Jim’s Secret Thoughts

Its been a while since I posted and a Wordpress upgrade messed up my old Theme, so i had to find a new one. In the meantime I have observed an interesting development in my own progress in pursuit of my purpose.

My wife and I had thought of building a center, a physical location, to offer our services. After some mentoring and self analysis we realized that, although the services are our hearts’ desire, the center was not. At the time we had thought the center was our vision and goal. Now, looking back, I realize that the feelings we had for the center and all what it involved were not exciting us. The idea did not resonate with our vision of helping others.

This got us rethinking about our purpose. Our purpose statement changed only slightly, as our desire is to teach others and help them release the old paradigms and live their life’s purpose. Now we are getting excited at our new vision - to bring our services to others wherever it is required without the restriction of a center. Soon our “center” will be a web portal, backed by our upcoming book “Wings of Change”, where we will offer our various services online and offline.

So what can we all learn from this? It is important to be in tune with your purpose. If it doesn’t FEEL good then reexamine your motives and plans. Is what you are doing exciting you? Are your plans resonating with your vision, in that they excite you just to think of it. That feeling in the stomach is the result of your intuition and is to be heeded. Does it feel right? Then do it. Maybe it doesn’t feel wrong, as in our case, but if it doesn’t lift your level of expectation then really sit down and analyze it. Is this what you really want to do? Does it expand your vision?

Lets not get trapped by business in doing things related to our goals if they are really getting in the way and hindering us reaching our goals. Find the thing that moves you closer to your dream and do that. Have you had any similar experiences? Why not leave a comment and tell us about it.

If you would like to learn about writing your purpose statement, ask me for Bob Proctor’s article on “Purpose, Vision and Goals”.

What do you really want? Why are you reading this? What are you looking for? What is missing in your life that causes you to Google and search for stuff pertaining to the thing occupying your mind right now? What brought you here?

Do you know what you want? Or are you blindly searching for something without knowing exactly what? Perhaps you are more clear about what you don’t want. You don’t want this situation any longer. You don’t want to live this way any more. You don’t to struggle with money any more. You don’t want to feel helpless and useless. You are fed up with being fed up.

I would like to challenge you tell me what you really want. Consider the things you don’t want and now think of what you want in their place. What is it? Is it possessions, a relationship, a job, a situation? Or maybe something deeper, like an understanding of the world and why things happen the way they do. What makes you tick? What excites you? Where is your button? Tell me, I want to press it!

I am serious. Tell me what makes you live and move. If all restrictions and limitations were removed what would you be doing right now?

Why do I want to know? Because I believe that what I have learned and what has brought me to the point of writing a book with my wife (soon to be published) and to consider building such a business which scares us skinny even now, can help you be where you want to be, do what you want to do and be the person you want to be. Be bold! I dare you!

“I wish” is one of those phrases used to make life a little brighter. Many times I spoke of what I wished to have or do. I wished many things, but they only remained wishes, distant dreams of a better life and things to possess which I had accepted would never be.

We live our lives in misery, pepping ourselves up a little with our day dreams, but never really believing that they can come true. “Dreams don’t come true”, we hear from others when we speak about our dreams, and then we convince ourselves that they are right and we give it up and turn it into a fantasy wish. But occasionally one dream jumps out into fulfillment.

Think back on those dreams which seem to have come true. Are they not those which emotionally got hold of you and which you wouldn’t let go of? I propose that if you treated every wish like this then every wish would come true.

The trick is to consciously and deliberately dream. Pick your dream and describe it in detail, its best to write it down. Now start dreaming and really get emotionally involved, put feeling into it. Feel what it is like to be in possession of that dream already now. Pretty soon you will be seeing things related to your dream all over the place, you will meet people and receive ideas.

What happens here is the intention of mind attracting like vibrations. You are tuning in to those things, situations and people which are related to your dream. This is why it is so important to focus on your dream and never give up. Stick with it. You can dream your dream into reality. And you may find it helpful to stop talking about your dream to those who say dreams don’t come true. You will see, they do!

