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Five Steps to Help Rebuild After a Mudslide

December 19, 2014 By wdcteam Leave a Comment

This coming February, it will be 10 years since a mudslide swept through out home and changed our lives dramatically. Once again, mudslides fill the news in the wake of heavy storms after years of drought and fire damage. The plants that hold our soil to the surface of rocks have been destroyed and with their loss, people face serious challenges as well.

In a matter of moments, our lives as we have known them are swept away.   It is hard to believe as we survey so much loss and destruction around us that we are standing at the edge of a creative opportunity that will enable us to not only survive, but thrive.

It is a process that can take considerable time. Having lived through it, perhaps these suggestions will prove helpful now:

  1. Find help. Although you will have to do this on your own, you cannot do it alone. In the immediate aftermath, you will need to take care of your safety and shelter before everything else. Seek out those who can assist in your rescue and recovery. You want a support system to get you through the profound grief, fear and shock that immediately follow a disaster, as well as resources to rescue what you can.

Peter and I found our church to be our strength during this most difficult time. Members put us up, helped us find temporary homes for our animals, and helped us rescue our belongings and get them to a storage facility. They prayed with us, cried with us and gave us the emotional strength to carry on.

  1. As soon as possible, begin to focus on what you want The recovery process takes time. Knowing what you want provides a mental anchor to which you can return regularly as you work through each step.

Peter and I knew we wanted a home and space for our family of animals – horses, dogs, cat, bird and fish. We were able to focus first on everyone’s safety, then places to live in the immediate time period. During that time, friends from church permitted us to use rooms, pipe corrals and other storage places until we could get on our feet. It took about 6 weeks to find an independent rental home and another 1 ½ years before we found a new permanent home.

  1. Once you have your focus on your desired results, your goal, you can begin to examine where you want to go and identify the resources you have to move toward it. One of the big surprises for me was that this does not happen overnight. More is swept away in a mudslide than your physical possessions. Over an extended period of time, you will go through stages of looking at physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of your life that have been affected. I found that taking an inventory of these various aspects enabled me to examine what was and was not working in our lives up to that date and then recover, rebuild and recreate what we desired with our goal ever before us.
  1. In the immediate aftermath, your surrounding circumstances may not give you any reason to believe in a brighter future. However, you can create one. You can use your natural skills and abilities to yield even better results than you had before.

I found I could do this by learning more about the mind. Current scientific research finds that the default position of the brain is to fall into negative beliefs of loss, despair and hopelessness, and the litany of “it won’t work, it can’t be done.” We are all familiar with this voice in our head when we are feeling down and out.

So the best thing you can do for yourself is to cultivate the habit of positive possibility thinking using affirmations and Afformations. I used these along with neuro-emotional work with a chiropractor, myofascial therapy with an occupational therapist, hypnosis and guided imagery.   The most powerful work I did to maintain my mental and emotional health throughout this time period involved asking positive questions, journaling, meditation and centered prayer.

My book, Rainbows Over Ruins is a story of recovering, rebuilding and recreating after such a disaster. If you would like to read about someone who has been there and gotten through it, pick up a copy. It’s available on Amazon.

Wherever you find yourself today, know that if I can do it, you can too. You can get past these losses by keeping your goals in front of you as you work through the process step by step. If you have questions, reach out to me. I am open to helping you think through your steps to recovery. May you find as I did that deep within every crisis lie the seeds of infinite opportunity.

To Your Success,

Susan

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The Key to Developing Persistance

December 19, 2014 By wdcteam Leave a Comment

Tenacity. It is a quality that develops when you are fixed upon your purpose. It’s a necessary quality to have when you are trying something challenging or that will take considerable time to achieve. Tenacity implies that you will do whatever it takes to accomplish your vision and reach your goals.   It involves persistence, determination and perseverance, all strong words that support the theories of success.

Regular students of success philosophies are familiar with the writings and stories about persistence. Napoleon Hill gave us the often used quote: Anything the human mind can conceive and believe, when organized around a purpose and a plan, can be achieved. All too often, the organization phrase is left out in common usage, yet it is the key to achievement. Knowing your purpose and developing a plan that you can follow with persistence yields the prize.

