Archive for July, 2007

All of us have got dreams we aspire to attain in our lives. These dreams come from people who inspire us. We may dream of making $15,000 a month, owning a sports car and living in a million dollar mansion. At the same time, based on our beliefs, we also have what I call our ‘Altitude of Acceptance’.

This Altitude means that though you may aspire to earn $20,000 a month, you are willing to accept earning $2000 a month. Although you would love to live in a million dollar house, you are quite willing to settle for a small apartment. Although you would love to be at an ideal weight of 72kg, you are willing to live life at 90kg.

Our self-image is what determines our level of expectation and level of acceptance in life.

Would you like to make a guess which level we would tend most to gravitate towards? That’s right. We always get what we are willing to accept.

Unless we raise our acceptance levels, we will never do what is necessary to achieve our goals. So, for example if you want to make more money, you have to raise your standards of what you are willing to accept.

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