Month: July 2022

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Introducing Your Friend For Life

Chi – Universal Life Force

Chi, also written as Qi or Ki, is the Chinese word for the life force energy that flows through you. The ancient Taoist masters described Chi as the “energy glue” unifying your mind, your body and your spirit. It is the link between your inner and outer self.

I love acronyms. I frequently concoct them when I am attempting to remember a series of words or concepts. Along the way in my life, I came up with an acronym to describe the five basic areas of desire in my life. The irony was not lost when I observed that the first letter of each of these areas of desire spelled out the acronym “Mr. Chi”. Thus began my lifetime friendship with this gentleman of guidance.

Meet Your New Friend For Life

Have you ever heard someone say, “I really don’t know what I want”. Perhaps you have even said it yourself pertaining to a certain situation. In any case, Universal Law always acts on your belief in whatever your inner vision is (your desire). If your vision is blurred or conflicting, you experience blurriness or conflicting results in your life’s circumstances.

Without clear vision, your circumstances are sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes neither. They go up and down like the jagged lines on a company sales chart. In order for you to receive what you want, you need to know with clarity what it is that you desire to experience.

Allow me to introduce you to a loyal friend who goes by the name of Mr. Chi. He can be one of the best friends that you will ever have. Mr. Chi is an acronym for the following five basic areas of desire in life. These areas are: (1) money (M), (2) relationships (R), (3) career (C), (4) health (H), and (5) intercession (I). Take a few minutes. Examine each one of those five areas of desire from several different angles. Upon reflection, you will see that they encompass everything that you could desire in your lifetime.

Without Vision, The People Perish

The book of Proverbs states the following: “Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he”. Your happiness in life hinges on your choice to follow or not follow Universal Law. A man who overcame much in order to achieve much was George Washington Carver. He stated in his writings: “Where there is no vision, there is no hope”.

In life, you are aimlessly driving in circles, unless you know where you want to go. Create your vision of where you want to go. Then, apply Universal Law in order to get there. Vision. Belief. Fulfillment. Believe, with all the inner energy that you can muster, that you now stand at your destination.

No matter where you feet happen to be standing currently, you must somehow find a way to believe that you are, in fact, there right now. Do this, free of doubt, on a sustained basis. Do this, free of doubt, and Universal Law will impartially respond and get you there. If you can hold it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Money

The first primal area of desire is in the realm of earning money. Money is merely a useful tool created by society in order to allow you to procure items that you require or desire. Money is used to satisfy both your needs and your wants. Most human beings need to engage in weekly activity in order to obtain money.

Those who inherit money or depend on money earned by others still are not exempt from work activity. The individual who inherits money must do whatever is necessary to remain in the good graces of the one who will be leaving them the money. A tragic example of this is illustrated by the Twilight Zone episode, “The Masks”. The person who is dependent on another’s earnings runs the risk that they will have to cowtow to the will of the person possessing the money or risk losing access to that money.

Numero Uno

I do not believe that I would be incorrect in stating that having more money is probably the number one desire of a large majority of people in the world today. In poverty-stricken countries, the desire for more money would be merely to better ensure basic survival. In countries of middle or high income, the desire would be for upgrading those things that they currently possess.

Things that money is used for includes such things as housing, transportation, food, water, clothing, shoes, heating, cooling, healthcare, cellphones, internet, higher education, charitable contributions, tools of various sorts, household furniture, and childcare. In addition to needs, money is also used for wants, including, jewelry, high-end vehicles and appliances, vacations, travel, all manner of hobbies and avocations, collectibles, cosmetic surgery, hair restoration, liquor, lodging renovations and upgrades, pets, entertainment and all manner of miscellany.

Further things that humans use money for is to feed various addictions (tobacco, drugs, prostitutes, etc.), ego satisfaction (lording it over others the amount of money that they have) and the use of money to exercise control over other human beings.

Can You See It?

Regardless of how you decide to use money, you need a vision. By this I mean a vision of what you want and why you want it. Next create a vision of the amount of money required to satisfy your desires. For instance, if you say that you want more money, this may bring about the results of you finding a penny on the street unless you make your vision clear.

