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"Poor people have big TV’s. Rich people have big libraries." - Jim Rohn 

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I'm Too Old To Start a Business at 50

People often tell me they are TOO OLD to start in business or even succeed in any venture. You are only too old if you believe that. If you believe that age is just a number and not defining reason then anything is possible.

Click here for some examples of people who found extraordinary success with new business "late in life": http://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/never-too-late-start-venture/

Ray Croc, the founder of McDonalds, sold paper cups and milkshake mixers until 52. Ariana Huffington started Huffington Post at 54. John Pemberton invented Coca Cola at 55.

Of course, no one is saying that these people started these companies and were successful with their first attempts. Some household names went through several businesses until they found the idea that took off. Some ideas are worth waiting for in the life of an entrepreneur.

Join Harold Fry on His Unlikely Pilgrimage

I can recommend the charming novel "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce which was her first novel and The Sunday Times bestseller.

It is the story of Harold who receives a letter informing him that a former colleague, Queenie, is dying of cancer in a hospice. His attempts to write a goodbye letter fail miserably and on the way to the postbox, he decides, through a chance conversation, that a letter is inadequate and that he should walk more than 400 miles "to save Queenie's life".  As if he could, but the story develops and he becomes a national hero, others joining in his walk for their own personal pilgrimage reasons.  With time to think, he reassesses his life as does his wife waiting for him back home.

Not quite the pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela, Harold's journey can teach us something about our own journey in life, what is important, who is important.  My library classified it as a Reading Well: Mind-Boosting Book and I certainly endorse that.


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© Antonia Harrison 2014

Forgiveness is The Act of Unchaining Yourself

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes

Most of us carry around anger, resentment, jealousy, or some other negative emotion directed to others. Unless dealt with, they will eventually start to broadly affect the quality of our lives and those around us.

Forgiveness is the act of unchaining yourself from thoughts and feelings that bind you to an offense, imagined or real, committed against you. It is a commitment to a process of growth and change. The first step is to recognize the value of forgiveness and the positive impact it can have in our lives. When we forgive, we release the control and power of the offending person and stop playing the victim. We no longer define our lives by how we have been hurt and instead can define ourselves by how we have grown.

To read more, visit: http://humanityhealing.net/2009/04/gift-of-forgiveness

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Failing Over and Over Leads to Success

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

Stay hungry. Be focused and you'll achieve the things you want.

Happiness is an Attitude

Happiness is an attitude.

The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. 

After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she manouvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. 

"I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. "Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room .... just wait." 

"That doesn't have anything to do with it," she replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it ... It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away ... just for this time in my life."

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Benjamin Franklin Asked Two Important Questions Every Day

This was Benjamin Franklin's daily planner:

There are two important questions:

1. What good shall I do this day? 
2. What good have I done today? 

Would they be useful questions to ask ourselves every day?

When planning each day, he considered "Prosecute the present study" which means to invest time for education, study or some form of self-improvement.  If such a great man as Benjamin Franklin included this on his daily schedule, do you think it would benefit each of us?

Antonia Harrison is The Lifestyle Liberator offering freedom from bad habits, addictions and limiting fears through Hypnosis, NLP, Coaching and Personal Development.  Based in Portsmouth (UK) she helps people worldwide on Skype at http://www.EnglishSkypeHypnotist.com

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The Pain of Discipline Now or the Pain of Regret Later

This morning I started a course of sessions with a Personal Trainer.  

I have been going to the gym regularly, doing my cardio workout and machine-based exercises plus I take weekly swimming classes so I think I am pretty fit.  I just want that extra "oomph" to lose a few kgs and tighten up some of the legs-bums-tums muscles that us women have a problem with, especially when we have had children so our abdomen muscles have stretched to a ridiculous size in relation to the rest of our body.

The good news is that my Personal Trainer, Dan, is very good looking and knows what he is doing.  The bad news is that I ache and feel weary all over.  

The easy option would be to give up now, go back to my previous exercise plan, but what would that achieve?

As Jim Rohn said,

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." 

Exercise is a discipline of both body and mind.  I know that choosing not to do the exercise will mean that I cannot wear some of my favourite clothes this summer because right now they are too tight.  Longer-term, I do not want to be one of the middle-aged women who have allowed the lbs/kgs to stick to my waist and thighs.  There are many women younger than me in my health club who are very obese.  At some point, they made the wrong choices and now they are trying to shed that weight.  It is so much easier to have the discipline now rather than having to correct the lack of discipline later.

