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Does What You Believe Serve You Or Hold You Back? Find Out!

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“Our recent discussion has centered around the Reticular Activating System and our beliefs. For today, why not examine some of your beliefs. We have them about everything. Take a look inside to discover whatever it is you find. You will find plenty, I am sure.

Who we are; what we are capable or; what we aren’t capable of; family; friends; relationships; finances; health; career; job; economy; the future; the past; other people, the government, world, god, education, medicine, leisure and so many more areas.  You name it we believe something about it.

Our beliefs tend to be Positive or Negative. They tend to be statements such as ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t’. They can be in the form of rules and regulations as when you think ‘there ought to be a law’ or ‘people should just know better’.

If You Think You Can Or You Think You Can’t You Are Right 

‘Ought to’ or ‘should’ ought to or should tip you off that a belief statement is following. There are rules or beliefs about yourself and what you should do or could do and then there are rules or beliefs you hold about others. These may or may not be the same or be applied equally.

A belief statement may follow after the word ‘because’.  ‘Because’ is a reason you provide. We have beliefs about cause and effect. Beliefs tend to be assertions or declarations. Usually, any statement that begins with ‘I am’ or ‘I have’ cue you that a belief follows those words.

Some things we believe strongly and passionately. We fight about these at times. Others we hold less closely. Regardless, beliefs make up our map of the world and how we navigate it. Believe it or not, humans do navigate the world by a map. An inner map. Just as we do the outer world. Beliefs are an important part of that map.

Believing Is Seeing

They determine what we allow in and consider and what we don’t and won’t. They determine how big or small our abilities are as well as how large our world is. Our beliefs affect us in so many ways and at so many levels it is useful to uncover what it is we believe.

Some are very obvious, up front and in your face beliefs while others cluster around hanging out barely in sight. Both kinds affect us! Go ahead and examine, reflect, look at, introspect on what you believe about yourself. Write them down, as many as you can.

Put them into pro and con lists. Some will be enabling while others disabling. There may be clusters of beliefs around certain areas that seem to support each other or come out in a flood. Others you may have to tease out one by one.

What Do You Believe?

Some people will sit and fret thinking it is difficult to find beliefs (that would be your first belief to start with then) others will find this quite easy. Some are situational while others you may think are important for all time and space and for everyone.

Check into it and come back tomorrow. We will work more with beliefs as we move along. It is an important area that affects each one of us. So do some exploring, learn a little bit more about you, enjoy the process and return for the next post. Meanwhile have a fabulous time doing the exercise and a marvelous day!” Rex Sikes

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If You Want To Be A Failure Just Say So – Otherwise – Do This!

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“How do you learn and remember things? Do you review? Do you imagine in your mind or say things over and over, repeating them to yourself? Do you re-live moments in your imagination?

The reason I ask is because it is how we use our minds that determines the results we get back.

I’ve been discussing the working of our Reticular Activating System (RAS) and it’s job to filter data and provide us the proof for our beliefs. It finds matches in the outer world for what we have going on in our inner world. You will recall this from previous posts.

If your inner world is drab, weak, stuck and broke, the RAS will work to confirm it. Your brain will work to keep you that way. If you make your inner world glorious and a celebration  the job of the RAS is to find opportunity and advantages. It confirms what already is!

You Are Where Your Thought Brought You

Thoughts precedes action. Thoughts come first and produce your feelings. What you and I think we become. What you focus on expands. Whether conscious or unconscious the predominant thoughts you think are driving how you feel. These run the show.

Your pictures, images, thoughts and words, combined with your feelings are powerful. These determine the quality of your life. What you see and what you say and what you feel is what you get. The results you get in the outer world are first determined by the quality of your inner world. It is not the other way around.

You manufacture it in your imagination, declare it and assert it by what you say and how much time you dwell on it, and lock it in with your feelings.  The results you get in the world start inside you. You are a dream or a nightmare factory.

You Will Be Where Your Thoughts Take You

Your feelings drive your subconscious and determine what you pay attention to in the real world. Your feelings determine what you create and attract. It is important to feel incredible. When you do you open the windows to all good.

If you think ‘I sabotage myself’ you will. If you think ‘I am a failure’ you will be. If you think ‘I am a gracious receiver’ you will be. If you think ‘all good things, expected and unexpected, come to me’ then that is what you will get. You determine the results you get back.

For far too many people the interior is dull and shabby so they get dull and shabby results. Once they get those dull and shabby results they react to them with less than glorious feelings thereby producing more of the same less than glorious feelings and results.

You Cannot Escape The Power Of Your Thoughts

It becomes a vicious cycle until we decide to change it. That decision can revolutionize our life! The instant you truly decide to change your life transformation has begun. In that moment you can begin to wake up to a new, different and better reality.

YOU determine your inner AND YOUR outer reality. YOU and you alone. If you think ‘I am a success’ you will be. It is what you imagine and declare yourself to be. You decide what is! You are the only one who makes that decision. YOU define you and your life.

Most people don’t want to hear this. They want to blame the economy, their parents, the government, their spouse or neighbors etc. They make others the culprits. We grew up hearing those around us blame others so it is natural but not correct.

You Can Control You Thoughts And Make Them Work For You

Nothing absolutely will change unless and until you do! Granted you, as some have, may get lucky. It is quite rare. So if you are willing to sit around wallowing and waiting until you do that is your choice. You’d be better off taking charge and control of your life.

Each instant you have a choice about what your life is going to be. Each moment you have a choice about who you are and what you can accomplish. You really do determine if your dreams or nightmares come true. It’s due to where you put your energy.

It is completely up to you. That is either good or bad news to you. If you want your life to change YOU and you alone MUST change things in your life. No one else can do it for you. Excuses and blaming won’t help. Only by taking responsibility for yourself will.

Place your attention on the one who makes the difference. YOU and evolve yourself into the kind of person who is able to make their goals and dreams come true. YOU can be, do and have anything in life! Dream big and make your big dreams come true.

Whatever You Do It Is Up To You – Decide

Inside these blog pages are so many tips and suggestions, secrets and golden nuggets for how you do this. Life can be so beautiful and so wonderful. You can enjoy and delight in so much. Don’t miss out claim it! Revel in all the abundant goodness there is.

If this blog serves to kick you in the butt to make your life more glorious  I am happy. That is what it is intended to be: a reminder of how great and powerful you truly are. So never live below your means when it comes to your authentic self.

