Warm Holiday WIshes

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Christmas is Forever - Happy Holidays

 

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Christmas Views

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It's Christmas

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A Christmas Card from Mother

A Christmas Card from Mother  (Napoleon Hill Yesterday and Today Issue 359)

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My mother . . . As the sun was about to rise one summer’s morning, her spirit departed from a full and happy life. She was ready.

Fall followed summer, then winter—Christmas morning arrived.

On the breakfast table this eventful Christmas morning was a beautiful Christmas card from . . . Mother. The writing on the envelope was unmistakably here . . . just the name: Clement.

Perhaps because of the suddenness of this pleasant surprise—perhaps because of the habit of seeing my name on the envelope containing a Christmas card from Mother each Christmas morning – perhaps because I believe in miracles – or perhaps in the thrill and expectancy of reaching for the envelope to open it I did not at first think this strange.

As I read and enjoyed the pleasurable surprise of seeing her very discernible handwriting in the signature – “Mother” – a feeling of amazement came over me. A Christmas card from Mother!

After a long pause, I read the card to those she loved so dearly: Jessie, Clem, Donna and Norman . . . my wife and my children.

As I was reading, I kept seeking a logical explanation for – A Christmas Card from Mother. (If you would like the explanation, if you would like to learn how to make someone truly happy on Christmas Day or a birthday, read below.)

Explanation of a Christmas Card from Mother

While getting out our Christmas ornaments, Mrs. Stone ran across many of the lovely Christmas cards we had saved, including . . . A Christmas Card from Mother. My wife’s thoughtfulness in placing the card at my breakfast place brought me much happiness. Perhaps you can give this joy to a dear one, too.

Source: Success Unlimited. W. Clement Stone. Editor and Publisher. December, 1962, Pgs. 2 & 17.

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Lessons Learned from Living are the Most Valuable

A Christmas Card from Mother | Napoleon Hill Yesterday & Today Issue 359

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Lessons learned from living are the most valuable ones. These experiential happenings often “cut us to the quick” as the Wizard of Oz tells Dorothy when she challenges his authenticity. Doing intensifies and cements the experience because it is in the “doing” that we live, move, and have our being. Through our bodies we internalize the experience and that is what makes it more profound.

Unless you have directly experienced something, you may think you understand what the actual feeling is like, but it is not until you do that you will know the difference between an imagined occurrence and an actual experience. The difference is intense. Many times people console others by saying “I know how you feel,” but those who actually have walked in your footsteps comfort with just silence and their physical presence. Words do not suffice.

In this lifetime, we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. This experience is tied to the lessons that we are here to learn. All lessons are not popular or positive ones. Many are horrific and feel like a sucker punch right in the solar plexus. Once experienced, it is hard to forget something like that, so we learn a valuable lesson and keep on living but with eyes now wide open.

Death forces us into accountability with life. We already know the end result, but why is it we defer the good that we can now do until the opportunity has passed us by? Regret does not feel as good as joy in a job well done. When we are enthusiastic, passionate, and living the life we imagine, in the time of loss we will have stored up good memories that serve to console us. It is comforting to know that we contributed to the good of the whole, and did not fail to act when the opportunity was there for us.

Today, just for once do something extraordinary for someone who least expects it and maybe doesn’t “deserve” it. Feel the good that you can create and do it just to delight in the experience of playing the role of “do-gooder.” Each and every one of us can be a philanthropist if we just act on our highest imaginings. What legacy of experiences are you actualizing now?

Vintage Essay from
 Judy Williamson, Director

Napoleon Hill World Learning Center

Purdue University at Calumet 

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Life Challenges - Expect a Miracle from Humble St Nicholas

Call to ACTION - It’s time for your letter to Santa.

Do you have an idea or problem that you or the world needs to work on today?  

Write a letter detailing your heartfelt concern to Santa - either personal or global- and request the gift of a solution from this humble St. Nicholas. As you state the problem, be aware of potential ideas and

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perhaps solutions that come to mind. Whether fantasy or reality, write them down as they occur.  

