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I know, you’ll have FUN with the following. I had a wake up call when I did it.

Write the answers to the following statements in full and keep them available for future reference. The exercise will have a great impact on your life going forward.

It’ll show how you’ve changed over time. We learn best by making something a personal experience.

We spend HOURS and we expend much ENERGY on all sorts of things in a day that don’t really add value to our life.

For example,

• Gossip, nasty stuff
• Spread hearsay about people, even if good
• Are judgmental of ourselves and others
• Relay news items whose reliability is dubious
• Repeat news items other than what’s uplifting
• Complain about a plethora of topics in our life
• Repeat ourselves unnecessarily

Reply to the above statements as they relate to you.

What did you learn about yourself?

You would also have observed some of the above traits in people you know, wouldn’t you?

These are merely observations and not meant to be judgmental. The observation is between you and you, not to spread. We often see traits in others but not in ourselves and learn from this.

It’s a good idea to revisit this exercise every six months or so as it’s easy to slip back into ingrained societal programming.

Are we One?

Well, I’ll dive straight in. Many people have faith in some higher power, whatever you choose to call IT. IT has lots of names from personifications to energy Vs matter.

You may have had unexplainable experiences. You may have had spiritual realizations. You may have had none of these. That’s fine, this and other such discussions, will still be interesting and relevant.

One aspect remains though, whatever you put out, at some point, you’ll get, to varying degrees at varying times.

Let’s get a bit more concrete. When you are any of the following on a consistent basis, your reality will illustrate the same in your life.

In other words, if your modus operandi is

• loving, caring, considerate, thoughtful, respectful, joyful, truthful; you keep your word, your commitments and so on, or
• gossiping, bad-mouthing, being mean, cruel, cheating, complaining, lying and so on

You’ll attract more of the same. Your internal world will be reflected in your outside world.

It’s not a case of being “perfect”. It’s about being a true human being as we were designed not the flawed one created from an outside environment that has lost its way.

Some call it Karma, others, the Golden Rule or whatever else you’ve heard/read. Again, for our purposes, what it’s called, doesn’t matter.

There’s an old Chinese proverb, “Rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”

My personality creates my reality.

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