Success University 02 (Nov 08 - Jan 09)

[winston]

Yeah, I want Peace in Gaza and those idiots wants wants to wipe out the entire Palestinian race. So the both of us will get what we want when the entire Palestinian race has been wiped out..

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"But, what if what I want and what you want are in conflict? If I want rain, and you've just cut your alfalfa…how does that work?"

If you will focus upon the essence of what you want (which is a magnificent new crop) and the other will focus upon the essence of what they want (which is a successful alfalfa harvest, or whatever)… and if either one of you doesn't get too involved in the details of how you think you want your desire to play out, then both of you can be satisfied.

The Universe has the facility to orchestrate circumstances and events to accommodate everyone.

Excerpted from a workshop in Albuquerque, NM on Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

All Is Well

[kennynah]

it's the 1st day of 2009. W, calm down.... your angst wont stop the bi-lateral attacks ....

* i'd ask you to go for a smoke...but u since you dont, i'd ask you to pour yourself a scotch or brandy or vodka or whatever drink that soothes your edges a little....

maybe go listen to some enya music... or even some jap AV to distract you a little...hahaha..

anyways.... it's your choice how you wana react to a situation, you have very little influence over... and oh, i hope you aren't contemplating setting yourself aflame in front of some national TV.... i believe that would not make an iota of difference to what's happening to israel/palestine conflict....so, refer to *

[winston]

Is Abraham saying that you could reach what you consider to be a prime human physical condition and that you could maintain it for as long as you remain physically focused in this body? The answer is, absolutely yes. And it doesn't mean reach your prime and then jump off a cliff the same day, either. It means, reach your prime and bask in the deliciousness of that.

Now, why is other than that the more consistent experience? Because most everybody is looking around and vibrating in response to what they are seeing. So, what is the solution? Look around less. Imagine more. Look around less. Imagine more. Until your imagery is the most familiar vibration that you have.

Excerpted from a workshop in Boca Raton, FL on Saturday, January 16th, 1999

All Is Well

[winston]

You Can Control Your Habits by Mike Brescia

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Today's Empowering Quote
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"We're worn into grooves by Time--by our habits. In the end,these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness--achievement."
-Frank B. Gilberth

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Today's Empowering Question
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"What thoughts do I have that continuously drive me into taking the actions that keep me down?"

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Today's Fast Session
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You can't possibly make a positive change in your life if you don't know how it is that you make the mistakes in the first place--the habits that confine you to making the same mistakes over and over.

...And over.

I can appreciate how frustrating it is to be imprisoned to running the same old patterns--only to get the same rotten results. I was a living, breathing example of the power of bad habits.

No one type of person is immune to the power of habits. The other day I was reading about some of the tightwad habits of a few famous, and wealthy, people...

For example, Clarke Gable used to argue regularly with his grocer about the price of jellybeans. John Rockefeller once gave his groundskeeper a $5 bonus...then docked it from his pay when the man took Christmas Day off. Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, used to pack a suitcase full of dirty clothes and take it to his daughter's house so he didn't have to pay to have it
cleaned. Ty Cobb, the baseball great and early investor in Coca-Cola, used to steal soap from hotels and locker room showers and send them back to his home.

These are prime examples of the power of habit. Even after these people became wealthy, they still retained their old scripting.

Our habits of thought, especially the thoughts that we don't even CONSCIOUSLY think any more, control every action and emotion we have... even in our sleep.

So if you've been reading my newsletters for months, and even if you forward them all over the world, but you haven't once taken those affirmations at the bottom and attempted to incorporate them into your daily thoughts, you are missing out on one of the most powerful and life altering habits you have available to you; because it is impossible to change your action habits before you first make a thought habit change.

Reach up and scratch your ear. The only way you can do that is if you think about it first, either from a direct command like I just gave (which you had to think about) or by the thought, "My ear itches." So you take the action.

You can't take a single action unless you think about it first. The thought, "My ear itches" is an affirmation. If your ear lost all its feeling and went numb, a mosquito could suck it dry and you'd never get the thought, "My ear itches." So you wouldn't scratch it. The mosquito doesn't make you scratch your ear. It's the thought, "I'm getting bitten." Numb ear means no thought.

