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Class One: The 5 Essential Conditions Your Mind Needs for Client Attraction

(see here for more details)

It’s taken me a while to realise that mindset is not just about the mind (see recent blog post), but the more I consider this, the more I realise it’s true.  One of the things I know is crucial is to stop listening to my mind when it chatters on along the lines of ‘Oh you must do this now, if you don’t do it now, then x y z will happen and that will be awful, so no matter what you feel like, DO IT NOW!”

Why stop listening? Why not just do it?  Isn’t getting things done a good idea?  Well, yes, but not if you’re coming from a self-bullying place such as this. It means I end up feeling some satisfaction from achieving the task, but not much enjoyment along the way. And I tell you, life is too short not to enjoy as many moments as possible!  So on the teleclass one of the things I’l be exploring is how you can manage to stop, be still and listen to a calmer voice, and still manage to get things done.

Visit here now and sign up to register for it, it’ll be an interactive class and I’d love to hear your views.

(What is Spiritual Marketing Awareness Month?  My colleague Shelagh Jones, of Spiritus, has set this up as a way to support all business owners who love to come from a spiritual base in their business.  Lots of interesting people putting out a short article each day…well worth logging into.)

Well, there’s a lot we could do, and will do. But the most interesting and useful part of our discussion was how we arrived at prioritising the list.  If you’ve never done this before, then I highly recommend this particular method, which very clearly identifies your priorities.  (I introduce you to lots of other methods on the RichThinking Way).

Basically, you compare one item against another.  I first came across this years ago in Richard Bolles excellent bookWhat Colour is Your Parachute? and have used it very successfully in all areas ever since.  So long as you are willing to be honest, it often gives you some surprises, which can be both enlightening and useful.

Here’s a PDF for you to access which explains it fully:

http://www.richthinkers.co.uk/prioritising-process-pdf/

If you’re familiar with my blogs, you might be wondering why I’m not using my intuition, or asking in meditation or something more esoteric! But I have a very practical side too, and love using tools that help me be more organised, which this did.  By the way, doing my blog came out on top, hence sitting here at 9am today!

“Read it”, he said, “it’s incredible, really inspiring!”

“Is it the same Paul Hawken who visited Findhorn in the seventies and wrote The Magic of Findhorn?” I said.

And indeed it is.  That book is out of print, but at the time it was famous for telling the world about the enormous vegetables being grown at Findhorn at the time, which led to the huge community expansion that happened in those years.  Paul has since then written 6 other books, the latest being Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No-one Saw It Coming. But what has all this to do with RichThinkers and your business or project?

Read the commencement address and you will see that this is the current context out of which we are all operating our businesses or projects, charities or non-profits, whatever is your passion. Paul expresses it beautifully; starkly yes, but with immense grace, as he speaks to young people about to make their way in the world.   Which is what you reading this site are doing too.  Making your way, contributing from your heart and soul, caring about people and our planet, wanting to run your business in an ethical way that gives back to the planet, not just taking.

Here’s a quote:

“Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done”.

Wow.  This is such a great example of rich thinking. Here’s another:

“At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth, we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich”.

And Rich Thinking is just that — being rich right now, in this instant, in your heart; and radiating that to others through your daily acitivities, your services, your organisation or however you channel your particular passion.  Read the address and answer his two questions at the end — let your inner riches be known to you, and spill them out into the world.