Week 9 A Happy Thanksgiving.

AS instructed...  This week I have been trying to see the fulfillment of my DMP as a service to others and that idea alone has been a tremendous experience.  With three married kids we decided years ago to hold our family Thanksgiving on Wednesday.  That way there wouldn't be any pressure for the married kids and the in-laws.  It has worked out great over the years but this year my wife is working on an advanced degree and has had major stress with over the top assignments and projects.  This Wednesday was no different so we decided to be UN-traditional....  We gave all the kids and grand kids all day passes to Boondocks (a family fun center) and met there around noon.  We played miniature golf, rode the go-carts, went bowling, played lazer tag etc. etc.  Then around 5:30 we came home and I barbecued some marinated turkey breasts, we had instant stuffing, rolls, salad, baked sweet potatoes, beans all on paper cups and plates (easy clean-up).  I had previously had made four apple pies and we drank my homemade apple cider and grape juice. After dinner we played games until late into the night while my little girls and the grand kids tour up the house. It was the best Thanksgiving ever.  My wife was also able to finish an assignment and still feel a part of the festivities.  The best part was that previously on Monday, my wife had invited over a contractor to give a bid on expanding the family room / kitchen area.  WOW... That is one of my DMP goals and I had never told her.  I sat there in the house all Thanksgiving thinking how much more comfortable the party is going to be when we finish the re-model and that every second with my family is precious.  I was also able to visualize all my other DMP ideals fulfilled as I spent time with my family.  To be my best self for them makes my heart beat and life is truly heaven on earth.  I got a glimpse of eternity last night and realized in my heart that all  I want in life is really being in the service of others.  GIVE MORE GET MORE.  Do the remodel, take cooking lessons, invite the neighbors over to eat, let my kids see the joy in serving others - "Affirm it as an already existing fact"  I get it!  Love, eat, and praise God for this bounteous life.

#8 11-20, Keep Moving Forward...

 I am all caught up and moving forward.  I was having a hard time seeing colors and shapes.... so after making my movie poster, I made a whole bunch more shapes w/ their corresponding color and put them all over the house.  For example, Red circles are for true health and one of my DMP statements is to make healthy choices so I put a red circle on the fridge, the pantry, the treat box, my office desk and workroom etc.  I have really struggled to meet my true health promises and this has really helped.  After the webcast, I bought some snickers bars and other favorite treats and put them where I can see them and then put a red circle on each of them so when I see them I am more excited to not eat it, keep my promises and be in great health than I am  to just satisfy my sweet tooth.

I am also wearing a blue wrist band to remind me to meditate and I carry a compass in my pocket every where I go.  I have yellow triangles on all the doors to remind me to follow the spirit and to draw closer to my Father in Heaven.  Green is to remind me to GO AND DO it now!  To be the person I am dreaming of being.  I also am wearing a necklace to remind me to be more patient and give all my time to my wife and kids first.  I have been so caught up in doing my reading, meditating etc. etc. so I can become a better person that I was neglecting the family which is the reason I want to be a better person in the first place.   To be my best for them makes my heart beat and life becomes heaven on earth.   And it has been so helpful.  I can feel the difference...  In chapter 8:24 of Master Keys, I know that successful men make it their business to hold ideals of the conditions which they wish to realize.  That is what I intend to do.  8:25 He states that if you have been faithful to your ideal, you will hear the call when circumstances are ready to materialize your plans and results will correspond in the exact ratio of your fidelity to your ideal.

I have been studying Qi Gong to help me meditate and am so excited to keep moving toward the person I desire to be.  when I am happy with who I am, then everyone around me is more at peace and I find we connect on a much deeper level that we ever have before.

I have loved the Battleship exercise although going backward to it's beginning has been more difficult for me than thinking of a part and moving forward from it's creation to its placement in the battleship.  The first night, I followed the instructions given by Hannell and saw all the steel back to the smelting, the digging of the ore, and the geologist who discovered it.  The next night, I did the same thing with the wiring and then the next night again with the power plant in the ship - I determined it to be nuclear.  It has been so much fun that I can't wait to see what my imagination will come up with tonight.  Hannall was right...  with this exercise, everything  has taken on a different appearance, the insignificant becomes significant, the uninteresting interesting;  the thins which we supposed to be of no importance are seen to be the only really vital things in existence ---  especially me!

I know I can't force anything but I am so excited to see what happens on Dec. 8th.  Until then, I'll KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

Week 7 "I'm in the dynamic flow of giving and recieving"

This week I have spent hours laboring over the 20 min assignment to build my movie poster, make 8 8X10 + the 16 various copies and 3x5 bookmarks....  But their done and put in places around the house, in my car, office, wallet, pockets and everywhere else I can think to put them.  Now I'm making my soundtrack to my DMP.  I love it all even though I feel I am a week behind...  I have generally  been a week ahead. For example, a few weeks ago I picked red for true health, Yellow for spirituality, Blue for meditation, and Green for DO IT NOW! GET ER DONE assignments and service, and then color coded my DMP.  Then the next web cast we were told to do that exact thing. Wow...  This has happened several times in the past month and I feel like I'm getting the direction were going and then to have it verified has been a thrill.  This is fun.