For many decades, yogis have done demonstrations where they drink a toxic substance like turpentine yet it does nothing to them. They affirm in their minds that no matter what the liquid is, their body will react to it as if it's water. No cell in their body is harmed. No treatment is necessary.

You have a mind just like they do. Same structure. Same abilities. There is no difference. Well, there is one...

Your beliefs - your affirmations, are different.

You can only act based on what you believe... what you affirm is true. Affirmations like, "I'm too short, too tall, too this, too that, I can't do it, She would never like me, I'll never learn this, I'm going to die broke..."

...In fact any false belief you have isn't false at all if you believe it.

If you believe that you're going to own hundreds of rental properties, you'll learn what you need to know and you'll do what's required to make it happen.


Conversely, if you believe (affirm) that you'll need Social Security to survive and that you'll live hand to mouth forever, you won't try to save, you'll spend your money on junk, your time will be spent on recreation and you'll run the other away from setting meaningful goals.

Habits control all of us. Take control of your thoughts. Make it a daily habit of affirming powerful belief altering, action producing truths about you and about life, and it will literally force you to do and to enjoy (if you affirm to) the actions that will make your dreams come true.

Make a commitment now to be the one in twenty who gets what they really want in life; The one in twenty who takes information and actually does something with it; One in twenty who can take goal accomplishing actions because they convince themselves that it's fun...

And if you don't believe that... yet, then consider this.

Life is tough no matter who you are. What pain would you rather have, the pain of sacrifice and labor or the pain of regret and sorrow for the things you never did because you believed you couldn't and will never get the chance to do again?

Choose the first one... Please.

[winston]

Your Inner Being would want you to manifest everything that you decide that you want. Your Inner Being would want you to know that you have value and the ability to have or be or do anything. Your Inner Being would want you to fulfill every wish and whim that you could identify.

Excerpted from a workshop in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, April 14th, 1998

All Is Well

[winston]

What Are Mine Doing To Me? by Mike Brescia

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Today's Empowering Quote
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"'Why' and 'How' are words so important that they cannot be too often used."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

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Today's Empowering Question
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"Are my internal questions helping me or hurting me?"

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Today's Fast Session
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Two main activities our minds engage in consciously are affirming and questioning.

The problem is, most people use questions to make themselves feel guilty, depressed, get angry, and many other unsupportive emotions, limiting what they'd be willing to DO at any moment.

When you feel lousy, not confident, ugly, stupid, foggy, it's hard to get your best from yourself. And questioning, one of the primary activities of your mind, plays a big role in how you feel every minute of every day.

Here's an example:

The mind's question: "Why am I so fat?"
The mind's answer: "Because you eat too much. You feel like you are worthless and since that's the way it is, any attempt you engage in to lose w'eight, I (your subconscious) will thwart. You are not worth all the trouble of becoming thin. Why not just relax here on the couch, grab that terrific tasting chip dip you just bought and finish it?"

Isn't that pretty typical of some of the internal dialogs you have with yourself on a regular basis? Be honest.

With the use of anti-depres'sants on the rise, it must be a pretty common practice.

<Notice> If your questions & goals are unreasonable, you'll get answers that will keep you from reaching those goals. If you ask how you can lose 25 lbs. in a week, you'll get answers like starve myself, live on the treadmill, etc. And when you try to implement those
answers, you'll get discouraged and tell everyone that no matter what you do you can't seem to lose the weight... or quit sm'oking, or go out in crowds, or whatever your silly dream was.

And you'll become a person that stops trying certain things. You could be great at some things, but in those other areas of life where your questions stink - forget it.

Questioning can just as easily work for you in the positive direction.

Example: What can I do to drop 25 lbs. within 4-6 months? (Challenging, but very possible)

Your mind comes up with good answers to good questions. You could read food labels, join a health club, get a walking buddy or workout partner, buy some home exercise equipment (AND use it), get a good low-fat cookbook, stop eating fast food, like myself more, etc.

