We get bombarded each day with thousands of thoughts. Besides the thoughts that we have, our thoughts are also heavily influenced by the people we work with, family, friends, TV, Radio, Newspapers, books, magazines and the Internet to mention just a few.
Protecting your mind can be a full time activity and at the very least we should always be aware of what is infiltrating our most valuable asset.
I learned a long time ago that No Thought Lives In My Mind, Rent Free! Each and every thought either helps me grow or sets me back. In fact in the fast paced world we live in it is safe to say that if we are not moving forward we are moving backward.
So how do we control what thoughts enter this sacred domain we call the mind?
You Choose!
Yes you ‘can’ choose what TV program to watch if any or whether you should listen to the radio or music in your automobile or listen to an inspirational or motivational or educational CD.
You ‘can’ choose whether you should read the newspaper or read a great book. Even when choosing a book it is all up to you whether you choose an ‘escape’ type book like a Romance Novel or a Science Fiction thriller or do you read The Magic Of Thinking Big.
We can’t choose all our thoughts but there are many wise choices we can make to limit the amount of frivolous, harmful and purely useless thoughts that are sent our way each day. You can turn the channel! You can tune in or tune out!
You either pay attention and battle thought pollution or you pay the rent that each thought commands. The price of the useless and frivolous thoughts is usually unadulterated mediocrity. The price of harmful thoughts is poverty and unhappiness.
The choice is yours!
Choose Wisely!
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
LIfe Is...
Life is like a long distance race where persistence and consistence win the race.
Run too fast and you end up last.
Run too fast and you end up last.
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
SO WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT?
Since the mind can only hold one thought at a time, what are you thinking about most of the time?
Is your mind “programmed to receive” as the song says or are you stuck in Poverty Mode? What do you talk about with your friends?
What do you get excited about?
What do you think about when nobody is looking?
What are you reading or listening to right now?
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
THE POWER OF THOUGHTS
I am sure you have heard many times about the power of thoughts. Recently however, it hit a little close to home. My 73-year-old mom had been saying for about the last year that she hoped she would die before my 76-year-old dad as she was really worried that she could not manage without him. They have been married 50 years this year. Over the last 6 months she had been saying this more and more, even praying for it. 3 weeks ago she had a stroke and if it was not for the quick thinking of my dad she might not be around.
Think we ought to really be careful what we focus our thoughts on?
Yesterday I was watching an episode of Fear Factor and one of the women on the show kept saying there was no way she could do this particular stunt. Think she did? No way!
What kinds of things do we say to ourselves everyday? Like “I’m broke” or “I can’t afford it” or “I’ve got a terrible memory” or how about “I’m just no good at managing money”?
Your self-talk is your self fulfilling prophecy. What do you say to yourself when no one is listening?
Think we ought to really be careful what we focus our thoughts on?
Yesterday I was watching an episode of Fear Factor and one of the women on the show kept saying there was no way she could do this particular stunt. Think she did? No way!
What kinds of things do we say to ourselves everyday? Like “I’m broke” or “I can’t afford it” or “I’ve got a terrible memory” or how about “I’m just no good at managing money”?
Your self-talk is your self fulfilling prophecy. What do you say to yourself when no one is listening?
Monday, August 01, 2005
WHAT’S ALL THIS TALK ABOUT MONEY?
Some people get really turned off when I talk about money. I’ll be honest with you, most of these people are dead broke. Maybe they don’t like me talking or writing about money because for them Money has always been a source of grief because they have not had enough of it.
Let’s face it folks, Money is Economic Oxygen and without it you are dying financially. With it you can look after your health better. You can go out for supper whenever you want and to whatever restaurant you want. What if you could take your wife or girlfriend to a movie every week? What if you could drive the vehicle of your dreams?
The wife of a good friend who is a millionaire recently said to me “the person who came up with the saying, Money can’t buy you happiness probably never went on a ten thousand dollar shopping spree.” She was joking but I thought she had a point. Like my friend who drives a BMW! Behind the wheel of that vehicle is when he truly happy. Or another friend who takes a huge meal down to the homeless shelter every month! I have never seen him happier when he is walking into that dining room and serving that meal.
Money makes the world go ‘round. And if you don’t think so prepare for a few more years of poverty. I hope for your sake you can change your thinking enough to understand what I have written here.
Let’s face it folks, Money is Economic Oxygen and without it you are dying financially. With it you can look after your health better. You can go out for supper whenever you want and to whatever restaurant you want. What if you could take your wife or girlfriend to a movie every week? What if you could drive the vehicle of your dreams?
The wife of a good friend who is a millionaire recently said to me “the person who came up with the saying, Money can’t buy you happiness probably never went on a ten thousand dollar shopping spree.” She was joking but I thought she had a point. Like my friend who drives a BMW! Behind the wheel of that vehicle is when he truly happy. Or another friend who takes a huge meal down to the homeless shelter every month! I have never seen him happier when he is walking into that dining room and serving that meal.
Money makes the world go ‘round. And if you don’t think so prepare for a few more years of poverty. I hope for your sake you can change your thinking enough to understand what I have written here.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
RIGHT PATH - WRONG TRAIN
How do you know if you are on the right path?
I know that I am on the right path when things 'feel' right.
But sometimes you can be on the right path but on the wrong train.
For example, I know a speaker who has been with a particular speaking organization for a few years. He knew he was on the right path because he loved what he was doing and he could see how he was impacting people's lives. However, what he just recently found out was that he was on the wrong train. In other words, in this case he was with the wrong organization. He loved what he was doing but he was making very little money doing it.
