Burn the Boats

The story goes that when Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez landed in Mexico, one of his first orders to his men was to burn the ships.  Cortez was committed to his mission and did not want to allow himself or his men the option of going back to Spain.  By removing this option, Cortez and his men were forced to focus on how they could make the mission successful.

In reality, it was likely that Cortez’ men were threatening to desert him and Cortez made such an action impossible by removing the one truly viable option his men had to get out of what was no doubt a challenging situation.  Don’t know that this is the BEST example of leadership BUT, that is not the point of mentioning this little historical anecdote.

I had this little message from my subconscious a few days ago: “Burn the Boats,” it said. Read more

Part of the Solution

I have a local meetup that I host called Manifesting Wealth: Implementing the Law of Attraction.  Tonight’s topic is “How to Stay Positive in Challenging Times.”

So, since I have to run the meeting and in theory contribute something to the discussion, I have been thinking about this a bit.  It’s a timely topic - the economy is certainly not thriving: jobs being lost, real estate and stock prices are getting hammered, the overall mood of our country is somber.

I think the latter is an improvement from ‘fearful’ which is where we were about 2-3 weeks ago.  Obama’s decisive victory was one of the first positive feelings I got from watching the news in months.

I think everyone could improve their own perspective AND the reality that comes with it If we focus our intention on being a part of the solution, in whatever form that takes, and not promoting the fear and uncertainty that comes with the kind of dynamic we are going through right now.  When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion— but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

No matter how you “implement” this perspective, whether it is a cheerful attitude of gratitude for the health and well being you have, being helpful and generous with your time in assisting others or any other kind of ‘part of the solution’ behavior, your quality of life cannot help but improve.

Keep your consciousness in a higher vibrational state - be a part of the solution.

Quality of Life Daily Nov 11 08

The purpose of this blog in the broader context is to augment my primary website (www.MarkRafter.com)  as a place people can come to learn more about my philosophy of wealth, developing their own Inner Expert, personal mastery and find other resources (websites, articles, products, insight and perspective) about increasing their quality of life.

To that end, there are tons of other people out in cyberspace (do people still use that term?) blogging about similar topics.  I check out lots of other sites on a nearly daily basis and am going to start doing a nearly daily entry here to provide my readers with links to those blog postings and authors that I think are worth reading.  I’ll weed out the crap and blatant product-selling copy so you can sample the writers that I feel are offering the most value.  As an expert in the area of identifying and monetizing individuals’ expertise, I don’t Read more