{"id":74,"date":"2008-12-20T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T02:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-12-20T02:55:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T02:55:49","slug":"10-tips-for-thriving-in-this-economic-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10-tips-for-thriving-in-this-economic-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Tips for thriving in this economic winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find the writings of James Arthur Ray to be inspiring and effective. Here are some good tips for Daily Living.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Tips for Thriving in This Economic Winter<\/p>\n<p>Many of you have read and commented on our recent conversation about how it\u2019s a season to sow, how there\u2019s so much fear in our world right now and how it\u2019s related to some of the universal laws that modern society has forgotten<\/p>\n<p>Well, you asked for some quick, easy-to-apply tips on how to thrive in this economic winter and on how to apply the knowledge you learned during our conversation\u2026 So here you go!<\/p>\n<p>1 \tClearly define what inspires you.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a big difference between taking action out of inspiration versus desperation. Use this season as an opportunity to hibernate into the recesses of your own mind and define what you choose to create in your next spring.<\/p>\n<p>2 \tControl your focus.<br \/>\nEnergy flows where attention goes. Are you focusing on lack or opportunity?<\/p>\n<p>3 \tFeed your mind.<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s your constant mental diet? Do you spend hours in front of the scare news or are you reading good books, attending more positive seminars, watching uplifting DVDs and listening to powerful CDs?<\/p>\n<p>4 \tStrengthen your body.<br \/>\nYour physical health and vitality have a tremendous impact on your performance as well as your mental and emotional fitness. Exercise releases stress as well as strengthen your body and mind.<\/p>\n<p>5 \tInventory your friends.<br \/>\nDoom and gloom attracts more doom and gloom. Jettison those \u201cenergy vampires\u201d around you and surround yourself with opportunity seekers.<\/p>\n<p>6 \tQuiet your mind.<br \/>\nTake time to meditate daily and to slow down if only for a few minutes. Ten to fifteen minutes of meditation will relieve hours of stress and increase creativity and resourcefulness.<\/p>\n<p>7 \tRid your life of escapist activities.<br \/>\nOverindulgence in TV, sleep and alcohol only accelerate the problems you\u2019re attempting to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>8 \tMake a daily gratitude list.<br \/>\nFocusing on all the good, gifts and God in your life puts you in the right line of thought, feeling and their subsequent actions, which will attract and create more good, gifts and God.<\/p>\n<p>9 \tChange your attitude.<br \/>\nRealize that everything that\u2019s happened in your life thus far is here to serve you, teach you and help you grow. Find the lessons in your past results, forgive yourself for anything you could have done better and apply the lesson to move forward and create a better future.<\/p>\n<p>10 \tGet resourceful.<br \/>\nFor the next three days, go to a place where you can have uninterrupted time\u2026 Come up with 20 new ideas to grow your income, create new results and improve your life. You cannot leave your spot until you have twenty. And no editing! All ideas are good ideas. Do this for three successive days with 20 new ideas each day.<\/p>\n<p>Now take your list of 60 unique ideas and pick the three to five most powerful and leveraged ones to put into action. Pick these three to five based on: ease of implementation, rate of return and speed of return.<\/p>\n<p>And so during this winter season, remember: It\u2019s not about resources\u2026 there are plenty of them. It\u2019s about resourcefulness. Get resourceful and get busy.<\/p>\n<p>To your continued wealth and happiness,<\/p>\n<p>James Arthur Ray<br \/>\nPresident\/CEO<br \/>\nJames Ray International<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamesray.com\/\">jamesray.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the writings of James Arthur Ray to be inspiring and effective. Here are some good tips for Daily Living. Ten Tips for Thriving in This Economic Winter Many of you have read and commented on our recent conversation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10-tips-for-thriving-in-this-economic-winter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,35,34],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-attitude","tag-gratitude","tag-postive-attitude","tag-self-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}