LEADERSHIP

 

                 

                      SELF-DISCIPLINE AND LEADERSHIP

                         "NOTHING IS MORE HARMFUL TO THE SERVICE

              THEN THE NEGLECT OF DISCIPLINE, FOR IT IS DISCIPLINE MORE THAN

                           NUMBERS THAT GIVES ONE ARMY SUPERIORITY OVER ANOTHER".

                                                                                                       -----GEORGE WASHINGTON

                   LEADERSHIP AND SELF-DISCIPLINE GO HAND IN HAND. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO IMAGINE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER WHO LACKS SELF-DISCIPLINE, WILLPOWER, SELF-CONTROL, AND SELF-MASTERY, THE OVERARCHING CHARATERISTIC OF A LEADER IS THAT HE IS IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF HIMSELF AND OF EVERY SITUATION.

                   THERE HAS SELDOM BEEN A TIME IN HISTORY WHEN LEADERS WERE SO NEEDED AND SO MUCH IN DEMAND AS TODAY.  WE NEED LEADERS AT EVERY OF SOCIETY, BOTH IN THE PROFIT AND NONPROFIT SECTORS. WE NEED LEADERS IN OUR FAMILIES, BUSINESS, PLACES OF WORSHIP, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, AND, ESPECIALLY, POLITICS. WE NEED MEN AND WOMEN WHO TAKE THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES SERIOUSLY AND ARE WILLING TO STEP FORWARD TO TAKE COMMAND OF THE SITUATION.

                  FORTUNATELY, LEADERSHIP IS LEARNABLE. LEADERS NOT DEVELOPED - USUALLY SELF-DEVELOPED - OVER TIME THROUGH HARD WORK, EXPERIENCE, AND TRAINING. AS PETER DRUCKER ARE SO FEW OF THEM, THAT THEY MAKE NO DIFFERENCE IN THE GREAT SCHEME OF THINGS".

                    FOUR STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

                      IN YOUR CAREER IN BUSINESS, YOU PROGRESS THROUGH FOUR LEVELS OF ACTIVITY AND ATTAINMENT. FIRST, YOU START OFF AS AN EMPLOYEE, WITH LIMITED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE. THEN, AS YOU GROW, LEARN, AND DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO GET RESULTS, YOU EVOLVE UPWARD AND BECOME A SUPERVISOR, WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PERFORMANCE AND RESULTS OF OTHER PEOPLE.

                   AS YOU CONTINUE TO MOVE UP THE SCALE OF SUPERVISION, IMPROVING YOUR ABILITY TO GET THINGS DONE THROUGH OTHERS FROM DIRECTLY OVERSEEING THE WORK OF EMPLOYEES, YOU BECOME A MANAGER, SOMEONE WHO ASSIGNS WORK TO PEOPLE WITH DEMONSTRATED COMPETENCE IN CERTAIN AREAS. MANAGERS HAVE A LARGER VIEW, AND THIS COMESWITH GREATER RESPONSIBILITIES.

                AS YOU MOVE UP THE SCALE OF MANAGEMENT, BECOMING MORE KNOWLEDGE AND EFFECTIVE AND GETTING MORE AND BETTER RESULTS FROM MORE AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE, YOU REACH THE HIGHEST LEVEL, THAT OF A LEADER. AT THIS STAGE, YOU ARE RESPOSIBLE FOR DETERMINING WHAT IS TO BE DONE RATHER THAN HOW IT IS TO BE DONE.

                 IT IS SAID THAT "SOME LEADERS ARE MADE, SOME ARE BORN, AND SOME PEOPLE HAVE LEADERSHIP THRUST UPON THEM".

                  LEADERS EMERGE OR ARE PROMOTEDTO DEAL WITH A SITUATION REQUIRING LEADERSHIP ABILITY. IN ITS SIMPLEST TERMS, THE ROLE OF THE LEADER IS TO "TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESULTS".

                  THE PRIMARY REASO THAT PEOPLE ARE PROMOTED INTO INCREASINGLY HIGHER LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP IS THAT THEY DEMONSTATE THE ABILITY TO GET THE REQUIRED RESULTS AT EACH LEVELS.

                THE ONGOING QUESTION OF THE LEADER IS ALWAYS. WHAT RESULTS ARE EXPECTED OF ME? CLARITY IS ESSENTIAL.

