By Lorraine Hamilton

Although by the time you are reading this it may all be over for him, I have just watched Andy Murray complete an extraordinary comeback in his 4th round match at Wimbledon against Richard Gasquet. Two sets and a service break down in the third it looked all but over for Murray, yet he dug deep and came back to win the match. Not only did it provide me with some of the most exciting tennis I have seen in many years, but also I was utterly transfixed watching the ‘Inner Game’ of the two men. This was in many ways much more a psychological battle than a physical one.

And it got me thinking again!

How much attention do we pay to our own Inner Game of Business? We have within us the power to become our business’ greatest asset, or its downfall and it can be a simple case of how we talk to ourselves.

Our minds are incredibly powerful and ultimately obedient and once you understand how to feed and nurture them, great things grow. Wasn’t it Henry Ford who famously said, ‘Whether you believe you can or cannot, you are right.’

Your beliefs dictate your behaviour or action, and your behaviour or action dictates your success. Therefore what you believe about yourself and your business are directly related to your success.

So here are 5 ideas I want to share with you to Boost Your Inner Game:
Believe You Can, And You Will
You have a choice, you can either get your mind to work for you or against you. If you spend your time telling yourself why you won’t succeed you will feed your negative inner voice or the ‘devil on your shoulder’. Your negative inner voice is completely obedient and will agree with you wholeheartedly whilst bringing forward more evidence from your memory of reasons that you will not succeed. However, your positive inner voice or the ‘angel’ is equally as obedient and will generate the evidence to support your positive statements.

Give it a try! Tell yourself today is a rotten day – how does your negative inner voice react? Does it provide you with reasons that today will be rotten? It’s too hot/cold? Sales are going to be down? Working for yourself is an uphill struggle?

Now tell yourself this is a great day – watch how your angel springs into action to support your new decision with examples of why today is great and filled with opportunity.

Excuses Are Not An Option
Most of suffer, at one time or another, with ‘excusitis’. We can make excuses about our lack of success about pretty much anything – intelligence, health, upbringing, luck, age. The truth is that excusitis is, as coined by David J. Schwartz, the ‘failure disease’. Challenge your excuses by taking a step back and looking to see if your excuse really is an obstacle that cannot be overcome in some way.

Feel The Fear, And Do It Anyway
Following on from the last point, our excuses are often developed to protect us from something that we fear. Fear is an opportunity to learn something new and is almost always cured by – ACTION. The thought of the fear is generally a lot more frightening than the actual fear itself and acting on it will reduce the fear. Continuing to act on it will remove it completely.

Think BIG
Set yourself big goals and stay focused on them, don’t get bogged down in the petty details. Use positive language at every opportunity, to yourself, to your colleagues, your friends, customers, suppliers. Remember you are better than you think you are. Concentrate on your assets and victories. Practice ‘Big Picture Thinking’, stretch your vision as far as you can. It is possible. Remember to ask yourself, ‘What’s more important, X or Y?’ whenever you need to get a clear perspective on something.

Snatch Victory From The Jaws Of Defeat
How do you do it? Persistence. Tenacity. Never giving up. The difference between those who fall and those who keep getting up is their attitude to ‘failure’. Those who keep getting up recognise that they are in a learning process and take everything they can from every experience to learn and propel them forwards. Those who do not get up again believe they have failed.

Think about this. Have you succeeded in your ultimate goal yet? If not, then you are still learning how to achieve it. If you haven’t done it before, how are you going to get there unless you learn how? What if we lacked such persistence as babies? We would never walk.

Ask anyone who you deem to be a success and ask them if it has been plain-sailing. Most successful people have overcome many obstacles to get to where they are and it is their attitude towards these obstacles that makes them stronger each time.

Andy Murray certainly snatched victory from the jaws of defeat yesterday.

Going back to Andy Murray’s defeat of Richard Gasquet, he could easily have ’settled’ for going out in straight sets, that was certainly on the cards, however he chose to believe that he could do it and overcame every obstacle that his opponent put in his way to win. Some of the shots that both men returned would have been deemed impossible in normal circumstances, but with the mental attitude and self-belief that they were exhibiting, the impossible was possible.

And it can be for you too.

Lorraine Hamilton is a Client Attraction Coach and knows first-hand how to build a successful, thriving company.

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Joy Idries

The main idea that seems to be spouted out these days whenever we hear about the Law of Attraction is that ‘We get what we think about most’. So most of us could be forgiven for thinking at first glance that if we just do something to change our thoughts then our life will automatically change too.

However it is not quite that simple. It leaves out an important element which is that we often SABOTAGE our efforts because of deeply held beliefs that we are not so conscious of … our hidden saboteurs ….which can block or drain the energy of our pure thought vibrations.

So it makes sense to spend some time working to clear these out first. A very common saboteur is the belief that we “DON’T DESERVE” whatever it is we say we want. This means that even if you visualize yourself getting that perfect job, or being finally free from your chronic back pain, or finding your perfect partner, unless you feel that you deserve it you are much less likely to attract it into your life.

