I love books. There is so much wisdom in each one of them. So much experience, so many lessons to be learned… Books inspire us, and satisfy our hunger for knowledge. They let our imagination loose and answers questions, “what if?” “what is more?” “how come?” They bring us to different worlds. They open our minds, so we can expand our vision.
Recently, I finished e-book The Road to Wealth by Robert G. Allen. He is a best-selling author and real estate guru. Also, he teaches thousands of people real estate tricks and how to start an information empire. He is wealthy in knowledge and very generous with information. This is a second book I read by him and looking forward in reading other books of his, including “Nothing Down.”
Here, I want to share some excerpts and quotes from Robert G. Allen e-book, The Road to Wealth, that will make you think, encourage you, inspire you. It inspired me, for sure. Enjoy these nuggets of wisdom:
“Confidence comes with practice.”
“Don’t look at the immensity of the goal. Don’t look down at the penalty for failure. Just keep your eyes on the next step.”
“You’ll slip and bruise yourself. Maybe even break a leg, figuratively. But you’ll heal, and if you maintain the proper attitude, you’ll emerge a stronger, more courageous and less fearful person.”
“Face your fear. You always find the best fishing holes in the places where the average fisherman is afraid to go.”
“The masses are always afraid. This leaves more for the few who dare. We don’t have shortage of opportunity in America. We have a shortage of courage. The lakes are teeming with fish. But you have to dare to climb the cliffs to get them. Where the risks are great the rewards are greater.
Once you understand this concept, you’ll never lack for anything again. That is, if you’re able to overcome your fear.”
“As in all fairy tales, if you want to marry the princess, you have to slay the dragon. The greatest dragon you’ll ever face is your own fear. ”
“If you can learn to live with the fear, the world is yours.”
“Watch the crowd. Go in the opposite direction. Success does not come by following the crowd. Where there are many fishermen, the lakes get fished out fast. You must not be afraid to go against the grain – to go alone to unclaimed territory.”
“To be successful you must learn to be different. Find true friends who will admire you for your courage. Any friend who encourages you to be less than you can be is not real friend by anyone’s standard. Be different. While the masses seek security, do the contrary. March out into the risk. If the masses huddle in a corner, afraid, stand out from them. Face your fear. Look around you. See the masses standing in lives, waiting for someone to take care of them. Step out of line and form a new line – with you at the head of it.
If fear of failure causes the multitudes to cower, let this be your cue. Like all great people before you, determined to fail way to success if necessary.
If the masses yearn to be loved, strive instead to be respected. It is greater to be respected than to be loved. For respect is the foundation of love. There can be no love without it. When you learn to face your fear, you will come to respect yourself. And you will be irresistible. It takes courage to step out of the line marked “security” into the line marked “risk.”
“You’re already wealthy. You are your wealth. Wealth is not having. It’s being. Nothing you have is as important as what you are.”
“Acceptance is harder to give than advice but infinitely more valuable.”
“From ashes of failure grew my greatest success.”
“If you refuse to accept failure, you cannot fail. You may fall down a cliff or two, but you must learn to get up, dust yourself off and keep climbing. Only those who are willing to fail again and again deserve to make it to the top.”
“The brain is the most powerful computer in the world – your personal Einstein.”
“How do you stretch your brain to accept bigger and bigger ideas? Associate with big thinkers.”
“Often hunches are correct. Try to create an environment in which hunches can be nurtured.
Feed the faith, starve the doubt. Learning how to recognize and follow this still-small voice can lead us to levels of success that we could not attain otherwise.
Thus, by listening to positive thinkers, reading positive books and by learning to follow our hunches, we can actually program ourselves to be more successful.
One of the best brain-stretching activities is some form of regular exercise. Exercise builds self-esteem. And self-esteem is the fuel that keeps us running after other people give up. The better you feel about yourself, the more willing you will be to accept those big ideas from others and those hunches from your own computer.”
“You are obliged to help other people in anyway you can because it’s going to come back to you. Your success is assured if you help enough people get what they want.”
“Whatever you plant in your life, you’re going to get back.”
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“Go Big,” my brother suggested when I told him about my project idea, the book I started to write. These simple words moved me. The idea of being big was simmering in my mind just in the morning. And there were those words again, “Go Big.”
This got me thinking. How many of us play a small game? How many of us play big? How do we regard ourselves? If we think we are small and insignificant, that’s what we give and therefore that’s what we receive in the world. We play a small me part, what we think of is mostly about ourselves. Sure, our dreams might be big, but as long as we concentrate only about ourselves, we will not going to go far.
So, how can we shift our perspective? How can we live a bigger than ourselves life, play a bigger game?
First, let’s start from foundation that we built for ourselves. All our life up till now made who we are today: our lessons, our tribulations, our victories, our difficulties, our winnings. Whatever it was, we got to make a peace with our past: forgive, get rid of the stuff we no longer need. Recently, I got rid of my journal writings that do not serve me anymore. I think I kept them, so I would prove something to somebody. I do not need to prove anything. As I tore those pages, my heart became 100% lighter. We do not need our past weighing on our shoulders and definitely we do not need to carry them someplace in the drawer tucked in. We got to make a peace with our past and with ourselves. If not, this stuff will haunt us in our future decisions and might stop us in the tracks. We do not need that to go forward. (To help deal with it, you can read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and look into Landmark Education. These are incredible resources.)
