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Make Yourself Great Again!

14 Episodes

3 minutes | Aug 27, 2021
Building Your Mindset Success Habits – Over to You
(Click here to download audio.) Building Your Mindset Success Habits – Over to You This book (and podcast) was created to bring you up to speed. Most people have no clue how life is set up. I ve spent a lifetime sorting this out for myself. Now I ve told you what I know and told you to test everything I said. You may find that this will help you become successful. Maybe not. Either way, it seems to be an entertaining way to invest your time. The next thing I ll tell you to do is to get a course which will help you learn and internalize the books I ve mentioned here. And also the books and references they mention. It s a 30-60-90 program. The core idea is that it takes 30-40 days to develop a habit. So you get onto that course and read and listen to only that material for 30 days. Then do another 30 days, then another. At the end of 90 days, you ve developed a new set of mental habits which can help you become and stay successful at anything you want to do. You then have a new life to create. Really, you don t have to buy anything to do this. You can get all these books right off the Internet and then study them and only them for the next 90 days. Turn off the TV. Set aside time every single day to study these books. They are also all available as audiobooks. Or, if you need more structure, buy a course where it s laid out for you and there is probably some nudging involved so you are prompted to get through it. (Paying money for something also tends to make you want to get your money s worth.) It s all up to you. Have fun with this. Really. As Earl Nightingale said: Try it today. You have nothing to lose – and your whole life to gain.   Ready to change your mindset success habits? Be sure to get your free copy of Make Yourself Great Again. Just Click Here for Instant Download. (And be sure to check the back pages for extra bonuses…) The post Building Your Mindset Success Habits – Over to You appeared first on Living Sensical.
3 minutes | Aug 20, 2021
Mindset: Your Recipe for Building Success Habits That Work
(Click here to download audio.) Your Recipe for Building Success Habits That Work A possible approach: Decide What You Want. Write it down. (a private journal) Review it at least twice daily When you do, get the feelings that go with being or having it already. Set up a 90-day calendar so you can mark off when you ve done it. Get a supportive friend to keep you accountable. During the day keep calm, cheerful, and expectant that your goals are coming true. Set up a mastermind of positive, like-minded people. Such can also be virtual by reading these type of books daily and asking yourself what that author would do to resolve any situation you face. Practice persistence, self-discipline. Practice Imagination. (If you have difficulty visualizing, work on getting the feeling.) Go the Extra Mile at everything you do, always give more than expected. Work to eliminate or minimize the time you need to spend with negative people. Let go of unwanted feelings or emotions in your life. Practice regular releasing (just before bed is a good time.) Reaffirm positive feelings you experience. Seek peace of mind daily. Develop faith in yourself. Recognize things you do right, and affirm these feelings. Let go of fear, replace with courage. Let your light shine.   Ready to start your life really cooking with success? Your copy of Make Yourself Great Again is waiting. Just Click Here for Instant Download. (And be sure to check out the bonuses linked in the back…) The post Mindset: Your Recipe for Building Success Habits That Work appeared first on Living Sensical.
3 minutes | Aug 6, 2021
Success Starts From Your Choice of Beliefs – Mindset Tactics
(Click here to download audio.) Choose Your Beliefs Wisely – Your Success is Always Your Choice. You won t see me telling you specifically what to believe here. Only that you do believe already. All I repeatedly ask you to do is to test everything for yourself. Test things with your own trials to see if they work for you. Like choice, you always believe. Just like you can t choose not to choose, you always believe in something. Those beliefs create the world around you, for good or bad. The other point I suggest is that you compare your choices and beliefs against how they make you feel. I prefer feeling good, but that is your option. If something is Political or Religious (note the capitals) I ve generally left them alone. (Although there are many tempting examples, this being written in an election year.) You can vote the way you want or not vote at all. You can join any Church you want and practice however you want, or not believe in God. You re beliefs are your choice. All I tell you is to test your beliefs against what works for you. Ready to Choose Success? Your copy of Make Yourself Great Again is ready for you. Just Click Here for Instant Download. (And do check out the last pages for more special bonuses…) The post Success Starts From Your Choice of Beliefs – Mindset Tactics appeared first on Living Sensical.
