picked myself up off the floor, I took a deep breath and began looking for the positive in the instructor's statement.

As I thought about what the instructor said, I realized there are many people who believe this same way. This is a limiting belief that comes from fear of failing. That belief could be stated something like..."If I expect something, I won't get it and I will be upset." This is probably the reason so many have difficulty setting and achieving grand goals for themselves. If they don't set a goal, they won't fail and they won't be disappointed if they don't achieve it.

Here's the good news. You have the ability to change your beliefs. Once you have uncovered a belief that limits you from what you want, you can release it and replace it with a belief that serves you better.

  So, what good did I find in the instructor's statement?

1. I realized I had put this particular limiting belief behind me a long time ago because I believe "No expectations, no achievements." We must expect to achieve the goals we desire. Expectation is a key part of the achievement process.
2. I am truly grateful to the yoga instructor for giving me awesome material for this newsletter.
3. I am also grateful for the inspired idea to offer an on-line Goal Achiever Boot Camp to help you uncover and release your limiting beliefs, and achieve the goals and dreams you desire.

Always expect the best. Always expect to reach your dreams!

 

As Napoleon Hill said, "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

_"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take some time and be open to the possibilities of new trails you can blaze!