Are you asking yourself great life questions?

Asking good questions is an important success strategy, and crucial to the quality of your life. Through personal development and coaching, I have learned many valuable lessons. One of these lessons is the necessity to spend time asking oneself important questions. These life questions can be in relation to your career, your relationships, your financial situation and so forth.

Most people in this day and age, do not make the desired shift towards a better quality of life and their desired success, because they do not spend time quieting their minds and asking themselves worthwhile questions. Many will choose to go to seminars and read books which is all wonderful, however they expect the exterior things or beings to do the work for them. Most folks do not want to take the responsibility of doing the internal work.

Whether you know it or not, all the answers you seek are found within. What you need to do in order to get to the answers is learn to sit still, be quiet, slow down the mind chatter, and then ask your deeper self the life questions you want answers to.

Because of our microwave mentality, most individuals want the answers immediately. Know that it may take a few days, a couple of weeks, a month or maybe even longer. However you will get the answer if you persist. A key factor to getting your questions answered is to set out the intention of receiving the answers.

The answers to your life questions may come in the form of a clear knowing or an idea that pops unexpectedly into your head. It may also come from what the person in front of you is mirroring back to you. Just know that answers come in many forms, you simply need to go about your day being aware and open to receiving the answers.

Asking great life questions and finding out the answers is all part of doing personal development. Imagine being able to quiet yourself long enough to be able to connect to your deeper self and by doing so develop your ability to get the information you desire. How would that change your life?

So next time you are confused or frustrated, use the following success strategy - start asking yourself some great questions.

Lynette Chartier

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http://www.thepowerisinyourhands.com

Are You Giving Too Much of Your Personal Power Away?

Personal power - do you use and therefore develop your personal power or are you someone who tends to give your power away? If you are always looking to someone else or to something else for the answers, always looking outside of yourself, then You probably give most of your power away.

One of the great benefits of personal development is the remembering and rediscovering of your personal power. Personal power being the ability to question yourself until you find the answer that is right for you. All the answers that you seek are in fact within you.

It is difficult to connect with your personal power and to use it if you have no self confidence and have not yet developed an inner trust. It may feel easier and more accurate to follow what someone else is saying and thinking - to simply receive answers. However that feeling is short lived because next time something comes up for you, you will find yourself once again needing to go outside of yourself.

Through personal development you will be able to start asking yourself the difficult questions and start to go within. With time you will develop the ability to find your answers more quickly and accurately because you will have learned the ability to listen to your intuition and to your emotional guidance system. You will be in fact trusting your inner self more.

As you are developing this personal power there are many tools and strategies that you can use to support you. However the goal is to become dependent on self and not on the outside being, tool or strategy. The products, tools and coaches are simply there to help you remember who you truly are and to help you recognize the incredible power within.

The one requirement to develop your personal power is to take the time to be still, to quiet yourself and your mind. Meditation is great for this.

Next time you want to deal with an issue, before going outside of yourself, take some time to be just with yourself and to start developing and accessing your personal power.

Make it a great day,

Lynette Chartier

http://www.theppowerisinyourhands.com

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http://www.braveheartwomen.com/lynettechartier

Have You Pushed Your Personal Success Reset Button for 2008?

The New Year is upon us, fresh in all ways and ready for us to make the most of it, and create the personal success we desire. So have you pushed your own personal success reset button for 2008?

I was inspired this morning to look back at one year ago and see what I had decided to reach for in 2007. I had listed among the many goals deeper connection with my loved ones, further improved health, my first $10,000.00 profit day, a trip to Mexico, to Montreal, and Australia, assistance in the area of marketing, a further understanding of Internet marketing, house renovations, and so on. I am pleased that I reached many of my goals. Some I did not fully complete yet I took many steps towards them, and I am much closer today than I was a year ago. Furthermore, I was blessed with much learning and personal growth that are taking me towards the personal success I desire.

We as humans are wired to learn, to grow and to expand into the beings we want to Be, Do and Have. That is how we differ from other living creatures. We have a choice as to the path we take.

The beginning of the new year marks one such choice point; the point that you get to choose where you want to be in life and start the journey towards that destination. Each day we get to press the Reset button and choose how we will move through the day. Each new year we get to press the Reset button and decide what we will reach for that year. This is the best time to press your Reset button and decide what you will reach for in 2008, in order to move you closer to your desired personal success.

