Your a feckin Champion, you know that?

Is there a success virus do you think? Watching the Olympics over the last 10 days or so, it seems like, for Team GB anyway, that success has become infectious. Spreading from one member of the team to the next, giving people hope, encouragement and an extra push when it matters. 

Success does that. I remember in a previous 'life' (when I had a 'proper' job!) working for one of the UKs biggest banks and financial institutions when that success was infecting the whole country. We called the infection the dot.com boom. It felt like everyone was financially invincible. Put money here, make a packet quickly, get out while the going is good. It didn't last. 

A company called LastMinute.com came along.  The news showed clips of desperate people running trying to get their applications in just before it closed, it was going to be amazing. They were all going to be rich by the next week. Sadly, LastMinute.com launched at 8am and by 10am had started to fall. It never recovered and, 12 years later, has never reached its opening share price. 

This is when people are tested. Not when success is there, but when success stops. 

It's all natural law, what goes up must come down, nothing is constant, entropy.  But it is when this happens that the truly successful set themselves apart. The strongest system, survives. The strongest genes, survive. The strongest company, survives. The strongest people, survive.

When all the success is gone amd the pushing and encouragement stops there is an important thought. Success is temporary, but so is the lack of it.  It's time for evolution not panic or fear.  

Stock markets go up and down. It's the nature of the machine. But it will survive because some people will never, ever give up. 

The Olympic glow will pass, some people will decide they will never succeed but the strongest and most committed will be back and be champions. Why? Because they will never, ever give up. 

In your life, whatever it is that is happening for you now will pass (ups or downs).  Your success or lack of it is temporary and you can either face it like a champion or this can be your LastMinute. 

Never, ever give up. Be infected and stay infected by success. 

Hypnotic Dickens

You know I do hypnosis right?  Well, you do now!  I do loads of other things aside from that but I'm fascinated and enthralled by the unconscious and its capability for producing change.

Anyway, I invented this cool Dickens-esque hypnotic induction the other day and I thought I'd share the concept with you tonight so that tonight...as you dream...or perhaps before...you can travel to somewhere inside to find something.  I dunno what. Just something...

So, as you go to sleep...whether that be now or later, imagine you get to meet 3 'people' inside your own head.  For the purposes of this exercise, you have 90 seconds with each of them -

1 - a you from the past.  The one that hurts the most.  What is the thing you say to them now, the thing they need to hear most, that heals them completely? "Everything is going to be OK.", "I love you", "I believe in you" or something else.  90 seconds...

2 - a you that lives perpetually 5 seconds ahead of you, choosing the best path for you.  What is the thing you say to help them always know what path to choose to best help you achieve everything you want? How do you help them direct you toward your life's true purpose? 90 seconds...


3 - The deepest you - the true you of right here, right now.  Your heart, your soul, the you that you always wanted to be. What is it that you want to HEAR from them?  What is it that they could say to you that would unlock you from your faces and allow you to be truly you?  What's the thing you've forgotten about yourself? 90 seconds...

It's an interesting wee thought exercise, give it a shot and let me know how you get on.  You know where I am if you want to try the full 45 minute version!!!!

Something different for Monday night :)