As you brainstorm within your letter, consider how by composing your letter you are setting up the expectation for an answer. Give yourself freedom to be a seeker of a positive outcome even if your reality is currently negative. Write your “Dear Santa” letter on your best stationery, in your best hand-writing, and place it in an envelope.  

Remember to date and sign it too.

Now, put it right where you know Santa will find it, and listen in your heart to hear his response. When the time is right, once again put pen to paper and allow Santa to dictate his response to you.  

Expect a miracle. Santa always delivers on schedule!

Action Assignment 49 from NapoleonHill.org

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10 Great Affirmations for a Success-Filled and Prosperous Life

10 great affirmations that make you feel great just by saying them and with daily practice they will lead to a success-filled and prosperous life, from the folks at Mind Movies because it changes your mindset.

Meditation helps a lot here.

So go ahead, increase your prosperity consciousness!

1-  I am successful in everything I do.
2-  My life is filled with abundance.
3-  Every cell in my body vibrates with positive energy.
4-  I am worthy of love .
5-  I easily manifest my dreams.
6-  I am calm and relaxed in every situation.
7-  Money flows freely and abundantly into my life.
8-  My potential is limitless.
9-  My heart is a magnet that attracts more of everything I desire.
10- I radiate love and happiness every single day.
 

Quick tip:  At the end of reading these affirmations, say 'I choose to create all of this or
something better to attract even more than my imagination allows me to see right now'!

So I hope you enjoyed reading them :) I challenge you to say some out loud today and see how great
it makes you feel.

Natalie, Mind Movies

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My Favourite Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Quotes - We Will Never See Another Like Him

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for. But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.  Nelson Mandela's statement before Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964





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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.  

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.  

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping

it will kill your enemies.

 

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

 

Give a child love, laughter, and peace, not AIDS.

 

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated
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Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I do not want to be presented as some deity. I would like to be remembered as an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

I do not want to be presented as some deity. I would like to be remembered as an ordinary human being with virtues and vices
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Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
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Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
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Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
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5 Daily Practices to Help You Forgive - It Will Cure Whatever Ails You

Forgiveness will cure whatever ails you.
Iyanla Vanzant

The number one topic our customers ask us about is forgiveness. We get hundreds of calls to our office and hundreds of comments on our social media pages each day from people who want more advice on how to forgive—their families, friends, partners, coworkers or just themselves.

It was in early 2000. I certainly heard about Iyanla for many years, but didn't get the chance to meet her until I talked to our attorney. 

Ken, who was also Iyanla's attorney, had some insight about Hay House and Iyanla working together, so he arranged for us to meet. After a brief meeting in Los Angeles, I was very moved by the ideas that Iyanla had. So I flew to DC to find out more.

I had dinner with Iyanla and her daughter Gemmia in Georgetown. I remember that evening so clearly. I loved every minute of the time and conversation we shared.

Iyanla and her daughter were amazing. When I saw how passionate they were about helping others to heal and grow, I knew we shared a similar vision. We kept in touch after that, with more ideas on how to bring Iyanla's message to Hay House.

Then the unthinkable happened. Gemmia was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. And on Christmas morning the following year, Iyanla hugged her daughter for the last time.

As a parent, I couldn't imagine the painful journey Iyanla now faced. I remember some of the words she wrote at that time: "My daughter wasn't the only one who died that day." Iyanla named her family, her marriage, her ministry, her faith in God, her purpose and so many other things among the fatalities. "Most important of all, when my best friend, my middle child, took her last breath, my sense of self died along with her. I was a woman whose dance card was suddenly filled with death and whose heart has shattered into a million pieces."

But somehow, she turned around and did the unthinkable. Iyanla dug deep, learned how to see beyond her wounds and pick up the pieces. Somehow Iyanla found forgiveness and peace—even after all she had been through.

