March 2021 - Page 3 of 4 - Rex Sikes' Daily Inspiration and Gratitude

Stop Waiting For Boom And Wait For Guidance

“It’s a funny thing. People listen in order to speak. Not to listen. People ask to get the answer. BOOM! Now it all makes sense. Instead of seeking guidance, people want it done for them, more than they want to do it themselves. It’s our cultural conditioning.

Don’t wait for a boom. Wait on the guidance. Clear the way for release to happen. Let go and allow the universe, your higher power, your subconscious to gift you with the way to transform, not the answer you seek. Only when you are empty can you be filled.

Stop trying to control the outcomes. Stop trying to manage the flow. Let go of what you think needs to be discovered. Notice what’s there instead. People miss opportunities right in front of them because they’re focused on what they think is important.

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Ask, seek, knock, but allow the answer to be what it is. Find what is there, not what you expect to find. Whoever answers the door is the gift. If you’re open you may have a eureka moment. You may have many, or none. It isn’t important. It isn’t about the answer.

It’s about the direction you set. It’s where you go from here. It’s how you feel along the way. You may have that boom, that eureka, but you can’t force it. It usually happens in relaxing and letting go. When you realize who you truly are and capable of, everything changes.

BUT no one can answer that for you. You find it when you empty yourself and are open to what is. You discover, when all pretense drops. Listen to listen. Be available for guidance from a still small voice within. But you must be quiet to hear it. Be still. Shhhhhh…

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You must be empty to be filled. There’s a greater wisdom available, but you can’t get there if you think you already know. If you’re waiting for, or expecting a Boom, you’re likely to miss. Instead, just be open and available to all possibilities. Relax. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

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Raising Awareness Is Not The Same As Becoming Aware

“Raising awareness is not the same as becoming aware. You can raise awareness of what’s wrong in the world that you think needs fixing or you can raise awareness ofthat which is good in the world you could be appreciating. What you’re doing is aiming a flashlight.

You can focus on positive or negative. That is aiming where you focus. BUT becoming aware means you realize you have a choice. It means good and bad are opposite sides of the same coin. As long as you hang onto the coin you’ll continue to have the opposites. Let go.

Raising awareness is the same as saying ‘hey there is a problem here. ‘Danger Will Robinson, Danger!’ The alarm is sounded. ‘Go back!’ or ‘Go forward.’ Becoming aware is to go beyond raising awareness. It is beyond going forward and back. It isn’t becoming more ‘woke’.

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To become aware is to drop the problems and issues. It means dropping the ego and the attachment to the problems and the solutions. We can be so attached to our solutions we miss solving the problem. It is dropping attachments and becoming free.

It’s not becoming more encumbered with what we pay attention to. It’s not filling our mind with more issues to be concerned about every day. That form of awareness mostly asks for donations. That form of awareness is a call to action and not to transcendence.

Don’t think because you are more aware of issues that you are more aware. What you are is more preoccupied with the issues. There is good in helping solve problems. There’s also good in not living life as a collection of troubles needing fixes. Drop problems. Feel joy.

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Why not raise awareness of all the good in the world, all the joy, all the helpful people, all the delightful healthy attitudes, all the wonderful good weather days? How about raising awareness of all the people, events and things in your life you feel delighted about?

How about enjoying it and going beyond all of it? Become Aware!

It’s one thing to bring something to your attention. It’s another to go beyond the object of your attention. It’s another to realize there are no problems. Mind causes suffering as Buddha pointed out. Without thoughts, there’d be no emotional pain. There’d only be what is. To understand this you must become aware. My mentioning it only raises your awareness. Now, go beyond, instead. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

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Absence Of Evidence Is Not Evidence Of Absence

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,” a saying popularized by Carl Sagan was coined by a forensic bloodstain pattern analyst to point out that not finding a fingerprint means nothing more than that. No fingerprints were found.

A positive statement can’t be made from a negative finding. This is good to understand because many people misunderstand this and draw false conclusions. If you can’t pay your rent this month, some people assume you will always be broke or have money trouble.

If you aren’t presently in a loving relationship you are destined to be lonely or are unloveable. If you didn’t get the job you wanted desperately you will never amount to anything or have a career. None of this is accurate. None of these conclusions are true.

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All it means is this month I can’t meet the rent. At this time I’m not in a relationship I desire to be. At this time I didn’t get a job. There’s no evidence that anything else is true, just these things. Still, we project and assume it must mean something more about us than it does.

This is part of the conditioning we grew up with. Assignments made about our behavior means something about our identity. You didn’t win the 2nd grade 3 legged race means you aren’t good at anything. You stole cookies from the cupboard means you are a bad person.

