Year: 2018
Week 13 ~ 2018 Interesting Dream
Week 12 ~ 2018 Commitment & Focus
Week 11 ~ 2018 Its been awhile……
It’s been a loooooonnnggg while since my last blog post.
I am NOT happy nor proud about that. Matter of fact I have a healthy massive dissatisfaction about that and I am ok with feeling that emotion for a bit.
You see…. I was well on to the road of developing some new habits and BAM! Subby sneaked in with the old blueprint and I followed.
And here is what I am noticing:
I am kinder to myself about getting back on track and doing it
I’m over all happier
I am really noticing some personality traits that I know are not serving me like…. putting up walls to going out and meeting people, following through and finishing things.
Today I recommit to my mkmma drills with enthusiasm because I know when I follow the plan…. life moves in the direction I WANT IT TO.
Week 6 ~ 2018 No Opinion
Hahahahahahahhahaaaa!!
So I was looking back at my previous years of Master Key blogging and discovered that I was in Vegas during this week of the mastermind.
So funny… because I just returned from Vegas on Tuesday night.
This topic is a constant reminder for me….. I guess I have been very opinionated… and no so very aware of it.
Not something I’m proud of…. but I’m also not beating myself over the head about it anymore. Acknowledge the thought… it is there… then refocus on what I really want and move on.
Guess that last sentence sums up the whole learning for me. If I try to “catch myself” or if I make myself wrong for having the opinion, I end up feeling bad about myself and THAT thought and feeling sticks with me. And that doesn’t feel good, nor is it good for anyone.
So the biggie here is to acknowledge the thought. I am human. AND I can control my thought….so as soon as I recognize my thought is off course…. It is time to redirect the ship back to thinking about what I DO want.
Makes sense to me anyways!
Week 5 ~ 2018 Vacation
Yah….. Even tho I am vacationing in this week…. I am still doing my readings, my exercises, and keeping my promises.
Despite needing to watch the webby recording, my promise to this mastermind group and myself is constantly in my thoughts and focus. I am finding it easier to KEEP my focus and to keep the positive thoughts.
The readings and reciting my DMP, BPB are made easier with my mind permanently etched with “DO IT NOW”!!
BTW…. Anatelope Canyon…. OMG AWESOME! Bucket List item check off!
Week 4 ~ 2018 Give Up? Stay The Course? Which Way To Go?
Well, this is the week to either QUIT or RECOMMIT.
I know what’s in store. Yep, been down this road with this mastermind twice before. I know whats coming.
And, I STILL have thoughts about quitting. Just let go. Return to the old blueprint…. of course my subby is yelling!!! My mind is rationalizing…. sure would be easier to just stop all this. No more hours of homework. No more Sundays in front of my computer. No more reading the passages that are indelibly etched into my mind.
BUT I also KNOW THE JUICY REWARD of RECOMMITING and PUTTING IN 100%.
I already see the signs of moving even closer to my dream and my definite major purpose. Its almost dizzing, intoxicating…. the changes that are happening at breakneck speed that can only indicate I am on the right path.
Yep… recommitting.
Week 3 ~ 2018 Joy vs Happiness
This topic has been on my mind a lot this week.
The question of “Why am I not happy” has been in my thoughts…. now bear with me as I dissect this!
Just the realization of the nature of assuming I am “not” happy already is great cause for concern. What if I really am happy and just don’t realize it? Then its the “addiction to the peptides of sadness”???
Or even going into the conversation of “I’ll be happy when…” I know better than that. It’s moving the goal posts of happiness that is my chase.
I stumbled upon this video by Matthew McConaughey that really summed up what I was twisting around in my head…… its all a choice.
But JOY just feels different than happiness…. I agree with him…. happiness is a destination and joy is the process.
I like that. But don’t believe what I have to say on it…. watch Matthew’s video for yourself and you think on it. You decide what it means for you.
Week 2 ~ 2018 Letting Go Of The Old Story Of Why “I Can’t”
This is round 3 for me in this wonderful global mastermind…. And I am back for MORE.
The work is tough… glorious… time consuming… and WORTH IT.
Personal growth, in my humble opinion, should never be “a thing” you spend some time on and then stop.
