Empower Newsletter – May 2016
Welcome to the May 2016 edition of the Empower Newsletter. This month the focus is on being able to make decisions more easily!
Did you know?
‘fear can stop us making decisions’
Decisions help us to grow and contribute, and without making them we start to retreat and shutdown.
The first thing we can do to help make decision making easier is to start with the end in mind. This means that we envisage the full experience of what we want BEFORE we start.
This is achieved by asking ourselves questions like, What will be different for me in one week as a result of getting what I want?
With this question you’re getting your mind to go beyond the attainment of the goal to the benefits of it. The more benefits you can think of the more momentum you will create to move yourself forward.
Let’s fast forward in our mind’s eye to one week from now, and you’re looking back having successfully achieved what you wanted. How have you grown? What are you most proud of? What’s different in you that is going to propel you forward from here?
Most people that have trouble making decisions fear change as they quite often feel comfortable with the familiar. The pain often associated with self-doubt or procrastination only comes from the perceived pain of doing something new. A great technique to overcome this is to trick your mind into seeing how much pleasure you would get from making the decision whilst also imagining how painful it would be not to achieve and experience that pleasure.
Another technique to make decision making easier is to picture yourself achieving whatever it is you want to happen from making your decision. Start feeling a sense of excitement about it. Once you have connected with it step out of the picture and see yourself having what you want.
Have fun making your decisions!
Decision
- a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration;
- the act of or need for making up one’s mind.
| Something to Ponder |
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.
The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.
If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign – body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on – alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction.”
~ Deepak Chopra ~
| Quote of the Month |
“Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.”
~ Jim Rohn ~
| Affirmation Corner |
‘I make decisions with ease.’
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April 30, 2016 12:06 pm
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