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It’s Attitude (Internal Vibration); Not Luck
Posted by: | Comments2009-01-28
Good Morning Everyone!
It’s a winter wonderland in Ohio this morning. I think we have about 10 new inches of snow on the ground this morning. It is lovely; and it is still coming down! I’m heading out soon to make angels in the snow.
I rarely read sports stories, unless of course it is something compelling. Today there is a wonderful Cinderella story on Yahoo News about Sean McHugh of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I love this story, because it takes place over a short time frame, which helps illustrate the internal energy (attitude) of McHugh.
Just four months ago McHugh was cut from the Detroit Lions, who by the way, have gone 0-16 this season claiming title as worst of the worst. I’ll talk about their energy in a minute. However, this “bad” news came on the heels of news that he and his wife we going to have a second baby. Also, they had just purchased a home outside of Detroit. From these two items you can see they were “expanding”. They were full of Life – Source Energy. The McHughes were allowing the Flow of Source through them. Skipity Doo Dah! Life is Good.
Mind you, they also had been doing a lot of asking (wishing and desiring) individually and together. So the Big Universe was busy delivering to them as long as they were allowing Source.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, McHugh gets cut from the Lions. Shock. What the heck?
Fleetingly, like with all of us, there is fear, doubt, and all the other negative emotions. But key here, is that this disallowing was fleeting. I mean, when you get cut from the worst team, how would you feel? But hold on just a minute…they were on a roll of “allowing” and that same night, McHugh gets a call from the Steelers to come on down!
At this point I would like to stop, just a second, and point out the Law of Attraction operating here, which says “like is attracted to like”. With the LOA in place, McHugh is a positive little elf, he’s buying a home, he’s having another baby, he’s in LOVE with Life. His energy is not a match to the energy of Detroit and the Lions. So he’s gotta move on – by Law -towards his matching vibration and, of course, his Good. So voila! The Steelers know one of their own kind and snatch him up. Like with Like.
The Steelers, as you might know, are heading to the Super Bowl this Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals in Tampa Bay. The best of the best.
In his interview McHugh says, “There is an expectation when you become a Pittsburgh Steeler that you’re going to win,” he said. “And anything less than that is not acceptable. In Detroit it was like you were hoping to win.”
I like this guy. He’s actually paying attention to how things feel in the culture of his teams. What he observed tells volumes. In Pittsburg there’s the expectation of winning. That’s an internal attitude which sees success as “of course”. In Detroit, there’s the “hope” which has doubt all through it. That’s their “internal attitude which is their culture.
The internal attitude = the organization’s culture = their vibrational signature which is what the Big Universe is answering. Expect to win = win. Doubt your Good = failure, malaise.
McHughs goes on to say, “It’s a little bit of redemption, a little bit of success in the face of distress; a little bit about remembering that what appears to be the worst thing can turn out to be the best.”
“A door closed,” McHugh said, “and a world opened.”
I love this guy! If he’s paying attention, he’s just learned how it all works. If you study this story, you’ll see how the Big Universe works in your Life.
1. Never doubt. Your Good is At Play even in the face of what appears to be the worst thing. Your Good is Always At Play.
2. When that door shuts, if you are maintaining the internal attitude of my Good just showed up, I’m watching for it with conviction – then, truly, the New World of Your Good just opened up.
3. Never, look back. Lot’s wife did and turned into a pillar of salt.
4. There’s always more Good…
As to the energy of Detroit, which I mentioned above. Detroit is a city that is in dire need of an attitude adjustment. The vibrational signature of Detroit is largely one of lack. Certainly they have had their challenges, and continue to have them. This is all of our challenge, to change our vibrational station within. But if anyone in Detroit is watching this story of McHugh, the answer to changing your town is in this story. You cannot keep looking at what is and not expect to get even more of what is. Somehow you have to find a way of lining up with what you want. McHugh was lined up with what he wanted – Life, success, his Good.
Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports goes on to write about McHugh,
McHugh is a blue-collar guy from outside of Cleveland. He knows how fortunate he is to play a single down in the NFL, let alone parts of four seasons with his current salary. He’s hesitant to compare his situation to the estimated 2.6 million Americans who lost their jobs in 2008.
He wasn’t living check to check. He was pursuing a dream.
This paragraph is revealing about our mindset as Americans. First, McHugh is from Cleveland, where I live right now, and I can tell you there is a “downer” going on here. The upside of this is that I’m hoping many of the folks from Cleveland who think they are doomed to a life of struggle, will identify with their hometown lad, who changed his life by believing in his Good. And the other thing – since when was pursing your dream a luxury afforded only to a few? Pursing your dream is everything, especially now. This is America; it is our right to pursue our happiness. It even says so in the Declaration of Independence.
Wouldn’t everyone, in Detroit, in Cleveland, in the whole world, have a better, happier, vibrational countenance if you were pursuing your dream rather than working paycheck to paycheck, just for the money? Now there’s a concept.
It’s all about joy, folks. All of it. Every single bit of it. Pursue the joy, feel happy inside, and watch the doubt and fear dissolve when you’re happily following your dream. Money, success, and joy are not mutually exclusive, you know. They go hand in hand.
My sincere thanks and appreciation to Dan Wetzel of Yahoo News for writing such a perceptive article. Study it. It’s a living, breathing example of Applied Spirituality and it contains everything you need to know to have a successful life. Period.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
Olympic Heros; You’re Lookin’ at You, Kid
Posted by: | Comments2008-08-17
Hello Everyone,
During the Olympics is when I truly wish I had television. I get snippets on the Internet, but it’s not the same.
