The Mind of KLH

Yep…I followed through.  It’s about 10:45 PM and I wanted to go to bed…I need to go to bed, but something in me pushed, and I am responding.  For the last couple of months I have been developing the habit of writing down a couple of things that I want to accomplish for the day.  Preferably things that will move me closer to the accomplishment of important goals.  I have found that it’s a really useful habit.  One of the three things I had on my list today was…to write a post on this blog….I am here.

At first I was  content to be happy with my first goal for the day especially since I spent quite a few hours on it.  Then I felt the push and I decided to forge ahead and do the second thing, which was to set up my DJ rig to practice…DONE!  Having checked off two things I felt really good, and rationalized that two is better than none…and that my “list” is just a reminder, and not a requirement.  Then I felt that damn push…I knew that for me to get to where I want to be, I have to do more and different things than I’ve done in the past.  It became very clear to me that it is very important to do what I say.

My word is important…especially to myself…especially to my spirit.  So here I am writing…because I said I would.  I have to tell you I feel proud, and if you set goals and then do what you say, you too will feel proud.  Proud people jump over hurdles, and dissolve limitations.  When you do what you say, you take yourself more seriously the same way you would when another person keeps their word.  When you take yourself more seriously, you feel empowered.  With this growing power, what is possible for you becomes bigger, with every little goal you check off your list.

So, I did what I said, and I feel good…really good…I guess there’s something to be said for follow through.  Goodnight!

Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH

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If you want to succeed you cannot cheat. By that I mean you cannot take short cuts. Even as I’m writing this I am aware of people who have done just that…they have cheated and they have taken short cuts. Let me put it to you this way…success has a price. That price is determined by what it is that you want. If you want to be a doctor, the price is a gazillion years in school, and two gazillion dollars in tuition, and then you get to be a doctor. If you want to be a nurse, a computer programmer, or a machine operator, or a rodeo clown, you have to pay a certain price. That price may be a financial cost and or a certain amount of work. But there is indeed a price, and it must be paid upfront and in full.

Even cheats must pay a price. They bribe someone, they risk their life and or liberty to steal something, or they sell their soul, but believe me they pay a price. Success offers no discounts. You can’t do some of the work, and then expect to succeed. You must do all the work. You must work UNTIL you get to the promise land, and if you don’t, the universe knows the difference. You can’t be content with simply trying, or even trying your best. If you’re trying…you’re lying. Trying means you gave up…and giving up will attract more of the same from the universe. Success will give up on you.

Instead of trying use this formula: Be, Do, Have. Be-what you want to be. See yourself in the position you want to be in. Conduct yourself the way a person in that position would. Visualize that life and start living it right now. Second is Do-Do what that person would do. Wanna be an actor? Then ACT!!! Get into local community plays, get into an acting class, go to an audition, perfect your craft. If you will BE and DO like and actor, then in time you will HAVE the life of an actor. You can even say that BE and DO are like action and conviction. If you have enough of both these ingredients you WILL SUCCEED, and if you don’t the universe knows the difference. It’s really up to you.

Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH

Well…I said before Obama can’t save you, and I am convinced that is true.  In fact there is no government official that will do for you what you won’t do for yourself.  Nobody can save you…but here’s the good news…Nobody else has to, because you can save yourself.  The gift that President Obama gives to us is the gift of seeing ourselves.  What do I mean by that?  As eloquent and inspiring as Mr. Obama has been it has become clear that even he, cannot change the quality of our lives in any subsequent way except perhaps in a bad way. 

Mr. Obama and Mrs. Obama have said many times on the campaign trail that “We are the change we have been waiting for.”  That is the magic bullet!  I have heard the president say that “It’s not about me…or the congress…it’s about you.”  This is where you and I have to sit up, take notice, and then take action.  All the horrible financial conditions that we find ourselves suffering through is a result of choices we all collectively have made.  We gave our power away to elected officials who don’t care about us, or can’t care for us.  We spent money we didn’t have, and let our government do the same.  We didn’t save for a rainy day…we thought the sun would shine eternally, only to find out that…it doesn’t.  Sometimes it rains and right now a whole lot of us are getting soaked.

So in his State Of The Union address president Obama I’m sure will give a great speech.  He will say it is still important for  all Americans to have health insurance, and it is.  He will say that republicans and democrats should work in a bi-partisan way (I’ve grown to hate that term) and they should.  The president will say that the economy has gotten better but we still have a long way to go, and we do.  There are terrorists out there that demand our vigilant defense and sometimes offense…check.  The president will say lots of things both inspiring and bothersome.  But what the president won’t say, is the thing he most needs to say, and it’s this – “I can’t save you, neither can the congress.”