Create in your mind a picture, a clear vision. Then, with a ferocious intent, act on your vision by steadily increasing your faith. Come to believe that your vision is, in fact, your true reality. Consequently, the money, or the things that you would buy with money, will come.

Relationships

The first thing many people think of when they hear the word relationship is the one which a person has with a romantic partner. In addition to this relationship however, the area of relationships covers a great many other types as well. Human beings engage in many types of relationships. First, and the most important of all, is your relationship with God. You are a sentient being created to be an expression of Universal Mind. Explore this relationship fully.

Next there comes a plethora of additional relationships. Each one contains a desire on your part. You desire each relationship to conform to your vision. In addition to your spiritual connection to Universal Subconscious Mind, you have these other relationships: with your spouse or romantic partner, with your parents, with your relatives, with your children, with your friends, with your neighbors, with your employer, with your co-workers, with your teachers, with your fellow students, with casual acquaintances, with strangers, with people you would rather avoid and with Mother Nature. Finally, you have that relationship second only to your relationship to your Creator, the relationship you have with yourself.

How do you desire each of these relationships to be? The word “good” does not qualify as an appropriate response. Do you visualize in your mind what you desire out of each of these relationships? Or do you allow stored memories and circumstances to run the show? Likewise, if any of these relationships are troublesome, create a vision of what you desire instead. Then proceed to believe your vision above everything else.

Career

People usually associate the word “career” with going to college or trade school, getting a degree or certification, then getting an appropriate job in that field. Your ongoing career may involve a number of employers. Likewise, it may involve more than one field of employment. Then you retire, grab as many years as you can in post-employment mode, then you get sick and die. Almost everyone has to spend a certain amount of time each week in order to earn money. Some love their job. Some look at their career as their identity.

There are many others that look at career simply as a suitable means of earning money so that the rent, mortgage, and bills can get paid. In these cases, it is a means to an end. This person may make the statement, “I’d rather be playing golf but if I didn’t go to work, I would be sitting on a street corner asking for donations”.

Still others come to hate their careers. These people go to work with a knot in their stomach. They feel great frustration as they leave their house for work each day. Every day they go to work, they feel trapped.

Mr. Chi would ask all of these people a question. What vision are you taking the time to create with regard to how you spend your life? Career can be defined as how you spend every waking moment of your life. If you are skilled in lucid dreaming, it includes your sleeping time as well. If you have no clear vision, then that is precisely what you are going to receive. Circumstances will push you this way, then that way.

Health

In creating a vision of good health, the same thing as is true as in the other areas of desire. Dwell in the Kingdom of God. Focus your thoughts on Universal Mind. Refuse to dwell on whatever infirmity you have. Mr. Pain has a way of slapping you around so that you only think of him. Your goal is to remediate the pain. Until you are able to do that, you may have to take his slapping you around. However, refuse to allow him to take your thoughts as well. Even if, in your pain, you can only summon up the word “God” over and over again in your mind, then so be it. Do it.

If you are currently in good health, refuse to entertain the unwelcome visitors of doubt and worry. Refuse to even crack open the door when they come knocking. Tell them that you are busy and do not have time for them today. Tell them the same when they return tomorrow. Let them know that you are busy dwelling on God so you do not have any time to spare for them. The undynamic duo of doubt and worry never bring you anything that you want. Spend the time they would have taken up by creating a vision of yourself in good health. That will always bring you better results than spending time with the gruesome twosome.

Intercession

This area of desire includes every possible avenue of helping someone that you desire to help. This includes the use of: your time, your money, your possessions, your skills, your connections, your prayer, and your vision that you create of them. If they are poor, envision them prosperous. If they are sick or injured, envision them well. Are they without a job? Envision them gainfully employed. Regarding the person who is down, envision them living in a place of love.

Your created image of them does have an effect on Universal Mind. Use utmost care regarding how you envision a person that you desire to help. See them, not in their current adverse circumstances, but in circumstances where they are experiencing fulfillment in all five facets of their lives (Mr. Chi). If you are versed in the art of scientific mind treatments, then by all means, do so on their behalf. Then, just as you would do for yourself, believe and walk in faith.

