This information has helped me in many ways, both personal and for my business. Yesterday I was thinking about my son in Indiana whom I had not heard from in several months. Within an hour he called me - just to talk. Coincidence? I think not. I am now able to focus my thoughts and visualize what I want - getting my 'inner game' working for me. Cynthia Alexander BreakFreeFromClutter.com

 

 

  

 

Our lives are what we make them. Isn't it time for a change? I think back to the years I lost, not understanding that I could shift my thinking and have the life I wanted and deserved. I promised myself I would help others to have this success in their own life, and this is your opportunity to move forth in this way.

We choose our lives. I used to believe that other people were responsible for me not having what I wanted in my life. I blamed the principal at the school where I taught for not giving me the opportunity to teach science to my grade level. I was angry with her for more than two years over her decision to let someone else have that job and to make me teach physical education for a year instead. I had studied to be a science teacher, not a P.E. coach. I blamed the man who owned the real estate company where I was working as an appraiser for sending me to the jobs furthest away from where I lived. I almost quit over that. I was having to drive for two hours each way every weekend, while the other appraisers got to work much closer to our office. I blamed my neighbors for ruining my street by adding a room to their house and causing noise and debris for three months. I needed my sleep and there were all kinds of trucks and construction going on right in front of my house. I was ready to let my house get foreclosed because that made me so upset.

Can you see a pattern here? I was blaming others for what was happening and not taking any responsibility for my own life. Then one day in the spring of 2005 I had one single thought that was the start of my life. Once I shifted my thinking and changed my inner game, the whole world appeared different to me.

It was as if I put on new glasses and the world suddenly came into focus.

 

I started showing up at school thirty minutes early each morning and running around the track with the kids. It was fun! One day the science teacher told me he wished he could do what I was doing instead, because he had so much paperwork and I was able to spend time playing sports with the kids. Then I lost a few pounds and some of the other teachers complained that it wasn't fair that I got to be the physical education teacher and get so much exercise while I was supposed to be working. I spent more time with my students than I would have been able to if I was still teaching in the classroom. And, I was able to wear anything I wanted, and had no papers to grade or report cards to prepare.

On the weekends, when I was driving two hours up the coast to do real estate appraisals, I began to take my lunch and pull over by the ocean to eat and watch for the whales migrating down from Canada. One day I saw some dolphins swimming along the shoreline and couldn't believe how fortunate I was to have this job. Instead of fighting the traffic in Los Angeles every weekend, I was sitting by the beach and watching the dolphins and whales! It was magical.

The same neighbors who had done the room addition decided to now add a second story to their house. I heard from someone else on my street that they were afraid I was going to be even more upset, but instead I invited them to come over for dinner and tell me about their plans. They showed me pictures of what the house was going to look like when it was finished and I helped pick the colors for their new bathroom. After they left I thought about how nice it would be to have a two-story house. Within six months I had decided to put my house up for sale and had moved into my own two-story house twenty minutes away. I had never even thought of moving for the 13 years I had lived there, and now I was moving into a brand new house with a view!

I found myself smiling for no apparent reason, and thinking about everything my life had in store for me. Within a year I had resigned from the school district and began giving away my real estate assignments to others who still wanted to work in that field. I had changed my Inner Game and was thinking in a completely new way.

Soon I realized that others could benefit from what I had figured out. I promised myself right then and there that I would share this information on mindshifting with anyone who wanted to know more.

You may be wondering what happened to the science teacher at my old job. He became the physical education teacher as soon as I left and started a soccer team for the kids. The last I heard he was starting a program in the neighborhood so the kids could play soccer all year long. Everyone benefitted from the situation, which is how it should be in life.