Transform ~ Lead ~ Love

“Shift to the Top 3% - Where the Success Leaders Are”

Right Track Coaching
Transform Lead Love
March 2010

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In this issue:

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Shift to the Top 3% - Where the Success Leaders Are:

Change is no stranger to anyone. It is as natural as fish are to water. When facing a challenge due to change beyond one’s control, it is not unusual to get stymied. In the confusion of change, the absence of security, the loss contained conjures an unknown future which can fill the mind unmercifully with fear.

One of the popular acronyms for FEAR is “False Evidence Appearing Real.” Another is “Failure Expected and Received.” Naturally it makes sense to know fear in a way that protects you from danger; such as fear of injury to your hand if you put it in fire, or fear of being injured or killed by walking in front of a moving automobile. Fear taken to the point of predicting ominous outcomes due to unwelcomed loss only welcomes more loss. Gandhi said that “We thus find that all fear is the baseless fabric of our own vision.”

The mind is a powerful tool to either construct or dismantle. It is not a tangible tool like a hammer used to pound nails. It is not something you can touch or point to and say, “There is mind.” You can’t go to the store to purchase a mind tool like a handyman purchases tools to fix or build something. However, your mind is more powerful than all the material tools combined.

Eckhart Tolle, best-selling author of The Power of Now and A New Earth, says, “Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful.”

Change offers you the opportunity to change your mind to be the change you desire. Change is an opportunity to go where your heart listens to its own whispers and unplug the mindless, worn out tapes keeping you stuck in the past and running your future.

Embrace change as the process to learn and experience more of who you are by training your mind in new thought patterns directing you toward the wonder of you. Is it easy? Studies show that 97% of the American population are not as successful as they hoped to be and only 3% are successful. That top 3% were willing to grow in their self-awareness and become self-leaders guiding others to their success. You might have heard of some of them: Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Oprah, John Rockefeller, Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Pablo Picasso, and _______________(fill in the blank of someone you admire at the top). Each of these are examples of people with ordinary beginnings who challenged themselves in fulfilling their dreams. They listened to their heart whispers and took the road less traveled by applying the mind work necessary to develop their character and follow through with action.

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Tips to Reach the Top 3% Leadership Position:

• Create a vacuum to receive. The Universe abhors empty space and rushes in to fill it. Clear your mind of fearful thoughts. Thoughts are things. They take up space in your mind. Make space for thoughts of a winner.

• Clear your environment of clutter by selling, giving away or tossing clothes, files, furniture, shoes or whatever else no longer serves you or you are not using. Make room for the new!

• Get rid of the “someday” projects you promised yourself you would get to. They are draining energy from you with thoughts of guilt. If they are fix-it projects that when done will make life easier, get help and finish it.

• Read biographies of people you admire. No one is free of hardships. What steps did they take to get past their adversity? What were their values that drove them onward in spite of roadblocks?

• Read Dr. Wayne Dyer’s new book The Shift - taking your life from ambition to meaning. See book recommendation below.

• Mentally picture the change you are seeking. Image your desires already fulfilled. You attract into your life that which you focus on, that which you give attention to and consciously connect with your Source of being.