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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 101
Sign: Cancer

City: Nashville
State: Tennessee
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/7/2007
Thursday, January 10, 2008 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Blogging


Hello everyone. It's Lou Riley coming at you live from Nashville, TN. I was in the mood to to a little writing today. I could not think of a better place to share my thoughts with than here with you.

No time to waste. I will get right to the point. My business mentor and partner, Val Smyth said these words on a call: "Goal setting is for loosers!" "People set goals because they are used to failing!" Yeah, just like you I was shocked the first time I heard it. So was everyone else on the line. This went right past new info and into new mindset.

He explained and challenged that no where in any religious text (Bible, Torah, Qur'an etc...) will you find the concept of goal setting. Well, that was enough for me to hear. My mind began taking over. Raised in the Bible Belt, I had my full dose of the King James Version of the Holy Bible during my formative years. When my mental motor started running it started making perfect sense to me.

Think about it. When God created the Heavens and the Earth, he didn't make a list and begin checking things off. I could imagine God in his workshop wearing a set of coveralls and a baseball cap with a pencil stuck in the side. "hmm....let's see....I think I'llllll make..uhhh.....hold on.......o.k......Man! Let's see about 4 ft. no..no..no 5 ft. 10 inches, maybe some facial hair, maybe not......(I could go on for days with this one!)

No. God said be and it was. Just that simple. All matter had to stop what it was doing at the moment to lend itself useful to his command. Now add that to the belief that man/woman was made in his image, then you begin to realize that this power was placed in each of us. We just forgot how to use it.

Let me take you to my picture at the top of this post. This was me at the age of maybe 4. I was a superhero. I had superpower. I could fly. I did not plan these things. It is what I chose to be. When I put that shirt around my neck and said be....I was. I always knew I was supposed to be something special. My purpose is to do many great things. I think I lost track of that when I started setting goals and stopped being what I was.

Maybe that's why its so important to maintain some of our childhood traits as we become adults. Just maybe those goals we were taught to set are actually assurances for the unstable, insecure parts of our subconcious that constantly needs a pat on the back for doing what we always had the power to do. Sometimes we forget who we really are. The child's mind skips right past limitations and goes right to being. Somehow we enter adulthood and learn to focus on becoming.

Just be and watch all that you want fall into place.

Dreams mean work,

Lou Riley
President
Lou Riley Inc.

"Live your life off the wall!"



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