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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Identity

We have all already established an identity. Don’t be afraid to let this identity be up for change. In many instances we find ourselves adapting to situations, almost like being different characters in a play. This gives rise to the many faces of the one person, acting out different roles in different situations, being different things for different people and so often hiding our true Self. Success is not about right or wrong. It’s all about being real.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Perception

Perception determines who we are. Perception is a choice that offers options of how we want to view the world. We can choose to see nothing but a dangerous and frightening world or nothing but a friendly and happy world – or something in between. Whatever way we decide to perceive the world, we will automatically seek out and always find evidence to support our choice. If I decide that life is a struggle, life will do its best to prove me right. If I decide to view life as an exciting adventure, that’s what my life is.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Acceptance

Success does not mean that every situation we encounter will result in monetary, personal or social gain, or whatever perception of ‘success’ we may have. It means that, even where the situation doesn’t look like it’s working out, we recognise the opportunity for a successful learning process and it does not become an attack or an endorsement of separation, isolation and fear. You don’t have to buy into that ete al loop of Self-criticism, Self-doubt, fear and removal from the truth. Instead, whatever the outcome, use every situation as a learning opportunity.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and the One Real Truth

It’s far too easy to let the world seem to do it’s dirty job on our creation and descend into a spiral of out of control hopelessness where our ‘destiny’ and ‘fate’ lie in the hands of everyone and everything beyond our own ability to provide our own redemption as we escape the bleak misery of a torturous existence that is based on half truths and sorrow.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success without Limits

We all find areas where we can really compromise ourselves. We perfect that process and those patterns and it becomes second nature in how we live and what controls our lives. We repeat the same mistakes in the same areas over and over again, keeping us trapped and un-free as the apparent shackles of our existence hold us in a pattern of frustration, confusion and unclear destiny. But opportunities for change are always present. Replace the sadness with an addiction to the successful You, regardless of circumstances.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

You Can Only Start from Where You Are

It doesn’t matter where you want to go – the next city, the local store, a new life – the starting point must always be where you are right now. Every process of change begins by determining exactly where we are, then deciding where we want to go and then creating an action plan for moving forward with confidence.r

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Your Self

You can only think for your Self and when you become aware of how you justify your failure (or your absence of success) it’s time to examine how you can correct that (unless you want to stay in the loop of failure, which many people find far more comfortable, because they have become very successful at being a failure). History repeats at all levels. That's why - in that correction - you have to get away from the idea that we operate separately and accept that we function totally as one entity. Inclusion is a necessary part of success. Everybody is fighting a hard battle.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Trust

Success comes from the mind that is ready for it but for many of us ‘I would but …’ becomes the cop out and then the excuse department is endless. Failure can have addictive qualities all built from the loop of personal history. When we get good at not achieving we can perfect the art of not achieving. Some of us can make a lifestyle out of repeating the same mistake over and over and over. I have known some of the most successful failures in the world. The addiction to the failed Self is as strong as any addiction there is.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Vision

In a unified Self we have more direction and greater presence, a presence to be perceived in how you live your life. Holding your unity is taking ownership of the greatness and potential you can offer to your own day-to-day world. But once again it’s all about how you start that process of recovery; that process of making choices and allowing your Self the opportunity for change. What you’re really doing here is stopping the process of Self-denial because that only results in illusions. Relating to your world and the people within your world will never come from anything exte al.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and the Truth of Who You Are

Never deny your own value, no matter what experiences you have had so far. Your value is an immeasurable gift to give yourself for the future, starting in the present. It really is one of the most outstanding conditions of what you are. It is here you will gain total freedom of what you can be. The willingness to be there for your self is so important. Where you go to find yourself is up to you. We all need to look with sincerity at the things we do and the things we don’t do in our lives and then have the realisation that we can change our minds as to how we see the world.r

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Admiration

We live in a world where it’s hard to be perceived as a success, where being wealthy necessitates enormous amounts of money, where being good in sport necessitates huge acclaim and fame. This in turn can become an attack on the truth of who you really are. When you place heroes on a pedestal, above you, what you’re really doing is denying a big part of your Self. Admire others, acknowledge and celebrate their achievements, but don’t defeat your Self in the process. It’s far too easy to live exclusively in a world of comparisons and far too easy to forget just exactly who you are.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Opportunity

