Starting YOU, All Over Again...

Let's play a game.

Let's pretend for a second you don't know who you are or what your history is. Let's pretend that you don't have a memory about the story of your life. Let's pretend that you don't know anything about the pain or anguish you may have experienced.

Let's play the game that says we're going to start life all over again, starting from nothing.

Are you in?

Now here's the beauty of all this; we get to BE who we want to be, from now on... forever!

And, if getting to BE someone else, somewhat troubles you, let me suggest that we've all BECOME someone else already.

We're all acting out a role, which, for many, they destest and can't stand. Most really do want to be, someone else.

But, what if we could step in front of all what may come our way over the next week, month, year... and... guide and steer the very life we own... what then?

See, when we start US over, we get to be as playful and curious as the little child that we all are. There's no mask, no insecurities, no judgements, no opinions... just pure, playful, loving adventure.

Would that be something... taking that child within us, with all the many beautiful characteristics outlined above, and then, import it all into our present life, into our very BEING... present day... and, from this day forward we're LIVING OUR LIFE with that story of a child, living naturally, gracefully, as a part of who we ARE!

I suggest there'll be a remarkable shift in your life if you step into this game.

And, if you're the kind of person who's open to the very possibilities of you and your life by the transformations that can occur simply out of thin air, you'll take this post rather more seriously than those wishing and hoping for a better life... and... who do nothing about it.

So, here's the dare... here's the challenge; over the next 7 days, live life as a little child - having no stories, no fears, no opinions about yourself and what you can or, cannot do.

Get a little notebook and notice what you notice about yourself. Write it all down. Notice what others around you seem to be experiencing because of this NATURAL you who's only playing the game from that sacred child space, that touched heart space where you live and perform at your creative best.

Test it. Challenge it. And see what comes out of it.

To the week ahead and to the YOU who's STARTING OVER.


Raja C. Hireker
http://MarketingAndLifeChangeCoaching.com

What ARE You Really Scared Of?

I asked him, "show me what's got you scared and put it on this plate here?"

He looked perplexed. Confused, even.

Again I pressed him - "show me what has you scared and fearful and put it on this plate?"

By now he was in a real state. In fact, I felt as if he was going to burst into tears. Or be sick. Or, something. So, I decided to go along another track.

"If we were at the surgeon's table, and we decided to look inside you, where do you think we'd find the thing that has you scared? Would it be in the lungs, near the kidneys... what about in your little toe... or, how about in the heart or liver?"

"And... if it is the fear of communicating effectively and saying what you want to say that has you in knots, where in your body do you think we'd find it all?"

A little smile appeared. His cheeks lifted a little. His shoulders were less tense. His breathing, lighter.

So again, I went a little further - always on the look out to pounce when the going's good!

"Okay, so we have your brain here, rolling about in this bowl. (I grabbed an apple and a cereal bowl to demonstrate the point - oh the joy of creativity!) Tell me now, if we were to open the little fella up, what do you think we'd find... would there be the list of fears you told me about?"

A picture of amazed puzzlement (I'm not sure if there's such a word, but, I like it!) spread across the chaps' face.

For, in that short, basic example, he GOT the fact that there's really nothing to be fearful or scared of at all. And, that it all lies outside of us, in the made up stories we tell.

Have YOU made up any stories recently... stories that have you frozen, inactive and just bumbling around in a haze?

GOOD!!

Because, now, you can take them to the surgeon's table or the brain bowl, and... scalpel the living daylights out of them!!


Happy fear BASHing!



Raja C. Hireker
http://marketingandlifechangecoaching.com/

The Awesome POWER of... ONE!

If you look all around you in your life, you've no doubt noticed the scatty type thinking adopted by most.

Of course, you'll get into a wrestling match about what's scatty and, what's not from those who'll protest about it all.

However, if you wanted to rid the world around you of the scatty, bird brain thinking most have slithered into, there's a simply beautiful solution.

I'm talking about finding ONE source, ONE person, ONE book, ONE website to help us FIX whatever it is that's giving us our scatty thinking in an area of life we want to improve.

And I know that simply hearing that instruction will have many jumping into a panic about "all the material and information they've already invested in... ", and, that's okay. But you see, the critical question you may need to fire at yourself is...

"What have I gained from it and how has it really helped me?"

You see, it's this Olympic style skating from one book, resource, website, guru, etc, to another, THAT is what STOPS most from getting really skilled and knowledgeable in a particular area.

We're simply not stopping at things long enough to give it a fair trial! To perfectly and beautifully, master the information.

In fact, I've been madly guilty of all this jumping around from pillar to post that at times, it makes me quite sick just writing about it. The amount of wasted energy, money, time, commitment in practicing this kind of ill-disciplined habit would stagger anyone if they audited it all and put everything to numbers.

So, when someone asks me about how to become a good writer to promote their products or services, I tell them to... WRITE. And, I say to them to get a hold of one book on a list of 5* or so advertising books, and to PICK ONE and go through it like there was nothing else on the planet that was written on the subject matter. For, when they're grounded in the basics, the FUNdamentals, they can then move on to other works to add to the rock solid foundation.

When someone asks me about motivation, self help, personal development, I tell them point blank to invest in the material put out by Steve Chandler (http://www.stevechandler.com/) I tell them to immerse themselves in his material and then, if they're not happy, to then trot along to all those hyped up evangelists who have nothing more to offer than their personal style and a total eagerness to promote themselves. You know; all wind and borrowed substance or in fact, NO substance.

The POWER OF 1 is not talked about much as most people have wired their insides to willingly, deliberately, on purpose... to skip the necessary concentration and attentiveness that's needed for experiencing the true POWER of 1.