You are powerful. You are either creating discord or bliss. Perhaps, a 50/50 mix of both. You deserve more bliss. We all do. Realize that if you can create discord you can create harmony. It takes as much effort and energy to be stuck, or negative as it does to move forward positively. Celebrate everything and live your truth.” Rex Sikes

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What is something new you can focus on today?

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How To Stop Screwing Yourself Over Once And For All!

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Would you like to stop getting the short end? Do you want more? Would you like a fabulous career, relationship and life? Would you want lots of love and lot’s of things? How’d you like  to be free to do what you want when you want? You can, you know? You can live the good life too! It works this way: (I recommend reading previous posts too).

Your internal thoughts and images, pictures and sounds, combined with strong  feelings inform your subconscious what you want. It is the visual image and sounds (self-talk, affirmations) combined with strong positive feelings that is the message! You send messages to your subconscious mind all day long.

Your Pictures, Self-Talk And Feelings Send A Powerful Message

Most of the messages you send you have been sending since you were a toddler. You have been informing your very own brain what to pay attention to and what to neglect.  Most of us never realize this is what WE are doing but WE ARE doing it. Instead, we blame others and the world. Once we recognize we are doing it we can improve it.

The stronger the feelings you have the greater the signal it gets. The better you feel, the more often you feel better the more often and stronger your subconscious gets that message.  The more often you feel less than glorious and the stronger negative feelings you have the stronger your subconscious gets that message.

This is how YOU communicate what you want to your subconscious. It doesn’t know or care whether it is positive or negative, good or bad, right or wrong it takes all it’s cues from what you send it. So if you don’t like the results in your life it is up to you to change it. Your subconscious mind merely carries our your wishes (among other things).

We Are Creatures Of Habit But Still We Can Change The Future

Your  subconscious is your servant mechanism designed to assemble your inner resources to help you get what you want. It is a servant mechanism designed to look for in life that which matches you inner world. It finds proof for what you already know. It delivers the proof by filtration. This is the job of the Reticular Activating System.

The (RAS) processes filters data from the real world. Since that can be than millions of bits of data at a time the RAS only allows in that which it thinks is important. How does it know? It looks for a match to what you deem important. That is what is meant when I say this process proves what YOU already know.

You RAS knows what is important by what you focus on most often accompanied by feelings. If what you know is crap, and negative and dire it will filter for that. Hence, your outer world reflects your inner. If, on the other hand, your inner world is glorious and filled with what you want that is possible your RAS filters for that.

People Think That Seeing Is Believing

It provides you either with limitations or with advantages and opportunities out there. Whatever you focus on is what you get. Whatever you imagine and say to be true for yourself IS true for you. That is what is meant by You become what you think about most. Whatever occupies your mind most frequently is what you get.

Have you ever noticed that people who say: they are broke and can’t get ahead rarely, if ever do? Or people who say they aren’t good with numbers, aren’t good with numbers. Or people who say they can’t lose weight never lose weight? The examples are endless. I am sure you can think of some you have heard or even thought.

Whatever people think about themselves they become. Whatever we declare or say is what we get. What you see, say and feel is what you get. ‘I am no good at this,’; ‘I am always late.’; ‘I am shy.’; ‘I hate broccoli.’; ‘I always screw things up.’ Your RAS filters out everything else and only allows in that which helps prove you are right.

In Reality It Is Believing Is Seeing

You can prove yourself a screw up if you want to OR you can prove yourself talented, successful, happy and loved. It is all in how you view yourself. So be careful which messages you are focused on because what you think you become. What you are focused on you will get proof for.

It can be a dire downward spiral or an incredible uphill ride.  The more proof you get the more you tell yourself it is true and believe it. The more you believe it the more you tell yourself it is true the more proof you get.

On and on it goes seemingly never ending. You think you suck and then get evidence for it which further convinces you that you suck so you continue to… on it goes. Wouldn’t you prefer this to end? Wouldn’t you want to find evidence for how you are a talented rock star in your world?

You Always Have Choices – Always

So the question you (all of us) need to ask is which would you rather live from? Do you wan to live and manifest the dire downward spiral or do you prefer the positive upward ride? You choice determines. You are the chooser. You have been choosing for a life time.

Is it time for a change? You do not have to live as you have if you don’t like or enjoy it. You can have better results and have a wonderful life. If everything is fine then keep doing what you are doing. If not, then make the change today.

Visualize! See and Say! Affirm, declare, assert who you are and what you want as though you already have it. See the good you want to have in the world as if it is already yours. It has already happened. Feel the feelings of owning it right now. Enjoy and celebrate these feelings. This is how you instruct the RAS to get you positive proof.

Having A Good Life Requires Having Good Taste To Choose Well

‘I can learn to do anything I put my mind to.’; ‘I am great.’; ‘I am wealthy.’; ‘I am healthy.’; ‘I am good with numbers.’; ‘I am confident.’ I am sure you can think of many more examples. Think positive and your RAS can begin to filter and show you positive proof.

This is how our belief systems work. We can change our limiting beliefs into positive new ones. Isn’t this great? You can condition your mind for a positive life! You can make great new positive good things happen. You can see and find opportunity that you previously missed. YOU can begin to live the life you want to live!

Your RAS will find in the real world that which matches your inner world. You can stop screwing yourself and living less than you deserve. You can end being a victim to your own shabby belief set and you can transform your mindset, yourself and your life into something outstanding. You can make all your dreams come true. Begin today!” Rex Sikes

More to come in the next post!

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This Is Why You Are Screwed And This Is What You Can Do About It!

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“If you think you are you certainly are. It doesn’t matter if you don’t think you are because not believing doesn’t change anything. It is like gravity. Whether you accept it or not the result is the same.

If you fall from a tree branch you are going down. Gravity works whether you accept it or not.

This is why you are screwed.

Thoughts become things! Remember this! Keep it in mind. Anything that exists in human reality first existed as a thought. An idea in the imagination is what eventually translated into actual physical results.

Your Thoughts Become Your Reality

A spoon, an office building, the computer, the phone, the electronic device you are reading this on all began as thoughts. THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS!

The results we get are because of the thoughts we first think inside our head. From within to without.  Whether or not we believe it or even know about it. From the inside to the outside we are creating reality.

