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If you don't have the richly rewarding relationships you desire… the intimate, empowering partnerships you deserve… and the satisfying, successful career that provides the money, freedom, fulfillment and fun you dream of… it's because of your beliefs.
Hi, it's John,
… with Issue 05 of the BeliefBusters Report for you.
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Here's what's in Issue 05:
» A Quote About Belief from
Steve Maraboli
» Article from Peter McWilliams— Patience
» Audio from Earl
Nightingale— The Strangest Secret
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A Quote About Belief
Today, many will rise above their believed limitations and make contact with their powerful innate strength. Why not you?
— Steve Maraboli
Article from Peter McWilliams
Author Peter McWilliams had his reasons for calling his best-selling classic You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought But as I wrote in the BeliefBusters Blog last week, "poverty" would be a better word choice than "luxury" for me… Negative thinking is absence, defect, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, scarcity, shortage, want… which are all kinds of poverty in my book. But then Peter's book sold I don't know how many millions, so… You can get all of Peter's books free by clicking his name link right above. Trust you'll enjoy this bit:
Patience
Patience is enjoying the journey. It's not climbing the mountain to get to the
top; it's climbing the mountain to enjoy the climb. Enjoy the process of your life.
Extract from: You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Peter McWilliams
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give,
he killed it and opened it only to find— nothing.
— Aesop
There is a saying that has found its way onto plaques, posters, buttons, bumper stickers, mugs, T-shirts, and balloons. Any idea with such universal appeal must have more than a modicum of truth. This saying does.
Be patient. God isn't finished with me yet.
Patience is our compassion for the distance between what we are now and what we know we can be. Because we have such fertile imaginations, we can envision ourselves scaling mountains one moment and swimming oceans the next. To get from the mountaintop to the beach, however, takes a certain amount of time. If we're on the mountain and want to go to the ocean, that's fine. But if we strike against ourselves for not being at the ocean right now, we're being impatient.
Most people reading this book have already formed a mental image of what the "perfect, healthy, positively focusing" person "should" be. You may have formed such an image, and you also may have cast yourself as the star of the production. Great! (Or, in show-biz terminology: Bravo!) The only minor challenge, then, is how we get from where we are to where we want to be.
But if you're putting undue pressure on yourself to achieve these goals of perfection, health, and positivity— impatience has crept in.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch
of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I
answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom,
then bear fruit, then ripen.
— Epictetus
Relax. Life is a lifelong journey. You'll never get out of it alive. You'll never be "done." You're fine just as you are.
You're not finished with yourself, and never will be. I've yet to meet a person who has declared, "I'm done!" Humans have desires, dreams, and goals beyond their current reality, no matter how magnificent that reality might be. It's part of the human condition.
Realize, then, that the journey from here to there will never be completed. Such is life. Have compassion for the distance between where you are now and where you're going next. (Where you are now, remember, is the goal of a former moment in time.)
Patience is enjoying the journey. It's not climbing the mountain to get to the top; it's climbing the mountain to enjoy the climb. Enjoy the process of your life. The travel ads claim, "Getting there is half the fun," and as Robert Townsend corrected: "Getting there is all the fun."
Dear God, I pray for patience.
And I want it right now!
— Oren Arnold
Besides, if you don't have fun while getting there, you probably won't have much fun when you arrive. Your joy muscles will have atrophied. You will have learned to postpone fun so well that you'll postpone it until your next destination. ("I can't wait to go on vacation." "I can't wait to get home.")
Another popular saying is "Let go and let God."
Letting go is relaxing.
Letting God is being patient.
Relax and be patient. What a great prescription for enjoying life.
When you learn patience with yourself, it's easy to extend it to others. When you learn patience with others, be sure to extend it to yourself.
Realize that, right now, everything is the way it "should" be, and when later comes, everything will be "perfect" then, too.
What is patience?
Enjoying the moment.
How does one enjoy the moment?
By being patient.
An endless loop? Sure. And you can jump in at any point.
If you'd like the above as a PDF you can download it here.
Once again, you can get all of Peter's books free by clicking his name link right here: Peter McWilliams.
The Strangest Secret
Earl Nightingale's classic recording has sold over a million copies and was the only gold record ever achieved for the spoken word. Its message is simple, yet powerful. You become what you think about. It became the basis for the Nightingale-Conant Corporation. Many thousands of people have attributed this audio with turning their lives around and helping them make their fortunes in the world. And mea culpa, I had never listend to it uintil last week! I am so very glad I did. If you've never heard it, or it's been a while (like more than a day or two), please do asap. It's a life-changer.
This special edition of The Strangest Secret was introduced and
summerized at Nightingale-Conant's request by Mark Victor Hansen.
49'43 minute downloadable Mp3
To listen/download via the url: Click here.
That's it and that's all for Issue 05 of the BeliefBusters Report. Please remember…
BeliefBusters
What your mind believes you WILL achieve
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