The following questions will assist you in pushing the Reset button:

What is the ideal me looking like in 2008?

What am I choosing to Be, Do and Have? Am I continually choosing to be better and more, yet being grateful for where I am and what I have?

Am I choosing to be awakened to personal growth and development?

Through personal development you will be able to cross the bridge that leads you from where you are to where you want your personal success to be.

Whatever it is that you want to create, you must look at your mind set. If you want to create wealth and have a $5,000.00 a month mind set, even though you are given a $50,000.00 a month opportunity, you will invariably turn the $50,000.00 a month opportunity into a $5,000.00 income. Your mind set determines your personal success. Therefore part of the process in pressing the Reset button is choosing the path of personal growth and expanding your mind set.

May 2008 bless you with perfectly restored health, loving relationships, wealth, success, abundance in all ways, always.

"You don't get to choose how or when you're going to die. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." Joan Baez

Lynette Chartier

http://www.thepowerisinyourhands.com

http://www.braveheartwomen.com/lynettechartier

Take Action!

How many of you set some “resolutions” for the New Year? Let us call them what they are “goals”, resolutions for many is a way to say you are going to do something but if the action is not given to it then it is forgotten with little or no consequences to ourselves because after all it is just a resolution, right? You see if you call it a goal it is meaningful, I am not saying resolutions are not meaningful just the thought behind it is different. It is a subtle difference but for many it is the difference between success and failure. Last Christmas I made the decision to create the lifestyle we wanted, to start a home business and become an active & involved parent and to travel with our children. Wow, I look back at the year and we have accomplished just about everything we set as our goals for 2007!

So what do you want? What do you want to change compared to what you did in 2007. Really get clear on this, what do you want, are you willing to trade your life for it? Also, what has held you back from making this change in the past? Be clear on what limiting belief that you hold that has held you back from making these changes. Most of us want to change our work, fitness, health, and relationships but we do not take ACTION. We are paralyzed by FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real). We have to recognize that and face the fears we hold in our hearts that hold us back from what we want.

How do you make these resolutions into goals? One, write it down this is really important as it will set the sub-conscious mind into motion. Two, read it every day to remind yourself what it is you set your intention on doing, and then take ACTION. This is vitally important; many of us know of the Law of Attraction and we use it in our daily lives. However, it only works if you also integrate ACTION in the steps of using the LOA. What does action really mean? If you break it down it is really about making a decision and then following through with that decision. Make a goal or goals for 2008, write it down and read it every day as many times as you can, and then take ACTION. Make the decisions you need to make to move you towards what it is you want.

Here are 4 great steps to making decisions. Many people have trouble with this part of applying the LOA into their lives. Follow these steps and you will see things changing in the direction of your dreams so fast you will be amazed.

1. DO I WANT TO be, do or have this?
2. Will being, doing or having this Move me in the direction of my goal?
3. Is being, doing or having this In Harmony with God’s Laws or the Laws of the Universe?
4. Will being, doing or having this violate the Rights of Others?

If the answer to the first 3 questions is YES, and the answer to the last question NO, then take action and move forward.

I am so grateful for what I have been able to accomplish this year. With that I am so grateful for what I am already creating in 2008 because I can build on our success and also what I have learned in that process over the past year and I know achieving what I am setting as my goals for 2008. What about you? I will ask the question again, what do you want? Really what do you want in your life that for some reason or circumstance you have not accomplished yet. What is holding you back? Your success is assured if get clear on what you want and take ACTION!

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Stop Going Through The Motions. Experience Life Now.

Are you choosing to experience your life or are you going through the motions?

As I write this, I'm in Wichita, Kansas. I'm on a road trip of sorts that started 2 weeks and one day ago. I loaded my family into our van and we set out from our home just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

So far, we've stayed over in Fargo, North Dakota; Wichita, Kansas; Galveston, Texas; Montego Bay, Jamaica; Grand Cayman; Cozumel, Mexico; Weslaco, Texas; Austin, Texas and now back again in Wichita.

Our van has made it to all but 3 of the locations, while we relied on a cruise ship to get us to the remaining ones.

