Become Self Actualized: Jump Start Your Life And Business Into Powerful Action

Become Self Actualized: Jump Start Your Life And Business Into Powerful Action

If you’re feeling stuck and frustrated in your business and life, committing to become more self actualized will shake things up. In a good way. It will bring you unimaginable growth, rewards and new opportunities. You’ll feel more optimistic and abundant. Becoming self actualized enriches your life in so many ways.

But in order to self actualize, you have to be self-aware.

It’s about being open to experiences that promote self-discovery, self-reflection and self-exploration. So it requires a bit of courage, guts and staying power. You’ve got to be willing to get out there. See things through. Know when you need to course-correct.

Part and parcel with this is getting to know and understand what’s driving your negative parts. Why you stop. Why you struggle. Learning about your shadow side. Your psychological pain points, triggers and blind spots. Absolutely essential if you’re in business.

Because your level of self-awareness determines your levels of mental and emotional agility and self-mastery. Your ability to handle the failure, set backs and curveballs that come with being in business for yourself. If you don’t do the journey of self-discovery that this requires and get rid of the negatives in your life, you’ll trip yourself up and stay stuck.

So what motivates you? What makes you want to stop? What will keep you engaged?

Self actualization is about creating from your core. It’s about discovering who you really are, and what you’re capable of doing through embracing new experiences and opportunties that usually lie outside of your cosy comfort zone. It’s about leaping into the unknown and being prepared to take a risk from time to time through trying something new.

Become Self Actualized: Put In Some Positives And Get Rid Of The Negatives

 how to become self actualized and jump start your life and business

 

Self actualization is also about getting rid of any negativity in your outer environment. This includes spending less time with people who are silently just waiting for you to fail. Sometimes even letting them go. When you dare to forge your own path in life, you unknowingly trigger a whole range of stuff in the people around you. Feelings like envy, criticism and judgment. Particularly if you’re out there doing things that they secretly want to do. But haven’t for whatever reason.

These types of people are toxic to be around when you’re building your own business and career. Because whether you realize it or not, their negativity is impacting you on a subconscious level, draining your energy and feeding your self-doubt. You need to become aware of who these people are and how to set up solid boundaries so they’re unable to negatively impact your enthusiasm and mojo.

You become like the 3-4 people you spend the most time with.

So if you’re taking action to live your purpose, go for your dreams, and self actualize to the max, you need to constantly be mindful of who you’re hanging out with the most. Otherwise you’ll stay stuck and frustrated at your current level of growth.

You’ve got to get out there, network with an open and curious mindset and meet like-minded people. Surround yourself with positive, can-do types. When you put yourself out there in the right way, choosing to be more self actualized, good things start to happen.

 

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Does Your Self Image Reflect Who You Want To Become?

Does Your Self Image Reflect Who You Want To Become?

Ready to raise your self confidence and self image so that you can get better results and be the best version of yourself? If you’re feeling stuck and scattered, guessing at what you should try next and working way too hard for uninspiring rewards, it’s time to do some game-changing moves.

Because most likely there’s a major disconnect going on between your current self image and who you’re aspiring to be. And anyone who’s ever dared to dream big and aim for more than what they’ve got has experienced at some stage the frustration of knowing you’re destined for bigger things, but not having the right map and guidance to help you evolve into the best version of yourself.

To shift this, because you do deserve better, add these 3 key foundational skills to your daily regime and then watch things start to transform in tangible ways:

 

3 Steps To A Positive Self Image

 

3 steps to a positive self image

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1. Give yourself diverse and positive experiences regularly

It’s the quality of your environment, thinking, and experiences that powerfully influences and shapes your self image – and how your brain gets wired every single day.

Why? Because your brain is an organ of adaptation that’s built by experience – with 70% of it’s structure being added after birth. This highlights the importance of being in nurturing, validating, and experience-rich environments from the moment we’re born and throughout our entire life. That’s if you want to have healthy self-esteem, reach your highest potential, and live a meaningful, rich, and rewarding life.

So always be open to new experiences and do what inspires you. Your brain, your self image, and your self confidence will thrive.

2.  Cultivate quality relationships

Neurons and humans are social entities. This means your brain is continuously being influenced and wired by who you spend the most time with. And it thrives on meaningful social interactions. So be selective. Surround yourself with optimistic, self-aware, interesting people. Limit your exposure to toxic people that drain your energy – the ones who trigger you into self-doubt, feeling bad about yourself, or less-than. Cut them loose.

Avoid discussing your life/career/biz aspirations with anyone who doesn’t support or ‘get’ you, or your goals. Their negativity, envy, doubt, or unresolved issues around not having pursued their own goals will impact you on subtle, or not so subtle levels. All of a sudden you’ll find yourself second-guessing your dreams and goals.

