05.22.08
What’s That Little Voice Trying To Tell You?
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.” ~ Eileen Caddy
What’s That Little Voice Trying To Tell You?
Failure to act in accordance with your values triggers your conscience to stay up late and bug you. When that happens, listen!
Compromising your values only weakens your mission.
Today’s Questions:
Is your inner voice trying to tell you something about your present course? _________________________________
What, if any, psychosomatic stress related symptoms are you suffering from? (Need a bigger hint?) _________________________________
What will you do before you leave today to rectify any situation that brought on a twinge of conscience? _________________________________
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”
William James
05.05.08
Lie – “Life Should Be Easy”
Have you ever heard someone exclaim, “Why does this always happen to me?” or “That’s just my luck.”, as if they are somehow being singled out by life? We often have this notion that everyone else has it easier than we do.
The truth is that life is hard – no exceptions for anyone. We don’t want it to be and somewhere deep inside of us we keep looking for a life that is pain free. It’s got to be out there somewhere. The truth is that a pain-free life doesn’t exist! Life is difficult and acceptance of this truth can spare us a lot of heartache.
When we resist the truth, we become angry, bitter, depressed, and on an on the list goes. In fact, psychologists regularly deal with people who can’t believe life has dealt them such a cruel blow. At the core of their beings, they really believe that life is supposed to be easy, at least for them. Therefore, when expectations aren’t met, they become angry with life and angry with God. If God is good, how could He allow such and such to happen.
The tragic thing is that Christians have also bought into this lie that life is supposed to be easy and some even propagate it. If we become Christians, we escape pain right? Well what happened to living a self-sacrificing life? We don’t hear a lot about that these days. Nobody wants to suffer. What ever happened to taking up your cross? Too often God becomes the cosmic bell-hop, if you will, to our every whim.
I read a quote by Arthur Matthews, a missionary to China, that was rather sobering. Arthur was a missionary to China from 1938-1953. He said this in one of his books…
“We tend to look at the circumstances of life in terms of what they may do to our cherished hopes and convenience, and we shape our decisions and reactions accordingly. When a problem threatens, we rush to God, not to seek his perspective, but to ask him to deflect the trouble. Our self-concern takes priority over whatever it is that God might be trying to do through trouble….
An escapist generation reads security, prosperity, and physical well-being as evidences of God’s blessing. Thus when he puts suffering and affliction into our hands, we misread his signals and misinterpret his intentions.”
Something to think about! Certainly God is a God of blessing, but I also believe our God is actually too kind to leave us to our self-centered ways. He might just want us to learn something. God forbid that my own wrong choices and decisions would have to with any of my pain. Could it be that God is more concerned with our character than whether things are always easy?
“Jesus, although he was a son, learned obedience from what he suffered.” Hebrews 5:8
So the way I see it, there are some that probably have it easier than you and I for whatever reason, but there are no doubt those who have it worse. No one escapes pain or difficulties in this life. Acceptance of this can actually bring a lot of peace and help us to cope with life on a daily basis. With God’s help, we can learn to confront our problems rather than running from them and become better and stronger people because of it.
By Janet Daughtry
05.02.08
Are You Overloading Yourself With Useless Paperwork?
If you don’t absolutely need to have something down on paper, don’t ask for it… don’t print it… don’t file it… don’t store it. This means every receipt, insurance form, letter, junk mail, report, proposal, etc. (If any given sheet of paper can’t be directly or indirectly DEPOSITED into your checking account — it deserves to be shredded or trashed!)
Find ways to improve your systems by eliminating unproductive paperwork from your desk.
Today’s Questions to think about:
What other ways could you communicate more efficiently than you do on paper? _________________________________
What written reports do you receive but don’t really need? _________________________________
How else can you eliminate some of the paper that is passing over your desk? _________________________________
05.01.08
Going from Clinical Depression to making $1.6 Million per MONTH!
This is from my friend:
“Last Friday I had the pleasure of talking to a woman that is truly living the dream. Actually, a woman who turned a NIGHTMARE, into an dream opportunity that most of us only hope and pray for.
Jennifer (not her real name) got laid off from IBM back in 1997 when they were “downsizing” employees out the door, one right after the other. Jennifer never saw it coming. She thought that since she was in her prime (41), a well-educated, hardworking sales manager in a big division, that she would NEVER get whacked (AKA “Pink Slipped”.)
But she did, and it put her into a 2 year funk.
She believed that somehow she was not good enough, capable enough or smart enough to really make it in the corporate world anymore. She was washed up and hung out to dry.
The funk turned into clinical depression. The job offers stopped.
She was quite literally starving herself to death, both emotionally and financially.
Not knowing what to do, she found a friend who was making a decent living with a major network marketing company and decided to just TRY her hand at putting on a few parties with her friend.
A flop!
But she instantly saw what the problem was: TRAINING.
She saw that the only way for her to make money in that tough-as-nails business was to create leverage by TRAINING every person she recruited to be the BEST representative possible. She would marry the training skills she learned at IBM with the women she was now working with.
The premise was simple: Better TRAINED people make more SALES… and when THEY make more sales… SHE makes more MONEY.
She became VERY VERY VERY good at taking both men and women into this company, and training them to excel at what they do. Quickly, 20-30% of her people left their “day” jobs and were making a good living selling the program.
She got rich! Very rich, earning over $18,000,000 last year.
For those of us who are “decimal-challenged”, that’s Eighteen Million Dollars!
In fact, she just bought a Villa in Italy from which she is going to launch her European and Russian programs. Giving women the hope that they can make it, and make it big anywhere, if they simply follow her lead.
The “Secret” she uses? Train people out of the gate to realize that success is a simple matter of MORE Positives and FEWER Negatives driving their performance.
If you want success, focus on filling your life with the Positive qualities and minimizing or eliminating the Negative qualities. This is real enlightenment to people who have not had a chance to look at success as a collection of positive qualities outweighing a collection of negative qualities.
That is what I do with my company. I train you to be successful. The proof is in the numbers. In 6 weeks with training I have been able to help others make extra money in this economy where we need more money. Contact me: teamgambaru@gmail.com if you are interested in making some extra money or maybe you just want to save money.
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