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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schwietzer
If we’re fortunate, there are people in our life who inspire us and rekindle our flame when we need it most.
The field of personal development and lost one of our true greats last week, with the passing of my friend, Charlie “Tremendous” Jones on October 16th.
He was, in my opinion, a truly amazing man who contributed greatly to the betterment of humanity and he will be missed by anyone who had the pleasure to know him.
Several years ago, I had the distinct pleasure of spending an evening with Charlie, near his home in Mechanicsburg, PA. At the time, his company, Executive Books, had sold a significant number of copies of my book, This is Your life, Not a Dress Rehearsal and, during a phone call, I mentioned it would be great to meet him “some day.”
He responded by inviting me to come out there to have dinner with him the following week. After talking over dinner for a while, he invited me to come back to his home with him where I was to spend a remarkable evening with an even more remarkable man.
Once I had seen his vast collection of books, some of which dated back to Revolutionary times and many signed first editions of self-help classics, we walked around his property. Charlie dedicated his life to, in his words, “Changing the world, one book at a time,” and his collection of books would have filled a small library.
On his country property is part of a carnival and a building that is decorated for Christmas all year round. As we sat, singing Christmas Carols in July, he explained the reason for the decorations. On weekends he would invite children from the orphanage in nearby Reading, Pa. to come and spend time there.
When I asked why, he replied, “So that they will remember that there was one day in their life that someone loved them.” That, in my opinion, is the essence of Charlie Tremendous Jones. He was a man whose heart was bigger than even his towering stature and I, for one, will miss him.
As the hour started to become late, this amazing man, at the time near 80 years of age, said to me, “I’d love to keep taking, Jim, but it’s getting late and I have to fly to Romania tomorrow to give a seminar.”
His selfless dedication to his life’s purpose and the magnificant contribution he made to the world is why I am honored to call Charles Edward Jones my friend. May he rest in peace.
Information about his Homecoming Celebration and ongoing details can be found here.
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“You cannot continue to tell the same story without continuing to live the same circumstances.” Abraham-Hicks
Ignoring reality may seem like a strange suggestion but that’s precisely what we have to do to create change in our lives. It’s really quite simple but can be subtly deceptive.
For example, it is pretty much accepted in psychology that we attract what we focus on or, put another way, our minds move in the direction of our thoughts.
Taking that a step further, it becomes apparent that, in order for our lives to change, we must be focusing on not what is, but rather what we want, hence ignore reality. We must start telling a different story about how our life is.
So many people cling to their “story” about how their life is and why and then wonder why it’s not changing. It can’t!
As long as you’re constantly reinforcing conditions as they are, they cannot change. Only when you are willing to let go of your “story” and start telling yourself a new one, will things on the outside begin to change.
If, for example, you wanted to drop 10 pounds you cannot be talking about how hard it is to lose weight or how overweight you are. You cannot keep looking at how slowly the weight is dropping, if at all.
Instead you have to affirm that you are, in fact, losing the weight and shift your self-talk to that of having already reached your ideal weight. Visualize yourself as already having completed the process.
Affirm, “I am in the process of reaching my ideal weight” (income, lifestyle, or whatever).
Right now, with everything going on in the financial industry, most people have their attention on what’s wrong, how much they’re losing in the market, their bills and how bad things are. The problem here is that they are still holding their attention on the problems. All that can possibly produce are similar conditions; namely problems.
The only way to change this is to notice the abundance you already have and, as like attracts like, you will begin to attract more abundance into your life.
You may have to pretend that everything is getting better. You have to start acting “as if” you are living the life you desire. Start telling yourself how great it is having the body you want, the income you desire or the great relationship you’ve been wanting.
Just doing this for a few minutes a day will “trick” your non-conscious mind into believing it is true and you will soon start to see evidence of your new life showing up. Pay attention to even the slightest sign of your dreams becoming manifest. If you’re affirming an increase in finances and someone buys you lunch, see that as evidence of your new abundance.
This, by the way, is what President Roosevelt did during the depression of the 1930’s and as a result, conditions began changing.
Roosevelt called to the White House the leading positive thinkers of his time, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, etc., and everyone agreed, with the help of the media, to start telling a story of economic recovery.
Following the law of attraction, as people started hearing how things were getting better, they began repeating it and believing it and, sure enough, things did get better. Everything begins with thought and, manifests according to our beliefs.
The quickest way I know of creating positive change in one’s life is to start making “appreciation” or “gratitude” lists each day. By putting your attention on what you appreciate and are grateful for in your life, you put yourself in the energy of attracting more things to appreciate. These, of course, are things you want.
If you doubt what I’m saying, just try it for a few weeks and see what happens. I know, from personal experience, that your life will begin to improve.
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