The Power of YOUR Spirit - From "Lessons On Life"

Jim Rohn said something profound in his book, "Lessons On Life":  

Well, he said a lot of profound things.  But this one is worth a look - today : )

"Life is worthwhile if you TRY.

Try something to see if you can do it. Try to make a difference. Try to make some progress. Try to learn a new skill. Try your best. Give it every effort.

Life is worthwhile if you STAY.

You have to stay from spring until harvest. If you have signed up for the day or the game or the project, see it through. Don't end in the middle.

Life is worthwhile if you CARE.

If you care at all, you will get results. If you care enough, you will get incredible results.

Care enough to make a difference.
Care enough to turn somebody around.
Care enough to change.
Care enough to win.

Life is worthwhile if you PLAN.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan."

Excerpt from motivational email, "Motivation in a Minute"

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That's simple, but profound - don't you think?  Now, my comments... also profound:

 - SPIRIT is Trying.  SPIRIT is STAYING. SPIRIT is CARING.  If you care enough about where your journey will take you, then you WILL plan.  And if you TRY and STAY and CARE and PLAN, and repeat... ad infinitum, then you will succeed.  There is no other way!  Either way, it is YOU, your thoughts, and your spirit that WILL ABSOLUTELY be responsible for where you end up.  That responsibility may be conscious or unconscious, but it happens and it is YOU.  Go for it!

More Power To YOU!
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Success happens when you turn the corner.  


Getting the reward...  Throwing the party...   Cashing the check...


That all comes later as affirmation.  


But your proudest moment, your best moment, your most powerful surge of life giving personal power and "miracle juice" comes at the turn.


So.....   TURN BABY TURN!     

More Power To YOU!
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GRADUATED FROM CHURCH ?

I have "GRADUATED" From Church.  Just Like Jesus.

   ~ Suffered and Crucified by God's People
   ~ Today I Reign WITH Christ
   ~ And I sit at the Right Hand of the Father
   ~ Don't Need A "Priest" any more.

How About You?  Go ahead.  Fall out the TOP and join me : )

More Power To YOU!
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Did You Get The Holy Memo?

God set me free from the law of paying for my mistakes. 


He gave me power to release others, perform miracles, heal the blind, and help the lame to walk. 


He did this for you too. 


Did you get the memo? Take the class? Live it today?

More Power To YOU!
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Even When You Can't ~ You CAN!

When you can't go on.   When all seems dark & hopeless... This is when the power of your spirit is MOST evident.

In spite of all  reason, all opposition...
   ...this is EXACTLY the moment 
          ...when you are MOST POWERFUL

Sometimes it just means exercising patience instead of pulling the plug.

Sometimes that means being still.  Floating in place instead of swimming against the current. Just For Today... Floating above it all will be EXACTLY enough!


More Power To YOU!
Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
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photo courtesy of www.motivatedposters.com

YOUR First Miracle - Becoming Divine

Do you need a miracle today?

If you ARE truly Divine, what does that mean?

Are you looking everywhere else but to your own personal spirit power?

PAUSE.  REWIND.  Are you AWARE of Your Divinity?
  
STOP.  Are you acting like it? 

What would that look like?  Why not give it a try?  On whose authority you ask?

If you need permission to claim your own divinity, How about from Jesus Of Nazareth?

Jesus said:  "...I have said you are gods..." (John 10:34)  If you have seen me [Jesus], you have seen the Father[God] (Jesus - John 14:9).  I have given them [disciples] the glory that you[God] gave me[Jesus], that they[Disciples] may be one as we[God and Jesus] are one (Jesus - John 17:22).  Jesus goes on to say that he prays not only for these[Disciples], but for all who will believe in him [Jesus].

If these statements are all true [they are] then you too can say, as Jesus did... "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father [God]". You too can command the winds and waves of life.  Do you?  Want to?  Let's Do This!  


More Power To YOU!
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Your Spirit Word Coach
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Breaking Free

Do you need to BREAK FREE from religion in order to discover the truth of your spiritual power?

FREEDOM and LIFE are what most religions promise.   However, you can only hope for these as long as you "DESIRE to be DIVINE".  Religion apparently doesn't work if you actually get there.  So they don't let you get there.  They may strap you to a logic bomb - see illustration.  They are likely to tell you it won't happen in this world, but we need to keep trying anyway. See how that works?

As long as you DESIRE without accomplishing, you can TITHE or otherwise financially support a 'teacher' or 'preacher' or 'priest' or 'church' or 'temple' and it will all turn out alright.  But - How can they be divine if they need your money? And how can they be divine if they keep you confused and dependent?  

