A Grandfather's Tale

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table, but the elderly grandfather's shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth.

The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. "We must do something about Grandfather," said the son. "I've had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor." Therefore, the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, Grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner. Since grandfather had broken a dish two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. When the family glanced in Grandfather's direction, sometimes he had a tear in his eye as he sat alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food.

The four-year-old watched it all in silence. One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, "What are you making?" Just as sweetly, the boy responded, "Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and Mama to eat your food in when I grow up." The four-year-old smiled and went back to work. The words so struck the parents that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done.

That evening the husband took Grandfather's hand and gently led him back to the family table. For the remainder of his days, he ate every meal with the family. And for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled.

Children are remarkably perceptive. Their eyes ever observe, their ears ever listen, and their minds ever process the messages they absorb. If they see us patiently, provide a happy home atmosphere for family members, they will imitate that attitude for the rest of their lives. The wise parent realizes that every day the building blocks are being laid for the child's future. Let us be wise builders and role models.

Always remember: "What goes around, comes around!" However, "Treating others as you would treat yourself or that you would like to be treated will grant you more love than not!


"aap janaae avar ko jaanai thab hoe bhisath sareekee ||4||"
"As you see yourself, see others as well; only then will you become a partner in heaven. ||4||" - Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji


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Lunch with God.

There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with Chocolates and a six-pack of Coke cans, and he started his journey.

When he had gone a short way, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park just staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his suitcase when he noticed that the old lady looked hungry so he offered her a Chocolate. She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. Her smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered her a drink. Once again, she smiled at him. The boy was delighted! They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word.

As it grew dark, the boy realized how tired he was and he got up to leave but before he had gone more than a few steps; he turned around, ran back to the old woman, and gave her a hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever. When the boy opened the door to his own house a short time later his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face. She asked him, "What did you do today that made you so happy?" He replied, "I had lunch with God." But before his mother could respond, he added, "You know what? She's got the most beautiful smile I've ever seen!"

Meanwhile, the old woman, also radiant with joy, returned to her home. Her son was stunned by the look of peace on her face and he asked, "Mother, what did you do today that made you so happy?" She replied, "I ate Twinkies in the park with God." But before her son responded, she added, "You know, he's much younger than I expected."

Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Embrace all equally!


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Think Bigger...

“The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.” - Ben Sweetland


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Life's Biggest Con

What scares you? What stories do you make up to con yourself into holding back? What would you do if you didn't con yourself into being scared?

I've done something that scared the heck out of me. But it also turned out to be the best thing I've ever done!

Two years ago, I discovered that my Dad needed a kidney and as soon as I realized I might be the answer he needed, the voices in my head began to resist and shout!

"NO WAY can I give up a kidney! Are you kidding me!? I need both kidneys! I can't do it!"

Fear struck me down in an instant. I had never given up a body part. For that matter, I had never even stayed in hospital.

Despite the fear, I mentally considered the idea ... and I the more I thought about it, the more terrified I became. What if I had kidney failure in the future? Would I be able to have kids? What if something went wrong and I had impaired health for the rest of my life? Don't we need both kidneys?

All the while, Dad never asked me or any other member of our family for a kidney. I decided to get tested on my own. I was the only one in my family that got tested and I felt isolated. I felt like Dad's health was my responsibility alone. The fear held an even firmer grip on my mind.

And to accelerate the mental spin I was already in, there were plenty of well-meaning people ready to offer up their unsolicited opinion to help build and fortify my "wall of fear."

These were just a few of the fantastic and ridiculous comments I heard:

· "I know someone who donated a kidney and they got really fat as a result. You might get really fat". (A young woman's worst fear!)

· "Will you be able to have children?"

· "You'll have to give up alcohol."

· "You'll have to change your diet, become a vegetarian."

· "What happens if your kidney fails and you don't have a spare?"

· "What if you're in a car accident and your remaining kidney gets hurt?"

· "What about the yin and yang and flow through your body that they refer to in Chinese medicine? Losing a kidney will interrupt that and ruin your health!"

In the midst of all that, I decided to move forward. Dad told me I could pull out at anytime and he wouldn't think the worst of me. But I had made up my mind and I began to rise above the fear, rise above my own con job.

By the time the day of the operation arrived, I was actually calm.

When I awoke from the surgery, the doctors had me on a drip line and added 7kg of fluid to my body - even my chicken legs were fat! And they had pumped my body cavity full of gas. My surgeons joked that I looked like I should be in the maternity ward!

But, guess what? That was the worst of it. Despite my fears and the warnings of well-meaning friends, there were no complications and my recovery was quick. I was only in the hospital for 4 days. It only took a week for the fluid to leave my body and a few short months for the swelling to deflate completely. I was dancing - albeit somewhat carefully - after just 2 weeks, and returned to work after 4 weeks.

Now, giving up a kidney should be pretty scary for anyone, right? It's an important body part and you can't get it back once it's gone. It certainly was a scary prospect for me! But I did it, and the truth is that it wasn't a big deal. It wasn't a big deal at all! It was only my thinking that made it so. It's sort of like bungy jumping. The scariest part is the fear you con yourself into believing before you jump. After you jump, it's exhilarating.

I realized that I was incredibly fortunate to have been given an opportunity to donate my kidney. With that realization, though, came an insightful question that stopped me in my tracks:

If I could give up a kidney ... if it really wasn't such a big deal ... then what else could I have done if I hadn't let fear get in the way?

I could ... I CAN ... do so much more! I got it! I wasn't living up to my potential and I was 100% responsible. The only thing holding me back was me! I have since decided that I am not going to waste another minute. I LIVE, not exist. I've got massive goals and thoroughly ENJOY every moment of my life.

It's been over two years now and I'm delighted to report that Dad hasn't rejected the kidney. My gift has given Dad a far superior quality of life, has had zero adverse effects on my health, and the whole experience has undoubtedly brought Dad & I closer. I have realized that the joy is truly in the giving.

And I understand that fear is simply a con game we play on ourselves. It is all in our mind.

By acting in the face of fear and giving up my kidney, I received the greatest gift imaginable. I feel fantastic! My life is utterly different now, I LOVE it! From this experience, I've acquired a massive desire to wake people up, to let them know that they should never let fear hold them back, to inspire them to live NOW ...and to make the world a better place.

