This week I have been taking walks in a particular part of town. This area of town is in deep need for revitalization and fixing up. To me, it is a glorious area with great memories and great opportunity. I constantly think and desire to be the one to start really creating the change. This causes me to wonder if Legacy could be a PPN for me. Right now they are Autonomy and True Health. For sure Autonomy is a PPN for me FOREVER but maybe Legacy could work into my DMP. It was a PPN that I started with three years ago and then it changed to true health. I think I am going to sit on this because the hunger to change this area in my community is very strong.
Week #15-a Do you see the meaning of things in your life?
Right on time as usual, I read something that totally strikes perfectly with what I have been pondering recently. During my 24hr foot race at Across The Years a week ago I had a huge epiphany about ultra-running as it relates to my goals and purpose. I realized that the running or the finish time or the miles was not the goal………the goal was to LEARN something from the journey to those numbers. THAT’S WHAT REALLY MATTERS FOR ME!
In comes Charles Haanel with Lesson 15:5 “……..We are able to consciously control our conditions as we come to sense the purpose of what we attract, and are able to extract from each experience only what we require for our future growth. Our ability to do this determines the degree of harmony or happiness we attain.”
Living like this is living with serious and deep insight. It is being conscious of what is happening to and around you. Seeking AND finding the reasons why things are happening the way they are. I love this! I love to think deeply and ponder what things mean. And on that run, I was able to “extract from the experience only what I required for my future growth”. This is revolutionary and allows me/us to win every time, in every thing………by doing this:
- Experience the situation realizing that you brought it into your life and ask yourself WHY?
- Sense the purpose of the experience.
- EXTRACT that gem from it baby!
- Practice the above
- Live to a higher degree of happiness!
Just think……..you didn’t fail………you EXTRACTED the real hardcore purpose from the situation.
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24 hour race gives me lots to think about!
I actually kept my promise and did all of my MKMMA work during my race at the Across The Years 24 hour race. It was really hard to do but I did it. I also listened to the recordings and said my affirmations for basically the whole time.
Unfortunately, or I guess you could say fortunately, the race ended up being one of those “bad” running days where you just never end up feeling great to be a runner. I forged on though and kept at it for 12 hours. I learned a lot during those 12 hours though. I know in this class we talk a lot about the concrete Buddha and there is something special about these ultra running events that removes the concrete for a short period of time. When the pain and discomfort and struggle get to a point where it is nearly impossible not to think of it you end up in a place where you are living on a very basic level. A place where you don’t care about ANYTHING that you don’t need or truly desire. During these times of the race you kind of have all those notions, opinions, and “self” break downs and realize you are so powerful yet so fragile. Here are some of the things I noticed:
- At around 5 hours I could barely NOT think about whether ultra-running was a tool for my PPN of true health. This is a very different type of running and can produce profound effects in mental strength but is it actually going to bring me true health. In the past I would have chalked this thinking up to “negativity” because it was thinking that did not correspond to finishing the entire distance my mind hand conceived to finish from the beginning. I would have thought of it as the type of thinking that would ruin the run, and in reality it was that thinking that brought me to stopping early when I could have certainly gone the full distance had I used the “law of substitution”. This time was different though, I didn’t immediately reject this thinking and began to ponder more upon the WHY of this type of running. Why am I doing it, what does it mean for my DMP (Definite Major Purpose), is this something my heart desires more than anything, is it balanced and of TRUE HEALTH???? Keeping an open mind to this led to the end of my race but this time I didn’t see it as the “old blueprint” thinking but rather the more enlightened more powerful REAL me questioning the root of this activity and what it meant, weighing its salt according to my DMP. When I chose to stop I had no guilt, no shame, no disappointment but rather I had a soundness of soul and mind making the decision with peaceful strength and certainty.
- Before the race started I saw numerous people hobbling around with very limited ranges of motion thinking to myself, “I don’t want to be like that”. When you run these and train for them, it is really a “limited” type of training that often reduces your range of motion. Running is a constricting activity. This was really the beginning of my questioning my previous thoughts and beliefs about ultra-running and how it fits into my definite major purpose.
