Mon 14 May 2012

The Cosmic Game of Life Part 1: Rules of the game!

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I would like you to consider with me, with an open mind that life is a game that is being played on a huge playing field call the Universe. We are all players in this game and we are all spiritual beings who take on different characters or persona’s while we are playing the cosmic game called life.

I would also like to say that, as we move through the game some of us become more consciously aware than others. We become aware that life is a game and that there are rules that we need to play by to win the game. However, there are those who go through life in a daze or fog who never quite can find the play book or manage the rules. They wander around life trying this and sampling that without any true goal in mind. These are individuals who Zig Ziegler would consider as “wandering generality instead of meaningful specific”. I am sure that you know one or two people like this… unless you are a wandering generality.

 

Anyhow, the object of the game is to remember who we are and to find our life purpose so that we live our life from a place of authenticity. As we are able to connect with who we are, and our purpose in life we are than able to create the life that we love. However, as you know, in all games there are rules and there are obstacles or pitfalls one must overcome before we are able to win the game.

I will talk about the rules and the obstacles in following blogs so that we can all play the game effectively.

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Tue 27 Mar 2012

Question of The Day: March 27th 2012

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When you are thinking outside the box, does that mean that you are thinking inside the triangle?

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Wed 23 Mar 2011

Question of The Day

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The truth of the matter is that money is not the root of all evil and that evil is rooted in the human condition. And therefore money does not change you but just magnifies who you really are as a person. Now with that stated… What do you think?

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Mon 31 Jan 2011

Quote of the Week: January 30th 2011

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Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.

~Cherie Carter

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Tue 18 Jan 2011

The Art of Trust Part 2

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“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be – and when they’re not, we cry.”

~David Duchovny

I am a firm believer of tabula rasa – the epistemological theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. So, as I see it, we are all born into the world with our thinking waiting to be formed.  As we grow up we become our experiences and it is through our life experiences that we learn to trust and distrust or mistrust ourselves and others.

Consequently, as we experience trust or distrust, it begins to shape how we trust ourselves and others in the future. As we  have these experiences of trust and distrust we begin to look at the world through the lens of those experiences. The more positive emotional experiences of trust we accumulate the more trusting we are of ourselves, others and our environment. However, as we learn to distrust we slowly begin to operate in the world through our emotional fears around those experiences of distrusts and mistrusts. Therefore, we start shaping our reactions around the fears of what we don’t want to have happen again. When we don’t trust ourselves or others it becomes very hard to form trusting relationships.

Making trust  an important component of any good relationship. When we befriend someone, it is my belief that our decision to align ourselves with that person is based on our perception of the of that person’s character of being trustworthy. And it is through the use of our past experiences, positive or negative that we make those decisions about who we perceive as trustworthy and not trustworthy.

Last but not least, it is my belief that one aspect our personal growth is our ability to take what we have learned from the past and incorporate it into our lives in the present in such a way that it does not overshadow our next experience. We all come into relationships carrying emotional baggage from the past and the key is not to let the past negatively shape our future. Mind you I am not saying to forget about the past but what I am suggesting is that we don’t have to let the past keep us from the possibilities we can create in the future.

In short, we all have free will and free choice, because of this we don’t have to let our past experience dictate our current emotional experiences. So choose how you want to act powerfully! And remember trust yourself and forgive yourself when mishaps happen.

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Sat 8 Jan 2011

The Art of Trust

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Trust is very closely related to our integrity and our communication. A person who lacks integrity is a person whom we tend not to trust. You see, integrity is about our values and character. Our ability to say what we mean and mean what we say also goes hand in hand with integrity. It is through our integrity that trust is built, therefore making trust the key component to any working relationship, and hence, without trust we are unable to move forward in our personal growth and collective growth as a race of people.

