Archive for July, 2007

by Kevin John
Raising your level of awareness is one of the most powerful things you can do in your quest for personal development. The story of human development and increasing enlightenment has been one of attaining increasing levels of awareness. Understanding the different aspects of awareness discussed in this article will help you to become more aware!

Awareness is something that is present in many animals — at the most basic level, survival depends on the awareness of the environment. As human beings we have extended the range of awareness to include awareness of ourselves as thinking beings, our role in society and many other areas that make up our sophisticated world.

Awareness of the world around you

This is the most fundamental form of awareness. You need to understand what is happening in the world around you at least at two different levels. The first level is the needs of survival — physical threats, shelter and food. At the next level, you need to understand the trends in the world of human society. These can affect the choices you make in your own life. For example, if you want to make more money, some of the best opportunities are those that are in emerging areas such as the internet.

Awareness of other people

We are social animals who have been able to completely transform the face of the entire planet through co-operative effort. At the core of this effort is the ability to be aware of the needs and desires of other people. While it is relatively easy to be aware of the physical needs of people, it is often much more difficult to be aware of their emotional needs. How often do you really listen enough to hear what people mean rather than what they are saying? Make a commitment to spend more time listening to people.

Awareness of yourself

One of the most shocking truths of today is that so many people go through their lives unaware of themselves and their own physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Do you fully understand why you react in the away that you do? Are you aware how your mind creates your reality?

If you are not aware of yourself and your mind, you will be immersed in whatever is happening, believing that everything that happens in your life is due to outside circumstances. You will also be immersed in the belief that you are a separate person with an ego that needs protecting and nurturing.

If you are aware of yourself and how your minds creates it’s own reality, you will be able to observe what it happening around you with detachment and make rational choices about the best outcome for you and everyone else in any situation. You will also be aware that you are part of the world you are in and not dominated by the need to protect your own ego.

Find some time every day to examine your own actions and try to understand why you took them and the mental processes that led you to take them.

Spiritual awareness

The highest level of awareness is on the spiritual plane where you start to understand how you are part of an interconnected awareness. You can do this in many ways. Conventional religions, spiritual practises and meditation are all ways to raise your awareness of the spiritual side of your nature.

There are many aspects to awareness, we have touched on a few of the major ones in this article. The journey of personal growth and development is a journey of increasing awareness of yourself and the world around you. As you become more aware, you will find that you also become more able to deal with increasingly challenging situations. Simply acquiring more awareness is enough to bring about significant change in your life. Make a point of spending time quietly with yourself every day, focussing on your awareness and how you can improve it.

Would you like some more personal development tips? Download my latest e-book here Principles of Success .Kevin John has spent many years helping businesses owners, aspiring business owners, and private individuals to achieve success.

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by Jim Keayes
Motivation that Inspires: How your goals will put you on auto-pilot to Success.

Network Marketing and MLM is a challenging adventure.

I had a serious setback in my business last week. An affiliate program that I spent several hundred dollars to join turns out to also have a fairly sizeable monthly fee attached as well. I guess I didn’t pay enough attention to the details…I really wanted to have the material. And it is invaluable content.

I was pretty pumped about offering this program as an affiliate product because I really believe it is serious value, so I got pretty deflated when I learned about the monthly sustaining fee.

I was deflated–I thought about how this would get in the way of my progress toward my goal…and then my goal kicked in…all on it’s own. I was on auto-pilot. It just took over.

I immediately began to make plans for a new strategy. You see, I really, really want this goal. I will do what it takes. Sure I had a few moments of “poor little old me” (yes, I am human too) but I got back up and on the job again.

This is the incredible power of having a goal that you can truly own. It takes you over. It’s not just an exciting or important goal, something it would be “nice to have or to achieve”. Oh, no! To truly be an effective motivator your goal has to be essential to your well being. Your soul must demand that you have it.

You see, once you know what you really truly want, you become the Thomas Edison of your business niche. You become willing to work through 12,000 unsuccessful alternatives until you find the way through into the light. Stumbling blocks become stepping stones.

You work, you fail, you re-design and you move forward again.

I have spent three quarters of my working life struggling to achieve goals I didn’t really want…what a waste. And I believe most people are the same.