- I had a massive example of the law of growth in a very short period of time. Once the thought of stopping and the reasoning behind it, and the abandoning of the thought that it was just negative thinking………..there was almost no stopping it and it ended up producing the results to perfection. I stopped early. I realized I have battled these types of thoughts off in the past by substituting them with powerful positive thoughts to keep on going.
- A wonderful thing I felt really strongly about during and after the race was the question of the NUMBER. What is the number of miles and hours worth? What do those numbers mean to me? What do I want those numbers to mean to others? Do the numbers matter at all in the end or is it the experience, the training, and JOURNEY that is truly the meaningful and most impactful part of it all. I can run 2 miles or 60 miles, but does this change who I am………who I am becoming………..who I will be? Would it be ok to participate in these awesome runs without expectations and just go with it and experience whatever it is I am experiencing until my heart and mind say I got what I needed from this event? These are radical questions for me and maybe lots of other ultra-runners because they are not obsessively focused on finishing, or the number. It’s a radical shift to be sure yet I think it is a good one, a potentially more powerful one, a more open one where more growth as a person could happen because the ultra is a tool rather than the goal. I have been super obsessed and goal oriented and ALWAYS finished the distance according to my goal, but maybe there is a more profound growth and goal that can be attained rather than just the number.
A lot to think about and I will most certainly be doing another post here as well as a more running focused post at my running blog.
Sunset during my race
Week 14-a Getting In Harmony
If we really want to do something, especially something new for us, we have to get into harmony with the rules for that something. An old mentor told me once that “if you want to win in somebody else’s ballpark you have to play by their rules”. That to me is a great word picture of harmony and a great thing to remember when thinking about how to get into the flow of doing something that you want to do. The picture above is what I envisioned while sitting. I visualized several beams and in order to be within a particular beam you had to step into it………..or be in harmony. It all seems pretty simple to me how being in harmony works so here is a few steps to getting into harmony.
- Step into the thing- In order to be in harmony with the thing you want you need to start thinking like those who are already in harmony with it. Act like those who are in harmony with it. The laws that we are learning about, we need to adhere to them in a harmonious way which means consciously using the laws to move towards our desires. If you want to be an elite ultra-runner there are particular things you need to be in harmony with that most all elite ultra-runners do. If you want to be the best network marketer in the world you need to be in harmony with certain things. If you want to be the awesomest most rad autonomous person, you need to be in harmony with yourself. LOL
- Autonomy?????- Today at least, I see that the autonomy really comes from our own choice to make a self-directed decision the step into harmony with what WE WANT TO BE IN HARMONY WITH. To be in harmony with a thing is to live by those rules right??? That doesn’t sound like self-direction to me but the choice of WHAT to be in harmony with is. I mean living by the “rules” seems opposite of autonomy but it really isn’t. The laws are in effect whether we use them or not right? So we chose how to use them and who/what to be in harmony with. AUTONOMY!
- Laws of loving, giving and receiving– Seems to me that no matter what you little autonomous self decided to be in harmony with, there is no better way than to live in a real way LOVING and GIVING as well as to be able to humble and joyfully receive. Emerson’s law of compensation seems to be in harmony with whatever we want to do.
That’s it for today folks. I will have an update post soon on my 24 hour race this last weekend and how MKMMA worked into it.
Week 13-c MKMMA OATS for a 24 hour run
I leave tomorrow morning for the Across The Years 24 hour race. I wanted to share with you my plan to stay firm in my MKMMA plan and how I am going to leverage our wonderful class to go loooooong. You can see from the pics above……….it takes a lot of stuff to run for 50 miles, 100 miles, 100K, or 15 hours, 24 hours. Whatever it may be, I have 6 shirts, two shorts, 3 pairs of gloves, four water bottles, IPOD head lamp, band-aids, tape, vicks vapor rub for chafing, a towel, sweat pants, a heavier coat for night time running, 8 pairs of socks, and two pairs of running shoes. That’s a lot of stuff to fit into the back pack that you see up above. I also had to mail to my friend at the race my calories and such that I consume during the race. Here is my OATS for the race:
- 5am- Sit, readings, and get ready for race
- Start race at 9 and eat/drink every 15 minutes for as long as I can
- Second set of reading for MKMMA around 2pm
- Listen to my recordings in addition to greatest secret the WHOLE time.