From the inside to the outside IS the natural order of creation in our human world. That is just the way it works. It is the way it has always worked. We get an idea and translate it into physical being. Our results are the result of our thoughts.

We become what we think about. What we focus on expands. What we think about we bring about. Thoughts become things. So here is why you are screwed.

What You Think About Mostly You Bring About Mostly

You want to manifest a better life. You determine you want wealth, for example, but you hate being poor. Each day bills arrive. Money is scarce. Where is your attention? What are you thinking about?

If you are thinking mostly about mounting debt, bills and scarcity and feeling poor guess what results you continue to get.

AND why not? If someone can think and translate an office building into being why is it difficult to imagine your thoughts are keeping you stuck right where you are at. They are! That is precisely what is occurring. Thoughts become things!

If you then think and feel ‘I am stuck’.  You are. You are going to be. If you think ‘nothing works’.  It doesn’t and it won’t. If you think ‘I have subconscious beliefs that sabotage me’ Then you do and you will continue to have. These thoughts ARE affirmations too!

When You Declare It You Command It – You Create It

Your results, your reality IS what you think it is. It IS what you affirm it to be. YOU are creating it moment to moment. What you see, say and feel most of the time is what you get. What you perpetually focus on expands. You declare it you command it. You create it!

That is why you must stop entertaining those thoughts and feelings! You must think about what you want instead. You must focus on the good you want in your life. You must put your energy into what you want and not be distracted by the rest.

You must not pay attention to circumstances. You must focus on the end goal. You manifest what you hold in your mind. If you go back and forth you get nowhere anytime fast. You remain stuck because you vacillate.

You are drifting and wishy washy. You are positive and sure one moment then the next moment negative and doubtful. You aren’t going anywhere when you do that. You create being stuck this way because you keep doing this same thing over and over.

Gravity Doesn’t Judge You – It Just Does What It Does

Here is the actual truth. The Law Of Attraction IS working. It is working perfectly well. It is doing just what it is supposed to. As sure as gravity does it’s job the Law Of Attraction is doing the job. It is applied equally to everyone, everything, all the time everywhere.

You are getting exactly the results you are creating and attracting. You are getting lackluster results. You are manifesting chaos and confusion. You are manifesting lack and sabotage. Sad but true. Face it. That may be the most difficult thing you have to do.

You get back the preponderance of your thinking and feeling. You get back whatever you put your energy into most. If you are mostly negative or focused on what you do not want that is what you predominantly get back in return.

You Reap What You Have Sown

If you don’t like the results you are getting YOU have to change what you are doing to get better results. You have to create and attract better results. You think the law of attraction isn’t working because life sucks but the truth is the Law works perfectly well.

You just suck at creating what you want. You keep creating what you don’t want. I KNOW I have done it too! I was incredible at creating what I didn’t want. It took me a long time to realize that, stop it and start creating what I did and do want. We are human.

It is okay. That is why the Law Of Attraction doesn’t work the way you think it should BECAUSE it isn’t a magic bullet or pill. It isn’t wishing and hoping for something better while concentrating on crap. It is based on returning to you what you predominantly focus on.

If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me – No One Else

It requires training and focus. YOU MUST train your brain to stay focused on what you want. You must condition your mind to give you what you want. It will deliver reliably when you train and condition it. That is the LAW!

Right now it is working whether you believe it or not and it delivering whatever you are mostly giving it. I repeat: It is already delivering reliably. Consider this: It is like you body in some ways. What you feed it determines what you get back.

If you give it excellent nutrition, rest and exercise you can have great health. If you give it junk food, no rest and no exercise you can have crappy health. Get it? Okay. More next post. For now, realize you have something you must do to make life better.

When You Declare It – You Command It – You Create It

You must change your focus and keep it on what you want. You must be positive and feel good most of the time. Once you condition yourself to be this way it is much easier because the habits of your conditioning take over. First, however, you must do the work.

That is where and why most people give up. They are not prepared to persist and keep going until they make it happen. They dabble, they dip their toe in the water. They ‘try’ and when the going gets tough they blame the Law Of Attraction.

If you commit and get tough when the going is rough you will win. You will succeed. You will reap great reward. You will do what few else do you will prevail! Stick with it and you will be amazed and delighted!” Rex Sikes

Make marvelous your moments today!

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Do This – Live Well And Enjoy More!

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“What must we do to have the life we want and deserve? How do I get unstuck? How do we manifest what we desire? Does what we do make a difference? What should I do to make everything better?Does the Law Of Attraction actually work?

How do I eliminate bad habits? How do we change our lives? How do I live the good life? So many people ask me questions like this. I know they are on the minds of many more. How do we have a great life? That is what these blog pages are all about.

I hope you are going back through them and reading and re-reading them. Make them a study because thoughts and ideas you missed the first time or second time through will present themselves to you each time. You will learn and discover new things you missed.

Everyday is a gift! We never know how much time we have on this planet. It could all be gone tomorrow. Later today it could be over. We should cherish the time we have.

Cherish the people we love and like. We are here briefly and then gone. Some religions have conditioned people that our reward isn’t here but elsewhere at another time.

Live And Enjoy Now

That is really sad. Much of Christendom and many religions preach this.  That is not what I find when I study the Bible or other ancient texts. I see a garden paradise intended for us. I see that abundance of all good things our birthright. It is right there on the pages.

I don’t care what religion you adhere to there is no reason to suffer here. Our rewards are now! Right now while on earth! Maybe there are elsewhere too but the God of the Bible puts our rewards on earth first. Since you are here and reading this – claim your fabulous earthly life. Claim the promise of prosperity and happiness.

Declare it! Believe you deserve it. Unfortunately, too many people have learned the opposite while growing up. They have been sadly misinformed and mistaken. You need to change your mind! Every day is an opportunity to love and to live fully and abundantly now!

Every moment! Each day is an opportunity to learn more and improve yourself and your circumstances.  We only have so much time here so use it wisely, use it well. Use your time to smile and delight more!  Love more, celebrate more and live more fully.

Let go of the past and anything that holds you back. Give it up.  Drop anything that was yesterday and less than glorious. Learn from it and let go of it. Become free! BE free now. Time is short. Let it go!

Embrace the future and put your back against the past. Don’t let anything hold you back or hold you down. You deserve better!Be grateful now! Be thankful for everything no matter what it was. Let it go and be grateful.

