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Abundance

July 6th 2007 00:46
Hello Everybody,

I hope everybody is doing well. I wanted to write a little bit about abundance and scarcity. Everything in our lives is guided by our thoughts and abundance and scarcity are no different. We may not give much notice to how we think about these things, but when we do, we find the clues to how we look at life. How we look at life shapes everything we do from how we live to how we spend, to how we save, or even if we think we can have something.

There are those that can only see the cup half empty and those that can see the cup half full, and then there are those that realize they are the cup! This can be quite enlightening for some who have always gone about with a negative bend on things. These people literally cannot see that they can have more of whatever it is they seek. They have learned that they can't have it or worst yet, don't deserve it. These are the ones we see who cannot even imagine that things can be any different than they are at present. Just try and change their minds and they will tell you how bad it is, and how you're crazy for even thinking it can be better. These people will never have any more than what they settle for and usually it is not much.


There are also those who truly "say" they want more out of life or "say" they believe that life can be abundant but don't act in accordance with this belief. They have been conditioned to believe that life is hard and that one must work hard for more of anything. They say they want a better lifestyle yet they still do the same old thing. They don't save anything, they don't see how they could posssilby take a vacation etc. But to talk to these people they will tell you they want more and are willing to do anything it takes, but really only if it does not change their current belief system.


There are also those who truly live an abundant lifestyle and living an abundant lifestyle is different from living a lavish lifestyle. It is a frame of mind, not a dollar amount. I've known plenty of people with lots of money that I would not call abundant by any stretch of the imagination. Abundance is living a life on purpose with the graciousness of knowing that we have everything we need. How do we do this you ask. Well first we acknowledge that we have an awesome life and that we have everything we need. We become grateful for all that we do have and allow for more to come in by having an "attitude of gratitude." This allows more to come into our life. When we appreciate what we have The Universe rewards us with more, but when we hold onto what little we think there is and cling to it with desperation, we create more of the same.

We must learn that not only is the cup half full, but that we are the cup. We can hold more than we even know and can expand and retract to allow for everything we want and need. If we start to become aware to all that we already have, we will find that we already have an abundant life.

In Peace and Love,

George
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Positive and Negative Vibrations

June 14th 2007 06:06
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I would like to talk to today about the people and relationships that are closest to us and how they may affect us. We may not give much thought to this, but we are likely to be much like the people we most come in contact with. If you predominantly hang around people that bring you down, guess what you're going to feel pretty bad most of the time. Hang around these people long enough and you're going to be seriously depressed.

In the same way if we hang around people that make us feel uplifted and positive, we are going to feel great. Ever notice how light your soul feels after being with somebody who inspires you and is genuinely positve? It has been said in different ways by different people. "Birds of a feather flock together." Also, "show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are." These old sayings are bascially saying the same thing in that it has been said, that we are most influenced by the five people we spend the most time with during the day. Wow, you better make sure you're spending time with upbeat, positive people you like or chances are you're not going to feel too great.

Over time this can have serious ramifications. We can feel drained, depressed, and in extreme cases we can manifest physical dis-ease. It's a known fact that anger and high-blood pressure are well correlated. So if you don't like your work environment, relationship, friends, etc. we can actually be making ourselves sick with the people we hang around.

The wonderful thing is though, we get to choose who we hang around and spend time with. If you notice that certain people constantly bring you down, or you just feel drained after speaking with them, this is a pretty good indicator that they are a pretty negative force in your life. On the other hand, if after speaking to somebody in particular you notice you feel lighter or uplifted, then this is a person who is probably very positive and healthy to be around.

The good news is that we have a choice, and we don't have to hang around people who make us feel bad. I know some of you are thinking, "well I have to spend time with my family." Uh No, you don't, but that's a choice we all have to make. While they may not intentionally know they are negative, they just are programmed that way from their own experiences.

Often times has nothing to do with you, but rather their own early life experiences. They still can impact you in a dramatically negative way. The idea is to detach with love. If these are people "you have" to deal with, (although I would argue it's not healthy to be around them at all) you can detach with love. With this you might be civil and "do what you have to do" with these people, you don't let them get too close. The reason being that they will cotinue to drain you of your precious energy.

There are some who are so negative that after even spending only a few minutes with them you feel like you've been slimed! You have with their negativity! And guess who the negative people are attracted to, yep you guessed it...YOU!

Now the best thing we can do is to gravitate towards people that are of like mind in that they are positive. If you want to become successful at something ask somebody who has already done or has what you want. It has been stated to me as "ride on the coat tails of those who are already are successful." These people are the ones who have smiles on their faces and don't get caught up in all the petty stuff. They know that it's all petty. They also understand that life is short and who wants to hang out with people that just make you feel bad.

