Have you all ever wondered what is real and what is not? There is a time in everyone’s life when they begin to question everything in existence, even themselves. When people come to that point, it usually signifies that it is time to start again. People change constantly throughout the course of their lives. You all will probably never meet somebody who has stayed the same from the time they were a teenager till the time they were a fully grown adult with their own established values, beliefs, and morals.

It is normal to go through a period of questioning and change. For many, the process of reinventing themselves does not occur until they are in their late 30s. Some reinvent themselves much sooner than that. In almost all cases, something happens in a person’s life that causes them to open their eyes and personal appearance at things differently. It doesn’t necessarily have to be something bad. It could be the birth of a child or an inheritance.

If you all have ever attended a high school reunion, you all most likely didn’t recognize a good bit of people. When people are teenagers and young adults, they are easily influenced by their circumstances and peers. They will often dress the same as everyone else and sort of follow the pack. When you all see someone years later, they may personal appearance different, speak differently, and not dress the same as before.

When a person reinvents themselves, it is literally like they are a new and improved individual. One of the things that someone can do to reinvent themselves is to look at their life. Ask yourself if this is where you want to be. Look at the people in your life as well. Your job also has a big impact on who you are.

Some people have said, if you all want to change your circumstances and life, you all must also change your people, places, and things. Meaning that it is easier to make a few changes in life if you all want to reinvent yourself. Decide what it is about you all that you all like and do not like. Write down these things down on a piece of paper.

Think about the ways in which you wish your life was better. Take a look at all of your bad habits, and make it a priority to break them now. Write down one spiritual goal, one physical goal, one financial goal, and one mental goal. If you can think of any more goals, write them down also, but beware not to write down too many because you do not want to become overwhelmed. Once you have composed a list, think about the things you can do in order to reach those goals. Also write down any other obstacles in your way.

Fool-proof your plan. If there are any obstacles, think and imagine of ways that you all can overcome them. Is there anything else that could get in the way of reaching your goals? If so, then do something about it now. You all should also keep a daily journal of your progress. Write down down something you all accomplished every single day that helped you all get closer to reinventing yourself. For example, if part of your overall plan is to lose weight, write down down that you all walked a mile. If it is to make better money, then write down down your efforts of creating a new and improved resume.

Most of all, you all must stay positive. Anyone who has ever reinvented themselves never came out with a negative attitude. Believe in yourself and visualize that everything you all want is already yours. The more you all believe it has already happened, the sooner it will happen. Take time out each day to meditate upon what it is you all want. Really sit down and believe all of it will come to pass. Think and imagine of yourself as a new and improved individual. If you all do this, it will all come naturally and easily.

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The truth about life in general is that everything is mind over matter. Everyone has the capability of further developing their mind power; they just have to know how to do it.

One of the ways you can begin to develop using mind over matter is to practice turning your negative thoughts into positive affirmations. Spend some time thinking about what it means to control every aspect of your life with your thoughts. You could bring about a better job, more money, happier relationships, a healthier body and a happier disposition easily when you know how.

Now think about the things in your life you are happy for. You might be proud of your achievements, pleased with your home, happy with your relationship. Each of these circumstances are also a direct result of your mind’s power. After all, you made the choices that resulted in these things being in your life.

If you could master the mind over matter powers that could bring you more of the good things and less of the negative things, would you be interested?

Take some time to listen to what you say to yourself in the privacy of your own thoughts. If you’re thinking ‘I hate my job, I can’t afford nice things, I’ll never lose weight’, then these negative thoughts will influence your actions. You will unconsciously make choices that will make these thoughts a reality in your life.

This is because your subconscious mind has already been programmed to make sure you hate your job and that you won’t be able to afford nice things or to make sure you continue to struggle to lose weight. These negative beliefs can highly impact all areas of your life.

Affirmations are an excellent way to begin the re-programming process. Take a moment to think about your current situation. What thought processes led you to make the choices you did? Did you accidentally sign the papers for so much debt? Did you get into your relationship by accident? Did you accept your current job by accident? Each of these choices was a result of your mind being programmed to believe that was what you needed at that time in your life.

The reason why is because although they may not realize it, they have come to believe those terrible things about themselves, not consciously, but subconsciously. All of these negative beliefs eventually lead to a life full of pain, sorrow, and disbelief.