Here’s the key:

Say my wife would like the million dollar house, but I’d really prefer the freedom that would come from having the income generated from a million dollars invested. Sure I’d enjoy a nice home so she convinces me that the house would be great and I begin to work toward this goal. Pretty soon an obstacle arises and I give up.

What happened?

Very simple! It wasn’t my goal. I didnt really want it…I wanted the money.

When you set a goal make sure it’s “your” goal and become very clear on what you are willing to do to get it…but even more important be aware of what you are “not” willing to do. setting, obstacles into opportunities

Here are “3 Surefire Ways to make Money Online”Download it FREE here: http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He teaches people to be successful online.

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by feelingflirty
A speaker once started off a seminar by asking a room full of 200 entry level marketers which one of them wanted a crisp $100 bill.

Everywhere in the room, hands went up. He said, “I’m going to give this $100 bill to one of you but first let me do this.” He then crumpled up the note. He asked, “Who still wants it?” Everyone again put up a hand.

So he said, “Ok, what if I do this?” He then dropped it on the ground and began grinding it with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty and said, “Ok, now who still wants it?

Again, all the hands went up. The speaker smiled.

“My friends, you have all learned a valuable lesson today. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It is still worth $100.”

Many times in our lives we are crumpled, dropped and feel like we’ve been ground into the dirt by decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless.

No matter what has happened or what WILL happen, you will never ever lose your value. You are special. Don’t ever forget that. Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.

If you’re holding back from entering a new relationship because you feel wrung out by a previous one, think about what you just read and know that you have value and that value will never diminish. You might have lost out on a former partner but there’s a better one waiting for you; you just have to take the first step to look.

Maureen is the author of the book how to win the dating game, “Do you know how to get lucky online?” She does. She didn’t always know. It took her several years of watching how other people got lucky and now you can learn it for yourself. You can also visit also her blog Feeling Flirty?Get a Date!, autumnal confessions and Sexy Advice by Maureen. You can also visit the site http://www.howtowinthedatinggame.com for her book. http://www.feelingflirty.com

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by Michael A. McGrath
You are getting sleepy” is a phrase that is now synonymous with hypnosis. It conjures up images of a white bearded man with an Austrian accent waving a pendulum or, perhaps, an image of a studio audience strutting around a stage ‘clucking’ in the total belief that they are chickens. Both of these conceptions about hypnosis give the impression that it can be used to totally control your mind and make you do things you may regret. This is not true! There is no one who can hypnotize you or use it to control your thoughts or actions against your will. You must give your permission and surrender to the process during hypnosis because all hypnosis is self hypnosis.

How hypnosis works is still a bit of a mystery as research into the human mind is still in its relative infancy. In the large scale of medical science the workings of the human mind have only been investigated relatively recently. However, scientific research has uncovered many amazing things about the mind not least of which is that your mental processes, thoughts and beliefs are connected and effected by your emotional experiences which in turn affect the your health and quality of life experiences.

A huge percentage of the medical establishment now admit that 90% of illness begins in the mind and that our emotions and mental processes have a huge affect on our bodies.

This is due mainly to that fact that the human brain is the center and focal point of an extremely complex nervous system. It is itself made up of a huge intertwining combination of sophisticated neural networks. There are also networks of cells and nerves which are weaved through the body and which are in direct contact, via electrical signals, to the brain. Theses electrical signals travel along huge internal highways at incredibly high speeds and even jump across gaps between cells. They are used by the brain to receive or send information and instructions.

The mind has two parts which are most commonly known as the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is responsible for organizing and filtering our outer experiences. It is the decision maker and has the ability to make choices. It is the filter with which we experience reality. However, many of our decisions are made unconsciously without any real thought or consideration and come from patterns stored in the subconscious mind.

The subconscious is very an extremely powerful mechanism that we still don’t know everything about. The closest analogy we have is to that of a computer system. It serves as a memory bank which can store an immeasurable amount of data. In certain parts of the brain everything we have ever experienced is stored by inter connected nerve cells which make up networks. When similar situations occur in our lives these networks and cells are activated to feed back our memory patterns to the conscious mind, taking the form of thoughts and feelings. Nothing in this vast data bank is ever erased but it can be altered if the subconscious mind is given the correct command.

