Belief Equals Possibility

“Consecration is dedicating the individual life to the service of others, to some noble mission, to realizing some unselfish ideal. Life is not something to be lived through; it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth. Consecration places the object of life above the mere acquisition of money, as a finality. The man who is unselfish, kind, loving, tender, helpful, ready to lighten the burden of those around him, to hearten the struggling ones, to forget himself sometimes in remembering others,–is on the right road to happiness. Consecration is ever active, bold and aggressive, fearing naught but possible disloyalty to high ideals.” William George Jordan

I’ve been studying and enjoying the works of William George Jordan as I have for some time now and was very inspired by this part of his book called “Majesty of Calmness”.  I really related to what it is saying because it has so much meaning in my life based on what I’m currently going through.

I’m dealing with a situation where if the person doing to me an unkind and un-deserving behavior was to embrace the words above from the wonderful passage by William George Jordan, then I would not be in the situation I’m currently in.

However, keep in mind that blaming others will only lead to anger and not taking responsibility in one’s life. So I’m careful not to fall in that trap because first of all, anger is a very disruptive behavior to self-improvement and personal growth. And secondly if I’m not taking responsibility for my life, as hard as it may be, when it seems others are out to get you, then I’m letting those other people determine and control my life.

I do believe in justice and doing what one feels is right to do, instead of just following the crowd or doing what everyone else is doing. Yes, I believe in making a stand when ethically, things aren’t right. You’ve got to fight for what you believe in or your life has little meaning and purpose.

When you are committed to self-improvement and lifelong learning, you don’t give in when things get rough because you have the confidence in yourself to do what is necessary and the smarts to do what’s right and stray away from what’s wrong. Timidity and fear fall away and are replaced by the thrill of doing everything so you can experience life to its fullest.

One important point I’d like to make is that even though I believe the person causing me a lot of troubles would learn from William George Jordan’s passage that I’ve written in this message, I also believe that it is meant for me to learn and grow from too. In other words, I believe that if something becomes apparent to you, or is done to you, or a challenge presents itself to you, that it is an opportunity for you to learn from it too, for yourself. And in doing so you grow beyond your current wisdom.

When I started writing this post, I wanted to talk more about the quote I picked out and because this post is already getting a bit lengthy, I’ll hold my comments to a short few. But read to the end because it’s well worth it :^)

My first comment is the word “consecration”. I had no idea what it meant and here’s what it means per dictionary.com, “to make or declare sacred”.

With this in mind, I read the first line as meaning, “If you want to have a sacred life, you must dedicate yourself to the service of others, to a noble mission, and to some unselfish ideal.”

Now that you’ve read this far, I’ve got the treat of my whole message to give to you right now. If only people would live their lives by this ideal, all would be great for everyone. In fact, my challenge would melt away like snow being penetrated by the spring sun. It goes like this…

The man who is unselfish, kind, loving, tender, helpful, ready to lighten the burden of those around him, to hearten the struggling ones, to forget himself sometimes in remembering others,–is on the right road to happiness.

Have a great week,

Kevin (Mister Self Help)

Believe Yourself To Success Because Belief Equals Possibility

Things School Never Taught Us On How To Live A Better Life

Let me take you on a trip, if you will, to a place far far away. Far away from the daily grind. Far away from the hustle and bustle of the city and into a place of beauty, spender, and serenity. Might this place exist? Have you ever been there?

For me, it feels like I haven’t been there for years if not longer. One so call moment that I vividly remember is when my family and I went to the California Sierra Mountains during a soft slow fall and sled down some hills. Other times were when I was alone among nature as a child, exploring the world. Even if it was a very small part of the world usually a few miles from my home, but sometimes a few hundred miles.

I would like you to take a 2 minute break from everything you are doing right now to close your eyes and image you are among the most beautiful, loving, and peaceful places and times you can possibly think of. You can take more time if you like, but I want this to be like a vacation for you.

Explore every aspect of your experience savoring every minute detail such that you could write about it in a manner that an alien could read and understand just as you had experienced it. Find things moving slower than usual. Don’t fall asleep though, unless you can.

