Wily Walnut's Blog

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Energy follows attention.

Want to change? Put your attention on those qualities or habits that you want instead.

What is attention though?

Attention is focus, awareness, concentration, intention... mix those words together and you'll have a pretty good idea.

Patanjali, writing in 200 B.C., says:

'From sanyama on friendliness, compassion and happiness, these qualities blossom.'

Sanyama is a three-fold process that involves putting your attention on something, letting your awareness flow towards it, and becoming 'as one' with it.

Don't get put off by the idea of becoming 'at one' with something. It might sound too hard. Maybe you're put off trying because it sounds like something only Yogi masters could do.

Not so.

Relax and get on with it. Just concentrate on what you want. If you really want it, you will become 'as one' with it. Certainly to a degree that achievs the results you want.

Hey, Patanjali describes miraculous mindpowers or Siddhas that yogis achieve through this sanyama process. We're talking invisibility, strength of an elephant, ability to levitate and fly, know the past and future and superman stuff like that.

Should be easy then to use this skill to:

~ become a more friendly, compassionate person
~ become a more dynamic speaker
~ manifest a new car or dream house
~ boost your I.Q.
~ become highly creative

What will you put your attention on? What will YOU focus on until it's part of your life?

Labels: change, success

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Hi!

Wow, just come back in from a walk in the rain (saw a double rainbow!) and I wanted to give you a heads-up on an article/offer that I am excited to share with you.

I don't know what you are like with money, but I'm certainly open to improving my money making mindset so I was thrilled to discover how to think like a billionaire. Go read the article to discover a $7 system of programming your mind to think with the entrepreneurial flare and brilliance of such luminaries as Bill Gates, Richard Branson and 'the Donald' himself. Check it out now here -- I think this will be a big help to you in flexing and building your financial muscle!

Cheers,
Wily

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Delayed gratification is the highway to real success....

Most of us are suckers in the West -- we want everything now!

Suck, suck, slurp, slurp, gimmee gimmee! I want it now!!!!!

What the hell have we become?

...Junkies looking for the next hit of food, drink, drugs, sex, product, entertainment.

There is a difference between living in the moment and living for the moment.

Brian Tracy, in 'Getting Rich Your Own Way', reveals what economists believe is one on the main reasons why people retire poor: the inability to delay gratification. By spending all you've got, and more on credit, you never build up a pile of moola.

W. Clement Stone said, "If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you."

Maybe you don't want to be rich. But do you want to be poor?

Mastery involves wise management of what you do have.

If you are going to be in the desert for 10 days and you only have enough water for 5 days ... you need to manage that water so it lasts and enables you to survive.

Another way of looking at it is that you need to develop a time perspective. I've had difficulty with this one in my own life. I never thought about being 30 or 40 back when I was 18. It just seemed so remote. I figured that the Universe would sort out the details and I would be a success somehow.

Oops.

You live in the eternal present. But the future is just queueing up ready to slot into place. If you are 18, you will soon find yourself as a 38 year old with a partner and kids and all of the needs and requirements of that. If you are 40, so sorry, but you will be hitting 65 before you know it, and oh my gosh, I bet you wish you had contributed more to your pension plan now, huh? If you are a Mickey D's junkie at 21, better watch out because you'll be a bloated 41 year old on heart medication in no time at all, reaping the harvest of all that fat and junk.

Here are 3 reasons why delayed gratification rocks:

1. Delayed gratification builds personal power.
If you staunch the impulse, you are exhibiting control. Just as if you channel a river into a narrow conduit, the force of the water builds up and becomes more powerful, so you become more powerful from controlling your urges, appetites and unconscious drives.

2. Delayed gratification multiplies power.
Whether it's energy, desire or money, if you let it accumulate, the sense of increase makes your life richer and more fulfilling. If you put a portion (yeah, 10%) of your income aside each month into an interest paying "wealth" account, that you will never touch, you have created a money magnet. The month by month sense of increase and growing wealth becomes magnetic to more. If you channel your sexual energy into productivity or into chi kung practices, you become more and more charismatic, sexually magnetic and with very high energy. Chi kung practitioners build sexual energy and transmute it within their bodies into spiritual energy. It's very powerful, like a kind of bio-alchemy (yeah, I know, I'm stretching there ... just picture The Matrix... special effects... and all that woo-woo energy swirling around -- all good stuff!).

3. Delayed gratification carves character into your soul.
There is something tremendous about a man or woman who has achieved a certain rank in life through long hard work and discipline. They experience a deep sense of power, mastery, and personal fulfillment that the lottery winner millionaires or reality show instant fame contestants will never appreciate. We look for the short cuts all the time in our fast paced society but sometimes the long way is a better route.

Delayed gratification means foregoing something now for something even better later. It's a mark of maturity, adulthood and mastery. The successful people of the world are savvy in that they take the long view and build towards that future, sacrificing in small ways now so that they can enjoy greater rewards in the future. While it can seem that delayed gratification means that you will be 'missing out' in the present, there are intangible rewards that you will just have to experience for yourself. And the snowball effect (compounding interest -- it works in all things not just money) means that your momentum will quickly take you into realms of achievement that you cannot dream of while you still squander all you've got.

To your self-improved future,
Wily Walnut

Labels: mindpower, success, wealth

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When I go out for a walk over the fields near where I live, sometimes I like to practice 'walking the gate'.

