Week 23: Finishing Well

Well, here we are: approaching the end of our 6 months together. It feels a little odd to be writing my thoughts “on paper” as my readership has clearly dwindled to next-to-nothing in the past couple of weeks. It seems like a lot of effort for me to put forth when it appears very few are…

Week 22a: Tone

I am finding it serendipitous how many of our Reads of the week/month “suddenly”turn up as opportunities to apply as lessons. Is it that the opportunity suddenly manifests, or is it that I’m just more aware and pick up on the cues and then absorb and apply them, or is it a little of both? Case…

Week 22: No Time To Kill

Somewhere in the mid-90s, I went through a bit of a country music phase. I’ve been doing a lot of driving lately, not only back-and-forth in town to babysit my granddaughter, but also 5 hours round-trip to help daughter #2 get set up in her new place. As my last trip was solo I decided…

Week 21: Just Breathe

OK, in my last post I said I’d have two weeks of “busy.” I beg to differ. I neglected to account for the fact that I’d be babysitting my 18-month-old granddaughter Monday through Thursday every week after that two weeks was over. This entails driving 25+ minutes through rush hour traffic and school buses to reach…

Week 20: Whirlwind

I am in the middle of a crazy two weeks so this post will be short…but sweet :). Hubby and I spent 3 days last week painting daughter #1’s new place and the 4th day, Saturday, helping with the move. She, her hubby and their 18-month old have just moved nearly an hour closer to us…yay!…

Week 19: I Am

Tom Shadyac’s film documenting his own search for “the” meaning of life definitely echoes what we are going through in this course. Like Tom, I have always been a thinker and self-analyzer but ultimately concentrating more on “what can I do to change things?” In Tom’s case, a bike accident resulting in Post-Concussion Syndrome ultimately caused…

Week 18: Scroll V

Wow. That’s about all I can say. Og’s Scroll V is amazing. Thought-provoking. Soul-searching. Of course, in reading Scroll IV, my eyes fell upon the first few words in this upcoming chapter and I thought to myself “big whoop. Not looking forward to this one.” But wow, the words that come after the first few…

Week 17a: R2A2

I am so grateful that we are repeating Haanel’s Part 17 this week. With hubby away on a road trip this week, I’ve been doing more than usual to keep the home fires burning (literally…that’s how we heat our house in the winter). There is so much content in this lesson that I didn’t feel…

Week 17: Complacency vs Vigilance

My Sit this morning was interrupted by our apparently permanent house “guest,” Felix (my adult daughter’s cat). He normally will curl up next to me, but this morning he chose to settle on me. I was sitting on the sofa, knees slightly askew with feet resting on the ottoman, and with a plush blanket draped over…

Week 16: Reflections

Yes, it’s been a busy few weeks and yes, I’ve neglected some of my MKMMA homework, especially the Sit and multiple reads. And the reading with enthusiasm!!! And yes, I have another round of company coming today as we prepare to celebrate my mother-in-law’s 75th birthday. But re-establishing a regular Sit has been both calming and…

Week 15: Captain Courageous

I find the concept of the Franklin makeover, introduced in Sunday’s webinar, to be very interesting. It was pretty easy for me to pick out #1 for what I’m lacking…courage. Recording the number of examples of courage seen daily is proving to be thought-provoking. Two days ago, I didn’t put a single dot in my…

Week 14: Triumph

My copy of Rudy is so old, it’s a VHS :). But the quality of the story remains, even if the integrity of the tape is a bit…grainy. Rudy is that age-old story of a goal-oriented underdog overcoming all obstacles in order to fulfill one’s dream. Here, the true story of small-statured, blue collar background  Daniel “Rudy”…

Week 13: Groundhog Day

Yep, you heard me…Groundhog Day (the movie, not the “holiday”). My hubby and I were looking for something else to watch other than the endless TV holiday stuff last night, so we went through our DVD collection and found the G Day movie. Yep, g’day mate! In case you’re unfamiliar with the premise, Bill Murray…

Week 12: Grateful

I have to admit, I have been struggling with the directions for the Sit for the past few weeks. Suffice it to say that, because of deeply-held beliefs, I cannot accept all Haanel says and what he directs us to think during the Sit. But there is so much positive in this course and in the exercises…

Week 11: Speechless

Yep, that about says it all. Sorry, gang, but no new epiphanies this week. I am continuing to do my reads and sits. I have regular phone contact with my guide’s group and my Mastermind partner. I am persisting. Have an awesome week!

Week 10: Persistence

Thanks, Og, I needed that. After an excellent 6.5 day mental diet, I had a setback. Even a long string of “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy” rang a bit hollow. But still, I carried on. And then BAM, Og to the rescue. I just finished my first read of Scroll…

Week 9: Perfection

I LOVE this week’s affirmation: I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy. I immediately, of course, need to apply the Law of Substitution because old subby is trying to scream “NOT!” But I have found a large rag to stuff down that nasty old throat (I keep repeating the affirmation) and old…

Week 8: Fat Brain

Yep, I’ll admit it. I went off the mental diet big time yesterday. I allowed the negative to come in and I embraced it like an old friend. There was no instigating factor, no reason to allow it except for – maybe – being tired. And maybe indulging in too many Lindt chocolates. I didn’t…

Week 7: Taking Out the Trash

No, really…it’s Monday morning, garbage pick-up day here. It’s always a good idea to get the garbage out by 8:30am, ’cause you never know when they’re gonna come by to get it. For me out in the country, that means hauling my garbage 350 feet down the driveway to the road. On this frosty autumn…

Week 6: Treading Water

Goodness me, I thought this would get easier as time went on but I’m feeling overwhelmed (in my opinion…which you didn’t ask for, so forget I said that).        I believe I would be able to handle all the MKMMA course work under “normal” circumstances but life is continuing to throw unexpected crises…

Week 5: Please Stand By While Life Interrupts Your Progress…

I’m ba-aaaack. Nine days of travel at this point in the program is not conducive to learning and applying new behaviours! I could give you tales of woe concerning air travel and time changes, being thrown off-schedule and off-diet, learning to share a house and resources with 12 other people, full-day seminars and lack of privacy…

Week 4: Hurricane Subby is Subsiding

I like to get things done in a timely manner; hence, I post my blog early in the MKMMA week. I know Week 3 was not a cheery post, and I did hesitate for a few hours after writing it to post it. Especially a day or two later, as the cloud began to lift,…

Week 3: The Battle Escalates

Okay, I thought this was going to start getting easier but subby is mounting an all-out counter-offensive. I’m waking up in the middle of the night and having trouble falling back asleep. I feel tired and dragged-out during the day, and I’m lacking energy, enthusiasm, and optimism. Where did that first week or two of…

Week 2: The Empire (Subby) Strikes Back

Okay, week two…subby is putting up a bit more of a fight. My conscious mind is uncovering some of the deep-seated, hidden, negative thoughts I’ve been using as fuel to run (ruin) my life on autopilot. “Yeah, but…you can’t do that/you can’t change/it’s too hard…”; whatever subby wants to throw my way, I’m at least aware…

Week 1: What was I thinking?

Seriously…what was I thinking? This is not a breeze; it’s hard work! So I have to do some reading. I have to do some writing. Piece of cake for me. Oh, I can do the reading and writing all right; it’s the thinking I find difficult! I have nearly six decades of negative thought and self-doubt…