The law of Gratitude

There is a law of gratitude. This law is universal and can be seen in observation and experience.

"The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme Intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force, it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you" Wallace D.Wattles.

What can I be grateful for today?
What am I really thankful for?

Everything that I have now is a blessing from the infinite supplier.
When I fix my mind on the best things in my life, I experience the best and expect better and better things to come to me.This is how faith is developed because the grateful mind always expects the best.

Expressing gratitude is a way of moving closer to the supreme power .
If everything we have received has come from one source and we are thankful to that source, and express gratitude continuously, then more good things will come to us.

Let us take a few minutes everyday, maybe in the morning before we start our day, to list and think of ten things we are really grateful to have in our life today.
The more we dwell on these things, the more we will find other things that make us happy.
Take a minute and tell someone you know that you appreciate them and their input in your life.
Express your gratitude today.

To Your success!



Ramon Watson is a dynamic Thinking into Results facilitator with Bob Proctor. He is passionate in providing service and giving people more of the means of life. If you want to improve any area of your life contact Ramon on
Cell  +(27)73 980 8461
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Cause and effect

Today I would like to share a simple idea on how we can apply the natural laws in our decision making.

The law of cause and effect is referred to by Emerson as the Law of Laws.
It is such a powerful concept. Every cause has an effect.
Like causes have like effects. That means that success really does leave clues.
The clues are the causes. If we want to succeed in a certain pursuit, all we need to do is look around at others and in nature to see how the effect we want has been caused previously. Then we replicate those causes in our actions.

Here are two simple questions to ask yourself before you decide to do something:-

1) What is the effect of this action I'm about to take?
2) Will this cause have a positive effect on my life, my goals and on those around me ?

This will add a new dimension of clarity and causation to our daily decisions.
Go ahead and make the right decision today.

To your success!

Ramon Watson is a dynamic Thinking into Results facilitator with Bob Proctor. He is passionate in providing service and giving people more of the means of life. If you want to improve any area of your life contact 

Ramon on     (+27)73 980 8461

Or email on   ramonwatson@gmail.com

Beliefs

BELIEFS

"To believe in something good and not to live it, is dishonest" - Mahatma Ghandi

 "You never know how much you believe in something until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death" - C. S. Lewis

"'Do not be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you, they there to let you know something is worth it" - C. Joybell

When it comes to beliefs, the first thing that may come to mind are our religious beliefs. Perhaps this so because religions are held in such high regard throughout the world. Religion is a great example to show how beliefs are set up in our minds. We tend to believe spiritual elders or leaders because we see they hold a fair amount of respect in our communities. They are, after all , authorities of God. At least that's what I gathered as a kid growing up.

This fills the first requirement; generally beliefs are set up by authority figures when we are little kids. We tend to believe authority figures when were are still young. That’s obvious because we have
no ability to reject what we are told, most often these authority figures are our parents. We believe and trust them because, after all, they feed and clothe and love us.

The next requirement to set up a new belief is - repetition. If we repeat a lie to ourselves often enough we will begin to believe it. Confidence is merely a belief in oneself. Having succeeded before, we
expect success and have a strong belief that we will achieve success again. For a long time I repeated the opposite of what I wanted. I flunked out of first year university and because I had 'failed'  - I
believed I was a failure. I kept repeating this to myself over and over reliving the embarrassing experience mentally, with the strong negative emotional charge not only thinking failure, but now intensely feeling it, emotionally.

This is the third requirement. Emotional intensity attached to an idea. When we think and feel an idea repetitiously, we impress this idea on our subconscious minds and then the things we look at and experience in our environment, tend to strengthen this idea. This is what cements the belief in our mind, the perception that proves to us through observation and experience. It is really not the experience but the interpretation of the experience. The inner representation of the event or memory of the event. It is the emotional state created inside by the outer event which leads us to believe that it must be true. As we think in our heart, so it is. We then tend to attract and be attracted to people events and things that 'prove' our beliefs as true.

This does not have to be so. Beliefs, as real as they may feel, do not represent the truth. They only represent the truth to us. But now we know that the 'truth' is subject to perception. Perception is how we see the world after our inner world or reticular activation system (RAS) has filtered, distorted or edited the actual event, memory or experience.
This means what we perceive, may well not be the truth. This means that what we perceive inside has gone through a process of editing before we come to our conclusion about what just happened.

What we need to do is change this is to become more present. To observe ourselves as we would another person. See the event, experience it and view that event as if we were a casual observer. We can, in that moment, break the connection between what is happening and the association with the negative response pattern we have developed. In that moment we have our point of power. In this moment we have the choice to reframe the idea or concept so that we direct our focus to
empowering thoughts, actions and feelings. It might go something like this... -  So someone has said something hurtful or offensive to me. Right at the moment before I internalize and emotionalize this

experience, I may take a step back and observe my habitual reaction and then think, or say aloud ... - That wasn't very nice. That is their problem. They have no power over me unless I accept what they said. In doing this, I have regained my inner power from the experience, and instead of validating this event against my belief system, I can establish a new supportive response system and my belief
about myself has changed. This all happens when we slow down and respond instead of reaching blindly. I have just created a different result when I repeat this thought and behaviour with myself as an authority and feel good about it.  I create an empowering belief and repeat these steps every time I find myself reacting to an event in the old way.