Iyanla is a great teacher. She tells it like it is. She lets us know how we get caught up in our stuff, how we get stuck in our relationships and our drama of what other people have done to us. She says we're too quick to judge and too slow to forgive. But what I love about Iyanla and her new book is how she gives us a plan to put into action: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything.

As Iyanla says: "You cannot unhear what you have heard. You cannot unsee what you have seen. What you can do, however, is stop wishing that whatever happened in the past hadn't happened."
And she ought to know.

Reid Tracy , Hay House (Present Moments)

5 Daily Practices to Help You Forgive
Iyanla Vanzant

What I have learned during my 30-year sojourn through the science of personal and spiritual growth and healing is that forgiveness will cure whatever ails you. The other thing I am totally convinced of is that while forgiveness ain't easy, it's the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart.

Most of us were never taught that any experience that comes into your life comes by energetic invitation. For this reason, it is imperative that you learn how to keep your energy clear. The practice of forgiveness is your ticket to clarity, vitality, and freedom.

Over the years, I have received hundreds of thousands of letters written by people from all walks of life. Many reveal excruciating stories of sorrow and suffering. At one time, I would write long responses, offering condolences and possible explanations for the tragedies people had endured.

Then my daughter passed away, and I was inconsolable. I ended a 40-year relationship, and I was enraged. I was forced to move out of my dream home, and I was ashamed and degraded.



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If you know anything about my life story, you know that I have been to some very dark places. Through every experience of my "life breakdown," the only thing that made me feel as if I was still in possession of my right mind, with the capacity to make it through the darkness, was forgiveness.

Even when I didn't know whom to forgive or why I should forgive, I said the words. I wrote them in my journal. I cried and screamed, pouted and sometimes I even stomped my feet in resistance, but in the end I learned to forgive everyone for everything, including myself. In the process, I discovered something extraordinary. I discovered peace.

My new book Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything is my loving challenge for you to come out of the darkness and into the light. In it, I share my practice that will help you to clear the decks of your mind and heart to create the space necessary for you to live with more love for yourself and others.

1- Still Your Mind — Begin your day by stilling your mind for at least 5 minutes. You can also listen to one of your favorite meditations.

2- Begin a Forgiveness Journal — Get yourself a Forgiveness Journal and a special pen and start writing. Give yourself permission to be radically honest with yourself about yourself. Write your most heartfelt thought or memory to access your innermost thoughts and beliefs.

3- Read a Forgiveness Prayer — Read a Forgiveness prayer twice a day—once silently and once aloud. Hearing this prayer will align you with the Holy Spirit, as it is the presence of the Creator that responds to our slightest request. Here is a sample of a Forgiveness prayer from my book:

Dear God:

Today, I ask for and open myself to receive a new image of myself. I recognize that in Your eyes, I am perfect as I am. I understand that if there is anything about my body that I choose to change, You have empowered me to do so. I have the power of free will. I have the power of choice. Today, I am choosing to change how I see myself, change how I speak to myself, change how I present myself to the world. I am choosing to see myself as You see me. I am choosing to surrender, release, and heal all negative, toxic, unloving thoughts about my body and to accept myself as Your beautiful creation. I ask, if there is anything within me that is not pleasing to You, that it be lifted. I ask that all habitual, unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and memories about my body be brought into alignment with Your thoughts, beliefs, and plans for me. I ask for the strength and courage to make any changes that are required so that I will accept myself, honor myself, and love myself as You do.

  I let it be!  And so it is!

4- Relax and Restore — Listen to my Gratitude Meditation that I have included here. This meditation will help to restore your mind and heart to balance.

5- Be Sure To Do something good for yourself today!

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Use a Surrender Box - Let Go of your Burden

A surrender box is a tool to let go of our burdens

so the universe can take care of them for us.

 

Surrender Box
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There are times when our minds become too full. Our to-do lists, worries, plans, and dreams may be so crowded together in our heads that we don’t have room to think.

