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If I Had To Simplify Everything I Teach About Gratitude Into Four Simple Words…

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If I Had To Simplify Everything I Teach About Gratitude Into Four Simple Words…
What Would They Be?

Those of you who know me well know that I write a LOT about how gratitude is a brilliant way to get out of your stress-head and back into living from your heart. But I was challenged by a friend this week to sum it all up in a single sentence – so here it is!

Enjoy The Little Things

 
Read on for insights as to why these simple words are so potent.
 
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There is so much wisdom tied up in these four simple words.

Let’s start with the word ‘Enjoy’: I’m curious – what kind of response does that invoke for you?

For some of us, the idea of ‘enjoying’ ourselves is second nature.

For others, it’s far from being part of our daily existence.

Do you give yourself permission to enjoy your experience of life? Or have you convinced yourself that life is meant to be hard work? Perhaps ‘enjoying’ comes at some unspecified ‘later’ point? That there’s no room for ‘enjoying’ or even ‘joy’ in your hectic schedule?

Can you imagine how different your life would become if you suspended that old conditioning and gave yourself loving permission to enjoy this moment, right here, right now? As you’re reading this article:

  • allow yourself to enjoy the experience of breathing – you might like to pause and say to yourself, in your mind, “I enjoy breathing in and calming my body… I enjoy breathing out and letting go.”

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  • press pause on the commentary about any aches and pains and allow yourself to be fully in your body, enjoying its presence, whatever stories you normally tell yourself about it

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  • allow yourself to gently smile (triggering endorphins – your body’s natural happy chemicals) – enjoy the feeling as those hormones kick in

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  • give yourself permission to fully enjoy whatever it is you are set to do today, even if it would usually fall under your ‘have to’ list

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    Enjoying – appreciating – feeling grateful or thankful for – it’s all about reconnecting with your heart – in this moment.

    What happens, as you let yourself enjoy? And… if it feels hard for you… what might NOT happen, if you let yourself enjoy? (Let me know via the comments!)

    arrow-no-bgAnd if you’re running the ‘life has to be hard’ limiting belief, here’s an article that can get you started on shifting that one in the next five minutes: How to handle limiting beliefs
    And if the phrase ‘have to’ runs the show in your inner dialogue, here’s an article that will help you to set yourself free to enjoy your day.

    Now let’s move on to the word ‘little’: and here’s a trap that most of us fall into:

    Most of us hold out for the ‘big stuff’ and hand our happiness over to events outside of our control.

    You can spot this one if your inner dialogue ever comes up with phrases like:

    I’ll feel happy, when….
     
    It’ll all be ok, when…
     
    I’ll be able to relax, when…

    Spotting a theme?

    We’re so fixated on some big event or thing that’s outside of us and at some point in the future, that it’s like we postpone our happiness and inner peace to some unspecified future date.
    If you spent just one minute a day focussing on noticing the little (or even tiny) bits of your life that are going well, you could transform your experience of life, in just a few weeks.

    No matter how many years you have been stuck waiting for the big stuff to come in, before you allow yourself to enjoy feeling happy, you can start to retrain your brain, one minute at a time.

    And it’s not that the big stuff isn’t important – of course it is – but the small stuff is already there, patiently waiting for you to appreciate it and to lift your spirits, right now. If this one resonates for you, then you might love joining in with our Great Gratitude Challenge – it gives you all the ‘how to’ you need on this one!

    And finally, we’re onto ‘things’: and here I have a word of warning for you!

    The word ‘things’… It’s so easy to fall into the ‘things-trap’.

    This one is where we think that ‘things’ – objects and ‘stuff’ – will lead to our happiness. We can even make the collection of ‘things’ our primary goal in life, without even realising it.

    And yes, ‘things’ do have an important role to play in our lives. But they’re only the beginning of the richness of our experience.

    The English language is seriously limited on this one. I’m dreaming of finding a word that means ‘things’, but that also includes ‘non-things’ – like:

    • the kindness of a fellow driver who lets you out of that tricky junction

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    • the colours of the sky when your early start means you get to see the sunrise

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    • the unexpected heart-felt smile from the checkout assistant as you buy your morning coffee

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    • Your favourite song unexpectedly playing on the radio on your way home

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    • Somebody doing you a favour, without being asked – and maybe you don’t even know who they are?

      • You’re getting what I’m saying here?

      Life is about so much more than ‘things’ – it’s about everything that makes up our experience.

      So my invitation to you with this one is to enjoy the little ‘things’ that come to you during your day – whether they’re stuff you can touch and hold or see or hear or taste or smell. They all add to the richness of life. And choosing to enjoy them is a miracle-worker.

      I’m wondering: has any of this resonated for you? Were you falling into the ‘enjoy’ or ‘things’ traps? How might it shift your day if you were to choose to “Enjoy the little things” – even for just the next 5 minutes?
      And – if you play with this – what do you notice?
      Please let me know, via the comments!