I'm up for big stuff ... and I'm going for it.

What are you up for? You'll only discover what you're capable of doing if you are willing to do it afraid!


Adrienne Rich
Auckland, New Zealand
Current Member - Bob Proctor Coaching Program


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"The Only Free Cheese is in the Mousetrap."

"Prosperous people never look for anything for free. They are always happy to exchange value for everything."

"You don't get rich winning the lottery, getting an inheritance, or discovering oil in your backyard. You can't achieve prosperity for free - there is always a price to pay, a fair exchange of values. Part of the price is becoming the kind of person that handles prosperity responsibly. You never look for anything for free. If you let the clerk give you the extra $5 by mistake, or if you wire your house for cable without paying for it, etc... you are incurring a debt in karma - those debts always come due."

- Randy Gage


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Who's Responsible?

"Stop looking at all the outside factors for lack of success and start looking at the inside ones. Ask yourself, 'Was there ONE person who was always at the scene of the crime?'"

"You are responsible for everything that happens in your life, both the good and bad. You cannot blame dysfunctional relationships on partners; you cannot blame business failures on sponsors, partners, or the economy; you cannot blame your health on God. You can, however, manifest being happy, getting rich, becomming successful, and attracting quality people into your life. You create your own circumstance by the thoughts to which you give precedence. Until your thoughts are linked with purpose, you cannot experience true prosperity."

- Randy Gage



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There is no place where Abundance is not!

“Out of abundance they took abundance, and still abundance remained.” - Upanishads

If in doubt close your eyes, relax, take a deep breath, fill your lungs with fresh air and experience abundance... Did you use all the air arround you? Or was there more than enough for all to breathe and still more?

The same principle applies to everything, just because we don't see it, does not lend to the conclusion that abundance is not everywhere.

Surely if God/Energy is everywhere, then surely abundance is everywhere... There is no lack wherever God/Energy is. If in doubt just remember we don't see air yet we breathe it all our lives without it ever running out...

Whatever we desire, wether it be happiness, health or wealth, realize it is already provided before we even had the thought in abundance. We need only to recognize it and be open to recieving it.

Enjoy your abundance in thankfulness and gratitude.


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"SUCCESS REQUIRES NO APOLOGIES, FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS."

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what "they" say if you meet with temporary defeat, for "they," perhaps, do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.

Henry Ford, poor and uneducated, dreamed of a horseless carriage, went to work with what tools he possessed, without waiting for opportunity to favor him, and now evidence of his dream belts the entire earth. He has put more wheels into operation than any man who ever lived, because he was not afraid to back his dreams.

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers DO NOT QUIT!

Whelan dreamed of a chain of cigar stores, transformed his dream into action, and now the United Cigar Stores occupy the best corners in America.

Lincoln dreamed of freedom for the black slaves, put his dream into action, and barely missed living to see a united North and South translate his dream into reality.

The Wright brothers dreamed of a machine that would fly through the air. Now one may see evidence all over the world, that they dreamed soundly.

Marconi dreamed of a system for harnessing the intangible forces of the ether. Evidence that he did not dream in vain, may be found in every wireless and radio in the world. Moreover, Marconi's dream brought the humblest cabin, and the most stately manor house side by side. It made the people of every nation on earth back-door neighbors. It gave the President of the United States a medium by which he may talk to all the people of America at one time, and on short notice. It may interest you to know that Marconi's "friends" had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better.

The world has become accustomed to new discoveries. Nay, it has shown a willingness to reward the dreamer who gives the world a new idea.

"The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream."

"The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. DREAMS ARE THE SEEDLINGS OF REALITY."

Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in the ascendency. The world depression brought the opportunity you have been waiting for. It taught people humility, tolerance, and open-mindedness.

The world is filled with an abundance of OPPORTUNITY which the dreamers of the past never knew.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

- Napoleon Hill

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Just Do It!

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

Wayne Dyer
Author and Speaker


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What's holding you back?

"Its not who you are that holds you back, its what you think you are not."

Ever wished of doing something that would make you feel great that pushes you slightly out of your comfort zone, but then the thought "I can't do that" fear dominates the mind and we let the wish go?

What do you think that you are not that holds you back from your dreams?



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Dr Wayne Dyer - The Story of Teddy

The beutiful story of Teddy and Mrs Thompson, the Elementary School Teacher who was so affected by the life of one of her students; and how she too became such a positive influence on his life...



The story of Teddy is read by international best selling author Wayne Dyer (born 10th May 1940, detroit, USA). Wayne is a popular American self-help writer and lecturer.

Will smith on the Law of Attraction

Will Smith shares his philosophy with the world...

Is your door still open?

"I have a history of people closing doors and me saying "No, it's still open"
- Howard Schultz, Chairman, Starbucks

Howard Schultz, another example of a man who just would not Quit! Howard's idea for starbucks was rejected numerous times by many coffee bean companies, saying it simply wouldn't work. But his passion for his idea and dream was so powerful he never quit, even in the face of so much rejection.

Today Starbucks Coffee can be found at almost every corner of the world...

How often do we quit at the first rejection?

Think what we could achieve if we persisted and changed our perception of rejection to a positive one... Like Howard he saw each rejection as a step closer to realising his dream.

Don't Quit on your Dreams!


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Be Happy Now...

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, Author and Radio Announcer


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Have Faith...

"Take the first step in faith, you don't need to see the whole staircase, just the first step." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)


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What is your purpose?

"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

Robert Collier
Writer and Publisher


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What are you thinking?

"Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming." - Esther Hicks


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Do we still take the time to imagine?

"Imagination is everything, it is the preview of lifes coming attractions." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Do we still imagine and dare to live or do we just accept whatever life throws at us and hope we make it safely across?

Do we ever take the time to think, What if?

Who are we?

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." - Buddha (563BC - 583BC)



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Cheerful no matter what...

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

Martha Washington
1732-1802, First American First Lady


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Who makes your Circumstance?

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” - George Bernard Shaw (1856 ~ 1950)


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"Effect of Thought on Curcumstances"

The below is an excerpt from James Allen's famous book "As a Man Thinketh".