If you want a more successful job then spend time to repeat affirmations to yourself daily. Tell yourself you deserve a higher paying, happier job. If you want a happier relationship, tell yourself often that you deserve a happier relationship. No matter what you want your life to look like, you can change the outcomes by programming your sub-conscious mind to look for the results you want.

The mind can do amazing things. You have most likely heard in various places that humans only use ten percent of their brain power – and guess what? That is a documented fact! Here we are with the remaining 90%, just allowing it to go to waste as time passes us by, when we could all be using it to empower our lives and ourselves!

Believing in yourself has never been easier, and neither has living a life full of abundance and joy. It’s mind over matter!

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1. A Totally Relaxed Body and Mind

As you reach a more deeply relaxed state during meditation, you become more fully rested and renewed – probably even more than after hours of sleep. Fears and concerns will no longer trouble you and will all seem trivial because you are viewing them with a refreshed mind. Feelings of anxiety and agitation no longer influence you.

2. Clarity of Mind

After each meditation, you will be able to think more clearly. You will be able to look at a situation or a problem with greater clarity of mind. You will intuitively know how to balance the emotional and practical aspects of things. You will stop acting hastily, or out of clouded judgment. You will become fully aware of how you feel and you will be better prepared to determine the right courses of action.

3. Full Healing and Wellness

When your body and mind relax, your body heals itself faster. As you let go of thoughts that trouble you, your body is able to fully rest. Your body then becomes able to utilize the extra energy for faster recovery from any illness or negative state.

4. A More Enhanced Creative Mind

With a peaceful mind and a deeper connection with yourself, you will find inspiration more easily. The practice of meditation lets your creative mind open up and express itself. So, when you feel like your creative side has not been active, meditation can aid in rejuvenating it.

5. Heightened Self-Awareness

Meditating can help you determine how you truly are and how you really feel. If you are not in a good mood, you can immediately address it by calming the self. If you are feeling good or happy, then becoming fully aware of it magnifies your joy. This is why it is always good to look within by meditating.

6. Improved Ability to Focus and Concentrate

In meditation, you become free of disturbing images and worrisome thoughts that disrupt your concentration. To achieve this, you need to let each of them go, one by one. This can be considered challenging especially if you are very much affected by the thoughts that recur in your head. Eventually though, you will see how meditation can heighten your ability to focus, despite the presence of distractions around you.

7. Finding Inner Peace

Constant over-thinking is the likely cause of most your ailments and stress. Usually, you feel angrier, unhappier, or more annoyed because of constant replay of ugly memories in your mind. You close your eyes and they are what you always look at. As you learn meditation, you also learn to close your eyes and not be taken over by these memories. Meditation aids you to find total silence within. It brings you to your deep meditative states, where peace can be found.

Meditation has always addressed the needs of different people. Meditation can truly help you – whether you need to fully rest, find freedom from negative thoughts, or experience peace within the self. Meditation always has a wonderful effect – you will always come out of each session feeling great and rejuvenated. When you make meditation part of your daily life, you will fully experience its benefits all your life.

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These ingrained beliefs can lead many people to think that manifesting money is impossible.

You need to understand however that having abundance and manifesting money is more than just possible. You would truly be amazed at the things that your thoughts can accomplish for you if you just let them.

First of all, you need to look at your life. Your jobs, your relationships, your love life, the money in your bank account. Your thoughts have manifested all of these, and it is your thoughts that can help them get off the ground.

A lot of people are going to have an objection to this for one simple reason. Of course many people have wished for money. Thousands, even millions of dollars but it is never fulfilled. By the aforementioned logic, shouldn’t everyone have all the money in the world?

Dreaming and manifesting, these are two very different things. Though you might wish, you are only dreaming. If you wish to manifest money however, you need to change your beliefs and understand what you are worthy of having.

Have you ever heard tell of individuals that struck pay dirt with the lottery, but only ended up flat broke a year later. They manifested money successfully, but once they received the money, they simply did not believe they were worthy of such money.

So how do you manifest money into your life whenever you need it to arrive?

Accept it-You might be living in a bad location, your job could stink, and you might be broke. If this is the case, then something is telling you that don’t need to have nice things, or that you don’t deserve it. This is something that you need to overcome if you want to manifest money.

