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ARTArticleThe Necessity of Ridding the Self of Mental ReservationMental reservation is your own brand of manipulative grace that you put upon yourself or impressed yourself with, based on experiences you have had in your life. Though you think in terms of definitely doing this, that, or the other thing, there is still that subtle delimiter inside your own head. Even though you believe your desires are important and you insist and demand to have them in your life without restriction or delay, you will find that they still do not manifest.ARTArticleThe New You!Reinventing yourself is not about getting rid of old ways and ideas. It is about taking away what you need from them; heartbreak, sadness, being stepped on and lied to, and creating a brand new person who sees their self a lot more clearly.
The energy around a situation or circumstance is either positive or negative and it is fueled by how you feel about it. It is so important to realize what moves you forward out of a bad situation and helps you to evolve into a positive state.rARTArticleThe Obituary ExerciseToday, let's talk about what I call the obituary exercise. And by the way, I want you to know that I teach this and actually guide people through it at my $50,000 Destiny Creator intensive seminars and events—so it's like major technology.
The idea is this. Whatever age you're at, project yourself forward on one strand down the negative path, the way you are now, down the status quo—and on one strand down the path of discipline, the path of the resources, time, work, and effort that you know you need to invest to make things happen.ARTArticleThe Only Long-Term Business Approach That Brings Outstanding SuccessThere is no conflict between working to maximize your profits in business, and working to benefit your consumer to the maximum. Quite to the contrary.
Once you realize that the only long-term approach that can possibly be successful is to deliver the maximum value so that you get repeat and ever-growing business, well, it makes good sense. Delivering the most you can in the time that you have, providing more of what your customer wants, is going to maximize your profits.
Now, I know in this particular epoch, we're at a high tide of anti-business sentiment.ARTArticleThe Only Relationship Article You Will Ever Have To Read (Really)The Only Relationship Article You Will Ever Have To Read (Really)
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Bill Cottringer
“Good relationships are when your head, heart and hands agree most of the time and besides it doesn’t matter quite that much.” ~The author.
Centuries of research would agree that relationships fail for three main reasons. You will probably want to find out these three reasons for three different reasons of your own:
1. You are starting a relationship and want to be smart and avoid preventable failure.
2.ARTArticleThe Opposite EmpowermentUntil we break out of thinking that it's a random world or that luck might just happen… until we recognize and accept cause and effect, that "if it's to be it's up to me" … until we realize that the unseen and the seen worlds react identically, then we can't harness our power. That's why I mention it early in the preface and introduction for The NEW Think and Grow Rich.
And then the Law of Vibration, too-now, this brings in a whole lot of other things, like duality, change, seasons.ARTArticleThe Pain That Comes From Feeling GoodThere is a pain that feels good. Now, I know that sounds contradictory… and no, I'm not into S&M. But, let's take the metaphor of exercise, where we've stretched beyond what we are accustomed to.
Let's take the metaphor which I am familiar with, of weightlifting-where we enter a new area, and the muscles ache for days and days. Every ache is a good ache, and every pain feels good.
I would suggest that this metaphor can be extended into our business/personal/social affairs, so that we can knowingly step outside our comfort zones.ARTArticleThe Path to a Lifetime of Success is Through GodI'm 10 days away from my South Africa speaking engagement. I'm excited beyond words. I was thinking this morning though. I said to myself, who am I to be flown into South Africa with my security and to be paid some people's year salary to speak? Who am I not to have a college degree and no plaques on my wall validating my existence? Who am I to be 29 years old and an international speaker and coach?
Then a small still voice said to me, "Who do you serve?" I answered, "Jesus Christ." Then the voice said, "That's your answer."ARTArticleThe Pike SyndromeThe professor had the graduate students that were his aides bring in a table. Then he had them bring in a big glass fish tank. It was pretty big, about five to six feet long and about four feet high. Then he had them bring in the pike, which is a carnivorous fish—and then bring in the minnows.