      And if your heart is calling you to discover how even just a minute of gratitude each day could change your life, here’s where you can join us (free!) on the Great Gratitude Challenge. I’d love to see you there.

      With love, Namaste,
      CJ Sig

You Shouldn’t Ignore That Pesky Monkey Mind – Because You Get What You Believe…

How To Change Your Life

I was working with a mentoring client recently who is talented, quick-thinking and highly motivated, but also feeling miserable, frustrated and stressed.

It didn’t take much probing to discover that an out-of-date belief of “life has to be hard work” was causing much of the problem. And this person didn’t even realise they were running that belief… Fortunately getting it sorted was

A belief is like a filter in your mind. It impacts what you notice – what you’re aware of – how you experience life.

Not knowing how to handle your beliefs can lead to you feeling stuck and at the whim of life. If you have had enough of that and you’re ready to take back control, then the techniques in this article will help you move things to the next level. Are you ready to set yourself free?

What we believe is what we get.

Let’s use an example to illustrate this:

Imagine that Fred has been working on a report for his boss. He knows it’s a good report, but he also believes that his boss will criticise it and make him feel bad. After all, it has “always been that way”.

What kind of mood do you think Fred is in, when he goes into his boss’s office? That’s right – tense, nervous, a bit stressed, perhaps ready for a fight.Click here to share on FacebookHis boss reads the report and sees that it is really good. He and Fred have a discussion about it. The boss acknowledges the good stuff and makes one or two suggestions for improvement.

Instead of leaving the office feeling upbeat and motivated, how do you think Fred is feeling? That’s right – cross, hurt, annoyed and generally fed up. Why? Because his belief – the filter – didn’t spot the good feedback. He was looking for the criticism, so that’s all he experienced. He was looking for the criticism, so his mind filtered out the positive feedback and immediately started feeding stories around the bad bits – all tied in with how unfair his boss is.

Our beliefs are like choices that get stuck in time. Once we have made them, instead of setting us free, they close the doors to other choices. They limit other responses because they have such a major impact on our experience of life.

Another example:
It’s something that scientists and researchers, for example, struggle with all the time. I remember from my college days that even physical world research (conducting wear experiments on diesel engine exhaust valves!) was at risk of my beliefs.

And guess what impacted that interpretation?
You’ve got it: my beliefs – my hypothesis – about what the causes of the wear might be.

It took a “second opinion” in the form of my supervisor (who had different beliefs) to help me stay open-minded with the data, rather than dismissing the information that contradicted my theory.

But it’s not just the “bad beliefs” you need to watch out for!

It’s obvious to see how a “negative” belief can be limiting. But even a so-called “empowering belief” can restrict your choices. When things change, then that old empowering belief could hold you back from your growth and expansion! The empowering belief puts you in a box, just as much as a “negative” belief. The only difference is that the empowering belief has a longer shelf life, before it causes problems!

So if a “good” belief can do that, just imagine how much a “bad” one can do!

The great news is that we can change our limiting beliefs.

They’re far from being set in stone. Father Christmas, tooth fairies, the world being flat – beliefs can change.

And, if we’re on a path of personal growth, then spotting our beliefs and bringing them into our conscious awareness is a critical key for setting ourselves free from the auto-pilot programmes that most of us are running.

Every time you spot yourself reacting to something in a way that doesn’t make you feel good, chances are there’s a belief at play, that needs some attention. There are techniques we can use to dissolve away the old belief and choose more flexibility and freedom in our lives.

Click To Tweet This: Our beliefs impact what we expect. And what we expect is what we will see.

If you expect miracles, they will find you.
And giving gratitude for what you already have is one of the most effective ways to become a magnet for miracles.

Click To Tweet This: Beliefs, like clothes, were never intended to be worn forever. If they no longer fit, it’s time to say goodbye!

We pick up our beliefs from the most random of places – usually without even realising.

Sometimes we get them from our family or teachers, sometimes we pick them up from the media and our perception of society’s beliefs and expectations of us.

Wherever they come from, all beliefs have one thing in common:

Our beliefs either block or enable that which we want create in our lives.

How to handle a limiting belief?

One of the easiest techniques is simply to notice the problem and ask yourself:

“What is it I believe about this situation or this person? Is that the more resourceful belief I could hold?”
No? What could I choose to believe instead?

If you notice yourself doing, saying or thinking something that no longer “fits” for you today, all you need to do is catch yourself at this game and allow yourself to choose another option.Click here to share this on Facebook.

And if you really want to dive in and deal with some old, out-dated limiting beliefs, there are some ways you can make it easier for yourself:

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Have you ever spotted your beliefs holding you back? And if you get to play with today’s technique, which shifts did you notice?

How about sharing your experiences via the comments box. I’d love to hear from you.

And if you know someone who might appreciate a nudge, please do share this article with them!

With love, Namaste,
CJ Sig

How Can A Minute Of Gratitude Possibly Change Your Life?

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I often get people looking at me in disbelief when I tell them they can change their life in under a minute.