Vision And Belief Result In Your Life’s Circumstances

I treasure my daily visit with Mr. Chi. As I set about writing my plan for the day and week, he is always there, reminding me of my vision for every facet of my life. Call time out. Sit for a period of time in silence each day. Remove yourself from distractions. Close your eyes. Form your vision for all five facets of Mr. Chi. Believe that your vision represents truth. Persist. A lurking villian in manifesting failures is lack of persistence. Refuse to give up to anything or anyone except Universal Mind.

In this life of yours, you have only two things that you can actually do for yourself. They are conceive (your thoughts creating the vision) and believe (faith in that vision as real). All the details are handled via the devices of Universal Mind.

Conceive. Believe. Receive.

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8 Billion Opportunities To Express Universal Mind

Population Of The World 2022

In a United Nations report released this year on World Population Day, the population of the world is projected to reach 8 billion by the end of 2022. The report stated that the population of 61 countries is projected to decrease by 1 % or more between 2022 and 2050. Despite this however, population surges in Africa and the Indian sub-continent will push the world to that 8 billion mark.

John Wilmoth, director of the United Nations Population Department, stated that the current global average life expectancy has increased to 72.8 years. That is a nine year increase from a similar report issued in 1990. I am an average guy. I guess that gives me about three more years or so. As you may have guessed, the percent share of the total global population of old people (over 65) is growing. The oldsters, now one tenth of the world’s humans, will be almost one sixth of all humans by 2050.

Good News, Bad News

One problem with the relentless growth of older people as a percentage of the global population is healthcare. The elderly is the segment of the population statistically needing it the most. Let’s face it, the older you get, the more your body breaks down. When it breaks down enough, you die.

There is however a major benefit of the increased longevity of human beings. Living longer means that every additional year of life that a person gets means that they have additional time to discover their true power as a unique expression of the Divine.

Every Person Is An Expression

There is one Universal Mind – God. Through this Universal Mind you live, and move, and have your being. This year, on planet earth, there will be 8 billion individualizations of Universal Mind. Each of these individualizations have conscious minds. Almost every one of these conscious minds has the ability and freedom to direct thoughts and feelings into the Universal Subconscious Mind. The Subconscious Mind then acts to bring to reality those thoughts and feelings held in absolute belief.

Universal Mind, from which we have all originated and exist, creates whatever you think and believe as true. Universal Mind creates what you think and feel about your neighbor. Likewise, Universal Mind creates what your neighbor thinks and feels about you. God is impartial. Universal Law is impartial. It inexorably acts upon human thought and feeling. Humans are an expression of the Divine.

Look at the second most important commandment of Jesus: “Love thy neighbor as thyself”. As you regard your neighbor, so shall it be done to him. In conjunction with that, as your neighbor regards you, so shall it be done to you. You may say, “Well my neighbor hates me but I am still successful. What about that”? Where there are conflicting thoughts, Universal Subconscious Mind always acts on the thoughts and feelings where there is the greatest faith and belief.

So What Are You Expressing These Days?

Almost everyone has heard the saying, “As you sow, so shall you reap”. It is widely known as a universal law of life. It is also one of the world’s most misunderstood maxims. Religious “authorities” have for centuries put forth the idea that this saying refers primarily to our existence in the hereafter. That is a basic misunderstanding of the content of that law. The sowing (or planting) and reaping (or harvesting) speaks strictly of the spiritual law of cause and effect.

The thoughts and feelings that you plant in the garden of Subconscious Mind will ultimately yield a harvest. It will be either weeds, stunted plants or beautiful fruit and blossoms. It all depends on what you believe as true.

You Are Free

Every minute of your lifetime, you are free. This is a wonderful miracle. It is also an enduring mystery. While you are in fact a infinitesimal part of Universal Mind, you are also free to choose your thoughts and feelings. Otherwise you would merely be a mindless marionette with no manner or means of expressing the Divine. When you use your freedom to express love and all of its derivative permutations, you are expressing the Divine. When you use your freedom to express fear and all of its derivative permutations, you are expressing error.

