Category: Year Two

Year 3, Week 24: I Master My Emotions

Our scroll this month talks about mastering our emotions. We are reminded that we’re on a constantly changing landscape when it comes to emotions. This is entirely normal, but if we don’t control the “weather” of our emotions, it affects those around us.

In the “greatest salesman” world, when we are thundery, blustery, and negative, our customers are too. If we’re bright and cheery and positive, our customers will be too.

I have a choice. I’m generally choosing a more positive approach. I do have ups and downs, but I’m working to get them to the positive side of the undulation.

MKE: Month 24 — Don’t Delay. Act Now. Do You Want to Miss This Once A Year Opportunity to Change Your Life?

If you’ve been reading long, you know the Master Key Experience changed my life. It wasn’t overnight. I used simple tools repetitiously to change my habits and my mental outlook. These tools taught me to guide the changes I made to help me on the journey of becoming the person I wanted to be and to achieve what I want most out of life.

What I wanted and needed is going to be very different from what you want and need, but I know the tools work for all aspects of your life. The tools gave me the means to apply what I’d learned as a child in church, so if you’re concerned this course may conflict with your church teachings, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. I found myself wishing my church had taught me these implementation tools. MKE gives me the tools to continue transforming my life as my needs and goals evolve and mature. This year I’m focusing on my True Health need. I’ve made a lot of health improvements over the last two years, but it’s time to get serious.

MKE gives me the tools to continue transforming my life as my needs and goals evolve and mature. This year I’m focusing on my True Health need. I’ve made a lot of health improvements over the last two years, but it’s time to get serious and accomplish the next step.

No matter how good your life is, I know you have areas you want to improve. Why not learn some new skills at the same time? The beauty of the Master Key Experience is your cost is $1 to apply for your Pay-It-Forward Scholarship. Your class is already funded, so there’s no cost to you.

About 4-5 weeks into the course, your class will vote whether to continue the Pay-It-Forward Scholarship program (and you’ll fund the next year’s class over 5-6 very reasonable payment periods), or you’ll vote to send the class into the payment system that’s so popular with other on line courses, but if you do that, it will become much more expensive for the people who come after you.

The first video is up — opt-in for this year’s class. Scholarship applications are opening in the next couple days. Watch the videos and leavea comment — it’s part of what you do to earn your scholarship. Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions you may have either in comments or in a Contact Me message.

 

Month 23: Time for Gigantic Recommitment. Thoughts on backsliding.

If you were wise, you saw this coming when I switched from weekly to monthly posts last year. Go ahead. Raise your hands if you’re nodding your head.

I thought so. Nearly all of you. Go ahead and put your hands down.

Over the last year, I’ve backslid to the point of not doing nearly all of my processes designed to keep me on track for manifesting my DMP. I was evaluating if I needed to do the full version of the course with a guide this year or not. I pulled out my DMP, and it’s still right on. I have been continuing to manifest the DMP, but my focus has shifted over the last year. I’m more committed to my business and less focused on my writing. I don’t believe that’s accidental. A slight tweak of the DMP should be enough, and I believe my mastermind partner and I can handle that. That means I can use my lifetime membership and audit this year’s course.

To avoid becoming overwhelmed by all the tasks I let slip by the wayside over the last year, I’m going to follow this year’s class more closely and add tasks back in as the new class begins them. This means I’ll need to do the reading and be there for the webinars. As we always are, we’ll be traveling for the first two or three weeks of the class, so I’ll be catching those weeks on replay when we stop for the night.

My primary purpose for taking the course, improving my relationship with my husband, has been manifesting well. A few negative thoughts are creeping back in, so I’ll be chasing those out by refocusing my thinking. For instance, this past week, he’s been a real sweetheart. He dropped everything and accompanied me when I bought my new truck. There were several instances when he did something thoughtful for me without me asking. These are the things I’ll think about and focus on when I think of him.

This year, I’m going to focus on one of my personal pivotal needs — True Health. I have more and better tools at my disposal, and I believe I’m ready to do this. My mind is almost in the right place, but the key is to use the course to reprogram my old blueprint and chip away the years and years of cement that have piled on this body. It’s time to do this thing. I owe it to myself, and I love myself enough to make the commitment a priority. My body weight is one visible aspect of this journey, but True Health is about more than physical health. It’s about mental, emotional, and spiritual health as well.

If you’re just finding this site and are new to MKE but want to learn more, please go here to see if the course piques your interest. If it does, please add yourself to my early notification list (make sure you look for the email asking you to click the confirmation link and click that link, or you won’t be added to the list).