What if it all turns out alright anyway?  What if you skip the part about supporting them and being dependent on them?  What could happen if you SEE yourself as you already are - and realize you are a divine being?

Peace and Power 2 U

More Power To YOU!
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On Your Personal Divinity

The very words "YOUR PERSONAL DIVINITY" send some running to hide from lightning bolts that are sure to come of blasphemy.  And yet... THIS REALLY IS what most religions promise (and fail to deliver).

Consider an article on Divinity from wikipedia.com, which says usages of the word divinity are

• To refer to powers or forces that are universal,
  or transcend human capacities 
• To refer to qualities of individuals who are considered
  to have some special access or relationship to the divine

Isn't that you?

• Don't you have powers to just KNOW something that is beyond human capacity? 
• Did you ever think that hunches or intuition are powers that transcends human capacities?
• Don't we all have the power to HOPE something unlikely, in spite of "evidence"
• Can't we - by willpower and perseverance CREATE something that others thought unlikely?

No matter what your branch of institutional religion, doesn't it teach that we are of god, Children of God, Sent by God, or part of God?

• Do children have special access to the parent?
• Do parts have special access to the whole?

In answer to 6 questions:  YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, and YES!  


This means YOU are a wonderful spiritual being with forces that are universal and transcend human capacities(DIVINE).  You have special access to the Great Creator who is called God, Brahman, Buddha (DIVINE).  When you live this knowledge, you transcend your surroundings, levitate, or rise above!  And when you rise above you create something that was not (DIVINE).  


Go!  Rise!  Create!

More Power To YOU!
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Other Famous Folk Feeling Like I Do : )

"Following Christ Does Not Mean Following His Followers"

Anne Rice leaves Christianity

Legendary author Anne Rice has announced that she’s quitting Christianity.

The “Interview with a Vampire” author, who wrote a book about her spirituality titled "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" in 2008, said Wednesday that she refuses to be “anti-gay,” “anti-feminist," “anti-science” and “anti-Democrat.”

Rice wrote, “For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian ... It's simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”

Rice then added another post explaining her decision on Thursday:

“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me," Rice wrote. "But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been or might become.”

Source:  CNN Entertainment http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/30/anne-rice-leaves-christianity/?hpt=T2

More Power To YOU!

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STAND and BREAK ~ or ~ BEND and LIVE?

It's not really profound, and it's been said or asked before, but...

There is a HUGE cost to being right, strong, rigid and inflexible, and a HUGE Benefit to being flexible, adaptable?

You know the story of the Oak Tree and The Willow.

In a fierce storm, the oak tree is strong, rigid, inflexible.  It gets broken by the wind, and dies.  In this same kind of storm, the flexible willow bends, and survives.

What question in your life can this be applied to - TODAY?  What's stopping you?

In the middle of the storm, it will be too late to change.  Choose now!

More Power To YOU!

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TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING?

Trying to do right leaves you with two problems.

The first issue is that TRYING doesn't work.

In star wars, Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda said:  "Do... or do not. There is no try.

The second issue is illustrated in the Aesop Fable, "The Man, The Boy, and The Donkey, (retold in my own words).

The moral of the story is that many people will tell you what is "right" but if you listen to them then you may lose your very purpose in all the DOING RIGHT.

Consider, a man and boy are walking the donkey to market to sell.  A passerby says, "donkeys are for riding, so at least one of you should ride."  The man loved his son so he put the boy on the donkey and continued along.  Soon, another man says, "look at that lazy boy, riding while making his father walk."  So the man sets the boy down and gets on the donkey himself.  Soon, somebody remarks that the mean man is making his boy walk.  So now the right thing seems to be for them both to ride.  That's when somebody criticizes him for overloading the poor donkey.  To please everybody, and irritate none, the man and boy tie the donkey to a pole and carry it.  Now everybody laughs...  but there seems no other way to avoid criticism, so they continue until the uncomfortable donkey kicks the boy, while crossing a swaying bridge.  The kick knocks loose the boys grip on the pole,  and the donkey falls into the river below, and dies.  In the end, for trying to please everybody, they all lose.

BEing right by following your own sense of calling and purpose or mission is more important than DOing right.  Don't Lose Your Purpose, Squander Opportunity, or Live Without Joy - just to please others.

Live the life called for in your Spirit - then, instead of losing your treasure, you will have riches to share with others!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
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WRITERS - TRY THIS ~ "I WRITE LIKE"

A web site will analyze a sample of your writing, looking at sentence structure and such, then give a report that compares your work to the work of other authors, both current and classic! Try it for your blog, your business web copy, or your favorite personal prose.

