I am the GREATEST SALESMAN because I have begun a new life by greeting each day with enthusiasm and love in my heart. I am persistent because I know I am natures greatest miracle. I am developing the courage by taking the initiative to gain more self control, organizational skills and decisiveness. Through my imagination combined with specialized knowledge I develop more and better skills to present my product, which is ME, so that no one can resist my wares as they are drawn in by my pleasing personality. I cooperate with others with like minds to achieve these results and take the initiative to teach these skills to others so that they too can be Great Salesman.

I have just looked over all the comments on my blog dashboard and came to the realization that sometimes all we have to do is listen to what others are saying to hear what we think we are missing. Mark is right, or should I say Haanel is right that there really is greatness within us and all it takes is something that we write in words to allow our inner selves to come out.

I suggest that each of us re-read our own blogs now and then to see just how great we all are. This can also add many cards to your pack if you think about it. I find myself thinking of things in my life that others have written about that I just took for granted.  But these are pivotal things that have shaped the way we are and can be  the same things that hold us back from our  greatness.

I have some old habits that I know I need to replace with good ones and one way to get there is to look at me differently as others have, Thank You.

I cannot take credit for this entry. It was contributed by a fellow Intel employee, Paul Canaan on our company blog site. But I found it’s content quite inspiring and appropriate for this forum, enjoy.

There is a saying that the 5 people you talk to the most dictate your success in life and in your career.

In order to achieve great success you have to have the right people around you. Think of the moments in your life when you had great success?

Were you alone?

Probably not, there were people around you, either in the background or somewhere along the way. And a means for achieving great success in 2011 is to augment the idea of a “mentor” relationship to encompass other people. In effect, create your own personal board of directors.

Companies have board of directors to give an outsiders perspective and fresh ideas for tackling complex problems as well as guidance on how to move forward. This simple concept is something that can easily be incorporated into anyone’s life. Granted you do not have to hold board meetings or for that matter let them know they are part of your board. Instead you can elect to keep this private or the more preferred method is share this with your board. I have found out that the overwhelming majority of people would consider it an honor to know that they were part of someone’s personal board of directors.

Once you embrace this concept the difficult part starts. And that is selecting your board.

The board should consist of a balanced portfolio of personas. A good analogy is to think of your success as a sailing ship.

Your ship should have the following key components;

• Sails
• Rudder
• Anchor

Here is the breakdown for each of the parts of your ship

Sails (3 people) – the sails are the ones that move you forward, you cannot be successful without a team of people that can help you achieve success. Since this is a challenging role it’s best to have more than one person to rely on. Three people are a good number to have since the more sail’s you have the faster you can go. The people you choose should be energetic, well connected and want to move forward.

Rudder (1 person) – the rudder sets the direction, it keeps you on course. This one is traditionally someone with greater experience and knowledge. The rudder does not always help you move forward; instead they help keep you on the right path. The reason for one rudder is that having too many rudders will sometimes end up fighting against one another and when that happens you end up moving around in circles.

Anchor (1 person) – the anchor is one of the more challenging roles. The anchor’s job is to keep you grounded. This is the person that highlights all of the reasons why something will not work. The anchor’s job is to keep you from drifting into something bad and in many ways there to keep you out of harm’s way. The anchor is the overly cautious and practical person. The anchor is not there to give direction or in some ways help you move forward, there job is to protect and ensure you stay where you need to.

Finding the your board of directors is not an easy challenge but once you select your team than you will find yourself sailing faster and higher than you ever thought possible

Good luck “Captain my Captain” and happy successful sailing in 2011

Recently my wife has had several boughts with depression, anxiety and memory loss. She suffered a stroke at age 38 which is nearly 13 years ago.

Since then theses episodes have happened several times over the last 3-4 years. Some of these landed her in the hospital, as I had no knowledge or expertise to know how to deal with this. She could not be left by herself because of her anxiety about being left alone. Hence the need for the hospitalization.

I had to continue to go to work and no one else was able to stay with her. I leaned on the hospital as a way to get her better and to have someone constantly with her. I did not want to use this as a method to deal with this, but at the time I had no choice.

Enter the Master Keys. Through what I have learned here I have been able to use the power of positive thought to overcome her affliction.

The last two times this occurred (over the last two weeks) I sat with her and had her repeat to me what I was saying:

“I will go to sleep tonight and get a good nights sleep”

“I will wake up in the morning refreshed and remember everything”

“And everything will be as it was”

In the past this state would last anywhere from several days to two weeks before she had regained her composure and memory. I figured what do I have to lose from trying this approach. To my astonishment it has had a profound effect with her. Both times she has awakened with no residual effect from the day before and was back to her old self by the end of the day. I have also engaged her at times while reading the scroll #2 and that has also made a difference.

I am struggling to keep up with this magnificent alliance but have had these AHA moments that move me to a stronger belief in the teachings and in me.

Thank You Mark and Davene.

No that is not a misprint. There will be no retraction.

The last week has had some ups and downs but, mostly ups. That is a good thing. I had a challenge to get my daughter’s car repaired and inspected so that she could use it to get to a temp job she was doing for 4 days, starting tomorrow. AsWAS a process in the past, I worried over this. That it was not going to go well. As it turned out the front brakes needed to be repaired. Rotors and shoes needed to be replaced. Something I had done many times in the past to many vehicles. I had one day to accomplish this task (Service). Though it cost me some money to get this done, as is not the intention of performing our ‘Service’, I set out to do it because it needed to get done. And I always keep my promises. I investigated the situation, bought the parts and repaired the car.