               THE MAIN REASON THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT PROMOTED  INTO GREATER LEADERSHIP POSITION - OR PERHAPS THEY ARE EVEN FIRED - IS BECAUSE  OF FAILURE TO EXECUTIVE". THEY DO NOT DO THE MOST IMPORTANT JOBS EXPECTED OF THEM, DO THEY GET THE RESULTS DEMANDED OF THEM.

                                LEADERS HAVE VISION

                        THE FIRST QUALITY OF LEADERSHIP, BASED ON 3,300 STUDIES OF LEADERS DONE BY JAMES MACPHERSON, IS THE QUALITYOF VISION. LEADERS HAVE VISION. THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROJECT FORWARD INTO THE FURNITURE AND DEVELOP A CLEAR PICTURE OF WHERE THEY WANT THEIR ORGANIZATIONS TO GO. THEY THEN HAVE THE ABILITY TO SHARE THIS VISION WITH OTHERS AND GAIN OTHER'S COMMITMENT TO MAKE THIS VISION A REALITY.

                    YOU BECOME A LEADER WHEN YOU ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESULTS. YOU BECOME A LEADER WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, ACT, AND TALK LIKE A LEADER. YOU BECOM A LEADER WHEN YOU DEVELOP A VISION FOR YOURSELF AND FOR YOUR COMPANY, YOUR LIFE, OR YOUR AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY.

                  THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT LEADERSHIP AND THE IMPORTANCE OF VISION. YET THEY CAN BE BOILED DOWN TO A SINGLE PRINCIPLE. A MILITARY LEADER HAS A VISION OF VICTORY, FROM WHICH HE NEVER DEVIATES. A BUSINESS LEADER HAS A VISION OF SUCCESS FOR THE BUSINESS BASED ON EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE, TO WHICH HE OR SHE IS COMPLETELY COMMITTED.

GET WHAT YOU WANT

 

                 

                                  THE UNIVERSE ARE 

                                        AN UNLIMITED

                     THE REAL STORY IS THAT YOU ARE AN UNLIMITED BEING. THE REAL STORY IS THAT THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE ARE UNLIMITED. THERE ARE WORLDS AND POSSIBILITIES THAT YOU CANNOT SEE, BUT ALL OF THEM EXIST. YOU HAVE TO START TELLING A DIFFERENT STORY! YOU HAVE TO START TELLING THE STORY OF YOUR AMAZING LIFE, BECAUSE WHATEVER STORY YOU TELL, GOOD OR BAD, LAW OF ATTRACTION MUST MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE IT, AND IT WILL BE THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE.

               IMAGINE AND FEEL WHATEVER YOU WANT AND THOSE WILL BE THE PICTURES YOU RECEIVE BACK IN YOUR LIFE. GIVE LOVE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AND FEEL AS GOOD AS YOU CAN, AND THE FORCE OF LOVE WILL SURROUND YOU WITH PEOPLE, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND EVENTS THAT YOU LOVE. YOU CAN WHATEVER YOU WANT. YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. YOU CAN HAVE WHATEVER YOU WANT.

                                 WHAT DO YOU LOVE?

                                  WHAT DO YOU WANT?

                 LET GO OF ANYTHING YOU DON'T LOVE ABOUT YOUR LIFE STORY AND JUST KEEP THE THINGS YOU LOVE. IF YOU HOLD HAD ON TO NEGATIVE THINGS FROM YOUR PAST, THEN YOU KEEP PUTTING THEM INTO YOUR STORY EVERY TIME YOU REMEMBER THEM, AND THEY GO BACK INTO THE PICTURES OF YOUR LIFE - NOW!

                 LET GO OF THE THINGS YOU DON'T LOVE ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD, AND KEEP THE THINGS YOU LOVE, LET GO OF THE THINGS YOU DON'T LOVE ABOUT YOUR WHOLE LIFE . ALL THE NEGATIVE THINGS OF THE PAST ARE DONE, FINISHED,  YOU ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON AS YOU WERE THEN, SO WHY KEEP PUTTING THEM IN YOUR STORY IF THEY MAKE YOU FEEL BAD? YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIG NEGATIVE THINGS OUT OF YOU FROM THE PAST. JUST DON'T PUT THEM IN YOUR STORY ANYMORE.

                 A MIGHTY, ETERNAL AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE FORCE PUSHES

                US ALL FORWARD. BUT WHILE ALL ARE SO BEING PUSHED,

                MANY LINGER AND LOOK BACK. UNCONSCIOUSLY, THEY

                OPPOSITE THIS FORCE.

