Self Improvement: Memory Is Good— and Bad - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series Everything in nature has two sides: a good and a had, a positive and a negative. In philosophy this thought goes back thousands of years to the Chinese Yin and Yang. The Yang is the good, the sunny side of the hill; the Yin is the dark. There is a dualism in everything in the universe. The rain that waters and fertilizes the crops also brings floods; the fire that warms our homes and cooks our meals causes widespread havoc when out of control. We are familiar with the dualism of love and hate. Have you ever thought about the good and the bad sides of memory? Each of us really has a very short memory. Yes, the subconscious remembers … [Read more...]
How to Train Your Inspiration Part 2 – Creative Writing
How to Train Your Inspiration Part 2 - Creative Writing (See Part 1 here.) Let's get some facts out in the open: Your imagination is always on. And it's infinite. Seriously. Any "writer's block" was invented and can be released. Use the assignments in Dorothea Brande's "Becoming A Writer" and preferably treat this book as a course, which it was designed to be. Your abilities are unlimited. You can Be and Have anything and everything you can dream of. (See J. B. Jones' "If You Can Count to Four..." and Claude M. Bristol's "Magic of Believing.") You have to do a thorough study of the books and material dealing with the subject of "subconscious" to start understanding your own imagination. Frankly, there hasn't been a definitive Western study of this area. Ever. Lots of … [Read more...]
The 1 Secret To Rule Them All – Belief
Belief. That is the universal solvent which can only be contained by itself. Long studies into those who did their own long studies has finally boiled everything down to this. Everything you do, all your successes and failures, are completely explained and resolved by this one word: Belief. As you believed in yourself or your product, as your family and friends believed in you, as you believed in the teachings you've absorbed all your years - to that degree, you make your way in this world. Both terrorists and the governments they attack have that in common. You have to have people believing in your system to stay in power. The biggest complaint of our corporate media is that people don't believe them any more. This is what makes the stock market ebb and flow. In … [Read more...]
PLOTTO: Interpreting Conflicts With A Writers Originality
PLOTTO: Interpreting Conflicts With A Writer's Originality Mastering Plotto Training Series 3 Note: One of the master writers of our age was William Wallace Cook. Producing often a novel per week, he was also a student of dramatic plots. This lesson from his long unavailable “Mastering Plotto” book gives you inside tips on how to improve your story output by coming up with plots more simply. An online version of his PLOTTO is available from Gary Kacmarcik for the exercises below. Enjoy One of the most important words in any language is Experience. The immortal Patrick Henry “had but one lamp by which his feet were guided, and that was the lamp of Experience.” Richter was speaking of Experience when he said: “The youngest heart has the same waves within it as the … [Read more...]
Eternal Life: How to Live Forever – Your Job Is Legacy
Eternal Life: How to Live Forever - Your Job Is Legacy There are hints in our oldest records, even those only verbally passed from generations before us, that eternal life is possible. Yet there is, and always has been, a race to accumulate wealth beyond any personal ability to spend it. The constant example of our modern age is to turn to philanthropy at that point in life. You see it with some of the richest - Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and others. Older examples such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie exist. Some, like Henry Ford, left their fortunes in the hands of boards as Foundations to continue their charity. And these are the exceptional few. Only 5% have this mentality. 95% of this planet's population never make a decent enough income to ever worry about … [Read more...]
Your Magic Missing Ingredient: How to Get What You Want
Your Magic Missing Ingredient: How to Get Everything You Want by Wishing Of course, this came up in that mystic time between being fully awake and deep asleep. This is the time where the dream-world gives up its secrets for you if you know how to ask. You've been missing an ingredient in your magic. It's also why your wishes and dreams don't always come true. But this missing ingredient is built in to all of us. But we don't practice it, and have been trained to not even try. Faith. Did you notice your reaction to that word? That's why you won't practice and improve your skill in this. But your lack of faith has kept your wishes in the dream world. How long did it take you to learn how to write? Years. How long did it take you to learn to operate a computer effectively? At … [Read more...]