Tap into the law of attraction and manifest your heart's desire:

As Deepak Chopra powerfully sums up in my new favourite book, “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.” “Intention is the real power behind desire.”

Harness the spiritual law of attraction by creating your intentions and desires for 2009. Here are a few of my favourite strategies:

Make a commitment! Write it down, make it happen. When you write a goal down, you make it concrete and you make a commitment to it. Suddenly your subconscious mind wakes up and says, “Huh – you mean business”. Writing down your goals is the area where people such as motivational guru, Tony Robbins, say that the winners part from the losers because the losers always find a reason not to write their goal down.

Why is the mechanical act of writing so important?
Building on what I’ve already said, putting pen to paper now transfers those expressions which embody thoughts onto something tangible. We can now physically look at it. Even the act of using the eye in coordination with the hand holding the pen makes a much firmer impression on our mind as we write out the phrase or expression. Now when we read and re-read that phrase or sentence the impression on the mind becomes deeper and deeper.

Here is another important point:

When the words are written and then repeatedly re-written they have maximum impact. So don't be content with a first draft and keep rewriting out your goals on a regular basis to reinforce them.


Strengthen your commitment by communicating your intentions widely. Tell others; share your dreams with anyone who will listen. This strategy’s power lies in motivating you to follow through because more often than not other people will regularly ask you for progress updates.

Visualise your dreams and intentions. Imagine achieving your goal in your minds eye, or more powerful still, create a dream journal or image board. Click here http://www.cassandragaisford.com/media.html
to view footage on the Good Morning show re how to visualise successfully

Stay conscious –Look at your dream board regularly. Walk around with your intentions and desires written down in your pocket or scan a photo of your written goals into your iPhone or PDA.

Allow no doubt. As author Deepak Chopra says, “Attention energises, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger.” Keep your attention on what you want and off what you don’t. Obstacles don’t have to stop you. Don’t give them airtime - resolve to find a way around them instead.

Honour your intuition. You may find, as I have, that it is very challenging to move forward into a new and uncertain future without hanging on to a past that no longer serves who you are and who you want to be. During times of transition my intuitive guidance has held me in good stead. At times it has also given me the shove I needed to step into a new future by dramatically forcing me to take stock of my true intentions.

Feelings of joy, happiness, bliss and contentment are all signs of following your true path. When I follow my bliss doors open for me seemingly effortlessly, while others, tied to the past, increasingly close. During such times I am reminded to have the courage to follow my bliss and to trust that nothing I want is upstream. I have kept an intuition journal for sometime now and have found this an invaluable resource when it comes time to take a leap of passion and faith. You might find this helpful too.

Pursue your passion not your pension. The key to success lies in following your passion. As the very talented opera singer Placido Domingo said, “When you follow your passion you are where you belong.”

Working with passion is an important ingredient to developing a competitive edge. Letting your passion shine is also especially needed during times of recession where the number of people seeking work outnumbers the positions available. You need something extra up your sleeve to really stand out. Passion can’t be faked. You either have the edge or you don’t. As wonder businesswoman Anita Roddrick once said, “We communicate with passion and passion sells.”

Detach. Hold onto your desires but stay grounded in the moment. Trust in the unseen forces at work helping manifest your dreams. This can be tough especially if current circumstances are weighing down on you. Maintain a positive expectancy – expect to be pleasantly surprised.

Once again I find that tapping into intuitive guidance helps. Last night for example I opened a page of Sonia Choquette’s book, “Trust Your Vibes” at random to see what wisdom may guide me. Opening books and flicking to pages in magazines is just one of the ways I allow my intuition to show me the way. Low and behold I turned to the chapter “Expect The Best.” Now isn’t that what I have just been saying!

Here is an excerpt from the first paragraph,
“Perhaps one of the greatest distinctions between five-sensory and six-sensory people is that five-sensories worry about how they’re going to make it in the world, whereas six-sensories always know that the Universe will there to help them in everyway.”

2 Resources that can help

Career and life coaching:

Coaching can help you gain greater balance, reduce stress levels, overcome obstacles, get clearer about your passions and goals and tap into proven strategies to help you achieve them. Life coaching can help you achieve your health, fitness and energy goals. Check out our website www.worklifesolutions.co.nz for more information about career or life coaching or contact Cassandra at Cassandra@worklifesolutions.co.nz.

Colour Analysis and Personal Style coaching
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Books:

Click here for an update re "Happy@work; job hunting for mid-lifers+" - it's packed with inspiring tips and practical strategies to help you create more happiness at work and in life.

Download free sample chapters here or check out the range of fabulous eBooks http://www.cassandragaisford.com/shop/index.php?cPath=30

Here are just a few of the practical and inspiring eBooks I have written to help people clarify and manifest their dreams:

eBooks
Create Your Dream Job http://www.cassandragaisford.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=64(passion,
purpose, career)

Create From The Inside Out - work with intuition
http://www.cassandragaisford.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=29&products_id=154

Find Your Passion
http://www.cassandragaisford.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=30&products_id=97

Click the following links to view other helpful eBooks designed to help you live and work with passion.

Click here to see some of my favourite goal setting books and resources by other authors.


3. Creative quotes: Manifesting your goals

“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist/Poet/Naturalist

“I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.” ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I'll give you a stock clerk." ~ J.C. Penney, Founder of the J.C. Penney stores.

“All successful men and woman are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work everyday toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” ~ Brian Tracy, Author

"Traditional goal-setting often ignores the power of intuition, creativity and "luck" in creating success. We can get so focused on the goal that we over look opportunities that come out of left field." ~Philip Humbert, Coach

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