Personal Expansion Fundamentals-Part 2

    The second fundamental element of the Personal Expansion Principle that you must master in order to complete a solid track record of accomplishment is your willingness to go above and beyond what people expect of you. It’s easier for you to learn from your failures than it is to do more than what you’re paid to do. Accordingly, the notion of productivity above and beyond the boundaries of requirement and payment received will not sit well with you unless you are determined to expand your being, thinking, and doing.

   This is so for several reasons. When you have operated under someone else’s rules and regulations, you are used to selling your time for money and you expect to make the most money in the least amount of time possible. Your “time for money” mindset is not a Personal Expansion Mindset because it misses the crucial point: your personal expansion has nothing to do with exchanging your time for someone else’s money, but everything to do with your personal creation of value that will benefit others.

   Another reason why you may not want to embrace the element that requires that you go above and beyond what people expect of you is that somehow you believe that you’re entitled to expand just because you showed up to work or otherwise function for someone else’s benefit. What you fail to realize is that everybody else in your same situation also showed up to do exactly what you’re doing—on time, and not late like you are as an employee or volunteer! News Flash: the person who creates their own life and future must work harder over longer hours, days, months and years than she or he did as an employee or volunteer.

   A third reason you may not want to go above and beyond what people expect of you is that you haven’t yet been programmed to go the extra mile, or distance yourself from those around you by the quality, quantity and content of your product or service. The one seeking personal expansion must strive to do the work, write the book, compose the music, sell the product or provide the service with ever-increasing skill and effectiveness. In short, only proactive, forward-looking and resourceful people will attain the personal expansion they claim to be seeking.

   When you go above and beyond what people expect of you, you set yourself apart from most people. In fact, you place yourself in a position where you have few—if any—competitors! Having such a posture allows you to own what you do and take pride in it.

   Under these circumstances, the product or service you provide has personal meaning to you. Also, you seek to improve your own performance and look for ways to upgrade or otherwise improve the entire process of whatever it is in which you’re engaged. Your productive and attitudinal mindset change is unmistakably and immediately noticeable to your clients and customers. It sets you apart—even if no one else cares—because you feel better about what you’re doing and you’re no longer selling your time for money: you’re creating value greater than what you could ever receive in dollars and you are adding worth to yourself through your conscientious effort to do what you do to the best of your ability.

   Your will and determination to go above and beyond what people expect of you causes a radical change in your work ethic and your own sense of self-worth and appreciation of who you are as a productive person who is no longer alienated from the product or service you provide. This behavior of yours, over a consistent period of time, begins to earn you a reputation that will follow you wherever you go. This reputation is the bedrock of the solid track record that you have established that will lead you to your ultimate personal expansion.

Personal Expansion Fundamentals-Part 1

 The Personal Expansion Principle (PEP) is not related to who you know, what you know, the economic climate, or luck. It is the result of a process of adhering to universal laws that have stood the test of time. This process of personal expansion includes learning and practicing 7 fundamental elements of the Personal Expansion Principle: 1) learn from past failures; 2) go above and beyond what people expect of you; 3) show initiative and leadership; 4) exhibit patience and self-control; 5) excel at cooperation; 6) respect and tolerate others; and 7) function with a positive attitude.

   The first of these fundamental elements of the Personal Expansion Principle that you must master is probably one of the most important lessons you must learn early in your quest for personal expansion. You will not begin to experience the personal expansion available to you if you do not learn from past failures.

   Failures will inevitably come to you along the road to your ultimate expansion. Indeed, they are the stepping stones to your expansion. You will never learn from your successes unless they were unforeseen and purely accidental—many successes have come from failures to achieve intended results. With this minor exception, you can only learn from your failures. If you can learn from your failures, that learning itself lays down a solid track record that will aid you in your continued expansion.

   Every expanded person has failed utterly at something. You must understand that part of the process of personal expansion is moving through failure without being discouraged or disheartened to the point of giving up on your dream. Personal Expansion is not for the faint of heart, the cowardly in spirit, or the proud. To expand in every area of your life, you must not be easily intimidated. You must be willing to strengthen yourself. You must fight your fears, admit mistakes, and add to your learning

   Be self-confident enough to take risks, but wise enough to assess the risks, consider the rewards and then proceed. If you have done your homework properly, then when you fail you can pinpoint where you went wrong. You may have begun with the wrong assumptions, insufficient facts, or dependence on an unreliable source. Wherever you went wrong, whatever you miscalculated in the environment or whoever you misjudged, overvalued, or undervalued will become the lesson plan you use to learn, grow and add to your store of wisdom. To learn from past failures is never to lose your boldness and self-assured status on the one hand, and always to gain humility and even more fearlessness on the other.