Let Go Of The Old

Celebrate this moment and everything in it. You and I are blessed in more ways than we can ever realize. Begin looking for those ways. Open your eyes. Find and celebrate all the good things around you right now!

Forgive yourself.  Forgive those who may have hurt or harmed you past and present. Let it go. Forgiveness is not an act for them it is an act for you. You are not giving anyone else a free pass you are giving yourself a free pass to move on.

Never be held back by less than glorious circumstances. That is the big lie. You can move beyond it and be free. Heal yourself through forgiveness and gratitude!

Wait patiently and expectantly. Seeds plant grow under cover of darkness. Most of what sees do we never see. We never see how growth occurs we only notice benchmarks in progress. Be patient and know good things come to those who wait.

Don’t give up keep moving forward. There IS a time to harvest. You will discover so many wonderful things if you let go, forgive, celebrate now with gratitude and be patient.

While waiting stay in the present. Stay focused on your blessings right now. Parts of your brain will attempt to get you to think about the past and regret it to protect you from doing that again.

Write A New Story

There is a noble intent to regret and that is to not ever engage in that same behavior or activity again. The brain will also project into the future to protect us by anticipating what might be coming. Worry is noble too in that it is an attempt to prepare.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong with the brain attempting to prevent the past mistakes or avoid future ones but some people get caught up and miss right now.

Now is where all the blessings are. Right now is where the celebration is. Right now is actually all you have. The past is gone only memories we relive and the future is only a projection, it is not here yet.

The gift is our present. Staying in this moment helps keep us calm and peaceful. Enjoy and delight in this moment. In each moment.Life is meant for you to enjoy! You have a short shot when all is considered. Live it well.

It doesn’t matter so much what you have as it matters who you are. Be the kind of person who savors and enjoys life. Dream big and live large. Have fun, smile and laugh. If you fill each present moment with so much positive enjoyable living you will have lived well! Don’t you think?” Rex Sikes

How wonderfully can you spend today?

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A Secret I Learned To Keep From Spiraling Down And Out During Tough Times

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“What do you do when things go awry? What do you do when the fan is hit hard? Times can get tough. There are obstacles and challenges. We all go through them. What can you do? How do you apply these principles to make a difference?

I can tell you what I do. I have been challenged recently in some big ways. Years ago it might have meant screeching to a halt or hitting the skids. Today, it is much, much different. It doesn’t mean challenges are less severe it means, sometimes, I handle them better.

I Take Control Of What I Imagine And What I Say To Myself

When I become aware that I am feeling down and out, or thinking negatively or beginning to wonder ‘why in the world am I going through this’ in that instant I realize I have a choice. I can continue to spiral down or to apply what I know works. I’m at a decision point.

When I am wise enough I apply what works. I give up. I accept that I have no clue what is going on. I let go as much as able and I remind myself ‘things always work out for the best for me.’ I know, it sounds trite but it is actually true. Things do work out for the best.

In the long run, that place far away that we can’t see yet, everything does seem to work out well.  I have written before that many times people look back at the ‘worst time’ in their life and state emphatically had it not been for that time they would not have and enjoy where they are right now.

What We Focus On Is What We Get

I know sometimes we have to really search to find the good or the lesson but it is hidden there as a seed. We just have to find it! When times are tough my mantra becomes ‘things always work out for the best’. I think ‘how come I am so lucky, so blessed and fortunate!’

I turn my attention to what I am grateful for and celebrate as much and as enthusiastically as I can. I make it a point to have faith that everything will resolve in a positive way even if I can’t see it or understand it. Somewhere, somehow, good will come of this.

Whether you believe it or not, whether it is accurate or not, really isn’t the point. It allows me to move through it faster and stay more resourceful. It helps me focus on  being productive and consider what I want and not spend time dwelling on what I don’t want.

Times can be very tough for any one of us. This is one of the best ways I know how to get through tough times. I know that every time times are tough I somehow manage better because between those times and during those times I apply these principles I am sharing as best I am able. Whew, did you get that?

Your Mind Is Obedient Once You Learn To Control It

This is one of the reasons I write so much about building positive habits because they will carry you  once established. There is strength in a strong foundation. It is also why I write about loving and praising yourself through difficult times or when mistakes are made. Criticism and self loathing doesn’t help any.

You know what? I don’t know why shit hits the fan. I don’t know why it rains on the rich and the poor or the good and the bad. I don’t! I know what I might believe about it. I know many different philosophic and scientific answers for why but I don’t know that any are true. I don’t think it really matters to know why.

I prefer to think somehow it is to wake us up. Whether by design or intelligence OR NOT, bad things happen and are opportunities to confront our programs and patterns and wake up to them. These events and circumstances challenge us to become aware and go beyond how we routinely react. So we can move into new ways of being.

The World And Her People Hold Mirrors Up For Us To See

While I may not immediately recognize them as such, I reframe the tough times as gifts. Blessings to help me examine myself and become better. The challenge for me is to look inward and not outward for the solution or the cause. I want to learn to respond with awareness not blame or accuse others or events.

Gifts to become more aware. Gifts to become free. Seems sad sometimes that we wake up through loss and tragedy but perhaps there is no other way to get our own attention. If nothing shakes us up we just go on doing what we have been conditioned to. So I think of less than glorious circumstances as a necessary evil.

I may resist them. Fight them. BUT when I surrender to them I always learn something and grow more. It hurts to grow sometimes. There are growing pangs. AND I certainly haven’t all the answers. Actually, I have very few. What I can have is faith in myself.

Turn Resistance Into Assistance

I can have faith that everything always does work out for the best, somehow in the long run. Then I begin to look for the blessing s and opportunities hidden inside these situations. Whether right or wrong I get more done. I don’t feel so bad and I stay on track. It is helpful for me to consider it this way. Attitude is everything.

Life is a series of adjusting to stay on course. Just as when you drive your car down a straight lane. You are always adjusting left and right to stay within the lines. So why should it be any different in anything else. If I get negative I adjust back toward the positive. I feel better. The more I make the adjustments the easier the next adjustment becomes. This is how habits are formed through positive repetition.

So, celebration, gratitude, looking for blessings and finding them in the midst of trouble is a skill we can develop. This too can become a habit. As said before, habits may be difficult to initiate but once formed they are difficult to break and they will carry you. It is good to have positive habits. “everything always works out for the best!'”Rex Sikes

I hope your day today is amazing!