3 minutes | Jul 30, 2021
Recipe to Make Your Success Permanent – Mindset Tactics
(Click Here to Download Audio.) Real Success Is More Than An Accident – It’s a Recipe There is a reason why all success is an exception. We ve covered it above: Your belief-choices are thoughts. How you choose predicts your results. If you keep choosing badly, you ll keep getting bad results. Any series of actions you take the same way over and over becomes a habit. You can pick up habits from the people in your life, and what you watch, view, and read. Bad habits will keep you unsuccessful. Our society is build on habits that keep people conforming to the common habits everyone else is using. Conventional wisdom is built on people accepting what they are told or shown without question. Around 95% of our society seems to run mostly on conventional wisdom. They accept almost everything without question. The other 5% (plus or minus) of our society doesn t. They test everything. People who give up their beliefs by choice can get them back by simply choosing. You can be a success. You can choose better. Start by believing in what you want to believe in. Test everything, believe in what works for you. Develop habits of successful believing. Surround yourself with like-minded people. Have fun with this. Want to improve your success recipe? Your guidebook is waiting: Make Yourself Great Again. For your copy, just Click Here for Your Instant Download. (And be sure to check the back pages for more bonuses…) The post Recipe to Make Your Success Permanent – Mindset Tactics appeared first on Living Sensical.
3 minutes | Jul 23, 2021
A Horror Story Life Can Be Happily Ever After – Mindset Tactics
(Click here to download audio.) The Horror Story Called Life Can Have a Happy Ending Change Your Mindset, Change Your World There might be a light at the end of that tunnel which isn t an oncoming train. While this book has laid out the case for how destructive our world has become, it s worth reviewing again the simple observation: Overall, good wins out over bad, given enough time. And that has happened consistently over our various histories (regardless of how they ve been re-written.) The 5 percent keep winning in spite of the world around them. You d think that was impossible after all we ve gone over. But look at this carefully, again. Who builds the businesses which keep the 95% in their jobs – the 5%. Who organizes people to be taxed in order to provide the savings so that they can be taken care of in their retirement years? The 5%. (No we won t go into how the politicians in governments are constantly working to weaken that system. The broad results are that somehow, some way, people are cared for and have their safety net.) The trick to our believing is that for every bad use of a belief, there is also a good use. The same mind we use to destroy things works even better when it s used to create. Not too surprisingly, there is an observed phenomenon very similar to sports successes, where a person who creates a new artwork or writes a book or fixes a machine. When they are creating, they feel good (or at least, better.) And there are also people who have restored their own health by praying and meditating constantly for other’s improved health. The power of belief is a remarkable thing. It s based on your choices and your practices. Whatever you want can come true if you believe in it, and yourself, enough. Ready to turn your life around? Your free copy of Make Yourself Great Again can help you with that. Just Click Here for Your Instant Download. (And be sure to look for the bonuses in the back…) The post A Horror Story Life Can Be Happily Ever After – Mindset Tactics appeared first on Living Sensical.
5 minutes | Jul 16, 2021
Mindset Quote: “We Have Met The Enemy and They is Us.”
(Click here to download audio.) Mindset Quote: “We Have Met The Enemy and They is Us.” Walt Kelly had an excellent cartoon called Pogo, which had stinging commentary about the times. In one panel, he summed up where humanity s problems were coming from. As the lead character was polling his skiff across a polluted swamp, he said simply: We have met the enemy and they is us. This sums up all problems humankind has. We long went past the point where there were any environmental threats we couldn t solve. The United States has been exporting excess grain since around World War I, and has continued to improve production almost every year since. Famine is now created by governments, as more than sufficient aid is available to any nation that is suffering from a local drought. Only where the government itself is limiting food and trade does any starvation continue. (Again, compare North and South Korea.) Currently, peace is breaking out worldwide, as there are more areas which are peacefully existing than ever before. Crime and killings have been down-trending for decades in the U.S. One report points out that the number of fatalities due to terrorism is very small compared to the world-wide wars this planet has experienced. Commerce may be to blame for this. One study mentioned that no two countries with a MacDonald s franchise in them had ever gone to war. One economist pointed to the Dell factor of outsourced electronics manufacture and assembly as being key to peace across wide areas, as if any of these nations went to war, they would instantly lose those jobs and income. Russia tended to prove this out in their local conflicts on it s borders. Every time they exerted military efforts to resolve issues, investments dried up and their economy suffered. This is seen in local areas where the crime rate is high or spikes. Tourism to that city slumps. A local college had an extremist group protesting, which they gave in to instead of enforcing local ordinances about permits for protests, etc. For the next two years, enrollments dropped and millions in operating budget were lost. People want to be safe. They want laws enforced fairly. Money follows safety. To have peace, you need to have an equitable rule of law which keeps tourists and visitors safe. Otherwise, they ll stay home or go someplace else to spend their money. Safety and peace is established and held by the individuals within that country. It is up to individuals to make their local area safe for commerce. If the local area cannot create a peaceful, commerce-ready environment, then the remote areas will withhold their funds until it can be created and maintained. The doom-sayers tend to lose listeners. We ve covered this with the broadcast news media. They are making it unsafe through their reporting as they possibly can. It s what you believe that creates the world around you. Every device you have, any vehicle you drive, and even the very roads you travel on are the results of ideas. Individuals thought these ideas up. The companies that employed those people or bought those patents were also created by the ideas and actions of individuals. And whatever someone truly believes, they can achieve They can make any goal they want. They can be and have anything they ve ever dreamed of. They can have abundant life, health, income, everything they set their mind to. Or they can slog along until they can t work anymore and get a government paycheck and public housing that everyone else pays for. It s really a question of how much fun do you want to have in your life? How much success do you want to aim for? How routinely happy do you want to be? 95% choose to slog along. 5% choose success. Your life results consist of your choices and their results. Always has been, always will be. Ready to re-stack your mindset and change the world around you? Your guide-book on this is waiting: Make Yourself Great Again. Just Click Here for instant download. (And be sure to check the back pages for extra bonuses…) The post Mindset Quote: “We Have Met The Enemy and They is Us.” appeared first on Living Sensical.
