Dr Jon's Renegade Commentary on our Planetary Existence

Call the Moving Van!

2007-11-11T20:20:00.000-05:00

Life in the brick and mortar world has people moving about every 5 years. Likewise, in the world of virtual real estate moves also occur.

That is happening to me. I am leaving the "rental" space of Blogger and am "buying" my own "house" to run and host my Blog.

The change of address notice will now read:

http://www.goodheartgroupinc.com/blog

Keep those cards and letters coming!!

Blessings,

Dr Jon

The Secret to Winning the Battle Against MRSA!!

2007-11-09T14:06:00.000-05:00

A couple of days ago my dear friend and colleague, Chuck, in California told me that his adult son almost overnight showed up with a case of MRSA. My Doctor brain immediately went into "help him" mode.

I had to tell him about a solution that would

protect his son from further damage,
prevent him from getting into serious sequelae from taking the antibiotics prescribed, and
even improve his overall health!

In other words he could get over the infection and be better than when he first started with it!!

Now I know, all of you think I am crazy and off my rocker (hence the title of the blog!) but hear me out.

First let's look at the scope of the problem with MRSA. Chuck called me today to say that a local news broadcast had a feature this morning about a high school football player who was just diagnosed with the dis-ease. Young people are supposed to be healthy enough to not get it.

In the words made famous by the excellent movie Apollo 13, "Houston, we have a problem!"

So what is MRSA?

The "SA" stands for "Staphylococcus Aureus," a strain of bacteria which is a normal inhabitant of human skin and nose tissue. [I can't resist putting in a plug here for the "environmental theory" of infection - the idea that bacteria only become problematic when the environment in a person's body is conducive for it's growth. In other words when a person does not have adequate immunity. But we digress; that discussion is for another time!] Normally this does not cause problems. In the instances where it might, usually a dose of a Penicillin type of antibiotic, Methicillin, will "take care" of it.

However, there has developed a strain of the Staph Aureus which in now Methicillin Resistant, hence the abbreviation/acronym MRSA or Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus. In other words, there is not a good choice of antibiotic out there in the pharmaceutical world that treats this bacterium adequately and effectively. That should trouble you!

Here are some facts from a Microbiology site on the internet¹:

Many commonly prescribed antibiotics are not effective against these bacteria.

It is no more dangerous or virulent than methicillin-sensitive S. aureus but it is more difficult to treat.

This bacterium is usually confined to hospitals and in particular to vulnerable or debilitated patients.

[Italics mine - Dr Jon]

In terms of treatment²,

Where infection is present, antibiotics commonly used to treat methicillin-sensitive S. aureus such as flucloxacillin, erythromycin and the cephalosporins, are not effective and the patient will require treatment with other antibiotics such as vancomycin or teicoplanin. These last two antibiotics are expensive, may be toxic and have to be given by intravenous infusion. Patients infected with MRSA must therefore be treated in hospital.

Doesn't sound so "benign" does it?

Fortunately there is a simple and effective and inexpensive solution.

A friend of mine, a nutritional expert, did the journal research and discovered a number of food substances that have effectiveness not only against MRSA but against a VERY WIDE spectrum of bacteria, viruses and fungi. He put these together in a capsule for his patients. With some urging from friends he has now made the remedy available to the general public. Now, the FDA hasn't put their stamp of approval on it; you have to know that.

However, if you would like to learn more about this simple solution to a serious problem and/or purchase some for yourself, you can do that here.

For your Improved Health and Blessing,

Dr Jon

¹http://www.amm.co.uk/files/factsabout/fa_mrsa.htm

²ibid.

Who Are You - Really?