Underneath there is a stronger message going out to the universe : “I don’t deserve to have it’”, or “I’m saddled with this dead end job”, or “I’m never going to get a good night’s sleep ever again!”.

With these kinds of beliefs in place you are more likely to attract things and events that further confirm you don’t deserve any better than what you already have. Because these thoughts or beliefs are stronger than what you are hoping to replace them with. So what we need to do first is to uncover and clear out these deeper sabotaging beliefs, which have been acting as a covering layer over our even deeper more essential true and joyous selves.

All that prevents a person from being joyful once again is the pain layered on top. You can cut through these layers, which in reality are really only the patterned, fixed responses that have been handed down to you by your parents. When you do this you will be able to reconnect with your inner wisdom, your wise child, to reclaim your natural spontaneous and joyful self. A child plays in the complete innocence of life and simply assumes without doubt that everything she wants is already there for her. Reconnect to the playful child inside of you, through the imagination of the clown.

As we grow older we lose our connection with our innocent and spontaneous sense of fun. But through LAUGHTER and silliness we can regain our enthusiasm for life and make it more meaningful. It will relax you and empower your choices.

When you have faith in yourself, when you really believe in you and trust that everything is already there just waiting for you to claim it you can visualize what you would like to see in your life and expect it to happen. Then something magical seems to take place. It is as if something ‘wiggles’ in the universe to make it happen, to open the way for everything to come to you.

Brandon Bays, in her book ‘The Journey’ describes how she came to the realization in her recovery from cancer that she had been ‘clinging to the cancer’ rather than the cancer clinging to her. In other words, although she wanted to get well, at first she was still clinging to her old belief that the cancer was ‘out to get her’. It isn’t surprising that she had this original belief, that the world was ‘out to get her’, in light of the physical abuse she suffered in childhood. But it was a limiting belief nonetheless – limiting her access to her own inner greatness – and needed to be cleared before she could open up to and believe in her own magnificent healing force.

When she did, she opened into this stronger belief in her own ability to heal, and the cancerous tumor disappeared, leaving her to continue living her life in perfect health. And all of this happened within the short space of just a few weeks

So the good news is that, although you may have some sabotaging, limiting beliefs tucked away inside of you, you can also uncover and clear them out to make way for beliefs that are more in line with abundant living in all areas of your life.

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by Lynn Marie Sager

How powerful are words and their definitions?
I remember an anthropology book that I read in college about a Pacific island called Rotuma. This tiny island has a large mountain range, causing one side of the island to be geographically isolated from the other. Before Rotuma’s “discovery” in the 1800’s, the island was highly populated and both sides of the island got along tolerably well. Until one day, when Catholic missionaries landed on one side of the island and began translating the bible into Rotuman. Their translation might not have been a bad thing, except that around this same time, Congregationalist missionaries landed on the other side of the island and began their own translation of the bible into Rotuman. The Rotuman language has a number of words that mean divine. The Catholics chose one word to stand for “God” and arbitrarily chose another to mean the “Devil.” As fate would have it, the word they chose to mean the “Devil” was the same word the Congregationalists chose to mean “God.” Within a short time, rumor spread that the people on the other side of the island were practicing devil worship. As a result, war broke out between the two sides of the island.

People die over words all the time.
Words, and the meanings we assign them, have power. Definitions give meaning to life. Words will continue to define you unless you take the time to define them. So, if your life lacks meaning, maybe it’s because you’ve neglected to define what your life means. If you accept without question, any definition, belief, or perception handed to you, then you limit your life to the truths and beliefs discovered by other people. You kill the one thing that is uniquely your own-your perspective. Your life will become some vague shadow of something that someone else defined years ago. Or, even worse, you may never really understand what those people who defined your language, centuries ago, meant. Everything in your life will seem just as hollow as the words you take for granted.

What’s the bottom line on definitions and belief?
The most fundamental changes in life happen when we redefine who we are. When we see ourselves differently, we think differently. When we think differently, we feel differently. When we feel differently, we behave differently, and we don’t need some quick-fix technique to control ourselves, or others. So open your mind and explore your definitions. Your life will expand proportionately…

From A River Worth Riding: Fourteen Rules for Navigating Life, by Lynn Marie Sager Copyright 2005.You can find more about the power of belief on Navigating Life’s website. Simply go to http://www.navigatinglife.org and visit boarding for links to our full lessons, techniques, and exercises for expanding beliefs.

Lynn Marie Sager has toured over two-dozen countries and worked on three continents. Author of A River Worth Riding: Fourteen Rules for Navigating Life, Lynn currently lives in California; where she fills her time with private coaching, public speaking, and teaching for the LACCD and Pierce College. She runs the Navigating Life website, where she offers free assistance to readers who wish to incorporate the rules of worthwhile living into their lives. To read more about how you can use these rules to improve your life, visit Lynn’s website at http://www.navigatinglife.org

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