3.  Seek out mentors

Nothing will accelerate you taking quantum leaps in any area of your life faster than hanging out with people who are already where you want to be. It will powerfully shift how you’re seeing yourself, your life and what’s possible. That’s because of the power of mirror neurons in your brain that bridge your sensory, motor and emotional circuitry.

When you spend time with successful people that you admire, your mirror neurons get powerfully activated. Everything that you’re taking in when you hang out with them – from their mindset and behaviours to their more subconscious attitudes and beliefs around things like wealth, abundance and how to go about achieving success – is triggering corresponding motor and emotional activations in your brain and body via your mirror neurons. How cool is that. It’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to an instant download for how to become the person you want to be. The best version of yourself.

© 2015 Janelle Legge


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Why Living With Purpose Is A Vital Strategy For Success In Business And Life Today

Why Living With Purpose Is A Vital Strategy For Success In Business And Life Today

Becoming purpose-led is high on the radar for businesses that want to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex world. Why? Because smart people in business know that sustainable business growth, talent retention and achievement of strategic goals relies on having purpose, meaning, and enduring motivation. At the end of the day, bottom line results depend on how engaged your people and customers are.

Salary alone is not the top driver for ambitious, talented people who want to have a positive impact in the world. Eventually, top performers seek out other opportunities if there is a disconnect between the organization’s purpose, values and goals and their own. I’ve seen this happen time and time again as a consultant and executive coach.

In a rapidly changing world and constantly changing business landscape, being purpose-led is becoming more and more essential. It’s what makes everyone prepared to go over and beyond in order to achieve meaningful and compelling visions and goals. It’s an inner and shared-collective-group orientation that breeds certainty and confidence, rather than constantly looking over your shoulder to see what the competition is doing.

 

Purpose driven, constructive cultures lead to the attainment of an organisation’s mission and positively correlate with desirable organisational outcomes, such as, high staff and customer satisfaction, sales growth, profitability and shareholder value (Cooke and Szumal 2000).

 

So if organisations are beginning to realize that having a shared purpose is what powerfully guides and positively impacts the achievement of its goals and success, why is it that people often don’t have a clear purpose in their own lives?

Exactly the same purpose-led principles can be applied to achieve your own goals, and have fulfilment and success in the areas of life that matter the most to you.

I’ve seen clients over the years who appeared successful and together on the outside, yet inwardly doubted themselves and under-valued what they were doing in the world. Because they weren’t clear on their purpose and were still questioning why they were here, and what they were meant to be doing with their life. Helping them figure out their purpose gave them the self confidence to go for bigger goals and accelerated their success across a whole range of areas.

Living with purpose, knowing you’re on the right path in your life and work, is not a new trend or phenomenon at all. It’s something that’s been seen as essential to living a meaningful and well-lived life by philosophers and spiritual traditions since ancient times. It’s been central to my work over the last 16 years. Now businesses are increasingly seeing the value of being purpose-led, particularly with the success of brands like Virgin. It’s having a shared collective purpose that inspires everyone to go beyond what’s required to achieve meaningful goals. The improvement in people engagement and staff satisfaction levels, business results and organizational culture show that it works.

On a personal level, having a  clear purpose is energizing and inspiring. It encourages you to be more creative and resourceful and it’s good for your wellbeing. You’re able to stop doing the things that waste your time and take you off track. Being purpose-led gives you a more zen-like focus and brings you more inner peace and cohesion.

 

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Knowing your purpose gives you a roadmap, a strategy and a meaningful plan in life and in business.



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50 Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes To Help You Live A Happier Life

50 Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes To Help You Live A Happier Life

If you’re looking for practical and insightful quotes to live a better more healthier and happier life, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are the best 50 inspirational Deepak Chopra quotes about love, happiness, relationships, healing and change. Deepak Chopra is one of the best known holisitic health and spiritual growth leaders of our time. As you know, there’s no shortage of inspirational, life-changing quotes by Deepak. But we decided to separate the wheat from the chaff and give you the absolute cream of the crop. Whether you’re just feeling a bit down in the dumps or blue, or you’re looking for some daily, positive inspiration, these life-changing tips give you the motivation and stimulus you need to live your best life everyday.