The subconscious mind also controls and fully regulates the internal functions of the body such as blood circulation, breathing, metabolic rate, digestion and the thousand of other functions we take for granted. Hypnosis has been shown to be a highly effective tool for manipulating these programs running in the subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind also regulates our emotions. It is well known and accepted in the medical professions that the emotions have a direct affect on self-image, self-confidence, and the strength and meaning we place on our desires and needs. These emotions have a dramatic affect on all areas of our lives because they tend to affect our behaviour. The great majority of behavioural issues are directly caused by emotional thinking and almost every decision we make is a direct result of our emotions and feelings about a subject or situation.

Hypnosis is used to release these stored emotions, connect new emotions to memories or create new emotional responses to situations.

The subconscious mind is also the seat of the Imagination. Although many people believe they have no imagination this is in fact erroneous. Everyone has very strong imaginative faculties we just use our imagination in different ways.

Some ways hypnosis can change your life:

Hypnosis has been found to be the fastest and most practical way to gain access to the subconscious mind. It has been shown that a subject is highly suggestible while in a hypnotic state and will believe almost anything they are told.

As the subconscious directs our entire energy system it can be guided to release energy into the body. It can be guided to restructure the body in a way that promotes health and healing. It can also greatly strengthen the immune system.

By careful use of post hypnotic suggestions during hypnosis an entirely new system of habits and beliefs, which will support and help us to create our goals, can be implanted into the mind at a subconscious level.

Through the use of hypnotic reprogramming the subconscious mind can also be directed to actually create our goals like weight-loss, smoking cessation, stress control, self confidence or generating new beliefs and behaviours.

Self hypnosis is one of the fastest most effect ways to make changes in you. It is believed that the average human being uses only 3% to 10% of their brain’s full capacity. Through the use of hypnosis you can gain access to areas of the brain that would otherwise remain dormant. So learn to operate your powerful bio computer by getting the correct software installed and you will change your health, wealth and wisdom. My advice is simple - download a chosen hypnosis recording or listen to a hypnosis session on CD or tape and begin to change your life.

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by Karen Giardunio
For those of you familiar with the Chicken Soup for the Soul books –which relate real stories about real people who have overcome pain and loss then you should already know of Marci –as she has co-authored 6 separate themes around inspiration and reward in the series of those continually influential narrations. To her credit she has written 2 volumes on the “Woman’s Soul”, still another 2 volumes on the “Mother’s Soul” and one for the “Single’s Soul” as well as one for “Every Mom’s Soul”. She earned her MBA from UCLA and has also received an advanced certification as a stress management consultant. She was a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council and continues to serve on its board of directors. It is a company that consists of a group of one hundred leaders who lend their services and expertise to over 10,000,000 individuals in the field of self-development marketing.

Perhaps this further explains why –as indicated in this articles heading she is one of the nation’s leading motivational experts. She does not keep her contributions for self-empowerment here in the States however –she is known throughout the entire glob and has helped millions upon millions of people to recognize their own greatness! In her appearance in the DVD The Secret –she tells viewers of the subtle –yet vital difference between aspiring to accomplish our goals in order to find happiness and bringing our joy with us throughout the entire process –thereby concluding that happiness can only be accomplished if it accompanies us during the pursuit of our dreams. She informs viewers that to do otherwise will only end in bitterness and disappointment!

Because of her experience and popularity Marci has appeared in well over 500 national (as well as regional) radio and television programs. Her lectures are often met with standing ovations and she is in high demand with professionals and corporations alike. To name just a few, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AT&T, Sears and Amoco have all come to her for advice and over 100 newspapers articles have been written about her. She believes that our lives are made fuller and richer when our self-esteem is in high gear. She has devoted her life to that very cause and I advocate that message.

Each and every one of us has one gift in common –no one else can ever be who we are. We all have special talents and skills that no one else can express in quite the same manner –once we recognize that truth we can move forward into the future knowing our own divine greatness will always add to the well being and inspiration of those around us …if we simply allow our own light to shine on the world –and all that dwells within it! So why not let today be the day that you come to embrace your own unique value and worth? Why not encourage those nearest and dearest to your heart and soul to do the same for them selves? Can you even begin to imagine what that could mean to the universe as a whole if we all chose to do that very same thing? I will leave you alone with that thought and offer my blessings to that vision.

