Yesterday at Euston Station...

I went to London yesterday for the monthly meeting with Dan Bradbury's mentorship group and on arrival at Euston Station, I had a bit of time so went outside for a bit to read my book in the Sun.

While outside...

I noticed this homeless man walking through the crowd looking at everyone but not approaching any. Suddenly when he saw me he proceeded to walk towards me.

When he got close...

He apologise for disturbing me but he was hungry and asked me if I could give help him by giving some money so he could eat. Without another thought in my mind I emptied my pocket and gave him all the money I had at the time. It wasn't much, probably £3 maximum.

His look of gratitude...

Smile and thank you, he gave me was all that I needed. He went to the nearest food stall and ordered his food. I felt really good and happy that I was able to help and proceeded to the meeting.

On my return from the meeting...

Around 530pm, in the same place, another homeless lady approached me and asked me for some money as she was trying to get the bus fare to go to the nearest shelter, where she could spend the night. Again I got all the change I had in my pocket and gave it to her (luckily I had withdrawn some earlier from the cash machine).

It was only £3 or £4...

But the smile and thank you I got from her made me feel fantastic. It is moments like this that make me truly appreciate what I have and feel grateful for all. Not for one moment I had any doubts in helping these two people.

Amongst the crowd...

For some reason they both picked me to ask for help, don't know if it was karma or if they sensed that I would help them, but I am delighted that they did and if I made a difference in their lifes, albeit as small as it was then it was all worthwhile.

Despite how difficult...

Your life is at the moment, spare a thought for those that are in worst situations than you, be grateful, kind and generous. You can make a difference with your actions, start today if you haven't already...

What is your life’s purpose?

What is your life’s purpose?

As I lay in bed last night unable to sleep I started wondering again...

What is my life’s purpose?

What I do for a living is a tag, a label, something I gave myself or others used to describe what I do as a job, profession or my work, but what I truly want to know is what is my Life’s Purpose? Do you know what it is? Do you know your life’s purpose?

I have been asking myself this question for awhile...

What am I in this earth for? I am 35 years old, almost 36, and do I really know what I want? I have my goals that I truly want to achieve. My business goals, my physical goals, goals that will make my life better overall, but what are goals if not a stepping stone in the path to your life’s purpose?

If your goals don’t have a true purpose

Then what is the point of having them in the first place? Until you truly define what is it that you are in this Earth for you will lack a sense of being and a sense of direction in your life!

I have a good life...

Have fantastic friends around me, amazing clients that I help achieve their goals and incredible and wonderful family that I love dearly... Yes I have my problems to resolve, don’t we all? But all in all my life is pretty good! But I do feel I need to find something that is missing that will probably add the meaning that I seeking for.

Watched a movie last night that made me think...

The movie in question was “Ghost Town”, if you have seen it, it probably made you think as well, if you haven’t is the story of a Dentist that “dies” for 7 minutes during a surgery and afterwards he can see ghosts that are in limbo... They are in limbo not because they have to resolve something before they can go to heaven, but because the ones that were left behind have to let them go...

So how does this movie made me think about my life?

Well when he helps the ghosts help their family friends “letting go” really touched me. I truly realised that I was here to help others. Helping others makes me feel truly alive and worth it to society. Even yesterday helped an old lady remove a pound coin from a trolley, nothing major I know, but the smile and the thank you I got truly made my day!

What is my life’s purpose?

Ultimately I want to help others... Help others achieve their goals and find their true path in life. Help others be happy and successful. Inspire others to achieve all they want to achieve. Teach what they need to learn and continuously learn from others as I meet them through their lives. I am still working on my purpose, and because it is so fresh in my mind, today I will finally find my true life purpose and post it here for all to see...

So, let me ask you something...

What is your life’s purpose? What are you in this earth for? Forget about the titles, tags and labels we will have been given by society and instead concentrate on what you want your life to be, why do you want it, how you going to get there and what will be your reward for truly living according to your ultimate purpose in life.

Do you know your life’s purpose?

Once you do, once you know the answer, all it will be clear, all your goals will be much clearer and easier to accomplish and achieve as you truly know where you are going to and why!

If you already know...

Then drop me a line to reigniteyourlife@googlemail.com as I would love to know what it is and how did you realise it in the first place...

