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Benefits of Saying No
By: May McCarthy

How comfortable are you with saying “no” to a request from your family, friends, co-workers, or other people in your life?  Most of us don’t like to disappoint others, especially when they tell us how valuable we are or how grateful they’d be if we would agree to help them. However, after agreeing to help them, we can sometimes feel unappreciated and experience some resentment. We are sorry that we agreed to help in the first place. This isn’t an uncommon cycle. It can repeat itself over and over again until you decide to break the pattern and realize that it is OK to say “no” to requests that don’t benefit you.  Ask yourself the following questions before agreeing to do something that is asked of you:

  1. Am I required to do this and will this benefit me and others related to the request?

Train Your Brain to Receive More Good!
By: May McCarthy

 Have you ever had a goal that was larger than any that you've had before, and you didn’t achieve it?  You're not alone - many of us have had that experience. Over the past couple of months, several hundred people have attended my workshops across the country to learn a simple daily routine to prime their brains for success. Many of the workshop attendees said that they have realized more of their goals with an increased sense of peace and joy in their lives. However, a few people in the workshops described some challenges regarding their larger goals. 
  
They said that although they have had some “small” demonstrations of good things happening, they hadn’t realized any of their big goals and were discouraged.  They said that they felt like giving up on those goals. They admitted that thoughts like “I’m not worthy” and “I don’t deserve that kind of Good” started to creep into their minds. They were filled with doubt and asked me what to do.

If you have a big goal, it’s important to recognize how your brain works to create beliefs and behaviors.  As you understand more about this, you'll be able to retrain your brain and achieve more of the goals that you desire. Following are a few tips to help you:

How Good Can You Stand It?
By: May McCarthy

    Most accomplished people will tell you that establishing goals is vital to achieving success; if you don’t know where you want to go, you’ll never get there. I agree! It’s important to remember, however, that the challenge in receiving something that you want may not in the goal itself, but in the mental equivalent level that you’ve established for yourself. Many people have created an unconscious limit to the good that they can stand receiving, and their subconscious will do whatever it can to keep them within that comfortable and familiar limit.

    Your mental equivalent level is your self-imposed boundary or limit on what you feel comfortable receiving. This unconscious belief makes you feel uncomfortable and usually sounds something like “I am not worthy” or “I don’t deserve this” when thinking about greater goals being realized.  If you have a hidden limit and you want to receive something greater than what you believe to be possible, you may experience a delay in receiving your good or you may not be able to hold on to it once you finally get it. Following are a couple examples of what this looks like.

 

Seven Steps for Success!
By: May McCarthy

It is always interesting to me to see the differences between successful people who appear to be abundant, fortunate, and prosperous and those who seem tired, exhausted, and struggle to make ends meet. Successful people know that it’s important to set specific goals, consistently review them, focus on their skills, and act on opportunities to achieve their goals. They don’t journey through life reacting to every situation, they steer their course through life and expect good outcomes in spite of what is going on around them.

We all want to be consistent in focusing on our goals, but that can be tough when life presents us with unexpected situations. Your boss might ask more of you at work; your children or spouse might need you to be home more often and available to attend important events; you might even feel like you don’t have enough time for yourself to relax, have fun, and plan for the future. Before long, consistency can seem like an unobtainable dream.

Often in the midst of crisis, competitive pressures, and family obligations, we can feel overwhelmed and forget to focus our attention on the desired outcomes of our goals rather than the immediate circumstances of our situations. We can listen to the news, read industry reports, and hear colleagues who describe probable and dismal outcomes that they say are inevitable.  The only way to keep yourself focused on the goals and outcomes that you want to experience is to follow a consistent daily routine that is deliberate in priming your brain for success so that you can achieve the outcomes that you desire.

Since 1982, I have had the privilege of growing six profitable companies in a variety of industries. In that time I’ve learned that the most effective way to keep your goals in the forefront of your thoughts is to wake up 30 minutes earlier each morning to hold a meeting with your inner self.

