Thursday, 14 April 2011
What is success?
“To LAUGH OFTEN and LOVE MUCH; to win the RESPECT of intelligent persons and the AFFECTION of children; to APPRECIATE BEAUTY; to find THE BEST IN OTHERS; to GIVE OF ONE'S SELF; to leave THE WORLD A BIT BETTER to have PLAYED AND LAUGHED WITH ENTHUSIASM and SUNG WITH EXULTATION; to know EVEN ONE LIFE has BREATHED EASIER because you have lived; this is to have succeeded!” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Is a book - here are some excerpts
MENTAL MAGNETISM
No person is what they think they are; but what they think, they are.
Magnets have their molecules aligned - pulling power is “unity of purpose.”
Law of Mental Magnetism always attracts my true wants - not my wishes, whims or passing fancies.
What I give my dominant attention to will be mine through the Law of Mental Magnetism - constructive thought patterns, or otherwise...
Positive energy creates!
Creative mind; power centre; transcendental power; universal mind; unlimited wisdom - it does exist and it has unlimited power. God, within.
Desire is the seed of fulfilment.
ASK: -
Is this a wise or unwise act?
Will it contribute to my basic needs?
Will it harm me or someone else?
What is the total price I must pay?
Is it in harmony with the Laws of the Universe, as I understand them?
Am I willing and able to pay this price and accept the consequences?
GOAL ACTION PLAN
1. This is my goal (brief description; sketch; picture)
2. Why do I want this? How will I benefit?
3. What actions can I take to reach my goal?
4. Where can I get competent assistance and guidance?
5. Date I began my plan!
6. Date of intended completion!
7. I will revise and review on the following dates!
8. What should I do first? Second? (check when started or finished)
A. _____________________________Started [] Finished []
B. _____________________________Started [] Finished []
C. _____________________________Started [] Finished []
9. I keep the following positive mental attitude during this period (a positive statement concerning how I feel I must act whilst I am working on my goal).
TRAIN RIDE
1. Decide to get on the train - choose goal
2. Best route to destination - plan
3. Buy a ticket - be willing to pay the price.
4. Get on the train - take action
Stick with the journey!
GOAL SCREENING
1. Do I really want this for myself (rather than something I think I should, or ought to, do)?
2. Is it right according to my value system?
3. Do I believe it is possible for me?
4. Will I be a better person when I accomplish it?
5. Can I visualize it in all respects?
6. Do I have complete faith that the Creative Intelligence within me will assist me in bringing forth my desire?
YES TO ALL, then:
a) Clear statement of my goal - subconscious needs specificity!
b) Have an exact date to begin my program.
c) Have an exact date by which I want to achieve my goal.
d) Have a written plan of action
e) Have a schedule to periodically review my plans for changes and updates.
e) Carry a brief statement of my goal written on a small card in my pocket or wallet. Look at it often each day. Have pictures of goal as well.
f) Concentrate on one specific desire or challenge at a time.
g) Make up a positive affirmation or statement about my goal.
h) I always go to sleep picturing my goal.
POSITIVE HABIT CONDITIONING
STEP 1
A. What negative habit do I desire to replace?
B. What positive habit or attitude will I develop to replace it?
C. What actions will I take to replace my negative habit?
D. What is the easiest and most logical way to do this?
STEP 2
A. I visualize myself as having already succeeded in changing that habit! I see myself as already enjoying the benefits of my new positive habit!
B. I use a positive affirmation along with my visualization!
STEP 3
I observe my actions and note each time I do other than what I have promised myself I will do. Rather than condemn or scold myself, I simply make a non-judgmental observation and allow myself to make the necessary correction.
STEP 4
keep a record for at least 21 days.
I am causing my automatic mechanism to respond in the way I have conditioned myself to FEEL and ACT!
