It's our mind set that matters....

"I am an extraordinary person in an ordinary world."

Does that sound boastful?  Let me fill in some details so that we can be on the same page.  I am finishing up the book, "The Compassionate Samurai" by Brian Klemmer  and have made a 100% commitment to myself, my family, Joe and my life that I will settle for nothing less than extraordinary results in all areas of my life!  Sounds like a tall order, doesn't it?  Yup, to me too and now that I'm putting it IN WRITING and out to the world, gulp, it really shouts TALL ORDER!!  (That little voice that torments me when I'm not directing my thoughts is chirping...."Now everyone can watch and monitor and SEE when you fall short!  Good going, Einstein!" )  No worries, this is what it's all about! 

Lucky for me that nowadays I am creating my own world through my thoughts and my words.  Have you been doing this yourself?  I learned of  a powerful tool that I implement into my everyday success rituals.  It goes like this...start with the words I am... The words I am are the two most powerful words in the language.  The subconscious takes any sentence that starts with the words I am and interprets it as a command- a directive to make it happen!  Isn't that what we're looking for?  To make things happen?

So, back to being extraordinary....I think back to the life I was experiencing only three years ago and as I read back in my journal from those days I am saddened by the state of affairs of my mind.  My mindset was focused on everything that was wrong around me, with me, every possible atrocity that could go wrong in the future, every failure, every hurt, every injustice, on and on I droned about the depressing state of my life.  There was no gratitude, or very minimal.  There was no "possibility of a better future..." conversation going on.  My thoughts and words had deep roots in my depressing "circumstances" and boy, misery loves a good sob story to keep the bad times flowing!

Here's what I have learned since- Problems and challenging times are not a bad thing.  They help us mature into phenomenal people and also activate our power to choose in life.  We are never without the ability to make choices in our lives.  Never. (If you're in challenging times right now, please re-read the paragraph you just read.)

Your mindset starts with deciding.  Decide what it is you want in life.  And reader, I mean really want in life.  What can you think about having, being or doing that brings tears of joy to your eyes?  Think on it, think on it...There!  That!  That is your "why." That crazy thought that just passed through your mind while you were reading my words, but your subconscious was processing my question....that thought of writing a novel, living in Italy, running your own camp, starting an animal shelter, moving to a new city, designing your own line of clothes, starting a new home-based business....that's what I'm talking about. Not the reasonable, safe future.  No, no.  That's for ordinary people.  You, my dear reader, are aspiring for more!  Yell YES!  Right now!  Do it before you read on.  Yell YES to life and YES to living it on your terms!  Your new mind set starts right in this moment!  Your "why" is your inspiration for moving forward on your journey with focus, attention, passion and zero distraction.

With a totally focused mind you are on a mission.  Your life now has a vision, a purpose.  Now you can create and design your life, rather than living by default.  Knowing what you want, having a clear picture in your mind making a bold statement to those around you- this is walking the talk of a purpose driven student of life!  You are now in the drivers seat and get to direct your life where to go!  Feels nice, yes?

We don't achieve things just by reading.  Now, reader, is the time to take action!  Take out a piece of paper and start writing.  Free flow your thoughts onto the paper- what do you want your life to look like?  Next month?  Next year?  In 2020?  Then get specific.  Where will you be living?  What will you be doing?  With whom?  What relationships will you be valuing in your life?  Where will you be putting your precious time and effort?  What friendships deserve your attention? How much weight will you lose?  By when?  Write it all down- everything you want!  Every desire!  Getting clear on what you want is the first step in creating a new mind set.

Next, spend time with people who nurture and stimulate your mind set with positive energy.  Work with people who encourage you to live your best life!  This is why I love my life so much.  I am surrounded now, today, through my own choices, with people who love, respect and encourage me to live my best life!  They cheer my successes and honor my success!  In the mind set of abundance, success abounds for all!   I am grateful for all that I have, but the juice in life is always the next level, isn't it?  How many more people can we serve?  How many lives can be turned into dream lives?  This is the beauty of network marketing- it's only through contribution and serving that one's one success can soar!  It truly is the perfect, pay-it-forward system of business!  The mind set of our industry, as practiced in our company, honors all that I have come to believe in.

The mind set of our team, as a whole, is amazing!  The synergistic power of teamwork is the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of individual  parts.  This is why we are soaring together as a team...our combined talents, strengths and positive mind set magnify the energy of our group at such a high frequency- it's an unstoppable force that is rippling and attracting many more like-minded people.  Just imagine the contribution to the world we are creating! 

You, reader, are the sole creator of your life experience.  Everything that has happened to you, with you, for you and against you right up until this moment is all because of...you. I know, it's a big pill to swallow.  But choke it down, trust me, it's worth it.  With that said, that means that it is also within our power to turn it all around and with the POWER OF OUR MIND, create the life we know we deserve to live. 

It is the thoughts that you think, the images you replay, the conversation that runs through your mind like a movie, over and over and over again....this is what's creating the "reality" that you wake up to each day.  What are you thinking about?  What do you talk about?  Complaining much?  There's a surefire way to keep re-living that misery.

What if???

