Wealth Inspiration Blog

Be Grateful, Be Gracious
It’s quite natural for people to be judgemental, whether it is of people, food, service, comfort or anything else. However, just because you may have judged something as bad doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still be grateful. For example, you purchase a meal, with your hard earned money, at a restaurant and you don’t like how it tastes. Now a lot of people might whine and complain about such an incident and refuse to eat it, demand something better or refuse to pay. What I’m suggesting is that you realise and be grateful for the money you have which enabled you to go to a restaurant and buy a meal in the first place. Remember it should also be considered a luxury that you have the option, if you choose, to refuse to eat it. A lot of people don’t have any of these luxuries at all; some people are unable to walk into a restaurant and order a meal and would be shocked to see anyone refuse food just because they didn’t like the taste. Some people would dream of being able to sit in a restaurant and have people running around for them to make sure they are satisfied.

Make note of the fact that someone is cooking and serving a meal for you then cleaning up for you afterwards while you do nothing but give them a little bit of money. You may still feel the need to say something about your disappointment but consider doing this graciously and with gratitude thereby keeping a level of peaceful dignity around you, also such an attitude is certainly better for your health.

Being grateful is a significant quality for anyone to have but it is absolutely essential when developing the right mindset for an abundant lifestyle. It may not be that difficult to be grateful for your health or your family or any of the more obvious things that come to mind, but I want to encourage you to look for things you may not normally consider being grateful for. There is always a way to turn a negative experience into something positive, developing the habit of looking for things to be grateful for helps you to find the positives in life. The dictionary defines gracious as ‘Characterised by kindness and warm courtesy’, add a touch of that to your day and see how much better you feel at the end of it. If someone is rude or unkind, still be gracious, and through them out a little bit, who knows how it may change their attitude for the rest of the day, it will most probably make you feel better anyway. So I challenge you to look for more opportunities in your life to be grateful and gracious and see for yourself what a difference it can make.

Thank you for reading

Arren Vidal

Inspirational – Nick Vujicic – A life Without Limbs

Watching 60 minutes the other night a story came on about Nick Vujicic a now 25 year old man who was born without limbs, a disability that is proving not to be an inability. He does as most would normally do, he just does it in his own way.

He has become a well known motivational speaker, travelling around the world to share his story, you can learn more about him at his website lifewithoutlimbs.org

A truly inspirational person, here is a video of Nick I found on Youtube.

Arren Vidal
Inspired to Inspire

Give it your all, and never give up
Probably some of the best advice I was given, was to give it your all and never give up. We are all very much capable of getting the things we want in life, and if we are determined enough we will get it. Determination and persistence are two very commonly found traits in the world’s most successful people. The determination to reach a goal and the persistence to power through those temporary setbacks we all face. Unless you’re truly brilliant it is very unlikely that you’ll get your perfect result the first time around, plus what is the fun in getting everything right the first time. As painful as it may be sometimes, we learn from our challenges and it is through some of these that our greatest strengths become known. So whatever you do don’t think because something isn’t the way you thought it would be or should be that you should give up.

Don’t give up just before your about to succeed
It is common for people to give up moments before they are about to succeed. One example of this was a story I heard some time ago about a man, lets call him Bob, who took holidays from his work in the city deciding to spend his time searching for gold. He had done a little research to determine the most likely spot for and was feeling somewhat confident, so he set off on his search. His research paid off and he started finding gold, he actually started finding a lot of gold and began to think he wouldn’t have to go back to work. Gradually though he was finding less and less and thought his luck must have run out, grudgingly he decided to give up. Then along comes Bill and Bob offers to sell him all his equipment so he can return to the city and go back to work. Bill decides to try his luck in the same area as Bob and happened to find a gold nugget that was worth more than any of the gold Bob had found and it was only metre’s away from where he had given up. Bill never had to work again.

Sometimes it can be hard to know when something isn’t working out whether you should keep going or if it is time to move on. A method I found that works for me is to determine if what you’re doing is for the benefit of others as well as yourself, ‘Is it the right thing to do?’ If it is then don’t give up, give it all you’ve got, but consider changing the way you are approaching the situation. It might just mean you need to do things differently, what might seem impossible one day may become simple the next. So give it your all, and never give up.

Arren Vidal
Inspired to Inspire

Last weekend I was very fortunate to be able to attend SR Elite Exclusive Coaching Group in Perth Australia put on by the very inspirational Sean Rasmussen. The members of the group came from all over Australia, I myself travelled from across the country just for the amazing opportunity.

