WEEK 24 Master Key outstanding adventure

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Close to end or should I say beginning?

So much has happened on this journey that I know not where to start, so I’ll make the short list:

1. Paid off thousands of back IRS debt

2. Paid off thousands in other debt

3. Ended my construction biz (which I had been trying to do for years)

4. Moved from CA to AZ.

5. Working my MLM company full time (I was not even able to work it part time when I started MKMMA).

6. IMMENSELY HAPPIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7. WAY LESS STRESSED!!!!!!

8. My wife is happier than at any time in the 27 years we have been married. (She didn’t even do the MKMMA)

9. Everyone is much friendlier.

10. I see miracles constantly!

11. Where we moved to is where my wife has always wanted to live (not my first choice but close, besides happy wife happy life and give more get more!)

12. I am more me!

13. I am connected!

Well I could go on and on- loved it- love you!!

Rich Graves

WEEK 23 Master Key outstanding adventure

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Money, these days what is it: an idea backed by confidence.

I could give you an essay on economics but let’s not go there; instead I will give a quote by Wallace Wattles:

“WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.”

I think that is a pretty good way to look at money, a means to give more and a tool to aid you in becoming the real you. Says it all for me how about you? I quote Wallace Wattles:

 “It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity; for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.”

Now a word on Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.” It is time for me to step-up,to quote Emerson:

“And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos And the Dark.”

Bye for now, love you all!!

Rich Graves

WEEK 22a Master Key outstanding adventure

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Emerson’s “Self- Reliance” OMG!!!!!

He nailed it. There is nothing more important than your integrity to yourself,for there is really only one source of any punishment, difficulty, illness or problem and that be you. When you do something you think you should not or do not do what you feel you should is where it all starts.

 Be true to thyself, worry not about the outside world, you are cause!

That’s all this time (been moving Ca to Az)

Rich Graves

WEEK 22 Master Key outstanding adventure

WEEK 22 Master Key outstanding adventure

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 Mark J is always talking about being the observer.

Here is little story about me,myself and I being the observer.

My mother-in-law recently passed and my wife and I had to handle a lot of stuff related to her passing. I have always been a worrier (up to now) and under the added stress I was worrying away.

 I would say to myself if I can just get this one step done, it will all be fine. But when I got it done it was not enough and I worried even more about the next thing.

Well a funning thing happened, I saw myself doing this and how I and my body were addicted to the chemical released by worry. I could never get out of the vicious cycle. Enter MKMMA journey: I saw, I chose a different response, I substituted a different emotion and I broke the cycle. I was doing it but also watching me do it, It Was a Miracle!

Really swamped so that’s it for this week.

Rich Graves

WEEK 21 Master Key outstanding adventure

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I’ll start this week out with a quote from Albert Einstein:

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a

miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Wow, what a life defining question!!

I choose to live my life from the point of view that everything is a miracle!

When you take an honest look around how could you come to any other conclusion. Just look at a plant growing from a seed, you would have to say that’s a miracle. And look at all of the complexities of the human body and how everything works together in harmony(unless you poison it, whoops slipped to the dark side there for a second, positivity-none of that negativity)

If you stop and think about it, even if they were not miracles (and everything is), would it not just be a whole lot more fun to look for the miracle in everything? I read an article once on happiness, I will paraphrase something from that article: The day when you stop creating your own environment when you stop building your own surroundings, you stop waving a magic wand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, that’s the day things cease to be magical, cease to be beautiful. You cease to see the miracles and be the miracle.

 So what are you going to choose? Miracles, beauty, magic?

Create the life you were meant to live. Not the one you were told to live!!!!

Bye for now.

Rich Graves

WEEK 20 Master Key outstanding adventure

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Once again I’ll start with a quote from my favorite dude Charles A Haanel author of The Master Key System:

“ We can live more abundantly every time we breathe, if we consciously breathe with that intention. The IF is a very important condition in this case, as the intention governs the attention, and without the attention you can secure only the results which every one else secures. That is, a supply equal to the demand”.

Wow! If with every breath we take, we have the intention that we are breathing in abundance across all facets and areas of our life, we consciously keep our attention on this intention, What a Life We Can Lead!!

I know I have been doing this several times a day and I feel fantastic!

If you also have the intention that with each breath you are making a connection with all life all intelligence and all substance, it gives a whole new meaning to  the expression “ become one with the universe”. Because you really are.

Here’s another quote from Charles:

“Every time you think you start a train of causation which will create a condition in strict accordance with the quality of the thought which originated it. Thought which is in harmony with the Universal Mind will result in corresponding conditions. Thought which is destructive or discordant will produce corresponding results. You may use thought constructively or destructively, but the immutable law will not allow you to plant a thought of one kind and reap the fruit of another. You are free to use this marvelous creative power as you will, but you must take the consequences.”