You don't have to implement all this at once. Do a few things. Succeed, then add a few more. Soon, you have a whole new set of habits. Your confidence will be higher. And you'll be on your way.

All because you used your mind to ask empowering questions instead of ones that only make you feel like a worthless failure. I know. I did that for over twenty years, and my life was a complete and utter chaotic mess.

Disempowering questions sound like this:

Why does this always happen to me?
When will I ever learn?
Why do I even bother?
If I don't study now, what's the worst that could happen?
Why can't someone else do this?
What is wrong with me?

Questions like these will chop you down in an instant and you'll never know why you can't achieve even the most simple goals...

And you'll continue to blame everyone but yourself for your failures.

Not you though, because you know better.

[winston]

You are on the leading edge of thought, taking thought beyond that which it has been before. Who cares what thoughts have led up to this. You're standing in the fresh now, and many of the thoughts that you vehemently oppose are the very thoughts that have given you the desire that has attracted the clarity of where you now stand.

No matter how awful you think they might be, all were of value in the evolution forward. Every one of them.

Excerpted from a workshop in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, April 14th, 1998

All Is Well

[helios]

does anyone know these 2 types of motivation actually complement each other??

1. forward motivation -

2. failing motivation -

how are they apply in your real world? any examples?

[kennynah]

first....u need to explain what they are....

[winston]

Have You Smelled Any Roses Today? by Mike Brescia

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Today's Empowering Quote
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"When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things."
-Amy Vanderbilt

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Today's Empowering Question
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"What are five things I'm most grateful for today? Ten?"

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Today's Fast Session
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It's so easy and it seems pretty natural, when things aren't going right, to get angry and frustrated. It's common for people to shake their fists at the sky and say, "Why me?!"

At these times, what's needed is a little perspective.

For me, right now (Oct. 2000), it's downright painful to even sit here and type, due to these disks in my neck that may or may not be part of me for much longer. There are so many 'What ifs?' that it's a bit daunting. What if I do nothing? What is reasonable to expect from therapy? Surgery? What about mobility afterwards? How about sports? Ever again? Precautions? Pain? Oh, the pain! Paralysis? Loss of use of a limb? Gosh, I'm only 38!! This wasn't in the plan!

And that's just what a lot of people do until they're 'paralyzed' with anxiety.

There is another way...

The desire must be to feel better mentally when it's not possible physically or when outer circumstances aren't likely to change soon. Isn't that right? I mean, you'd like to at least 'feel better' in your thoughts, right? It IS possible.

So I literally can't think of a better thing to do than to put forth every ounce of effort into gaining a perspective on things that will bring peace of mind.

Haven't we all known or heard of someone who has experienced devastating circumstances, including radical deterioration to their health, yet they 'managed' to stay 'positive?' They must be out of their right minds, huh? But the truth is that there are literally millions of
people right now whose daily struggles make our own seem like a grain of sand in our shoe.

It's all about perspective...

Remember, things could be worse, right? You could be gone already. The pain could be triple. The loss could be total and permanent. The embarrassment could be worse...somehow. The scars could be worse. You could live in a refugee camp. You could be starving.

Remember, if you were born in a country with tremendous freedoms, you've got it a whole lot better than BILLIONS of others. Do you shiver in your sleep? Do you wonder where your next meal is coming from?

To go on with grace and a calming peace, I only need to think about all the things that ARE good... in comparison to what they could be... compared to what so many others are experiencing this very moment... compared to where I've been.

Take a minute or two or ten and write down a short list that you can pop in your wallet, pocket or purse. Put on it all the things you can think of that are good compared to what things used to be like. What's good compared to what others face? How's your country? Your neighborhood? Your schools? Your friends? Has anyone shoved a gun in your face in the last 24 hours?

No matter what can happen to you, keep in mind that it could be worse. Also, remember that you are bigger than any of it. You can go on with dignity and overcome all of it. One peaceful, smiling, serene and grateful minute at a time.

And there are plenty of role models who've experienced it all before you have, all around you to help you do it.

Isn't that rather comforting?