He won’t say it perhaps because he believes he can, or maybe he honestly doesn’t want to.  Either way the truth is still the same…The government can build the road but we the people have to drive the car to where we want to be.  I was a big supporter of Mr. Obama, I still think there is a lot of potential he has yet to realize.  So far I am sad to say I am not impressed.  He over promised and under delivered.  But…that’s what politicians do.

Right now the State Of The Union is horrible…but you and I can turn it around.  That is my prayer and determination for our country.  So I really hope that Mr. Obama will get about the business of building us some roads…because I think a whole lot of people are about to burn rubber on the way to the America we’re supposed to be.

Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH

Yes…it’s so easy to be positive, it’s so easy to have a great outlook on life, it’s so easy to believe in the ‘Law Of Attraction’, the goodness of God, and all that…when things are going well for you.  Now…how do you think I know that?  Yep, that was me.  There I was in all my glory talking to people who where having a hard time in life, telling them “Yeah, you have to keep fighting!  You have to be positive.”  Even though I didn’t actually believe I was better than ‘them’, looking back on it, I know I had a certain level of arrogance.  I felt like I had figured it all out, and that if only these poor people would follow my sage advice they too could be positive like me.

Well…the recession kicked in, and it’s been kicking ever since.  I’m lucky if I make half what I made a year ago.  Sometimes I literally wonder if I might have to ask a friend for food…and that has a way of humbling a positive thinker.  It’s as if God is saying to me “So…you really believe all that positive thinking stuff?  I’m going to test you to see how much you really believe.” 

As it turns out I really do believe that stuff.  I really do believe that our thoughts materialize.  What we focus on becomes our reality.  We really can attract things into our life.  But, I learned something else.  I learned that it’s a whole lot harder to be positive when you can’t pay your rent.  So, I can empathize a whole lot more with people who are having a hard time.  However I will not simply accept that there is nothing we can do.  I won’t let my friends off the hook when they say they have no power.  I cannot support that. 

I believe that we are all powerful.  Each of us can make a choice.  The quality of that choice is what will determine the quality of the reality we find ourselves living in.  Every time we make a choice we moves ourselves along on a path.  Weak victimized choices lead to a predictably weak reality.  Another person given the same scenario might make a powerful choice and their reality will reflect that powerful choice.  There are people right now in the same recession you and I are in, making tons of money.  If the recession is what’s keeping us down, how would it be possible for anyone to make money?  I talked to a realtor a couple of weeks ago that said he had a good year…imagine that!!! 

The recession ain’t the problem.  The problem is what we do about the recession.  A coming New Year is always a great time to reflect and to project.  What I wish for you and for me is the recognition that at any time, no matter what the challenge, we can make a choices that empower us.  The more we stack up these powerful choices…the more we can look forward with boundless optimism to 2010.  Happy New Year!

Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH

Hello out there bloggies!!  I am back after a long hibernation.  I had gotten a comment on one of my posts, and I went back and read the post.  I must say I was impressed (pardon me while I kiss myself).  Anyways…I wanted to write today as a way of getting back on the horse.  It is so easy to justify not trying because we have been away for a while.  This is foolishness.  It is never too late to pick up where you left off, when it comes to your dreams, and most other things in life.  

So you stopped going to the gym, you stopped dieting, you stopped putting money in the bank, you stopped telling your wife you love her…today is the day that you can start anew.  The rest of your life is still in play.  You still are at the wheel.  You can decide to let your life, your dreams, your family relationships remain stagnant.  Or, you can decide to take one small action today that will improve things.  It will lift your spirit, and inspire even more effort.

Creation is an ongoing living breathing process.  It ebbs and flows, it comes and it goes, it stops and starts…do you get it?  Inactivity is only a small part of the picture…that is if you want it to be.  I say all this because I often times struggle with consistency…but I am who I am.  Sometimes I walk away, but I am back…won’t you join me?  What have you put down?  Right now or certainly before the end of the day take a small action that moves your life closer to where you want it to be.  As you do that also be sure to be grateful for the process.

