Carl Norman's Blog (26)

Yesterday at work, I was given the option of taking today off. I accepted the opportunity

without hesitation. I felt that I could make much better use of my time at home than I

could at work. My paycheck would not be affected by taking the time off, because I had

the vacation time to cover it.

This morning, I listened to the first message of "How To Master Your Time and Your…

I'm working with the Sedona Method audio program one track at a time. This is not the first time I've been through this 10 CD program. When I went through it previously, I worked with an entire CD at a time. Now, with my work schedule being the way that it is, I have time to work with only one track at a time. Also, it's been some months since the last time I…

"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."

--Andre Gide…

Last night, I dreamed that all that I had previously experienced as disappointment and as solid evidence of my lack of fitness for living the good life had been for a purpose. All the mistakes, failures, and discouragement suddenly fit together as part of a grand scheme that would lead me very soon to a path I wanted to be on…

This morning, I used "The Wealth Builder" holistic releasing CD from The Practical Freedom series offered by Sedona Training Associates. In many ways, "The Wealth Builder" is my favorite CD, because money talks. Right? Money has an almost magical quality that gives us many choices that are not available to those who don't have money. Yet, as Hale Dwoskin discusses, we have many conflicting polarities surrounding the subject of money and wealth. We both love it and hate it. We are open and…

This morning, I decided to use "The Inner Stretch" CD from the Practical Freedom holistic releasing series sold by The Sedona Method. I had been away from The Sedona Method for some time. I had not forgotten about it. I simply had not used the many releasing CD's in my Sedona Method collection for months. I felt like I needed to do something to help me put my life in order and more on track to go where I would like to go and live like I wanted to live instead of drifting along on the present…

There's a huge industry built around positive thinking. "Think positive," we are told is the key to our success and the solution to all our problems. I have never been able to think positive for very long. I remember reading my mother's copy of The Power Of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale as a teenager. I was uplifted and inspired by the book for a time. I did what Dr. Peale recommended as best I could, but the positive feelings and thoughts didn't last. I didn't quit with The…

I started to fill out the Action List in my Day-Timer this morning, and felt myself somewhat resistant to the idea. It wasn't that I could not think of things that I needed to get done or that I didn't want to do them. I didn't feel like writing them down as things to be done. I didn't want to be constrained by a list. That's how it felt. I felt like I would be building a prison for myself by writing down this list of tasks. By putting it all in writing, I feel imposed upon. I feel like my…

I watched the video of Lou Tice of The Pacific Institute talk about how we tend to get what we focus on. I have this video posted on my Powerful Intentions site. This video is a good reminder of how powerful our mind is and how we tend to create our results by what we pay attention to. It's a good principle to use, but it's an easy one to forget. If you're in the habit of paying attention to the negativity of the media or the talk of people who aren't getting what they want, or if you have…