The Dinosaur and The Deviant
Today I, the dinosaur, have had a very interesting experience with a deviant that brought me to my knees in laughter. You see I have a laughter coach who rings me on Skype at a set time each day and we have a 5 minute laugh that goes a long way to setting up my day. I know, I know, that is a bit unusual but then personal development is pretty unique.
Anyway, this morning I had decided that when he rang me, I would be in full laughter mode when I answered. He always laughs first and today I was going to change that. Well Skype rings and I get up a nice big laugh and answer it – now there’s the dinosaur bit – without looking to see that it was my coach. So there I am giving my best laugh when I realise that this is all a bit odd and I can see things on the screen that I usually only see in the bathroom!
On a closer check, I had been hit by a sex-cam. Next bit of dinosaur behaviour – never heard of that before. Well, my deviant had arrived and I can only wonder what their reaction was to the dinosaur laughing on the other end of Skype. Off course I hung up and stopped all contact and then my real coach rang.
I can tell you that this experience was very good for my personal development. First of all we laughed like crazy about it and laughter is really good for you for all sorts of reasons. Second, I realised how very detached from the experience I was and that is a great thing. I took the perspective, without having to think about it, that these things happen – they are what they are – of no relevance to me. I laughed and got on with my merry day and so far it has been just great.
Inspirational Quotes
Lately I have been receiving lots of gifts and prizes and the most recent was a lovely little book of inspirational quotes. Have you ever noticed how such gifts seem to come at just the right time – coincidence or not? Well, I know from experience that everything comes to me just as I need it. Well I am taking on a particular challenge right now and it has the possibility of seriously impacting on the rest of my life, so I am determined that it will all go exceptionally well and I will be successful.
This lovely inspirational quote has reinforced my belief in myself and shored up my confidence.
“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarised in Four c’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicity and unquestionably.” Walt Disney
Such a simple statement and yet so supporting – my daily dose of inspiration.
Decide For Yourself About Your Personal Development
Yesterday I was reading an article on using gratitude as personal development and the advice given was to focus on gratitude once as week as that is said to be more effective than doing it more frequently. To be honest, this surprised me immensely as anything that I had previously read and done suggested showing gratitude as a daily habit that will get you into a permanently grateful space. I have personally followed this advice and passed it on through my coaching and through my articles.
Now this got me to thinking about how to work with personal development ideas and activities and I realised that it is a very personal thing. What works for me, may not work for you. Then I realised that there are many divergent and contradictory ideas in books, videos, articles and so on and like many things in life, understanding personal growth can be like herding cats.
Just as you get one idea in the cage, it slips away while you get the next one!! However, it does not have to be that way. I know now that what I do is to use my skills of inquiry and inform myself through reading, videos, CD’s, youtube and any number of interesting media. I then give some time to considering how I feel about everything that I know on a subject and decide for myself what I believe or how I will participate in a particular activity or with an idea.
So it works for me to journal on personal development and gratitude every day, it gets me in the right space and is a constant reminder of all of the good things in my life. It is just one of the things that I do to set up my day in the way that I intend it to go and to assist me to hold the attitude that I desire. I intend to use gratitude daily and I encourage you to decide for yourself what works best for you. Just do it from a place of knowledge and information.
An Excercise in Gratitude
I was recently tooling around with Entrecard and read a blog (unfortunately I did not keep a record so that I could acknowledge it) and the writer was going to blog on what they were grateful for every day until Thanksgiving. Now since we do not have Thanksgiving in Australia, I decided that I would do something slightly different until Christmas Day and create my own gratitude list.
So I am writing on Facebook about what I am grateful for every day until Christmas Day. And I would love it if you would join me and add your own gratitude list. Lets create a few great vibrations for peace and goodwill on earth.
My thanks to whoever owns the blog, who had the good idea.
Be Inspired and Let Your Light Shine
Our Deepest Fear
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine,
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us;
It’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we’re liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.”
I would like to thank my good friend for sharing this lovely, inspirational quote with me. And I invite you now to go right ahead; be beautiful, gorgeous, talented, fabulous and let your light shine so that others in your presence can also be inspired.
