"Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."
Ovid
Many people cast their hook in a pool, and then, when there are no fish biting, give up and decide that fishing doesn't work for them. It doesn't occur to them that maybe they just picked a pool where there are no fish, and if they tried the next one over, it might be teeming with hungry fish. I'm not talking literally just about fishing here, the same idea applies in many areas, from marketing and sales to finding a mate. Whenever you are searching for something, whether it's customers or fish or a soul-mate, you must search in as many different places as possible, and you must keep doing so until you find what you were looking for.
Life has a way of always surprising us (which is good because it keeps us always interested to find out what will happen next). Situations usually don't go the way you planned. Things are often not where you expected to find them. If you really want something, then you have to go out and look for it in every place it could possibly be. You never know which of those places it could be hiding in, unless you look there.
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Change
"Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk."
Leo Buscaglia
Many of us are frightened of change. We assume that change means that the things that we love in our lives will disappear and be replaced by things we don't like much. This is just an assumption. What it really boils down to is that your ego is scared of losing itself, since it is defined by those things that have been around you in the past. Your ego will do anything it can to keep itself intact, and to keep you the way you have been in the past. It is terrified of change because to the ego, change means death.
But there is another way to look at change. It may be that the things in our life that we hate will disappear and be replaced by things that we enjoy or love. That is equally likely to happen. Change is frequently a good thing. It indicates that we are growing and nothing is more exciting than that. At the very worst, it teaches us valuable skills for adapting and coping. At it's best, it opens up whole new worlds of exploration and growth for us. It can heal us of our dis-ease. It can give our life new meaning and new purpose. Change is definately worth the risk.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Leo Buscaglia
Many of us are frightened of change. We assume that change means that the things that we love in our lives will disappear and be replaced by things we don't like much. This is just an assumption. What it really boils down to is that your ego is scared of losing itself, since it is defined by those things that have been around you in the past. Your ego will do anything it can to keep itself intact, and to keep you the way you have been in the past. It is terrified of change because to the ego, change means death.
But there is another way to look at change. It may be that the things in our life that we hate will disappear and be replaced by things that we enjoy or love. That is equally likely to happen. Change is frequently a good thing. It indicates that we are growing and nothing is more exciting than that. At the very worst, it teaches us valuable skills for adapting and coping. At it's best, it opens up whole new worlds of exploration and growth for us. It can heal us of our dis-ease. It can give our life new meaning and new purpose. Change is definately worth the risk.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Worry
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."
Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia
Do you worry about what the future will bring? Are you worried about the economy and about whether you'll have enough money to retire on? Are you worried that we'll have a depression like the one in the "30's? Are you worried about not being able to pay the mortgage and losing your house? Most of us are. But being worried about all these things is not going to stop them from happening. Because of the Law of Attraction, it is actually going to make them more likely to happen.
Worrying is like having faith that terrible things are going to happen. It happens because your ego is projecting bad things that happened in the past out in to the future. But in reality, the future is like an empty book, just waiting for you to write upon it. Nobody can foretell the future, least of all your ego.
If you focus all your energy on thinking about a bad future, you are ignoring all the good things about right now. And right now is the only time that is real, the only time that matters. The only true joy of life happens in the present. And if you are not paying attention to the good things in life, to the present, then you are missing out on what is really important in life; which is to feel joy.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia
Do you worry about what the future will bring? Are you worried about the economy and about whether you'll have enough money to retire on? Are you worried that we'll have a depression like the one in the "30's? Are you worried about not being able to pay the mortgage and losing your house? Most of us are. But being worried about all these things is not going to stop them from happening. Because of the Law of Attraction, it is actually going to make them more likely to happen.
Worrying is like having faith that terrible things are going to happen. It happens because your ego is projecting bad things that happened in the past out in to the future. But in reality, the future is like an empty book, just waiting for you to write upon it. Nobody can foretell the future, least of all your ego.
If you focus all your energy on thinking about a bad future, you are ignoring all the good things about right now. And right now is the only time that is real, the only time that matters. The only true joy of life happens in the present. And if you are not paying attention to the good things in life, to the present, then you are missing out on what is really important in life; which is to feel joy.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Election
Well, finally the big day is here. America has a new president. Admittedly, this guy is wading into an enormous mess, and it would be completely unreasonable to expect him to wave some sort of magic wand and make it go away by next year. Nobody could do that. Chances are that things are going to stay uncomfortable for all of us for perhaps years to come.
What I have been continually reminded of in the days leading up to the election is that ultimately it doesn't matter who wins because they aren't going to make all your problems go away. The only person who can do that is you. It is up to you to take charge of your life. It is up to you to become wealthy. It is up to you to do the things you need to do to protect yourself from the recession. You are responsible for your life, not some politician. And you have the power to make it all happen, just as long as you believe in yourself.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
What I have been continually reminded of in the days leading up to the election is that ultimately it doesn't matter who wins because they aren't going to make all your problems go away. The only person who can do that is you. It is up to you to take charge of your life. It is up to you to become wealthy. It is up to you to do the things you need to do to protect yourself from the recession. You are responsible for your life, not some politician. And you have the power to make it all happen, just as long as you believe in yourself.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Money
"Money is not my god or my devil. It s a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving"
Dan Millman
If you won a million dollars tomorrow, do you think you will be a changed person? Now that you can buy anything you want, will you want different things? Probably not. We've all heard that "the love of money is the root of all evil". We have all heard that people with a lot of money are selfish. But that's not true.