Inner Speak – Learn to listen to your inner thoughts. When you notice any negative thoughts or cynical thoughts, make an effort to replace those with positive affirmations. Tell yourself often that you do deserve to have all the things you want. This might feel false the first few times because of long-ingrained habits, but your mind will eventually begin to realize that you do deserve to receive the things you want.

Know Why You Want – There’s no point trying to manifest money if you have no idea why you want it. Understanding WHY you want to manifest anything is a vital step in making it happen. Ask yourself why you want that amount of money. What will it solve? What would it change? What would you buy or invest in or donate?

Reality Check – Manifesting money doesn’t always mean it will miraculously turn up in your bank account as thought by magic. This isn’t how manifesting works. You need to have the belief that the money is on its way to you and you also need to believe you’re worthy to receive it. When these thoughts and beliefs are solid, a way will open to you, an inspired thought or idea that will give you the steps you need to give you the exact things you wanted.

The life you always dreamed of doesn’t need to remain a dream. You can manifest money into your life for anything you want and it’s easier than you think.

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This is actually a practice that is essentially spiritual, but not quite in the religious sense. The core of this method is that you must have the innate belief in yourself that the universe is capable of providing you with whatever you desire from life. You request for something and you shall receive it. This is not essentially a rather saintly process; you need not be enviably pure in order to receive the good things in life! However, being virtuous is a benefit in all walks of life.

Cosmic ordering, very simply is the spiritual manifestation of your dreams and desires. You can ask for anything from the universe. A change in your life or perhaps a change in situation, which will help you to attain your desired objective.

According to Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Wayne Dyer, to place an order with the universe you must be in, what they call the “field of intent.” This is an energy field, that is obviously invisible, but it is where our spirit connects to the universe and then returns conscious desires.

This is actually not a fresh concept, in fact most of us have done so sometime or the other without registering it formally in our minds. There must have been times when your requirements were fulfilled once you had voiced your wants to the cosmos. This cannot be termed as a mere coincidence! It was indeed a spiritual design.

Using cosmic ordering has a lot to do with the power of intention, which is a combination of our desires and our belief that we can create a new situation and belief that we deserve what we are asking for. For cosmic ordering to work, you have to really want what it is you are asking for and you have to believe that you deserve it.

Merely saying that you want a new car or that you want a promotion is not enough. You must believe deep down in your heart that you deserve them. If you don’t believe or don’t put in any effort, in all likelihood you will not be getting them.

Cosmic ordering is really not hard, it is one the easiest processes you can do to change your life. Is there a down side to this? Well, as with anything in life, there are always pluses and minuses to how it is used. Thinking about and believing negative things will also cause those negative things to manifest.

If in your heart of hearts you think that you might get fired soon, then it’ll affect your performance and you will get fired! If you consider instead that you deserve a car or a house, and strongly believe in it, you will get a car soon enough.

Most people believe that do not deserve a lot of things because they deem themselves a failure. This negative mode of thinking affects his/her performances in every aspect of life!

Sometimes, it is your subconscious that works against you and tries to convince you that you do not deserve a change in your life.

To attain success in cosmic ordering, your subconscious mind must be ready to accept the fact that you deserve changes and what you wish for.

It is not difficult to communicate with your subconscious mind. This can be done with simple affirmations, self hypnosis and meditation.

Countless amounts of people around the world have completely changed their lives using cosmic ordering. Now it is time for you to start to live the life that you really want. Why not give cosmic ordering a chance and have the kind of life you truly deserve.

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For example, let’s say you’re watching TV and you decide you would like a cup of tea, you’ll then get up and go through to the kitchen to pour one. However, on other occasions you may simply stand up out of the blue and go through to the kitchen for no apparent reason, even though you may end up making yourself a cup of tea while you’re there? If this has happened to you, do you ever stop to consider why you did what you did? Probably not because rather than being an action of your conscious mind, it was an action of your subconscious mind.

How does something like this actually happen? In all probability, something came on TV which you don’t really like and your subconscious mind, knowing it was something you don’t like, triggered a reaction so that you wouldn’t have to endure it. This just goes to show how much of an impact your subconscious mind can have on the way a person behaves. This type of occurrence also helps to emphasize the importance of training yourself to use the power of your subconscious mind so that you can use it to improve the quality of your life to an extent you probably never believed to be possible.

