Often the key to reach our goals and dreams is to assume we’ve already achieved them and behave like that. I’m not talking particular about the law of attraction, although this goes hand in hand, but about the confidence and inner mindset you adopt after commiting to a new frame. If you perceive your reality as if you’re already living your dream, you start to act like that. It feels completely natural for you to do tasks related to your dream, feeling motivated and energized.

Some Examples?
If you want to lose weight, imagine being slim. How does a slim person feel, how does he behave and what does he eat? Mostly they would feel great about themselves (motivation), would exercise or be proactive and eat healthy (action to accomplish your goal). Behave like that and you’ll soon be living your dream.

If you want to be confident in speaking with women, but feel like not deserving their attention, just turn it around. You are the prize and they need to convince you, that they are good enough. Now how does such a person think and feel of themselves? Start thinking and feeling that way about yourself. You will behaving like you’ve dreamed of, because it will be the effect of your cause of changing your mindset.

I think you got the point.

I’ve forgotten a bit about my intentional living project but came back to it today. Shortly after I’ve started being highly positive for longer periods of time I met a beautiful woman who attracts much of my attention. I’ve been swinging back and forth between behaving heart and brain centered. I’m clearly interested in her, but also afraid to miss my chance to get to know her deeply. Surely the fear appears when behaving brain centered. Weirdly but also logically I’ve had the most success being guided by my heart’s inspirations. Now where I’ve came back to living inspirational in the present and seeing the world through the subjective perspective lens, I am able to focus more on my heart way of living. I’m going on vacation this Friday 13th for nine days, so I won’t have much time to experience all the possible changes. But I will definitely leave my comfort-zone, being inspired to use my brain for after-analyses if needed, so I still be able to learn and develop myself.

I’m having many small synchronicities and 11:11 moments again. One of them is the german electronic musician Paul Kalkbrenner, who’s famous for his records “Sky and Sand” and “Aaron”. I’m recommending his music to everyone who wants to enjoy relaxing moments. I just felt like sharing his music with all of you. I’m not judging those synchronicities, but I’m happy to experience them. They give me a feeling of certainty, that I am on my way.

Also, as I’ve started this project because of Steve Pavlina who’s doing his own 30 day trial of inspirational living, I’m experiencing similarities with his experiences and my own. I also want to use the subjective perspective as a tool to heal my own fears I hide from myself. I’ve experienced that I should not behave how I think I should do, but how I feel like being most myself. But if I want to behave in another way than I feel inspired to, I should expand myself and merge those new characteristics in myself. Then I can act accordingly to them and be authentic. That’s what brings the most success, I assume. I’ll see.

by the way .. today is the 11.08.2010.
0+8+2+0+1+0 = 11.
11.11 (:

Some days went by and I’m still living. It became much more unconscious how I live my life, following small inspirations daily. One good example might be my gut-feeling about taking the steps or the elevator. Always when I feel like taking the elevator, it’s already there and I do not need to wait. But I know that I will feel inspired to take the stairs when I’m energized and full of energy. This is just a small example where my inspiration seems to work good.

Inspiration is nothing spiritual or special in this case. It’s just some sort of feeling you begin to listen to. I don’t say that it’s from angels or from god, maybe it’s just hormones or feeling your own body. I don’t mind as long as it works. My life begins to unfold great .. but I’m still learning how to overcome the fear of failure with bigger inspirations.

I’m back with a new 30 Day Trial. I’ve actually read Steve Pavlina’s Blogposts about his 30 Days of Inspiration Trial and felt like joining it. In summary what it says is that he acts out of his inspiration instead of acting too left-brained. He has acted that way with producing content for his blog and became successful this way (over 1000 articles in the past 5 years). Now he tries to implicate this method into other areas of his life with no exception. I’m not through all of his new posts but already felt some ideas coming to my mind what to do next. Surprisingly they were everyday things like taking a shower right now. I did it and it was okay. You see, it’s nothing special of fearful but another approach to live your everyday life. In shower I got the idea to start my own 30 Day Trial and share my experiences on my blog, that’s why I’m writing this post. I don’t know how often I will feel inspired to write something about this idea, maybe this will be my first and last post about it – I apologize. We will see what will happen. I just wanted to share my thoughts on this with the world

It was a weird day. Yesterday I’ve read a text about being in harmony with your life. This text suggests to see the negative aspects of your life as the ones giving you motivation to change, inspiration to creative solutions and the basis of later success. For me it doesn’t really matter what exactly was stated, but what it would inspire within me.

