Leaping for New Opportunities - How Good are You ?

A superb lesson in determination and perseverance no matter what from Callie. How good are you at leaping for new opportunities in spite of seemingly invincible odds stacked against you?
More wonderful food for thought from Bob Proctor's Insight of the Day.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow. -Mary Anne Radmacher

How many times have ideas occurred to you, simple and straightforward that felt right but because they were outside your normal frame of reference you procrastinated until you killed it and your shivery excitement about it?

How many times has an opportunity presented itself to you and due to the spurious reasons you created to stop yourself from doing it, like where I am going to find the time, what will people say, my "family/friends" won't approve, and more crap like that and you let it die?

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie

Let me tell you something people, if you do not dare to dream you will never get anywhere in your life. You will stay stuck living the life and remain unfulfilled living what someone else planned for you, be they parents, husband, boss etc.

Dare to demand what you want, step out of that box you are squeezed into and spread your wings!

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. - Bruce Barton
Leap for New Opportunities
Callie, the little kitten we rescued from the brush, walked across the back of our sofa and looked anxiously at me. Her eyes were wide with anticipation. I slipped my hand under the blanket we use for naps. My fingers wiggled under the soft cloth. Callie prepared herself. Her furry bottom twitched. Callie swished her tail back and forth, as she focused on the moving blanket. I watched carefully, ready for her attack.
Callie twitched her rear end one last time, leapt into the air and with her paws spread like the wings of a bird, landed on the scary moving blanket. Armed with sharp claws and teeth, she fearlessly attacked the ferocious moving cloth. She sank her dagger sharp teeth and claws into fabric and shook her head to make sure she made the kill.
The blanket was not ready to give up. My hand, slightly protected by the blanket, fought back. Callie tumbled to the left, got a new grip on the evil blanket and was thrown to the right, where she landed on her back, but continued to do battle. The fight seemed to be over, but Callie did not give up. She withdrew her claws, ran to the end of the sofa and planned a new attack.
She dropped to the floor and watched the blanket from a new angle. Her eyes followed every movement it made. She waited for an opening in its defense and leapt on it again. She landed hard and gripped my hidden hand with a vengeance. Her claws and teeth pierced the fabric and my skin. I screamed and pulled my hand away.
Callie won! She always does.
I wish I had her fearlessness. Where would I be today, if I did what she does? I've looked at many scary moving blankets in my life. There were a few I had the courage leap on, like taking a new job in another city. Mostly, I've seen the blanket move and ran away, afraid of the challenge.
We saved Callie from a life of dumpster feeding and that little furry girl taught me a life lesson - have no fear! Accept the challenge. Leap for new opportunities.

Michael T. Smith
Michael lives in Caldwell, Idaho with his wonderful wife Ginny. He writes in his spare time and is completing a collection of his stories to be called, From My Heart to Yours. To read more of his stories, go to:


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Employment and You: Is It Opportunity or Bondage?

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"Is it an employment "opportunity" or bondage? 

Because what you really want is freedom, many of you equate working for other people as bondage, but if you would realize that the corporation, as an entity, is not so different from the individual, it might be easier to understand the employer's decisions. 

Long before the buildings or the workers, the visionary of the corporation had an idea for something that began summoning Energy. So years later maybe you are hired as a part of that team, and without realizing it you are now the beneficiary of that continuing flowing Energy. 

When you step into one of those employment positions, Life Force is summoned through you because of the vision of the founder--unless you're bucking the current. 

Most get into that fast moving stream and paddle against the current--and then complain about it being a hard ride--where they could get into their canoe and easily paddle with the fast moving current. 

You can soar and thrive in any environment as long as you are not seeing things that you are using as your reason to paddle against the current. And so, it doesn't really matter what others are deciding. 

The questions are: "As I am choosing to stand here, it's a way for dollars to flow through me in exchange for the effort I am offering. Am I predominantly letting the Energy flow through me, or not? Am I letting it in?"  Abraham-Hicks

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Become A CAN DO Person and Achieve Your Own Goals

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Food for thought today is about achievement. Are you a "can do" person? More pertinently, do you believe you are and if you are, are you using this belief to motivate you?

You must know that if you feel that you can't do something, it is because you have given away your power.

You are letting someone else manage, control and direct your actions. It is easier, is it not.

 

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is Free.  James Allen

The thing is though that you are not happy and if you say you are and you  are in this situation, then you are lying to the most important person in your life! Yes, I am talking about you!

In fact, you are secretly resentful but a lot of you do not have the guts to admit this to yourself and own it because that means you will have to do something about it, and that is scary like ooh, I won't know what to do and...

So instead, you nitpick, micro-manage and become angry about inconsequential things; sweating the small stuff in other words and continue to feel dissatisfied.

Your dis-empowering actions are making you weak and your thoughts (unconscious bad habits) are keeping you there.

If resentment is an issue, think carefully about Ann Landers' words: Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

This is a big issue, read stumbling block and brake for many of us in the vein of "I refuse to give him/her/them the satisfaction of..." but who is it really affecting; you and no one else.

Don't you think it is time you decided to become a "can do" person and take those brakes off, knock down those blocks, so that you can achieve your own goals?

 

James Allen says in As A Man Thinketh: All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.  
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In a justly ordered universe where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.  

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity are his own and not another man's.

They are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another.  His condition is also his own, and not another man's. 

His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. 

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting away all selfish thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.

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The Route To Hell Is Full of Disempowering Actions

I read a fascinating ego story in the Tribune de Genève, one of the Geneva French dailies, about a typical Swiss man in his mid to late fifties who was beaten up by a thug half his age.

What interested me was the fact that he deliberately put himself in harm's way.

He said that passers by did not stop to help nor obviously did they call the police; he had to go to the station to make a complaint himself.

That attitude is unfortunately typical in Geneva in particular and Switzerland in general. The Swiss are stuck in perpetual observation mode; I think they call it being neutral.

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