When you take on a perspective that life is a journey and every aspect of your past affects your present and your potential for your future, then you'll learn more from looking into the rear vision mirror.

Your perspective of the events of the day, the week, the month, the year, your lifetime and even your lineage will provide more richness to your journey.

So the old adage of "If we don't understand our history we're bound to repeat it" is true in this context.

Foresight

The oft-quoted Biblical statement in Proverbs states that "Where there is no vision, the people perish". This has implications in all aspects of our life.

Through the power of foresight, we can change lives, relationships, businesses, nations, and in fact, the world.

Today I will address the power of foresight, the power of vision, the power of dreaming.

Express Yourself

Now look, it's something that anyone can do.

The question is, will it be you? Are you letting the game that you play hold you back from expressing your truth?

You have an important story to share, a job to do. Do you get it done?

Are you able to stand up and do what needs to be done, say what needs to be said?

Is your stand your brand?

The Paradox of Harmony

There are many upsides and downsides to harmony. It's hugely diverse because harmony in our world reflects the harmony within.

So let's just start and have a look at that first and then we'll build it out from there. Have you ever been inwardly upset and noticed that many things in your day seem to irritate you? It could be the traffic is moving too slow, the morning coffee is too bitter or the phone rings off the hook. Other days none of these things matter because you are in harmony with yourself and at peace with life.

As I said, when there's harmony within us there is harmony within our world. So, in other words, we can tolerate what appears to be disharmony out there in life if we have harmony within.

Being Congruent

Have you've ever noticed yourself thinking one thing and saying another? Or maybe doing something entirely against what you know to be true?

Let's have a look at this in terms of what's missing. What's the link that's missing when you see something that's possible, you say you will do it and then you don't come through with the goods?

You notice that something is holding you back and it is usually the referencing of a past experience where something similar wasn't possible?

This may be like espousing the virtue of good nutrition and then indulging in that extra bit of cheesecake. Or, holding forth on the value of exercise and rolling over and pulling the covers up on the day you are feeling a 'little' low on energy.

It's been said that aging is an option when you're passionate.

So you sense it, don't you? When you meet someone who's really excited about something that they're just bobbing. It's just oozing out of them.

You see it in the youngest of young and the oldest of the old. This thing called passion for life and living is one of the great innate secrets.

This inborn function is within everyone - How is yours?

To control or not control.

Control is is a tricky one.

It's NOT about controlling with force. It IS about controlling yourself first though, then adjusting your environment to yourself.

It's NOT about adjusting yourself to the environment, but its also not about adjusting other people to your environment.

And that's the catch there. As I said, it is a tricky one.

Be Specific

It's not about the big things in life, it's about the little things, the little details. The right environment.

The right little thoughts, words, and actions at the right time make massive differences.

It's the little things that matter, and that is specific.

Certainly Not Certain

It's been said, whoever has the certainty rules. Well, I'd like to take that one to task. So let's have a look at what it is to be certain and what does certainty mean? Both upsides and downsides.

We are all in a prison of some description. You may be imprisoned because you aren't being truthful to yourself.

Maybe you lie about your potential and what you are capable of. Maybe you aren't truthful about what you want to do. Maybe you are uncertain about being able to provide the desired results.

We are all confined by the prisons of our mind. The prisons which hold you back. Stop you from being free.

Trust

I think it's probably true to say that we have a crisis of trust. Trust is lower now than ever before, and it seems to be in a downward spiral in so many different areas. So, in this discussion today, let's look at trust, and how it is that we build it.