One avenue of expression leads you to growth and expansion of your consciousness. The other avenue of expression stunts your growth and leads to regression. What exactly are you expressing these days? What do you desire to express? The choice is yours. It always has been, You were created in that manner. Unless you agree to let the controllers microchip you and gain control over your brain’s neurons, the choice will always be yours.

Through A Glass Darkly

In the famous chapter 13 of the book of First Corinthians, there is a phrase uttered by the apostle Paul, “For now we see through a glass, darkly”. The glass that is referred to is a looking glass or mirror. The word darkly means without full understanding. Young’s Literal Translation of this verse is “we see through a mirror obscurely”. This phrase comes from the Greek (blepomen gar arti di esoptrou en ainigmati). The New International Version translation states, “Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror”. The Good News Bible has it “what we see now is a dim image in a mirror”.

Mirrors in the days of Paul were actually made of polished metal, not glass. Mirrors of the time contained imperfections and distortions. Some things were clearly reflected. Some portions of the reflection had distortions somewhat like a fun house mirror. The more that we dedicate our lives to expressing Divine Law in truth, the more that we will see the reflection of our self with clarity. Ultimately, with complete faith in the goodness of Eternal Mind, we will see everything clearly. For the time being however, human beliefs in error abound all over the world because “we see through a glass, darkly”.

Yes, He Definitely Said “Whatsoever”

Take the “Mr. Chi” template of the five basic human desires: money, relationships, career, health and intercession (ability to help others). It is a safe assumption that the overwhelming majority of human beings throughout the world lack something that they truly desire. Read carefully the words of Jesus – “Therefore I say unto you, all things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and ye shall have them”.

That sounds about as clear as one can get using words to communicate. There is no shillyshally or waffling in that statement. It is definite and it is truth. If you, made in the image of the Most High, think a desire and then believe that you have already received it, it will be yours. This will come about through the natural means of the society in which you reside.

Faith (belief) is the key. If you are holding on to subtle or secret doubts, you place a blockage between you and your desire. You simply must find a way to get yourself to the point where you believe that you have received your desire even though your physical eyes do not see it. Universal Mind knows everything about you. Eternal Subconscious can plainly see every secret thought and every hidden doubt. Universal Law is impartial. If you harbor doubt, Universal Law will substantiate that doubt in your reality. Your doubt will culminate in continuing to fall short of receiving your desire. When Jesus said “whatsoever”, he meant it, for he was Truth.

Error Of Belief Expresses Evil

When I was a kid, I remember seeing some large graffiti painted on to the side of an underpass wall. It was on the way to Trenton to visit my paternal grandparents. The graffiti said “God created disease”. I asked Mom about it. She answered that there are all types of people in the world. Whoever put that there was just bitter at something.

It got me to thinking however about all sorts of evil in the world. In Sunday School they taught that God created everything. If that was true, then how could disease and poverty and evil exist. The Sunday School teacher said it was all because of the devil. I asked whether God created the devil. The answer was yes, but the devil decided to go against God. The teacher stated that God will win in the end though. After that Sunday School lesson, it was like when you are hungry and you eat a small portion of food. Your stomach is still not satisfied.

God Is All Wisdom

God is all wisdom and all knowledge. No questions to answer. No goals to achieve. God knows all there is to know and sees everything there is to see. God creates from a place of ultimate love without any knowledge of good or evil. Man’s errors of thought and belief create the suffering in the world and every type of evil. God made man with a free will. Man freely chooses what to think and what to believe. Man chooses to believe in evil. This evil then becomes real.

Man accepts the illusion of evil in his thoughts. Man has faith (belief) in the illusion of evil. Thus evil becomes a reality. As an individualization of the Divine, you think and believe in freedom as you choose. You can choose to think and believe in truth. Or you can choose to think and believe in error. Every day of your life, you make the choice.

“Resist Not Evil” Finally Understood

Another bible verse that gave me trouble was “Resist Not Evil”. Most people would grapple with this one. Should you just stand there and let evil push you around? The Sunday School teacher replied that as Christians we are always to practice the peace and presence of Christ. We must trust God and not fall into the devil’s trap of fighting evil with evil. I heard his answer but still left the table hungry.