2007-08-26T17:50:00.000-04:00

I am reading through a very insightful book, in fact have quoted from it previously on this blog, called Listening to Love by Jan Meyers. Had to share this paragraph with you, especially in light of my last post:

Madeleine L'Engle says, "God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are." That's an understatement. Our Perfect Parent sees the splendor intended for us from the beginning. ("Yes, it is a miracle. And no one knows it yet, but this boy is brilliant of mind, pure of heart, and will display his strength in amazing ways.") In Ephesians 2 he calls us his workmanship -- his poema, his work of art, created for a unique (meaning no one else can fill it) place in this kingdom.⁸ You can hear the tragedy of how we diminish the handiwork, especially the redeeemed handiwork of God, when we join in a dark chorus about ourselves. Angelus Silesius says, "God, the devil and the world all wish to enter me. Of what great lineage my noble heart must be."⁹ Why would the Adversary even bother with you if you were only intended for reality television-level identity? Why, when thinking of yourself, would you join the chorus that names you Average, Selfish, Hopefully Someone Will Notice Me when even the dark ones themselves acknowledge you to be Worth Having, Noble, Royal Lineage, A Threat, Marked for Mind-Blowing Wonderful Things, Belonging to Jesus?

So, Who are You - Really?

Time to rethink it? redefine yourself? start believing the Truth about yourself? !!

Be your Mind-Blowing Self!

Blessings,

Dr Jon

⁸In Ephesians 2:10, the Greek word for workmanship (NIV) is poema, which means poem.

⁹ Angelus Silesius, quoted in Macrina Wiederkehr, A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1998), 90.

----from Jan Meyers, Listening to Love (Waterbrook Press, 2004), 186.

Hard to Receive Correction?

2007-08-26T14:50:00.000-04:00

Do you ever hear something and wonder why it causes such a deep stirring way down inside?

I was listening to a financial advisor/teacher the other day and had a major revelation. She was listing things that one needs to do to change one's life in relation to money in order to begin to generate and handle more of it.

It felt like she was slapping me, condemning me for being such a bad money-handler. She was really just factually teaching some action steps to take.

The feeling of resistance stopped me in my tracks. She doesn't even know me. I was listening to her on a CD, to a program which she teaches and markets to people like you and me who are trying to improve ourselves. She has my best interest at heart; she is trying to help me.

So why did it feel to me to be so BAD? Why did I resist so strongly her directions about things to do to improve myself when that is what I really want in the first place? The answer that came was a revelation.

Here is the first part of the revelation:
I realized that I have, for all my life, defined myself to be BAD, especially when it comes to money and the acquiring and handling of it. To hear someone tell me I need to change something only confirms to my heart that I really am bad. It stirs this really deep, emotional, gut-wrenching emotion inside me. I don't want to hear it or feel that bad so I ignore it when I do.

Because here is the other part of the revelation:
I have spent my entire life covering up the defined to be BAD part of me by working REALLY HARD to make myself look GOOD. I have believed that without this appearance of goodness I couldn't be approved by my parents, my family, my friends. And I needed their approval in order to find approval for myself. Of course that never really came because underneath I still defined myself as BAD.

Amazing how things change when you finally see them!

Now I no longer have to define myself as BAD. In fact, the relationship with Jesus has made my heart GOOD. It has also given me permission to be ME! Special! Unique! Amazing guy! Self-approving!

So now instruction for improvement is welcomed, received in the intent it is given, to HELP me. Not to condemn. When all that false emotional stuff is gone, the growth can really start to happen.

Renounce the lies about yourself. Come grow with me. Be your special, unique, amazing self!

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Making Money

2007-08-04T17:25:00.000-04:00

I realized recently that the marketers I know, be they network (MLM) or internet or (the few) direct mail marketers, basically are doing one thing. They are doing the marketing game just to play with the technique of marketing and not really to make any money. There is a LOT to learn about marketing, don't get me wrong. And you can always do better. And we say we want to make money but we deceive ourselves. What we really are focused on is the doing of marketing, not the making of money.

You are probably wondering, what is the difference, and why would anyone care? Actually the difference is profound and helps to answer the question why 98% of people involved in marketing and home based businesses fail and never make any money. They are focused on the wrong thing and aiming for the wrong goal.

It also begs a bigger, broader, even more important question: Do other (or all!) professions do the same thing?

Do doctors focus on doctoring an not on making money?
Do teachers focus on teaching and not on making money?
Do salesmen focus on selling and not on making money?
Do consultants focus on consulting and not on making money?

I suspect that such is the case.

I know I did exactly that as a doctor. In fact, I doctored so I wouldn't have to think about making money.