Now come back to notice and take in every feeling you are currently having. Don’t you feel wonderful? Can you enjoy it every day? The answer is yes, if you decide to make it so. You will be far more productive and live longer and healthier if you take these mental vacations when you are the most overcome by stress and tension. Anytime you take a mental vacation as explained in this post, even when you are not feeling severe pressure and fatigue from life, you will benefit by the healing affects of doing so.

Calmness, Peace, and Tranquility are the signs of a person who is in control of their lives and who is best able to deal with challenges that come their way. You want to be at your best as much as possible, right?

Extremely successful people do not show themselves as anything other than calm, at peace, and tranquil almost 100% of the time. There are reasons for this that mimics their success. They have learned to master themselves so they can live their life and not live the life that they believe others want them to live.

Learn to live your life calmly, peacefully, and tranquilly so you can enjoy the mental vacation that takes you to the best places in the world within your mind. Don’t you want to be there? You can with your thoughts and you determine what those will be.

Have a great and blessed week,

Kevin (Mister Self Help)

Believe Yourself To Success Because Belief Equals Possibility

P.S. Bob Proctor teaches about calmness too.

Here is some of the important information I’ve discussed thus far because I’m always encouraging you to reach your goals and dreams. But, I’m not so sure I’ve ever given you a way to do it. Today this lack of information ends.

Recently, I told you about a 13 year old business entrepreneur named Susan Levine who is currently working on her goals and dreams. I can image you may have been thinking this is amazing. To make it even more amazing I’ll let you know she also practices the art of Taekwondo (blue-red belt), is a piano and clarinet musician, runs her own web-site, and is a straight “A” student in school.

You may be asking yourself, how does she do it? You may be motivated by her to do something for yourself after hearing such a story … and I hope you are because I want you to succeed. That’s my goal for you. I have a way for you to do just that, which I’m going to share with you.

Now, before I go into it, I know there aren’t any “Excuse makers” reading this right now because they could care less about their future. Bottom line is they would have an excuse not to succeed or read this. You aren’t that way, so you don’t make excuses and that’s great!

Even not being an “Excuse maker”, you may have found yourself in a situation where you had an idea and yet, you felt overwhelmed because you needed money you didn’t have to finance it. Here’s your solution and it makes me so happy to be able to present it to you. I hinted to it in my last communication about Susan and it’s called “Crowd Funding”as taught in the 90 Minute Cash Advance product, which Susan is using.

Here’s the interesting part about crowd funding. Crowd funding has been around for hundreds of years, but not until now with social media and prolific use and access to the internet has it become the answer to funding your dreams and goals. If you can enroll others in your idea, they will fund it for and with you. Then you’ll be off and running.

Obtaining the money you need to make your dreams and goals happen also validates your idea as something the marketplace is willing to pay for, which is what causes many start-up businesses to fail. So, if you can get support via crowd funding for your venture, then you’ve already taken out most of the risk of what will happen when the product is created. Plus, you’ll get paid to create your idea and do so even before you’ve spent a dime or any time working on it.

I’m so on-board with the crowd funding idea that even if you don’t need the money to work on your idea, I’d encourage you to use crowd funding to determine public interest in your idea so you don’t waste any time or money on doing something that won’t sell. You may have the best idea in the world, but if you can’t make money at it, then you’re wasting your time.

I recall hearing from a mentor of mine that he thought he had the best idea on what his clients would like to see and invested all the time, energy, and effort to create it, only to find out he couldn’t find an audience that was the least bit interested in that idea. However and fortunately his audience communicated another idea to him of how he could be of service and he now successfully does that instead. Just think of all the lost time, effort, and energy he could have saved if he knew today what he didn’t know when he created his original product or service idea that nobody was interested in?

Nothing can stop a person who’s will to succeed is greater than their fear or excuses.

Have a great week,

Kevin (Mister SelfHelp)

Believe Yourself To Success Because Belief Equals Possibility

Hi Everyone,

I know there are times when you could just use a good old fashioned success story to keep you moving in the direction of your dreams and goals. I get that way myself.

