Luck of the Irish?
March 17 is a day of Leprechauns, four leaf clovers, green beer and luck. Even if you are not Irish, it is a day to get caught up in the fun of it. Unfortunately, many Real Estate Professionals rely on this thing called luck to help them achieve their goals.
In January I wrote an article called 13 Things I learned in 13.1 Miles. The response I received from that article was extraordinary. My friends and family were most impressed by the distance I ran, others were thankful for the analogies with three points really resonating with a lot of people: the Importance of Visualizing, Becoming a Student of the Game and Finding Your Own "Dog Beach."
I think the reason why these three kept coming up in responses to my article was that these three things are the keys to accomplishing anything in life. In order to reach a goal, any goal, I don't care if it is running a marathon, making a six or seven figure income, having a wonderful relationship, or raising great kids, they all require going through the same process.
I know it seems that sometimes people just "get lucky." It seems as if business just comes their way, they have a great family and lack of money never seems to be an issue for them. I coach Real Estate Professionals everyday on breaking the cycle of relying on luck and implementing a system of creating their own destinies.
I know, that if my clients…
1. Set clear goals and are able to visualize them
2. Become a student of the game by acquiring knowledge and setting up a plan to reach those goals
3. Have accountability with the small steps needed to work the plan,
…they will be able to accomplish far more than they ever imagined possible.
I believe it is important to plan and not to rely on a great life coming to you. Click here to get a Report called 14 Things to Creating a Business Plan You Can Use. If you would like more help in crating the life you want, you may want to look into my Five Year Business and Life Planning Guide.
May you all have a fun day on March 17, eating corned beef on rye, toasting beer in an Irish Pub to the wonderful business and life you are creating for yourself! Cheers!
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How We Use Mind to Heal
HOW WE USE MIND TO HEALbyDr. P.C. Simon(extracted from his book, The Missing Piece to Paradise)Medical statistics show that 50 to 80 percent of all diseasessuch as neuralgia and arthritis are stress related. Stress iscreated by thought. Thought can cause as well as cure disease thoughmost physicians have ignored the healing power of thought. Yogis arethe only ones who have developed a system of preventing sickness bythought. That is why we don't find yogis and rishis in hospitals.Rheder, a German physician, proved that it is mind and notGod that cures diseases. He tested a faith healer to cure three ofhis difficult cases, one suffering from chronic bladder disease,another from pancreatitis, and a third from cancer of the uterus.Rheder asked the faith healer to treat these patients without theirknowledge. He supplied the faith healer with information he wantedabout the patients. The faith healer held twelve sessions withoutbringing about any change in the absentee patients' conditions.Rheder then informed the patients that he was going to enlist the aidof a faith healer who would be able to heal them but this time he didnot use any faith healer. Within a few days, all three patients gotbetter. The gall-bladder patient had no more pain and remainedwithout pain for the next one year. The pancreatitis patient leftthe hospital and gained 30 pounds. The cancer patient experienced adecrease in the swelling and fluid in the abdomen. Within five days,she was able to return home from hospital. He proved thereby that itwas the faith of the people that cured and not the power of thehealer (21).There are many examples of faith cures. On Monday, June 14,1993, the Oregonian newspaper published a letter written to AnnLanders regarding a cure for warts. Landers published it along withseven letters she had received from those who got rid of warts byvarious means. One got rid of them by rubbing bacon on the warts andthrowing the bacon over the left shoulder when the moon came out.Another did it by applying castor oil. A third took mega- doses ofvitamin C. A fourth had success with touch of liquid nitrogen. Afifth rubbed twenty pennies on the warts and gave the pennies to abeggar and got rid of the warts. A sixth got rid of them bysaying, "Hocus-pocus-go-away, warts." A seventh got rid of thewarts by applying oozing dandelion sap. The eighth, after spending$250 on a dermatologist, made a $1 bet with her janitor who cut a rawpotato in half and rubbed the juice on the warts. She paid the beton the eleventh day. All these