Somehow we have been overtaken by this idea of doing what is right or what is our passion and the money will flow. I think it has given an excuse for us to be lazy.

Maybe the better concept should be: think about and focus on making money, find a tool about which you are passionate to use in the process, and let the money flow!

Bottom line, though, is let the money flow!

Does that make us greedy, selfish, out of focus?

Could, but that is a different issue. That goes to our heart motives. Assuming we have the motives straight, the result should be the receiving of money, and in large amounts. For this is a measure of our value, to ourselves and to others. For this is the means by which we can begin to do the ministering to others we all are so anxious to do. As my newest mentor says, "Poor people can't help poor people; rich people can help poor people." (True not just about money, by the way!)

To help us stay on focus, we should perhaps change the names of our occupations. Instead of doctor, lawyer, ditch-digger or whatever, we might all call ourselves "money-makers" (with a speciality in whatever)!

MoneyMaker - Doctor.
MoneyMaker - Laundryman.
MoneyMaker - Ditchdigger.

It would begin to level the playing field and help us each see where the real value is: in ourselves, not in our occupation.

Let's go make some money!

Blessings,

Dr Jon

To get started, get some help to get the mindset changed about money.
Here are some resources:

The absolute basic you MUST read is:

Think and Grow Rich

If you send me an email I will send you a copy of Think and Grow Rich in PDF File Format for free!

http://www.jonmoreshead.com/ - go down the right hand column and choose some of the books available there, especially Amazing Increase, Warriors Nest, Spellbound.

There are MANY more! - Give me a holler by phone (314-750-6916) or email.

And if you really want to go start making money and not just learning about how, go here, sign up and let's get you started:

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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH..........!!!

2007-08-04T17:00:00.000-04:00

What do we mean when we say "God loves us?"

Please tell me if I am wrong, but do not most/many of us think that God loving us means that we can have some emotional buzz to feel good about ourselves, about life and even about others? We think it means we now get to go to heaven and live happily ever after. We think it means now we have to pay Him back by giving Him our lives, our desires, our focus, our activity. We think it means that we have to perform at some high level of righteousness so that He will approve of us and not judge us and not remove His love from us.

It really means none of that.

God loving us means we don't have to pretend or cover up or perform or even be holy. In fact, we do Him a disservice, offend and grieve Him when we do, especially since He has poured Himself out for us. He created Adam in a state of complete and shameless nakedness, completely open, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. In that openness He came and conversed with Adam. And when Adam chose to cover up, He still came. He was not the least put off by Adam's guilt or shame. Rather, He Himself found a solution to allow the Second Adam to come and be completely at One with Him, and in so doing, invite us into the restoration of the open relationship.

God loving us means we are asked, invited, compelled, even, to restored to Him in all of our nakedness, all of our brokenness, all of our shame and guilt and sense of failure and inadequacy. We are invited, even expected, to come as real, live, breathing, thinking, feeling, desiring, autonomous people. And in that openness and in that nakedness God lovingly, gently, laughingly pours in His quieting, His healing, His balm, His peace, His joy, His self-confidence, Hi s acknowledgement to each of us of our uniqueness, our glory, our beauty, our personhood. He satisfies the deepest need within each of us and brings us to that great, fulfilling, resting

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............

Get open, get real, go with God to

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............

Blessings,

Dr Jon

LIFE is Really Easy?!

2007-07-18T19:44:00.000-04:00

We have all heard that life is hard.
We mostly think that this is true, that difficulty is our lot.

I have decided that that is another lie that has been fostered upon us from day one.

From what planet do I come that this would even enter my consciousness, let alone be foolish (or courageous) enough to publicly declare such an idiotic statement?

Well, actually I don't know what planet I am FROM, nor does it matter; I am ON Planet Earth, as are all of us. And it is planet earth about which I am speaking.

For what makes LIFE easy or hard is really how I think about it. That is not to say there are not forces of good and forces of evil interplaying and involving us and our lives and all that. I would be the first to take away from the Biblical concept of the War between Righteousness/God and Sin/Satan. However, even in Scripture note that we are encouraged that the victory is won; we just have to believe it (use our thoughts to acknowledge it and not our eyes to see it first). We are told to above all else guard our heart for out of it comes the wellsprings of life. Our heart is our deepest thoughts, our deepest beliefs about ourselves, and God, and others.