We may believe that we are somehow taking care of our desires and concerns by keeping them at the forefront of our minds. In maintaining our mental hold on every detail, however, we may actually delay the realization of our dreams and the resolution of our worries because we won’t let them go. At times such as these, we may want to use a surrender box.

A surrender box allows us to let go of our worries and desires so the universe can take care of them for us. We write down what we want or need to happen and then place the note into a box.  

By writing and placing our thoughts in the box, we are taking action and letting the universe know we need help and are willing to surrender our feelings. We give ourselves permission to not concern ourselves with that problem any longer and trust that the universe is taking care of it.

 

You may even want to decorate your box and place it in a special place. Your surrender box is a sacred container for your worries. Not only do you free up space in your mind by letting go of our worries and desires and dropping them into your surrender box, but you are giving your burden over to a higher power. Once we drop our worries and desires into the surrender box, we free our minds so we can be fully present in each moment.

Surrendering our worries and concerns and placing them in the hands of the universe doesn’t mean that we’ve given up or have been defeated. Instead, we are releasing the realization of our desires and the resolution of our worries and no longer concerning ourselves with their outcomes.

It’s always fun to go back and pull the slips of paper out of the box once your requests have been granted. And it’s amazing how quickly problems go away and dreams come true when we finally let go and allow a higher power to help us.

 

Madisyn Taylor, DailyOM 

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Creed of Thanksgiving for Riches

Creed of Thanksgiving for Riches

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Money is the most common form of wealth and hence financial security is the most sought-after goal. Our entire national economy is based on the profit motive and let us hope that nothing ever happens to remove or stifle that incentive of reward for personal initiative. It is the basis of the American way of life.

Is it any wonder then, that the desire for wealth or gain is a powerful motive for action? Uncontrolled, this desire leads to greed. When it is controlled and guided by a worthwhile definite goal, it is a source of constructive action which may bless and enrich the lives of men and women.

Our suggested creed concerning material riches may be summarized in a few short statements:

I give thanks daily, not for mere riches, but for wisdom with which to recognize, embrace, and properly use the great abundance of riches I now have at my command. I have no enemies because I injure no man for any cause, but I try to benefit all with whom I come in contact, by teaching the way to enduring riches. I have more material wealth than I need because I am free from greed and covet only the material things I can use while I live.

Source: PMA Science of Success. Educational Edition. The Napoleon Hill Foundation. 1961. Pg. 25.

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TAT - A FAB Technique to Empower Yourself and Get Free of Stress and Trauma

TAT - Tapas Acupressure Technique is a fabulously simple, non-invasive procedure to remove stress and any kind of trauma. I have used it to amazing effect and I strongly suggest you give it a try. I didn't believe but was desperate to get rid of the hate for the man who raped me, the child and of my mother who denied it happened.

It destroyed my childhood and my adult years into my mid 40s. TAT is so amazing, I've collated a few of the founder's, Tapas Fleming's videos here to illustrate it.

TAT is based on Chinese acupuncture using three fingers on your face. It couldn't be simpler. It's just another fabulous way to empower yourself and get free of the emotional clutter which habitually destroys your living a fruitful and healthy life.

All I can say is try it, what could it hurt.

What is TAT


TAT Trauma - Her Mother Burnt her Teddy Bear



TAT Pose and stopper for Weight Loss


TAT Fear of Success

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17 Life Changing Quotes to Uplift and Empower You in 2013



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1- All things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. ~Eckhart Tolle

2- Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too. ~Dr. David Hawkins

3- Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment. ~Eckhart Tolle

4- Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't. ~Napoleon Hill

5- Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. ~Brian Tracy

6- People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar

7- I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you. ~Harrison Ford

8- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison

9- One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. ~Napoleon Hill

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10- Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. ~John Homer Miller

11- I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear. ~Rosa Parks

12- As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson

13- Stop being who you were and become who you are. ~Paulo Coelho

14- We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future. ~Steve Maraboli

15- You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given to you. ~Sarah Ban Breathnack

16- Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. ~Eckhart Tolle

17- I love life, live loves me. It is going to be smooth and easy. Life works for me. Louise L. Hay

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Impress Your Peers Today - Be Authentic

While it is important that we think before speaking, we should try not to let our need to please everyone in our vicinity compel us to hide or otherwise distort those ideas that will likely prove valuable.



