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Nothing prepares you for the time your life will change. When it happens, you likely wont be looking for it.
I know this because it happened to me. I lost my job and my relationship on the same day. When it happened I was definitely NOT ready for it.

I had to admit some tough things. Number #1 was if I don't sort it out now, it will get worse down the line. I needed an income. I needed someone to talk to. I needed courage to deal with the fact that I had neither.

If it was going to get better it was going to be up to me...

I realized that it's not the problem that's the problem, its how you SEE the problem. You need to see it correctly before you can solve it.

I surprised myself. By re-aligning the way I looked at everything I was able to start my own business. By reading and studying (even alone, on my own) I was able to find the courage and resolve to move ahead in my life.

Today I am still single, but I have my own business.

I decided to share what I learned with other people. If I can help even one person it will be worth the effort. I read a lot of psychological/motivational stuff that was difficult to get any value from. It was either clinical and technical, or full of 'you can do it...' cheerleading.

Neither really helped me.

I had to dig DEEPER, and I had to get info from VARIETY of places (psychological text, human interest, video, documentary, biographies, friends' advice, group and individual counseling, meditating, etc). I took all of this and
used it to ask myself the right questions.

I decided that it wasn't working to listen to someone else who didn't know me try to give me ANSWERS. The answers didn't work because they didn't know enough about where I was in my life. Once I had the ability to ask myself the right QUESTIONS I found the answers for myself.

I put all of these resources into this eBook so others could use it too.

I didn't believe this at first, but now I do: In the highest life-state you will welcome problems as challenges. The real question isn't "what's the problem", but "how's your life state".

Some people actually seek out 'the problem' (surfers, mountaineers, etc). They want the rush of getting through challenges. The 'horrible stuff', like losing relationships and jobs, is just part of life, you don't control it.

We just need strength for the change that is inevitable.

Problems are just facts. Attitude is what makes us suffer. If we feel bigger than the problem we cope, if we feel smaller we suffer. Many times problems just reveal our weakness, and that is what we can't handle, that is what makes us unhappy.
Somehow, for me, it turned out BETTER that these things happened to me.

You life state is not fixed, it changes moment to moment, (like waking up and feeling better the next morning). And the path to understanding is not a straight one.

Everyone has wisdom, courage and compassion inside of them, they just need to remember how to use them. You can use them like weights, to get stronger and stronger. Your adversity is just the resistance that makes you grow.

Expecting to win or fail is just habit of thinking. We are in charge of this habit. Don't get me wrong, getting fit and staying fit takes effort. But in the long run it DEFINITELY pays off.

Perseverance for the sake of good wins, try not to accept your natural, negative way of doing things.

So, to summarize (even if you don't believe it yet):
Perseverance wins.
Problems are good.
What matters is life-state.

You will need to try this in your life, there is no 'believing'...

What we need are wisdom, courage and compassion.
You have a choice. When you feel you cant handle something, you can chose to give up, or you can try to turn poison into medicine (even if it's not your fault).

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I do believe in one thing, pessimism sucks away your life force.
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hey {!firstname_fix},

I was just thinking about how sometimes things go south just when they seem like they're on track, then things get really good right after they are bad.

Everyone has a positive and a negative side, which side wins (or wins most often)? The stronger the positive, the stronger its negative resistance...

Like exercise - I know it's good for me, but just when I get going, it rains, or I don't feel like getting up early, or something happens in my business early in the day, etc.

Resistance builds, even as the good things in our life start to build....

I have several projects for work, websites and stuff. Things are quiet for ALL of them at the same time. Then things pick up and I am swamped with business.

These projects are so different it seems the odds against this would be impossible. How can websites for Health + Psychology, Industrial Filtration, Automotive, Investing, Electronics ....all slow down and speed up at the SAME TIME?

But then I realized it's not the stuff, the businesses or websites. It's me.

Positive and negative go hand in hand. The stronger the positive, the stronger its negative counterpart. Like a plane on a runway, the faster it goes the more resistance it encounters. But it needs that resistance to take off. If it slows down, the resistance goes away, but it can't fly.

Fight your way through your resistance and you'll ALWAYS get to the positive. But you have to EXPECT it to happen.