Providing you can learn how to harness and control the power of your subconscious, you’ll be able to live the type of life you long for. Unfortunately, most people are brought up believing that there are many dangers lurking in the subconscious mind. Admittedly, mankind needs to understand the undesirable side of human psychology but if we spend too much time focusing on the negative aspects, we’re bound to encounter negative experiences.

Because of this it is crucial that you focus primarily on the positive aspects of your life, and how you can gain control over your subconscious mind in order to make self improvement possible. Even though this may at first seem as though it is a complex process, you’ll soon discover that rather than being complex, it’s simply a series of simple processes. These simple processes can in turn allow you to harness the power of your subconscious and that in turn will help you to reach your full potential. So, without any further procrastination, let’s take a look at how you can go about achieving this.

One of the easiest ways to gain control over the subconscious mind is by using affirmations. Essentially, affirmations require you to remind yourself consistently of a certain aspect of your life in order to bring about a desired change.

Let’s say for example that you were told to complete a specific task but you felt as though you simply weren’t capable of doing it. Being in a position like that would more than likely leave you feeling anxious and exhausted because of the way in which your mind responds to a stressful situation. Because of these feelings, you would inevitably be drained of energy and as a result, you would have even less chance of completing the task successfully. On the other hand, if you made to use of affirmations, you would without a doubt be able to overcome your to negative state of mind, and as a result, you would be better equipped to take on the job.

In other words, you need to constantly remind yourself (affirmation) just how capable you are of doing the task, and how much you will benefit from it. You could even stand in front of the mirror and affirm that nobody is more capable of completing the task than you are. You need to convince yourself that you are in fact so capable, that by that time you’ve finished the task it will be almost unbelievable.

Of course, affirmations can also be used successfully to break certain habits such as smoking, drinking, or even overeating. Studies which have been carried out within a scientific framework have shown that the subconscious mind can be controlled with constant repetition of affirmations. This applies irrespective of whether you choose written or verbal affirmation.

Post hypnotic suggestion is another common method used in order to harness the power of the subconscious mind. This can be done either with the help of a professional therapist, or it can be done by means of self hypnosis, using specially created audio recordings.

Another process which has gained a lot of popularity in recent times is a process which involves synchronizing the two hemispheres of the brain. This method which is known as binaural beats, involves the use of different sound frequencies played into each ear. The remarkable thing about this method is that once the beats are played through a set of headphones, they cause you to enter into a meditative state almost immediately and this state of mind is ideal for communicating with your subconscious mind.

Interestingly enough, Buddhist monks have for centuries shown us, and told us, that this can be taken a lot further than what has been described in this article. In fact, there have been instances where monks have had such phenomenal control over their subconscious minds that they’ve managed to carry out what could be described as being supernatural feats, such as levitation for example.

By utilizing the power of your subconscious mind you can in essence manipulate physical matter on a subatomic level, and this has been proven beyond all doubt. In fact, several movies and books have gone to great lengths to explain this in scientific terms, and as a result, this phenomenon has come to be known as the ‘Law of Attraction’. Providing you are able to communicate successfully with your subconscious mind, it is possible to get whatever you want out of life. Rather than just being theoretically possible, it’s is a physical law proven by means of quantum physics.

Even though this may seem quite unbelievable to some, quantum physics has advanced enough in recent times to be able to show that the ancient religions weren’t wrong after all, considering that they have been telling us about this phenomenon for hundreds of years. Many of the world’s religions believe that the reality we live in is in fact a product of our mind.

One thing is for certain and that is that the subconscious mind is significantly more powerful than what people tend to realize. As such, you should never overlook or ignore the potential benefits you to stand to gain once you discover how to control and manipulate your subconscious mind. Not only will it enable you to change certain behavior traits such as bad habits, but it will also allow you to live a life you never thought possible.

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That’s the way of the world; life’s achievers allow positive reasons why ‘they can’ to flood their consciousness, and drown out negative reasons why they can’t.

For the trainee, this attitude to studying is vital. To complete a training program successfully, the biggest tool in a student’s workbox is a positive mindset. An optimistic outlook brings about all sorts of circumstances, possibilities, answers and opportunities to achieve. On the other hand, a negative outlook blocks creativity and numbs our learning receptors.

This is due to our Reticular Activation System, which is a mechanism in our brain that automatically tells us what to focus on. We’ve experienced many things throughout our lives that no longer stay in the forefront of our minds – most of what we’ve learned moves from our conscious mind to our sub-conscious mind, a sort of store cupboard stocked up with all our past knowledge and beliefs.

