 
“The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.” ~ J. Martin Kohe
The Choice…
When you awaken first thing in the morning, you can immediately decide, it’s going to be a great day, or you can decide that it’s not.
As you drive to work and the car next to you suddenly cuts you off, you can choose to respond with understanding, or you can choose to respond with anger.
When you arrive at work and your manager says he/she is assigning you to a new department, you can choose to be excited about the opportunity or fearful of the change.
After your morning meeting, you can choose to call your spouse, and say “I love you”, or you can decide it’s not important.
Later in the day, when you are asked to lunch by the new guy from another department, you can choose to make a new friend and go or be small and kindly decline.
Before you leave for the day, you receive an email from the HR department about giving to an annual charity campaign. You can choose to give freely or hold on tightly.
When you get home and your child asks you to throw the football with him, you can choose to join in the fun or refuse.
At dinner, when the dog jumps on your lap again, you can choose to exercise patience and calmly let the dog outside, or you can yell at you son to show your frustration and anger for not putting the dog in the backyard.
After dinner, your daughter brings in her math test where she earned a “B”. You can choose to praise her effort or tear her down by asking why she didn’t get an “A”.
When you go to relax in the evening, you can choose to watch the news and get bombarded with negativity, or you can make the choice not to watch it.
At bedtime, as you turn off the light, you can choose to tell God five to ten things you are grateful for experiencing today, or you can keep quiet.
So, what kind of day would it be if you chose the former in all cases?
What type of day would it be if you decide on the latter in all situations?
In these situations, there is no “right” or “wrong” way to choose, but there are consequences for you choices.
One of the hidden secrets of life is to know that the results (level of prosperity) in your life are a product of the choices you make each moment throughout your day. Each day you make hundreds if not thousands of choices. You can make a conscious choice for happiness, love, kindness, peace, generosity or financial abundance to name a few. Or you just as easily can opt for smallness, fear, anger, mediocrity, resentment, bitterness, jealousy, or hatred.
So, how have you been choosing? Are you choices allowing you to living a prosperous life where you have peace and joy? If not, you can begin choosing differently starting NOW.
The choice is your…
Namaste,
RC
written by Reginald Cuffee
Recently I had my annual physical, and my doctor stated that I had gained twelve pounds since my last physical. I wasn’t really aware of my weight gain because my clothes still fit and I felt good physically. However, immediately after my doctor said I gained some weight, the word diet surfaced in my consciousness. Since I don’t normally regulate my body weight by dieting, I was surprised that I became aware of this word.
It is amazing that when most people think about losing weight, they immediately think of dieting. Believe or not, a lot of people are on diets these days. There are tons of diet regimens, including the Atkins, South Beach, Change One, Rosedale, Weight Watchers, Zone, Thyroid, Mediterranean, and Okinawa diets just to name a few. There are even diets, such as the Martha Vineyard Diet, that are designed to detox your body. Despite the fact that some people doubt the efficaciousness of this diet, it does remove toxins that are stored in your body.
Although most diets are designed to reduce your body weight and improve your health, I would like to tell you about a diet that is designed for improving your thoughts; thus improving your ability for manifesting prosperity and success.
Your thoughts are the initiator of all your actions and the reality you are experiencing now, but most people are unaware of impact of their thoughts. Psychologists estimate that the average person has 60,000 thoughts racing through his or her mind each day, and many of these thoughts are negative in nature. If you take notice of your thoughts and let go of some of the negative ones, can you see the cascading positive effects it would create in your life?
Most people are bombarded by information that promotes negativity, limitation, and lack consciousness on a daily basis. Negativity spews from your TV, radio, the Internet, friends, family, and the people you work with. In fact, most people are so saturated with lack programming that all they do is complain, blame, and criticize which cause them to struggle.
Let me ask you a question — when you watch or hear the news, do you feel joy and inner peace or do you feel depress and anxious? When you are with your family members, friends, and others people you meet throughout the day, do you hear complaining and other forms of negativity most of the time?
I’m sure most people are not even aware of the negative energy they are putting out all day. If you just listen to their conversations, you will most likely hear nothing but complaining. They will be complaining about their work load, about their job, about their spouse, about their children, about their day, about how short the weekend was. They complain, complain, complain on just about anything and everything.
Although negativity can impact your prosperity and success, there is a diet that you can use to counter the effects of negativity. This diet can allow you to become aware of your thoughts. I called this the 21 Day Mental Diet, and it is based on the 7 Day Mental Diet by Emmet Fox; however, I increased the number of days from seven to twenty-one because most psychologists state that it takes 21 days to change a habit.