If you look at the reality of evil being a construct of man’s error of thought, you can see more clearly what Jesus was getting at. When you resist evil, you feed the monster and increase it’s power. When you accept only the truth of the Kingdom of God within you, you starve the monster.

In his famous essay, The Golden Key, Emmet Fox touched upon this situation. He said when encountering any type of adverse circumstances, just dwell on God. Let the truth of the Most High fill up every space of your mind. In your thoughts, choose to acknowledge only God.

You always have the right to protect yourself or a loved one from harm. What “resist not evil” means is this – drawn to its logical conclusion, if every human being refused to accept the illusion of evil, it would disappear. Jesus gives you the key to dealing with evil. Use the key.

Well Yeah, Of Course It’s Hard At First

Regarding “resist not evil” you may say, “OMG, do you even realize how hard that is to do in the real world”? At first, yes. It is very hard. It is hard because it is a new and strange way of thinking. When you think about it however, it really makes perfect sense. Think of God, dwell on God and believe only in God, and you will grow in power and peace in the Kingdom of God. Think of evil, dwell on evil, believe in evil and you mistakenly give evil ever more power.

Anything new and unfamiliar is difficult at first. It is similar to learning a new skill or strengthening your body or mastering a second language. And so on. Commit yourself to dwelling only on God with consistency and persistency. It becomes easier and easier. Thus it is with “resist not evil”. You learn to express the Divine instead of error. You will find yourself dwelling in the Kingdom of God.

The Alarm Clock Is Ringing

With the exponential explosion of knowledge and technology, things could get kind of crazy in the years to come. The fat controllers of the world can perceive that more and more people are waking up. Every day more people come to understand that they are children of God, made in the image of the Almighty. They are inwardly rebelling against the controllers and discovering the truth about themselves.

People like you and me are learning that all we need to do are the only two things we can do for ourselves – conceive and believe. Conceive your desires fulfilled through your thoughts and beliefs. Believe that your desire is already fulfilled through your steadfast faith. All the details are then handled by Universal Mind. Your only responsibility is thought and belief. Through countless centuries, the bulk of humanity has been lulled to sleep by the controllers. The alarm clock is ringing. It is time to wake up now.

What The Human Mind Believes, Humankind Receives

During the course of one of his many military campaigns, one of Napoleon’s generals told him that the current circumstances were causing a lack of success. Napoleon, who was looking at a battlefield map, looked up at him and said “Circumstances? What are circumstances? I make circumstances”. And so it is with all of mankind.

“If you can believe, you will receive” is the statement of Jesus Christ. That is what the entire universe is based upon. First, use your ability to think so as to image what you desire. Second, believe with all that you are, that you have received it. That’s it. Divine Intelligence handles the rest. You create nothing. Universal Mind does everything. Be alert when Divine Intelligence presents you with something to follow up on. Universal Mind has endless ways to manifest your desire.

Listen for and watch for guidance. You cannot will something to happen on your own accord. When you have thought of and believed in your desire as fulfilled, everything you need to do will be communicated to you. Divine Mind will provide you with guidance. Once you are convinced of the reality of your manifestation, then just let it go. Your desire will manifest from Universal Mind as a result of your faith, not through any ferocious display of will on your part. What the human mind believes, humankind will receive.

Believe. Receive.

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There’s Something Strange About Time

There’s Something Strange About Time

Time – seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries. Time seems fairly simple to us humans. It moves in a forward manner, one tick of the clock at a time. It keeps going in that manner throughout all of eternity. Right? Well I’m not so sure about that. There is something strange about time. I don’t think anyone has really figured it out yet. There is more to this tick-tock character than we are able to perceive.

Einstein Sez

According to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, time actually slows down or speeds up depending on how fast something is moving. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light. Space and time are interconnected. By extension of this theory, a second of time is not always a second. It can be faster or it can be slower. In his writings, Einstein stated “People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”.