If you suddenly had all the money you could use, wouldn't you use it to buy what you already wanted to buy. You would use it to produce more of the things you value, or perhaps to get rid of things you don't want. If you valued education, for ex, you might want to use it to build schools in Afghanistan. If you valued art, you might want to use it to support the arts in some way. If you valued white supremacy, you might want to use it to put black people down (and this is the kind of place where perhaps money got its bad reputation). The point is that when you have a lot of money, it tends to illuminate your values and make them very clear to the world. It tends to make you more of who you already are.
Another problem with our ideas about money is that we tend to see it as the solution to all our problems so we become desperate to have it. Sometimes we will compromise all our goodness in order to get it. In this way, the love of money often really is the root of evil. Look at all the scams out there, for example. We haven't learned yet that we all have the capability to attract money while doing things that are good for other people too. We don't need to compromise who we are. We need to know the powerful and good person we really are and celebrate that.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Dan Millman
If you won a million dollars tomorrow, do you think you will be a changed person? Now that you can buy anything you want, will you want different things? Probably not. We've all heard that "the love of money is the root of all evil". We have all heard that people with a lot of money are selfish. But that's not true.
If you suddenly had all the money you could use, wouldn't you use it to buy what you already wanted to buy. You would use it to produce more of the things you value, or perhaps to get rid of things you don't want. If you valued education, for ex, you might want to use it to build schools in Afghanistan. If you valued art, you might want to use it to support the arts in some way. If you valued white supremacy, you might want to use it to put black people down (and this is the kind of place where perhaps money got its bad reputation). The point is that when you have a lot of money, it tends to illuminate your values and make them very clear to the world. It tends to make you more of who you already are.
Another problem with our ideas about money is that we tend to see it as the solution to all our problems so we become desperate to have it. Sometimes we will compromise all our goodness in order to get it. In this way, the love of money often really is the root of evil. Look at all the scams out there, for example. We haven't learned yet that we all have the capability to attract money while doing things that are good for other people too. We don't need to compromise who we are. We need to know the powerful and good person we really are and celebrate that.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Health
"The first wealth is health."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would you say is the very most important area of your life? You'd probably think of whatever area you were lacking in. People with no money think that finances are the most important part of life. People with money but no freinds would disagree; they would think that relationships are the most important part of life. But the truth is that the most important part of life is really your health.
If you are sick or in pain all the time, it is really difficult to enjoy anything else. We are aware of nothing more than the state of our physical body. We think about it all the time, since it is always with us no matter where we go. And it turns out that your attitude about almost every subject is influenced by your attitude about your body. When your body feels good, and you feel good about your body, then you will feel good about the rest of your world.
It is a snowball effect. If you feel good physically, you will feel better about the world around you, and enjoy it more. If you feel good about the world around you and enjoy it more, you will feel better physically. Disease is really dis-ease. Do whatever it takes to get your body to feel its best. Your most important wealth is your health.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would you say is the very most important area of your life? You'd probably think of whatever area you were lacking in. People with no money think that finances are the most important part of life. People with money but no freinds would disagree; they would think that relationships are the most important part of life. But the truth is that the most important part of life is really your health.
If you are sick or in pain all the time, it is really difficult to enjoy anything else. We are aware of nothing more than the state of our physical body. We think about it all the time, since it is always with us no matter where we go. And it turns out that your attitude about almost every subject is influenced by your attitude about your body. When your body feels good, and you feel good about your body, then you will feel good about the rest of your world.
It is a snowball effect. If you feel good physically, you will feel better about the world around you, and enjoy it more. If you feel good about the world around you and enjoy it more, you will feel better physically. Disease is really dis-ease. Do whatever it takes to get your body to feel its best. Your most important wealth is your health.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Saturday, November 1, 2008
"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get"
Elbert Hubbard
We know from the Law of Attraction that we can get everything we want. The biggest reason that we don't get everything we want is because we beleive that we cannot get it. We play the lottery, but we don't really beleive we have any chance of winning it. The odds are too high. We cope with this by telling ourselves that it won't be the end of the world if we don't win the lottery. We can manage without it. We are talking ourselves into doing without the things that we want but don't think we can get. We should, perhaps, be doing this more often. It would force us to be more grateful for what we already have.
If you do succeed in talking yourself out of missing those things that you don't think you can get anyway, what is left? It will be those things that you wanted and expected to get. Of course it will also be those things that you didn't want but expected to get but hopefully you can get rid of those somehow. But that's how you get everything you want. There is a wisdom in being happy with what you already have, because it makes you expect to get more good things. It raises your expectations, which in turn makes you get more of what you want (perhaps even winning that lottery).
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Elbert Hubbard
We know from the Law of Attraction that we can get everything we want. The biggest reason that we don't get everything we want is because we beleive that we cannot get it. We play the lottery, but we don't really beleive we have any chance of winning it. The odds are too high. We cope with this by telling ourselves that it won't be the end of the world if we don't win the lottery. We can manage without it. We are talking ourselves into doing without the things that we want but don't think we can get. We should, perhaps, be doing this more often. It would force us to be more grateful for what we already have.
If you do succeed in talking yourself out of missing those things that you don't think you can get anyway, what is left? It will be those things that you wanted and expected to get. Of course it will also be those things that you didn't want but expected to get but hopefully you can get rid of those somehow. But that's how you get everything you want. There is a wisdom in being happy with what you already have, because it makes you expect to get more good things. It raises your expectations, which in turn makes you get more of what you want (perhaps even winning that lottery).
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
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