House ownership and VALUES

I was reading the other day a piece about house ownership in the UK and the perceptions of the population in general the ownership of your own house.

One of the things that strikes me is how much owning a house is so important in the UK. That is usually a sign to you and others that you are doing well in life. I must I was "trapped" in the same thought.

In other countries, like Germany and Italy, owning your own house is not one of the main priorities of the population throughout their lifes. In Portugal for many years this wasn't as well. Now a lot of people there also want to "own" a house.

The fact that you don't actually own the house, until you paid it off completely doesn't seem to detract us to go and buy it. The fact that until the day the mortgage is paid off the mortgage provider actually owns the house doesn't stop us to take the plunge.

Similarly you end up paying almost double what you initially bought the house for with the compound interest. We tend to look at a house as an asset, but until is paid off it actually is a liability. I am currently finishing reading Robert Kiyosaki book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" and thoroughly advise you to read it as well, as explains in simple terms assets and liabilities and how you can change your life around by bein "financially intelligent".

The fact of the matter is that this general mentality in the UK, and indeed in other countries as well, is that owning a house is part of the Values of the people born, or living, in that country. Is sometimes one the highest values most people have.

So where do you get your values from? I will enlighten you on my next post about that and how you can get better values to help on your success and happiness throughout life!

Until then, all the best,

Paulo

Buying a car...

I have never thought that buying a car was this difficult. Well it isn't difficult really! I am making it more difficult as I feel this invisible pull stopping me from buying a car. I thought that I was just being wary because you have to be careful what you buy so you don't get a car with a dodgy past or worst yet a dangerous car.

It is more than that and I can't quite explain it.

The only real reason I require a car for is to go to the gym. I miss going to the gym and even though I have a leisure centre nearby, they don't allow walk ins until you do a induction. Decided against it.

Searching for cars in the internet, is a catch 22 situation. You see a car you like, you want to go and see it, but you dont have a car to get there so an alternative plan has to be hatched up to go with a friend.

A thought occurred to me just now when speaking to my friend Eddie on the phone. He was telling me about his last few days and how happy he was whilst he was walking to go to his gym. He lives in the outskirts of London, and he doesn't have a car and despite this he still does what he needs to do.

When I was a student, I didn't had a car and despite this I still managed to do all that I wanted to do. Walking was my chosen mode of transportation when that wasn't possible I would take the bus or train. All these days without a car I only had the need to go somewhere once and I took the bus, and that wasn't bad at all.

Public transportation might be a temporary solution to take in consideration. I created this belief around not taking buses or trains, and in fact it is a perfect acceptable solution to ones situation.

Going to do another search on the good old google to look for bus connections between my place and the gym as well as cost for bus pass. Its good to talk and keep your mind open to all possibilities!

I will keep you posted on my decision :-)

Until we speak again,

Paulo

My Nephew's Christening and Values

So yesterday, my little Nephew, Tomas, was christened in the Igreja do Seixal. It was a traditional Catholic ceremony where the baby was "entered in God's world" and the Parents, Godmother and Godfather promised to guide Tomas in the name of the God throughout their life.

The Priest conducting the ceremony mentioned a couple of times the role of the Parents and the Godparents in instilling the needed values in Tomas life to put him in good stead throughout his life. All of those that know me, know my thoughts on Religion and God, so I will not bother with you that today, but those comments made me think about making this post and tell you about something that happened in my life much earlier on.

When we are born we are pretty much a "blank canvas" and the Values that most of us hold today, do indeed stem from our Parents and close relatives of the family. These most of the time were "forced" on us by those older because of the things that they believed and valued.

These values can be cultural, the country where you born and region of the World, religious, whether your family and close friends were indeed religious or not, and the own family views on the World outside. Ultimately, you as you grow older adopt new values, although traditionally most of these align themselves with the ones given to you by your Elders.

Majority of these values put in good stead towards your future life, unfortunately sometimes these values can be detrimental to you, this is where you as an adult can do something about it and adopt new more powerful values to help you in your life, I shall let you know in a different post how you can change or adopt new values that you deem necessary to "succeed" in life, and to make your life all that you want it to be.

This leads me to my own personal story. To cut the long story short when I was born my parents didn't Baptized me due to turmoil the country was going to at the time (I was born just before the 1974 revolution) and decided to wait a bit longer. Eventually my Sister was born and they thought when she was at a age to decide they ask us both if we wanted to. So when she was about 7 or 8 asked us both if we wanted to.

