Deepak Chopra: Defining Success with the Right Mindset
Deepak Chopra is one of the foremost proponents of mind-body medicine and the author of more than 50 books. One of his quickest and most effective exercises�mind-mapping�takes five minutes, but crystaltallizes your deepest motivations and allows you to see new ways to proceed in defining your own success.
All you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and your honesty, Chopra says. “Draw a circle on the middle of a page and write down a word. Success, for example. From that circle, draw five arrows for what success means to you. At the end of the five arrows, write another word or phrase: good health, or a million dollars in the bank, whatever. Then extend five more arrows from those five and come up with five more words for each.” The exercise leaves you with more than 30 succinct clues to what drives you, entices you, attracts you.
“I’ve done this with some significant, wealthy CEOs of major corporations, and at the end of the exercise, they recognize their priorities are different than they thought. It doesn’t mean they’ll be less successful,” Chopra says. “But it definitely gives their success more significance and a sense of fulfillment and passion they’ve never felt before.”
Once you have your list, ask yourself: Why will these things make me successful and-or happy? And how do I achieve them? If you engage in what Chopra calls “deep reflection,” you’ll find the answers.
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The One Thought that Can Change Your Life
by Darren Hardy
You can change your life with a single thought.
This one thought can:
� Create great wealth
� Restore health and even cure disease
� Unlock your greatest potential
� Forge and fortify deep abiding love
� Inspire great joy to the point of bliss
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We get out of LIFE what we CREATE. Simple enough, right? We are all creative beings. We all arrive the same – naked, scared and ignorant. What becomes of our lives from that point forward is what we create (or don’t create).
So what drives and determines our creation process?
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