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A Realist Never Flew – It Took A Dreamer To Make It Possible: Which Are You?

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“There are those who say ‘I am a realist when it comes to thinking’. Interestingly enough, a realist may see what is there but only a visionary can see what can be.

One may be good at recognizing what is present. The other builds the future. All innovation stems from visionaries and dreamers, who saw what needed to be added to the present. They sought to  make it better.

A realist never flew. A dreamer made it possible. Become a dreamer. Look around you and be glad for all of it. Celebrate it. Then add to it. Dream big. Think beyond the boundaries. It all first begins as a thought!

Napoleon Hill said, ‘If you can conceive it and believe it you can achieve it.’  Everything in the human world is first conceived of as a thought, a possibility. It only comes into being in reality when creators believe it is possible.

What you think about you can bring about. From the inside to the outside is the process of creation. The results you get are first born between your ears. If you see it in your mind you can hold it in your hand.

So dream big. Believe it is possible. Make it happen. Oliver Wendall Holmes stated, ‘A mind stretched to a new idea can never go back to it’s original dimension.’ When it comes to you and your life dare to go beyond what you already know into something truly incredible!

Great discoveries and innovations arose when brave men and women dared the impossible. It was Audrey Hepburn who said, ‘Impossible means I’m possible.’ You can make your dreams come true.” Rex Sikes

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How Easy It Is To Hate And Why

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“Why do people treat each other poorly? Why do we have such little regard for our own species? Why do we hate those unlike us? I am not sure I have any answer to these important questions but I learned much from some adventures during the 80’s.

I have become convinced that focusing on hate and trying to rid oneself or others of hate is as futile as anything else we have tried to rid ourselves of. We don’t stop hating by legislating against it, however, we may curb it by focusing on love and acceptance.

We need to focus on what we do want and not what we don’t want. We identify what we don’t want, yes! Then we put our attention onto what we do want instead. This keeps up moving forward regarding our goals.

If we want to end hate and discrimination we need to be love. We attract that which we already are, we create from whom we are. We need to be it not simply want it. Wanting it means it has not arrived yet. If we are it we already embody that which is necessary for change. I believe this is an important distinction.

A Journey Of Sorts

“Here is what I experienced. From 1980 to 1990 I had been a sannyasin of Osho otherwise formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I fell in love with the little guy’s message from books and listening to tapes.

I had been a student of the mind since I was 11. I read every book I could on spirituality, meditation, powers of the mind, Napoleon Hill and New Thought leaders, religious text, hypnosis and other disciplines. I sought to improve myself and evolve as a person.

I adored the message and promise  of meditation. I had spent time with others, including Swami Muktananda, Satchidananda, Krishnamurti.  Living in Los Angeles allowed me to have access to other prominent speakers and thinkers East and West.

When Osho came to America and headed west to Oregon I decided to go too.  I had received sannyas in Laguna Beach at an ashram center. So when I could, whenever I could, I went to stay or live in Oregon at the city commune. There were some dedicated people who lived and stayed there year round. I came and went.

Initiation Into Sannyas And Living With Awareness

Taking sannyas then meant  wearing clothes the colors of the sunrise as a reminder of one’s commitment to meditation. It meant wearing a mala, a neckless of 108 beads, to represent 108 forms of mediation. It meant taking a sannyas name. I did all three.

I was very aware that wearing red clothes and beads was my clown suit. It was different from the jeans and clothes I wore and most others did. To say I stood out is an understatement I suppose. I certainly did. A red orange beacon in a sea of brown and blue.

I lost friends because I wore red clothes. Suddenly, I was a cult member. I must be brainwashed were the statements I heard. I tried to explain that I could always take off the outer trappings; which are no different today than wearing branded clothing from popular designers. I was branded a sannyasin in the East. In the West I was branded a cult member.

I wore a brand – sannyasin wear. I was identifiable by being an odd ball. AND yes I could always remove them if I chose. I chose not to. It was, for me, an exercise in awareness. At first, prior to becoming a sannyasin, the thought of anything other than jeans, blue jeans was terrifying. Wearing beads absolutely out of the question.

Clown Suit Colors Are Most Fast Food Colors And Then Some

Once I put them on it took some time to become comfortable. As I stated it was an exercise for me. Not for anyone else. While I wore the sannyas, monk trappings that separated me from the rest of ‘normal’ society as a catholic priest or nun would, I didn’t consider myself different or special.

I sought to allow mediation to be my life. Anyway, I learned that I did not have a problem with the colors or the beads but that others did. My clown suit became a marvelous testing ground. When asked, I tried to explain to people the clothes and colors were meaningless.

They didn’t make me better or worse. They were clown colors. I didn’t have to wear them I chose to wear them. It didn’t matter. People believed whatever they wanted to regardless of my explanation. I did look like a walking fast food restaurant I suppose.

People either accepted me, got to know me, or they didn’t. The clothing and the beads was a barrier. It was right where most people stopped and drew conclusions. I figured they didn’t even begin to see me if all they did was stop at the colors.

Everything Is A Choice

Some made it  through the barrier of red, orange and purple clothes when blue and brown and green ruled the day. Some people couldn’t accept a beaded person in flamboyant jeans and tee shirts. I still wore traditional jeans and tees just dyed a different color.

Many times I was asked if I was gay. I must be they concluded. No real man wore purple or maroon. I was shunned. People would stare and comment. People would point, snicker and laugh. I was followed many, many times and taunted.

I was screamed at and called names. I was threatened with violence and told to go back to my country. I was physically chased out of places and many times accosted. I had guns pointed at me a couple of times.

In Oregon I was refused food in restaurants and gas at gas stations. In the LA airport one man passing out gospel tracks shouted repeatedly at the top of his lungs for someone to shoot and kill me.

He drew the attention of the police to the area. They ultimately settled everything down and stated he had the right to his opinion. He was expressing free speech and they left. As did I.

We Are Constantly Choosing

L A was less hostile because there are so many odd people wearing odd things. I traveled the country. I spent time in the East and in NYC, the Midwest and the South always dressed in my clown wear. Different parts of the country had greater degrees of intolerance.

Through all of my experiences I faced with myself. Does this bother me or not? Is it important? Is it my issue or someone else’s? Do I care what they think? Can I accept them even if they don’t accept me?