James Allen - 1864 to 1912

"Effect of Thought on Curcumstances"

MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will,bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. He also reveals, within himself, the laws of thought, and understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thought-forces and mind elements operate in the shaping of his character, circumstances, and destiny.

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. This does not mean that a man's circumstances at any given time are an indication of his entire character, but that those circumstances are so intimately connected with some vital thought-element within himself that, for the time being, they are indispensable to his development.

Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err. This is just as true of those who feel "out of harmony" with their surroundings as of those who are contented with them.

As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any length of time practised self-control and self-purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So true is this that when a man earnestly applies himself to remedy the defects in his character, and makes swift and marked progress, he passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires,âand circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.

The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors, which make for the ultimate good of the individual. As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.

Following the inmost desires, aspirations, thoughts, by which he allows himself to be dominated, (pursuing the will-o'-the-wisps of impure imaginings or steadfastly walking the highway of strong and high endeavour), a man at last arrives at their fruition and fulfilment in the outer conditions of his life. The laws of growth and adjustment everywhere obtains.

A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires. Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power. Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings apart from vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations; and man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself the shaper and author of environment. Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which theyare. Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean. The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves; it is our very self. Only himself manacles man: thought and action are the gaolers of Fateâthey imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedomâthey liberate, being noble. Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

In the light of this truth, what, then, is the meaning of "fighting against circumstances?" It means that a man is continually revolting against aneffect without, while all the time he is nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart. That cause may take the form of a conscious vice or an unconscious weakness; but whatever it is, it stubbornly retards the efforts of its possessor, and thus calls aloud for remedy.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life?

Here is a man who is wretchedly poor. He is extremely anxious that his surroundings and home comforts should be improved, yet all the time he shirks his work, and considers he is justified in trying to deceive his employer on the ground of the insufficiency of his wages. Such a man does not understand the simplest rudiments of those principles which are the basis of true prosperity, and is not only totally unfitted to rise out of his wretchedness, but is actually attracting to himself a still deeper wretchedness by dwelling in, and acting out, indolent, deceptive, and unmanly thoughts.

Here is a rich man who is the victim of a painful and persistent disease as the result of gluttony. He is willing to give large sums of money to get rid of it, but he will not sacrifice his gluttonous desires. He wants to gratify his taste for rich and unnatural viands and have his health as well. Such a man is totally unfit to have health, because he has not yet learned the first principles of a healthy life.

Here is an employer of labour who adopts crooked measures to avoid paying the regulation wage, and, in the hope of making larger profits, reduces the wages of his workpeople. Such a man is altogether unfitted for prosperity, and when he finds himself bankrupt, both as regards reputation and riches, he blames circumstances, not knowing that he is the sole author of his condition.

I have introduced these three cases merely as illustrative of the truth that man is the causer (though nearly always is unconsciously) of his circumstances, and that, whilst aiming at a good end, he is continually frustrating its accomplishment by encouraging thoughts and desires which cannot possibly harmonize with that end. Such cases could be multiplied and varied almost indefinitely, but this is not necessary, as the reader can, if he so resolves, trace the action of the laws of thought in his own mind and life, and until this is done, mere external facts cannot serve as a ground of reasoning.

Circumstances, however, are so complicated, thought is so deeply rooted, and the conditions of happiness vary so, vastly with individuals, that a man's entire soul-condition (although it may be known to himself) cannot be judged by another from the external aspect of his life alone. A man may be honest in certain directions, yet suffer privations; a man may be dishonest in certain directions, yet acquire wealth; but the conclusion usually formed that the one man fails because of his particular honesty, and that the other prospers because of his particular dishonesty, is the result of a superficial judgment, which assumes that the dishonest man is almost totally corrupt, and the honest man almost entirely virtuous. In the light of a deeper knowledge and wider experience such judgment is found to be erroneous. The dishonest man may have some admirable virtues, which the other does, not possess; and the honest man obnoxious vices which are absent in the other. The honest man reaps the good results of his honest thoughts and acts; he also brings upon himself the sufferings, which his vices produce. The dishonest man likewise garners his own suffering and happiness.

It is pleasing to human vanity to believe that one suffers because of one's virtue; but not until a man has extirpated every sickly, bitter, and impure thought from his mind, and washed every sinful stain from his soul, can he be in a position to know and declare that his sufferings are the result of his good, and not of his bad qualities; and on the way to, yet long before he has reached, that supreme perfection, he will have found, working in his mind and life, the Great Law which is absolutely just, and which cannot, therefore, give good for evil, evil for good. Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. Men understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world (though its operation there is just as simple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do not co-operate with it.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being. The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure. Suffering ceases for him who is pure. There could be no object in burning gold after the dross had been removed, and a perfectly pure and enlightened being could not suffer.

The circumstances, which a man encounters with suffering, are the result of his own mental inharmony. The circumstances, which a man encounters with blessedness, are the result of his own mental harmony. Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought. A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor. Blessedness and riches are only joined together when the riches are rightly and wisely used; and the poor man only descends into wretchedness when he regards his lot as a burden unjustly imposed.

Indigence and indulgence are the two extremes of wretchedness. They are both equally unnatural and the result of mental disorder. A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer, of the man with his surroundings.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to usethem as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of discovering the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the moulding and moving force in the spiritual government of the world. This being so, man has but to right himself to find that the universe is right; and during the process of putting himself right he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

The proof of this truth is in every person, and it therefore admits of easy investigation by systematic introspection and self-analysis. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance. Bestial thoughts crystallize into habits of drunkenness and sensuality, which solidify into circumstances of destitution and disease: impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating and confusing habits, which solidify into distracting and adverse circumstances: thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallize into weak, unmanly, and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence, and slavish dependence: lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary: hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of accusation and violence, which solidify into circumstances of injury and persecution: selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing. On the other hand, beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and sunny circumstances: pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace: thoughts of courage, self-reliance, and decision crystallize into manly habits, which solidify into circumstances of success, plenty, and freedom: energetic thoughts crystallize into habits of cleanliness and industry, which solidify into circumstances of pleasantness: gentle and forgiving thoughts crystallize into habits of gentleness, which solidify into protective and preservative circumstances: loving and unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self-forgetfulness for others, which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding prosperity and true riches.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannotdirectly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

Nature helps every man to the gratification of the thoughts, which he most encourages, and opportunities are presented which will most speedily bring to the surface both the good and evil thoughts.

Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world will soften towards him, and be ready to help him; let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and lo, opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid his strong resolves; let him encourage good thoughts, and no hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame. The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.

"So You will be what you will to be;
Let failure find its false content
In that poor word, 'environment,'
But spirit scorns it, and is free.

"It masters time, it conquers space;
It cowes that boastful trickster, Chance,
And bids the tyrant Circumstance
Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.

"The human Will, that force unseen,
The offspring of a deathless Soul,
Can hew a way to any goal,
Though walls of granite intervene.

"Be not impatient in delays
But wait as one who understands;
When spirit rises and commands
The gods are ready to obey."


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"This is Good"

The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, "This is good!"

One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb was blown off. Examining the situation, the friend remarked as usual, "This is good!"

To which the king replied - "No, this is not good!" and proceeded to send his friend to jail.

About a year later, the king was hunting in an area that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured him and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some wood, set up a stake and bound him to the stake.

As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. So untying the king, they sent him on his way.

As he returned home, he was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his friend.

"You were right," he said, "it was good that my thumb was blown off." And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened." And so, I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this."

"No," his friend replied, "This is good!"

"What do you mean, 'This is good'? How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?"

"If I had not been in jail, I would have been with you, and not here with you right now."

In a very unusual way, the message here unfolds into exposing the following principle about life.

"Ab solutely everything happens for a purpose; and out of what seems like adversity at the time; always comes good".

I'm sure that if any of us care to reflect back on the tragedy's, the heartaches, the 'bad times' in our lives, that we discover that we have really grown or developed during that period of time:even though the reflection may still cause us discomfort in some way.

It is in this way that we slowly gather experience and wisdom, and even though we may think or feel that it is unfair, that's the way it is.

"This is good". Many of our life's experiences have saved us from some form of cannibals; it's just that we often don't know that they have at the time.

So, for a simple example to help with awareness: next time you may begin to feel you are being 'wronged' by being stuck in a traffic jam, think about the cannibals that could be lurking down the road a bit,but will be gone by the time you get there.

Now that's a bit different, but worth trying: "this is good" - despite the circumstances.

Remember: "What others do or say is their stuff; how we react, or not, is our stuff"!
And: "True Happiness in life isn't having what you want, but wanting what you have"!

Phil Evans

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Thought of the Day: See the Good

"The world can change in an instant. So can the way you choose to see it. Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others."

Bob Perks
Author and Speaker


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Thought of the day: Where are you going?

"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else!"

Lawrence "Yogi" Berra
Baseball Player and Team Manager

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What does my mind dwell upon?

To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.

On the otherhand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best and to become the best.

The creative power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore, it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best and will recieve the best.

- Wallace D. Wattles


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Bob Proctor: Asking For And Accepting Help

Asking For And Accepting Help


Every Friday, for a number of years we have been sharing stories with you written by authors from all over the world. A few days ago, Carol Gates the President of our Coaching Company suggested that I write this Friday story myself. After a short discussion I agreed with her.


It's common knowledge that, globally, business people are being inundated by one challenge after another. These are considered by most everyone, tough times. Personally, I've been in business for a long time. This is my 41st year in this business. I have a number of companies that operate globally and like everyone else, we're experiencing challenges on a number of fronts. However, over the course of these 41 years, I've seen this happen more than once. Fortunately I've always weathered the storm . and not by accident - by design. I thought I'd share with you today some of the ideas that have helped me to keep moving in the right direction.


Carol asked me to write this story because of a question that I was recently asked by one of our current coaching clients, Chi Tse [Ricky]. It's a question I have been asked on a number of occasions. When I gave Ricky the answer Carol said, "Bob you should share that with as many people as you can." So here it goes .


I must have mentioned on some occasion that I had 6 great coaches/mentors in my life. Ricky knew that. He asked me if I could pick one of the most important concepts that I had learned from each of these individuals and share it with him. He pointed out that he had gone online and googled the names of each of these 6 people but was only able to gather information on 2 of them. What I learned from these 6 people I believe will benefit you.


You see, I learned that one of the great secrets in life is recognizing when you need help and graciously accepting it. I coach people from all over the world, and I do this because the coaches I had made such an enormous difference in my life. The changes I experienced came fast and furious and they've all been long lasting. The names of the 6 people are Raymond Douglas Stanford, Earl Nightingale, Lloyd Conant, Val Van De Wall, Dr. C. Harry Roder, and Bill Gove. Let me touch on each of them, one at a time because I believe the lessons I learned will benefit you, as well.


I was working in a fire hall in Toronto when I was 26 years old, and I was not a very happy person. I was earning $4,000/year and I owed $6,000. The idea of getting out of debt never entered my mind. That's when Ray Stanford entered my life. He encouraged me to take an honest look at the results I was getting. He said "Bob, you keep talking about not having a formal education and using it as an excuse for getting poor results." He then said, "Those are only reasons why you're not getting what you want. Set those aside and start to focus on all the reasons you can get what you what." Then he gave me Napoleon Hill's book, Think and Grow Rich. He said, "Bob, if you will make the commitment to do exactly what this book says and to do exactly what I suggest, I'll help you change your life." I didn't really believe I could, but I believed he believed I could. And it was his belief in me that inspired me to begin to study. One year later, I was earning $175,000 a year and, from there, I took it to over a million a year. I didn't know what was happening to me, but I was beginning to realize a lot of the things that I had been thinking weren't true. I thought some people were lucky but others weren't. I was to find out that you and I have exactly the same potential.


I then got a hold of Earl Nightingale's condensed narration of the Napoleon Hill book, Think And Grow Rich on a record. I began listening to that record every day. It was listening to Earl's voice and the information he was sharing that caused me to want to go to work with him. I moved my Family from Toronto to Chicago and joined the Nightingale-Conant Corporation. It was only after I got there that I realized I had a double win. I wasn't only going to work with Earl Nightingale - I would also work with Lloyd Conant. Earl and Lloyd became my 2 coaches. I loved working for them and I got an education that you couldn't buy. They literally originated the self help business in recorded fashion that we know today. In time, the Nightingale-Conant Corporation became the largest distributer of self help programs in the world, and I was working there with the people that originated it. Earl Nightingale taught me how to study. He said, "Don't just read the book, study it. Attempt to understand the idea the author is attempting to communicate in each paragraph. To do that you might need to study that paragraph for a month."


