Why is it that we are motivated to change, and we work hard at it, and yet we do not succeed at attaining our goals? It’s because we sabotage ourselves. We sabotage our best efforts. We procrastinate. We resist. We don’t follow direction. We don’t follow through. We allow ourselves to be distracted and derailed.

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We have been so indoctrinated, trained, and programmed to see the world a certain way, to think a certain way, to behave in a certain way to the point where we are on automatic pilot: We see things, think things and do things without actually thinking about them. They have become so routine we take them for granted and we are not in the Now, we are not truly present. Our reactions are knee-jerk and we don’t give our perceptions, our thoughts and our behaviors the attention they deserve. The end result of such unconsciousness is limitation. It limits our capacity to change. It limits our capacity to expand our consciousness. It limits our capacity to recognize opportunities when they appear and to create opportunities as well. What’s the solution? Start making some changes. Start doing things differently. Doesn’t have to involve big things or big routines. Make small changes and in the doing of these small changes you will be restoring your attention and concentration to the task at hand, you will be expanding your awareness of the choices you make every day, and this in turn will lead to better choices, less victimization, and greater manifestation of the reality you desire.

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Don’t give up. It takes time to create new thought-emotion-behavior habits. As we engage in estimable acts of kindness, release our judgments and resentments, and replace them with acceptance, forgiveness and love, we heal ourselves and transform our world. Don’t give up. Progress not perfection. Stay the course. Give and you shall receive.

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When you have difficulty forgiving, keep in mind that the underlying reason people attack us is because of fear and insecurity, and that what they are really doing is calling out for love. If you can appreciate this and rise above the battlefield of dueling egos, you have the opportunity to respond with compassion and forgiveness, and significantly transform the experience and the relationship.

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I posted a status update recently which said, “You can’t hit a home run if you don’t step up to the plate.” I received a reply, “True. And if you don’t step up to the plate, you can’t strike out.”

I responded with, “Spoken like a true fearist. Certainly you won’t get hurt if you play it safe. But you’ll never win either. Success involves risk.”

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Albert Einstein once wrote, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” In his book, “The World Peace Diet,” Dr. Will Tuttle illuminates and expands on this concept.

“The World Peace Diet” is a book that, if you have the willingness and the courage to read, will elevate your consciousness, change your perceptions about the world and its confused and conflicted understanding of morality, open your heart to a greater appreciation of nature, God and spirit, change the choices that you make on a daily basis, and in so doing change the universe for the greater good of all concerned.

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There was a story in the paper last week about fishermen in Los Angeles being warned against eating a number of species of fish they caught off L.A. shores that have been determined to be toxic. The response of the fishermen was basically, “We’re going to eat them anyway.”

This is fascinating to me. The fish are clearly unsafe to eat and yet these fishermen presumably don’t care. Their attitude reminds me of another story that came out a few weeks ago about Americans not being afraid to live near nuclear reactors.

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Rip Esselstyn, a Texas Firefighter, has developed a “28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds.” It’s motto, “Eat More, Lose More, is particularly appealing to me, being someone who is excessively dedicated to food consumption.

What is profound about this book is that it will teach you how to eat right, how to eliminate all the foods and substances getting in the way of optimal physical and emotional health, while at the same time providing you with no sense of sacrifice, the end of guilt and shame, immeasurable epicurean pleasure in terms of food and drink, renewed energy and vigor, happiness, and a tremendous sense of self-empowerment.

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“Doing a geographic” is an expression that I believe originated in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous to describe what many alcoholics and addicts do when their lives have become unmanageable.

Rather than address the core problem which is their alcohol or drug addiction, they blame the people around them who don’t understand them, they blame unfortunate circumstances that befall them, they blame their parents, they blame bad luck, they blame God. They blame everyone and everything except themselves.

They define the problem outside of themselves and therefore they never find the solution. They think that, “If I move to another city and start over with a new job and new friends and a fresh start, my life will work and everything will get better.”

It never does. It’s a con. The alcoholic or addict will never get better and their lives will never work for them the way they’d like until they address the real problem rather than see it outside of themselves.

This is true for everyone, not just alcoholics and addicts. Most of us are blind to the source of our problems and blame other people and other things for the difficulties in our lives rather than recognizing the ways in which we are sabotaging ourselves and forever depriving ourselves of happiness and prosperity.

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Negative thinking is our enemy. It dampens our enthusiasm and motivation. It contributes to indecision, inertia, procrastination and outright derailment of our goal-directed actions. It defeats us. It beats us. It creates the “bad luck” that we will later bemoan.

We are our own worst enemy when we indulge our negative thinking and tell ourselves, “It’s not going to work out…. I’m unlucky…. Something will go wrong…. Such and such will happen and I’m just going to be more miserable, so why bother?”

There are an endless number of negative messages in all shapes and sizes that discourage us from being proactive and going forth into the world. And now is as good a time as any to stop playing this losing hand, to stop giving these negative messages any power. Read the rest of this entry »

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