Wily, I hear you ask, pray tell me what is walking the gate?

Walking the gate means I climb up on the gate post and walk across the top of the metal farm gate pictured above, balancing from one side to the other.

I'm a little over 6ft 2 inches, reasonably fit, but have sciatica from a couple of herniated disks (and some buried unconscious processes that I am still routing out -- but that's another story). Point is, I really don't want to fall off the gate. I did it once when my legs got twisted as I wobbled the wrong way and I fell sideways onto the hard dry mud like a felled redwood! So I feel nerves when I get up there. As a kid heights meant nothing. I had no internal images of pain to make me feel afraid. But now at my age, I have a whole mental album of my own experiences of physical pain (plus far too many clips of people hurting themselves courtesy of all those funny video TV shows and web sites!).

Images of me falling start to pop into my mind. I take a step and then quickly step back onto the solid safety of the post. I take a step or two out onto the gate and I start to wobble and I freeze. A voice comes in my head saying, "you're gonna fall, you're gonna fall!" And I fall off with an air of quiet resignation, a sort of 'told you so' feeling.

I climb back onto the gate post to try again. I expect to fall, so I take a half hearted step out and jump gently down, softening my landing with a hand on the gate.

When I think about falling, I fall.

When I listen to the voices in my head, I fall.

When I look at the fearful internal pictures, I fall.

So if I want to reach my goal of getting to the other side, I have to do things differently.

Practice makes perfect
Part of success is just trying over and over again, getting a little bit further each time. That's fine when you are balancing across the top of a gate that is only 4-to-5 ft off the ground, you can land and quickly get up again. But if I was balancing across a wire between two high rise buildings ... I really can't afford the luxury of falling off repeatedly. Once will see me off!

Changing the internal images
Maxwell Maltz taught us the psychocybernetic principle of changing the internal self-image. You start to shift your self-concept from someone who is a 'fall-er' (failure) to someone who 'can do it' (a success). By centreing myself, breathing and calming my mind, I can STOP the images of me falling, and TAKE CONTROL of my mind. I choose pictures of me walking easily and calmly across the gate and getting to the other side.

Anchoring the success images
Using an NLP anchoring technique, I can visualise myself successfully crossing the gate and feeling elation on the other side. I can squeeze my right wrist for a few seconds to anchor that feeling of success. Then after I have done that many times and really solidified the anchor, I can fire it off just before I attempt to cross the gate for real. This triggers my feelings of confidence and success.

Fierce concentration while walking the gate
All the preparation is great but it can go to pieces when I am actually standing out there on the gate, with the metal bar wobbling beneath my welling boot. What I have found is that only 100% focus will get me to the other side. I have to lock-on to the opposite gate post. It is a wooden pole about the thickness of a telegraph pole, and has concentric rings so it's really like a target on the top. I just focus in on the very centre of the top of the gate post and start walking towards it. Sometimes the thought stream will burst forth with some new fear or mental static. If I give it my attention, I start to wobble and will fall. If I ignore it, and force my eyes to focus and concentrate on the target, even if I am wobbling like crazy on one leg with my arms waving around for balance, if I can start to move forward towards the target, I can cross the gate. It is almost as though my concentration ties me to the target so that I cannot fall.

Goal achievement metaphor
I think my 'walking the gate' game is a marvellous metaphor for any kind of goal achievement. When you set out to achieve something big, often the negative voices and images come into your mind, and you begin with an attitude where you expect to fail. And when you do fail, you let that experience add weight to the negative inner voices and to your negative self-image. If you stick at it, and try again, you will probably improve over time and that experience will transform you. If you visualise yourself succeeding over and over and remember past successes, you will build a strong, capable self-image and will be more likely to succeed this time. But nothing succeeds quite like a 100% no-excuses, no-distractions laser-focus and total concentration on the target. With that 100% commitment, you overcome all obstacles, plow through all difficulties, and walk the narrow pathway directly to the achievement of your goal.

To your success,
Wily the Gate Walker!

Labels: balance, concentration, focus, goal achievement, goal setting, success

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Here are three valuable success insights I tumbled upon in my online reading this morning:

1. 'Gun-to-the-head' marketing:
The late Gary Halbert, copywriting legend, making an oh-so-important distinction on the power of words in the selling process:



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2. 'Making Our Lives Golden'
Michael Masterson of Early to Rise offers a useful set of guidelines for assessing whether our activities are contributing value to our lives, just providing a passive distraction, or are just self-destructive. His distinctions of golden choices, vaporous choices or acidic choices of behaviours is a useful one to take on board and a very pragmatic way of making the most of your 'spare' time.

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3. 'The Key to Success: The Ultimate Secret'
Kevin Hogan ups the ante on 'The Secret' teachings and offers a cold shower, kick-up-the-butt, honest assessment of what it really takes to be a success.

Why should you read it? Here's what Mr Hogan says: "This article contains the first-ever $100,000 Key. About 15 times per year, I put a $10,000 key in an article. The single most profound piece of information for achievement and success that I've ever written about is in this article."

Always refreshing, insightful and honest, I derive great value from Kevin Hogan's articles in his weekly shots of 'Coffee'... check it out.

Better and better,
Wily Walnut

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