I know that you want to be successful in life, and therefore I just want to put a question to you that will help and support you to become more successful. Here we go:

IMAGINE THAT YOU WAKE UP ONE DAY IN A PLACE WHERE YOU DO NOT KNOW ANYONE AND YOU HAVE ONLY €/$ 100 IN YOUR POCKET, HOW MUCH TIME WOULD YOU NEED TO DOUBLE IT AND HOW WOULD YOU DO IT?

I know, I know, a great question. What would be your answer? Why don’t you leave your answer here and see how others would do it…

I wish you all an excellent end of the year and may 2008 be an even greater year.

To your success,

Coach Erwin

]]> http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/SuccessBlog/36/get-your-agenda-for-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/SuccessBlog/32/special-offer-on-the-success-show-tommorrow/ http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/SuccessBlog/32/special-offer-on-the-success-show-tommorrow/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:38:21 +0000 Coach Erwin http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/SuccessBlog/?p=32 Dear success seekers,

This week’s Success Show, the radio show that I weekly host, is going to be special. Yes, as I will be giving away some special offers during the show.

This week’s show is all about celebration, and the special offer is in relation to The Celebrating Club© that I just launched.

Join Coach Erwin in The Success Show: http://www.radiocoaching.net/TheSuccessShow/ and participate in the show to be eligable for the special offer.

How can you participate? One way is to call in at the number +1 2184863694 and then dail in ID 259616#.
Tommorrow you can call in and ask Coach Erwin a question, or even better, you can share your win of the week.

And yes, you are going to like the offer. The special offers are different levels of subscriptions to The Celebrating Club©.
You can already have a look at The Celebrating Club© at http://www.thecelebratingclub.com/

I am looking forward to give away one of the special offers to you tommorrow.

Coach Erwin
http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/SuccessBlog/

Here I am again with another success tip, and today I will be talking you about Self-Confidence.

Self-confidence is a fundamental aspect in your journey towards your success and completeness. Self-confidence is important because it gives you a solid structure and base within you that will protect you in moments when you have it a little more difficult. Self-confidence is also the engine that will make you move forward to realise things and your own success. Why? Self-confidence is basically telling you that you are confident and believe in yourself that you are able to do things, that you have the knowledge and experience to realise things. It tells you that you believe in yourself and that the end result will be positive. Having a high level of self-confidence gives you even more self-confidence and you will feel that you have strong energy.

Now, you are probably saying to yourself, that is very interesting and I all know this, but you are also asking your self how you can give yourself a higher level of self-confidence. There are many things that you can do, for example using specific affirmations that will help you to augment your self-confidence. Here is one example: ‘I am happy that I feel 100% self-confident in all the things that I do in my life, and I grow stronger every day.’ Another tip is to visualise yourself being 100% self-confident.

If you want to know more about this topic, I would like to invite you to listen to a recording from ‘The Success Show’ on October 4, 2007 where the topic was ‘Have self-Confidence’. To listen: http://www.radiocoaching.net/TheSuccessShow/?p=41

If you have any questions or feedback about this tip, feel free to leave your question or comment here and I will respond to it.

Have a great, excellent and successful week.

Coach Erwin

Another week has passed, well a little more than that, and here I am with another tip that can help, support and guide you to become more successful and be complete.

The tip of this week is Responsibility. The questions that we will be asking and responding are the following: What does responsibility means? Why is it responsibility important? How can you use responsibility to make you more successful in life?

So, let us first look at what responsibility is. Responsibility means being accountable for someone or something, being responsable for an action or situation. It is standing up and saying that you are the person answerable for the action, situation or project. You can find some definitions of responsibility at Wiktionary and Dictionary.com.

Now that we have a certain idea about responsibility, let’s us ask ourselves the importance of responsibility. The most important part of responsibility, and taking responsibility, is that take control and accountability of your life. What happens in general, is that most people do not have, and not take 100% control of their own life. If you are honest to yourself, what is the percentage level of responsibility you have over your own life, and be honest to yourself. How many times do you say that another person or situation is the cause of something happening into your life?

Everytime when you answer the last question here above and your answer is that you blame another person or situation for what is happening in your life, your are NOT taking 100% responsibility of your own life. This may sound hard and cruel, but it is so. Everything that is happening in your life, and those who know the Law of Attraction know that this is true, you have created in one or another way in your recent or more further past. It is always easy to blame someone else for what is happening in your life that you don’t like, but blaming someone or something else for what is happening in your life is a kind of being a coward to yourself. Remember, everything that is happening in your life you have created.

Now, you have the opportunity to take 100% of the responsibility of your life in your own hands. And this is really important that you do this,as this will allow you to become really successful. You can only becomne really 100% successful when you take your life in your own hands, and that means that you take 100% responsibility of your own life. As long as you blame others for what is happenig into your life, you will never become successful.