Begin each day by realising that you are for your Self. Be powerful in the presence of who you really are and what you want to be. Align your Self with your birthright, which is success. Fear comes from feeling inadequate and it’s quite natural for all of us to feel this way. It doesn’t mean that you are inadequate and it doesn’t mean you can’t control those feelings, but you can liberate your Self by knowing how you work. Powerless you are not.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Inclusion

The whole experience of development and successful growth is not about going it alone and doing it all by yourself. It involves a Self-belief system of inclusion. Inclusion is a huge part of any personal or business development. Inclusion is simple and simple is successful. The opposite of inclusion is fragmentation. That’s when we all have separate interests and we all take separate views and adopt separate standpoints, which we then feel the need to defend.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

How to operate in 'I'm Okay' Mode

Operate In ‘I’m Okay’ Mode No matter what has happened so far in your life – you are essentially fine. Find a picture of yourself as a young child. If you can’t find a picture, imagine yourself about 10 years old. Now, write that child a letter outlining the perfect life he or she is going to enjoy. Do not limit this child in any way. Write as if everything is possible. Do not allow your present day physical, mental, emotional or financial challenges to influence the perfect picture you paint for this child.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Who You Are

Sometimes circumstances give us an opportunity to reflect on where we are and to choose once again how we want to live. Having run a very large business, employing close to a hundred people and turning over many millions, I found myself in a situation where the business no longer existed and my job as I had known it no longer existed. I had received many accolades in terms of what I had done, but the business failed. I needed to earn some income and so I opened a video rental store.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Loss

My brother was diagnosed with cancer in May. By June he had passed away. Initially the situation was one of horror, shock, sadness and anger but as we went through the weeks and as his failing health became more evident, we also realised that anything we needed to talk about would have to be done sooner, rather than later. One afte oon, we drove to the countryside and, even though he was very weak, with great determination my brother climbed a small hill that gave us a wonderful view of the surrounding world.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Succcess and The Past

Life has taught many of us to be naturally inclined to gravitate toward the negative, based on what we perceive as failure, loss and isolation. We then use the value we have assigned to our past experiences as a template for future decision-making. When we begin to look beyond the historical negatives we learn that we can choose a more constructive view of the world and not draw exclusively from that sense of being hostage to our past. As we look at the world slightly differently we start to gain a new sense of freedom that is not limited by an old value system.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Real Wealth

There is a part of all of us that is beyond every problem, doubt, worry or loss and is, in essence, the true and universal embodiment of success. It is here we dispense with limitation and start the journey of experiencing the truth of what we are and can be. This is the part that is never tarnished by life’s experiences, that is the essence of who you are. It is from this source that all our dreams and purpose emanates. The shadows of life can sometimes obscure this golden place but can never obliterate the beauty of it.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

The Choice for Change

Every time a report card came home Ellen knew that, no matter how well she did in her exams, the same three words would appear at the bottom of the page. Her teachers always felt that she ‘could try harder’ but in fact she really was doing her best and trying her hardest. Every day after school she looked after her younger brothers and sisters while her mother worked. She took her responsibility to make sure that they did their homework and went to bed on time so seriously that she often fell asleep before her own schoolwork was completed.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Belief

Each and every one of us has the potential to be the successful person we admire, read about or see on our TV screens if that is what we really want or that is to be our journey. Have no doubt about it, you can be the superstar you want to be, but just keep reminding your Self to take ownership of what you want. The world teaches us about limitation and far too often the limitation becomes the essence of who we are. By believing in a non-limited Self, you take away the barriers to truth. You learned from the earliest of ages that two and two is four and that rules are always set in stone.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Self Pity

Beware the constant attraction that all of us carry to feel hard done by and the subsequent feelings of how unfair the world can be that become a hiding place from the more fulfilling journey of achievement. I learned the truth of how we identify with this loop when, on many occasions, my own personal sense of isolation reminded me just how unconnected we can allow ourselves to become. For example, I once worked on a significant distribution deal with a large company that was chaired by a good friend of mine. This was a major national distribution agreement.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Equality

When you view life as a journey, you start to realise that you do not have to repeat your limiting or negative patterns. You start to look at how you make decisions and how you take your Self forward. You start to teach your Self that holding the true nature of who you are – which is successful – is the main condition for your engagement at all levels.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Freedom