So after that last quote, I’ll leave you with this:

Have a great life, unless you’ve made other plans! ( You are free to use this marvelous creative power as you will, but you must take the consequences.)

Rich Graves

WEEK 19 Master Key outstanding adventure

 

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First let me start with a quote from Charles F HAANEL:

“ You may know that thought constantly, eternally is taking form, is forever seeking expression, or you may not, but the fact remains that if your thought is powerful, constructive, and positive, this will be plainly evident in the state of your health, your business and your environment; if your thought is weak, critical, destructive and negative generally, it will manifest in your body as fear, worry and nervousness, in your finance as lack and limitation, and in discordant conditions in your environment.”

That being said, we all had best knock off the negative, weak and destructive thoughts or at least not entertain them and switch to a positive thought immediately. I know I’ve mentioned this many times in my blog, but it’s the most important thing you can do to lead a better more productive life.

Haanel states that during our 15 minutes of concentration and I quote: “Let the thought rest on the fact that appearances are deceptive.” Most people think that the environment and/or their life situations determine their happiness and well-being. But this assumption is not correct for all of those things are affects and the cause is your thoughts, as was stated in the first quote above it’s what thoughts you’re entertaining that determine all of those. I hate to break it to you( and myself) but don’t be pointing the finger over there, go look in the mirror and you will see the one that has entertained  the thoughts that brought about the existing condition you are living in.

Well I will get off my soapbox now and end with: You are whole perfect strong powerful loving harmonious and happy!!!!!

Rich Graves

WEEK 18 Master Key outstanding adventure

 

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To be or not to be that is the question- William Shakespeare asked.

First let me state that this post is my opinion.

We have been taking this journey now for 18+ weeks and here’s my thoughts on it:

I started this course/journey/experience in order to become a new person.

What I have discovered is that, I don’t need to become a new person, all I need to do is Be the real me. At the core of us all is a shining spiritual being. I recall a time and I’m sure you all can to, as a small child when I was that being. I have had things added to and things subtracted from me by others and myself, to the point that I did not in any way resemble that shining being.

I believe that I can be my authentic self; as a matter of fact I and you too have been and always will be that authentic self. I believe that all you need to do is decide and then hold that decision in your consciousness.

In the master key mastermind alliance experience we have been given all sorts of tools, exercises, habits etc., to enable us to break all of the conditioning that has led us away from being the whole perfect strong powerful loving harmonious and happy person we really are. So that we naturally recover that authentic self. And What a Self It Is!

So I invite you, both my fellow travelers in the experience and anyone that happens to come across this post: be kinder, give more love, forgive (others and yourself), be more grateful and always look for the good because you will find it.

Bye for now

Rich Graves

WEEK 17a Master Key outstanding adventure

 

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I would like to start this week with a little personal note and thank you:

My mom (technically my mother-in-law) passed last night at about 1 o’clock in the morning. I have never handled deaths of close ones very well. That being said I would like to give a huge thank you to Mark J, the fabulous Davene and the rest of the wonderful group for the Master Key Mastermind Alliance experience. I really have recovered a lot of my authentic self. There was of course the usual grief and the terrible feeling of loss, but because I have recovered more of spiritual self, I was able not to be a total reactive basketcase. Thus I was able to handle the situation far better than I ever would have been before this experience, so thank you again  and I love you folks.

I will close this week with this quote from Charles F. Haanel:

“Spiritual Truth is therefore the controlling factor; it is this which will enable you to grow out of limited attainment and reach a point where you will be able to translate modes of thought into character and consciousness.”

“Spiritual truth” has made a world of difference to me, bye for now.

Rich Graves

WEEK 17 Master Key outstanding adventure

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For 40 years I have been concentrating on or dabbling in self-improvement arena. I have heard countless people say things like:

you have to become more in order to have more

for things to change you have to change.

These things are true, but I have yet to see anyone who gave you a workable way to do those things, until the master key mastermind alliance experience. Way too many angles , steps and facets to go into it in detail,you will just have to do it.

 I want to quote Charles Haanel

“There is always the cry “to have” but never the cry “to be”; they fail to understand that they cannot have one without the other, that they must first find the “kingdom” before they can have the “things added.” Momentary enthusiasm is of no value; it is only with unbounded self-confidence that the goal is reached.”

Unbounded self-confidence, I actually am starting to be self-confident with no bounds or limits. I still need to work on, it fluctuates a little now but I know I can achieve it. As a matter fact I know I am it.

When you think about it, there is only one real security in the world. That security is your own personal self-confidence. It matters not what happens in the environment if you have recovered the real you , who is whole perfect strong powerful loving harmonious and happy! It’s plain to see that money and material things will never make you secure, if you have not given yourself permission to be you. You are the shining light that lights the path for others and so am I.

Well I guess that gives us something to think about doesn’t it?

Rich Graves