There is a small formula that you can use to remember to take 100% responsibility of your life, and that will help and support you to look at life in a different perspective. The formula comes from Jack Canfield’s book ‘The Success Principles’, which I highly recommend that you read. The formula is "E+R=O", which means "Event + Response = Outcome". This is a very strong formula. It states that to be able to change an outcome, the only is your response to an event. An event you cannot change, but you can decide how you will response to an event that is happening. The way you will respond will determine the outcome. Basically, you can respond on an event positively or negatively. One example to explain is when you are sitting in a traffic jam. You can respond to the event (the traffic jam) in a way that you say ‘Well, it is as it is, and I cannot change it, so I am staying calm and relaxed, and I do what i can do to organise around the traffic jam. I will call my boss or appointment that I will be a little later due to the traffic jam.’ This attitude and response will give you an outcome of being quite relaxed and calm, and the rest of your day will be great and fine. On the other hand, you can respond to the traffic jam (the event) as follows: ‘I am going to be late, and that is not going to work out, etc’ and probably you will be swearing about the traffic jam. Now, the outcome here is that you will be tense, overreacting, and put yourself into a bad mood, and your day will be quite ruined.

Do you see the difference between the two different attitudes and at the end the two different outcomes. In the second example you blame the traffic jam or whatever that is happening for what is happening into your life. You do NOT take responsibility for your own life. In the first example, you take responsibility for what is happening in your life in that moment and do not blame someone or something else for the traffic jam. As you take responsibility for your own life, it is also much simplier and easier for you to take action, certainly when you have clear defined objectives in your life.

So, take 100% responsibility in your own life, and you will see that your life will be much more interesting and exciting, and you will be able to become more successful.

Have a great and excellent day and week.

Coach Erwin

P.S.: If you want to know and learn more about taking action, listen to the recording from ‘The Success Show’ where Coach Erwin interviewed Terry Telford.

The answer to that question is simple and straight forward: YES, it is really important. Why? The background concept and idea is complex to explain, but I will try to explain to you in a simple way what you can achieve and get when you live with a Positive Mental Attitude. Are you ready to get positive? Here we go…

When you look around you and talk to people, willingly or not willingly, you feel attracted to people that are open, willing to help or support you, have a happy view over life, i.e. people that are positive and make the best of their lives. Why are you attracted to those people? Because they have something interesting about them, they appear to have less worries, and they are achieving things, in your eyes, quite easy. And you are probably wondering in those moments what you are missing to experience the same ‘success’.

If you would ask all those people, the majority would tell you that they look at their lives from a positive viewpoint. They believe in themselves, are confident and they know clearly what they want in life. They have adopted the principle of Positive Mental Attitude to achieve the things that they want in life. What does that mean in simple words?

In simple words, this means that they look at their lives and what happens around them from the side of possibilities, challenges, and telling themselves that they can achieve and realise whatever they want in life. Yes, they are programming themselves towards their success. They are training their conscious and subconscious mind through autosuggestion using affirmations. They tell themselves that they can do it, that they can realise a dream, they tell themselves over and over that they have the qualities and the capabilities to develop and grow personally, professionally and spiritually to the top that they have determined for themselves. Can YOU do the same?

YES, you can do it too, I would even say to you that it would be enormously benificial to you to acquire a Positive Mental permanent state. You will be surprised at what you can achieve when you have adopted a Positive Mental Attitude. How do you get that Positive Mental Attitude?

Getting and maintaining a Positive Mental Attitude is like getting and maintaing a healthy and fit body. You need to train it. When you don’t train your body, you get unhealthy, unfit and gain some kilos. The same is true for your mental attitude. When you don’t train your mental attitude, it is getting lazy, uninterested and negative. So, this means that you need to train it on a regular basis, on a daily basis. You can train it through autosuggestion, affirmations, visualisations, building your self-confidence, etc. There are several possibilities, each one depend on how you feel with it. It is the same with training your body. Someone prefers cycling, as another person prefers running, or swimming or playing tennis, or going to the gym. To train your mental attitude, you need to find which ways do work for you and with which ones you feel at ease and relaxed. It is about creating an habit, an habit that you like.

Are you looking for a Positive Mental Attitude Trainer and Motivator? Coach Erwin is a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) Trainer and Motivator that will support and guide you in setting up your personalised PMA program specific to you needs and requirements.

Contact Coach Erwin by Email or by Skype (realiseyourdreams) to start your PMA program and become happier and more successful in life.

To your success…

Coach Erwin
http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/

This situation of being makes a lot of people unhappy in their lives and what happens is that a lot of people are living outside themselves. The reason why they do this is first of all created by the current way of living, i.e. there are some many things we need to think about that we basically forget ourselves. A second reason is that the person is consciously running away from their inner self so that they don´t have to ‘hate’ themselves.

When I do talk to people, I encounter a lot of people that don’t accept themselves, and are angry with themselves for how they are or for what they have done or not done. They are shamed for themselves. The only way to be able to change something about yourself, is starting from within yourself, and the first task is to accept yourself as you are. This is the fundamental basis for improving yourself. Why?

People want to be perfect, i.e. have the perfect body, have the perfect relationship, have the perfect job, perfect car, etc. For that they are refering to what they see and hear around them. Being perfect is an abstract thing and does not exist, as each one of us has a different definition and view of perfectionism. It is not bad being perfect, not at all, but you need to be perfect to what you find perfect and not what others find perfect. Lot of people let them influence from the outside world to be perfect, and they find out that they never are perfect. And that is due to the fact that they have taken a definition of perfectionism from someone else. You can only grow and become perfect from within, and that means that you first have to accept yourself. What does actually mean ‘Accept myself…’?