                                                                             ---- PRENTICE NELFORD

                     IF YOU KEEP TELLING A STORY OF BEING A VICTIM, THEN THOSE PICTURES WILL PLAY OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN YOUR LIFE. IF YOU KEEP TELLING A STORY THAT YOU'RE NOT AS SMART AS OTHER PEOPLE, OR NOT AS ATTRACTIVE AS OTHER PEOPLE, OR NOT AS TALENTED AS OTHER PEOPLE, YOU WILL BE RIGHT BECAUSE THEY WILL BECOME THE PICTURES OF YOUR LIFE.

                  WHEN YOU FILL YOUR LIFE WITH LOVE, YOU'LL FIND THAT GUILT, RESENTMENT, AND ANY NEGATIVE FEELINGS WILL LEAVE YOU. AND THEN YOU WILL START TELLING THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, AND THE FORCE OF LOVE WILL LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE WITH THE PICTURES OF THE REAL/STORY OF YOUR AMAZING LIFE.

                  LOVE IS THE GREATEST POWER ON EARTH. IT CONQUERS

                  ALL THINGS".

                                                                         --- PEACE PILGRIM

                         POINTS OF POWER

                 * LIFE PRESENTS EVERYTHING TO YOU TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU LOVE!

                * IF SOMEONE HAS SOMETHIN YOU WANT, BE AS EXCITED AS THOUGH YOU HAVE IT. IF YOU FEEL LOVE FOR IT, YOU ARE BRINGING THE SAME THING TO YOU.

               * WHEN YOU SEE THE THINGS YOU WANT, YOIU ARE ON THE SAME FREQUENCY AS THOSE THINGS !

 

              * LIFE'S CATALOGUE CONTAINS THINGS YOU DON'T LOVE, SO DON'T CHOOSE THEM BY GIVING BAD FEELINGS.

               * TURN AWAY FROM THE THINGS YOU DON'T LOVE AND DON'T GIVE THEM ANY FEELING. INSTEAD SAY YES WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHIG YOU LOVE.

               * THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IS RESPONDING TO YOUR FEELINGS! IT'S ONLY WHAT YOU GIVE THAT COUNTS. THE LAW OF ATTRACTION - IS THE LAW OF YOU.

               * GIVE JUDGMENT AND CRITICISM AND YOU GIVE IT TO YOURSELF. GIVE LOVE AND APPRECIATION TO ANOTHER PERSON OR ANYTHING AND YOU GIVE IT TO YOURSELF.

               * WHEN PEOPLE SEE A LACK OF ANYTHING. IT'S SIMPLY A LACK OF LOVE.

                * YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH NOW. IF YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING THAT WASN'T RIGHT, YOUR REALIZATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF IT IS ABSOLUTION FOR THE LAW OF ATTRACTION.

                 *IT'S YOUR BELIEFS, TRUE UNTRUE, THAT FORM YOUR WORLD.

                 * YOUR IMAGINATION IS MORE REAL THAN THE WORLD YOU SEE, BECAUSE THE WORLD YOU SEE COMES FROM WHAT YOU IMAGINE AND BELIEVE! WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND FEEL TO BE TRUE IS WHAT WILL BE YOUR LIFE.

               * WHATEVER STORY YOU TELL, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD, WILL BE THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE. SO START TELLING THE STORY OF YOUR AMAZING LIFE, AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION MUST MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE IT.

BUSINESS

 

                                 YOU MUST BE BETTER

                       BECAUSE OF THE AGGRESIVE AND DETERMINED NATURE OF YOUR COMPETITION, IN ORDER TO SIMPLY SURVIVE, YOU MUST DISCIPLINE YOURSELF TO BE EQUAL TO OR BETTER THAT YOUR COMPETITORS GET OUT OF BED EVERY MORNING THINKING ABOUT HOW THEY CAN PUT YOU OUT OF BUSINESS. THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR CUSOMERS AND YOUR SALES. THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR CUSTOMERS AND YOUR SALES. THEY WANT TO GET YOUR PROFITS. THEY WANT AS MUCH OF YOUR BUSINESS AS THEY CAN POSSIBLY GET. TO INCREASE YOUR PROBABILITIES OF SUCCESS AGAINST SUCH COMPETITION, YOU MUST MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO OUT-THINK THEM.

                 WHEN YOU START A BUSINESS OF A NEW VENTURE WITHIN A BUSINESS, YOU REQUIRE THE DISCIPLINE TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK THOROUGHLY, IN ADVANCE. YOU CREATE A COMPLETE BUSINESS PLAN BEFORE YOU START OPERATIONS, AND YOU CONTINUE TO UPDATE IT AND REVISE IT EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER. THE DISCIPLINE OF ADVANCED PLANNING CAN SPELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE.

