You can listen to the WROAR Radio broadcast of ” The Vital Feature of Success: See Everything as a Resource” with co-hosts JK and Deeone below.

 And now on with the Blog…

In every day affairs, I clearly see the need for placing everything in its right order. Everything is in its right order when I see everything in my life as a resource. Everything in my life is in right order when I see everything as a means to an end. Moreover, when the end I have in mind advances my dreams and aspirations, then everything is a blessing, isn’t it?

A resource is something that supports you with what you are up to; it is a means to an end result that you desire to accomplish; it is an expedient that quickens your action so you can realize your mental abstractions; it is a facility that enables you to achieve your aspirations. Everything is a resource!

How does this work? Imagine wanting to play the guitar. What are the many resources available in your life that contribute to your playing the guitar? Yes, you need a guitar; that’s certainly a resource. What else is a resource? Where do I begin? There is no end to the myriad resources in one’s life that contribute to one playing the guitar. Your fingers are a resource (how are you going to do it without fingers?). Your brain is a resource (how are you going to strum the strings of the guitar without a brain?). Your enthusiasm is a resource; a guitar teacher or instructional DVD is a resource. The food you eat is a resource (how are you going to enthusiastically practice the guitar if you are starving?). Your attitude is a resource, your passion is a resource, electricity is a resource if you want to play the electric guitar.

Are you beginning to get it? Everything is a resource. If you want to play the guitar in public, then even the folks who come to hear you play are a resource, a contribution, aren’t they?

Dare to ask yourself what you need as a resource in order to succeed with your aspirations and aims. Don’t be shy about it. What do I need to write a blog every week? My laptop, my fingers, my intelligence, my passion, central air conditioning (it keeps my office cool in the summer when I am writing blogs). You folks who read my blog are resources (you inspire me to keep writing more blogs … thank you). The air that I breathe is a resource (how am I to write if I am gasping for air?). Everything, everything, everything is a resource, everything is a support that helps me write my blogs; my command of the English language, my elementary school teachers that taught me how to spell words several decades ago. Everything is a resource; even time is a resource (how am I to write my blogs if I do not have the time to write them?).

When you begin to think this way, you see that even your mistakes and hard times are incredible resources that support you with succeeding. They teach you the value of hard work; they offer you lessons so you can refine your action; they teach you to lean on nothing outside your true self.

There was a time when I had a problem feeling worthy of receiving life’s many riches. This changed quickly when I stopped seeing my financial gains as rewards, and began seeing my financial gains as resources to help me further my dreams and aspirations. This is a big one. When you see money as a resource that supports you with all that is important to you, you stop feeling unworthy when large amounts of money come to you.

When you see money as a resource that supports you with all that is important to you, you stop feeling unworthy when large amounts of money come to you.

 

Seeing money as a resource banishes feelings of unworthiness. Feelings of unworthiness are the reason that a lot of lottery winners lose the money in a few years. What if these lottery winners saw the money as a resource, rather than a reward that they did not deserve? What if they considered the money as a means to a greater end, and then set noble goals? This is a very important point that I am making about money being a resource rather than a reward. Are you receiving it?

Look at everything you own as a resource that supports you with your noble aims and aspirations – everything! This point of view is very empowering. Acknowledge every experience you’ve had (the bitter ones and the sweet ones), as fabulous resources that support you with your breakthroughs into grander versions of yourself.

When you see everything, and everyone, and when you look at every experience you experience as a resource that supports you:

(1) You participate fully in life.

(2) You begin doing things that really make a positive difference with your family, your community, at work, and in the world

The next time you face a disturbing and unexpected crisis; ask yourself, “How can I consider this a resource?” This question will help you value inner integrity over outer reactivity … and this, right here, makes the matter a valuable resource, doesn’t it?

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When you see everything in your life as a resource that supports you with what is
important to you, you place the inner man (the true you), in control of
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Set ‘resource-awareness’ before all other thoughts; place this kind of thinking before speaking, and you will never catch yourself complaining or whining again.

Blessings to you. You are a resource for me. How is this blog a resource for you? Please share your thoughts so others may learn from you … now you become a resource for others. How great is that?

Thank you.

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The better it gets, the BETTER it gets! Our new “Dear Abbey” format is guaranteed to knock your socks off. Time is relative and this 30 minutes is a blink of an eye: You can listen to the WROAR Radio broadcast of “What is Mastery? How to Achieve the Seemingly Impossible” with co-hosts JK and Deeone below.

 And now on with the Blog…

Now here is a powerful inquiry: What is mastery, and how does one attain the status of master?

