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You have probably made a promise to yourself that you have broken. You created a big goal and then did not follow through with the goal. The easy way to handle the situation is to give up. You have already fallen off the horse, you might as well stay on. The truth of the matter is there is no horse. You have created a system of feeling bad. First you create a reason for you to feel bad and then you follow through with the feel bad action.

There is no need to do this. Just change the way you talk to yourself. If you “fall off the horse” tell yourself that you can just get back on and everything will be fine. You can keep on going towards your dreams. Life is long and there is plenty of time to make up.

Keep on reaching for your dreams! You can do it! I have faith in you! The universe has faith in you! Love has faith in you!

Did I get them all? Have an amazing day!

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Breaking Bad is available on Netflix. I have finished all three seasons of this wonderful show. Breaking Bad is one of my favorite current television shows. The acting and story are amazing.

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If you haven’t seen Breaking Bad, you should check it out now. Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, who is over 50, with a pregnant wife and teenage son who is disabled. He gets the shock of his life when he learns that he has lung cancer. He does what any reasonable self respecting father does, he decides to cook crystal meth. A lot of things go wrong, which makes for some good entertainment. The show is a little heavy and bloody. Not meant for children.

Watching the show I cannot help but wonder how different Walter White’s life would be if he wrote out a joyous intention for his life. Getting the shock of cancer can shake any person’s foundation of life. Cooking crystal meth to support his family did come from a positive intention, however I am sure if he listened to his inspirational spirit he would have come up with a more positive way to deal with the situation.

Breaking Bad shows is an example of going down the wrong path for the right reasons. Of course Breaking Bad, is a huge dramatization. I am sure you have experienced a bad decision that was made for the right reasons. I know I have. For example, there are times when I have been a jerk to someone because I wanted to protect myself. Using joyous intentions I have been able to cut down on self sabotaging behavior. I am able to use the power of my choices for something positive.

 Do not break bad in your life. Check out the Power to Change and learn how to write joyous intentions that allow you to make positive choices that will change your life in amazing ways.

Continue reading »]]> GUEST BLOG: A way to open up your heart to joy is forgiveness.

One of my favorite quotes is “To hold a grudge is to poison yourself and expect the other person to get sick.” Walter E. Jacobson has written a book on forgiveness. Today I share with you a resource you can use to be the best you that you can be. Live your dreams, get the girl, shower in money, so on and so on.

Forgive To Win!

By Walter E Jacobson, MD

“I wrote the book, Forgive To Win!, because during my many years helping people as a board-certified psychiatrist, I realized that the cause of most people’s unhappiness, depression, anxiety, anger, and frustration with their health, their relationships, their career and their finances is self-sabotage.

Most people get in their own way. They don’t do things they know they need to do and when they do take action they make poor choices that impact negatively on their lives and keep them from attracting and manifesting all that they desire and aspire to accomplish.

When I started teaching my patients the secret to ending their self-sabotaging behaviors (spiritual techniques and cognitive tools designed to increase self-esteem and eliminate guilt, shame and self-loathing deeply embedded in the unconscious mind), their emotional turmoil subsided and their lives got better!

I realized that the Forgiveness Diet, my structured 90-day program for ending self-sabotage, was something that could benefit a great many people, particularly those who repeatedly buy self-help books but don’t get the results that they desire.

My Forgiveness Diet is not complicated. And it works!  With diligent practice and persistence, you can generate love and harmony, increase self-confidence, eliminate fear and worry, be happy, and live a life of value and meaning.

When you re-program your mind to neutralize your negative, harsh Inner Critic, that voice inside yourself that subconsciously causes you to sabotage your opportunities and best efforts, everything changes. There are no limits to what you can accomplish with Forgive To Win!”

Today, October 18th only, when you order this extraordinary, life-changing book, you will receive over 100 free bonus gifts from people who have partnered with me on my book launch because they believe in the power of my book to help you transform your life.

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Continue reading »]]> “Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Gifts Giveaway Offers 675+ FREE Health and Wellness Related Products, Services & Memberships”

I wanted to let you know today about a Health and Wellness site that will allow you to download 100’s of self help gifts. And the best part is that it is absolutely FREE!