I have learned to be happy when I see resistance - it shows me that I'm on a positive track.

We get the strongest resistance to the things we want most. If you want to be happy, you also have to "be" your fundamental darkness.

You have to recognize how negativity shows up in your life. It can be devious...if you're totally laid back you may never see what bothers you. It's almost like you have to push things a little bit to get them to show up.

If things are too 'smooth' I know I need to try harder.

Sounds metaphysically groovy, I know, but it's true.

I also figured out that my PERSPECTIVE drives this ebb and flow.... the things I think are my faults can be my best strengths. If I'm stubborn about something I'm 'dense, inflexible and arrogant'... but when I turn out to be right, I am 'determined, confidant and resolute'....

It's human nature to protect myself when people try to show up my faults -especially when I'm trying to hide them from myself.

People withdraw when they get criticized. They start to feel threatened. They stop listening and pull back.

I know that my life's reflected in my environment, and my environment is reflected in me. I used to hate my job and it showed up in me while I was at work, then people picked up that negativity in me, but I felt justified and got defensive...a bad cycle.

I had to make the situation better.

It started with ME changing - not the world around me. I had to find the courage to do this.

wisdom...

courage...

compassion...

Responsibility starts with YOU too, become the change you want to be. If YOU change your environment MUST change to reflect it.

You help yourself by changing for the better.... you're the one person you can definitely influence.

Thanks for listening... you can find more answers here in my ebook course. Or just write to me if you have a specific/personal question, support@poweresteem.com.

I'll talk to you again soon,
Michael M.

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hi {!firstname}, have you ever had that experience where one door closes and another opens?

Or one door closes, then another, then another, then another, until they all seem shut...

The Chinese have one word for crisis, but it's written with two characters, one means danger, the other means opportunity.

You always have two choices when you're confronted with change: you can feel sorry for yourself, or see chance and opportunity.

The doors are always opening, you just need the capacity to see them.

When change hit me I don't think I was really sure what I was looking for. That was a good chance for me to change even though I didn't want it at the time.

What would be YOUR ideal job?
best-selling author?
art director?
musician? ballerina? CEO?
it's good to know where you want to go.

Talent is nice, but not as important as determination. Things change moment by moment, pushing you this way and that.

Strong Determination = Whatever it takes (doors always opening)
Weak Determination = Daydreamer (doors always closing)

If you cant do Dream Job #1 what will you do instead? Why be unfulfilled? Why choose 2nd best?

I know... some people have more natural gifts, its easier for them. But often people with a natural gift don't really value it because it is easy for them - they still remain unfulfilled because they lack determination.

And there are ALWAYS practical obstacles -just don't make up your mind against yourself.

Reality is what you CREATE. If YOU don't do it, someone ELSE will create reality for you. If you leave your future up to someone else with stronger determination they will be showing you reality you will have to live with.

I decided that would never happen to me again, so I started my own projects...they grew into an income...then a business.

I had to forget my 'pain'...pain only comes when you're at one level and want to be at another. I had to break out of my comfort zone to try the business thing. (I am still working on the relationship part.)

Now is YOUR chance...Redraw your map. Make a plan and get on with it.

Bust out of your career 'comfort zone' and try something new. Just remember that happiness can exist at all levels. Not just "creative" jobs are creative. Make a map, one job may help you on your path to another more 'ultimate' destination on your map.

Goal > Wisdom > Action > Status
Set goals where you want to go, what you want to achieve.

Remember that 'goal' and 'status' are different. 'goal' is outside of yourself... you ACHIEVE your goal by DOING something ....doing leads to BEING

If you want to go to Russia -
the 'goal' is Russia.
your 'status' is 'traveler'

If you focus on Goal, you think about "out there" and how to get there, and that is good...

but if you think too much about your current status, and how far you are from your Goal, you can create pain and paralyze yourself. We all do it- it even makes pro athletes choke, they paralyze themselves.

SIMPLE doesn't mean EASY. Climbing Everest is simple, you just keep going up, but it's not easy.

Make the goal within your heart.
Now you need wisdom, figuring out the path and plan.
Act on the plan.
Reach Status.

Then expect one more thing, plan on it....just like we talked about at the beginning of this email... As soon as you try to change things, your negativity will jump up and try to stop you, it's a battle and it's only natural.