You are as you are, a complex combination of flesh, mind, soul, experiences, knowledge, etc.. each one of us is unique, yes you are unique with all the qualities and capabilities you have. Being everything is impossible. Accept that you are the best in what you can do best.

Yes, of course, there are points that you are not satisfied with. But first of all accepting yourself as you are, from there onwards, you can start to undertake the necessary steps to improve yourself. BUT keep in mind that the basis needs to lay within you, and not something that came directly or indirectly from the outside.

You want to change because you want to change for you, not for someone or something else. If you can do this, you are way ahead to become successfull and ‘perfect’ in your own right.

Coach Erwin
http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/

Well, you are not the only one. A lot of people do worry and think about things that happened in the past. If you look at yourself and be honest to yourself, the things that you worry about from the past are mistakes that you have made. Is that correct?

Don’t worry, making mistakes is human, and all of us are making them. There is nothing wrong by making mistakes, it is all about how you deal with them. Life is a learning process and that means that we have to go with trail and error sometimes. A lot of us, when we have made a mistake or made someone angry, we worry about how stupid we were, why we have made that mistake, what the other people will think about us, etc…

The only thing we don’t do, and actually we should do is analyse our mistake, learn from it, AND continue with life. We live to much in the past instead of living in the NOW and looking forward to the good and nice things that we want to achieve in life. We need to accept that what is done is done. we cannot change it anymore.

The only things that you can change or adapt are:

- the way how you think now;

- the way you are living now;

- the things that you still want to achieve in life.

Accept live as it is now and life it to the maximum NOW. Leave the past as it is, you cannot change it anymore. Take the good memories and the leasons learned with you, and stop worrying about all the other things that happened in the past. Live NOW…

Enjoy your today and have fun…

Coach Erwin
http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/

One of the key factors for success is your mental attitude. You may ask yourself what your mental attitude has to do with your success. Well, it has to do everything with your success. Let’s have a look at it.

The way the mind works is a complex piece of work. But here we will keep it simple. Basically, the mind exists out of a conscious and a subconscious part. The subconscious mind is our deep being, the center of our being, the soul and engine of our life, the place from where the intuition comes. How does the subconscious mind function? The subconscious mind has a knowledge that has been build up through beliefs, experiences, values, perceptions, assumptions, etc. That knowledge is acquired through your own deliberate allowances or through implementation and training coming from third parties.

Basically, the conscious mind is a data collectionar that filters and decides what it is going to let through to the subconscious mind. There are two main ways that the conscious filter will let through information. One is through continuous repetition connected with emotion and the second one through something happening once but has such a heavy and strong emotion that it is immediately absorbed by the subconscious mind.

We all remember from our younger years at school and at our parents’ home the repetitive words like ‘You cannot do this…’ or ‘You are not able to do ….’. These repetitions feeded our subconscious mind and we were starting to act upon them. Do you recognise this? Everytime hearing the same thing over and over made us starting believing in it. The same is true for the positive repetitive phrases that we hearing time over time. So, how does the whole picture work, and what has this to do with your success?

Everytime you experience something now,  you act upon it consciously, but quite often you do or react in a way that you don’t control it consciously. You just do it or act upon it. A good example is driving your car. You don’t think about it anymore, you just drive. Now, the way you drive will all depend on the experiences that you had in the past. A personal example to explain this to you. I was 19 years old, I just had my driving license and I had a small old car. One rainy day, I was driving, thinking that I was an excellent driver, which I still think I am, back home to my parents place. Somewhere on the way home, I had to turn left. When turning left I accelerated and lost the control over my back tyres and I was heading a wall. Luckily I was able to stop just in time and all was fine. But still now, everytime it is raining and I have to take a curve, automatically I drive more carefully because my subconscious mind tells me ‘Erwin watch out. Do you remember that day …’ This example shows you that act upon experiences and emotional things that happened in your life before.

Do you agree with me that the subconscious mind is ‘trained’ through repetitive or emotional actions or words? If so, you have the possibility to train your own subconscious mind in the way that you want it act for you in the future. If you want to be successful in life, you can train your subconscious mind by telling it over and over again what exactly you want to achieve. If you keep repeting that you are a successful person, your subconscious mind will start acting upon it. Why? Because the subconscious mind will accept it as a truth.

So, be conscious about the power of your subconscious mind. Whatever seeds you plant, that is what you will reep. Think and act positive, and your life will start be positive.

Coach Erwin
http://www.realiseyourdreams.net/

What happens when you take responsibility is that you don’t blame any other situation or person for what has happened in your life. Do you want to blame another person for your success? Of course not, so don’t blame any more but be responsibility. You will be amazed with the results that you can achieve with it.

Taking responsibility is also an important part in the coaching process. A coach supports a client to take responsibility in his/her life, and that will help the client to move forward and achieve the success that they want.

So, take responsibility and you will get there where you want to.

Coach Erwin