All successful people have a small group of people that they can hang out with and who are very positive and supportive. They encourage each other and listen to one anothers ideas and genuinely care for one another. They have your best interest at heart and want to see you succeed. These people are usually of high caliber and rare in that they want to add to life and create not take and see what they can get for free.

They give suggestions and solutions and don't dwell on the problem. These people are doers and not talkers. They are the first to arrive and the last to leave. They are people with integrity and their friendship only becomes more endearing as time goes on as we learn more about them. These are the real gems. When you find people like this that mirror who you are as well, you hold on to them lightly and allow for the friendship to breathe. You nurture it and give it the space and freedom it desires just as you do. You water it and watch it grow and you don't judge it or condemn it, but treat it with honesty, dignity, and respect. And when you hold it up to the light you see that it glows with a radiance that can only be described as LOVE.

Peace and Love,

George

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Finding Our Life's Purpose

June 7th 2007 05:36
Hello Everybody,

I wanted to write a little about finding our life's purpose. Unless we figure out what we were put on this earth to do, we can never be truly happy or successful. We all have a gift or what Jack Canfield calls a "core genius." This is the thing that we do better than anybody else and that gives us such joy that we would do it for free. Now the idea is to find this gift that we have that gives us such pleasure that we would do it even if we did not get paid for it.

Often times, we have buried this deep down inside of ourselves somewhere and we have not been in touch with this part of ourselves for sometime. Many times, it is the child part of us that holds this gift, and we may have even been told by some authority figure when we were very young that our gift was not worthy.

The way to find our life's purpose or that which gives us the most pleasure is our own personal Global Positioning System. Like a navigational system on your car, we humans have the most powerful GPS system in the world. It's called our FEELINGS. We often don't think about this and don't give it much attention, but our feelings are giving us signals all day long to our environment around us. We often get early warning signals on many things, but do we listen to them? Now that's the trick eh?

Our feelings tell us if we are "ON COURSE" or "OFF COURSE". When something feels good and gives us much joy, we can be sure that it is something we enjoy doing. If something feels bad, then we usually don't want to continue. I know this sounds painfully obvious, but you would be surprised how many people don't pay attention to what FEELS GOOD.

Now make a list of all the joyous times in your life and see if you can find a common thread to those experiences. The idea being that if we can find the things that bring us joy and can figure out a way to make a living doing what we love we are going to feel successful no matter what we are getting paid. If we can do it well enough, we can often become successful at it enough to earn a good living. And even if we don't decide to make any major changes in our lives, if we can do more of the things that bring us joy and less of the things that make us feel bad, we will be much more alive and enegetic regardless.

In Peace and Love,

George
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Law of Attraction

May 25th 2007 02:05
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I just noticed that my other blog the Parents Precinct has been removed from me. I assume it is for not writing enough. I thought it best to post with wild abandon to prevent the same from happening to this blog. I do want to touch on what has been going around and lately coined as the Law of Attraction. Since the airing of The Secret there is been a lot of talk about the Law of Attraction. It has been known by different names over the years, and the basic premise is that like attracts like. If we are thinking good thoughts we will attract good things into our lives. Another way to think about this is that which we focus on increases. If we focus on positive thoughts then we will bring to us positive outcomes. In the same manner, if we focus on negative thoughts we will attract negative outcomes. While this is a very simplified version of the LOA, it does have a poweful effect