Next is to go for the dreams – no matter what. Dream as big as we can dream of. What’s the point of dreaming if you cannot dream big, right? Dreaming alone will not get us anywhere, though. We got to ACT on them. Little by little, day by day, step by step – Act on the dreams. Do not be afraid of failure. Failure is just a stepping stone for something coming up great. Need inspiration for action? Read Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell. This will help you to be brave all the step of the way.
These two steps mentioned above are just a prep for a third and the most important step of going Big, Huge, Gigantic: We got to INVOLVE as many people as we can – small people, big people and everything in between. We cannot accomplish anything just by thinking small (all about ourselves). As soon as we open the doors to others, help others, give others – we will start playing a bigger game – a world game. Do we want to make a world a better place? Let’s share our passions with it. Can you imagine a world full of passionate people? We have so much to give. Why are we keeping all to ourselves? We owe the world to show who we are, to help as many people as we can. By helping others, we’ll help ourselves. Let’s think for a moment in simple ways: when we smile, others can’t help but smile back. We water our flowers, and they smile back by giving us the most gorgeous blossoms. We give a kind word to a stranger, their smile makes us feel good, too. Universe works in mysterious ways. The key to giving is not expect anything in return, but universe also gives it back as long as we are open in receiving. Without expectation, we may be rewarded in other ways least expected.
So, let’s sum it all up. Let’s get rid of the last pains, make a peace with our past. Let’s build a new foundation of now and future by dreaming and DOING BIG! Let’s involve and help as many people as we can. Let’s think on worldly terms. (Advanced Course of Landmark is a great resource of that).
Deepak Chopra, Tim Ferris, John Assaraf and other great authors are HUGE because they help tons of people. Why am I any different? It is a time to play a BIG GAME.
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Posted by ineta on Mar 13, 2011 in
being powerful,
longevity,
wisdom Here are the excerpts from brilliant book by Deepak Chopra, M.D., Ageless Body, Timeless Mind.
“This conclusion came after studying long-lived people from many diverse cultures and periods of history. Active mastery means having autonomy over one’s life and circumstances, not power over others. Beyond any body of evidence about aging and how to prevent it, the single most important factor is that you make something creative from your existence.”
Ten Keys to Active Mastery:
1. Listen to your body’s wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, “How do you feel about this?” If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.
2. Live in the present, for it is the only moment you have. Keep your attention on what is here and now; look for the fullness in every moment. Accept what comes to you totally and completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it, and then let it go. The present is as it should be. It reflects infinite laws of Nature that have brought you this exact thought, this exact physical response. This moment is as it is because the universe is as it is. Don’t struggle against the infinite scheme of things; instead, be at one with it.
3. Take time to be silent, to meditate, to quiet the internal dialogue. In moments of silence, realize that you are recontacting your source of pure awareness. Pay attention to your inner life so that you can be guided by intuition rather than externally imposed interpretations of what is or isn’t good for you.
4. Relinquish your need for external approval. You alone are the judge of your worth, and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. There is great freedom in this realization.
5. When you find yourself reacting with anger or opposition to any person or circumstance, realize that you are only struggling with yourself. Putting up resistance is the response of defenses created by old hurts. When you relinquish this anger, you will be healing yourself and cooperating with the flow of the universe.
6. Know that the world “out there” reflects your reality “in here.” The people you react to most strongly, whether with love or hate, are projections of your inner world. What you most hate is what you most deny in yourself. What you most love is what you most wish for in yourself. Use the mirror of relationships to guide your evolution. The goal is total self-knowledge. When you achieve that, what you most want will automatically be there, and what you most dislike will disappear.
7. Shed the burden of judgment – you will feel much lighter. Judgment imposes right and wrong on situations that just are. Everything can be understood and forgiven, but when you judge, you cut off understanding and shut down the process of learning to love. In judging others, you reflect your lack of self-acceptance. Remember that every person you forgive adds to your self-love.
8. Don’t contaminate your body with toxins, either through food, drink, or toxic emotions. Your body is more than a life-support system. It is the vehicle that will carry you on the journey of your evolution. The health of every cell directly contributes to your state of well-being, because every cell is a point of awareness within the field of awareness that is you.
9. Replace fear-motivated behavior with love-motivated behavior. Fear is the product of memory, which dwells in the past. Remembering what hurt us before, we direct our energies toward making certain that an old hurt will not repeat itself. But trying to impose the past on the present will never wipe out the threat of being hurt. That happens only when you find the security of your own being, which is love. Motivated by the truth inside you, you can face any threat because your inner strength is invulnerable to fear.
