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Speaking in the Present

Everything in your world - the world at large as well as your individual world, including everything you see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and feel - is the result of a thought manifestation   

When you first begin to form your intentions into words, it's always best to take a moment and create a very clear picture in your mind of that which you truly desire to manifest. See yourself in the picture acting as if it has already happened. Then you can use the words "I intend that I am _____" and know that you've gotten off to an excellent start with your intentions.

Another phrase we've recently gotten rid of is "to be." In our circles, we say, "I intend that I am happy," for instance, instead of saying, "I intend to be happy." This small but very important change has produced extremely rewarding results for us. It brings everything into the present time, as opposed to keeping our desires somewhere off in the future. There is a big difference in intending to be happy and intending that you are happy now. By intending that you are happy now, you are seeing the end result from the beginning. Otherwise, you can intend to be happy and the Universe may follow your exact instructions and keep you in a state of readiness for a very long time, waiting to be happy. If you don't rephrase your intentions, you could easily remain on the brink of your happiness indefinitely without ever quite reaching it.

Sometimes it also helps to imagine that you are working hand in hand with your guides, helpers, or angels from other realms, and that these helpers are there to serve you. They listen closely to your intentions and go scurrying throughout the far corners of the Universe, taking the thoughts and words that you have provided and then delivering them back to you down here on Earth in the forms and substances that you call third-dimensional experience. When you state your intentions in the present and envision them as if they have already occurred, you send the clearest possible message out to your helpers. You've made their job a lot easier, while optimizing your own potential for bringing your dreams into physical reality.

From The Intenders Handbook

My Intention for today is:
I intend that I am always phrasing my intentions in the present tense.

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The Recession has hit everybody.....

I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.

Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can't afford batteries.

CEO's are now playing miniature golf.

Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 of it's Congressmen.

A stripper was killed when her audience showered her with rolls of pennies while she danced.

I saw a Mormon polygamist with only one wife.

If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or Them.

McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America .

Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.

My cousin had an exorcism but couldn't afford to pay for it, and they re-possessed her!

A picture is now only worth 200 words.

When Bill and Hillary travel together, they now have to share a room.

The Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates.

Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh Great! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!

And, finally...

I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Pakistan , and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck

Conscious Language

Know that you are assisting others by your own realizations.
You then enhance and increase the possibilities
for others to go where you have been.     

So much of our lives have been spent thinking that we can be frivolous with our spoken words, but now we're finding out that it's to our great advantage to be clear and concise about what we desire to manifest. We know that our words are the building-blocks of our future. With this in mind, we've eliminated five words that kept us unempowered and no longer serve us well. In our circles, we've stopped using trying, hoping, wanting, to be, and not because they were interfering with the manifestation of our intentions. Today we will talk about the first three of these sabotaging words.

We eliminated "trying" because it's a halfway word. It provides a built-in excuse to be unsuccessful. If you're having a conversation with someone and you say, "I'll meet you tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock ," and their response is, "I'll try," it isn't very reassuring.

We've also dropped "hoping" and "hopefully" from our vocabulary. When a person is "hoping" that something will happen, he or she is holding on to a little bit of doubt about whether their intention will really come true. If they replace "I hope" and "hopefully" with "I intend", and really trust in the Intention Process, then things will begin to change for them. They will stop limiting themselves unknowingly.

Wanting is another word that we refrain from using in our Intenders Circles because it implies that there is a scarcity of things. We looked it up in the dictionary and it said that if we were in a state of wanting, then we were lacking. So now, instead of saying, "I want a new car," we say, "I intend that I have a new car." This slight change, though very subtle, has taken scarcity out of the picture and brought us much closer to our own empowerment.

You can easily tell what's going on in the lives of your friends and acquaintances by listening closely to what they're saying. If they are using these unempowered words, then they are most-likely creating scarcity and limitation in their lives. You can help them to raise their level of consciousness by setting an example for them and, when they're receptive, by gently explaining to them how their words are limiting their experience. When you do this, everyone is uplifted. And that upliftment radiates outward into your community and into the world you live in.

My Intention for today is:
I intend that I am only using words that serve me.