As I'm writing this story, I'm surrounded by a few thousand books in my own library, all of which I've studied. Lloyd Conant taught me to take the lid off my mind and let it soar. He said, "Bob, nothing is big or small, except our thinking makes it so. No one alive knows what we're capable of doing. Go after something big. Even if you miss, it can be exhilarating." It was there that I was introduced to Val Van De Wall. Val and I became great friends and he shared one idea with me that literally changed my life. It was a diagram of the mind. He explained we think in pictures but no one has ever seen the mind so when we think of it, we become confused. There is no order in the mind. A doctor friend of his came up with the original drawing. I refer to it as the Stick Person and I've shared it with people all over the world. If I were to be coaching you, I'd teach it to you.


Val introduced me to his coach, Dr. Harry Roder. Harry knew more about the mind than anyone I'd ever met. I'd spent countless hours with him and I began to understand exactly how the mind functions. In fact, Dr. John Mike from Florida said I taught him more about the mind in 1 year than he had learned in 4 years of medical school and 5 years of psychiatric training. I found that interesting because I had merely taught him what Dr. Roder had taught me.


These 5 men helped me answer a huge question . how and why did my life change? Without any formal education, without any business experience, in less than 5 years, I built a company that operated in 7 cities and 3 different countries and I really didn't understand how I had done it. They taught me what I had changed and how I had accomplished what I had accomplished. It was this magnificent knowledge that triggered this enormous desire in me to teach this to as many people as I could. But I had one enormous problem. I was quiet and shy. I was afraid to stand up and ask a question let alone stand up and teach. It was at that point in the late sixties at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago that a man named Bill Gove walked out on a stage and literally captivated an audience of 500 people. Merely by sharing information with them, he had that audience in the palm of his hand. I stood there thinking, "If only I could do that, then I could teach what I've learned." But the t hought of it scared the daylights out of me.


Now permit me to digress for a moment. On Earl Nightingale's recording of The Magic Word . the magic word being Attitude . at one point he says, "Now right here we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire." If you had asked me if I'd understood it, I probably would've said, "Of course!" But here I was watching Bill Gove do something I thought I couldn't. It was at that point that I started hearing the recording in my head and I realized if Bill can do it, I can do it. I switched my thinking to, "If I could do that, I could help people all over the world change their life." And it suddenly dawned on me that we are capable of doing anything. I'm not going to just do that, I'm going to get the man on the stage, Bill Gove, to teach me. and he did. Today I'm able to do what he did and get on the stage and share this valuable information. Bill Gove and I remained friends for over 35 years until he passed away a few years ago.


All of these men are gone but their legacy lives on, through me and all of the other people they helped. So Ricky, there's your answer - in print. That's how my life changed. These people taught me to earn millions of dollars and invest it back into a business that has helped millions of people.


I want to leave you with one thought: These are only tough times if you think of them as tough times. I see these as good times. It is times like these that cause us to grow. to dig down deep inside and bring something out of ourselves that we might not have known was there. I am very pleased that I have been able to share what I have learned with many thousands of people from every walk of life through our Coaching Program. I've watched people who were in financial trouble become prosperous; companies that were struggling grow into viable organizations. Any way a person can be helped, I've seen it happen because the answers are within us. And, because of what these great men taught me, I was able to pass it along.


If you feel inclined to take advantage of what I've learned, we do have a great coaching program. In this program, I work with people for an entire 13 months because I've found that's about how long it takes to get a person to change the conditioning in their mind that has been holding them back, so they can improve the results in their life.


If you would like to change, let me help you learn what my coaches taught me. If you think I could help you, send me an email at bob@bobproctorcoaching.com and I'll get back to you.


Bob Proctor
Chairman
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Am I a Victim or a Victor?

To create a life of meaning, fulfillment, and prosperity, you have to be open to questioning everything - especially deep seated beliefs that you feel strongly about. Pay particular attention to things that arouse your emotions. If you get really mad about something - then that is an issue that needs serious reflection on your part. Any mental health professional will tell you that when you react emotionally to an issue, something there threatens you and causes insecurity. We mirror things, and usually something that angers us most about another person is an issue we fear in ourselves.

When you do your self examination and critical thinking, ask yourself this question:

Am I holding on to a certain beliefs because they allow me to validate behaviour that is keeping me from my greatness?

That may be the most important question you ask yourself all year, so treat it with the reverence it deserves. God wants you to tap into all the greatness you have.

You were born to be healthy, happy, and prosperous.

Your health, happiness, relationships, financial situation, and intellegence will all be determined by the thoughts you give precedence to, the ideas you birth in your mind.

Build on your awareness of universal laws and expand your faith in your own innate good as well as the talents you are blessed with. The oppositional stuff will come, and it will come in great abundance. But know that it comes not at your expense, but at your expanse. Your faith in right outcomes is the only belief you need.

I believe that faith is a superhuman power we possess - a mind power with the ability to shape substance. The foundation for every work is an idea. Faith makes the idea real to you and your subconcious mind. It even makes it real to others. When others have faith in the thing you are doing, selling, or creating, they see it as worthy of their support. This creates the power of the mastermind and greatly expands your prosperity power.

God/Universe/Power does not grant your requests. Your prosperity and abundance have been provided for already. You need to claim what is yours.

Your prosperity is not tied to the economy, your job, your education, your boss, or your past. It is here, now, for you to manifest as you choose to. Every person on this planet - you included - deserves to experience abundance. You were born to be rich, healthy, and happy.

Now it is up to you to accept what is yours!

You can fight these premises and deny what is written above. You can find thousands who will support you to do this. From your minister to your newspaper editor, from your elected representatives to your best friend, they are lots if people who will tell you are the special victim of circumstances. They will seek to discredit the thoughts written above and validate the reasons for your lack of success and happiness. They will defend to the death your right to be dumb, sick and broke. And you can feel noble for being so.

Or you can take in the above and question it, along with your core foundational beliefs. You can sort through the issues, uncover the subconcious programming you didn't know was there and replace it with positive programming and empowering beliefs. You can actually develop a purpose in your life, and live by a philosophy which supports it. And choose to be smart healthy and rich.