Today I want to talk about the “heroes” of the Olympics. Every single one of the participants from every country is certainly, in my mind, a true hero.
We thrill at their achievements! Watching Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin actually makes me cry and cheer for them sitting here viewing it on my laptop.
And then this morning another beautiful news item is Dara Torres, a 41 year old Mom from Michigan who took a Silver Medal.
All heroes. Everyone of them; but then, so are we! Or we can be!
Each of us is the hero or heroine in our own life. What makes them stand out by contrast is that they are so publicly acknowledged.
What makes them so successful is their self-mastery of their focus on something they LOVE to do.
When you love what you’re focused on; it’s not work, it’s your play. Iff it is your work, then, it is your labor of love. They have nothing more than we do: a Godchip and a body. With those two things they have focused their Source energy so single-mindedly and so devotedly to their labor of love, that they have become genius at what they do.
So can we. We thrill at what they have accomplished – being Who They Really Are, God having a splendid experience.
Mirror mirror on they wall: you’re looking at You, kid.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
The New View for 2008
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2007-12-15Aha! Beware the Bait and Switch
Posted by: | CommentsGood Day Everyone!
Yesterday, Valentine’s Day, I was at a seminar all day entitled, “GET MOTIVATED!” The headliners were Zig Ziglar, Rudolph Giuliani, Phil Town and Marty Schottenheimer. I readily accepted my real estate broker, Marsha Lenyk’s invitation to join her, as I’m always up for a day of positive reinforcement.
I was aware early on that the day might have an “aha” in store for me when it took two hours to get to the San Diego Sports Arena in a sea of traffic. Ever mindful to stay “connected”, I was listening to a book on tape, A Light in the Window (The Mitford Years, Book 2)
by Jan Karon. I knew it would be a day of enlightening me by virtue of the “contrast”.
Zig was wonderful, as always. He is now proudly 80 years old and still going strong. He inspires us because he has been there and turned himself around. He talks about the components of a successful life, one of them being his faith. He doesn’t belabor the point or pound with “his way” – in fact I think he leaves it at that because he understands that faith like spirituality is a very private and personal matter to be established internally by each individual. Thanks Zig.
As the day progressed I noticed things that didn’t “feel” right. Everyone that followed was selling something. Not just casually, but actively and vigorously although couched in pretty words. Phil Town was promoting a software that would assist in timing the stock market. Tom Hopkins was pushing a 3-day seminar in buying real estate. Information is excellent. I love being informed in the fashion of “did you know?” But when the ‘lack’ factor is introduced, when the ‘fear factor’ is used, I usually get cranky. This comes when they say, “today only”, forcing you to think you’ll forever loose this opportunity. This flies in the face of the Infinite Possibilities and Who We Really Are.
The worst of the day came before lunch when we were reminded by one of the organizers, Tamara Lowe, that the break was not the lunch break, but there would still be another speaker before lunch. She did not announce that the speaker would be her husband Peter Lowe, nor what he would be talking about. Like sheep we obediently took our short break and regained our seats. Peter Lowe took the stage and began what seemed like it would be a spiritual message. That idea of faith that Zig had so eloquently referred to. However about 10 minutes into his speech peppered with a tinge of fear here, a hint of powerlessness there, whammy he plunged into a full blown come to Jesus meeting.
I was furious. So furious that I got up and walked out along with quite a few others. Why you might ask was I so angered? Deceit. The old bait and switch. If his message was so great and benign why was it slithered in? Why not sell the entire seminar as such? Let people decide for themselves? And then I understood why the sales pitches seemed so slimy to me, as well. Again the bait and switch. Here’s an “authority” on one subject, now pushing something that his not of his own creation. Another discounting of a person’s own Innate Intelligence to hear the facts of something and choose aright for themselves. But worse, it is the presumption of lack on the part of the sellers. Like they need someone else to hawk their wares, rather than buy time on stage to present what lovely thing they have created for those who match it to take them up on it.
Why are we offered televisions for listening to time share proposals? Most come just to get the TV and waste every one’s time. How should it be done? Straight up and straight forward. There’s a suitable buyer for everything and suitable ways to approach them. They will choose aright for themselves based on the facts.
The most illuminating thought in the whole day was how much if not everything in marketing is based on lack, fear and not enough. So they resort to trickery, which was never necessary in the beginning.
Applied Spirituality is knowing that that God-chip within me is connected to every other God-chip there is. That what I create is put forth by my energetic vibrations whilst I create, whilst I love what I’m doing, whilst I envision the benefits for all those out there. The matching vibrations will join it readily if I stay centered in I AM and allow it to unfold. IT is like magic, but is, in reality, physics. It is Source at work as always.
It’s a good thing to travel out of the mountains regularly and see what human mind is up to. I have a friend who derides me because I don’t watch television. Well, all I can say is you’re right, Charlie. I was pretty shocked. But once I regained my own balance, I understood how unbalanced one can become when being brainwashed daily and schooled ceaselessly in the human mind of fear, lack and disconnection from Source.
One thing is for sure, when you hear or feel something that is connected, it’s easily recognized because it feels so darn Good.
One more thought. Marty Schottenheimer was recently dismissed as head coach of the San Diego Chargers. Human mind, to be sure. He “failed” to get them into the Super Bowl. But I can tell you from the thunderous applause, sustained in love for him that the Truth of his Value is known in the hearts of the Charger fans. You did not fail, Marty. You succeeded in uniting us in a love for our city through the hearts of you and your team. You and the Chargers are and always will be a resounding success. Thanks for a great ride!
Thanks for reading!
Kath
