On my flight back from ND I was reading through my journal. I started keeping a journal almost 5 years ago when a success speaker named Jim Rohn suggested it. He said to keep a log of your thoughts, great tips and insights you receive over the years. As I read through my past year of notes, insights and tips I was taken back by how much great advice was in there.
An entry from a few days ago reads, “Maybe this experiment isn’t about me playing my way to abundance, prosperity or right work. Perhaps it’s about me finding myself, finding a way of life that allows me to show up as a better man, son, brother, friend, employee, ect… Maybe it’s about me finding principles and philosophies to greatness”?
A principle that kept showing up throughout my journal was….”Freedom is living a life without expectation. Choose but don’t want.”
Here’s some advice from Robin Sharma, “Set goals, make plans, take inspired actions, do your best and then let go of any attachments and allow the Universe to bring it forth”.
Wow. Sound advice from wise men. So ultimately this experiment has turned into something much bigger than I could have dreamed. It went from being a different pathway to achieve some intentions to a way of life. Know thyself. I find those words so important I tattooed them on my arm.
I will leave you with this quote from my journal…..
“Know thyself and you shall know the powers of the universe and the powers of the gods.” ~Delphi
Much Love,
10-7
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Day 47- 300
Wow, I have posted in a long time. I have been on vacation to North Dakota for the past 9 days. I know, I know it doesn’t sound like much of a vacation but I can tell you that if you desire peace, quite and nature it is perfection.
I picked up a Men’s Health for my flight to ND. As I got into the article featuring Gerard Butler I got that feeling. You know that feeling, when you stumble upon some advice you need to hear that is perfect for you at that time. As I was reading through the article I was taken back by the growth and philosophy of this guy.
For those of you who do not know Butler was the lead actor in the movie 300. About two years ago MH interviewed Butler. It was almost hard to read it. He seemed to be a guy who was very uncertain of who he was, what he was about and where he belonged. It didn’t leave you feeling very good as he spoke of his training habits and the “motivation” behind his work-outs.
Fast forward 2 years to some of these quotes by Butler:
“What happens is the Universe conspires. Once you make a decision to do something, the Universe starts to help you.”
“I am aiming for the stars. I’ll worry about the details later.”
“There are no rules, only principles. Nothing else matters.”
There are no rules, only principles…..I like that. I like the idea of creating a life where you stand for something and you are flexible enough to allow others to live their lives fully. So often I notice others attempting to place their rules onto me. I am aware enough to know it is done with love and that they just want to the best for me. I am also aware that I used to place my rules on them. It’s all out of love and it’s crazy. I say “Know Thyself”. Know what your greatest life looks like and then go out and be it. Clarity proceeds greatness every time.
Much Love,
10-6-8
I picked up a Men’s Health for my flight to ND. As I got into the article featuring Gerard Butler I got that feeling. You know that feeling, when you stumble upon some advice you need to hear that is perfect for you at that time. As I was reading through the article I was taken back by the growth and philosophy of this guy.
For those of you who do not know Butler was the lead actor in the movie 300. About two years ago MH interviewed Butler. It was almost hard to read it. He seemed to be a guy who was very uncertain of who he was, what he was about and where he belonged. It didn’t leave you feeling very good as he spoke of his training habits and the “motivation” behind his work-outs.
Fast forward 2 years to some of these quotes by Butler:
“What happens is the Universe conspires. Once you make a decision to do something, the Universe starts to help you.”
“I am aiming for the stars. I’ll worry about the details later.”
“There are no rules, only principles. Nothing else matters.”
There are no rules, only principles…..I like that. I like the idea of creating a life where you stand for something and you are flexible enough to allow others to live their lives fully. So often I notice others attempting to place their rules onto me. I am aware enough to know it is done with love and that they just want to the best for me. I am also aware that I used to place my rules on them. It’s all out of love and it’s crazy. I say “Know Thyself”. Know what your greatest life looks like and then go out and be it. Clarity proceeds greatness every time.
Much Love,
10-6-8
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Day 38
The abundance flows in many more avenues than dollars. And so, if you could focus upon the gifts that the Universe gives you: When you say "abundance", think about it in the abundance of health, the abundance of vitality, the abundance of clarity, the abundance of enthusiasm, the abundance of delicious people in your life, the abundance of loving letters in your life. The abundance of free-flowing traffic in your life. The abundance of wonderful experiences in your life...As you start thinking in terms of this abundance that doesn't have anything to do with dollars -- the abundance relative to the dollars starts flowing too. - Abraham-Hicks
Almost 2 years ago I was sent this quote. It changed my life by changing my perspective on abundance. I began to look for abundance in all areas of my life. It was truly life giving.
For any one who runs into this it is my gift to you......
Much Love
Day 37- Mind-movies.......
It has been a while since I have posted. All this vacationing is starting to catch up with me. What a fun couple of weeks. I just got back from yet another weekend in Vegas. I am now preparing for a weeks vacation in my hometown of Regent, ND.