His new organization gets him more speaking engagements AND he is making a lot of money. Now he is looking after himself and his family, donating a sizeable amount of money every month to a homeless foundation I work with and impacting people's lives.
I myself was in Network Marketing for 28 years and made very little money. Yet I loved the business. I thought it was a great concept and it is but always only for the company, not its people, where 95% of people don't make money. Everyone stays in based on hype and loyalty. However, I loved the feeling I had, being in that business even though it was contravening my Platinum Rule.
I finally realized I was on the 'Right Path' but on the 'Wrong Train'.
Then I found a business where 95% of people Make Money. In 4 months I quit a high-paying job. In that same 4 months I earned 4 times what I had earned in 28 years of Network Marketing.
What a difference it makes to be on the Right Path AND The Right Train.
I know that I am on the right path when things 'feel' right.
But sometimes you can be on the right path but on the wrong train.
For example, I know a speaker who has been with a particular speaking organization for a few years. He knew he was on the right path because he loved what he was doing and he could see how he was impacting people's lives. However, what he just recently found out was that he was on the wrong train. In other words, in this case he was with the wrong organization. He loved what he was doing but he was making very little money doing it.
His new organization gets him more speaking engagements AND he is making a lot of money. Now he is looking after himself and his family, donating a sizeable amount of money every month to a homeless foundation I work with and impacting people's lives.
I myself was in Network Marketing for 28 years and made very little money. Yet I loved the business. I thought it was a great concept and it is but always only for the company, not its people, where 95% of people don't make money. Everyone stays in based on hype and loyalty. However, I loved the feeling I had, being in that business even though it was contravening my Platinum Rule.
I finally realized I was on the 'Right Path' but on the 'Wrong Train'.
Then I found a business where 95% of people Make Money. In 4 months I quit a high-paying job. In that same 4 months I earned 4 times what I had earned in 28 years of Network Marketing.
What a difference it makes to be on the Right Path AND The Right Train.
THE FRUIT ON YOUR TREE
So how do you know if what you are doing is working or not?
Most people work so hard at their jobs or businesses and never take time to figure out if they are on the right path.
Don't be like the gardener who is so busy pulling weeds and putting in new fertilizer and watering and feeding his plants and trees that he fails to check if he is getting any fruit on his trees.
I am a hard worker so I am always looking at my results.
I regularly step back and ask myself:
Am I getting the results I deserve for all the hard work I am putting in?
Or are my results at least in proportion to my work?
Take a step back and look at your tree.
How long have you been operating that store?
Are you just barely scraping by even though you have been hard at it for the last 5 years?
How long have you been working that moonlighting accounting and book keeping business?
Are the long hours you are putting in between your full time job and that moonlighting business just keeping your head above water?
What about that Network Marketing business of yours?
They sold you on a 2 to 5 year plan and here you are ten years later still no further than when you got started.
Are you caught up in the hype or do you not want to quit because it would disappoint your upline who you are so loyal to?
Be honest with yourself and if it is not working then have the courage to move on.
If you are in a hole and you are still digging, guess what?
The hole is only going to get deeper.
There is only one person you need to be loyal to and that is you.
If you still don't understand this go back and read my last post.
Most people work so hard at their jobs or businesses and never take time to figure out if they are on the right path.
Don't be like the gardener who is so busy pulling weeds and putting in new fertilizer and watering and feeding his plants and trees that he fails to check if he is getting any fruit on his trees.
I am a hard worker so I am always looking at my results.
I regularly step back and ask myself:
Am I getting the results I deserve for all the hard work I am putting in?
Or are my results at least in proportion to my work?
Take a step back and look at your tree.
How long have you been operating that store?
Are you just barely scraping by even though you have been hard at it for the last 5 years?
How long have you been working that moonlighting accounting and book keeping business?
Are the long hours you are putting in between your full time job and that moonlighting business just keeping your head above water?
What about that Network Marketing business of yours?
They sold you on a 2 to 5 year plan and here you are ten years later still no further than when you got started.
Are you caught up in the hype or do you not want to quit because it would disappoint your upline who you are so loyal to?
Be honest with yourself and if it is not working then have the courage to move on.
If you are in a hole and you are still digging, guess what?
The hole is only going to get deeper.
There is only one person you need to be loyal to and that is you.
If you still don't understand this go back and read my last post.
WHERE ARE YOU AT?
That is the question I always pose to myself.
Where am I at?
Is what I am doing working for me?
Or am I all caught up in the hype of what I am working on?
Or am I so loyal to the people I am with that I have forgotten The Platinum Rule?
What is The Platinum Rule?
I must look after myself first before I can look after others.
That is why they tell you on airplanes that if the Oxygen mask falls, first put it on yourself then help your spouse or children or someone else. If you try to put it on them first and you faint, what good are you to them?
Are you looking after you?
Are you working on making all the money you can so you can help others?
I hope you are because that is where it all begins.
Follow the Platinum rule and abundance will start to flow into your life.
Where am I at?
Is what I am doing working for me?
Or am I all caught up in the hype of what I am working on?
Or am I so loyal to the people I am with that I have forgotten The Platinum Rule?
What is The Platinum Rule?
I must look after myself first before I can look after others.
That is why they tell you on airplanes that if the Oxygen mask falls, first put it on yourself then help your spouse or children or someone else. If you try to put it on them first and you faint, what good are you to them?
Are you looking after you?
Are you working on making all the money you can so you can help others?
I hope you are because that is where it all begins.
Follow the Platinum rule and abundance will start to flow into your life.
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