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Choose the Right Path with Numerology

Finding out your birthdate numerology number, is the first step to finding out where you will go, or what directions you should take in life.

 
Once you have reduced your birthday to a single number, then you can figure out your life path.

 
For example:  If you reduce your birthday down to the number “1”   then here is what that says about you.

 
ONE.  Strong willed, positive, and pure energy.  The number one reflects new beginnings, and purity, and when the symbolic meaning of number one is looked at closely, you will see that ONE represents both kinds of action, physical and mental.

 
This combined with the need for new beginnings, will spur you to take on new projects or go in a new direction and be rewarded for the action.

 
TWO, if you are two, you are kind, aim for balance in your life, but also the need for planning.  You have a need to be with like minded  people, and you wish harmony in your relationships.  You also have a need to nurture your soul and do what is best for you.

 
THREE,  if you are three, you express yourself creatively.  You use your intuition for decisions and to your advantage.  Three is also a time identifier, as you look at your past and present to help with your future plans.  You need to express yourself, and try new ventures, but wish the cooperation from those around you.

 
By reducing an important date, such as our birthdays, into one single number, you can then refer to the symbols of that number and gain some knowledge.  Birthday numerology is used to reduce your birthdate to a single number by adding  the day of the month, the number of the month and all the numbers in the year.

 
These are just examples of some of the numbers, there are also different paths in numerology you can look at, such as for career, relationships, money, and more.  It is fun to work out your number, and follow the symbols. 

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What Life Cycle Are You?

Did you know that in Numerology, the cycle is nine years?

This means, that depending on what year it is, you could be going through nine different cycles?.

This is where you need to find out what cycle you are in right now. This could be your creative cycle, so you would then put all your efforts into creating. Or this could be the year you need to go out and find romance. Or, this could be the year of financial success!

The value of numerology, is that it can tell you what would be a waste of time working and focusing on during a that cycle, and what would be the best to focus on for you.

Therefore, if you follow numerology, for character, destinies and more, then why not find out your life cycle?

This way you can concentrate on the right part of your life, and find success!

If you want to know your personal year, take the month and day of your birth down to a single digit, then add this to the year you want to examine .. such as 2008. Once you know your personal year, you can evaluate the coming calendar year.

Find out what cycle you are in. Why spend your time treading water when you are meant to be creating, or meeting your significant other, or having a successful career.

Don’t waste a minute, find out your life cycle number now! get a free numerology reading now

The Ridiculousness of Christ’s Resurrection

I listened to the song “Arise My Love” by NewSong on my way home today. It made me think about about the ridiculousness of Christ’s resurrection.Christ-followers can always fall back on the astounding awesomeness His victory over death. Everything else that could occur in this life is “no big deal” compared with the fact that Christ died and rose again to conquer all evil forever.

Some people have a liberated perspective on life because of extraordinary circumstances they overcame. Christ’s followers have a similarly liberated perspective.

Christ’s resurrection provides His people with unreasonably tenacious hope. This hope is so overwhelming that no life situation is too difficult.

The hope of unending life in Christ is like knowing that, as soon as your next workday ends, you will inherit one billion dollars. How will you feel when you wake up the next day? How bad could that eight or nine hours of work possibly be? The whole day will be fantastic because of the joyful anticipation of what waits for you. But this is comparing smaller things with greater things. Money is already worthless, but our inheritance in Christ is eternally satisfying.

Christ gives His people beautiful hope. His victorious divinity is devastatingly powerful.

by Patrick Roberts. Find additional resources at www.BooksByPatrick.com and www.KoGmedia.com

Gasoline Resembles Sin

Petroleum exists because of death and decay. Death and decay exist because of sin.Continuing to burn gas destroys life. Sin also continues to destroy life.

In the same way that sin drags down and discourages a person’s will to improve so also gas represents an unwillingness to improve. There are better alternatives to gas (such as electricity) that have existed for a long time. Yet we continue to use this archaic technology. Gas pushes a car along by burning and exploding… is this the best energy we can come up with?

Humanity’s craving for sin is not logical because the fruits of sin are misery and death. For similar reasons it is illogical for us to continue using gasoline. There are better ways to get around and everybody knows it. But the greed, selfishness and corruption of a few powerful men forces everyone to continue using it.

