This is a quote I received today from Bob Proctors’ “Insights of the Day”.  It’s a great one.  Enjoy!

Believe and Succeed

You will agree, I am sure, that all thinking people have a sincere desire to succeed.

You want to win; I want to win. No one sets out to deliberately destroy themselves - although I must admit, at times it certainly appears as if some people do.

If everyone wants to win - why don’t they? There are probably many answers to that question. After talking with hundreds of people who do not seem to be able to make it happen, I have come to the conclusion that the answer to success is locked up in a seven letter word - “Believe.”

Losers do not believe they can win. Why don’t they believe? I think there is an answer to that question and I’ll get to it in a moment. If you are having difficulty making something big happen in your life, listen closely.

All the great religious leaders, philosophers and self-help gurus have told us to believe and succeed. “All things are possible for those who believe.”

William James said, “Believe and your belief will create the fact.”

I have found that our belief system is based on our evaluation of something. Frequently when we re-evaluate a situation our belief about that situation will change.

Half of my life was wasted. I never even tried to accomplish anything of any importance because I did not believe in myself. The truth was I knew very little about me. Many years ago I was encouraged to begin studying myself, re-evaluate myself. I began to gain an understanding of my marvelous mind. Everyday I learned a little more and I suddenly began to believe in myself.

Today I have a number of companies around the world earning millions of dollars. We have a very successful year long coaching program… We teach people the laws of their mind. Long before the year’s program is over we see marvelous things happen from more money to great loving relationships.

Re-evaluate yourself. There is a sleeping giant in you. Release it.

Believe in yourself.

Bob Proctor

I received this recently from Insights of the Day by Bob Proctor.  It’s a wonderful piece, please enjoy it.

Will Rogers’ Secret

A magic way to win more friendships that no one can resist; even hardened criminals can be won over this way.

“I never met a man I did not like,” said Will Rogers. Many people thought this was just another funny Rogers’ remark, but one time when I met him with Amon Carter, of Fort Worth, I asked him, “Surely you can’t like everybody?”

I knew he must meet bores, cheats, fourflushers just like the rest of us do. How can he possibly like even them?

Will was famous as a funnyman; but he was also a wise philosopher and he could be most serious when he wanted.

“Of course I don’t approve of all the things that people do,” he said, “but there is some goodness and some cussedness in all of us.”

He continued, “If you know a man well enough you can always find something good in him and you can always find something interesting about him. It is just a matter of what you are looking for!”

“But what about the narrow-minded people? What about gossips? The people who do petty, mean little things? Do you like them, too?” I persisted.

“I once read somewhere,” he said, “where someone asked Abe Lincoln that same question - why he refused to get mad at the people who abused him, ridiculed him and tried to discredit him.”

“Lincoln replied that people’s actions spring from their character and that many factors beyond their control went into making up their character - where they were born, the people they had associated with, and a lot of other things.”

“Therefore,’ said Lincoln, ‘you shouldn’t become angry with a person who blocks your path any more than you would with a tree which the wind blew across the road.’”

Will Rogers had no more reason for hating a person who happened to have been unfortunate enough to have acquired a habit of gossip than he did for hating a person who was foolish enough to neglect his teeth.

He didn’t like gossip. Few people do; and he didn’t like pettiness. He looked upon them as foolish behavior rather than evil behavior.

I am convinced that Will Rogers really did like every person he ever met.

There is an interesting thing about liking people, and that is they in turn like you. If you must start a rumor about somebody start it by saying, “I sure like that person.”

This gets back to them and they say, “Well, I always liked him, too.”

Another funny thing about gossip is that if they tell you things about others, you can just bet they will tell others things about you.

While there is always a temptation to listen to gossip, just remember while you are on the listening end this time with this gossiper, the next time you will be on the receiving end when the gossiper gets elsewhere.

Beware of the Gossip!

Avoid the company of the gossip. Don’t give them a chance to be with you, find something out about you, then carry that story into another circle.

I am convinced that this trait of his character was largely responsible for Will Rogers being the most universally liked person I have ever heard about.

Will Rogers liked everybody and everybody liked Will Rogers!

Elmer Wheeler
From How to Sell Yourself to Others

I came across this quote today sent to me by Bob Proctor in his “Insights of the Day” series. Go here to sign up. They come daily through email with an inspirational “Friday Story”.

Lately, I’ve found that being present has opened up doors for me that had been previously..well, ajar! Not totally closed but not totally open either. This quote is an awesome reminder of how to stay in the present moment. There is power in now.

“How to Increase Your Inner Peace”

I want to give you a tested technique for gradually and surely increasing your inner peace. It works for you regardless of the noise and confusion that may surround your day.

You will detach yourself as a mental participant in these noisy events. You will observe them, be aware of them, but you will not involve yourself mentally or emotionally. Perhaps you ask, “But can this really be done? It sounds impossible to separate myself from the constant clatter around me.” I assure you that it can be done by you.

You see, your True Self is detached from everything on the outside. It has awareness of exterior conditions but does not get emotionally upset by them. You have a True Self at this very moment. At the very instant of reading these lines, you are capable of mental detachment from all exterior problems.

Be a calm beholder of life. Mentally detach yourself. Stand back and quietly observe everything that happens to and around you. Do not resist it; merely observe. Do not try to change, improve or destroy it, merely be aware. See yourself as someone apart, which, in truth, you are.

You need not fear that this detachment loses your control of things. It does not harm your daily tasks. They will go on as before. It may surprise you to find them proceeding as before, even improved. Mental detachment is, in fact, a higher form of control.

This kind of detachment is not retreat from reality; it is healthy perception of it.

Stand apart and behold your life. It detaches you from trouble. You don’t suffer from that ill-tempered person; you don’t get depressed over that tragic event; you don’t pay the price for that form of mankind’s madness. You are free.

Vernon Howard, From “Psycho-Pictography”

There is true power in awareness and detachment of the events surrounding you. Our attachments are what bind us. Let go and align yourself with the present moment no matter what is going on around you; no agenda just be “the observer”. When you feel this, you will be feeling, not thinking, the real you.

RS

 ”Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment”

Sidney Poitier, Actor and Author of “The Measure of A Man”

Being in the moment, without interference from the ego, has helped me to overcome many obstacles in my path in many different situations. Relax and be in alignment with the moment.

Being in the moment can mean that you become in total alignment with what’s happening in the only “time” you have and that is right now in this moment. There is no other place other than right now in this moment.

I’ve noticed when I’m not interfering with myself, I speak from a higher level of consciousness. I spontaneously respond from a higher place, totally focused and with clarity. When one interacts in this manner, it reaches that part of the other person beyond their own ego and allows the ultimate respect to be paid to another, that of complete attention without agenda.

That is, in my opinion, a most powerful place.

RS