So I figured I owe you an explanation about how it all works.

It all starts with the fact that the thoughts you think create the emotions you feel, which impact which thoughts you choose to feed. It’s a cycle. Your mind and your body are linked.

If you create a shift in one, you’ll create a shift in another.

You see, your body doesn’t care whether you’re actually experiencing something, say, scary or just imagining it. It will fire off the same stress hormones and chemical reactions either way. And those hormones and chemicals help you to keep feeding the thoughts you need to be thinking in a survival situation.

Similarly, whether you are in the middle of something happy or just imagining or remembering it, your body fires off the endorphins that make you feel good. And those endorphins help you to think happier thoughts.It takes about sixty seconds for the thoughts you’re thinking to impact and shift the chemistry in your body. That’s why, when I ask you to spend a minute thinking about gratitude, it’s a minute, and not just one thought. It has to be long enough to actually create those chemical reaction shifts – then it becomes more sustainable.Perhaps you feel it for yourself? There’s often a point during the minute of gratitude when something shifts – almost like a switch being flicked – that sometimes feels like a sigh of relief as you let go of the stress and tension and surrender to feelings and thoughts that lift your spirits. That’s when you know you’ve done it! And have you noticed how that feeling lasts much longer than the minute you were thinking about gratitude?Looking at this from another angle, I was once taught by a Buddhist monk that any thought, left to its own devices, will pass through in under sixty seconds. He knew that the emotions that went with that thought could be equally transient.

The reason why we end up feeling miserable for hours or even days is because we feed the thoughts and keep telling ourselves the stories about ‘miserable’, which keeps feeding the corresponding chemical reactions in your body – so it can go on and on and on.

If you want to retrain your brain’s auto-pilot habits to feed happier thoughts, then you need to get past that sixty second mark little and often.

Want Better Results For Half The Effort?

For those of you taking part in the Great Gratitude Challenge, by the end of week two you’ll find that you get much better results by doing your gratitude minute, say, five times a day than a one-off ten minute block.

So you get better results for half the effort.

The more often you practise focussing on feeling grateful, opening your heart and mind to see what’s going well, rather than just what’s going wrong, the more it will shift your general thoughts throughout your day.

All you need to do is to remember to do it!

So I’ve got two questions for you – and I’d love to hear from you via the comments:

How will you remind yourself to spend a minute, several times a day, focussing on gratitude?

and

What does a gratitude minute feel like for you?

With love, Namaste,
CJ Sig

Dealing With The #1 Life-Change Excuse, Once And For All?

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Is It Time To Deal With The #1 Life-Change Excuse, Once And For All?

Over the past decade of helping people to change their lives, there is one excuse that comes up over and over again – and I know I have used it often enough myself.

It’s the one reason that sneaks in and silently sabotages even the most well-intentioned New Year Resolutions and life-change commitments.

And, in truth, it’s the easiest objection to deal with – once you know how to spot it, tie it down and tell it where to go!

So what is the #1 life-change excuse?

“But I don’t have enough time!”

When you’re stuck in the middle of ‘doing’ your old thoughts, feelings and habits, it can feel difficult to take the time out to stand back and become aware of which bits you want to change. Yet that time will repay you, every single day, for the rest of your life.

We become so convinced by our ‘lack of time’ excuses, that there’s no room left for us to change.

Would we rather spend the next fifty years going through the pain and hurt and everything else we currently feel – and all the ‘dis-ease’ it brings with it – than dedicate a few minutes a day to making the shifts we secretly dream of?

Is it really true that our lives are too full, to find the time?

Surely much of our time is taken up by the very patterns we want to shift?

Here’s a solution:

How To Magically Create The Time To Change Your Life

It’s true that we often believe we don’t have enough time. But there’s a difference between truth and belief.

We believe our stories and excuses, because – at some unconscious level – they protect us from having to do the scary thing and actually make those changes. We tell them to ourselves so often that they become a pseudo-truth that we no longer question – like ‘received wisdom’. And because our friends and family tell themselves (and us) the same story, we even start to believe in other people’s excuses!

But is it really true?

It’s funny how, for example, if someone falls in love, they suddenly find plenty of free evenings and weekends to spend with that wonderful new person. They watch less TV; they read fewer magazines; they spend less time on the internet; they spend less time on chores – often working more efficiently; they waste less time on distractions; they use their time more intentionally; they drop anything that’s not essential.

If you can do all of that to find time for someone else, is it really so hard to find 5-10 minutes a day for yourself? To do something that could improve your life, each and every day, for the rest of your life?

There are many ‘important’ jobs and distractions during a day that steal our time; things that crop up unexpectedly, to which we give our immediate attention. Everything else falls off the table, including the time we had set aside for working on ‘ourselves’. Yet if we were to tell those distractions, “I’ll come back to you later,” it’s amazing how often they either go away or take less time.

The classic example is a phone call. You’re in the middle of something important, but you answer the phone anyway. The conversation takes ten minutes, then you go back to what you were doing. But you found the ten minutes for the interruption.