If you’ve had enough of plodding along year after year and you want to improve yourself and your health to make this your BEST ever year, then you need to go here: http://healthywealthywisegifts.com/go/721

Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Gifts will be open only for a VERY LIMITED TIME from June 9th to June 30th, 2011. When you go there you’ll find a multitude of products – all FREE – provided by Health, Fitness, Wellness and Marketing experts from all over the world. Here is just a small sample of what you will find:

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The organizers of the event are Stephanie Mulac, Carolyn Hansen and Dr. Joe Rubino.

Stephanie started this style of event in 2006. It’s in the form of a “Giveaway” which is sort of like a giant electronic trade fair where 100’s of experts offer their products free to the public.

Because it has become so popular, this year Stephanie has enlisted the services of Carolyn Hansen, renowned fitness professional, and Self Exteem Expert, Dr. Joe Rubino.

You only have to walk into any book store in any country to see how popular the subjects of health, fitness and wellness are. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry churning out hundreds of new books, audios, CD’s and other paraphernalia every year.

These can be very expensive but at http://healthywealthywisegifts.com/go/721 you can pick this information up completely FREE.

With the year almost half over, what better time is there than right NOW to set yourself and your business up for future success? This event is a life-changing experience for those who take it.

Come and join Stephanie, Carolyn, Joe and me and see for yourself.

If you want to grab the largest collection of health, wellness and internet marketing products you’ll find ANYWHERE – all FREE – then go to http://healthywealthywisegifts.com/go/721 NOW and claim your bounty!

I, Brett Dupree, am very proud to be a part of this giveway!

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When I was a child I used to go on long summer trips with my grandparents. My sister and my cousin Angela would drive with my grandmother. The people who had the honor of driving with my grandfather was Angela’s sister, Aubrey (my aunt Ruth loves the letter A) and me. As young kids we did not like our grandfather’s old people’s boring music and being a fan of old people’s boring music my grandfather was not a fan of our young people’s music filled with clicks and whistles. One album we all could agree on was the Muppet Movie Soundtrack. Imagine sitting in a car while driving across the country listening to the Muppet Movie Soundtrack for hours. It doesn’t get better than that. The film was okie dokie.

As I am older I enjoy listening to songs of my youth to remember the great experiences. Plus it is fun to see how much of each song I can still sing along to word for word. Since I have had a few spiritual awakening experiences I am listening to the songs with a new awareness. Listening to the soundtrack of The Muppet Movie there are two songs that really stand out that makes me think there was more to Jim Henson than just his talent with puppets. With his genius for having two beautiful songs written by Paul Williams in the Muppet Movie.

Enlightenment can be a tricky concept to understand. One of the reasons it is so tricky is that the less you understand the more you know. Messages can exist in the most unlikely sources. As an example of my satori experience with the movie Kingpin, mentioned in the blog about the day I discovered personal responsibility. I was surprised when I listened to these two songs again and noticed how they described parts of my new perspective of this wonderful world.

The two songs are The Rainbow Connection by Kermit The Frog and Back There Someday by Gonzo.

The Rainbow Connection is the most famous song of the Muppets. Has been one of my favorite songs since I have been a young child. I had the Rainbow Connection on a 45 record. Here is a link to the history of the 45 for your younger kids.

The entire song brings up a lot of thoughts. The part that really stood out to me is:

Have you been half asleep? Have you heard voices? I’ve heard them calling my name. Is it the sweet sound that calls the young sailors? The voice might be one and the same. I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it. Its something that I’m supposed to be.

What an amazing line that encapsulates the inspirations that can tell us our purpose. During your average day, when you are half asleep your resistance to your spiritual self is at its lowest during your waking ours. How many times have you gotten a great idea or had an inspiration about your purpose in life? I know it has happened to me many times. I get goose bumps every time I hear this part of the song.

The above is the best sounding copy of I’m Going to go Back There Someday I could find on YouTube. It is an added bonus that the video is of Avatar the Last Airbender. One of my favorite cartoons.

This song is amazingly beautiful. This song actually used to make me feel sad as a child.  From my perspective it is a great example of a person who has gone through an amazing spiritual awakening and is looking to recapture the feeling.  Almost every line can be dissected for a deeper meaning. Of course the meaning of anything is determined by the listener. Some people might think I am over analyzing a great song. Still, this post is a good excuse for you to listen to it again. I will pick out one of my favorite lines to give a little commentary.