The dictionary says that ‘Mastery’ is ascendancy or superiority. What does this mean? What places you in the stream of energy that begets mastery?

(1) Mastery, to me, means that I have achieved a degree of supremacy in some art form, with some skill, or in some career.

(2) Being a master implies having overcome the complications of an activity, thus making it look simple to do (even to the layman, though he knows he cannot possibly match your performance).

Mastery is a very practical expression – to be a master requires a deep conviction to achieving excellence, and a commitment to do whatever it takes to meet this elevated standard of performance. What could be more practical than this?

A bonus comes with mastery. With mastery comes power.

Power means the competence to act … and one who has mastered an art form or profession has the power to act in a competent manner, and to act in this competent manner consistently.

How do you attain mastery? How do you gain the power to act in a consistently competent manner?

If you are to attain mastery, you must develop a deep conviction inside of you to achieve excellence with what you desire to do… and you must discipline yourself to practice repeatedly (continually re-taking your miss-takes, with an intention of refining those re-takes until you achieve excellence).

If you intend to become a master at anything - be it playing ping-pong, being a surgeon, writing a blog, taking photos of nature, establishing harmonious relationships – you’ve got to become ‘very clear’ about your intention.

(1) ‘Being clear’ is more than visualizing the outcome in specific detail. (2) ‘Being clear’ requires disciplining your inward self-talk to continually support you with what you’re up to, even in those moments of greatest disappointment. (3) ‘Being clear’ means developing an attitude of W.O.W. (Wonderful Obsession with Winning), and never allowing this attitude to wane. (4) ‘Being clear’ means knowing the action-steps you must take to achieve the standard of excellence that you are seeking, and being willing to take these action-steps under any and all circumstances.

The kind of clarity, that I’ve described above, requires that you cease worrying, that you cease feeling anxious, that you release all progress hampering thoughts, and that you resign your feelings of quitting to the Authentic Self that resides deep inside of you.

If you commit to what I suggest in the above paragraph, shortly thereafter, the superlatively creative side of you presents itself and acts on your behalf. One step at a time – one by one – you achieve the seemingly impossible: you achieve the excellence that you have committed to. You become a master!

When you become a master at one thing, it is easier to master other things. When you fail at something new, you are no longer baffled by what happened. You simply know you have more work to do. The perplexities of the matter begin making sense to you as you begin seeking clarity.

Release your hidden energies by grasping what I am offering here. Have you truly absorbed the lesson? Do you have the time to read it again and meditate on it. Can you afford not to?

Begin now… make simple and persistent efforts to achieve mastery in some field of endeavor. The rewards you will gain will elevate your life in all arenas of living.

To be chosen to be a master, you must choose to be chosen.

To be chosen to be a master, you must choose to be chosen.

To be chosen to be a master, you must choose to be chosen.

It is your time now – choose to be chosen!

Please leave a comment to bring greater clarity to what I am offering. Do it for your sake. Do it to serve others who read the blog (the count is high).

Thank you and blessings

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NOTE: You can listen to the WROAR Radio broadcast of Stage 6 of Creation with co-hosts JK and Deeone below.

 And now on with the Blog…

This is my story about RJW(pronounced ‘RIJWA’). RJW is a Grand Cosmic Wizard. I came upon RJW many years ago, and have developed an intimate and profoundly moving relationship with him.

RJW has helped me to grow from feeling insecure and awkward to feeling competent, confident and secure in many domains of my life. I am successful with many of my aspirations and aims because of the guidance and advice that RJW offered.

When I first met RJW, he told me a story. How I came to meet RJW is a story for another day. The story that RJW told me was about a community of people who lived in a cold and wet region of the world. Most of these folks all wore the same flimsy, light jacket with a picture of a dragon on the back. The dragon was supposed to be a symbol of strength. However, because the climate was often wet and cold, and the light jacket did not protect the people from the elements, they often walked around with the sniffles, or a bad cold, or even the flu.

RJW spoke of one tailor in this community who made heavy winter coats that felt very comfy and warm. The folks who wore his coats did not get the sniffles.

However, most folks in the community would not buy this tailor’s coats because he did not put a picture of a dragon on the back. When asked why he would not put a picture of a dragon on the back of his coats, he said, “I spend my time making durable, warm coats; I have no time to worry about dragon pictures.”

Most folks would walk away from his store (sniffling, sneezing, and coughing), and would say, “You do not know the right way to make a coat if you do not put the dragon on the back. The dragon protects us from harm.”