       

LEADERSHIP

                      SELF-CONTROL AND LEADERSHIP

                      THERE IS A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUR ABILITY TO DISCIPLINE YOURSELF AND YOUR BEHAVIORS AND YOUR READINESS TO LEAD. IT IS ONLY WHEN YOU PROVE TO OTHERS THAT YOU ARE IN COMPLETE CONTROL OR YOURSELF THAT THEY DEVELOP THE CONFIDENCE TO PUT YOU IN A LEADERSHIP POSITION- AND KEEP YOU THERE.

                      THE LEADER REALIZES THAT EVERYTHING HE SAYS TO OR ABOUT ANOTHER PERSON IS MAGNIFIED. THE LEADER THEREFORE PRAISES AND ENCOURAGES PEOPLE, BOTH IN THEIR PRESENCE AND WHEN THEY ARE NOT AROUND. HE NEVER SAYS ANYTHING NEGATIVE THAT COULD BE MISINTERPRETED OR THAT COULD DEMOTIVATE OR OFFEND ANOTHER PERSON. IF HE HAS PROBLEMS WITH SOMEONE, HE ADDRESSESS HIM PRIVATELY, OUT OF SIGHT AND EARSHOT OF ANYONE ELSE.

                               LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

                    LEADERS DISCIPLINE THEMSELVES TO PLAN, PREPARE, ORGANIZE, AND CHECK EVERY DETAIL. THEY TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED. THEY ASK QUESTIONS TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF A SITUATION, PROBLEM, OR DIFFICULTY.

                    GREAT LEADERS ACT AS IF THEY OWN THE ENTIRE COMPANY. THEY ACCEPT A HIGH LEVEL OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. THE LEADER NEVER COMPLAIN, MAKES EXCUSES, OR BLAMES OTHERS FOR PROBLEMS.

                    LEADERS ARE INTENSELY ACTION-ORIENTED. THEY GATHER INFORMATION CAREFULLY AND MAKE THE DECISIONS THAT ARE NECESSARY. THEY SET  MEASURES AND STANDARDS AND HOLD OTHERS TO THEM. THEY INSIST THAT THE JOB BE DONE QUICKLY AND WELL. 

                           LEADERS RISE TO THE TOP

                       LEADERS RISE TO THE TOP OF AN ORGANIZATIONS, AS CREAM RISES MILK. WHEN YOU ACCEPT COMPLETE  RESPONSIBILITY FOR GETTING RESULTS,  CONCENTRATE SINGLE-MIDELY ON COMPLETING YOUR MOST IMPORTANT TASKS, CONTINUALLY UPGRADE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS AS WELLAS YOUR ABILITY TO CONTRIBUTE VALUE TO YOUR COMPANY, YOU WILL EMERGE AS A NATURAL LEADER. 

                AS YOU DEMONSTRATE YOUR ABILITY TO MAKE AN INCREASINGLY VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO YOUR ORGANIZATION, PEOPLE ABOVE, BELOW, AND ON BOTH SIDES OF YOU WILL WANT YOU TO BE PROMOTED INTO LEADERSHIP AND WILL SUPPORT YOU WHEN YOU REACH THAT POSITION. ONE OF YOUR PRIMARY AIMS IN LIFE IS TO WALK, TALK, ACT, SPEAK, AND TREAT OTHERS AS A LEADER WOULD. EVENTUALLY, YOUR POSITION WILLBE EQUAL TO YOUR PERFORMANCE.

                 IN THE NEXT CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO DEVELOP AND PRACTICE AND DISCIPLINE NECESSARY TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR BUSINESS LIFE AND ACTIVITIES.

                                       ACTION EXERCISES

                 1. ASK YOURSELF,, "WHAT RESULTS ARE EXPECTED OF ME"? AND THEN CONCENTRATE SINGLE-MINDEDLY ON GETTING THOSE RESULTS EVERY DAY.

                2. SEE YOURSELF AS THE LEADER OF YOUR ORGANIZATION AND ASK YOURSELF, WHAT KIND OF A COMPANY WOULD THIS COMPANY BE IF EVERYONE IN IT WERE JUST LIKE ME?

                3. CREATE A CLEAR, EXCITING VISION FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR ORGANIZATION BASED ON SUCCESS AND EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE.