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We may feel uncomfortable speaking our minds in this way because we believe that these quick-to-appear initial thoughts are unformed notions that can only be improved by careful consideration. In discounting them, however, we do ourselves a disservice.

The time we have devoted to the refinement of our intellectual and emotional responses can almost guarantee that our ideas will be stimulating and engaging.

Often, it is our first impressions that represent a true and unadulterated distillation of our cleverness and creativity.

Your copious wit and well-developed intelligence will impress your peers today when you give yourself the freedom to speak your mind. DailyOM 

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EVERYDAY SPIRITUALITY - Create a Vision for your Dream Life and Make it Come True



Visions of another world
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We all want to live the life we dream of early in life but somehow most of us fail to get there.

Our dreams get put on hold for various reasons and most of us  end up never doing anything about it - that's what that mid-life crisis is all about.

My experience tells me that we stop short of our goals every single time because we are discouraged by others and most of all our own little selves.

We don't have faith and family and friends don't want us to change. In fact, they don't want anything to change. Fear is the most powerful motivator and so, we cave in time after time and stay stuck right where we are.

I mean, me, a grown woman with responsiblities and never enough money and too much to do, waste time creating a vision of a new life for myself. Something I can't eat and it can't pay the damn bills either.

Nope, never happen, don't waste my time. Yeah, right!

I decided because I had had it up to here with the one-way track to nowhere, fast, and no job plus a man who is afraid to live and be who he is really, to create the life I want for me, starting with moving into my own beautiful apartment.

And that's where I kept getting hung up because I had no money, and guess what...

A mad woman, I mean a medically diagnosed and violent schizophrenic under heavy medication in the Shelter where I live, gave me the answer.  Catherine, she said to me out of the blue one week ago, you can dream whatever you want into being and here're some tips to get the money. Win it in small amounts in lotto. Develop a plan to play $1 to $5 for "small" amounts (like $150,000), write out exactly how you intend to spend the money and most of all, BE HAPPY doing it.

And they say that people like her who hear voices and see imaginary things, many terrifying, are crazy! That encounter humbled me particularly since I had been very unpleasant to her, before she was diagnosed, when she kept verbally attacking me in a very violent manner.

Would you believe my life and now my expectations changed like magic from then on with everything falling into place like stepping stones. I knew about visualization. I used to coach people on it and was actually in the process of teaching someone about it but I wasn't walking the talk.

That was a huge miracle right there. I actually dreamt that I won the first small lotto two days later, started dreaming of a particular apartment with the rent I desire that I paid the first year in full to my wonderful landlady and everything else took off from there.

How amazing is that?

But listen to this, I started feeling a tightening in my gut which went all the way up my throat. That was fear - false evidence appearing real - at my newly increased fortune and circumstances. It was embedded early in childhood by my mother who had a very hard life as a child, wanted for most things we take for granted today, like going to school and whose self-esteem was in the toilet. That turned her into a cruel abuser of her eldest, me.

The good news  is once you recognise and acknowledge the fear - it's really fear of the unknown - ignore the bitch and move on. That old tape will only have power IF you pay attention to it and stop. Then, you'll be dead, again and maybe this time forever.

The trick is perspective. We women do not put ourselves first in anything and we must. When we don't, those we love and cherish will never benefit from what we can really provide.  It doesn't take much of a push and all you need ladies (and gents) is the desire to have what you want, the intention to go after it no matter what - don't tell anyone until you've done it - and a quiet, 30-minute break for yourself.