Test your own writing at this link >  IWriteLike.me

HOW IT WORKS (By the program author) 
“Actually, the algorithm is not a rocket science, and you can find it on every computer today. It’s a Bayesian classifier, which is widely used to fight spam on the Internet. Take for example the “Mark as spam” button in Gmail or Outlook. When you receive a message that you think is spam, you click this button, and the internal database gets trained to recognize future messages similar to this one as spam. This is basically how “I Write Like” works on my side: I feed it with “Frankenstein” and tell it, “This is Mary Shelley. Recognize works similar to this as Mary Shelley.” Of course, the algorithm is slightly different from the one used to detect spam, because it takes into account more stylistic features of the text, such as the number of words in sentences, the number of commas, semicolons, and whether the sentence is a direct speech or a quotation.”

Here is my result:

I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

More Power To YOU!

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If You THINK You Can - You're Right?

Henry Ford is famously quoted as saying, "Whether you think you can or think you can't - You're Right!"

In the childhood rhyme, 'The Little Engine That Could', we seem to find agreement with this idea when the little engine manages to climb the tall hill by saying, over and over "I think I can, I think I can."

From wikipedia.org:  In the tale, a long train must be pulled over a high mountain. Various larger engines, treated anthropomorphically, are asked to pull the train; for various reasons they refuse. The request is sent to a small engine, who agrees to try.(emphasis added)  The engine succeeds in pulling the train over the mountain while repeating its motto: "I-think-I-can"

However, we have a clarification in Star Wars, Episode Five, "The Empire Strikes Back" - Yoda tells Master Luke "Do or Do Not Do.  There is no Try."  Along the same line, Napolean Hill teaches, "The human mind can achieve whatever it can conceive and BELIEVE."  (emphasis added).  All these sayings ring true - but merely 'thinking' may be a lot like 'trying'.  Thinking is not ENOUGH!  To rouse the power of the spirit, we must BELIEVE.  When you BELIEVE you unleash your creative power!  What are you believing today?  Aim high and go far!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
www.SpiritWordToday.com

PS Real more Napolean Hill Quotes > http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/napoleon_hill.html 

MOTIVATIONAL ARTICLES

Sample Motivational Article for Employee Newsletter:
I Can Write Like This For Your Team, Group, or Organization.
 
YES - WE HAD A ROUGH YEAR...
    ...BUT RECOVERY IS NOW IN PLAY!

Yes, we had a rough year here at XYZ Company.  It wasn't fun.  


Some people see years like this as "PROBLEMS" or "TRIALS".  However, we at XYZ Company choose to see these events as learning opportunities. 


It may be true that we learned more than we wanted to last year.  But by learning instead of complaining, we open the door for successful change.  


You can be sure that we have taken the steps needed.  The foundation has been laid for a recovery to our former glory!  


We are excited to share the steps taken, including Employee and Customer Suggestions Such As:  xasdfdf  df af adf asd fa sdfasdfasdfsd fasd f dsf asd f asd fasd f asdf fasd f asdf ad f asdf asdf sd f asdf as f asdf asd fasd f asd fasd f asd fas f a df a ff  da fasd f asdfasdfasdfsd fasd fasd fasdfasd f asdf asdfasdf


Our employees are our greatest asset.  We think the world of you and look forward to stepping into a brighter future.   LET'S DO IT TOGETHER!


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More Power To YOU!


Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
www.SpiritWordToday.com

Coaching Means What ?

A good personal coach helps
you look deeper, see clearer, 
make changes in blocking 
beliefs, replace self limiting 
attitudes, unhook dysfunctional 
patterns - until you can overcome 
obstacles, finish projects, or 
improve your quality of life in the 
way you want.
(according to YOUR desires). 


BUSINESS OR PERSONAL? 


Coaching practices are actually fairly similar in each arena.  Business coaching is usually more task and goal oriented - but success still comes from clarity about priorities, passions, drives, and deep desires, which are ALL spirit issues.  

A good business coach can help improve executive or corporate performance results in the same way that a good sports coach helps an athlete.  The coach needs to be experienced in the arenas in play, but not necessarily a technical expert.  If technical skills are what needed, I can help you find the right classes or trainers.  Usually, obstacles come more from unclear thinking, blocking beliefs or un-prioritized desires.  Success naturally flows from skills you already have when you are coached to fix the root problem.  


A good personal coach can help you with more personal goals including handling family or relational challenges or opportunities. 


Professional Coaches help you dig deeper, push further, reach higher.  This is done by helping you clarify desires, prioritize, set appropriate goals, locate the right tools, use the best techniques, make good plans, and stick to them! 