You got failing grades in school means you are stupid and can’t learn. Some utter the ‘evidence’ statement this way. Lack of evidence is not evidence of lack. Because you have money problems now doesn’t mean you’re a failure, or that money isn’t available now or later.

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We are time-binders and meaning-makers. We have a tendency to exaggerate. If we have this problem now it means something is wrong with us for all time, BUT it doesn’t. It only means right now we are working through an issue. Anything is still possible.

There’s no proof our conclusions are true. Yet, this is the tendency we have. We look for validation that our conclusion is accurate (when it is not) and we find some other examples and then exclaim, ‘See. I told you I was stupid.’ We generalize the instances as forever.

Throughout all time and space, anywhere and everywhere because I lost the 3 legged race I’m not good at anything and can’t learn. Because I did poorly in school I am a failure and stupid forever and always through all time and space. I can’t possibly be otherwise.

Stop doing Things The Same Expecting Things To Be Different

‘Look, these examples prove it’s true!’ We see what we believe. If we look for proof of what’s wrong, we may always find it. It’d be more useful to not make things you did or didn’t do about you, but keep them at the level of behaviors. They’re your actions, not you!

‘I lost a 3 legged race. If I practice more I may get better and eventually win. Maybe not, but I am good. I’m just not as efficient a runner as I might be. I’m still a good person and can do many other things well. Focus on what I can do. Seek to improve what I can.’

‘I’ve learned all kinds of things in life. I learned to walk and talk. I learned to tie my shoes. I can learn all sorts of things. I did poorly on that test but I can study more and maybe do better. I learn many things well. Some things quite easily. I am smarter than I think.’

Nothing Really Changes Until You Change Old Conditioning

‘I don’t have money right now, or a relationship but both money and love is all around me. I live in a universe with plenty. I can have both. Because lack of evidence is not evidence of lack. I can learn to make, invest and save money. I can love myself and also discover love too.’

Stop drawing conclusions that limit you. Learn instead to get free of your previously conditioned thinking. Let go of less than glorious conclusions because you can’t travel uphill thinking downhill thoughts. You are better than you think you are. Get it?

Your brain looks for matches. It seeks to prove you correct. We use the term ‘confirmation bias’ to say we can believe some pretty goofy messed up things, adhere to them AND look to prove ourselves right regarding them. Because we were conditioned, it’s better to be right.

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It’s appropriate to be right about certain things and to be willing to be wrong about other things. You are infinite potential with infinite possibilities. All the good you might experience is hidden from you because you believe you don’t deserve it. Or something else.

Stop believing lies. Learn to let go. Seek the best in you. Look to your higher-self. Whatever you focus on IS what you get. Your reality IS what you think it to be. Even when your reality is not accurate or the ultimate reality, your thinking makes it so TO you! You think it is!

STOP! Think better of yourself. Don’t be egotistical, but don’t make false assumptions or attributions either. Because you presently don’t have money doesn’t mean you are poor or always destined to be poor. You aren’t stupid. You aren’t bad. You can have a loving relationship. You are good at some things and better at some other things. Anything can be improved if you want to improve it. Understand, a lack of evidence is not evidence of lack. Get it? Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

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Circumstances Are An Effect Not A Cause: We Look At It Backwards

“Circumstances are an effect. They’re not the cause. We think they are, but we’re wrong. We’ve been conditioned to spend our time trying to change the way things are, instead of focusing on what works. Our conditioning saps us of our power to transform.

When powerless, we won’t challenge the ruling class. We won’t challenge our conditioning. We won’t do anything that actually makes a difference. We will stay busily distracted, thinking we can affect change, but not noticing we’re just spinning our wheels.

The more we try to fix circumstances without fixing ourselves first, the more we and circumstances remain the same. There is an order to follow but we have it backward. Changing the cart isn’t as important as learning how to control and direct the horse. Get it?

Stop Doing What You’ve Always Done To Get Better Results

We’ve been hoodwinked since ancient times by the rulers. It continues today. If we’re busy trying to fix their, and our, messes while struggling to keep our head above water we won’t peacefully overthrow the 1 or 2% who control and own most everything.

They win by perpetuating the myths we willingly and unwittingly follow. We need to wake up and reclaim our power and our life back. We need to stop wasting energy trying to fix or change the circumstances. We need to change the cause. Change the cause!

You and I are the cause. What we think, feel and do is the cause. What we don’t think, feel and do is the cause. If we aren’t the solution then we help keep things the same. If you keep doing the same things, things don’t change. They remain the same. Get it?

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This is the big secret. We live from conditioning that is designed to keep us limited. It’s in our religions, our politics, our media and advertising. We are taught we can’t really do it. We are smelly and flakey and need help. We need to work for someone and fit in.

The ruling classes from early times on have sold us a bill of goods to keep us in our place, working for them, They get the lion’s share. We get the scraps. We aren’t to make waves but do as were are told. They tell us they know better for us. We call them leaders.