Before I go... find a little 'win' somewhere to build your confidence (win a game, a contest, something small, it doesn't matter). Then set a BIG goal, with a series of little goals along the way. These are the staging posts, minicamps, along the way. Pretty soon you'll be well on your way.

But you gotta take that first step, and be ready for that first 'negative"....

Thanks again for listening. You can find more answers here in my ebook course. Or just write to me if you have a specific/personal question, support@poweresteem.com.

I'll talk to you again soon,
Michael M.
 

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hi {!firstname},

Determination means you have to move. For me, the move was painful, but so was staying where I was. I just had to decide which pain was greater.

Pain is when you stay one level even though you want to be at another. (I added to my dilemma by worrying what other people would think about my change. But people who know what they want don't care what others think.)

I had to figure out the value of the change before I could decide to try it. Everything is neutral until we attach a value to it, how we relate to it.

These values are:
Beauty, Gain, and Good. Value is created by our relationship to things. The more value we create - the happier we are.
Re work:
Beauty is how much you like a job.
Gain is how much you get paid for it.
Good is how much it contributes to society and helps others.

We always juggle these things, even if we don't know it at the time. And sometimes we make a mistake by mixing up 'truth' and 'good'.

Truth isn't a value, its an absolute. Value is relative -how we feel about something.

When you see a flower and say "this is a flower", that equals truth.
When you say "I like this flower", that equals value, how 'good' we think it is.

Mixing up 'truth' and 'good' is confusion. Truth isn't always good and doesn't always create value.

Things always become more clear if we know whether were talking about truth or value. This helps us when we finally decide to switch 'levels' and get happier....

Thanks for listening... you can find more answers here in the PowerEsteem ebook course. Or just write to me if you have a personal question, support@poweresteem.com.

I'll talk to you again soon,
Michael M.
 

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hi {!firstname},

People never cease to surprise me. It's inevitable, they ALWAYS change and do things different than what you expect to be their normal character.

People who are 'greedy' or 'selfish' or 'self-centered'.... then they do something nice for you.

For them, just like for me and you, it's karma. There's no such thing as coincidence.

There seems to be a pattern in life. Things work in cause and effect. 'Coincidence' is just an effect where we can't see the connecting cause.

But really, karma is like a bank balance you take with you, the sum total of all causes. It shapes your future.

Cause and effect and karma are something a lot of people get emotional about. They start to assign FAULT. But 'fault' is just their interpretation (or mis-interpretation).

Habits form, we think and act certain ways in certain conditions. Around people we like, we act more friendly...

Around people we don't like, we act less than friendly, the pick up on this and we stay unfriendly...

We stay in this loop because of habit, with expected outcomes. "Fault" is judgmental.... a better word is CAUSE. Cause and effect isn't limited to what we can see or hear, it is everywhere. It never sleeps.

If you get cancer after smoking all your life, no one is punishing you, you're realizing effects of causes of smoking. Karma is like a web of cause and effect. The heart of it is taking total responsibility.

So, it seems, mixing cause, effect, and chance doesn't make sense. What happens when it appears to work at some points, but not others? This is usually because we cant figure everything out... we start to use god or luck or karma to explain the mysteries.

Which makes the most sense to you?

Karma doesn't take away your power. If you believe your fate is in the hands of god or chance you have no power. If you believe in karma, that all the causes led you to this place, then you have control over the future. You can change things.

Taking this responsibility puts power into your own hands. If you take responsibility you're in charge and don't have to wait for others to change. The irony is, if YOU change, THEY will too. Your environment is a total reflection of your life. If you change the inside, the outside HAS to change.

What's your plan of action to escape 'coincidence'?

Thanks for listening... you can find more answers here in my ebook course. Or just write to me if you have a specific question you'd like answered, support@poweresteem.com.

I'll talk to you again soon,
Michael M.

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hey {!firstname} -how have you been doing?

Thanks again for listening to my rants about karma and attitude and esteem. Describing my thoughts actually helps me sort things out. I feel better when I write them down.

We're into a new year now, and I started thinking about how well I was on or off course. I have been trying to stay on a healthy daily 'do's' and 'don'ts' list. I remind myself that perseverance is key to getting to the top.