What they do has nothing to do with me because they don’t even know me. They are upset at my clothing and what it means to them. There were some times when I lapsed and made it my issue.

Most of the time I realized I was wearing clothes that, for whatever reason, others had problems with. Others took issue with my clown suit choice and made it about me. A person they did not know. Maybe they didn’t care to know and that was fine.

We Are All The Same

I was a provoking beacon traveling through the world. I learned opinions and actions of others were their own and had nothing to do with who I was or am. They didn’t know me they only saw the beads and clothes. That wasn’t my problem so I didn’t make it mine.

I am not saying I was always aware or awake or that I wasn’t at times offended or frightened. For the most part though I knew inside I could take these off and no one would be the wiser. I would immediately fit in. I would be accepted. I knew it was my choice.

Because of this I chose to wear them. I wore them because from moment to moment it was a reminder of my decision to live as a meditator and live peacefully. I am no better than anyone in any regard. I have those things that I took or take issue with.

This exercise has helped me see my sticking or stopping points. It has made me more aware of when I get stuck and stop short and do not go beyond and investigate more. We are people. We are cut from the same swatch. We all have areas of issues.

Learn To Respond Instead Of React

People’s responses could push my buttons and I could react or respond. I sought to learn how to respond in the moment with awareness and acceptance of whatever is. I could wear them or not it didn’t matter. There would always be something someone could find an issue about. Isn’t there?

Because I had an unusual Swami name, wore beads and silly colored clothing people assumed I gave up my mind to a guru and did whatever he said. Not true. They thought I gave up my will and would follow blindly anywhere. Not true.

The believed I gave all my money and worldly possessions to the ashram but I never gave a dime. No one ever asked either. Some times I tried to explain, when asked, but l learned most people concluded whatever they would conclude about me because of the clown suit.

My words didn’t mean much or make much impact anyway. If my explanation mattered it meant they would have to believe differently. I was stereotyped because that is what we as people do. It is convenient and we don’t have to think anything through.

Beliefs Run The Show: What We Believe Is What We See

It’s a no-brainer based on obvious characteristics. So I let them think what they wanted. I let go of attempting to change their opinions. Their opinions and name calling and actions against me had nothing to do with me. They were reacting to the clothing colors.

Sure, they were reacting to the person who wore them but they did so in ignorance of who the person was. That was their problem not mine. Yes, it could be dangerous for me at times, but I was learning so much about what we as people do inside our heads about others.

I developed some strong marvelous non-sannyasin friends too because they could see past the outfit. In some ways I wore it to see who was the type of person who could get around it in their mind. If they were able and were able to get to know me and I them then we could be very honest with each other.

I had some incredible girlfriends. I had amazing sannyasin friends and non-sannyasin friends. I moved in places where people could care less about what was worn and in other places where what you wore meant people wanted to beat you up.

Do Not Stop At The Obvious Be Willing To Go Beyond

It was an incredible exercise.  I learned so much about me. I learned so much about people and triggers and acceptance and hatred. I learned all this because I chose to do it. Did I tell you, I always knew I could take it off and slip back into the ‘normal’ world? Yes, I know I did but this is an important point.

OTHER people can’t take off their skin color or their gender. They live in their skin and in their body every moment of each and every day. Some encounter horrible cruelty and even death because of the family, the nation, the religion they were born into, not the least their color and ethnic heritage.

I could always remove it. Because I knew this made me want to wear it all the more. I got to experience a tiny taste of the prejudices and even violence directed at people because they are different. I was safe because I knew if I ever had to I could remove the outer wear and walk right through the haters. I never did but I could have.

Awareness Is A Choice

My clown suit was a luxury. A lesson few of us get to live and learn from. It was so valuable as a reminder to be aware and to let go and be meditative. If others hate you you do not have to hate back. You can, you may even, but you do not have to. You can choose.

I am so glad for my clown suit. The time came when the decision was made that people go and live among the rest. Drop the colors and the beads and the name. The ‘great exercise’ was over. Boy, that was hard. My clown suit was a tool for my awareness. If I wasn’t confronted moment to moment then what would happen?

Let me interrupt and make something perfectly clear. I don’t actually know what it is like to walk in another person’s shoes for even a single step. I got a taste of something from which came some realizations. What others face because of what they are born to can be unimaginable at times.

I only got a tiny, very tiny glimpse of a sliver of what some people must endure. I am not making any comparison. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn to be more accepting and to recognize choice points. For me, it was an incredible lesson and challenging exercise but so worth the years of doing it.

It was difficult to give it up but once I did I realized there are always buttons and triggers. It doesn’t matter. It seems we get to encounter ourselves no matter where we are. Alone or with others we are faced with who we are what kind of person we are.

Every Moment Is An Opportunity To Embrace

The world and others, even your own self is a great mirror being held up in front of you. What bothers us, gets us snagged up, frustrated, down and out, making excuses  and or being critical of ourself and others, blaming others, hating others, is a reflection and an opportunity.

We stare back at the other person who is reflecting us. Their behaviors mirror our own in some way. BUT we can choose. YES, it may be difficult but we can choose. We either reject it and fight it or them or we accept the lesson and let go of the anger and rejection.

It is a glimpse of oneself and one’s beliefs and conditioning. It is a look into what internal or external conflicts we may have. It is a little signal to get our attention so we can be aware, drop it, and go beyond it. It is benevolence disguised as pain.

Whether in red or blue clothes the world and its people provide opportunity to wake up. We can resist it or we can let go. We can love ourselves and everyone else through it all. We can find a higher road and not succumb to the lowest common denominator. We need to embrace all people because we are one people.

Seek The High Road

Love don’t hate. Be blind to differences that do not matter. Embrace yourself and embrace all those around you. Life is far to short for hate and discord. We need much more time to love and party. We can delight and celebrate and be grateful for all things. We should never stop at the obvious but seek to understand and embrace.

We are all far more similar than we are different. We are different mostly at the surface level. Some endure far more pain and suffering from hate and intolerance than anyone ever should. That is just wrong.

We need to embrace each other as the one species we are and seek love. Our differences make us richer and better. I have said for decades in seminars that what stops people is a thought. The notion ‘I can’t’ or ‘I am unable’ or ‘I won’t’ or ‘I refuse’ is what stops people from moving forward in positive ways.

