The Week 19 video had really hit me over the head…. feels kinda familiar….

It felt like a hit in a head because I do a lot of Low-Power Poses  and I hadn’t really noticed that I was doing it.  It didn’t even occur to me that it had such an impact on how I feel until I watched it!

Since then, I’ve been doing the “Wonder Woman Pose” or stretching my arms out (almost in a way like Jumping Jacks, but without the jumping). I’ve been doing that as well as other High-Power Poses, especially before I do my daily readings. It felt embarrassing and awkward.   I say ‘awkward’ because I don’t recall ever doing that kind of posing before.   As well,I’ve been doing my posing alone in a private place.  It still felt a bit embarrassing.

On the upside, I am very astonished how uplifted I felt even after doing it for a few minutes, I felt more gratitude doing my flash cards, have an easier time reading Scroll V, Definite Major Purpose, The Blue Print Builder and so on.

As for the ‘Services’ I use to dread, I even experienced even MORE Joy and Enthusiasm (which is a part of my DMP), and that’s just doing these High-Power Poses for only a few minutes.

I even catch myself when I feel a bit irritable or overwhelmed,  I stop what I am doing and take a few minutes to do my “Wonder Woman Pose”… despite feeling awkward. After that, I almost feel like I drank a couple cups of energy. I find it a pretty phenomenal exercise that I could integrate easily within my day.

Start on 0:20 for Tony Robbins

In Scroll V, it states “I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, yesterday’s  defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?”. This was the line I was hearing in my head when I watched this YouTube clip with Oprah Winfrey and Tony Robbins when Oprah said “Everything is based on your story, and that most people are stuck because of the story they told themselves 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, and your still living out of that story, instead of allowing your story to evolve.”

As Tony Robbins explains, You can’t access the answers as long as you have a story that says it’s impossible, or that will never work, or I’ve tried everything, or I can’t be that, and so on. Kinda sounds like our old DMP. As Tony also said “We all know the power believe you can change our bio chemistry. But we don’t really realize that often that the story might even be true. It might be true the your right, might be true that you went through hell, but that’s not why you have what you want today. That is horrific, but that’s not what is today, that’s the reason you’re giving, cuz you’re just deathly afraid it’s what it is going to take to do it today.”

Therefore the only thing keeping me from getting what I want is the my old story or my past self talk (aka Old DMP) that I kept telling myself about why our New DMP can’t happen or won’t happen.

During this week I have noticed that I have become more and more laid back, and not as stressed over the things I need to get done, like I was when I started MKMMA. The way I am now makes me think of how laid back Adam Sandler’s character Longfellow Deeds from Mr. Deeds is.

 

Where as before I started MKMMA I was more like Thaddeus Plotz, the height-impaired, hot-tempered, money-grubbing, picky and stubborn CEO of the Warner Bros. Studios from the cartoon Animaniacs. Little things would irritate me.  I would stress over how I would accomplish things I wanted to do, get cranky because I thought doing chores was wasting my time that I could be doing something else.  Whether it was a simple chore like washing the dishes, or completing a school exam.  Even entertainment left me feeling guilty because I felt that I should have been ‘working’ instead of enjoying myself.

I had absolutely no balance.  Never satisfied.  Hard to please.  Never happy.  But now things are different.  Even with all the extra stuff I have added to my day with the readings and sitting and MKMMA activities, Im getting more accomplished and have much much more balance in my life and a lot less guilt about taking some me time.

 

This week I was pondering more on the things I think about and that I find, in all honesty, pretty idiotic.   Maybe you have a few of these thoughts yourself.  Those moments you decided NOT to do something because you thought “Somebody does that better than I can.” or “Somebody else is doing that already, so why should I do the same thing?”

I notice that I have those kind of thoughts and that makes it sound like life is some sort of competition, although it really isn’t.

Another thought I have had “Since I don’t have something as good (if not better) than what somebody else has”, I sabotage myself to think that I couldn’t do as good of  job as that guy did simply because I don’t possess the external stuff that the other person has.

It’s like the “You Complete Me” scene in Jerry Maguire that Mark was referring to in the last webinar. It was like me thinking “I need this_______ before I can _______” or “If I only had ________. ”

In actuality, I don’t need anything new to start something. I already have the things I need to start moving towards accomplishing my Definite Major Plan right now.   As for somebody that is already doing something similar that I’m doing (or interested in doing), I remind myself of the line in Scroll IV “Salesman and goods, different from all others, and proud of the difference.” Ya they may have stuff that could make my job easier and better in a lot of ways,  compared to what I have at the time being, but it doesn’t mean I can’t do something AND succeed nevertheless.

