I found an archived copy of my old blog from 2006 on wayback.org. I cried when Hostgator told me they had no backups of it. Looks like most of it is still there. In celebration here is a post from 2007 I thought you would enjoy. I will be posting more from the old blog in the future. Stay tuned!

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How Old Were You When You Gave Up Your Dreams?

Were you 20? 25? 30? 15? At what point did you give in the failure programming around you and accept what life gives you rather than taking what you want? Unfortunately for the masses the answer is quite early in life. The dreamstealers in this world work in quiet, yet very effective ways. Like a yoke around an ox and a bit in the mouth of a wild stallion the idea that you must give up your dreams and settle for the “norm” is a constant show playing in front of the masses of souls that live on this rock.

Who said you must settle for the norm? Who said you must stay in debt? Who said you must live the same boring life that the majority lead? Lives of quiet desperation in the words of a famous writer.

 

You are at your situation in life because you chose to be there. Until you accept responsibility for your actions and your life nothing much I or anyone else say will be much of help. Blaming others for your misfortune does not help you achieve independence.

Now I am not here to knock anyone’s lifestyle. From a beggar in Bombay, to a factory worker in Paris, to a movie star in India. You are in your present situation because of past actions and thoughts. Want to change the future? Change your thoughts and change your actions. Yea, I hear ya, it is tough. Especially when surrounded by a bunch of doubting thomases.

“Doubting Thomas is a term that is used to describe someone who refuses to believe something without direct, personal evidence; a skeptic.”

Been there, done that. Breaking out of the conditioning that is going on all around you as you read this is hard. Probably one of the hardest things you will ever do. If it was easy then everyone would do it. Everyone is not doing it. Everyone has not been doing it for the last 14,000 years. Only a very few do it. A very, very few.

It’s not something you wear on your chest and show off. It’s not something that is reported on the 6 o’ clock news. It’s not something that will put you in the favorites of the masses. You will go against the grain. You will stick out. You will be different. Your thoughts will be different than the masses. Your attitudes will be different than the masses. Your life will be different than the masses. You will become less and less fixated on what is the “normal” thing to do and more on what is the correct way to be. The question will not be “What must I do?” The question will be “What must I understand?”.

Do you remember when you were a kid? Remember playing with toys with your friends? Remember using your imagination to create a world out of almost nothing? Give a kid a refrigerator box and the next second it’s a spaceship heading for the moon. Do you remember? Where did that imagination go? That beautiful imagination that allowed you to do anything your heart desired.

What happens is for most they sellout early. The imagination dies a slow death and they go to college, get “educated” then enter the corporate world. The same treadmill billions of others are on. Wakeup, drive to work, work, drive home, dinner, tv, sex for 5 minutes, sleep then repeat for next 45 years.

Where is the imagination in that? To me that is something an ox does day after day in the fields.

I never gave up my dreams. No matter the storms and there were plenty, I never gave them up. Most of the time I had to keep my dreams hidden. They would not make sense to the majority think. Too offbase, too “out there” too “crazy” too “wacko” too “impossible”. There was a small time I would tell others my dreams before I learned that most do not encourage you. Most will put those dreams down somehow, someway. Well, number one, those dreams are not theirs. Those dreams belong to someone else. More than likely they don’t make a lick of sense to anyone except the dreamer.

Are you frustrated? Good! Are you sick of the BS around you? Good! Are you drowning alone in a sea of mediocrity? Good! That means you want to break out. Most never will. Most are content to chew the cud, to tow the line and follow the bellwether.

I have something for you to do. Set aside some private time. Time when you will not be disturbed. In that time you are to close your eyes and not open them. You will not fall asleep. You will use your imagination to paint a picture of the type of life you wish to lead. You will imagine it in such great detail it will seem to be even more real than a dream. You will see yourself living, doing and associating with the types that encourage your dreams to come true. If you want to live in a log cabin in Hawaii you will find yourself inside that log cabin in such detail it will take your breath away. You will smell the forest, you will smell the logs, you will touch the chairs on the porch, you will walk down the path to your mailbox. And you will do this every day for 15 minutes.

What you are doing is using the power of your imagination to impress images deep inside your subconscious so that the master beaver builder inside can create your world over time.

Most adults would not know real imagination if it bit them on their ass. Be different. Be one of the few.

Here is one last tip that will help your journey. I learned this a long, long time ago from an elderly gentleman. Not from my parents, not from my friends, not from my schooling. From a very simple man that lived his life simply and in peace. Wanna know what his words were? How bad? Like “ok, if you must” or like you would want air if held underwater for 2 minutes? See the difference? Maybe, just maybe 1 out of 100,000 or 1 out of a million people that read this will understand what I am about to tell you now. The world is engineered for the masses, not the individual. Ready?

He told me the next time something comes up inside your mind that causes turbulence or negativity to instantly separate yourself from it. Instead of “I can’t do it” say “It can’t do it”. Instead of “I’m so overwhelmed” say “It is so overwhelmed” instead of “I’m angry” say “It is angry” instead of “I don’t know what to do” say “It does not know what to do”. See what is happening? If you don’t go back and read that last sentence 100 times or until you get it.

If you still don’t get it and need more perspective do a search on my blog for “magic book”. It’s a free download I made available for all. Read that book and if the final conversation in the warehouse does not send a chill up your spine, well…, there’s little hope left. To that one in a million soul that just got it, welcome, your journey has just begun.

L

Somewhere In Lesbos

“Something is about to happen. Something very wonderful.”

This post was composed under the influence of One-Live in Sydney by U2

Post Category: Books, Lauries Ramblings, Mind Power, Motivation, My Favorite Think Outside The Box Books, Philosophy, Red Pill, Self Improvement

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