- Maybe around 9pm do my last readings for MKMMA
The cool thing is that I am going to be doing my MKMMA work and listening to my recordings while exercises for probably the entire day and hopefully for 24 hours. My goal for the race is to go beyond 63 miles which is my previous record and that took me around 15 hours. I may stop when I reach that goal depending on how I feel. Nevertheless I am certain that I am going to be a better stronger person when it’s over no matter what the outcome is.
There you have it, you can check out my other post about this race at my blog about purposeful running.
Week 13-b The Controversial Bull Of The Orient!
It seems that in Og Mandino’s Scroll 3, the bull of the orient has been pretty controversial. Some people don’t like the fact that the bull and bull fighting are in the scroll and remove it. Now I love my animals and my little dogs and I prefer kindness towards animals so this has really made me look closer at this aspect of the scroll so that I can work it and gain what Og was intending me to learn from it. After about three weeks of reading this part of the scroll and thinking on it, here is what I have learned:
- We are in a life or death battle for OURSELVES! I read a comment somewhere and the person had mentioned that they didn’t’ like the bull story because the bull dies in a bull fight. I have realized that I die in my story too. Og says I persist as long as there is breath in me (I die). I also realized that if I don’t fight and charge on I die on the inside and become a spectator of my own life.
- A cool thing I came upon was also that in a bull fight the arena is full but there are only TWO playing the game. I become grateful that I am in the game when so many people aren’t and admitted that the game isn’t easy to swallow all the time.
- Then there was the simple picture of life being a battle in which I must have an attitude of FORGING and CHARGING ahead. Aggressiveness in purpose is fundamental for success. Life constantly produces piercing blows and we still keep charging on.
- Finally, I realize that bull fighting is not the choice of the bull. The bull didn’t ask for this and then there are all kinds of spectators getting a kick out of the bull getting beat down. This is probably the sickest part of the story but I saw a life truth in it. It seems……….that in life we find ourselves in arenas that we seemingly didn’t choose and people are all around laughing at us and kind of hoping we fall and fail. What does Og say we do, charge on despite these stings of life.
Although I understand that many don’t like the picture of Bull Fighting and I don’t really like it either, but I just wanted to find something good in the story and I think I did.
Week 13-a You ARE The Gift!
This week is going to be the best week of my life! I had a very powerful realization while thinking on the giving card this morning during my “sit”. I was thinking and visualizing about how we are really a part of the whole, how we are channels/tools for God to produce good in this world. I began to recite from my memory the giving cards and what I learned from myself is quite amazing and humbling. Here is what the card says and what I learned:
- “Wherever I go, I bring a gift. It may be a compliment, prayer, trinket, flower, or a smile but I promise to give something to every person I encounter”. I realized that I AM THE GIFT! Wherever I go I bring myself and I am a tool and conduit of good. It’s me, not the trinket or the flower, but me. If something is given it is because of ME and what’s in ME. It is not the “thing” but the person who is the gift.
- “I promise to be a grateful receiver of the gifts that surround me, noticing nature, kindnesses, smiles, and compliments; which I gladly receive with a thank you” Again, each of these things I am set out to notice are really noticing OTHERS bringing a gift wherever THEY go. So I bring myself (the gift), they bring themselves (the gift). How powerful to view the people in our lives situations as the ones “bringing the gift”
- “I promise to give hope for joy, affluence, kindness and love; consciously with every encounter regardless of brevity.” This one blew me away. I realized that I AM THE HOPE. Not like God or anything like that but who I am, what I do, how I live…………that automatically gives hope to others. They feel it, see it, and want it. It was just cool to understand that it wasn’t me saying stuff to bring hope of joy, affluence, kindness and love………..it was me HAVING joy, affluence, kindness, and love that brought hope to others
- “I promise to give without expectation of reciprocity from the channels I enrich because I know I am in the dynamic flow of giving and receiving”. Finally, this last sentence, stuck me because it would be hard to expect reciprocity from the channel when you don’t know what the channel is. Why don’t you know what the channel is????? Because you are just being you and just being you is bringing a gift wherever you go. Just being you is producing gratefulness all around. Just being you is giving hope to those around you.