Last weeks webinar was when The Franklin Makeover exercise was introduced. This exercise was based on a part of Benjamin
Franklin’s Autobiography.  The focus of the exercise is to improve 13 virtues a person has.  Here is how it works.

First you would rate these 11 virtues. 1 being the one you want to improve the most, 11 being the one you have the most already.

• Self‐Control
• Discipline
• Enthusiasm
• Courage
• Persistence
• Specialized Knowledge
• Imagination
• Decisiveness
• Well‐Organized
• Taking Initiative
• Pleasing Personality.

The exercise is laid out on a table or a spread sheet of 8 columns x 14 rows.   In the first box in row one should read “Week Number” then the following boxes should name the days of the week.

The second row first box should have #1 for the week number, and which virtue you want the greatest improvement on.  For me its “Specialized Knowledge”.

There are 13 slots you must fill out.  The 2nd one and the 13th one is already filled out for you.  Week #2 – Kindness and #13- See God in Others.  The rest is up to you fill out the other 10 in the order you rated them.

Starting at the beginning of the week, add one small dot (or tick) in the square for the corresponding day every time that you noticed that somebody (or you) have displayed that virtue.  For instance, like today, I made somebody lunch and they complemented how good it was. So that would be two ticks in the Kindness/Friday box.  Look for as many as possible, not just the large and obvious but the small things matter to.

In a sense our subconscious mind is like a child playing the game “Monkey See, Monkey Do”.  When our conscious mind points out to our subconscious mind consistent displays of the virtues, eventually, the subconscious mind will automatically start to mimic them.

The Franklin Makeover is another exercise that is easier said than done for me. When I first read through the 13 virtues , I thought I could at least spot 5 to 10 of each of them easily. I quickly learned that I could only spot the bare minimum each day.  It’s like a Easter Egg Hunt for me.  The objective is simple, but when it comes to it, finding the eggs (or in this case the 13 virtues), it was quite difficult to accomplish. Some of these virtues were easy to find right away, and some others are not so easy. Of course it depends on the day as well. Although this is a due-able exercise, but it isn’t as easy as I was expecting. Am I the only one experiencing temporary blindness with this?

These last past few weeks has keep me busy with chores *cough* *cough* services and enjoying the holidays. Although I struggled to maintain my Honor Requirements during this period, I did what I could, that’s including on Christmas Day, but I slipped on missing a few things.

For instance on Boxing Day (or December 26 for those that don’t live in Canada), I missed my morning reading of The Greatest Salesman in the World. On the 26th, after our company left, I felt pretty crumby. I’m not sure if it was because I missed that reading, or if it was because the Christmas rush had passed, but later that day I felt like I was missing something in my pit of my stomach, and felt unusually depressed. I don’t ever remember having this feeling before. I was trying to understand why I am felt the way I did, and really the only thing I could think of was that I missed that morning read! I never missed a beat on my The Greatest Salesman in the World readings otherwise, and never felt like that since then either. After celebrating Christmas, New Years, and my 24th Birthday (that was on Jan. 6th by the way), I’m now ready to get back to my usual routines and to continue uncovering my Golden Buddha.

Happy New Years!

“Rudy” is the first movie I’ve watched this brand new year. Unfortunately I don’t own it on DVD….. yet. 😛

Although I’m not into sports, I do enjoy watching based-on-true-life-story movies like Remember The Titans, Iron Will or The Blind Side. Rudy is based on the story of Daniel E. ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger, determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame football team despite being told that he was “too small” to play college football. (I totally relate being small by the way.) 😉

DMP – Definite Major Propose
Rudy’s DMP was to play for the Notre Dame Football Team.

MMA – Master Mind Alliance
There were several people that rooted for Rudy and his dream. And when Rudy needed it, they pushed him to keep chasing his dream.

PMA – Positive Mental Attitude
All through the movie there is evidence of Rudy’s positive mental attitude. His brothers laughed at him when he announced that he would play for Notre Dame one day. His Dad tells him to give up his dreams because it hurts those around him. His fiancee wouldn’t wait for him to finish university. With all of these negative and emotional influences, Rudy persevered.

There were a couple of scenes that he introduced himself to key people that he is going to be working with that will be a part of his DMP even before it happened. Like introducing himself to the coach for the first time. Rudy wasn’t even in that university to be considered to be on the team, and replies as though he is already on the team and tells the coach that he looks forward to working with him.

