Born to Win! Live Your Ultimate Life Vision Today

By Jennifer McLeod

People put off living their life to the full either because they havent taken the time to become clear about their life purpose or because of fear or some other Emotional Roadblock that might be holding them back.

Jennifer McLeod shares with you ways that you can begin today to take action to start to get away from your pity parties. This book will enable you to create the life that you really want to lead - both personal and in business.

So, if you want to create success and wealth, get clarity on your life vision and purpose, develop self-love that will bring you achievement or learn some of the secrets of successful entrepreneurs, this book is for you. Let it take you on your journey of conscious awareness, enlightenment, transformation and growth.

Born To Win! is an inspiring read for anyone thinking about making changes to their lives. Jennifers story and attitude is a real inspiration and the book contains lots of practical, solid advice as well as thought-provoking ideas.

Rebecca Jordan, Best Start Up Business and Entrepreneur Of The Year

"Jennifer's book, 'Born to Win!' isa volumethat we regularly recommend and sell to delegates on ourachievement programmes. It gives straight forward, easy to apply nuggets of wisdom that wewe knoware an essential part of any success-toolkitfor those who are serious about living their true potential."

Tony Burgess and Julie French, Academy of High Achievers Ltd (Aha!)

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Mar 4, 2008
• ISBN: 9781467021463

Jennifer McLeod

Jennifer McLeod BSc Hons (Psych), Chartered MCIPD, NLP Pract. Jennifer McLeod is an International speaker, inspirational parent and relationship coach, psychologist, trainer, researcher, best selling author and advanced reiki healer. She is one of the UKs leading specialists on building relationships. Jennifers personal mission is to have a positive impact on other peoples lives, whilst her business mission is to take one billion parents, young people and families on their journeys of conscious awareness, enlightenment, light, love and gratitude. She says, I am very blessed and privileged to be working with young people as part of the Born To Win! system to enable them to create the life they want as opposed to the life that they fall into. To this end, she works with a range of education professionals and related agencies and organisations working with young people. Jennifer works with a range of private, public and voluntary organisations to enable parents to have a sense of relief, regain control and to become peak performance employees or business people. She inspires parents to get rid of their Emotional Roadblocks and to take action through a range of products, seminars, workshops, or one to one coaching. Additionally, she works with teams by enabling them to develop better relationships and with senior staff to step up to leadership. Jennifer is a little pot of dynamite with a captivating smile who lights up any room! Her lively, energetic, engaging delivery motivates and inspires audiences to take action to make the necessary changes in their lives to achieve more conscious awareness, enlightenment and success.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1

Who are You?

Chapter 2

The Power of Belief

Chapter 3

How To Develop A Better Relationship With Yourself

Chapter 4

How To Get Rid Of Fear And Get On With Your Business And Your Life

Chapter 5

Secrets Of Dynamic Goal Achievement That Will Take You To The Stars And Beyond.

Chapter 6

How To Energise Your Mind, Body And Spirit

Chapter 7

Secrets Of The Entrepreneur’s Dream

How Jennifer McLeod Can Help You Further

Share Your Success Story

About The Author

Acknowledgements 

I wouldn’t be where I am on my journey of working towards achieving my mission without the support of people around me.

Special thanks go to everyone who has touched my life in any way, and in particular, special thanks for the help and support from my family, especially my sister Maureen McLeod who helped me enormously when the children were younger and to my cousin Donna Campbell and her partner Terry who helps out with having the children when I travel on business.

Special thanks to my mechanic Eric Myers of Smethwick Autos who goes the extra mile to keep me on the road.

Last but certainly not least, a special thank you to my editor Lesley Morrissey who pushed me to share more of myself in my first book than I was initially comfortable with and who helped to make my first book the International Bestseller ‘great read’ and a ‘book that talks to me’ that people are enjoying today.

Jennifer

Introduction 

‘Who are you not to be great? Your playing small does not save the world’

Marianne Williamson

We are all on this planet for a particular purpose. We are all unique, special and blessed in our own way to fulfil this purpose. Part of my own purpose is to share this philosophy with young people, parents and anyone who needs focus, guidance and has a thirst for self-fulfilment.

Generally, I like to work with young people from as young as fourteen. I find it immensely rewarding to encourage and inspire them to be all that they can be.

I come across so many adults, often parents themselves, who don’t have a clue as to what their life purpose might be. Your life purpose is the core, the very essence, of your existence whilst you are alive so, if you are not living and being your purpose, it’s inevitable that you will feel there’s something missing. You’ll feel out of synch with life’s natural universal laws and it’s likely that you are working much harder than you would need to if you were working within your own flow!

When I make presentations and talks many people in the audience readily admit that they are likely to die with their music or song still left in them. They become aware that they need to do something drastic to rectify the situation. Does this sound like it could be you too? Are you working and living your purpose and following your heart’s desire?

