Sharing for personal growth and development
Didn’t your Mama teach you to share?
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Sharing is easy while we’re children because we want everyone to enjoy the pleasures that we enjoy. Somewhere along about junior high school, that all changes. We start to exclude others while someone else sees fit to exclude us.
We start to form little cliques like:
- the “cool” kids
- the rich kids
- the gamers
- the freaks
- the jocks
- the nerds
- the suckups
- the slackers
Now that I’m older and look back on my life, I realize just how much of life you miss when you choose to alienate yourself. Why can’t we go back to that childlike innocence and share some of the things that we have?
1. Share you love
(photo courtesy of Noel Zia Lee)
Tell others how much they mean to you. Tell them that you love them. What they do with that knowledge is up to them, but I guarantee that you will feel much better – and so will they.
2. Share your thoughts
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Let people know what you think about – especially your children. You’re a big mystery to your kids.
- They want to know why you do the things that you do.
- They want to know how you do the things you do.
- They want to hear stories of when you were a kid.
- They need to learn how to dream or create goals.
Children have a million thoughts running through their heads everyday and they don’t know that its normal to have that many. Explain everything to them. Answer their questions.
3. Share your opinions
(photo courtesy of Jan Tik)
Tell people what you believe and why. They may challenge your belief system. That’s good. Your views may be antiquated. You may need to revise you ideas or you may need to explain to them why you feel your opinions are correct.
4. Share your wisdom
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Be a mentor. Find someone and pass your knowledge to them. Help them avoid the pitfalls that you struggled through. Show them how to avoid the ruts in life. You’ll have a friend for life.
5. Share yourself
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No person is complete while alone. You need others and they need you. It is when we give of ourselves that we are open to receiving the blessings that life can provide.
Sharing is easy once you get past all the cliques and petty divisions.
The Master Key to Success
I am what I will to be
Charles Hannell wrote The Master Key System almost 100 years ago, but his thoughts, teaching and philosophy are timeless. Recently, while studying his work, I came across the statement, “I can be whatever I will to be” and it became stuck in my mind. Kind of like a tune that you just can’t get rid of. The more I thought about it, the more fascinated I became with the simple but profound principles it teaches.
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1. I am responsible for my life
The first thing that becomes clear is that I am responsible for my life. I like that. It is nice to know that I am in control of my destiny. No matter what occurs in the external world, it is only my responses to those events that determine how they affect me.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28
Paul wrote that back in the first century and to me he is making a great point. He did not say that everything would be good, but that “all things work together for good”. In other words, we, through our responses determine whether a thing is good or not.
If it helps us grow spiritually, then it is good. However it is we who determine whether we choose to grow through our experiences or not.
2. I am what I will to be – not – what I want to be
When I first came across this statement it read kind of funny – funny strange. At first, I attributed it to the fact that the book was written 100 years ago and language has changed somewhat since then. But the more that I thought about it, the more I came to realize that the statement is correct as stated.
“What I want to be” is more about dreams, hopes, wants and wishes. It imposes no responsibility nor decision and requires no dedication nor commitment. It would have no value stated this way.
You get to choose between what you want (hopes) and what you will (unrealized goals) have.
3. …I will to be
“What I will to be” implies power and determination. Say these two statements:
- I am what I want to be
- I am what I will to be
Which statement sounds weak and which sounds powerful? Which statement put you in control?
“I want” sounds like pleading and begging. It reminds me of a child having a temper tantrum, stomping his or her feet and crying because the don’t have something. It bears a very strong resemblance to most people I know. There is no power in wanting.
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4. The force of will
When a person imposes their will on a thing, then accomplishing that thing becomes a mission – a quest. It is a self-promise that cannot be easily discarded. You can see obvious differences in the person who is on a quest to get into shape and the person who “wants” to get into shape.
A person does not write a “Last Want and Testament” as a preparation for distribution of their assets at death. They have a lawyer compose a “Last Will and Testament”. It becomes the only way that their goods can be disbursed, because that person has “willed” it to be so done.
5. Use this affirmation – as often as possible
“I am what I will to be”. Say it often. Substitute your own desires and see how it affects your life.
