Success by the books

During a discussion with a colleague this morning, I found myself asking the question:

Do you measure your self-worth by your net worth?  I noticed I have asked this question of several people this week.  That pattern in my work usually means I need to stop and ask myself that same question. 

I did not create that question.  It came into my preview most likely thought a book like Eric Butterworth's Spiritual Economics

Join me this Thursday for the last of the free Las Vegas Library hosted events for Don't Die With Vacation Time.  Come see what questions you need to ask yourself. 

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The Power of Few Words

One of the most enjoyable keynote speeches I ever heard was designed around quotes that made a point about the speakers life.  The speaker was a trained actress so there was extra power in her delivery, yet I have always felt the very few words that constitute most quotes contain as much significance as an entire chapter in any book. 

This week I had the pleasure of reading the daily thoughts of Katherine Saux, a licensed professional practitioner at the Oakland Center for Spiritual Living. Here are some of the lead-in quotes she used to introduce her thought of the day: 

I am very brave, generally, only today I happen to have a headache.  Tweedledum
Idolatry is believing that what exists now is the only possibility.  Rabbi Michael Lerner
All your pain, worry, sorrow will someday apologize and confess they were a great lie.  Hafiz
"What is grace?" I asked God.  And he said, "All that happens."  St. John of the Cross
The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be to just keep moving.  Pema Chodron
Which goes along with an old Quaker favorite of mine, "When you pray, move your feet."  and finally...

A grateful mind is a great mind, which eventually attracts to itself great things.  Plato

Dr. Success Challenge:  What quotes guide your life?  If you were to develop a 15 minute speech about your life right now, what quotes would you use to highlight the significant moments?  Play with that.  Have some fun. 

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Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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Spiritual Economics Part 2

I don’t remember whole books as much as I remember quote and lines that stand out for me when I read them. What is interesting to me is that when I re-read a book new and different lines have meaning and some sentences I underlined were completely forgotten. Here are a few quotes from Spiritual Economics that I underlined:
“…affluence…Its literal meaning is “an abundant flow,” and not [about] things at all.”

“The word prosperity comes from the Latin root which literally translates: “according to hope” or “to go forward hopefully.”

“Prosperity is a way of living and thinking,
and not just money or things.
Poverty is a way of living and thinking,
And not just a lack of money or things.”

What would those statements look like if you really believed them? Probably a lot like Mike Todd’s life when he stated, “Many times I have been broke, but I have never been poor.”

And I bet that no one would have ever said of Mike Todd that he was like so many students who are “over-read and under-done.” I suspect he unknowingly lived by the Quaker adage, “When you pray, move your feet.”

Dr. Success Challenge: What infinite action can you take right now to put what you have read in the category of what you got done? Read, pray, move. Sounds like the makings of a book title!

Thank you and enjoy,

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Spiritual Economics Part 1

I have a habit of reading ‘old’ books, meaning books that were published over 10 years ago. I often find – actually more than often – that the messages contained within the pages are as meaningful today as they were at the time of their original printing. On my list this month is Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth and The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Taken together they offer timeless and continually proven truths. I will highlight key leanings from each book separately over the next few posts in hopes of bringing the messages back to life for myself as much as for my readers.

Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth was published in 1993 yet this statement early in the book could have been written any time since 2008:

“Ours is an age of great change. Great corporations are streamlining their workforce to reflect the need for greater efficiencies of operation and also for the impact of automation. Whole industries are either being eliminated entirely or are moving into new fields. The result: jobs once considered to be secure are being eliminated. Many workers are being faced with the need to undergo retraining for entry into new fields of work. Many people are launching out in entrepreneurial endeavors, calling faith and vision and the need to tap into the universal flow of substance.”

Butterworth advice to combat this was to turn your attention to nature where the presence of life’s endless flow is everywhere. Whether you look to the seasons, the weather, the blooming and dormancy of plants and flowers, you see how things come to life, grow, change, die and yet life and the cycle continues. Nature is the confirmed evidence of the ‘omnipresence of universal substance.’

Dr. Success Challenge: It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Go outdoors and prove Butterworth’s contention for yourself.

Thank you and enjoy,

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