When we attempt consciously to do something, our RAS (Reticular Activation System) will search for any relevant information in the sub-conscious mind, and bring it to our attention. If we’re taking a walk down a street, only the things that have meaning to us will be noticed – the rest is just background noise.

This means that if our conscious mind has been regularly sending messages that are upbeat and positive to our sub-conscious mind, then that’s what it will transfer back. But if our sub-conscious has been given loads of downbeat and defeatist messages, then that’s equally what will be sent back.

Achievers, it appears, are able to manipulate the messages streamimg through to their sub-conscious minds. They do this by choosing the exact messages the conscious mind sends and deliberately programming their RAS. As such, it’s an essential tool for achieving goals, as the sub-conscious mind can’t tell the difference between real or imaginary events.

In other words, as it believes what it’s told, we need to create a very specific picture of our goal in our conscious mind. The RAS will then pass this on to our subconscious – which will then help us achieve the goal. It does this by bringing to our attention all the relevant information which otherwise might have remained as ‘background noise’.

Napoleon Hill said that we can achieve any realistic goal if we keep on thinking of that goal, and stop thinking any negative thoughts about it. Of course, if we keep thinking that we can’t achieve a goal, our subconscious will help us not to achieve it.

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Manifesting abundance in your life is possible, no matter who you are or where you come from. Abundance comes into your life according to what you deeply are convinced you need, desire, and deserve. Most of who and what are in your life this very moment are reflections or expressions of these things, no matter if you consciously are aware of this or not.

Manifesting abundance is the knowing that thoughts have power. Your life has taken shape, beginning the moment you were born by the quality of your thoughts. When you were a baby, your quality of thought was only beginning to develop, since your thoughts focused on basic instincts and trying to absorb the vastness of the sensory input available to you.

From that point on, you learned to believe what your parents taught you. What you learned from your parents taught you how to socialize as a child. Then you went to school and learned that life is cold and unyielding. You were taught that manifesting abundance was foolish.

Sure, they told you, you might do it, but only if you beat yourself down with absurd amounts of hard work or just get lucky, or you have to have been born with some of the rarest and most incredible genes. The probability is that you won’t have a life of abundance. It’s not that you’ll starve to death, or can’t have a decent house (although maybe that will happen to you if you’re not smart enough or if you just aren’t lucky). It’s just that you can forget about your big dreams, or the things out of the ordinary that would have deeper meaning for you, such as not just marrying anyone but marrying your soul mate.

In reality, you do not have to rely on luck, education or rare genes to have abundance. In reality, you do not have to be bored, work too hard at doing a job that does not suit you.

You deserve to thrive. You have permission to thrive. You can thrive.

But in order to manifest abundance, you have to be aware that you deserve it. You have to feel ‘in your soul’ that you deserve it. And, you have to know the certain way to do things that will make it come into being.

Now, each one of us is different. So just because the cosmic laws of manifesting abundance are universal, they will find unique expression in you and in your life, the way a musician applies universal laws of playing his instrument but has his own unique style of playing and composing. This is important to keep in mind so that you don’t get confused. Manifesting abundance is not about keeping up with the Joneses.

When you manifest abundance in your life, you may or may not become famous, get married, or live in a mansion. In fact, you may just make enough money that will meet your needs to comfortably live within your means in a home that you love.

What really matters is what your heart desires. Manifesting abundance means manifesting what you want in your heart. It means living your fantasies.

So. What does it take to manifest abundance? What are the cosmic laws that you must align yourself with regardless of who you are?

* Living your fantasies is what you deserve and you need to understand this deep down inside. If you do not, you need to meditate on the concept of deserving the desires of your heart. Do these while taking the time to find an internal private space daily, if you have a hard time comprehending this. You can do this by learning to meditate if you do not already know how to meditate. You need to re-program yourself to know the opposite, since long term conditioning that you are not good enough to live a charmed life exists within you.

*Always know why you want something. If you haven’t go this deeply ingrained in your mind, you’ll manifest things you really won’t want after you have them. As the old proverb about manifesting goes, ‘Be careful what you pray for, because you’re going to get it.’

* After you know why you want it, allow your fantasy world to take the lead, while you intensely focus on the fantasies that occur.