Month 22: Help This Humble Salesman.

I see several of you came looking at the appointed time this month, and I was not yet here. I apologize. This month culminates our Greatest Salesman journey, which is always a rewarding time. We see the full effect of our studies for nearly the last year, and I hope you are energized like I am. For anyone who doubts a superior, overarching force — no matter the name you assign that force — the following passage rings true:

My life need not be filled with religion in order for me to recognize this greatest mystery of nature. All creatures that walk the earth, including man, possess the instinct to cry for help. Why do we possess this instinct, this gift?

Are not our cries a form of prayer? Is it not incomprehensible in a world governed by nature’s laws to give a lamb, or a mule, or a bird, or man the instinct to cry out for help lest some great mind has also provided that the cry should be heard by some superior power having the ability to hear and answer our cry?

It’s simple. It makes sense. The fact that we can cry for help implies implicitly and irrevocably that someone is there to hear our cries. And if someone can hear, someone can respond. We don’t always know the form or function of the response. Sometimes the response is immediate. Sometimes the response is not what we expect or want, but know someone hears.

Month 21: Acting Now!

This month’s scroll is refreshing. I act now! I can grasp the meaning and nuances of this scroll.

Even after several times through, I still struggle with multiplying my value. I’m not giving up on it, of course, because I KNOW much is to be gained when I master that scroll. All this tells me is I am not yet ready. I have more to learn and master until I am able to execute that scroll effortlessly. What a joyous day that will be.

For now, I must focus on acting now. Perhaps, with all the things I have that require action, I truly may have to multiply my value a hundredfold to be able to accomplish them! Hmmm.

Month 20 – Thriving on Chaos

As you read this, we’re in the process of manifesting more of my DMP, which means the likelihood of us being in utter chaos is high. I’m writing this in advance, anticipating what will be when you’re reading this. Utter chaos, of course, is an exaggeration. This trip has been well-planned because that’s more than half the fun of traveling — the anticipation and planning. We’re somewhere between Sacramento and Reno as you read this, depending on the time of day, and assuming you’re reading it on the day it’s published. If you’re reading at a later time, all bets are off, but I can tell you with confidence if we’re on Amtrak, we’re having a great time. And I’m still contemplating what the “next level” of my DMP is going to be.

Month 19 — April, 2017

Correction: that should be Month 19. I’m getting a little ahead of myself.  I’ve been getting my services completed faithfully. It’s uplifting to read them each week and know they are getting done. “Do it now” shines through on a regular basis. I have “The Gal in the Glass” memorized and can recite it each night. So far, only the first paragraph of the Blueprint Builder “rolls” off my tongue. In the past, committing words to memory was not my strong point, so while I know I’m not going to get it fast, I will get i

I’m still pondering my DMP update.It doesn’t need much, but I believe a tweak is in order. Lots to ponder as I prepare for Year Three.

Year 2 Commencement

Now that the second year is complete and I’m embarking on the second summer of continuation, I’m going to modify my MKMMA blog posting schedule. Instead of weekly posting, I’m going to plan a mid-month posting. I’ll still do an MKE post on the first Thursday of the Month over at Philosophical Meanderings, Too.

Some things I plan to work on for the summer:

  • I need to continue interviews for my Virtual Council. I got off track over this past year, and I’d like to get back to that.
  • My Sits have become too irregular, so I want to get them back into a rhythm. Oddly, when I had to spend more time in my recliner for my cracked patella, I found less time to Sit. This is strange, because the recliner had been my go-to place for Sits, so I find it ironic that sitting reduced my Sits.
  • It’s time for a re-evaluation of my DMP. Quite a bit has been manifesting, so it’s time for another look at it. Is it good as is, does it need tweaking, or does it need a complete rewrite? We’ll see.

Happy Summer!

 

Week 2-24 – Law of Least Effort

The Law of Least Effort. Acceptance. Responsibility. Defenselessness.

Acceptance. I practice acceptance. Today I accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I do not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are in this moment, not as I wish they were.

I’ve thought I’m pretty good at this. Every once in a while something will trip me up in the acceptance realm, but, generally speaking, I practice acceptance pretty well.

Responsibility. Having accepted things as they are, I take responsibility of army situation and for all those events I see as problems. I know taking responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for my situation (and this includes myself). I also know that every problem is an opportunity in disguise, and this alertness to opportunities allows me to take this moment and transform it into a greater benefit.

