Week 13 Expecting the Maximum…

A lot of people want change…they want life to be different.  They want more good things.  Less bad things.  The truth of the matter is not many people WANT to change themselves.  There’s the old saying…change yourself and the whole world changes.

Working through the Master Key Experience takes work.  It takes discipline.  Good thing is it’s all accumulative.  Bad thing is it’s all accumulative.  Don’t do the work and pretty soon you are far behind.  Do the work and you are one step closer every day to what you want.

I’ve been doing the work.  But, in all honesty, I could do more.  I could focus more.  I could put more into my services.  More into working towards my Pivotal Personal Needs.  We all have more in us.  When push comes to shove we all have more in us.  Go to the mirror…and ask yourself:  “Am I doing all I can to be all that I want to be?”  What’s the answer?

We can’t go on expecting the maximum and doing the minimum.  Life doesn’t work that way.  The Universe doesn’t work that way.  We all know it!

We are working this week on finding three things that we are grateful for daily and writing them down.  We are to read through these and another group of cards that we have been adding to that highlights things we have done right in our life.  We are reading a stack of these daily to help remind us that no matter how things look right now we have done some things right in our life.  This helps to remind me to look for the good things, to quickly forget the little things that go wrong everyday because I need to concentrate on the good things so I can put them on my cards.

                                    What we focus on grows.  

                                    What we forget atrophies.

The Law of Growth.  The Simple Truth right there.  Focus on negative, depressing things and you turn negative and depressed.  Focus on positive, good and uplifting things and see the good in the world and your world is most likely happy.  That doesn’t mean that things that sadden you don’t happen it just means you don’t focus on them.  It’s as simple as changing your view.  It’s amazing how quickly you can change your world.

About 15 years ago I found an old movie with Hayley Mills.  You know her she’s the girl that played in the original Parent Trap from 1961.  In this movie she plays a girl that despite all the sad things that happened to her chooses to focus on the good things in life.  All of the people in town at first think she’s a bit odd.  But, of course, by the end the townsfolk realize that she was the only one that had been looking at things through the proper perspective.  So, if you haven’t seen it yet you should.  Find yourself a copy of Pollyanna.  It’s a great family movie!

Working on building a business has its ups and downs.  There are activities you that you dread.  You know you should do them.  But you think about how much pain you associate with the activity and you talk yourself out of them.  I’m guilty of it.  I admit it.  It’s easy to rationalize that other things need to be done, that now isn’t a good time, etc.  But the truth of the matter is the only thing stopping you, or me in this case, from getting it done is the pain that is associated with the task.

This week we were given a new tool to work through issues like this.  We were taught how to use NARC.  Neurological Associative Reactive Conditioning. Using NARC teaches our mind how to attach pleasure to what previously we associated with pain.  We have been using our DMP that we built from the beginning, and continue to refine, daily.  We read it 3 times a day with feeling and emotion.  Now we are to do the same and then dump the DMP in the trash!

YIKES!  WHAT DID YOU SAY?!

YUP!  Drop your DMP and all your goals in the trash.

Why?!  Because if you aren’t going to do what you need to do then your DMP means nothing.  You can’t do the minimum and expect the maximum!

So now what?  I just threw my goals in the trash!  That means my DMP is trash?!  Well we don’t want that do we.  That DMP is important to us.  It represents all that we want, all we deserve, all we are willing to work for.  So to show it’s important to you and that you really want everything you stated on your DMP do the thing that you know you should to advance your life or your business.  For some of us it might mean making 10 calls.   When you complete the “scary” task then you have earned your DMP back.   You get a prize! Go Get IT!  Pick it up out of the trash.  Hug it, read it again.  Feel it!  You just got back something you really want.  It’s not dead.  It hasn’t been taken from you.  But you almost let it go!

So what was more painful?  Doing the task or throwing away your goals and dreams?    If you really want success.  You’ll associate pleasure with the once “scary” task because it means you are one step closer to your definite major purpose.  By making those calls in my case, I get to dig my DMP out of the trash.  I get to claim my future all over again.

I expect the maximum out of life…so I refuse to do the minimum!

See you next week.