So why do we tell ourselves that it’s so hard to schedule in ten minutes to change our lives?

What would happen if you simply put the time in your diary?

How much easier would it feel to make that commitment to yourself, if you actually schedule it?

And it’s worth looking at the ‘real’ reasons behind the ‘time excuse’.

What are you worried will happen, if you do make that change?
What are you worried won’t happen any more?

If we’re really honest, if we’re still using the ‘not enough time’ excuse, then perhaps we haven’t really committed to making that change, yet?

My Top Tips For Finding More Time

  1. Set a time for your change practice each day – and stick to it. Treat it like an appointment.
  2. Be realistic. By all means set yourself a challenging goal, but break it down into achievable chunks, to fit alongside your other commitments.
  3. If something needs to drop off the table, to create the time you need, take action to make that happen.
  4. If you need moral support, ask for it! Your family, friends and colleagues might surprise you with their desire to help and support you in making those changes.
  5. Figure out WHY you want to make that change. Then each distraction can get weighed against the ‘big why’. It makes prioritising so much easier!

I’m curious: have you been using time as an excuse?
Is it time to stop that?
Which change could you commit to find time for – today? Please let me know, via the comments!

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Why Writing A Unique Kind Of ‘Thank You’ Letter Could Be The Greatest Gift You Ever Give Yourself (And Could Change Your Life Today)

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Have you ever noticed how easy it is to let your Inner Critic beat you up, no matter how hard you try?

Do you find that it’s easier not to bother with your dreams, because you feel scared that you’ll fail?

Do you find yourself juggling life, feeling stressed and exhausted, whilst secretly knowing there must be more to life than all of that?

Have you had enough of it yet?

Change your life with this unique 'thank you' letterIf yes, I’ve got a beautiful technique I’d like to share with you today, to help you to easily honour and let go of the challenges from your past – and to also create the beautiful future your soul has been dreaming of. And there’s no snot required. 😉

Interested?
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Is It Time To Discover How Gratitude Could Change Your Life?

How To Change Your Life

If I told you that there’s a secret you could use…
… to change your life forever…
… in just a few minutes a day…
… would you use it?

 

Are you ready to discover how gratitude can change your life?Just imagine setting yourself free from your Monkey Mind constantly pointing out everything that’s going wrong and being your worst critic…

… and easily training your brain to think of happy thoughts and be your favourite virtual cheerleader.

 
Just imagine saying goodbye to feeling stressed and worried, with life feeling like a struggle and everything going wrong…

… and finding that you have become a magnet for synchronicity and things ‘falling into place’, right when you most need it.

 
Just imagine being able to let go of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, feeling fed up with juggling and knowing that there’s never enough time…

… and instead feeling energised, vibrantly alive and full of open-hearted joy, consciously creating the life you were born to live.

 
…And discovering that all of this (and much, much more) is not only possible, but easy, when you know how!

 
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Join me for this life-changing Gratitude Inner Circle Group Mentoring Programme…

… And watch the miracles unfold in your life!

 
If you feel like you have been there, done it and tried pretty much everything, but it somehow still hasn’t worked for you, then don’t despair! That’s why I’m here.

Chances are that the missing key was gratitude. But there’s more to it than simply developing the cliched ‘Attitude Of Gratitude’ and hoping it will change your life. What’s usually missing is the ‘how’ and the ‘habit’.

And without that, where do you start? And how on earth do you get results?

These insider secrets are exactly what I’ll be sharing with you in our upcoming Gratitude Inner Circle Programme – and much, much more!

I’ll be teaching you, step by step, the practical strategies and expert techniques that it took me decades to discover and create, so you can become a master of them in the next 90 days.

I know what it’s like when life throws you the brown stuff…

I have been there and done it – and got a wardrobe-full of the proverbial t-shirts. I haven’t led a charmed life and I’m by no means a ‘Pollyanna’. I have been through tough times – just like you.

I have been through everything from a marriage break-up and being a single mum with 2 kids under 3, to having nowhere to live, to not knowing how I was going to pay the next bill, to losing my dream home, to being ripped off by someone I trusted (5 figures!), to multiple miscarriages, to losing people I loved, to feeling like my world was falling apart and spending years indulging my inner Drama Queen to the extent that I was heading at top speed on a short-cut towards self-destruct.

Like you, I felt stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted and, frankly, totally stuck. Nothing I tried (and I tried every course, book, seminar and programme I could find) seemed to help for more than a few days or weeks.

And then I realised a vital truth that suddenly set me free from all that and turned the light back on at the end of the tunnel (and it’s such an important Truth that I’ll be sharing it with you in the ‘Getting Started’ section of this programme).

And I came out the other side. With a smile on my face and gratitude in my heart.

How?

By using the exact techniques that I’m going to be sharing with you as part of this Gratitude Inner Circle programme.

 
Basically, this stuff works. I have used it myself and I have helped countless others to discover the miracle of gratitude, too. In fact, whenever times get tough, gratitude is always the key to getting back on track – and I use these techniques daily.