If that's not possible, do it lying in bed morning and evening and watch your dreamworld take over and do what you have to do in the real world to make it happen. This is attracting abundance and the law of attraction at work.

It's that simple.

I only needed five dollars to play scratch lotto and I didn't even know where I was going to get it after I decided to play different ones every ten days, yet out of the blue, I did. My faith was kinda shaky and my doubts even appeared in my visualization as wrought iron bars blocking me from my garden but I recognised where it was coming from. Nothing is going to stop me now.

The first article to jump out at me when I opened my mail from Evolution Ezine was Create a Vision for Your Dream Life by Dr. Joe Rubino. It provides you with a blueprint to follow to create the best life for yourself. Coincidences like that still catch me off-guard sometimes.

I have deliberately not recopied the entire article because I really want you to go to Evolution Ezine , where you will find the rest of Joe's article, as well as information to enrich and empower you on on your own spiritual evolutionary path.

A Quiet Place by Thorsten Scheel
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This is the kind of  stuff miracles are made of - every good little thing that happens - are all part of what I call everyday spirituality.

 

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Create A Vision for your Dream Life by Dr. Joe Rubino

Dreams do come true. However, if your self-image is tarnished, your expectations of participating in all the great things that life has to offer are likely suffering as well. Perhaps, low self-esteem’s greatest cost is the resulting resignation it fosters. We die inside a little more each day. Before we realize what is happening, we have sold out our dreams for being all we can be, having those things we deserve and living a life fueled by our passions.

We get what we expect. If we expect that our lives will be marked by rich relationships, abundance, fun and adventure, we will generate an intention to make it so.

Our intention will create a drive within us to accomplish those actions necessary to manifest our vision.

Likewise, if low self-esteem results in anticipation of pain, loneliness, suffering, struggle, broken relationships and poverty, we will see these results in our world.

We unintentionally sabotage our efforts at achieving those things we want most because we do not believe we are worthy of receiving them. Every time things begin to look up, an invisible self-defeating inner thermostat kicks in, ensuring our low expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The good news is that you can retrain your thoughts and intentions to manifest what you want to have appear. Train your mind to become an ally in your quest for high self-esteem by creating a vision that honors your values, aligns with your passions and encompasses the qualities you are committed to fostering.

This new and empowering vision will replace the current dim vision that is neither serving your magnificence nor fueling your self-esteem.

Take an 8-ounce glass filled with coffee. This represents your low self-esteem. It is murky, dark and does not transmit light. Now take a large pitcher of crystal clear water. This represents your new empowering vision. Pour the water from the pitcher into the glass. The water from the pitcher flows into the glass, causing the glass to overflow.

The first few ounces have little obvious effect on the color of the liquid in the glass. However, as you add more pure water, the content of the glass gets lighter and lighter. By the time you have poured the entire pitcher out into the glass, you will notice all discolored liquid is gone and only pure, translucent water remains.

The same holds true with regard to your mind. As you replace cynical, self-defeating thoughts that crush your self-esteem with a positive, empowering vision that feeds your magnificence, the power of the new thoughts eventually replace the old.

This elevates your esteem and dilutes the thoughts that previously consumed your attention. The power in realizing this transformation comes from the magnitude of new positive energy that far surpasses the old negative force.

Create a Vision for Your Dream Life

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To mold your new life vision, emclose your eyes and imagine that a genie has just appeared before you. This genie has offered to grant your every wish, provided you have the courage to envision it, believe it will happen and pursue it.

In order to create this vision, you need to temporarily suspend any self-defeating thoughts that you will only have in your life what you have always had. The past does not need to be a harbinger of the future.

Keep in mind that we will be developing a specific plan of action to address the question, “What exactly will it take to manifest this vision?”

So, create your dream vision with the expectation that we will be designing a plan to bring each aspect of it into reality.

Let’s start by revisiting what values your vision will honor. These will form the fabric that will weave throughout your vision. Next, review the qualities you previously recorded that you will enhance and further develop. These qualities will speak to who you are being as you construct your dream life. And lastly, make a list of your passions.