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The Real Secret

April 17th 2007 05:22
I am glad to report since my last blog entry that certain spiritual teachers have removed their name from a certain affiliate program that claims to give you the secret to getting rich. It only shows the integrity and substance of this person. I believe there is a lot going on right now and it is easy to get caught in the wave of the money that is flowing through the use of these spiritual principles. I would like to address that successful people throughout history have used some kind of spiritual principles to guide their thinking. I believe that there are plenty of principles to guide us in the right direction, but that we must also be aligned with our purpose and this goes to the heart of our values. My fear with people buying all the books and “secrets” to getting rich is that we must truly know ourselves and what we are made of to attain anything of any great value. To go out and try to manifest something like a million dollars without knowing why we want the money is useless and futile and will only lead to misery and not happiness. Too often we believe that money is the answer to all our problems when in reality it is only a symptom to deeper problems we may be facing. All that we see on the outside of us is but thoughts of things that we have imagined before. We can think of thoughts as causes and all that surrounds us as effects. Everything that surrounds us is something we have either created with our thoughts or allowed to happen. Think about this for awhile and you will soon see how we are responsible for our entire lives. This is a very important concept that I would like for people to understand because it is so powerful. It is also important to manifest or realize any goal for the simple reason that we are truly the creators of our lives. The reason behind this thought is this: If we truly believe and understand that we have created, by our thoughts the life that we currently have, we also understand that we have the power to undo it, re-create it, tear it down, and re-build it at will. This is difficult for some people to understand so I will state it another way. Everything that we have around us, for example the people, pets, cars, furniture, books, television, you name it is a direct result of our own (choice) of thoughts. We can choose the thoughts we think. Unless of course we are on automatic pilot as many people are in the world. We thought, hey I’m going to purchase that big screen TV, car, or hey I’m going to marry so and so, it was our decision. We created our life just as it is and we are totally responsible for all of its wonderfulness or not. We may be thinking, “Hey I didn’t choose to work in this crummy job.” It may seem like that at first, but upon further investigation we find, nobody is making us do anything. You could walk out of your job right this moment and never look back if you wanted! There is nothing holding you back. No handcuffs, not ropes, nor chains, just your own thinking. Now mind you there will be CONSEQUENCES. There are consequences for all of our thoughts and actions. Some of these we label GOOD and some BAD, but there is nothing stopping us. We either create the life we want for ourselves or we let it happen to us by default. Living a life by default is not being an active participant. If we are not happy with our results in our life, we must begin to change our thinking. We must take full responsibility for our life there is nobody to blame. There is no outside person, including our spouse, boss, friend, job, government, country, world to blame! Nobody to blame whatsoever because we know we are the conscious creators of our life. This is a very powerful principle because to know this is to be very powerful. This means nobody from the outside can dictate what you will think or feel. Understand this and you are well on your way to manifesting anything you want in your life. You will know the true secret of attaining what you want. Your power will come from within yourself and when you start to make those changes that are in your best interest you will start to attract those that are exactly like yourself. You will free yourself of the need to find approval from the outside or in what others would have for you and find what you would want for yourself. When you dictate to the world what you would have then the world responds and it is yours for the taking. Now mind you, if you have not thought this way before, it will take some time to get used to the idea that you are in control of your life, but start small with taking responsibility for things in your life. Take responsibility for the desirable and the not so desirable. You created it! If there is something you don’t like, own that you created it and that you too can think differently to change it. Try this for a while and watch your personal power grow!
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The Secret is Not a Secret

March 20th 2007 07:15

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Heart Talks

February 13th 2007 04:49
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In honor of Valentine’s Day I thought I would share with you about what Jack Canfield calls “The Heart Talk.” This is the perfect exercise to do with a spouse, business partners, or family. You can use The Heart Talk to clear the air so you can focus on what you truly want in your life and be successful. First you need a “heart” or something that you can pass around to the others involved in your heart talk. Something soft is preferable so that the person can squeeze it and be soothed as the person talks. There are agreements for a Heart Talk that must be adhered to for it to feel safe and to create a deep level of communication


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Increasing Self-Esteem

February 2nd 2007 02:07
One of the ways that we can build up our self-esteem is to keep a "Victory Log" or list of the successes in our lives. This is important to do for a couple of different reasons. Many times we don’t give ourselves credit for all the accomplishments that we have had in our lives. We can be so focused on our next success that we don’t stop to evaluate all that we may have accomplished already.

Another reason to keep a victory log is to help us remember when things are not going so well. You could have a notepad or journal close to your desk where you write the date and the accomplishment down. You then have a handy list that can give you a boost the next time you have to close a big deal or have to call somebody for a business proposition or whatever the case may be. The Victory Log will act as a “boost” to your self-esteem so as to help you create the life you want


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Moving Forward

January 19th 2007 03:54
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By now most of you have already completed your goals for 2007 and have created affirmations that you are reading at least two times a day. You’re doing your visualizations and creating the world you want. You’ve released the brakes and are soaring! This is the time when you may have some insights, thoughts, or ideas. Many times people start to have those “happy coincidences” of seeing things they wanted manifest or something they were seeking is presented to them. If not don’t despair it takes time and energy


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Taking Action

January 10th 2007 07:41
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Wow it’s hard to believe we are already on January 10th. I want to congratulate all of you that have taken this opportunity to create the life you want for yourself by creating goals and affirmations. You may be asking what could possibly be next? While some of you may already be experiencing the positive effects of the goal setting and affirmations, others may be experiencing difficulties, and this is normal. We often find resistance, when trying to change major things in our lives. This is actually a blessing in disguise as we will know where we need to focus our attention to overcome the obstacle


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