Your Brain Is A Fickle Thing

Your brain, the so-called paragon of logical thinking, is as fickle as the latest trends in fashion. At one time or another, probably everyone has experienced the variability of time perception. Using a purely “Mr. Spock” type of logic, all humans should experience one minute of time the same way each and every time. It should never change. It does change however.

When you are engaged in something that you hate doing, time slows down to a crawl. Every five minutes you look at your watch and think “Is this thing broken or what”? Your brain’s perception of how time moves is causing these minutes to seem like hours. Conversely, when you are engaged in something that you enjoy doing, time moves by like a thoroughbred coming down the home stretch in the Kentucky Derby. Hours then seem like minutes. Logically, the minutes for each activity consist of the same sixty seconds. Your brain’s perception however senses time differently in each situation.

So what does this mean? It means that whatever your “now” is, whatever your “present” is, becomes all that is. The past exists only as stored memory in your brain. It is not a place in the time-space continuum that you can go to. The future is only a universe of multiple possibilities based on your actions as a result of your stored memories and your present thoughts, words, actions, feelings and beliefs.

Time Is Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock……….Not

In his famous book, The Unreality of Time, early twentieth century Cambridge philosopher, J.M. McTaggert proposed that time was unreal because our descriptions of time are either contradictory, circular or insufficient.

In current times, in his book The Order of Time, theoretical physicist Carlo Ravelli has stated that time is merely an illusion. He contends that Isaac Newton’s image of a universal ticking clock is invalid due to humankind’s inability to perceive all the microscopic details of the physical world.

Abhijit Naskar, author of Love, God and Neurons, puts forth the following about time – “Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all of our experiences, there is no existence of the past and the future. All there is , is the present”.

So Two Muons Are Sitting At A Bar

Pursuant to the study of cosmic-ray phenomena, scientists have discovered elementary particles called muons. Muons, produced as a result of cosmic-ray showers, disintegrate spontaneously. The muon’s average existence lasts for approximately two microseconds. That is equivalent to two millionths of a second. At that point, its existence is over.

In the vast eternal scheme of things, you and I are muons, but with an eternal spirit in the image of the Most High. A human’s existence on planet earth is but a few microseconds when looked at in the context of infinite eternity. Your life, my life, all lives flash by and are then gone. Pooof. Yet we blindly putter around at this and that for most of it. We make the choice of our use of time. Then we have to live with our choice.

The book of Matthew states that wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to death. The way of life is experienced by the few who enter via the strait gate and the narrow way. Every day is a new lifetime. A precious gift to express the Most High. Treat each day as such. You will experience fulfillment that you never dreamed was possible.

So two muons are sitting at a bar nursing their mugs of craft beer and nibbling on sourdough pretzels. One says to the other, “You know, we really should get going. We got a lotta stuff to do”. The other muon says, Chill bro’, we got plenty of time”. He looks at his watch then continues, “We still got a full millionth of a second before we disintegrate”. Then turning to the bartender, says, “Another round over here Joe”.

Ultimate Day Trading

In the world of creating monetary profits from trading, there has evolved the practice of day trading. This involves the buying and selling of stocks, commodities and currencies in a very short time period. It is the opposite of the buy and hold approach. Usually the buy and sell takes place the same day. Sometimes it is all consummated within an hour’s time. The goal of the day trader is to make a multitude of trades and make a small profit on each one.

The word ultimate is defined as “the best achievable of its kind”. Forget about stocks, commodities and currencies. In order to hit the true jackpot in life you must engage in “ultimate day trading”. Ultimate day trading involves taking that twenty-fours hours of life placed into your trading account each day and investing it with the utmost wisdom.

You are here in this physical world to be a physical expression of Divine Mind. You were instilled with free will to choose. This free will explains the vast multitude of “traders” who crash and burn. Have you loved? Productively used your intelligence? Expressed truth? Abundance? Power? Compassion? Peace? Imagination? Joy? All of which are derivatives from love. Or have you chosen errors of belief resulting in the expression of qualities of a dark nature? Both are there for the taking. The choice is always yours. The results of your choices are always yours. How you spend your time brings about the circumstances that you experience in this lifetime.