The attempt to keep us from finding out by hijacking our attention with issues that don’t matter and keep us divided and distracted, fighting among ourselves and by trying to put a roof over our head. They have all the money while costs for the 98% keep rising.

Stop doing Things The Same Expecting Things To Be Different

It doesn’t have to be an evil conspiracy, It’s just those who have more wanting to keep it from those who have less. They want to remain in power. We don’t get out from under this rule unless we choose to become free. AND we can do this peacefully and effectively. First –

Put your energy into transforming your attitude and self-image. Become a person who can make a difference. Accept your true power to transform. When you change yourself you become free from old conditioning and reacting to circumstances which sap you.

You free up your power to choose and your creative powers to make things happen. You develop the ability and knack to see opportunity and solutions. You’re no longer restricted by your thinking. You become a person who intends to get things done and does. Get it?

Nothing Really Changes Until You Change Old Conditioning

No longer think and act like a victim. Stop buying into limitations, limiting beliefs and blocks to your own success. Free yourself up to dream big. Plant seeds for success. Follow through. Take those necessary right actions to legally harvest them. Transform yourself.

You can try to change the ocean or learn to sail it. You are the sailor. You can be a passenger in steerage or the captain of your ship. It is your choice. Want to keep struggling? Fight circumstance. Resistance is futile. What you resist persists but there’s a better way.

Transform you! Activate your attitude. Make your self-image one who wins and who’s powerful and readily makes good things happen. Develop an image as one who can easily and confidently navigate troubled seas to successfully arrive at your destination.

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Instead of focusing on the cart, focus on the horse. You are the horse. You are the power source. You are the cause. What are you creating? Create good for you, yours and everyone. Do you want to change things and lawfully change the ruling class? Do you?

Transform yourself first. As Gandhi said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’ Now, you know what you must begin doing. The question before you right this instant is, will you? Will you transform yourself from victim to victor. Live as a victor and circumstances don’t matter. Nor, can they control you because you put yourself in charge. I hope you will. Take charge. Take right action. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

Book and Kindle available at Amazon. Gift a loved one!

Success V Failure: The Secret Got A Fraction Right But Missed The Important Part!

“Some people spend most of their time focused on what they want but a whole lot less time doing whatever is legally necessary to make what they want happen. If all you do is wish but not act, don’t expect to get what you desire. Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

‘I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.’ – Frederick Douglass. This quote exemplifies what I just said. If you want it to come true it is up to you. Yes, fix your desire in your mind. Focus on it. Then take the daily steps to make it happen.

Without action to make it happen, nothing happens. Imagine if the Wright Brothers spent time dreaming to fly but not experimenting with the actual machinery. Do you think we’d have air travel? How about the building you live in? Would it be built? Yes, dream it first!

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Planning and working the plan is next. Take action, get feedback and adjust as necessary. People get ‘The Secret’ wrong lazily thinking all they needed to do is dream it, but not do anything to follow through. They hope dreaming is a wish-fulfilling cow. It isn’t. You go first!

There’s no genii granting your wishes, but you. You are the genii who makes things happen, but not by wishing. Dreaming it up is the first part of the process, yes. It is important, yes! You still need the other parts. Focus on it and keep at it until you finish making it.

Do you wish for a cake to magically appear on your table? If you dream of having cake dream up or find a recipe. Gather the ingredients. Mix them in proper order and bake it for the correct amount of time. Remove it from the oven and enjoy the cake.

Activate Your Attitude To Act With Greater Ease And Succeed

You dreamt of having cake. Be glad you made one. OR do whatever is necessary to purchase one. Make the order. Go to the store and pick it up or have it delivered. Get it? It begins with the dream or the idea. Then action is necessary to enjoy the cake. Action IS the proper fruit of knowledge. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

Book and Kindle available at Amazon. Gift a loved one!

Activity Versus Action: Moving Doesn’t Mean You’re Moving Anywhere

Denzel Washington said, ‘don’t confuse movement with progress.’ Just because you’re doing a lot doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot done. This means you can be busy with lots of activity and not be moving forward or achieving your dreams. Progress is different.

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Know the difference between spinning your wheels and actually getting somewhere. I’ve done plenty of things that seemed important but got me nowhere. At times I’ve focused, done far less and got further, faster. Assess what you’re doing. Make sure your production produces the results you intend to get and aren’t just a distraction. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

Book and Kindle available at Amazon. Gift a loved one!

Horizons photo used with permission of Phil Koch

What To Do About The Crap

“The kite rises highest against the wind. Diamonds are fashioned from great heat and pressure. Steel is tempered by pounding in great heat Challenges cause you to grow stronger & become better. Yet, people attempt to avoid that which causes the greatest growth.