Bob Proctor, the success coach commonly known from his appearance in the movie The Secret, began his successful pursuits when he studied the words of Napoleon Hill and owned them through his actions.   He went from $4,000 a year income as a fireman to over $100,000 within a year. He built multiple, highly successful janitorial services using the principles of success before moving into the personal development field. To this day, Proctor devotes one month a year re-reading one specific chapter every day. It is the chapter on persistence.

Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich is filled with stories of perseverance. An entire chapter is devoted to persistence. Greg Reid and Sharon Lechter picked up on one of those stories as they wrote Three Feet from Gold, the tale of a young man who gave up his pursuit of a vein of gold, only to have the new owner find it three feet from where he had stopped. Greg has gone on to write extensively on this quality of persistence – stickiness.

Hill is clear on one point. The ability to develop determination and the self-discipline to pursue our goals begins with purpose. A couple weeks ago, I suggested that you might find this a great time to plan for your New Year’s resolutions so that you could build them around your goals. Such planning constitutes a great strategy session that improves your chance of achieving goals because you attach them to your purpose and the big “Why” behind the actions you choose to take.

If you are going through this process, you may want to ask a few questions of yourself. What is it about your goal that resonates deep within you? Call it passion. Call it purpose. Why does it fill you with enthusiasm and drive? Why does it stick with you even when you experience obstacles? The answer is extremely important to your ability to maintain the pressure that moves you along the path to your greatest desires.

And if you are unclear about your purpose, one of your resolutions may be to identify your purpose this year. A good place to start might be to observe yourself. What are you drawn to? What do you study or watch? Who are your friends? Who are your heroes and heroines? Where do you like to go? What things do you want? If money is your big goal, ask yourself why? What does money mean to you? What feelings come up when you think about having money? How will you use it? If you had all the money you currently dream about having, what would your life look like? As you go through these questions, a pattern of feelings will emerge around the things you have in your current lifestyle and the ones you would like to have.   How will you feel when you have them?

Purpose brings a sense of direction. Purpose brings passion. Passion brings tenacity and the ability to stick to it. The emotions you feel when you sense movement toward that which you desire brings such joy and well-being. Take the time this season to align with how you envision your dreams and draw the road map that appears to take you to them. With this in hand, may you find all the tenacity you require to not only keep your New Year’s resolutions, but also move steadily toward your goals.

To Your Success,

Susan

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What are the benefits and value of my approach for others?

September 9, 2014 By wdcteam Leave a Comment

Positive results.

“When I finished my first studies, I realized that I wanted to provide more to others than an intellectual presentation of success principles. I wanted to be able to say that I had seen it work myself.” people

I set out to use the conscious methods that enable anyone to improve their results and accomplishments. These success principles, centered on the art of thinking, can be learned by the conscious mind, however, something additional is required to eliminate the negative thought habits that become obstacles in the path of our success. The very things that block our success block our creativity.

“Becoming aware of what stops people from getting out of their own way to actually complete the process is another key to success. Once they know, they are able to focus on their vision with the self-discipline to persist in taking effective action based on their plan.”

Did it work when consciously undertaken? You can see for yourself. Read Rainbows Over Ruins and you’ll find an inner resource to draw upon and an example of the creative

 

principles at work. The creative success principles guide you as you define the essence of your dreams, deliberately set out to create and achieve them, and begin to apply them for yourself.

Use her materials, listen to her share her personal insights on the process or work with her to discover its value in your situation.

“My goal is to:

* raise your awareness of the power of the mind and techniques that enable you to use it,

* provide guidance to help you get out of your own way to get the results you desire and improve the quality of your life.”

To truly utilize our innate abilities, we have to do more than just name the components of the mind and discuss their qualities intellectually. We also need to claim them and tame them through our own use.

Inside you will learn how to:

Accept where you are even as you envision an improved future;

Live life and feel the essence of what you are creating now.

Become your dream in your mind and take action in the outer world through your daily conscious choices.

Persist even when such activity flies in the face of outer circumstances.

Collaborate with your subconscious mind by asking only positive questions and be amazed by the arrival of new resources and new directions beyond what you ever imagined.

