Tools - practices you can use daily to transform your life

In my last blog I spoke about the correlation between getting financially rich and spiritually rich and the compounding effect some practices can have on our lives.

If you haven’t read it, read it here before you proceed.

I mentioned in that post that there are some practices, when done regularly, like compound interest is for investing, snowball and help us win the spiritual lottery and help immensely on the path of spiritual growth. Warren Buffet was able to compound majority of his wealth after retirement. Can you imagine how much the world and him would have lost had he decided to stop investing and give up at the age of 50 ?? Moral of the story - Consistency!! 

This chart shows how Warren Buffets wealth compounded over the years!

If you want your financial and spiritual wealth to compound like that - you need to start now!! (Am speaking of compounding only spiritual wealth in this post)

I have split these into “Doing” practices and “Being” states. Both these aspects are important in life.

Often we focus only on what we need to DO to get somewhere. We love our “to-do” lists, they give us a sense of purpose and achievement.

However what we forget to focus on is what we need to “BE” while we are doing what we need to “DO”. After all we are called Human BEINGS for a reason!!

You can complete the 5 meetings and the 10 calls you have scheduled for the day. But are you “BEING” centred and effective while you are DOING those meetings?

You can quit your job and spend the whole day with your kids, DO a lot of activities with them, but are you BEING happy and content doing that, or are you feeling like a martyr who has sacrificed her own dreams for the sake of her children and is BEING unhappy, resentful and frustrated ??

To focus on BEING something, is also one of the key ways to create lasting change in your life.

In the doing way – you would say  “I haven’t smoked a cigarette in 30 days, 5 hours and 2 minutes.”

You know the change will last when you say = “I am a non-smoker”. 
When you identify yourself with the “label” as a way of being, the change you are trying to make, usually lasts.

So here are the Doing and Being practices : 
The keys to unlock abundant spiritual wealth for yourself 

Doing practices

      1.    Having a daily practice of gratitude, meditation or mindfulness

2.    Incorporating some sort of physical exercise into your day - specially Yoga

3.    Eating healthy nutritious food

4.    Spending time with nature

5.    Spending more time with the trees and mountains and lesser time in malls when you travel

6.    Walking barefoot on the beach or garden – connecting with the earth energy

7.    Reading/watching inspiring books and videos

8.    Meeting/Being with people who inspire and uplift you 

9.    Doing something out of your comfort zone - constantly.

10. Physically De-cluttering a corner of your house or workspace

11. Emotional De-cluttering - Consciously forgiving someone everyday –very powerful,  highly recommended

12. Singing /Dancing/Chanting/laughing (all highly energising activities)

13. Social service or random acts of kindness. Working for a cause bigger than yourself.

14. Avoiding situations/ people that deplete you of energy

15. Not accepting invitations to every argument/conflict you are invited to. Smiling and moving on

16. Spending some time in deliberate silence

Being states

   

   1)   Being self – aware (aware of your beliefs, values, attitudes)

   2)   Practising self-Love - saying yes to yourself

   3)   Being centred in all situations – in the present moment.

   4)   Being intuitive (this also comes from meditating and being self-aware)

   5)   Being happy

   6)   Being grateful

   7)   Being your authentic self

Try whichever of these or as many of these, as appeal to you and see yourself inviting more Satori moments in your life.

Welcome your thoughts/experiences/comments/feedback.

Lots of Love

Alpa

If you are a woman and would like to live your life to the highest potential, and would like a one-hour complimentary telephonic coaching session, write to me at alpa.a.teli@gmail.com with a short paragraph about you and what you wish to be coached on. Look forward to partnering you on your growth journey.

Compound Interest - It works - in all things except money too!

Was seeing the documentary - "Becoming Warren Buffet" a month ago. (The husband is a huge admirer of Warren Buffet and had sourced it as soon as it was released)

I quite enjoyed it, as I love deep diving into the minds of the people who have broken an orbit or more within a lifetime. It sure is a sign that they have discovered/developed/been blessed with something different, that has worked wonders for them. 

Warren Buffet said some wonderful things- 

The theme that ran right through his life and the single most important reason, he claims, for the massive wealth he was able to create - was - "Compound Interest works"

I'm not going to get into formulas in this post, but we do understand that the basis of compounding is consistently re-investing the interest received on the principal. It made complete sense in the context of investing. Adding the interest to your capital, gives exponential returns over the years.

There are 2 ways to get very wealthy :

1) Win a huge lottery or

2) Invest systematically and consistently while optimising costs 

Interestingly, Getting Spiritually rich also has 2 such similar concepts according to Buddhist Tradition:

1)  Satori

2)  Kensho

Michael Beckwith explained these two ways in an interview with Vishen Lakhiani : –

Satori – Satori is growth through an AHA moment. It is a sudden awakening experience where a person becomes aware of the truth and he suddenly KNOWS what he only believed previously. He sees it, he feels it. This is a profound liberating experience that immediately shifts the perception of a person and gives him a vision of the ultimate truth. However this is not a moment you can usually hold on to forever and also are relatively rare moments. It’s a bit like a lottery.

Kensho – Kensho is essentially growth through pain. These are moments when you deliberately let go of some of your limiting beliefs that have caused you pain and you learn the lesson that these beliefs don’t serve you anymore. You must have observed how your greatest learning came after the biggest challenges in your life. You can also choose not to learn the lessons, in which case, similar events will keep on occurring in your life, till you learn the lesson. Kensho is the learning from the pain you feel through life experiences. This learning is something we can choose to do deliberately, everyday, through meditation, self-introspection, awareness, mindfulness. This is a like compound interest. Needs to be done consistently  and levelled up as we go along. 

A lot of us usually wait around for Satori moments, when the Universe will magically align and the heavens will speak to us and tell us our purpose in life and true calling. Those moments, in my experience are usually a result of a snowball of Kensho moments.

Warren Buffets autobiography is called SNOWBALL for a reason. Everything that is powerful and durable in life takes time as well as many Kensho moments, to build up, i.e. Character, wealth, a good relationship, a great career, an abundant and fulfilled life.

Deep down we want to avoid the Kensho moments. Let’s not fear the Kensho moments, let’s embrace them for the lessons they bring us. As Richard Bach wrote in one of my favourite books, “Illusions” – “You seek problems because you need their gifts”

We will win more lotteries/Satori moments (at least they will feel like lotteries, when we systematically compound our investments & Kensho moments)

There are some practices which if we can deliberately adopt into our life that will snowball and make our life much more abundant and fulfilling. I will share those in the next blog.

Stay tuned

Alpa

If you are a woman and would like a complimentary coaching session, you can write to me at alpa.a.teli@gmail.com with a paragraph about yourself and what you wish to be coached on. I will be delighted to partner you on your growth journey.