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14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Tony Robbins - Day 20 ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Another truly awesome Note. Brian, you present the material so well.. I am always disappointed to reach the end of page six! I want MORE! Thank you so much for all your effort. I'm loving this!

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - The Four Agreements by... · 0 replies · +1 points

Howdy! My mother was "impeccable" in her speech like you are... always exaggerating, but she was the BEST story teller in town. She was a wonder, and EVERYBODY loved her and came to her for love and advice. She made people feel good about themselves. I regret that I always let her be the story keeper, (I didn't have to remember-she knew it all), and now, I only have vague recollections. She had all the family stories and recipes, etc. in her head. I knew she made everything magnificent, and I down played it, much to my dismay now. She did a really good job. So, feel free to accentuate stories (in a positive way, of course) it's well worth it. You know, even though you "enlarge" the stories, it doesn't mean people won't believe and live up to the grandiose.
Let the fish get bigger!

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - The Four Agreements by... · 0 replies · +1 points

4. Always do your best.
Yes, and here’s the biggest test. When I do what I love, writing, art, music gardening, creative… I’m often shoved in the dirt by so called loved ones because I’m not making any money (granted, they don’t discount the art). What’s with that? I say, take what I have to offer and make a profit for us both, thank you very much, otherwise I sit content as a starving artist.
Which is a perfect segue for the next topic: The domestication of humans.
NO, I’m not gonna do it like “society” “everybody” says I have to do it anymore.
I’m sick of laws, and time clocks, and rules and regulations. I can’t live like that anymore. I was fired from my 12-year job I loved (working with children) because I wasn’t enrolled in college… oh it’s just too silly to explain.
Thank you for this wonderful first note, Brian, I love your writing style, wisdom, grace, humor, and your gumption to use the word “prolly,” which is how we all say “probably” in my family.
Blessing and Agreements
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14 years ago @ FinerMinds - The Four Agreements by... · 0 replies · +1 points

3. Don’t make assumptions.
I think this is the easiest agreement that I latched on to long ago. The problem is, other people do. Then, I guess I’m out of compliance thinking everyone else thinks what I think. And though I speak my mind, it often turns out that they’re thinking something else but not what I think they’re thinking though they assume that I do.
Whoops, have to work on this.

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - The Four Agreements by... · 0 replies · +1 points

Second agreement: Don’t take anything personally.
In a big way, I have this one down! Yay! But it’s taken a long time.
I can remember… I was so shy as a child—cross-eyed, clumsy, Coke-bottom glasses, more stuff I thankfully can’t even think of right now—I was constantly made fun of. My dad was an Air Force Officer, so there was no growing up in any one place (which I highly appreciate now. Thanks Dad!) but no community/neighborhood that accepted you, if you know what I mean.
Like I said, it’s taken a long time to stop thinking the whole world was pointing their fingers and laughing at me. I suppose till I had my own kids (at age 30) and I didn’t want them to feel as targeted as I did, that it’s not all about me being out-casted and different, like I always thought it was. I’m a free a separate being. AND, best of all, I finally get it…
I LIKE being different and unique.

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - The Four Agreements by... · 0 replies · +1 points

Breaking it down… the first agreement: Be impeccable with your word.
Remember your mom always saying, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all?” So, yeah, I’m good with that. But, I do have a discerning, critical eye (I’m a Virgo, for heaven’s sake—oops, now you know how long I let my license lapse. Don’t worry, I’m legal now.) Everything is beautiful and in its place… but I’ll see “what’s wrong with the picture” in an instant. Okay, I notice. I’m a Virgo.
But the other part (dark side) of being impeccable with your word, for me, is NOT telling. I bottle it up and hold troubles inside. Not good. I need to talk and ask for help, I don’t want to hurt one’s feelings, then again, it’s pride and embarrassment if it’s something I’ve done wrong… I don’t like being in the spotlight, or troubling people, but in the long-run, but I wind up putting myself in a bigger spotlight, and troubling them more. What’s with that?
So, I need to talk before it turns to trouble.

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - The Four Agreements by... · 0 replies · +1 points

I read this first note on "The Four Agreements" while standing in line today to renew my driver’s license at the DMV. Great stuff (the Note, that is). I was very thankful I took the time to print it out and bring with me. Along with my crossword puzzle book and journal, it was glad company during my two hour wait.
Now, I admit, I should have done renewed my license months ago; however, I did try… two trips with appointments, but absolutely NO parking and umpteem other cars jockeying for parking positions… no thanks, I’ll come back later. Then, on the day before my birthday, a Friday, I sucked it up and descended once again… no appointment, but willing to face my fate.
The DMV was closed. Grr.
After that, I just kept putting it off. My sweetie often drives me where I need to go, and I can walk to the other places, so I was really in no big hurry.
(To be continued...)