What are your Energetic Investments?

It's the smallest changes we make that have the biggest influence in our life. It's the changes that come from within that dramatically change our reality.

This is exactly how it happened for me, the smallest change I made within myself had a dramatic impact on how I'm able to create success now.

One day I was writing out my budget for the fortnight and started to fall into the trap of feeling like I was getting no where, I had all these 'expenses' and felt helpless in creating the results I desperately wanted. I thought back to all the concepts I'd learned since getting into personal development, and one stood out in my mind very clearly 'What you think about, you bring about' (from The Secret). In my life this was exactly right. I had been focusing my energy on 'expenses' and feeling lost... and guess what... that's all I was creating! From there I took it upon myself to create the life I had been dreaming of no matter what. Then I asked myself the question, where is my energy going? Clearly with money I was caught up in expense land and had not even considered money as an investment. So I changed the way I thought about using money from an expense to an investment. Thinking about things as an investment emphasizes the decision making process and that you get value from making this decision. I was choosing to invest money into things like food to sustain me and my education to grow as a person. Doing this changed the energy I placed on money into a positive and I'm now able to create more of this in my life as a result.

I didn't stop with money, I started to look at all areas of my life as an investment. Everything is energy. A thought, an action, a conversation, a dollar bill = ENERGY

Take the time to think about your investments. Grab a pen and write out:

What do you invest your time in?

What are your finances invested into?

What are your emotional investments?

What relationship investments have you made?

What investment have you made into your own happiness?

Now look over your answers and ask - What is my return on my investment? Does this bring me closer to what I want out of life?

By doing this you can start to recognize where you can turn around your whole life, just by changing the investment you had previously made to one that better serves you. For instance, start investing energy into being grateful for what you're happy about instead of investing energy into being resentful for what you're unsatisfied with.
This concept has made dramatic changes in my life and I hope it does the same for you.

Constipation of the mind

At first procrastination and constipation may seem quite different and strange to discuss. But today I am asking you to take a closer look. Procrastination is the art of delaying action when the opportunity is there to do so. Before starting my business I suffered from this in my studies at University and I must say I really cheated myself. Instead of planning out what study I would do for the whole semester, I would do this in lots, then I would miss a few items of study, then I would need to add in extra hours, and in the end I was staying up till 3am to finish an assignment due in the morning.

Once I had started my business the layout was made in a similar fashion. I planned out week by week and wrote down tasks and action I needed to take each day. The strange thing was, I completed everything… and added in tasks along the way! This was a rewarding feeling I must say, but the main difference between my studies and my business was that I enjoyed doing my business. When studying it was if I had to force myself out of bed to get behind a text book, and now I am bursting at the seems with excitement throughout my day running my business.

When thinking about constipation, it is a blockage of the body systems. And what do we think procrastination is? To me the best way to put it is constipation of the mind… A blockage between oneself and the outcome residing in the mind! In my case, I did not enjoy my studies, lacked motivation, and did not take it upon myself to change this. Other blockages that come to mind common in society are belief in oneself, worthiness, belief in the universe providing it and like me, people simply don’t enjoy what they do, yet continue to do it anyway! So next time you find yourself on the couch, making excuses to not do something, stop, and ask yourself ‘Why am I avoiding this really?’ because constipation of the mind is the worst kind and might be the one thing you need to overcome to have the life of your dreams.