were mind cures.On February 24, 1992, the Vancouver Sun published an articleby Nicole Parton, a Vancouver Sun columnist, who related the paincontrol experiences of young children. By using an imaginary magicswitch, they turn off pain. Some mothers show the children howneedles can cause pain. Then they tie the needle to a balloon andlet it fly away and the pain will be gone. When mothers ask thechildren what happened to the pain, they will say that it flew away.These cures were due to imagination.In 1971, Dr. Carl Simonton, a radiation oncologist and hispsychologist wife, Stephanie Matthews, treated terminal cancerpatients for physical, emotional, and social ailments holistically inhis Cancer Counselling and Research Centre in Fort Worth, Texas.Simonton and his wife advised their cancer patients tovisualise cancer as a grey blob of cells and to imagine a greenishor yellowish fluid flowing over it, breaking down the cancer cellsso that the body's own protective white cells could destroy them.Because Simonton used mental imagery in cancer therapy, mostmedical practitioners said that "Simonton lost it." However, by 1978they had kept alive 159 patients for almost double their lifeexpectancy. Their first patient, when he got cured of cancer,successfully treated himself for arthritis and impotence using thetechnique he had learned from them. Simonton wrote the story in abook entitled "Getting Well Again." These cures were due to imagery,faith and mind-power. For the treatment to be effective, we musthave confidence that we are being healed.Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review, also used mind tocure disease. On his return from a Russian cultural exchangeprogramme in 1974, he became a patient in a New York hospital. Hewas suffering from adrenal exhaustion due to stress andhis "sedimentation rate" which is normally 4 mm/hr was 115 mm/hr.One of his doctors made a note on his bedside card to convey to his(doctor's) colleague the prognosis that Cousins would not be withthem for long. Cousins peeked at the card when nobody was around andrealized that his death was near. He recollected that negativeemotions can produce specific chemicals harmful to the body. Cousinsargued that if this is true, laughter and joy should do the opposite.He discharged himself from the hospital and cured himself of thedisease with music, laughter, and vitamin C. He wrote his story inReaders Digest in July 1977. He became an enthusiastic messenger ofmental treatment for physical ailments and wrote a bookcalled "Anatomy of an Illness" (10)._________________________________________________________________________Resource Box: Universal Mind Copyright 2003. by Dr. P.C. Simon, aretired research microbiologist, philosopher, philanthropist andauthor. Also by Dr. P.C. Simon, the informative, inspiring, and life-changing book, The Missing Piece to Paradise. More articles by Dr.Simon and a description of his book can be seen athttp://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/book2.htm


Success Part 2
Passport to SuccessPart 2ByDr. P.C. SimonSuccessful people can be divided into two groups.1. Those who underestimated their successful career andthought they had done very little worthwhile in life.2. Those who recognized they had achieved a lot.Leonardo da Vinci, a man two centuries ahead of his time, the greatarchitect of many inventions, the creator of the Mona Lisa, justbefore his death at the age of 67 went about scribbling on pieces ofpaper, "Tell me if anything ever was done."Tycho Brahe, the great Danish Astronomer who measured so accuratelythe motions of the planets as no one ever had done before, said athis death bed, "Tell me what have I achieved."Why did they lament their lack of accomplishment? Not because of thelack of awareness of their own achievement but because of theawareness of the immensity of projects yet to be carried out.There are others who were confident about having accomplished theirassignment.St.Paul, in his second Epistle to Timothy, says, "I have run my race.I have finished my course and there is laid up for me a crown ofrighteousness."What is the secret of this satisfaction and how did they reach thestage of satisfaction? I have looked through the life stories of manygreat men and women. I feel confident that I found the secret. Iapplied that in my life many times and it worked. I shall share thatsecret with you. The secret is listening, listening to your innervoice. Sit in silence and listen to the inner voice. We can call itcommunion, meditation, introspection or cogitation.There are many systems to develop this communion. The easiest is whatMyrtle Filmore did. In her private room, she placed two chairs. Shesat on one and invited Jesus to come and sit on the other. Insilence, she