I monitor my responses and habit patterns and: -
1. Remove anything in my life that is not working for my good.
2. See what is working for me and continue to program that into my subconscious.
3. Add new things that I find desirable that are likely to work for me.
Keep uppermost in my mind: -
A. I recognize and accept the fact that I have a non-constructive habit - I place no value or judgement on myself.
B. Before I change the habit, I weigh the potential benefits against the price I will have to pay for replacing it.
C. I understand and acknowledge that no amount of willpower is of any use unless I really want to replace the habit.
D. I am convinced that such change will bring about the gratification of a particular need or desire.
E. Up until now, I have only done what my level of awareness has enabled me to do. There is no blame, guilt, or condemnation associated with that - there is simply the opportunity for increased awareness.
I KEEP MY DOMINANT THOUGHTS FOCUSED ON WHAT I WANT......
THE GENIE RESPONDS TO: -
Verbalizing:
Feeling & Emotion:
85% faster through the use of music or voice recordings.
Visualization:
My Blueprint of Destiny - coloured pictures of places and things I want to go and do!
Ask for the WISDOM to bring these things into my life, rather than ask for the actual thing. Cooperate with Creative Intelligence and it's law of creation.
PHASES OF THE MIND
SUPERCONSCIOUS: -
The Creative Mind
Intelligence
Absolute Ideas
Transcendental Power
Universal Mind
CONSCIOUS: -
The source of truth is within me.
Limited to the 5 senses - no such limit on other parts.
By itself, limiting.
SUBCONSCIOUS: -
Train to perform any act consciously chosen.
Great Pianist has built patterns of perfection in their subconscious.
Stores memories and releases them under automatic control.
Automatic creative mechanism that can solve my problems and change my life much faster than my conscious mind.
Not limited - can be trained and retrained.
Picture what I want and my subconscious will learn from errors, change my course, correct itself and bring me right on target - like a torpedo programmed to seek out an objective! Automatically!
KEY is for me to picture the END RESULT; FEEL that I can get what I want; FEEL it is already mine; FEEL the enjoyment and excitement NOW! Get the deep down inside feeling that ALREADY WORKING!
My conscious mind must be compelled to be my ally in this!
Give thanks for what is on the way - acknowledge that it will come when I ask.
REACH FOR A HIGHER DIMENSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAN THAT IN WHICH I HAVE BEEN OPERATING!
DIARY of GUILT
Guilt is a construct of humankind – it does not exist outside of us. Keep a record: -
1. Every time I try to make someone else feel guilty.
2. Every time someone tries to make me feel guilty.
3. Every time I try to make myself feel guilty.
Then reduce these occurrences and set myself free from this behaviour. Guilt has no place in the present – creating the future of my choice.
MENTAL MAGNETISM
No person is what they think they are; but what they think, they are.
Magnets have their molecules aligned - pulling power is “unity of purpose.”
Law of Mental Magnetism always attracts my true wants - not my wishes, whims or passing fancies.
What I give my dominant attention to will be mine through the Law of Mental Magnetism - constructive thought patterns, or otherwise...
Positive energy creates!
Creative mind; power centre; transcendental power; universal mind; unlimited wisdom - it does exist and it has unlimited power. God, within.
Desire is the seed of fulfilment.
ASK: -
Is this a wise or unwise act?
Will it contribute to my basic needs?
Will it harm me or someone else?
What is the total price I must pay?
Is it in harmony with the Laws of the Universe, as I understand them?
Am I willing and able to pay this price and accept the consequences?
GOAL ACTION PLAN
1. This is my goal (brief description; sketch; picture)
2. Why do I want this? How will I benefit?
3. What actions can I take to reach my goal?
4. Where can I get competent assistance and guidance?
5. Date I began my plan!
6. Date of intended completion!
7. I will revise and review on the following dates!
8. What should I do first? Second? (check when started or finished)
A. _____________________________Started [] Finished []
B. _____________________________Started [] Finished []
C. _____________________________Started [] Finished []
9. I keep the following positive mental attitude during this period (a positive statement concerning how I feel I must act whilst I am working on my goal).
