The Good Life -- 5 Simple Steps

Written by Miami Phillips


There are many ways and means to accomplish whatever you want done. However, I have found thatrepparttar most successful ways are so subtle and simple that they are usually overlooked. As I try to decide what projects to work on here at our horse farm, it is so very easy to become overwhelmed withrepparttar 123574 big picture. How can I build a barn that big? Where will allrepparttar 123575 money come from to pay for it? How do I clear 6 acres of land and turn it into pasture? And so on. Yesterday, as I was feeling a bit overwhelmed, I took a rake and went out torepparttar 123576 pasture and spread piles of horse manure. Several wonderful things happened. First, I gotrepparttar 123577 manure spread, which helps fertilizerepparttar 123578 field, lowerrepparttar 123579 fly and insect population, and makes for less piles for us to step in! Secondly, I realized that this is great job for our four-year-old who will love knocking down those piles! The most important benefit was that I was able to very much enjoy just being inrepparttar 123580 pasture and making a contribution toward our ultimate goals. My mind was free to smellrepparttar 123581 unique odors of horse ranching andrepparttar 123582 outside air. I could listen torepparttar 123583 horses communicating,repparttar 123584 birds andrepparttar 123585 geese down byrepparttar 123586 lake, and watchrepparttar 123587 dog searching for whatever it is that dogs search for. In other words, I was able to takerepparttar 123588 time to be grateful for what is here and now. I completely stopped thinking aboutrepparttar 123589 future. And I got something done! We all want everything right now. The only problem with that is that when you get what you want, you are still hungry. There is something else to want! If you are not careful, you will go through life always hungry, but stuffed so full you are bloated! Metaphorically speaking that is!

There's A Light At The End Of Your Tunnel, Called Imagination!

Written by Richard Vegas


Imagine this. You've got this huge dream you just turned into an exciting accomplishment. You had a huge problem you turned into a beautiful masterpiece. You had a giant obstacle you formed into a personal triumph, and now….., you give a long stare at your prized possession and say, ain't that justrepparttar cat's pajamas.

There's Just One Problem!

That's notrepparttar 123573 way most people imagine. Yep, most people imaginerepparttar 123574 thing falling all apart. They put their "imaginer" in reverse and see all sorts of doo-doo falling on them. Why do they do that? Here is one observation.

They have never been told by someone or told themselves to do otherwise. Now wait a minute before you grabrepparttar 123575 remote control. Think about this. What did you do inrepparttar 123576 first paragraph? Did you imagine all kinds of doo-doo falling on you? NO! Why? Because I told you what to imagine.

Now, if you did like I asked you to, you imagined some wonderful incident in your life and how that would play out if all those wonderful things happened. And, it made you feel terrific. So, it stands to reason, if we would imagine all kinds of wonderful things happening, atrepparttar 123577 beginning of an opportunity, similar results would happen.

Things tend to play out in realityrepparttar 123578 way they play out in our imaginations. The exact specifics of any situation may not look just like they did in our imagination, but,repparttar 123579 end result isrepparttar 123580 imagined conclusion.

For example; I remember when I was a young teenage boy. I had a crush on a girl that I wanted a date with so bad. I imagined that there was no chance for me cause she was soooo… beautiful. I imagined that she would laugh at me if I even looked like I wanted to ask her for a date.

A Faint Heart Never Won A Fair Maiden!

Well, somehow I managed to get uprepparttar 123581 nerve to ask her for a daterepparttar 123582 next Friday night. Now mind you, all that week I was imagining her telling me, in one of our classes, that she had to cancel. So, I tried my best to avoid herrepparttar 123583 whole week. But, she didn't cancel.

You know what she did? Yep; she stood me up. I was too afraid to call duringrepparttar 123584 week to confirmrepparttar 123585 date because I didn't want her to tell me she couldn't go. So, I just show up at her house atrepparttar 123586 prescribed time and her father tells me she went out withrepparttar 123587 girls.

Well, dummy me, I said, do you know what time she'll be back? He laughed and said, no. Here'srepparttar 123588 point. The details didn't play out exactlyrepparttar 123589 way I had imagined them, butrepparttar 123590 end result was just what I imagined; no date with miss beautiful.

As Lucky As The Only Man In A Women's Prison With A Fist Full Of Pardons!

Well, as it turned out, she stood me up because I avoided her duringrepparttar 123591 week and she thought I forgot or changed my mind because I didn't remind her.

Our imaginations can cause us to feelrepparttar 123592 thrill of triumph, or,repparttar 123593 feeling of getting caught with our pants down. Here is another scenario for you. When I started my second online business, I did a lot of research to determine whatrepparttar 123594 roadblocks there would be and how much competition I had to deal with.

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