Thriving in all areas of your life?
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything!”
Last weekend I attended a powerful, high-energy event called the Millionaire Mind Intensive. The quote shown above was often repeated by our trainer, the talented and engaging, David Wood.
On the one hand I totally agree — our core beliefs are the background music to which we dance (or sit out the dance) whether we’re at work or at home, whether we’re dealing with relationships or spirituality. On the other hand, I have proof of the contrary being true. We sometimes have areas in which our core beliefs are faintly playing and other areas where the core beliefs pummel us like too-loud music at a big rock concert. For instance, during the course of this intense weekend, I realized that I had a collection of money beliefs that were making my financial freedom foxtrot turn into a penny-pinching polka.
So now that I’m aware (step 1) of these unsupportive beliefs and I’m understanding how they’re impacting my life (step 2), I’m reconditioning my mental records so that I’ll be able to trip the financial light fantastic with ease and joy!
If you want to learn more about T. Harv Eker, his amazing Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, and see how you can recompose your life’s money music, here are some useful links:
- Complimentary teleclass recording about financial freedom and the psychology of wealth
- Scholarships for an upcoming Millionaire Mind Intensive event (worth $2590)!
- Information about Secrets of the Millionaire Mind (the book)
Here’s to EVERYONE thriving in ALL areas of life. . . starting NOW! (If you missed my previous posts about giving oneself permission to thrive, you can catch up here — part 1 and part 2.)
Grateful, My Love
My friend Nneka invited the world to contribute a post about gratitude this month as those of us in the US are celebrating Thanksgiving. Gratitude is a large part of Bruce and my life — at each evening meal we give thanks for at least one thing from our day AND we take time to verbally acknowledge each other and ourselves too. This ritual is deeply satisfying.
I actually wrote this post and put it on my other blog — I Do! I Do! relationship blog — yet wanted to share it here as well. Grateful, My Love describes some of what I’m grateful for in my phenomenal husband, Bruce Ross Mulkey.
This Thanksgiving, I encourage you to take time out to tell your beloved why you’re grateful for her/his presence in your life. Trust me, the right moment is NOW!
Grateful, My Love
I am grateful for your smile, my love. Whether you are delighted with something in me or simply joyful about life, your smile is sunshine that warms my heart and helps me feel at peace. Your smile rouses my smile and I feel the joy of that act changing my whole day.
I am grateful for your hands, my love. I feel comforted by your embrace and excited by your passionate touch. Your hands offer help, assurance, love—they are reminders that I have ample support in my life.
I am grateful for your voice, my love. You speak words of consolation when I ache, you tell truths when I forget who I am, you laugh and incite my laughter when I’m caught in the seriousness of life.
I am grateful for your eyes, my love. You see beauty, possibility and truth when I am blind to life’s light. You alert me to opportunities and obstacles so I can more easily navigate my way. You open a window to your soul where I can come look in.
I am grateful for your heart, my love. Beating with constancy and strength, the music of your love always accompanies me. You are tender and open, willingly receiving my love. You show me that vulnerability and power can peacefully reside in one place equally without loss.
I am grateful for your mind, my love. You share imagination, insights, and inquisitiveness, keeping us from stalling in complacency. Your ideas call mine to dance with you as we dream and envision, rejoice and remember, consecrate and connect.
I am grateful for you, my love. Grateful for all the ways you love me; grateful for how easily you allow me to love you; grateful for how you complement me and how you open yourself to the gifts that I offer; grateful for the exuberance, joy and pleasure you bring to the high times of our lives; grateful for your depth of feeling and your steadfast partnership when our lives travel the low paths; grateful for your precious presence, in memories past and this present moment. For you my love, I am much more than grateful. I am blessed by you. My love.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
Seventy-five percent of the time we are distracted, preoccupied or forgetful (according to Hunsaker). Yes, that’s 3/4 of our waking moments spent disconnected from information or people. What kind of results is this getting us (and maybe even you personally)? Here are a few possibilities:
- poor performance at work or school
- arguments propelled by miscommunication
- missed opportunities in business
- resentment between friends, family, colleagues, or countries
- lack of connection with the Divine
Question: So, what’s one thing you can do to minimize your personal distractions, preoccupations or forgetfulness? Is it:
A) Get a Blackberry
B) Throw away your crackberry Blackberry
C) Get a time machine and travel to “simpler times”
D) Give up. Realize you’ll have to live with distraction, overwhelm, and. . .uh. . .fuzzy memory (Some people have legitimate memory issues, and this isn’t poking fun at them.)
Answer: None of the above. The one thing you can do to minimize the negative effects of living at the modern speed of life is. . .learn to listen effectively.
And I’ve got an extremely valuable class that I’m offering to you free complimentary at no charge because I believe that better listening is key to a better life. Below are the basic facts about this class. Click the title of the class to learn more or register.
Listening for Love: Effective Listening for Couples*
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
7-8 p.m. Eastern
Via telephone conference call
(i.e., If you have a phone you can be in the class.)
Our three primary objectives for this complimentary communications class are to learn:
- Why effective listening is vital to a healthy relationship
- The crucial differences between “hearing” and “listening”
- Some of the barriers that prevent you from hearing what’s really being said
*Even though the class is geared to couples, any person, regardless of their current relationship status, can benefit from participating.
If in all our practices of life we could learn to listen . . . if we could grasp what the other persons are saying as they them-selves understand what they are saying, the major hostilities of life would disappear for the simplest reason that misunderstanding would disappear.
~Harry Overstreet
I hope I’ll hear your voice chiming in during our discussion about Listening for Love on November 15. Learn more about this class or register now.
Love, life and a dog named Skidboot
“If God gives me a thunderstorm, I’m gonna thank him. If he gives me a blind dog, it just means me and Skidboot can have more personal time together. We’re not gonna begrudge any thing. Life is too precious to be upset. And this dog…I will hand lead him everywhere when he’s so blind he can’t get around. It won’t bother me at all. I love this dog.”
~ David Hartwig about how he’ll be with Skidboot’s onset of blindness.
This is an inspiring video telling the amazing story of David Hartwig, a farrier (a person who shoes horses) and Skidboot, a phenomenal dog. Each time I watch it I cry because it’s so evoking and heart-opening — there’s sadness and joy in this story. (Click the “play” triangle at the left corner below the video to watch Skidboot and David.)
There are hundreds of inspiring and important messages in this video found on YouTube. Here’s some of what I was reminded of.
- We all have a purpose in life, it simply takes some looking to find it.
- Everyone has gifts to offer. If you’re only seeing someone’s faults, you need to look again.
- Building a strong relationship takes time, attention, and intention.
- Good partners love each other unconditionally, through the “good” times and the “bad.”
- Being your authentic self is all you’re meant to do in this life.
- Life brings change we couldn’t expect, yet we can adapt even if we wish we didn’t need to.
- Love is the most powerful energy in the universe. When we love with all our heart, no matter what life delivers us, we will be filled with love.
- We are one–no matter what the Linnaean taxonomy, the news media, our governments, or our “leaders” tell us. Man and dog. Girl and ocean. Iraqi and American. Democrat and Republican. There is a connection amongst us that remains unbroken regardless of how many ways we attempt to separate or classify ourselves.
So, that’s some of what I got from Skidboot and David’s story. What messages did you get? Please share this story profusely within your circles!