Along the way I have accepted that there's a collective karma, it is not personal. We ALL fit into the equation. Wars and economies and climate change affect more people than just me. Measuring myself in this mix doesn't help.

Karma is like sending letters to yourself, you may forget them but they still show up. Past causes create today's effects. So 'write' different letters and create different causes for yourself. CAUSES you make today will be the EFFECTS you get tomorrow.

When this whole crazy time started for me I decided to write about what I knew. My story plot was: A guy loses his job and his gf. Just when he's about to lose everything, he.....( I got stuck) I decided to just start writing and let the story tell itself, be the scribe, etc...

I started with full energy at first then stalled out. The problem was I didn;t really BELIEVE in my own story. My life seemed too simple, to 'unimportant' for anyone to ever take interest.

I needed to fire up my life force...

Life force is energy, but also deeper than that. It is the Three Truths, three basic aspects to life:
1. Physical
2. Mental/Spiritual
3. Essential (this is the life force)

...and the three are all interconnected...

Life FORCE changes according to your life's CONDITION. When you feel crappy and depressed (i.e. bad life force) you get more colds, you get less done, you encounter fewer opportunities, you lack ambition, time crawls by... you get the point.

You cant resolve life force with quick, external things (drugs, drinking, sex, shopping, etc)...

Heaven and Hell are different sides of the same 'coin'. You drink it's NICE, too much it's HANGOVER. 'Heaven' is when we get something we want. 'Hell' is when it disappears.

The trick is learning how life works so you make choices that don't cause grief for yourself and other people. Philosophers say that the truly wise man will not be carried away by any of the eight winds:
Prosperity / Decline
Disgrace / Honor
Praise / Censure
Suffering / Pleasure

Be neither elated by prosperity or grieved by decline. You can be AFFECTED by the 8 winds, just not carried away by them. Whatever life state you're in, you can be in a different one in the next moment.

So send those 'letters' to yourself, you'll FEEL more in control (and so you will be).

Thanks for listening... you can find more answers here in my ebook course. Or just write to me if you have a specific question, support@poweresteem.com.

I'll talk to you again soon,
Michael M.

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hey {!firstname},

I was thinking today how stuff that is the most interesting can also be the most difficult. This thought led me to consider some things differently, and once you see something differently you can't un-see it.

One thing I thought about is that sometimes you really have to go through crap to wake up and see the way things work.

Like plants, some seeds only germinate after they've been made very cold or hot. The seed coat needs to suffer some 'pain' before it can change. This is how a forest fire germinates a forest of new trees. New growth springs from ashes. It's nature, it's just how things work...

People are like this too, sometimes they have a hard seed coat around them (ego? illusion?), and it takes something bad to happen to them... they suffer in some way before their 'seed coat' cracks and something new is able to emerge. The change exists as potential until the conditions are right, then when the conditions line up properly the change happens. Sometime the conditions seem pretty crappy, like a forest fire, but the change works out fine for us...

This change can be really slow, SUPER slow, so slow we don't even see it...

An acorn surprises us with growth, bit by bit, you can't see it at the time, but when you look back you see how much they've grown over time. Wind and rain and storms are what make us all grow. And we're all different, some of us like shade, some sun. Put the wrong plant in the wrong place and it can die. Call it plant 'karma'.

If you believe in karma you'll notice that it fits you like a glove... tailor made for you, you're always in the right place at the right time -you never have to go anywhere. In the flower bulb is everything it needs to grow, the internal stuff, is already inside. All it needs is the rain and sun, the external effects. It is the nature of inherent and external forces that gives us the beautiful flower.

It works the same for us...our full potential is all locked up inside, it takes the daily turmoil to get it to come out...

How do we change to make this work for us? You have to meet the right 'teaching'...

When you plant a bulb into the soil (this is the external cause) you will ultimately create a flower, a "manifest effect", but it takes time -there is a time lag. The flower is only IMPLIED the moment the cause is made.

Latent effect (bulb-in-ground-but-not-yet-flower) takes place the instant you create a cause; manifest effect will take place sometime later in your life when conditions are right. Most people only think of cause and effect in terms of what they can see right away, and this can cause them to give up on important things to soon (or to never set up the important things to happen later).