Finding success really simply a process of breaking the cycle and saying ‘I can change all of this for the better’ in a final determination to see your Self as being alright. Stay in touch with your I’m Okay Factor and lose that sense of a lost life or a hopeless dilemma. Regardless of where you feel you are now, each one of us has an inherent ability to tap into the creative resource that becomes our ‘out of the past. into the future’ system.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Self Respect

Life gives us so many opportunities to steer a direction or to plot a course. In many instances we choose to complicate this process by mindless compromising of our own Self-value. It’s not about who wins. Life is about our perception of being a winner. Even if you don’t come first you can still hold winner status in your own personal journey. This is far more important than winning at any price, particularly if it necessitates compromising. Believe me; every one of us will know when we have compromised to the point of Self loss. Success doesn’t have a size.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

The Now of who we are

We hear a lot of talk about ‘staying in the Now’. The key is our ability to focus fully on our present task.r

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success is an Inside Job

The past got us to where you we now but that doesn’t mean that our present has to decide our future. The exte al circumstances of our world do not determine the kind of person internally we are. Everybody has a choice for change. Make your choice in the knowledge that you can be in a far better place by not bringing a paralysing past life to all your ideas around what your future should look like. Be strong in the belief that you now have opportunity. Take ownership of your future with a successful template of how you would see it acted out.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Be Who You Are

Fairytales may not be quite as fanciful as they appear at first glance. Think of the frog who was really a handsome prince, or the Sleeping Beauty and Snow White who just needed a kiss to restore them to life.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Dig Deep

Dig Deep My friend Susan became a kind of surrogate mother to a young woman called Kate. When she about 4 years old, Kate’s natural mother died tragically. Susan helped Kate in all ways possible. She was there for her throughout and Kate loved her as much as she loved her own mother. For almost twenty years they had a close and caring friendship. When Susan died suddenly, Kate experienced losing a second mother and her emotion was just like what she experienced when she lost her natural mother.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and Judgement

We live in a world of judgment. When we talk about judgment it’s not just judgment of other people but also judgment of ourselves, sometimes even the harsh judgment of ourselves. An example of this was brought home to me profoundly on a course I attended some time ago. We were asked to say a few words at the introduction phase about what brought us there and what we wanted to do. We had all just met for the first time and knew nothing about each other.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and the Recognition of Self-worth

Each and every one of us has a foundation in truth, yet we all have a set of beliefs that we always feel the need to defend. We are compelled to defend our belief system because it is safe and familiar to us, even if we know deep down that our thoughts and beliefs are limiting our experience of the world and keeping us stuck in mediocrity.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and the Choice for Change

We have all developed patterns of limitation but we can make the choice to change in an instant. Sometimes the results of this choice for change will be apparent very quickly and sometimes nothing seems to be happening. The key is to be patient – with our selves and with the process - at all times. In the process of self-discovery and of bringing your being to a better state there are always going to be places where we temporarily seem to fail, there are always going to be places where we find errors in our thinking or behaviour or where life seems to hinder us at every turn.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Inside Out

We all start perfectly successful. We all start complete. We acquire failure. Real success is based on who we are within rather than anything we come by exte ally. The willingness to look at ourselves in a light of perfection, success, inclusion and completion provides a real opportunity to move forward in the true meaning of peace and happiness. It begins by simply being prepared to acknowledge and accept the true self we have forgotten. In that self lives our truth and integrity, where all our interactions and experiences have a meaning of honest and non-fearful expression.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

See You on Venus

My brother Rob was diagnosed with cancer one May. By June he had passed away. Initially the situation was one of horror, shock, sadness and anger but as we went through the weeks and as his failing health became more evident, we also realised that anything we needed to talk about would have to be done sooner, rather than later.r

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Success and the Decision for Power

It’s quite extraordinary how we can move our focus from crisis to crisis - financial, personal, health, relationships, global. It’s as if there is always one ready and waiting in the wings to trap or ensnare us in this melee we call life. Yet in the midst of it all there is something of a heartfelt condition where we cherish a part of us that is never really touched or can never really have its fire put out. This has to be that soul-felt place where the spark that lights your world will emanate from.

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Success Principles

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By Geoffrey CanavanRecently published1 topic

Rediscover Your Abundant Self

Helen’s process of revelation began the day she recognized that everything around her had a sense of lack attached to it. Her car was old and wouldn’t start in the mornings. The washing machine was temperamental. There were always more bills than cash every month.

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Success Principles

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