“There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in the world.” Wallace Wattles In our quote today, Wattles has given us the secret key to success. It’s the kind of secret that you can leave out in plain sight, because there are very few people that will use it. As he says, it’s the hardest work in the world. It’s about taking control of your conscious mind. Controlling your thinking instead of letting it run on autopilot. Now what does he mean by “sustained (….)
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thoughts
“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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attitude,
health,
thoughts
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.” Elizabeth Gilbert At first glance, it appears that our quote is telling us that we have to work hard to be happy. And we do, but not in the way that it might seem. Our hard work takes place in the mental realm first. We have to decide to be happy, no matter what our circumstances are, and train our thinking to agree. That’s Gratitude Principle #3, from the Gratitude ebook. We can be happy, but not satisfied. We seek to (….)
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attitude,
happiness,
visualization
“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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Spirituality,
subconscious
“I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everything is part of a plot to enhance my well being.” Stan Dale Considering the relentless flood of bad news from almost all directions, this would be a good time to review the principles of the Law of Gratitude. After all, it was six years ago at this time when the Gratitude ebook was first released and we tend to forget stuff! Principle #2 Let’s start with the second principle – nonresistance. Resistance is arguing that the world should be different than it is, and we quoted Byron (….)
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peace,
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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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peace,
wisdom
“Nobody ever has it all together.” Marilyn Grey I used to be pretty critical of myself because my life and my progress were really messy. There were false starts, unexpected problems, detours, disappointments, minor glitches and major disasters. I changed my mind so many times that sometimes I couldn’t find it at all! I used to look at the successful people and wonder how they were able to be so smooth, how they had it all together. And then I got to know a few of them and found out the truth. Their lives were chaotic, too. And still are, (….)
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thoughts
“Fear and worry, the adverse mental pictures we establish in mind,form strong barriers against the thing we desire.” Ernest Wilson Have you ever thought of fear and worry as “adverse mental pictures in your mind?” No, most people just think of them as thoughts or feelings. But really they’re mental pictures of what you don’t want. And as Andrew Carnegie told young Napoleon Hill, when we hold any picture in our mind with strong emotion, either positive or negative, it tends to move into reality in our life by the most convenient means available. That’s why fear and worry are (….)
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [people] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – John Hancock, in the Declaration of Independence Every country and culture in the world has their history and their heros, and the more I learn about them, the more impressed I am with the universal human spirit and how much we all have in common. In that history, we all have much to be grateful for. The United States, like many countries, started with (….)
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“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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purpose
I’ve said many times that we should always see the good, look for the good and expect the good in everything. And we should. But is that all? I don’t think so! But some people have gotten that impression from some of the pop “create your reality” stuff going around. You know, “I’ll just sit here and think good thoughts and everything will turn out OK. I’ll visualize it into existence.” Good luck with that. In “Science of Getting Rich” Wallace Wattles said very strongly, “You must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is (….)
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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service
“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 I get a lot of mail about it. 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 (….)