How Faith Works

How Faith Works

by | Sep 26, 2018 | Faith

True faith is the belief or trust in things unseen.

You can have faith in a loved one, faith in yourself, faith in a higher being and faith in things yet to come in your life. But faith first starts with believing in something that is ultimately intangible.

Many otherwise very difficult accomplishments were achieved by people that would not have occurred without them first having the faith that the ultimate, desired outcome would avail.
 

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Faith allows you to bottle up your concerns, your worries and anxieties around a situation and place it in something far greater than yourself, far greater than your own mind’s understanding so that you can just focus on the present experience, the goal, the mission and whatever is necessary and required to get you there.

When you are working on something that you need to overcome, it is most important to focus your energies on the ultimate goal and the necessary steps to get you to it. If you focus on all the possible mishaps and challenges, you will be doing a tremendous disservice to yourself and your desired results.

Being able to focus on those elements that will push you further will be key and essential to your progress. You must shake off the self-doubt, the negative talk and the words of the naysayers so that you can be laser focused on precisely what your next steps are to get you where you want to be.
 

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If you allow faith to fulfill its purpose, you can lean into it and not consume yourself with unnecessary fears and doubts.

A worrying mind never produces positive results. All it does is create unnecessary internal anguish for you mentally, emotionally and physically. Many illnesses are born because of people’s uneasy minds from worries and stress.

The next time you’re facing something that’s far greater than you can imagine, simply make the best determination possible based on the information at hand and then just lean on faith to give you the necessary stamina to see you through.

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Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program

by | Sep 24, 2018 | Entrepreneurship

Small businesses are a tremendous part of the American economy. They are responsible for employing over 50% of the working population in the United States. What we know is critically important for these small businesses is the ability to stay in business, continue to grow and increase profitability.

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program was established to help business owners do just that. Knowing the #1 reason why businesses fail is because of the lack of education, Goldman Sachs decided to lead a charge to change the trajectory of small businesses in the country.

Teaming up with the Wharton School of Business, Warren Buffet and a team of other notables, Goldman Sachs has created a program that is making a difference in the lives of thousands of business owners and the lives they touch. With over 7,000 business owners to date going through the program, the results of such have be hugely impactful.
 

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I had the wonderful opportunity to attend one of the classes of the program recently. In doing so, I was exposed to much of what the program has to offer. I was impressed by the vast amount of information provided through the program to assist business owners in sustaining and growing their businesses to the next level.

After chatting with the head of the program, Paisley Demby, after the class, I was struck by his level of enthusiasm and commitment to the program and its participants. The program is an 11-week program (taught every other Friday) which allows you to come out of your business to study the requisite information and then time to go back and apply the skills learned directly to the business before moving on to the next topic.

When small business owners emerge from their businesses to focus on pivotal areas necessary to grow, a different vantage point is created to see things more clearly.
 

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Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses allow for them to do just that. It also provides capital to qualifying small businesses that may not have access to affordable capital or may not have qualified for traditional sources of credit.

The program is now being offered through the Tory Burch Foundation for those women business owners who may not meet the requirements for the original Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.

If you’re interested in the program, you can apply to it under either of the two programs. Each program has different requirements. So, please be sure to review the eligibilities for each.

Business owners who desire different results in their businesses must have the courage to make different choices to produce those different results. This is just one of many opportunities to stand up and do just that.

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The Garrison Institute: My Spiritual Home

The Garrison Institute: My Spiritual Home

by | Sep 20, 2018 | Gratitude, Life Balance, New York City

Spirituality has always been very important to me. It is the beating of my soul. The wonderful thing about spirituality is that you can tap into it wherever you are. At any moment, you can go directly to that internal space to refuel yourself and be strengthened. But there are some places that call forth your spirituality in a very special way, just by your mere presence there. And for me, one of those places is the Garrison Institute.

The Garrison Institute is nestled in the hills overlooking the Hudson River – across from West Point – in Garrison New York.
 

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The Garrison Institute is a spiritual haven for the thousands who flock there. The former monastery was renovated and converted into a retreat center providing impactful, contemplative, educational programs and retreats for nearly the last 20 years.

When you walk on the property of the Garrison Institute there is no question that you have arrived to a sacred place.
 