I am excited to work on the 7 day mental diet and got my first opportunity this week when I was downtown with my wife and little girls and locked the keys in the car.  So rather than get mad, we made a night of it all, walked across the street and went to dinner, shopping....  By the time we finished and walked back to our car our rescuer had arrived with the extra set of keys.  I like the new me!  I like being inspired and acting on those impressions and then finding out  I am on the right track...  I'm excited to really create a new blue-print for myself and my future and I'm getting a glimpse of how I can get there.  (Live in the dynamic flow of giving and receiving)

Week #6 Lights, Camera, ACTION!

Wow, It's happening and I love every moment of it. As part of my DMP I have been meditating, desiring, focusing on becoming more charismatic, self confident, outgoing and creative.  Several weeks ago and completely out of the blue I was asked to M.C. a talent show for the whole county where I live. BIG STEP!
I began early each morning by  mentally creating my day and envisioning how funny I would be, how commanding and vivaciously I would introduce each act and then during that day ideas would come, jokes would materialize in my head and the program began to flow.  This last week I spent hours upon hours designing gags with prizes that would lead into each talent and uplift the audience as well as give credit and applause to the performers.
Then the big night, Friday came and I will admit I was mildly nervous wondering if  the audience would think my jokes and skits were funny and relevant but I was prepared and took that step into the darkness... and into the spotlight and it was great.  I wasn't perfect but it flowed well, I was able to adjust to fit the schedule of the performers and even concluded with a quote from Mandino about love. I was rewarded with applause, laughter, and some giving a standing ovation.

That was a fantastic feeling but the really great part happened after.  My wife and I met this couple who came up to say thank you and remarked that some of the jokes I had made about Korea and adoption were funny...  I told them that they were all from real experiences and they couldn't believe it because the husband had also lived in Korea and they were interested in adoption.  My wife and I have been adoption advocates for years and were able to answer some of their most urgent questions.  We spoke for over an hour and then made plans for a future dinner get together.  On the way out my wife mentioned how much she wanted to help this couple which is another  manifestation of  one of my DMP's - to help others with adoptions.  BOOM  It hit me like a boulder that things were falling into place to fulfill my hearts deepest desires and I was immediately humbled, awestruck, excited and quite honestly full of absolute faith that all the other dreams will come to fruition. 

I am so excited to see it all unfold that each day is becoming an adventure in possibilities.  Mandino was right... that you will begin to awake each morning with a vitality never known before, an increase in vigor, enthusiasm and desire to meet the world and overcome every fear... and yes I am happier than I ever believed possible.  

The light was on... The camera was rolling... and the Actions flowed to surpass all expectations.  WHAT A GREAT MOVIE!

 

Baby Step - Today I begin a new life - Week #5

I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful!  Wow what an interesting week.  first of all I really loved the idea of looking for all the things in life that bring joy and boy did I find some - Children playing and laughing in their Halloween costumes, The crisp evening air and a full moon, the pungent aroma of ripe grapes, crisp tart taste of fresh apples just picked from the tree, colorful fall leaves throughout the neighborhood and on the mountains, breathtakingly bright blue sky that hurts your eyes to look at to name just a few.

I also love the "Law of Giving" idea which states "wherever I go, I bring a gift.  I may bring a compliment, a prayer, a trinket, a flower... but I promise I will give something to every person I encounter....  W/o expectation of reciprocity..."  Well I  wanted to be in the dynamic flow of giving and I have just spent countless hours steaming grape juice - which I love - so all my family,  neighbors, when ever someone came to the house, or I knew I was to meet someone for the day, I gave them a bottle of grape juice.  It was fun and it really meant something to me to give that away because of all the effort that went into growing, harvesting, cleaning, steaming and bottling it.  IT FELT GREAT.

Well Hannell and Emerson stated " GIVE MORE GET MORE".  So I was wondering if all this was really going to work for me and I was watching some video clips after the video on the MKMMA tab in the Laziest networker in the world web site and heard a story of a woman who wanted a cosmic sign that she was important and an eagle flew in to her car and I thought that would be awesome!  So the next morning when I take time to spiritually create my day I meditated on getting some amount of money just as a test. Well that afternoon I had an acquaintance come to the house (who I gave a bottle of grape juice to) and they needed some Landscape Lighting supplies and I  had some to just give her but sheinsisted on paiing me and gave me a really good price for them.  Hhhmm.

Then later in the evening my wife got a call and found out that there was some money from her late father's estate that had been held back for taxes that would be sent to us w/i the week.  Again HHhmmmmmm.

