March 17, 2010

GratitudeLog Smiley’s

A lot of you have asked how to add more smiley’s to your posts on GLOG.  Well, here is a link to down­load a zip file with ALL smi­leys that GLOG now sup­ports.  Have fun!

http://www.mediafire.com/?rykvjdwzein

March 2, 2010

What’s Your Personal Declaration?

I have a few things to declare right now that I must share with you:

1) I am a global author­ity on how to build a world class team and a thriv­ing heart cen­tered business.

2) Our busi­ness is always highly prof­itable, runs on auto-pilot, and we are always launch­ing new hit prod­ucts and web­sites to spread enlight­ened ideas.

3) At our com­pany we set a new stan­dard in terms of qual­ity of life, com­pen­sa­tion, impact and hav­ing FUN at work.

WOW!  I sure feel fired up after mak­ing the above dec­la­ra­tions and have to give credit to Max Simon for inspir­ing this blog post after I came across his post on how to become a global author­ity.

I have long wres­tled with the con­cept of “The Law of Attrac­tion” and feel­ing some­thing with so much cer­tainty that you can com­fort­ably declare it to be so, even if in your present real­ity things are still different.

I am a man of my word and for me liv­ing in integrity is a must ALWAYS.  So, when­ever I have encoun­tered obsta­cles in my life (which nat­u­rally hap­pens a lot if you keep look­ing for new growth oppor­tu­ni­ties as much as I do), I have had a hard time to make pub­lic dec­la­ra­tions before the desired out­come materialized.

The funny thing is that when­ever I do make these dec­la­ra­tions the out­come tends to man­i­fest WAY faster and when­ever I hes­i­tate… guess what… I tend to strug­gle much longer.

So…  since I deep down inside KNOW that I will reach all of the above men­tioned goals (because I will do what­ever it takes) I feel a lot more con­fi­dent mak­ing these dec­la­ra­tions even today… and already I am feel­ing a lot more cer­tain that these goals are going to man­i­fest into my life much faster.

This is a crazy thing but there is a lot truth to the impor­tance of stat­ing the above.  This wis­dom is also often also shared in the say­ing “Fake it until you make it.”  You have to “feel suc­cess­ful” before you can “become suc­cess­ful.”  There is no other way since every­thing is energy and like attracts like.

For­tu­nately, with per­sis­tent, dili­gent, con­sis­tent, and play­ful prac­tice I have made HUGE progress in these past two years and I am excited to say that I now feel very com­fort­able mak­ing the above stated declarations.

In fact, I am already work­ing on a few new projects and ini­tia­tives that I KNOW will become very suc­cess­ful.  FUN.  I hope you got as much out of this post as I did.

If not, then get busy and make your dec­la­ra­tions.  The moment you do, your entire energy and vibra­tion will shift.  Give it a try… even if it scares you a lit­tle… heck… even if it scares you a lot do it!  You will feel WAY bet­ter once you have done it.  Just freak­ing do it!  Hugs and big smiles :-)

February 7, 2010

GratitudeLog Buttons

Here are a cou­ple of Grat­i­tude­Log but­tons for your blog or website.

Gratitude Log Follow Me
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February 1, 2010

How to Get Things Done?

I have been fol­low­ing a very sim­ple sys­tem to stay on top of my ambi­tious to do list.

1) At the begin­ning of every month I come up with my key goals that I plan to accom­plish for that month

2) At the begin­ning of every sin­gle day I write down my MITs (most impor­tant tasks).  These MITs have to be in align­ment with the goals for the month.

3) Dur­ing the first hour of every day, I make sure that I work on my most impor­tant task with­out any inter­rup­tion.  This way, no mat­ter what hap­pens dur­ing the rest of the day, I have already made sig­nif­i­cant progress towards reach­ing my most impor­tant goals.

Over the years, I have tried A LOT of dif­fer­ent goal set­tings sys­tems and tech­niques and the above is the one that works best for me.

Discover Your Signature Strengths

In this excel­lent Philoso­pher­sNotes TV Episode Brian John­son explores the ori­gins of Pos­i­tive Psych and how to get your sig­na­ture strengths on!

Here are my top 5 sig­na­ture strengths:
1. Courage to pur­sue my dreams
2. Pas­sion for learn­ing
3. Integrity
4. Authen­tic­ity
5. Creativity

What are your top 5 strengths?

Guess which one is glar­ingly miss­ing on my list? Gratitude

I have to admit that this is not one of my sig­na­ture strengths. The sig­na­ture strengths come nat­u­rally to me. They are effort­less… almost part of my core DNA. Grat­i­tude is not on that list because it was only two years ago that I dis­cov­ered the impor­tance of grat­i­tude and cel­e­brat­ing every small suc­cess along the way. And wow… express­ing daily grat­i­tude has already made a huge impact on my life and since it did not come nat­u­rally to me, I invented www.GratitudeLog.com. :-)

The How of Happiness (explained)

After watch­ing this video… who is ready to keep a grat­i­tude jour­nal on Grat­i­tude­Log:-)

PS: If you dig this video… you can get more at http://tv.philosophersnotes.com/

What are you grateful for today?

A lot of peo­ple ask me… how do I best get started express­ing gratitude?

My answer is always the same.

If you are not sure what to write or what to be grate­ful for, then the best place to start is to check out the com­mu­nity on GratitudeLog.

http://www.gratitudelog.com/community

I visit this page at least once per day to get inspired and when­ever I need a “pick me up.”  It is incred­i­ble how much energy you can get from watch­ing what other peo­ple are grate­ful for or by fol­low­ing inspir­ing peo­ple like Brian John­son.

So… what are you wait­ing for?  Take a moment right now to think about what you are grate­ful for or bet­ter yet, join us on GratitudeLog.com and help more peo­ple to cre­ate a daily habit of being grate­ful.  :-)