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“See, all that money can’t save you.”
Carmine DeSalvo died this morning at 3am.
He was a friend of my father’s, my 89-year old father.
I remember Mr. DeSalvo vividly. He was brash but generous. He gave me one of those model airplane kits when I was about 10 years old and he was the owner of a small neighborhood deli shop – one of his many businesses on the way to becoming a fairly successful small business owner.
My father when he broke the news: “See, all that money can’t save you.”
Now behind that belief and sentiment is this:
some people believe money CAN save their life and since it obviously can’t – we all DO die, don’t we – then why should one ever pursue money?
The payoff, pardon my pun, of such a rationale is to get one’s self off the hook of making money, of being industrious, of being productive TO ONE’S FULLEST CAPACITY.
It gives one a rationale and excuse for being poor and lazy at the very worst.
“Make just enough to get by because if you ever DO overreach, your hand will be slapped by the big phantom in the sky and you’ll be rewarded with death.”
Obviously, rationally, WE ARE ALL GOING TO MEET DEATH, regardless of how much money we create in life. There simply is no correlation, no real connection between how much money one makes and how long one has on the planet.
So why not make all you can while you ARE here?
Just don’t lie, cheat or steal anyone’s labor or ideas in the process of maximizing your earning potential.
Simply pursuing money should NEVER be the object.
Rather doing what gives you joy AND provides and contributes to others, where you CAN BE and while you ARE compensated to the greatest extent, should be.
“See, all that money can’t save you.” Who ever believed that it would?
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Believing IS Seeing
Let’s use the ever useful “Half-Empty or Half-Full glass” question. And what most of us have been taught to do: See first, then believe our eyes.
Seeing first, and describing LITERALLY what we actually do observe, we see that the glass is BOTH half-empty AND half-full AT THE SAME TIME. Isn’t that so?
But by CHOOSING to BELIEVE first that the glass is EITHER HALF-EMPTY OR HALF-FULL makes whichever condition we attend to SO. Not that the other condition isn’t so AS WELL, but that it isn’t BELIEVED, so it isn’t SEEN to be so.
Now try this in your life. The next time you’re facing an argument with a loved one, or a colleague, choose what to attend to. Choose what to believe first, and see what you see. Then articulate that or it won’t become REAL.
Remember LANGUAGE creates REALITY.
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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”.
As Randy asks, You up for it?
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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!
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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.
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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?
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Sorry, But I Don’t Believe In Work
I included the apology because I’m sure I’ve offended some.
It seems that work to those offended not only defines their lives but exists as a badge of honor, their metric to measure just how serious they are. You know, the “I mean business” mindset.
I watch sports, baseball primarily, football in the fall & winter and more recently some futball because of the World Cup. When I frequently hear athletes and coaches, especially broadcasters, declare they “work hard” or “have work to do” I laugh.
It may seem like semantics but I was under the impression they PLAY baseball, football, basketball, futball, hockey, etc.
PLAY.
Where is the disconnection between the two words, PLAY and WORK?
A recent blog of mine featuring a quote from the brilliant book by George Lavenia, What You Think is What You Get, highlighted the distinction. http://liveyourdream-ownyourlife.com/is-it-work-or-play
Watch children play. Or your pets. Watch athletes play their sports.
Then consider you at your work.
I did and came away with the conclusion I was doing it all wrong. I just didn’t experience myself as I did the children, dogs and athletes experiencing themselves. They didn’t seem disconnected, struggling or at odds with themselves. They and their experiences were one and the same.
I don’t call it my Business (Busy-ness) anymore. I now call it my Playfulness.
A trick? Maybe, if you consider it so, but I’m having more FUN at work.
OOPS! I mean PLAY.
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Free-Will Choices? Free of Our Past?
We deceive ourselves when we belive most of the choices we make are made from our free will. In truth, choices we make are really nothing more than decisions that are influenced by our mind-thoughts gathered through our past.
The choices we make never occur prior to our mind-thoughts – and for clarity I will call mind-thoughts programming in order to appeal to a more computer-literate world.
When making a choice we stop and think about it, consequently depending on our memories, which are nothing more than bits of our experiences selectively kept or jettisoned and then strung together to create what we call our personal history. But strung together according to what, I hope you might ask?
According to more programming, foisted on us by parents, grand-parents, siblings, classmates, teammates, our communities, our nationalities, our desire to belong. Or not belong.
Although it may appear we are coming from a place we call the present when making a choice, as long as memory and personal history influence us, as long as a collective-culture influences us, we are honestly only operating from the rather claustrophobic confines of our mind’s past programming.
No wonder then the expression, A war to win hearts and minds.
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Is It Work or Play?
Why not both?
I had always envied those people who were able to say they “never worked a day in their life.” That everything they did seemed like play to them and whatever they played at they were able to get paid for!
Talk about a Holy Grail! Or hitting a lottery!
Can’t tell you how many self-development books I read and CDs I listened to or how many seminars I attended trying to wring out the secret these people held.
I was stumped until I read this and real-ized how elegantly simple the solution is:
“The difference between work and play is nothing more than your preconceived idea about the activity. It may sound crazy but it’s true.
“The way you feel about doing something is directly related to the way you think. By choice, you are the one who determines the amount of enjoyment you get out of your pursuits. In fact, you can get satisfaction from everything you do by giving yourself totally to all of your endeavors. However, the only way you can experience that kind of freedom is when you no longer associate survival with what you’re doing. That way, you’re not attached to the outcome, which means you have nothing to lose.
“Now here’s the whole thing in a nutshell. If you have nothing to lose, there’s no fear, and if you have no fear, you’re free – free from any idea associated with what you do.
ONCE YOU GIVE UP YOUR CONCERN
ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE DOING,
YOU CAN BE FREE OF FEAR,
AND THAT’S THE ONLY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
WORK AND PLAY.
“By letting go of your concern, you are free of your mind’s influence. Then and only then can you get as much enjoyment out of work as you do from play. Then you can come from enjoyment rather than trying to find it. It is that simple!
“As you can see, the way you experience something is totally up to you. To use this knowledge is your birthright - your right to create the experience of joy in your life.”
And joy in your work. Or is it play?
- Quoted with deep gratitude to George Lavenia, from his book What You Think is What You Get.
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MLM and Personal Development
There are two things about Personal Development that need to be pointed out. No matter how obvious they may be.
One is that there are a handful of principles that one keeps running into in the field, such as Thoughts are Things, BE-DO-HAVE (in that order), Listen with Your Heart, Speak to Their Listening, etc. And while you may think and feel you’ve “got it” now, you will revisit these principles again and again and again. Count on it. Or you’re not doing it right!
The second is that Personal Development has to be Personal, that is, it has to address a particular PERSONAL problem or situation or there will be NO development - because nothing specific will have been addressed otherwise. Nothing will have been created as a clearing on which something can be Developed.
Think about it with a clear heart. You’ll see this is true.
Does that threaten you? How does it make you feel?