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I am what I will to be
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I accomplish what I will to accomplish
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I acquire what I will to acquire
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I create what I will to create
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I learn what I will to learn
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I understand what I will to understand
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I do what I will to do
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I am successful because I will to be successful
Try it for a few days and you’ll begin to understand how powerful your will truly is.
Is your reality real?
The inspiring account of living through a stroke as seen through the eyes of a “brain scientist” as she experiences the stroke first-hand
Jill Bolte Taylor’s first-person telling of awakening and then slowly realizing that she has had and is having a stroke. What makes this telling so unique is that Jill is uniquely qualified to articulate this accidental experiment. It is inspiring and enlightening on so many levels.
Take the time to watch and listen – It may change the way you think about reality – your reality.
Surviving cancer ignites passion for helping others
Passion: feeling very strongly about a subject or person, usually referring to feelings of intense desire and attraction (source: Wikipedia)
Passion can be stirred by a number of different things:
- your beliefs
- your desires
- your dreams
- your experiences
This post is about three women that I’ve had the privilege to come to know since starting this blog. Women whose passion for helping others was ignited by their battle with breast cancer.
(photo courtesy of Andreia)
Cancer is ugly and terrifying – but it can be beaten. Modern medicine has proved that cancer can be beaten by driving the mortality rates of most cancers down. However, those same treatments are severe and take a huge toll on the body and mind.
These three cancer survivors have dedicated their lives to helping others. Here’s how:
Jane Ali and SurvivorCelebration.com
I met Jane at the House of Blues in the Madalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas during a mixer for the participants of the fall PGA expo, this past September (2007). Jane gave a short presentation detailing her then up-coming nation-wide bus tour to promote breast cancer awareness.
My business partner, Scott Kay, and I had been trying to become involved with breast cancer rehabilitation, but really didn’t how or where to start. Thankfully, Jane and her husband A.J. took the time to talk with us and provide us with some direction and suggestions. They also made us aware of their website, SurviviorCelebration.com and encouraged us to create our Pink Rotater.
Since then, A.J. has taken SurvivorCelebration.com and transformed in into an interactive social networking site that provides all the tools a person needs to:
- meet other cancer survivors and patients
- learn from others
- inspire
- be inspired
SurvivorCelebration.com is in its infancy and needs you. Take the time to visit and put up your own page and then tell your friends about it. There is no cost – here’s my page. If you’ve always wanted to get involved, but didn’t know how, then here’s your chance. SurvivorCelebration.com is not just about breast cancer, but about dealing with all forms of cancer. There are a multitude of groups for everyone – take a look and then join today.
Christine Clifford Beckwith and The Cancer Club
I met Christine vicariously through a book that she had co-authored with her husband Harry Beckwith entitled “You, Inc.” While reading this book, I learned of Christine’s battle with breast cancer and more importantly her passion to inspire others through her talent of using comedy to create cartoons that just force you to laugh.
Christine has created The Cancer Club to help cancer patients cope with their situation, inspire others and use laughter to help relieve the constant stress associated with cancer. This website is filled with hope, inspiration, gifts, encouragement, laughter and much more.
Christine provides a monthly newsletter that I subscribe to and encourage you to do so as well. I always learn something new and her cartoons always make me laugh.
(This is one of Christine’s hilarious cartoons.)
Carol Cauthen and Touching You
I had the pleasure of meeting Carol when she read an article about the Rotater in the Birmingham News and contacted me via email. Since then, she has begun to carry the Rotater in her breast cancer boutique on a consignment basis.
Carol is a 21–year survivor of breast cancer. Her passion led to the creation of first her boutique, Touching You and then her website, TouchingYou.com. Touching You is dedicated to the breast cancer survivor and offers a huge variety of products that have been created to deal with their special needs.
Everyone who works for Carol is a breast cancer survivor and therefore knows how to help.
Passion not taken lightly
Many people use the word “passion” carelessly. When you are passionate about something, then you DO something – not discuss it. These three women have used their battle with cancer to become passionate about helping others who face cancer.
What are you that passionate about?
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