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This is a collection of the short, inspiring, informational articles published in the Triggers ezine during 2008. Each has a special message for your life if that's the place from which you choose to read it... When was chaos first discovered? The first true experimenter in chaos was a meteorologist, named Edward Lorenz. In 1960, he was working on the problem of weather prediction. He had a computer set up, with a set of twelve equations to model the weather. It didn't predict the weather itself. however this computer program did theoretically predict what the weather might be. One day in 1961, he wanted to see a particular sequence again. To save time, he started in the middle of the sequence, instead of the beginning. He entered the number off his printout and left to let it run. When he came back an hour later, the sequence had evolved differently. Instead of the same pattern as before, it diverged from the pattern, ending up wildly different from the original. Eventually he figured out what happened. The computer stored the numbers to six decimal places in its memory. To save paper, he only had it print out three decimal places. In the original sequence, the number was .506127, and he had only typed the first three digits, .506. By all conventional ideas of the time, it should have worked. He should have gotten a sequence very close to the original sequence. A scientist considers himself lucky if he can get measurements with accuracy to three decimal places. Surely the fourth and fifth, impossible to measure using reasonable methods, can’t have a huge effect on the outcome of the experiment. Lorenz proved this idea wrong. This effect came to be known as the butterfly effect. The amount of difference in the starting points of the two curves is so small that it is comparable to a butterfly flapping its wings. This phenomenon, common to chaos theory, is also known as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Just a small change in the initial conditions can drastically change the long-term behavior of a system. The source of the above text is ThinkQuest. If you read it a few times over, and really "get it", then it is easy to see how our most teensy action, or inaction, can take our life off on a tangent. You have likely heard many times, the well known adage of needing to - do different, to have different. Remember, "Just a small change in the initial conditions can drastically change the long-term behavior of a system". This year, take on board Mahatma Gandhi's message ..."Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny." You have the power to choose how to react AND how to act (if you even choose to act for that matter). If you choose to react negatively to everything around you, then that is exactly what you will bring about in your life. If you choose NOT to act by giving your power away in the form of blame and excuses, your ability to be proactive becomes weaker and weaker as time goes on until you find yourself not being able to do anything at all. You have the power and the responsibility to react AND to act and the truth is you always had that power within you. You just didn?t know it until you realized the fact that it was this very same power that is responsible for the life you are living today. When that hits us, we tend to focus on the fact that all the bad things in our life were not the fault of others, but the fault of ourselves so we become overly depressed. Never despair because with that being said, it?s leads to this realization. If you want your life to change, it?s up to YOU to change it and you CAN change it. Use that same power which has gone out of control that has given you the life today, seize it, and use it to create the life you want. Nobody can change your life except you. Stop pointing the fingers. Start pointing them to yourself. You have the power to act and create circumstances and while you can?t control circumstances and events that are out of your grip, you can control and choose how to respond to them. When we take responsibility for our lives and realize the power that resides in choosing how to react to circumstances and choosing to act in order to create new circumstances, we realize that within us is everything we need to change our lives. The original source for this article is: briankim.net/blog I'm always excited when I have the opportunity to share a resource that will dramatically improve the quality of your life. 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1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 86 times a day. That piece has likely been greatly modified while on a precarious journey around the internet. My copy was sent in an email from a friend. The original can be read in a book by Charles J. Sykes "50 Rules Kids won’t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education" Charles J. Sykes is the author of five previous books: A Nation of Victims, Dumbing Down Our Kids, Profscam, The End of Privacy, and The Hollow Men. His columns have appeared in numerous newspapers, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. A radio and television host at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, he is married and has three children. When all the words have been written and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map the terrains of our lives, measure the farthest reaches of the universe, but no amount of searching will ever reveal for certain whether we are all children of chance or part of a great design. And who among us would have it otherwise? Who would wish to take the mystery out of the experience of looking into a newborn infant?s eyes? Who would not feel in violation of something great if we had knowledge of what has departed when we stare into the face of one who has died? These are the events that make us human, that define the distance between us and the stars. Still, this life is not easy. Much of its mystery is darkness. Tragedies occur; injustices exist. Bad things befall good people, and sufferings are visited upon the innocent. To live we must take the lives of other species; to survive we must leave some of our brothers and sisters by the side of the road. We are prisoners of time, victims of biology, hostages of our own capacity to dream. At times it all seems too much, impossible to accept. We must stand against this. The world is a great and mysterious place, and it contains within it all the possibilities that our hearts can conceive. If we incline our hearts toward the darkness, we will see the darkness. If we incline them toward the light, we will see the light. Life is but a dream we renew each day. It is up to us to infuse this dream with light, and to