Live Love Laugh Celebrate

I learned people stop at the most silly things. Color for one. Even color of clothing. WOW isn’t that an odd one? Type of hair, shape of eyes, size of nose, lips, dialect, gender you name it someone can make it an issue. They do literally stop. They do not seek to go beyond.

Going beyond requires being open. It requires acceptance of what is without judgement. We can use more of this, don’t you think? Focus on love not on hate. Don’t even hate the hate. Be love. Be kind. Be compassionate. Be acceptance.  Live, Love, Laugh and celebrate all. ” Rex Sikes

How often today can you delight in today?

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How To Stop Believing Lies And Acting Like A Walking Billboard!

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“Did you know that the philosophy and principles that were popularized in ‘The Secret’, movie and book, were actually suppressed through the centuries? It is true.

To this day there are groups who do not want you to know, understand and apply this very powerful, life transforming information. It works and they want to keep it for themselves.

Most of the time there is no one trying to harm us. They just to keep us off track or off balance. If we can’t apply the principles correctly we won’t know the power available to us. We won’t get ahead.

We will miss out and become a worker bee instead. You and I received many messages growing up. Many were meant to be helpful and well intended.

They were delivered  by well meaning adults and peers but ended up limiting us instead of helping us. Plus, there were those designed and delivered to keep us limited intentionally. Sadly, true.

The well meaning adults parroted many of these not knowing any better. It is how they were raised too. Among all the messages we received some positive, wonderful messages still made it through.

Stop Believing The Lies

Sadly, they weren’t emphasized enough to give them high signal value; the kind of signal value that would make a difference. So we missed their power. We heard them and missed them just the same.

You have heard it before but perhaps never thought about it this way before. The ancient texts and New Thought leaders have been saying it for eons. Be it first and then you will have it.

Happy people attract or make themselves happy. Wealthy people make and attract more wealth. Success breeds success. Be it, then do what you need to get what you want to have. Be, do, have!

The powers that be want us to struggle to get things thinking THOSE will somehow make us better. They won’t. They steered our focus around backwards. AND so we focused on the wrong things.

If you work hard to get what you want some day you might become wealthy, successful and happy. Do, have, be. In spite of this some of the powerful messages made it through. We just didn’t know it.

Love yourself if you want a loving relationship.

Be sexy and others will think you are. It is all attitude.

Be happy and good things come to you.

Feel successful and you will attract success.

Be confident and you can learn to do anything.

Start Believing In Yourself

Advertisers and others have done everything they can to create a need in you so they can sell their goods. They are willing to scare you, intimidate you and make you feel bad.

They want to make you feel as if you are lacking what is needed. They want to make you feel as if you are not enough as you are because when you do they can profit. AND they profit large!!!

They will make you fear your dandruff, body odor, clothing style, skin, wrinkles, age, weight, height, you name it. Their job has been to make you feel inadequate, ashamed and not enough.

They want you to feel absolutely incomplete without their product or service. The make you afraid to be you in so many ways. They make you ashamed that you are human. You need their products.

In ancient days they made the public feel inferior by telling them they weren’t smart enough to read the religious texts and understand it. Only gatekeepers could know and speak the truth.

In fact those power people spoke lies. They suppressed information. They hid it and told people ‘work hard’ and strive and struggle and you may be able to accumulate things and die happy.

They sold everyone a bill of goods that was incorrect. They sold lies so they could remain in unchallenged power and keep all the assets. They sold a bad bill of goods and we didn’t know not to believe them.

What You Focus On You Get

It still goes on today. The myriad of messages is that you are not enough. ‘Work hard’ and you may be able to break free. ‘Get a job’ and work for someone smarter and richer than you.

‘Be a good worker’ bee and spend all your money on hygiene and cosmetic products so you can fit in. Make sure you wear the right clothes, drive the right car, have the right home. It is all crap!

We are even silly enough to wear their designer labels thinking it is cool thereby making us walking billboards. We even PAY for the privilege! We advertise their brands thinking it IS cool to wear these.

Tennis shoes cost hundreds of dollars. Kids fight and kill over a pair of high priced high tops. Why, because you aren’t cool without cool shoes. This is complete madness.

You want the truth but as Jack Nicholson stated in the movie A Few Good Men, ‘YOU can’t handle the truth!’ That is accurate we can’t, you can’t. The truth is SO simple we miss it.

We have been conditioned to miss it. We believe the lies even when they are proved wrong. We live out of chronic bad habits and limiting beliefs.  It is time to wake up to the truth about you!

You Are A Powerful Creator

You are more than enough.! You don’t believe it but you are MORE than enough!  You have never been told that in a way that causes you to believe it, accept it and know what to do about it.

Culture and messages state otherwise. Leaders proclaim us too unwise to know what we want. We are taught we are stupid. We need leaders who know better and who decide for us.

So how could you feel great about yourself?

The secret is you are enough!  You always have been! You don’t need clothes and cosmetics to make you sexy and attractive that comes from attitude. It comes from inside not outside.

Successful people attract riches because they feel successful and they know they can do it. It doesn’t  occur to them to think otherwise. You can too if you do it the way they do.

Even though the powers that be tried to remove all remnants of your personal power some of it survived in the kind of statements I wrote above. If you want love love yourself first.

Yet people yearn for someone to come along and fulfill them because they do not first love themselves. They put it on the outside. The put the emphasis and power on a source outside themselves.

Break Free And Stay Free

See how insidious the lies are and how persistent they are. We have been lied to and trained not to believe in ourselves. We’ve been prevented from exercising our true, positive, creative power.

They did that to us so that they, a few, could maintain it all. They diverted us. Instead of looking inside to our inner strength and resources they got us focused on the outside adornments.

They got us thinking help comes from outside us. They got us thinking they are smarter, and better, and more powerful people than you and I. They distracted us from our true selves.

It’s time for a change! The secret to manifesting or creating what you want is to feel it first and then you get it. Feel happy and you will be happy. Feel successful and you will be. Feel it first! Be it First!

Feel powerful and you will be. Be positive and you will. Assume you are a powerful creator and you will make things happen. Feel like an emperor and you will live like one. Feel the victor and you will be!

Stop living as a victim. Stop accepting the backward messages designed to limit and keep you captive on a system designed to keep you down and out. Exercise your power and break free.

You Are In Charge

Stop serving them and serve yourself and others. Make you life what you want it to be. Get your head on straight. It is your thoughts and your feelings that run the show. You’re in charge. You can control it!