                 4. IDENTIFY THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN YOUR BUSINESS WORLD AND DETERMINE HOW YOU WILL HAVE TO BEHALV TOWARD THEM TO GET THEM TO PERFORM AT THEIR BEST.

                5. RESOLVE IN ADVANCE THAT, WHE THE INEVITABLE CRISIS OCCURS, YOU WILL RESPOND IN A CALM, CONTROLLED, AND INTELLIGENT MANNER.

                6. CLARIFY THE EXACT VALUES AND PRINCIPLES YOU BELIEVE IN AND STAND FOR, AND THEN SHARE THEM WITH THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU.

               7. TREAT EACH PERSON AROUND YOU AS IF HE IS COMPETENT, VALUABLE, AND IMPORTANT. THIS IS THE KEY TO GAINING THE LOYALTY AND COMMITMENT THAT YOU REQUIRE AS A LEADER.

LAW OF ATTRACTION

 

                                      PURPOSE OF LOVE

                 THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL

                 SET YOU FREE.

                                                                           --- JESUS

                    NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE FORCE OF LOVE. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, NO MATTER WHAT SITUATION YOU MAY BE FACING, THE FORCE OF LOVE CAN SET YOU FREE.

                    I KNOW OF A WOMAN WHO THROUGH LOVE ALONE BROKE THE BARS THAT CAGED HER. SHE HAD BEEN LEFT IN POVERTY AND FACED WITH BRINGING UP HER CHILDREN BY HERSELF AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF AN ABUSIVE MARRIAGE. DESPITE THE EXTREME HARDSHIP SHE FACED, THIS WOMAN NEVER ALLOWED RESENTMENT, ANGER, OR ANY ILL FEELING TO TAKE ROOT INSIDE HER. SHE NEVER TALKED NEGATIVELY ABOUT HER EX-HUSBAND BUT INSTEAD GAVE ONLY POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND WORDS ABOUT HER DREAM OF A NEW, PERFECT, BEATIFUL HUSBAND, AND HER DREAM OF TRAVELLING TO EUROPE. EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD NO MONEY TO TRAVEL, SHE APPLIED FOR AND GOT A PASSPORT AND BOUGHT SMALL ITEMS SHE WOULD NEED ON HER DREAM TRIP TO EUROPE.

                WELL, SHE DID MEET HER PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL NEW HUSBAND. AND AFTER MARRYING, THEY MOVED TO HER HUSBAND'S HOME IN SPAIN OVERLOOKING THE OCEAN, WHERE SHE NOW LIVES IN HAPPINESS.

                   THIS WOMAN REFUSED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT SHE DIDN'T LOVE BUT INSTEAD CHOSE TO GIVE LOVE AND THINK AND TALK ABOUT WHAT SHE LOVED, AND IN DOING SO, SHE SET HERSELF FREE FROM HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING, AND RECEIVED A BEAUTIFUL LIFE.

                   YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN UNLIMITED ABILITY TO THINK AND TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU LOVE, AND SO YOU HAVE AN UNLIMITED ABILITY TO BRING EVERYTHING GOOD IN LIFE TO YOU! HOWEVER, THE POWER YOU HAVE IS FAR GREATER THAN GIVING POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND WORDS OF THE THINGS YOU LOVE, BECAUSE THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IS RESPONDING TO YOUR THOUGHTS, AND YOUR FEEINGS. YOU HAVE TO FEEL LOVE TO HARNESS ITS POWER!

                                "    LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW".

                                                                                           ---  SAINT PAUL

                         * LOVE IS NOT WEAK, FEEBLE, OR SOFT. LOVE IS THE POSITIVE FORCE OF LIFE! LOVE IS THE CAUSE OF EVERYTHING POSITIVE AND GOOD.

                        * EVERYTHING YOU WANTTO BE, DO OR HAVE COMES FROM LOVE.

                       * THE POSITIVE FORCE OF LOVE CAN CREATE ANYTHING GOOD, INCREASE THE GOOD THINGS, AND CHANGE ANYTHING NEGATIVE IN YOUR LIFE.

                       * EVERY DAY, IN EVERY MOMENT, YOU MAKE THE CHOICE WHETHER TO LOVE AND HARNESS THE POSITIVE FORCE - OR NOT.

                       * THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IS THE LAW OF LOVE, AND IT IT SHTE LAW THAT IS OPERATING IN YOUR LIFE.