In the same way that corruption and selfishness proves the existence of sin, so also the continued existence of gasoline in our daily lives proves the existence of corruption in our society. We use gas because a few greedy CEOs have disproportionate control over the energy industry. They stay in power by playing on the selfishness and corruption of lawmakers.

Much like sin, gasoline seems useful on the short term, but it will destroy us eventually. Gas is similar to sin in that it takes its time destroying us. Therefore, our reaction to this gradual destruction is similar to our reaction to sin: We put off thinking about it until we are on our deathbeds.

Like sin, gasoline is clear and clean at first glance, but its fruit is suffocating poison. Gas gets us where we need to go for now, but we’re poisoning the air we breath in the mean time.

In the same way that sin is enslaving to our whole lives, so also the gasoline industry has enslaved our economy. If you like having free will, then don’t sin. Sin destroys not only the will to do good, it destroys the will to do anything at all. In the same way, if you like having a free economy where everyone has the same shot at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then don’t use gas. A handful of gas tycoons decided to raise the prices by three hundred percent over the last few years and there is nothing the general public can do about. There’s certainly nothing the government is doing about it. Average people don’t have time to invent cars for themselves, so they’re left with no choice but to pay what the gas kingpins dictate.

In the same way that sin is unjust, so also the continued existence of gasoline is unjust. Elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents’ best interests. Yet these same officials let their people fall victim to the greed and corruption of gas tycoons. The people in power were put there to enforce justice, yet they embrace injustice because it earns them a few extra bucks.

In the same way that sin is self-destructive, so also gas tycoons are only destroying themselves with their greed. They raise the price of gas three times over and suppose they are getting rich. But they are making everyone poor. As the price of gas increases the price of everything else will increase. Suddenly it takes ten dollars to buy what used to cost one dollar. Average working people, the people who make this country work, will become discouraged and therefore less productive and less creative. In this way gas tycoons as well as their political bedfellows are destroying the same infrastructure they would like lord over. They want to accumulate millions and billions however, by their actions, they are making their millions and billions worthless. They are starving the hands that feed them.

By the fruits of corruption we can tell what is corrupt. By the fruit of the gas industry we can tell that the men running this industry are corrupt.

So insidious is the effect of petroleum on our government that our armies now make war and oppress entire countries because of it. What other industry has such as far-reaching, oppressive effect on the world?

Sin inspires self-destructive insanity. So also the petroleum industry is infecting the world with a similar kind of insanity. It makes no sense that we would go so far to impose our gospel of democracy on the Middle East. Since when do we drop bombs and missiles on countries to make them democratic? The answer to the question, “Why is the U.S. military in the Middle East?” does not make either moral or economic sense. In the same way that corruption and greed are all bad, in the same way that sin is all bad, so also our war with the oil-rich countries of the Middle East is all bad.

It is tragic that the greed of a few men is having such a far-reaching effect on the world. But again, this is how sin works. A sin-infected person will sacrifice the whole world for one more selfish indulgence.

by Patrick Roberts. Find additional resources at www.BooksByPatrick.com and www.KoGmedia.com

Vital Unlearning, Blessed Reduction

God is in the business of reducing His people to the bare-bone minimum so He can build them up again from scratch. He clears off all our beloved, self-serving construction and then builds us up again on a new Foundation: Christ.Getting to a spiritual ground zero is difficult. Unforeseen hardship is a dependable feature of God’s life-consuming mercy and grace. From the time we open ourselves up to Christ, He immediately goes to work, breaking down every thing we built apart from His approval. All of this is a painful process.

Though it doesn’t feel like anything good at the time, it is a divine mercy when God tears down any misconception that would lead us to assume too much about ourselves. His effective method for bringing us back to the page that He wants us on is spiritual devastation.

God is the great, spiritual Surgeon, who will do whatever it takes to spare His people. Oftentimes His grace works like a surgeon’s knife, which hurts for a while and might even cost us a limb. Repentance, for example, is a painful ordeal, but its end product is heavenly, unfading joy.

It is eternally more beneficial for God to demolish us for a while, if it’s according to His will, so He can build us back up again by His Spirit. In this way we will learn, despite ourselves, to trust in Christ’s heavenly design rather than any manly invention.

Humble repentance is often the same thing as unlearning. As we forget everything we think we know, God will bring us back to the beginning, or to whatever crossroads it was where we turned off from loving the Truth.