I found an incredible story for several reasons that caught my eye and wanted to share with you. One reason is the success comes to us from a thirteen year old girl with big dreams, and the other is she is doing what most people would probably think is too much of a challenge to take on.

Let’s look at this a bit more in detail. In short, Susan is in the process of creating a new iPhone and iTouch application that she has thought up based on the classic Stacker arcade game. In addition, she’s building it by utilizing “crowd funding”.

Crowd funding is somewhat new to project funding and involves people who are interested in the idea to donate dollars to the cause. Once the amount of money needed to fund the project is obtained, it’s created by the crowd funding project manager. In this case it’s Susan.

The really neat thing about her project is that she will only create an iPhone and iTouch application if she gets the necessary funding needed to create it. This means there is vested interest in her idea and it makes sense to move forward in creating the application as she has described it.

An additional benefit is that the person donating also wins big time too. They get the application for free, possibly at a considerably reduced price for having donated during the pre-design phase and additional benefits based on donation levels. So at a minimum the contributor is buying the application before its release and getting rewarded for having done so beyond just buying the application once it is ready for purchase in iTunes or the App Store.

This is a brilliant idea and really highlights Susan’s talent because of the win/win scenario she has created. In addition, Susan also has her own website called iTouchTechTalk.com, where you can learn all kinds of interesting ideas from how to solve application challenges to learning about some of the most useful applications available today. She often reviews applications so you can determine if an application is something you want to buy or not.

Susan started her internet venture on January 1^st, 2010, just a mere 3.6 months ago and is already known as an iTouch/iPhone expert making her mark on this popular internet mobile niche.

What can you do or start today that can change your life for the better? Like Susan, find a passion you have in life and make your mark because life consists of a finite amount of time. You haven’t a moment to lose in finding and living your dream. Susan has, and you can too!

I’m a proud Papa too, because Susan is my daughter.

Believe Yourself To Success Because Belief Equals Possibility!

You can do it, Make it happen!

Kevin

I talked recently about persistence as a way of helping to achieve your dreams and goals. However I had a recent dilemma in regards to a new project I’m working on, in that I was being challenged with having a combined teleseminar and webinar series.

The webinar portion would increase the difficultly to execute successfully because of my thinking that a live broadcast would work best in creating the most usefulness to my audience.

Then it came to me one fine day hitting me like a ton of bricks and interestingly it happened to be something I’d pondered already some time ago, which got lost in the static of life. Here it goes…

Make the series focus on personal growth and development from within and leave the artistry and implementation related to external (outside the body) student development as follow up material that might very well include videos or demonstrations.

The point here is that if you believe and love what you do, as I do, your thoughts will center around that love all the time and the best solution will come to you in perhaps the most strangest and surprising moments when you most need them. So, as one of my great past mentors said to me “You don’t need to know all the ‘how’ answers to be successful. You just need to know the why.”

And I say there are 2 whys, 1) why you are doing it and 2) why you’re serving, serves others. For example, 1) I would like to create $3000 so I can buy my daughter a piano and 2) by providing new and fresh information a deeper understanding and wisdom will result in benefiting my clients by exposing a larger fullness and breadth to their experience (This answers the question of why what I am serving, serves my clients). When you can answer those two questions, and if necessary ponder a bit longer, the answers to your challenges will appear. Keep in mind, this technique or principle is applicable in the work environment, if you are serving in that capacity too.

When you are in a creative mode of thinking about what means so much to you and that you enjoy, your project will become all encompassing. It is at this time when you will only know solutions to your challenges and know no reasons why it won’t work.

You are incredible.

Believe Yourself To Success Because Belief Equals Possibility

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It’s tax time again and that’s a good time to look at what you accomplished from a financial perspective for the previous year. I hope you have something to celebrate about because even in an economic down-turn people are getting wealthy.

As you know, money isn’t everything. In fact, I’d rather have a lot of other things in life like my precious family, our health, happiness, peace and calmness above money. However, you probably know that having money helps if you have grown enough inside to handle having it. I know I have. This leaves me with a sense of feeling good because if you don’t have the financial wherewithal you want right now, you can always get it by determining you want it. And as long as you have grown inside enough to handle financial success, you will be able to keep it and share it without ever losing it.

