The Master Key to Enjoying Every Moment

Where do you live?

Wait…I’m not asking about your home address.

To be more precise, let me rephrase my question: Where in time do you live?

Your answer to this question holds one of the major keys to finding joy in your life.

Most people live in one of two time zones. Many live in the past amid the pain, grief, anger, and regret of missed opportunities and bad life experiences.

Still others live amid the illusions of the future, believing that they will never find happiness unless a particular set of circumstances are fulfilled.

You might think that losing a certain job is the end of the world, that you’ll enter a dark side of your life and never see the light again. Or you might think that unless you get promoted to a certain position, you’ll never rise to the top of your profession.

But when you allow yourself to live in these two time zones, you are literally dead!

Yes, that’s right—living in the past or the future means that you’re not living at all. You take your thoughts, your emotions, and your soul to a place that you have no control over and that you cannot change.

You lose your life simply because you do not live in the only time zone available to you—the PRESENT. What a tragedy it is to witness so many people surrender their precious present to their past (which can no longer be changed) or their future (which doesn’t even exist)!

The present is all you have. Of course the past can provide you with valuable lessons and the future can give you hope—but living your life with full joy can only be accomplished in the present…in the NOW.

It has been said that the present is a present, a gift that you can use to create your future. If you lose it, then there’s no way that you can have a bright future. The present is the bridge that you must cross in order to arrive in your future. If you don’t proactively pass over it with your own choices, then you will find yourself living in a disappointing future.

If you really want to find true joy and happiness, then living in the present is a key thought control tactic you need to employ.

The ancient Egyptian Ptah-Hotep has a great piece of advice that will help you apply this concept.

Ptah-Hotep was the first minister during the reign of the Pharaoh Djedkare (Jed-Ka-Ra) in the Fifth Dynasty. He is credited with authoring “The Instruction of Ptahhotep,” an early piece of Egyptian wisdom literature meant to instruct young men in appropriate behavior.

In his instructions, Ptah-Hotep wrote: “Be active during the time of your existence; do no more than is commanded. Do not spoil the time of your activity; he is a blameworthy person who makes a bad use of his moments. Do not lose the daily opportunity of increasing that which your house possesses. Activity produces riches, and riches do not endure when it slackens.”

Brilliant piece of ancient wisdom!

The first step to living in the present is to become aware of where your mind is traveling now. Does it dwell in the past or jump to the future? Whenever you catch yourself living in another time zone, stop and get yourself back to the present moment!

Awareness is key. You might consider setting an alarm that rings every hour; each time it rings, examine where you are living in that moment—and then, if you find yourself in another time zone, do whatever it takes to get back to the present moment! Do this for a month and you’ll get used to controlling your thoughts and living in the moment.

Get involved in the present with all your senses. Feel the taste of the food, the drop of water, the beauty of the scenery, and the sound of the music. Engage in the present activity and give it all you’ve got. If you suffer from a past experience, sit quietly and learn the lessons that will help you move forward. If you’re impatient and can’t wait to live a better future, then sit down and plan for it—but be aware that all of your actions for the future can only take place in the present. Live it fully!

Leonardo da Vinci once said, “In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”

The present is the bridge we all live on between the past and the future. You have no control over anything else and, therefore, you cannot fully live anywhere else.

Remember, your future is not determined by the quality of your past, but by the mastery of your present.

I created The Success Avalanche to help you master your present, learn proven success strategies and continuously feed your mind with positive empowering thoughts. For this project, I interviewed over one hundred top success and business experts who revealed their secrets of success. As a result, you can now access an avalanche of success ideas that can instantly transform your life from making a living to making a difference.

I strongly urge you to take advantage of this great tool and start leveraging the wisdom of these gurus to master your present, accelerate your professional growth and live your ultimate lifestyle.

Find out more at: http://www.Success-Avalanche.com

Live in the present and love your PRESENT!

To be continued…


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© Copyright 2009 - Mohamed Tohami

Mohamed Tohami is the author of "The Pharaohs' Code: Creating a Joyful Life and a Lasting Legacy". He helps corporate professionals, who are dissatisfied at work and uncertain about their future, transform their lives from making a living to making a difference. For more information please visit: www.Tohami.com

How to Accelerate Your Professional Growth Using Mind Magnetization!

Did you know that your life is driven -unconsciously- by your dominant thoughts? As a corporate professional you need to develop positive, powerful, and supportive dominant thoughts to help you accelerate your professional growth and live up to your core values.

What is a dominant thought?