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

Are there areas in your life where you know that discipline is what is needed to help you achieve your goals?  I can help you with my unique combination of Hypnosis, NLP Results Coaching and Personal Development to instill the motivation and determination to start the process and maintain the discipline to keep going.  I help people worldwide through Skype so contact me today, the English Skype Hypnotist, to set out a plan for reaching your goals with discipline of steel.

© Antonia Harrison 2013

Jim Rohn Wishes For You a Life of Wealth, Health and Happiness

Here's a great wish from Jim Rohn:

"I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards." -  Jim Rohn

Download 179 Personal Development MP3 and Audio Books for Only $29.95

If you're like me, you enjoy listening to inspirational, motivational and informative talks by people in the personal development world. Reading books is great but sometimes time does not permit us to read all the books we want. So listening to those books, or at least key parts of the books, is the next best thing. In fact, if we are auditory people, more than visual, listening to a book can be the best way to take in the information.

Many audio books are available to purchase, usually for anywhere from $10 upwards to maybe $50. I ordered one book by Stephen Covey, the classic "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" then decided that listening to the audio book in my car would be the quickest way to access the information. A Google search led me to a site which offers 179 audio books and ebooks from many of the leading speakers in the personal development world. Here is the best part, these 179 titles are available as immediate download files for just $27.95. That is $27.95 for all 179 titles. 

     

 

An amazing offer. I am busy downloading files as I write from these famous speakers and authors:

- Tony Robbins

- Zig Ziglar

- Stephen Covey

- Les Brown

- Wayne Dyer

- Louise L Hay

- Jim Rohn

- James Allen

- John Earl Shoaff (Jim Rohn's mentor!)

- Dale Carnegie

- Brian Tracy

- Norman Vincent Peale

- Robert G Allen

Famous titles:

- Rich Dad Poor Dad

- Think and Grow Rich

- The Four Hour Work Week

- The Richest Man in Babylon (recommended by Jim Rohn)

- The Secret

- The Science of Getting Rich

- The Silva Method

- Who Moved My Cheese?

There are several audio books on sex and relationships and even meditation audios and hypnosis MP3 downloads from:

- Paul McKenna

- Wendi Friessen

What is also amazing about this offer is that the site is often updated with new titles and the $27.95 purchase covers lifetime downloads.  In fact, I subscribed with this one-off payment in 2011 when there were 135 titles and am still downloading new titles when added.

Yes, some of these titles are freely available to download in the public domain but you have to hunt for them AND I bet there are titles here that don´t come to mind but will be hugely worthwhile.

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Celebrate That It's Monday

It is Monday morning which for many is greeted by groans of "yet another week at work".

How about another approach?

1. Think about the opportunities you can create this week.
2. What one new thing can you learn or start this week?
3. What can you do differently this week to make your work more rewarding?
4. Can you introduce a new idea or skill to your employer to make you stand out?
5. Whose company do you enjoy in your work?
6. Be grateful for the knowledge and skills you have developed which give you work.
7. Show gratitude that you have work with so many people unemployed or too ill to work.
8. Are you going home to a warm bed and food on the table?  
9. Be grateful if you have all your limbs and senses, even if you don't.  
10. Be grateful that you are alive for one more day on this amazing planet.

However bad your life might seem, if you live in the Western developed world, you have the good fortune of being in the top 12.5 % of the world economically.  There are millions who are much poorer than you and yet they find something to be happy about.

It's Monday.  Chance to start with a blank sheet of paper and create something special this week.

Antonia Harrison is a leading Hypnosis, NLP and Personal Development Coach helping clients to Freedom and Personal Change on Skype worldwide.

To Turn A Dream Into Reality Requires a Plan

Self-explanatory.

Writing down things to do on a list makes it easier to prioritize them because the overwhelm becomes clarity.  From a list of tasks with deadlines you can choose which to do first and feel a sense of achievement when they are ticked off.

Having some dreams in your head might feel good but they will need some action from you if they are going to become reality.  A whole project might require a plan of steps.

If you don't write down what you want to achieve it is more than likely that you will only complete the daily tasks because our brains can only cope with so much activity at a time.  

Whilst is satisfying to tick off mundane everyday tasks when complete, it is even more satisfying and rewarding to tick off goals when achieved.  Preferably ahead of deadline.