Then after 9:30 pm I remembered that I said I would take a Charlie Brown movie to work for a co-worker and I got on the phone / internet and couldn't find it anywhere to rent.  I thought about "Always keeping my promises" and what I could do to get that movie.  My wife decided to put it out on her Face book page and got a reply from a neighbors' daughter that her mom had a copy and my wife told me to give the neighbor a call.  I was in the middle of doing my readings so I put off calling and just as I finished I got a call from the neighbor who told me she had the movie and that her husband was out and would bring it over to my house in 10 minutes....    WOW!  HHHMMMMMM.  Guess who got a bottle of grape juice???

So the morale of the story is that I am now visualizing my DMP with more enthusiasm and excitement than ever before knowing that It will work for me once I train my subconscious mind.  

BABY STEP - Today I begin a new life.

Master of the Vineyard

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Wow - what a great week...  Although I feel behind in making connections with colors and my DMP, I have seen some real progress.  I got angry once this week but caught myself and laughed because that hasn't happened for a very long time and I realized that I am beginning to manifest my true self and I love who I am becoming.

I found myself living the part in Mandino where he says "Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.  Today I pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard...  ...Today I savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life sprouts within me." 

This is harvest season and my grapevines are ripe and full.  The smell is intoxicating and I have been diligently picking several boxes a day and washing them, separating the fruit from the stems and steaming the juice so I can bottle it.  I have done this for years and every fall it seems such a chore but now I am loving the process.  * It's true that "thousands of grapes are (steamed) to fill one jar with (juice), and the grape-skin and pulp are tossed to the birds."  What I have learned is that the hours it takes to harvest, clean and bottle the juice is similar to the hours and effort taken to retrain the subby to produce the juice of success in my own life.  I have maliciously been spending hours separating the dross from my life literally feeling the intensity of the pressure cooker to produce the sweetest of life's experiences.  AND OH HOW I LOVE GRAPE JUICE.  The first tastes of this years juice is  exquisite!

It's interesting to note that when I have finished a batch at the end of the evening and then leave the pulp in the steamer, by morning I will have an additional two quarts of juice in the collection pan.  It has also been that way for me after doing the mental exercises of reading and meditating, by morning I have extra energy, ideas,  hope, excitement etc.  so although the process is still difficult and tedious to retrain my subby, I'm excited and look forward with renewed effort to continue the process and lay up in store a lifetime of drinking from the sweet juices of my harvest.

Scott

Wait for iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

This has been a great week.  I have really focused on my DMP, going over every word to make sure it was right and I had some insights to tweek a sentence or two, change a different word or two and BAM!!!!!   It seemed to really hit me It rang true - like I finally got it right and I got so excited.  I'm still tweeking it here and there but now IT ALL seems different - and like Shawn Spencer on Psych when he knows what's going to happen and tells everyone to "wait for iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.... I know that's all I have to do  -  just like a gardener who plants  his crops and then waters, nourishes and then waits for a season to partake of the harvest, that's all I have to do.  I'm working on nourishing the seeds of my DMP by continuing the reading and focusing my thoughts on FEELINGS and building good habits.... the problem is I saw a little green shoot pop out of the ground and it feels like Christmas when I was a little kid and I just can't stand the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait.
Scott

Death Therapy, It's an absolute cure!

This week has been crazy and yet I'm still here and if I don't do something about my future today, when will I find the time to get it right?  That's the mantra from Mark J. and it's the one thing that has kept me going. I understand and believe that to have harmony in the world without, then I need to control my thoughts and feelings and determine for myself how my daily experiences are to affect me.  But if the world without is a reflection of the world within.... then my world within is way too busy!

Amid all the bustle, I have been working on my Definiteness of purpose or (DMP).  I think I have it on paper but I am struggling to determine what I really want for my future.  I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO SAVE THE WORLD.   Mark J. had us focus on a list of Personal Pivotal Needs and then shut our eyes.... ponder... and then open them and write down the first two that came to our minds and hearts.  Well I did it and I realize that in acquiring those two, I will in the end need to acquire them all but secretly I hope I picked the right ones to start on!  Nevertheless, I'm on it and I filled out my 3X5 card and put down my promises color coded with blue... I'm repeating "Do it Now!:" as well as my DMP out loud with enthusiasm 3X a day;  reading the Haanell material, the Greatest Salesman in the world 3X a day; saying the Blueprint out loud and taking a few minutes to meditate.  Made my blog, watched the videos, and am caught up on the 2nd weeks Webcast. I am taking time for the kids and date night with my wife and so far the big change..... Not so much!  I realize this is a process and it takes a season to prepare the soil, fertilize, plant and then grow the new blueprint.  I'm just so hungry I'm starving to death.  Maybe that's the point.

The Start of My Blog

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As I begin a new adventure of self discovery I have really struggled deciding where to start.  I am working on my Definiteness of purpose and feel to focus only on the personal / spiritual growth I desire and ignore any work related objectives and focus primarily on changing the world by changing myself.  Therefore, my adventure is to create a better me that is totally honest with others as well as myself.  I hope to boldly go where I have not dared to venture before and find within myself the true measure of my creation.