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Randy Gage Points Out “The Seeds of Opportunity”

About four years ago when I was in another Networking Company it was recommended that I read some sort of  Personal Development material. Okay. But why in conjunction with Multi-Level Marketing I thought?

The person I was recommended to read was Randy Gage. Though I left that company shortly thereafter, I have remained a fan of Randy’s ever since.

You will easily see why. Here is his latest blog entry.  “The Seeds of Opportunity”.

http://www.networkmarketingtimes.com/blog/the-seeds-of-opportunity/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mlm-success-blog+%28MLM+Success+Blog%29

As Randy asks, You up for it?

“As a concept or an experience?”

Personal Development is only one of a handful of things that got me and my networking career straightened out. There are quite a few people who started out as coaches and mentors and  who are now friends that  are equally worthy of mention.

The turning point of my career was when I downloaded and read Success In 10 Steps. That eBook opened a worldview of network marketing that literally had me slapping my forehead and dropping my jaw.

All that and much more led me to a bit of education and training that I discovered last December while researching more personal development resources. While surfing the web I came across the phrase “not informative  but transformative learning.”

I had discovered the Landmark Forum and since then an entirely new way of seeing and being has been available to me.

As a way of illustrating how the Forum works, take this very brief conversational exchange that helped me own more deeply the resolution to a chronic energy sap.

The presenter was capping off a conversation to which a participant answered, “I got it.” The presenter quickly but pointedly asked, “As a concept or an experience?”

Allow me to translate. “You say you understand but how did you take what I just gave you? As some passing idea that will be bumped out of you mind’s consciousness within the next 20-30 seconds, or as an experience you are now having on several levels of consciousness, none more important than in your heart?”

Those who have been reading my posts will recall this post of mine

http://liveyourdream-ownyourlife.com/set-your-heart-your-mind-will-follow

The ‘heart - mind’ battle is one I have been fighting for some time. If you have too you should savor this exchange as much as I do:

“I got it.” 

“As a concept or an experience?”

Don’t Work On Yourself. Simply Take On Something Bigger.

In my last post I wrote that there is nothing to be done or thought, that we are each “perfect” already and that we had just to allow ourselves to be who we already are.

Here’s an expansion of that.  Let’s take on the concept of Mastery. Because while I do believe we each are “perfect” and that we should not work on ourselves,  there are areas of our lives that we have yet to Master.

So how can we accomplish that?

By taking on something we do not yet know how to do. Something bigger than us.

Until you or I are willing to take on what we do not yet know how to do will we put ourselves in the opportunity to transform. And it is in the very process of getting it done that we grow .

This does NOT negate our current “perfection”. Nor is the work suggested here to be done on ourselves but rather on the situation at hand. Only by taking on such a “game” that we don’t know yet how to “win” can we develop Mastery . . . of Ourselves!

Whatever You Do, DON’T WORK AT IT!

There is nothing to be done. Or thought. 

You are perfect as you are if you’d only allow yourself to BE who you ARE.

Maybe that’s why the idea of Personal DEVELOPMENT makes some people cringe.

What do you think?

SUCCESS: Is More Better?

If More Were Better, Every Time You Got More You Would Be Satisfied.

Well, are You?

Success is one of those words and ideas that is hard to define generally since it holds such a personal dimension.

The best one I’ve encountered defines Success as living life the way you most deeply desire to do so.  So for many it may have nothing or little to do with how much money or how many possessions one has.

What do You think?

Be in order to Have = BeHave

We all know the problems people have with money - Not enough or too much can get us in trouble.

And how much of our human weaknesses are blamed on money: Divorce - Criminal activity - Acts of Self-destruction - as well as misplaced faith in its ability to save us. For too many Rich is a Religion.

Look closer though. The problem is never the money itself.  The problem is what human beings DO to make or get the money - or believe it can DO for them.

The “problem” is human behavior.  I’ll take a liberty with our language and say that the trouble is how we sometimes believe we must ‘Be’ in order to ‘Have’ the money we need.

In other words, the problem is how we BeHave, if you’ll pardon the liberty.

Freeing Yourself From Upsets

I have been quoting from the excellent book What You Think is What You Get by George Lavenia. The following has helped me immeasurably when talking with prospects for my business.

We spend most of our lives trying to control. manipulate, change, or totally avoid what arises in life. We feel as though life is something we have to contend with on a daily basis. This struggle is like being on a roller coaster with endless ups and downs. However, life itself is constant change. If you forget that, you will suffer over the very changes themselves. By holding onto your idea of how things should be, you become the cause of your own suffering. All that is required to free yourself from life’s upsets is to stop judging the experiences that come up for you.

There Is NO Time But NOW

As some may know I moved back to my “old neighborhood” three years ago. When my mother’s health was fading I decided to move back and bought the 4-family in which I grew up.

Now when I walk the streets I see a pastry shop with two sets of eyes and ears - a young boy’s and a grown man’s. It is vitally important to me to balance the boy’s memory with what is there before me NOW.

Why you may ask? Why not be nostalgic?

Because memory can be a very limiting factor. Instead of being a help, memory can enslave you.

I heard it again this afternoon, passing one of the pastry shops. Three men in their early to mid-sixties were sitting enjoying  coffee. And the memories were rolling on.

“I remember we used to take the #26 bus down to West Farms. They used to have some great bands at those dance halls. And the girls! We used to dress up . . . ”

So far so good. Then . . .

“Not today. They don’t do this any more. Today they’re like blah blah blah. . .”

Memory has obliterated Now.

When you experience something, details are recorded in your memory and from that you draw conclusions and you’re convinced you know something or what it’s like. As a result you believe your experience is the gospel truth and consequently your experience never changes.

You live that over and over again thus remaining at the mercy of your beliefs, especially the belief that there is no way out - or back. You have never been able to realize that your thoughts gave birth to the experiences that enslave you.

Stated more eloquently by George Lavenia, “Your experiences in life are a reflection of your ideas and your beliefs.”

There is nothing but NOW and it is a gift which is why it is called the Present.

Why not choose to create a reality that works, rather than one that doesn’t?

The Nature of Money on Independence Day

On the Better Networker site I received an email from a woman who has recently become interested in money and the Federal Reserve System.

Here is part of my reply to her:

I have been fascinated with just exactly ‘what money is’ for over twenty years. There is a very ‘real’ spiritual side to it and I don’t mean religious. I mean there is a spiritual animation  behind it, both good and evil, which is to be expected since money is a creation of human beings and we carry the potential for both in each of us.

The Fed system confirms this, if not consciously and purposefully then accidentally. A system that controls money controls the people who create the money - and I don’t mean PRINT the money, I mean CREATE the money.

The only honest way to CREATE money is to expend ENERGY, that is, to WORK. So a system that controls money is controlling human work, human energy or human lives. Isn’t it?

Happy Independence Day!

Operate In The Present

Operate in the Present, Not in your Mind.