Week 24 "Never Give up, Never Surrender"

The end of the class and the beginning of a new life!
I have been contemplating deeply this week as I have been reading the last  Master Keys chapter and I have come to the conclusion that the Hero's Journey is not a one time adventure but rather a trip to be taken many times over in the course of ones life.  My first journey began in High School with the lead in the school play, student government and sports.  I began another with college and living in another country for two years proselyting.   On my return I began yet another with marriage and family and career responsibilities.  Each adventure cultivates the desire for yet another journey and more growth and so now I have begun another more introspective, deeply challenging adventure with the Master Keys Master Mind alliance and have acquired the key to all personal achievement.  That key is the realization that I have always had the key; I am in control of the outcome of my present and future.  Hanell states 24:  4  "The whole range then of the theory and practice of any system of metaphysics consists in knowing the Truth concerning yourself and the world in which you live; in knowing that in order to express harmony, you must think harmony; in order to express health you must think health; and in order to express abundance you must think abundance; to do this you must reverse the evidence of the senses.  5. When you come to know that every form of disease, sickness, lack and limitation are simply the result of wrong thinking, you will have come to know "the Truth
which shall make you free." You will see how mountains may be removed. If these mountains consist only of doubt, fear, distrust or other forms of discouragement, they are none the less real, and they need not only to be removed but to be "cast into the sea." 6. Your real work consists in convincing yourself of the truth of these statements. When you have succeeded in doing this you will have no difficulty in thinking the
truth, and as has been shown, the truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself."

In the play Henry V, "the battle of As-encore" just as the French are attacking, the king boldly states "all things are ready, if our minds be so."  That's the core of this training.  To control our minds!  The greater the faith I have in becoming the real me - the person God intended me to become - the more happy and fulfilled I am.  I am God's greatest creation and I can fulfill the measure of my creation and find contentment, peace and bliss by becoming that person.  One journey ends and another begins; there is no end to the adventure of becoming because to quit at one plateau means you miss the next higher one on the horizon...  the one that lets you see farther, breath cleaner air, and improves you climbing abilities.    The grass isn't greener on the other side, the side the world says is the path to follow, the way to happiness and success;  dog eat dog or just as bad - sloth.  No I prefer the road less traveled and that has made all the difference.  In the battle to conquer self, it's once more into the breach... for I have not yet begun to fight for the real me.  In the movie Galaxy Quest the reoccurring theme is Never give up... Never Surrender.  that's the plan for me... I have obtained all of my DMP statements with varying degrees of success during this course except the last one which I put for October 2015 and I know that as all conditions are thought creations and therefore any lack simply is due to  mental conditions in which the person fails to perceive the truth.  I will forever seek the truth.
Thank you MKMMA.

Week 23 Self Assessment Test

Here we are almost at the end of the course but the beginning of a new chapter in my life.  At the beginning of this Master Key program we all took a self assessment test to see where we were in controlling our own destiny.  We took the test again this week and after completing it I was amazed at how much change there was. I haven't really thought about it but when I saw the results there it was... I have grown and become more of the person I desire to be.  I realize that this too is just the beginning because now I have the understanding and the tools to do anything.  What are those tools...  success is found in SERVICE and CONCENTRATED THOUGHT found in SILENCE.  I have learned not to go forward is to go backward and one moves forward with faith.  I now understand the meaning, breadth, depth and consequences of fear in my life.  I have always feared that I would never get to be somebody... SOOO  I manifested in my life exactly that...   In high school I was a V.P. on the student counsel, not president, I was the lead in the school play but didn't get to kiss the girl, I learned a foreign language very quickly but lost it just as quickly when I stopped using it, I got the job of my dreams but have never been promoted to  higher administrative positions, I have run my own businesses successfully but never made the big money.  Now I know that I AM somebody - I ran the student counsel and made the president look good, I was the lead in the school play and kissed the girl I wanted to - and married  her, I became fluent in a foreign language,  I do have the job of my dreams and I love it, and I have run successful businesses that have blessed the lives of many people.  WOW!  I Am happy because I realized that any permanent satisfaction in life is not found in anything physical.  I will no longer throw away today hoping for success tomorrow for true joy is found in every moment of life.  I Am an adventurous, charismatic, powerful, loving, spirit directed, furtively wealthy man who lives the law of least effort by practicing acceptance, responsibility and defenselessness.   I have always had all I ever wanted and didn't realize it until this course.  Thank you MKMMA.  What a ride!

Week 22B I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful...

I didn't realize that this week was a No-Webinar-Week until I tried to get on...  Which was great!  the reading was Thoreau and to be honest I haven't figured it out yet.   I have had a lot of things to think about and catch up on and in doing so I finally understood / felt NARC!  I think?

I have been pondering on "THE ONE THING" that will fuel my emotions to change the old blue - print and get me to the next level and I have been doing some weeding out of unnecessary things and feeling miserable. Well I decided that when I finished my regular drill (getting my work done, reading, sit, 3 gratitude's, positive journal experience sentence, service, exercise) I decided to reward myself.  The one thing I really love and have been grumpy w/o has been movies.  I would own a movie theater if my wife would let me but she knows I would never leave... so anyway I allowed myself to watch a movie this week and I have felt great.  I was so excited to watch that I had a great time doing the requirements now am starting to love, and spend more time w/ those requirements because I want to - they have become habit but are now so much more than a chore -  and the reward of watching a movie now and then has been WONDERFUL!    I'm happier, less stressed, and am more excited about doing the things that fuel my DMP.

I have also overcome some of the guilt / uneasy feelings I've had about wanting money... I finally found a way to go after my DMP goal w/o compromising any personal values or standards and that has also relieved me of anxiety.  Og was right, I make my own weather.  I can be the master of my emotions and now having a clear and defined road knowing that it is the right one for me has made all the difference.  I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful...

Week 22 The Sounds of Silence

This week we were to find hours if not days to be totally silent...  I was so excited to go for it because my life is filled with noise.  for years we have called our home the "house of noise".   I have have 7 children, four still in the home - two in grade school, one a High School senior, one in college all of which bring their friends over as well as my aging mother who lives with us so I can care for her, four grandchildren who visit OFTEN, a wife finishing her degree and two dogs all in a 1200 sq. foot home.  The thought of just being still sounds great!  It's just not easily accomplished and being a man who always keeps his promises and having already scheduled my week before the webcast (Fri OATS) - I was only able to spend several hours at a time on a couple of days in total solitude...  I am working out my calendar to give me more opportunities to be quiet in longer periods of time this coming week.  However I did stop all radio, music, t.v. and any unnecessary talking or noise all week long and it was great.  I have been studying meditation and so this has been a double wammy for me.

I learned through the silence to be a better listener!  The sound of the wind, the rain hitting the windows, the breathing of the dog was always there, but I had never really listened to it.  I realized that I had never really listened to other things as well like - my daughter singing in her bedroom playing with dolls;  I always heard her but never listened to the words she was singing.... very insightful!  I learned to not be in a hurry to answer questions of solve everyone's problems...  I fell asleep.  I learned to follow impressions of thought from threads to tapestries.  I fell asleep.  I learned to be more gentle with others and myself.  I became more even tempered.  I fell asleep.  I lost track of time.  Some times my thoughts were focused and others I let my thoughts wonder where they would.  It was fun and invigorating and I'm excited to plan more time in the future to be alone with my thoughts.  What will I learn tomorrow!

I was also deeply interested in what Mark said about picking the ONE THING and focusing on it!  So while in my quiet time I redid the assessment where I took the five or so things in my DMP and numbered them and ranked them with each other and re-committed myself to the #1 item.  I'm waking up and going to make some real noise!