What's it going to be?

- Randy Gage

Nails in the Fence

NAILS IN THE FENCE

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. ?His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose h is temper at all.

He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, 'You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Remember that friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us.'

Please forgive me if I have ever left a 'hole' in your fence.

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Thoughts -- Destiny....

Imagination...

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

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What really counts?

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life
in your years!" - Abraham Lincoln

Your thoughts brought you here...

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Allen

"This principle was not easy for me to accept and I fought it for a
long time. As miserable as my life was at the time I learned the
concept, I was certain that there was no way that it was due to the
thoughts that I had held. There were too many other reasons why things
had gone bad: my ex spouse, the economy, a client who had wronged me,
and on and on. Since I wasn't responsible for my "Bad Luck", then
certainly my thoughts had nothing to do with it.

But I was wrong. Like the biblical Job who said "The thing I feared
most had come upon me", I too had thought myself into the situation I
was in." - Vic Johnson

"There was always one person at the scene of the crime - me! ...Stop
being a victim and be a victor!" - Randy Gage

"I credit one simple concept with getting started on my journey into
self-discovery. After a great deal of study and contemplation, I came
to the conclusion that people have in their lives today exactly what
they keep telling their mind they want." - Dr. Walter Doyle (Think
Like A Winner)

"If you and you alone can think yourself into such a mess, then surely
you and you alone can think yourself out of it." - Vic Johnson

"It wasn't overnight and it wasn't easy, but it was a sure thing! And
by accepting all of the responsibility for where I was, and all of the
responsibility for where I was going, I experienced a tremendous joy
and freedom. I knew in my knower that I got my self into the
predicament, I could get myself out." - Vic Johnson

Les Brown's three steps to take during hard times:

1. Have faith (faith is the substance of things hoped for...)
2. Remind yourself: no matter how hard it is or how hard it gets, I'm
going to make it!
3. Have patience and engage in consistent action.

And that's worth thinking about...

JW

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The Filter Test....

Filter Test

In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem.
 
One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"
 
"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."
 
"Triple filter?"
 
 "That's right," Socrates continued.
"Before you talk to me about my  friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test.
 
The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"
 
"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and…" "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not."
 
Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?"
 
"No, on the contrary…" "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left:- the filter of Usefulness."
 
"Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"
 
"No, not really."
 
"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"
 
This is why Socrates was a great philosopher & held in such high esteem.
 
Take some time when reading the above and think about the filter test and try and apply it to your life.

Create your own circumstances...

"A person only begins to become the person he wants to be when he
ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden
justice which regulates his life." - James Allen (As a man thinketh)

Revile: means to condemn, despise, and berate.

"When we whine and revile we give power to that which we revile and
whine about. We cease to be in charge of our life." - Vic Johnson

"I no longer view the world in terms of unfortunate accidents or
misfortunes. I know in my being that I influence it all, and now find
myself considering why I created a situation, rather than saying, "why
me?". This heightened awareness directs me to look inside of myself
for answers. I take responsibility for all of it, and the interesting
puzzle becomes a facinating challenge when I decide to influence areas
of my life in which I previously believed I was not in control. I now
feel that I control it all." - Wayne Dyer (You'll see it when you
believe it.)

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I
don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are
the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if
they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

How do we develop the necessary character to make our circumstances
instead of allowing our circumstances to make us? ---

"You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that
quality every day. If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain
necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God
to give you what you need - and He will." - Emmet Fox

And that's worth thinking about...

JW

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Decide To Grow...

"Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and
a person can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig
deep into the mine of his soul." - James Allen

"The classic book "Acres of Diamonds" is the story of a person who
sold his home and land to travel far and wide in search of diamonds,
only to die pennyless. As the story goes, the new owner discovered
diamonds on the very property that the old owner had ignored.

A lot of times I think we act the same way when we are trying to "Fix"
something in our life. Whether it's happiness or self-esteem or love
that we seek, many times we look outside to ourselves to find the
answer. We look to a spouse, a friend, a child or a parent to fill the
void. Perhaps we expect the answer to come from our pursuit of our
occupation or other interests. Or we expect a new home, a new car or a
new boat to satisfy our "hunger".

But, alas, like the poor farmer in Acres of Diamonds, our search comes
up empty handed. And just like the story, diamonds are waiting to be
discovered in our own back yard. As James Allen points out, the only
way to find the gold and diamonds is to "dig deep into the mine of the
soul". It is here, he says, that we will find EVERY TRUTH connected to
our being." - Vic Johnson

"The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside." - Jim Rohn
(Conversely, thats also where the greatest (and only) source of true
happiness comes from. )

"Instead of searching far and wide, spend some time every day
searching inside. Instead of expecting something outside to fill you
up, learn to fill yourself from within. Make a commitment to read more
of the material that will help you discover who you are. Make a
descision to grow." - Vic Johnson

"What you become directly influences what you get." - Jim Rohn

And that's worth thinking about...

JW

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Be Blind To Failure

"He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will
one day realise it" - James Allen

"There was an incredible story in the June 18, 2001 issue of Time
magazine about Erik Weihenmayer who had recently climbed Mt. Everest.

Now there's been quite a few people that have climbed the worlds
highest summit since Sir Edmund Hillary first did in 1953. But no one
had ever climbed Mt. Everest that was blind, until Erik Weihenmayer did.

What's even more amazing is that on September 5, 2002 he reached the
top of Mt. Kosciusko, the highest peak in Australia. That made Erik
the first blind climber to reach the top of the traditional Seven
Summits, the most challenging peaks in the world.

Erik can't see like the most of us can, but he knows, like James Allen
knew, that if we settle for what we can see today, we'll never live
the life of our dreams. We have to have a vision for our life, for
what we want to become. Most importantly, we have to cherish it and
hold on tightly to it when circumstances are telling us that we'll
never see our vision.

If you read Erik's story you'll discover that Erik stumbled into the
Camp on the first floor of Mt. Everest bloodied, sick and dehydrated.
And he was still 9000 feet (almost two miles) from the summit. But
Erik had cherished and lived with his vision for years and would not
be denied. Like the tittle of the story says, Erik was "Blind to
Failure".

