so we created this in our minds false
evidence appearing real we made it real
in our minds that's why churches said
there's nothing to fear but fear itself
that's the destructive monster so turn
off things that can contribute to your
fear turn a deaf ear to people that all
they can do is talk about how negative
things are because they have brought
into the consciousness of the
world start attending workshops seminars
listening to tapes on a daily basis to
begin to recondition your mind to
retrain your thinking faith comes by
what hearing and hearing and hearing
listen to things that can Empower you
that can enable you to create a new
reality for yourself in a new life for
yourself you might appear to be strange
around most people you know most people
think you're strange if you're happy
today
people say how you doing I said better
than good whoa what's wrong with
him just go around smiling and watch
people look at is this a weird guy over
here because most people don't smile
watch him look at their faces in the
morning here we go another Monday
morning how you doing haven't had my
coffee yet don't ask
me see these people have not found their
purpose in life that's why they're
grumpy that's why they're miserable
that's why they're so negative they're
hurting and they want to hurt other
people so start practicing using
programs for your mind seminars books
workshops keep a Journal Record your
thoughts what's happening with you every
day when you get up have a journal near
you I use the Jack bowlan Journal so
that I can write down my ideas I keep it
by my bed so I can write down my
thoughts see ladies and gentlemen we get
three to four thoughts a year that if we
would act those thoughts they can change
our
life when you don't have a true
appreciation an acceptance for who you
are and you allow yourself to be
immobilized by fear what happens in the
process is that you begin to abuse
yourself you begin to sabotage your life
you begin to sabotage your dreams you
begin to unconsciously work against
yourself you become Your Own Worst Enemy
so what do you do about that well you
you begin to realize that your dream and
your gifts have so much meaning and so
much value for you till your hunger for
them will begin to push you past the
fear your hunger to have them will give
you a special
drive as you work on yourself as you
begin to acknowledge your true identity
the true power that you have the true
capacity you have to bring about change
the miracle working power that you have
within yourself to do the things that
you want to do when you take them on I'm
reminded of a man
who this
gentleman was doing a special study of a
special tribe in Africa head hunters and
he had difficulty in developing a
relationship with these tribesmen
because of the fact that he had fear he
had fear they would take his head so he
worked there for a long time with no
effort no progress in developing
relation ship and Rapport and being able
to achieve a level of trust so finally
one night while he was in bed he was
thinking about I said what what is it
that you came here to do what does your
life work as a missionary he said I
wanted to study these
tribesmen said what's the worst thing
that they can do to you kill you and he
just decided hey this is what I came
here to do I know that there's some risk
involved and I'm going to do it come
what me he said I'm not going to going
to be afraid anymore he went back the
next day and he started doing the work
and trying to talk to and interview many
of the members of this tribe and they
begin to respond to him they threw out
the welcome that to him and years later
when people came to see what his
progress was they asked him how were you
able to do this how did you convert the
relationship from being hostile to that
of being positive and he said something
I think has value for all of us
he said when life can no longer threaten
you with death he said what else is
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there and the majority of the fears that
we have are not life or death fears
they're not those kind of fears but
through our
imagination we blow them out of
proportion and we give them more power
than they actually have or
deserve and we permit them to govern Our
Lives we permit them to determine how
far we can stretch out on our dreams and
discovering our
stuff and as we begin to look at
ourselves and and begin to wait a minute
just getting to the point as you assess
yourself and and begin to prove yourself
and just say wait hold a minute hold a
minute I've been sweating this
out what can what's the worst thing that
can happen to me on this will it kill me
will I die wh why am I going through all
of these changes over this how much
power does this really have and am I the
one that's feeding the power into it see
a lot of times we we allow ourselves to
be fed and to be programmed to to being
afraid of you watch the news and read
the newspaper you''ll be scared to come
out the
house am I
right You' be
afraid so what kinds of things what
kinds of thoughts are you feeding your
Consciousness what kind of things are
you putting in your mind that will
enable you to either move forward or to
justify why you're staying where you
are I used to be a doorto door salesman
I had X number of TVs I had a minimum
amount that I knew I had to sell every
day in order to provide for my mother
who was Ill at the time who had lost her
job at the Eminem cafeteria because of
arthritis and I said I'm going to go
door too and some sometimes I would not
come home until 1:00 at night knocking
on people door people closing what do
you want would you like to buy a nice
working month's television set no money
down no what about an Emerson TV no
thank you very much do you know anybody
else that would be interested no thank
you very kindly knock going another
hello would you like to buy a nice
working television set no money down no
get away from our door thank you very
kindly do you know anybody else would be
yeah my cousin he lives $2 do down thank
you very kindly I tell him you sent me
when now hey your cousin told me that
you wanted to buy television said told
me to come here and talk to you we got a
special discount for you yes come in I'm
interested I would just keep right on I
would not go home until I did it it's an
interesting thing ladies and gentlemen
that when we put ourselves in a
situation where we say we're going to do
it it it puts you in another
Zone where the universe responds to you
when you have that kind of Consciousness
see the universe ver responds to the man
or woman that refuses to be
denied because that is your commitment
that business that you want that book
you want to write that dream that you
have of controlling your destiny that is
yours that power to create that and to
manifest that that is yours that's
available to you but you've got to be
willing to stand there and face
disappointment not have support be
lonely doubt yourself sometimes be re
rejected again and again and again
