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Happy new year! This is my personal New Year Card for you, and the music I have posted (above-right), is also my 2009 wish for you.

Each new year, for the past 5 years I have asked you what will be accomplished in your life during the next twelve months. Remember, there is no such thing as 'failure'; there is only 'feedback'. List your 100 achievements over the last 12-months. You will feel so much more clear and invigorated when creating your plans for next year.

As well as writing down my 100 accomplishments for 2008, I recorded the 100 things I will achieve during 2009. Where I most often fall down with that, is the 'staying focused' part. My first priority is to create personal environments & structures that consistently remind me of, and support, my original purpose and my primary intended outcomes.

While resolutions for the New Year give us a wonderful sense of positive intent, they can be difficult to stick with unless we turn them into clear, well-defined goals.

My friend Arina, has just created a wonderful program that's presented in very user friendly segments. It includes effective tips to accomplish our prioritized goals. Arina's two Goal Setting Videos will help us stay on track with our resolutions. Let's make the upcoming year unforgettable, in the best possible way.

I've kicked off my 2009 with a 'new look' Triggers ezine. It took me quite some time to put it all together for you. It was high time that she got a facelift!

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A link to Forward Steps can now always be found in each Triggers issue, at the navigation bar (at extreme top of this page). While you are up there, it's worth checking over each of the items found in that navigation bar.

In its fourth amazing year, Happiness & Its Causes is an extraordinary conference bringing together 50+ speakers and an engaged audience of over 2,000 delegates for a thrilling exploration of the science, psychology and philosophy of human happiness.

Joe, Matthew and Henry have spent more than 19 weeks (1,520 hours) to prepare this event for you. They are giving away these products only for 4-weeks, so please download the Free 377+ Packages to your desktop immediately. This way you will not miss the deadline when the download link is removed at 18 January, 2009

On January 24th, in the New Year Personal Development Seminar, let Jeannie Spencer be your guide along an inner journey toward self-discovery and personal growth. Drawing from a variety of different teaching techniques, Jeannie will provide you with the tools to tap into your own inner power and start living the life you desire.

In this free TeleSeminar, Jeanie Marshall leads you in a guided visualization meditation to energize your professional goals. It's designed for mentors and managers who value professional and personal development for themselves and their clients and employees. This is a live 30-minute TeleMeditation event with an advance assignment.

If like attracts like, then what do you see surrounding you at this time? Someone once said to me, if you want to know to what you're committed, just take a look around you. They are words I have never forgotten, and they can raise my spirit, or other times can leave me a little flat. Depending on how I interpret my surroundings in the moment.

Another suggestion, associated with the like attracts like phenomenon, is that of giving more love if love is what you are seeking, generosity when wealth is what you are after, being a great friend if you value your friendships. This removes you from a wanting or needy state, and back to where creative responsibility truly lies: with you.

We all know these to be truths, when we observe our lives, yet do we consciously take them on board as a way of living, and as path to achieving the things we want to accomplish? It is logical that if you want to live with greater awareness and live in a more enlightened way, then be mindful to envelop yourself with those things that support keeping you in a state of awareness and enlightenment.

Given that it is our mind registering all the things that surround us, and that the thinking of our mind is in the form of words and pictures, then our interpretation of what we see is paramount. It is one reason that gratitude journals and visualization tools are so effective. In the moment of recording those things for which we feel gratitude, we fill our mind with the upside of our lives. That compounds, every time we do it. The mind creates new neural pathways, changing our possibly negative perceptions to deliberately generated, affirmative patterns of thought.

Consider then how else you use language to interpret the things surrounding you each day. How do you think the cells of your body might logically respond to the words: I am starving? What image does that conjure? Would it cause a shift in the cellular and chemical response of your body if instead, you were to tone that down, and use the words: I am hungry? New words, new pictures, evoking empowering emotions.

What do you see around you, and what do you take on board emotionally, when you say to yourself: I have no money? Try this at home! Look around your home and say those words several times over. Do you notice what your mind is picking up and tuning in to? Now, try the flip side of that exercise, allowing at least five minutes to just be with it. This time, walk around your home saying: I am so wealthy. What did you notice?

You can use that very simple exercise with anything you like. Walk around for an afternoon, with the words: I am so alone. Then try it differently, and this time repeating the words: I have so many wonderful people sharing in my life. You may even be surprised by a few external manifestations of how like really does attract like.

There are so many ways in which you can become more attractive to the things you want to bring into your life. It all comes down to the emotions you feel, and these are triggered by thoughts created from the words you hear, and pictures you see. Every cell of your body responds to the emotions. Your body produces chemical, and therefore physical changes with each feeling that you experience.

The way we can manage emotion is with our thoughts, and you can help that along by shifting your interpretation of what you see and experience. You can also be much more vigilant with what you feed your mind, from external sources included. We can so easily fall into automatic patterns of thought, because we have had years of practising! It is going to take conscious action on your part to manage those thoughts, and remodel mind patterns if that is needed.