Overlooking the Visible-Part 2

   The electronic theory explains how all matter is evolved from one homogeneous Original or Primary Substance. But this theory does not explain how motion originated to create or produce something different from the Original or Primary Substance from which the negatively and positively charged electricity particles came. It is here that the Universal Law of Cause and Effect comes in.

   The Law of Cause and Effect says that for every effect—whether motion, release of energy, a tree growing, or rain falling—there is a cause. Science is quite clear that living things can only come from—be caused by—living things. Only Life can give birth to life. Science is also clear that if anything is moving—whether that thing is animate or inanimate—its movement has been caused by someone or something.

   At the beginning of creation, the Original Cause of all things was Intelligent Spirit: God. What He used to set all things in motion was the creative process.

   Science understands that sound is transmitted through waves. Technically, in physics, mathematics and related fields, a wave is a disturbance—a change from a resting value—of one or more fields (physical quantities, represented by numbers that have a value for each point in space-time) such that the field values oscillate repeatedly about a stable resting value. So much for our technical discussion of waves because we are concerned only with what causes these vibrations or waves. We now know that sound is the cause of the effect of the waves generated by it.

   So what was the cause of the first sound at the beginning of creation? Are you saying it was the “Big Bang”? If so, Who or What caused the “Big Bang”? Whatever primordial substance there was at the beginning, had to have been created prior to going “Bang!” It could not have existed before it was created. And once created, it would have been in a state of inertia—unable to move in any way that would ultimately end up in a great “bang” collision.

   No. The Eternal Originator of all things was behind whatever “bang” there may have been, and His Voice, His Word, His Utterance caused what was inert to become ertia—energy.

   Now this energy is located everywhere in space-time and also in everything—animate and inanimate that is visible and invisible. In fact, it is the invisibility of energy with which we must be concerned, for it is the inside of everything, visible and invisible. And the Law of Polarity makes clear that if there is an inside, there must be an outside, in the same way that if there is an outside, there must be an inside.

Overlooking the Visible-Part 1

 Before there was anything anywhere at all, there was the Word. So, you must understand that the “beginning” which the first verse of Genesis speaks of is not the “beginning” of time as we know it, or the Word, Himself, but rather the “beginning” of the cosmos which we now inhabit. The Word was the Voice of God who was with God and existed as God. All the things that the Word made were made by the sound emanating from the Word—“Let there be”—after the Spirit of God moved or was in motion (Genesis 1:2-3).

   Only after the Word spoke—generated sound—did anything come into being that was not in being before the Word spoke. So, we must discuss what science has found to be the relationship between sound and first causes.

    To begin with, modern science acknowledges that every chemical atom is made up of particles of only one substance—the Original or Primary Substance—which seems to occupy all space-time. The specific identity of a given atom—whether it turns out to be iron, phosphorous, hydrogen or some other substance—is a function of how many particles of negatively charged electricity revolve around a center of positively charged electricity, and the rate or speed at which they move. Thus, the number and speed of motion of these particles determine the nature and identity of the specific atom they form.

   Modern science also acknowledges that all material substance—inanimate matter as well as animate matter—has no inherent qualities or characteristics that distinguish one part of this Original of Primary Substance from any other part of it. This is extremely significant. Out of this undifferentiated (all the same) Substance, particles are produced which are different from the very Substance that produced them. Their specific difference is that they possess negatively and positively charged energy.

   What I have just discussed is an electronic theory that explains how all matter is evolved from one homogeneous Original or Primary Substance. But this theory does not explain how motion originated to create or produce something different from the Original or Primary Substance from which the negatively and positively charged electricity particles came. It is here that the Universal Law of Cause and Effect comes in.

   The Law of Cause and Effect says that for every effect—whether motion, release of energy, a tree growing, or rain falling—there is a cause. Science is quite clear that living things can only come from—be caused by—living things. Only Life can give birth to life. Science is also clear that if anything is moving—whether that thing is animate or inanimate—its movement has been caused by someone or something.

   At the beginning of creation, the Original Cause of all things was Intelligent Spirit: God. What He used to set all things in motion was the creative process.

   Science understands that sound is transmitted through waves. Technically, in physics, mathematics and related fields, a wave is a disturbance—a change from a resting value—of one or more fields (physical quantities, represented by numbers that have a value for each point in space-time) such that the field values oscillate repeatedly about a stable resting value. So much for our technical discussion of waves because we are concerned only with what causes these vibrations or waves, and we now know that sound is the cause of the effect of the waves generated by it.