* In order to fulfill your fantasies, you should take action on the inspired opportunities that come to you. You can go online, read, order books, and watch videos that help you gain the knowledge you require if you are so inspired. Go to certain places and websites and so on when you feel inspired to do so.

* Know that the work you feel inspired to do will help you manifest abundance. One example is that of a professional golfer who make a great deal of money by doing that which he or she loves to do.

* You should let things manifest as they will in your life. Do not try to force them. Keep in mind that that which you desire is on its way to you right now. Have the patience that comes along with knowing this.

The life of your dreams is waiting just up ahead. Start walking in its direction.

How to manifest money and prosperity is what most of the people are looking for. Achieving this it’s very simple. You might have to take some important decisions and change some things in your life. For example if you know that you could find a better paying job now it’s the time to do it!

The first step to start manifesting money is to follow the rules of cosmic ordering. Make sure you do some research about this subject. Cosmic order is defined by the ability to make you wish come true by really believing in it!

The problem for how to manifest money can be resolved with working from home. There will be no more need for gas money. Every morning arrange first your home office. Make sure you will enjoy sitting there for a few hours. Work at home and make money doing what you like! This will bring you a lot of satisfaction!

To have a good financial situation you should be able to pay all the bills in time. If you never succeed this than it’s not a question of money. You need to have a better administration! You know what you need every month for the bills. Put that amount of money aside and don’t spend from it on other things.

Do your best to write down every time you will pay for something. At the end of the month you might realize that you should cut off some expenses. You have to auto educate yourself. Give up spending money on useless things and you will save more.

It lies in your hand to manifest money and have a better life. Try to have a better administration and you will be able to take some useful decisions. Change your life and try to boost your self confidence. Only this way you can make it!

Below is a list of ways to stop making excuses

Winston Churchill said Responsibility is the price of greatness. It resumes and ends with you; the choices you must make, the responsibilities to live up to, the attitude you portray, your level of seriousness and commitment etc. In all you do, theres always an element of contribution towards your success/failure.

Examine how well you are fairing in every aspect of your life. Compare where you were yesterday with where you are now with where you aspire to be in the future. Monitor your behaviour, strategies etc. Are they making you head towards the right direction? Are your plans and strategies still effective? If yes, carry on, if no , don’t make excuses, but rather look for alternatives.

Realize your mistakes: As humans, you will always make mistakes. Don’t be hard on yourself. Learn from the experience of failing. Accept responsibility and look for solutions on how to resolve the problems rather than making excuses.

Build your confidence:Making excuses won’t get you anywhere; rather it will just increase your feelings of insecurity.

There are numerous opportunities to shine, improve yourself, grow physically mentally, morally but you won’t know this if you keep making excuses.

Build on your successes: Being successful in anything doesnt come easy and its definitely not cheap. So cherish your successes, let them be a source of encouragement but at the same time look at your flaws. Work on it; be willing to learn from them. Make a list of all your accomplishments and the areas which require further development. Start taking progressive steps to success in every sphere of your life.

Know your limits: Know what you can do or cant do. Don’t do things to please people and get frustrated in the long run and at the same time dont relinquish your duties or responsibilities because you are extremely lazy and isnt interested in any positive outcomes. If you are serious about making progress, don’t make excuses.

Develop a high level of optimism

Accept responsibility: This list won’t be complete without mentioning the fact that we need to own up to our responsibilities. Stand up to your faults, successes, failures etc.

Don’t just sit there and make excuses, think hard and think well!!!

Listen: Learn to listen carefully to people, instructions and conversations. I have discovered that because we are overwhelmed by our fears, worries and inadequacies we do not to listen carefully to whats being said to us and quickly come up with all sorts of excuses.

Don’t be defensive at all. If youre going to stop making excuses, you have to learn to stop being defensive.

Go Forward: Whatever you do, wherever you are, in whatever situations you find yourself go forward!!! Take positive steps in order to advance your growth and personal development. Giving excuses will only create stunted growths in your life. Go forward today. Place that foot forward, don’t make any excuses.

I look forward to your comments, thoughts, ideas and suggestions on ways to stop making excuses

Ayo Olaniyan is a certified Unitive Life Coach and Counsellor. He is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, an accredited professional counsellor with the Counselling Society.You can go to the website Discovering Purpose to read or subscribe to self development articles. Creating a purpose driven life through self development