All this does not need to be hard work. For example, carry a number of one hundred dollar notes in your wallet at all times, so when you open the wallet you are not negatively triggered by a possibly low amount of money that you might otherwise see. At the end of each day, record at least five things for which you are grateful, in this way you will not look back on a less than satisfactory day and associate negativity, and taking that into your dreaming.

By keeping track of accomplishments, and listing at least one hundred of those at the end of a year, avoids the scenario of looking back over the year and being despondent over where that time went, and what you may imagine you did not get to do. As an aside to that, have you noticed that televised programs that present reflections over a past year, give to us a collection of the most highly dramatized, often negative events of the year?

Like attracts like, so set up your habits and the things in your environment to help you be someone that upbeat people love to be around. More opportunities and courageous living shows up around those kinds of friends. If you consciously work at interpreting your environment with the glass half full mindset, your skin and body posture will eventually reflect these positive emotions, through chemical shifts brought about by those states of being. Who and what, do you think, are most attracted to you? Look around you and you will have your answer, harsh or too fantastic, as that may seem.

© Thea Westra is founder and author at www.forwardsteps.com.au She resides in Perth, Australia with her ultra-supportive partner Greg. Enjoy her other publications with these Forward Steps subscriptions, and download this handy Positive Emotions list.

    Get ready to leapfrog to the next level.

    It is possible to make small changes!

    Build on strengths and positives.

    Remind yourself of the gifts surrounding you in your life.

    Some things are not entering our lives because we are not ready to accept them.

John Merkus from Fluid Reality, is one of the authorities on accelerated personal achievement. His presentations illustrate the essential concepts behind greater performance, increased productivity, and excitement.

Having used the principles in The Science of Getting Rich, after many requests to hear an Australian voice, he decided to narrate the book. "By fueling passion, John inspires all who see and hear him speak”.

If you would like to write to John to ask for more information or to simply say hello, then you are most welcome to send him an email

In this segment of Triggers, I usually present you with selections of free gifts such as audios, videos, books, programs and products. If you're really missing the videos section this month, then you could take a look at my videos list. I really love the Wombat!

This month, I have finished my list of 50 free self improvement give aways, with which to leave you. It is a wonderful collection for you to enjoy and share, so be sure that you visit the newly completed list of 50 Free Personal Development Gifts, and also the many offers at 35 Favorite Self Growth Products

I have been spending a good deal of my 'Triggers time' this past month, continuing work on Time For My Life, in my attempt to get that book out to you before the New Year. As you can see, I didn't get that accomplished, however January is looking good!

February, you will again have the full range of gifts usually delivered in this segment.

I should mention too, at the Forward Steps site, I have added new material behind each of its buttons. That is another option for you to explore, until I return in February.

The following video is a hilarious description from Mark Gungor's Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage Conference of the difference between men's and women's brains when it comes to telling and remembering details.

Ever walk past a mirror and are shocked or mortified by what you see? Your hair standing up in a weird way, your slip showing, your fly open, egg stuck in your teeth? Mirrors can be real lifesavers. Had it not been for that mirror, you may have gone the entire day looking ridiculous.

Marriage is a mirror. By living so closely with another human being, you start to get a picture of what you really look like. You start to see where you need to adjust and change. This is why marriage is so effective at making people’s lives more rich and productive—if they adjust to the needed changes.

Known as 'The Gap' because it is all about that big space, between one Triggers edition to the next. You know, that place in time when you are just twiddling your thumbs, eagerly waiting for next month!

It's great to see that so many of you are subscribed to several other Forward Steps publications, as well as to Triggers. Keeping you in touch with the many wonderful new items being produced online.

My intention is always to provide products, programs, information, and tools that inspire and empower you, enabling you to unleash your personal creativity and your unique contribution in life. I love this Tony Robbins quote...

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever... the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

If you just cannot wait until next month to receive more from Forward Steps, there are also quite a number of links for you to follow at the Forward Steps blogs

There is something deep within you that knows what you are here to do and the direction you must move in to fulfill your calling. When you align your daily actions with this calling, you become fully alive. -Eric Klein

The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are. -Edgar A. Guest

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. -Charles Buxton

Becoming a master is not about doing 4000 things, it’s about doing 12 things 4000 times. -Chet Holmes

    What do you allow to take you down, when life is going great?

    What have you firmly decided to accomplish?

    What are you doing to nurture your imaginative, creative thought?

    Is there anything which you'd given up, that you could get moving again?

    If your life continues on its current path, what will it be like in five years?

    Playing For Change to inspire, connect, & bring peace to the world through music

    Running Brave the story of Billy Mills, a reminder that dreams are worth chasing

    The Wheel Of Life What if everything you believe about life, is wrong?

    The Awakening Universe transform our connection, commonality and communion

    Leap! explores the ageless idea that the world is an illusion

    What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson (perfect topic for the new year)

    Infinite Self by Stuart Wilde (still my all time favorite, and here's a chapter)

    The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles (have you 'really' read it?)

  Fun Creativity Test         Vincent         Moku Gift         Moon Phases         Shift

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Namasté

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