Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Contribution before Achievement by Timothy Kendrick
I sure don't know where Zig Ziglar came up with the slogan “you can get whatever you want in this life as long as you help enough other people get what they want".
I will tell you this is one of the truest statements man has ever spoken.
I blew many opportunities for success early on in my life because of my self centered and selfish ways.
It was all about me. I was young talented (the gutters are full of talented people, trust me on this one) and wanted what I wanted when I wanted it.
This does not work!
I learned why later on. The secret ingredient is contribution.
Every successful person I ever spoke to had the same message to me. It was right in front of me the whole time. Each individual in his or her own way was a giver first and a receiver second.
It was never winner takes all, it was Win-Win or the deal was not done.
Steven Covey brought this to light in his book 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.
A day late and a dollar short for me at that time but the past does not equal the future so I persisted without exception and continued to learn.
Contribution + Achievement = Fulfillment
When I contribute to my fellow man by doing the next right thing, success is inevitable
When it is all about me and I force the square peg in the round hole I get Zip, Zero, Nothing.
The only place success precedes work...is in the dictionary. I say this because we must continually work on our communication skills, belief and value systems. In other words ourselves
Treating people with honesty and integrity creates win-win situations.
When I do the above I have more success, passion and abundance than I ever imagined
What is your mission statement? Write this down. When you write it on a piece of paper it burns into your subconscious.
If your life is not congruent with your mission statement what is one thing you could do at this very moment to create change. Write this down also.
Remember what you give you get to keep and trust me it is more than you can ever imagine.
About The Author:
Timothy Kendrick is a retired U.S. Army veteran who served in Panama, Somalia, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and various other places in the world. His last duty was in Iraq with the Department of Defense. He has spent years researching how to deal with his emotional disorders related to being in combat zones.
Timothy became an author by accident. In trying to heal himself he was drawn to help others. Timothy’s first book PTSD: Pathways Through the Secret Door is widely used throughout the Veterans Administration to help returning veterans cope with the emotional scars of war. Timothy currently lives in Tampa Florida with his wife Brenda
Buy Timothy's new book Wide Asleep Slumber No More Available online and bookstores everywhere. Purchase the book and receive the mp3 audio download for free! This book will dehypnotise you from your false beliefs and perceptions that you have carried with you from your past
I will tell you this is one of the truest statements man has ever spoken.
I blew many opportunities for success early on in my life because of my self centered and selfish ways.
It was all about me. I was young talented (the gutters are full of talented people, trust me on this one) and wanted what I wanted when I wanted it.
This does not work!
I learned why later on. The secret ingredient is contribution.
Every successful person I ever spoke to had the same message to me. It was right in front of me the whole time. Each individual in his or her own way was a giver first and a receiver second.
It was never winner takes all, it was Win-Win or the deal was not done.
Steven Covey brought this to light in his book 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.
A day late and a dollar short for me at that time but the past does not equal the future so I persisted without exception and continued to learn.
Contribution + Achievement = Fulfillment
When I contribute to my fellow man by doing the next right thing, success is inevitable
When it is all about me and I force the square peg in the round hole I get Zip, Zero, Nothing.
The only place success precedes work...is in the dictionary. I say this because we must continually work on our communication skills, belief and value systems. In other words ourselves
Treating people with honesty and integrity creates win-win situations.
When I do the above I have more success, passion and abundance than I ever imagined
What is your mission statement? Write this down. When you write it on a piece of paper it burns into your subconscious.
If your life is not congruent with your mission statement what is one thing you could do at this very moment to create change. Write this down also.
Remember what you give you get to keep and trust me it is more than you can ever imagine.
About The Author:
Timothy Kendrick is a retired U.S. Army veteran who served in Panama, Somalia, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and various other places in the world. His last duty was in Iraq with the Department of Defense. He has spent years researching how to deal with his emotional disorders related to being in combat zones.
Timothy became an author by accident. In trying to heal himself he was drawn to help others. Timothy’s first book PTSD: Pathways Through the Secret Door is widely used throughout the Veterans Administration to help returning veterans cope with the emotional scars of war. Timothy currently lives in Tampa Florida with his wife Brenda
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The 8 States of Consciousness
Waking, dreaming and sleeping. But only by spending time in silence, stillness, or meditation do we experience a fourth state of consciousness where we start to glimpse our soul. When we glimpse our soul, we become a little more intuitive. We start to feel that things are not just what they seem to be; there is something more behind the scenes.
The physical world we normally experience is a shadow of the real world. The real world, the world of spirit, exists behind a veil, and the veil is our own conditioning. In truth, we are not bound by the world of space, time, matter, and causation, but the veil prevents us from seeing this truth. It also prevents us from living in power, freedom, and grace.
In the fourth state of consciousness, we begin to sense the deeper reality that is orchestrating the physical world, and there is a tearing in the veil that separates the physical and spiritual realms. Just as we have to wake up from the dream state to experience waking consciousness, we have to wake up from what we call waking consciousness to glimpse our spirit, our inner self. This is called glimpsing the soul, and it’s the fourth state of consciousness. It’s simply to be in touch with our soul.
This leads to the fifth state of consciousness, or cosmic consciousness, when our soul fully wakes up in waking, dreaming, and sleeping. Our body can be fast asleep, but our soul, the silent witness, is watching the body in deep sleep. Our body can be walking, and the silent witness is watching the body walk. Our awareness is localized in space time, and it’s non-local, or transcendent, at the same time.
If we don’t interfere with nature’s intelligence, then we start to awaken into the sixth state of consciousness, divine consciousness. In divine consciousness, we see and feel the presence of spirit in everything. When we wake up in divine consciousness, we don’t just see a leaf, or a table, or a cloud, or a rainbow; we see the whole universe being all these things.
Next, we waken to the seventh state of consciousness, which is unity consciousness. This is when the spirit inside us, which is now fully awake, merges with the spirit inside objects, which are also now fully awake. The universe is conscious, and because it is conscious, it is conscious of itself. So the eighth state of consciousness, infinite consciousness, is its own observer. The observer is the discontinuity, the gap, the off.
Adapted from Power, Freedom, and Grace, by Deepak Chopra (Amber Allen, 2006).
WHAT IS CONSCIOUS LIVING?
The Art of Conscious Living is about taking the time for yourself to think about and choose the life you want. It is about understanding and changing any negative thoughts, patterns and behaviours we may have. It is about raising self awareness, becoming aware of our thoughts and words, choosing them consciously and carefully, taking back our power. By taking the time to examine our lives, our own needs, and our behaviours we are not only much more likely to achieve the things we seek but also really learn from our past successes and mistakes. In this way, we take back our power and our lives, you are in charge, not your subconscious. But even more importantly, as you live consciously, you are now learning, and can modify old beliefs with your new adult experiences. This means that your automatic responses, which you will always have to rely on for those sudden and immediate responses will now respond along the lines of the person you are today.
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