TRAIN RIDE
1. Decide to get on the train - choose goal
2. Best route to destination - plan
3. Buy a ticket - be willing to pay the price.
4. Get on the train - take action
Stick with the journey!
GOAL SCREENING
1. Do I really want this for myself (rather than something I think I should, or ought to, do)?
2. Is it right according to my value system?
3. Do I believe it is possible for me?
4. Will I be a better person when I accomplish it?
5. Can I visualize it in all respects?
6. Do I have complete faith that the Creative Intelligence within me will assist me in bringing forth my desire?
YES TO ALL, then:
a) Clear statement of my goal - subconscious needs specificity!
b) Have an exact date to begin my program.
c) Have an exact date by which I want to achieve my goal.
d) Have a written plan of action
e) Have a schedule to periodically review my plans for changes and updates.
e) Carry a brief statement of my goal written on a small card in my pocket or wallet. Look at it often each day. Have pictures of goal as well.
f) Concentrate on one specific desire or challenge at a time.
g) Make up a positive affirmation or statement about my goal.
h) I always go to sleep picturing my goal.
POSITIVE HABIT CONDITIONING
STEP 1
A. What negative habit do I desire to replace?
B. What positive habit or attitude will I develop to replace it?
C. What actions will I take to replace my negative habit?
D. What is the easiest and most logical way to do this?
STEP 2
A. I visualize myself as having already succeeded in changing that habit! I see myself as already enjoying the benefits of my new positive habit!
B. I use a positive affirmation along with my visualization!
STEP 3
I observe my actions and note each time I do other than what I have promised myself I will do. Rather than condemn or scold myself, I simply make a non-judgmental observation and allow myself to make the necessary correction.
STEP 4
keep a record for at least 21 days.
I am causing my automatic mechanism to respond in the way I have conditioned myself to FEEL and ACT!
I monitor my responses and habit patterns and: -
1. Remove anything in my life that is not working for my good.
2. See what is working for me and continue to program that into my subconscious.
3. Add new things that I find desirable that are likely to work for me.
Keep uppermost in my mind: -
A. I recognize and accept the fact that I have a non-constructive habit - I place no value or judgement on myself.
B. Before I change the habit, I weigh the potential benefits against the price I will have to pay for replacing it.
C. I understand and acknowledge that no amount of willpower is of any use unless I really want to replace the habit.
D. I am convinced that such change will bring about the gratification of a particular need or desire.
E. Up until now, I have only done what my level of awareness has enabled me to do. There is no blame, guilt, or condemnation associated with that - there is simply the opportunity for increased awareness.
I KEEP MY DOMINANT THOUGHTS FOCUSED ON WHAT I WANT......
THE GENIE RESPONDS TO: -
Verbalizing:
Feeling & Emotion:
85% faster through the use of music or voice recordings.
Visualization:
My Blueprint of Destiny - coloured pictures of places and things I want to go and do!
Ask for the WISDOM to bring these things into my life, rather than ask for the actual thing. Cooperate with Creative Intelligence and it's law of creation.
PHASES OF THE MIND
SUPERCONSCIOUS: -
The Creative Mind
Intelligence
Absolute Ideas
Transcendental Power
Universal Mind
CONSCIOUS: -
The source of truth is within me.
Limited to the 5 senses - no such limit on other parts.
By itself, limiting.
SUBCONSCIOUS: -
Train to perform any act consciously chosen.
Great Pianist has built patterns of perfection in their subconscious.
Stores memories and releases them under automatic control.
Automatic creative mechanism that can solve my problems and change my life much faster than my conscious mind.
Not limited - can be trained and retrained.
Picture what I want and my subconscious will learn from errors, change my course, correct itself and bring me right on target - like a torpedo programmed to seek out an objective! Automatically!