Karen Giardunio is an Internet Marketer who teamed up with one of the most successful Network Marketers On Line and now they work together to show the average person how to leverage and systemize an easier and more successful route to generate a led source system that can take you from the losing side of the game to the Winner’s Circle! Leverage is key and without it you will continue to struggle. Go to http://freedom.GetNetMLMProfits.com to learn how you can turn things around in recruiting.

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by Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D.
Adrian has many friends and no regular job. He works in intense short bursts for a few days at a time, becoming mentally and physically exhausted. As he recovers he begins to hate the life style he has chosen and becomes motivated to seek a more wholesome existence. But within an hour or two of imagining the life he craves for, he acts in a contrary manner. He backs out of plans and commitments that he wanted for himself. He tries to alter arrangements at the last minute knowing that it is unlikely to work. That way he can allow himself to feel legitimately aggrieved. Adrian subsequently looses friends and business associates. He feels angry with them for not accommodating him, when he has manipulated it so that they would be unable to meet his constantly shifting schedule. This anger serves only one purpose, that of self-sabotage. By ensuring that others cannot meet his requests, he feels abandoned, and that in turn fuels even more anger.

Each time Adrian goes through the cycle of denying himself the good things in life that he wants, setting it up so he gets disappointed and then feeling let down, he abandons himself. In effect he did to himself what his parents did to him. He would really like to be angry with and punish his parents, but instead he punishes himself. That is a double whammy. He got let down as a child, and now he repeats the behavior.

Early in life Adrian was not encouraged to explore and fulfill his potential. He was constantly let down. As he grew up Adrian built up a massive reservoir of anger and rage. As an adult he expressed it by turning it inward. His internal voice would say,” you think I am not worth anything because you always abandoned me, well, I’ll show you exactly how right you are!” He lived his life attempting to prove his unworthiness. It was safer to experience the familiar feelings of abandonment than the terror of growing up and being responsible for himself. Clinging on to the rage allowed Adrian to point the finger elsewhere while feeling good himself.

As an adult Adrian has a choice. That would mean giving up the outrage and fury at being put aside as a child. He has to be the responsible adult that his parents couldn’t be, and give himself permission to go after the good things in life. He has to accept that he is the author of his life story and he can re-write his punishing internal dialogue. Below are some ways he could begin amending the script:

* Writing out his anger to his parents, and reading it aloud
* Asking himself what the pay off is for setting others up to let him down
* Appreciating that he is depriving himself of warm relationships and self-respect
* Awareness that taking out his anger at his parents on himself isn’t satisfying in the long term
* Realizing that punishing himself now changes nothing in the past, nor will he get reparation for it.

Copyright Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D.

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by Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D.
The experience of anger when you feel manipulated, used or taken advantage of is a good clue that you need to take care of yourself. When your heart starts pounding and your breathing rate increases, your body is getting ready to fight for survival. You may be used to these bodily signals but read the signs as fear and panic. If you are scared you are most likely going to deflect the anger until danger has past. You may turn it inward and feel that you are to blame as often happens in abusive relationships. By accepting the role of the ‘bad’ one, you survive the experience, but damage your sense of self-worth. You begin to think of yourself as helpless and powerless in the service of maintaining a relationship that is important to you. Yet if you witnessed someone else do the same, you would be able to advise them differently. That is because you are not crippled by the emotions and can think rationally.

There are several ways you can use the bodily signs of anger to cue your need to stand up for yourself and create a more equal relationship. The first part is to examine what the anger is triggering in you. Some questions you may wish to ask yourself include:

* What does this experience remind me of in my past?
* What was the power differential in that relationship?
* If I showed my anger then, what did I imagine the consequences to be?
* Was I right about those consequences?

