• listened to To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen E. Ambrose, read by Jeffrey DeMunn (2002)


• read The Power of Intention : Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way by Wayne W. Dyer (2004)
  
  6 (False) Ego Beliefs
  
  
  
  1. I am what I have. My possessions define me.
  
  
  2. I am what I do. My achievements define me.
  
  
  3. I am what others think of me. My reputation defines me.
  
  
  4. I am separate from everyone. My body defines me as alone.
  
  
  5. I am separate from all that is missing in my life. My life space is disconnected from my desires.
  
  
  6. I am separate from God. My life depends on God's assessment of my worthiness.
  
  
  
  4 Steps to Intention
  
  
  
  1. Discipline
  
  
  2. Wisdom
  
  
  3. Love
  
  
  4. Surrender
  
  
  
  7 Faces of Intention
  
  
  
  1. Creativity
  
  
  2. Kindness
  
  
  3. Love
  
  
  4. Beauty
  
  
  5. Expansion - seek more
  
  
  6. Unlimited abundance
  
  
  7. Receptivity - be available
  
  
  
  Levels of Energy
  
  
  
  • Material, physical
  
  
  • Sound
  
  
  • Light
  
  
  • Thought
  
  
  • Spirit
  
  
  
  To remember:
  
  
  
  • Act as if anything you desire is already here
  
  
  • Meditate - Japa
  
  
  • Become aware of the level of energy of the music you listen to and your environment
  
  
  • Enhance your energy fields with photos of nature, animals, joy and love
  
  
  • Extend acts of kindness, asking nothing in return
  
  
  • What you think of yourself is what you think of the world
  
  
  • See the world as abundant, providing, friendly
  
  
  • Remember that your natural state is joy (e.g. babies are happy for no reason)
  
  
  • Your thoughts, not the world, cause your stress
  
  
  • Be the kind of person you wish to attract
  
  
  • Illness is not a punishment
  
  
  • Know that you are adored
  
  
  • Seek out and cherish silence
  
  
  • See the genius in others
  
  
  
  Overcome ego
  
  
  
  • Stop being offended
  
  
  • Let go of your need to win, be right, feel superior, have more, identify yourself on the basis of your achievements, your reputation
  
  
  • Do not fear death
  
  
  
  Have a sense of:
  
  
  
  • Destiny
  
  
  • the Possible
  
  
  • Awe
  
  
  • Humility
  
  
  • Generosity
  
  
  • Knowing
  
  
  • Passion
  
  
  • Belonging
  
  
  • Gratitude, be in a state of...
  
  


• relistened to Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (1997)