Remember whatever you believe to be true about yourself. You are always correct. Even if that belief is holding you back and keeping you in bondage. So, choose empowering beliefs. Ask yourself, if I want to create the life of my dreams, what would I have to believe about myself ... Then create them.
To your success!

Ramon Watson is a dynamic Thinking into Results facilitator with Bob Proctor. He is passionate in providing service and giving people more of the means of life. If you want to improve any area of your life contact Ramon on :

Cell               +(27)73 980 8461

Or email on   ramonwatson@gmail.com

The Self Concept

The Self Concept

The Self concept is a powerful idea. In truth, it is so much more because it controls the way we view ourselves. This idea is defined as “the way a person thinks about themselves.” It is powerful because of the major influence it has on our lives and our decisions. On the other hand, it is just an idea, one we can change when we understand how it works.

Our Self concept is made up of three parts:-

1) Our Self Image

2) Our Self Ideal

3) Our Self Esteem

1) The Self Image 

This often defined as the “kind of person we see ourselves as”. Some people may say “Well, I am a shy person. I don’t like talking to strangers”.

This is a very good example because this is something our parents told us not to do from a very young age. Perhaps causing us to believe that all strangers are bad (depending on the intensity and repetition of this statement). At the time this was very good and valid advice but over time this programming becomes a limiting belief which controls our actions and interactions in the world.

The Self Image is also limited by our habit patterns or paradigms. I may see Myself as a poor public speaker. Not because this is true, but because I have not yet developed the habits of a highly effective speaker. If I attend voice training lessons, seek out speaking opportunities and develop my skills as a public speaker, I will begin to change the way I see and feel about myself. This is sadly true because a lot of us are controlled by our present results. We see or perceive ourselves to be weak in a certain area and this makes us feel inferior, creating a self fulfilling cycle. We wait for physical proof that we can do it before we believe we can. We live from the outside, in. There are much better and more reliable ways of changing the Self Image. This relies on imagination and concentration. We begin to see ourselves as a speaker from the inside out. We build a new image of ourselves as great speakers. The Self Image is an inner representation of how we see ourselves, it is governed by our subconscious mind and we know that the subconscious mind and nervous system cannot tell the difference between what is real and imagined. So we use our imagination to become better at public speaking, or anything for that matter. (This will be discussed in depth in another article specifically on the Self Image).
 

This brings us to the second part of the Self Image -

2) Self Ideal

This is the "me" I aspire to be. My ideal personality. The level of success and achievement we expect from ourselves can be determined by our ambition. Also, the kind of influences we have in life will play a role in this. Our Self Ideal is the Self we want others to see in us. It is the part of ourselves that we compare our actual present selves with.

Sometimes we hold on to a Self ideal that no longer serves us .Not because we are not able to achieve that ideal self but perhaps because we  have changed our desires and grown into a new different ideals. Sometimes when we are younger, we may aspire to be like someone else whom we see is held in higher regard somehow. As we grow and develop ourselves it is important to make sure we have a clear mental image of what we want to be like. What we want to do, have and to become. If we hold an image of our ideal selves and we keep seeing that our current results do not stack up well, it negatively influences our Self esteem. If we have a healthy Self ideal, one which truly reflects our burning desires, we can shape our daily thoughts, feelings, habits around them. Thus bringing ourselves closer to the ideal in every action. When we are congruent in our Self ideal as well as our attitude (Thoughts, feelings and actions) we develop a positive Self esteem.

3) Self Esteem

This is the product of your Self ideal and your Self image. Self esteem is the balancing factor in our personality.

If we have a positive Self ideal and our current results (our present Self image) are moving us toward that ideal, we can develop a positive Self esteem. Negative Self esteem develops when our ideal Self and our Self image are very different. We feel that we should be achieving much more with our lives but for some reason we are not. This creates a gap between what we feel we are capable of and what we are actually doing or our present results. Self esteem develops from having a positive regard for ourselves.

Having a healthy Self esteem is vitally important to all of us. Yet, if we do not understand how Self esteem comes about we can struggle and frustrate our selves even more. Let’s focus today on developing unconditional acceptance of ourselves (Self esteem). If we choose a path, let’s be sure that it is our own path and not that of our family, friends or society.

When our goal is set we focus on thinking in the certain way which always brings results. We see ourselves as capable and creative beings, and then we move forward by ensuring that we feel good about ourselves and our new image, and most importantly, we take action to create our new improved lives. The life we really want can be created but we must first know exactly what that ideal life is. We must have a clear mental image of what we want and dwell upon it until becomes fixed in our subconscious minds. Then the habits needed to step into our ideal lives will be developed and our results will change.
 

With an understanding of the Self concept we are better able to adjust our Self image more in line with our Self  ideal and continuously strive to close that gap and in so doing increase our Self esteem.

Ramon Watson is a dynamic Thinking into Results facilitator with Bob Proctor. He is passionate in providing service and giving people more of the means of life. If you want to improve any area of your life contact Ramon on

Cell  (+27)73 980 8461

Or email on ramonwatson@gmail.com