KEY is for me to picture the END RESULT; FEEL that I can get what I want; FEEL it is already mine; FEEL the enjoyment and excitement NOW! Get the deep down inside feeling that ALREADY WORKING!
My conscious mind must be compelled to be my ally in this!
Give thanks for what is on the way - acknowledge that it will come when I ask.
REACH FOR A HIGHER DIMENSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAN THAT IN WHICH I HAVE BEEN OPERATING!
DIARY of GUILT
Guilt is a construct of humankind – it does not exist outside of us. Keep a record: -
1. Every time I try to make someone else feel guilty.
2. Every time someone tries to make me feel guilty.
3. Every time I try to make myself feel guilty.
Then reduce these occurrences and set myself free from this behaviour. Guilt has no place in the present – creating the future of my choice.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Vitality Journey
It is all about: - Foods I eat; thoughts I think; exercises I do.
THOUGHTS I THINK:
This is the time in my life to love and be loved.
To focus on the things I want and think positive thoughts.
I have all the material at my fingertips - I just need to USE it!
EXERCISE:
Walking briskly helps - but I have to walk an hour a day at a very brisk pace. I'll have to try another approach!
5BX program
or
Squat/Lunge/Push-up/Hop Scotch/Baby Burpee/Squat Jump
EATING PROPERLY:
Avoid Bread/Pasta/Cereal/Pizza/Rice
Lean, Green, Marine (seafood) - LOL
THOUGHTS I THINK:
This is the time in my life to love and be loved.
To focus on the things I want and think positive thoughts.
I have all the material at my fingertips - I just need to USE it!
EXERCISE:
Walking briskly helps - but I have to walk an hour a day at a very brisk pace. I'll have to try another approach!
5BX program
or
Squat/Lunge/Push-up/Hop Scotch/Baby Burpee/Squat Jump
EATING PROPERLY:
Avoid Bread/Pasta/Cereal/Pizza/Rice
Lean, Green, Marine (seafood) - LOL
Sunday, 24 October 2010
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING 7 YEARS FROM NOW?
By Augie Mendoza
(I have seen this in different guises before - this one really hits the nail on the head!)
"I graduated from Brazosport High School in Freeport, Texas in May 1972. Not dressed in white (honours), but I graduated.
That summer like the previous summer, I worked as a longshoreman loading corn, flour and corn sacks weighing 50 to 140 lbs. and 900 lbs. caustic soda drums on freight ships bound to other countries at nearby Brazos Harbor and Dow Chemical A2 Dock.
This was one of the better paying jobs in the area. It was grueling, hard, heavy work, but I loved it at the time. My father had been doing this job most of his life since it paid well.
Fall came around and I had already decided that I did not want to make my living as a longshoreman. Work was inconsistent and when it was there it only went to the ones with the most seniority, unless there was too much. There was very little opportunity for a better job when you got older.
I had always heard that a college education would get you a better job and decided to find out. So I went to nearby Brazosport College and set up an appointment with a counsellor.
I got to his office at the appointed time and he asked me what work or profession interested me the most. I had taken Auto Mechanics I & II during my junior and senior years in high school and asked him if Brazosport College had an auto mechanics program.
He said "no." I asked him if they had anything similar to it. He said that the Machine Tools Technology program was very similar and described the program to me.
I was very interested and asked him how long it would take if I went full time. He said "4 years." I said I couldn't go full time since I am working (whenever work was available).
I asked how long would it take if I go part time? He said "7 years." I was shocked. I said, "Man, I'll be old then, I'll be 25 years old. I don't think so!"
He asked me, "what did you say you did for a living right now?"
I told him again that I worked as a longshoreman throwing bags and manhandling drums. Then he bent over his desk and looked me square in the eye and asked me the most significant words I will never forget in my life:
"IF YOU DON'T TAKE ANY CLASSES, WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING 7 YEARS FROM NOW?"
