How happy are you with your life?
Think about it for a moment...100%? If not why not? Despite your circumstances , you can be 100% happy. It's achievable , because happiness comes from within. It's about inner transformation, which has to happen before it can be externally manifested.-Gustav Gous
Jacques Booysen
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My goodness what a year this was! I know I know you haven’t had any blog from me in a long while, so much has happened since we last spoke! Well I had the priveledge of attending a few workshops so that I can better serve you, I also still has a full-time job of creating some new and exciting content for you just for 2016 and then I also helped my son transform his teenage life!
Phew what a mouth full!
Well I went to church tonight and Johan Serfontein from AGS (AFM) Waterkloof had a compelling message that made me think about you. The overall gist of the message was Hope and what we need to justify having that hope for the future. You see if we have hope for the future but we place it in people, places or circumstances we’re doomed for failure. Okay the non-christians reading here relax the muscles and bear with me for the next few minutes and you’ll realise that this is also relevant to you.
In the Bible (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) there is 4 books in the New Testament (the very first 4) that is called the Evangelicals (Good news). In all 4 of them the same story (parable) of the 5 Barley loaves and 2 small fish is told (refer John 6:1-15). A multitude of people were following Jesus, why you ask? Well Jesus was popular because where-ever He went He healed the sick, made the blind see and called people back from the dead. Miracles were part of His dayly routine. Think about it for a minute, miracles has 3 things that’s always present that makes them miracles:
1. There’s always some sort of crisis or need that needs to be addressed. Sometimes there’s no prayer or even faith present and still a miracle happens! This mean that we too are eligible for miracles in our lives!
2. A lunch basket is packed on the ready.
Whoa! You say “lunch basket?” what does that have to do with anything? Well the lunchbasket represent our talents (abilities or willingness to do something) this could be the ability to sing, sell, teach or play tennis, any ability that you have that could fill a need somewhere.
3. The willingness to give away or share those abilities.
The moment when you share yourself or what you have, that’s when a miracle happens!
Johan gave us a great formula which I just have to share:
Momentum = (FI t)to the power of G
Momentum = (Focused Intensity time) to the power of God (or whatever you want to call it)
The moment you focus your ability with intesion and intensity adding time, things starts happening! It’s not always what you bring, but actually that you bring something that makes it happen.
This brings me to my main message. Was 2015 all you hoped for? Did you achieve your goals or did you miss some? Did you work a plan or did someone-elses plan work you? Do you have the ability to plan and strategise for 2016 or are you hoping for the best and maybe this time it will be better?
May I ask you to book a free session with me so that I can help you reach your goals for 2016 within a set timeframe using your abilities and talents in order to have a well rounded balanced life?
There is 7 questions that should be asked and answered:
Am I effective/ efficient in what I do? Time Management
Am I efectively going in the right direction? Direction management
Is ALL of me effectively going in the right direction? Balance Management
Should I effectively be going in this direction? Purpose Management
Will I be able to continue after a big crisis or calamity? Calamity Management
Am I fit to travel? What state am I in? Recovery Management
Can I transcend (live beyond) myself? Legacy Management
This is the logical questions to ask but they are not in the correct order as we need the chronological order to unpack them and gain valuable insight into our lives.
Go to www.jacquesbooysen.co.za to book the free session.
Welcome to my very first blog! I hope that we could both learn a few new things as we go along on this journey of life. Over the past few weeks I have been pondering on the lack of courtesy in our society. Every morning in traffic on my way to the office I see road rage and very little tolerance.
Looking at the different people traveling I realized a very interesting phenomenon: Lack of Focus!
I started watching the people in the office and every single client I visited and this is everywhere. We seem expect that everybody is on the same page as we are and when they’re not we get upset, like one motorist this morning, chattering away on his cellphone ignoring the green light only to cross when it just turned red.
Two robots later he’s still going strong keeping everybody back as the robot turns green then amber and red again, ignoring or not even hearing the constant hooting of a plethora of angry motorists. You will find them everywhere be it on a cellphone in the car, supermarket, doing make up in the car, reading reports between robots or answering the cellphone while in a meeting.
So what does have to do with focus? Everything! In life you have a choice to determine your own focus or have someone-else do it for you. By doing one thing at a time and doing it well your life will start taking on direction. According to Dr. Caroline Leaf we cannot multi task even when we think we are multitasking! http://drleaf.com/blog/multitasking-is-a-myth.
So that being said how do I improve my focus? This is not so easy but with exercise in self discipline this is possible for all of us.
Exercise 1 : Try for 1 week not to answer the phone while driving or when in a meeting. If you find it impossible put it in the boot or leave it with reception.
Exercise 2 : When someone talks to you, drop what you do and actually LISTEN.
Exercise 3 : When driving just try to focus on getting from A to B without doing anything else but drive.
Keep it up for a week successfully and then graduate to more things that you know impairs your focus. It’s important that you must keep at it for at least 6 weeks as we establish a habit in just a few days but will take anything from 21 to 42 days to get rid of (replacing) a habit. It’s also important to understand that we need to replace a bad habit with a better good habit. Thus if you like to snack while driving try to rather exercise your arms or stomach muscles while driving. If you’re trying to quit smoking it’s more difficult but replace the sucking with a peppermint or focusing on something else.
Remember your thoughts ( what you constantly think about) will result in actions which becomes habits, which in turn create your character and that my friend determines your destiny!