Recently I’ve been thinking and saying “If you can dream it and believe it, you can achieve it.” Napoleon Hill the famous author of Think and Grow Rich said something similar, “What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”, however I wanted something that was original :^) Also, when you talk about the life you are going to have, that is extraordinary way beyond what it is today over and over until it becomes a burning desire and everyone you say it too is tired of hearing it, you will get there, I firmly believe it.

There are people who have a lot of money and resources at their disposal, but they haven’t grown personally within to provide peace within themselves. They are not happy. To me, that is sad. It is their choice to be like this because everyone has the capacity to control themselves if they chose to do so. If you don’t steer your ship of life, then others will do it for you which can lead you to running into rocks, which isn’t a very pleasant experience. In other words, you will end up with a life you are unhappy about.

I keep coming back and dreaming of the life I desire that my late mentor Jim Rohn would talk about. That is a life where you create so much abundance for yourself that you can help yourself, your family, your extended family, your friends, your community, your world and so on. You can make a difference in the world. You can leave a legacy that says, You meant something, You did something great. You created hope and helped millions of people. Your life was not for not, but for significance. You were a meaningful specific, not a wandering generality. Folks, I challenge you to create and live a life that is meaningful. But remember, life is very short so you better start today!

G-d bless you.

Believe Yourself To Success Because Belief Equals Possibilities

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I was talking to one of my multi-millionaire friends today and one of the many things he talked about is how being persistent will allow you to achieve whatever it is you want. Persistence pays, and pays in huge returns. Just hearing that really made me feel good.

You see, it’s easy to feel bad and to work as hard as you can and come to expect great results and then have those great ideas wither away like a dying flower in late summer. It’s harder to find something to keep you going when you shake your head in disbelief because things didn’t work out the way you expected them to. To make things worse, you bragged to everyone again about how well you are going to do, to find out that the idea you implemented turned out to be another bomb. Don’t you hate that?

But the fact is that a lot of ideas won’t work out and you just need to work until you find the one that does. That’s what I’m doing and have been doing for over 20 years. You can make it too.

For some, it won’t take very long. For others it will take a long time. However, what is a long time? To a dish cooking on the stove on a medium high temperature, 2 minutes exceeding the done time is too long. However, for building from scratch a rocket to get to the moon and back 10 years is pretty fast.

So what if it took 20 years to achieve your goals and dreams? For a lot of people it won’t, but what if it did? I say big deal. One of my mentors once said, “We’re going to be here anyway.” Life’s going to pass anyway, so don’t worry or be bothered by it. Would you rather achieve your goals and dreams at the end of 20 years or not at all? I think we all know the answer to that and in order to get there, we must never give up!

Remember, a failure is not a failure unless you give up. It is instead a lesson learned on our journey to success. Keep going and find a support system or create one that supports you reaching your goals and dreams. Like this web site or a friend, or an organization like the List Building Club, or a mastermind group and so on. Find someone who believes in you and believes in your dreams and goals and this will help you in being persistent. I say to you right now, never give up on yourself or your goals. Be persistent.

We’ll talk again real soon.

You are incredible,

Kevin (Mister Self Help)

Believe Yourself To Success because Belief Equals Possibility

I came across one of the most inspiring, interesting and incredible stories ever told by Brian Tracy that I want to share with you. I know you will love this video. Watch all 4 short parts. Well worth your time.

Enjoy – This video is awesome!

Kevin

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You should be. Here’s a person and a story that was meant to inspire everyone. Your problems may just seem not so big after you learn about Z.

You may not know Z Zazhinne, but you should, because she lost her sight and was told she had permanent brain injuries and would be permanently disabled. Well, that didn’t happen because Z wasn’t going to allow it to happen. Find out this week on the Ask Mister Self Help Tele-seminar series what can be learned through Z’s experience, like Never Give Up among others. Here is a quick video to introduce her to you:

Enjoy,

Kevin