The second step is to note the resemblances between the situation in the past and the present one. Often when you are in a highly charged emotional state, your system is too stressed to tell the difference, and you operate as if the past was coming alive as in the following case. Fiona was furious whenever she realized that she allowed her ex-husband to demean her and put her down. She hated herself for agreeing to what he said just to keep the peace with regard to their child. At the time of the encounters she was so overwhelmed with fear that she couldn’t distinguish between her ex-husband and her mother whose fury would make Fiona shake and obey when she was a child. Now as an adult she couldn’t access the more developed parts of her that could be extremely useful when dealing with her ex-husband. The emotions were so similar that at the crucial moment, Fiona fused them as one and the same. If you find yourself doing the same you could make the following determinations:

* The person making me angry is not the same one who terrified and silenced me as in my past
* If I stand up for myself I will not be punished in the ways I was scared of before
* I am not dependent on this person in the same way I was on who ever made me angry previously
* When I stand up for myself I am showing that I am a substantial person in my own right
* The relationship will survive, grow and become stronger when I feel and exert my strength

The first two steps are momentous and will take a great deal of energy and courage to enact. Be patient with yourself and give yourself credit for moving through these stages even if you cannot do it perfectly the first few times. It is enormously difficult and scary to give up an automatic way of reacting and practice new more efficient ways. Practice by role playing situations with those you trust and feel safe with.

The third step is to work on why you are so willing to give up your self-respect in order to keep the relationship. Starting on the path towards knowing that you can survive without a particular type of relationship can enable you to reconfigure it so that both parties honor each others feelings.

Copyright Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D.

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by Tim R Hodgson
Let me ask you a question. I’d like you to take a moment to think about it though — because it’s worth your attention.

The question is…. “What is the one thing you would do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”

I’ve been asking this question a lot recently, as I’ve been going round talking to people, attending networking events, talking to people, learning what people want. And it’s a question that I’ve been asking myself a lot too. “Just what would I do, if I couldn’t fail?” What would you do if you knew that your success was guaranteed? What would you do? Where would you go?

The reason I love the question is because it reveals something about our dreams, something about our hopes, something about our aspirations. It tells us something about what we want to get out of life. If we think about that question, then we start to understand what would happen if we threw out the limits of our self belief.

So I get some great answers to that question:

“Well, I’d throw in my job and start my own business”

“Well, I’d ask that girl that I see every day on the bus if she’d like to go for a drink some time”

“Well, I’d write a book and get it published”

“Well, I’d give up work and go travelling for a year”

“Well, I’d start a home for young offenders”

“Well, I’d make my business an incredible success”

“Well, I’d go and get that major contract”

So what stops us?

When we ask that question, we always end up with a reality check though, don’t we? “But let’s be realistic”… “But let’s face the facts, it’s never going to happen”… “But I haven’t got the experience… the skills… the courage”… “But I’m too old… or too young…”

Here’s the thing though… we really CAN have what we want. We really CAN achieve our goals.

I’ve been talking to a lot of people lately - I’ve been listening to a lot of CDs, and reading a lot of books. The one thing that’s been coming across loud and clear is that we can achieve anything we want to. We can get incredible results, if we’re prepared to commit ourselves to the dreams that we want.

I know that so often I look at what I would like to do, some great dream, some great goal — and then I look at all the reasons why I couldn’t possibly achieve it. I build a set of excuses for myself, reasons why I shouldn’t even try.

So, here’s the secret. Here’s the key. We actually all have the resources inside ourselves to achieve our dreams. We all have what we need to be incredibly successful — it’s just that we don’t believe it. We’ve learnt to limit ourselves, to shrink ourselves. Perhaps it’s to protect ourselves from disappointment, perhaps it’s to fit in.. I don’t know. What I do know is that as human beings we tend to undervalue ourselves. We tend to believe in our limits rather than our strengths. We tend to focus on what we can’t do, rather than what we can.

All we need though is to choose to unlock those resources, those skills, those abilities. We might simply be able to unlock them ourselves. Or perhaps we need to find someone who can teach us. Perhaps we simply need someone to prod us into action, or someone to help us look at what’s possible, and help us build a plan to get there. I know that I really value the people around me who say “you can do it” — the ones who give me a good kick in the seat of my pants to get me going. I value the people who, when I do hit a roadblock, are prepared to dust me off, set me on my feet again, and just say “don’t just stand there feeling sorry for yourself.. get up and get on with it”.