                       * WHATEVER YOU GIVE OUT IN LIFE IS WHAT YOU RECEIVE BACK IN LIFE. GIVE POSITIVITY, YOU RECEIVE BACK POSITIVITY, GIVE NEGATIVITY, YOU RECEIVE BACK NEGATIVITY.

                      * LIFE DOESN'T HAPPEN TO YOU, YOU RECEIVE EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE BASED ON WHAT YOU'VE GIVEN.

                      * WHETHER YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ARE GOOD OR BAD, THEY RETURN AS AUTOMATICALLY AND PRECISELY AS AN ECHO.

                      *  PEOPLE WHO HAVE GREAT LIVES THINK AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY LOVE MORE THAN WHAT THEY DON'T LOVE!

                     * TALK ABOUT THE GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY. TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU LOVE. AND BRING WHAT YOU LOVE TO YOU.

                     * YOU HAVE AN UNLIMITED ABILITY TO THINK AND TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU LOVE, AND SO YOU HAVE AN UNLIMITED ABILITY TO BRING EVERYTHING GOOD IN LIFE TO YOU!

                      * LOVE, BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOVE YOU ARE USING THE GREATEST POWER IN THE UNIVERSE.

THE IMAGINATION

 

                                             IMAGINATION

                          "THERE IS A SENSE IN THE TREE WHICH FEELS YOUR LOVE AND 

                          RESPONDS TO IT. IT DOES NOT RESPOND OR SHOW ITS PLEASURE

                          IN OUR WAY OR IN ANY WAY WE CAN NOW UNDERSTAND".

                          YOU MAY BELIEVE THE REAL WORLD IS EVERYTHING YOU CAN SEE, AND THAT EVERYTHING YOU CAN'T SEED ISN'T REAL. AND YET THE COLOR YOU SEE WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING IS IN FACT NOT ITS REAL COLOR. EACH THING ABSORBS ALL THE COLORS THAT IT REALLY IS, AND REFLECTS THE COLOR IT IS NOT, AND THAT'S THE COLOR YOU SEE. SO THE SKY IS ACTUALLY EVERY COLOR BUT BLUE!

                        THERE ARE MANY SOUNDS YOU CAN'T HEAR BECAUSE THEIR FREQUENCIES ARE BEYOND WHAT YOU CAN HEAR, BUT THEY ARE FREQUENCIES ARE BEYOND WHAT YOUR EYE CAN SEE, BUT THEY ARE REAL. IF YOU IMAGINE ALL THE KNOWN FREQUENCIES OF LIGHT AS THE SIZE OF MOUNT EVERREST, THEN ALL THAT YOU CAN SEE IS SMALLER THAN A GOLF BALL!

                         YOU MAY BELIEVE THE REAL WORLD IS MADE UP OF ALL THE SOLID THIGS YOU CAN SEE AND TOUCH. BUT ACTUALLY NOTHING IS SOLID! THE CHAIR YOU'RE SITTING ON RIGHT NOW IS A FORCE OF MOVING ENERGY, AND IT'S MOSTLY SPACE. SO HOW REAL IS YOUR CHAIR?

                      "A WISE MAN, RECOGNIZING THAT THE WORLD IS BUT AN

                      ILLUSION, DOES NOT ACT AS IF IS REAL, SO (THEREFORE)

                      BE ESCAPES THE SUFFERING".

                            YOU MAY BELIEVE THAT YOUR IMAGINATION IS JUST THOUGHTS AND DREAMS AND HAS NO POWER IN THE REAL WORLD. AND YET  ONE OF THE HURDLES FOR SCIENTISTS IS PROVING THINGS TO BE TRUE OR NOT IS REMOVING THE SCIENTIST'S BELIEFS FROM SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS, BECAUSE WHAT THE SCIENTIST BELIEVES OR IMAGINES WILL BE THE OUTCOME OF AN EXPERIMENT AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF THE EXPERIMENT. THIS IS THE POWER OF HUMAN IMAGINATION AND BELIEFS! JUST AS THE SCIENTIST'S BELIEFS AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF AN EXPERIMENT, SO DO YOUR BELIEFS AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF YOUR LIFE.

                      YOUR BELIEFS, TRUE OR UNTRUE, FORM YOUR WORLD. WHAT YOU IMAGINE AND FEEL TO BE TRUE CREATES YOUR LIFE, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT YOU'RE GIVING TO THE LAW OF ATTRACTION, AND THAT IS WHAT WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU. YOUR IMAGINATION IS MORE REAL THAN THE WORLD YOU SEE, BECAUSE THE WORLD YOU SEE COMES FROM WHAT YOU IMAGINE AND BELIEVE! WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND FEEL TO BE TRUE IS WHAT WILL BE YOUR LIFE. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN'T HAVE THE LIFE YOU DREAM OF , THE LAW OF ATTRACTION MUST FOLLOW WHAT YOU, SAY, AND THAT WILL BE YOUR REAL WORLD.