cultivate, as best as we are able, the ways and habits of love. Those of great heart have always known this. They have understood that, as honorable as it is to see wrong and to try to correct it, a life well lived must somehow celebrate the promise that life provides. The darkness at the limits of our knowledge ? the darkness that sometimes seems to surround us? is merely a way to make us reach beyond certainty, to make our lives a witness to hope, a testimony to possibility, an urge toward the best and the most honorable impulses that our hearts can conceive. It is not hard. There is in each of us, no matter how humble, a capacity for love. Even if our lives have not taken the course we had envisioned, even if we are less than the shape of our dreams, we are part of the human family. Somewhere, in the most inconsequential corners of our lives, is the opportunity for love. And who can say which acts and moments will make a difference? The universe is a vast and magical membrane of meaning stretching across time and space, and it is not given us to know her secrets and her ways. Perhaps we were placed here to meet the challenge of a single moment; perhaps the touch we make will cause the touch that will change the world. Excerpted from Simple Truths Copyright © 1996 by Kent Nerburn. Kent Nerburn is the highly acclaimed author of eight books on spiritual values and Native American themes. He received his B.A. in American Studies summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in Theology and Art with distinction from Graduate Theological Union in conjunction with the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent work, The Hidden Beauty of Everyday Life, joins Simple Truths and Small Graces as the conclusion of a trilogy filled with spiritual and inspirational stories.
You are amazing. You are the creation of yourself. You are that which creates. You are the choice to experience existence ? beingness. The only limit to what you can be is your self-belief and your imagination. To be born into this reality is to enter a wonderful, shared illusion that grants you complete free-will in the creation of your own personal reality; this is your creatorship. Within the illusion we believe that we are looking at a separate, objective world where we experience self and other; beneath this apparent separation we are unified; we are one. Reality is a mirror of your being. You are creation exploring itself in a space-time mirror. Through what you choose to believe you create your reality. You change your reality by changing your beliefs about both it and yourself. The eyes with which you look actually shape what you see (this is now shown in quantum physics). Perception is not passive; it is an act of creation. Your choice of perception forms not only how you experience yourself, but your entire reality. Awakening to your creatorship leads your experience of reality to become more fluid and direct. This is to enter conscious creatorship where what you desire is quickly manifest. The key to conscious creatorship is the allowance of change; the birthing of the unknown into the known. The basis of allowance is acceptance. To change your reality you must first accept it. As long as you reject what you do not like about your reality you are in denial of your creatorship, leaving you feeling stuck. To accept that you are choosing your reality, release attachment to any preconception of how life should be and instead love what is. This comes through the taking of complete responsibility for every element of your reality. This is to love your choice. It is to love yourself. You are the choice of yourself. Release your fear. Fear is fear of the unknown, fear of being limitless. Fear creates limitation. There is a natural, beautiful unfolding to life that can only arise when you let go of the control that arises through fear. To face your fear is to allow yourself to be vulnerable and put down the shields you have used to protect yourself. All shields are a representation of a belief in danger and therefore lead you to the very danger you want them to protect you from. Whilst you are barricaded behind shields (fear) you will never truly feel safe. All that blocks you in life is the manifestation of your fear. The discovery of freedom is the realization that the only force pushing against you is you. You hold the key to any cage you may be in. To cease to judge and control your own being is to release struggle and enter joyful, effortless creation. You are awakening to your creatorship and the nature of the illusion. This is a natural process and requires no more than fearlessly being yourself. This means opening and following your heart. This is your freedom: believe whatever your heart feels to believe. This is to live in the Now. It is to awaken to the equality of all beingness and release judgment of both yourself and the world. Ever changing truth is the reflection of the ever unfolding birth of beingness that is life. In this state there is no such thing as ?The Truth?. There is no need of an answer for there is no problem. Just be. There are no limits to what you can be; you are infinite. The joy of this life arises through completely allowing your own being. Within your heart is a dream. The meaning of life is to live that dream. You can only live that dream if you believe you can. Believe in your dream. You are free to be whatever it is you wish to be. You are an embodiment of all creation. The answer to every question you can conceive is within you, for you are both the creator and perceiver of all you experience. Allow your beingness to blossom without limitation or control and you will experience the limitless love and freedom that you are. Discover more about these ideas in ?You Are God. Get Over It!? and ?The Messiah Seed Volume I? by Story Waters available from Amazon.com & Limitlessness.com. Visit Limitlessness.com to download ?Invitation to Remember' the free monthly audio show from Story Waters & Lee Harris. A printable poster of 700 words is available on Limitlessness.com in the free gifts section. Copyright 2006 Story Waters. This article may be freely distributed provided the full text including these ending credits are included. Dr Wayne Dyer believes that there are two types of people in the world- Ducks and Eagles
Ducks are easy to recognize. They think in Duck-like ways. They spend all day in the duck pond with their little Duck friends. Their responses sound like quack, quack, quack as they try to convince others that they are right. The Ducks often tend to quote the rules or policy manual to try to avoid hard questions or as a reason to avoid solving a problem. Ducks are often guilty of the exact same things that they often quack (complain) about.