These are the kind of results or thoughts that my work in MKMMA is producing. How cool to realize that you are a gift and that you are a tool of good for the world and that by growing into the person you want to be, you are being a gift to the world.
Week 12-c IMPORTANT! Intention and Attention Exposition
In response to our call to focus on #4 of the Week 12 Lesson, I decided to share what I learned. The fourth sentence of MK12 led me to really looking at #25. Here is what the sentences say:
#4-“The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each is absolutely essential. You must first have knowledge of your power, second, the courage to dare; third, the faith the do”
#25- “The intention governs the attention. Power comes through repose. It is by concentration that deep thoughts, wise speech, and all forces of high potentiality are accomplished.”
Lets start with #4. Willard Tate, a teacher I had, always said that a rut was just a grave with the ends knocked out of it. He also said that if you are not growing you are going backward. This really matches with #4 to me. The only way to get where we want to go is by moving forward, by growing………no matter how slowly. Just keep on keeping on toward the goal, the DMP. It’s a lot like running a marathon, you just have to keep going because if you stop you will never get to the point you are working and have worked towards: The Goal!
The cool thing about #4 is that it tells us how to get there in a very simple way. This is how I see it.
- First, you have to realize that you CAN do it. This is the part where you have to change your mind so that it believes that something more is possible. It seems #25 has the answer on how to get to this place.
- The second part is to dare. To me this means to dream bigger. When I started running, two miles was really hard but I dreamed of more. I dreamed of going long. I dared to believe that running a marathon, or a 50 miler, or even further was possible.
- Then finally, you have to step out in faith with action. Nothing happens without action. I could have told the universe all day long that I want a finish in a 50 miler but without training it ain’t gonna happen. It took faith the believe that starting a training regime for a 50 miler would accomplish what I set out to accomplish. Action is always required and faith is required to take action because EVERY time we do take action we are not there yet, we are not exactly that person we want or think we will be when we attain. But in reality you are because the person who attains is the person who takes action. Nobody FELL to the top!
This led me to seeing a striking thing in #25. I saw it as an antecedent to the three steps. It is was CAUSES the three steps to occur. Check out these definitions from Webster:
- Intention– The determination to act in a certain way, what one intends to do or bring about! (This is like when we first want to truly become something)
- Attention– The act of applying the mind to something, carefully thinking about, listening for, or watching someone or something. Noticing with interest and awareness. (This is like the law of growth starting with our thoughts as we begin to think more about the thing we want to be)
Here’s the chain of events:
- I have this thought, “I want to be this”! I am determined to be something or do something new which begins to create #2
- I apply my thoughts constantly to the thing that I want and am determined to do. I am always thinking about it by dreaming of it, fantasizing about it, reading about it, constructing pictures in my mind of it, seeing things out in the world that remind me of it, I start watching others do it and talking to others who have done it or are doing it.
- Soon I begin to believe that I CAN. That I can actually maybe do this. If others have done it why not me.
- Once this happens I begin to dare that me, little ole’ Jason, can run a marathon, or start a company, or buy real estate all with great success.
- Before you know it my faith brings into action my thoughts. I start running and training, I start meeting with real estate investors, I start planning out future businesses.
This, to me, is the coolest thing. It is not this mystical law of attraction, speak it into the universe stuff. This is a sound real chain of events. I am REALLY THINK ABOUT THIS. When was the last time you did something that you hadn’t thought about prior to doing it. Have you even EVER accomplished a thing without action??? And did you ever take action before the idea entered your thoughts. Do you give your attention to things that you aren’t interested in. How did the interest develop??? This is how buildings are created, teams become national champs. You become a millionaire. You create a life of your dreams. You become fit, or happy, or successful, or whatever it is that you intend for your life, give your attention to, believe it’s possible, dare to dream, and take action.
