The Ripple Effect

Today I am asking you to stop and think about the influence you have on your world. We have all thought about how we have been effected by our environment before - the person driving in front of us too slow, a boss giving us a hard time, or a friend who brightens up the day. But rarely do we think about the influence we have. It's like a ripple, starting with us and radiating out into the world.

A friend told me a story once about someone whose life was not going well. He felt like he didn't have a friend in the world and had nothing left to live for because no one was ever nice to him. So on this particular day he had decided enough was enough and he was going to end his life. On the way to the cliff top that he was going to jump off, a complete stranger, smiled at the man and wished him a lovely day. That act stopped him from jumping and his life went on to turn around, he met the love of his life and had a family. He had said he wished he could tell that stranger the impact that their smile and kind words had on him that day.

You never know how much your influence may mean to someone.

So smile...it’s contagious!

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.