It was truly an incredible experience, a gathering of some highly motivated and inspiring people who all share very similar goals and focused on achieving them. The coaching ran over two days with some very interesting topics raised and many new things learnt.

Below you can see a photo of the group, I’m front center.

Arren Vidal
Inspired to Inspire

THE POWER OF THOUGHT

The power of thought has the ability to bring you anything you have ever wanted, if you truly believe. I’ve had it work for me in just about every aspect of my life, whether it is the smallest of things like getting the perfect car space to a more major thing like getting your dream house.

A great simple example of this for me was on the weekend when I was flying home to Brisbane from Perth on a red eye flight. The flight was my only chance to sleep with a busy day just gone and another busy day planned for the next. To make my sleep on the plane a little more comfortable I thought it would be great to have no-one sitting next to me so I could stretch out a little. So to make this happen I started thinking “I’m going to have plenty of room to sleep on the plane” and repeated that thought and visualized stretching out on the plane a number of times before getting on the plane.

When I got on the plane I started to notice that there was quite a lot of people and the plane was filling up fast, however I kept pushing the thought through my head “I’m going to have plenty of room to sleep on the plane”. Then to my delight the flight attendant made the announcement, “Thank you all for boarding so quickly, all passengers are now on board” and I had a whole row to myself to lie down and stretch out as much as I liked while most of the plane was full.

Some of you might think well that’s no big deal, but I think it is, it was something very small but it worked I asked for something and the universe delivered. This has not just worked for me on silly small things like getting room to sleep on a plane, but for many other big things as well like getting good grades at university. At the start of my course I set the goal to achieve a GPA above 6.0/7.0 for an Engineering degree, I visualized getting this several times during my four year degree, worked hard and I got a GPA of 6.05/7.0. I achieved my goal, now I probably could of got a GPA of 7.0/7.0 but that’s not what I visualized, I suppose if that’s want I wanted I should have been specific and visualized it.

BE SPECIFIC WITH WHAT YOU WANT

Being specific when visualizing is very important, you can visualize that you want a Lamborghini or your favourite car and more than likely you’ll start seeing more of them around the place, but not one in your garage. However if you want one in your garage as yours to own and drive, you have to start off with that thought, and if you truly believe that you will own that car and I guarantee the opportunity will eventually come along and if you take action I have no doubt you will get it. We’ll go through this a bit more another day.

In the meantime I would like to share with you an extract out of book I was given as a gift called “A Teaspoon of Courage” by Bradley Greive

“ Stand tall and march proudly toward your goals and dreams with your shoulders squared and your head held high. Barriers that seemed insurmountable will become surmountable, maybe even a piece of cake.

This may not happen in the wink of an eye. In fact, it might take days, weeks, months – who knows?

The landscape of our lives Is vast and varied.

But as long as you are moving forward, if only by centimeters, it doesn’t matter what lies in front of you. You will get where you are going in the end.”

Arren Vidal
Inspired to Inspire You

Finding What Inspires and Motivates You

For some people finding what inspires and motivates them can be difficult to discover. However everybody will have something that they are passionate about, even if they don’t really know it or haven’t realised it yet. I believe that passion is a main driver of inspiration and motivation. Simply how can someone truly put all there effort into something if they are not passionate about it or don’t care too much about it. For example you’re not going to be to motivated to become the worlds best motorbike rider if you don’t like riding motorbikes, however I guarantee that you will if you absolutely love riding motorbikes and everyday you picture yourself standing on the winners podium after the world championship race.

How do I find what Inspires and Motivates Me?

To find what your passionate about, what inspires you and what will motivate you, you really need to look at your true desires. A great exercise a very inspirational person showed me was to ask yourself the question what would you do if you just won millions in the lotto, and if you’re truly sincere with your response you will more then likely find your motivation and inspiration. For me when he asked me this question I responded by saying, I would live the lifestyle I desired, I would invest, I would learn to fly a helicopter and I would start a scholarship program for less fortunate youth to assist them achieve their dreams whether it be going to university, becoming a pilot, developing a wealth education, or whatever it may be. How would you respond?

Arren Vidal
Inspired to Inspire You

Inspiring you to achieve your Dreams!

This blog was started for the purpose of inspiring and motivating others to realise their dreams and desires, go after them and ultimately experience them. I will discuss what inspires and motivates and how I came to realise it, share some very influential people who have helped me quite significantly, and hopefully get some input from yourself to share what inspires and motivates you. Plus many other related things as the blog evolves.
I hope you enjoy reading, and look forward to hearing your success stories
Arren Vidal
Inspired to Inspire You