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The Devil Made Me Do It … and Other Good Excuses

* The devil made me do it!
* Mom liked my sister better!
* I can’t help it. It’s in my subconscious.
* The dog ate it.
* I’m only human!
* I can’t help myself.
* I was only following orders.
* I don’t know how.

These are all very good excuses and like all excuses, they work wonderfully protecting us from our fears of failure or rejection.

Do you need to change course in some areas of your life? Are you receiving the outcomes that you want? Do you want to enhance your feelings of self-worth and self-esteem?

If you want to change your life, you need to make some changes in your life.
You can reach your dreams and goals. You can realize success, happiness and fulfillment in every area of your life. If you have a genuine desire to be successful and happy, then you’re ready.

First, you must identify the obstacles that have prevented you from achieving your goals. Excuses are obstacles for all of us and major obstacles for many. Excuses are self-imposed burdens and roadblocks. Excuses are what we use to put the responsibility or blame on someone or something else. By the time we reach adolescence, we have all discovered that “a good excuse” will help us out of a tough spot. But, we weren’t born with this kind of thinking. This is a learned behavior.

“He who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.” Benjamin Franklin

Don’t blame your mistakes and misfortunes on anyone or any thing outside of your self. Recognize you are the cause and not the effect.We need to learn to eliminate excuses and take responsibility for everything in our lives.

How do we eliminate excuses? The first step is to realize that you may own a storehouse full of excuses. We need to become aware of our excuse making. Write a list of excuses you have used in the past and promise yourself never to use them again.

“I was late because the alarm “didn’t go off.” If the alarm doesn’t go off it probably means it’s broken. This is only going to happen a time or two
before you replace it. The truth is, “I was late because I forgot to set my alarm.”

Some excuses may have started out as real reasons, but later turned in to excuses. For example, at one time you may have said, “I’m not computer literate enough to do that.” This may have been true at the time and a legitimate reason, but, are you using that now as an excuse to avoid doing something you should be doing? I have seen many variations of this where the truth is actually “I have procrastinated learning that so some one else will do it for me.”

As you accept responsibility for your actions, you will likely start living your life with a lighter heart. Just knowing you deliberately decided not to blame someone or something else for your actions or inaction will make you stronger. The fear of rejection or failure will diminish.

Whenever you find yourself looking for an excuse, change your thinking. Become conscious of your own excuse making. And becoming conscious of your excuse making is going to help you reduce and eliminate them.

Start living a “no excuse” life and begin receiving the outcomes you want. Start enjoying more success and greater self-esteem in your life.

Apply this thinking of self-responsibility to all areas of your life…. especially the most important areas. There is no excuse not to.

Gina

I did not intend to write articles on parenting, as I would rather leave that chore to the child psychologists and other experts. But, I was reading an interesting story in last months Reader’s Digest titled Inspire Your Children. This story is about parenting and what you should and should not say to your children.

The story focused on communicating effectively with your children and how it is possible to cause emotional and psychological harm through the words you choose.

The reason I chose to write “Parental Guidance Suggested” was to show the relationship between the subconscious mind and how we are taught and conditioned from birth. It has little to do with demographics or socioeconomics whether a child is a success in life or is not.

It is true, we must be careful of everything we say to our children. Whether we know it or not, we are continually molding their lives. Their futures will reflect all that we do for them or to them while they are small children.

When children are very young, they accept every word of their fathers and mothers as fact.
If a parent continually tells a child “You’re bad!” the child believes it, and of course he proves this statement true.

If a mother consistently says to her son, every time he had done something wrong “You’ll spend your life in prison, or end up in the gas chamber”. Would it be any wonder if this boy became a criminal? He was given a reputation to live up to, and the chances are very good that he will live up to it.

We should never refer to a child as being anything except what we want him or her to be. To call a child bad, stupid, lazy, timid — or any of the things you don’t want your child to be — is actually planting seeds in his or her subconscious mind, which will grow and mature.

There are ways of correcting children without calling them bad. “Good boys don’t do that,” you might say. This compares the child with the good instead of the bad. Being conscious of what we say and choosing the right words does require some effort. But keep in mind, the effort required to keep our children on the right track is nothing compared to the heartaches which can result as our children grow to adulthood.

No instructions are provided to us when our children are born. No license is required. No proficiency tests. So we must do our best in raising our children with care and positive reinforcement.

Having children is God’s greatest blessing, and it’s also our greatest responsibility. When we bring a child into this world, he or she is like a piece of clay placed in our hands to mold as we wish. What our children will be in twenty years depends entirely on what we put into them while they are a child.

Gina

Did Jesus Work “The Secret” Long Before It Was Touted By Today´s Modern Sages?

Linda Luz Benvenue
March 08, 2008
It´s true! Whatever one believes Jesus to be, one thing is certain. He knew about the law of attraction and the ability we all have to create our own reality.

Consider: “When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have already received it, and it will be given whatever you ask for.” Mark11: 24

The above statement is the “secret” personified, presented not in tomes as laid out for us today, but just in two simple and direct sentences from someone we’ve never directly met, caught a glimpse of on TV, or listened to on the radio. Amazing!

Consider: “If only I touch his cloak, I will get well…your faith has made you well.” Matt: 9: 21-22.

The woman wanting to be healed knew it would happen before she even touched his outer garment. Why? Because it´s what you believe to be true that you attract.

Simply put, Jesus´ mission was to tweak the awareness level of people by teaching them “secrets” not revealed before, one of which was that the divine energy of God wasn´t somewhere “up there” beyond reach, but was alive within them ready to help them create the reality they wanted to unfold. The requirements were unfaltering faith and the ability to enter into the image of the desired end.

With that in mind, in December of 2007, I self published a book entitled The Dawning: Facing God “Head-on.” It´s an account of my life and the many encounters with the power of Presence as it revealed itself to me through a series of incredible and out of the ordinary experiences.

Consider: After having a total hysterectomy at thirty, my desire to experience the reality of childbirth as fulfilled.

Consider: Initially, my attending college was hampered by psychological tests that revealed I was a borderline mental defective due to epilepsy. However, after encountering Presence, I graduated Magna Cum Laude with 2 degrees at the age of 43.

Because of these and many other incidences, it became important to relate how Jesus who lived over 2000 years ago worked the secret in my life allowing my deepest desires to become a reality.

Today I´m enlivened with joy as I move along the “dawning” road ready to offer workshops and retreats for those wanting to feel the joy of their dreams unfolding—at any age.

This article originally published in the American Chronicle