5 minutes | Jul 9, 2021
How I Beat Cancer and What It Cost Me – Mindset Lessons
(Click here to download audio.) How I Beat Cancer and What It Cost Me – Mindset Lessons There was no your results are back, and you need to sit down. I d had a wart removed from my scalp, or that s what it felt like. And later on that year, a lump developed on that side of the head towards the back. A biopsy showed is was not benign, but a fairly vicious type of cancer which had every chance to grow quickly and take over. I had been in the cult for several years by that time and insisted on trying all their counseling techniques to cure it. Of course, the FDA would have had a cow if they had known. But, the other people and the doctors finally overruled me and persuaded me to have that operation. Sure it left scars. And it mostly worked. But you can t just get most of a cancer and achieve what they called a cure. As well, I d gotten some bad transfusions when they saved my life (I d pretty much replaced all the blood I had in me, as scalp surgery is a messy affair.) That wound me up with serum hepatitis. The weird part was that the cult then decided I was infectious (only if you drank my blood, basically) and so shipped me back to Missouri with a one-way ticket. (Oh, and I found out later they had burned any of my belongings I d left. Nice folks.) So I was back home again. The belief crisis wasn t internal this time, it was external. I hadn t lost trust in myself or the cult-beliefs, or the people I d been working with. So it wasn t a problem in losing faith, even though it was a severe test. I was really on my own again. People around me didn t know what to do, but helped anyway they could. Lots of good food, at least. And I started more treatment at the local University hospital and was able to drive myself to appointments with the farm pickup. Nice rural scenery most of the way, which was always pleasant. For self-help cults, the Syndicate had all sorts of various formulas and recipes to follow for this, that, and the other. Not too bad, actually, and it was what made their system tend to work in most cases. Because you could always turn to a certain little sequence of actions, out of some little handbook, that would help you find your way out of that scene. They had a formula which helped you decide, to choose between two alternatives. (Mostly Scientific Methodology again – comparing how two somethings worked, what were its results compared to the results of the other something.) Anyway, I liked taking my walks on the farm where it was quiet and I could think. Putting that formula to work came up with a completely unexpected answer: There was something I hadn t accomplished yet. Didn t know what it was, specifically, but I was certain that I had to get back to this. The local doctor overseeing me at the University hospital said he d never seen anything heal that quickly. It would still be some years before I could quit having to bandage my head, and the scars would stay. But the cancer never came back. The point was again my own beliefs in myself. Many years later I would find that a high-school friend of mine had died of cancer about the same time. She had stayed in Missouri. The last time I had talked with her was prom night – and she looked quite fetching. (Too bad she wasn t my date.) She said to me, You re going to make it. Meaning in life. Which seemed odd to me at the time, as I never considered that anyone couldn t make it, or even that someone just graduating high school would have doubts about their own success. But she d gotten into experimenting with drugs and that might have been a factor. I ll never know. The point is that our decisions and our beliefs led to different outcomes. I maintained my hope, by constantly studying the world around me against the results I expected to find. My friend had already lost hers, or was well on the way, even before she had a chance to start. Beliefs are powerful things. You beliefs affect your health – ready to re-stack them? Your copy is waiting – Make Yourself Great Again can help you with achieving your personal health goals. Just click here for instant download. (And be sure to check out the bonuses in the back…) The post How I Beat Cancer and What It Cost Me – Mindset Lessons appeared first on Living Sensical.