I asked RJW what this story had to do with me. RJW told me that I conceal my true inner strength under theatrics of bravado (wearing expensive clothes, driving an exotic car, wearing a fancy watch, and expressing an extroverted personality) … and then I wonder why I shiver and sneeze my way through life?

This was a real eye-opener for me. Over the next several years, RJW proceeded to introduce me to empowering knowledge, guiding principles, and inspiring truths that taught me a powerful lesson: when ripe moments come (which are always coming), the truth within me always offers the right and perfect action, just as the flower quickly responds to the morning sun.

RJW has taught me how to get results in the real world, where I once believed that I did not have enough time to get all the things done that I wanted to do in order to feel successful. Phew. That’s a mouthful. Read this sentence again, slowly.

This blog is about helping you to maintain the success you are now gaining by following the success-principles and inspiring truths that I am passing on to you.

(1)  Dare to be creative by trusting your intuition.

(2)  There are innumerable ways that you can use the information I offer you – find your own unique style.

(3)  You know, far better than I do, what you need to do to succeed with your abstractions (the mental fantasies that you want actualizing in your life).

The specific answers lie within you; dare to ask yourself.

(4) Discover the Grand Cosmic Wizard that dwells inside of you … give him a name that is important to you … and come into complete faith that he (she) has all the answers, all the ways and means of helping you to achieve your ambitions.

 YES, the Grand Cosmic Wizard RJW is ME – the Authentic Self that dwells deep inside of my consciousness. The initials of my name are RJW … and this is how I came to call my Grand Cosmic Wizard – RIJWA.

You have complete faith in the physical things you can see, hear, taste, smell and touch … now it is time to have that same kind of complete faith in the Grand Cosmic Wizard that is waiting to make your acquaintance.

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Complete faith in the Grand Cosmic Wizard must precede the demonstration of his (her) existence

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It is through daily meditations and communications with the Grand Cosmic Wizard that you learn to look away from your false self – that reactive part of you that gives you bad advice, that offers you dragons (false symbols of bravado), and promises you riches.

Only the day dawns that you awaken to the Grand Cosmic Wizard, when you stop depending on dragons to empower you to live your dreams. What are your dragons?

Might I mention, now, that expensive clothes, fancy watches, exotic cars etc, are perfectly okay to enjoy, as long as you see them as toys, and don’t think they are possessed with secret powers.

My blog for the week is complete. Let the wisdom of this post sink in. If it is confusing to you – that’s great! It is in a state of confusion that you are about to learn something new.

What say you? How has this post touched you? Please leave your comment so others may learn from you.

Thank you, and Blessings

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On a side note: If you are in Boston, you cannot afford to miss our next Mind Adventure Meetup. Space is very limited. More info here.

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NOTE: You can listen to the WROAR Radio broadcast of Stage 5 of Creation with co-hosts JK and Deeone below. 

And now on to this weeks blog…

Would you like to know how to make your dreams of winning more compelling?

Would you like to know how to give grandiosity to your puny visions?

Would you like to know how to create incredible abstractions that motivate you to action?

As you look at the panorama of your world; as you look at the circumstances that involve you; as you think of the things in your life that concern you – please now expand your consciousness to see with your own eyes the abstractions that began in your mind, and are manifesting through you.

Student: What’s an abstraction?
Teacher: It’s a composite of ethereal ideas that exist at the quantum level of thinking.

When you increase your ability to create and handle abstractions, you are able to connect like-kind ideas together, giving you an incredible view of what you want your life to become.

Here is a fact that is worthy of your attention: The universe is abundant, and it wants you to prosper in a thousand ways every day. So, if this is true, why isn’t this happening to you?

Hear this truth now: the only barriers between you and the world you would love to experience are the barriers that you have placed before you. It is time to increase the level of abstraction that you are handling, so that you may demolish those barriers.

Nothing is impossible when you use the intelligence that is available to you … you use this intelligence to realize your abstractions by actualizing them in your life. When you experience this regularly, you will come to know that there can never be limits on you, other than those that you impose upon yourself.

It is time to work with more of your intelligence, and with an elevated state of consciousness. Here is a way to do this. Ask yourself these three extraordinary questions … and when you answer them – seek to increase the level of abstraction that you are handling. Place a ‘No Trespassing’ sign on all avenues of thought that come to you – the sign is meant to stop the NO’s from barricading the avenues from creative thoughts that are flowing to you. (That – right there – is an abstraction!) Can you envision it?

Question 1: What are you? (not ‘who’ are you … WHAT are you?)