Week 12-b “Until” in the Blueprint Builder…. Very Cool
I modified the Blueprint Builder about a month ago. Instead of,
“I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life, and I will never stop trying until I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for it’s attainment”.
I changed mine to sound like this………..
“I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life, and I never stop working on myself until I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for it’s attainment”.
I changed this because a very important person to me said way back that “Tryin is lyin”. I hated that he said that all the time and so did the other students but by the end of the class we believed it. When someone asks you to come over to their house and you say you will TRY……well that most likely means that you won’t or are afraid to say that you don’t want to. He always told us it was a way to not commit. That’s why I had to take it out because I just kept seeing his darn face every time I read that LOL.
I have thought of this part of the BPB probably for several hours all together since starting to read it. That is why I chose the picture I did for this blog. The comforting part about this in the BPB is that we just need to keep calm and never give up UNTIL…………that’s the secret word right there. UNTIL, that means we work UNTIL, persist UNTIL, and do our best UNTIL. There are two really a cool things about this word:
- UNTIL means “up to the time that” implying that it IS GOING TO HAPPEN, which is basically the opposite of IF which implies an “uncertain possibility”.
- It is not an emergency or a huge rush or hurried thing. So we just keep calm and work UNTIL “We now know that we have the ability to achieve this definite chief aim for our lives.”
Week 12-a Having What You Want NOW!
I have what I want right now! It’s an amazing thing and I will explain with a little story.
There was a man walking through the desert in the dead heat of day……..it had already been days since he left on his journey in the desert. He was tired and approaching probable death all the while wishing he had a “way” to get out safely. The man carried with him a horse which he led by a rope. He struggled on and on and on, with each day becoming more difficult and tiring. He had walked far enough to know that if he turned back he would most certainly die and if he kept going forward he would also die. He never realized that he could just get on the horse and ride out of danger. He had what he needed for his journey the whole entire time.
That is the visual that I had when I was in the mirror for 50 minutes during the webinar this Sunday. I realized that I actually am that person that I was reading about in my “one-liner”. It was no emotional shocker to me nor was it necessarily exciting. It came upon me in a matter-of-fact way as simply true. I realized that for so long people even saw me as the guy I was reading about. It was almost like I was the only one who didn’t see it. This was ONE GOOD THING that really hit me and I am so glad it did. We have it in us now, we are those people we are reading about. We are our future selves.
This also brought together a VERY IMPORTANT personal “pay-off” for me. I have been pondering this long and hard for weeks now……..maybe months. What is it you ask??? It is the conversation that we all constantly talk about how the stuff in our lives is the effect of the cause which is our thinking. I have really been thinking on this because it appears (maybe it’s only me) that the conversation is totally bent toward negativity bias. Meaning that when the conversation comes up it is usually around some thing or circumstance in our life that we don’t like and we have to find a way to realize that we are responsible for it. I don’t have a problem with this at all. What I do have a problem with, until now, is the exact opposite. I totally get that the things I don’t like are caused by me but I have not believed that all the GOOD THINGS are. I actually am successful, I always achieve my goals, I have persistence and endurance like crazy, I have so many good things in my life. Thus the people that are not living in my inner world see me differently than I do.
I finally got the great and most wonderful comfort that I, Jason, myself, me………created all of these wonderful things and circumstances in my life by my thoughts and actions bringing in the effects that I want. Sometimes when I don’t like the effect it takes me awhile to change it but I always do. I realized that I could just jump on the horse………..meaning jump on the abilities that I have and have always been demonstrating my whole life.
So back to the mirror! I felt somewhat sad actually. Saddened that I have gone so long and not realized that my awesome life conditions were created by me, my thinking, my choices. The fact that even others could see it but I couldn’t because of some sick way of seeing myself. But in the end confidence and calmness filled me up knowing that I am responsible for the things I have in my life. And I love those things!!!
Changing life with the Master Key 