It is easy to see the results when we do something. But it is more difficult to recognize is what we have allowed. Most of us have a tendency to lay blame for certain results, feelings, etc. But those things we blame are things we have allowed to happen or to affect us.
The blame game is an easy scapegoat – a way to deny the fact we are allowing something to be. The more we blame circumstances for making us unhappy, the more we are allowing them to happen. When something happens more than once we are allowing it to happen. When we repeat bad habits we are allowing them to control us rather than finding a way to make a new habit. When we say something is making us unhappy, we are allowing it to. It works another way, too. Sometimes we do not allow ourselves to have what we say we want.
Our problems and successes are the ones we allow. What are you allowing?
Today I will allow the sunshine to appear in my great Blue Sky. Dr. Baker fore
We must have a dream because it a dream gives birth to Hope. The anticipation that we can move in a direction we choose and reach the destination we desire is Hope. Where there is Hope there is desire. Desire allows us to eventually accept the need for discipline. Without discipline the greater our desire the harder we work, but often without greater results. Discipline means we learn to ve aware so we can change we are doing wrong; the things that do not work.
Oops, there is that word change. We resist discipline not because it is hard to do but because it requires change. Change means we have to get out of our comfort zone and that is scary. We have to abandon what used to work, but is not working for us any more, and find a new way.
When we refuse to find that new way, determined to cling to the old, we are allowing ourselves to be controlled by our surroundings and circumstances. When we try over and over the same way to reach a goal without success we can become disappointed, give up and let go of our dream.
The people I see in my office who are depressed, filled with despair and miserable, all share one thing in common. They have lost their dream.
With discipline I am improving and moving toward my dream under the great Blue Sky. Dr. Baker Fore
Note:If you find yourself losing HOPE, read “LIFE SUCKS so get rich”. It will show you there is still HOPE and you are the perfect person to prove it!!
The phenomenon and power of celebrities fascinates me more and more. We have become a nation of celebrity worshipers at the same time we are legislating equality. I am sure historians will quip about that perversity in the future.
It seems celebrities are everywhere. Sports and entertainment have always had them but now we have Voelker and Bernake, as well as Gates and Buffet in business and Dr Phil and Gupta in TV medicine, Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck for the conservatives and even religion has Billy Graham and Pat Robinson.
It really is a powerful phenomenon, even to the point we elect leaders based not on their previous record or accomplishments but on their ability to create celebrity status. The concern I have with this social fetish is that we are focusing on image rather than character and we are impressed with status rather than achievement.
Image, even celebrity image, is an illusion and when we start to emulate the illusion we ignore the reality of happiness that we each have within ourselves. We are each unique individuals and MUST find our own meaning rather than emulating a celebrity.
I enjoy peace and happiness rather than fame and fortune under the great Blue Sky. Dr. Baker Fore
Once I wrecked an airplane and broke twenty five bones, ruined the airplane, and ended a flying career. Some would call that a disastrous event. I call it my lucky break because six weeks in traction gave me the opportunity to examine my life and decide to change course.
No matter how disastrous an event or painful a memory there are elements within it that can help improve our lives and who we are, if we will only allow it.
When some one commented sympathetically to Nelson Mandela what a shame that ten years of his life had been wasted in prison, Mr. Mandela gently replied, “Those years were not wasted. They were what prepared me to lead my country.”
Viktor Frankl remembered his years in a Nazi concentration camp as what taught provide him the knowledge that “the greatest freedom we have is the ability to choose how we react” to even the most horrid events.
It is not what has happened in our past that is important, but what we tell ourselves about it that makes the difference under the great Blue Sky. Dr. Baker Fore, author, speaker, physician
While cleaning brush on fence row I hung up my four wheel drive ATV. While trying to get it out I managed to get myself pinned between it and a large tree behind me. With the front wheels up on a boulder and my legs pinned, the only way out was to lift the thing off of me. No cell phone and no way for a tractor or truck to get to me anyway I found strength I did not know I had. My back is very sore and I will smell like Tiger Balm today but I am very grateful for an interesting and powerful lesson. Lessons and blessings do not always come wrapped in pretty paper with a bow on top. Today I will worry less about tomorrow, for we are never sure when today may be our last day.
Thank you, God, for lessons and for one more day under the great Blue Sky. Baker.
