There are tons of courses out there that promise to teach you how to change your life, achieve peace within yourself or how to make your relationships more loving, energetic and rejuvenated.The truth is, it doesn’t matter how many of these courses you get, your success and ability to change all rely on one important thing…

Your commitment to change.

If you buy all the latest courses on manifestation, the law of attraction (the secret), personal development and the like but you don’t have the deep inner desire to change, follow through and succeed, those courses are worthless.

Think about that.

There’s a famous quote that says “Nothing happens until something (or someone) moves.”

So if you have $9,000 in personal development courses, go through all of them and absorb all the information and have enough knowledge to write an encyclopedia on success, but you don’t “move” toward what you want to achieve or take action in alignment with that information, it’s all worthless.

In fact, you could buy none of those courses and achieve more success then you ever thought possible if you would just move. Even if you get it wrong, if you are moving you can easily adjust where you are headed as you go and you will eventually succeed.

I want you to start focusing on “moving” and taking action.

While this can be hard for some people, a great way to make it easier for yourself is to make yourself accountable to someone other than yourself.

Ask your spouse, friend or business associate to go to lunch with you. Spend that time telling them of all your new goals, the actions you need to take to achieve them and hand them a plan that you have laid out as to when you want to achieve each of these goals.

Make it a point to meet with that person at least once a week and analyze your current progress and what you did well, what you didn’t do well and how you can move faster and more efficiently toward your goals.

I’m not going to beat a dead horse. Remember these 3 steps if you want to start taking action and moving toward what you want in life…

1) “Nothing happens until something (or someone) moves.”

2) Make yourself accountable for your actions to someone other than yourself.

3) Analyze your progress and restructure your actions (if needed) weekly to reposition yourself towards your goals.

Move toward action!

Love & Peace,
Chris Elliott

“Nothing that you want will ever come to fruition unless you first
take action toward it’s atainment.  Act fast now & analyze later”

Love & Peace,
Chris Elliott

Today, I added the first official article to the LovePeaceProject.com articles section.

This is the first in many to come.

This article will show you how to use the law of attraction in your life in 3 simple and fast steps.

Check it out…

The Law Of Attraction Taught In 3 Simple Steps

Love & Peace,
Chris

We’ve all read a self help book or two at least but have we experienced any real change as a result?

I’ve personally read hundreds and I have to admit, there was a time that I expected just the act of reading the book to change my life or change something inside of me.

I’ve also encountered people who spend thousands on personal development courses, success coaching, subliminal audios, etc. and just wonder why their lives aren’t changing.

Well, let me get a little real here…

It doesn’t matter how many times you listen to that subliminal CD or that Binaural beat CD or read that success course you paid $300 for, if you aren’t wiling to change, if you aren’t going into that training or self help aid with the attitude of “okay, I’m going to change and this is going to help me do it”, you’re in trouble.

The act of listening to a CD or taking part in some kind of training alone is worthless.

It’s in those moments after using these tools that you decide that you are going to “Act” towards the better life that you want.  Even if you know all the success strategies in the world, if you don’t commit to change, put your nose to the grindstone and move toward what it is you want, you’ll never get there.

Change isn’t easy.  If someone told you that it was, they lied.  There will always be an adjustment period when you are changing something in your life whether it be your eating habits, quitting smoking or drinking, starting an exercise routine, being more organized and results oriented in your job or your business.

The point that I’m trying to make here is that changing anything in your life can only happen if you first move toward what it is that you want.  It might be taking that first walk, completing that first task on a new project in your business, talking to your wife about rejuvenating your loving relationship, eating a salad instead of a gut burger.

Without action, it doesn’t matter what knowledge you have.  When you act on your urges to change and use the ideas you’ve learned through courses or success training to make that action easier, that’s when miracles happen.

I want you to do something very simple.  Get a 3X5 index card and a marker.  Then, in big letters, write the words “I AM TAKING ACTION” on the front of it and on the other side write “BECAUSE IT IS CHANGING MY LIFE”.

Now put that card in something you carry with you at all times such as your purse or wallet. Every time that you feel the urge to take action on something but feel that “something” holding you back, pull out that card and look at the side with “I AM TAKING ACTION” and read it out loud.

Now, without flipping over to the other side, recite what’s on the back from memory (”BECAUSE IT IS CHANGING MY LIFE”).  If you don’t have it memorized at first, turn the card around and read it aloud but try to memorize it as quickly as you can (It’s actually important to the effectiveness of this exercise).

While this might seem a bit corny, it’s actually very powerful because it’s getting you to do 4 important things…

1) Getting You To Take ACTION! - Taking out the card and reading out the message it contains alone is an action.  This creates some momentum that you can use to push you forward with the action that you need to take.

2) Instilling This Message Into Your Head - Because you are saying “BECAUSE IT IS CHANGING MY LIFE” from memory after saying “I AM TAKING ACTION” you are pulling it from memory and your sub-conscious mind to your conscious.

Your mind is like a muscle and the more times that you do this, the more vivid the reason (BECAUSE IT IS CHANGING MY LIFE) for taking action is in your mind, the more likely you are to take action.

3)  Arming You With A Tool - Just by having this little “crutch” you can feel a bit more at peace knowing that you do have this exercise that you can do to push yourself to action and moving toward what you want.

4)  Forcing You To Speak Actively - Instead of saying “I WILL TAKE ACTION” you say “I AM TAKING ACTION” because this gets you into the active mindset of taking action.  Saying “I WILL TAKE ACTION” basically tells your sub-conscious that “you will” meaning that you’ll do it later.

There are also some other things you can do to help increase the effect of this exercise if you so choose.