Look. Pain isn’t that bad as I once thought it is. Tonight I jumped into cold water as we visited the local baths spontaneously. First I was afraid of the cold water but then I just got in and knew that I would get comfortable with the temperature. Later that night I’ve hurt my leg, but I just grinned. Pain is nothing that we should be afraid of. It’s an indicator of a possibility of growth. When you experience pain you know that you drastically expanding your comfort zone. If you will survive, you’ll grow. And let me tell you, that it’S great to feel the pain and simultaneously experience a rush of power over yourself. I am aware of the pain, so I am not the pain. I am the power that perceives the pain without judging it. I have the power over the pain and over myself. And this rush of energy feels very empowering, believe me. Afterwards, anything in life is nothing but a challenge to have fun with. By the way, it was bleeding. That’s where the blogpost headtag was inspired from.

Survival Mindset

It’s a new mindset I’m experiencing which says that any circumstance you survive only makes you stronger than before. So when I feel pain, I’m proud of my body dealing with the obstacles and becoming stronger, healing itself. It’s not intellectual at all, it’s all from within. That’s why this text won’t help you a lot, if you just read it and remember my experience. It’s all about experiencing it by yourself. I know that a ton of people already did experience this, but there are also a ton of people who did not! The screen society of ourday entrepeneurs isn’t always as courageous as they say. In facing the real world some of them may get afraid, but I don’t care. You still should go out there no matter what. Remember: It only makes you stronger.

In summary: Experience it by yourself. Do something exciting but frightening. And when you experience any negative emotion, focus on it consciously.

Last week I’ve written a blog post about tracking your life and it’s benefits. At the end I had announced that I will track my own life too and this are my first insights.

After five days of tracking my life, I’ve gathered some insights I want to implement into my daily life. I’ve tracked my sleeping habits and noticed that going to bed after 12pm affects me negatively. I tend to eat out of boredom, read blogs and surf on twitter for no reason then staying awake. That’s stupid, because I’m using valueable time I could enjoy more doing something different. My productivity declines rapidly and I need 2 hours for a task I normally would get done in 20 minutes. I get frustrated, because I feel the need to be productive before going to bed, without getting many things done. My online time goes up drastically, so I don’t get rest, feeling unfulfilled and stressed. My body gets no time to switch into sleeping mode and therefor lets me lie awake in bed.

Now if I feel bored, frustrated, stressed or unfulfilled it can easily lead to overeating. Because I want to change my feelings instantly I choose to eat something to make me feel better without being hungry. But instead of eliminating the impuls for those feelings, I’m trying to override them. If I wouldn’t stay up that late, I would not feel that way but sleep at night.

When feeling negative emotions through the day I need to replace my reaction-patterns from eating to breathing deeply. You feel more aware of the present moment while breathing in deeply, not giving your power away to habits you’ve installed unconsciously. The moment I notice my cravings for food and their link to my emotions, I can be aware of it without following the impulse. That’s the true benefit of awareness.

When I go to bed before 12pm, I can easily wake up earlier than usual, giving myself special time for silence and joy. I will drink a cup of tea in the morning sun, listening to the birds and letting my thoughts easily come and go. I can do many important and exciting tasks in those morning hours which make me feel productive the whole day long and leaving me fulfilled. I’m enjoying life much more in those silent moments then when I do in those stressed one’s where I feel incomplete.

In summary I’ve realized I want to:

• go to bed before 12pm
• wake up before 8am
• enjoy the morning with a cup of tea in silence
• breathe instead of eat

I want to enjoy my life in new ways. I think this is just the first step, because I will notice new habits and create new ideas how to positively change them into something more enjoyable. But I need to take the first step to see the second one. This really feels empowering, so I know I’m on the right path.

If confronted with negative experiences, we rarely try to change our perspectives to gain new insights. If we choose, we don’t even need to judge them as negative. But changing our perspective could give us the relief of all our negative emotions or unconscious reactions. We could stay calm, still think emotional uneffected and approach solutions directly. Your current perspective is your own choice.