It's tricky, but do you see? Something either exists or it doesn't. But there is a third state, where something exists but it doesn't at the same time. Like a memory, something real, but with nothing substantial to back it up.

Like your thoughts, they are real to you, but really don't 'exist' anywhere. Think of something right now, bring up a memory. It exists for you, but not for me. These things are non-substantial, but with the right conditions they come out. Experience is locked up inside us, our futures too, inside us, but not substantially "real" yet.

My life is not secure, but very interesting when I consider things this way. It keeps me planting and nurturing the greatness that's inside that just hasn't come out yet...

Thanks for listening... you can find more answers here in my ebook course. Or just write to me if you have a specific question or need direct help. Write any time to me any time at support@poweresteem.com.

I'll talk to you again soon,
Michael M.

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hey {!firstname},

My last note was about karma, but I didn't really finish it because more thoughts came to me... 'karma', whatever it is.... operates below the level of the conscious mind. Give it the right trigger and it always pops up. You cant stop it. It is a habit, a pattern, you cant change it with your head.

You have to come at it from a deeper level, from the 'Life Force' level. If you want to change the situation you call your 'karma', you need to change the part of you that's creating that pattern, that 'karma'.

It's not the subject that causes problems in life, it's your life condition, the inherent cause, the way you are. Life's situations will always be stirring things up.

It's like this... if you take a stick and stir up a glass of clear water with sediment at the bottom it gets cloudy. It will stay clear by not stirring, but a better way to keep it clear is to remove the sediment.
...the 'stick' is the external cause.
...the 'sediment' is the inherent cause (your life state).
...the 'water' is anything in life we deal with (an argument, personal situation, a relationship, etc.)

Clean up your life state and you can stir like crazy and the water stays clear. The 'sediment' in you brings out the 'sediment' in others. In this way it is always a battle of life forces.

If YOU change, others will too.

Most people want to fix a relationship by changing the other person. But if you did that in a story you'd make it unrealistic and ruin a good tale. What really makes a good story is a hero overcoming adversity and battles to win in the end. Struggle and adventure. The hero fights and wins (or loses) his inner battles. But he fights, he takes the effort.

Do you want a fairy story? Or a real story? Do you want to make the effort?

Effort is what separates us from where we want to go.

For me, (and hopefully I'm pretty normal...) my life states were bouncing all over the place. My moods were dictated by my environment, I wasn't in control. But better things just needed more effort.

In a way it's like learning - when I see a book, I don't automatically learn, I have to make a conscious choice and put in the effort to read it. You too. You have to make the effort to look, explore, understand, think and figure something out.

You MAKE things happen, you don't wait and react for things to happen.

what gives your life meaning and focus...
a lover, wife, husband?
a car?
political belief?
family, kids?
job, career?
fame, money?
philosophy of life?

Most people don't even realize what 'IT' is until they lose it. Their main prop, they only know IT when it is gone. So, is this normal? Yes, but this is why society is messed up.

These 'centers' are unreliable, they come and go. So trying to base your life's happiness on them is a house of cards. A better philosophy of life is having a more stable 'compass', a compass based on the laws of life, on how things work. Constant, but changeable.

It is hard to accept that earthly things can change all around you and you still won't lose your sense of proportion. That, no matter what happens externally, you will survive, and build something even better in the future. Every time there is a change you can build it into something better.

Hard to accept, but true...

I have a whole series of thoughts, questions, and more answers here in my ebook course.

talk soon,
MM

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hi {!firstname},

here is a simple challenge for you, ask yourself a few questions:
Do you dismiss or label what you don't like?
Is your focus on more than on yourself? (how boring is that -except to you)

Focus on self AND others is a better answer.... have you ever considered it?

What makes people suffer? I believe it is when you define yourself as SEPARATE from other people. People put others down to make themselves feel superior. Sometimes even to the extent of one group wiping out others, as enemies or inferiors.

How do we let this happen? Historically, humans devalue others when it suits them, when they have advantage. Persecution, slavery, politics. Anyone who sets themselves up as 'special' gets targeted.

Resentment, fear, and jealousy all come from this.

There is more in my ebook.

talk soon,
Michael
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