4 minutes | Jul 2, 2021
Mindset Vitals: Your Lack of Goals Can Sink Your Ship
(Click to download audio.) Your Lack of Goals Can Sink Your Ship Using Mindset re-Stacking for Goal Achievement If you owned a ship, would you simply set the engine running, cast off all lines, and then watch from the dock to see where it ended up? You and I can agree that the chances are slim for that ship to make it anywhere except the bottom of ocean – if it made it out of the harbor in one piece. Yet people won t set goals for their own lives. One report has this as little as 2% of the population has actual goals they are reaching for. But the chance of those few people actually making their goals is close to 100%. That s right – if you set a goal, you ll probably make it. Like if you guide that ship, you ll probably make it to your destination. Claude M. Bristol in his Magic of Believing had a sales force write down their goals and then not tell or show anyone what they had written. While some of the younger salespeople scoffed and even laughed out loud, the older salespeople nodded and wrote. Bristol reported that years later one of those young scoffers showed up at his home and wanted to show him something outside. There at the curb sat a brand-new, right-off-the-assembly-line, shiny car. The salesperson told Bristol that he wrote down a car just like it. Not only that, but he d written down a substantial income and a promotion. He got those as well. When Bristol did a check of all those salespeople, every single one attained their goal that they had written down. Now there are a couple of urban legend studies along this line, one by Harvard and another by Yale. Yet neither school had ever attempted that study. When Gail Matthews of Dominican University read that these studies were debunked as false, she did her own study. Those people who set goals, wrote them down, and shared accountability for them achieved what they had set out to do 76 percent of the time. (If you take into account that less than half of the participants actually completed the study itself, that percentage would then be much higher.) Bristol, Hill, and Nightingale all say to write your goal down on a card and review it at least twice a day (on waking and before sleep). Imagine if this skill were mandated to be taught in all schools in the country from an early age! Instead of the 2% having written goals, and the 5% who achieve financial independence, we could have most of that country experiencing their own native abundance. If they were taught to review their goal as often as they are asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, imagine how prosperous that country would be! Now you see how this world has set itself up. Our culture doesn t set itself up to succeed, it sets itself up to conform. Those who don t conform are criticized until they do (or they move away from the criticizers.) Our culture and society has been slowed down to the point that becoming an exceptional entrepreneur may be easier than having a job. You have a choice in this. What s your goals? Set any lately? Written them down? Ready to make your goals into reality? Your copy of Make Yourself Great Again can help you with goal selection and achievement. And your book waiting… Just Click Here for Instant download. (And be sure to check out the special bonuses inside at the back. The post Mindset Vitals: Your Lack of Goals Can Sink Your Ship appeared first on Living Sensical.
2 minutes | Jun 25, 2021
All Good Can Be Used for Bad – Mindset Cautions
(Click here to download audio.) All Good Can Be Used for Bad – Mindset Cautions As a key point worth repeating: Anything good can be used for bad. This deserves special mention. Eventually, those using anything for bad will die off. Those who are open-handedly helping others around them tend to live longer, more peaceful lives. In the meanwhile, we get to choose what we will be supporting in our lives. If you live and work around critical people, you can almost guarantee their attitudes will rub off on you, unless you take precautions. If you live and work around positive people, you can expect to find more good, profitable ideas that you can put into use. The punchline is simple: as you believe, you succeed. The post All Good Can Be Used for Bad – Mindset Cautions appeared first on Living Sensical.
6 minutes | Jun 19, 2021
Mindset Tactics: Can Faith Create the World You Want?
(Click to download audio.) Can Faith Create the World You Want? That William James concept above has more mileage than it first appears. Let’s define faith: The conviction that something is good and true. According to Nap Hill’s Think and Grow Rich Chapter 3 on Faith, it is a form of self-created energy which can be strengthened by the use of affirmations (auto-suggestion.) As mentioned earlier, your own abilities are unlimited in scope. They are defined only by your own acceptance of ideas you receive from others. Practically, then, you can have unlimited faith as well. We’ve just seen the story of Opal Whiteley. Her faith got her treated as royalty in Europe, while doubters stateside were hanging her in effigy as a fake. But if you look over the available references, you can see where a family friend related that Opal’s mother had told her more than once that Opal actually had been adopted. As mentioned, people will re-create their past to align with their belief-system. Stories told of a person’s life will be altered by the teller to suit the type of rose-colored glasses they are using to view their own history through. And History, as Voltaire reputedly said, is the Mississippi of lies. Certainly, politicians (especially in the example of FDR and later U.S. Presidents) have revised the legacy of their predecessor as being the single cause (blame) for any current problem they are trying to solve for their constituents. Historians with their own ax to grind will interpret facts to fit their presupposed idea of how things actually occurred. And they are rewarded for books which come up with a new and noteworthy approach to what actually happened, much as fiction writers are able to achieve with alternate universes. A person’s conviction can also be shattered when the idea they had held onto was proved to be a lie. This is how apostates are death to cults, since they can give inside information which further dissolves the facts surrounding that cult. All effectively sinking any positive promotion that cult has been running to achieve good relations with the surrounding community. This is still the same idea that the use of faith can influence the facts themselves. An unfair shorthand would say that faith creates facts. We only have an authority in William James idea that …faith in a fact can help create the fact. (Again, the idea of anyone being an authority is just your own hint to test this for yourself.) And look at that idea that facts can be replaced with other versions, as any rumor repeated often enough becomes fact. There is a relation between faith and belief. Faith plus any idea creates belief. But broader, you can find a system that is usable to help generate your own world. The elements are: Faith, Thought, Feeling, Action. Faith and thought affect belief. Thought can come from inspiration based on feeling. Faith is increased by feeling, especially positive attitudes. Feeling for something can be increased by action (again goes back to William James, but see also The Secret DVD.) The whole system could be labeled Vision, giving you a tool you can use to increase the strength of your vision of what you want to accomplish as far as goals. If you plug in releasing into this (particularly that Chapter 3 of Catherine Ponder’s Dynamic Laws of Prosperity on creating a vacuum) then you can start seeing things shift around you in nearly miraculous ways. All that really happens can be explained by any number of books which mention the Law of Attraction and going back to the ancient Polynesian Kahunas, who were able to bring the dead back to life and walk on lava without burning their bodies. Again do not accept this without testing. I’ve given you the references to look up. But set up and run your own tests in real life. If this works for you, then you can have a fast route to having and being whatever you really want in this world. It will depend on your faith, your beliefs, and your actions. What do you believe in with all your heart? Is it time to look these over? The post Mindset Tactics: Can Faith Create the World You Want? appeared first on Living Sensical.
