The Power of Space.

Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space in lies your power and freedom to choose your response
In those responses lie your growth and your happiness. Author unknown

Between whatever happens to you in life and your response there is a small space in time. In that space you can choose to let go and be in auto pilot by having blind faith in that you will be ok. Or on the other hand you can take over the controls and have complete control of your destiny.       

We all have the power of choice.
The more we exercise this power to choose.
The more freedom you get and your space grows larger.

On the other hand the more a person does not choose to use this space wisely.
The smaller this space becomes until there is no space at all.
They spend all their time reacting to everything and anything in life.
More than often they are the complainers.

A hunter does not aimlessly shoot a bullet in the air and complain about not hitting the target.
They aim and take control of the outcome.

The Super-Conscious Mind [Video]

The Super-Conscious Mind (Pt 1 of 4)
Here is a series of videos I found really interesting from the Discovery Channel.

See parts 2 - 4

The Expanding World

A man walking home along the street notices a complete stranger standing ahead of him.

The stranger smiles and politely asks him if he would like $1 million to spend on anything he deeply desires, but he must spend it at the local mall.

The man readily agrees and can’t believe his good fortune.
He walks into the mall and instantly sees a suit.  It is a horrible colour and design but he says I will have that and buys it. 

Finds an ugly dining table that is outdated but thinks I will have that and buys it.  Finds a huge range of books he will never read let alone like them and buys the lot.

This goes on all day until the money is gone.

When the man gets home he complains and rants and raves to the stranger.
Why is my home filled with all these things I don’t want, I don’t like?

The Stranger replies “You were asked to spend the money on what you deeply desire.  The choice was yours to choose what you liked not what you don’t like”.

Fear of public speaking

Recently I was invited to speak at an event; while I was sitting in my seat waiting I felt the familiar unwelcome feeling of nerves building-up.  The heart starting to beat faster the thoughts of key points I needed to make bouncing around in my head.

I found myself starting to second guessing everything from opening words to reminding myself not to “mmm” and “ahhhh”.

This all brought back to me from many years ago a lesson I learnt about speaking from a group of friends.  One of them was a confident young corporate highflyer; she was attending a public speaking course and was trying a few of her newly learnt tricks on us.

What she had us do was to stay seated at the table and talk about something you are very passionate about.  We all took a turn and were having a good laugh.  Now she arranged the chairs in rows like a hall than asked us to stand up with a fake microphone and talk again about the same topic.

Now we all stumbled and struggled where moments before in the same room to the same people it was so much easier.  

What happened?
Why such a difference?