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What good are words?

I love words and only wish I had a deeper vocabulary.

Words are a reflection of your thoughts and we know that thoughts can change your life. So it only follows that words can change your life too.

How many times do you say “I’m sick and tired”? If that’s one of your phrases, think about your life and see how often you feel tired or maybe even how often you get sick.

I’ll give you an example. Since I was a salty sailor for 30 years, my language was just as salty. Every time I was upset with something I was always “p*ssed off” (PO’ed but you can substitute the words for PO). Guess what one of my major health issues is – kidney disease. Is that just a coincidence? I don’t think so even if you do.

You’ve heard Dr Gilbert talk about the way to become lucky is to believe you’re lucky.

I believe in affirmations such as “everything always works out for me” and I’ve believed that for nearly 40 years. And I can’t think of any time things haven’t worked out for me.

You hear people declare a word for the year and I think that’s an interesting idea. But I’m going to encourage you try a word of the month – and that can be in addition to the word of the year.

I’ve been doing my 2025 year in review which I will share with you soon. As a result of that inventory I’ve decided that my word for December is going to be wisdom. But I’m also going to cheat – that doesn’t set a good example I know especially on the first month but this December I want to have the wisdom to pause between my reaction and my response. We’ve talked about that several times. Because the most prominent of my parts are angry protectors, I’ve had anger issues all my life.

So this is wisdom to pause. I’ll take any other kind of wisdom too but wisdom will give me divine guidance as we say in metaphysics to know when to pause.

Why don’t I use pause as my word? It’s not powerful enough for me as I set off on this lesson. Maybe a few months down the road I can use pause but now I need the wisdom to recognize when to pause.

I’m giving you a week to figure out your word because maybe it can go with your post thanksgiving challenge with Dr Gilbert or maybe it’s something else. It’s another decision that shouldn’t be decided next Monday morning or Sunday night.

Let me know if you’re going to participate.

Of course we could all have a diamond December

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Emmet Fox wrote this in one of his books called Stake Your Claim:
“To trust in God with one part of your mind and harbor fear in the other part, is to be a house divided against itself.”

This is probably one of the most important statements that will help you understand what’s going on in your life. Or better yet, what’s NOT going on in your life.

Have you ever wondered why some people who have talent just seem to go nowhere?

I think it’s because they are living in that house divided. It’s hard to move forward when one side of you (or part if you use IFS language) says you’re no good, don’t bother and another side tries to encourage you to keep going. It’s the internal push pull effect which is often compounded by those self-fulfilling prophecies.

It’s interesting that IFS wasn’t a “thing” when Emmet was writing but much of his work mirrors it. What this quote is describing is at least two parts in people – one (and usually more) that is fearful and another group of parts that believe in themselves inner wisdom and the power of the universe. When they are at odds with each other, it’s what we call polarization. The interesting thing is that both parts (or sets of parts) want the same thing. They want to protect you. It’s just that depending on when they appeared in your life, they developed different protective mechanisms.

Here’s what I recommend:
-Hopefully you’re starting on an inventory or review of this past year (and you can include significant things that have happened at other points in your life. Turning points is a good way to look at them.
List things that have both pushed you onward and upward as well as the things that have held you back.

-After doing this fairly quick list, take more time and delve into why the successful things happened and your interpretations of why the others didn’t happen

-You can create an enthusiasm scale to see how you felt doing each one of the items on your list

-You can also create a fear scale. Maybe some fears weren’t that obvious at the time but now that you’re separated from the emotional response maybe you can see some. In my experience this is the major reason people don’t get what they want or worse yet they’ve stopped to early.
Remember how much I harp on outlining. Use this review to see if that might be what you’ve done

-Can you identify any trends or things you can change? Maybe make 2026 the year you move even further outside your comfort zone

Can also make 2026 a diamond year?

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Are you ready for Thanksgiving?

How many of you had your minds go to a list when I asked if you were ready for Thanksgiving- a list of groceries to get , a menu to create , a list of people coming etc.

How many of you went to the list of things you’re thankful for? That’s the most important list of all.

It shouldn’t be just another day, another party. And we shouldn’t just wait until then to figure out what we’re thankful for. I know many people who don’t Even use the day for expressing gratitude in bulk as i like to call it. They may say a blessing or Grace at the dinner table but nothing more. The biggest thanks they often give is when everyone has left and they say “whew, thank goodness that’s over”.

There’s something wrong there.

You’ve got so much to be grateful for. Why not start listing and reliving all those wonderful things starting now when you’re hopefully less stressed and don’t have to come up with something on the spur of the moment.

You’ve got 7 days to think about this. What great vibrations you’ll be sending out if you begin to define so much that has made your life or the life of someone else so much better. You can take a 7 day cruise on the USS Memory Lane. It won’t cost you a penny and you won’t get seasick. But that voyage will set your mood for a long time to come. And you never know what other great things it might bring to you.

You can also this 7 day cruise to decide what post Thanksgiving challenge you want to do so you’ll be ready when Dr. Gilbert fires the gun at the starting line!

Next week sets off the holiday season and if you’re always too busy for anything “this serious”, start your engine (your brain) right now and then you’ll want to keep fueling it. There’s little worse than coming up with something important on the spur of the moment and then feel committed to it.

Use this week to your diamond advantage!