In my last post I promised some tips to help you find your purpose. Going by the comments my article received not everyone believes in a purpose, and some believe in a purpose but not in such as to make any difference in our lives. Anyway, I believe we are here for a predetermined purpose and part of that is to discover what it is and then to live accordingly. So here is what helped me discover why I am here.

Bob Proctor, one of The Secret teachers and my mentor, in his article “Purpose, Vision and Goals” (I’ll send it to anyone who asks) speaks about us having specific talents and gifts that are coded into our DNA. He says, “You just don’t pick up things you like doing by chance.” And because it is coded into our very being we automatically are drawn to those things which are in accordance with that purpose. The things you like to do are most likely an indication of why you are here.

So the first thing to do is to take inventory of the things you like doing. Make a list of your hobbies and favorite pastimes and anything else you enjoy doing. Maybe you are already working at a job you really enjoy. You feel fulfilled and needed. This is important. If you don’t have this feeling in what you are doing then taking a good look at why you are doing it may be a good idea.

Next, take your list and prioritize it, putting the things you enjoy most at the top. Take the top two or three items and think of ways you can make money with them. Why make money? Well if you can pay your bills and your rent or mortgage doing the thing you enjoy doing, wouldn’t that be a big booster in your life? Make another list and for each of your top items write down, as fast as you can without thinking too long, any ideas that come to mind how you can do that thing, use it to help others, the opportunities to do it, the opportunities it will bring to you.

Now you can prioritize those lists putting to the top those ideas which you can start working on now. Beside those ideas write down how you can get started today. Note the names of any people you could meet to talk with about these ideas.

What you will have in your hands when you complete this exercise is a purpose orientated power list of ideas and people. All you have to do now is follow through on the action ideas you have noted down. Even if you don’t believe in a purpose, this exercise will help to point you in the direction of what you could be doing and to enjoy doing it. Happy hunting!

If this exercise has helped you I would love to hear from you. Write and tell me your experiences.

Why do you like doing certain things more than others? Why do some things interest you and some things don’t interest you at all? Have you noticed that when you do the things you enjoy doing you feel better and you actually feel somehow complete? Have you also noticed the conflict between what you enjoy doing and what life “demands” you should be doing? If you’ve experienced this then you are the victim of a society of pattern.

Patterns rule our modern society. We grow up to certain customs, adapt certain habits, eat certain foods at certain times, go to pre-school, school, college, university, get a job, get married, have kids, earn money, make debt - and in the midst of all this patterned life you try to find time for what you really like to do, sometimes called a hobby. Of course you enjoy your job and maybe it does bring some fulfillment, but why is your inner yearning to get out and do something else, something more enjoyable?

The reason you feel this way, the reason most people feel this way, the reason I have felt this way is one and the same. You feel frustrated because you are in the wrong boat! You are allowing Pattern to define your life instead of Purpose! A pattern is what you get when you pour ball-bearings into a tray and shake the tray so that all the ball-bearings fall into a pattern into the corner of the tray. You get a pattern when you spread some iron-filings onto a tray and place a magnet underneath. All the ball-bearings and all the iron-filings fall into a predefined pattern when an outside force is applied.

You are experiencing the same result. An outside force is causing you to fall into a predefined pattern. That outside force is society. Now for a lot of people that is a good thing. It gives them stability and sometimes security. Some people can’t cope with the pressure of following patterns and drop out of society. Then there are others who rise above it. Imagine one little ball-bearing refusing to fall into the pattern and jumps right up and out and away from the crowd and away from the outside force. The surrounding ball-bearings will be a little upset, because now there’s a hole in the pattern and they have to shuffle out of their routine pattern in order to fill the hole.

Now imagine you jumping out from your patterned environment and doing something different, something your really enjoy doing. Those around you, those with whom you have been falling into pattern, will get upset. You have upset their routine and now they must move around to adjust before they can settle back into their comfortable pattern. You can expect this reaction when you step out to follow your purpose.

And what is your purpose? In my next article I will give some tips which I believe will help you find your purpose. What is your opinion? Can we discover why we are here? If so how do you think we can uncover our purpose?