The 21 Day Mental Diet
The 21 Day Mental Diet is designed to help you become aware of your thoughts and offers you a way to be more conscious of your thinking throughout the day. Although this diet takes twenty-one days to complete, it may have far-reaching benefits that could transform you mind and your life. However, the success of this transformation is dependent upon you completing the diet, but this will not be easy because this may be the most challenging diet you’ve ever attempted.
Just as you consciously pay closer attention to what you’re eating when you are on a diet to lose weight, you need to start paying closer attention to thoughts that surface in you conscious mind throughout the day. If you have never consciously listened to your thoughts throughout the day, your findings will be eye opening.
Goal
The goal of the diet is very simple. For twenty consecutive days, don’t allow yourself to speak a single negative thought. It is your job to stop all the negative thoughts that come into your conscious awareness, refrain them, but do not speak them. If you speak a negative thought, you have to restart the diet. For example, if you are on day 10, and you complain how the price of gas is too high, go back to day one.
The first time I did this diet, it took me about four months before I could complete all 21 days without speaking negatively. The average person who really gives this their best effort usually takes 4-10 months to go 21 consecutive days without speaking negatively. This is not easy, but you will find that your entire life is happier, more loving and more enjoyable!
So if you are willing to do this diet and transform your mind and your life, let’s examine what is a negative thought.
What is a negative thought?
- Any thought of fear, failure, confusion, anger, disappointment, criticism, sadness, or worrying.
- Any thought of disparagement, blame, spite, gossip, jealousy, or disapproval of others.
- Any thought of sickness or being in an accident.
- Any thought that is not positive and constructive in nature, whether it concerns you or someone else.
- In short, any kind of complaining.
Note, Eckhart Tolle, the author of A New Earth stated “Complaining is not to be confused with informing someone of a mistake or deficiency so that it can be put right. And to refrain from complaining doesn’t necessarily mean putting up with bad quality or behavior. There is no ego in telling the waiter your soup is cold and needs to be heated up-if you stick to the facts, which are always neutral. ‘How dare you serve me cold soup…?’ That’s complaining.”
When you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, reframe it. To do this, say CANCEL! and state a positive affirmation.
For example, if you are have a negative thought such as “gas prices are too high.” Say CANCEL! You can it out loud or silently in your head.
Next reframe your negative thought by stating “I choose be financial abundant and allow money to flow to me easily and consistently.”
If you know EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), you can increase the effectiveness of this affirmation.
Well, are you ready to begin to change your mind and your life? If you are ready, make a decision to start the 21 Day Mental Diet today. After you have made your decision to follow this diet plan, do not tell anyone. In fact, keep it a secret. Sometimes when you attempt to step out of your box, even well meaning friends and family can negatively influence your thinking. If people notice a change in you attitude, continue to keep the diet to yourself until you successfully complete it.
Remember, your thoughts are the foundation from which all your dreams are manifested, so in simple terms, you need to tune OUT of the world negativity, and tune IN to your own prosperity and success.
Namaste,
RC
written by Reginald Cuffee
What is it that you want in your life? Is it a loving relationship with your spouse, a family member or a friend? Is it a new career doing what you love, or is having the money to travel around the world? Is it improved health and having a sexy body? Take a few minutes and think about all the things you want in your life.
If you did simple task, do you notice a common theme in the things you want?
No matter what you want, there is a common theme is and that is you don’t have it.
Do you ever wonder why? It happens because wanting is the opposite of having. Can you stand up and sit down at the same time. No; it is impossible. You can do one or the other, but you can’t do both at the same time, and this same principle applies to wanting and having.
Now, I am not suggesting that you do let go of your wanting so you end up with nothing. Instead, I am merely pointing out that if you let go of wanting, then you would have it. I know this sounds like a real dilemma for the mind, but when you in a state of wanting, you mind tends to focus on what you don’t have. When this occurs, you get feelings of lack and unhappiness, and these feelings are broadcasted into the Universe. Thus you repel what you want, and you remain trapped in a state of wanting.
The old adage of “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” can easily be explained with this principle. When a rich person hold in his mind the belief that “I have money”, this person is not focusing on wanting (or lacking) money, and this abundant energy is broadcasted to the Universe. Thus this person attracts more opportunities and circumstances to manifest more money. On the other hand, a poor person on is forever wanting it and broadcasting lack energy to the Universe. Thus this person attracts opportunities and circumstances to repel money.
If you are going to change from a state of wanting to a state of having, you need to re-program the mind to focus on what is good in life. It is normal for the mind to focus on the lack of it in your life, but many people never move beyond that point of creation.