There’s not a word yet, for old friends who just met

Is that a great line for the concept of universal oneness. Going through an experience of universal oneness all people seem like old friends even though you have yet to meet them in this reality. Also could be an example of when you meet someone and it feels like you have known them for years on a deeper level. Just a beautiful line.

Looking out in the blogosphere I noticed that K T Cat of the blog The Scratching Post agrees with me about how deep the Muppet Movie. This person may have a different perspective, however it is is just as beautiful as mine. Posted a blog about Old Friends Who Just Met in 2006.

What is an unlikely source of some Universal Wisdom that you have found?

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The NFL draft is one of the most exciting aspects of football to me. I remember watching the 1994 draft and seeing college highlights of a quarterback who I hoped would be able to duplicate his success in the NFL. With the third pick in the draft the Oilers took the exciting quarterback Steve “Air” McNair. He had the name “Air” because he shattered all I-AA passing records at the little known university named Alcorn State. Watching his career blossom the way it did, taught me much on how to live life. First, his career taught me to honor my path. Sometimes I want success now. I see the work that I have done and wonder, “Why isn’t it happening yet?” I think of McNair as a person who sat on the bench for a few years before becoming one of the best players in the NFL. Another lesson is to accept success the way that it is. McNair didn’t light up the scoreboards like he did in college andhis career was most likely not how he envisioned it would be Instead of lighting up the scoreboards with his arms, he used his legs, leadership, play making ability and sheer determination to become one of the best players in the league. McNair’s career taught me how to get through tough times. There are few players in the NFL that have played through more injuries than McNair. He even had a Jackie Chan inspired poster showing off his many injuries. His ability on the football field and his toughness is how I will remember him.

This tragedy o f his death reminds me of the mistakes that people can make. One of my strongest beliefs is that happy and joyful people who are living good lives do not purposely harm other people. On July 4 a tortured individual named Sahel Kazemi allegedly put two bullets in his chest and two in his head. I call her tortured because only a person who is tortured would kill commit this act. It is times like these where we need to look to people and not discount the torture that we put ourselves through. Torture like the destructive thoughts that will lead people like Kazemi into actions that cause people so much pain. To give compassion to people who torture themselves into actions such as murder and suicide is not an action of weakness and is not condoning their actions. An action that harms another person is not something to be condoned. No one who is in their right mind will do such a thing. No one deserves to be in a space where an action such as this seems like a good idea.

To learn from this and find ways to prevent it in the future will bring more closure to this tragedy and help prevent other actions that harm others. To judge and to hate will just help create more of these actions. We can give answers such as, “this is the devil’s work” or if you are new age, “the ego or pain body.” Once we as a society judge people as evil or insane, we close the door on solutions and open the door for pain and suffering. One gift we have as humans is a deep compassion for all beings. It is times like this where we must go deep inside and find the part of ourselves that may snap one day. We need to give that part of us compassion and to make sure that we as individuals create a support structure where we have someone to lean on so we do not make such damaging actions. We need to learn to love ourselves and give love to others and to have compassion to the poor souls.

In the graphic novel, Batman: The Killing Joke, the Joker has a theory that all it takes is one horrible day to change someone from living a life of love and service into living a life of insanity. Joker is the perfect villain for Batman because they are polar opposites. Joker and Batman were both regular people who had just one bad day that changed their lives forever. One went on to become a crime fighter and another one went on to become the Clown Prince of Crime.

During bad times we always have a choice. We can make a choice that will bring pain to many people including ourselves and our loved ones or we can take that pain and learn from it and use it to bring more love into this world. The choice is ours. Kazemi made the wrong choices with her pain and she paid with her life and we all paid with the death of a man who brought so much positivity into this world. My heart goes out to her and her loved ones. My heart goes out to the friends and family of Steve McNair. My love shines through all our hearts.

I dedicate a prayer to all those who have been touched by this tragic event. May the holes left in all of your hearts be filled with love and good acts.

I dedicate a prayer to all people who are about to make the worst mistakes of their lives. May love bring them pause and may they listen to their second thoughts.

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