With our recent relocation to the UK from South Africa, and our decision to work towards being location independent, Andy and I have had alot of change over the past 6 months, and needless to say, we’ve been doing alot of learning. I’ve been learning about building a sustainable location independent business structure, about online marketing, about the value of collaborating with other people, and about software and technology for creating audio programs and running teleclasses and managing newsletters and running my online shopping cart and building my blog and website… (breathe!). For someone who wasn’t
I’ve been reading a fascinating book by Richard Watson called “Future Files”. He writes about his predictions on world trends over the next 50 years, based on the current trends and the idea that, “if you don’t change direction, you’ll probably end up where you’re headed.” It’s a fascinating read, and more than a little scary (especially the parts where he talks about what’s happening, and what could happen, when nanotechnology-meets-biotechnology-meets-robotics). It’s not a totally bleak outlook on the future though, and Watson himself points out that his predictions are based on current trends, which we all have the power to change. And then I found this clever video, which sums it up perfectly (stick around for the twist at the end).
I promised to tell you how it went, so here we go…
In the Western world, we’ve been taught to believe that decisions are best made using “rational” thought processes and trying to leave emotions out altogether, but more and more research is indicating that we actually make better decisions when we use a combination of logic and emotion.
In this 10 minute audio, you’ll discover why it doesn’t work to try to exclude your emotions from decision-making, and how to use your emotions to improve the quality of your decisions and create more happiness in your life.
I recently wrote about the positive purposes of fear here and here, but even though I see fear as a perfectly natural emotion that delivers really important messages to us, it doesn’t seem to be useful to feel afraid all the time.
The idea is to notice and accept the fear, ask for it’s positive intention and receive the important messages it delivers. And then, from my experience, the fear magically dissolves. But when we don’t recognise our fear or we’re afraid of our fear and try to ignore or resist our fear, it only grows, and all the choices we make come from a place of fear, and then we start to get some nasty results popping up. Because fear always gets you more of what you don’t want. Always.
Have you noticed that?
After months of research, learning, planning, preparation, consulting with online experts, systems-experimentation and systems-building, this week I happily launched the Bottom-line bookclub from my imagination into the real world… only to find that my well-researched system has a glitch. True to the hero’s saga storyline, nothing ever goes as planned in the real world, and the hero(ine!) must slay many dragons and monsters before her sacred quest can be completed. Some of you might already be familiar with
Martha Beck’s model that she calls the “change cycle”
- a model that’s given me endless wisdom, direction and encouragement as I’ve made major changes in the past 7 years since her book