So Life really is easy. We just have to think that it is.
The hard part is not Life, it is

the believing,

the guarding of our thoughts,

the believing that Loving Father

REALLY is in love with us,

REALLY DELIGHTS in us,

REALLY wants us to be

successful and

abundant and

giving and

delightful and

open to ourselves and others and

growing more and more intimate with Him.

Again, the process is really quite simple; the believing is the hard part.

To show you how simple it is, look at the Scripture that says, "Ask and you will receive..."
That is true, I am coming to believe, when applied to any part of life:

health,

relationships,

wealth (yes, money!),

insight,

discernment,

ability to reach out and touch others,

courage to look inside and see our own weaknesses AND strengths.

As an example of how easy and straightforward life is, if we will only decide, in the area of money, let me point you to a free ebook that was written many years ago. This author outlined very clearly and succintly the very precise and "certain way" of getting rich, also the reasons why we need to be and should be rich. While you are at it, and to acquire your free ebook, sign up for the delightful ezine that will come to you on a regular basis.

After you have obtained this wonderful little text,
BE SURE to READ it!!

After you have read it, be sure to let me know what you think and let's dialogue about it.

Here is the link:

Decide to Enjoy!!

Blessings,

Dr. Jon

Fourth of July and Freedom

2007-07-04T23:10:00.000-04:00

The Fourth is winding down, although the fireworks are not!

Did you take a moment today to ask yourself what freedom you are most thankful for? Hopefully you did think about freedom today!

There is MUCH for which to be thankful! Political freedom, religious freedom, social freedom, economic freedom (in spite of "curve balls" thrown at us at times - price of gas went down 2 cents here today), medical freedom to name several. You all could go on and on as could we all.

But I would like to point out a freedom I am recently just becoming aware of and appreciating more and more. Actually I am seeing it have profound effects on my own personal life, perhaps more than all the other freedoms mentioned.

This freedom? The freedom to be ME

Or, in general, the freedom each of us have to be OURSELVES!

Not encumbered by family pressures, peer pressures of whatever sort, organizational pressures, etc. Just free to be ME.

This is awesome - and profound.

For when this gets worked into my belief system, I have permission to live to my greatest potential, to fulfill my purpose for taking this planetary journey in the first place. I have permission to use all the resources that the Universe and Loving Father has provided for me. I have permission to become all that I am capable of and supposed to become.

This is true Freedom!

Live in it!

P.S. To share ideas with a community of like-minded champions, you are invited to http://www.focussociety.com. Both recorded and live, interactive sessions for your learning and enjoyment!

What Makes It Tick (Lessons in Marketing AND Life)

2007-07-03T22:32:00.000-04:00

I was speaking with a Massage Therapy friend/mentor recently. He dropped the bomb that he was going to sell his spa. My first thought was, "How can he do that? That would be giving up his Gift, his Calling." And selfishly, I thought "That would take him away from me and he would not be available for consulting, mentoring, setting the example."

You have to understand, this man is unique in his ability to facilitate healing, to connect to persons, to teach those of us on the path behind him. To lose him would be a HUGE blow not only to me but to the population as a whole and to massage therapy as an industry.

But I kept my thoughts to myself and asked him to explain. His response was, "Our [MLM] is taking off, we are making enough that I don't need the spa, and I can finally just focus on the helping people heal that I have always wanted to do."

I was blown away! Here is a friend who is finally achieving the freedom of which I and many others have dreamed and for which we have worked and struggled for months and years.

This is so exciting! What an example. And at the same time, what a kick in the pants (as my Gramp used to say)! My next question had to be:

"What is your secret?"

Meaning - what are you doing that I haven't yet been able to do to see the same results in my own attempts at MLM (or whatever).

His reply included,
- Support from my upline
- The product really works
and he kind of passed it off, not talking about his efforts or himself.

But as we talked some more I realized what the real Secret is to his success, or to mine, or to anyone's. It is not just that the product has to be good - there are lots of those. It is not just that the upline has to be supportive - there are a few of those.

