Hello TGR Group,
I created this blog so that we would have a means of communicating between conference calls. Please use this blog to post anything related to your Thinking and Growing Rich.
Post if you want to comment on the call, something on your mind that came to you this morning, afternoon or evening. Post when you want to share with us those things that are working in your life. It is very important to acknowledge those things that are working for us. It can be acknowledged by being conscious, speaking or writing. Just make sure you acknowledge. The more we acknowledge what works, the more we expect thing to work and they will.
Greetings ALL! I wanted to share some thoughts that came to me after our wonderful discussion last Wednesday... What would it be like if we traded in the word "problems" for the word "opportunities?" After listening to our discussion again (thanks Chris!), I realized that we all share some sort of problems with self-talk, problems with procrastination, problems with money, problems with commitments, etc., etc., etc. I'm curious about what it would be like if we exchanged the energy, inner and outer dialogue, and attitude about the word and "opportunities" that come our way. Would you be willing to dance with the word exchange for the next week? What would it cost you?
ReplyDeleteI share this inquiry and perspective with you today because I am studying a philosophy and or ideology right now called Appreciative Inquiry. Yes, I am in school and getting juiced up on things that resonate with where I am right now. In the article What is Appreciative Inquiry, by Joe Hall and Sue Hammond, the authors speak of Appreciative Inquiry as being able to work on "the assumption that whatever you want more of, already exists in all organizations... it generates images that affirm the forces that give life and energy to a system." Now back to the problems and opportunities exchange from earlier... Problems tend to suck the life out of us and our systems and organizations (businesses, goals, families, etc.). Opportunities, on the other hand, facilitates renewed energy, hope, and spirit about most things desired. As we move out of our old way of thinking and being, I invite you to embrace the information shared today... I encourage you to reconnect with the energy and peak successes of your past,or with what worked for you to create more successes today. You are sure to experience great opportunities!!!
I'll hear ya next week!
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I am in. Anything to break the old patterns and behaviors that created the past. So, instead of "problems" they are "opportunities.
ReplyDeleteThanks Net
Hello TGR Group,
ReplyDeleteOne of our members recently suggested that I listen to a very inspirational song by Tuck and Patti, "Dream". I was so moved that I had to post. Go to the YouTube link below (cut and paste) and take a listen for yourself and let us know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJPXFdDidTc
I've have also posted the lyrics here as well.
Enjoy
Dream
(Patricia Cathcart Andress)
© 1991 Grey Kitty Music (BMI)/Windham Hill Music (BMI)
I've been thinking (yes I have)
Some call it wishful thinking (I don't)
'Bout the way this life could be
So much sadness (seems like)
Not enough gladness (seems to me)
Lack of vision is a dangerous thing
If you can see it
Then you start to feel it
The next thing you know, you believe
And that's when dreams begin to come true
So with all your heart and your soul
Start right now--really take control
Turn our dreams into reality
And until you do, I'll be dreamin' for me and you
We'll see together what a dream can do
We'll discover how to make dreams real
If seeing is believing, then let the dreaming begin
Let the dreaming begin
If you can see it
Then you start to feel it
And the next thing you know, you believe
And that's when dreams begin to come true
Oh they'll begin to come true
So with all your heart and your soul
Start right now--really take control
Turn these dreams into reality
I know that we can change this world
But first you're gonna have to believe
Oh believe say yes
We can change this world
But first you're going to have to
Dream
Everybody dream
Turn our dreams into reality oh say
Dream
Everybody dream
Turn our dreams into reality, say oh won't you
Dream of peace and
Dream of justice
Dream of healing
Dream of loving
Dream
Everybody dream
Turn our dreams into reality
Dream of caring
End of hunger
Dream of sharing
With one another
Dream
Everybody dream
Turn our dreams into reality
Dream of spirit
Dream of glory
Dream of the ancient
Old old story
Dream
Everybody dream
Turn our dreams into reality, I want you to
Dream of peace and
Dream of justice
Dream of healing
Dream of loving
Dream of spirit
Dream of glory
Dream of the ancient
Old old story
Dream end of hatred
Dream oh the story
Dream of love and
Dream of glory
Dream yes oh
Everybody dream
Turn our dreams into reality oh say
I'm Dreamin' of peace
I'm Dreamin' of healing
Dream of love and
Dream of caring
Dreaming say
I'm dreaming now
Dreaming of a love say
I'm dreaming
I know that we can dream a world of love
Dream
