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Audio: Take the Risk [Time - 16:50, File Size - 15.8 MB]

This post is all about getting outside your comfort zone. It’s about encouraging you to run with open arms to embrace that somewhat scary opportunity that you see in front of you. If you can imagine it… if you can see it clearly… if it gets you excited as a possibility, then it may be your destiny to make it a reality. As Ralph Waldo Emerson says: “There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.”  In other words, the very fact that you can imagine a new path or a new invention or a new way of being indicates that it is part of your larger life’s purpose to manifest it.

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Audio: Trust Your Judgment [Time - 14:45, File Size - 13.9 MB]

“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages… Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson in Self-Reliance

“… the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities — they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the ‘Trusting Mindset.’ Routine access to the Trusting Mindset is what separates great performers from the rest of the pack.” — John Eliot in Overachievement

“Skill in any performance, whether it be in sports, in playing the piano, in conversation, or in selling merchandise, consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed, but in relaxing, and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.”  Maxwell Maltz in Psycho-Cybernetics

“By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.”  Wayne Dyer in The Power of Intention So, do you trust yourself — really trust yourself — to come up with that creative leap, that exactly appropriate solution, that powerful insight that maybe no one else can generate?

The message shared by all these great teachers… indeed, by many other great philosophers… is that to achieve anything great you must trust that voice which lies deep within you and is trying to be heard. Read the rest of this entry »

Audio:  Act As If [Time - 12:45, File Size - 12 MB]

If you are a regular PBS viewer or a reader of self-help books, you’ve no doubt come across Wayne Dyer’s famous words of encouragement from his book, The Power of Intention: “Act as if everything you desire is already here… treat yourself as if you already are what you’d like to become.”

If you’re like me, you find these words inspiring, encouraging, and motivating! When I hear them, I say to myself, “Yeah! I can do that! I can imagine myself doing a great job at that next presentation, or training session, or marketing call, or whatever.” And for a while, I feel buoyed up by these thoughts, hopeful, and somewhat empowered. And I set about creatively visualizing my performance in that powerful new state of being. Eventually, however, the voice of my skeptic pipes up and says, “Well now… exactly what does this mean ‘Act as if your desires are already here…’ Just what is that supposed to accomplish?”

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