You can choose Rainbows Over Ruins.

Click here to discover how it is possible to create the life of your dreams using the power of your mind.

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Is knowing the How-Tos of success always enough?

September 9, 2014 By wdcteam Leave a Comment

man-2The short answer is no.  Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.

Lifelong conditioning, outmoded beliefs and bad habits make up the paradigms that rule our current existence.  That’s why you need to connect with others – family, friends, guide, coach, mentor, support group or mastermind group – to move beyond wishing to accomplish a new goal.

And it cannot be just anyone. You need to have what Noah St. John calls a loving mirror to give you unconditional support and help you reflect your greater value to others because we cannot see it for ourselves.  When you work with someone who supports you like that you gain the power of understanding your value and become who you really are with much less frustration

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THIS IS ALL ABOUT YOUR CREATIVE THOUGHT PROCESS

September 9, 2014 By wdcteam Leave a Comment

When you understand the process, you can overcome the problems that are stopping you.  You can get out of your own way and create a better reality. pastel

Benefit from what Susan learned about the creative principles. Apply them for yourself and save yourself a great deal of time, money and suffering to get your desired results.

Focus on the primary thing that inspires you within the context of all areas of your life. The creative success principles guide you as you define the essence of your goals and deliberately set out to create and achieve them.  The principles help you identify and resolve the contrasts in your experience.

Work on a plan once you know your purpose. Develop the power to take action.

Whatever your circumstances, you can improve them.  It may not be dramatic. It can be simple, even mundane. It may work overnight or take a fair amount of time. You may not even recognize what is happening. What’s important is to find the one thing daily that lets you feel the way you want to feel when you have your goal. Feel the essence of your         dream now.

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WHY WILL THIS BOOK HELP YOU?

September 9, 2014 By wdcteam Leave a Comment

questionHave you purchased many books and programs and studied them, but never put any of it into practice?

Have you hit a creative brick wall and don’t know how to get over it?

Rainbows Over Ruins presents the creative process you need to use to change your life.

Flip your thinking. Ask the right questions. Think inside out and create the life of your dreams using the power of your mind.

Choose to engage your own creativity. Realize your dreams. Accomplish your goals. Choose rainbows over ruins.”

Together, the book Rainbows Over Ruins and accompanying workbook find where you are and define where you want to be and then help you put together an individual, customized plan to get there.

Enter your email to get a free chapter from
Rainbows Over Ruins

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WHAT PROBLEMS DO YOU WANT TO SOLVE

September 5, 2014 By wdcteam Leave a Comment

Has something happened and you feel lost as you face change or catastrophe?

Are your emotions exposed on physical, financial and emotional levels? Are you afraid? Resistant?

Do you lack a plan? Are you unable to articulate what you want or why?

Do you want to create something but feel paralyzed by a looming gap between where you are and where you want to be?

Do you have a burning desire to be more creative, but don’t know where to start, how or what to do?

Do you lack belief? Are you afraid that your dreams are beyond the realm of possibility?

Do you begin many creative projects but never complete them? Do you set many goals, but achieve few?

Are you troubled by lack – of time, energy, relationships, money? Support systems and associates?  Discipline? Persistance? Organization? Effective strategy?

Are you stressed? Frustrated?

Do you lack self confidence? Are you losing sleep?

Have you purchased many books and programs and studied them, but never put any of it into practice?

Have you hit a creative brick wall and don’t know how to get over it?

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  • “Susan ran the Producers Guild of America seminars program for years – and while she was heading it up we had an amazing array of well-produced, always-well-attended and interesting seminars and “evenings with” events. She has a real handle on putting together top-notch panels, finding guest speakers and outlining the main topics for the seminars, as well as a great attention to the details needed to pull these off. I highly recommend her and her fantastic skills.”

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    George Sunga
    Executive Producer, “The Jeffersons”, Governor, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
  • “I love working with Susan because she has an amazing ability to help me gain clarity and focus about the possibilities that surround me. Susan is so skilled and supportive that her faith in my abilities has transformed my thinking and now I know the action steps I want to take with certainty and enthusiasm.”

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    Prime Coaching, U.K.
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    Owner, Children in Film

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