And I know, deep in my heart, that this Gratitude Inner Circle Programme can help you to change your life, too.

And I’d love to help you short-cut your journey by a decade or two 🙂
 

What Is The ‘Gratitude Inner Circle’ Programme?

It’s a 3 month Group Mentoring Programme, which runs online, rather than face-to-face. It brings you similar benefits to working with me one-to-one, but in the comfort of your own home, at a time that suits you, with the added benefit of moral support from the Inner Circle’s private online community – and all at a fraction of the cost, yet still getting brilliant results.

Each week you get a new module, with a core theme. There’s a weekly workbook, a video, affirmations, life-changing exercises, a fortnightly yoga sequence, to help you deal with physical and energetic blocks, visualisation and meditation MP3s, discussions in the private online community, to help you really integrate the learnings, and a live fortnightly Q&A Masterclass.

By working through this as an Inner Circle programme, you’ll cover the equivalent material that would have taken us a full year of one-to-one mentoring, in just 3 months – at a fraction of the cost.

I have used my decade+ of experience as a certified NLP Trainer and Meditation Teacher, as well as the practical common sense that comes with being a reformed Mechanical Engineer and busy mum of 3 young boys, to break the strategies down into quick-to-learn, easy-to-apply bite-sized chunks, so that you can be part of this amazing journey, no matter how busy your life is.

And it works at so many levels, helping you to change just by working through the modules – it becomes a new and easy habit – you don’t have to remember dozens of ‘how-to-checklists’ or complicated procedures!

The shifts you’ve been dreaming of will happen for you, live, as we’re working through the material – just as they would in a one-to-one personal mentoring programme.

 

clare-josa-happiness-signGratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside.
Barry Neil Kaufmann

 
Join us for the Gratitude Inner Circle today!
 

How much time does it take?

Expect to spend about 5-10 minutes a day, reading the emails and sometimes dipping into the forum.
Some of the projects take a minute or two. Others might be ten minutes a day, for that week – it’s up to you.
If you miss a day, that’s fine, just pick up where you left off, or catch up. It doesn’t take long. And I have specially designed things to allow you to be flexible and to help make it easy for you to find time to join in.
 

What matters is consistency – regular efforts to let this life-changing programme work for you, even if it’s just 3 minutes a day.

 

And here’s some of what you can expect from the next 3 months:

  • Uncover the unconscious habits that keep us stuck in pain, fear, stress and worry – and exactly how to use gratitude as the perfect antidote.

    • How to turn your inner critic into a cheerleader

  • 7 little-known secrets to tame your inner critic, once and for all.

  • Discover sixty-second strategies to help you rebalance your life, so you can find more time, with less stress, get more done and even carve out time to do what you most love doing.

  • Learn how to handle even the most challenging situations – and how to easily turn things around with one simple ‘magic’ question.

  • Put an end to feeling jealous or inadequate, loving all that you are and have in your life and knowing that there’s plenty more where that came from.

  • Feel less stressed, more productive, be able to concentrate more easily, feel more at peace and less irritable.

  • Feel more confident at work and at home – even in situations that you used to find difficult.

  • Be one of the few who knows the most potent time and way to practise gratitude, which can ramp up its effectiveness by at least 1000% – and why not knowing this could cause your unconscious mind to accidentally undo all of your hard work.

  • 4 concrete strategies you can apply in just minutes, which will transform your relationships – even with those really difficult people!

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  • A beautiful gratitude-based mindset shift that will instantly set you free from the modern epidemic I call ‘should-itis’.

  • 3 essential tweaks that are usually overlooked, which turn gratitude from being a baggage-laden effort into being a heart-opening life-transformer.

  • Experience for yourself how becoming a conscious consumer and a generous giver can release the blocks that were keeping you stuck, helping you to take your life to the next level.

  • Find out whether you’re making the #1 gratitude mistake that even experienced manifesters are falling for (don’t worry – we can fix it!)

  • Be able to easily handle emotional situations, feeling calmer, happier, more centred and more peaceful, throughout your day.

  • Get clear about where you want to go in life – and who you want to be – and learn 6 essential tools for releasing your out-dated limiting beliefs, fears and excuses, which would otherwise have stopped you from ever getting there.

  • Become a magnet to positive experiences, synchronicity and life’s abundance, setting yourself free from drama, emotional pain and ‘never-enough-syndrome’

  • I’ll let you in on my personal secret strategy for allowing what you have been dreaming of to arrive in your life, without having to force or push or beg or plead – or give up!

  • Gently open your heart to love and to allowing yourself to inspire others to do the same.

 
Want to feel less stressed and smile for no reason?

 

The happiest people you’ll ever meet aren’t the ones who have everything; they’re the ones who exude gratitude for everything they have, with each breath and thought.

 

How do I know if this is right for me?