These are those things you love to do and would gladly look forward to doing every day for the next 50 years. Your passions make life worthwhile.

Think of this vision as a movie script you will watch play out before you on the silver screen as you take your seat in the theater featuring your life story. Write your vision in first person and present tense as if you are describing a scene from the movie as it happens.

Create a vivid mental image with as much detail as possible to bring your vision to life. Utilize all your senses in describing it — sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. See your vision as an already accomplished reality in the present, not merely as something you want or hope to have happen.

If you construct your vision as something you hope to have, the wanting, desiring and not having of it will manifest instead of the realization of the vision itself.

Continue reading Create a vision for your dream life.

And if that doesn't give you a kick, here is the beginning excerpt of Joe's own vision for his future, as an example. If he can do that and in such detail, so can you and I:

It is September 21, 2016. My wife, Janice, and I are celebrating my 60th birthday at our winter estate in Hana, on the island of Maui, Hawaii, by hosting a party attended by a thousand of our closest friends. Our waterfront property spans several acres marked by waterfalls and lush greenery, home to hundreds of magnificent tropical birds. All our family and the close friends we’ve made over the past 40 years are here. Our friends look to our Hawaiian home as a place for them to relax, rest and recharge their bodies, minds and souls. Our doors are always open. We enjoy each other’s company all year long during their frequent visits. We divide our time between our winter home in Maui and our spring, summer and autumn homes in the scenic White Mountains of New Hampshire and the wonderful woods of rural Massachusetts.

Our lives have become totally devoted to contributing to others and discovering more about reaching our personal magnificence. Our company, The Center For Personal Reinvention, has impacted more than 20 million people to live rewarding lives based on choice, contribution and empowerment. People hold the center as one of the foremost organizations in the world that supports people to live lives that work optimally, in peace, harmony and happiness. We spend a large amount of time speaking, writing, coaching and inspiring others to live lives of possibility. Our goal is to kill off the resignation that consumes all too many people’s lives.

Dr. Joe Rubino is an internationally acclaimed expert on the topic of self-esteem, a life-changing personal development trainer and success coach and best selling author of 12 books and several Audio sets on topics ranging from how to restore self-esteem, achieve business success, maximize joy and fulfillment in life and productivity in business. An acclaimed speaker and course leader, he is known for his groundbreaking work in personal and leadership development, building effective teams, enhancing listening and communication skills, life and business coaching and optimal life planning.

Dr Rubino is the CEO of The Center for Personal Reinvention, an organization committed to the personal excellence and empowerment of all people. He has impacted the lives of more than 2 million people through self-esteem work, life and business coaching, and personal and leadership development. Dr. Rubino was featured on the cover of Success Magazine and in their cover story, “We Create Millionaires” for his ability to impact people’s lives. His vision is to personally impact the lives of twenty million people to be their best and to shift the paradigm around resignation – that is, that anyone can affect positive change in their own lives and in the lives of others – if they believe they can.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Commit Yourselves to Causes to Make a Difference



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We are more apt to judge ourselves to be valuable as individuals when we have committed ourselves to causes that allow us to make a difference in the lives of others.

Our ability to make a favorable assessment of ourselves is based on the fact that we have evidence of our worth in the form of the gratitude we have received for our contributions.

As part of something larger than ourselves, we can promote the values most important to us through positive action. We not only give voice to the principles we hold dear but we also ensure they can flourish by providing a foundation of selflessness. Since we feel useful, we can clearly see that the world would be a very different place if we ceased to exist.

The aid and succor you give others today will help you understand how important you are. DailyOM

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Life in a Homeless Shelter - A Work in Progress



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I believe in saying it like it is not because I want to be right all the time - I've learnt to keep my mouth shut - but because I have a duty to myself to be real, to not allow others to believe they can use and abuse me,  intentional or not. 

I just love myself too much to allow that to happen. 