Stay Fly and Fly High
KLH

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I believe that intention is one of the most important differences between a very successful person and an average person.  I have on a number of occasions asked successful people “What’s the secret to your success?”  Inevitable they will reply “Hard work”.  While I’m sure they do indeed work hard, I know plenty of other people who work hard, but don’t have a ‘summer home’ on the beach in Rhode Island.  Clearly there is more involved than hard work.  I think it’s intention, that is the intention behind the hard work.  Successful people intend certain results when they work hard.  When Oprah works hard she intends to have more at the end of the week than $25 and hour plus overtime.  When Steve Jobs or Bill Gates work hard they intend to make a lot of money, and they usually do.

It is so easy to get caught up in our every day routine, and we often don’t think about what our intention is or the repercussions of those intentions.  A lot of people say they would like to be successful, but they fail to think about what really is necessary to achieve that success.  The work needed to bring home $750 a week is not the same kind of work needed to bring home $7500 per week.  You may work the same number of hours, you may even work harder than someone making ten times more than you, but if it’s not the ‘right kind’ of work you’ll never make a lot of money.  So what do you do to make money?

First you must set your intentions on what you want.  Wishful thinking is not the same as intention.  There is certainty behind intention.  There is faith behind intention, there is conviction as well.  So if you want to make $$7500 a week, you must fully intend to make it.  This intention will lead you to ask yourself some questions.  The first question will probably be “What can I do to make $7500 a week?”  ”How can I get the necessary training?” Or, “How can I meet the right people?”  When you ask enough of the right questions, and then get the right answers, you will have a road map to the fulfillment of your goal.  All you have to do now is break your goal down into small steps that you can accomplish in one day.  Commit to yourself that you will take at least one of these steps everyday and in time you will find yourself looking right in the face all you every wanted.  

It is critical that you always know what it is you’re trying to do with each and every step.  When you know clearly what the intention is behind your efforts, you can evaluate whether those efforts are effective or not.  If they are not, then make an adjustment, and keep on adjusting until you see the desired results.  I know this sounds very simplistic, but that is why many people don’t act.  They believe the key to success has to be difficult or complicated, or even mystical.  Success is simple…yes you have to work hard, but you must have the appropriate intention to guide your efforts.  Then tweak until you hit the target.  It’s not easy…but it is simple.  I believe you have it in you, to accomplish whatever you REALLY want to…so go get it!!!

Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH

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…then no one else will.  Regarding success in anything, I think this statement is a fundamental truth.  I believe that success is compliant, it is malleable, it is plastic.  Success will take the form of whatever we truly believe.  If you believe you are a person who can only earn $15.00 an hour, and maybe if you work really hard and go to school (I always love that one) then the universe will submit to that vision.  People very rarely make more than they believe they can make.  If you believe that $150.00 an hour is what you should make then the universe in the same way will comply.  Most of us have a very strong tendency to be defined by where we are right now.  It is a very exceptional person that can see beyond their present circumstances, what ever they are.  Successful people typically only see themselves as being successful.  Conversely low wage earners usually cannot really see themselves making a lot of money.  They may fantasize about it, but they don’t really see themselves in a much better place than they are currently.

It is a staple of the Positive Thinking world that ‘If you can conceive it and believe it then you can achieve it’.  It’s very simplistic I know, but it’s also very true.  It’s so simple in fact, that most people dismiss it as silly.  Let me break it down.  Obviously for you to achieve anything first you must conceive it in your mind, that’s easy.  Belief is much harder.  Belief is not simply saying ‘Oh yeah, I believe I can make a million dollars’.  Belief is a thought held in your mind that compels you into action or inaction.  If you believe that car speeding toward you is not going to stop, you will be compelled to get the hell out of the way.  Similarly if you truly believe you are going to make a million dollars you’re going to formulate a plan and execute that plan.  You are going to get the necessary education you need.  You are going to get up early and work late when your friends are out having fun.  You are going to sacrifice things that other people have now, in order to have what others people will not be able to have later. True belief is a motivator.

If you really believe you will be successful in your marriage, business, or child rearing you will make choices that support that belief.  You may ask ‘How do I get that belief?’  I think it starts with a simple truth, that you are capable, and you are worthy.  You may not currently possess the skills necessary to make a lot of money or be a great parent, or piano player, and that’s OK.  You must know however, that you are capable of acquiring those skills.  Great skill is very rarely present instantly.  Most of the times skill is developed over time, and often a great deal of time.  Developing skill is a matter of a series of choices.  Turn off the TV, sign up for a class, read a book, do a push up, walk around the block, make a phone call, practice your instrument.  These are choices anybody can make.  Successful people make the right choices often, and unsuccessful people make the wrong choices often.  If you want more for yourself, it all starts with making an effective choice.  Anybody can do that.