Antonia Harrison is a leading Hypnosis, NLP and Personal Development Coach helping clients to Freedom and Personal Change on  worldwide. 

Are You A Comet or a Meteor Shower?

I love this quote about challenge, taking ourselves out of the comfort zone:

“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe!

But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower.

But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”             ― C. JoyBell C. 

Sail Away From the Safe Harbour and Feel the Wind Daring You

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

For those of us fortunate enough to live in the most economically developed countries, there really is no limit to what we can do but it is somehow easier to find reasons (=excuses) for why we can't, why we didn't.  We say we tried but couldn't.  

"Do or Do Not. There is no Try." - Yoda

Every now and then we produce a burst of activity and start to make progress towards our life’s goals but then, life gets in the way.  The point is that if we don’t achieve what we want, we are hurting ourselves, denying ourselves a life of “what can be” by accepting “what is”.  Some truly tremendous achievers refuse to even consider reasons why they can’t.  They look only for solutions and learn how to improve.

Listen to Nick Vujicic, the man with No Arms No Legs No Worries:

Now tell me again, what you “can’t” do?

I believe Nick Vujicic is a tremendous inspiration to millions around the world with his positive attitude, his “can-do” approach and his wonderful sense of humour.  He shows us how the impossible becomes “I’m-possible”.

Everything we do, or don’t do, has an impact on other people.  Failing to provide financially for our families has obvious consequences to lifestyle and what we can offer our children.  Sometimes what we could develop is a skill, a gift we have, and if we don’t we deny others a piece of our ability and unique flavour. 

It is said that everyone has a book inside them.  E L James wrote “Fifty Shades of Grey” as an e-book and just hoped that some people would like to read it.  It has exploded into an international phenomenon and helped millions of women come out of their sexuality shells. 

 

The talks over at TED (www.TED.com) bring new ideas in Technology Education and Design.  These talks are available to view on the website and share with others.  Learn something new, be inspired and spread the word.

We live in a world of opportunity where a shared message can go viral and explode around the world in minutes.  It is up to us whether we wish to be heard or just want to settle down in front of the TV and put it off to another day.

What will you do differently today to impact your tomorrow?

© Antonia Harrison 2013

Antonia Harrison is The Lifestyle Liberator offering Freedom to live without bad habits, addictions or fears using powerful Hypnosis, NLP and Personal Development over Skype anywhere in the world.  Visit www.AntoniaHarrison.com

Accomplish One Thing

“You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.” - Jalal ad-Din Rumi was a 13th century Persian Muslim poet and Sufi mystic

What You Need To Succeed

"In order to succeed you need inner strength, self-belief and true grit. Never give up on your dream even when times are tough. Aim high and you will achieve your goal". - Rebecca Adlington, Swimmer, Double Gold Medal Winner (GB) at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing 

Self-Discipline is An Act of Cultivation

"Self-discipline is an act of cultivation.

It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results.

There's a season for sowing a season for reaping.

Self-discipline helps you know which is which."

~ Gary Ryan Blair

Keep People in Your Life Who Bring Out The Best In You.

Today a friend wrote to tell me of the hurt caused by siblings who keep attacking him in writing, dragging up his faults and wanting to make him feel guilty for past behaviour.  He acknowledges some of the "accusations" but sees no point in dwelling on past mistakes.  He certainly does not want to retaliate and point out their faults so prefers to break contact with them for a while.

I replied, 

"You must do what you feel is necessary with regards to the family.  I don't know why they feel it necessary to keep having a go at you and your faults as they see them.  If they think you are such a bad person, why do they even want a close relationship with you?   As an outsider looking in and having lived 40 years of a family feud, I don't know why they can't just let you go and have whatever contact that arises out of mutual will, not obligation.  Keep above it and don't resort to mud throwing.  That will only come back at you and you have enough to cope with as it is.  Keep people in your life who bring out the best in you now and in the future and encourage you to rise to the best of your abilities and qualities, not people who want to drag you down and keep you rooted in the mistakes of the past.  We all have them but don't need to be constantly reminded of our worst attributes.  If they don't want to grow and build something positive, that is their loss."

I once attended a seminar where every time we committed the offence of shaming, blaming or justifying ourselves or someone else, in the room or otherwise, we popped a Pound coin into a collection pot for charity.  Think about that.  It might stop you in your tracks.

Change Your Perspective

Try looking at a situation from another view. All of a sudden things can appear quite differently.

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