We are what we think about…. ALL THE TIME! Be the careful “guardsman at the gate” of your mind because it directly impresses and influences your subconscious mind where all action comes from. Not taking action? Taking wrong action? Check in with the results you are currently getting and investigate your inner mind with what you are knowing AND unknowingly filling it with!
OK OK OK…. I just wrote that last paragraph all in the 3rd party “you” tense….. and really it is meant to be ME speaking to ME.!!! hahaha CAUGHT!!!
Anyways…. this is a great video on our thoughts….
Tell me what YOU think about it!
Week 1 ~ 2018 Masterkeys Mastermind 3.0
Here I go again…. diving deep into my personal development with my mastermind group. Even with this being my 3rd round…. I am excited and ready for the work.
It is amazing how each time I have learned and grown far beyond what I thought was capable.
Talking about thought…. I realize now more than ever the power and need for being the diligent guardsman at the gate…. always working on controlling my thought to be of that WHICH I WANT ONLY!!!!
My take aways this week:
- Accept that I will fall back and catch myself right away.
- Adjust right in the moment…. changing my thought to be focused on what I want… where I want to go… do… etc.
- Let go of the ego power of hanging onto a fear, resentment, or made up story about what just happened.
- CONTROL MY THOUGHTS
- Know CLEARLY what I want… of course how could I control my thought to what I want if I am not crystal clear in my definite chief aim.
- Always come from a mindset of gratitude and thinking more life to all.
- DO THE WORK…. the inner mind thought work.
Part of deciding and getting clear on my Definite Major Purpose (DMP) I needed to decide on what I would sacrifice to be able to achieve it.
In the past it was things I did… or had…. This time around I realized that the sacrifices needed to be thoughts…
So I am sacrificing thoughts and feelings of resentment and anger….. and of quitting or giving up.
I always keep my promises.
One Life
Wow! This video by Gary Vee hit home with me…..
I’m 59 years old and just now allowing myself to become honest with myself about who/ what I want to be when I grow up. ?
And seriously….. this is really true. I allowed myself to become a lot of things that others wanted for me… and not what is really in my heart.
Regret IS poison….. Ironic how I had breast cancer and the fast growing tumor was right above my heart. No coincidence I believe.
My regret was “eating” away at me…. in my heart space.
I’m so grateful I found an amazing group of people who have similar beliefs as me and who also wanted massive change in their life. AND most of all… they are ready to take action to make their desires happen. This is my mastermind group…. people of all ages, races, ethnicities, around the world that come together and support and learn together so we can make shit happen in our lives.
Curious about it? Think it might be right for you too? Message me and I’ll put you on the list for when we start up again in September!
Meanwhile…. don’t believe me… Listen to Gary Vee
Week 19 ~ 2017 Permission
As you might be able to see, I have missed 5 weeks of blog posting this time around. UPDATED!! went back and wrote my missing posts 🙂
I have no good excuses. I became slothful and undisciplined.
And yet, the time was not wasted. It was filled with building blocks of thought and realization that has started coming together in a way that is new for me.
I have been on a personal development path now for about 18 years. It started with Tony Robbins and walking across red hot coals. It was just the thing that worked for me to awaken from my hypnotic sleep of conformity. I guess I would have called myself a “sheeple” at that point in my life. You know the kind…. wrapped up in my own little world of following the Joneses and not thinking for myself.
Then in 2006 I happened upon the world of “Natural Laws”. The movie The Secret was released and it blew my mind wide open. It brought with it a whole rabbit hole of new thought. I was hooked. I read EVERYTHING I could on natural law. I sought out every mentor and spent a chunk $$$$ studying with them….. Esther Hicks, Bob Proctor, David Neagle…….. and I learned and evolved along the way with each of them.
My mind was getting more clear. I was finding it easier to just. be. happy. I was discovering me. I was realizing the true effect my thoughts and words were having on my reality…. not the other way around.
And still… despite those years of study and slowly changing my attitude and thoughts… purposeful manifestation of my goals and desires were still pretty much elusive. Yes, I found that I was alot more positive and careful with my thoughts… I still had this underlying internal conversation of “when I figure this out”, “what’s wrong with me that I can’t do this”, “what is the next book to read (seminar to go to, mentor to study) to find the missing link?”
What I have come to realize is that it IS all within me already. DUH you say.
