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Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways

True giving happens not from a space of sacrifice, or self-righteousness, or an idea of spirituality, but for the pure pleasure of it — because it’s fun. It can only come from a full, loving place.

In your fear of not getting what you want, you may actually be energizing the idea of not getting it as much or as more than your energizing the goal itself!!!!!!!!!

Creative visualization is only truly effective when it is used in alignment with our highest goals and purposes, for the highest good of all beings.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.

Attaining personal goals
* Goals are great if you really want to make a dent in the cosmos, if you are interested in extraordinary achievement, or if you want to make a lot of money
* Goals are a potential source of tyranny if you don’t truly want to realize them, but you just think you ought to have them. Maybe if you don’t have a goal or goals shouting at you, you should wait until you do

Temperament is not destiny.

Everyone can achieve something significant. The key is not effort, but finding the right thing to achieve.

The 80/20 Principle treats time as a friend, not an enemy. Time gone is not time lost. Time will always come around again. This is why there are seven days in a week, twelve months in a year, why the seasons come around again. Insight and value are likely to come from placing ourselves in a comfortable, relaxed, and collaborative position toward time. It is our use of time, and not time itself, that is the enemy.

We cannot be certain to what height the human species may aspire in their advance toward perfection… We may therefore safely acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.

Keys to Project Management:
- Simplify the objective
- Impose an impossible time scale
- Plan before you act
- Design before you implement

What is most simple and standardized is hugely more productive and cost effective than what is complex.

The 80/20 Principle is most useful when we can identify all the forces beneath the surface so that we can stop the negative influences and give maximum power to the most productive forces

Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully.

“God plays dice with the universe. But they’re loaded dice. And the main objective is to find out by what rules they were loaded and how we can use them for our own ends.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

When we ruminate, worry, or obsess, we can think of it as “problem-solving in overdrive”; our mind’s going over and over the problem, full speed ahead, desperately trying to come up with a good solution. But it’s like a car stuck in the sand: the engine’s on full throttle, the wheels are spinning wildly — but the car is going nowhere.

“There is only one time that is important & that is now. It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.”

Any emotion we experience — anger, sadness, guilt, fear, shame, disgust, love, joy, curiosity, and so on — is always comprised of three interweaving elements: sensations, cognitions, and urges.

Life is like a stage show. And on that stage are all your thoughts and feelings and everything you can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. At times, what appears on that stage is absolutely wonderful; at other times, it’s absolutely dreadful. And there’s a part of you that can step back and watch that show; zoom in to any part of it, take in the details, or zoom out and take in the big picture.

Truthful or not, our thoughts are nothing more or less than words. If those words are telling us something useful, something that can help us, then it’s worth paying attention to them. But if not, why bother?

The brain doesn’t change by subtraction. It changes by addition — by laying down new neural pathways on top of the old ones. So we can’t simply delete these unwanted thoughts. But we can lay down new neural pathways that enable us to respond differently — so that when these thoughts inevitably reappear, we can acknowledge them and allow them to freely come and stay and go without getting hooked.