Monday 26 July 2010

Week Update

I was not able to post here before I left for a very special trip to Austria. A speaker at the annual Life Health programme dropped out and I was asked if I could prepare something at short notice and deliver it to the delegates. Well I agreed and I had one day to get everything ready.
Well I flew back yesterday and am a little worn out but very excited by the people I had met in Austria. I only wished I had taken a larger quantity of my books to give away. Anyway I hope to get back to posting some more interesting blog posts in the coming week once I have unpacked my suitcase and caught up with all my emails from you wonderful people.

Sunday 18 July 2010

Dealing with sleep problems

In my new book on losing weight I mention the importance of getting enough sleep. I also offered a list in my first book for people who have problems sleeping. However I did say that there are various other factors which can affect your sleep. Many people may say that they feel they sleep ok. However if you were to film them during the night you would know the truth. For many are actually having a bad nights sleep and they may not realise it. People will often report feeling energised and refreshed after going abroad. Part of that reason may just be because you have slept comfortably in a bed with pillows in a better condition than yours may be at home.
I would like to mention some of them today as I know a few of you have requested more information. Lets start with electronic devices. Some people are more sensitive to others to electromagnetic radiation. These are emitted from all sorts of devices such as mobile phones, power extension cables, table lights and electric blankets. If you can remove them from your sleeping environment the better-that is if you have tried everything else and continue to have sleep problems. One device people can not do without is their mobile phone and many people will leave it very close by. What you may not know is that the phone will continue to send and receive signals and these waves can cause, for some people, sleep problems.
Although it may seem like marketing speak by bed companies- it is true that your bed can be the cause of many sleep problems. But you may not need to buy a whole new bed and mattress- there are cheaper alternatives such as mattress toppers. A lot of people find memory foam toppers to offer relief. Don’t forget the importance of a suitable pillow. Is your pillow flat and lost its bounce? It is important to provide the neck adequate support during sleep. Again I will mention memory foam pillows which I myself use. Although some people find that the heat retaining properties feel uncomfortable for them. An alternative then would be a new pillow with goose or duck feather fillings.
Finally there are techniques in both of my books to ensure you get a sound sleep by calming the mind so that at bedtime you are not so plagued by worries that you are not able to sleep soundly even when you have taken care of all of the aspects I mentioned above.

Wednesday 14 July 2010

Seminar 2010

I have news for those who were lucky enough to be selected to the all expenses paid seminar. There will be a special guest coming to speak to us on one of the nights- and has asked to remain anonymous until then. All I can say is that he is very well known around the world and highly respected in his field. I have also been told that he will be happy to record that particular session and make it available for everyone else. So at least for those who were not selected you will still at least get the benefit of the session by our mystery speaker!

Wednesday 7 July 2010

Life change – follow your passion

Do you leap out of bed every morning excited about your day? Or do you have to drag yourself out of your comfortable sleep and force yourself to get ready?
Most people have had at least one experience when a special event is about to take place the next day and you jump out of bed as if you don’t want to waste your precious time one sleep. Why is it that for most people this experience is distant memory? How many of you have concluded that this is what happens as you grow from being a young child to an adult. But let me tell you that for some people in the world, it is commonplace for them to wake up most days with great enthusiasm and energy for the day. That is how is should be. So what happened to many of us to stop that happening? The answer is that many of you are not doing what you love in life. We all have a gift in something and if that gift is not nurtured and developed then we will forever be wishing for something in life but not knowing what. As we get older we simply forget what it is that gave us joy when we were young and we pursue various career paths thinking that is what we want. Yet once we are set on such paths we wake up each day not really looking forward to work, or feeling half-hearted about it all. Let me tell you about someone I met a few years ago. He was a bus driver who I met at an awards ceremony where he received an award for customer service nominated by his passengers. I got talking to him and learnt he was a fully qualified medical doctor. I was astonished to say the least and asked him to tell me how he came to be driving busses. He told me when he was young he loved trucks and was collecting toy trucks. He got a licence to drive them as soon as he was old enough. His parents knew about his passion but they pushed him towards an acceptable career. He said he was always telling people he just wanted to be a truck driver. He did well at college and got a place on a medical course. Even in his vacations he was driving trucks to bring in some money. He says he knew his heart wasn’t in his medical course but he kept hearing his parents saying he needed to have a stable job and how hard life would be not knowing when the next salary would be coming from.
Soon after qualifying he was working as a doctor but he found that he was longing to get outside behind a wheel, and was having trouble getting up everyday to get to work. Then one day he decided he would have to do what he loved to do and gave up his job as a doctor and went back to driving trucks. Then he saw a job for bus drivers and applied and he says he knew everything fitted perfectly in his life. He even went back to college part time to learn about engines. Nowadays he is running a profitable business in upgrading and maintaining truck engines and he gets to travel the world to work on various contracts. He followed his passion and he is now making more money then he would have if he had stayed a doctor. I mention money because that’s the first thing people think of when choosing what to do in life, when actually money should be secondary.
By following your passion and nurturing your gift- you will find that your life will start to slot in perfectly. If you haven’t read the speech that Steve Jobs gave about the dots connecting up together, I will urge you to read it. It’s a similar story of how he followed what interested him and only years later did he realise that by following his passion he has gained amazing success- the dots all joined up. The bus driver, and Steve Jobs are not isolated cases, and so I urge you all to follow your passions and if you do not know what they are, or you feel you have no particular gifts then read one of my books and start to change your life.

Sunday 4 July 2010

Money from unexpected places

I remember when I tried the list for money many months ago and since then the vibrations have continued to this day. It is that once things are set into a positive motion they keep going for a long while.
I often get emails from people who tell me of money received from unexpected places ranging from small to very large amounts.
For me its been small amounts and every time it happens I think back to the list and the power the lists have. So for those who have just begun with the list for money, I await your emails when those amounts of money, whether large or small come your way.