                      TO BELIEVE IN THE THINGS YOU CAN SEE AND TOUCH

                       IS NO BELIEF AT ALL, BUT TO BELIEVE IN THE UNSEEN

                       ISA TRIUMPH AND A BLESSING.

                                                                              --- ABRAHAM LINCOLN

                           A STORY OF LIMITATION HAS BEEN PASSED ON FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT THROUGH THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY, BUT THE TIME HAS COME TO TELL THE REAL STORY.

I DON'T AGREE THAT THE BODY NEEDS TO DIE

                                TOWARD A DIFFERENT 

                                       ORDER OF REALITY

                       I DON'T AGREE THAT THE BODY NEEEDS TO DIE. I AM CONVINCED THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY. WE BELIEVE IN DEATH AND THAT'S WHY THE BODY DIES.

                       THE BODY DOES NOT DIE BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN DEATH. THE BODY EXISTS, OR SEEMS TO, BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN DEATH. BODY AND DEATH ARE PART OF THE SAME ILLUSION, CREATED BY THE EGOIC MODE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH HAS NO AWARENESS OF THE SOURCE OF LIFE AND SEES ITSELF AS SEPARATE AND CONSTANTLY UNDER THREAT. SO IT CREATES HE ILLUSION THAT YOU ARE A BODY, A DENSE, PHYSICAL VEHICLE THAT IS CONTANTLY UNDER THREAT.

                        TO PERCEIVE YOURSELF AS A VULNERABLE BODY THAT WAS BORN AND A LITTLE LATER DIES - THAT'S THE ILLUSION. BODY AND DEATH. ONE ILLUSION. YOU CANNOT HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER. BUT THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. EITHER YOU KEEP ALL OF IT OR YOU RELINQUISH ALL OF IT.

                    HOWEVER, YOU CANNOT ESCAPE FROM THE BODY, NOR DO YOU HAVE TO. THE BODY IS AN INCREDIBLE MISPERCEPTION OF YOUR TRUE NATURE. BUT YOUR TRUE NATURE IS CONCEALED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THAT ILLUSION, NOT OUTSIDE IT, SO THE BODY IS STILL THE ONLY POINT OF ACCESS TO IT.

                     IF YOU SAW AN ANGEL BUT MISTOOK IT FOR A STONE STATUE, ALL YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO IS ADJUST YOUR VISION AND LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT THE "STONE STATUE", NOT START LOOKING SOMEWHERE ELSE. YOU WOULD THEN FIND THAT THERE NEVER WAS A STONE STATUE.

                      IF BELIEF IN DEATH CREATES THE BODY, WHY DOES AN ANIMAL HAVE A BODY? AN ANIMAL DOESN'T HAVE AN EGO, AND IT DOESN'T BELIEVE IN DEATH...

                  BUT IT STILL DIES, OR SEEMS TO.

                     REMEMBER THAT YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD IS A REFLECTION OF YOUR STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. YOU ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM IT, AND THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE WORLD OUT THERE. EVERY MOMENT, YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES THE WORLD THAT YOU INHABIT. ONE OF THE GREATEST INSIGHTS THAT HAS COME OUT OF MODERN PHYSICS IS THAT OF THE UNITY BETWEEN THE OBSERVING CONSCIOUSNESS - CANNOT BE SEPERATED FROM THE OBSERVED PHENOMENA, AND A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING CAUSES THE OBSERVED PHENOMENA TO BEHAVE DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING CAUSES THE OBSERVED PHENOMENA, TO BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY, IF YOU BELIEVE, ON A DEEP LEVEL, IN SEPARATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL. THEN YOU SEE THAT BELIEF REFLECTED ALL AROUND YOU AND YOUR PERCEPTIONS ARE GOVERED BY FEAR. YOU  INHABIT A WORLD OF DEATH AND OF BODIES FIGHTING, KILLING, AND DEVORING EACH OTHER.