Imagine that you have the happiness, love, and peace – anything that you want to have in your life. Daydream and use your imagination to create a picture of what that looks like, feels like and sounds like. What would it be like if you’ve already achieved that dream?

Your subconscious mind is the part of your mind that is the overriding force in your life; it dictates how you behave and respond to the world around you and to the people in it. Your subconscious doesn’t differentiate fact from fiction, which means that if you create a strong and detailed image in your mind and deliberately act as if you are happy or successful, over time, your subconscious mind will begin to believe it and start to create situations and circumstances in your life to make it become a reality for you.

‘Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there…’

William James, Psychologist and Philosopher

Shakespeare echoes this by saying:

‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

Essentially, you have control of your life at your fingertips and it is now only for you to make a decision that you will do something about it to make the changes that you want to have in your life.

My mission is taking one billion parents, young people and families on their journeys of conscious awareness, enlightenment, light, love, and gratitude, by enabling them to get rid of their Emotional Roadblocks™. These Roadblocks are the emotional baggage or ‘stuff’ that people allow to hold them back, such as guilt, fear, not feeling good enough, feeling insecure, stress, or jealousy. The more you focus on these Emotional Roadblocks™ in your life, the more you will attract people and circumstances into your life to reinforce them.

Focus on what you want to happen and not on what you don’t want to happen in your life. You may have heard this said before, however, you may not be doing anything about it. There are a range of personal and self development tools that you could use to help you to achieve this and move your life forward. What matters most, is that you choose to use what works for you.

When you begin to understand and accept the person that you truly are and the person that you will become, you will start to live your purpose and allow yourself to strive to reach new heights and grow. Things will begin to change for you in a big way.

When you shine, you allow and give permission to others around you to shine too. You’re sharing your light and helping them to see their purpose.

This book is for anyone who wants to grow and has made the decision to do so. Most importantly, you must be willing to take the necessary actions to make things happen for you, whether in your personal life, career or business.

I wish only the best for you. As ever,

With Inspirational Blessings

Jennifer

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Jennifer McLeod

Chapter 1

Who are You? 

The Japanese have a process called Kaizan, which means that they are focused on constantly improving themselves as individuals; continuous and never-ending improvement. That is what I want for you because, if you are not growing emotionally, spiritually, financially, in your career or business, love or relationships, your inner spirit will die. First, you need to grow on the inside, in your internal world, before you can experience growth and changes on the outside, in your external world.

Our internal world consists of our emotional, psychological, mental and spiritual experiences, whilst our external world is a demonstration of what is really going on in our lives. Therefore, our physical world is a print-out or manifestation of what we are experiencing in our internal world. That means that your external world is within your control – whether you are aware of it or not!

Our internal world holds our belief systems. Our belief systems are what we think and believe about life, other people around us, what we deserve to have in our lives and our self-worth. It takes courage for us to admit that things are not going the way that we intended them to and that our lives are not running the way we want it to, yet even with that scenario, people are still reluctant to change or do something about that burning desire that’s been niggling them for years.

For the most part, people allow their Emotional Roadblocks™ to hold them back from living life to the full. For instance, if I asked you to think about the words that you use on a regular basis to ’explain’ why you are not following your dream or your passion, what would you say? Would it be something like?

‘I’m too old’

‘I’m too young’

‘I can’t afford it’

‘I’m too busy’

‘I haven’t got the time’

‘Wait until the children leave home’

‘It’s not for people like me’

‘Only rich people can do that’

’People in this city don’t do that’

Become aware of the words and the self-talk that you use to stop yourself from moving forward in your life and write them down, for these are the same words that will stop you from doing all sorts of things in all other areas of your life.

Because our internal world and our external world are interconnected and as we are holistic beings, it means that whatever we do in our internal world, like telling ourselves that ‘we can’t afford it’, will have an impact on other areas of our experiences and external world.

For instance, you might think that you can’t afford to go on a training programme that you know would make a huge difference in your life. Perhaps this might manifest in other areas of your life as the thought that you can’t afford to spend time with the children; you can’t afford to spend time working on your relationship with your nearest and dearest; or you can’t afford to take the time to learn how you could make more money. So as you can see, that the belief or thinking that you had about that training programme is actually the same belief that runs your life in lots of different ways. You’ve ‘programmed in’ a belief that is now affecting all areas of your life, which means that how you do one thing is how you do everything.

The impact that your internal world has on your life is immense and manages your external experiences. This will make a difference to whether or not you have the fulfilling life that you deserve.

Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world, says that if you don’t manage your emotions, they will manage you! If you are in business, you can’t afford to allow your emotions to dictate how you run your business. You will need to manage your emotional state, as much as possible and as quickly as possible, in order that you focused on doing what needs to be done to have a successful and winning business. As a parent or partner, managing your emotions is also crucial and will assist in developing the kind of relationships that you want to have in your life.

‘Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you