8 minutes | Jun 11, 2021
The Mindset Tragedy of Opal Whiteley – Faith Before a Fall?
(Click here to download audio.) The Mindset Tragedy of Opal Whiteley – Faith Before a Fall? The unique story of Opal Whiteley can give us all hope, or give us all warning. Raised in logging camps in poor surroundings, Opal was a self-trained naturalist whose playmates were the trees and wild animals of the forests she lived in. She also kept a diary of her life, on various scraps and pieces of paper. She believed she was a daughter of regal birth and given to the Whiteleys to raise as their adopted daughter. When old enough to make a living on her own, she lectured and authored, and had published a couple of books on the nature she knew. Saving up enough to visit publishers in New York City, she met the publisher of the Atlantic Monthly. While he wasn t interested in her latest naturalist book and the paste-up she offered, he was more fascinated by the story of her life and the diary she had kept. Ultimately, that publisher revealed this to the world through articles in his periodical as well as a book in its own right. The book s refreshing style made it a bestseller, ranking only behind Sinclair Lewis Main Street. Unfortunately, critical reviews soon claimed her book a hoax. They hounded Opal and her family until her remaining relatives had moved and changed their name, the book was out of print, and Opal had left the country. She had traveled to Europe, where she was welcomed by the mother of Henri d-Orle ans in France. Then traveling to India, she lived for a time as the guest of the Maharana of Udaipur. Yet there is all sorts of psychobabble, even among her supporters, as to why she believed differently than the others around her. The point is that she believed. And her beliefs were strong enough to send her to Europe and India where she was entertained as a princess. I have seen people change their beliefs about their pasts and change their memories to suit their current belief systems. I ve seen fear change a person from a carefree and joyous person into a sour, tight-faced individual, just by continued association with bullies. If one believes themselves differently, it s much to us like Thoreau s different drummer. As beliefs can change the past, and they form the future, they can logically create facts in the present day. I would challenge you to read up on Opal and her story for yourself. Again, Bristol uses her as an example of William James idea that …faith in a fact can help create the fact. An intriguing (and fair) review of her life and work is found in The Fantastic Tale of Opal Whiteley by Steve McQuiddy (link in Appendix). As well, consider the radio program by KBOO also linked there. You can also find other references via Internet search. The warning of this tragedy is the abuse that the media (in true Bucket Crab style) can heap on people who are different and exceptional. Opal apparently had no real defense against these, and wound up her life as a ward of England in a old-age home there. Her childhood and youth has become a wonder of the local historical societies, due to her uncanny genius at the natural sciences. Not only were the admission rules changed to allow her entry in to college (she had never attended high school or finished her high school credits) but the students and teachers were in awe about her. The University’s head of Geology said that her beginning knowledge of that subject was greater than the students who had graduated with a major in it. Yet even today, to mention her name is to start up the controversy all over. What is remarkable is the simple story McQuiddy relates of her schooling. It seems that while an avid reader, and years beyond her age in schooling, she would also at times be found looking off into space, quiet, contemplative. Like the stories of young Bill Gates growing up, and also Dr. Elmer Gates as Napoleon Hill describes in Think and Grow Rich. (As well, this isn t an uncommon routine to some meditation practices.) If this idea of faith-creating-facts is accurate, then it turns the vast bulk of what we ve been taught on its head, excepting our oldest philosophic texts. And of course, that means the idea falls right into the core idea of this book, that 95% of what we ve been taught won t prove to be workable. This also indicates how mobs are created, and how repeating a datum often enough makes it fact. Enough people believe it, it becomes true. What an individual believes creates the life around them. It is only when people believe things that seem to threaten others (or their beliefs) that the attacks begin. James idea points to the probable existence of a far more powerful natural system based on belief and natural principles. Such a system can be accessed by anyone at any time – if they know how to look, how to think, and how to take action on what they find. The lesson, then: Believe what you want, create the world the way you want it. But expect little support from the culture around you. We ve mentioned here and there how you can build defenses in order to live the life you choose. Bristol talks about drawing a white circle about you, that he heard from a Fire Department Station Chief. Levenson tells how to use releasing to eliminate being affected by enforced approval, control, or security issues. Studying Huna books will bring even more ideas of how to protect yourself from negative influences. You can expect social media to turn on you with typical trolling. And being frank and honest will try even your most staunch friendships, if your beliefs threaten theirs. History has uncounted