You started imagining your life working out beautifully?
You started a business and took a leap of faith that this time huge success was yours?
You wrote down an affirmation and read it twice a day for 21 days?
You created a mission statement/life purpose statement and shared it with people so they could hold you accountable?
You created a gratitude journal and wrote down 1 thing everyday that you were grateful for?
You created a dream board and visualized your dream life?  Dream House?  Dream weight?  Dream vacation?  Then kept it somewhere where you could see it often?
You started writing your book?
You made a commitment to yourself that you are worth it? The big "it!"
What if you could have fun while creating a multi-million dollar business?
What if you believed that you can have/be/do anything that you set your mind to???


Your mind set is your life.  You have the power, in this very instant, to decide. 

I changed my mind set and today I can tell you confidently,
"I am an extraordinary person in an ordinary world!"

Now, what will you tell the world?


"The best way to predict your future it to create it."  -Stephen Covey


Always inspired,
Jenna

A New Season

There is a natural flow to all things.  The world we live in has a rhythm. An ebb and flow.  We are flowing from Summer into Fall and it's a beautiful transition to witness.  It's a free flowing zone where the right things happen at the right time. This is the zone I am in right now.  (For the moment, as a "student" I continue to take two steps forward and three steps back!)  So before I step back, ha ha, I want to share some thoughts on this topic.  Words, ideas & raw emotions are fresh and dashing through my mind like electric currents of inspiration....It is, by the way, why I write.

 My life has taken such a turn for the better in the past few years.  From the depths of despair, fear and self-pity, I have put on my finest pair of big girl panties and really turned my life around.  In so many ways, hitting "rock bottom" was such a blessing.  How else would I have found out what I'm really made of?  How else, except being brought to tears and rocking myself into a state of calm could I have the depth of compassion that I now have?  How else, than to be caught stealing money from my six year old son to buy  groceries could I know the burn of shame and feel the switch of conviction, that gut-twisting thought that screams "Enough is enough!"  All of these past experiences and so called "hardships" were really such a necessary and now cherished part of my journey.  Trust me though, reader, I hardly thought that at the time.  I never once thought, "Wow, this being broke and depressed and feeling like a massive failure is going to make a great story someday!"  Not while you're in it.  Remember, hind sight is always 20/20.

Those days, which are only two years behind me, are quite fresh and vivid.  Those experiences  pushed me to look at a "new way of being."  I used to be very attached to one way of thinking.  Things were right, or they were wrong.  I went through life very tightly wound and very much a believer that I was in control.  There was no ease or trust  in my world.  There was no success without giving up something dear to obtain it.  There was no way to "have it all" and find success, happiness, peace and still keep my sanity.  I lived in a world of either/ or.  There was never both. These beliefs were false and very limiting, but it took some soul searching to truly "get it."

Working with our company and  throwing my soul into the ring of "personal journey" has been the most exciting, inspiring, life-affirming decision I've ever made!  I feel so inspired some days that I write and speak and connect with people and the words I say and write feel as though they are coming directly from a higher place and passing through me- I am just the vehicle and they flow easily and peacefully, without a hesitation or blip from me.  This type of life, this "living on purpose" is what I am asking you, as the reader, to be open to.  This place of questioning- do you love your life?  Are you jazzed to get up in the am and make a difference in the world?  Do you feel powerful enough to make a difference?  Is your life a contribution to others?  Are you proud of who you have become?  These are soulful questions and sometimes it's just easier to not go there and stay in our small world of "comfortably miserable" or it's sister, "blissfully numb."   You know who you are- out there, living way within your comfort zone.  There is no judgement, there's just the question- "Is that all you really think you are?"

Listen, I was living my life from a place of being stuck for a long time.  I stayed in neutral and let life "happen" to me.  I had some moments of happiness, I was not a sad sack, no one knew my inner world was one of anxiety and a longing for more, something more.  My issue?  I did not know what that "something" was.  Now I do.  The personal growth that I have done through network marketing and our company has given  me clarity.  Ready?  It's big....


I wanted to make a difference in the world.  I wanted my life to have left the world a better place than if I had never been born.

Wow.  Isn't that so simple.  Yet, for me, it was profound.  My journey has also led me to understand on a deeper level the difference between being a "people pleaser" and contributing to the lives of others.  I no longer have to be liked by everyone to feel good about myself.  I've learned to care about my own opinion of myself, rather than everyone's opinion of me.  I would rather speak the truth to move a person's life forward, than say the "easy" answer and have that person continue to struggle.  We are all on this journey together and it makes sense to help one another whenever the opportunity presents itself.

I am currently reading an excellent book called, "The Compassionate Samurai" by Brian Klemmer.  Reading is my favorite way to learn and expand my thinking and flow into the next stage of my journey.  Mr. Klemmer has me fully engaged in this concept- a "compassionate samurai" means someone with strong values who can absolutely make anything happen and yet whose whole life is about service.  Think about that for a moment.

He states, "The balance of warrior and compassion is perhaps the most perfect union, combining the enjoyment of outward success with a feeling of integrity and peace.

Everyday I am grateful for the life I live- it is truly the life of my dreams. It's a work in progress and everyday I expand my awareness and vision of my future.  My growth will never stop, there is no "end" or "destination"- there are only higher levels of peace and success. 

Today, ask yourself some questions.  Is your life where you want it to be?  How can you change that?  What steps could you take, right now, that would move you towards being the person you know want to be.  Every moment in our lives is a new opportunity to take on a "new way of being."


I welcome the Fall and the changing of seasons...what will flow into your life this season?

Enjoying the journey,
Jenna