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The Bridge ~ Step 20 ~ Suggestions

All diseases have been healed

We do ourselves a great disservice when we believe that we have a particular sickness and call it by name. When we do this we are discounting the fact that each of us is a unique being who has had different experiences, different parents, different genetics, and so forth that brought us to the state of imbalance we are dealing with. By believing what a doctor or someone else tells us about ourselves we lump ourselves in with everyone else who has ever had similar symptoms to ours, not realizing that our mind, in it's infinite wisdom, will begin to send messages to our body, telling it to create the symptoms we are believing in. And, since our thoughts are always creating our experiences, our body will immediately comply with the mind's wishes and begin to manifest the disease we believe we have.

Wouldn't it be better to hold a vision of ourself in our highest light and manifest that message instead?

Many years ago the Rosicrucians set up experiments to show us the power that our thoughts have upon our body. They hypnotized people and then approached them with a normal pencil or pen, telling them that the pen was a red hot poker, like a branding iron. Then they touched the pen to the person's arm and guess what? The person would immediately cry out in pain and a blister began to form. Within moments, the arm took on all the physical characteristics of having been burned.

Stories like this have been hidden from us, but their message is clear. We human beings are very suggestible and it serves us well to remember that we are each unique. Likewise, it does not serve us to believe everything everyone else tells us about ourselves. Not only could their suggestions be entirely wrong, but if we believe them, we run the risk of manifesting all sorts of things we're apt to wish we'd stayed away from. 

My Intention for today is: 
I intend that I always remember that I am a unique being, capable of so much more than I've been led to believe.

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Thanks to Bluegrass.

CANNON BALLS!!!   
BET YOU DIDN'T  KNOW THIS?
  It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen.

Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.

The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey. But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass -  hence, Brass Monkeys.
  Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled.

Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey.
  Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

And all this time, folks thought that was just a vulgar expression?

Beginner's Luck

As soon as you see things in new way, with a perspective of gratitude and an opportunity for growth, you will be rewarded immensely

One evening in our spiritual guidance session Tina was talking about invisible influences like emotions, cellphone frequencies, TV and radio waves and so forth which surrounded us. She also said that our Intenders Circles always had invisible beings who gathered around us and that these helpers saw to it that the newcomers" first few intentions were manifested very quickly and in such a way that they couldn't be missed. She jokingly called it a Beginners Luck Factor and said that we should tell those who were new to our Circles not to hold back, but to "go for it" and expect that whatever they were intending would come to them easily and effortlessly. Later, she also told us that it was not really luck at all but a law which calls forth special help from the invisible realms to rally around anyone who chooses to dedicate their intentions to the Highest Good.

I always had a knack for working on computers. When my friends would raise their hands in the air and threaten to bash their computers, I would offer to fix them. I'd been teaching part-time in the evenings, but I really wanted to be working full-time fixing computers. I also had a desire to be able to make lowcost secondhand or rebuilt computers available to the people in the area. The only problem I had was getting parts. I wasn't in a big city where parts were easy to find.

About that time, I happened to go to an Intenders Circle. That night I made an intention to leave my teaching position and somehow, some way, start my own business fixing and rebuilding computers. Four days later, a friend of mine told me about a place where I could put a bid in on a whole containerload of good computer parts - CPUs, keyboards, printers, everything, including the monitors! I got the bid and, within two weeks, I rented a wonderful warehouse in town and stacked it full of all kinds of computer equipment. Everything I�d intended to have was right there at my fingertips!

Before I knew it, people were lined up at my door needing help with their computers. And when I'd help them, I couldn't resist also telling them about

the Intenders.

Aaron Christensson

From The Intenders Handbook

My Intention for today is: 
I intend that I am open to receive from both expected and unexpected sources

Wellness

It is for yourself that you see others in their highest light

No one is well-served by another who, either consciously or unconsciously, talks about disease. The best thing that you can do for anyone is to hold the light for them, seeing them in their perfect state of wellness. Regardless of what they tell you about their maladies,  you do them no favor by agreeing with them about their illnesses. When they are temporarily unable to hold the light for themselves, you can hold it for them. You help them by holding a vision in your mind of them in their highest light. And, in this way, you are not reinforcing their sickness and suffering. You are reinforcing their wellness.

When we first started the Intenders, it was common to hear someone putting their sick friends or family into the circle. We would talk about someone's disease, and then intend that it is healed. This practice went on for quite awhile, but we didn't seem to be getting the results we desired from it. So, one evening, we decided to ask our guides and helpers about this. The answer we received was very profound.

We were told that when we give a name to somebody's sickness that we are giving power unto it. We were reminded that our words have power, and when we speak the name of any disease - whether we think it is our own or someone else's - we are actually reinforcing or feeding the disease. This does not help us if our highest priority is to preserve and perpetuate our lives.