So, if you peep into your own life, to an area where you're feeling sloppy or sluggish about something, then take a closer look for when you do you'll see that you've most likely got a half baked, incomplete, or conflicting story that's confusing the heck out of you.

So, what you probably do next is to cover it all away from the glare of the spotlight and let it hide away in some dark corner somewhere. And I can speak so freely and flowingly about it all because that's what I used to do! And yes, it felt so so good in NOT dealing with it because... I DIDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT!

And of course, in the NOT dealing of it, it became a BIGGER PROBLEM than if it was tended to in the first place.

See how the Power of One can work miracles in YOUR life, also. Put it to the test and let the results be your guiding light.

And, when you eventually reach that point, you'll realise that all you'll ever need is the power of YOU. You'll be your own teacher. You'll be the ONE you'll bet on, time and time again. You won't need anyONE else to give you what you seek.


Raja C. Hireker
http://rajahireker.com/

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The Bogus, Fake, Invented Lie -- Curiosity Killed NO Cat!

Ever hear of such a thing; that the timid got what they wanted?

Me neither.

Why is that?

Because they wouldn't be called timid if they asked and got what they wanted!

Seems quite simple, really.

But hold on; what about all of this curiosity killed the cat conversation - doesn't THAT have something to do with being timid, scared, afraid?

Of course it does - if we buy into all that fakery!

Show me one cat who died of being curious.

And, even if it was a cat that died because of asking too many questions (!), what have we humans got to do with all that?

Seems ludicrious doesn't it - buying into all those fables, stories, myths and tales about how being curious, would somehow, mentally, wipe us out.

But, believe it we do and timid we be... UNTIL...

... until we really become CURIOUS about whatever we feel is holding us back or whatever seems missing or, what is not quite right in our lives.

Imagine a world, without electricity. Without... the Internet! Without aeroplanes. Without a mobile phone. Without crappy marketing...

Anything and everything we have in our lives is because of someone being curious enough to ask questions, to create what didn't exist, before.

All our parents asked curious questions - that's how we've arrived on this jolly planet of ours.

Becoming curious, really curious will set YOU apart from all those merely dibbling and dabbling at life. And that's true for whatever area of life we care to investigate.

Whether in your personal life. Your business or career. Your health. Your language. Your attitude... whatever it is, the moment you turn on your curiosity buttons to full effect, your life will have a different vibration. A different feel. A different colour. A different beat and rhythm to it.

And there's one thing that's absolutely clear: whatever we have in our lives and whatever we've become, is TOTALLY down to the degree and level of curiosity we have about what's going, or, what's NOT going on in our lives!

Want a different life... change the level and depth of your CURIOSITY!

Here's to living curiously exciting lives.


Raja C. Hireker
http://marketingandlifechangecoaching.com/


P.S Here's a little curious snippet dug out from The Pourtsmouth Daily Times, March, 1915;

Mother - "Don't ask so many questions, child. Curiosity killed the cat."
Willie - "What did the cat want to know, Mom?"

Light Up The Sky Like a Flame!

"I'm gonna make it to heaven, light up the sky like a flame"

Do you remember where that line comes from? Well, it's from the 1980's movie, FAME. Gosh, was that song full of spirit and energy! I can hear the song playing in my head, again and again and again.

And it's so so beautiful.

And, it just so happened to be one of the songs my daughter danced to in her end of year ballet performance.

I'm hearing the song again, right now. God, it's electric!

And look, there's another line in that song - here it is. "I'm gonna to learn how to fly, high"

I can't stand it. I'm going to burst.

For me, it's TWO of the most spirited, most infectious and most instructive lessons for the mind, heart and spirit that we would NEVER have learnt in school, the workplace or pretty much anywhere else for that matter.

But, we can get it ALL - from the lyrics of a movie.

And still, there's people walking all over this planet (good, decent, educated people) who are still looking for a place to hang their umbilical chord because of the continuing uncertainty of who they are, what their contribution is and how can they make a true and lasting difference in this world.

So, let's go back to those TWIN POWERS.

"I'm gonna make it to heaven, light up the sky like a flame"

Now, as this is blog isn't 'into' heaven, I'll simply say that I call it a place where you're at your best - and, the lighting up the sky like a flame is simply - doing what you do so well that it just scorches up the sky with your brilliance.

Oh, if only the schools can teach our children, my children, your children, the children of the world that they can light up the sky like a flame in whatever way they want to! That they are the master creators.

And then there's the, "I'm going to learn how to fly, high".

So, if we pay careful attention, we'll see that the first part says "I'm going to learn how to fly". I'm going to LEARN how to FLY!

Learn - meaning, follow instructions, method, system, process, work. That's pretty clear cut. And it doesn't say, I'm going to fly. No. I'm going to LEARN how to fly...

And the next part is simply --- high.

Not, low, midway, semi-high.

Simply, HIGH!

Now isn't that a beautiful, simple instruction... LEARN to FLY, HIGH!

Do we really need a whole life to work out this beautiful truth? Oh, it seems we do.

But look, we don't need to WAIT. Why don't we DO all that, NOW!

Let's light up the sky like a flame. Let's learn to fly, high - right from where we currently are!

And, whether we're talking about doing it in your marketing, in your career, in your communications, in your personal relationships, in your health habits, in your own growth, in your own breathing... whatever it is for you, just scorch it across the sky and leave your trail there.

Leave it for people to marvel and wonder at!

Want to be infected? Get the song FAME. Listen to it. Again and again. Light up the sky like a flame and learn how to fly, higher than you've ever done before in your life.


Raja C. Hireker
http://marketingandlifechangecoaching.com/