When we give up our right to even understand God in Christ, then He will bring us back from our fleshly highs down to solid, spiritual level. He will build us up from a humble, dusty place so that we accept His Divinity through faith and not through any virtue of our own.

As for us, if we have never relinquished our right to be in charge of our lives and yet still consider ourselves Spirit-led, then we have an unimaginable amount of unlearning to do.

Have we been building with gold, silver and precious stone, or with some lame imitation? Do we desire to be useful to God? Then let’s listen and not assume anything. No matter what happens, we have encouragement in the fact that God is faithful.

I realize that the general populace, whether churched or un-churched, will not think about anything, much less do anything, unless they perceive some compelling motivation. We westerners will not rise up from our comfortable places and take care of business with God unless we are compelled by a greater Power than ourselves.

One potentially good attribute we westerners carry around with us is our abhorrence for wasting time on something that seems impossible. If we find out that something is not worth doing, we will quickly move on to something more worthwhile.

Anyone who is convinced that something is a waste of time will, and should, phase that thing out of their life. If someone sincerely believes that God’s kingdom is a waste of time then God will phase that person out Himself.

But there is Life, there is movement and there is inspiration in Christ.

Christ sent the Holy Spirit as a flame over the heads of those people that made up His earliest church. These days, if He sent His Spirit again, He would have to come as a Red Hot Fire, lit directly underneath our rear-ends. God may sometimes resemble a comforting cushion to His people in this world, but for our sakes I hope He is more like a pincushion. I hope and pray for our sakes that God’s Spirit more closely resembles a sharp point that prods us into spiritual action than a soft pillow that lulls us to sleep.

So what do we really think about God’s kingdom? If we think it’s a waste of time, then why not just admit it? If living by faith in Christ is a truly pointless endeavor, then we have nothing to lose by saying so. Besides, if God is God, then He already knows what’s on our minds, so we’re not going to pull a fast on one Him by professing a nonexistent faith.

So, if we are not deceiving God, who then is left for us to deceive? Ourselves? We might as well follow through with what we really believe and stop torturing ourselves by trying to put our faith in God and the world at the same time.

However, if we have tasted God’s grace, if we have caught a glimpse of His glory, then let’s put our hope and trust in Christ alone. He will do what it takes to save every last piece of us, if we are His and if He is God.

by Patrick Roberts. Find additional resources at www.BooksByPatrick.com

Love vs. Lust?

He looks you deep in the eyes as if he could easily read your soul by penetrating without scrutiny your mental inner-sanctum. From this moment on, you feel as if you are in a dreamland, you feel so very light-headed and you easily submit to his attractive power.
But you don’t understand… is this a feeling of Love or Lust?
As he kisses gently your neck and makes his way down to your cleavage, you suddenly have this odd feeling of confusion; does he love you, or does he want to have an easy access beneath your soft and silky white dress? Does he want to fondle your intimate regions and then leave you to dry there like a used fruit?
It doesn’t matter actually. You just submissively follow his lead and meet with his lips, those big lips pressing against your cherry-flavoured lips. Your heart races incessively and you tell yourself that you want this moment to last forever.
He is very skilled… he knows how to press all the buttons that make you moan with excitment, groan with passion…
Yet… you can’t shake off this odd feeling of confusion… you always have, in the back of your head, this maddening question: “Does he love me, or does he lust for me?”.
But it doesn’t matter… you absolutely want to give him pleasure the same way he is giving you pleasure; Pure, unfathomable, beyond reasoning, instinctive, with passionate energy… from dusk ’til dawn.
And so the morning comes… and as he hold you tight in his arm… laying right next to you in your bed, under the sheets, pretty princess…
There, you found your answer!!

7 Steps to Unleash Dynamic Energy

Do these Things to Release Dynamic Energy:

1. Set some goal for yourself that you are trying to achieve.

Make that goal big enough so that it will excite your imagination and arouse tremendous interest. Your energies will rise in proportion to the needs you have. If you have a goal to make only fifty dollars a week, it is not a very inspiring goal. If you push that goal and set a figure such as two hundred and fifty dollars a week, instantly your subconscious mind will release the dynamic energy and the dynamic ideas to make it possible to achieve the larger sum.