When we are unable to trust, we begin to operate in the world through the emotion of fear. Fear of being hurt, fear of being taken advantage of, fear of being controlled, fear of failure, fear of success and the fear of the unknown, to name a few. When we move through the world in fear, it has a way of restricting our actions with others and our ability to see the many possibilities that are available to us. The more our actions are restricted, the less we interact with others. And the less we interact, the more isolated we become in our thinking and actions. This makes it easy for seeds of suspicions to be planted. As human beings we need to relate to others; our need to belong is important to our own personal and collective growth.

If we cannot trust another then our ability to grow is hindered. However, once trust is lost it is hard to regain. Rebuilding trust takes hard work and commitment by all parties involved. It is through repeated positive experiences over time that trust is able to be rebuilt. Trust is not a commodity that can be bought or sold to the highest bidder; it is earned. The ability to let others into our lives so that we can create a relationship built on understanding and mutual respect is our greatest gift.

So I am now asking you to be the person you want others to be with you.

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Tue 21 Dec 2010

Quote of The Week: December 19, 2010

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There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics.

~Mahatma Gandhi

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Fri 10 Dec 2010

Integrity: What Does It Mean?

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Being in integrity with oneself is more than just being impeccable with your word or adhering to moral and ethical principles. Being in integrity is a way of being and acting that shapes who we are in the world because we live our lives from our values and our truths. It is a home, an anchor from where we create new possibilities. You see, integrity is about being authentic, being true to one’s self and one’s values. As a result of being in integrity we are able to create freedom, power and joy. Integrity is about living and behaving in the world as your authentic self and not the character(s) (EXAMPLE: Damsel in Distress/our wounded self) that we project out in the world. If we are out of integrity with ourselves, our ability to create is limited at best. As we trade our values and truth for the approval of others we become fractured in our thinking and our actions. Moreover, as we get lost in those characters we play, we lose our sense of integrity. There is no sense of integrity in the characters that we play. This is why it is important for us to not to get pulled into old unwanted, undeclared commitments (see writing on commitments) if we are to transform our lives into the life that we love. So, “to thine own self be true!”

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Mon 22 Nov 2010

Quote of The Week: November 21, 2010

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Mule

The stubborn fact!

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence.

~John Adams


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Sun 31 Oct 2010

The Untold Story: Facts vs. Stories

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A sign stating the factsFacts are sequential information which can be verified according to an established standard evaluation. Facts tend to be very dry and do not elicit any kind of emotional response. They are just facts; unmovable and unchangeable facts. It is only when humans become involved with the telling of the facts, do facts take on life. We are able to breathe meaning into the facts by conveying our emotions in the stories that we tell. As we tell these stories around the facts, we transform them into the descriptive narratives that we share with the world.

Thus, by applying meaning to facts, we allow ourselves the ability to determine what is important in the story and what is not by the emotional responses that they invoke. There are no requirements for the meanings we place on our stories to be logical or provable and therefore any stories can have any definition we choose to believe in. Our ability to place any type of logic onto stories results in expansive imaginations in which we give meaning and life to characters, places and things, each unique to the listeners and tellers of the stories.

Let’s take it one step further–stories are the narrations of what the storyteller perceives as important information that leans towards the perception of the person who is conveying the story. Therefore, stories are embellished to make the mundane facts seem more interesting or/and the horrid facts more palpable.  As you take a closer look you will see that the power is in the emotions that are invoked in the stories and not the facts itself, therefore making stories a very powerful means of communication because they have the power to influence us whether the information is factual or not.

All in all, facts are sequential information that can stand the test of time, whereas stories are used to convey emotions and experiences. As the storyteller’s emotional state vacillates, so do the stories that they tell, hence making stories the vehicle that we utilize to explain and create our world that is around us. This makes stories a powerful tool and a dangerous tool because our stories can then mean whatever we want them to mean, based on our emotional state and not just the facts. And our stories have a way of manipulating the masses.

As you know, everyone likes a good story, even if it does not contain a morsel of truth.

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