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Helping others live life to the fullest

“To live is the rarest thing in the world – most people exist – that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

A farmer had an old mule that he had named Slim that had helped him faithfully for many years. One morning the farmer woke up thinking about old Slim and decided that he would put him out to pasture to enjoy the rest of his life. So the farmer put on his clothes, went out to the barn and looked at old Slim and said, “You’ve been a good mule and I’m going to put you out to pasture. From this day on all you have to do is eat and sleep.” The farmer removed the mule’s halter, opened the gate and slapped the mule on the backside and told him, “Okay Slim, get out of here.”

For the next few days the farmer would see the mule wandering the pasture from time to time, but a week or so later he didn’t see the mule anywhere. He searched his farm from end to end but still couldn’t find Slim. There was an old, abandoned well in the far corner of his farm so he decided to search for Slim there.

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2010
04/28
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Developing a winning attitude

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Have you watched the movie “Yes Man”? If you haven’t I highly recommend it. It’s about a guy named Carl, (Jim Carey) who is stuck in a really bad place in life. In fact he’s so badly stuck that he almost drives away all his friends. After having an epiphany, Karl decides to attend a seminar that is built around saying “Yes” to everything. The first thing he says yes to is a homeless man that wants a ride to a city park on the other side of town. After allowing him to make phone calls on his cell phone and running down his battery he ends up out of gas and without a way to contact anybody in the middle of a far away park. He walks to the gas station and then his new life begins.

Now I don’t want to spoil the movie for you, and although it’s not for everyone, I do recommend that you watch it. It goes through Karl’s transformation by saying yes to life’s opportunities. By saying yes his whole attitude toward life changes, which in turn changes his life.

So what can you do to boost your attitude? Do you have to say yes to everything? That’s probably not a great idea, but changing your attitude about life might be just what the doctor ordered. Saying yes to life more of the time might be a good start. That’s because saying yes to life or having a positive mental attitude is one of the most important factors for success. A bad attitude gets you nowhere, while a good one can provide you with enough positive motivation to succeed beyond your wildest dreams.

Maybe you think that you already have a positive mental attitude, and maybe you do. However, if you begin to say yes to more in life, if you go about finding ways to help strengthen your attitude you can even soar to even higher levels of success.

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2010
04/28
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The positive motivation of goal setting

Life is about making choices. Making healthy choices for your mind as well as your body is one of the best things you can do for yourself and your loved ones. Making healthy choices involves making decisions about the direction you want your life to go. Making a decision is also one of the best ways to relieve stress. Not making decisions or putting them off adds stress to your life. Making a decision is a great way of relieving stress and might be the positive motivation you need for getting unstuck and making this your best year ever.

In his Book, “The Psychology of Winning” Dr. Denis Waitley, a widely respected Sports Psychologist and an ex-Navy fighter pilot, talks about how humans are a goals seeking mechanism. He points out that the brain works similarly to a cruise missile. When programmed correctly the cruise missile makes course corrections and adjusts its directions to strike its target. If aimed incorrectly or at a target too far out of range the cruise missile will wander around aimlessly and then finally crash at an unknown destination.

Like a wise man once said, “If you don’t know where you are going you might already be there.” Making a decision gives you mind the directions it needs to start looking for ways to arrive at its destination, your goal. Putting off or not deciding just adds stress to your life.

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2010
04/27
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Using positive motivation to get unstuck

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Confucius

Have you ever felt stuck?  I mean have you ever felt that your life is taking you nowhere?  You want to make a change in your life, maybe start a business, lose weight, quit smoking, get a date or just feel like you’re going somewhere in life? How can you get the positive motivation to move you from where you are to where you want to be? How do you go about getting unstuck? I believe it all starts with taking it one step at a time.

When I was in basic training, known as boot camp in the Navy, we had to do a qualifying swim. What we had to do was go on the diving board, take a step off and swim to the side. Once we did this we were considered to be able to swim and therefore could become sailors in the United States Navy.

There were at least four or five trained instructors in the pool, and the same number outside of the pool, so we were perfectly safe, but some of my fellow recruits didn’t think so. A few were “non-swims”, young men who had never learned to swim. Now I always wondered why someone who didn’t know how to swim would want to join the Navy but we all have our dreams. These guys would go up on the diving board and peer palely down into the water. When told to jump in they would say things like “I can’t swim”, or “The water’s too deep”. In reality any excuse would have done. They had decided that they were not going to take that first step.

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2010
04/27
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How to Turn a Bad Day Around

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

The following was allegedly taken from a Florida newspaper:

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the house in the kitchen.  The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear.  The man, still holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door and the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.

The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her husband laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle laying next to him and the patio door shattered.  The wife ran to the phone and summoned an ambulance.  Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics to her husband.

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2010
02/20
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Boosting your attitude for success

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Have you watched the movie “Yes Man”? If you haven’t I highly recommend it. It’s about a guy named Carl, (Jim Carey) who is stuck in a really bad place in life. In fact he’s so badly stuck that he almost drives away all his friends. After having an epiphany, Karl decides to attend a seminar that is built around saying “Yes” to everything. The first thing he says yes to is a homeless man that wants a ride to a city park on the other side of town. After allowing him to make phone calls on his cell phone and running down his battery he ends up out of gas and without a way to contact anybody in the middle of a far away park. He walks to the gas station and then his new life begins.

Now I don’t want to spoil the movie for you, and although it’s not for everyone, I do recommend that you watch it. It goes through Karl’s transformation by saying yes to life’s opportunities. By saying yes his whole attitude toward life changes, which in turn changes his life.

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2010
01/30
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Overcome Adversity with a Positive Mental Attitude

“Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.” – Unknown

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.

The man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

As the man continued to watch he expected that the butterfly’s wings would enlarge at any moment and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

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2010
01/23
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Getting unstuck and imcreasing your positive mental attitude

“We are what we do repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Will Durant

A while ago I read about a New York social psychologist who was studying rat behavior. He was trying to discover a way to more accurately determine social behavior. He took a rat, put it on one end of a maze and put cheese at the other end. Fairly quickly the rat found the cheese. The psychologist then changed the maze; put the rat and the cheese back in and to no one’s amazement the rat found the cheese.

Then the psychologist changed the game. He put the rat back in but didn’t replace the cheese. Being conditioned to find the cheese, the rat went looking for it and looked disappointed when he didn’t find it. The psychologist repeated putting the rat in the maze with no cheese a few more times and within a short while the rat would no longer look for the cheese.

With this information the psychologist made this observation. The difference between rats and man is that rats, when given different information, will give up. They take what happens to them and use it to give themselves a way to evaluate what they want to do in the future.

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2010
01/11
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Making 2010 your best year yet

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Confucius

Have you ever felt stuck?  I mean have you ever felt that your life is taking you nowhere?  You want to make a change in your life, maybe start a business, lose weight, quit smoking, get a date or just feel like you’re going somewhere in life? How can you get the positive motivation to move you from where you are to where you want to be? How do you go about getting unstuck? I believe it all starts with taking it one step at a time.

When I was in basic training, known as boot camp in the Navy, we had to do a qualifying swim. What we had to do was go on the diving board, take a step off and swim to the side. Once we did this we were considered to be able to swim and therefore could become sailors in the United States Navy.

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2009
12/20
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