records of mobs turning mystics into martyrs. Sad, but true. The mainstream media of her day seems to have done the same to Opal Whiteley. Humankind hasn t changed much over the 10,000 years of our own recorded history. That s why marketing is so easy to learn these days. The old handbooks still work. It doesn t mean you can t think or believe differently. Our current world (particularly in the U.S. where we have more agreement and support for individual expression) appears to support the oddest among us better than ever before. But there is this warning that you might be pilloried if you are considered a threat to other s belief-systems. After all, most of theirs are are built on sand, with bombs underneath. It s understandable that they are a bit touchy when you question those beliefs. If you yourself are bomb-proof, and you are ready to let the attacks simply pass you by, then your world-view is secure. Of course you simply may take the more pragmatic approach of not stirring up the hornet s nest by poking it unnecessarily. Your choice. As always. As usual. Ready to turn your life into a miracle? What can help you is to pick up your copy of Make Yourself Great Again. All you have to do is click here and get your instant download. (And check out the back of the book for the bonuses…) The post The Mindset Tragedy of Opal Whiteley – Faith Before a Fall? appeared first on Living Sensical.
5 minutes | Jun 5, 2021
Does Faith Create Miracles by Thought Alone? Mindset Tricks
(Click to download audio.) Does Faith Create Miracles by Thought Alone? This may be the most incredible part to tell you about. In fact, though I ve read or listened to these books at least a dozen times each (many more for some) this one datum I glossed over completely until I started writing the short biographic sketches of each author. Let s cut to the chase: There is evidence that belief will create the fact if it doesn t exist. Again: Believe something, and it will come into existence. No, I m not kidding. William James first pointed the idea out, as published in his lecture called The Will to Believe in 1847. James point was mentioned in Claude M. Bristol s Magic of Believing, and he gave several examples of it. However, if you re not looking for something, you may never find it. The trick is to re-learn how to look, as I ve covered earlier. I only bring this up to you now that we are into the heaviest part of this book. Hopefully I ve chased off the lookie-loo s who are skeptical of everyone and everything. Because this particular datum, if you believe it to be true, can change your world literally beyond your wildest dreams. It also explains many things that our best Science boys have not been able to figure out. Bristol said this short statement in his book: William James, father of modern psychology in America, declared that often our faith in advance of a doubtful undertaking is the only thing that can assure its successful conclusion. Man’s faith, according to James, acts on the powers above him as a claim and creates its own verification. In other words, the thought becomes literally father to the fact. For further illumination of faith and its power, I suggest that you read the General Epistle of James in the New Testament. This is the point, after a form, that Earl Nightingale was making with his Strangest Secret recording. His phrase became, We become what we think about. Of course, that simply doesn t have the power of the first statements, but his recording and transcripts of it continue to sell well, as the truth is there to read and hear. If you trace this idea back earlier and earlier, the statements become more powerful. And more easily rejected. The oldest statement of this can be found in the Polynesian language itself. The way they taught their culture in the time before written books was to have the meanings in the words they used to describe things and ideas. While Serge Kahili King listed this as one of the the seven principles in his books, Tad James also got this same definition from Daddy Bray, a respected Kahuna who lived in the Hawaiian Islands: Ike (Ee-Kay) – The world is what you think it is. Of course, you can immediately jump into all sorts of ideas about that meaning. What you are reading now has to do with whether this ties into William James idea or not. In Bristol s earlier work, TNT: It Rocks the Earth, he had a phrase that came to him and he used often: I know it. I believe it, and it is so. Literally this means that your thoughts cause that belief to exist. Otherwise, it s just a nice affirmation. I m not going to force you to believe this, only to present it as something for consideration. If true, this means you can have any success in life you want, only limited by your own thoughts and beliefs. All we ve covered here about Bucket Crabs, and Golden Rule, and Cosmic Habitforce, then take on a completely new meaning. As well, the classic point which is also found through our philosophies, that you should always consider goals as already accomplished, already achieved. This James datum explains how that works. Of course, you also see how potentially dangerous this is – if you believe it to be dangerous. For what you believe occurs. If you disagree with what is manifesting in the universe around you, change your beliefs. As usual, I tell you here and now to test everything for yourself, especially if it’s from me. It isn t true unless you can prove it to be true for yourself. Unless you only have to believe it to make it happen The post Does Faith Create Miracles by Thought Alone? Mindset Tricks appeared first on Living Sensical.
