Anth Quinn

It’s my belief that we live in a world of abundance and our experience of the world depends almost entirely upon what we focus on.

If you look for the good in people you’ll see it, if you look for the bad you’ll see that too

However most of what people do is controlled by their unconscious minds and this means that as soon as they stop consciously looking for the good, they begin to focus on whatever your unconscious mind thinks is important.

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Another Simple Tip I’ve been getting quite a few requests from people wanting another technique to help them take more responsibility for their experience of life.

I have decided to use this email as an introduction to one of the linguistic techniques of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Those of you who have read Take Control Today, will already be familiar with using subtle changes in the words to change your perspective on a problem.

changing ’should’ to ‘ could if’ being the obvious example.

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Once you start taking personal responsibility for your experience of life, you’ll notice immediately how many other people aren’t doing it. In fact it’s sometimes difficult to keep your mouth shut [especially when you're a personal development coach :o)]

I experienced a really good example yesterday, while sitting outside an exam room. The person next to me was complaining about the morning’s exam paper and hoping the afternoons would be easier. The words of one of my favourite speakers Jim Rohn jumped straight into my head (I kept them in my mouth though). These words are: ‘Don’t wish it was easier, wish you had more skills’. This seemed to me a perfect example of taking responsibility for your life and not wanting others, (or lady luck) to do it for you.

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You’re probably reading this because you have an interest in improving some aspect of your life. The good news is that there are many simple things you can do to improve your experience of life and I aim to cover many of them in the following seven chapters.

To begin, I’d like to ask, “Who is going to have the biggest effect on your future life?”

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Having accepted personal responsibility for our own lives, the next step in taking control of them is to identify and develop a set of clear goals.

Clear goals are essential to building the life we want, rather than settling for the one we’ve grown into. They will provide direction and motivation and, if well formed, they can literally transform our lives.

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The initial impetus to set goals is something for which we seem to have a natural tendency. To some degree we all set them all the time. However, achieving goals – actually seeing them through to completion - would seem to be less innate! When most of us sit down to set ourselves goals, there is a brief surge of energy, enthusiasm and progress before we lose momentum and eventually give up and drift back into our old ways of thinking and behaving.

Perhaps the most familiar example of this is the making of New Year Resolutions. Have you ever made one? Did you keep to it? If ‘Yes’ – Well done! What follows in this chapter may be familiar to you already. If ‘No’ - Take heart! The reason you didn’t succeed is probably attributable to the quality of your goal setting technique rather that the lack of will power you may well have blamed. You probably identified a vague wish or desire without making a firm commitment to action and change. If your resolution didn’t involve action and commitment, it wasn’t a fully formed goal!

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Once we’ve accepted personal responsibility for our experience of life and set a powerful mix of well formed long and short-term goals, life inevitably changes dramatically! These two steps alone cannot fail to have an impact. Just identifying that where we are is not where we want to be makes it very difficult to settle for the status quo any longer. We feel compelled to make changes – to take action – and that means making some decisions!

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We often know at some level that we aren’t living the life we would like to. We may even have a clear goal – but somehow, frustratingly, we still just don’t seem able to make long-term sustainable change in our lives. Despite developing clear goals, deciding on a plan and taking action, somehow we continue to lose our way and find ourselves stuck back where we started – or, perish the thought, in an even worse spot than before!

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Imagine for a moment that you are waiting for an important meeting. You’ve been up since the early hours preparing, and you’re really excited about how things are developing. You arrive five minutes early and the clock ticks slowly on as the designated time approaches. You are on tenterhooks, excited and apprehensive. Then as the clock hand moves slowly past the appointed time you begin to wonder where the other person is. Self-doubt sets in. What could have happened? Are you in the right place? Have you got the wrong time? In the end you decide that whatever happened they’re not going to turn up. Deflated and dejected, you make your way home.

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Would you be interested in buying a really simple, user-friendly tool that would allow you more control over your life, help you to recognise your choices in any given situation, and at the same time increase your productivity and peace of mind?

How much would this be worth to you?

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