Committing to Self Expression

I have been writing this blog for some time now along with about four others and its amazing how much self expression can help you have a better understanding of yourself.

One of the key reasons most humans have trouble sorting themselves out is that they have a lot of creative energy swirling around them all the time. Most people refuse to pay attention to this creative spirit. I play music, write poetry, write and generally interested in anything that has a creative soul. I believe that this creative spirit is playful,fun, supportive and extremely helpful in helping you find out about more of who you are. You just need to let it in.

In my book the " Ten Commitments to a Better Life", I have one commitment dedicated to knowing where you fit it. I truly believe that it is this creative spirit that will help you do that. The aboriginal people have many traditions including drum ceremonies which they say helps connect them to their creator. I know that there is nothing better than banging out a few assorted riffs on the keyboard with a band full on and in the pocket. How many times have you listened to classical music and been taken to a higher place. It is this creative spirit that is a work all the time.

In order to get to that place, I suggest that you commit to carrying out one act of self expression this week. For example you can write in your journal. This one act will help you develop a relationship with your self and your self expression. Try to learn a new instrument even if its a drum. Listen to the sound and how it inspires your soul.

I made a commitment to learn a new instrument every year and now play key boards, harmonica, accordion extremely well along with cowbell and triangle. I still have not mastered the guitar even though I tried various approaches over the years only to decide to focus on keyboards and leave the guitar to Eric Clapton and John Mayer.

So when your creative spirit stirs -- give it some food for thought. I cannot tell you how many times our band has played and people come up to me and say, "god I wish I could do that". I say you can. You only need to put one foot in front of the other and get started.

Kensel Tracy is a business coach that specializes in helping small, medium and large sized business grow and prosper. His book the "Ten Commitments to a Better Life" can be found at Amazon.com. For personal coaching he can be contacted at kenselt@sympatico.ca

What We Think About Expands

I just got back from a week on the beach and spent a lot of time just watching the waves go in and out and listening to the ocean. That is how I like to spend my holidays. Its funny that a day at the beach can seem like a lifetime in comparison to our everyday work days which seem to pass by too quickly. As a student of life its good to connect with nature on an ongoing basis and remember that we are all connected a some point to the big picture and the energy around us. The power of the ocean and the energy it gives is extremely powerful and I think that is why a day at the beach can bring about major changes in a person's thought patterns.

So this week I am trying to get my thoughts organized and committing to becoming less stressed and more in the moment. In my book " The Ten Commitments to a Better Life", I point out the being balanced all the time is a big commitment. It is this balance that allows you to develop thoughts about what is most important.

Its not about worry. Worry is a thought that is manifested by the ego and it needs to have something to feed to you so it can be in charge. The more we worry about something the more of "that" we attract. Trying to stay balanced in the moment is one of the hardest things we can do, as the ego will always try to take you in direction and then compound those thoughts and piles it on and before long we have more problems or issues than we intended on in the first place. A lot has been said about thoughts and how thoughts can manifest change. Trying to be more in the moment will allow you to think about where you are right here and right now.

Now if you want to change the channel, just change your thoughts. Remember what you think about expands both positive and negative. So controlling your thoughts and the ego is one of most challenging commitments we can make.

It is this single commitment of trying to keep your thoughts in check and being balanced all time, that will help you think about things that are important and not things; that you can not change.

Kensel Tracy is a personal and business coach and is a Senior Partner with the Corporate Coachworkz Inc. His book "The Ten Commitments to a Better Life" is available at Amazon.com

Making Changes so That You Can Commit

I had a major problem this week where I committed to doing something and then had other things come up that did not allow me to focus on what I had committed to. I realized that if it was all that important I would have made a firm commitment to focusing on that specific thing. I realized that it is these things that get us in trouble.

When an individual commits to something that is not really important, they are starting to get off the path. In deciding how and when to make commitments one needs to heed this advice. If you have not kept a commitment it cannot be that important.

It is time to reevaluate the level of the commitment and why you made it in the first place. It is also part of a bigger picture and shows you that you are operating on reflex and not on purpose. When one is dedicated to making and keeping commitments,this focus of operating on purpose is the thing that makes the commitment easy to keep.

In future I will think twice about making a commitment, especially to something I already know is not in my plan. I learned an important lesson this week. Its easy to commit and keep a commitment especially if its something that is important in your life. If its marginal then its time to move on, so that you do not make a commitment reluctantly and get yourself in trouble later, by not keeping you promise to do what you say you will do.

Kensel Tracy is a personal and business coach, ( The Marketing Coach) and has written the book " The Ten Commitments to a Better Life". It is available at Amazon.com. Kensel can be reached for coaching assignments at kenselt@sympatico.ca

The Power of Now

I was thinking this morning about the amazing thing that Oprah is doing with Eckhart Tolle and is book "A New Earth, Awaking to Your Life's Purpose". She has been promoting this book for the past few weeks and getting people world wide to sign up for her online training program. At last count over 500,000 people world-wide had signed up. It not only shows the power of television but it also shows that the world is really in search of a new way of thinking. It also shows that there is a need for the world to change its current pattern on how it operates. A few years back I read a lot of books that talked about how humans were fed up with the merry-go-round of going to work to get money to buy things so that they could be satisfied about going to work. It was a perfect example of a world that needs to change its priorities in regards to where you are now.

