Courageous Faith

Courageous Faith

 

Being reckless causes worry. Reckless investors worry. Reckless fantasies and reckless sexuality cause worry.

Therefore it’s vital to be careful. Actually, being a Christian is the most conservative and safe lifestyle we can live.  If we love God and don’t worry, we adopt the safest form of life possible.

Conversely, one must be a little reckless in order to do well. When instructors teach skiing, they say “You have to be a little of a fool to be a good skier.” When the instructor says to be a little foolish, he’s not telling us to go and break a leg (as I’ve done). He’s telling us to relax and not worry too much. Otherwise we can’t get the truly great feeling of skiing.

In other words, we can’t be overly anxious. We have to free ourselves from worried and every little concern. We have to be a little bit of a fool. A person who is free of the obsessions of worry is able to do a good job-and enjoys ever area of life.

When we’re totally relaxed in skiing, we can do something called “anticipation,” which is just dropping down on the lower ski and letting the rebound phenomenon carry us around into a turn. It is almost effortless to do mid-turns as we get the motions down. The more we relax, the more effortless skiing becomes.

This is true in daily life as well. Worry keeps us from being courageous in our families and friendships and in our service to God. If we will just relax and come back to the basics of a simpler life, the normal routine will take care of us. In the spiritual life, if we go back to the basics of faith and trust, life becomes easy as skiing becomes easy.

We learn to drop down in anticipation in a ski maneuver that makes skiing effortless. In life, we drop down on our knees in prayers and commit our lives to Christ, turning everything over to Him. Then, when we stand up, the run (either on the ski slope or in life) is smoother. There’s very little effort. No pushing, shoving or twisting. Both allow us to perform our runs in a smoother, easier, more tranquil way, with less energy, less worry, less effort.

When we can do with less, and material things aren’t important to us, we demonstrate our faith in Jahovah-Jireh, the God who provides.

Be Strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.      _Deuteronomy 31:6

A Thnkful Heart "James Gillis, M.D."

The Blessings of Failure Napoleon Hill

Failure sometimes becomes a blessing, when it turns one back from contemplated purposes which would mean embarrassment – or even total destruction had they been carried out.

Failure often opens new doors to opportunity, and provides one with useful knowledge of the realities of life by the trial-and-error method. It also frequently reveals methods and plans which will not work, and cures vain people of their conceit.

The British suffered grave defeat and failure when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans, giving the colonies their freedom. But without such freedom, America wouldn’t have had the strength to help save the British Empire from destruction in World Wars I and II.

The War Between the States impoverished the Southern States for several decades. But the law of compensation is now balancing the budget on his old score by moving Northern Industry to the South so rapidly that the people are receiving compound interest on the war’s toll of pride and possessions.

Somehow the law of compensation has a very long arm and a very sound memory, plus a wonderful bookkeeping system, and sooner or later all debts must be paid and all wrongs must be righted, among whole communities as well as among individuals.

I felt that I suffered and irreparable loss when my name did not appear in the will of a wealthy great-uncle who left his fortune to closer relatives. But that turned out to be one of the many great blessings that came my way through defeat and failure. Not receiving any of that money forced me to work out my own economic destiny, and in doing so I was fortunate enough to have discovered the way to success for other people throughout the world.

The failures of Abraham Lincoln in store-keeping, surveying, soldiering, and the practice of law had only the effect of preparing him to lead our people through their worst crisis in the War Between the States. Lincoln became great because his mental attitude was such that his struggles led him to a source of power we would not have known without his unpleasant experiences.

Milo C. Jones made a bare living from his farm near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin until he was stricken down by double paralysis and suffered a total loss of the use of his body except the most important part – his brain.

His affliction forced him to the discovery and use of that brain so effectively that it came up with an idea that yielded him over a million dollars from the same farm which had previously made only a modest living. He converted the farm into the raising of corn, fed the corn to hogs, and turned them into “Little Pig” sausage which made a name for itself throughout America.

Failure in physical health sometimes diverts an individual’s attention from his body to his brain, and introduces him to the real “boss” of the physical body, the mind, and opens wide horizons of opportunity he never would have known with the failure.

Failure usually affects people in one or the other of two ways: It serves only as a challenge to greater effort, as in Lincoln’s case, or it subdues and discourages one from making another try.

The majority of people give up hope and quit at the first signs of failure, even before it catches up with them. And a large percentage of people quit when they are overtaken by only one failure, be it ever so trifling.

The potential leader never is subdued by failure, but is inspired to greater effort by it. Watch your reaction to your failures and you will know if you have the potentialities for leadership.

If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking, you may consider yourself a “suspect” as a leader in your present occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures, the seed of genius is sprouting within you. Give it the sunshine of Hope and Faith and watch it grow into great personal achievements.

It appears that Nature often knocks individuals down with adversity in order to learn who among them will get up and make another fight.

The world generously forgives one for his mistakes and temporary defeats provided that he accepts them as a challenge and keeps on trying, but there is no forgiveness for the sin of quitting when the going is hard.