By the doubting i continued in my internal dialog…. of needing to find an answer…. presupposes that I DIDN’T already know. Everything I kept telling myself was that I would take action when I finally understood what I needed to learn. That there were missing links I couldn’t find.
When all along I need to just believe I have what it takes… its ok to move forward without learning any more, and to give myself permission to be in action towards my goal even tho I feel like there is more to learn.
Seems so simplistic now…. and yet something shifted.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 1938)
Maybe its the belief. or the permission I granted to myself to go ahead.
Doesn’t matter… just ready to move forward now.
Week 16 ~ 2017 Controlled Thought
Exerpt form Haanel’s The Master Key System Part 16:
16. It is by the exercise of this power that we take our fate out of the hands of chance, and consciously make for ourselves the experiences which we desire, because when we consciously realize a condition, that condition will eventually manifest in our lives; it is therefore evident that in the last analysis thinking is the one great cause in life.
17. Therefore, to control thought is to control circumstances, conditions, environment, and destiny.
18. How then are we to control thought; what is the process? To think is to create a thought, but the result of the thought will depend upon its form, its quality and its vitality.
19. The form will depend upon the mental images from which it emanates; this will depend upon the depth of the impression, the predominance of the idea, the clarity of the vision, the boldness of the image.
20. The quality depends upon its substance, and this depends upon the material of which the mind is composed; if this material has been woven from thoughts of vigor, strength, courage, determination, the thought will possess these qualities.
21. And finally, the vitality depends upon the feeling with which the thought is impregnated. If the thought is constructive, it will possess vitality; it will have life, it will grow, develop, expand, it will be creative; it will attract to itself everything necessary for its complete development.
22. If the thought is destructive, it will have within itself the germ of its own dissolution; it will die, but in the process of dying, it will bring sickness, disease, and every other form of discord.
23. This we call evil, and when we bring it upon ourselves, some of us are disposed to attribute our difficulties to a Supreme Being, but this supreme being is simply Mind in equilibrium.
24. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is.
25. Our ability to differentiate it into form is our ability to manifest good or evil.
This chapter 16 has been a real excellent chapter for me to contemplate on. Controlled and focused thought is THE CAUSE for everything we experience as “reality”.
Week 15 ~ 2017 Letting Go Of Old Thoughts
Been questioning myself alot lately about why I believe in certain things. Or why I respond in that automatic way to some situation.
Like…. why did I always default to a feeling of scarcity when paying bills and looking at my bank account even tho there was enough in there?
Or why would I automatically be disgusted when a client was late for an appointment, or a prospect would stand me up without even a call or text or changing their mind?
I find that in questioning myself about these things, and staying an observer and recognizing when it is happening…. that a couple things begin to happen:
1. I am giving myself an ever so slight of a pause between reactions to think and choose
2. I am recognizing that my automatic response isn’t the response I wish to choose
3. I am seeing the connection between the disempowering thought and creation of my reality
4. I challenge myself to make a new thought, decision, which I can groom into a new habit to follow the type of person I prefer to be and already see myself as being
5. I am alot more tolerant of others
It’s quite interesting the power of thought…. and creation of outward results.
Even in the instance of feeling scarcity/ lack when looking at my checkbook when paying bills…. even though there “is enough” I have been seeing the downward trend of my savings. I know this is not a coincidence. I know I am creating “not enough” because of my feeling of not enough.
Even that thought has translated into my self confidence of not enough.
And really I am good with never finding out why or how that belief was formed. I am seeing the need to reeducate my thinking to be of “enough”. And to recognize immediately when the old thought pops in and immediately reeducate the thought.
This is why I am persisting in my self development and staying the course with Master Keys… it is a simple structure if you are willing to do the work…. which can be easy if you choose to believe it is.
I choose to believe it is.
Week 14 ~ 2017 Gratitude
This last 2 weeks have been very awe inspiring as I hold myself true to following the required homework in MKMMA…. Master Keys.
I have been starting my day 1 hour earlier than I had in the past. After showering I make my breakfast, and as I eat… I do my readings and write my 3 gratitude cards and 1 journal card.
It is amazing how much peace and centeredness I feel. This alone is making it so easy to stay on the mental diet of seeing, thinking, and speaking only good.
I am also seeing characteristics in people that reflect the peace and happiness I feel.
This is very cool….. and I’m sticking with it 🙂