Vol.2 No.15 Copyright Harvey Cohen ~ Published by AaaHa! Dynamics

We're making it all up anyway, so it might as well be wonderful~

Listen up! Take your advice The next time you find yourself giving advice to someone listen carefully  to the advice you're giving. The tale you are hearing from the seeker of your advice is filtered through your life's experience, values and belief system. You really have no idea what is going on with someone else. You can only guess using your sense of self as your only reference point.  That doesn't mean there is no value to advice you give someone. There may or may not be. Your advice is based on what is going on in your life for sure and someone else's life maybe......or not at all. You are really giving advice to yourself, that could use that advice, when you think your advice is meant for someone else.  It doesn't matter that the specifics of someone's story are not your specifics. It does matter that the certainty with which you are advising a strategy of action for someone........somehow applies to you. The advice you are so sure is perfect for someone else is your inner wisdom relating to your issues by way of someone else. Your inner wisdom knows ziltch about someone else but knows everything about you. You're inner wisdom, a.k.a intuition, knows whatever is necessary for you to know for your greater life-enrichment. That's its thing.  Sometimes we ignore our inner-wisdom, aka intuition, only to regret it later. Ever do that? You might not want to take the advice that you're giving to someone else. Could be too scary or too soon or too difficult for you right now. But hey, it's always there.  Listen up! Cheers, Harvey

=================== ===================   My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened. ----------Montaigne =================== ===================   I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true. ----------Katherine Hepburn =================== ===================    Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ---------- Albert Einstein =================== ===================   3 medium size bananas weigh approximately 1 pound.   =================== ===================    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." ------------ Groucho Marx =================== ===================

Circus elephants, when  not performing, are restricted from freely roaming around. One end of a short chain is tied around an elephant's hind leg with the other end of the chain attached to a stake that is sunk two feet into the ground.   Even though the elephant, the largest and strongest land animal in the world, is more than powerful enough to free himself with just a slight tug of the chain to lift the stake, the elephant remains captive to the equivalent of a toothpick. How come?   Here's how come: When the elephant is just a baby his hind leg is shackled to a short chain that is attached to a stake driven two feet into the ground. The baby elephant is not yet strong enough to pull the stake out of the ground, try and try as he will.   Pretty soon the baby elephant stops trying, never to try again. Even after he grows into adulthood, more than capable to free himself, he never tries. All because of past conditioning. Bummer!   Not unlike what happens when some people stop trying to overcome their own sense of helplessness.  Not because they don't have what it takes, but because of past conditioning. Because they are convinced they don't have what it takes.   There is one reason and one reason only for not living life out of your highest ideals,  doing and being what you love to do and be, in the most delicious, delightful and prosperous way.  That reason is not circumstance  or other people. That reason is;  you bought into a bill of goods, from the past, that chained you to false ideas about yourself when you were too young to think things through. You bought into a sense of helplessness hook, line and thinker.     Got tug?

=================== =================== He who is outside the door already has a good part of his journey behind him.-------Dutch proverb =================== =================== A closed mouth gathers no foot. --------Brooklyn proverb =================== =================== Behind every successful man you will find a woman. ---------American proverb =================== =================== Behind an able man are always other able men. ------Chinese proverb =================== ===================

A Thank You Note you might want to send to that most wonderful person in your life; Dear_________, I am writing this note to tell you how much you mean to me. When I am with you the joy and happiness I feel is indescribable.   No one, no thing pleasures me with delight like the thought of you. Love poems and love songs have yet to be written that come close to describing my excitement just being with you. You are without a doubt a reflection of the love I must have for myself. It's nice to know that I am on the right path.   My life is greatly enhanced knowing that my high self-esteem causes wonderful people like you to be my experience.     Yes, my feelings for you come from me, not from you. Get used to it.   Love, -------------- P.S. You surely are someone special for you to be in my life.

Do you have someone in your life that irritates the heck out of you? Perfect. Here is a note that you might consider sending to that person; Dear___________, If you have been wondering why I have been avoiding you, it's because I can't stand the sight of you.  I want to thank you for being in my life in a way that reminds me how impatient and critically judgmental I must be toward myself. And of course, I have been projecting my irritation about myself on you, when it has nothing to do with you.  I'm working on it.

=================== =================== An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows. =================== =================== It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;  it's because we do not dare that they are difficult. --------Seneca =================== =================== Every time I close the door on Reality, it comes in through the window. ------Ashleigh Brilliant =================== =================== A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. =================== ===================

Have you ever thought about something you didn't want to happen ........and it happens? Ech! Have you ever thought about what you did want to happen ........and it happens? Cool! Do you suppose if you didn't think about something you didn't want to happen.....it wouldn't happen?   Do you think if you thought, more often, about something you wanted to happen..........it would happen? Wadda ya think?   Here is your assignment: With a ball point or felt tipped pen draw a happy face on the inside of your thumb. Two dots for the eyes, a smile for the mouth. With as much conviction as you can muster, affirm the following: I'll just think thoughts I want to happen when wide awake or while I'm nappin' ! Glance at your thumb during the course of the day.  It will remind you that you have choices about where to direct your thoughts. A habit is in the making.   Should you accept this assignment, don't be surprised when....well, you'll see.

=================== =================== Nothing is fool proof to a sufficiently talented fool. ------------George Carlin  =================== ==================  A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries. =================== =================== That' s what happens when you're angry at someone. You make them part of your life. ------Garrison Keillor =================== ===================  Some say, "Like attracts like." Some say, "Opposites attract." When I asked my mother which was true.....she told me to go bang my head against the wall. --------Rodney Dangerfield =================== ===================

The stairway to nowhere, no how, no way~ Perpetually ascending staircase. How can the man go up all the time and come back to the same place over and over? Feel familiar? Ever find yourself never quite getting anywhere despite compromising and accepting  less than what you really want? Huh? Have you thought about taking another staircase?

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