Are you a marvelously made being … or … are you only human? The abstraction you create, when answering this question, comes not from physical substance, but from pure intelligence (an ethereal quality of which you have a great abundance).

Increase the quality of the abstraction, “I am marvelously made.” The more abstract the answer is, the more ideas it contains. Poets have extolled your marvelously made nature, and musicians have sung about it. It’s your turn now. Go to town!

Question 2: What is important to you?

You cannot separate what is important to you from what you really are? Did you know that? And you are never what you seem to be when you are acting like you are only human.

Is it clear to you that you are a spiritual being having a human experience for a few decades … is it not clear? Begin now, making this clear and creating an abstraction that makes this extremely important to you.

Is the experience of infinite calm important to you? This is the place of experience where your true power lies? Mastering an abstraction of infinite calm improves your connection with infinite intelligence. Now, that is something worth doing, isn’t it?

When you are ONE with infinite intelligence, new ideas come to you to enhance the level of abstraction that you created with the first question above. Are you feeling it happening right now?

Through abstractions, you attain new knowledge about yourself. Knowledge is potential power … and so, onto the next question.

Question 3: Are you ready to play the game of life at 100%?

If you lived your life as the wise and omnipotent being that you really are, what would be different about your life? What would you do that you have not done?

You are now jumping from abstraction to specificity. Answer the questions in the above paragraph specifically – give details.

Why have you had difficulty doing what you just said that you would do if you lived as the wise and omnipotent being that you truly are? You are now getting a new view of you.

No one has ever taken successful action by simply thinking in terms of abstraction. Abstraction alone is a call for non-action. Specificity is a call for action.

The alpha of creation and abstraction are synonymous.
The movement of life and action are synonymous.

Know that all creative action springs from abstraction, but it takes both abstraction and action to cause a new world to unfold for you.

Abstractions are carried out in the mind.

Action is carried out with the body.

Here is a great discovery:
There is only one life, one mind, one body, one “I” … One Self that is manifesting in an infinite number of ways in your world. It begins with those abstractions that inspire you to action.

Elevate your abstractions today, and fuel them with faith in your one life, one mind, one body, one “I” … and I promise you that your action will be filled with grace as it goes straight toward any goal that you set for yourself.

This is powerful information I am offering you. It is information that enables you to make your dreams come true. Join the power of this universe in flow, where nothing is static. Remember this, everywhere you go: chance has nothing to do with how your life unfolds … it is the one life, one mind, one body, one “I” (all working together), that determine your earthly destiny.

With the key to the secret of exceeding your wildest dreams – you march faster, and with more strength to any destination you aim to reach. Something greater, better, finer, and more useful is waiting for you. The ultimate aim is to take personal control of your evolution (as a spiritual being in human form), living in a world of polarity where both sides of the stick are always available.

Please give me a comment so I know that you are alive and well in that one life, one mind, one body, one “I” that is truly you; that is always you.

Thank you and blessings

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On a side note: If you are in Boston, you cannot afford to miss our next Mind Adventure Meetup. Space is very limited. More info here.

“Best Comment of the Week.” This weeks best comments come from Debbie@Happymaker and John. Thank you for your heartfelt sharing. See their comments here. Illustrations by nick

NOTE: Listen to the latest WROAR Radio broadcast Right Here: Stage 4 of Creation: Fine-Tune Your Failure so You May Enjoy Success with co-hosts JK and Deeone

And now on to this weeks blog…

Imagine being on the lobby floor of the Empire State Building; you’ve never gone higher than the first level of any building. A person steps out of the elevator who just came down from the top. You ask, “How is the view up there?”

This person speaks of the spectacular view from the top of the Empire State Building, and you have no idea what this person is saying to you, because it is all completely new to you.

And then, you have the courage to enter the elevator and push the button to the top floor; you ascend to the top and walk out to look at the view. Your very own vision reveals what you heard this person speak of while standing in the lobby. Puzzled, hopeful, hostile, attentive, nervous receptive … you suddenly realize, “I have never really known where I should stand in life, and thus, I have never begun to imagine the spectacular truth about myself or the world in which I live. This new view has shown me how I have blocked my own path, and now I can unblock myself.”

The Six Stages of Creation enable you to, whenever you want, retire to the elevator inside of you and ascend to the highest level of consciousness. At the highest level of consciousness, there is a sense of inner quiet, of inner peace, of inner serenity unlike anything else you have felt before.  At this level of consciousness you experience absolute freedom to BE who you yearn to BE; you have the power to DO what you dream of DOING; you are able to constantly renew yourself so that you may HAVE what you have longed to HAVE for so long.