So, over the next couple of weeks, stretch your muscles a little. Try something you’ve always wanted to do but haven’t had the courage to. Pluck up the courage to ask that bloke on a date. Start to look for a new job. Pursue that incredible contract. Write the first chapter of your book. Look at the options — consider the possibilities — take the time to imagine what it could be like — and then take action. Give it a try: and amaze yourself at just what you could achieve… when you really want to.

If you would like some help in reaching your ambitious goals, then give me a call in the UK on +44 845 6101460 or drop me a line on my private email address tim@theinspirationcentre.com. Until next time…

Enjoy life!

Tim

Contact Tim in the UK on 08456101460 or on tim@theinspirationcentre.com. Check out the web site www.theinspirationcentre.com, and look for Tim’s latest book, Jump Start Your Coaching Business, at www.jumpstartyourcoachingbusiness.co.uk

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by Ms.CiCi
Life Is A Gift - AUTHOR UKNOWN - This is another one of those emails that people forward on to friends and ask them to pass on to others. . . which I “rarely” do. However, when I read something as powerful as this, I keep it and pass it on to you, my readers.

Why not take a moment and print it out and post it in an area where you won’t miss reading it . . . often. Hopefully it will be a source of inspiration, motivation and encouragement.

Today before you think of saying an unkind word - Think of someone who can’t speak.

Today, before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Today, before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who’s crying out to God for a companion.

Today before you complain about life - Think of someone who left this earth too early; we hope they went to Heaven.

Today,before you complain about your children - Think of someone who desires children but they’re barren.

Today, before you argue about your dirty house that someone (like your child or spouse) didn’t clean or sweep - Think of the people who are living in the streets.

Today, before dreading and grumbling about the distance you must drive to work - Think of someone who has no transportation and must walk everywhere they need to go.

Today, when you are tired and complain about your job - Think of the unemployed, the disabled and those who wished they had your job.

Today, before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another - Remember that not one of us are without wrong doings.

Today, when depressing thoughts seem to get you down - force a smile on your face and be THANKFUL.

TODAY: Life is a gift. Live it. Enjoy it. Celebrate it. And be THANKFUL.

Again, I do not take credit for this authorship. ~ Ms.CiCi ~

Ms. CiCi, has a gift of teaching, is an accomplished author and world traveler who enjoys sharing her life’s experiences with others, making their life, their world a bit easier. Her writings expose her wealth of “secret information” so derived from her travels as well as drawing from her own personal wealth of wisdom. A great lover of nature, a visit to her website is a true delight. http://www.CiCi-Online.Com

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by Ms.CiCi
YOUR CONSCIOUS - SELF IMPROVEMENT - We are all human. Humans make mistakes. Thus, everyone makes mistakes. However, did you stop to realize that just one mistake can blind you to every good thing that someone else has ever done? Just one mistake! Holy Writ, aka the Holy Bible, tell us that even Jesus ignored all the good things the rich young ruler had done just to magnify a single flaw. Why? Because a single mistake can destroy all the benefits that “good” had already accomplished.

Yes, everyone falls short. However, it’s the Great Ones that get back up. People often destroy themselves, their future and fall apart. They do idiotic things and make ridiculous decisions. Why? Often times, in fact the majority of time it’s because that person did not get any counsel before making a decision. Holy Writ, aka Holy Bible, tell us: “Where there is no counsel the people fall.” (Prov. 11:14)

There are other ways people can destroy themselves. In our quest for personal motivation or self improvement, let’s look at a few:

* People are unwilling to admit a mistake. People are so filled with pride they won’t admit they did something stupid. Non Catholics scoff at Catholics because they believe in confessing their short comings or their sins. In reality, the power of confession is amazing. Holy Writ, aka the Holy Bible, tells how confession moved a man named Zaccheus from a ‘nobody’ to a ‘disciple of Jesus’ . . .all in just a few minutes!

* How many parents do you know that permit their children to show disrespect to others? Who openly laugh at their parents feeble attempts to get their attention? Who are a terror to other shoppers when taken to the supermarket? Even some of the best of “Christian” parents are guilty! You can’t compel your children to follow God, but you have every right to command them to follow YOU. Following God become their choice. There should be NO choice when it comes to following what YOU say! Set down guidelines for your children to follow and compel them to be followed. In Holy Writ, aka the Holy Bible, talks about this in Genesis 18:19 where it says, “I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do I will do everything for him that I have promised.” This is a conversation that God has with Abraham. In that God is no respecter of persons, it is applicable to EVERYONE! Hmmmm! Perhaps there was a massive misprint at the publishing company and that specific Scripture was accidentally omitted.