As far as being worthy…it’s really rather basic…you are worthy because you are here.  You as you are, represent a spectacular crowning achievement of creative intelligence.  The raw materials of which you are made, are no different than that of Bill Gates, Micheal Jordan, Micheal Jackson, Mother Teresa, or Oprah.  We are all a blank canvas, and we are all given a wonderful selection of paints and brushes.  It is up to you and me what we do with them.  There is nothing wrong with living an average life, and if that’s what you want then you can paint that picture for yourself.  It’s really up to you.  However I believe that most people who live average lives do so out of fear or lack of imagination.

I think most of us are afraid of looking silly, being told no, not fitting in, feeling inadequate.  So we find a comfort zone we dig in and plant ourselves there.  Then we teach our children to do the same, because we don’t want them to be hurt.  It’s hard to feel inadequate when all you do are things that are easy for you.  Most people will do just about anything to avoid discomfort.  Fear of the unknown will make people stay in jobs they hate, and relationships that sometimes put them in grave physical danger.  The need for familiarity can literally be a killer.

I am here to tell you this…you are capable, and you are worthy.  Suspend your disbelief and act as if this were true.  Small choices you can make right now, over time can eventually make your life truly remarkable.    I am not saying that great wealth is the path for everyone, because it isn’t.  I know everyone doesn’t want to be a rock star, nor should everyone.  But I am convinced that each and everyone of you can live a wonderful, abundant, happy, and fulfilling life.  You will be on that path when you believe you can.

Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH

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That is what Dr. Ben Carson’s mother told him many times. Very wise words indeed. Ben Carson was the subject of a recent TV movie called “Gifted Hands”. He is a world renown neurosurgeon. He rose up from a very poor disadvantaged life, and his mother taught him how to see what his eyes couldn’t see. His eyes saw kids making fun of him for being stupid. His eyes saw the used clothes that his mother bought for him. His eyes saw the poor neighborhood he lived in. But his mother knew there was much more to be seen if only he would look deep enough.

Perhaps one of the things that makes our success so pervasive is that it usually can’t be seen with the naked eye. As I was on my tread mill stepping away, I had a thought that visits me often and it’s this: “I still have a bit of a belly and all this walking doesn’t seem to be making a difference”. Or how about ‘I put money in the bank but it never seems to amount to much’. Or, ‘I work on this business idea but it never seems to take off’. Success requires vision that most people simply don’t have or even better yet, simply won’t access. Success requires us to believe in something that may not be quite evident. Success requires us to have faith.

Faith isn’t wishful thinking. Faith isn’t saying ‘Well ‘I’ll try my best’. Faith is being convinced before there is compelling evidence to support the belief. If there was a man outside your door with a million dollars telling you it’s all yours if you work your tail off, that’s not faith if you then go do the work. If the extra weight dropped of after one session on the tread mill that’s not faith in action. Faith is when you keep getting on the tread mill day after day, week after week, and sometimes even month after month and still don’t see results, but you keep working out. Faith is when you work tirelessly on your website, and still you don’t make a dime, but you keep on tweaking your site and studying and applying more.

Success is arrogant and conceited. Success thinks it’s better than you…and it usually is. That is until you prove it wrong. Success will have nothing to do with you until you make it submit to you by doing all the necessary work up front before you see any return for your efforts. Success will make you prove you are worthy, and if you can muster the blood, sweat, and tears to pay the price, success will kneel down at your feet, and it will be your faithful servant. First however, you gotta pay. You may wonder how much is enough? How much do I have to pay to be successful? I say you’ll know when you get there, because the heavens will open up, and rain down on you. Until then you’re not done yet.

So… you must develop the ability to see beyond where you are at. Shortsightedness is the enemy of success. I say these things knowing that I too am in the fight. However, I know that I am always one keystroke, or one phone call, or one minute away from the door being opened to me, and so I continue…even when my eyes can’t see it.

Stay Fly and Fly High
KLH

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We are so much smarter and more powerful than most of us give ourselves credit for. We grow and mature, we learn things and gain experiences that equip us quite well to live wonderful lives. However many times we don’t live up to our fullest potential…why? Because it’s hard. It’s hard to be successful at anything. It’s hard to live an enlightened or righteous life. It’s hard to be powerful. Sitting on the couch with a big ass bowl of vanilla ice cream slathered on top of a giant chunk of apple pie (oh my god I have a craving) is so much easier, and quite tasty.

