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WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

admin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:27:22 +0000

We are all in this together. We think that we are alone. We are not. Just like a rock thrown into the water in California has a ripple effect in Japan, so does our thoughts and actions in some way effect everyone else in the world. One person, if they decide to, can effect a total change in the direction the world seems to be moving. The Wright brothers did. Bill Gates did. Christopher Columbus did. Jesus did. Many people have effected massive change in the world, because they chose to think differently and act on those thoughts. You can effect a major change in the world as well.

What makes people think that they have no power to effect change in the world? We all do. Some people know that they do. Some believe they do. Others have no clue that they do. Some of us just don’t believe that we are powerful enough to alter change in this world. We all are that powerful. Whatever we believe is real to us and acts as a filter that blocks out anything that does not conform to those beliefs. If we believe in ourselves we can do something that will affect the rest of the world.

FOLLOW YOUR DREAM

admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:42:31 +0000

Should we follow others who have a dream and get paid for making themselves wealthier, or should we take charge of our lives and get paid for following our own dream? That is a question that, I would guess, less people in our society would ask. Most people ask the question: “where can I get a job that will allow me to pay my bills?’
How sad it is that more people think so little of themselves that they won’t pursue their dream, but maybe that is why many of the people who do, become part of the wealthy class. They are the people who take the risks that create the jobs that the masses work at to “pay their bills.”

With the mass layoffs and an unemployment rate of 10% due to poor economic and fiscal policies, we are at the greatest time in our history for economic and entrepreneurial growth. When one door closes, another one opens. Some people are spending their unemployment time doing nothing but milking the system to take as much from the taxpayers as they can. At the same time others are taking positive action and creating work for themselves by becoming self-employed in their own businesses. There was a recent article in a New York newspaper that shared that there is a record number of unemployed people who have started their own businesses and that some of them are earning more than they did in the jobs that they lost. Not only is that exciting, but it is also encouraging to those who have felt lost in the Limbo-land of unemployment.

Why not start your own business? You ask yourself, “where would I start?’
“what should I do?” “how do I start?”
There is a guideline one could follow to discover what is the best business for him/her to start that could allow a higher rate of success over a period of time.

First step: DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT. Do you have a hobby? Do you have a skill you have been doing to get paid by someone else? Is there something you would like to learn that could help you grow? Is there something that you always wanted to do? Write down everything you always wanted to do on one side of the paper, then write down all the things you would not want to do if you had enough money to pay someone else to do it. Then decide on the one thing you want to do that excited you and hits your hot button. Make a decision to do it. Decide on the end result. Where do you want your business to take you?

Second step: DECIDE THE PRICE YOU ARE GOING TO PAY. There is no free lunch. There is a price for success. It won’t jump out from behind a door and attack you. Every day take action in the direction of your desired outcome. Stay open for ideas and incites that will guide you in progressing to your desired outcome. Keep focused on your goals as you take positive action.

Third step: ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE WHAT YOU WANT NOT WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE WHAT YOU’VE GOT. Find out about people who are successful at doing what you want to do, and if you can’t because your business is so new, find people who are successful at doing the skills you need to be successful at doing what you want to do.

Fourth step: PLAN YOUR WORK AND WORK YOUR PLAN. When you develop a plan of action put it to work. Re-evaluate the plan periodically and adjust it as needed, then take continued action in the direction of your desired outcome. Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. Take action and it will work.

FORGIVENESS

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:59:35 +0000

Put an end to blame and forgive others for what you think they did to you. Why should we do that? So that we feel better.
“Forgiveness is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner is you” Lewis B. Smedes
Most of us carry around anger, resentment, and jealousy. Or some other negative emotion directed at others.
All of those negative emotions hang like a weight around your neck and weigh you down. If not dealt with they will affect the quality of your life and the life of those around you. Love, compassion and the other higher emotions are constrained by the lower ones that include resentment, anger, jealousy.
We are chained down by those emotions and the only way we can break free is through forgiveness. Forgiveness is the act that breaks the chains and frees you from the thoughts and feelings that bind you to an offense committed against you, whether that offense was real or imagined.
Most of what we believe has been done to us really didn’t happen exactly as we perceive it. There is always another side of the story. Many times the other person who we resent does not even know how we are feeling and they go on their merry way enjoying life while we get sick stewing over what we think they did.