Stage Four of Creation (which is what we are touching on right now), is to know how to fine-tune your failures so you may enjoy the successes, you’ve dreamt of enjoying for years.

How strange it is that when you learn specifically what you do to stumble – you stumble no more. When you know how you sabotage your successes in detail, you are able to undo what you have done.  

Let your investigation into the bad habits that destroy you be simple, brief and fundamental, and when you return to them – just returning to them will be enough to purify your thoughts and action, and to move you beyond all feelings of discontent that give power to those bad habits.

Does this message confuse you? It is meant to. I am not speaking to the rational mind that dominates you. I am speaking to that part of you that revels in the truth, that part of you that is superior to everything in your environment that tries to stop you from progressing with your personal growth and development, with your personal evolution; the part of you that is superlatively creative and able to make your dreams come true.

The superlatively creative part of you compels right relationships with everything that shows up in your life. It lies in its power to attune your mind with the Four Interactive Forces of Universal Creation so that you may say, “It shall be done,” and it is done. (We will look at the Four Interactive Forces of Universal Creation at an appropriate time in a future blog).

Simply BE with the contents of this post. Let it settle in. Do not try to be reasonable when seeking to understand it.

1. Whatever you are NOT right now, that you deeply desire to be, is a result of bad habits that you have fostered.
2. Whatever you shall BE in the future, that will totally delight you, is a result of seeing the simplicity of how you constructed your bad habits to stop you.

Refine your failures that you may succeed – Stage Four of Creation – yes, that’s it.

If you begin thinking in unusual ways – all of your questions will be answered. These answers will be utterly different from what you are used to hearing, from what your habitual thinking has always offered you.

Student: What will I discover if I begin thinking in unusual ways?

Teacher: You will discover disturbing but liberating truths about you.  Liberating truths – that is what you really want, don’t you?

Ponder this post for a few moments, and then leave a comment from beyond what your rational mind offers. You will love what you have to say if you are earnest about saying it. No comment is a wrong comment, when it comes from the heart. Leave a comment for your sake, for the sake of your growth and development, for the sake of your personal evolution from being a human being (part of the animal pack) to being a spiritual being having a human experience. How delightful is that?

If you can think of nothing to say, then simply say that you have more pondering to do. This truth is the most powerful force in the universe.

Thank you, and Blessings

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On a side note: If you are in Boston, you cannot afford to miss our next Mind Adventure Meetup. Space is very limited. More info here.

“Best Comment of the Week.” This weeks best comments come from Pat Mcain and Sylvia. Thank you for your heartfelt sharing. See their comments here. Illustrations by nick

NOTE: Listen to the latest WROAR Radio broadcast Right Here: “How to Experience More Success than Failure: Skew the Law of Chance.” JK and Deeone were led through a powerful exercise that will blow your mind. We guarantee you have never heard anything like this before!

 And now on to this weeks blog….

Do you know the difference between knowledge and knowing? Very few folks seem to know the difference … and that is why so many folks find themselves on the rocks of despair when it comes to succeeding.

Knowledge comes from reading books, reading blogs, attending seminars, talking with others; it comes from asking the right questions, attending lectures, and from attentive watchfulness when it comes to life.

Knowledge is great stuff, but it just ain’t enough. Let’s say that together; “Knowledge is great stuff, but it just ain’t enough.”

Knowing, on the other hand is a very different matter. Knowing is what does matter! Before we go any further with the Six Stages of Creation – let’s deal with what does matter.

Miracles happen to us when we experience acquired knowledge. That is what knowing is about – experiencing acquired knowledge. This requires acting on the knowledge so it becomes part of our life. Yes, that’s when miracles happen.

So, to summarize:
Knowledge is acquiring information.
Knowing is putting that acquired information into action.

So many folks want to take the easy way out, and simply acquire information (hoping that ‘the acquisition of knowledge’ will somehow work miracles through some invisible form of osmosis). It won’t. This is why so many folks feel disappointed after several years of reading self-help books.

Think of life like this:

A stranger is in a strange town, looking for the bus depot. He wants to get to the next town where a job is waiting for him. A kind passer-by tells him to take the next right, walk three blocks and turn left, and he will find the bus depot a mile down the road when he takes that left.

The stranger has all the knowledge that he needs to succeed with finding the bus depot, but standing there with the knowledge does him no good until he puts it into action. He must follow through and do what the kind passerby advised – take the next right, walk five blocks and turn left, and then walk another mile.

