Step 1 - Targeted FocusWe know that our thoughts expand into our reality and manifest into different aspect of our life. The logical conclusion then would be that everything and everyone in our lives up to this point, we have attracted and are responsible for. Consequently, the solution to a better life is simple, all you have to do is ensure that you are attracting what you want, not what you don't want. An important point to make is that people, at least the people that complain most about their life, tend to focus on the negative aspect of things. Things like how much they hate being in debt, how tired they are, how overweight they are, how badly people treat them, how no matter how hard they try their circumstances never get any better. "As go your thoughts, so go you. " In other words, what your mind focuses on. . . you will attract. If you focus on the things you don't like, you will continue to draw to you the things you don't like. Your unconscious mind can not differentiate between want and doesn't want. It only reacts to the focus of the thought or words. One time I was explaining this to a friend of mine and immediately his reaction was, "OK, from now on instead of focusing on how much I hate my debt, I'll focus on getting out of debt. " Wrong! The focus is still. . . debt. All your unconscious mind hears and sends out into the universe is "debt," and that's what you will attract. Instead of focusing on getting rid of your debt, you need to focus on financial abundance. Instead of focusing on finding a better job, you need to focus on serving the world in the best way you can and in a way that is best suited for you. Instead of focusing on losing weight, you need to focus on being the picture of health. You must move toward something, not away from something, have a "toward strategy," not an "away from strategy. " Move toward your ideal state, not away from your problem state. . . whatever that state may be. Some examples of an away from strategy are things like the anti-war movement, the say no to drugs campaign, the stop the global warming trend. All these things focus on the exact thing they don't want. Consequently, if anything all these areas of concern are getting worse, we're losing the battle on drugs, the war is not coming to an end anytime soon, and global warming continues to be an issue. Ask yourself why the anti-war movement is having no impact on the state of the conflict currently in the middle east. Now ask yourself why the peace movement of the 60's was so influential and created such change. The answer is simple. . . the focus, the collective consciousness. The focus in the 60's was on peace and love, the focus now is on hating war. It is interesting to note that Mother Teresa never attended an anti-war rally. She would say, "if you are having a peace rally, let me know. "The fact of the matter is that when you focus on something, I mean really focus on it. You tend to attract to you the object of your focus. For instance, have you ever gone car shopping, found a car that you are interested in and then everywhere you look you see that make of car, where before you became interested in buying that car you didn't see them around much, if at all. Is it possible that once you became attracted to that car everyone else did too, and they all ran out and purchased one. Not likely. The fact of the matter is that those cars were always there, you just didn't have the inclination to notice them. Why. . Because you weren't focused on them. The act of being focused brings things to our awareness that wouldn't normally be there. Let me clarify. The things are there, the specific make of car was always there, we just didn't notice it because our focus was elsewhere. Once we focus on it we become aware of it. Human beings are creatures of deletion, there are literally millions of things going on around at any point in time, we cannot consciously focus on everything, so our minds delete what it deems unnecessary, unimportant or out of our reach. Once we bring something into focus we see it, hear it. . . we notice it. The problem lies in the fact that so many people are focused on what is lacking in their lives. As a result, when a solution presents itself they do not see it because it is not in their realm of focus. They delete it. It's as though we go through life with blinkers on. dumb and dumber quotes . . and we do. What does get notices though is everything that supports their focus of what they're lacking or don't like
09/05/2011
A World in Love with Jokes
Judging from the listings on the major online bookstores, the whole world is in love with jokes, and books of jokes to such an extent, well, almost as much as it loves Paris Hilton. But what jokes exactly We did a random search on several sites and came up with some interesting results. Using the keyword "jokes", it was an eye-opener when a single site found 54540 books involving jokes listed in its database. dumb and dumber quotes This was kind of strange in a way. When last did you check out a friend's book shelf at their place We are prepared to bet that books of jokes did not feature much, if at all. Most likely there were relationship books, car manuals, sports books, glossy novels, a gift books, unopened textbooks. Perhaps there was a ragged cartoon book at the end of the shelf and one in the bathroom. So what are all these listed joke books exactlyAt the bottom of the price range ($1) we found Spongebob, Rugrats, Dumb and Dumber Garfield and hundreds in the 101 Jokes series: 101 Vacation Jokes, 101 Telephone Jokes, 101 Pet Jokes - you get the picture. Some jovial publisher obviously figured out also that the entire world loves a good joke or more than a hundred preferably. It is interesting too that so many of the books of jokes in this price range are aimed at kids dumb and dumber. Books containing "Children's good clean jokes" is a recurring theme here. At the $15 level the joke books are more adult (O'Brien and Fitzgerald Walk into a Bar: The World's Best Irish Jokes) and edgy (the "Extremely Gross Jokes" series). And here's a joke for you. Our search threw up "The Joke" by Milan Kundera. Funny huhThen there is the fabulously interesting title "The Jokes of Sigmund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jewish Identity" by Elliot Oring. Not a joke book to take to the pub perhaps but you can feel the laughter well up even so. dumb and dumber quotes Then I came across the title "I Give you Texas! 500 Jokes of the Lone Star State". I have always had a yearning to live in Texas although I know very little about it. I reckon Texan jokes should tell me all I need to know. So I got sidetracked and ordered the book. Of course there is a dark side to the joke industry - the academics who Take It All Very Seriously. Consider the title "Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor". This kind of title should not really be thrown out by a search for jokes. It's not fair and it's not funny. At the top of the price range ($100 and more) there were interesting discoveries, such as an album of 50 saucy not blue postcards from World War II. My grandpa had some of those. Published in Poland in 1931 was "I Laugh at You", in Yiddish, by Joseph Tunkel. Mr Tunkel left Poland in 1939 when the laughter stopped. For $300 you can have David Henry Thoreau's "Cape Cod" in two volumes, reportedly Thoreau's sunniest, happiest book. It bubbles over with jokes, puns, tall tales, and genial good humor, the bookseller says. If you are prepared to stump up $77 500 dollars for a laugh, you can have the complete autograph manuscript of Chapter 23 of "A Tramp Abroad" by Mark Twain. It was the most expensive that came up under the search term "jokes" on Abebooks. The bookseller supplies a painstaking description of the item (revisions, repairs, smudging, fingerprinting and all) and says: "The subject of the chapter is, in large part, reminiscence from Twain's days as a printer's apprentice. Nicodemus Dodge, a seeming yokel from out of town, is hired at the printer's shop where the young Sam Clemens is working. The locals hope to make Nicodemus the butt of their jokes only to find (as Twain notes in a phrase that was ultimately deleted), that they 'had fished for a sardine and caught a whale' ". The old jokes are often the best.
My First Impression Is You Dont Listen!
Do you make decisions based on first impressions Do you make decisions based on gut instincts Do you think others are making decisions on whether to have any type of relationship with you based on their first impressionI bought a new hot tub about a month ago