You are not bound to your current point of view and emotional reaction

We are free to choose what we think and how we feel. We’re just accostumed to our current patterns, so they get activated unconsciously, leaving us feeling helpless. But this is just a habit you can change to another. It takes effort and time, but is possible. All it takes at first is awareness of what is. Be aware of what happens inside of your mind and your body, notice any feelings and thoughts which pop in your head. Try to step back and just watch it unfold, don’t stop it. Create a space between yourself and your mind / body. Become aware that you are more than your thoughts and feelings, ’cause you are able to observe them.

It may be easy or hard, but after some effort you’ll create a new habit of becoming aware consciously. The moment you become aware of your thoughts and feelings as an observer, you gain the power to change them. Try to experiment with new perspectives, you don’t even need to go too far. Imagine what it feels like for a child to experience that situation. The child does not know all the facts you know, it’s not living in fear of what happens in the world. It’s living in the present moment. What does it feel like to experience the situation from this perspective. There are several more you can try, like your boss, family, some stranger or even an alien. My favorite perspective is the one that creates the best feelings: the perspective of source.

See the world through the eyes of source

this is a powerful statement of Abraham Hicks. It says that through the perspective of source / god / love, you have the ability to see the beauty in anything you experience. Sometimes it’s hard to let go of your old perspective with topics like child abuse, world war and so on, but it’s possible. The benefit is you feeling better and being able to act with a clearer mind. Everyone has his own definition of god / source and thats great. So anyone will experience the world through the eyes of source in different ways. For me, it means that there is no such thing as death. And if the most bad thing that could happen to me (or others) is to die, there really is nothing to fear. This life is created for fun, it’s like a game you should play with excitement and appreciation for the details and great graphic engine. The negative experiences are serving you well, because they create new desires within you, so you can choose what you prefer to experience in life! Like watching a movie, you experience this negative emotions to extract joy out of the process of living life. The variarity brings you the joy of experiencing “better situations” which make you feel great. Without darkness, there would be no such thing as light. At least we would not recognize it.

Every experience is just an indicator of your past emotions

Considering the law of attraction, your current present moment life situation is nothing more than the result and manifestation of your past thoughts, emotions and therefore it’s vibration. Just don’t take right now too serious. Infact, every experience is also an opportunity to shift your beliefs. If you adopt a new perspective, you can change the way you think about the situation. This changes the way you feel about the situation. Do it to feel better right now. Feeling better again influences your future thoughts about the situation and creates a new belief. Because your beliefs are just repetitions of single, but chronic thoughts. Feeling better changes your beliefs.

At the end your current life situation will change, too. But that’s because of your vibrational work. With your new beliefs you got inspired to new actions which led to new results, just in case you doubt anything will change through changing your thoughts.

Do it to shift your emotional reactions and current quality of living (it feels better to feel better, doesn’t it?!), don’t do it to manifest a new reality. Shifting your vibration with the intent of changing what is, only creates resistance towards what is. With resistance you can’t feel good, without feeling good you can’t change your situation effortlessly. Focus on feeling good.

I’ve started reading @lucianop’s blogpost about his 6 favorite productivity principles, but only got to no. 5 called “Tracking”. Reading about that felt like someone hit the nail on the head. That’s exactly what was missing in my current life situation.

I know a lot, have a lot of solutions and know what action is necessary to take to reach my goals. But I don’t implement even 20% of my knowlegde and stay mostly where I am. I do not critize myself for that, but also do not push me out of my comfort zone right now. I’m happy to stay calm and at peace with me most of the time, so I have no need to “punish” myself for my own behaviour. I know what I’m doing (or not doing in this case).

But. If I would track my actions, it would be much harder for me to face the reality. Would I see reality black on white, it would be much easier for me to act on it. It would be something I could change immediately because of the data I’ve got. To addition, I would be rather motivated to improve my life situation instead of drifting away, because I love charts and statistics. Any progress would be directly visible to me. If I eat less food today, I won’t notice anything on my body or the weight I guess. But if I track it, write it down, make a chart to be able to look at it, there would be some kind of satisfaction in that action.