Good morning…yesterday I was asked to share a tale a story about being a mother to my son Morgan. When he was seven weeks old he was diagnosed with hydrocephalus (water on the brain) he had an obstruction in his lower right ventricle, the well where spinal fluid is made. We have four f these magnificent areas and one of his was blocked.. So it was decided that at seven weeks he needed to be shunted immediately. I was 21 years old and new to being a mom and very worried and scared but also at the critical moment in my life I was grateful that I had built unbeknownst to me a solid spiritual foundation based more on my own intuition and faith in life and nature then say man or a God. The lovely doctors were generous in telling me that my son would be horribly disabled and unable to do the simplest things because in their experience this is how it went, water on the brain? Well that meant a long list of issues. In my experience I knew it was up to me and Morgan whether we would make it out of there alive and whole and healthy. You see I sat on the bed in the hospital and I meditated on my choices and I knew there was an entire universe of choices for me. I could succumb to the opinion of the trained staff in the hospital and believe everything they said because they were experts or I could feel into it and hold the child and allow him to tell me through his energy and light what needed to be done and how it would go. I needed as his mother to hold him in his wholeness allowing the staff to do their jobs but never for once letting their fears or opinion sway me off course. I felt at 21 that it was my job to see him as he truly was whole and healthy and strong and I did. I would listen quietly as they explained what would happen after the operations and how he would never be able to this or that or I can’t even remember the horrible list anymore. I would nod and listen and think as each word was spoken “not him” “not this time” I really knew he was different and that his story wasn’t disability but Morgan’s story was healthy wholeness. I decided that we would never be able to tell that he was shunted; twice in fact he has two. Some of my family were frightened and fought with me as I dis agreed with medication protocol. I knew enough that I could question a lot of the things done in the hospital to my little new born. I was diligent in keeping tests to a minimum and keeping stress out of the room and allowing him to heal. I was fierce in this. It wasn’t about me or my popularity it was about my child healing with love and care and given a chance I would have had him out of there sooner but as it was I was strong enough to sleep sitting up in chairs or on the floor for the three weeks he was in the hospital…I knew to never leave him alone. We had 6 episodes through different stages of his growing up where he almost left us and we are still not out of the woods but today he is an adult, married, working and living a normal healthy life. Able to do most things and no one ever knows that he has a shunt. I know that for me as his mother as a young girl when my child was in crisis I saw that I had a choice. I saw that I could succumb to opinion or I could hold him in wholeness, simple. I say this not negating expertise but knowing that inside expertise is a huge unknown. I grabbed that space and made it ours made it the place where possibilities could occur. I think in every aspect of life we have that room that universe of potential that most educated experts can’t control or know about. Some say it’s miraculous I say it’s less miracle of a normal state of being. If we blindly accept everything the “experts” tell us as gospel instead of feeling inside our own hearts it’s no wonder we have grief and tragedy. On the other hand I say listen and be still and the answers come and sometimes it is to be feeble and disabled…and sometimes it is not. In our case it was wholeness and health against the odds. Amen.
ReplyDeleteI am excited to become a part of this group. Thanks for the invite Chris. It comes at a very special time: as I begin this TGR study group I am also beginning a 3 month long journey within, doing long group transcendental meditations every day, 8 hours a day with over 1000 other Meditaters in Fairfield, Iowa. Keep in mind, momma didn't raise no fool - I am well aware that a major component of success is inspired action. In this physical environment we live in, action is a delicious requirement. However, I am excited to have this oppurtunity to take a moment and focus particularly on my vibration and set a tone for inspired action toward not only spiritual but material affluence as well. I feel as if I'm a runner, stretching, getting pumped and stepping up to the starting blocks. Once this 12 weeks is done - let the race begin!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for being on the call last night. Your contribution brings a unique and welcomed perspective.
ReplyDeleteHey everyone,
ReplyDeleteThanks for a wonderful and inspiring conference call. I've begun to put my three step plan into action. I wanted to share with you my new name. You can call me Diligence.
We've all heard the saying, jack of all trades and master of none. I have had the desire to Master something (several things) for as long as i can remember but I notice that when any amount of hardships come up, my mind wants to change focus and choose something else to master. Maybe it looks easier, or more enjoyable. Maybe I've convinced myself that this other thing is my REAL calling (as if we only have one?)
Hence, I'm constantly planting seeds and rarely garnering fruits. My mind is crafty in that it comes up with spectacular reasons why this or that would be an easier path or why this or that is what I REALLY want to do - when in reality - I want to do it all.