No. The real secret is HIMSELF, his character. He is a Caring, Compassionate, Gentle, Loving Soul in whose presence you simply feel warmed and welcomed and nurtured and loved. He is not full of sales techniques or dynamic charisma or product knowledge. He is not a big salesman.

He connects, lovingly, sincerely, without judgment to the you that you are.

Which is why he is such a good teacher, why I cherish him as a mentor/teacher, why I love to just spend time chatting and listening to him.

Would you, like me, care to become a successful, dream-fulfilling marketer in whatever venture you have chosen?

Become a Loving Connector to others.

Our Spiritual Lives - Relate to God??

2007-06-27T22:56:00.000-04:00

I have been working through a book of my wife's, actually. Going slowly. One of those books that you can only chew little pieces of at a time. Its title is Listening to Love, written by Jan Meyers. I read a passage today that just kind of summed up what I have been stewing over for the last quite a while and, with full acknowledgement of her work, her insight and her courage to share these thoughts, I would like to reproduce excerpts of one section of it here.

This grave [she is speaking of self-righteousness; I apply it to my spirituality in general - J] is often the hardest to break out of because it looks so, well, good, moral, and honest. It is a shell of great-looking appearances, even friend to friend. But thankfully, as Canon Barnett's billboard said of our spiritual life, "It is buried, but not dead. When it really hears God's voice it will rise. Men will live spiritual as well as honest lives. They will rest on Some One greater than themselves and have peace."¹

She goes on to relate a conversation with a couple who were having a struggle and she had just wondered out loud about how sad God must feel about that. One responded condescendingly, "how can you possibly think of God in that way?" The other echoed in disbelief, "How can a sovereign God possibly be moved by us?"

This couple sat with me, incredulous that I would suggest God might actually be impacted -- stirred, moved -- by them. Displeased, maybe, but not sad, not impacted. They were defending God and all they had come to know intellectually about his immovable attributes, and as they did so, it was clear they felt obedient. So why did they sound so smug?

Here is the dilemma of true listening: are we listening in order to respond with our hearts, or are we robotically rattling off what we "know" to be true? ...like George MacDonald...wrote to his niece, "The whole mischief has come of people setting themselves to understand rather than to do, to arrange God's business for him, and tell other people what the Father meant, instead of doing what the Father tells them, and then teaching others to do the same." ² Something dry happens when we stop listening and start to presumptuously instruct. For [them] [and us?? - J.], God had become so impersonal in his sovereign holiness that considering his heart for them was no longer relevant; all they had to do was salute him and defend him. Their hearts were not involved in listening to his voice, because they were preoccupied with defending a tightly held theological position about him. Always an irony, isn't it? God gets lost in the process of our trying to defend him. [emphasis added - J]

.....The sovereignty of God opens up greater depths of freedom and intimacy than we could ever imagine. But that was just it. [I/We are] not looking for intimacy; [I/we are] looking for a God [I/We can] defend and outline.

.....true listening obedience asks everything of us because it is responsible. Explaining God asks only that we be good students of facts.

.....It is hard to ask with the needy heart of a child -- to be loved, to be given to, to stay responisve to God's care. And it's humbling to admit all our talk and labor and work for God are worth [nothing]. Larry Crabb reminds us that infants don't just sit around sweetly longing. No, they fill their diapers and squawk and scream until they get what they cannot provide for themselves.³ Their middle-of-the-night bellowing is a picture of what Jesus...says must be true of us in order to receive the kingdom of heaven.

Think about it. How often in the past week have you known the freedom in your soul to pitch a fit -- a screaming desperation that says, "I don't know how you are going to do it, but I cannot do anything for myself here, and I am starving, so you had better come through for me!".....

The words of Scripture can be managed and manipulated and explained. The Word made Flesh must be encountered and responded to -- with desperate, middle-of-the-night cries.

---Excerpted from Jan Meyers, Listening to Love, (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook, 2004, 59-61.

Pretty blunt. Pretty right on. Let's have the freedom to respond to God, to "pitch our fit" with needy and open hearts. And, I might add, let's have the freedom and the courage to be flesh for and respond to each other as well.