                  NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE. THE WORLD THAT YOU CREATE AND SEE THROUGH THE EGOIC MIND MAY SEEM A VERY IMPERFECT PLACE, EVEN A VALE OF TEARS. BUT WHATEVER YOU PERCEIVE IS ONLY A KIND OF SYMBOL, LIKE AN IMAGE IN A DREAM. IT IS HOW YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS INTERPRETS AND INTERACTS WITH THE MOLECULAR ENERGY DANCE OF THE UNIVERSE. THIS ENERGY IS THE RAW MATERIAL OF SO-CALLED PHYSICAL REALITY. YOU SEE IT IN TERMS OF BODIES AND BIRTH AND DEATH OR AS A STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL. AN INFINITE NUMBER OF COMPLETELY DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORLDS, IS POSSIBLE AND, IN FACT, EXISTS - ALL DEPENDING ON THE PERCEIVING CONSCIOUSNESS. EVERY BEING IS A FOCAL POINT OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AND EVERY SUCH FOCAL POINT CREATES ITS OWN WORLD, ALTHOUGH ALL THOSE WORLDS ARE INTERCONNECTED. THERE IS A HUMAN WORLD, AND ANT WORLD A DOLPHIN WORLD, AND SO ON. THERE ARE COUNTLESS BEINGS WHOSE CONSCIOUSNESS FREQUENCY IS SO DIFFERENT FROM YOURS THAT YOU ARE PROBABLY UNAWARE OF THEIR EXISTENCE, AS THEY OF YOURS. HIGHLY CONSCIOUS BEINGS WHO ARE AWARE OF THEIR CONNECTEDNESS WITH THE SOURCE AND WITH EACH OTHER WOULD INHABIT A WORLD THAT TO YOU WOULD APPEAR AS A HEAVENLY REALM- AND YET ALL WORLDS ARE ULTIMATELY ONE.

                            OUR COLLECTIVE HUMAN WORLD IS LARGELY CREATED THROUGH THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS WE CALL MIND. EVEN WITHIN THE COLLECTIVE HUMAN WORLD CONSCIOUSNESS WE CALL MIND.  EVEN WITHOUT THE COLLECTIVE HUMAN WORLD THERE ARE VAST DIFFERENCE, MANY DIFFERENT "SUB-WORLDS", DEPENDING ON THE PERCEIVES OR CREATORS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE WORLDS. SINCE ALL WORLDS ARE INTERCONNECTED, WHEN COLLECTIVE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS BECOMES TRANSFORMED, NATURE AND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM WILL REFLECT THAT TRANSFORMATION. HENCE THE STATEMENT IN THE BIBLE THAT IN THE COMING AGE, THE LION SHALL LIE DOWN WITH THE LAMB". THIS POINTS TO THE POSSIBILITY  OF A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ORDER OF REALITY.

                       THE WORLD AS IT APPEARS TO US NOW IS, AS I SAID, LARGELY REFLECTION OF THE EGOIC MIND. FEAR BEING AN UNAVOIDABLE CONSEQUENCE OF EGOIC DELUSION, IT IS A WORLD DOMINATED BY FEAR. JUST AS THE IMAGES IN A DREAM ARE SYMBOLS OF INNER STATES AND FEELINGS, SO OUR COLLECTIVE REALITY IS LARGELY A SYMBOLIC EXPRESSION OF FEAR AND OF THE HEAVY LAYERS OF NEGATIVITY THAT HAVE ACCUMULATED IN THE COLLECTIVE HUMAN PSYCHE. WE ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM OUR WORLD, SO WHEN THE MAJORITY OF HUMANS BECOME FROM OF EGOIC DELUSION, THIS INNER CHANGE WILL AFFECT ALL OF CREATION. YOU WILL LITERALLY INHABIT A NEW WORLD. IT IS A SHIFT IN PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS. THE STRAGE BUDDHIST SAYING THAT EVERY TREE AND EVERY BLADE OF GRASS WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME ENLIGHTENED POINTS TO THE SAME TRUTH. ACCORDING TO ST.PAUL THE WHOLE OF CREATION IS WAITING FOR HUMANS TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED. THAT IS HOW I INTERPRET HIS SAYING THAT "THE CREATED UNIVERSE IS WAITING WITH EAGER EXPECTATIONS FOR GOD'S SONS TO BE REVEALED". ST. PAUL GOES ON TO SAY THAT ALL OF CREATION WILL  BECOME REDEEMED THROUGH THIS.

                    UP TO THE PRESENT... THE WHOLE CREATED UNIVERSE IN ALL ITS PARTS GROANS AS IF IN THE PANGS OF CHILDBIRTH".