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#45 Managing Your Life

90SecondNavigator-AlbumArt To strike an optimum work/life balance, you need to put thought into managing your life. We all have many demands on our time. Managing all of it can be a challenge. Here are some ideas you may want to consider.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, Life balance, Podcasts, time management, work life balance.

Resistance

My brother in law asked me to play in a 40 and over softball league. I told him I wasn’t a good enough ball player. Then I thought about why that is. I realized that when I was playing little league, after I hit the ball, I threw the bat. According to the league rules, if you throw the bat you’re out. I did this 3 or 4 times and I hurt my team. After that season, I never wanted to play baseball anymore. I haven’t played since. We all have issues like this that are related to challenges we’ve experienced early in life.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, resistance.

Celebrate the Small Wins


I was trying to help my daughter Sarah study for an algebra exam (truth be told, I wasn’t much help as I have forgotten how to do most of it). She was overwhelmed by the complexity and time it took to complete each equation, coupled with the sheer amount of problems she had to solve. To her credit she was methodically going through her material and figuring it out step by step (without much help from her father). Despite her successes along the way, she couldn’t stop focusing on how much she still had to do. I took this opportunity to teach her the importance of why to celebrate the small wins.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Achieve Success, Direct Your Life, Goal setting, incremental steps toward reaching goals.

Manifesting Your Desires


Last week we discussed the process for manifesting your desires. The first step is to recognize the incredible power of directed, emotional thought. When you begin with very particular thought, couple it with the specific feelings surrounding that thought, and you take the necessary action, you create an incredibly powerful, and undeniable, outcome.

While some of us are fortunate to simply understand the way the universe works without any outside influence, admittedly, for most of us, including myself, the introduction to the powerful process of manifestation usually comes from someone else. For me, it was my wife, Stacy. Her mother taught her at a very early age that energy can be manipulated and life experiences created through intention.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, manifest, Uncategorized.

Your Thoughts Create Your Reality


You’ve probably heard numerous people, myself included, declare that your thoughts create your reality. So why haven’t you received that raise, the promotion, or attained the weight goal on which you’ve been so focused? Because having just an image of what you want is simply not enough. Instead, you must not only create a mental picture of exactly what you want, but you must simultaneously produce the feelings associated with that desire. If you can then open yourself to take the action(s) to propel you closer, your vision will manifest into reality.

Just this week, when the U.S. soccer team played Ghana during the World Cup, American substitute, John Brooks, scored the winning goal 86 minutes into the match.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, manifest, Self improvement, Self-actualization, your thoughts create your reality.

Ride the Wave


The working title for my book was “Ride the Wave.”  I ultimately decided to change it to Adjust Your Sails. As a captain of a sailboat you must first accept the conditions around you (ride the wave) before you begin to navigate toward your destination (adjust your sails). The book is about the concept of successfully navigating life. A critical component is realizing that life, like the ocean, the currents, and the weather is not something that can be controlled. Things will happen to knock you off course and test your resolve, but you must flow with the changes rather than fighting against them.…

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Posted by Joel Brookman in Direct Your Life, ride the wave, Stress Reduction, Surrender.

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