Now for the inspection, again, with doubt in my mind that it was going to actually pass the Massachusetts strict enforcement policies. However, on the way over to the usual place where I get the inspections done, I said to myself, out loud, “this car is going to pass, no problem”. After a couple of minutes in the bay the owner came back to inform me that he could not continue as it was missing a single lug nut. Did I mention that Mass has a strict policy. Went across the street to the parts store and procured the lug nut, put it on the old rusted bolt that heated up as I was forcing this pivotal part into submission. OH, did I mention that the garage would be closing for the day in just 30 minutes. Back to the garage. Again saying, out loud, “this car is going to pass inspection, no problem”.                AND IT DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now you and I both know that even the Universal cannot mend something that is mechanically worn out or broken. However, it did mend my belief in things going right when positive thoughts are attached.

Continue to believe MKMMAer’s

Similar to the words of the song by 80′s artist Thomas Dolby.

I am completely in awe of the number of times I have heard people refer to great scientists and those that stick to theory and hard data, while explaining the inner workings of our mind. Then relating it to that stuff that everything is created from which is nothing. Nothing, because it all starts with a thought, which has no physical parts to it. This is really how to get something from nothing. Maybe I’ll write a book someday.

There are great minds that ponder these things that are in our control and try to explain them with science. Most likely it is the Universal that had planted that seed in the first place. Sitting and not thinking makes this clearer. Boy, that makes perfect sense. Isn’t that the complete opposite of what I just said.

Oh well, enough of trying to figure all this out and back to reading, reading with passion, sitting, not thinking, allowing, accepting, being thankful, creating, believing….because that is what the instruction manual says to do.

Continue being better  I’s MKMMAer’s

Pink Floyd–Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUt7qmSvxLI

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I’d something more to say.

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

WOW!!! There was a time many years ago when I first REALLY listened to the words of this song by one of my favorite artists, Pink Floyd. It was these lyrics that convinced me that I was going nowhere fast (No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun) and should probably look into going back to school, after being out of high school for 7 years, and get a skill under my belt. That has brought me to this point in my journey. Other ventures along the way have not panned out. Many of you are probably having similar thoughts about past endeavors. Well the truth is I needed more skills than my college degree had given me and along comes the MKMMA . Finally there is hope because the teacher has shown up and the student is ready to learn. It has not been easy getting back into the learning/homework mode again just like when I went back after 7 years out of high school. Now we are looking at 27 years since I have had to rely on these methods of learning. Not that I have not learned anything new in the last 27 years I just have not had to go about it in this manner .

Now I look at the line (Waiting for someone or something to show you the way) and see it much differently. I have been waiting for the world without to give me the things I long for. Not realizing that it is the world within, that was here all the while, that brings all those things into existence. I do not intend for my life to look like the next to last stanza above. Every year does seem to be getting shorter but I WILL NOT hang on in quiet desperation until my time is gone and I WILL NOT leave as long as there is more song to sing and chapters to be written. I don’t want to run out of things to say. Until next Time…………………When I will have more to say.

DMP 3 with PPN’s

By Jim Bailly Oct 6, 2010

My needs (PPN’s) are LEGACY and LIBERTY.

MY DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE WEEK 3 with MY PPN’s

My LEGACY is to enable inner city youth from the neighborhood of my home church, Concordia Lutheran Church in Worcester, MA to be able to get out of the city for one week and enjoy the outdoors at an overnight camp where they will be nurtured and accepted for who they are and not for where they come from or for their station in life.

I have the LIBERTY of money freedom. I no longer fret over how the bills will be paid as there is enough to take care of my needs and my family’s needs.

So there it is, in all it’s glory. My third installment of my DMP. It is a far cry from my first attempt at this. In fact, it is completely different. It is also not as I first drafted it.

I began my first draft of this version with “My LEGACY will be to….” and the second part started with “I need the LIBERTY of money freedom.” I decided to give my DMP present day status to invoke the autosuggestion that it is already happening and that all I have to do now is get my subconscious mind to focus on it and the ways and means will manifest themselves.

I am thinking from the end.

It looks like that Burning Desire thing is going back in the shop for a makeover too. I’m still working on the second draft of that, which will take a little more time to narrow down the amounts and timeframes. This appears harder to nail down than the DMP probably because the DMP is dependent on it. I may have to call in an architect on this one as my expertise in this area is limited. Stay tuned for further updates.

I’m feeling a little like Hafid at the meal hall. My intention to approach an aquaintance with the idea of using his garage for yardsaling did not go well. I couldn’t SELL him on the idea. Seems he is not interested in having strangers mulling around his property. He has a garage and home that I have long admired with it’s all white suedo Greek styling. What I do know about this place is, it used to be a business run by his parents that sold lawn ornamentation. He did give me ideas as to other people in the area that have let folks use their property to unload their wares. The idea is not dead but this particular route has come to a dead end. I now have my eyes wide open for other opportunities to find the ideal location to sell this proposition again. The idea of using a garage in a high traffic area offers the opportunity to bring everything there once and hold several yard sales over several weeks without having to pack everything up at the end of each day. Add to that, the opportunity of a lifetime to have the proud recipient of this proposition unload some of their own long forgotten attic and cellar gems as compensation. A win Win if I ever saw one. This may be the last chapter in this blog series for now as I have other thoughts running through my brain thanks to our recent readings. Stay tuned.