POA – Plan of Action
In in order for Rudy to play for the Notre Dame he had to attend the University of Notre Dame. Due to his marginal grades he had to do his early college work at the nearby Holy Cross College. He put in a lot of work despite being told there was only a slim chance he would be able to attend NDU.

When you hold your dream close, live it everyday, and surround yourself with positive dream believers, concentrate your efforts to achieving your dreams, they can come true. It’s easy to become distracted by other things that life throws at us or to just give it up because we allow the naysayers to suck our passion out of our dreams. Its a choice that is presented to us several times EVERY day. What we chose is what determines how much closer we are at the end of the day and where we start from the next day. Inch by inch, choice by choice, decision by decision we can live our DMPs.

First off, I want to say Merry Christmas to you all! I’m imagine that I’m not the only one that has the Christmas Rush. The astonishing thing for me about this year’s Christmas is that I’m sticking with MKMMA and doing my Christmas Duties was effortlessly completed, without even stressing as much as I use to! Looking back now these last few days makes me feel like that scene of the 1994 movie The Santa Clause when Scott Calvin aka ‘Santa Claus’ (Tim Allen’s Character) went to the Doctor to know why is he gaining a lot of weight and grow a lot of facial hair so quickly. I sure that I wasn’t like Jacob Marley from A Christmas Carol, these chains of my Old Blue-Print are clearly coming right off!

I’ve been noting that a part of my DMP is really coming out this last past few weeks: “I promise to continue to do my household chores with more joy and enthusiasm. I promise to continue to give up procrastinating doing the little marketing and social networking tasks I need to do to grow my businesses.” Although I wasn’t focusing on building any of my businesses, I noticed that I wasn’t procrastinating as much on everything I do, instead I was more enthusiastic! It’s rather kinda startling for me on how different things are getting 😛 and we’re only a little more than half way done this incredible journey of MKMMA!

I’m referring to the 50 minute exercise from this weeks webinar as “The Jaw Dropping Exercise” because my jaw was aching after reading my card over and over out loud while I looked at myself in the mirror for 50 minutes. Not sure if I suppose to read it out loud in this exercise, but I did it that way. When I first started this exercise it felt rather clunky and weird. But as I continued doing it, the exercise felt more and more normal and I felt tremendously uplifted and a feeling of a quiet peace. I also noticed that I was actually giggling a lot about myself throughout this exercise, which made me very grateful because I’m typically the kind of person that is down on myself. Which by the way is one of the things I want to improve on with the MKMMA course.

It sounded like a silly long exercise that I didn’t want to do (be quiet and go away already old-blueprint! I’m not leaving!), but it was a phenomenal exercise for me once I completed it! Because of this exercise, I felt that I have a greater sense of direction.

I was recently thinking about how the food I eat and the peptides and the frontal lobe may come to be involved together. Before MKMMA I noticed after eating something that contains loads of floor or sugar, or worse, both, causes me to become very VERY irritable. So in case anyone sees me eat anything like pancakes, brownies, donuts, chocolate bars, you name it, I’ll get really cranky, so sorry in advance if your around me! The scene, you shouldn’t feed Gremlins after midnight comes to mind for me when I thought about this. This is the thing what I was thinking, how can you focus on being positive when you’ve ate foods that makes you feel physically down.

Even though I have practically eliminated a lot of things from my diet already, like drinking soda pop, fast food, most breads and things that contain flour, it surprises me how much those things affected my mood and emotions. Boy I tell ya, I felt like somebody that was drinking all night, only for me that was after drinking 1 can of Cola-Cola or Root Beer or an A&W burger and fries! It also really surprised me that having junk food just for an occasional treat could really drag me down and feeling, not only dead tired but mean and with a negative attitude about everything around me. I could hear myself saying stuff like… I dont want to read that right now, I’ll do it tomorrow. This will never change anything… blah blah blah. A total contradiction of what we are trying to accomplish with MKMMA.

Although True Health isn’t one of my PPNs, I find it rather interesting how much what we choose to eat comes into play when working on positive thoughts, emotions and actions. We really are what we eat, and its another choice that I have total control of. So if you are struggling with negative thoughts and emotions even after following the MKMMA routine faithfully, consider looking at your diet. What you ate recently may had an affect on your concentration, enthusiasm, thoughts, moods, etc towards your Requirements and ‘services’.