Ducks have no idea that soaring above them all the time are Eagles. Eagles are people who have found success and soar above conflict. Eagles are optimistic and choose a positive attitude. Eagles are always aware of the Ducks' existence and the dangers that looms within the Duck pond. Ducks can be very sneaky. They have a way of luring others to join the Duck pond....this includes Eagles Once caught in the pond, Eagles will quack along with the ducks and can often find it difficult to leave. Some are able to leave immediately....others it may take much longer. But most Eagles will leave the pond eventually and begin soaring the skies again. But the majority of Ducks are Ducks. They will never change, even with extensive counseling or training. Ducks and Eagles can be found in nearly every situation ? you’ll see them in your offices, homes, churches and organizations. You see them in families and groups of friends. you’ll encounter them as you go about your errands and with every person you encounter as a customer.....the bank, grocery store, dry cleaner, restaurants, etc. The Ducks let you know how difficult their job is and what an inconvenience you are. Eagles go above and beyond to provide excellent service?even if it?s just with their positive attitude and general likeability. Ducks and Eagles are also easy to identify. Look around. I'm sure you can easily identify who belongs in each group. However, do you know what group you belong in? Source: QVC Community QVC, Inc. was founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel. Segel was an entrepreneur who saw an opportunity for a new kind of retail service built on technology, but guided by three customer-focused principles: Quality, Value, and Convenience. "I know if I?m gonna have any life anymore, it?s because I?m still willin' to fight and die for that inch. Because that?s what livin' is! The six inches in front of your face!! Now I can?t make you do it. You got to look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes! Now I think you?re gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. you’re gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows, when it comes down to it, you?re gonna do the same for him! That?s a team, gentleman! And, either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals. Source: www.alpacino.in When it comes to jumping into creating your own online presence and profits, you don’t have to take one giant leap! Receive my 9 funny messages (for just 3-weeks), about the regimentation of a 'job'. Matt Rissell, CEO of TSheets, a Boise-based provider of online time clocks used by employees and consultants, went on a mission to determine what made the most productive people successful. To his surprise, tools didn't much matter. Matt surveyed 75 successful CEOs and here are 10 rules that they all followed. Creating The Very Things That We Say We Do Not Want! - Part 1 James Arthur Ray knew that what Jim Hansberger had to say about the current economy would be important, so he made sure the call got recorded. Frankly, all of the recent bailouts and drama surrounding the economic market isn't surprising because there's been so much attention on negativity and demise that we're feeding the very beast we say we'd like to kill. The media, as well as most viewers, are placing their attention on so much fear that it's doing nothing but creating the very thing we don’t want. So... James got on the phone with his good friend (and personal investment advisor) Jim Hansberger. Jim is, as you may recall, one of the best-of-the-best. In fact, he advises numerous senators in Washington and speaks with them daily. To say he knows what's going on would be a gross understatement. So from whom could it be better, for us to get the inside scoop? Enough talk... Go to James Ray's site - in the left hand column, click on the word "Blogs". Scroll the "Archives", to "September 2008". Read the blog post dated Tuesday 30 September, 2008. You can then listen to the interview online in its entirety or grab the podcast! Creating The Very Things That We Say We Do Not Want! - Part 2During the week, I also caught the following excellent interview, shown at Lateline Business on ABC TV here in Perth. In the right hand column, you can select to watch that interview on video. I loved several of the things that she had to say, including... "I believe they're not in trouble at all, it's just that investors are suddenly panicking and it's a knee-jerk reaction."
"I don’t see a recession; when I went to Bunnings it was packed. When I go to restaurants it's packed; when I go to the Blue Mountains it's packed. I've come back from America; I saw not one sign of recession there. There is no need to panic. We have a strong world economy that's cooperating to solve a problem..." As an aside, take a peek at Dr. Carolyn Currie's credentials at her site, and I'd say she knows a little of what she is talking about! :)
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