To create a the shift in your mind from wanting to having, do the following.
For everything that you want to create in your life, find something similar that you can be grateful for in your life NOW. For example, if you want a more blissful relationship with your primary partner, find things about him/her that you are grateful for and focus on those things. Feel gratitude for the relationships you have that are working. It is the feeling of gratitude that draws what you want to you. It is not necessary to focus specifically on what it is that you want…mainly because when we do that it is so difficult to focus on the feelings of having what you want while living in the present experience of what you do not want. Instead shift your focus away from what isn’t working and focus on the things that are.
The more you vibrate the energy of gratitude out into the Universe, the more things you will begin to notice to be grateful for. When those things happen, allow yourself to just feel gratitude for them. Be aware that the mind is suspicious sometimes and wants to doubt what is happening, looks for strings, or is worried about when it will stop, so notice the mind when it does this and just release those toxic thoughts. Just relax and enjoy the moment. Feel gratitude for what IS happening and you will attract more of that.
Furthermore, start a gratitude journal today. At the end of every day before retiring to bed, write 5-10 things that you grateful for about your day. Allow yourself to really focus on them and FEEL the energy of gratitude in your body.
When you find yourself having a moment in the day when nothing is happening, allow yourself to take a deep breath and just appreciate the silence of the present moment.
Be grateful your health, home, your car, the things that are working in your life, the food in your refrigerator, the lessons you are experiencing that will cause you to grow, or anything that comes to mind.
Give thanks…feel it…and journal about what you experience.
Namaste,
RC
written by Reginald Cuffee
Did you know the thoughts you think before dozing off to sleep at night and the thoughts you think when you awaken first thing in the morning, set the tone for how you will feel and what you experience for the rest of the day?
Although this is a fact, the majority of people are totally unconscious and unaware about what they think about during these important moments.
Even more surprising is when you think, you think in pictures. If you don’t believe it, do this simple exercise. Think of your car? Did a picture of your car appear in your mind’s eye? Try it again, but this time think of your house? Did the picture of the car disappear from your mind’s eye and a picture of your house appear?
Well, this same process occurs with your final thoughts and first thoughts of each day.
If you go to bed with the final thought, “I’m really tired”, guess what occurs? When you awaken in the morning, you will still feel tired. This occurs because the mental movie of tiredness and fatigue played all night long programming you to wake up almost as tired as when you went to bed.
If you change your thought before falling off to sleep to, “In the morning, I feel great and full of energy”‘ and if you visualize in your mind’s eye yourself arising in the morning filled with vibrancy and zest, then I assure you it will happen.
Furthermore, if you awaken in the morning, with thoughts such as “God No!”, this will also set the tone for your day. Instead, think “God YES!” When you do, this will immediately bring gratitude into your awareness.
I have used this simple technique, and it really works. I taught this technique to some people who were always waking up tired each morning, and when they did it, they were simply blown away at how powerful and effective it is.
So, test drive this technique for yourself, and experience the amazing shift in your energy level in the morning.
Now this technique doesn’t just work with your energy level, but it works with other areas of your life. For example, let’s say you want to wake up feeling more peaceful and joyous than when you went to bed. To accomplish this intention, don’t go to bed with thoughts of anger or feeling upset because that’s what you’ll be programming yourself to think when you wake up in the morning.
Sure, your reality for you right now may be the opposite of what I’m suggesting you to think and mentally visualize, but the only way out of the maze is to begin thinking and visualizing of what you desire. Begin seeing yourself the way you want to be in when you awaken in the morning, as if you are already experiencing it right NOW.
If you go to bed with the image of waking up wealthier and happier, your subconscious mind will work on this image as you sleep. In turn you’ll awaken with financial prosperous thoughts. However, you must take action to make your imagination become the reality you desire.
To further help you set the tone for what you feel and experience during your day, think prosperous thoughts about such as being healthy, having a loving relationship with your primary partner, or receiving increasing financial abundance throughout the day and before you know it, you’ll be bumping into one opportunity after another which are all designed put you on the path of prosperous living.
Finally, live your day with powerful movies and picture playing in your imagination and before long your imagination will be what you’re living.
As Ione of my mentors once said, ”What’s the difference between imagination and reality?”
“TIME!” Time is the only difference between imagination and reality. There’s a fine line between the two, and no one knows where that fine line begins or ends.”
P.T. Barnum once said, “Imagination is the elixir of life.”
When you use your creative imagination to create a brighter future, you feel the effervescent energy of an elixir bubbling up all around you, and you come to understand that everything in the Universe vibrates - including YOU.
