iMindShift with Steve Chandler: Winning the game of life

Winning the game of life

   Here's a picture of me and (the best offensive lineman in the NFL) Deuce Lutui and Kathy and Deuce's trainer. Can you figure out who is who?

    Kathy and I had breakfast with Deuce last week and came to admire him even more than before. He's the real thing, not only as a player but as a person.

    Go to this website to follow the Deuce Lutui Story: www.tbolitnfl.com

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My friend Michael Weitz sent this to me so that I might live by its wisdom:

"Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious."
~ Rumi

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     We can't wait to retire to become members of the legume family and sink into a deep pit of passivity. But is that such a good plan?

     According to research published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, people who retire early have a greater chance of forgetting many things. The New York Times reports on the study, which found that a review of data from the United States, England and 11 other European countries suggests that the earlier people retire, the more quickly their memories decline.

   People in France are now rioting because their retirement age has been moved up from 60 to 62. Do they know what they are doing?

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When South Korea last blared propaganda and obnoxious music from 11 sets of loudspeakers along the border with North Korea, the North threatened to turn Seoul "into a sea of flame."

Do you blame them? I call that a measured response.

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     SHIFT YOUR MIND; SHIFT THE WORLD YOU SEE:

    It's not what's happening that causes you to ACT CRAZY it's your thought (and your story) about what's happening. Reality is NEVER as scary as our stories about reality are.

         Want an example of that?

          Try this, from the Belfast Telegraph:

   A child died when a family of 12 leapt from their second floor balcony in Paris claiming they were fleeing the devil.

     Eight more were injured, some seriously, in the tragedy when they jumped 20ft into a car park in the Paris suburb of La Verriere.

     The baffling incident occurred when a wife woke to see her husband moving about naked in the room, police said.

     She began screaming 'it's the devil! it's the devil!', and the man ran into the other room where 11 others adults and children were watching television. One woman grabbed a knife and stabbed the man before others pushed him out through the front door.

     When the man forced his way back in, they all screamed in terror and leapt from the balcony screaming 'Jesus! Jesus!'

     The naked man also leapt from the balcony, detectives said.

     A four-month old baby died in his mother's arms, while a two-year-old was critically injured in yesterday’s incident.

     Police said they had found no evidence of hallucinogenic drugs or unusual religious rituals.

      Versailles assistant prosecutor Odile Faivre added: “A wife in the next room saw her husband moving around naked and began screaming that he was the devil.

     “In the confusion following this apparent case of mistaken identity, the naked man's sister-in-law stabbed him in the hand and he was ejected through the front door of the flat.

     “When he attempted to get back in, panic erupted and the other occupants of the flat fled by jumping out of the window."

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The human mind doesn't always need hallucinogenic drugs to freak itself out. It just needs to believe its own thoughts. Do you believe everything you think? I highly recommend not doing that. You are freer than that. Let thoughts pass. Create from a deeper place than that. Thoughts are superficial ............... until we believe them.

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