Moving across the Tasman AGAIN
Who would have believed it? We are returning to New Zealand in January! I guess we achieved our goal of moving to Queensland, even if we are moving back again!!
In 2001 the Australian Government changed the law so NZers immigrating to Oz are only temporary residents unless they are aged under 45 years (ooops, I am just past that) and have a skill that Australia wants e.g brain surgeon or good rugby player (I’m not on that list either). 
This means that the boat people who are streaming into the country have more rights than us as they are granted permanent residency status.
Our 9 year old son is also affected by this law so we have decided that, for his sake, the best thing to do is move back to the “Shaky Isles” (so named because of all the earthquakes) and when he grows up (and becomes a brain surgeon) he can always return.
Sunshine Beach has been great and we’ve made some good friends, but it’s time to go. The universe obviously has more adventures in store for us!! I will keep you posted…
Dream Books & Vision Boards
To manifest your dreams you must convince your subconcious mind that they have already been achieved. To do this you must visualise them as though you already have them. Make a ‘mental movie’ and play it over and over. Your subconcious mind cannot differentiate between what is real and what is not. It will pick up on the things you hold in your mind and make them reality.
A couple of great strategies to help you visualise your goals are “Dream Books” and “Vision Boards”. We were introduced to these techniques by Kurek Ashley, an Australian based “Life Success Coach” and founder of the “Life Success Club”.
Dream Books
These are just small notebooks…we had one each and we carried these around with us for years. In them we’d written our dreams, goals and intentions, as well as motivational quotes and anything else we felt important to us on on our journey to self-improvement and achieving financial freedom. We read each others books now and then to make sure we were striving for the same things! Double power.
My book included my goals with dates to have achieved them by, ‘my purpose for achieving my goals’, ‘my purpose in life’ and how I wanted my life to be in all areas, in bold colours! It also contained several affirmations. One I liked was: “Life is so good, life is so easy, all good things come to me”. I read these at least once a day and visualised my goals as if I already had them, then I gave thanks for receiving them. Gratitude is very powerful.
Vision Boards
Our vision boards sat on our dining room table so we couldn’t help but see them every day. We had two boards with pictures and photos of what we wanted in life pinned all over them. One was for the future life we dreamed of in Australia (the above photo of me and our son on Noosa Beach was pinned on this board. We now live near here and swim at this beach!), the home we wanted, lifestyle, friends etc; and another vision board for other things we wanted to do in life e.g travel to Africa, South America and Cuba, drive sports cars, own a boat etc
Soon the pictures became so familiar we could see them with our eyes closed. With these and our dream books the universe was certainly left in no doubt what we wanted!
Then we saw “The Secret” and realised that we had been using the Law of Attraction all along without realising it. Visualisation is the key. Now we knew exactly what to do we visualised like crazy and our dreams rapidly began to manifest themselves.
NB. If you are making your own vision board make sure that you are included in the photos you use (even if it means cutting out tiny pictures of yourself to glue on to them!). The universe will give you what you think about. If you concentrate on an empty sportscar, you will never be in it! Wave as you see it driving the other way down the street!
Looking back at our dream books now, we are amazed by how a lot of the things we had visualised were achieved, eerily near the dates we had set. The vision boards made visualising our desires much easier. We were immersed in them.
We still use our dream books. Not all our goals have manifested yet, but we know they will come.
Try these simple techniques. You may not achieve your goals overnight (though the universe does like speed!), but commit to them and watch the magic happen!
Beware of Your Dreams
“Beware of Your Dreams Lest You Achieve Them,” my father always said.
It wasn’t until many years later that I truly understood the meaning and importance of his words. In place of ‘dreams’ put ‘ thoughts’ and you have The Law of Attraction!
If you hold something in your mind, visualise it and feel it in your being for long enough, it will manifest itself into your life. If you believe it you will see it!
So, now you know this don’t dwell on anything that you don’t want! Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. If you want to be healthy don’t concentrate on sickness; if you want to be rich don’t think about poverty. Don’t put anything into your mind that you don’t want to perpetuate or experience.
My father always dreamt of owning a large sheep and cattle farm. For a boy brought up just north of London, this was indeed a grand vision. He took a ‘ten pound passage’ on a boat to Australia in his early twenties; later moving to New Zealand and working as a farm labourer until he built up a down payment for a small farm. These days he farms 7000 acres of land in the South Island of NZ. Dream achieved!
For more on this subject I would recommend reading “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D. Wattles. “The Secret” is also excellent, concentrating on The Law of Attraction.
Pamela Starr ~ Dreams
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal”
~ Pamela Starr
Another wonderful picture by alicepopkorn
Set Your Goals High ~ Quote
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible…”
- Orison Swett Marden
Great shot by Randy Son Of Robert
Kurek Ashley; Life Success Coach
If you are serious about achieving your life goals, why not get a professional
“Life Success Coach”?
Kurek Ashley was a successful Hollywood actor. When his life took a turn for the worse and he found himself at rock-bottom, he was forced to re-assess and re-build his life. He formulated a method for achieving peak performance based on hard experience. Subsequently he moved from the USA to Brisbane, Australia and became a Peak Performance and Life Success Coach, running seminars and teaching personal development, amongst other things.
Still on our never-ending quest for personal growth and financial freedom, my husband attended a weekend seminar of Kurek’s in Auckland, NZ, which culminated in firewalking! This was a life-changing experience for him.
We wouldn’t usually join a group like this, but Kurek’s philosophies struck a chord and we decided to join his Life Success Club.