Most of the people I know in Canada anyway, live in nice homes, have money, drive nice cars, complain about the weather and have pretty much everything they want. However there seems to be a general feeling of unhappiness in what most people do. Tolle's " A New Earth" is a pretty amazing book as it breaks down a lot of the myths that humans have operated under for a lot of life and starts to help people get in touch with what is important now. His other books " The Power of Now" teach, that the "now" exists in the mind and that the mind is the most important tool there is as " what you think about expands". Its this commitment to being present that will help you take the ego out of your everyday life and give you a positive mind set to allow you to accomplish what it is you want as opposed to doing what you think it is you want.

I admire my wife, Oprah and Eckhart Tolle for being " life pioneers" again and committing to making the world a better place. Now if we can only get the rest of the world to remove its historical and religious biases the world will be a better place.

Kensel Tracy is a Personal and Business Coach and author of the "The Ten Commitments to a Better Life". His book is available at Amazon.com.

Connecting with the Universe - Is a Way of Growing Your Self and Your Business

As I have said on this page many times, connecting with the universe helps you get what you want. My book " The Ten Commitments to a Better Life" was written in one weekend. The way it happened was quite amazing. I had been writing a book about " new age sales" sort of a best practices for selling in the modern era. I had close to 150 pages written when my hard drive crashed. I lost the book. Thomas Leonard the founder of Coach University and literally everything that was written or created in coaching had also just passed away. I was devastated. I had just talked with Thomas a few months earlier as he made his journey around North America by RV, selling his book "The Portable Coach.".

One night a couple of weeks after my computer melt down, I could not sleep. Life was getting crazy for me as I had a full service advertising agency and the pace I was keeping was nuts. I was also slightly bummed out, Thomas, the book; life just was not getting any better. Sitting in my wife's most comfortable chair, I took out my journal and started to think about what I should write about. I thought that the biggest problem for most of my clients is they could not commit to the changes that they needed to make to have more in their lives.

At that point I started writing the ten commitments people needed to make to make their life better. I carried these around on a piece of paper, posted them in my office and even delivered a couple of short presentations on "The Ten Commitments to a Better Life" to a couple of business groups.

One Saturday morning armed with a cup of coffee and the spa channel on the satellite radio, the ten commitments were written. At that time, I felt as if Thomas was talking through me. I got the tingles and the hair on the back of my neck went up, as the words flowed through me like a mad man.

Sunday afternoon around 2:00 pm the book was finished. Although its only 75 pages, in my mind it is a masterpiece of direct contact with the universe. I added a self help guide and had an editor review it for grammar and spelling.

Today it is one of my really fine personal accomplishments, as one should always have a legacy project. Two copies sit in the National Library of Canada archives and to date, 1500 copies have been sold, given away or sent to publishers. Not a great deal of books, but the results have been fascinating. Everyone who I have talked to that has read it says they have received one small thing that has changed their life. Its not too often that you can create something that really makes a difference.

So, connect with the universe if you can, through meditation, prayer, contemplation or whatever. Listen to the inner voice and act upon what is given. It may be a simple book that makes a difference or it could be the next Facebook or Google. Either way you will be acting upon your inner passion and making your life more of what it is for you and what you supposed to become. Who knows the next Mircosoft could be just around the corner.

Kensel Tracy is a personal and business coach and is a Senior Partner with the Corporate Coachworkz. His book "The Ten Commitments to a Better Life " can be found on Amazon.com. For a personal coaching session, he can be contacted at kenselt@sympatico.ca.

Getting Attraction Working For You

I recently experienced an amazing thing in my own family. My wife and soul mate started an new project using the power of attraction.

Over the past couple of years she has been toying with a number of ideas for her book and her personal business. You see what you do during the day, may not be totally who you are. So here she is ... talking about her new project directed at women. Inspiration in Action, A Women's Guide to Happiness will soon be published. Look for it coming out soon.

What Happens When 3 Extraordinary Teachers from "the Secret" Come Together to Teach the Science of Getting Rich?

The Science of Getting Rich is a timeless classic written in 1910 by Wallace D. Wattles. It is a bold title for a book and suggests that getting rich is a predictable outcome if one can master the principles outlined in the book. Here is how Wallace D. Wattles puts it in his own words, "The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way. Those who do things in this certain way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich. Those who do not do things in this certain way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor. It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects. Therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich."

Certainly, this book is well referenced by many of the great teachers today and it is the same book that inspired Rhonda Byrne to produce that runaway success "the Secret". Here is what Rhonda Byrne said on her introductory note to the book, "I can honestly say that, since that first night when a tattered printed manuscript found its way to me (thanks to one of my daughters), my life has never been the same. Once you read it for yourself, you will understand why". Rhonda went on to produce the movie "the Secret" and the best-selling book of the same title which has sold millions of copies worldwide.

However, learning how to do things in that "certain way" as described by Wallace D. Wattles may be more challenging for some as the book was written nearly 100 years ago. Some of the language is a little dated and much of its wisdom lost from a modern day perspective.

Fortunately, a new training seminar for the Science of Getting Rich has brought the wisdom of this timeless classic back to life for modern readers. Called "the Science of Getting Rich", this program is the most comprehensive training system for mastering Wallace D. Wattles wealth creation philosophies and principles since its creation. It comprises written, audio and live seminar formats for learning, applying and mastering the Science of Getting Rich.

A unique "twist" to the program is the fact that it has an in-built vehicle for creating substantial financial wealth through its affiliate program. This is truly a unique wealth eduction and wealth building program designed to empower any individual with the resources to get rich. It is a program whose time has come. The program would not be possible without the original text from Wallace D. Wattles, the skills of leading teachers of our time, the phenomenal success of "the Secret" and the Internet as a learning and distribution too.

Kensel Tracy is a personal coach . If you want more information on the Science of Getting Rich click the side ad form on this page.