10. Understand that the physical world is just a mirror of a deeper intelligence. Intelligence is the invisible organizer of all matter and energy, and since a portion of this intelligence resides in you, you share in the organizing power of the cosmos. Because you are inseparably linked to everything, you cannot afford to foul the planet’s air and water. But at a deeper level, you cannot afford to live with a toxic mind, because every thought makes an impression on the whole field of intelligence. Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the Earth.
This is 4th book I read by Deepak Chopra. Interestingly, when I read his thoughts, I catch myself thinking mostly the same. I get pleasantly surprised when I find some of his expressions are exact like mine, as if we speak the same language.
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Posted by ineta on Mar 7, 2011 in
being creative,
nature,
photography,
wisdom Remember when we were kids, we used to play a cloud game? We would run our imagination wild and see different creatures in the sky. We would lay down or sit in the grass, and just be in the now, admiring each shape of the cloud or bird, even bug pass by.
When we grow up, we stop playing. We stop using our imagination. We get overwhelmed with everyday worries and responsibilities. All we do is live in our heads. We do not even see what is above us or in front of us. We do not have time to stop and just breathe.
What if we would schedule time for ourselves, to enjoy the present. It does not have to be the whole day, which would be great, though. Ten, fifteen minutes, half an hour can be enough, too. If we would spend time to just slow down, and take time to sit and soak up the sun, walk barefoot on the ground (weather permitting), we instantly would re-energize ourselves. If we would kick up the notch, and unleash our imagination and creativity, our hearts will be filled with joy and wonder. We never know what brilliant idea will pop unless we take time to sit in silence and be present in ourselves.
Let’s take time to just be. Breathe. Smile. Enjoy every minute. Life is too precious. Let’s have our imagination run wild.
Nature is a master painter. It is up to us to see and admire the masterpieces in the sky. What do you see in these clouds?
Ocean wave
Mashed potatoes 
Poodle
Running Lion
Sea Turtle
Huge beautiful heart and infinity sign under
Number 4
Lion face with rainbow
Mickey Mouse watching sunset
Lion on the right
Teddy Bear giving a hug
What will you see if you take time for yourself and unleash your imagination? What brilliant idea will enter your mind? There is a great wisdom inside of us, if we’ll take time to listen, to play and just be.
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Posted by ineta on May 25, 2010 in
energy,
nature,
wisdom 
Silence… It seems so easy, yet for some of us it is almost unattainable. We are used to so much noise. When all of a sudden, power goes down, we realize how quiet actually feels, if only for one moment. There is so much man-made noise: refrigerator, faucet, washing machine, etc., etc. It is in our mind’s background, humming or dripping, but we’re so used to it, we do not even hear it. It is also usually overpowered by blaring TV or music. Some of us even fall asleep by TV. This way, we can block all the noise that is in our heads: recaps of the day, worries, what ifs, arguments. Even if we would shut off all the appliances, we still would hear the endless chatter of our minds.
What if we would shut all that noise down? Would that be possible? How that would feel?
The best way to do this is to go out into nature: could be a park, by the lake, pond, the beach – anywhere away from the busy city life. Leave all technology at home or in the car. Once there, enjoy the moment:
1) Take the shoes off (just watch out for fire ants, if you’re in the south ) and feel every blade of grass or grain of sand under your feet.
2) If worrying thought crosses your mind – observe it and let it go for now – this moment is yours – free.
3) Feel the sun or breeze on your skin or in your hair.
4) Breathe.
5) Close your eyes for a moment. Then, open them and see every detail around you.
6) Try to pick up sense of smell – perhaps the blooming tree or flower nearby.
7) Listen – listen to the silence. Listen all around you.
Feel the moment with all your senses. Walk where your feelings tell you. Walk and listen.
You just got re-connected with nature. You got re-connected with essence of you. Your head is all clear of junk and noise. Silence… – Oh, so precious.
You feel totally refreshed and re-energized. Your head is clear. Once your mind is uncluttered, perhaps you can find a solution, an answer, get a brilliant idea. Most importantly, you feel totally alive and ready for anything.
Silence is brilliant. It is like an empty canvas ready to be filled with the brightest of colors. In silence, we can find wisdom…
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Posted by ineta on Apr 10, 2010 in
kindness 
Here are a few quotes I found at thinkexist.com about kindness that tell it all:
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo F. Buscaglia quotes (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love, 1924-1998)
“You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!” Sasha Azevedo quotes (American Actress, Athlete and Model)
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes (French philosopher and writer whose novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution, 1712-1778)
“Kindness is forgetting yourself for awhile, being aware of your surroundings and being willing to give a helping hand, or gesture, or even a smile to someone who may need it.” (by me, Ineta McParland)
Little acts of kindness make a huge difference. It makes someone’s day. It does not need to be big. Writing somebody a comment card for a great service you received or praising that person, smile at somebody who is having a bad day, rescuing injured and left alone bird or animal and bring to the sanctuary. It does not take much – but it makes a better day for all involved.
Can you imagine how world would look like if everybody would forget about themselves for awhile and take time to be kind to someone else?
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