Because of our age the Church had told my parents that we both had to attend "induction classes" to be able to learn all the Church principles so that we could be baptized. I asked when these classes were and they happened to be on Saturday afternoons. Now Saturday afternoons I used to play football with all my friends pretty much all of the afternoon.

So for me the decision was simple I preferred to spend time with my friends doing something I loved rather than spend the afternoon learning about something that, due to influence of my Maternal Grandfather and my own Father, I wasn't keen on. At the time my values dictated that spending time with my friends was more important and added much higher value to me than going to "Church induction classes". For my sister, she wanted to go and hence one of the reasons that still today she is a Church goer and I am not.

I had never thought before on how much that decision of mine was based on my Values and Beliefs, but as pretty much every decision you, I and everyone makes in their lifes they are based on our Values and Beliefs, apart from when we need to meet our Human Needs, where we can ultimately break our values to meet our Needs (I will talk about Needs another time).

Going back to the Christening, after the ceremony we all went to have a meal with plenty of food and drink and a lot of good camraderie and fun. It was a fantastic time spent with pretty much all of my family which I always love! Again, Values and Needs :-).

That is all for today, catch you all later.

Hope you all have a fantastic day meeting your Values and Needs.

Paulo

It has been a long time...

It has been a long time since I last posted, for which my apologies. 2009 has been a good year for me thus far, eventhough I catched a bug that kept me ill for the last 2 weeks with the first 3 days being bed ridden.

Now that I am better will give you a quick update of what happen this year up to today! So in the beginning of the year did a few decisions regarding business and goals, as you have seen in my previous post and with that in mind I have already accomplished two of my goals for the year and working hard on a few more.

In the 3rd of January I have been in an NLP Practitioner course down in London, with a great of fantastic people that made the experience many times better. Within this course have learned a number of techniques that I know will be able to use in my business to help people cure phobias and address issues that still affect them in their life. I am going to specialise in NLP Phobias cure as it was one of the most enjoyable techniques that I learned as well one of the most effective and rewarding to do.

The following week I went skiing with my good friend Diogo in Avoriaz, France just in the border with Switzerland. In here I achieved another one of my goals, become a competent skier. Funnily enough fell humpteen times, but if you don't fall you are not pushing hard enough, taking risks and learning. There are some videos on the net of my exploits and as soon as I learn how to I will publish them in here as well.

Additionnally to having learned how to ski, I have met a small group of very interesting people which made the experience even better.

Then on the day of my return fell ill and was mainly lethargic for 3/4 days and with flue and cold symptoms for the rest. It was a blessing in disguise really as it gave me time to recharge my batteries and get ready for the weeks ahead.

I am now currently in Portugal as my Grandma has now been diagnosed with Alzheimer's so I came over to meet my Mum so we do all the necessary arrangements for my Nan to go and spend some time with my Mum in France. Also my little beautiful gorgeous Nephew is being Christned on Saturday and I couldn't missed this event!

Well that is my year so far. I haven't purposely mentioned a couple of other things as I will post them separately as to grab your full attention and give it the necessary exposure.

I shall go and have a nice hot drink now and shall be in touch with you all very soon.

Warmest regards to you all and wishing you having a great start of the year as I am.

Paulo

My 2009 Goals

So, have you set your goals yet? Have you decided what you are going to go after this year? Well I have decided on my goals for this year already and I can tell you I am really excited about them and gunning to go!

Well without further ado, these are my 2009 goals:

1 - Continue to attract fantastic Life Coaching Clients
2 - Successfully implement my Stop Smoking Clinic
3 - Organise and run Public Seminars
4 - Write Ebook
5 - Website Up and Running
6 - Move to Bigger House
7 - Obtain NLP Certification
8 - Body Fat under 10%
9 - Visible Six Pack
10 - Bench Press 110kg (250lbs) for Reps
11 - Deadlift 180kg (400lbs) for Reps
12 - Squat 160kg (350lbs) for Reps
13 - Become a competent Skier

And that is it, these are my goals for 2009. All achievable, all with a degree of difficulty, but all doable!!! So where are your goals for the year ahead? Have you started on them yet?