It was a pretty convincing act. The pike eats faster than the human eye can react to and calibrate what's actually happening.ARTArticleThe Power & Benefit of Chocolatedid you know that chocolate has more antioxidants than kale?
*the author briefly imagines and rapidly dismisses the idea of chocolate covered dino kale*
For my fellow chocoholics out there, below is more than enough justification [and encouragement] to indulge and a bit on how to be smart about it.ARTArticleThe Power of DreamsThe Power of Dreams
Did you know you can have 7 or more dreams a night? While your body is resting, your brain is awake and working away on things your conscious mind doesn’t even know about. Dreams can be vivid and powerful, full of emotion and ideas. As far back as 5000 BC, dreams have been interpreted as having portents: of being worth more than what the conscious mind can offer. We could identify their sensations with “real life” or, more precisely, waking life, actions and events.
Your dreams can tell you an incredible amount about yourself.ARTArticleThe Power of Eye ContactWhat is eye contact?
Several popular definitions are:
1. Eye contact is one of the most important nonverbal channels you have for communicating and connecting with others.ARTArticleThe Power of Self-Revealization AcceptanceSelf-revealization acceptance brings into functional and tangible form ALL the creative energy of the universe as it is instructed to reveal itself as. Self-revealization acceptance affects the release of any and all limitations and restrictions: mental, physical, and spiritual. It will profoundly influence your life and teach you to use the Creative Power of the Universe as you see fit. This is accomplished by knowing and accepting any choice in your life as already done.ARTArticleThe Power of Syntax in Creating Lasting ChangeSyntax describes the structure of a language and how it is used to communicate.
The importance of Syntax when we communicate is absolute (whether we are talking to ourselves OR someone else).
In this brief article I want to share:
• ‘How’ syntax can change the meaning of a sentence
• ‘Why’ this is important
• And how to best create a positive message
In these two sentences for example notice how a change in syntax completely alters the meaning:
“The dog bit John.”
“John bit the dog.”ARTArticleThe Practice Of TrustTrust is the opposite energy from resistance. When we trust, we say we are "going with the flow." But what is the flow? It's the way things are going. For instance, in line with the popular metaphor of a river, the flow is the direction the river is going in. Nothing mysterious or complicated about that. What complicates our getting into the flow is our resistance.ARTArticleThe Price Of The Holy GrailWe've each got our favorite periods of history we identify with, and our favorite personages and activities. And one of my favorites, from early childhood—the very first things I remember reading in depth, so I had to be in the first, or presumably, the second grade—were the stories of Sir Lancelot and the Round Table.
King Arthur, Sir Parzival—there are variant ways to say it. Most people say Sir Perceval. I prefer the German pronunciation, Sir Parzival.
There's a book in the German language, written by Wolfram von Eschenbach, called Parzival.ARTArticleThe Problem That All Religion, Psychology and Spirituality Are Trying To SolveThe Problem That All Religion, Psychology and Spirituality Are Trying To Solve
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Bill Cottringer
“Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.” ~Kahlil Gabran.
There is a very large “elephant metaphor” in life’s living room, that when not mentioned, it keeps us all from experiencing our full potential in learning, growing and improving into our best selves.ARTArticleThe Protected HeartWe all protect our heart in one way or another. Maybe we were teased at school, or hurt by someone we once loved. It doesn’t matter how far back the sense of pain goes, it might feel very real today.
It is good to guard your heart against people or situations that might hurt you, but there is a line that you have to watch because you might be over protecting your heart.rARTArticleThe Return of te Warrior: Life After DeathMy Faith StoryrARTArticleThe Rich and Powerful and the Power of the Unconscious MindThe Rich and Powerful and the Power of the Unconscious MindARTArticleThe Right Question: What Do People Want?Unless you're living in a cave and you don't need any of the essentials of food, shelter, transportation, etc., and unless you haven't heard the news, unless you haven't had, maybe, a family member affected—and there are people who haven't—or, unless, of course, you have a no-fail government job - it's bad. It's ugly out there.