We were also reminded that our thoughts are things, and that we are all transmitters and receivers of thoughts. On a level which is normally invisible to us, these thoughts fly through space, just like radio or TV waves, and they are received by the person we are thinking about. When we send out a thought that pictures someone else in it, this thought is received and it tends to manifest. We are all constantly making suggestions with our thoughts to others of how we would like them to be.

So, when we envision others as suffering in any way, we are contributing to their suffering. Conversely, when we see them in their highest light - happy and full of vitality - that is the message they receive. And that is the message that will help them the most.

From The Intenders Handbook

My Intention for today is: 
I intend that I am seeing everyone, including myself, in their highest light - happy, healthy, whole, and humming.

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Abundance

The source of your supply is so immense.
It's all there just waiting for you to tap into it

Most people don't realize it, but hoarding always shuts down the flow of our abundance, while giving always comes back to us in great measure. The mechanics of this phenomenon are easily apparent once we get past our old attitudes about "saving for a rainy day." It works like this: when we hoard something, whether it's our money, our time, our resources, or our energy, we're actually doing it because we've pictured ourself in a situation where we've run out of things. We've envisioned ourself down and out, perhaps even destitute and depressed. Now, this vision is a thought, and it will work its way into physical manifestation just like any other thought we keep our attention on. In other words, by saving for a rainy day, even though our motivation is to have extra resources for later on, we sabotage our future and create the exact opposite of that which we truly desire for ourselves.

Lee Ching told us one night in our spiritual guidance session that followed our Intenders Circle that it furthers us to bring our limiting thoughts to light so that we can replace them with thoughts which will bring our abundance to us. There's a good example of this, he said, by looking at how the kitchen faucet works. When we open the valve, the water comes in and the water goes out. But when we close off the valve, the water can't come in, so it also cannot flow out. It's the same with our money and our resources; we close off the flow of all good things coming to us by our thoughts of lack and our subsequent acts of hoarding. By the same token, we open the faucet of our abundance and keep it open by spending, not frivolously, but responsibly. When we spend without worrying about it, we send a message to the Universe that we have enough of everything we need, and that we trust that there will always be more when we need it. It's this posture which delivers our abundance to us (if it's for our highest good), and provides us with enough to spare and enough to share.

From The Code ~ 10 Intentions for a Better World

My Intention for today is:
I intend that I always have enough to spare and enough to share.

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Where did Piss Poor come from?

Interesting History - They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor"

But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell . ..... .

Brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.

Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting Married.

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Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

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Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

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There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "Dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: "a thresh hold".

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(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat".

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Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing death by lead poisoning. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

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Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust. Hence: The rich people or special people are called the "upper crust".

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Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination of lead and alchol would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. The inbibers would collapse on the road. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence, the custom of "holding a wake".

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England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.

Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night, "the graveyard shift", to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer".

And that's the truth! Now, who said History was boring!!!

So...get out there and educate someone! ~~~ Share these facts with a friend.

Peace

Peace is just a thought away

There are three subjects which seem to monopolize much of our thoughts today and they are defense, money, and health. In the spirit of helping us to understand how we are sabotaging ourselves in these areas by holding onto our old ways of thinking, the next three steps across The Bridge will address these highly charged topics.

Let's start with our defense mindset. When you're thinking that someone else is going to attack you, you are actually helping to create that attack. A defensive position always invites an attack. It works like this: In your mind, you're picturing someone - perhaps it's an enemy footsoldier, a renegade terrorist, or a drugged-out street criminal - coming to get you. This is a thought, just like all other thoughts. With enough attention put on it, it will work its way toward the surface of your experience, just like the thought that you're going to go to Disneyland next month.

Fortunately, we can pick any thought we want. Thoughts that serve us and those that don't are equally available to us. If a person envisions attackers, then he will be attacked. If a person envisions Disneyland , then he'd better get his E tickets ready. The question is: What kind of world do we want to live in? If we keep envisioning the same old us vs. them separation scenarios as propagated by the media, then we'll never live in peace. But, if we shed our victim mentality and begin to picture our world in its highest light, then things will change. Thousands of years of man killing his fellowman will come to an end and be replaced by the expression of a deep and abiding respect for one another. All it takes is a little deeper thinking.

