My Authentic Self....

    First off I am an authentic and abundant man! I could not say that about myself a few years ago. You see back in 2005 my wife and I made a commitment to ourselves to enhance our personal growth in all areas of our lives. We started reading books like “Think and Grow Rich”, “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, “If How To‘s Were Enough We All Be Skinny, Rich and Happy” and our list goes on and on. We committed to turning off our Television, listening to Audio books when driving, and we attended seminars on self-improvement. I would guess we spend well over $30,000 on ourselves. We did change our mindset and our beliefs. You see what we think about ourselves is at the root of our success and as well as the root of our failures. Everything we want, relationship, finance, status, success did not provide any satisfaction we were always wanting more, never being satisfied.  We changed our belief yet it was not enough. I had to learn to stop thinking from my head and start living from my heart. Once I did that, our lives changed and will do so forever.
    
     I got involved in a brand new startup company in 2006 climbed up the ladder of success – won the “Top Gun” Award - #1 in sales for the year and did it in 8 months. I became a Presidential Founder in the company in just a little over year. Doubled and tripled my income as a school teacher within my first year. Success happen because I changed my beliefs.  What I believed about myself, what I believed about money, and what I believed about success.

     Growing up I was not very coordinated and therefore I was usually the last one picked to be on anyone’s team. I even remember the neighborhood kids arguing over why I needed to be on the other team. At a very young age I adopted a belief that let me play my life with a “Not to lose attitude.” This affected me in all areas of my life. It kept me from going after my dreams and goals. You see if I was not sure I would win or achieved my desires I would simply not try that way I could not lose, because I never pursued those desires. Now I play life to “Win” and this shift in my belief allowed me to step into a new me, however it was still not enough.

     Life has filled my life with many new twists and turns since the company I described above... they closed their doors, we lost all of our income, got foreclosed on, we had our car repossess etc....however I continuing with an attitude of Win/Win and believed that everything that happens weather good or bad is a learning situation. I can choose to either step into seeing the opportunities these trials had to offer or craw away or cower into my hole; I choose to step into looking for the opportunities, looking for another way. By taking something that most people find as horrible circumstance just to be “what is” and move on right away....

     This is the first post of my Shifts in Life’s Journey. As you read along feel free to comment, share with me your feeling and what is on your heart. I look forward to hearing from you.