Happy New Year my friends.  We have another week at home and we just got back from working out at our local club.  Wow!  It’s full of New Year’s Resolution work out people.  The regulars all complain about the fact that every machine is full and that all of these “resolution types” jam up the place in January.  Just January.

I think that’s pretty sad.  The thing I think is sad is that lots of folks get their hopes up and they muster the energy TO GET STARTED, but they don’t make a plan TO KEEP GOING.  This is why I’m dedicating the entire year in 2011 to helping my readers KEEP IT GOING.

Each week I’ll put out a new post with a tip to help you keep moving forward with your 2011 goals.  Let’s share information with your posts and help each other grow in the direction of our intentions for 2011.  We’ll share our goals, resolutions or intentions next week — but first let’s reflect on a couple of things.

Write these things down:

1)  What were your major accomplishments in 2010?

2) Who are the folks who can help you the most with your dreams in 2011?

3) What are your major strengths?

Let’s GO!

Live Large,

Rob

I believe in the Law of Attraction — I really do. I believe that if you set your heart on something and put it out to the Universe — and subject your intention to the Highest Good of everyone — you will manifest all that you desire.

But the thing is, you can’t just sit around and expect the Universe to drop your dreams into your lap — you have to take Inspired Action when the time is right.

In August of1993 I hiked Mt. Fuji with three friends.  We left Tokyo at about 4am and arrived at the trail head at 6am.  We had some green tea, bought staffs and flags and headed up the trail.

The trailhead is at about 7,000 ft. and the beautiful summit stands, often above the clouds, at 12,385 ft.  Many Japanese people hike the mountain at night and arrive at the summit when the sun rises in the morning — a special pilgrimage to a sacred place.   As we started our hike, there were several older folks — many at least 70 years old — headed up the mountain and moving very slowly following an english-speaking guide with a flag.  I asked him how long it would take the folks to go up and down the mountain and he responded that it would take about 10 hours and that each one of them would definitely make it — that they would focus only on each bend in the trail until they got there — and then they would focus on the next bend — a sort of progressive, physical, mental and physical meditation — until they reached the top.  It took us about 3 hours to get to the top, we stayed on the summit for about 30 minutes, then headed down.  On our way down, we recognized our friends from the bottom of the trail, still about 2 hours from the summit, focused on each and every step they were taking — and they were slowly making it.

In the 50s, the US was on top of the world and Japan was rebuilding.  Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered his thoughts to US industry on increasing quality, but his ideas didn’t get much traction.  He took his work to Japan and it was embraced whole-heartedly — in fact the Japanese have a word for slow, methodical, continous improvement — Kaizen.  They used this principle to steadily increase and improve their position in the industrialized world and now stand as a world power — largely due to applying these concepts.

Are you ready to get unstuck and start living your life?  Identify your Core Values, write your Personal Mission Statement, identify your Key Goal Areas where you want to take Inspired Action.  Identify the key steps you need to take — very, very small steps — one at a time — THEN START TAKING THEM.  Each of those very, very small steps needs to find their way to your DAILY “TO DO” LIST. 

Take the steps, check them off and keep moving to the next bend in the trail. 

It is only in this way that the Laws of Attraction and Manifestation work.  The Universe will conspire with you and will bring you what you need — but you need to take the first step.

Need help?  Let me know.
Peace to you.

Rob, Mary and Wes

A wise sage told a man that there was, somewhere on a vast beach of stones that surrounded a bottomless lake, a Magic Stone that would transform anything it touched into pure gold.  The Magic Stone could only be recognized by taking the time to pick it up, feel its warmth and find it’s faint glow.  The sage told the man where to find the beach.  His quest would be to search for the stone until he found it.
 
The man traveled to the spot and found a rock covered beached that bordered an incredibly beautiful, impossibly deep, turquoise-colored lake.  Legend told that millions of years earlier a meteorite had struck in this very spot, creating the bottomless lake and the stones that surrounded it.  This was a magical spot indeed.
 
Determined to find The Magic Stone, regardless of how long it took, the man picked a starting point on the beach, bent over and pick up the first stone — feeling for the warmth and looking for the glow.
 
This was not the Magic Stone. 
 
So as not to pick it up again, he threw the stone into the water.  He picked up another stone, looked at it and whispered to himself — “This is not it.” and threw it into the water.  After a few minutes, the man got into a rhythm — picking up stones, looking at and feeling them quickly, whispering, “This is not it.” and throwing them into the bottomless depths of the lake.
 
Minutes turned into hours turned into days…. and the man kept going, becoming faster and more mechanical at picking up, looking at, feeling and throwing stones — faster and faster he went, so he could make his way through the tens of thousands of stones on the beach…..this is not it, this is not it, this is not it…..thousands and thousands of times — over and over again…..
 
One more time the man bent over, with determined speed, barely feeling, faintly looking…. and as the stone he’d just dismissed splashed into the turquoise water of the bottomless lake, the feeling of warmth still on his finger tips — he saw the disappearing glow he’d been searching for….
 
May you live and share each and every moment in full awareness of the Magic that surrounds us always.

Merry Christmas!

Peace,

Rob, Mary & Wes
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