Find what makes your heart sing and move mountains to do it and then continue to do it. ~ Shannon White

If today were my last day on Earth and I could share 500 words of brilliance with the world, here are the important things I'd want to pass along to others...
Find what makes your heart sing and move mountains to do it and then continue to do it. Each one of us has a life calling... that passion for which we know deep down we've been uniquely made.

Some of us cheat the world by not finding out what that is and not fulfilling our dreams. My mother always told me, "If you don't use the gifts you've been given, you'll lose them." Do everything you can to uncover what it is you were meant to do and then plow ahead with the courage to do it... And since it does take great courage, surround yourself with people who will love you and support your dreams!

A mentor of mine once said, "If you want to change, you've got to grow." Internal growth takes intent and concentrated energy. At times growth is uncomfortable and even excruciatingly painful. But it never ends there. Miracles happen. Just like a caterpillar which through time and effort goes through a life transformation, eventually what once seemed impossible bursts forth in beauty.

Some of your most fulfilling moments will come when you get out of your comfort zone... when you take a risk by putting yourself into new situations, with people you don't know. Rough edges are sanded off. Vulnerability becomes a beautiful and magnetic quality about you, and you find deep parts of yourself and gifts you never knew you had.

Love, love, and more love is all there really is. So many of us spend far too much time caught up in petty differences and let past arguments fill our heads. Why not reach out and mend broken relationships today? Apologizing costs you nothing, except perhaps a bit of pride, but the benefits of living a life free from old resentment is priceless. Besides, holding onto the past takes a lot of energy. When you let things go, you'll find all sorts of creativity!

Find and connect daily with your Divine Source. Have gratitude for everything you have and for who you are, for the ups and downs which bring you your greatest life lessons. There is a very attractive, magnetic quality about those who humbly recognize they are who they are and where they are because of "whose" they are.

The Scriptures say, "It's more blessed to give than to receive." Both are difficult to do for many people. Many are good at one or the other, but those who balance both are truly blessed. So, give sacrificially and receive generously, whether it be love, energy or resources of any kind.

And lastly, wake up! Right now... you can be present to each and every moment. Breathe deeply and be aware of what is happening both inside and outside of you. Figure out what you don't want to see and ask why. Be curious about your life. We are given the opportunity to go through life, not have it go through us. Make the conscious decision to make each day count for the good of all.

Accomplish Things Never Before Accomplished by Using Parts...........

Dr. Ellen Weber, Ph.D.

Reflect on your personal strengths as mental tools, and soon you'll begin to accomplish things never before accomplished by using parts of your brain never before used. ~ Dr. Ellen Weber


If today were my last day on Earth and I could share 500 words of brilliance with the world, here are the important things I'd want to pass along to others...
From the time I can remember, I was fascinated by the possibility that intelligence can improve life's quality for anybody. Innovation awaits people who risk mentally reinventing their brainpower to create.

I discovered that in spite of being out on my own at 14, due to my mom's death, intelligence adds successful opportunities, one brain cell at a time, regardless of what happened or failed to happen at school.

My lifetime quest to zero in on how people get smarter led me to ask, What do geniuses do differently? In less traditional roundtables with people from many cultures, backgrounds and countries, I facilitated success with the brain in mind.

Opportunities came more from chasing the question, How are you smart? than from asking the less useful question, How smart are you? Traditional questions about IQ, I find, often lead to misconceptions that you are not smart. Geniuses may get kicked out of school, as Einstein did, but they rarely trip over false notions of fixed intelligence.

Fact is, intelligent people rewire daily for updated mental tools and so can you. To act like a genius is to develop mental tools that master change, contribute gems to innovative circles, and lower speed bumps on life's coolest highways.

Regardless of age, position or education, geniuses and most ordinary people can find success in spite of barriers. A genius tends to replace common misconceptions with mind-bending facts that optimize more brainpower.

At the heart of mental reinvention are newly discovered facts that IQ is not fixed, and brains rewire completely overnight. Moreover, brainpower comes to those who ask, what if.... kinds of questions. Ask, for instance, what if I could rewire mentally today to risk a life-changing inspiration? What does one do next?

Start small. Question one event in your day, and you'll trigger new ways of seeing angles that eluded you in past. Bored? Then drive to work a new way. Too many rigid routines? Read the morning news from back to front.

Mental tactics that switch it up, help you act from a new premise, and break with traditions to embrace change. Brain gurus would say you, "generate new neuron pathways to achieve more of what you want." Whatever you call this mental reboot, it takes less effort and adds more dividends than most people think.

Target one visible improvement in your day and the brain begins to create conscious impressions for you to improve other parts.

Do you see challenges at work or in relationships? Let's say you are part of a team where one person dominates. Brainstorm one solution with peers over lunch, such as mutual collaboration on a project together, and you'll recharge the collective brainpower for positive neuron pathways toward doable solutions.

Expect insights to crack other related problems as well, once you begin to look at problems with solutions in mind.

Reflect on your personal strengths as mental tools, and soon you'll begin to accomplish things never before accomplished by using parts of your brain never before used. It changes that little voice inside that limits ideas about your unique brand of brainpower. The same challenges that stop some people, tend to launch others who take time to reflect and act as masterminds do.

That leads to genius IQ.

Dear Internal Revenue Service:

Enclosed you will find my 2010 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes.

Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper, dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat.

I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00.

Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return.

You can do this inexpensively by sending them one (1) 1.5 " Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws). One screw is enclosed for your convenience.

It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year.

Sincerely,

A Satisfied Taxpayer