No, I don’t have to take responsibility for everything, but if I’m going to see something as a problem, I don’t blame someone for it, I take responsibility and take the opportunity to solve the problem. This also means if I’m not willing to take responsibility to rectify a problem, I have no business complaining about it or blaming someone else for it. This is liberating and humbling. I catch myself violating responsibility far too often. I complain about things, but if someone says something to me, my thought is, “I don’t want to pursue this.” That’s a clue that I’m not willing to accept responsibility for something, and I need to shut up about it and focus on things I AM willing to accept responsibility for.

Defenselessness. Today my awareness remains established in Defenselessness. I relinquish the need to defend my point of view. I feel no need to convince or persuade others to accept my point of view and am not rigidly attached to any one of them.

If I ever find myself getting upset about something, when I examine the situation, I realize I’ve forgotten to practice defenselessness.

Applying the Law of Least Effort means living each day with Acceptance, Responsibility, and Defenselessness.

When I do this, I’m in the flow. Things are effortless. I’m not fighting and feeling much more positive. I’m working on things I can affect. I’m not frustrated by things I have no control over. This is an important piece of the MKE.

Week 2-23 – Money

You might think Week 23 is about money, but it’s really about having a receptive attitude. Most people who feel they don’t have enough money focus on the negative aspects of the lack of money and the resulting fear of not having enough. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. Paragraph 2 sums it up thusly: “Fear is just the opposite from money consciousness; it is poverty consciousness, and as the law is unchangeable we get exactly what we give; if we fear we get what we feared.”

I’ve been fortunate enough somehow in my life before coming to the Master Key Experience to have found a way to have enough money. I’m not exactly a whiz at this, so I know other people can do this, too. But the truly abundant part of money has eluded me, and I believe Paragraph 3 sheds light on this matter.

We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service to them.

Paragraphs 4 and 5 tell a little more about how to do this:

4. The forces of life are volatile; they are composed of our thoughts and ideals and these in turn are molded into form; our problem is to keep an open mind, to constantly reach out for the new, to recognize opportunity, to be interested in the race rather than the goal, for the pleasure is in the pursuit rather than the possession.

5. You can make a money magnet of yourself, but to do so you must first consider how you can make money for other people. If you have the necessary insight to perceive and utilize opportunities and favorable conditions and recognize values, you can put yourself in position to take advantage of them, but your greatest success will come as you are enabled to assist others. What benefits one must benefit all.

This is the crux of my challenge. Enlarging my circle of friends when I’m an off the charts introvert, and helping those friends make money. I have the vehicle for this. In fact, I have multiple vehicles for this. If my friends don’t like the vehicle I have to offer, I can connect them with other friends who may offer a vehicle more to their liking.

My vehicle? Young Living Essential Oils — achieve balance in your body and your home by eliminating toxic chemicals and replacing them with natural oil-based products. If you want to do more than take care of yourself and your family, you can supplement your current income or make a living through this vehicle. I’ll be happy to share more. The link above is to my educational website about both the products and business. Want to know why I chose this? Check out Young Living’s Seed to Seal site. They lay it out there. Want to be your own best customer, a regular retail customer, or begin working this business? Start here.

Not your cup of tea? I have friends doing nutritional coaching, Genesis Pure, Tupperware, Tastefully Simple, Avon, various clothing and other accessory items. Seriously, if there’s something you’re passionate about, someone has a network marketing implementation for it. I support my author friends by purchasing their books or spreading the word to others who may be interested. Maybe you have friends of your own involved in these businesses, and you’d like to work with them. Ask them to get involved. They’ll be more than happy to share.

I’m certain I can and should do more. Paragraph 9 reminds me creative thinking requires attention. Paragraph 10 goes into more detail.

10. The power of attention is called concentration; this power is directed by the will; for this reason we must refuse to concentrate or think of anything except the things we desire. Many are constantly concentrating upon sorrow, loss and discord of every kind; as thought is creative it necessarily follows that this concentration inevitable leads to more loss, more sorrow and more discord. How could it be otherwise? On the other hand, when we meet with success, gain, or any other desirable condition, we naturally concentrate upon the effects of these things and thereby create more, and so it follows that much leads to more.

What are you paying attention to? Once again, I’m reminded to pay attention to what I desire. What I think about grows. What I forget atrophies. Without exception. I can instantly replace a negative thought with a positive one. I practice this daily, and my subconscious works 24-7 to make it a reality. With a little attention, this becomes effortless. Amazing.