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The Power of Beliefs to Shape Our Experience…and Destiny

March 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

“The things that you keep silently telling yourself are your most important conversations. Whatever you habitually dwell on in your mind, you will become, express, or experience. Your subconscious mind will be your best friend or your worst enemy. Everything depends on the way you train it and the use you make of it. It is your individual share of the universal creative mind. It is the great cosmic playground of your freedom to think, choose, reason, and decide for yourself. It shapes your destiny and determines the attraction and repulsion of your life. Guard its portals well. It is your hope of heaven.” -Elinor MacDonald

A few weeks back I told the story, “You Get What You’re Looking For.” I’ve had so many people comment that they liked the story that I decided to pick up on this theme again and for a little longer. The point of the story is that we don’t necessarily see things as they are. We see life through a filter and that filter (not reality) determines how we experience life and, eventually, our destinies. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Abundance & Prosperity, Live Big, Live Successfully, Positive Thoughts, Power of Choice

Resilience in the Face of Hardship

March 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

“The strongest oak in the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.” Napoleon Hill

I look around at people who have suffered incredible hardship and wonder how they do it. How is it that some people grow up in very challenging circumstances or experience grea­­t trauma or loss and yet survive? In many cases, not only survive but thrive. Like Charlie Plumb in my last post. Upon being captured, tortured and tossed in a small cell, Charlie wasn’t sure he’d make it or that he wanted to make it. Yet somehow he developed the “attitude,” as his doctor back home called it, to overcome his hellish circumstances. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Abundance & Prosperity, Live Successfully, Personal Development, Positive Thoughts, Power of Choice

Attitude of a POW

March 11, 2011 By 3 Comments

In my newsletter last week I told the story, “You Get What You’re Looking For.” The point of the story is that we don’t see things as they are. We see life through a filter and that filter (not reality) determines how we experience life and, eventually, our destinies.

I want to share the story of a man I became acquainted with some years ago. This is a man who had to step up to a pretty significant challenge and radically change what he was looking for. His very survival depended on his ability to shift how he viewed his life and the choices he made about the harsh reality of spending six and a half years as a prisoner of war. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Live Successfully, Positive Thoughts, Power of Choice

You Get What You’re Looking For: The Power of the Mind

March 4, 2011 By 1 Comment

A number of years ago I moved my family from Denver to Spokane, Washington, where I had accepted a new job. I was not aware at the time of how difficult an adjustment the move would be to my children, who were then 14, 12 and 9 years of age. It was especially difficult for my 12 year-old son, Jonathan, who came home from school every day complaining about life in Spokane. Nothing was right. He hated the weather. The kids at his school weren’t nice. His teacher was boring. There was nothing to do at home at night. And on and on. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Abundance & Prosperity, Personal Development, Positive Thoughts, Power of Choice, Self Actualization