Source: Success Unlimited. February, 1965. Vol. 12, No. 2. Pgs. 10 & 11.

Recession: Will you Survive it or Rather Thrive in it ???

More people than ever before are looking for US for HELP!
Why? 
Have you SEEN the amount of layoffs going on around the country? Unemployment is at a 16 year high and WE have the answer!
So many people never thought it would be them but now they're forced to look for a PLAN B.
Here's a small sampling of some of the layoffs that have been in the news over just the past month.

CitiGroup 53,000
Whirlpool 5,000
Pepsi 3,300
Xerox 3,000
HP 25,000
Goldman Sachs 3,260
Chrysler 1,825
Merck 7,200
Sun Microsystems 6,000
Yahoo 1,500
Ebay 1,600
Lehman Bros. Thousands
Bear Sterns Thousands
Enterprise 200
American Express 7,000
Circuit City Thousands Bankrupt
DHL Express 9,500 Bankrupt
Delta Airlines Thousands
General Motors Thousands
Ford Motor Co 2,260
Starbucks 13,000
Motorola 5,600
Fidelity 1,300
Mattel 11%
Atlantis 800
Morgan Stanley 19%
B T Group 10,000 (Britain's largest phone company)
YUM Brands: (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) Hundreds
Las Vegas Sands Casino 11,000

Hey folks with all this "Recession and depressing news" there is help out there. some of us are NOT taking part in the recession this time around. There is HOPE!
When History repeats itself do what the wealthy who survived did before us!!
Join the many that are NOT taking part in this recession.

The fear over loosing your job is at the forefront of everyone's mind these day as the media hammers away over all the doom and gloom. Do we have an answer for them? You bet!

Lets Bless as much people as we can with a Plan B that works!!. Our Industry is proven Recession Proof!! Our System Works. $7 TRILLION Industry and Growing by the minute. WOW lets Plug in today.
Fulfill your dream instead of an employee who has No obligation nor loyalty to you.
Learn from people who has Thieved and NOT just survive a depression. Like the words of the  famous J. Paul Getty in the great depression "LEVERAGE" .
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips." 
"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy." 
"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires." 
"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business." 

Lets learn about Assets and Liabilities

Good evening my family and friends.

I know it's the wonderful day after Thanksgiving and everyone is looking to get that "Great Deal" out there. Those already marked up prices that have miraculously decreased in price for one day. WOW. That's wonderful as long as you're investing into yourself. Do you feel that you should be able to purchase something that you can make (positive cash flow) residual income from? Well these items are what we call Assets.

Assets: Something (income generating) that puts money back into my pocket.

Liabilities: Something that takes money out of my pocket. A purchased item that depreciates, staring back at you while YOU get NO RETURN from it. Some of them can be very pretty (enticing) and fulfill a temporary self-satisfaction.

Question: What is wealth: That's a person's ability to survive so many numbers of days forward… or if you stopped working today, how long would you survive?

Working harder (on a job) will only fulfill someone else's dreams, what about your dream who will fulfill those. Trust your inner wisdom, look into the mirror and ask yourself "does this make sense?" You have a genius inside you, not because everyone else is doing it and following the crowd makes it right. Invest into yourself.

More money doesn't solve money problems it takes Intelligence to solve problems. If your dug yourself into a hole.. Then stop digging.

Remember these Simple Observations: The Rich buy assets. The Poor only have expenses. The Middle Class buys liabilities thinking there are assets.

For more information contact me www.myspace.com/iraharris break that cycle, increase your knowledge. A fool will take for granted what a wise man will investigate.

Children to Success

There is a great deal of talk these days about juvenile delinquency and the problems of youth.

I'd like to tell the story about one juvenile delinquent and how he was directed into useful pursuits. I was the juvenile delinquent.

My father was a very religious man. There were two of us boys and I was the older, with a mind of my own that defied all of my father's efforts to "reform" me. Our mother had died years before.

I like firearms and had a couple of pistols hidden in hollow trees on our land in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Because of complaints from the neighbors, my father tracked them down and smashed the weapons with a sledge hammer.

I liked mountain music, and had a banjo that I played in secret. But my father's religious learnings were opposed to this, too. He hunted until he found the banjo and destroyed it.

Dancing was forbidden also. But from time to time I managed to "borrow" a horse after Dad was asleep and attend dances in the village.

As a result of all this my visits to the family woodshed were frequent and terrible. But each appointment in this shire of horrors only made me more determined to violate the rules whenever I could. I was well on the way to becoming a complete rebel against all of the regulations of society.

What saved me was my father's decision to marry again. The step-mother he brought to our mountain cabin was a wonderful, kind and understanding woman.

She bought me a new banjo, and even helped me learn to play it. From a mail order house, she purchased two shiny nickel-plated target pistols – one for herself and the other for me. Then we spent many happy hours together as she taught me to plink at harmless targets instead of at the neighbors' chickens and cows.