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The institute was founded on the principle that action in the world is more effective when combined with wisdom and skill to produce contemplative practices. It is those practices that create a healthier, safer and more compassionate world.

It is known for having everyone from the Dalai Lama to political leaders visit in an attempt to create collaborative efforts to make the wider world and society a better place.
 

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The Garrison Institute offers programs on everything from Mindfulness in Education to Transforming Trauma. They often have young people visiting from the inner-city to experience the magic of meditation and contemplative teachings in their beautiful, serene environment.

The Garrison Institute is a light for all who come. It doesn’t matter what religious background you come from, or if you are religious at all, there is a magical peace that is found there that crosses all divisions.

The location is also home to community events and functions. They have delicious, healthy, clean food they serve which has its visitors raving.
 

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It opens its doors to all for free community meditation every Wednesday morning at 8:30 AM. It is an hour meditation followed by tea and coffee service and a discussion on the meditation reading of the day. The most amazing conversations emerge from what is shared during that time from a diverse pool of attendees.

I am so utterly grateful to have the Garrison Institute as part of my life and I am immensely grateful to be able to call it my spiritual home.

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The Power of the Practice of Gratitude

The Power of the Practice of Gratitude

by | Sep 19, 2018 | Gratitude

Gratitude is one of the most important characteristics we can have as humans in this life.

It ignites the universe to know exactly where you are and where you are ready to go.

It is important to wake up every day and be grateful not just for the big things you may think of, but most importantly for the little things you may take for granted everyday.

Even when you feel as if gratitude is hard for you to find, keep searching for it. The seeds of it are all around you. I am a firm believer that when you change your focus things will begin to change.

 

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When you have gratitude in the little things, you begin to look at and see the world and your life differently, from a different perspective.

Gratitude is an energy. It is a way of being.

When people are filled with gratitude, you can see it on them. They look different. They speak differently. They show up differently. There is just something from the inside that radiates on the outside.

As you begin to invite more gratitude into your life, what you will notice is that you will gain more things to be grateful for.

You will start to attract those things you have wanted and longed for.

What you focus on is what expands. Focusing on gratitude will attract even more gratitude into your life.

 

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Take a few minutes at the end of each day and make a list of 10 things you are grateful for.

You will see that as you begin to put this into practice, you will start to increase your gratitude muscle. You’ll begin to look at things differently and you’ll start to find more and more things in your world to be grateful for. Soon 10 will become the least amount of things you’ll think of to be grateful for.

The more you open yourself up to being grateful, the more the universe will open up to you. It all first begins with just a seed of gratitude!

For more information on ways to add gratitude to your life, go to LeverageUpYourLife.com/gratitude.

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The Gift of Failure

The Gift of Failure

by | Sep 17, 2018 | Handling Failure

Failure is among one of the most undesirable occurrences in people’s lives.

When people have what the world considers a failure, it will often paralyze them. It can keep them from moving forward and reaching their goals. It is a death killer to dreams.

But what I’ve learned from so called failure, is that there isn’t such a thing as failure at all. If you take the lessons from what has occurred, you will learn that those lessons were mandatory, even essential to get you where you needed to go.

 

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The world calls it a failure. I call it a fantastic opportunity to succeed, because you got another necessary piece to the puzzle for what is required.

When I think about all of the things I would not be doing today, if I allowed so called failures to stop me, I could weep. I could weep, because it would have been such a disruption to my life’s plan.

All of those alleged failures were part of God’s plan for me. If I had given up long ago, I would have self-sabotaged my own divine destiny.

I often think about all of those who have somehow sabotaged or delayed their own life’s blessings, because they believed they somehow failed and they allowed it to stop them.

You cannot allow failure to block you, nor stop you. You have to simply adjust, course correct and continue moving ahead.

 

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The best course in life to succeed is to abandon daily what is no longer working for you. Try out a new way of being, a new way of doing and see what results are produced.

You want to fail yourself forward and do it often, because every time you do it and there’s an alleged failure, you have the necessary information you need to go even further than you did the last time.

And before you know it, if you keep pressing forward, you will ultimately, undoubtedly cross your ultimate finish line.

For more information on this go to www.LeverageUpYourLife.com/failure.

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