6 minutes | May 28, 2021
Cause and Effect: The Self-Policing Law for Mindset Stacks
(Click to download this audio.) Cause and Effect: The Self-Policing, Universal Law There is one law in this universe which cannot be broken as it s self-policing. Whatever you do to others will be done to you. Some people know this as the Golden Rule, and have memorized, Love your neighbor as yourself. But most don t figure out that this has to do with every single action they take, not just being charitable on Sundays into the offering plate. Savvy business people see another version of this, where a person succeeds to the degree his product or service is valuable. This is simply Cause and Effect. Put out a good product that helps people improve their lives, tell them how to get it, and then let them exchange for it. When it works well for them, they ll tell people they know, who in turn will try to find that product to solve their own version of that same problem. These same people know that if they aren t getting the sales they expect, then they need to look over their product and how they are promoting it. If the product is good, and people can find out how to get it, and if they are allowed to exchange for it, then you ll get sales. You can also give away very valuable material and get a substantial return. Try smiling at everyone you see. Keep this up for several weeks and soon people will start smiling at you as soon as they see you – before you see them. Similarly, the critical are usually surrounded by critical people. And here s the warning about this: Acting for good will improve things around you and allow others to help you improve your own life. You can have all the riches, good health, and great relationships that you can dream of. Acting for bad doesn t work exactly the same way. People who are destructive to others are also self-destructive. Their life, family, and friendships implode. While they may temporarily get their way, the Golden Rule will catch up with them inevitably, and they ll wind up sick, broke, and alone. This could be overall why the human culture tends to improve as they go along. It also indicates how people with excess income tend to give it away if they don t have a use for it. This is why many multi-millionaires have become philanthropists in their elder years. If Good and Bad were equally balanced on this earth, there would never have been any progress. Any study of history shows that despite government-generated wars and strife and starvation, humankind on it s own is on a steady upward trend of improving technological advance, higher disposable income per family, and better health overall. Sure, we ve done our boneheaded actions with pollution and creating deserts where there were once lush landscapes. What we see now, with our more accurate hindsight, is that humankind will correct these and influence those around them to do the same. You also see that ideas such as personal responsibility, freedom, and human rights are spreading across the globe and being adopted gradually in all lands. This isn t a government action. Factually, even a representative government where people honestly and factually elect their own leaders can t be forced on any nation. Old habits die hard, as has been said. How people think is supported on all sides by the people around them. Freedom tends to spread by commerce, where people meet to exchange goods and services for the various commodities called money. The better the rule of law, the more commerces is protected, and the more prosperous people in general become. You ve seen now how and why this occurs. This also points out that the most effective way to promote personal rights, responsibility, and freedom on this planet is to do it by peaceful interchange. What fails is to support violence in any form. Violence can temporarily spread as a habitual approach to living, but is destructive and will kill itself off. We are seeing this with terrorism. Their actual effects are few, and they are being hunted globally. We also see this in our national news media that concentrate on broadcasting violent tragedies. Recent reports show mainstream media outlets have been losing viewers for years and surveys show that trust is at an all-time low, about the same as Congress. What we know about this is that the value they are giving isn t as much as what s wanted. In buying into the urge to spread violence, they are being self-destructive. The result is a worsened bottom line. In our days of Internet choice, people are moving to other venues to get their data. If these media outlets want to reverse this trend, they need to get in touch with actual viewers/readers/listeners, then find out, and actually give them more than what they want in extremely valuable content. And they have to do this consistently over time. The apparent trend for our main-scream media is to implode slowly. All media other than Internet-based versions are losing viewers and users every year. Those media which can be easily and quickly chosen ebb and flow, but generally tend to increase over time as people are not stuck into a single channel or sets of material, but are able to change at will. Eventually, the media routes which enable very high-quality content will replace the others. Until then, you have to ask yourself if this is worth your time reading, viewing, and listening to enforced content. Will this give you positive habits that will improve your life, or will their programs only keep you upset and critical? Ready to stack a better mindset? Your copy of Make Yourself Great Again is waiting. Click here for instant download. (And be sure to check the back of the book for bonuses…) The post Cause and Effect: The Self-Policing Law for Mindset Stacks appeared first on Living Sensical.
7 minutes | May 20, 2021
Your Mindset Stack: Who’s Behind the Mask?
