To take any aspect of your life up a level—get interested. There is abundance, pleasure, vitality and value in being fully engaged.

When you become enthralled with something, your energy rises. You want to understand it better and you are busy learning about it, or you are taking action toward it.

Do you have a sport or hobby you enjoy? How did that happen? You saw something you thought might be fun or looked interesting. You tried it, and found a bit of satisfaction from it. You then practiced and kept focusing on how to do it better. And your fascination and how to improve, grew skills that you now do quite easily. Your interest grew into skill.

Ever been bored? Boredom, actually, is a mild form of depression. Look at the symptoms—low on energy, listless, negative mental focus, despondent, and so on. There is nothing boring—only boring thinking patterns.
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This Scenario comes from Starwars—“The Empire Strikes Back”. The scene is when Luke Skywalker’s spaceship has sunk into the Dagoba Swamp. Yoda told him to mentally levitate it out of the swamp.

Luke says: We’ll never get it out now!

Yoda: So certain are you. Always with you, it cannot be done. Hear you nothing that I say?

Luke: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different!

Yoda: NO! No different. Only different in your mind! You must unlearn what you have learned.

Luke: Alright. I’ll give it a try.

Yoda: NO! TRY NOT! DO, OR DO NOT! THERE IS NO TRY!

(Luke slightly lifts the space ship out of the swamp using The Force, then gives up and fails.) Read more »

I have a magic vase.

With it you can manifest whatever you desire.

What would you be willing to trade me, for this powerful magic?

Would you be willing to trade away your fears, to get what you want? How about your anger—would you trade it away? Maybe your procrastination, your doubts, and your negative thinking?

To have what you want, you need to lighten your load. You can do without these burdens. All those negatives you are carrying around block the magic that is within you.

Set down your anger and resentments. To carry these requires a major expenditure of energy and provides you no value. Read more »

No one can stop you. It feels like it sometimes doesn’t it? The boss is not giving the opportunities. The pay in this job will never be enough. The coach just didn’t do a good job. The product just didn’t perform as expected.

It’s easier to look outside ourselves and point the finger of blame, than it is to look inside and ask, “What can I do differently to get the result I want?”

So long you look outside of yourself, as the source of your difficulty—you’re stuck. It may be true, there are barriers. There may be things you don’t know enough about. It might be that someone has given you faulty information. So figure it out and move on.

Once you break through pointing fingers and seek out new paths, you are free. If your favorite road to travel to work is closed, that’s a shame. But, I’d bet there must be another way to get there. Read more »

No matter how great the achievement, it’s not the ultimate forever. What it is though, is a marker for what can be done, and a milepost on the way to even greater.

When the four minute mile was first run in 1954 it was amazing. But there are thousands upon thousands who now run it much faster than four minutes. The milestone opened up the human mind to attaining even greater times.

Is there something that you’ve wanted to do or be, but there was someone who did it better than you? That is the human condition. Don’t be distressed or resent them because of that they’ve accomplished. Celebrate them, and look for how you can make your own improvements. Read more »

You can not have success without this. There is no human being who ever lived that did not have this before they ultimately succeeded.

Many try to avoid it, and go way out of their way to side step the experience. But it is inevitable that this must occur. For without this there is no experience.

Failure is part of every success.

Thomas Edison said, “I failed my way to success.” Failure for most people is embarrassing, fear producing, triggers procrastination, and for many is damaging to their self image. That’s ridiculous—because you cannot have great success without going through failure.

I’ve heard that failure is the opposite of success—it’s not. Failure is just one component of getting from where you are to where you ultimately desire to be. Success blooms from the dirt and ashes of failure. Read more »

You have everything you need to succeed within you right now.

Within you live seeds of greatness, that are enough to fulfill your dreams.

This next second is the perfect moment to launch your ultimate dream.

Quite often, people don’t act because of a deep fear that they don’t know enough. It may be true—they may not. But when you act, it gives you feedback on what direction to move for your next action. This is learning and growing toward needed knowledge.

All the skills to attain greatness begin in your mind. You can be, do and have whatever you desire. You just have to unleash yourself from your fears. The power you want, and the knowledge needed, grow as you take action. Read more »

It’s easy to make excuses. Blaming what happened on a situation or other person happens often. Excuses don’t really help, and they make you look weak.

Why would someone make an excuse? Why would a person lie? What would be the reason why someone would blame another person to get out from under their trouble? There is only one reason for any of these—fear………….

If you have no fear, you can just own your part in what happened. You don’t have to worry about saving face, making some else look bad so you won’t look bad, getting in trouble or getting reprimanded. Read more »

Do you ever feel bogged down? Look ahead at the possibilities.

You need to think about what you are doing today, but don’t lose your vision. Many say, “I don’t have a vision, I don’t know what’s ahead.” That‘s called a “fuzzy vision”.

If you look out ahead and don’t see much coming, it’s because you haven’t created what you want. That lack of vision is a vision. The difficulty with that is that is usually brings little to you.

When you focus on a goal, and you keep making progress step-by-step toward it, you gain energy. You feel stronger and more willing to keep moving as you experience yourself moving into achievement.

When you create a “possibility vision”, each step you take feels rewarding. The movement is an acknowledgement within your mind that the vision can manifest. The stressors and heaviness of this moment are temporarily lessened because you see and feel the achievement. Read more »

You are so fortunate—today is a new beginning!

No matter what came before, today is a new day. Your life is literally starting over at this moment! You are standing at the starting point of the path that leads to all your dreams.

Who do you want to be? Begin being that person right now. You will have skills to learn and grow along the road into tomorrow, but start today. This is a brand new, fresh opportunity. The slate has been wiped—so get on with creating the life you want!

You have incredible knowledge and skills that you can draw on. Don’t demean what you already know. You have strengths and capabilities that can assist you in moving forward. As you reflect on what you’ve learned, use your wisdom to steer your course.

You’ve made mistakes—they are all behind you. You’ve been given a fresh start, and it begins now. Today, you can choose a new focus that takes you farther than you’ve gone up to this time. Your progress today can be amazing.
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