Forgiveness is a creative act that frees us and we become liberated from the past, at peace with our memories. When we forgive we release the power others have over us and remove them from space they are taking up in our heads. We stop playing victim and we define ourselves by how we have grown rather than how we have been hurt.
Life either expands or contracts in direct proportion to your courage to forgive. It will bring peace and harmony to your lives.
Forgiveness has two parts: the lesser part is to forgive others, the greater part is to forgive your self. For allowing yourself to be bound to negative emotions is the cause of all sickness, both mental and physical and all forms of discontent.
Forgiveness is not only a gift we give to others, it is also a gift we give to ourselves.

OVERCOME INSECURITY

admin — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 02:53:41 +0000

We often spend time comparing ourselves to others, only to end up disappointed because we not only cannot be someone else, but by trying to be someone else, we cannot be ourselves. The only way to achieve happiness is to be ourselves. A rabbit doesn’t try to be a gorilla, and an eagle doesn’t try to be a tiger. Humans are the only species that compare themselves to others and use these standards to gauge whether they are a success or failure.
When we feel insecure we sometimes try to build ourselves up by imagining we are a movie star, a famous athlete, a well-known successful entrepreneur. When we are in our pain, we wish we were larger, because if we were larger, we wouldn’t feel so much pain. If we were larger, we would be harder to miss and would have a better chance at being loved. Then we feel compelled to make others look smaller so we can live in the illusion of seeming larger than our pain.
The fact is, we cannot get away from who we are. If we spent the time loving and appreciating ourselves and knowing that we are perfect as ourselves, we wouldn’t have to pull anybody else down. Remember you can have the tallest building in the city. One way is to demolish all the other buildings. Another way is to build yours taller than all the rest. See yourself as successful being yourself and doing what you love to do, and you will shine.

MOVING ON

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:10:41 +0000

In order to grow, we must be willing to change. Sometimes that means changing where we live, changing relationships, or changing our jobs or businesses if they no longer serve us. Change comes from within. If what we are doing no longer is working, maybe it is time to change. “If we continue to do what we always did expecting different results” is considered the height of insanity.
“The Dusuns of north Borneo have believed for centuries that when God finished creating the world, He announced that “Whoever is able to cast off his skin shall not die.”
But what does that mean? Not that we can live forever, but that the way to stay closest to the pulse of life , the way to stay in the presence of that Divine Reality which informs everything, is to be willing to change. Still, Change what? To change whatever has ceased to function within us. To shed whatever we are carrying that is no longer alive. To cast off our dead skin because dead skin can’t feel. Dead eyes cannot see, dead ears can’t hear. And without feeling, there Is no chance of wholeness, and wholeness remains our best chance to survive the pain of breaking.” (from The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo)
Like the snake, we must be willing to shed our old skin in order to renew our lives and continue to live. Being bogged down in something that no longer works could be a cause of illness and depression in those too afraid to take a risk and move on. We must seek and find our passion and follow that passion ‘til its fulfillment or until it no longer serves us, and that is when we should move on to find something else to be passionate about. When we do what we love to do we will awaken our creative spirit and not only will we feel joy, but we also will feel a driving enthusiasm for life.

LEARN MLM FROM THE EXPERIENCED

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:03:45 +0000

Network Marketing is an incredible business for people who really care about people. There are many gurus who teach how to make a fortune in MLM (another name for network marketing, but easier to spell for this writing). Some of these trainers have excellent and effective teaching programs, even though they may or may not have in actuality built a large sales organization themselves. I like listening to people who have actually built an MLM business before, and sometimes more than once. They usually talk about what they did, not just what others have done.

I have had the good fortune to have earned significant incomes in four different companies, but have never set myself up as a master trainer in MLM. I focused on training for my own organization of team partners or the company distributor force as a whole. I would like to open this forum to people who would like to join with me in an ongoing development program that is generic and designed to help them to reach the highest pay level in their particular company. I can assist through individual coaching or through group seminars. It is not designed to recruit you into my primary program. It is designed to help any participants to excel with good business skills and habits that will make them more effective presenters, recruiters, and sponsors as well as company representatives.

DUPLICATE ME?

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:19:01 +0000

In network marketing we are told that the power of duplication is the key to growing a larger organization. It is, but that is if we are doing what is necessary to be worth duplicating. If you are doing the steps necessary for building a successful sales organization and you teach others how to do the same, and they do it, you can see exponential growth that over time can make you wealthy. The challenge is, and you can ask yourself this question: “am I doing what I should be doing? Do I set goals for myself? Do I work on my own personal development? Do I read inspirational books? Did I make a list of prospects and did I contact them? Do I operate from a mindset of contribution, thinking first about how I can help others and not focusing on how much money I can make from the efforts of others? What can I do to help others succeed?” Giving attention to contribution is better than operating from a sense of greed.
I also learned that if I were to set a goal for the highest level in the company, find out how others have achieved that goal, focus on that goal and method for part of a day, then let it go and go to work like my hair is on fire finding people who would be willing to duplicate my efforts.

QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:39:10 +0000

Whenever I start writing here, I am never sure what I will say until my fingers start moving over the computer keys. Prior to that, I ask my Higher Power, who many of us call God, to give me the words to say so that I can at least help someone improve their life. I also used that before making major decisions, before painting a painting, or before making a speech. If Divine guidance is involved, I have a better chance of saying and doing the right thing. The hardest parts of this is keeping my head out of it and not trying to figure out what to say. So this is what I am doing now. What I have learned to believe is that when we relinquish control to the Almighty Power, life gets easier. The hard part of life is when we live it without turning our will over to this Higher Energy. Trust is the other part of the equation. When we choose to do this we have to trust that what is coming through us is the right thing. Here is where I choose to let go and let the words come through. I have learned to believe that every man, woman, and child can do this and if they want to be truly happy, they have to learn this as well. Maybe this is what they call the “Quest for the Holy Grail.”

WE ARE ADAM AND EVE

admin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:46:32 +0000

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When I came out of my coma in ICU at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, after having a double lung transplant, I was hallucinating and experiencing a dream that seemed real to me, of many different situations morphing from one to another. It seemed that I was really experiencing seeing stones turn into people, walking through walls into other scenes, people turning into soldiers who are killing each other, people making love, people being happy and singing songs, etc. The stories never ended they just ran one into another. When the hallucinating eventually dissipated after a few days, I started to think about why I was experiencing these stories. I realized that it is similar to our lives, and our lives are just stories that we created, appearing that they are really happening, but are merely a figment of our imaginations being drawn into a physical experience. Why was I having these vivid dreams? Doctors said it was as a result of anesthesia, and many patients reported having them. I don’t know. I believe that life gives us lessons to help us realize who we really are. I also believe that I experienced these stories to show me how well indoctrinated with garbage, received through all of my senses, that my subconscious computer mind was inundated with. Just mental crap that I have given some attention to during my lifetime. This crap surfaced at a unique time when I was mentally vulnerable to seeing it as real.
I wondered if this is the way I experience life, how many others do the same. Probably we all do. What makes us different? Or are we? Mark Nepo, in his wonderful “the Book of Awakening,” says “imagine that each one of us is a spoke in a wheel, and, that each spoke is essential in keeping the wheel whole, no two spokes are the same. The rim of the wheel is our living sense of community, family, and relationship, but the common hub where all the spokes join is the one center where all souls meet. So, as I move out into the world, I live out my uniqueness, but when I dare to look into my core, I come upon the one common center where all lives begin. In that center, we are one and the same. In this way, we live out the paradox of being both unique and the same. For mysteriously and powerfully, when I look deep into you, I find me, and when you dare to hear my fear in the recess of your heart, you recognize it as your secret that you thought no one else knew. And that unexpected wholeness that is more than each of us, but common to all—that moment of unity is the atom of God.”
Through my experience with pulmonary fibrosis and getting my health back through a double lung transplant, I have come to realize that we are all one. No matter what we have experienced in life, we all see the same beauty and feel the same pain even though we act and speak in different ways. “I know now that each being born, inconceivable as it seems, is another Adam and Eve.”

PROSPERITY IS A STATE OF MIND

admin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:44:28 +0000

Prosperity and abundance are a state of mind and of being. I learned that if I expect success, opportunities for success will come my way or appear to me, and if I ACT on those opportunities, the success usually comes as well. There are also subconscious beliefs that can set us up for failure as well as success. Deep set beliefs that “I am not worthy of success,” or “I don’t deserve to keep this,” or “I don’t really care about money and abundance, I just want to earn enough to live on,” will all give you what you say, and when that happens one may wonder why they are not having prosperity even though they work hard to earn more. We all deserve to have all the abundance that we want, the problem for most people is that they were trained to believe that they are not capable or don’t deserve abundance by those who were their mentors growing up. We all have thoughts that were conditioned early in our youth. Some of those thoughts are self-inhibiting, and if we are to achieve more than we have in the past, some of those habitual thoughts need to be overridden and replaced by new thought habits that empower us to grow. That can be done by practicing thinking and saying what we want as if it already happened. These are called affirmations or positive self-talk statements that concentrate on our goals and dreams. If we make this kind of positive self-talk a habit, we will experience more and more success and abundant living than if “we keep doing what we always did.” Which is also the definition of INSANITY: if we “keep doing what we always did, expecting different results.”