A dear friend of mine....

is feeling down and it saddens me.

This person is normally very happy, energetic and a great source of inspiration to anyone they come in contact with. But lately they have been feeling the pressure of things just not working out in their favor.

Great expectations and goals have been eagerly worked towards, everything has been done properly and to their fullest potential, yet the rewards have been few and far between. It seems the takers are much more abundant than the givers.

It saddens me to no ends to see a person of this intellectual and spiritual magnitude begin to loose ground.

When "rock bottom" looms it's ugly head for the umpteenth time in just a few months, what is a person to do?

Paul


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.....nothing lasts forever, hardship included. There's always tomorrow, no matter how hard it seems, anything’s possible.

Plus there is always someone worse off, no matter how bad the situation is. No matter how bad it gets, there will always be another chance, another way, another try. The day you fail is the day you quit, winners never quit and quitters never win, imagine quitting when you’re just one small step away from success, in fact as long as you stay in the game, you can never fail.

The best victory is usually the one most hard fought. Sure it’s hard now, almost insurmountable, but the day will come when the success will be realised, it has to as long as you stay in the game, because the moment you quit the game, that’s the moment the game is over and the loss realised.

Who dares…wins, everyday, always, as long as you keep daring.

Richard.

God, it’s great to be alive……..now if I could just figure out women and how to program my VCR.

> For both of them it's a matter of
pushing the right buttons....;-)

Very funny Sandy and a great product idea.

How about an ebook or site devoted to what makes women tick. Of course no one could ever figure that out, but I’m sure if you kept the site humourous and user friendly say with a discussion group and a few products, I’m sure it would work quite well.

The Men are from Mars type books are best sellers and where there’s smoke.....there’s fire, smoke being a market and fire being money to be made.

I think the key would be to keep it light-hearted and a little different/quirky, maybe quirky enough to attract some free press.

Richard ( I see, not dead people, but products, all the time.) Vaughan

This to shall pass....

If you're asking what you can do to help
I have a suggestion:
1)get your friend a wonderful journal
(one of those books with blank pages you
find in the bookstore)
2) a copy of "Simple Abundance"
3) an inexpensive color coordinated pen to
go with the book
4) a small pocket size tissue pack
5) a sweet card expressing how much you care
for them
Put all these things into a basket...wrap with
colored cellophane and coordinate the colors.
They'll love it....
Journaling can be very therapeutic...writing
about your life moments is like capturing a
scene on a picture only in the written
word.

You 're a great friend...

filled with wisdom, and amazingly inspiring!

YOUR friends are surely blessed to have YOU in their lives!

We certainly are blessed to have you here!

With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE

> filled with wisdom, and amazingly inspiring!

> YOUR friends are surely blessed to have YOU
> in their lives!

> We certainly are blessed to have you here!

I agree with you Julie, Sandy's writings are full of great advice! Keeping a journal is a wonderful idea....

I also keep a journal -- though it is more of an "ideas" journal.... It's interesting to sometimes go back and see how the train of my thoughts have developed over time.... I know I don't lose my ideas, because if I ever want to look at them again they are right there in the journal. And Julie....

I also always feel a surge of excitement and optimism after reading anything you write too.... :)

Dien

Julie...
thanks!...I've always been looking for
unique ways to express myself..I'm working
on looking at myself objectively using the
DOL and other tools...you don't know how
much you've helped me ...

Paul,

Great question...

I don't claim to be an expert, but let me share
a personal experience with you...

I am in the Anthony Robbins Results Partnership,
and my success coach was going over some of the
same issues you brought up with me just yesterday.

I too have been "bustin' A" and don't always feel
I'm getting the optimum results I want compared
to the effort put forth.

Let me tell you what he told me, and it's already
had a profound impact. You can share it with
your friend if you so desire...

He got me to think about a time in my life
when everything was going right and things
were completely falling into place.

He then asked me...

What was your state of mind at that time? How
did you feel? Capture that feeling. What
kind of a trigger can you use to tap into that
whenever you need or want to?

It's really all about your emotional state. Then,
he got me to do a "power move" where I instantly
got back "into the zone".

Before Tony Robbins takes the stage, he draws
upon his inner resources and gets "into the zone"
within nanoseconds...we ALL can do the same thing.

The thing is, when your emotional state is in a
peak performance mode, results follow. Your
brain automatically steers you to where you need
to go.

I'm not a psychic, but I've experienced this
personally.

Am I making any sense here? Julie Jordan Scott
can probably fill in some missing words that I
left out as well.

Julie, are you there?

But it really is all about tapping into resources
that are already present to steer you to your
ultimate outcome. Mental pictures, positive
affirmations, all these tools do indeed play a
part in addition to being in a peak state as
often as possible.

Paul, I've been been there and done that but the
only person that can pull out of a mental funk
is yourself.

Hope this helps!

Mike


Legends In Baseball

Hi Mike!

Wow! A Baseball enthusiast! I will forever have that mental picture, sound bite as I stood at that window asking for those tickets....people in the other line saying, "Yogi Berra, she's getting tickets from Yogi! Who is she? Wow!" etc etc etc and then walking into the stadium. Bianca was 7 at the time, not living with me then asking, "Do we have front row?" and me, wanting to kick her as I greeted my family friend who got us the tickets....(he co-wrote Yogi's biography and is a long time family friend. My baby brother's God father) "Just thank Uncle Tom for the tickets allowing us to be here at all!" as we were ushered to the front row, right behind the dug out.

We were an Astro's family for the day. Red Carpet treatment I will NEVER forget!

What you are speaking of, Mike, is using our emotional bank account to fuel us. Actors do this all the time. Instead of calling it "In the Zone" my acting teacher Micah calls it "In the moment". I call it "Being Completely Engaged."

Its also used in NLP and nearly anywhere Personal Development is practiced.

> It's really all about your emotional state.
> Then,
> he got me to do a "power move"
> where I instantly
> got back "into the zone".

Gotcha here, Mike. Its great if people can have sort of an internal Data base ready to go, so that when a situation occurs they can go into this place or that to bring them back into the zone. You know, like a power prescription. I think I could even call that a Passion Power Prescription....hey! We are onto something here! Thanks, Mike! :-)

> The thing is, when your emotional state is
> in a
> peak performance mode, results follow. Your
> brain automatically steers you to where you
> need
> to go.

****Another piece to this, in my experience, is using the Law of Attraction. You know, when things go right, it ALL seems to go right? When things go wrong....run for cover?

Somewhere in my studies it says to hold the intention for 17 seconds.....don't quote me there but its worth some experimenting. Hold an intention for 17 seconds...focus.....focus.....and see what happens. Its some fascinating stuff.

here is a link to attractionu.com from Michelle Lisenberry. She does some great work:

http://www.attractionu.com

> Paul, I've been been there and done that but
> the
> only person that can pull out of a mental
> funk
> is yourself.

****Used to drive me nuts when my Mom would say, "Only YOU can make yourself happy!" *Rolling eyes* why is Mom always soooo soooo sooooo.....right?!?!?!

Thanks for the great post, Mike! Lots of valuable stuff there!

With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE
PS-I felt a little Addams family-ish....I wanted to put in the subject, "YOU RANG?" but thought the Yogi Berra subject would get more attention....


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