The energy that created the world

     "You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough.
You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin
and joins the energy that created the world."

 ~SHEILA GRAHAM

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      How to get what you want is to learn to want it more than you now want it.

      You can clarify your intention and turn an involuntary activity into a true commitment.     

       This idea can be revolutionary. Because most people would rather focus on the "how to" than the "want to." That's why so many "how to" books are sold about business and career. You don't see many "want to" books being sold because people don't want to face the fact that commitment is the only thing missing.

        If your career is not what you want it to be, it may be that "Intention Deficit Disorder" is the only real problem you have.  You are not in need of a secret system or way. You are in need of a better connection to your true desire.  And while it may be true that people always want a secret easy "way" to succeed, one should never give it to them until the "want to" is firmly in place. Otherwise the "how to" would be disappointing when they "tried it" and it didn't really "work."

       If my teenage's son's room is messy it would never occur to me to send him to a seminar on "How To Clean A Room." Because the "how to" is not missing here. The "want to" is missing.

       The "how to" is the vehicle, but only the vehicle. The "want to" is the gas. Even a Mercedes needs gas or it will be useless. What gets you across town better, a Mercedes with no gas in it or a VW bug with a full tank? If you had to get across town which would you rather be in?

        But this gas itself is often overlooked when it comes to career. The vehicle is emphasized and the gas is overlooked. You need the excitement of a "want to" to kick in for success to happen. (Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Nothing great was ever created without enthusiasm.")

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    I am very excited about Deb Jonsson's new enterprise, Coyote Greetings. Send me an email and I'll send you one of her cards so you can see how cool they really are. I've ordered hundreds of them. I like to send them out randomly to club fearless members. I like to be a trickster, keeping fearless members guessing as to what they will receive next.

   I receive NO compensation (on the material plane, anyway) from Deb's work and enterprise. I am merely flattered that she uses my quotes on these cards. Merely flattered. And of course when she showed me the first cards I was stunned to see how amazingly brilliant the quotes were on these cards and then I realized they were mine.

    Deb's website says: "In every culture that has a 'Coyote' mythic figure, the trickster is responsible for change. He is the embodiment of ambiguity, ambivalence, contradiction, and paradox. Through Coyote's transformative nature, she enlarges the sphere of human possibility Coyote Medicine, found in these cards, teaches us to look at the trickster in all of us - particularly the personal 'self-sabotage' we can all create when we lose sight of the tremendous power, strength and courage we have inside. The 'trickster hero' represents all those possibilities of life that your mind hasn't decided it wants to deal with.

     "Steve Chandler refers to the work of 'coyote' in his introduction to "17 lies that are holding you back and the truth that sets you free."

     "Chandler suggests that 'the trickster' helps us uncover a racket - the racket of conning ourselves into believing that we are helpless - that talks us into believing in our defects instead of our energy. This con-job (or trickster mentality) can become a life-long stratagem of self deceit." Helen Lock, an associate professor at the University of Louisiana who teaches American, African American, and ethnic literature, writes in 'Transformations of the Trickster' - the trickster performs fundamental cultural work. "In understanding the trickster better, we better understand ourselves, and the perhaps subconscious aspects of ourselves that respond t the trickster's unsettling and transformative behavior." Lock goes on to add "the trickster is the consummate mover of goalposts, constantly redrawing the boundaries of the possible."

     Coyote Greetings Contact &Wholesale Information:info@coyotegreetings.com 

     Wholesale Information &Contact form 'Coyote Greetings' was created to inspire and enliven the human spirit. When we give or send a Coyote Greeting we are 'changed by the exchange'. Giving a thoughtful greeting card begins a larger, more heartful conversation with ones your care about.

  There is someone who needs to hear from you right now. As Debra suggests, "The spirit of these cards is to bring a sense of peace to the heart, mind, and soul." Please use the blog on the website to share messages you'd like to bring to others that transform or add perspective to your life. Share stories of cards you've sent, or framed for yourself!

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     JOIN Club Fearless NOW so we can send you SHIFT YOUR MIND my brand new book.

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"Those who do not move
do not notice their chains."

~Rosa Luxemburg

    In SHIFT YOUR MIND I write about Fred Knipe's amazing insight into the coyote:

      The past couple years have been exciting to walk myself and my clients out of the dark regions of fear (imagining a scary future) and into the light (present moment opportunity).
  
       Most people take their most unpleasant memories of the past and try to let their worried mind paint a future scenario out of that. But your past history does not have to own you. You are free. Yes. It is possible (and I know because I feel it happen every day) to have this moment right now be fearless.

       I was talking with my friend the comedian Fred Knipe about how beautifully disputation dismantles negative beliefs we hold about ourselves and others and life and death. He agreed with me that once we stop believing those frightening thoughts, the mind clears up and there is no more stress. The story about anxious, frightful life is gone. And we are free to act and create anything we want. Or just relax into quiet happy feelings.

     (Most of my life I had done the opposite. I scared myself with stressful beliefs about time, death and money. And how people don't "get" the seriousness of my situations. None of that was ever true. Yet believing that it was true made me a stressful believer. I had designed a perfect system for a stressful life.)

     In talking to Fred about all this I whimsically sent him these words for my tombstone:

     Fred wrote back that that could be on everyone's tombstone, and that they could just start making generic tombstones with those words on it.

     And then Fred said something profound and strange (and very beautiful):  "The coyote has no tombstone. Because the coyote never has a bad day. Neither does the coyote have a good day. Hungry all day is not a bad day.  Napping all day full of rabbit is not a good day.  Because the coyote has no judgment. He does not evaluate. No 'good for me, bad for me.' He avoids harm and seeks benefit without evaluation, so for him there is neither time nor eternity.  People are the only ones who evaluate, and they never stop. It may seem a curse, this process of deciding everything, of pushing all experience through a buzz saw which divides into good and bad, but the curse finally lifts when the evaluation machinery is turned back on itself.  When the experience of evaluation becomes the subject of evaluation, it becomes clear that without judgment we would become like the coyote."

     What does Fred know about the coyote? Maybe more than most people! He is a four-time Emmy-award winning writer for PBS's show, The Desert Speaks. So he has written about all the desert flora and fauna. But maybe never quite this deeply. (And it was off the top of his head!)

      Fred also writes songs and performs comedy for a living, and if you ever need a good laugh to pick you up, go to his website and click on one of the many hilarious little routines he does there as his comic alter-ego Dr. Ludiker. Go here: www.fredknipe.com.

      Don't be lured into thinking your own comic alter ego is false. It could very well be the real you. The you that laughs and makes others laugh could be more real than the stressful believer of judgments.

     Shift the mind so that it sees this and the fun has just begun.

     And if you want to begin creating a fearless life join the club.

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