The trip has reminded me of what a wondrous planet we live on. And it's served to cement my resolve that the point of living is to experience the world and enjoy the experience.

I was able to go on this trip because I have my own home based business. It gives me the freedom to choose when, where and how I want to experience my life and I don't require permission from any one else to do so.

But it wasn't always this way. For too many years, I lived my life by going through the motions and putting off experiences until some undetermined point down the road.

Finally, I couldn't take it any more, and I made the decision to start living my life now. No more going through the motions for me.

That's the trip I'm on and the ride has been exhilarating. You should try it some time.



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Be-Do-Have

Many of us have heard about that saying Be-Do-Have, wow is it really that simple? I wanted to share a story of how we started this idea of Life is a Playground and our home business Clark's Playground. Just about a year ago we were like so many working, day to day raising a family and making the best of what we thought we had. The keyword is "thought", however we started to question what we had. Is it really just about going to work and coming home, do-this, do-that? Is there really no control of what we want for our lifestyle and where we want to go? Is it really about going to work and hoping for 2 weeks off and getting away somewhere?

We decided no, we have a responsibility to live the life we want and also to demonstrate to our children, to live the life they want. Success can be so many different things to people. How we define our success is by living the fullest most prosperous life we can. It is our obligation to be prosperous in every aspect of our lives.

Clark's Playground was born; we had to find a way to do it. We had made the decision that our life is about playing and prosperity. We started a home business and went at it. Then we asked ourselves, how can we play in 2007? What have we wanted to do that we always said we would do, but never took action. So we decided who we wanted to "BE".

Then started to "DO" it, we went and spent the winter in Baja, we went to Australia, and we then came home loaded up and went to Northern Canada. We always said we wanted to be traveling and sharing experiences with our children and be able to make a multiple 6 figure income while doing it.

So my point is Be-Do-Have. We decided to "BE" whom we always dreamed of. Then we had to "DO" the action to make that a reality. Now we "HAVE" the life we have always wanted and share and mentor others to do the same.

I am grateful for it, I celebrate it. Every day is a gift, open it up and enjoy it because tomorrow you get another one.

Life is a playground, how do you choose to play?

Serenity

I always love the journey of building a successful home business and how personal development is so entwined in this success. I spend time each day study all the different resources out there and have been given a book sometime ago from Bob Proctor. This book is called "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen. When I was given this book it was suggested that I read the last chapter everyday and it is a great practice. This little chapter continually reminds me to calm down, not slow down. When you are calm your creative thoughts can flow freely, this is the power. These thoughts are the money makers and if you want to have a successful network marketing home business then read this chapter each day. So here is the chapter print it and read it every day, I am sure you will find great rewards in this practice.

Serenity – "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more that ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates the understanding of other as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.

The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, know how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Even the ordinary trader will find his business prosperity increase as he develops a greater self-control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with a man whose demeanor is strongly equable.

The Strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm. "Who does not love a tranquil heart, a sweet-tempered, balance life? It does not matter whether it rains or shines, or what changes come to those possessing these blessings, for they are always sweet, serene, and calm. That exquisite poise of character which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture; it is the flowering of life, the fruitage of the soul. It is precious as wisdom, more to be desired than gold- yea, than even fine gold. How insignificant mere money-seeking looks in comparison with a serene life- a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the wave, beyond the reach of tempests, in the Eternal Calm!

"How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood! It is a question whether the great majority of people do not ruin their lives and mar their happiness by lack of self-control. How few people we meet in life who are well-balanced, who have that exquisite poise which is characteristic of the finished character!"

Yes, humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt. Only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

Tempest-tossed souls, wherever ye may be, under whatsoever conditions ye may live, know this – in the ocean of life the isles of Blessedness are smiling, and the sunny shore of your ideal awaits your coming. Keep your hand firmly upon the helm of thought. In the barque of your soul reclines the commanding Master; He does but sleep; wake Him. Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say unto your heart, "Peace be still!"

This is a great little piece and is a great place to turn when you feel that things are not just the way you planned. Calm and Serene Thought will take you through that time. This is how we are able to create a multiple 6 figure home business. Also, if you would like to learn more sign up for our 90day eCourse and we will share with you what has allowed us to create the lifestyle that we choose.