The stranger may even make a mistake or two while walking to the depot, but so what! He is traveling closer to the depot with each step of the journey, as long as he corrects his mistakes when he sees that he is heading in the wrong direction. The stranger turns the information into action and succeeds with his aspiration.

Unfortunately, it seems that when it comes to life, some folks want to stand right where they are when they receive the information, and have the information wisp them off to the bus depot.

Some folks think that if they are patient and learn five more ways to get to the bus depot, they’ll never have to take the actual journey – the bus depot will come to them.

Have you ever done anything like this in any domain of your life? Have you ever received all the information you needed to succeed, and just sat on it? I’ve done this. I remember taking a course on how to establish rapport with others, and then excitedly talking about what I learned, but never applying it to my relationships with others (until several years later). Hmmm.

Please absorb what is being spoken here, so you will be ready for Stage 4 of the Six Stages of Creation next week.

What comment might you add to this post to help others understand its significance better?

Thank you and blessings

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On a side note: If you are in Boston, you cannot afford to miss our next Mind Adventure Meetup. Space is very limited. More info here.

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NOTE: You can now listen to the latest WROAR Radio broadcast here. Rob led Deeone through a powerful exercise that will benefit YOU tremendously.

NOTE: You can now listen to the latest WROAR Radio broadcast here. There was a slight snafu in the beginning but we “oopsed” our way into a powerful panel discussion with Al Smith, Deeone Higgs and JK Allen.

Student: I want to hit the bull’s eye?
Teacher: Then you must stop sinning and start winning.
Student: What does sinning have to do with it?
Teacher: In Classical Greek days, ‘to sin’ was a word used in archery circles – it meant ‘to miss the mark’.

Again: in classical Greek, ‘to sin’ meant to ‘miss the mark’. Why say it again? So it will sink in.

What dream would you like to make real in your world? What is the bull’s eye that you are aiming to hit? Are you sinning? Are you missing the mark? What must you do to stop sinning and start winning?

The answer to the above question is simple: There is a division between your vision and your feelings … and you must get rid of this division if you are to experience winning. Let’s hear that again: There is a division between your vision and your feelings … and you must get rid of this division if you are to experience winning.

Repetition makes the heart grow fonder to that which is being repeated. Train your self-talk to repeat what you want your heart-mind to listen to – it will reward you.

When there is a division between your ‘visions of success’ and your ‘feelings about succeeding’, you will miss the mark again and again.

To attempt to succeed, while entertaining feelings of doubt, guarantees missing the mark. Perhaps you will almost hit the mark, but if you do not resolve the feeling of doubt – sinning will be the ultimate outcome. You will miss the mark.

When you miss the mark – you hit something else, don’t you. The arrow hits something, when it misses the bull’s eye. The arrow cannot go in two directions at the same time. If you doubt you will hit the bull’s eye then you are aiming to hit something else. Perhaps it’s the subconscious that is doing the aiming (perhaps you’re not conscious of it), but when the arrow leaves the bow, it swiftly goes for another target.

Those other things you hit, other than the bull’s eye, when aiming to win, represent your belief in failing time and time again. Now you are a habitual sinner. Have no more of such foolishness!

What to do?
What to do?
What to do?

If you are to ‘hit the mark’ … if you are to hit the bull’s eye, dead center … if you are to make real the abstract vision that tantalizes you … then you must focus on that vision, and only that vision in thought, word, emotion and action. What helps you do that? You must deny the lies that make you feel insecure about winning.

You must accept that the truth is honest and it does not cheat … and the truth is this: You are marvelously made to be an expert archer. You are destined to win at whatever you set the arrow to. You are worthy to hit the bull’s eye, and experience a life that is bountifully beautiful in every manner.

When you know this above truth about you – you will not hit anything else but what you aim to achieve. Perhaps not on the first try … but you didn’t learn to walk and talk on the first try either. Now you hit the mark every time!

When you know this above truth about yourself, your thoughts, words, emotions and actions align … you aim … you release … you hit the bull’s eye … you have arrived!

Let the habitual flawed self – that is not really you – fade away. Seek to contact the higher part of you – the authentic you – that is destined to win at whatever you set your arrow to. Seek to sin less and win more. You will be amazed at how feelings of injustice will quickly fade away.

You are not a sinner.
You are a winner!

This blog is my conversation to prepare you for Stage Three of Creation. Next week’s blog will be specifically about Stage Three. What say ye to this post? Please leave a comment so that others may learn from you.