Without question, if some parents would learn allow this very simple, basic scripture to be a guideline in their lives there would be no need for a “nanny” to come into your home and show you the very basics of child discipline, all the while rendering the parents to utter disgrace before millions of TV viewers!

* Many of today’s “Christians,” trivialize the importance of the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. They seem to try with their “minds” to do what can ONLY be done, by GOD, via their heart, with the help of the Spirit of Holiness. There is a big difference between the Spirit-Life and the Mind-Life. To live a “prayerless” life is to nothing short of Arrogance!

* People are unfaithful to the House of the Lord, the Church, saying, “I can serve God at home.” However, their attitude about life reveals they haven’t been serving Him at home. Holy Writ, aka The Holy Bible, in Hebrews 10:25 says, “Do not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.” However, when it comes to attending the House of the Lord, or Church, don’t choose just ‘any’ for the sake of being able to be able to say, “I went to Church.” A House of the Lord, or House of Worship, or Church, should be a place where the Spirit of Holiness is allowed FULL operation.

* People often go to a church simply because it’s “nearby” their home. Even if it means driving a few miles it is very important to choose a church where God’s Holy ANOINTING is allowed to operate. Choose a church where Praise and Worship is directed by the moving of the Holy Spirit, and not by the person in charge saying, “let’s turn our hymn books to page 955 and sing . . . . ” The same old dead, dry song that is sung everytime the church doors open. God’s musical creativity is not allowed in some churches: “The beat’s gotta GO!” Meanwhile, the younger generation is seeking a place to exercise their God given musical creativity; even if it’s with a local Rock Group who sees nothing wrong with sucking on a ‘joint’ to help enhance or bring forth the “beat” that lies deep within.

* People do not seek WISE Counsel. Seek counsel and seek a Counselor who bases the advise being given on Holy Writ, not on personal opinion. Don’t give up searching for a Godly Counselor.

* Don’t Ignore Opportunities. Everyone is known for two things in their lives: (1) The problems you create -or- (2) The problems you solve. Remember, every problem has a golden door to recognition and reward. If you are asking God for a promotion, be certain that He will schedule a Goliath! The question is: how are you going to handle your Goliath?

* Don’t walk away from opportunities! God has given everyone their own path of FAVOR. Your Dreams, your Ideas, your Creativity, your Accomplishments will happen on YOUR personal path of FAVOR. Learn to recognize it.

Most of the time, unless we are truly “blind” to self, we really don’t “need” someone else to point out our own short comings. There is a “seed” that is planted in each one of us, by our Creator. When we start to say or do something that should not say/do, this little “seed” will “speak” to us admonishing us not to say/or do. That little “seed” is none other than our own “consciousness” attempting to give us the guidance that we need at that exact moment. That little “seed” is the the part of God Himself that He has instilled in each one of us! We can listen to that little “seed” and heed what we are being told and we will find that that little “seed” will actually begin to GROW within us. That “goodness” will gradually get bigger and bigger within, guiding us along our own personal POSITIVE PATH OF FAVOR. On this positive path of favor good things will happen, doors of opportunity will swing open. This is where we meet success. This is where we become known as a person that is a problem solver. You solve your own problems as well as the problems for others.

However, on the other hand we can simply ignore when that “seed,” our own conscious speaks to us. We can go on and say or do whatever “we” started out to say or do. In a very short time you will be known as a person that creates problems. . . for yourself and for those around you.

When your conscious speaks learn to pay attention and obey! It may be one of the most important Spiritual journey’s that you ever take! ~ Ms.CiCi ~

Ms. CiCi, has a gift of teaching, is an accomplished author and world traveler who enjoys sharing her life’s experiences with others, making their life, their world a bit easier. Her writings expose her wealth of “secret information” so derived from her travels as well as drawing from her own personal wealth of wisdom. A great lover of nature, a visit to her website is a true delight. http://www.CiCi-Online.Com

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