The ancient writer tells us in Proverbs that "Without a vision, the
people perish". So we must take the time to determine the vision for
our life. But once we've settled on our vision, then it's important
that we take James Allen's advice to cherish it in our heart. " - Vic
Johnson

"Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in
the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole
process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with
failure." - Erik Weihenmayer

And that's worth thinking about...

JW

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Good Thoughts Bear Good Fruit...

"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take
root there, produces it's own, blossoming sooner or later into act,
and bearing it's own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good
thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit." - James Allen

"Are you thinking about what you're thinking about??" - Mark Shearon

"Most people give very little thought to what occupies their thinking
and even fewer people understand that "good thoughts bear good fruit,
bad thoughts, bad fruit". Most of us understand the law of sowing and
reaping in other aspects of life, but we fail to understand that this
same law is just as potent when our thoughts are involved." - Vic
Johnson

A June 1997 story in the Wall Street Journal said that HMOs reported
that as much as 70% of all visits to a primary care physician are for
a psychosomatic illness -- a disorder that involves both mind and
body. According to Dr. David Sobel, a primary care physician and
author of the highly respected Mind-Body Health Newsletter, only 16%
of people who visit their physician for common maladies like nausea,
headache and stomach upset are diagnosed with a physical, organic
cause. That means that a whopping 84% are suffering from an illness
that originated in THOUGHT!

These statistics tell us that the majority of people literally think
their way to sickness.

"If you've never trained yourself in "right thinking", I challenge you
to spend today monitoring and recording your thoughts. If you
understand the power of thought in your life, at the end of the day
you won't be surprised at why your life is where it's at today, be it
good or bad." - Vic Johnson

"The more you think about lack, bad times, etc..., the worse will your
business be; and the more you think of prosperity, abundance, and
success, the more of these things will you bring into your life.

The more you think about your grievences or the injustaces that you
have suffered, the more such trials will you continue to receive; and
the more you think of the good fortune you have had, the more good
fortune will come to you." - Emmet Fox

And that's worth thinking about...

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Definitely Directed Thought...

"All achievements, whether in business, intellectual, or spiritual
world, are the result of definitely directed thought." - James Allen

"How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend
more time planning their vacation than they do planning their life. I
would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more
time "thinking" about their vacation than they do thinking about
what's important in their life." - Vic Johnson

"The "power of definitely directed thought" (the power of purpose) is
why I love the story of John Goddard so much. When he was 15 years
old, Goddard was inspired to create a list of 127 "life goals". By one
count, the "young seventy-something" has accomplished 109 of these
PLUS 300 others be set along the way!!

Here is just a few of the ones he's reached:

He climbed the Matterhorn, Ararat, Kilimanjaro, Fiji, Rainier and the
Grand Tetons.

He retraced the route of Marco Polo through all of the middle east,
Asia and China and was the first man to explore the whole length of
the worlds longest river, the Nile. He also boated down the Amazon,
Congo and others.

He has been to 120 countries, explored the under water reefs of
Florida, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the Red Sea, visited the
Great Wall of China, the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia, and the
Everglades in Florida.

He has flown 47 different types of aircraft, and set several civillian
air speed records including one at 1500 miles an hour. He flew a F-106
to an altitude of 63000 feet, making him the only civilian to pilot an
aircraft that high, a record which he still holds.

And I am just getting started. But I think you get the point.

Okay, maybe it's been a while since you were 15, and maybe coming up
with 127 life goals is a bit intimidating at this point. But how about
10? How much would the quality of your life improve if you
accomplished just one life goal in each of the next ten years?

You won't ever know if you don't start now -- and if you don't WRITE
them down." - Vic Johnson

"If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how
opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out." - John Goddard

And that's worth thinking about...

JW

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Persist until...

"Great is the heartfelt joy when, after innumerable and apparently
unsuccessful attempts, some ingrained fault of character is at last
cast out to trouble it's erstwhile victim and the world no more." -
James Allen

"If I had to pick one character trait that I think is a "must have" in
order to be successful in any endeavor, it would be persistence. In
fact, it seems to be the one trait that is the dominent trait in every
single, super-successful individual I know. I believe it to be the one
trait that any ordinary person can use to become extraordinary." - Vic
Johnson

"The only thing that was different about Henry Ford and Thomas Edison
was their persistence." - Napoleon Hill

"If your head is hanging low today as mine has done on many a day, I
hope you'll find encouragement to know that you really only need to do
one thing at this point --- PERSIST. And that means taking just one
step in the right direction --- even a half step in the right
direction." - Vic Johnson

And that's worth thinking about...

JW

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Master your fears...

"Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who
encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every
step." - James Allen

"I've heard it said that we're born with only a few fears - like the
fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. All other fears we learn
along the way. Like the fear of failure, fear of rejection - even a
fear of success. I believe our greatest enemy in life is fear, because
fear keeps us from doing many of those things we would like to do that
would make our life more complete and more enjoyable." -Vic Johnson

"Doubt is the first cousin of fear and precedes it. We weren't born
with doubt. Our habbit of doubt has grown throughout our life. If we
dwell on a doubt and give into it, it then grows into fear." - Vic
Johnson

"A doubtful mind will be as unsettled as the wave of the sea that is
tossed and driven by the wind; and every decision you then make will
be uncertain, as you turn first this way, and then that." - The
Apostle James

Doubt makes us ineffective...

"If most of our fears and all of our doubts are learned along the way,
then we can "unlearn" them by becoming masters of our thoughts." - Vic
Johnson

"True courage is not the absence of fear, it's the mastery of fear." -
Mark Twain

"The people who live the life of their dreams have just as many fears
as those who live miserable, unfulfilled lives - they have just
learned to master their fears instead of allowing their fears to
master them." - Vic Johnson

"You can cancel out fear with faith. For there is no force in this
world more powerful than faith. The most amazing things can happen as
a result of it... There are two massive thought forces competing for
control of the mind: fear and faith, and faith is stronger, much
stronger. Hold that thought of faith's greater power until you believe
it, for it can be the difference between success and failure." -
Norman Vincent (You can if you think you can)

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon

"Everyone is afraid at some point or another. Those who succeed in
conquering fear have put their focus on what's important to them
rather than on the fear. If your young child darted across the street
in front of traffic, you'd easily overcome the fear of any physical
danger that retrieving the child would pose. The child's life is more
important to you than the fear. So focus on what's beyond the fear -
what's on the other side - when you overcome the fear." - Vic Johnson

"Dont wonder wether something is possible - don't get bogged down in
WHETHER. Ask HOW. Over and over if you have to, but ask how can you do
it, not whether you can." - Brian Tracy

And that's worth thinking about...