A dominant thought is a major idea or concept that you think about most of the time, day and night. For example, your dominant thought might be about a salary increase, and you find yourself thinking day and night about how to get paid more. Or it might be about getting married; perhaps you're constantly thinking about marriage and constantly searching for the right partner.

You might also have a negative dominant thought. Maybe you think you're a loser, so instead of taking bold action, you just sit in the corner and refuse to leave your comfort zone. Or perhaps you believe other people don't like or accept you, and as a result you fear criticism and avoid social gatherings. Still another dominant thought could be that you want to switch your career or open your own business; to that end, you keep your mind and eyes open 24/7 looking for opportunities to achieve that career shift or fulfill that entrepreneurial dream.

A dominant thought is the driving factor, either consciously or subconsciously, behind your decisions and actions in life.

Why are your dominant thoughts so vital for your growth? Because they magnetize your mind!

And that brings us to the fifth thought control tactic: Mind Magnetization.

When you have a dominant thought that is backed by intense emotions, your mind becomes a huge magnet that attracts people, forces, material things, and opportunities to help you affirm and fulfill that dominant thought.

This concept is one form of the law of attraction: what you focus on expands. You attract more of what you think of most of the time. If your dominant thoughts are negative, you will attract negative circumstances to your life that affirm your beliefs, and vice versa.

You need to identify your dominant thoughts. Reinforce the positive; question and alter the negative. You need to make sure that your mind is positively magnetized to attract prosperity, accelerate your growth, and fulfill your desires and goals.

Let’s go back to the pharaohs’ time and take a look at an illustration of the power of a dominant thought.

Herodotus, a Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC, tells us that the ancient Egyptians were “religious to a higher degree than any other people." One of the dominant thoughts of their religion was their strong belief in an afterlife.

Ancient Egyptians believed that they would be reborn into another life. In order to avoid being counted among the damned of the afterlife, one had not only to venerate the Egyptian gods, but also to live by a code of standards that would be judged after death.

The Egyptians also believed that the heart, which contained the record of the morality of the owner, was weighed against a single feather representing Ma'at (the concept of truth and order). If the outcome was favorable, one entered heaven; if not, one entered hell.

A heart that weighed less than the feather was considered a pure heart that was not weighed down by sins or the guilt of one's actions in life; such a heart resulted in a favorable verdict. A heart heavy with sin and the guilt of one's actions in life weighed more than the feather; that heart was eaten by Ammit (Eater of Hearts), who was part crocodile, part lion, and part hippopotamus.

It was just that strong belief in the afterlife that led the Egyptians to build temples to venerate and worship their gods, to invent mummification, and to erect tombs and pyramids in which to bury and preserve their bodies for the afterlife. They even preserved the internal organs of the mummified bodies in canopic jars within these tombs so that the organs could be used again in the afterlife. For ancient Egyptians, a tomb was not just a place to lay a dead body; instead, it became the deceased person’s new “home” and was supplied with all the goods needed to exist after death.

Had it not been for the ancient Egyptians, their fascinating religion, and their unwavering belief in the afterlife, there would probably be little reason to visit Egypt today. The great Pyramids would not exist, nor of course would the fabulous temples, the tombs with their mummies on the West Bank of Thebes (modern Luxor), nor the colorful decorations that adorn these structures that have lured travelers to Egypt for the past three thousand years.

That is the power of a dominant thought: it magnetizes your mind and guides your actions. A dominant thought could lead to prosperity and a lasting legacy, or to failure and an uninspired life.

What are your dominant thoughts? Starting today, develop powerful dominant thoughts that can take your life to the next level and help you leave a mark and make a difference. Never give room to negative thoughts. Put all your efforts into empowering your positive, dominant thoughts—and into developing even more of them.

I created The Success Avalanche to help you continuously feed your mind with positive empowering thoughts. For this project, I interviewed over one hundred top success and business experts who revealed their secrets of success. As a result, you can now access and magnetize your mind with an avalanche of success ideas that can instantly transform your life from making a living to making a difference.

I strongly urge you to take advantage of this great tool and start leveraging the wisdom of these gurus to accelerate your professional growth and live your ultimate lifestyle.

Find out more at: http://www.Success-Avalanche.com

Be careful about how you magnetize your mind!

To be continued…


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© Copyright 2009 - Mohamed Tohami

Mohamed Tohami is the author of "The Pharaohs' Code: Creating a Joyful Life and a Lasting Legacy". He helps corporate professionals, who are dissatisfied at work and uncertain about their future, transform their lives from making a living to making a difference. For more information please visit: www.Tohami.com