2. Have some person or persons in your life that you are trying to help. This can be your own mate, your children, your mother and father; whatever it is that you are trying to do for others unselfishly will automatically give you greater energy and more stamina to endure and persist. If you live just for yourself, it is unlikely that you will have more than just enough life-force to exist. Florence Nightingale was the first woman in history to go out into battle to help nurse soldiers. She freed womankind from the restrictions of their sex, and created a new and honorable profession for women. This frail woman was so inspired by her desire to help the sick, that it gave her tremendous energy and vitality.

3. Find work that you really enjoy doing.And if you happen to be in work you despise get out of it as soon as possible. Nothing will so quickly lower the curve of energy as being in work you detest. It has even been known to make some people chronically sick because they are constantly frustrated. This restricts the glandular action of the body and depresses the body organs. But if you are in work you love, your body cells sing with joy and health and energy, they are stimulated, so that you constantly feel good.

4. Have hobbies that give you pleasure as well as relaxation. Dynamic energy is created when your mind is interested in doing something. It is vitally important that you have avocations as well as a vocation. The moments you give to painting, writing poetry or stories, modeling in clay, stamp collecting, rug weaving or whatever hobby you indulge, are moments well spent, for they will serve to release energy which will make your regular work easier and less boring.

5. If you are not already in love with someone, fall in love as quickly as you can.Nothing helps release dynamic energy so quickly and potently as being in love. Science is now aware of the importance of this powerful emotion in our lives. Children thrive and are healthy when loved. When denied love they are sickly and lacking in energy and interest.

6. Set daily goals for yourself that you are trying to achieve.

If you are a salesman, set a certain number of sales. If an author, set a certain number of pages you wish to write. If a student, a certain course of study which you do regularly. It has been found that the mind responds to the challenge of direct suggestion. If you know you are going to play eighteen holes of golf, the body and brain see to it that the necessary energy and drive are created to carry you through that course. If a prize fighter builds himself up mentally to take on a certain opponent, his body will release the energy to carry him into that ring facing formidable opposition. As you achieve these small goals at first, keep raising the level of your goal, until you have reached a high peak of energy and achievement.

7. Each day, when you start your activities, say a series of suggestions that will be energy-boosters to your subconscious mind.

Here are a few you might memorize and repeat every day when you feel the need of inspiration or greater mental or physical energy.

  • I am strong and healthy.
  • I can accomplish anything I desire.
  • I am young and vital, and my body now responds with new energy and vitality to do all my tasks today.
  • I am happy, happy, happy.
  • I find joy in my work and my life sparkles with interest and happiness.
  • I have faith in myself, my work and my destiny.
  • I now extend this faith to the entire world.
  • I am successful, well-liked, and attract friends to myself.
  • I now radiate confidence, poise and inner power.
  • I love everyone I meet, and they will in turn love me.
  • I am rich as any millionaire; with gifts of mental and physical health, free estates of parks, and the golden gifts of friendship, love, peace, happiness and beauty.

Whenever you feel tired or discouraged, or your energy is low, just stop whatever you are doing, breathe deeply for ten or fifteen times, say all of the above energy-boosters, and really mean them, then you will see how quickly your mind recovers its sharpness, and your body becomes filled with new energy and vitality.

Finding Motivation:What to Do When You Don’t Feel

“The measure of your success usually comes down to who wins the battle that rages between the two of you. The ‘you’ who wants to stop, give up, or take it easy, and the ‘you’ who chooses to beat back that which would stand in the way of your success — complacency.” – Chris Widener

In all my interactions with people, I’ve never found anyone, regardless of their level of success, who doesn’t sometimes find themselves simply not wanting to do the things that they need and want to do. It is a part of human nature that there will be times that, in spite of all that we need to do, and even desire to, we will find ourselves not wanting to do anything. And what separates those who will become successful from those who will maintain the status quo, is the ability at those very crucial moments of time when we are making decisions about what we will do, to choose to find the inner motivation that will enable us to conquer our complacency and move on in action.

I find that I confront this issue in my life on a regular basis, so the following success strategies are not merely pie in the sky techniques, but proven ways to get yourself to go even when you don’t feel like doing anything.