become bankrupt if necessary again and
again and again and refuse to turn
around until life gives it up nothing
can resist a person that has that kind
of commitment the people that have made
a difference on the planet when a John F
Kennedy said we will go to the
moon in the next decade he spoke it that
was a commitment and people shared that
Vision people bought into
that we've had had all kind of examples
in history where people have made
declarations who have committed their
lives to bring about a difference there
are people who taking a stand today
against hunger I guarantee you it will
be a part of our past at some point in
time someone took a stand against polio
it no longer plagues us as it once did
because someone said it is my commitment
to eradicate it from the face of the
Earth someone made the commitment the
reason that we're here and enjoy joying
a democracy that we have someone made a
commitment that whatever is required if
it means that I die I remember Paul
Roberson here I stand for I can do no
other and that's how you must be
commitment means standing up for your
life it means honoring yourself it means
it means beginning to say and to to see
and recognize your alignment and Oneness
with the universe and that you are a
channel for life to express through and
we short circuit it with anger we short
circuit it with
fear we short circuit it with with Envy
we shortcircuit it by being lazy or
apathetic or giving up easily why why
why we say oh it's too hard it's too
hard we don't challenge our spirit
ladies and gentlemen there's nothing as
powerful as the human Spirit you can't
destroy it you can pervert it but you
can't destroy I I was reading Man's
Search for meaning by Victor Frankle
what a powerful book I'm reading it now
for the seventh time and he gives so
many graphic examples of of the power of
the human spirit and so what are some of
the things that can can fortify us and
and give us the kind of inner strength
that will allow us to forward ourselves
into the future by manifesting our
commitments number one commitment means
in some cases going back to school
getting some training sitting up in
class with people younger than you
putting yourself in a position where you
don't know and that is awkward and
uncomfortable but because of your
commitment to develop yourself or to go
back to school to get a high school
diploma or to get a college degree that
it doesn't matter feeling dumb and
saying what am I doing here sitting up
in some boring
class commitment could mean a lot of
things it could mean that you begin to
go back you got to back up sometimes
means to back up and not give up to
regroup back up and regroup and come
back again because life has way laay you
because you got knocked
down I think that it's very important
that you start trusting yourself listen
to
yourself listen to that still Small
Voice Within you don't try and make
everything logical there are some things
about life that defies logic that you
just can't explain how the outcome is
going to be that once you begin to trust
yourself and your ideas and your
instincts life takes in a whole new
meaning because now I want you to do
that feeling that you are LED just feel
I am LED I remember the worst speech I
had ever given in my
life I let someone exploit a fear that I
had for years I had a tremendous
inferiority complex because I'm not
college
educated and this person knew this and
she said let me write this speech for
you you're going to speak at Ohio State
University those people are very
educated there and they're going to know
when you make grammatical errors and
they're going to know because of the
substance of your speech that you are
not literate I I care about you I don't
want you to embarrass yourself so this
person proceeded to write a speech for
me I had a speech in my mind but this
person was Stronger Than I Was
negatively than I was positive about my
own thoughts and I gave my power away
with my permission I allowed this person
to guide me to do something that I
really didn't want to do but I didn't
feel enough inner strength and
conviction about my skills as a speaker
and the message that I had to bring to
stick by my guns and I got up there at
the Ohio Union and I read this straight
speech and did not move and did not take
my eyes off the page because I'm not
accustomed to
reading and after I finished them people
gave me a standing ovation because I
read it extremely well and I was very
tense and I was very nervous ladies and
gentlemen don't give your power away you
don't need anybody to approve your dream
it was given to you if they can't see it
it's because it wasn't given to them it
was given to you hold it nourish it
cultivate it work on it it's yours it's
your baby work on it until it comes into
fruition I gave away my power and I said
I'm not going to do that no more here's
something else for those who make it
today do what you know is
right treat people like you want to be
treated don't try and take any shortcuts
don't try and cheat pay your dues up
front I believe ladies and gentlemen
what goes around comes around you can
pay now or or you will pay double later
so do the right thing there might be a
tendency sometimes because of the
negative part of our Consciousness and
our own programming for us to want to
say well I just do it this time it won't
matter won't nobody know ladies and
gentlemen everything matters and you
know you're somebody you
know I rather lose out on my dream doing
the right thing than the cheat trying to
make a shortcut to get to my goal I want
to be able to look myself in the mirror
and that's what you want to do there's
no saying judge a man not by what he
does but by that that he doesn't have to
do and to judge the true quality of a
man is what do you do when nobody's
looking see there's some good out there
for you in the universe that has your
name on it and nobody can get your good
it has your name on it they can't take
your stuff it's your
stuff so when you know that when you
know that whatever you're seeking it's
also seeking you you don't worry you
don't run scared you don't think
somebody's going to take it from you you
listen to your inner voice and you
always take the high road there will be
the tendency the natural inclination to
take the low road you must resist that
here's something else I encourage you to
do if you want to make it to
keep your
agreements keep your agreements that you
make and establish a network of people
who will also do that establish a
network of people in your life that you
can count on that will be there for you
when you need them and you be there for
them here's the other thing is you're
working on your dream a lot of people
have been calling me saying hey man I
read about you in Evony boy you're lucky
ladies and gentlemen let me tell you
something here's something else three PS
to have in your life and working on your
dream and doing your life work you must
be patient persistent and positive no
matter
what