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Be a Giver

Earlier this month I included a quotation in my Blog, from a site I came accross while searching for some inspirational material. It resonated in me imediatly, and I could see the sense in it and feel the wave of warmth rising through my body. If you like I had an Ah Ha! moment. The quote was “Once you become a giver than your receiving is on autopilot”.

Although I have been coaching people in this for years, and living what I truly believe to be in accordance with the principle, I have unconsciously always held something back. I have always given something with one hand, while keeping something back with the other.

It is a bit like the old nautical principle, forged in the days of square rigged sail, when seamen would struggle aloft to reduce canvas as the wind blew up. I always wanted to keep one hand for the ship, and one hand for myself.

After I had my moment of clarity, I resolved to commit to giving even more than I had up to now. I wrote those emails offering help, which I had been putting off because of the financial climate. I started helping some of the people who had seemed less deserving because of their negative attitude. I even took a couple of faltering steps towards starting a movement to help kids get a positive start in life by giving them an alternative to drugs.

Would you believe it, as soon as I concentrated on giving, then the phone rang, and an old friend asked me if I would like a couple of free tickets to see Bob Dylan at the weekend! That is the Law of Reciprocity in action.

When you need something, it will show up in your life. I must have realy needed those tickets! Go figure!

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Ask For What You Want

All of us have needs and wants. The funny thing is that they arise no matter how hard you try to be self-sufficient. Life has a way of throwing you a curve ball when you least expect it.

I have been taught to ask for what you want – Exactly what you want – multiple times and in the most effective way possible. When you do ask, you may not always receive, even if you really need it and the other person has the power to give it to you without much personal loss.

However, there are two simple ways to receive what you want in life when you need it. Wealth and success are easier than you imagined.

One way is to ask within, “ask and ye shall receive.” What you want will simply show up in your life.

The other way is to give freely and generously when you can. Once you become a giver than your receiving is on autopilot. When you need something, it will show up in your life.

For more on this subject click here to visit ambafrance spirituality where most of this text first appeared. With thanks.

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The Law of Reciprocity

The Law of Reciprocity states that the world gives you what you give to the world. By doing for others you make favorable impressions on them and relationships blossom as you extend courtesy, kindness, honesty, respect, and other favors. Even if favors are small, they accumulate over time, as you build trust and create a history of what to expect from each other.

Some people confuse the Law of Reciprocity with Newton’s third law of motion, where every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Actually the two are subtly different, and the main difference is time. For Newton, every action force is always opposed by an equal and opposite reaction force immediately and instantaneously. There is no delay or latency, and where no external forces are present, the reaction is in a predictable direction and of calculable magnitude.

However, if you give with an expectation of an immediate and equal reciprocation, then you are straying across to Newtonian physics and are likely to disappointed. The principle is that others will reciprocate in kind based upon the way you treat them. People evaluate your actions and motives through giving and receiving, and you may give many times, over many years before you see a return.

Interestingly, the world may reciprocate from a completely unpredictable direction, and may surprise you. If you give to others, with no expectation of direct and immediate rewards then the results will seem almost miraculous and be completely unexpected.

Finally, remember that according to The 7 Spiritual Laws of Prosperity you can’t out give the universe.

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What we call reality is just a state of mind

Have you ever wondered about the nature of reality? It might surprise you to know that it is not only philosophers, Zen masters and Deep Thought that contemplate the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Some of my favorite quotes about life come from Albert Einstein.

Try this one for size: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Have you ever come across an accountant or computer technician who used jargon to baffle you rather than explain something? Is it that they do not want you to know something, or is it that they just don’t understand it themselves? That must be why Warren Buffett will not buy a company if he cannot understand their financial reports.

Another Einstein quote defines Insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Where in life do we see this strategy repeated? How many Government IT projects are set up using the same procurement process, the same project management methodology, contracts awarded to the same companies, and even the same individuals running thse projects? Why is everyone surprised when the results are the same?

Physicists argue that reality is something that, while not a purely mind-made construct, can be but the picture our mind forces us to form. In life, we get what we focus on, and what we focus on grows. Some people believe that we are all born rich and successful, and it is though changing our focus that we manifest this as wealth. That is why when given a choice of what to picture, we should always visualize and focus on success.

Update: For more on the subject of reality, see What we call ‘reality’ is just a state of mind from guardian.co.uk

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Welcome To Bruce Thompson Coaching

Welcome to Bruce Thompson Coaching – The source of Inspiration and Motivation for you, your team and your business.

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
Samuel Johnson

“We should be too big to take offense, and too noble to give it”
Abraham Lincoln

“Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.”
Seth Godin

“Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.”
Andrew Carnegie