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It is not a lesson or a blessing. Everything is a blessing. When you realize this you become free to be more creative, open and able to attract and create what you want easily and swiftly. Attitude is everything! It’s all a blessing, even when it appears not to be. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

Book and Kindle available at Amazon. Gift a loved one!

Be Brave Enough To Suck At Something New

“Encountered this wonderful meme again recently, “Be brave enough to suck at something new.” Bravo to the first person who ever uttered those words. We always tend to suck at new things. What keeps people from trying is we don’t want to look bad.

Our culture tends to enforce the concept that you’re never enough. That the prime objective of public relations. It is/was when Edward Bernays founded the field. Every major ‘big wig’ wanted Bernays formula for propagandizing the consumer into feeling ‘less than.’

He moved us from a need buying culture to a want culture in order to sell more products and increase profits for the big companies of the day. We’re taught we’re smelly, flakey, with yellow teeth and greasy skin. We suck. We lack. We need and we want to be better.

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At one time you bought because you needed something. Now, we buy because we want things AND we don’t want to be perceived as less than, stupid or incapable. We want to be thought of as better than that. So, often we won’t try things if it’ll make us look bad.

We whine, complain and blame when trying it that ‘we are really better than this and it’s silly and stupid.” Everything we do the first time IS because we haven’t done it before! We get better with practice. Whatever we want to master we must first suck at.

Want to play the piano. The first time you try, it’s not that easy. Keep at it and you’ll get better. You will miss much in life if you let a bad attitude prevent you from doing things you could enjoy. Don’t let cultural conditioning and image management hold you back.

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You are better than anyone thinks you are. Even you! Be willing to appear not so good the first time/s in order to get better later. Relax and enjoy. Make it fun and it won’t matter. The more we do the more we are capable of doing. Don’t lose out to a bruised ego.

Pretty soon, you’d be playing piano with more ease and enjoyment. Get it? With the right attitude, you can do most anything. Begin today to attempt new things. Learn and enjoy learning. Let go of having to be the best right from the start. Ease into it. You’ll enjoy everything so much more when you permit yourself to. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE TODAY

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

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The Internal You Determines Your Failure Or Success

“Plastic surgeon Maxwell Maltz unlocked the notion of self-image for psychologists and the human potential and self-help movements in the 60s. Thought leaders and ancient mystics knew this all along but until Maltz put pieces together, psychology was a flaccid field.

Maltz pointed out, “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.” You can’t expect to get far driving that way. You need to release what’s holding you back. It’s an important inner transformation that’s required and not a cosmetic external one.

“The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.” Change from within results in changing the system, the behavior and ultimately the results. This is the efficient way to change yourself.

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People try to change results or circumstances instead of working on their inner image which is the prerequisite for change.“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”

People think, ‘I’ll just boot-strap it and work harder. Will power will make a difference.” But Maltz proved this incorrect. “Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.” He said, “Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.” Get this point!

The most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself! Why? Because “You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.” You actions are always consistent with your inner image. Want to change your results and behaviors? Change your inner image first!

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Everything changes when you alter your self-image in positive ways. “The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.” I share with you these principles and practices to help you become the best inner version of you. Activate your attitude and believe in yourself. You’ll act consistent with your inner image to make your dreams come true or not. Today, now, is all you have. What are you waiting for? Do it. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

Book and Kindle available at Amazon. Gift a loved one!

Upgrade And Update Your Self-Image And Stop Doing What You Don’t Want To Do

“Ancients knew it eons ago. Modern thought-leaders shared it through the past couple centuries. Maxwell Maltz revolutionized the field of psychology in the 1960’s. Maltz was a plastic surgeon who concluded some patients changed with surgery. They benefited.

While others did not. Even though their physical appearance was altered, which one would think would relieve the person, often patients remained the same or felt worse. They didn’t notice they looked better because their issue wasn’t physical but in the mind.

It’s the ‘self-image’ that caused the troubles. Maltz concluded, fix the internal image and the outer physical appearance didn’t matter as much. I quote Maltz twice because it is important to understand how he helps us change ourselves and how his work shapes us.

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He said, “For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.” It isn’t our will-power that’s the issue but our image and imagination. And then this:

“It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.”

Hence, we need to reprogram our subconscious to work on our behalf as we consciously decide we desire it. We need to update and upgrade our self-image to free ourselves from the problems and issues we may have suffered with, through life. Get it?

Update And Upgrade Your Self-Image With Greater Ease

To assist you I share this. You can use this to help program your mind as countless thousands have. Change what you’re habitually thinking about. Reprogram your subconscious mind to free yourself so you can live the life you want and deserve. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

GET LIFE ON YOUR TERMS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author

Book and Kindle available at Amazon. Gift a loved one!

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