You can be positive about that, and not be negative about your own circumstances. Take charge, get flexible, be adaptable, think, plan, progress, be positive about yourself!ARTArticleThe Risk That You're Willing To TakeBoy, I've gotten myself into some fancy fixes before. I've lost money on big investments, in international business, with things going crazy, by doing something in a relationship that I shouldn't have done for some reason… such as changing the relationship.
I'm not that unique—we all do this stuff. I mean, I do know that I'm a little bit more extreme, and if you know my life you know that, too—but that's the way that goes.ARTArticleThe Secret to Effortless PowerAs my students start understanding and truly applying universal laws in their everyday lives, one of the most common comments they make is: “It is amazing, I did not plan for anything, and it all flowed in a way much better tha
I could have ever expected!”
It may be a trip, a job interview, a date, a business meeting, a sales negotiation, or simply commuting to work.ARTArticleThe Secret Tool to Manifest Your VisionThe science of manifesting your vision is all about holding the vibration of your vision. Another way of saying this is that to manifest your vision, i.e.: take it from the invisible to material form; you will need to change your thinking and your energy.
Einstein said that, “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of awareness that created them.” Applying this concept to our vision, although we may not see it as a “problem” there is the gap of where we currently stand and the vision itself….the life we’d love to live.ARTArticleThe SelfEvery day there are distractions, some of those are bigger than others. Some are more important things that need tending to more than others. The important thing is to take care of them but not get lost in them. Always remember the self.
The self is being comfortable with who you are and what you stand for. It means taking time to nourish and appreciate who you are. It means tending to your souls needs.rARTArticleThe Seven Cures For A Lean PurseThere is a problem with our educational system, which could be solved by introducing one text That text, by George S. Clayson, is The Richest Man in Babylon.
There's a reason why nobody receives financial education in the public school system. It's because they don't want you to have it. It's a little more complex tha
I want to go into here, but literally, they do not want you to have financial education.
Without financial education, you make a more docile sheep, and you pay more taxes. But you can still find the info you need!ARTArticleThe Seven Cures For A Lean PurseThere is a problem with our educational system, which could be solved by introducing one text That text, by George S. Clayson, is The Richest Man in Babylon.
There's a reason why nobody receives financial education in the public school system. It's because they don't want you to have it. It's a little more complex tha
I want to go into here, but literally, they do not want you to have financial education.
Without financial education, you make a more docile sheep, and you pay more taxes. But you can still find the info you need!ARTArticleThe Soul’s Revenge Of The Mind’s ExcessesThe Soul’s Revenge Of The Mind’s Excesses
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Bill Cottringer
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” ~Hippocrates.
What is the real goal of self-growth? After 4+ decades of practical research into the self-growth movement, I have come to a tentative conclusion about this question: The basic purpose of the self-growth process is to reconcile the mind’s wants with the soul’s needs. And the only way this can be done is through the very creative process than runs the universe.ARTArticleThe Spirit of ChristmasJust the word Christmas can warm your heart and put a smile on your face. For some it is a time of year that they have come to dread. It is the loneliest time of year for many, and a joyous time for many more. But the true meaning of Christmas is not about what lies under the Christmas tree or even the fact if you have one or not, it is what is in your heart.rARTArticleTHE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND OTHER CONFUSING NOTIONSThe Ten Commandments, in whatever form, are a good controlling factor for the suggested behavior of man, but do they really hold water when it comes right down to it? Another reality check is that no one lives, lived, or will live without breaking all ten commandments, and on a consistent basis. Mission impossible! The root of that absurdity itself: the Ten Commandments—and the variations that exist in all forms of worship and adoration, and where these notions came from, is a concept of utter confusion for the vast majority of humankind. So-called ‘faith’ is not an answer.