JW

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Dreams are Magic Sparks...

"Dreams are the seedlings of realities." - James Allen

"Look slowly arround you. All that you see at this moment was one
dream but someone's dream - a "seedling of the reality" it was to
become, In our lifetime we have benefited greatly from the dreams of
so many.

Mandela, Mother Teresa, Einstein, Gandhi, Speilberg, Disney, Gates,
and the list could go on and on --- all began with a dream. Who could
forget one of the most powerful speeches of all time by Dr. Martin
Luther King, I Have a Dream. While we havent become a colour-blind
society we should be, go back and read the speech and see how far
we've come since Dr. King first spoke those "seedlings" into reality.

So maybe you dont see yourself as a Mandela or Mother Teresa. But if
you havent already discovered it, deep inside you there is a dream. It
was put there by the one who created you, as we are told in Jeremiah
29:11, "For I know the plans I have for you, plans to give you hope
and a future".- Vic Johnson

"On a regular basis, take time to imagine the very best that life can
be. Step aside for a moment from the day to day concerns of life. Re-
establish contact with your highest goals and most treasured dreams.
Remind yourself of the beautiful possibilities that life holds for
you. Renew your determination to bring them to fruition."

"Spend some quality time with your dreams. They are real to the extent
that you value them. To the extent that you commit to them and work
for them, they will come true." - Ralph Marston

"There's so much strength in all of us, every woman, child and man,
it's the moment that you think you can't you'll discover that you
can." - Celine Dion

And that's worth thinking about...

Harmonising one's thoughts...

"A person is the causer (though nearly always unconciously) of his circumstances, and that, whilst aiming at the good end, he is continually frustrating it's accomplishment by encouraging thoughts and desires which cannot possibly harmonise with that end." - James Allen

One of the examples James Allen uses to support this philosophy is a rich man who is the victim of a painful and persistent disease as the result of gluttony. He's willing to give large sums of money to get rid of the disease and he fully expects that will be the cure. Unfortunatly, he never addresses the glutonous desire that is the cause of his condition. He can never achieve good health because his desires are not in harmony with the good health he seeks, regardless of the money he spends.

We cannot change our circumstances without first changing our thoughts to harmonise with the circumstances we want. To think otherwise is just as foolish as the gluttonous rich man.

"You'll see it when you believe it" - Wayne Dyer

"Work each day on your thoughts rather than concentrating on your behaviour. It is your thinking that creates the feelings you have and ultimately your actions as well." - Wayne Dyer

And that's worth thinking about...

Focus on the solution not the problem... Focus on ideas!

"No person can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue... Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with; anxiety is, therefore, unnecessary. The task which cannot be overcome ceases to be a difficulty and becomes an impossibility... And there is only one way of dealing with an impossibility - namely submit to it" - James Allen

"There is no problem that we should be anxious about. We can either solve it or it's impossible to solve." - Vic Johnson

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference." - The Serenity Prayer

"There is also another great reason not to be anxious about the difficulty your facing today - it contains a lesson! And once you master it, you will be much stronger and wiser." - Vic Johnson

"It is the law that any difficulties that can come at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tradgedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson." - Emmet Fox

And that's worth thinking about...

Every circumstance has two sides...

"Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that situation and which you bring to bear upon it" - James Allen

"Circumstances are not negative or positive, circumstances are neutral. It is our thinking, that makes a circumstance positive or negative." - Vic Johnson

"Everything in the universe has it's opposite. There would be no inside to a room without an outside. You have a right and left side to your body, a front and a back. Every up has a down and every down has an up. The law of polarity not only states that everything has an opposite - it is equal and opposite. If it was three feet from the floor up to the table, it would be three feet from the table down to the floor. If it is 150 miles from Manchester to London, by law it must be 150 miles from London to Manchester; it could not be any other way." - Bob Proctor

"If something you considered bad happens in your life, there has to be something good about it. If it was only a little bad, when you mentally work your way around to the other side, you will find it will only be a little good" - Bob Proctor

"While the flat tire you have seems to be a negative circumstance to you, it's  a very positive circumstance for your local tire dealer. Looking even further it's possible that while changing the tire the dealer discovers a much more serious problem that would have cost you a large sum if money if discovered later." - Randy Gage

"Its the way we view a circumstance that determines it's impact on our thinking and mental state....this determines the quality of life that we live." - Vic Johnson

"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill

And that's worth thinking about....

If You Think You Have Failed - Think Again!

Author: Ryan Kiew

Ever tried doing something repeatedly but failed miserably each time? Do you ever feel like quitting when everything you try does not seem to work? Congratulations! You are already much more successful than the majority of people who do not even try and a few steps closer to success than you think you are! Why do I say so?

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

The majority of the people have big goals like you and me. They hope to advance in their career, start their own business, earn lots of money, buy a new car, go for that long vacation etc, but fail to take even the first step towards their goals. Therefore, by failing, it means that you have already gone past the first major hurdle in attaining your goals. Goals without actions are just day dreams!

"Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no failure in life, there is only feedback as you will never ever really fail, unless you give up! Every unsuccessful attempt only gives you additional information feedback that you need to fine tune your ideas. See each failure as a new opportunity to begin more wisely with a higher probability of success. Eventually you will be successful if you keep trying!

"Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that know not victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

If you have never made a mistake in life, it means that you have not live it to the fullest. Failure is part of the learning process when we attempt new things, try new challenges. By failing, we learn, by learning we grow. Eventually, we can rightfully say that we are a better person than before as each failure is closer step towards self-actualization! When we grow old and look back at our life, we do not want it to be full of regret knowing that there are many things that we wished we had done but have not attempted!

So the next time you think that you have failed, consider what I have mentioned above and you will feel much better. It does not matter how slowly you go or how many mistakes you make. As long as you do not stop, you will achieve your goals successfully eventually!