asked questions and in silence she received the answers.Edison used to sit with marbles in his hand on a chair placed on ametal try. During deep thinking, he used to enter a hypnogogic state.Just at the point of entering into sleep, he would get solutions forhis problems; the marbles would slip out from his hand, drop onto themetal tray and wake him up. If he did not wake up, the solutionswould fade away as dreams.The same thing happened to Newton. He wrote that he got all his ideasduring "a profound shrinking from the world ... a rapt, consecrated,solitary pursuing his studies by intense introspection." He himselfwondered how he happened to get all these ideas.Joan of Arc testified to hearing voices. Swedenborg "discoursed withthe spirits even while he was in company of men. To him, they were asreal as men of flesh and blood. Their voices were no different fromthose of his friends yet none of his fiends heard them and hewondered why."Socrates talked about a constantly present inner voice. When he wascondemned to die, he said, "What happened to me is good. If it wereotherwise, the oracle would have opposed me ... Hitherto the familiaroracle within me has constantly been in the habit of opposing me if Iwas going to make a slip or error about anything. The oracle made nosign of opposition, either as I was leaving my house... or when I wasgoing up to this court.Some people receive their answers through the Bible as St. Augustinedid. He heard a voice say, "Take up and read." He opened the Biblewhich he carried in his pocket and saw the words, "Not in rioting anddrunkenness, not in lechery and wantonness... but in the Lord is thytrust." This was quite apt to his situation and he took it as God'smessage to him.When my mother in Travancore went into a forest and sat in a cave tofind strength to overcome the effects of witchcraft her in-laws hadset upon her, she opened the Bible and her eyes fell upon thewords, "God...hath sent his angel and delivered his servants thattrusted in him... that they might not serve nor worship any godexcept their own God." This was a very apt message, for she wasfighting witchcraft with witchcraft. She realized that she wasworshipping other gods. This made a drastic change in her.Thereafter, witchcraft had no effect on her. She escaped manyattempts on her life. She received power to heal the sick and did setfree a lunatic who was in chains for nearly forty years. and she didcast out devils from the possessed.For me the voice is not really a voice. It is an idea coming into myawareness. Sometimes the ideas I received were not to my liking.Sometimes, no ideas came. Bishop George Berkeley, after whom Berkeleyin California is named, said, "The only thing which we everexperience are perceptions, thoughts, and feelings within our ownminds."However, not always do we find the answers we are seeking. Newtonstruggled lifelong but never did find solutions to problems such astransmutation of metals, finding the Philosopher's stone ordiscovering the secret of the universe from the Book of Revelations.The answer to St. Paul, the apostle, for his prayer to remove thethorn in his flesh ( a stomach ailment) was "My grace is sufficientfor thee." It is not what we ask, but what is good for us that isgranted.So, sometimes we have to accept these situations as they are. Thoughthey may appear to be calamities at the moment, they turn out to beblessings after a few short years. This is what happened to me whenmy house burned down. I thought it was a great calamity. The housewas underinsured. I could not understand why such a thing shouldhappen to me. But I knew that nothing bad would happen to me.Therefore, it must be for my good and I said so openly. I wentthrough the struggle of building a house, fighting city hall at everystage, and, when it was completed, I called the underwriter to comeand insure my new house. He told me then, "Dr. Simon, when I camehere to see the burned down house, I thought it was a great calamity.but now, I can see that it was a blessing as you said then. You havethree beautiful apartments where one old house existed.Things do not happen without hard work and persistence. The harderyou work the luckier you get. So, follow the inner urging you receiveat moments of introspection, persist to follow through, and workhard. This is your passport to success.________________________________________________________________________Resource Box: Copyright 2003: Dr. P.C. Simon is a retired researchmicrobiologist, philosopher, philanthropist and author of theinformative, inspiring, and life-changing book, The Missing Piece toParadise. More articles by Dr. Simon and a description of his bookcan be seen at http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/book2.htm