You’ve heard me say many times that you can’t build significant success by yourself. But we all try, don’t we? Many times we draw back from building relationships or asking for help because we don’t feel qualified. We’re embarrassed that we might be shown up as incompetent or as impostors. Well, here’s an approach that will work. You don’t build the relationships you need by asking for help. You build those relationships by helping others! Here’s 3 ways that you can support or encourage others. Get involved in groups or blogs related to what you do, or want to do. (….)
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“I am responsible for my reactions to the events of my life, even though I may not have created them.” Howard Thurman One of the ways that we punish ourselves and others is with the false assertion that we have attracted or created everything that happens in our life. Do we have an influence on what shows up for us? Of course we do, but we live in a society of creative beings and we all interact. We have to live our lives in a world in which others are creating their lives, too. Sometimes their creations and our creations (….)
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attitude,
compassion,
nonresistence
“The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs.” Louise Hay Are you grateful for your body? I hope the answer is yes. After all, it’s your body that lets you enjoy this plane of existence. If your first thought when you see your body in a mirror is criticism and not gratitude, you have some mental work to do. Because, as our quote says, our body is just mirroring our thoughts about it. It’s not only true for our appearance but it’s true for our health, too. It’s no longer controversial to (….)
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health,
thoughts
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer taught me, as few others could have done, that standing for truth has consequences and if you are not willing to pay that price or run that risk, nothing you do will ever be worthwhile. ” John Shelby Spong We all have times in our lives when we are given the choice to speak our truth, or not. Most of the time we can do that without having to suffer serious consequences for it. That gives us an opportunity to practice. We get to boldly state what is true for us in the face of mild disapproval of (….)
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motivation,
risk,
Spirituality,
truth
“Nothing ensures success like ensuring another’s success. And there is someone who is looking for your help and your support today.” Neale Donald Walsch None of us are in this life alone. We’re accompanied by a family of others, some of whom travel with us and some who just pass through our lives. We make our lives so much more difficult when we think we have to do everything ourselves. One of the ways we can make our life so much easier is to look around and see who we can help. Somebody needs a helping hand or a word (….)
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helpful,
service
“To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.” Eric Maisil One of the problems with the fast paced and media rich world that we live in is that quiet is rare. We’ve got appointments, smart phones, text messages, wi-fi and people clamoring for our attention. We can’t get away from them even in our car. Look around you and see how many people are multi-tasking. Look at yourself and see how much quiet time you have. Not much, eh? We won’t have time to quiet our mind (….)
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mind,
peace,
Spirituality,
subconscious
“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.” Emma Goldman Since today is Independence Day in the United States, a few thoughts on independence are in order. We as individuals have a daily struggle for our own independence in several areas. We want to be independent in our finances, in our lifestyle, in our relationships and in how we spend our time. But as our quotes suggests, the most important and difficult area to be independent is in our thinking. Why would Emma Goldman call independent thinking an unpardonable sin? It’s because when we really start to think (….)
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risk,
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vision,
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“I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.” Julia Ward Howe I’m convinced that there are three basic types of lives that people live in the world. The most common life is just existing. Going through the motions every day, just like the day before. The writer, Thoreau, referred to this as “living lives of quiet desperation.” Doesn’t sound very appealing, does it? Then there’s the people that live lives of ambition. They seek to become successful, to succeed in life in a great way, and their self image is built on (….)
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life,
motivation,
purpose,
service,
vision
In my Daily Gratitude newsletter I’ve written about compassion as a sign of spiritual growth. How do we know where we are spiritually? Just look at our circle of care and compassion. The wider it is, the deeper the spirituality. After all, the Dalai Lama has defined his religion as compassion – for all humanity and the planet, too. I was thinking about this as I was reading material about 60′s singer/songwriter Phil Ochs. A Texan by birth, Ochs moved to New York City and became an integral part of the folk music scene there. He’s remembered for some of (….)
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Spirituality
A few weeks ago I wrote a three-part series on forgiveness. I decided that those messages would make a good topic for one of the talks I now present every Sunday morning here in Sedona. As I prepared for that talk, I ended up adding three more reasons why it is beneficial to forgive. Plus, I was inspired to present those reasons using the same wordplay that occurred to me while I was composing the final message in my original three-part series: Forgiving is for giving. That is, it’s for giving yourself five different gifts. This week I want to (….)
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wisdom
I’ve been getting a lot of emails from people who missed one or more of the parts of this series, so I’m putting them all up here. Enjoy them, and then go get the book, “The Fifth Agreement”, by don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose Ruiz, and study it. There’s so much more than I could cover in my short newsletter. The First Agreement “The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word.” I love the word “impeccable.” It has a unique quality of careful detailed perfection about it. When we are impeccable with our words, we choose them (….)
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life,
mind
“Our resentment keeps us bound to the very people and the very circumstances we dislike. As long as we carry that seed of resentment in our hearts we will have to create some kind of pain, drama or discontent in our lives in order to keep our blame alive.” – – Debbie Ford The fourth step in the Law of Gratitude is forgiveness, and it always draws a lot of mail. Some of the questions have been heart-breaking, telling stories of physical and sexual abuse and asking, “How can I find any good in this?” The answer is – you (….)
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loss,
purpose
I was thinking about how hard it seems to be for many people in businesses on line to get out of their own way. Some seem to be reduced to shouting “Buy my stuff!” in desperation. If you’re on Twitter like I am you know what I mean. I’m pretty choosy about who I follow on Twitter and I read the profiles and past tweets of people before I follow them. Lately I found an increasing number of these clueless marketers who don’t seem to get that marketing is kinda like dating, especially on Twitter. You don’t try to get (….)
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