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I’ve been busy lately with my wife writing our book and haven’t had much time for writing here. So I thought why not add some of the thoughts from our upcoming book. We have just completed the outline on a chapter dealing with intuition. This is a much ignored faculty of the mind and yet so important. It is something which philosophers have written about throughout the ages and yet it is generally not understood or even regarded as a serious element of human life.

Intuition is largely ignored and spoken of as something mysterious. Sometimes you will hear someone speak of their intuition as a feeling in their gut, or that hunch or inkling of an idea. “I just know it’s so”, “I can’t explain it, it’s a feeling I have inside.” These are some of the ways people speak of their intuitive faculty. Even though they may feel something, they usually can’t explain it. How many times have you experienced this inner feeling that something is wrong or right? Is this something we should be taking more notice of?

These definitions from Rhymezone are quite good at explaining Intuition in simple terms:

Intuition is that intellectual faculty which takes the place of reason. Reason uses the memory and conscious analytical thinking to assess a situation to make a decision. We reason things until we think we understand it, weighing the pros and cons and making finally a doubtful decision. We either decide not to go ahead with the idea hoping we are not missing something good, or we decide for it hoping we are not making a mistake. On the other hand intuition is more of an inner feeling or knowing that something is either bad or good. So what is intuition? Is it more than just a feeling? Can we rely on it?

I believe that intuition is a lost ability to receive messages from God. This is our built in ability to communicate with the universe. Inventors will also tell you that their ideas come from their intuition, or from some unknown source. This source is the spiritual connection we have with God and every being in Heaven and Earth. It is like a spiritual, infinite Google, an unending source of wisdom and knowledge. All we need to do is to tap into it and receive the information it delivers.

Modern man is unfortunately taught to rely totally on his reason and logical thinking abilities. Intuition isn’t taught. However, if this is indeed our connection to this infinite source of wisdom then wouldn’t we be wise to do all we can in order to consciously become aware of it and use it? In order to do so we must learn to trust the instinctive feelings we receive. When reasoning fails to deliver a clear answer, or even before wasting too much time with reason, breathe deep and feel within and discover what your inner being is telling you. The only way to really know this inner voice and to recognize it whenever it is active is to step out on faith and trust it. Only by practice will your intuitive voice become familiar and you will become comfortable to heed its instructions. What experience have you had with your intuition? Would you like to share it here?

In this world of give me, take and get for free this most important means to receiving what we want has been largely ignored. It is in our holy books yet even the most religious amongst us ignore this law.

A law is a set of regulations or steps that when followed will produce a defined result. Like the law of gravity. Throw a ball in the air and this law says it will come back down. Or the law of momentum. Push an object on wheels and it will continue to move by its own weight until it runs out of energy.

This law is no different. It defines action which when followed will produce a result. The only difference between this law and the other physical laws is that this one is ruled by forces outside of our physical world. Yet it can’t be ignored. Many have proven that when they give they will ultimately receive back. The spiritual texts even promise a multiplied return.

So often we desire something and even pray for it. But this law tells us we need to give something in order to receive. Everybody has something to give, starting with a smile and a greeting. You may have knowledge or a skill to use to help and assist others in need. You may have money and everybody has time. A few minutes to listen to someone is a great gift.

Giving will open the way for receiving that which you desire. Never expect to get something for nothing. If you give nothing you will receive nothing. Give freely and you will freely receive. Now all you need to do is define what you would like to receive and start looking for opportunities to give.

Tags: giving, receiving, law, life, religion, the secret

Its been a while since I posted. Katharina and I were in Las Vegas for a week learning how to write our book. We attended the Publish your Way to Profits workshop by Gerry Robert of Life Success Publishers. It was very beneficial and now we are busy writing. We are writing our first book to share our life’s experiences in coming out of restrictive religion into the freedom and power of thought. So I haven’t had much time to update my blog. But sometimes I post on http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/jimmurdoch, http://hubpages.com/profile/jimmurdoch and http://searchwarp.com/Author132427.htm. Why not check them out.

I will be posting here soon in the next day or two. But in the meantime here is a great message I just found, a song by Declan Galbraith asking the world “Why?”.