One thing a Coach does not do is tell you WHAT to DO.  Your questions, goals, even answers come from within.  Your right path comes from within.  I don't judge or try to talk you out of anything.  If accomplishment of your goal or objective seems unlikely due to lack of good information, naiveté, or missing skills, I will have an obligation to share thoughts from experience and spirit.  Then, if you choose to proceed, I join in, 100% - coaching you step by step until you get the result you seek.


More Power To YOU! 


Personal Power ~ Spirit Power 
Your Spirit Word Coach 
www.SpiritWordToday.com

Work Life ~ On The Edge ?

WORKING ~ LIVING
ON THE EDGE OF OUR DEEP PLACES

What on earth does that mean?

Consider:  A deep lake or ocean has more LIFE at it's edges than in it's depths.  We see the dragonfly soar, hear the bird sing, watch the fish swim, and observe the rich plant life... "on the edge" of the lake.   

Very little of this would be possible at the edge of a shallow mud puddle.  Men of science tell us there is not much life in the middle of the deep either - but that the deep is necessary to support the life on the edge.   

Look at our own lives now.  We too spend most of our life, and work life AT THE EDGE.  We work and play, build, organize, intend, and DO THINGS at a sort of surface level.  We interact with others through a 'mask', persona or personality.  These things are not WHO we are but they are expressions of life made possible by what is in our deep.

Our DEEP is our BEING, OUR TRUE SELF.  It's hard to share our DEEP PLACES with others, but it makes many wonderful things possible.  If you have lost touch with the power of your own deep, revisit it by taking time to be still and dream, to play, and to follow your bliss.  

By DEEP WATER I mean that "LIFE" and "SPIRIT" are very deep and sacred things that underpin all that we do.  I share MY own deep water here, pulling back the cover most people wrap around their deeper selves, so that you may better understand the life assembled at the edge of my being.  These things INFORM me, and power me, underlie me, and give me a strong foundation.  

I am not a kook or a preacher, not a doctor nor psychotherapist, but I can write with wild abandon, discern truth and teach ways of seeing and being that restore your deep.     

I am a COACH - A HEALER - A CREATOR able to hlep you gain more Personal Power, Spiritual Power (PPSP) .  You too can be supported by my depth - develop deeper places in yourself, so that there will be more life on your edge : )

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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INSPIRE DESIRE!

SPIRIT wins over REASON.

10 Good logical reasons NOT to act won't stop 1 Case of DESIRE.

Before something gets done there must be DESIRE.

If you want something done, don't give people REASONS, but Inspire DESIRE!

For best results, choose to honor the HEART over the HEAD!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE ?

IF you are amazingly intelligent, extremely experienced, and very powerful....

YOU REALLY CAN BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE.


However, you probably will not be able to convince very many people that this is true ; )  It's a fact most won't trust anybody who is quite that colorful... 


Far more will be gained if you can limit yourself to your best game...

FOCUS, CHOOSE, EXECUTE, HELP SOMEBODY SCORE A BIG WIN.

Then do it again!  That's The Spirit!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach
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Tell Somebody!

If you like what you see here...

HELP US SHARE THIS AROUND THE WORLD!

Help Us Spread the JOY and POWER of Spirit Word Today

Tell somebody!  Copy a Post and include a link.  Send a post with a link to your email list.  Say something nice on Facebook or Blogger or, well anywhere you go!

More Power To YOU!

Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
Your Spirit Word Coach

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HAPPINESS OR POWER

Happiness or Power?  

Permalink To Original Post By DR. ANGELO SUBIDA
(ORIGINAL TITLE HAPPINESS OR COMPETENCE)
The Illustration Concept is Original To This Post

A lot of people misunderstand the nature and process of psychotherapy. Psychiatrist Dr. M. Scott Peck explains it this way: "Psychotherapy is not about happiness; it is about power. If you go the whole route here, I cannot guarantee you that you'll leave one jot happier. What I can guarantee you is that you will leave more competent."

In This Blog Post Found Elsewhere, (permalink above) we find Dr. M. Scott Peck explaining the FACT of PERSONAL POWER being the RESULT of at least one aspect of holistic health and well being (Psychological Health).


It is quite possible to be happy and not be healthy.  However, it is fairly impossible to POWERFUL in a GENERATIVE WAY when unhealthy in mind or spirit.  


I take Dr. M. Scott Peck's statement as a sort of celebrity support of my proposal that SPIRIT HEALTH produces PERSONAL POWER.


More Power To YOU!


Personal Power ~ Spirit Power
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