The last time I posted I was talking about story telling. I recently received an email from my friend Elyse that explained this concept of telling a new story in a delicious way. The idea is that you tell a new story and then catch up with it feeling wise until you see it forming around you.
Here are some words of advice of Abraham:
“Do not write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your experience, but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your own life and watch what happens. It will feel like magic as your life begins to transform right before your eyes.”
Around a year ago Elyse ran across some software that allows you to create a mind-movie. A mind movie plays on your computer with music, words and pictures that you choose to create a feeling around a subject. The one she chose was her dream home. So she searched the net for pics of her ideal home, added some music that inspired her and wrote the story as she wanted it to be. Then each day she watched this simple 4 minute mind-movie and felt herself in that home.
Two days ago she sent me an email with the mind-movie and a link to her new home. I had goose bumps watching them. Let me be clear they were not identical. However, the feeling of both homes were in alignment. They shared similar essences. It was amazing.
You can learn more at www.mindmovies.com .
Much Love
9-24
The last time I posted I was talking about story telling. I recently received an email from my friend Elyse that explained this concept of telling a new story in a delicious way. The idea is that you tell a new story and then catch up with it feeling wise until you see it forming around you.
Here are some words of advice of Abraham:
“Do not write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your experience, but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your own life and watch what happens. It will feel like magic as your life begins to transform right before your eyes.”
Around a year ago Elyse ran across some software that allows you to create a mind-movie. A mind movie plays on your computer with music, words and pictures that you choose to create a feeling around a subject. The one she chose was her dream home. So she searched the net for pics of her ideal home, added some music that inspired her and wrote the story as she wanted it to be. Then each day she watched this simple 4 minute mind-movie and felt herself in that home.
Two days ago she sent me an email with the mind-movie and a link to her new home. I had goose bumps watching them. Let me be clear they were not identical. However, the feeling of both homes were in alignment. They shared similar essences. It was amazing.
You can learn more at www.mindmovies.com .
Much Love
9-24
Friday, September 19, 2008
Day 30- Half way through.....
Wow, I can’t believe it has only been 30 days. I remember when I was a child my parents would constantly say that time flies the older you get. I have not found this to be true. In my world time has slowed down. It feels like this past 30 days have been a year. I love it.
Lets talk about stories today. I remember sitting in my first apartment in CA feeling miserable. I had no job, living off credit cards, my girlfriend was clearly not into the relationship anymore and I felt a total lack of direction. Looking back I was definitely depressed because I was totally believing every thought above.
I pulled out a book by Neale Donald Walsch and was paging through it when I stopped on a page that I had highlighted and marked up. One sentence caught my eye, “Whatever is expressed and expressed, over and over, becomes just that, expressed”. I had to have read this at least 20 times before but this time it stuck.
I remember reading about Donald Trump when he filed for bankruptcy. He just shrugged it off, said something about it being a way to do business, and then went into a typical Trump rampage about how his next idea was going to be huge, a juggernaut. Here is a guy who knows how to tell a story.
“You have to begin to tell the story of you life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.”
So in that moment I made a decision that changed the direction of my life. I decided to stop talking about anything that didn’t feel good when I said it. I used to tell anyone who would listen that if I could just figure out what I was supposed to do with my life I would go at it like a crazy man. The dominant feeling of that statement was one of fear. I probably said that or something like that for almost a decade. And that day I just stopped. What I noticed was I instantly felt better.
The stories we tell over and over become expressed in our lives. What stories are you telling over and over? Is it about your health, money, job, relationships, family? And you say….but, it’s true! Maybe. This is not about right or wrong, it is about feeling better. Don’t take my word for it. Try it. Stop telling the stories and see how much better you feel. And if you really want to dig in notice how often you want to tell the story…….
Lets talk about stories today. I remember sitting in my first apartment in CA feeling miserable. I had no job, living off credit cards, my girlfriend was clearly not into the relationship anymore and I felt a total lack of direction. Looking back I was definitely depressed because I was totally believing every thought above.
I pulled out a book by Neale Donald Walsch and was paging through it when I stopped on a page that I had highlighted and marked up. One sentence caught my eye, “Whatever is expressed and expressed, over and over, becomes just that, expressed”. I had to have read this at least 20 times before but this time it stuck.
I remember reading about Donald Trump when he filed for bankruptcy. He just shrugged it off, said something about it being a way to do business, and then went into a typical Trump rampage about how his next idea was going to be huge, a juggernaut. Here is a guy who knows how to tell a story.
“You have to begin to tell the story of you life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.”
So in that moment I made a decision that changed the direction of my life. I decided to stop talking about anything that didn’t feel good when I said it. I used to tell anyone who would listen that if I could just figure out what I was supposed to do with my life I would go at it like a crazy man. The dominant feeling of that statement was one of fear. I probably said that or something like that for almost a decade. And that day I just stopped. What I noticed was I instantly felt better.