Thank you, and blessings

On a side note: The Mind Adventure Meet-up is off to a beautiful start. We had 6 attendees show up for another intimate and empowering discussion. If you are in Boston, you cannot afford to miss this opportunity. Space is very limited. More info and a re-cap here.

“Best Comment of the Week.” This weeks best comments come from Pat McAin and Tinu. Thank you for your heartfelt sharing. See their comments here. Illustrations by nick

Note: The “Stage Two of Creation” Podcast with Deeone Higgs and JK Allen is now available on WROAR.

Student: “Why do I experience so much misery?”
Teacher: “You are miserable because you have decided to be miserable.”

Very few people live without some form of misery. Misery is a defining quality of most folk’s identity. Believe it or not, misery actually gives most folks a sense of security – they know what to expect today, tomorrow and the next day. Wow, how’s that for insanity! (I know – I’ve been there)

In order to be happy, you must feel productive; you must feel like you have a Raison d’Etre (a meaningful reason for being here). You cannot be happy if you wallow in misery for this reason or that. Do you accept this as true?

If you are to feel that your life has meaning, you must call an MD on the lies that make you feel miserable. That’s right, you must call a Marvelous Denial on every lie that you’ve accepted as true about you that makes you feel insecure and inferior in any way. These lies feed into the feeling of misery.

“I’m too short.” – that’s a lie!

“I’m not smart enough.” – that’s a lie!

“I am simply unfortunate when it comes to love.” – that’s a lie!

“I’m bad at math.” – that’s a lie!

“I was born on the wrong side of the tracks; I can’t win.”– that’s a lie!

When these lies become part of your identity, you cling to them to explain your misery. Eventually the subconscious level of your mind accepts these lies as unchallengingly true, and now you’re screwed.

The prime directive of the subconscious is to maintain the integrity of your identity. This is too big to say only once: the prime directive of the subconscious is to maintain the integrity of your identity. Give that a moment to sink in. When the subconscious believes lies like the above are part of who you are, it does everything in it’s power (and it has a lot of power), to see to it that you experience yourself as too short, not smart enough, bad at math, and simply an unfortunate sad sack.

Is that what you want? You’ve got to look directly at the mess you’ve put yourself in by accepting ideas that make you feel inferior. You’ve got to be bold! Deny those lies!! Replace them with the truth: You are a rich and majestic child of infinite intelligence … marvelously made and destined to win at whatever you set your mind to. If you set your subconscious mind to proving these lies are true – you win at losing in life and feeling miserable. Is that what you want?

Another piece of the truth about you is this: You are worthy of all that is good and beautiful. This truth is so powerful that when you accept it – it simply blows away the lies that make you feel miserable.

Teacher: Your aim is to become real.
Student: What is the definition of a real person?
Teacher: Look at the above statements written in gold.

If you are to begin the process of accepting the fact of your marvelously made nature, you must look at the lies that give you feelings of low self-esteem … and immediately call an MD on them. You cannot advance to higher stages of creativity if you continue to live with an identity that has you living in misery. WOW, there’s another great statement; let’s hear it again: you cannot advance to higher stages of creativity if you continue to live with an identity that has you living in misery.

Teacher: You need not be chained by the counterfeit-self.
Student: What’s the counterfeit-self ?
Teacher: It’s the self that you created in childhood moments of fear and pain … the self that you created while hearing 60,000 NO’s between age two and five … NO’s that convinced you to accept lies as true … lies that made you feel insecure and inferior.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would threaten our identity; it throws us into a feeling of insecurity. WOW, another big one. One more time: we are slow to believe that which if believed would threaten our identity; it throws us into a feeling of insecurity.

If you are willing to disappear, which is what happens when you drop your false identity … if you are willing to lose yourself, which is what happens when you deny the lies that are the glue to the counterfeit you … if you are willing to let go of the misery, which has some sort of utility for you (you’ve invested a lot of time into it – so it must offer you some gain) … then you will find that true heaven is everywhere, even in the place that you stand right now.

How do you disappear, lose and let go – call an MD time and time again when you hear the ‘sad-sack you’ wailing out in misery. When you bring your misery into your consciousness (stop suppressing it), and face it, you see the foolish utility (the false good) it offers you. Now, by just seeing the insanity of it – it’s easy to call an MD.

Calling an MD begins the cessation of that false version of you (that you deemed was valid and true). The entire root of your misery is that you cannot get outside of yourself (your false version of self), and see the truth.