How to succeed
The only way to be successful at anything is find a way to make others be successful. The way to make your self happy is make others around you happy. If you want to make money – find a way to make others money or save them money.
What do you want? Find a way to help others have the same thing or something similar in their lives and you will have that very thing in your own life. The reason it is more blessed to give than receive is not because it is some goochy, goochy sweet principle but because it works. Think not about what you can have but about what you have to offer.
Today by helping others reach their goals I will reach my own under the great Blue Sky. Dr. Baker Fore
Note: Today’s words of wisdom are especially true when it feels like LIFE SUCKS. That is one more reason why I believe in the power of Dr. Fore’s first little, funny, easy to read book “Life Sucks so get rich”. Susen Foster, Publicist
Light comes through your eye and is translated into a signal that goes to the back of your brain and then up to the cerebral cortex. Basically the signal comes through a lens to the camera in back and then is projected on the ceiling in your head and that is what your brain “sees”.
Basically life is not something we see but what we project. What we think we see as reality is both extremely limited and shaped by the lens we choose. We each have an array of different lenses from telescopic to microscopic, each of which comes in a variety of colors to choose from. Life and reality are both not what we see but literally what we choose to project. We actually create our own illusions and call them reality. When we hold on to our images as absolute reality we miss the vision of the world available to us. As we create our vision we create our lives.
Once you truly understand this you can choose to see opportunity where there is crisis. You can see ability where there have been limitations and the joy of learning where there is ignorance. You understand we all choose our realities and the power you have. The reality that is important is not seen with the eyes but is seen with the heart.
As we think with our hearts so becomes our reality under the great Blue Sky. Dr. Baker Fore
I once spoke with a CEO of a major corporation about the most difficult part of his job. His answer was “trying to get this organization to change course.” Individuals have the same problem. Changing your course requires changing your attitude and your assumptions.
Attitudes of complacency must be abandoned – attitudes of anger or fear must be avoided or eliminated. With an attitude of anticipation and excitement you can work efficiently.
Assumptions are mental habits. We assume that because something was true in the past, it remains true. Maybe it is, but maybe it is not. To find what was once true but now is only an assumption requires questioning and counsel from others who are knowledgeable and whom we trust.
You can not cling to assumptions and have new ideas at the same time.
With the right ideas we pick the right course, each step of the way under the great Blue Sky. Dr. Baker Fore
My wife and I went to Florida and rented a boat I could drive. We traveled through a large bay, the inland waterway and out into the Gulf of Mexico. The water was constantly changing colors from blue to gray, green and even brown.
Light has to travel through many particles or depths to have an affect on the wave lengths of light to give the water its character of color. The most beautiful was a deep indigo blue formed only when light is bent through tremendously deep water. Regardless of the color of the water, when I pulled it up in a bucket it was clear.
People are like that also. Their character is shaped by a myriad of experiences and the length of their life. Yet we think we can meet them one time and with just a little bucket full judge their character and the color of their personality. We often say things about people and their character from just one clear bucket and miss the beauty of the color and quality of their depth.
It takes more than a bucket full to see the color of people or the ocean under the Blue Sky. Dr. Baker Fore
Did you know everyone does not have the same I.Q.? Everyone does not have the same reflex speed or driving experience, yet in California we are all too stupid to be able to drive and talk on the phone at the same time.
Do people do stupid things? Yes. But cell phone laws are another subtle assault on individuality and dumbing down the masses. What about the idea if you drive reckless and are involved in an accident, you pay? Oh yeah! That would be taking responsibility for your own actions rather than having big brother adjust your behavior to the politically correct behavior. Maybe we should not let you do that.
You are too stupid to be in control of your own life. That is what society is telling us over and over. Don’t talk on the phone, wear your seat belt, drive slow, brush your teeth, don’t use that word in public, don’t smoke, don’t take pictures of your kids, don’t let your grass grow too high and my personal favorite, don’t ride your Harley without a helmet.
There is legal action on every one of these except one. I believe they are all wrong and I still believe in you and the original American way. Think for yourself and take responsibility for your actions.
Start thinking of yourself as both capable and determined. Let your mind set your limits. Believe in yourself. You can conceive it, believe it and live it no matter how hard they try to take it away.
I think I can, so I can, under the old Red White and Blue Sky. Dr. Baker Fore, author of “LIFE SUCKS so get rich” – a place to start.
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