I'm sure we all have several things we want to Be Do and Have. That's why we are blessed with variety. But I think the trick to this, and what Mr. Hill is so adamantly suggestive of, is to take a desire and create a laser beam of intent. "An Obsession" is how he put it, I believe. A focus that does not waver or shift. I imagine it to be like taking a magnifying glass and focusing the energy of the sun by holding it still over a certain spot until a fire starts. Once I've got a flame going, then i can move to the next project - to the next spot. Otherwise, I've just got a bunch of burn marks and no fire to show for them. Our desire is the sun, our focus or "obsession" is the magnifying glass.
I want to be diligent in my focus so that i may become a Master (and spark a fire) - one trade at a time. So call me Diligence. This time around, I'm choosing screenwriting. Next time around - song writing. After that - spanish or french, who knows.
"Just, please", I ask myself, "one at a time."
Howdy,
ReplyDeleteCall me FOCUS, but don't call me late for dinner....
Arnetta,opportunities, I like it a lot.
This blog is from Passion. I am only posting it for him. I really like it. Well done Passion.
ReplyDeleteHi,
I am really feeling good about PASSION.
I've never blogged, but I know I need a lot more ACTION in my life.
Know how creative TODAY is and can be.
And know it's time to awaken the DREAMER.
I believe light will spread from the INNOVATOR.
And I give thanks for the FOCUS that has come to the group.
GRATEFUL, yes I'll stand with you every day.
And with a lot or even a little DILLIGENCE :)
In staying on this PERSISTENT path,
We will all be a part of the FINISHER.
So treat yourself to a "RELAX" moment.
Maybe even meditate or pray.
But don't stop three feet away
From your Goal.
The Big Deal
ReplyDeleteThe Think and grow rich group that conferences every Tuesday evening was glorious in its originality and technological wonder. How a few likeminded people can share and learn from each other in real time over the expanse of the United States. It felt like we were together in the same room, almost. One of the topics we touched on lightly was the immediate impact that having a large amount of money would have on our lives. It would be both positive and negative. I believe we don’t understand it especially since we idolize huge sums of money or gargantuan wealth as full of happiness and wonder and nothing else yet from my research and travels I have discovered quite the opposite effect. Not that I am saying there isn’t wonder and goodness that comes from the ease of having enormous wealth. There is that too. I am speaking though of the other side of it the darker sadder side that doesn’t seem to get as much press but should because it is something to understand and could help us individually enjoy exactly where we are. You see money is energy and the more we give of ourselves to the world in every way whether it is through our careers and or hobbies the more we get and one of the things we get is compensation, financial. I look at Oprah as a prime example of it she is tireless in her sharing of all things she enjoys and all things she imagines we would enjoy and she has created a platform to do just that and lo and behold she is mega wealthy as a result of her generosity. There is a fascinating interview she gives with Byron Katie on her Sirius radio show where they do “The work” and Oprah in one of the series of interviews lets us know how everyone in her immediate and not so immediate family wants money. She says it causes her pain that everyone in her family has their hand out all of the time. Now really imagine that for a second. That everyone you know in your family has issues and they look to you as source. They look to you as their source. If you are a billionaire like Oprah then it’s understandable yet imagine if you worked hard and had to travel through the jungles of life and its lumps and bumps and then once you have achieved the great wealth then you are faced with others people whom you love with their hand out. Not only is their hand out its out with an attitude, with resentment. Tough stuff really and very isolating and how many people are out there who can enjoy the big wealth with you without having an angle on getting some of it? Then once you have achieved your mega-money-ness and God forbid you are single imagine the trust or lack thereof of every poor should who may or may not have your best interest in mind when they seek to court you or want to seriously date? It gets tricky look at Madonna or Oprah or the late Barbra Hutton or the late Doris Duke. If we want greatness in financial terms we need to understand all aspects of what that means and how it will impact our hearts and soul. I think the Universal intelligence that guides us and monitors freewill listens to our highest voice that place in our souls that knows better than say our cerebral cortex or our ego centricity. Our “higher self” knows we love community and peace and joy and bliss and quiet simplicity. So even if we torture ourselves and everything in our current reality with our seeming failure. Forgetting as we struggle to get what we think we want yet never realize because we truly don’t want “it” that that is why we don’t succeed in our happiness and our thinking. Seeking blindly after crazy mind boggling wealth that could disrupt our equilibrium, our peace is crazy alright. Most of us don’t really understand it and I would be so brazen to say most of us don’t even truly want it. Not if we understood EVERYTHING it brings. So investigate and know or imagine the level of abundance you are seeking measure it, because it is attainable and the best part? Chances are you are there; chances are we have accomplished nearly everything we could ask for in this life.