WOOP WOOP!!! So my blog has been views nearly 16,000 times, thank you so much to everyone reading I am in awe at the feedback I get on a daily basis and feel completely humbled that so many of you enjoy reading my articles. I know your going to enjoy this post and this is going to get more views than any one before hehe well hears hoping! ;-)
People are constantly saying to me since I moved to London I am ‘doing really well for myself” in other words they have seen my Facebook status’s or heard from my friends I‘m loving London!;-) Being honest they are right but it is not down to me. The most amazing things have happened be since I moved here but I think whats dramatically changed is my life is my frame of mind and my imagination and they wouldn’t have if I had not been inspired and directed by some wonderful authors, mentors and relationships in my life. I am actually going to do a separate blog post on what books I have read that changed my life for all of you’s asking me how I’m inspired.
So the question do you want to have a "rich" life in every possible sense of the word rich? Well lets be real whats making you think you don't have a rich life as it is……..Its always too easy to look at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and see everyone else’s life as amazing and your own as mediocre if not worse! But be honest, everyone has crap days, I mean days where you don’t feel great about how we look, or aren’t moving fast enough in our careers, life etc. everyone has things that don’t work out the way they want them to. I have days where I let the world change my opinion on my own life and almost make me think negatively but because I spend so much time learning about the human nature I have learned to pull myself back from it. You won’t here me or anyone else really expressing how annoyed we are or unimpressive our lives are, one certainly wouldn’t want to shout from the roof tops that they’ve had the crappiest day of there live and there is a reason for this which i'll explain now but just know everyone has problems no one has a storm free life but the wise ones learn to dance through them!;-)
Positive uplifting and enjoyable experiences raise your energy, vibrations and even your smile these experiences are key to a having a rich life :-) this is the reason people like to talk about the good things that happen to them whether thats the amazing food they just ate or the fact they have just won the Lotto. I will hold my hands up and say when something good happens to me I won’t shut up about it because I’m so bursting with excitement I want to scream to the world. Negative experiences or as we see them ‘negative” (when in actual fact they are not half the time) have the almost opposite effect on most people, causing us to just want to curl up in a ball and hide from the world. The issue here is if we become fixated on something such as a specific outcome and it doesn’t work out the way we expect it to we are disappointed. We have become so attached to this outcome we convince ourselves that its true and right that it occurs and when it doesn’t we are devastated, sound familiar?
This is why expectations are bad, they lead us to put pressure on everything from situations to relationships and ourselves. Expectancy on the other hand is good for you. If you expect wonderful things to happen on a daily basis they will (trust me just try it), but if you expect a certain wonderful thing to happen i.e. you want to win the lotto and you don’t your probably going to be a little annoyed. Expectancy opens up the doors for a "rich" life, a new life full of enjoyment, one where wonderful things happen, it frees relationships and ourselves from having to life up to expectations. Let me give you an example if you have an expectation of a relationship or a job and it does not live up to this what happens? you will be disappointed once again right?The secret to having a rich life is to live with an expectancy of wonderful things happening all the time.
However if we change the way we think (which although it may seem difficult becomes easy with practice) and just go learn to go with flow i guarantee you will become much happier and have a “richer” life.
Look back on your life where were you 3 years ago? I myself was sitting in a kitchen in Athlone a little town in Ireland, I had just applied for a job as a manager in a Kurt Geiger store at the time I thought this would be the best thing that could happen to me I would be on more money, progressing in my career and get to move to a city. Needless to say I was upset when I didn’t get the position but i don’t even think the store opened in the end. About six months ago when I was performing work experience in my dream job I was basically handed the position of Kurt Kieger manager on a plate and guess what I didn’t want it! Not only was I on a higher wage than the position but something that had seemed like the ultimate goal in my life had become the furthest from what I wanted. My dreams and goals had progressed to like the much higher levels as my imagination expanded and I discovered new skills that I had let slide for a long time.
So sitting on the tube the other day I was thinking I have my dream job, I am living in London and starting to write for a magazine aswell as my own personal book. I have progressed a long way from that situation and I am much better off then if it had worked out. I couldn’t help but smile, thinking there was no need for me to even spend time been annoyed about that silly job because the universe , god, my higher self whatever you call it had bigger plans for me they obviously know your abilities way more than we do ourselves This got me thinking why has my life changed so much? The answer……...my imagination!
So lets start
Wherever you are NOW, right this second, it doesn’t matter!!!!!!!!!You can start to live life in a certain way that will change everything in your life. You will become rich in ways you never even expected things just come to you and show up even when you don’t need them.You just need to start believing and dreaming that using that wonderful imagination of yours.
Stop letting society put a roof over your head say f*ck it in a good way when things don’t work out and move on. Believe you are on the path to success, towards more of your dreams and goals get yourself ready everyday to achieve and appreciate everything you have while your doing it. Right now make it your duty to work your best to you ability in your role, whatever that maybe, in work, in relationships and in every situation in life. Once you fill your roles and give your life 100%, life will give you openings if you want them and have your eye opens to every possibility you will see them then its just about have the courage to go with it.
Society makes us believe the IMAGINATION is something stupid, something we associate with children making up stories they are a princess or ninja. But its not. It is certainly not something to be laughed at check out this study...
A study by Erin M Shckell and Lionel G Standing in Bishops University 2007
They conducted a study about strengthening certain muscles . They selected student many of them who played sports, tested there muscle strength and then divided them into three groups
Group 1 - told to do nothing.
Group 2 - went to the gym three times a week and preformed prescribed exercises to increase there muscle strength.
Group 3 - Given cd's of the exercises and told to sit comfortably imagine theory were doing the exercise.
After 3 weeks these were the results........
Group 1 - no change.
Group 2 - muscle strength increased by 28%
Group 3 - muscle strength increased by an amazing 24%
How much more proof do we need?
Children its not they have it right! without your imagination you can get dragged into the believe money is hard earned and it is hard to get anywhere in your life.This is just WRONG.
There are people who have “rich” lives! I for one can say I feel rich and my life is only going to get better because it is full of new beginnings. Start believing and seeing see yourself living the life of your dreams now driving an amazing car (but not fixating on what type exactly we’ve disused how that goes). The best expectancy you could have would be to be having a wonderful life, being really happy in your job whatever that is,happy amazing relationships and time to enjoy them thats been rich everything else follows this.
You can of course have an expectancy that you will have an abundant lifestyle with possibly a Porshe or Lambogini out front but don’t fixate on it either you must never get disheartened if it doesn’t happen this will only bring you ten steps back keep moving forward little by little and look back only to remind yourself how far you’ve come work in the present, NOW, this minute give life everything you have. Start to create a rich life now sit down for 10 minutes and think of everything your grateful for, you’ll start to feel happy now imagine yourself in the future extremely happy ten times do this for 5 minutes every day and what your life change
Il re-read this in a year when I’m driving the car of my dreams possibly a white range rover but I won’t be disappointed I its not ;-)
Hope you inspired
Loves Annie
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