¹Barnett, quoted in Steve Brinn, The BootJack Ranch Devotional, 4
²George MacDonald, The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, Poetry, Letters, ed. Rolland Hein (Wheaton, IL: Shaw, 1994), 14.
³Larry Crabb, Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Pathway to Joy (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook, 2001, 17.

Who are you? A Marketer?

2007-06-27T22:11:00.000-04:00

I have spent 4 or 5 years in the marketing world trying to run one or more home based businesses. Like most, I have been unsuccessful - that is, I have spent lots of money without earning any.

During this time I have been taught - and tried to learn, with some success - skills and techniques such as:

writing copy

writing attention-getting headlines

using, reading phone scripts that require little or no thought

setting goals

taking action, daily, to reach those goals

being persistent

finding a market

picking a product

acquiring and using tools and software to automate the process

developing a system

advertising hows and wheres, media, etc.

duplicating one's self

getting a coach and a mastermind team

etc.

All of these are helpful, important, and certainly generate income for the proponent and purveyor of each.

However, there is a fatal flaw. None of them address the key to all activity, and that is, "Who am I? How do I define myself? How does the 'I' relate to all of the tools? In doing any of these activities, do they enhance or detract from who I perceive myself to be?"

So the first question we must ask a potential marketer is: "Who are you? Do you know who you are? (And are you OK with that?)"

The second question then becomes: "Are you willing to change your definintion of yourself to become someone who can do what it takes (above?!) to become a marketer?" Or, perhaps better, "Are you willing to let go all of the lies and false perceptions about yourself that you allow to be your definition of yourself and discover who you really, truly are? And having done that, will you be willing to let yourself be open and seen and attractive to other people who need and want what you have to offer?"

So to become a marketer, first know who you are and embrace that. Acknowledge that. Love that.

Next, know that What you market is YOU! That will reflect as some product to which you are drawn: a nutritional product, or a service or whatever; something that resonates with you based on you, not because of the product itself.

At some point you well begin to measure results. Earning extra income is, after all, the purpose. Here again, though, keep the focus on the right place. Results are not best measured on reaching goals or counting the number of dollars brought to the bank account (my apologies to Dan Kennedy, a man I consider a mentor, who makes carts full more than I do). Rather, results should first be measured in terms of how much closer I (you) have moved today toward affirming, confirming, more deeply manifesting, who I am and am becoming.

Personally, these last "unsuccessful" years have reflected my confusion about who I truly am, confusion about my definite chief purpose in life (a "Napoleon Hillism"). In that mindset I could barely attract and could certainly not keep clients or dollars. I wanted not their money but their approval. Now, in accepting and approving myself, by living in and from the strength of who I am, I not only attract peole who want and need what I have to offer them, but they also leave dollars on the table on the way out. More than that. I can now easily accept those dollars as a reflection in their minds of my value to them.

As T. Harv Eker says, "my outer world reflects my inner world". We need to spend less time on technique and more time on the inner world.

The Healing Journey

2007-05-06T20:09:00.000-04:00

Healing is not just something that "happens" and now you are well. It is very often, perhaps usually, a journey, a process. Just as Dis-ease is a process, a result, an effect of some cause, not usually just something that "happens." Both Healing and Dis-ease really reflect Life, which is also a process, a Journey, a Learning.

Of the two, Healing and Dis-ease, it seems that Dis-ease is the "default" mode, that which comes most easily and is most likely to occur. I am sure there are lots of reasons: sin, the Creation groaning until the Son of Man is revealed (Romans, in the Bible), selfishness, self-seeking of pleasure at multiple levels (another cookie, anyone?), genetics, toxins, trauma, etc.

Healing is, by definition, the "Recovery" Mode, usually arrived at via a reactionary process to the Dis-ease state when it is recognized.

Both Healing and Dis-ease have Acute (sudden, unexpected) phases, times when they do just seem to show up or "happen" without any obvious cause. On the Dis-ease side maybe it is the allergic response to the cat that you never knew about, or the broken arm from playing pickup football on an afternoon. On the Healing side we would call the sudden episode a "Miracle" or "spontaneous remission". When thinking about Healing, this latter is perhaps what is most often hoped for, aimed at, defined as "Healing."