We must stop letting those with their own personal agendas tell us who our enemies are. We must investigate a little further to discover who the true perpetrators of violence on this planet are. And we must reject their manipulative suggestions and begin to discern in favor of that which is for the highest good of all.

For those who want to live in true freedom (not the kind of freedom offered by most present-day patriotic movements), peace needs to take the highest precedence. We must, in fact, demand peace because freedom requires a peaceful environment in which to grow and thrive. As of yet, not enough of us have been able to garner the inner strength needed to create a lasting peace. There are a few - and more are seeing the light every day - but it takes a larger number of people to stop supporting a social reality that doesn't serve them before a shift into true collective sovereignty will occur.

The time will come, in our very near future, when one more person envisions a peaceful world and, with that seemingly tiny action, the scales are tipped. The storm clouds disappear and a new world, the world that we deserve to live in as our right of birth, opens up before us.

It will be like a miracle ... but it's not really a miracle. It's only us having changed our thoughts.

From The Highest Light Teachings

My Intention for today is: 
I intend that I am guided, guarded, and protected at all times.

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The Highest Good 2

What we say is what we get

Earlier, we said that there were three things that kept our intentions from manifesting - our doubts, the timing (yet) factor, and the Highest Good. When we were first starting The Intenders back on the Big Island of Hawaii, Mark Dziatko (he's the handsome one in the Intenders Video) and I used to talk a lot about the Highest Good. One day while we were putting a roof on his house in Waa Waa subdivision, Mark was telling me why some of the things I'd manifested recently didn't seem to be working out so well. He said I hadn't incorporated the Highest Good into my intentions. Mark said that this was a common oversight, and he pointed out that there are all sorts of things we think we want, but that sometimes it's difficult for us to tell in advance which ones are good for us and which ones aren't. He said that we can avoid getting ourselves involved in uncomfortable situations by including the Highest Good clause at the end of our intentions.

He further explained that by saying "in order for my intentions to manifest, they must serve the highest good of the Universe, myself, and everyone everywhere," (and knowing that what I say is what I'll get), I can be assured that only the intentions which are aligned with my highest good will come into manifestation. Any which are born out of shadowy, selfish, or unserving motives will remain unmanifested.

We had an example of this awhile back in our Intenders Circle with a lady named Genie who kept making the same intention week after week. She intended that she is in a relationship with the man of her dreams, and, week after week, we expected her to arrive at the circle with her new boyfriend on her arm. But, after several months, it still hadn't happened.

So, one evening after we'd finished our intentions and gratitudes, Mark asked Lee Ching why Genie's intention hadn't manifested yet. The answer he received was quite profound. He was told that it simply wasn't in Genie's (or her future boyfriend's) highest and best interests to have a man come into her life at this time; that she didn't really have the handle on her negativity yet; and that if he was to show up in her life, she wouldn't be able, at her present level of emotional maturity, to keep him around. It was suggested that she do some more work on herself to keep calmer and more centered in the midst of life's little storms, and, in this way, when the man of her dreams did come along, she'd be better prepared to make the most of the relationship.

My Intention for today is:
I intend that all of my intentions serve the Highest Good of the Universe, myself, and everyone everywhere.

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August 15 - Moved to our new home in Jersey.  It's so beautiful here. The lake to the north looks so majestic.  I can hardly wait to see it snow covered.  I'm going to love it here!

October 14 - Jersey is definitely the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves have turned all the colors and shades of red and orange.  Went for a ride through the park and saw some deer.  They are so graceful. Certainly they are the most wonderful animals on earth. This must be paradise, I

LOVE IT HERE!!

November 10 - Deer season will start soon. I can't imagine anyone wanting to kill such a gorgeous animal.  Hope it will snow soon. I love it here. Those red and orange leaves have covered my yard. Looks like a magnificent multi-colored carpet. HOW BEAUTIFUL.  Raking and cleaning up the yard  will be an opportunity for invigorating exercise in the cool crisp air. 

November 15 - Ah, more leaves and more exercise.

November 18 - Jesus, still more leaves. Guess it's best to wait until they've all fallen before I rake again.

November 25 - Finally, all of the trees lost their leaves and with today's final raking it's over for this season.

Chiropractor suggested I use a lawn  maintenance service next year. Only four blisters became infected. Should probably remember to use gloves.

November 30 - What the f--k? Where did all of those leaves come from?  Had a little wind last night and the lawn is covered again.  Oh well, they'll just have to wait until spring.

December 12 - It snowed last night, FINALLY. Woke up to find everything blanketed in white.  It looks like a postcard.