Treat your morning meeting with your inner self seriously. Hold your meeting in a space that is free of disruptions, and create an agenda that you’ll follow. Make sure that you also have the necessary tools available: an uplifting book that describes successes of others achieving their goals, a pen, and a notebook for you to write in.

1. Read Something That Inspires You

Spend five minutes reading something uplifting to put you in a receptive mood. As you read about the successes of others, your mind will look for ways to make those kinds of successes familiar and normal for you. Suggested books to read are listed in the back of The Path to Wealth.

Achieve Success with Customer Service DNA
By: May McCarthy

    As part of the Christmas and New Year holidays, I had a chance to interact with many businesses, their employees, and their suppliers and vendors who are part of the order fulfillment process. It was obvious to me which companies will meet with success and which others will experience struggle in their future. Small start-up companies and their employees can differentiate themselves from the Fortune 500 companies and gain market share by incorporating Customer Service DNA into their mission. Human DNA provides the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. Customer Service DNA provides guidelines for everyone related to your business to partner with and serve each other with excellence.

Celebrate Your Light!
By: May McCarthy

        At this time of year, many of us choose to use light as an enhancement to our holiday celebrations.  We decorate trees, light candles, and shoot off fireworks as part of our festivities. We often take for granted that the lights will go on in our homes, offices, communities, and cars simply because we turned on the switches. Light provides us with the tools that we need to live our lives comfortably, especially in the winter when sunlight is available for fewer hours to those of us in the northern and southern most parts of the world.  In Seattle where I live, it gets dark at 4:30pm and doesn’t get light for almost 15 hours later during December.

        In the past, when electricity and batteries weren’t available, light was valued more as a source of life.  Sunlight served as the main source of light and provided the energy necessary to grow plants that release energy into the living things that digest them. It provided humans and other living things with vitamins and kept them healthy. The return of light was anxiously anticipated each year by peoples located north and south of the equator where sunlight was reduced in winter months.

        In pre-historic times, the northern Aboriginal people found winter to be a very difficult time. They couldn’t grow any crops and the tribes had to live off of stored food and whatever animals they could catch. The people were troubled as the life-giving sun sank lower in the sky each noon. They sometimes feared that it would continue to sink and disappear forever. After the passage of the winter solstice, they would have a reason to celebrate. They saw the sun rising and strengthening once more, signifying a re-birth, and regained hope for a bright and warm future.

        It’s no wonder that many spiritual traditions created winter celebrations for light as a source of life. The winter solstice, which occurs on December 21st, is a popular celebration that marks the shortest day of the year when the night time hours are at a maximum.  Since the Aboriginal people didn’t have sophisticated instruments to detect the solstice, they relied on what they could notice. A few days after the solstice, they noticed a slight elevation in the sun’s path, so celebrations were often timed for about the 25th of December. 

Become Magnetic through Gratitude!
By: May McCarthy

    Saying thank you and being grateful produces a number of benefits physically, spiritually, and emotionally. So, I want to begin the Holiday Season by saying Thank You for who you are and what you’ve done for me:

  • Thank you for being a blessing to the world and for being my friend.
  • Thank you for allowing me to be a friend and supporter for you.
  • Thank you for providing a review of my book, The Path to Wealth on Amazon – this helps.
  • Thank you for your support of my purpose; to help to elevate prosperity and freedom for all.
Gratitude improves emotional and physical health and can strengthen relationships and communities, according to author and researcher Dr. Robert Emmons. In his bestselling book Thanks!, Dr. Emmons backs up his claim with eight years of intensive research. He found that people who view life as a gift and consciously acquire an “attitude of gratitude” will experience multiple advantages. Gratitude enriches human life, he writes. It elevates, energizes, inspires and transforms. People are moved, opened and humbled through expressions of gratitude.” Some strategies Dr. Emmons recommends for expressing gratitude include keeping a gratitude journal, learning prayers of gratitude, and using visual reminders. In the daily gratitude practice that I describe in my book, The Path to Wealth, you’ll learn to benefit from the same results described by Dr. Emmons. You’ll proclaim your gratitude in words that evoke strong uplifting emotions and attract more of what you’re grateful for into your life. You become magnetic through gratitude!

  

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