Posts from — August 2009

Life is meant to be fun and our purpose here as human beings is to experience all the wonders, magic and entertainment of this spinning amusement park called Earth. We are the lucky ones, the Spirits who won the admission ticket in the big universal raffle and were allowed entrance to this realm of the physical plane where we can create and do whatever we wish.

Life is like the Prince’s ball: a place where we can connect with other people, dance, sing and play dress-up. But if life is a ball, a fun, amazing adventure, why are so many people having the Cinderella experience of being in a dirty kitchen scrubbing floors? Why is it that only other people, the Ugly Sisters, experience life as a ball?

The reason why is because life is an illusion – it is not real. Our lives are an illusion of the body and mind. Your perceptions, your mind and the corresponding sensations your body feels, create your reality. The secret is: Life is actually one big fairytale and you are the grand, eloquent storyteller. But most of us have forgotten this.

You have the power to create your story.

In each moment you decide the next glorious twist or disastrous turn of your story. You introduce heroes and villains, victims and martyrs, supporters and foes. You determine whether the story is one you like or one you can’t bear.

A delightful fairytale character existed in the twentieth century. He had a thin, black upward-pointing moustache, a cape, a walking stick and a haughty expression. He was originally a self-titled and later a world-renowned ‘genius’ – he was the artist Salvador Dali. He intrinsically knew he was the star in the movie called Dali’s Life. As a result, he created a life of fun and immense pleasure – he was a man who created a life he wanted. He even had a line in his ‘movie’ called life that encapsulated his mischievous, playful approach to the creation of his own story:

‘Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy – the joy of being Salvador Dali – and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dali going to accomplish today?’

This was a man who drew clocks melting like camembert cheese to explain the illusion of time; who allowed his genius to express itself in whatever form, and who truly understood the surreal nature of life. In an interview on the program 60 Minutes, Dali kept referring to himself in the third person – an outrageous character he created who expressed his true essence.

Why don’t we all wake up with this kind of exuberance regularly? Why don’t we get out of bed, blissfully bounce to our bathrooms, look in the mirror, kiss the magnificent image that greets us and exclaim ‘Goodness, how wonderful to be me! How incredible to be a grand creator. What do I wish to create today?’

Instead, most people have become stuck in a boring, hum-drum nine-to-five existence called ‘this is life’, believing that this is real and can’t be changed. How sad! We have forgotten that each of us is a master storyteller with a skilful pen to create any story we want. Each of us is the only storyteller responsible for the creation of our own lives.

Yes – you are invited to the Book Launch of  The Fairy Godmother’s Guide to Getting What you Want

Date: Wednesday 19 August

Time: 19h00 – until Coaches turn into pumpkins

Venue:  Zenatude, Rivonia Crossing Shopping Centre, Cnr Achter and Witkoppen Roads, Sunninghill, Johannesburg

Anyone may attend

Please RSVP to magicmaker@fairygodmotherinc.com

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We live in a time of accelerating and unpredictable change – 10 short years ago hardly any of us had heard of Google and yet now we can’t live without it. The only certain thing in life is change and yet most of us don’t like it.

The best way for us as individuals to cope with change is to draw up a clear plan for the future – and to establish goals so that our lives move predominantly in the direction in which we want them to go.  In this way we get a fair degree of control over the important elements of our lives, and achieve a far greater sense of personal power and well-being.

Having dreams and setting goals will give you a clear sense of direction. People without goals tend to get bumped around by circumstances and they ‘react’ to these circumstances whereas people who have goals view their circumstances and make ‘proactive’ decisions to move them closer to where they want to be.

What are your goals?

Here is a simple exercise to help you cope with change.

Exercise

Take a moment to think about some areas of life that are important to you –
Your career, your family, your finances, your health and fitness, your personal development.

Take a blank sheet of paper and make each area a heading in each of these areas write down one goal.  This can be a big goal or a small goal.  Just write it down.  Stick the piece of paper next to your desk and every morning read each of your goals out loud.  When practised consistently you will be amazed at the shifts that begin to occur in your life.

At Harvard Business School they did a study and found that people who had clearly written goals were the people who achieved financial success and were able to retire wealthy.  Says something for writing down your goals, doesn’t it!

My new book The Fairy Godmother’s Guide to Getting What you Want will give you an in-depth guide to turning your dreams and goals into reality – it is available in all major bookstores around South Africa.

Last week I created magic and mischief in the studios of East Coast Radio – what fun being interviewed by Jane Linley-Thomas about my book The Fairy Godmother’s Guide to Getting What you Want… check out this video we made