Nevertheless, I’ve though a bit about tracking in general and noticed those 3 principles which apply to it perfectly. Let’s take a look at each of them:

Productivity

Surely, I will become productive tracking my actions. It motivates me like I mentioned above. It also forces me to face reality completely, which leads to more dissatisfaction or awareness (depending on my judgment) and can force me to act on it. Using a chart can be much more effective to involve others into your goals, letting them watch your progress live on the kitchen wall or creating a website which they can visit daily. You gain motivational support from them and the pressure to keep going even if it’s hard.

Awareness

Awareness is the key to living in the present. It creates peace, inner silence and joy. Awareness is independent of any judgment, because it just notices what is. This is the second benefit of tracking. You gain clarity of your current life situation instead of living in denial. If you deny your own life, you deny your ability to change whatever you like, you deny your own power. Awareness brings clarity which brings your power back to you. Awareness can envolve into a zen-like stadium of inner peace, without judgment, leading to the third benefit.

Acceptance

If you are aware of what is, you have the choice to fight it – and feel burdened, or to accept it and feel free. If you feel resistance towards what is, you can’t create something new because you resist your own creation. First you need to accept what your actions have brought you to. Only then you can choose to act differently. You dont need to love your current life situation, but you need to accept it to solve the resistance.

My first attempt

Well, now where I’ve layed down all the benefits of tracking, it would be a shame if I would not start applying it by myself! So, to be a great example I lay down to you what I want to track starting today. hehe.

• my eating habits
• my sleeping habits
• the time I spend online

I think this should be enough, or I won’t have any time left for living. I chose this three areas, because they affect my life quality in many ways. I bet it will be interesting to share it with all of you. Brings positive pressure (;

The last post was about the next step you should take and how changing your current direction changes your life circumstances, your manifestations and everything around you. This post is about taking this step even if it seems like not worth taking it. Inspired by Adrea Hess’ last blog post I want to dive into this topic a little bit more.

In short, what Andrea said was, that you should begin small instead of big, because you may be vibrationally not ready to take this leap. And damn, she is right! It’s quite nice to aim high, but if you haven’t shot ever before, you shouldn’t expect your best shot ever. Instead, if you take baby steps (like Andrea calls it), you can turn your vibration up right with your current actions. It’s all about alignment with what you do and where you want to be. It can be pretty hard to raise your vibration about a topic you have a chronic vibration about. But if you take baby steps, this also will solve itself.

Another point is the gigantic change that would occour in your life, if you would take a giant step and your vibration will go with it. You would feel like awakening into another life. Most people would be afraid of that.

But taking no step at all is neither the right choice. Just because you may feel that your actions would be pointless, there could be hidden power in it. You could become more interested, could align with it a bit more and get inspired. Any little action, backed up with the right vibration, could change a lot if you let it do. Relax, do your baby steps and be happy. Because even you will reach someday what you are aiming for, no matter what. You already did it as a child, didn’t you?

Anything you’ve manifested so far is the result of the vibration you’ve pondered and the steps you have taken. Now it is possible that you are unhappy with what you have manifested into your reality and want to change it. It’s simple, if you get the following point:

if your current steps and actions brought you to this life situation, other steps and actions will take you to other life situations.

Also your vibration will change – either you will change it deliberately or the new actions will change it step by step. The combination of your new vibration + the new action will bring you surely new life situations. 100%.

If you say you want to experience something new in your life, set your goal deliberately and imagine what steps you could take right now, without needing any prearrangements. If you are sure about your goal and it’s logical next step (even if it’s just a short one), adjust your vibration to the vibe of your goal. Feel it, milk the good feeling, imagine yourself accomplishing it. Only then take the first step and you will be much more effective that way.

Now watch out what the universe will bring to you. There will be drama, because the old life will not vibrate with you anymore and therefore change. And there will be new opportunities, which are aligned with your new vibration. Most people become afraid of the drama, wondering what’s going on, being stuck and frustrated. But the drama is a part of change, so be conscious of it and deliberately focus on the new direction you are diving into. Don’t let the drama affect or even change your vibration, or your new actions will be much more powerless. If you notice fear, be aware of it and change your focus on your goal. Watch where you’re going, not where you’re coming from.

Now go through the storm and be willing to change as much as you need for achieving your goal. There is no other constante than change you may have heard. It’s true, so be better willing to deliberately change instead of being forced by your circumstances. It’s your freedom. You will survive the storm quicker then you know.