If you use your imagination to put negative movies into your mind, you lower your vibration and you will not experience the bubbling energy.
If you play positive movies in your mind, you immediately begin to vibrate with MORE life, and you instantly stand up straighter, breathe more fully, get a gleam in your eye and power in your step.
To change your results in your life, you must change how you feel, and how you feel is based on the pictures in your mind. If you don’t feel a strong, pulsing vibration inside your mind and body right now, it is because you’re looking at low-level mental pictures and movies.
Upgrade your pictures and movies, my friend. Play only the best. Think only of the best, and the best will pursue you while you move toward it.
Namaste,
RC
written by Reginald Cuffee
 What if I told you that you have free will and you can use it to choose to be happy or to be negative. Many people would probably doubt this statement, but being happy is a choice. Your choice of being happy has a greater influence on your life than you believe. When you choose be happy, you broadcast a high energetic vibration to the Universe that is full of love, joy and gratitude. As a result of this high energetic vibration, you will begin to attract all of sorts of glorious things and experiences into your life. Furthermore, when you are happy, you can overcome any negative emotions such as anger, sadness, frustration, guilt, desperation and fear. These negative emotions simply dissipate when you are devoted to embodying your nature divine state of happiness.
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” ~ Mildred Barthel
Many people have been conditioned to believe that external stimulus such as your spouse or children acting and conforming to what you believe is correct and proper, winning the lottery, getting a promotion at work, having a new baby or buying a new car will make you happy. Although external things or the actions of other people can engender feelings of euphoria for you, they are often only ephemeral, thus you cannot sustain them for very long. Have you ever noticed when you purchased a new car, and you felt really happy. As you drove your new car, you felt proud and happy that you owned it. But what happens after about three or four weeks, the feelings soon subside, and you begin to look at the next car you want to own.
Perhaps, in some way, that is a good thing because the Universe is reminding you that happiness really does come from outside of you.
Instead, happiness comes from within, and it is available to you and me at any moment. True happiness has very little to do with external events, circumstances, things, and other people because happiness is an inside job.
I can say this because is simply a conscious choice, and it is a state of BEING that you can make in each moment of the day no matter what is occurring in your life. Simply choose to understand that you are already free from needing “this or that” in order to be happy. You don’t need anything in life to be happier in this moment because you can always choose to be grateful for who you are and what you have in your life even if you think it should be different. You can feel this joy inside for no reason other than exercising your free will and choosing to be it. Simply choose to be an energetic ball of light, love and joy!
”Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” ~ Dan Millman
If you intend to live a prosperous life, your mission is to go beyond playing those “unhappy roles” that keeps most people trapped in negativity and step into being the Divine being you really are. All of your unhappy thoughts and feelings are just caused by negative thinking patterns, and they are not who you truly are.
You are much larger than a handful of thoughts. In fact, you are a manifestation of Source (God)!
As a manifestation of Source, your nature state is Love and Happiness! Once you truly realize this, happiness will find you. Surrender to your greatest experience of happiness right now in this moment. Find your most authentic expression of boundless joy and happiness, and express it!
When you do, this simply creates more happiness. Once you continuously vibrate at this level, the Universe will reward you with even more satisfying experiences that snowball into manifesting even happier feelings and experiences for you!
The greatest secret you can learn for experiencing a perpetual state of happiness is to remain completely present to the “NOW” moment in whatever activity you are engaged in. The past is over, and the future does not exist. So, the more you can be completely absorbed in the “NOW”, the more your energy expands which allows you to feel higher about life!
If you are currently not being happy and joyous, just express gratitude for what you have in your life. Close you eyes, and list ten specific (good) things you are grateful for experiencing or having in your life. Include not just the people in your life and your accomplishments, but also include your positive qualities and what you have to offer to the world.
Really feel your vibrations of gratitude for these things. As you begin to express gratitude, your feelings will shift to a state of happiness and joy because you can’t be grateful and feel negative emotions such as anger, overwhelm, frustration, and fear.
As an alternative, you can find something that brings you great pleasure such as sitting outside in the garden under an old tree and listening to the birds sing, or watching puppies or cats playing and just savoring the moment.
Happiness is always available to all of us. It is our natural state and you need only to allow it in. At any moment, you can stop, take a few deep breaths, and remember who you really are, and why you came here, and that truly is to experience joy and the aliveness of being.
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
So, today, no matter what is going on in your life, take a few moments to breathe deeply and just choose to BE happy.
May there be a miracle in your life today… May you have the awareness to see it…And the thoughtfulness to be grateful for it.
Namaste,
RC
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written by Reginald Cuffee
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