Right now … jot down anything in your life today that you want to blow away (marriage problems, economic struggles, body pains). Good light and comfort is inwardly revealed to you when you are willing to look at the lies that cause the misery, and call an MD. Call them for what they are – DAMN LIES! They are damn lies because they damn you to a life of misery.

Perhaps you have something you can offer to help all of us understand this lesson deeper? We appreciate your input.

Thank you and blessings

Tune in here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wroar. Every Thursday Eve 8:00pm – 8:30pm EST.

On a side note: The Mind Adventure Meet-up is off to a beautiful start. We had 6 attendees show up for an intimate and empowering discussion. If you are in Boston, you cannot afford to miss this opportunity. Space is very limited. More info here.

“Best Comment of the Week.” This weeks best comments come from Tinu and Angry Ramone. Thank you for your heartfelt sharing. See their comments here.

Illustrations by nick

Please note: Episode 2 of WROAR: The Six Stages of Creation is now available HERE.

I will be covering the Six Stages of Creation over the next few weeks. These Six Stages of Creation, when successfully achieved, enable you to stop enjoying your struggles and start enjoying life. Let’s begin with Stage One.

Be aware of your expression – Know thyself!

La Bruyere said, “A great spirit is above insult, injustice, grief and mockery.” This is what it takes to successfully achieve Stage One of the Six Stages of Creation – become a great spirit in attitude.

When you are a great spirit, you are above feelings that stop you from breaking through old tendencies and bad habits. Wow, that’s a mouthful. Read that statement again, slowly, so you can absorb it. When you are a great spirit, you are above feelings that stop you from breaking through old tendencies and bad habits. You need these breakthroughs if you are to express and experience your superlative creative nature (which is what you are here to do).

Are you willing to look at your ‘poor me’ personality, and not take it personally? We all have a ‘poor me’ act to some degree, or we’d all be fully realized beings! When you refuse to admit that you play the role of ‘poor me’ to some degree in your life, it’s because you are taking the matter personally, which is what you do when you feel insulted, or feel an injustice is being done to you.

Be aware of your expression – know thyself! That’s it – right there. You just learned what it takes to successfully achieve the first stage of creation. Know thy false self. Expose it for what it is. It is a Counterfeit Version of You!

So what do I mean by ‘being aware of the Counterfeit Self’? You must learn to truly be aware of the ‘Other Self’ that you’ve created so you can unlearn the process. You must be willing to see how you play ‘the victim role’, and wail out, “Poor me!” when things aren’t working as you want them to. As the mind is made intelligent to the insanity of taking on such a role, it begins cooperating with you to rid yourself of it.

The degree of inner-harmony in your life (in any domain of your life), is because you are not aware of how much you refuse to take responsibility for your life. (Me too … this is not just about you).

You cannot learn all the things that are right about you until you are willing to look at all the things that you do wrong because of the false version you’ve created yourself to be.

When you truly see that you do not know rightness when trying something new from the point of view of the Counterfeit Self, you open your mind to rightness. The very emptiness of not knowing rightness makes room for the truth to come to you.

None of this is negative. It is all very positive. Think of yourself as erasing the chalkboard in your mind. You want to know all of the tendencies and bad habits you’ve taken on, so you can erase them.

Eagerness to erase your mental chalkboard of negative tendencies indicates your insight into the ‘poor me’ victim that you play when challenges confront you. Are you feeling eager?

One aspect of breaking through the “WOE is me” identity is that you take the whole business less grimly. So Stage One is looking at how you’ve created yourself to be, and noticing how it isn’t working for you, and not taking it grimly. Grimness comes with not having answers and worrying that you never will have the answers. You will have answers as we progress through the Six Stages of Creation.

As you progress through the stages, you are going to experience a dawning of light deep inside of you. And then you are going to feel cheerfully relaxed.

Self-change is a most marvelous experience. Take the next day to objectively observe how you react to life in ways that limit you from being all you can be. Watch the ‘poor me’ tendencies, and say, “Your days are numbered.” Sincere watchfulness is always rewarding.

What have you learned from this blog? What might you suggest to help others learn more about the ‘poor me’ part of them? What does this blog bring up for you? Your comments help everyone (including me), to understand better how to see every challenge in life as a source of self-understanding … which exposes ‘poor me’ for the faker it is.

Thank you and blessings

Tune in here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wroar. Every Thursday Eve 8:00pm – 8:30pm EST.

“Best Comment of the Week.” This weeks best comments come from Lori Gosselin and Justin Mazza. Thank you for your heartfelt sharing. See their comments here.

Illustrations by nick