I’ve sorted the quotes into 6 categories so that you can go straight to the ones that interest you the most:

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Love Quotes

“Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.” Deepak Chopra  (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on self love

Image by Anna Hamilton “The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)
Inspiring quotes on love Deepak Chopra

Inspiring quotes on love Deepak Chopra

Image by Grant Molver “Love doesn’t need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

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“Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

50 inspiring deepak chopra quotes to live a happier life

“If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring quotes on love Deepak Chopra

“To love and be loved is the most natural expression of our being.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring quotes on love Deepak Chopra

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“Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring love quotes Deepak Chopra

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Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Happiness

“The reason why life is a sleep and dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future and not with what is.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

“To create a positive lifestyle, cultivate an environment that makes positive choices easy, natural, and fun.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

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“In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

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“The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

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“Being excited about what we do every day and sharing our gifts with the world is how we cultivate joy and energy.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

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“The goal actually, is to wake up now.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

END THE DAY POSITIVELY

“The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

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“The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

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“The healthiest response to life is joy.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

“Happiness is the realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, and remain connected to your creative center.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on happiness

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Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Relationships

“Don’t hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on relationships

“Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on relationships

“You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you’ll be able to take care of everyone else even better.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on relationships

“Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on relationships

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“When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on relationships

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Health

“The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Health

ON MEDITATION

“If you say you don’t have time to do it once a day, then you’re the one who probably needs it twice a day.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

 Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Health

“Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on health

“Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Health

“The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on health

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Healing

“Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

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“The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

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“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

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“When we’re passionate about something, we have a positive attitude and embrace each day with a new outlook.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

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FIND FULFILLMENT

“Success is the progressive realization of enjoying good health. Success is the ability to love and have compassion. Success is getting in touch with your creative source. All of these come from your creative source, which in spiritual traditions is the soul.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

MAKE HEALING A PRIORITY

“Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you’re a part of that one wholeness.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

“We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

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“Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

“You have the power to reverse your age.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on healing

“Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion, joy and peace, they will expand — not only in our own lives, but also into the world beyond.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

 Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes for a happier life

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“Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on Healing

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Higher Consciousness

“The important message of the energy of attraction is in learning to master your choices in the present to create a personal reality that reflects this expanded consciousness.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Higher Consciousness

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“There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Higher Consciousness

 “In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now?” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Higher Consciousness

 “Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Higher Consciousness

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“Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

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“What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It’s very specific to the nervous system.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Higher Consciousness

“Reality is mind-made.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra Quotes on Higher Consciousness

“The Soul is on a journey through cosmic time, and you can orchestrate your journey through cosmic time, when you have awakened to the bigger reality.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

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TRADE MULTI-TASKING FOR FOCUS

“Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you’re guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things simultaneously, it messes up your neural circuits. Focus on one thing at a time.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on Higher Consciousness

“By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet) 

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on Higher Consciousness

“Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on Higher Consciousness

“When you’re in touch with spirit, you put feeling over results.” Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet)

Inspiring Deepak Chopra quotes on higher consciousness

Conclusion

You already know how good it feels to come across ideas that lift your spirit and give you hope and renewed focus. The trick is STAYING inspired and optimistic. For attitude and vibe resets, and regular inspirations like these, check out our Facebook page.

So which quotes do you find the most inspiring? Please share your favourites!

Janelle Legge

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3 Essential Steps to Finding Love

3 Essential Steps to Finding Love

Are you struggling to attract the right partner? If you are, then it most likely comes down to 2 things – low self worth in your relationships and not being clear on what it is that you want. 

And if you’re totally fed up and over finding love hard work and just not happening for you, that means you’re ready to release the toxic and addictive love patterns that have been tripping you up.

Here are 3 potent and proven steps you can take to find love that lasts: 

 

3 Essential Steps to Finding Love

 

1. Get Clear On What You’re Looking For

One of the most common blocks to attracting the right partner is not being clear on the qualities and values you’re looking for in someone else. If you’re not clear on what you want, then you’re putting out unclear, confusing messages to the universe, so guess what you attract? Anything and everything. It’s a random selection process that doesn’t get you far. You’ll most likely attract people who don’t want to commit to you beyond the first couple of dates because you’re not clear on what it is that you want. Maybe this is what you’ve been experiencing?

Knowing what you want, and owning it, is what attracts quality people to you with healthy self esteem.

2.  Know Your Value And Worth

You need to be the type of person you’re wanting to attract. This is probably not what you wanted to hear, right?  But it’s how it really works. In healthy relationships, peers attract peers. So your life needs to be in order and happening. You’re more likely to attract someone who’s interesting and has it all together when you’re feeling good about yourself and are out doing the things that you love. You’re going for high self worth from now on.

Don’t fall into the Hollywood script fantasy of waiting around for someone to rescue you. That’s wishful thinking, and not realizing your own potential.

3.  Make Daily Decisions That Support What You Want

To magnetize what you want, it always comes down to who you’re being every single day. Are you tolerating things that go against your values? Are you not speaking up for what you want, what you need and what you really believe? Are your actions and words matching your deepest wishes and desires?

Your inner image needs to match and support what you’re wanting to create on the outside. This is important because over 90% of communication is non-verbal. Other people quickly work out how much you value, or don’t value, yourself and treat you accordingly.  It happens in all of your relationships – in your personal life, family and in your business and career.

It’s your repetitive daily thoughts and actions that determine what you attract into your present and future life. It’s making the law of attraction work for you. Because you know you deserve better.

 

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