Warning: This programme (‘program’ for my USA friends 🙂 ) is not for you if you are still living in a space where you believe that life ‘happens to you’ and is totally beyond control – or if you believe that other people are responsible for your happiness – or if you don’t want to take responsibility for choosing how to live your life – or if you’re addicted to being the victim – or if you’re looking for a zero-effort quick-fix solution that will change your life for you, without you having to do anything.
If that’s you, please save yourself the stress and my support team the hassle and don’t sign up. Mwah! 🙂
 
You’ll know if your heart is calling you on this.
 
You’ll be starting to feel the excitement, bubbling away inside you, as you sense that Gratitude has been waiting for you; that it’s the ‘missing link’; that it’s your next logical – or intuitive – step.


 

Those ready for this Gratitude Inner Circle programme are easy to recognise.

tick You are feeling restless, knowing there’s more to come
– something bigger; something wonderful.


tick You are prepared to put in the time and effort needed
– to take things to the next level.


tick You are feeling excited about stepping into your ‘soul shoes’
– ready to serve the world (though it might be feeling a bit scary, too!)


tickYour heart is telling you that gratitude is the key to connecting with inner peace
– and with joy; with that bubbling of passion that is going to drive your life, from this point forwards


tick You are ready to make the commitment to yourself – and those who are waiting for you
– and to your future self – to put in the effort to apply these life-changing gratitude-based techniques, to make life-long shifts.

If your heart is calling you to go deeper, then I invite you to dive in today and get started.


 

The struggle ends when gratitude begins.
Neale Donald Walsh

 

Let’s deal with the elephant in the room…

“I don’t have enough time to do this!”

Not having enough time is the #1 truly legitimate reason excuse (sorry! I have used it often enough, too 🙂 ) I hear from people about why they can’t change their lives.

Firstly, we tackle this, head-on, in the ‘Getting Started’ section and in the first module, and I’ll guide you through exactly how to find the time and the moral support you need to love this Gratitude Inner Circle programme.

Secondly, do you really think that the ‘future you’ on your 80th birthday will look back and say “Hell yeah! I’m so glad you didn’t bother changing your life because the ironing / TV / Facebook / mowing the lawn was so much more important!”???

Or do you think that ‘future you’ might wish you had taken action today that could help you to feel happier and more fulfilled, for every day of the rest of your life?

 

Membership of the Gratitude Inner Circle brings you:

The Miracle Of Gratitude Miracle Of Gratitude EmailsMotivational gratitude email messages
… to guide you through this Inner Circle programme and to inspire your day and help keep you on track.
 
The Miracle Of Gratitude Weekly projectsInspirational Weekly Gratitude Projects
… to help you create the shifts you’re looking for – taking you step by step, week by week, through the life-changing effects of gratitude practices. There are specially designed to build on each other, helping you to create firm foundations for a life lived from the heart, not the head.
 
The Miracle Of Gratitude Insider secretsSpilling the beans on insider secrets and shortcuts
… I’ll be sharing the insider secrets and shortcuts that have taken me decades to discover, to help you make the progress you’re looking for – fast.
 
The Miracle Of Gratitude MP3sUnique life-changing resources to support you on this journey
… mindfulness practices, worksheets, MP3s and videos, for those times when you want to go the extra few steps and deepen your experience. They are only available to members of the Gratitude Inner Circle.
 
The Miracle Of Gratitude Gratitude MeditationsExclusive Meditations, Visualisations & Yoga Sequences
… Specially-designed meditation and visualisation audios, and fortnightly yoga videos, to help you melt away your gratitude blocks and integrate the weekly projects, at a deep level, easily!
 
The Miracle Of Gratitude live callsLive Q&A Calls
… exclusive to Inner Circle members – get answers to your gratitude questions and have a chance to get one-to-one mentoring with me, live on these group calls. Note: these are the only live calls I’m doing at the moment.
 
The Miracle Of Gratitude Moral support in the forumsMoral Support: An exclusive Inner Circle online community
… a members-only area where you can share your experiences during this Gratitude Inner Circle – totally private and certainly not as public as Facebook! Connect with others in the Inner Circle and talk about this wonderful gratitude journey – working with gratitude to make deep-acting shifts in your life.
I personally moderate this forum area, so you can get direct answers from me, as well as your peers on the programme, throughout the coming months – and beyond.
 
The Miracle Of Gratitude Start a gratitude journal todayA Gift Copy Of My New Book – “Gratitude: A Daily Journal”
This journal will take you through a year of writing about gratitude, on a daily basis, as well as inspiring you with uplifting quotations and unique gratitude exercises. You can keep it for yourself or gift it to someone you love.
 

 

Plus there are a stack of pre-launch and post-grad bonuses that I’m keeping as a little surprise for you, once you’re in!

And, once you’re a Gratitude Inner Circle Grad, you’ll also get to repeat the programme, each time I run it, as my gift.

 

Someone out there is waiting for you – for the unique gifts you bring to serve the world. The world is waiting for you to let your inner diamond shine.

