Here's a long piece.
Hope it inspires you guys out there. It did, for me 
Be Realistic: Create a Miracle!
By Harald Anderson, Copyright 2004
What is it that you really want in your life?
Money? Status? Success? A Prosperous Business? A Loving
Relationship?
Now let me ask you a super blunt question: Why dont you have it
yet?
A few months ago I attended a seminar. One of the speakers began
his
presentation with what I initially considered a very
confrontational
remark. He paused very dramatically and bellowed
What lies do you
keep
telling yourself? Although the room fell deafly silent, we all
knew
that his question truly touched a nerve. That question has echoed
in the
hollows of my mind ever since.
What lies do you keep telling yourself?
Youre calling me a liar? All the lies? How much time do you
have?
Thats not a lie, thats the truth! The responses that were
firing up
to that question were racing through my mind at the speed of
light.
In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons. If you are not
getting the
results you want, your reasons are the lies that you keep
telling
yourself. You can try to argue with that statement but its
kind of like
wrestling with the wind, it will keep you real busy but you really
wont
get anywhere. Lies create the idea that we are powerless to make
things
any different than the way they are.
I hate to admit it but we are all liars. We love our reasons and
will go
to extreme lengths to hold onto them. After all, our reasons are
our
stories, which define us. Those experiences made us who we are
today!
Its just the way things are
..
Results or reasons. Which do you have more of? If you answered
reasons,
its time to analyze the lies. I speak from experience. I spent the
first
thirty years of my life studying what I should believe in. Studied
all
the great reasons. Read all the great philosophers, not once did
anybody
ask me
..What is it that you want to experience with all these
ideas?
So I got a little top heavy on reasons and a little short on
results.
The problem with having so many reasons is that eventually
these reasons
create a logic of limitations. They are like a virus that
creates a
story that runs in the background of your minds hard drive.
Whenever we
see something that we want to create, the first thing we bump into
is
these beliefs (reasons) that have shaped our experience thus far.
And so
the battle ensues.
Possibilities vs. Limitations.
The Grudge Match.
It's like a counterproductive stealth message has been implanted in
your
mind, You never seem to really win at anything, so dont expect
much
here!" This message brought to you by your sponsor, limiting lives
is
what we do!
We all search for meaning in life. However sometimes life is
meaningless. It just is.The critical moments that shape our lives
are
when we define our experience and declare
.what this means is
(fill in
the blank). If the statement that we make at this crucial moment,
in
filling in the blank, even mildly disempowers us, we empower the
logic
of limitations to control our perspective from that moment
forward.
Dont believe me? Here are some famous examples for you to try on
for
size:
Oprah Winfrey was fired from one of her first jobs as a
television
reporter and told that She wasnt fit for TV. How do you think
she
defined that moment? After his first performance on the Grand Ole
Opry,
Elvis Presley was banned from returning and told, You aint
going
nowhere son! At that crucial moment do you think the King of
Rock
created a message of possibility or limitation?
Life just is. Sometimes when we look for meaning we might want
to
remember that.
Whats your story?
Have you ever been fired, rejected, heartbroken, mistreated,
insulted?
How did you define the moment? I only ask, because that
agreement has
shaped your reality. Be Careful What You Agree With! The Results
Can Be
Lethal.
Now what did you say you really wanted in your life?
Listen carefully and youll hear those reasons whispering their
logic of
limitations! Its no big deal if you hear the stories from time
to
time. The question is what are you going to do about it?
Mark Twain once commented that life does not consist, mainly or
even
largely of facts or happenings. It consists mainly of the stream
of
thought forever flowing through ones head. Our REASONS create
our
definitions and create the energy of our life. Change our
definitions
and you change your experience. Change your meanings you alter
your
destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever
we
expect. Life just is. The meaning that we attach to the events of
our
life defines our experience and creates the thoughts that allow us
to
create abundance or limitation.
When I was a kid I absolutely loved to read the cartoons and comics
in
the back of the newspaper. They made me laugh with glee. Now
those
cartoons were essentially a picture being defined by a clever or
witty
caption. One day I got the bright idea that I was going to change
the
captions on those cartoons and see if I could make them funnier.
Isnt
life the same way? Your pictures are your experiences. Your
captions are
your beliefs. Do you have the courage to change your own captions?
Its
your life after all. The only limitation we possess is the idea
that
there are limitations. Did you write your own captions or did you
allow
someone else to write them for you?
We all have a huge investment in what we have come to know.
However,
sometimes what we know has nothing to do with what we need to know
to be
successful. Sometimes what we know has nothing to do with what we
need
to know to be happy! To change all of that you need to locate
your
limiting beliefs and say goodbye to them. Change the captions of
your
life. Reasons or Results.
Marilyn Voss Savant writes a weekly column for Parade magazine. She
is
acclaimed as the person with the highest IQ on record. When she
was
asked by one of her readers about life, she responded with
Feeling is
what you get for thinking the way you do! True poetry. To that I
would
simply add, be careful what you agree with itll mess up your
focus.
Consider this for a second: How many beliefs were you born with?
How
many beliefs do you have today? Along the way you have acquired a
lot of
baggage that is weighing you down. The problem most of us run into
is
that we believe in things that are just not so, but we lead our
lives
in alignment with those lousy definitions and experiences to make
them
so. It might be BELIEF-ECTOMY time.
One of the central tenets of the personal development movement is
that
we become whatever we focus upon most. Fifty years ago Earl
Nightingale
published his bestseller The Strangest Secret and made us realize
that
our focus creates our destiny. Web poet, adventurer and philosopher
Mike
Dooley of www.tut.com has eloquently modernized and improved upon
this
statement when he states, Thoughts Become Things. Choose
the Good
Ones! Most people dont get what they really want because
their focus
is fuzzy at best. Do you really know what you are focused on?
Before you
answer that question too quickly recognize that your focus has
been
responsible for creating your life up until this point. Your
agreements
shape your reality
. so be careful what you agree
with.
So what is it that you really want? My advice is simple. Be Careful
What
You Agree With and Then Focus, Focus, Refocus and Refocus some
more. And
when you think you are through focusing, focus again. You wouldnt
drive
to your destination fixated on the rear view mirror! Reasons or
Results.
Be Realistic: Create A Miracle!