Time Was Created To Measure Your Life

When you step on a scale, you measure your body weight. When you use a ruler, you measure the length of something. Time measures the fruitfulness of your lifetime. Every hour of time measures your thoughts, words, actions, feelings, beliefs. Time gives you a reference point. If everything on this plane of existence happened all at once, your brain could not handle it.

The bottom line is this: what the fuck do you really want to manifest in your life?! Whatever it is, stop procrastinating and wasting your time on stuff that does not do anything to make it happen. The construct of time is without a doubt the most precious commodity you will ever have. Spend it with wisdom. Use it in faith. Understand this – the very substance of your existence depends on it.

Believe. Receive.

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How Do You Stack Up On The 80/20 Scale

The History Of Pareto Scale

Have you ever heard of a concept called the Pareto Principle? If not, it is possible that you may have heard about it under another name- The 80/20 Rule. Management consultant Joseph Juran developed the concept of the Pareto Principle. He developed it for the purposes of organizational quality control and improvement. He picked up on the concept after reading from the works of Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. Pareto noted that 80% of the land in Italy is owned by 20% of the population.

In simple terms, the 80/20 Rule means that 80% of your beneficial results comes about from just 20% of available time resources. You get a lot of stuff accomplished in 20% of your time. You get a little bit of stuff done with 80% of your time.

Some Examples of the Pareto Principle

Let’s look at some examples of the Pareto Principle in the world today.

In the business world, there is the axiom that 80% of sales are generated by 20% of clients.

A United Nations report revealed that 80% of the world’s wealth is held by 20% of the population.

In computer science, 80% of software errors and crashes come from 20% of reported bugs.

Software developers have found that 80% of the time people use 20% of a program’s functions.

In baseball, there is a statistic that is kept called “wins above replacement”. This stat basically shows how many wins a team has with a certain player in the lineup as opposed to that player not being in the lineup. Roughly 80% of a team’s wins are achieved with 20% of the roster in the lineup.

In workplace safety, studies via the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, show that 20% of workplace hazards account for 80% of workplace injuries.

In healthcare, 20% of patients use approximately 80% of healthcare resources.

Criminal justice statistics reveals that 80% of the crimes that are committed are committed by 20% of the criminal population.

A 1988 report regarding video rental stores (remember them?) disclosed 80% of sales come from 20% of videotapes.

In my own career experience as a union representative, I definitely can attest that 80% of grievance litigation work came from 20% of the union members (who we used to refer to as “the usual suspects”).

Why Should It Even Matter To You

OK, if you were not familiar with the Pareto Principle, now you have an idea of what it is. If you already had heard of it, this was a super condensed refresher. It is possible your response may be – “So what, who cares? How does all this jazz affect me and my life”? That is a valid question.

Being continually aware of the 80/20 Rule is important to you because it can be applied to a person’s lifetime as well. Almost everybody has “stuff” that they want to accomplish in this lifetime. It matters not what the “stuff” is. You know what it is. It could be money, relationships, career, health or intercession ability or any combination thereof. Even the guy who just wants to get laid. That would fall under the category of relationships (and after he gets an STD, regaining good health).

Permit me to extrapolate the 80/20 Rule. The average person spends approximately 20% of their non-sleeping, non-working, non-eating, non-showering, non-shitting (well, you get the idea) time achieving 80% of the “stuff” that they want to achieve. The grim reaper is a particularly uncompromising fellow. You do not know when he is going to come for you. You do know that there is a limit on the amount of time that you have here in this world.

Now, applying this to the 80/20 Rule, if you get an achievement rate of 80% of what you were going for by using only 20% of your available time, what do you think would happen if, during your entire lifetime, you just as productively used 25%, 30%, even 35% of your available time over your lifetime. You more than likely would surpass what you ever imagined was possible.

Yeah, But…….

“Yeah but” you say, “I need some down time, some goofing off time in my life. I’m not a robot or something”. Even if you pushed up effective usage of your available time to 35%, that would still give you almost two thirds of all the available time in your life to goof off. The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said many moons ago, “To say I don’t have time is to say I don’t want to”.

