Shorthand Wisdom #1

From Dr. Wayne Dyer’s “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”:

1. Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.
   • Try to move beyond all the pre-programming in your life; open yourself up to possibility and exploration; be especially open to possible success; after all, is a negative outcome more likely than a positive one?
2. Don’t die with your music still in you.
   • “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself.” (Abraham Maslow) – in other words, dare to do what you have been put on this planet to do.
3. You can’t give away what you don’t have.
   • Take care of yourself first, make sure that you have a well of energy before giving it all away to others; love and respect yourself so that others will follow your example, and so that you have the strength to love and respect others.
4. Embrace silence.
   • You can find peace in the silence between your thoughts, between the noisy activities of your life; that silence will allow you to talk to the most important person in your life: you.
5. Give up your personal history.
   • Just as the wake from a boat cannot push the boat forward, your past cannot move your life ahead; embrace your past as part of you and then give yourself permission to move forward.
6. You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.
   • Change your approach to come up with new solutions; how can you re-interpret something that you have labelled a problem so that it no longer represents something bad in your life?
7. There are no justified resentments.
   • Replace resentment with responsibility; instead of blaming, find a way to be responsible for turning a situation around; think in terms of “I don’t care how this got this way, I’m going to come up with a solution”.
8. Treat yourself as if you already are what you’d like to be.
   • Imagine yourself as the person you want to be, then act as if you are; use this to inspire yourself and to believe that you can achieve; convince the world that you are this new person and the world will conspire to get you there.
9. Treasure your divinity.
   • You are part of the energy force that links all there is; you can imagine, create, love, believe…couldn’t that be considered divine?
10. Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
    • Keep all your strength for positive thoughts, avoid any thoughts that might take you in the wrong direction, distract you, paralyze you.