It has taken me so long to get here knowing all the while inside what I needed to be free and be me yet constantly putting myself after everyone else - a holdover from childhood abuse - to allow anyone, particularly a man who says he loves me disrespect me by not keeping his word.

Does that sound old fashioned to you? If so, then so be it. I recognise that my way of thinking, seeing things is not typical but since I've lived with her and grown up with her and have gotten to know her over these past 54 years, I'm going to keep her.

I am who I am even though most of the time I don't know who the heck that is.

I cannot and will not give in to bribery - those compliments that strike to the core of who you are as a woman, that stroke you - and while you're saying ahhh, wow in appreciation you get shat on soon after by the same person turning their back on you because they know they fucked up by not keeping their word and are angry... at you (in this case, me).

How stupid, childish and irresponsible can a person be for heaven's sake!

I find that so intolerable, the puerility of it all and I wonder, this soon-to-be 50 year old with some endearing qualities when he assumes his manhood, why do women in this country put up with this kind of shit.

I even asked him months ago what he thought the three women he had lived with for seven years each thought of him and his unacceptable attitude. He smiled, chuckled admitted the frequent periods of rage on their part "... but they didn't do anything" meaning they did not physically attack him but the relationships ended, didn't they...

I am just very grateful that I don't live with this fascinating fucked up creature.



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It is shocking to realise that this brilliant incredibly intuitive man, having refused to live at home from the time he was ten years old - yet kept being pulled back into his family circle  - grew up on the streets living that code of right is might with other louts like himself, doesn't know what you mean when you say "you disrespected me".

Isn't that sad? Isn't that frightening?

Even though his mother managed to keep that special child in school although he did not graduate, that question underlines his illiteracy and others like him.

So how do you respond when the normal social behaviour we take for granted is a foreign language to the person or persons with whom you're interacting? I was so taken aback by the question that I responded with a question of my own "do you understand what the word respect means".

As far as he was concerned when I tell him off in public or make him wait or do not respond when he shouts or tell him bluntly what I think about his behaviour, I show him no respect. Yet, if he adopts a similar attitude it's okay.

Do you see something cock-eyed with this picture?

Living in a homeless shelter is fascinating for it's life experiences as I get to meet all these peoples that seem to come from another planet.


However, there's a deeper issue here when you consider the resident population in this 7-storey building  from the drug addicts, alcoholics, homosexuals ostracized (really obscene but small minds = island country), the physically abused, estranged couples, psychiatric outpatients, the undiagnosed mentally ill, and this man, Ferguson the defacto manager/leader, and it's this, how does one effectively communicate with such persons when they live by this seemingly twisted code of respect which bears little relation to what the rest of us know and live by?

This man freely spends what he makes, does not have a bank account, was wealthy once but was also a well-known criminal who now works closely with the police. Interesting, eh. His grandparents have made him "wealthy" in prime property in both Trinidad and Tobago and he is admittedly proud of his status.

His well-built 4-bedroom concrete house exists on a expensive lot of land in the city of Port of Spain, was raided and stripped by known cokeheads when he was in remand yard (prison) for three months awaiting trial for a crime for which he was found not guilty.

When you consider his background, you would think he would want a lawyer but he eschewed a court-appointed one, argued his own case in court and won. That is amazing all by itself and says a lot about the individual.


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I have seen and heard this man in casual, friendly conversation with one of the cocaine addicts who admitted to ripping the guts out of his house, leaving just the bare walls and the roof.

Everyone I know would be hopping mad and would have ensured that that fella and his accomplices faced charges and ended up in jail!


So you see, what he is and represents does not really tell us anything about who he is and I strongly suspect the same goes for many in this Centre although they may not all be as complex as this man.

Life here is a work in progress, communication is key and I am working out the kinks in the "respect zone" at this Centre for the socially displaced (CSDP) to enable me to understand what rules these individual minds.

I think the journey will enable me to get to know my Self even more. Isn't that what life's about though?

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