Having won my confidence and love by helping me to do the things I wanted to do, she set out to direct my energies to better purposes. She obtained a second hand typewriter and began teaching me how to express ideas on paper. Finally, she helped me get a job as mountain reporter for a "string" of small newspapers. Now I can look back and point to that moment as the most decisive in my life. Is it any wonder that I am grateful to this great lady?

Because of this experience, I'm inclined to take the side of the juvenile delinquents whenever I hear of this problem. Not all delinquency stems from the same causes, of course. But in many cases, I suspect they result from excessively-harsh rules which are too strictly enforced. And I fear, too, that many parents fail to realize that the boundless energy which leads youth into trouble can be easily directed to lead them toward tremendous success. The person who is listless and lazy, lacking the spirit of adventure, is not the one who will achieve great things. Almost all men and women who attain high places in our civilization are "trouble-makers" – free spirits who aren't afraid to defy convention to strike out on new trails, to jar their fellowmen out of their lethargy.

If your child is such a courageous person, be glad.

Help him to learn to channel his forceful character toward success in life. Praise him for his willingness to try anything. Show him how to learn from his mistakes when he takes a wrong course.

Above all, give him your praise rather than your condemnation. For somehow it is human nature for people to live up to the reputation which others give them.

Napoleon Hill

Strength Grows Out of Struggle

Struggle is a clever device through which Nature compels Humanity to develop, expand, and progress.

Struggle is either an ordeal or a magnificent experience, depending on the attitude with which one approaches it. Success is impossible without it.

Life, from birth to death, is literally an unbroken record of ever-increasing, unavoidable struggle. Our education is cumulative—we get it a little at a time from every experience we encounter.

"Do the thing," said Emerson, "and you shall have the power."

"Meet struggle and master it," says Nature, "and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs."

The strongest trees of the forests aren't those most protected but those that must struggle against other trees—and surmount them—for survival.

My grandfather was a wagon maker. In clearing his land for crops, he always left a few oaks standing in the open field where they were exposed to the full heat of the burning sun and the blasts of the wind.

As a result, these trees were far tougher than average. It was the timber from them that he used for wagon wheels, bending them into arc-shaped segments without fear they would break.

Struggle similarly toughens the human spirit for the buffeting of life. Most people go through life following the line of least resistance wherever a choice lies open to them. They fail to recognize that following the line of least resistance is what makes rivers crooked – and sometimes does the same for men.

Once we understand the broad purpose of life we become reconciled to the circumstances which force us to struggle. As a result, we accept struggle for what it is – opportunity.

The necessity for struggle forces us to move when we would otherwise stand still. And it leads us eventually to the full realization that success comes only through struggle.

My first boss after I finished business college was Gen. Rufus A. Ayers, whose law business was so extensive that I often had to help him on nights and holidays.

At the finish of each of these sessions, he always apologized for causing me to work overtime. But he added: "You've been a big help to me—but a bigger help to yourself through the experience you've gained this evening."

And I'll never forget the answer I received when I once asked one of Henry Ford's top aides for his formula for success. "I manage to get in the way of men like Mr. Ford," he said, "and pray that when they want something done they'll call on me."

By running to meet struggle, rather than trying to avoid it, you too can use it to help you learn, grow – and succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Powerful Affirmations

Affirmations are positive sentences that describe a desired situation, and which are repeated many times, in order to impress the subconscious mind and trigger it into positive action. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the affirmations, they have to be repeated with attention, conviction, interest and desire.

Imagine that you are swimming with your friends in a swimming pool. They swim fifteen rounds, something you have never done before. As you desire the respect of your friends, you want to show them that you can make it too. You start swimming, and at the same time keep repeating in your mind: "I can do it, I can do it...". You keep thinking and believing that you are going to complete the fifteen rounds. What are you actually doing? You are repeating positive affirmations.

More than often, people repeat in their minds negative sentences and statements concerning the situations and events in their lives, and consequently bring upon themselves undesirable situations. Such sentences and statements work both ways, to build or destroy. It is the way we use them that determines whether they are going to bring good or harmful results.

Affirmations work in the same manner as creative visualization. The repeated words build mental images and scenes in the mind, and help to focus on the aim, object or situation one wants to achieve or create. Frequent repetitions affect the subconscious mind, which in turn reshapes and affects the way one thinks, acts and behaves.

The conscious mind, the mind you think with, starts this process, and then the subconscious mind takes charge. This means that the most frequent thoughts that pass through your mind, ultimately affect your life and your destiny.

Affirmations work like commands that are given to a computer. They influence us, other people, events and circumstances. It might seem strange to you, but they do also influence the people we meet, our circumstances and the events we encounter.

Sometimes they work fast, but more often they need time. Repeating positive affirmations a few minutes, and then thinking negatively, neutralizes the effects of the positive words. You have to refuse negative thoughts, otherwise you will not attain positive results.

We mentally repeat negative statements, without even being aware of the process. We use them when we tell ourselves that we cannot do something, that we are too lazy, or when we believe we are going to fail. The subconscious mind always accepts and follows what we tell it, whether it is good or bad for us, so why not choose only positive statements?