(Click here to download audio.) Your Mindset Stack: Who’s Behind the Mask? The wildest breakthrough I made in researching this area has got to be this: There is a very powerful enemy that people call up in order to justify their actions. Particularly their mistakes, doubts, and fears. This enemy allows them to get away with their failures. I found it in a book on copy editing called The Story Grid by long-time editor Shawn Coyne. In that book he said there were three story plots to any story: A) The Arch-Plot (which is the main set of changes within the story) B) The Mini-Plot (which is usually the character s changes) C) The Anti-Plot That Anti-Plot is the interesting one, and Coyne doesn t hardly talk about it. Essentially, this is all the times that everything went to hell in a hand-basket. The whole thing blows up and there s nothing you can do, since it doesn t run on cause and effect at all, just unexplainable coincidence. Very avant-garde and modernist. Only problem is, that whole idea is invented. Avant-garde got started really after World War I, and is essentially an overwhelmed response to world events. Kinda like a civilian PTSD. Modernism started later and took over from there. None of the artwork created in these styles or their variants really makes sense. Some of them are great to look at. (Except for the pages and pages of accompanying description which are required to explain the meaning of the work ) Modern art only really sells in cities. Big cities. Elsewhere, people like Kincaid paintings of landscapes or Goya nudes. Stuff they can instantly relate to. And you can see there s something here when you have masses of people together, much like the crabs in a bucket metaphor. The alternative and solvent for the Avant-Garde anti-plot also runs on something more powerful and Science hates it as well. It s called Belief. W. Clement Stone is known for spreading the idea of a Positive Mental Attitude. And this sorts out any overwhelmed idea people might have going on. Way before him, a philosopher called Jesus brought some other ideas into view which put a new spin on the Old Testament. He redefined the top law of the Bible as love your neighbor as yourself. Before this, it had been an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Now the whole world could be viewed through the idea of pro-active love. (Helluva paradigm shift. Got him martyred for it.) We ve covered this scene with 95% of the world (at least in our Western Culture) trying to keep everything the same by criticizing anything and anyone who tries to change it. Mostly, if you get right down to it, their biggest fear is their lack of security if everything blew up on them. They are stuck solidly in proving everything by cause and effect. (What they don t realize is that they create their own security through their choices and personal faith.) Going back to the oldest known surviving philosophy, known today as the Polynesian Huna , you ll find they had four ways to analyze or study anything: Objective (What just happened?) Subjective (How did this affect me?) Symbolic (What does this mean?) and Holistic (How does this fit in with everything else?) Our Science is then only using about one-fourth of all the possible ways to analyze anything. Some sciences like various psychologies have dealt tangentially in the symbolic or subjective, but only from a cause and effect viewpoint usually. Jung s archetypes started being more broadly useful after Joseph Campbell pointed out how they fit into explaining all of our popular legends and myths, and then Chris Vogler pointed out to Disney execs how Campbell s Hero s Journey (Monomyth) could be used to tell some great stories that would result in high box-office receipts. (See Appendix for their books.) Science is great stuff and we have a lot of technology around us that makes our lives easier. But in order to study Nature, you have to find out how things work together in systems – holistically. Our modern science boys have figured out how to grow crops on sand. Which is a good thing, as they haven t figured out how to restore the land or even improve it while they are raising their crops. Some non-conventional farmers have, but since they aren t backed by big corporations which can fund university research, this data isn t widely known. The same is true for what makes successful people. Napoleon Hill accepted a commission from Andrew Carnegie to develop a practical philosophy of achievement that anyone could apply. And Hill spent his whole life working this forward as much as he could. Probably no other single self-help book (other than the Bible itself) has influenced more people to be successful. James Buchanan Jones took Hill s work to the next level after he had been speaking about the Hill philosophy for many years, as well as reading on his own from other works. In just four years, he created a multi-million dollar firm which sold their products nationwide. He had both a radio and TV show, and a bestselling book as well. All of these were simply tests of the ideas he had evolved from Hill. His main point was to practice already having achieved whatever you wanted to be or have and then it would show up. You had to believe to succeed. The more you believed, the faster you succeeded. The point is what you believe in and how strongly you believe. If you believe in the Boogie-Monster, or Avant-Garde anti-plots running your life, then they will be as real as anything else. If you believe in your own ideas and ideals, then these will become more powerful than the universe around you. The problem is that the world is stacked against you. Only 5% might be rooting for you if they know you exist at all. Perhaps the Avant-garde/Anti-Plot is a real monster after all To find your own inner hero-plot, try picking up your own copy of Make Yourself Great Again. Yours is waiting for you. Click here for instant download. (And do check out the bonuses in the back…) The post Your Mindset Stack: Who’s Behind the Mask? appeared first on Living Sensical.
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