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Quotes - 2010

Do You Believe?

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All things are possible to him who really believes. – Jesus, The Urantia Papers, (158:5.2)

the grand plan

Apparently we were created out of dust to grow and progress to the highest levels of spirit consciousness over many ages and innumerable transformations. The idea is to learn and to know everything possible. Not just everything under the Sun, but everything under all the stars, of a well nigh infinite universe!

faith is key

As we gather our senses and begin to understand what’s going on, our chief tool is belief. We first dream it up, then believe that it’s possible. To connect to God all we need is to believe that she exists. To ‘gather our senses’ is another way to become still and to meditate!

Daily Affirmation: Today I believe, I have faith.

Recommendation: The Urantia Book

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Quotes - 2010

Getting Even

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You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. – Dick Armey

getting even

Do you get even? Even when we don’t do so explicitly, we often do get even, in hidden and subtle ways. How you might ask? We do it when we correct folks, we do it when we live and act as though we know it all, we do it when we ignore people purposely or when we refuse to engage with someone for one reason or another. We get even in thought, word and sometimes in deed.

getting ahead

Whenever we get even, in any fashion, we hamper our peace and happiness. Getting even affects our growth because it holds us from conquering our ego-self. It’s important time, energy and negative attention spent on the ‘other’ rather than on ‘self’.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM humble! I let others be.

Recommendation: Thoughts Become Things! by Mike Dooley

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Articles, Quotes - 2010

Extraordinary You!

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You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you. – Yogananda

exemplary living

  • How do you live a life that dazzles the world?
  • How can you best use the creativity you were born with?
  • What makes for stupendous success in life?

your uniqueness

  • By being yourself, without fear, with courage, with bravado, with faith and knowing that you truly can’t ever fail.
  • By living your life fully, utilizing your gifts and by not being lazy or a procrastinator.
  • By loving more than you normally would, by going the 2nd mile in service to others and by thinking of them before you think of your own self.
  • By never giving up, by never stopping to grow and by always seeing the world with the eyes of a child.

No you don’t need to invent the next best thing since sliced bread or become a President of the USA, you just need to be the you God designed and give life your best shot! God is looking for that uniqueness, that personality to emerge from you, that has no other expression in the whole of creation! That’s YOU!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a success, just the way I AM.

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

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Be & Do!

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I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with your heart. – Mike Fanelli

the BeDo continuum

All of life follows what I call the The BeDo Continuum! Here’s a schematic from my article:

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What I should say is that all of life, that’s being lived in a fulfilling way is likely following The BeDo Continuum! The being aspects often come first. They come from reflection and inspiration.

human ‘beings’

Whenever you catch yourself. ‘Catch yourself’? What does that mean? I mean whenever you become reflective and aware of your own being and thinking, become further aware of whether you’re in a doing mode or a being mode. We mostly operate in the doing mode, so ‘catch yourself’, step back, examine what you’re doing and to what end. Start the virtuous BeDo Continuum! Remember we’re human ‘beings’ not human doings!

Daily Affirmation: Today I be first then do.

Recommendation: The Art of Being by Erich Fromm

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Articles, Quotes - 2010

Approaching Reality

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. – Abraham Lincoln

what’s real?

If you believe in God or a Universal Intelligence then you must agree that reality comes from that source. The source is reality. You must also then agree that our purpose must be to approach or to become that reality.

becoming true

To approach reality our core must be true and pure. We must not be fooling ourselves and living a lie, in any fashion. When we start to live a true life we start to approach reality. We become worthy vessels to experience the essential reality that’s already within us.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM true to self and to all others.

Recommendation: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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Articles, Quotes - 2010

The Double Ouch

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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.  – William Shakespeare

we try and be someone else

I was reading (actually listening) to Transformational Speaking by Gail Larsen this morning and one of the key principles she espoused was around ‘being yourself’. She mentions this concept of the ‘double ouch’ as it relates to public speaking. It essentially means that most of us have the potential to fail twice, once as we try to be someone else and a 2nd time when we fail as our own selves!

fail as ourselves

Instead try the single ouch where you allow only your own self to fail or prosper! Give you to yourself completely, that would be a lifetime’s journey all by itself!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM me. I succeed as myself.

Recommendation: Transformational Speaking by Gail Larsen

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Quotes - 2010

Your Word

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Hold firmly to your word. – Maimonides

promises

Promises that you make to others and yourself are important. They represent a creation that emerges from you. They reflect intention and thought. The words you speak to yourself, become your life programming. Often these words and promises are uttered by you even when you’re not fully conscious of them. So watch what you create, watch what words you use and watch carefully what you explicitly or implicitly promise others or self!

flexibility

Hold to your word but not to your own detriment. Stay flexible. As you become more aware of the words that you create and the self-programming that you allow to happen, become increasingly intentional about it. That way you’re aware of what you do to yourself, you’ll know where flexibility is necessary or where you must keep your word.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM my word. I will watch what I feed myself.

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes

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