The truth is that with success, power, and enlightenment come responsibility. In many ways doing the right thing limits your choices in ways that may be very uncomfortable. Successful people get up early and go to bed late, they work harder, and sacrifice things that average people aren’t willing to give up. Enlightened people say no to things that compromise their core values. People who live mediocre or average lives compromise so much that they often can’t even identify their core values. It’s hard to live to your fullest potential, so most people opt out on their own lives. They won’t say it but it’s true.

Ask a person what their dreams are, or what success is to them and rarely will you get a clear answer. Ask them why they are here on this planet, you probably won’t get a meaningful reply. I think the reason why people don’t want to think about being fully realized is because somewhere in their mind they know the cost is more than they’re willing to pay. So we trade down to a cheaper model. “I just want to take care of my family” or “I want to go to school” (I love that one) or “I just want to be comfortable”. Let me be clear there’s nothing wrong with these things, but they’re often ways of deferring your dreams, or even worse deluding yourself. Why? Because it’s so much easier than saying I want to run for Mayor, or open a women’s shelter, race NASCAR, or sing opera.

A lack of clarity is often just a delay tactic. As long as you don’t know, you don’t have to do anything..Hmmm. I suggest that we be real with ourselves, somewhere inside we know what’s right for us, and we’d do it if we knew we wouldn’t fail. But, unless we are willing to take that chance we will never live our lives fully. I am convinced that success in anything for anyone resides outside our comfort zone, which is why most of us would much rather sit on the couch. I got two words for you…Get up!

Stay Fly and Fly High
KLH

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Trust me on this one…I get it.  For a lot of people out there this economy is like “The Nightmare on Your Street”.  People are losing their jobs or their hours are getting cut.  People losing houses, health insurance, and most importantly self esteem.  There are people who have done incredibly thoughtless or even criminal things to drive our economy into the ground.  Those people should be held accountable…but that ain’t gonna pay your mortgage or rent next week…trust me I get it.  President Obama keeps saying that things will probably get worse before they get better.  Or that it’s going to take some time before the ‘Stimulus Plan’ begins to yield results, but that in time it will help us.  None of our politicians seem to understand that we the people have to actually survive to three or four or God forbid eight years from now.  Our car payments, rent, groceries, and kid’s college tuition will not wait for the Stimulus Plan to kick in.  Those things demand money right now…trust me…I get it.  All this is true…so now what?

Recognizing or even bitching about the rotten ass hand our elected officials have dealt us will not pay one single solitary bill for anyone.  What it will do is make us more mad, more hopeless, and still up the damn creek without a paddle, or maybe even without a canoe.  So now what?  One of the things that makes life so difficult in the tendency to live anywhere but where we are right now.  By that I mean we worry about what happened to us yesterday, the day before or even twenty years ago.  We also like to worry about tomorrow.  The problem with this is that not matter what, we can ONLY live right now…in this moment.  Right now in this moment we can make a choice, and that is where our power can be utilized.  

One of the greatest things we can do for ourselves is to be responsible for where we are in life.  When we are having a really tough time, taking responsibility for that can be extremely difficult.  It is always easier to blame someone or something else for our troubles…and I do understand that.  However there is power in responsibility…that is… the ability to respond.  So what we need to do as individuals and by extension as a nation is to take responsibility for where we are at.  Then we can make choices about how we can improve upon our situation.  Without our consent the future will indeed come…and it will go. The question is what will you and I do with the time between now and then. The choices we make today and everyday are what will shape our future.  That is the power of taking responsibilty.  If we are responsible for our difficulties, then we can also be responsible for our success.

We are creative beings of unimagined possibilities.  We cannot fathom the spectacular things we can achieve, because there really are no limits to our potential.  I believe we are made in the image of God.  and that doesn’t mean we look like God.  I think we have god-like super human capabilities.  We can summon that power, by having faith in our own greatness, and opening our minds and hearts to the infinite wisdom of the universe.  Then we can use that creative power to make whatever kind of life we want to have.  

So now what?  Let’s all resolve to face our challenges head on.  The great dragon will cower when you look it in the eye.  Challenges, even seemingly impossible ones, cannot withstand the withering offensive of a determined will to overcome them.  I said it before “Obama can’t save you”, neither can the government stimulus plan.  That’s the bad news.  The good news is that you can save yourself.  That’s what I’m gonna do.

Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH