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Your Decisions Form Your Life Course
As I sat on a bench outside observing people walking by, the way people dressed and walked, their frowns and grins, I started to analyze and read each one of them. I wondered what they were thinking and whether their mindset about their own identity created their life circumstances. Whatever they chose, they ended up with. Though of course, life is unfair, life does not give each one of us fair dealings when we are first born and even the way we grow up. However, we are each given choice, a choice to be someone different. At any point in our lives, we can choose to buy a ticket to Europe and backpack for a year. At any point in our lives, we can choose to start a business or settle down with a partner. At any point in our lives we can choose to continue living a irresponsible lifestyle (whatever that means to you). At any point, at a few clicks of a button we can create a blog and write about our lives, perhaps creating a community for others like you. At any point, in all points of our lives, we make small and big decisions which determine and steer the directions of our lives.
This week, I started a fiscal fast which required me to not spend any money, besides for groceries and gas. However, I have also committed myself to walking more instead of driving. This is the bridge I live near in Pasadena. As I go on my daily walks, I am amazed by the revelations that hit my brainwaves. These cars represent the many lives and minds that refuse to stop and listen to the small voice that speaks to us each day. Whether you call it intuition, spirit or God, or even yourself sometimes….the voice allows us to find peace and to decipher what we are feeling each moment of our lives.
We rush and find ourself important in being busy. We push aside people who truly care about us for the act of feeling important, yet never stopping to listen to our hearts which is often tired, confused, angry, bitter, sad.
What are you feeling today?
Ask yourself this and ask yourself why, then let the positive energy which speaks goodness over you soak into your whole being.
Throw off any negative hindrances right now.
“Now, let us go back to the starting point, and become informed as to how the original seed of an idea, plan, or purpose may be planted in the mind. The information is easily conveyed: any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mindthrough repetition of thought. This is why you are asked to write out a statement of your major purpose, or Definite Chief Aim, commit it to memory, and repeat it, in audible words, day after day, until these vibrations of sound have reached your subconscious mind.
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER. Taking inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted, and timidity translated into courage, through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion. The application of this principle may be made through a simple arrangement of positive thought impulses stated in writing, memorized, and repeated, until they become a part of the working equipment of the subconscious faculty of your mind.”- Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich).
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NOTE : Please bring your own Yoga / Workout mat. Join our #RealEstateHeaven staff, agents & brokers on our first “Health and Wellness” non-secular yoga class, where we will learn techniques on how to improve our focus, mental clarity and strength for better success. It will leave you invigorated and pleasantly relaxed with a heavenly smile on your face. Hope to see you there! Special Thanks to our Corporate Sponsor Starbucks located at 1000 Fair Oaks Ave Pasadena, CA 91030 who will be supplying herbal teas to the participants.
The event will begin at 6 PM sharp and will conclude at 7 PM on November 13th, 2013 at the Real Estate Heaven South Pasadena Office. 1517 S. Fair Oaks Ave. Suite B, South Pasadena. RSVP- https://www.facebook.com/events/1388666831372440/
Our Special Guest Instructor will cover the following topics : 1. Meditation- learning the pose of meditating, breathing correctly to focus on the breath and the core. Deep breaths centers the focus. 1-2 minutes. Clearing the mind from worry, etc. 2. Setting Intention- set intention for the class. What is it that you are intending for? Whether it is love, peace, hope, what do you envision for today, for tomorrow? 3. Tree Pose/Standing poses/Warrior Pose/Downward Dog/Twists/Other various poses with breathing and the intention of focus, relaxation, and energy! 4. Shavasana- perhaps the most important part of yoga practice. Lying on the back, the arms and legs are spread at about 45 degrees, the eyes are closed and the breath deep, using deergha (long) pranayama. The whole body is relaxed onto the floor with an awareness of the chest and abdomen rising and falling with each breath. I am teaching this yoga class as part of Unlock Your Destiny Coaching. Get ready to have your life changed.
Any questions? Feel free to email me at rebekkalien@gmail.com
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5 Unconventional Steps To Creating Your Business- Have A Vision
This tree represents you. The stronger the root, the better. The more you know who you are, your identity, preferences, brand, etc the better. Slowly as you develop, your ideas develop (via the branches). Your knowledge, education, wisdom, background, upbringing, experiences form your bigger branches.
The Next 5 Days I am going to share my tantalizing story of how I became a multi-entrepreneur. My GOAL is to encourage you and show you that IF YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE MISTAKES and PLAY, then you can become a business woman or man. Yes, you heard THAT right. If you know how to MESS UP, time and time again, then the entrepreneurial road is for you. If you know how to GET UP after falling hard, this is also the road for you. PS- By 5 days, I mean the next 5 blog posts, because tomorrow I’ll be attending Forge in LA.
Revealing NUMBER 1: HAVE A VISION
When I was a kid, I created manga memberships and sold toys to my 8 year old friends. I was always entrepreneurial. I grew up in the church and went to many mission trips. I had a heart for people and thought that I would become a missionary. However, I just hated the way missionaries dressed (back then). I seriously did not want to wear ugly big t-shirts that did not flatter my body. Plus, I could not imagine living in a hut, eating nuts (no offense but I like my chinese hot pot), and not showering for days. I knew deep down, that I had a heart for people….but did not like the structured starvation lifestyle.