Every night for over a year we listened to CD’s from Kurek. He introduced a new CD with new subjects every month. They covered all sorts of ‘strategies for taking your life to a higher level, mentally, financially, physically and spiritually‘.
Listening to the same thing 30 days in a row makes sure that it sinks in!! There was also an “action track” to do. It was very effective and we felt a lot happier too.
As we became more personally developed we felt confident enough to make some life-changing decisions. Using Kurek’s teachings (his “Thoughts create Actions which create Results”, is the “Law of Attraction”, which we also used), we eventually made the leap of faith; quit our jobs, sold everything and moved to Australia (our first major goal) with our young son.
Sunny Queensland is better than we imagined. We are achieving our goals and manifesting our dreams due, in no small part, to Kurek. We are deeply indebted to him for this.
Thank you Kurek.
Benjamin Mays on Goals
“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal; the tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”
~ Benjamin Mays
My 9 Internet Goals for 2009
Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips has asked his readers to join a Group Writing Project and post their ‘Internet Goals’ for 2009.
I feel obliged to participate as ‘goals’ are one of the things I write about. Well, I’ve been meaning to write about them anyway. Another goal!
If you don’t have goals you’re like the proverbial ship without a rudder, on a storm tossed ocean with no compass or destination. No maps either.
Not having internet goals isn’t quite as bad as no life goals, but goals are still important if you don’t want to get distracted and waste your life on trivia. It’s very easy to get distracted on the internet!
I have nine internet goals for the New Year; (they are really blogging goals):
- To increase my readership (no limits to this)
- To increase my ‘Property Product’ sales
- To somehow upload my son’s “Thomas the Tank Engine” video clip to You Tube
- To find out what CSS are (what are they?)
- To stop the daily ‘blogger help’ emails in my Inbox. Unsubscribing doesn’t seem to work..
- To get more friends on SU
- To re-think my decision of joining My Blog Log
- To increase my authority on Technorati
- To figure out the meaning of life and Twitter (or TwiTip??)
The blogging world is indeed a strange place! I need YOU to help me achieve my goals.
Happy New Year!
9 Initial Steps to Financial Freedom
Would you like to be financially free? You know all the theory but, how exactly do you get started?
Everyone is different; we all have different backgrounds, interests and realities. We are in different financial positions and have different life goals, so it is difficult to give ‘step by step’ instructions on exactly what to do as far as getting financially free goes.
However, there are some basics, which are common sense and apply in general. Perhaps the world would not be in such a mess at the moment if people had paid more attention to the most important one, being Live Within Your Means. Don’t waste money on ‘doodads’; once you have built your asset column you can buy your toys.
So, to become financially free, your passive income (i.e money you don’t have to work for) must exceed your expenses. Your incomings have to exceed your outgoings. A good example of this is ‘positive cash flow property‘, where the rental covers all the bills and you get some cash too!
And, as always, you must take action! Just do it. Do anything.. write down your goals, read some books; The “Rich Dad Poor Dad” series is a good place to begin. (Robert Kiyosaki will tell you how to get started in the property game, if you’re interested). Borrow the books from the library if you have to. Download a podcast and listen to a motivational speaker. Just get moving! The younger you start the better.
The following 9 steps are a good start:
1. Live within your means
2. Don’t rack up bad debt (always pay in cash)
3. Pay your credit cards off every month
4. Pay off your mortgage as soon as you can
5. Don’t spend a lot of money on depreciating assets (liabilities) e.g cars, massive TVs
6. Work for yourself (JOB = Just Over Broke)
7. Save as much as you can
8. Buy income producing assets if you can (e.g positive cash flow rental property)
9. Have a positive mental attitude; visualise having already achieved your goals
Remember you are aiming for a better future; a comfortable retirement. Think of it as delayed gratification.
We drove around in dented old ‘japanese import’ cars for years, while our friends drove late model cars and bought boats. We lived in the same house for sixteen years (mortgage-free) while our collegues borrowed and upgraded to more expensive homes. Our peers went on extended holidays to Europe, while we back-packed around Asia.
Keep your mind on the ultimate goal of financial freedom. It’ll be worth it.
Are My Feet Charred?
I walked on fire!
A little while ago I attended a weekend seminar in Auckland, run by Kurek Ashley, a well known “Life Success Coach” who is based in Brisbane, Australia. Kurek is the founder of the “Life Success Club” of which we became members. He’s a keynote speaker, runs seminars and provides mentoring amongst other things. Also he coached the Australian Women’s Volleyball team to Gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In his old life Kurek was a Hollywood actor!
The course was all about empowering yourself and stepping outside your comfort zone. The 2 day course was very interesting and it culminated in a firewalk across 700 degree celcius coals! These coals are so hot that they could melt an engine block!
On the day of the firewalk we all watched with growing trepidation as a huge fire was prepared then left to burn all day until, by nightfall is was a mass of glowing white embers.
I couldn’t believe what I was about to do, yet when my turn arrived my fear disappeared. In a trance-like state I set out across the searing coals…they crunched underfoot and I could feel the immense heat radiating up onto my legs, but I didn’t get burnt! Next thing I remember was being stopped by a helper and having my feet hosed off to get rid of any loose coals that may have stuck between my toes.
What a blast! It was totally amazing. The soles of my feet were blackened but I didn’t get burnt! I certainly stepped outside my comfort zone!
Kurek also teaches people how to walk on razor sharp shards of glass…broken bottles etc My next challenge?
Contributed by my very daring husband!
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