Time Use Defines Who You Are

Which type are you? Are you the one who says, “God did not give me a spirit of fear, but of love, of power and of discipline”. Or are you the one who says, “I wonder what’s new on Tik Tok?” Are you fully engaged in the disciplined process of clarifying your desires and creating an inner crystal clear image of them? If so, you must prioritize your spending of time in the direction of your heart’s desires rather than the thousand and one distractions that the world throws at you. Ultimately, the way in which you use your available time defines who you are.

For every decade that you live in this earth dimension, your perspective on time changes. In your youth you go through the “I’m going to live forever” stage. In middle-age, you notice time moving faster and say to yourself, “Seems like only yesterday that I was 20, but I still have time to work with”. In your old age, you say to time, “Damnit, slow down, you’re driving too fast”!

The thing about time is this – It is completely free, but at the same time it is beyond putting a value on it. You can spend every “penny” of time that you get but you can’t store any of it away. Once you have spent your hour, your day, your year, your decade, you can never get it back, it’s gone.

Alright let’s say that you have lived your designated amount of years. The grim reaper is walking up the sidewalk to your front door. You did achieve some stuff but other stuff was left undone or you screwed up. You had successes. You had failures. How much of your life conformed to the 80/20 Rule? How much could you have done that was left undone through a misuse of time? Start today to really look at how you are spending your available time. The substance of your life depends on it.

Dammit, Can I get a Re-Do?

When your body stops functioning and your spirit moves on to the next realm, you will have an opportunity to review your life here on earth from start to finish. Everything in your life will be reviewed from several different perspectives. You will not only see happenings and events from your viewpoint. You will also see and feel how your thoughts, words and actions affected all the primary people in your life. You will see how careless words negatively affected a human soul. You will see how a seemingly insignificant kind action on your part positively affected a human soul. You will see and feel – everything. The entire process will be monitored by higher evolved spirits (No, they won’t be piping in and saying, “You jerk, why did you do that”.).

After a certain point in my own life review, I can imagine myself blurting out, “Dammit, can I get a re-do or something”? Whereupon the monitor smacks my hand with a ruler saying, “We don’t swear around here”. That image reminds me of that scene in the movie, The Blues Brothers when Belushi and Ackroyd are visiting the nun. She explains that the orphanage is in a bind and needs help in the form of money. The Belushi character offers to help and his offer is rejected by the nun. Belushi then says, ” Well, I guess your up shit creek”. She promptly smacks him on the hand with a ruler. This causes him to curse again in pain which then causes the nun to continue smacking him. This goes on hilariously until while attempting to retreat back to his car, he tumbles down the stairs while still seated in a way too small for him school desk. She tells both of them not to return until they have redeemed themselves. Thereupon is the basis for his and Ackroyd’s further adventures.

Strait Is The Gate

Have you ever heard someone use the expression, “From now on I’m going to stay on the strait and narrow”. You may see it spelled “straight and narrow” but strait is the correct word. Strait means narrow or constricted. It is where we get the words straitjacket and straitlaced.

What this phrase means is that when someone follows the strait and narrow, they are making every effort to conduct their life according to Universal Law. Universal Law which has been set into action by God.

The actual phrase is taken from the biblical text in the book of Matthew – “Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; because strait is the gate, and narrow the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it”.

In consciously manifesting into this physical world your dreams and desires, be aware of this: that the majority of the world’s population productively uses but 20% of their available precious time to bring about most of what they want to accomplish. The other 80% of available time is by and large wasted. Is just observing and appreciating a bird or a flower or a cloud wasting your time? No. Is gossip and backbiting and jealousy and worry and violence and spite wasting your time? Yes.

Each day requires you to go to work, to school, to attend to family needs, to attend to personal needs, to eat, to sleep. After all the necessaries are done however, comes your available time. In the next twelve months, endeavor to take that 20% effective usage of your time and bump it up to 25% or even 30%. Take that additional time and devote it totally to thoughts, words and actions which will lead you to consciously manifest your inner greatness. Within you is the Kingdom of God which patiently awaits your arrival.

Who knows? If you devote enough of your allotment of time to aligning yourself with Universal Intelligence, the I AM, you may not even be required to have to do a re-do like me.

Believe. Receive.