This morning was like many other mornings.  I woke up with an idea in mind that I wanted to write about, and by the time I got the computer turned on, other thoughts came to mind.  Then I took a quick look at email to make sure nothing was urgent; it was downhill from there.  By the time I quickly answered a couple of emails, my other thoughts had flown the coop.  It was just as well, since the main computer was acting up.  This would be the perfect week for computer whiz Chuck to take a look, so I sent him an email.  I came into the living room and, as the laptop booted, I pondered how often I allow my morning to begin like this.

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I wrote on Facebook this week: “A friend is complaining to me that she did someone a favor and they didn’t acknowledge it or thank her for it. I told her if she did it for acknowledgment or thanks, she might wanna check her agenda. Either do it happily as a gift, or don’t do it at all. That way it won’t eat you up inside.”  One friend commented” “Would you do the favor if you didn’t like them?  This is hard to do if they are mean and spiteful too”  I replied, “I’d do the favor especially if I didn’t like them.  It’s only hard to do if you keep reminding yourself of the mean and spiteful things they do. Where your focus goes is what you keep reacting to.”  Don’t expect to be repaid a favor by the one you did the favor for. If you really knew how it worked, you’d just do favors all over the place and not care who they went to or who they came from.  To paraphrase Mother Teresa, and Kent M. Keith People can be thankless and unappreciative, help them anyway.

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The August edition of Horizons Magazine, Spiritual Solutions for Florida since 1992 – Applying the Law of Attraction is now online. It’s a good one.

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My dad and younger brother were bipolar and I’ve had several friends who were, diagnosed and undiagnosed. My good friend Domino was diagnosed 4 years ago, something I suspected long before she did.  I’ve known her for 30 years, and know her family as well.  Her mom was diagnosed years before.  Like I wrote in Is Bipolar The Root Of Genius? , I find myself missing her manic upswings, her wild ideas, her inspirations and musings.  Her hare-brained schemes.  But while they may have been simply grandiose babblings from a clinically manic state, to my ear they sounded like messages of inspiration.  They sparked ideas which often evolved into projects that earned both of us income.  When I look back, after Domino was first diagnosed as bi-polar several years ago, and think of all the ideas for projects that never materialized, I still can’t see that as being grandiose – one man’s absurd exaggeration is another mans’ actual life.  During the same time frame, I think of all the ideas for projects I have left undone.  It’s about the same, so you can’t blame it on bi-polar.  Part of the fun we have together is chatting about what might be possible to achieve between the two of us.  I don’t think of that as grandiose, I think of it as enthused pre-paving.  So when she’s quiet and mellow, we don’t do that.  I miss it in her and I miss the reaction it brings out in me. So I’ll just have to bring it out of myself and get with friends that bring it out of me.
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On Facebook yesterday, I wrote “I enjoyed seeing Obama on The View. I like him and I am hopeful.”  One friend wrote: “Not me,” and another responded “You didn’t see him or you are choosing to not be hopeful?”  I don’t typically watch The View, but I was at someone’s office and they had the tv on in the lobby.  I know there are those who think Obama isn’t doing enough, or that it’s just more of the same, but if they are not hopeful, I kinda don’t care what they say. So far, in my experience, I like what he’s doing and believe he’s fulfilling a higher purpose and I’ve seen zero evidence to the contrary.  Obama is funneling hope into people who have not been hopeful for many years.  When you fill people with hope, their perception of what the possibilities are expands, and that is what attracts a more successful result.  A segment of the population that has hopeful expectation that things can turn around, can balance out the pessimistic mindset of the rest of the population.  As Abraham-Hicks says, It only takes a few with focused, conscious thought, belief and expectation to over-ride the unfocused critical thought of the masses.  I choose to be one of the ones who hopes for the best, prepares for the worst, and encourages my fellow man along the way.  I choose to be one of the ones who celebrates the good in every moment, and who continually looks for evidence of more of the same.  I don’t care what others think and say. I know what I want to find at the end of the rainbow and, unless I let my attention be turned to criticism, I’m headed for a pot of gold.  We all are.  So, which is it for you?  Do you choose to be hopeful and expect the best?

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A guest was finishing with a question: Guest:  I will give you some examples. One would be the whole idea of going to psychics for readings. The whole idea then of us having psychic ability and trying to develop that ourselves in order to give psychic readings. The idea of Astrology and the value of that?

Abraham-Hicks: Most importantly is your own connection to your own Inner Being, because that sort of guidance comes forth moment by moment. In other words there is just nothing that is more important than that.  The value of a psychic is the same sort of value as you Inner Being in a dream state.  In other words a psychic can tap into YOUR energy and know sort of where you are going. Continue reading →

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I previously wrote about this show at Heart Breaths, Encounter Groups and MTV’s If You Really Knew Me.  Each episode of If You Really Knew Me takes place at a different high school, and follows several students from different cliques as they go through the life-changing experience of Challenge Day, a one-day program that breaks down emotional walls and completely changes the way students view their school and each other.  Challenge Day addresses common issues seen at most schools including cliques, gossip, rumors, negative judgments, teasing, harassment, isolation, stereotypes, intolerance, racism, sexism, bullying, violence, homophobia, hopelessness, apathy, and hidden pressures to create an image, achieve or live up to the expectations of others. Continue reading →