Honestly evaluate whether or not you need a break. This is the first thing that I usually do when I find that I don’t want to get to a specific action. The fact is that oftentimes we will have been working very hard, and the lethargy we are feeling is really our body and emotions telling us that we simply need a break. And this is where it takes real intellectual honesty because when we don’t need a break, our mind is still telling us we need a break! But sometimes we do need a break. I’ll give you a good example. I don’t particularly like to exercise, but I do almost every day. Sometimes, I find myself before going to the club thinking about how I just didn’t feel like going. Most of the time I am just being lazy. However, sometimes I realize that my body needs a break. So from time to time I will take a one- or two-day break from working out. The benefits of this are two-fold: One, my body gets a break to regenerate itself. Two, after a day or two, I begin to miss my workout, and eagerly anticipate a turning to the gym. Other examples: Perhaps you are a salesman who has been phoning clients for a week straight, day and night. You wake up one morning and just don’t feel like doing it any more. Well, take a break for the morning. Go to a coffee shop and read the paper. Go to the driving range and hit some golf balls. Take a break and then get back to it!

Start small. I’m at a point in my workout schedule now where a typical workout day for me consists of 30 to 45 minutes of aerobic exercise, and about 30 minutes of weight lifting. So when I find myself not wanting to get up and go to the gym, I will sometimes make a commitment to go and just do a smaller workout. Instead of deciding not to go, I’ll commit to doing 15 to 20 minutes of aerobic exercise and 15 to 30 minutes of weight lifting. This is also good for two reasons. One, I actually get some exercise that day. And two, it keeps me from getting into a cycle of giving up when I don’t feel like moving toward action. Other examples: Maybe you are a writer who simply doesn’t want to write today. Instead of the long day writing you had planned, decide that you will at least outline a couple of new articles. You will at least get these done, and you may have found that you put yourself into the writing mood after all.

Change your routine. I have found that what keeps me in the best shape and burns the most calories for me is to do 30 to 45 minutes on the treadmill every day. Now let me be very blunt. I find running on the treadmill to be extremely boring. Usually I can get myself to do it, but sometimes I need to vary my routine. So instead of 30 to 45 minutes on a treadmill, I will break down my aerobic exercise routine into a number of different areas. I will do 10 to 15 minutes on the treadmill, 10 to 15 minutes on the reclining cycle, 5 to 10 minutes on the rowing machine, 5 to 10 minutes on the stair stepper, and then back on to the treadmill for five to 10 minutes. I still get my exercise, but I’m bored a lot less. Other examples: Maybe you are in construction and you have been working on the plumbing for a week, and it is getting monotonous. Don’t do the plumbing today! Go frame-in the office.

Reward yourself. One way that I motivate myself to do something when I don’t feel like doing it is to tell myself that if I get through the work that I need to, I will give myself a little reward. For instance, I may tell myself if I to get up and go to the club, I can take five to 10 minutes off my treadmill exercise, which will shorten my workout routine, and I’ll allow myself to sit in the hot tub for a few extra minutes. Hey, it works! Other examples: Maybe you are a mortgage broker who feels like sleeping in. Tell yourself that after the next three mortgages you close, you will take your kids to the fair or your spouse to the movies. Maybe you’ll give yourself a night on the town with old friends.

Reconnect the action with pleasure rather than pain. Psychologists have long told us that we humans tend to connect every action with either pleasure or pain. Tony Robbins has popularized this even further in the last few years with something he calls Neural Associations. That is, we connect every action with either a pleasure or pain. When we are finding ourselves lacking motivation, what we are probably finding about ourselves is that we are associating the action that we are thinking about with pain, rather than pleasure. For instance, when I’m considering not going to the health club on any given day, I am usually associating going and working out with having no time, the pain of exercising and weight lifting, or the boringness of running on a treadmill for an extended period of time. What I can do to re-associate is to remind myself that by going in and doing my exercise, I will feel better about myself, I will lose weight, and I will live longer. This brings me pleasure. When we begin to run those kinds of tapes through our minds, we find our internal motivating force unleashed and changing our attitude about the action that we are considering. Other examples: Maybe you are a counselor who really doesn’t want to spend the day listening to people. Your association may be that it will be boring, or that you will be inside while it is sunny outside. Instead, re-associate yourself to the truth of the matter: Someone will be better off because of your care and concern. Think of your clients and the progression they have been making recently and how you have been a part of that.

Give these ideas a try and see if you don’t find yourself pushing through into action!

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