These words hit me like a ton of bricks! I sheepishly told him that I would be doing the same thing.
I signed up for the classes right then and there.
These prophetic words have inspired many of my relatives and friends.
The sun will rise and fall 365 days a year. What you choose to do in between will determine many things in your life.
This story alone has inspired relatives and friends to realize an age-old truth: Time will go on regardless and it waits on nobody.
Years later, I told a co-worker this story. He got inspired enough that he went on and got 3 different degrees in computers in less than 7 years! He said afterwards, "7 years ago I would've been saying to myself, 'If only I had the opportunity.'"
TIME WILL PASS REGARDLESS!"
I love this story!
I am born and I will die - that is a given.
Will I live or not?
Ahhh, that is up to me.
(I have seen this in different guises before - this one really hits the nail on the head!)
"I graduated from Brazosport High School in Freeport, Texas in May 1972. Not dressed in white (honours), but I graduated.
That summer like the previous summer, I worked as a longshoreman loading corn, flour and corn sacks weighing 50 to 140 lbs. and 900 lbs. caustic soda drums on freight ships bound to other countries at nearby Brazos Harbor and Dow Chemical A2 Dock.
This was one of the better paying jobs in the area. It was grueling, hard, heavy work, but I loved it at the time. My father had been doing this job most of his life since it paid well.
Fall came around and I had already decided that I did not want to make my living as a longshoreman. Work was inconsistent and when it was there it only went to the ones with the most seniority, unless there was too much. There was very little opportunity for a better job when you got older.
I had always heard that a college education would get you a better job and decided to find out. So I went to nearby Brazosport College and set up an appointment with a counsellor.
I got to his office at the appointed time and he asked me what work or profession interested me the most. I had taken Auto Mechanics I & II during my junior and senior years in high school and asked him if Brazosport College had an auto mechanics program.
He said "no." I asked him if they had anything similar to it. He said that the Machine Tools Technology program was very similar and described the program to me.
I was very interested and asked him how long it would take if I went full time. He said "4 years." I said I couldn't go full time since I am working (whenever work was available).
I asked how long would it take if I go part time? He said "7 years." I was shocked. I said, "Man, I'll be old then, I'll be 25 years old. I don't think so!"
He asked me, "what did you say you did for a living right now?"
I told him again that I worked as a longshoreman throwing bags and manhandling drums. Then he bent over his desk and looked me square in the eye and asked me the most significant words I will never forget in my life:
"IF YOU DON'T TAKE ANY CLASSES, WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING 7 YEARS FROM NOW?"
These words hit me like a ton of bricks! I sheepishly told him that I would be doing the same thing.
I signed up for the classes right then and there.
These prophetic words have inspired many of my relatives and friends.
The sun will rise and fall 365 days a year. What you choose to do in between will determine many things in your life.
This story alone has inspired relatives and friends to realize an age-old truth: Time will go on regardless and it waits on nobody.
Years later, I told a co-worker this story. He got inspired enough that he went on and got 3 different degrees in computers in less than 7 years! He said afterwards, "7 years ago I would've been saying to myself, 'If only I had the opportunity.'"
TIME WILL PASS REGARDLESS!"
I love this story!
I am born and I will die - that is a given.
Will I live or not?
Ahhh, that is up to me.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Creed to live by too
Why set my goals by what other people deem important?
It is almost certainly true, that only I know, what is best for me.
I'll be careful about taking for granted the things closest to my heart.
Rather, I'll acknowledge them, as my life - without them, life has no meaning.
It is almost certainly true, that only I know, what is best for me.
I'll be careful about taking for granted the things closest to my heart.
Rather, I'll acknowledge them, as my life - without them, life has no meaning.
Creed to live by
Why potentially undermine my worth
by comparing myself with others?
It is, perhaps, because I am different
that I can find I am special.
by comparing myself with others?
It is, perhaps, because I am different
that I can find I am special.
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