They don’t want you to know that you can run the show. They don’t want you to know that what you decide and where you focus is your strength. They want you helpless and hopeless and dependent.

Sucks doesn’t it. All along you contain within you a source of great power. YOU ARE THE SECRET and you don’t know it. What you think determines who you are, what you do and what you have!

Your thoughts give rise to what you want! They are the source of inspiration and innovation. Your feelings are the fuel that get you to your destination. You are the one who makes things happen.

ALL along you have either brought good things or bad things too you because they didn’t tell you YOU create your reality by your thoughts and then your actions. What you think you become!

What you focus on you get. You didn’t know. They hid it. They got you focused on bad news and not having enough. SO you created more of the same without realizing it. It is YOU, all along, doing it.

A Champion’s Actions Arise From Within

If you feel like you aren’t good enough you likely aren’t going to do much to succeed. If you feel like a victim you won’t claim your true power. They knew that and this is what they wanted for you.

If you feel a common laborer and broke you won’t live as a powerful rich person because you will always be concerned with making ends meet. You and I were duped. Most everyone has been.

See how they have distracted us! All of the emphasis and focus is on lack and not having enough. They make us think if we work hard for someone else we might get ahead. We won’t. You won’t but rarely.

There is nothing wrong with hard work but the correct hard work comes after the right mindset not before it. You need to have the mindset, the attitude in place and they managed to weaken that.

If you want to be, do and have anything in life first you must become it in your head and your feelings. Then you will then be able to hold it in your hand. You will create the results you want.

It is time to become free and not be a slave to limiting mindsets. Why spend all your money trying to be better and be enough when you are ALREADY enough within? You just have to tap into it.

You Just Have To Tap Into It

As I already mentioned it actually is very simple. You have been conditioned wrongly and powerfully for most, if not all of your life. Now you must learn a new way. You can!

You definitely can and you can succeed! You will replace your old conditioning that has held you captive with new conditioning that allows you to live free.

You will replace limiting habits with new positive powerful ones. You can make you and your life the one you always wanted. You can discover your inner resourcefulness.

You can make your dreams come true. You have waited long enough. Stop waiting. Wait no more. Decide now to no longer be a victim of a poisonous negative mindset.

Become the victor. Realize you already are powerful positive creator. Take 100% responsibility for everything good and bad in your life and you will get free. You won’t blame anyone.

Once you stop blaming and looking outside yourself for excuses or saviors you will discover how to make the changes necessary to have the life you want. You are powerful. You’ll create good things.

It Is Simple – Do It

You have always had the power but you used it incorrectly as you were conditioned to. Stop that! Start using it as you have always been intended to. Start using your powers for good.

Wow, I always wanted to be able to say a superhero line like that. BUT it is accurate. Use your power to be and do and have what you want. Stop getting less than glorious results.

Begin getting glorious ones. All you need you already have. Stop living from lack and desperation and from someone else’s conditioning. Those cause the results you have been getting.

Change your thoughts and your feelings and you will change your life. You can change your life forever! You can become the powerful positive creator you have always been intended to be.

Had you not been duped you would have created a wonderfully positive life. Don’t complain about the past, from now on live as a champion. Live powerfully, positive and create good things.

Think positive, happy, successful, confident, joyous thoughts and feelings and that is what you will live and act from.  Claim your power and use it wisely. Make everything better for yourself and others and you will live your dreams! Begin Today! ” Rex Sikes

Make today marvelous!

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You Can! The Question Is Will You?

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Do you want to make good things happen? Do you want to live the life you always dreamed you could? Would you like to make all your goals and dreams become reality? You can! It is possible! BUT It is never a matter of ‘can you’. It IS ALWAYS possible!

It is a matter of WILL YOU. Will you do what is required to get what you want? The single common denominator of successful people is that they WILL DO what failures WON’T do. That is the critical difference. They do what others won’t. As a result they benefit!

To do what must be done YOU must believe in yourself FIRST. You must have an attitude and mindset that is positive and persistent. You become the kind of person who goes after and successfully accomplishes their dreams. That is the kind of person you are.

Will: Separates The Successful From The Unsuccessful

Then you do what you have to do to make it happen. You take action! You take the positive steps necessary to get what you want to have. The rule successful people already know is this: Be to DO to Have. Be, Do Have!

While you must be willing to take action to make it happen WHO and what you are is more important than what you do. Doing comes second. Having comes last. This is the difference between successful and non-successful people.

Those who struggle and strive attempt it backwards. They think if they struggle enough, work hard enough and DO the right things they will be able to get what the want to have and then become what they hope to become.

They think if they work hard they will get money or things and be happy or successful. It just never works this way. Except, maybe very rare cases. Someone wins the lottery for example. Sadly, most who do are broke again a few years later.

Who you are determines whether you act with integrity and positivity or not. Who you are determines whether you will keep going until you make accomplish it. Who you are determines what you do and what you have and keep as a result.

Quitters Never Win And Winners Never Quit

Attitude determines your altitude. You must believe in yourself and believe that you will do it. You must be a winner in mindset to win. That is how it works. You must have then mind of a champion then you become a champion. It never works the other way around.

You must know that you will prevail. You must know you will accomplish your goals. You need to know it is not only possible but imminent and expect it. Steel will is what separates those who have from those who do not have.

Doing comes after being. Focus on being the kind of person who makes dreams come true. Be the kind of person who is positive, powerful, dedicated, persistent, optimistic, generous, helpful and encouraging.

Who You Are Determines What You Do To Get What You Want

Be a happy, healthy, successful, good, compassionate person and you will go far. Don’t envy the success of others make your own! Celebrate, congratulate and be happy when others succeed. If you can be genuinely happy for them you will succeed faster.

Positivity will get you farther faster than negativity. You can make your dreams come true. It is absolutely possible! Will you? Will you do whatever positive things you need to in order to make it happen. Will you keep going and never give up until you make it?

Who are you and what are you made of? Are you a loser or winner? Are you a victim or victor? YOU DECIDE ! No one else can. Are you a champion, a conqueror, or an emperor? Who are you?  What kind of person are you?

It would be truly unfortunate if you never recognize your true self and your true abilities. Work on who you are. Discover who you are inside and what you can do? Fulfill your destiny. Make your dreams come true. You can. Will you? Will you do it?” Rex Sikes

Make today meaningful!

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