When I learned about human trafficking, I wanted to go overseas and fight human trafficking. I wanted to rescue women out of slavery, but thought that it might be dangerous. Then I thought that I wanted to created jobs for survivors of human trafficking. I could teach them how to sew and they could work at my factory where they would create my designs.
I gained all the skills I needed to, but it stemmed from my passion. I attended fashion school and learned fashion design and business management. I did not do it just because I could teach other people, I did it because I loved fashion and I was business minded. You get what I’m saying? I learned because I thirsted to learn how to create and manage, not because I saw the end goal just yet.
When I finished school, I went to the far countryside of China and taught music to the young 5 year olds, living in sweat and bug bites. I wanted to collapse, I missed the luxuries of modern living. When I returned, I got a job as a trim buyer and up until 3 months in, I was about to suffocate from normal living. This IS NOT THE LIFE I want to live, in a box and a chair.
My creative brain started churning, I bought a pair of Nike Dunks at the store across work during lunch for $20. I sold it on Ebay and made $30. I could do it again. I went back and bought 2 more to sell. I was elated, I could do this all day! I found other things to sell at home and started taking photos of all my old clothes. I started creating an additional source of income while working full time. One day, I just had enough. I quit my full time job and that was the end of my full time anything and voluntary unemployment.
I won’t go into detail, but when I quit, I wrote a list of things I wanted to do in life. I also wrote down my vision.
“To provide healing and work for survivors of human trafficking” which has evolved to:
“To empower others to live the life they were created to live” to
“To help people become full alive”.
Essentially, we long to feel alive. Fully alive.
As I focused in on my vision, I realized that I had to first become whole, to create the life I want so I could show others…hey it’s possible! If you simply commit to it. Thus, have a vision first.
Having a vision has helped me continue in those first few months when I could hardly pay rent. I’m no trustafarian, as immigrants, we did not benefit from the foreign exchange, let’s say I have sacrificed much of my youth for my vision. I could have worked full time and accrued funds to use for youthful partying and lax living, but I cut corners and found creative ways to create furniture, blinds, and even toilet paper! No matter how many businesses you have, boot strap style, if you have a vision, you can continue when the valleys get real low.
See you next time!
What is your vision?
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Focus On What You Do Want Instead of What You Don’t Want
Don’t pray for what you don’t want, or for something to go away, pray for what you do want.
Don’t worry about what you don’t want, dream about what you do want.
Don’t think about the betrayals of the past, but work towards relationships that are healthy.
Don’t think about friends who don’t deserve your love, but make new friends who appreciate your love.
Don’t focus on the 20% of work that is not going right, focus on the 80% of work and life that is fabulous!
This is a SEASON of opportunity and change. Transition comes from the word, up-rooted. You will be uprooted from one place to another. You will be emptied in one place so your root can be planted in another good place. If you start to sense commotion or shaking, hold on! Help is coming!
The only way we can move forward in this season of change is to LET GO of what was not working and move forward into a brand new territory. This may be difficult at first and people around you may not like it, but as I heard in yoga- “Nurturing yourself is a way to love others around you”. We can whine and complain, or we can dream forward with action and fervor.
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13 Days of Meditation- Day 8- A Sign of Age is Growth, Not Age Itself
Don’t let others look down on you because of your age.
Show them through love, experience, growth, wisdom and love that you are who you are.
People can say they are a certain age, but it does not mean they grew from their age-old experiences.
While, someone who is 18 could be 100 years old in spirit because they chose to learn valuable lessons from their 18 years on earth.
Keep learning, keep thirsting for more in life because that is what signifies true growth.
I will keep today short since I have to go to a real estate training early in the morning. I wrote this blog entry because people are often shocked when they hear me speak at events. They are shocked that I am so wise for my age. Like I said, if you don’t learn from your experiences, then those years of experiences mean nothing. Take hold of your experiences and let them be your mentors of growth. Growing up, often left alone to play, I had to observe the world. I was constantly observing people, elders, other peers…
I learned from my own experiences, but also from others. I learned from my older sibling, what not to do, what to do…I learned from my parents, I learned from my teachers and mentors. I avoided the bad choices other people made.
How about you? How has experiences in life made you stronger, wiser, smarter?
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13 Days of Meditation- Day 7- Learn To Be In Your Body
Learn to be in your body, yes. This means being, wholly in your body.
Sensing your legs, your limbs, your muscles, your arms, your nose…using your facial expressions to be in this world.
This means, stop the thinking.
Stop the worrying and the obsessing over life that needs none of your negativity.
You only need to be in your body, possess your body like you are a soul entering back into your body, fully alive.
Learn to dance, to jump, to laugh freely. Don’t be afraid of what others think of you.
Be silly in your body. As we pump blood from our hearts, we will start to feel what our hearts have been saying all along.
This heart speaks the truth. It is your truth of how you feel, but we often forget it in the midst of listening to our heads.
This heart has truths we denied, did not want to face.
This heart has the emotions we looked down on, sadness, anger, jealousy.
We have ignored our hearts for way too long, let the breeze of wind prickle your skin and let your heart burst wide open for your personal inspection and comfort. Let it be, learn to be in your body.
When I do yoga, I often close my eyes and see visions of life. I see myself with my Father, walking down rainbows and gardens. I see revelations of my life flash before my hidden heart. I find emotions too deep to be ignored, bursting with sadness. I find peace when I awake to life after a restful yoga practice.
How can you learn to be in your body?
Rebekka Lien 