We went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. Had a snowball fight (I won) and when the snowplow came by and we had to shovel the end of the driveway again.  What a beautiful place. I Love Jersey !

December 14 - More snow last night, I love it. The snow plow did his trick to the driveway again. I Love it here.

December 19 - More snow again last night. Can't get out of the driveway.  Can't  get to work. I'm exhausted from shoveling. F--king snowplow.

December  22 - More of that white <snip> fell again last night. As if dealing with the leaves weren't bad enough, now I've got blisters all over my hands from shoveling, must remember to wear gloves. I think the snowplow hides around the corner and waits until I'm finished shoveling the driveway. The <snip>.

December 25 - Merry F--king Christmas. More frigging snow. If I ever get my hands on that son-of-a-bitch who drives the snowplow, I swear I'll kill the <snip>. Don't know why they don't use more salt on the roads to melt the f--king ice.

December 27 - More white <snip> last night. Have been inside for three days except for shoveling out the driveway after that plow goes through every time. F--king gloves got wet and then froze on my  hands.

Doctor said it was just a mild case of frost bite, disfiguration is probably only temporary. Can't go anywhere, car is stuck in a mountain of white <snip>. The weatherman says to expect another 10 inches of the <snip> tonight. Do you know how many shovels full of snow 10 inches is?

December 28 - The f--king weatherman was wrong. We got 34 inches of that white <snip>. At this rate it won't melt 'till summer.

The plow got stuck up the road and the <snip> came to the door and asked to borrow a shovel. After I told him I'd already broken six of them shoveling all the <snip> he pushed into the driveway, I broke my last one on his f--king head.

January 4 - Finally got out of the house today. Went to the store to get food and on the way back I hit a <snip>ed deer that ran in front of my car.  Did about $3000 damage.  F--king beasts should be killed.  Wish the hunters had killed them all last November.

May 3 - Took the car to the garage in town. The thing is rusting out from all the f--king salt they put all over the  roads.

May 10 - Moved to Sarasota Florida. I  can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would ever live in that God forsaken state of New Jersey.

The Bridge ~ Step 14 ~ Positive Outcomes

No one else can tell us what to think unless we let them

When we realize that what goes inside of us is our business and our business alone, then we can begin to hold our own power. Of course, there are many people who, for their own selfish interests, would do their level best to tell us what to think and how the world works, but ultimately the reality we create for ourselves is up to us. Likewise, it serves us well to remember that what goes on in our internal world need not be dependant on what's going on outside of us. In other words, there could be all sorts of chaos and craziness going on around us, but if we're filled with happiness and joy on the inside, then we're happy and joyful - and everything else can stay on the back burner.

Of course, that's not what's happening in the lives of most people nowadays. Most of us are attached firmly to our outer world and continue to make things worse for ourselves by dwelling on our doubts, dramas, and disasters, not realizing that we are creating or reinforcing these things when we do so. If, instead, we would become more vigilant of our thoughts and words and then begin to place our attention on more positive outcomes, then that is what we would start to manifest for ourselves.

It seems to me that one of the biggest barriers to really being of service to others lies in our tendency to "dumb down." You know what dumbing down is, right? Dumbing down is when we act like we don't know what's going on because we're afraid of others who appear to be more powerful than we are. It's when we're timid and don't say anything at times when we actually could have a positive influence on the situation. That's what I was doing.

I remember one specific time when I was sitting in a coffee shop with a group of friends, and one guy was saying that there really isn't any such thing as God, and that this reality here on Earth is the only one there is. This man was very strong-willed, and I didn't say anything. I dumbed down, even though I'd had several mystical experiences, and I knew that God exists.

Later on, after I got home, I thought about what we'd talked about, and something didn't feel right. There were several young people there that day, and they were starting to believe the fellow who was so powerful. I could have served them by saying something to balance out his persuasive, but misguided views. But I didn't. So I intended, right then and there, that I would never miss an opportunity like that again.

Since then, I've come to understand that it doesn't serve anyone if I allow others to have their way just because they're more eloquent or more persistent than I am. I speak my truth, and now people don't run over me like they used to. My life, on a personal level, works so much better now that I've stopped dumbing down. Come to think of it, I'll bet our whole world would be better place if more of us would stop dumbing down and speak out for what we truly believe in.

From The Code ~ Intentions in Action

My Intention for today is:
I intend that I am at peace within myself.