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The Meaning Was Suddenly Clear To Me….

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Only some of you will understand the example I’m going to give but you all should understand that if you are patient enough, clarity will come to you – and it may come in the most unexpected ways. If we continue to question things, everything gets muddied and we can’t see a clear picture. But if we just have faith that everything is developing as it should, the meaning will come to you eventually.

Here’s what happened. People in the U.S. will know the TV show “House”. At the end of that show just before (or maybe after) the credits, there’s an animation of two guys sitting on the beach and the one says “That’s some bad hat Harry”. The meaning behind that has been an enigma to me since I first started watching the show.

Today I was looking around on the TV and found that “Jaws” was on – you know how old that show is but it’s always been a favorite of mine. It had already started but I tuned in anyway. Just at the point I tuned in guess what happened. The Chief of Police was sitting on the beach with some guy and the first first words I heard were “That’s some bad hat Harry” and the guy with the bad hat had a hat exactly like the cartoon one. Obviously the creators of House really liked Jaws and that expression.

It was such an epiphany for me (as stupid as that sounds) but it showed me clarity and that if I wait for that clarity it will come. How odd was this day for me? It sounds so petty but it showed me so much about my life and my faith.  What’s the probability that I would find the answer to a question that has been perplexing me for so long on a Sunday morning in a very old movie? Pretty small.

Don’t question things and doubt them for long periods of time. Know that you’ll get an answer if you just let it go and sit back and wait for it.

Terrie

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More on The Art of Self-Motivation

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The Art of Self-Motivation
Napoleon Hill

The greatest power we human beings have is the power to chose. But to choose, we must make a decision. Decisions are sometimes painful and often difficult. We have inherited instincts, emotions, feelings and tendencies. We develop moods habits and impulses. Even the most logical of us does not act from reason alone. We act on emotions and feelings as well as logic.

One very special thing about us is that we can use both reason and emotion to motivate ourselves at will. But to do so requires a leap of faith. We have to accept as fact that there are powers known and unknown that we can use to our advantage – forces that motivate us.

Motivation is simply defined as that which induces action or determines choice. It is that which provides a motive. Your motives are the inner urges that are yours alone. They are the things within you that incite you to action such as an idea, emotion, desire or impulse. It is the hope or other force which starts you in action in an attempt to produce specific results.

We have complex and often conflicting emotions, but successful people are those who learn to manage them. They overcome a natural tendency to fail by motivating themselves to do something unnatural – to succeed!

If you understand how motivation works in yourself you can go along way toward understanding others. When you can determine what motivates someone else, you will be a better manager because you can inspire your employees to set and reach higher and higher goals.  You will also be a better parent because you will be better equipped to help your children realize their potential, and if you understand what motivates a prospective buyer, you can sell him or her your ideas, your products, or your services. 

From: Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion

I imagine you can use anything you can get your hands on about self-motivation in December.

Terrie

 

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Is It Selfish?

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Here’s as segment from one of Anne’s lessons:

“Another of Emmet Fox’s stories is entitled “Is It Selfish”.

I think that’s a question people ask frequently, is it selfish to
pray for yourself?
 
I teach everybody, pray for yourself first.

The quote that I love the most from a man named John Rankin who was a minister,
and I heard this on a tape many years ago, “A perfect light going through a
perfect wire cannot make a perfect shining ray through a dirty light bulb.”
If you think about that, you realize that we have to make ourselves that clear
light bulb.

We have to get rid of anything that’s frustrating us or bothering us or
irritating us in order to be able to help other people.

If we pray for ourselves first, we’re going to clear out our lives.

Our lives are going to become better because that’s how you pray for yourself

You pray for health, you pray for happiness, you pray for clarity in
whatever you’re doing, you pray for inspiration, you pray for harmony, you pray
for love, all of these things that come into play that you’re doing for other
people, you also need to be doing for yourself.

You come first.
 
If you’re not the clear light bulb, you’re not going to be able to help other
people.

You’re also not going to be able to help yourself.

You’re not going to be able to help your family or your children, so I think it
very urgent that people pray for themselves and there’s no such thing as selfishness in doing it.
 
That’s a religious spin, if you will, on a psychological concept, too.

People need to take care of themselves, get enough sleep, make enough
money, so that they can then help whoever it was that they want to.
 
We need to redefine the word selfish. We need to change it to mean: take care of yourself so you can take care of others.

What would you define self-centered as?

Self-centered is people who take care of others before they take care of
themselves.
 
We do need to be more selfish. I think a lot of people act unselfish to themselves like, “oh, I’m only thinking about you”, but it really is so that they feel good or look good and that’s not the proper use of the word selfish, either.
 
People who are taking care of somebody else and are doing it are usually
working on a guilt trip.  They want to make you feel as if they were taking
care of this and they’re having to do in order to give to you and that’s not a good way, either, because guilt trips never help anybody.
 
Then you end up with more anger inside of you and that defeats everything that we’ve been trying to teach people.

Try being more selfish now that you have an understanding of what that means.

Terrie

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Motivate Yourself To Achieve Success

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Motivate Yourself to Achieve Success

The greatest reward that success brings is self-satisfaction.

How can you motivate yourself to succeed?

Develop a buring desire for something that you wish to have in order to reach a greater goal you have set for yourself.

Remember tthat there is a difference between merely wishing for something and deciding definitely that you are going to have it.

Once you have that burning desire, you will develop an intensity of purpose that will allow you to simply brush aside obstacles that seemed unsurmountable before. All things are possible to the person who believes they are possible.

Set yourself a definite goal in life. As we talked about before, write it down and commit it to memory. Direct every thought and all your energies to making it come true. Instead of letting momentary setbacks throw you off course, search in them for the seed of an equivalent benefit which can help you get back on track to attaining your goal.

Refuse to recognize any limitations.

Remember “whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.”

Make the best of whatever toolsyou have and acquire whatever else you need along the way.

Reference: Napoleon Hill’s “A Year of Growing Rich. 52 Steps to Achieving Life’s Rewards.”

Tell us what this means to you?

Terrie