1)  Find small pictures that you can attach to your 3X5 card as motivators for your actions to change.  Maybe it’s a picture of a car you want or a home you want.  Maybe there’s a place you’d like to take your family on vacation.

Find pictures of these things and resize them to sticker size print them out, cut them out and then tape them around the words on the front and back of your 3X5 card.

This will create a visual impact that will further motivate you to take the action that you are moving toward.

2)  Say the things you want out loud.  When you do the exercise and say “I AM TAKING ACTION”, “BECAUSE IT IS CHANGING MY LIFE” add “AND MOVING ME TOWARD [insert item here] and [insert item here] and [insert item here], etc.”

This will further embed the fact that you are taking action for a reason and put the things that move you to action right in front of you to fire you up.

I’ll end today’s session with this…

Use this little exercise for a week and see if it helps you start moving toward your dreams, all it takes is a marker and a 3X5 index card.

Love & Peace
Chris Elliott

I’m sure that most of you have heard of the movie and book The Secret that has hit the market with a bang.

I thought it would be a good thing to talk about here today.

Now, I have to say, there are a lot of people out there today that are just full of it when it comes to manifestation and success and I probably would have passed on this one but a person who I have a tremendous respect for, Dr. Joe Vitale, was involved in it so I checked out.  That was a great choice.

At first glance, you can’t really tell what “The Secret” is but once you start watching the video you find that the “The Secret” is The Law Of Attraction and how to apply it in your life.

I strongly believe in the law of attraction and use it in my life so I really enjoyed the movie.  It was full of experts that I’m familiar with that share their particular views of The Law Of Attraction which is great for broadening your view of the law for application in your life.  The Law Of Attraction is definitely capable of helping you gain inner peace, loving relationships or anything else you desire if it’s applied correctly.

The DVD was inspirational and extremely well put together with Hollywood quality special effects and excellent information.  I haven’t read the book so I can’t comment on that but the DVD is excellent and makes for a truly uplifting viewing.

If you are at all interested in manifestation, the law of attraction or how to align yourself with the things you’ve always wanted, this is a great buy and it’s cheap for what you get.  For under 20 bucks you can grab a copy at any bookstore or at the website TheSecret.TV

Love & Peace,
Chris Elliott

It’s been a while since I posted but I had something important to share today.

It’s a fact that people like photographs.  Especially those that include family, smiles and beautiful moments.  I’m willing to be that you can think of a few times that you received a photo as a gift or via e-mail that just made your day.

This isn’t a long winded post, just a “gentle push” to take a few pictures of your family or have someone take one of you and send it to your friends and family.  Just a simple picture of yourself smiling can make your families day.

Ask them to send you pictures in return and start a regular contact through images which lets you connect much more closely than just plain e-mail.

This is especially important if you are far away from your family or friends and want to try and keep your relationship active and growing.  Sharing images lets others be a part of your life even when they aren’t there physically.

I found a site when doing some digging that lets you upload unlimited pictures (Well, 100 per album and 100 albums so that’s 10,000 pictures) and I personally just love it.

There are a tons of these sites out there but the big plus with this site is that it doesn’t degrade the quality of your images like every other photo sharing site out there which is just huge!

The site is…

http://www.clickfriends.com

I don’t own the site and don’t get anything for recommending that to you.  It’s a 100% free site and I loved it so I thought it would match perfect with todays topic.

Love & Peace,
Chris Elliott

We all want to have a relationship as close to perfect as possible but the truth is a “perfect” relationship doesn’t exist. We all encounter bumps when it comes to our relationships. Obviously no relationship is perfect all the time.

This isn’t to say that you can’t be complete happy all the time in your relationship, you absolutely can. Finding inner peace in relationships isn’t as hard as some people think either.

How do you do this? I can really put this concept down in one word…

Perception.

The way that we perceive the things that happen in our relationships directly dictates what we will feel as a result of that experience.

Here’s an example…

You’re home waiting for your wife to get home and she’s running late. After she’s about an hour late you start worrying and try to call her on her cell phone which she doesn’t answer. You might start thinking that she has been in an accident or that something happened to her so you start worrying.

This is how many people think, they start imagining the worst possible scenario.

Usually your spouse will show up and you’ll jump at them asking “WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?”, “I HAVE BEEN WORRIED SICK!” Then your spouse starts to explain that they were caught in traffic and that their phone battery went dead or something of that nature and you feel like you over reacted which you most certainly did!

The key here is that you “chose” to be worried instead of thinking “they are probably just stuck in traffic” and to top it off, you jumped down your spouse’s throat when they came in the door. I don’t know about you but if I was stuck in traffic for an hour I sure wouldn’t want to be greeted like that when I got in the door!

Just as you “chose” to be worried, you can “chose” to be optimistic and think the best of every situation.

By doing this you will save yourself a huge amount of stress and also save yourself tons of arguments and fights as a result of always thinking the worse of every situation.

When you take control of your perception and chose to perceive things optimistically and always think the best of each situation you will find that nearly every experience you have will turn out to be a positive one.

The first step though is making that choice to change your instinct to think the worst about a situation.

This isn’t as easy as flipping a switch at first. You really need to be conscious of your thinking and catch yourself when you start thinking like this so that you can quickly change your thinking.

You won’t catch every instance at first but over time you will find that you gain more control of how you perceive things and you will automatically start perceiving everything in a happy, go lucky way.

Just like a muscle in your body, your mind will grow and become stronger as you train it perceive things optimistically.

So start being conscious of the way you perceive the situations in your relationships and you will find that it’s much easier to continuously be happy and achieve a much more peaceful and fulfilling relationship.

Love & Peace,
Chris Elliott