The stories we tell over and over become expressed in our lives. What stories are you telling over and over? Is it about your health, money, job, relationships, family? And you say….but, it’s true! Maybe. This is not about right or wrong, it is about feeling better. Don’t take my word for it. Try it. Stop telling the stories and see how much better you feel. And if you really want to dig in notice how often you want to tell the story…….
Day 28- Locked out.......
I just completed the most amazing weekend. I got back to my home on Saturday night and the door was locked. Yes, I was locked out of my house for the weekend. The people I rent from left for the weekend and accidentily locked both locks…..I only have a key for one.
You know what is fun? Talking about how free you are and then having the Universe throw a heat check at you. All I had was my wallet and the clothes I wore to work that day. I had plans in San Diego for the weekend so I decided to move forward and figure it out as I go.
I had so much fun shopping for clothes to wear through the weekend. When I showed up at my friends house he had a make shift bed ready. I love how supportive the Universe is when you let go. Everything worked out perfectly. I am grateful to all who supported me.
To say I am free of the need of things is not only a lie but hilarious. When I pushed on the door and realized it was still locked I almost went into panic. Instantly I thought I need my computer, my planner and my clothes. It made me giggle how much I believed it. I was half way to San Diego before I worked through it. As I was driving I just kept questioning the thoughts as they arose and they seemed to let go of me.
What fun!!!
Make It A Great Day!
9-16-8
You know what is fun? Talking about how free you are and then having the Universe throw a heat check at you. All I had was my wallet and the clothes I wore to work that day. I had plans in San Diego for the weekend so I decided to move forward and figure it out as I go.
I had so much fun shopping for clothes to wear through the weekend. When I showed up at my friends house he had a make shift bed ready. I love how supportive the Universe is when you let go. Everything worked out perfectly. I am grateful to all who supported me.
To say I am free of the need of things is not only a lie but hilarious. When I pushed on the door and realized it was still locked I almost went into panic. Instantly I thought I need my computer, my planner and my clothes. It made me giggle how much I believed it. I was half way to San Diego before I worked through it. As I was driving I just kept questioning the thoughts as they arose and they seemed to let go of me.
What fun!!!
Make It A Great Day!
9-16-8
Friday, September 12, 2008
Day 27- Loving What Is.....
When this experiment began I was really putting a lot of pressure on myself to have fun. What a ridicoulus concept, huh? Pressuring myself to have fun. I am smiling just thinking about it. I noticed that the more I "worked" at having fun the less I was having. And then the other night I realized this past year of my life has been one moment of joy and appreciation after another.
One of the interesting things about this past year is how perfectly things seem to turn out for me. I have learned how to make peace with where I am. So it doesn't matter what happens I seem to get a kick out of it either way. Take my job for instance, over the past year I have been told I was heading in almost 10 different directions.....everything from regional manager to director of training to a possible sales position. And each time I just smiled and said, ok.
I am reminded of a story that Eckart Tolle frequently tells of a Zen Monk. In the story the Monk has what many of us would call ups and downs....from being wrongly accused to having large sums of dollar fall into his lap. Through it all the Monk continues to say, "good or bad, who knows?". I have noticed as I have made more and more peace with reality I have a similiar philosophy.
It's not that I don't get attached, because I do. Recently I took a trip to another city to vaca and have some fun. Apparently, I was attached to seeing a friend there because when it turned out I couldn't I suffered. The interesting thing about my new thought processes is how short the sufferening is. What would have been hours of self torture is now only minutes. The questions of The Work seem to be alive in me. As I was driving away from any opportunity to see my friend the questions arose...
~Is it true you should have seen her?
~How do you react when you believe that?
~If the Universe is friendly why is good for you and her that you didn't connect?
And the truth that pours forth is beautiful. All suffering melts away to joy and appreciation. As I have begun to see the truth in every moment I am reminded how loving reality is.
Much Love
One of the interesting things about this past year is how perfectly things seem to turn out for me. I have learned how to make peace with where I am. So it doesn't matter what happens I seem to get a kick out of it either way. Take my job for instance, over the past year I have been told I was heading in almost 10 different directions.....everything from regional manager to director of training to a possible sales position. And each time I just smiled and said, ok.
I am reminded of a story that Eckart Tolle frequently tells of a Zen Monk. In the story the Monk has what many of us would call ups and downs....from being wrongly accused to having large sums of dollar fall into his lap. Through it all the Monk continues to say, "good or bad, who knows?". I have noticed as I have made more and more peace with reality I have a similiar philosophy.
It's not that I don't get attached, because I do. Recently I took a trip to another city to vaca and have some fun. Apparently, I was attached to seeing a friend there because when it turned out I couldn't I suffered. The interesting thing about my new thought processes is how short the sufferening is. What would have been hours of self torture is now only minutes. The questions of The Work seem to be alive in me. As I was driving away from any opportunity to see my friend the questions arose...
~Is it true you should have seen her?
~How do you react when you believe that?
~If the Universe is friendly why is good for you and her that you didn't connect?
And the truth that pours forth is beautiful. All suffering melts away to joy and appreciation. As I have begun to see the truth in every moment I am reminded how loving reality is.
Much Love
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