 

Gratitude Inner Circle

How Do I Join In?

The content of this programme is unique and I have never shared it with a group before – it has been reserved for one-to-one mentoring clients in my spiritual growth programmes. I’m really excited about getting to share it with you. The time feels right for this.
 
To go through this programme with me, one-to-one, would have cost you upwards of £5,000 and would have taken a year. However, I no longer have time to do this on a one-to-one basis.
 
And it feels like the world is calling for this gratitude work to be much more widely available. The planet needs each and every one of us to be making the types of shifts that this Gratitude Inner Circle programme can create.
 
So I’m offering it to you as a group mentoring programme, getting the same fantastic results, but at a fraction of the financial investment.
 
The standard investment to join in with the Gratitude Inner Circle is £497. That’s less than the cost of my entry level one-to-one mentoring programme.
 

But: I’m in the mood for celebrating, as I get ready to open the doors for this amazing Inner Circle programme on 1st June 2014, so I’ve got a surprise for you:

 

The sooner you say “Yes!”, the more you’ll save… 🙂

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Life feels great with gratitudeWe’re still in the ‘pre-launch’ phase for this Inner Circle programme (which starts on 1st June 2014) and I’m not officially opening the doors until next week. But I was so excited that I decided to open registration a bit earlier than planned so that those who felt called to join in could dive in and get to know each other already.

I hope that’s ok with you?

To thank you for jumping in and making a commitment to your future, and to give everyone a chance to join in at a price they can afford, I’m offering a crazy special offer to the next 10 people who register.

The regular investment for this Inner Circle programme is £497 (approx $750 USD) – and it’s worth way more than that.

BUT:

I want to encourage you to dive in and say “Yes!” to your future – today.

So the next 10 people who register can join us for just £147 (approx $222 USD).

That’s a discount of £350 (over 70%). But it’s only for the next 10 people and, frankly, I expect those places to go today, after which you will have to sign up at the regular price.

The sooner you make a commitment to the future you, the more you’ll save.

This Inner Circle programme is only open to those who are prepared to make the commitment to themselves to dive in and make the most of the tools, techniques, resources, insider secrets and inspiration shared with Inner Circle members.
Are you ready to say yes?

 

If your heart is calling you to join in, register today to get started in the Inner Circle area of our private online community – and your group mentoring programme will start very soon.

 
No quibble guarantee

And the Gratitude Inner Circle comes with my Love It! Guarantee

If your heart tells you by 30th June 2014 (that’s a whole month of trying it on for size) that this Inner Circle isn’t for you, then let us know by replying to one of the daily emails and we’ll give you a full no-quibble refund and no future payments will be taken.

Could this be the most important choice you make this year?

I can’t wait to share this exciting journey with you.

With love, Namaste,



Clare Josa | Author of “Gratitude, A Daily Journal” and “Getting Started With Gratitude”
NLP Trainer | Meditation Teacher | Happiness Experimenter | Reformed Mechanical Engineer | Co-Director of The Gayatri Healing Cente & Labyrinth | Busy Mum To 3 Young Boys
 

Mankind is crying out for help. Those who have something to offer should come forward. Now is the time.
HH Dalai Lama

No quibble guaranteeP.S. Remember our Love It Guarantee?
If your heart tells you by 30th June 2014 (that’s a whole month of trying it on for size) that this Inner Circle isn’t for you, then let us know by replying to one of the daily emails and we’ll give you a full no-quibble refund and no future payments will be taken.
Can’t make it much fairer than that, can we?! 🙂
 

 

FAQs About The Gratitude Inner Circle Programme

“I don’t have enough time to do this!”

Not having enough time is the #1 excuse (sorry, truly legitimate reason!) I hear from people about why they can’t change their lives.

Firstly, we tackle this, head-on, in the ‘Getting Started’ section and in the first module.

Secondly, do you really think that the ‘future you’ on your 80th birthday will look back and say “Hell yeah! I’m so glad you didn’t bother changing your life because the ironing was so much more important!”???

Or do you think that ‘future you’ might wish you had taken action today that could help you to feel happier and more fulfilled, for every day of the rest of your life?
 

“What if it doesn’t work for me?”

I know that this stuff works – and I know it will work for you, if you simply go and use it! But I also know how it feels to start a programme and feel unsure or confused – and that’s ok.

It’s why I share with you that vital Truth I mentioned (back up the top of here), right before we get started with the main programme.

And, if your heart genuinely tells you this isn’t a good fit for you, once we’ve started, then that’s why I offer my “Love It!” guarantee.
 

How does the Gratitude Inner Circle create lasting change?

We don’t mess around with the sticky plaster stuff (Band Aids, I think, in the USA?). We dive right in and deal with the underlying causes. And it doesn’t have to hurt and it doesn’t have to be scary.

But when you deal with what’s been unconsciously running the show, change doesn’t just become easier, it becomes inevitable and natural!
 

“But I’m scared of changing! Won’t my life fall apart?”

I know that change can feel scary – believe me – I’ve been there.

