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School or Prison

qualityquestion — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:31:09 +0000

Welcome to Friday’s Questions!

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
— Victor Hugo

All suffering, all lack, all limitation, all struggle, all poverty exists in the prison of our mind. These things don’t really exist except in our own perception of things. If we choose to focus on these negative things, we become a prisoner of our own thoughts.

Our freedom from this prison comes from knowledge and knowledge is derived from study. As we grow in knowledge we can grow in awareness and awareness brings greater levels of freedom.

What are you doing to grow in knowledge?

Do you live in a prison or a school?

How often do you study?

What are you studying?

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It’s easy

qualityquestion — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:16:01 +0000

“It’s all easy.”

- John Schultheis

On Monday you learned about the Law of Least Effort. When we live in harmony with this law, life can and should be easy. It’s a strange phenomenon but most people have created an environment where life is supposed to be hard. In fact, if they find something to be easy, they think there is something wrong. Some people will even take a situation that is easy by nature and make it overly complicated and hard. Not Me!

There are three components to the Law of Least Effort. The first is acceptance. You must accept that things in your life are as they should be. They may not be what you want, but they are there because of the Law of Cause and Effect. Everything that happened in the past led to this moment creating this situation. No matter how hard you try, you can’t change this moment. You make your life hard by trying to change the unchangeable.

The second component is responsibility. Responsibility means not to blame any thing or anyone, including yourself, for the way things are. Once you accept things as they are, you have the ability to create a response that moves you towards your goals and wants.

Lastly, you must practice defenselessness. This does not mean to stand by and be beaten and abused. It does mean to stop defending your point of view. When you defend your point of view, you create conflict which by nature is hard. When you stop defending you create an environment where you can experience the world around you, which is easy.

Do you accept things as they are or
do you try and force the present to be different than what it is?

Do you respond to situations or react to them?

Do you create conflict by
defending a point of view?

Your life can be easy. You can live in harmony with the Law of Least Effort but it takes a decision on your part.

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Develop Faith

qualityquestion — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:10:45 +0000

“Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of autosuggestion.”
– Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

On Monday you were asked what you give energy to, fear or faith. Napoleon Hill tells us that faith is a state of mind; and states of mind can be created. He further tells us that the way you create faith is through autosuggestion.

Autosuggestion is self-suggestion. By first creating a very clear image of what you want, you can begin to tell yourself you are already in possession of your goal. Phrase your autosuggestion in this way, “I am so happy and grateful now that . . . ” and fill in whatever your goal is. Write it down on a card and carry it with you everywhere. Read this statement over and over again, hundreds of times a day if necessary.

Hill further writes, “You may convince the subconscious mind that you believe you will receive that for which you ask, and it will act upon that belief, which your subconscious mind passes back to you in the form of ‘faith’, followed by definite plans for procuring that which you desire.”

Two things will happen when you auto-suggest. First, you begin to believe you will receive your goal and your subconscious mind creates the emotion of faith. Second, your subconscious mind will become aware of how you are going to receive that which you want.

The the question before you is very simple:

Are you going to practice autosuggestion for what it is that you want until you get it?

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Fear or Faith

qualityquestion — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:39:08 +0000

“Dreams remain dreams when our fears are greater than our faith.”
– Anonymous

When you begin to make your dreams a reality, it is going to be scary. If you’re not scared, the dream isn’t big enough. Your success will depend on what you give energy to – a focus on fear or a focus on faith.

It will take a large amount of courage to move closer to your dream. But courage does not mean an absence of fear. Courage means taking action in spite of the fear. You can take action when you have faith that you will reach your goal.

As you enter this week, ask yourself:

What is my dream?

What do I give energy to, fear or faith?

How much does doubt hurt me?

What does fear cost me?

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Decisions, decisions, decisions

qualityquestion — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:08:09 +0000

“Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million-dollar mark disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly, and of changing these decisions slowly, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.”
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

There is one key word in Hill’s quote that is responsible for how we make decisions. Both successful and unsuccessful people are affected by this word. The word is “habit”. Both sets of people had habits that were responsible for their results, either good or bad.

Our lives are habitual. We operate most of the time from a sub-conscious or automatic level. The habits we have are responsible for the results we get.

None of us were born with our habits. All of our habits, both good and bad, were conditioned over time. The good news is habits can be eliminated, changed or developed. If you find that you have a habit of reaching decisions slowly, you can develop the habit of making decisions promptly.

This week, ask yourself:

Do I make prompt decisions?

Do I change my decisions slowly?

What habits are serving me well?

What habits are harming me?

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Confront your fears

qualityquestion — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:30:38 +0000

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should you do what you are afraid to do?

Knowlege + Action = Power

qualityquestion — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:59:44 +0000

Regardless of which learning method we use, the purpose of learning is the accumulation of knowledge. To get what it is we want in life is going to require specialized knowledge, whether we posses it or someone else.

Once we accumulate knowledge we must understand that knowledge is not power. Knowledge is only potential power – it becomes powerful when it is mixed with action on a definite plan.

What knowledge do you have right now that is potential power?

What plan can you develop and take action on to release the power of your knowledge?

If you don’t know how to put together the plan, who do you know who can help you?

Learning

qualityquestion — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:32:31 +0000

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”

- B.B. King

There are two main ways of learning. The first is through study. This can be a formal endeavor or it can be casual. The benefit of this way of learning is that it can be very efficient. You can leverage your time and efforts by studying a vast array of information on a limitless number of topics.

The second way of learning is by your own experience of things. The benefits of this way of learning is that can create your own truths about matters based of your perception of your experience.

Regardless of the way you learn, once you have it, it is yours forever. As you enter this week, ask yourself:

What lessons do I need to know to achieve

the results I really want?

Am I a study sort of person or do I experience the world around me?

What can I change about how I learn to make my learning even more powerful?

Morning Routine

qualityquestion — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:41:52 +0000

Every moment in our lives is a chance to start over. We can shift our focus, change our attitude, and make different decisions. And a very powerful aspect about this truth is that our past has absolutely nothing to do with our future.

Morning is an especially good time to start over because it is the obvious start of the day. Our past life, our old self, can be left on the other side of sleep. What happened yesterday belongs to yesterday freeing us to make today what we want it to be.

To change today, we need to first change how we start today. Ask yourself these questions:

What is my morning routine?

What about this routine can I change to more positively change the rest of my day?

What can I add to my morning routine so I can start the day the way I want to, to create the results I want and deserve?

Do I let yesterday control today?

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

– Seneca

Feed the wolf

qualityquestion — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:58:24 +0000

Today’s questions are inspired from my friend Mike Taulia. Mike told me the story of the village elder who explained to the villagers that inside each of us lives a white (good) wolf and a black (bad) wolf.

“Every morning when you wake up,” the elder explains, “you choose which wolf you feed.”

Which wolf are you going to feed every morning this week?

How are you going to feed it?

If you don’t feed the white wolf, will it turn black?