That’s one of the reasons why it is so important to me that I only share the depth of techniques we’ll be using in the Gratitude Inner Circle in a mentoring environment – and it’s why you’ll never find them just hanging around in a book. This stuff really works – and I want to make it as easy as possible for you – and that’s why it’s really important that we get to connect, rather than me leaving you on your own. We have the private online community, where you can share your experiences (both great and otherwise!) and get moral support, plus the fortnightly Q&As, where you can get answers to your questions.

You are not alone. We are all there, walking this path by your side. And when that happens, change doesn’t feel anywhere near as scary, does it?
 

Isn’t this stuff just a load of ‘woo woo’?

My inner engineer chuckles over this one. She has lost count of the number of times she has thrown this question back at me. In fact, my original degree was a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and German and the first decade of my career was in senior engineering positions and then as Head of Market Research for an international brand – so I know about practical, strategic, insightful common sense solutions.

On the other hand, my inner ‘soul self’ also knows that there is more to life than purely observable science. And if I didn’t share the more subtle stuff with you, I’d be doing you a disservice. So rest assured, I’ll be bringing you everything that you need – but in a way that’s easy for you to take on board and enjoy, without having to pop off to your 29th Chakra for a month of japa meditation. 🙂
 

“Do I have to take on a new religion or belief system?”

Absolutely not!

In fact, the primary focus of my work is to help people let go of the old beliefs that were holding them back – wherever these came from.

With everything I share with you, all I ask is that you try it on for size, with an open mind, and if it fits, great. Take it and use it to change your life. If it doesn’t, and you can’t tweak it to fit, that’s cool too.

And the vital Truth I mentioned earlier is the #1 reason why all of this will work for you, no matter what your cultural or social background or life experience so far.
 

“What will it feel like, as I work through the Gratitude Inner Circle Programme?”

The 3 months (and beyond!) will feel different for everyone, but there are some common themes.

Sometimes the module will be easy for you, because it’s just refining what you’re already doing.

Other times it might be more of a challenge, as you let go of an old behaviour or release an old block and take on new habits. Comfort zones will get stretched. You will be re-training your mind – both the conscious ‘Monkey Mind’ and also your ‘unconscious mind’ – the bit that’s really running the show.

Take all of this at your own speed. Dive in as deeply as you can – but know that the materials will still be there for you, if you want to repeat a module in the future to get even more from it.

By the end of the 3 months, if you have worked through the modules, you will feel happier, calmer, more open-hearted, less stressed, more grounded and centred and life will flow more easily.

And students tell me they catch themselves smiling for no particular reason 🙂
 

How do the Q&A sessions work?

These are held every two weeks and I’ll publish all of the dates and times before we start, so you can get them in your diary.

They run at two different times – Monday evenings and Saturday late afternoons – alternating each call. This is to try to allow as many people as possible to join in live (given the wide range of time zones we’re all on!). The calls are all recorded and you’ll be able to download them from the members’ area, to listen to again. So don’t worry if you miss one!

You can also submit a question in advance, if you can’t make the call, and I will do my best to answer it.

All calls can be done via the phone (and there are a range of call options) or live via the internet (free) – so hopefully there’s a choice that will suit your schedule and call plan.

I want to make it as easy as possible for you to really enjoy these sessions.
 

“Do I have to join in with the private online community?”

No, of course you don’t! It’s entirely up to you!

However, I’ll be spending quite a lot of time hanging out there, so it’s a great way to get answers to your questions. Also sharing the journey is much more fun than just doing it on your own and you’ll find the community is full of lovely people, on a similar journey to you. So I do really recommend joining in.

It is a private closed group on Facebook (Google can’t see inside it), so your privacy is safe.

It really is worth the effort.
 

“I hate the word ‘gratitude’!”

I know what you mean 🙂 I hear this one quite often. It turns out that lots of us have got what I call ‘gratitude baggage’.

Whatever the reason, the word ‘gratitude’ can rile some people. For others, one of its synonyms ‘appreciation’ works better – but for some people that’s an empty word. Some people prefer phrases like, “I love that… such-and-such happens.” There are so many choices – what is key is connecting with the feeling in your heart, rather than the word in your head.

In the very first module we’ll be exploring what ‘gratitude’ really is and finding words that work for each of us, with our own personal life experience, and understanding how to make them work for you, triggering the emotions and physical feelings, when you work through the techniques.

Yes, I chose to call this programme a ‘Gratitude’ Inner Circle. At the end of the day I had to call it something that would help people to understand what it is and ‘Gratitude Inner Circle’ was waaayyy more catchy than:

“That fabby feeling you get in your heart when you let your guard down and release the old fears and blocks and truly connect with the essence of the love you were born to share at a soul level” Inner Circle

And I hope you’ll agree! 🙂
 

I’m not sure if I want to do this? How can I decide?”

Simple! Try out the 80th birthday test and let me know which way you decide to go. Here’s a short video to walk you through the process:
 

 

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