However, it is the Chronic aspect of both Dis-ease and Healing that offer the most interesting points of discussion, and growth. Chronicity implies continued, regular activity or behavior over an extended time, producing a particular result. Again, we are familiar with the concept when it comes to Dis-ease. Things like Diabetes, Arthritis, Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Heart disease and a host of other dis-eases all fit into this category. Interestingly, the response is to learn to "deal with it" with various medications and supports, but not to attempt to really "fix" it.

Perhaps the reason for that is because this is where the concept of what I will call "Chronic Healing" comes in. It is not a concept that has entered our awareness as a people or as a culture, to my knowledge. Basically, it is the same idea, but applied to Healing, that we have just pointed out when applied to Dis-ease. That is, Chronic Healing is continued, regular activity or behavior over an extended time, producing a particular result.

The next question is to ask, "What kind of behavior(s)?"

Here are some, for starters:
Pray. Ask the Healer for His presence and Touch. Stories abound in Scripture, and since, of just exactly this.
Look for things, attitudes, thoughts in us that need to change, and change them.
Visualize ourselves (believe) as healed. "As a man thinketh so is he." The body is but the reflection of spirit and emotion.
Open ourselves up. Let go the pride, shame, guilt, fear, pain, and all the protective walls with which we cover ourselves and wtih which we hold bound so much toxic "stuff." Just as abscesses and boils need to be drained to heal, the dis-ease bound up in us needs also to be opened up and "drained" at every level, spiritually, emotionally and physically.
Find modalities that nurture and heal on some level in and of themselves. Examples include proper diet, exercise, regular therapeutic massage, meditation, effective supplements, etc. (This is where most of us do well, but is the point where we tend to get stuck along this Journey of Healing.)

It is in this process of praying, changing, visualizing and opening up that Chronic Healing takes form as the Journey, the process, that mirrors the rest of life. We will see this Journey itself constantly change, grow and expand. We will learn more and more of things in us that need to change, we will learn better how to pray and what to pray for, we will get to new levels of openness spiritually, emotionally, physically. Eventually we will get to the place where there is nothing more to hide; the "abscess" will be cleaned out.

The result of these continued, regular behaviors is that Healing WILL come!

Blessings,

Dr Jon

The Healing Journey

2007-05-06T20:07:00.000-04:00

TOO Good!

2007-03-28T00:52:00.000-04:00

The common comment:

If it is too good to be true, it must be

got me thinking recently. Why do we as a culture take life so negatively? Is it negative to think this is a true statement?

I began to make a list of things

too good to be true - but ARE!

Number 1, right off the top, has to be:

Salvation. Redemption. Jesus coming to earth to find that which was lost. Immanuel.

When you think about this, it really is too good to be true, but it is true as many will attest. Thank God it is or we would have some really serious issues. Hopeless, Chaos, Despair, Unbridled violence. Oh, wait a minute. Sounds like the news. Maybe we need to start believing it is true.

But I digress.

What else goes on the list?

Number 2. How about the Beauty of Nature? Sunsets. Oceanscapes. Landscapes.

Awfully good. Awfully true.

Hmmm. The old saying is starting to lose some credibility for me.

Number 3. Loving, Encouraging, Edifying Relationships. Between spouses, between friends, among family. Granted it may not be true for us all, but if for only a few it still belies the original statement.

I suspect we could go on.

How about we get practical now and open our minds to the idea that

some things may be so good they are true!

How about a way to leverage your income to pay off your mortgage so early you can actually build a retirement - if you want or think you need one of those?

How about some natural products that are so potent, so "tuned in" to the needs of the human body that they actually markedly affect (dare I say "reverse"? and note that I would never dare to say "cure" because the FDA might jump all over me if I did) chronic dis-ease and a toughy like cancer?

Could these kind of practical issues that we are often faced with actually be impacted by something that is so good it could be true?

What might happen for us if we decided to believe it could be true????

I would love to hear YOUR story.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Celebrate

2007-03-18T20:48:00.000-04:00

I was driving home last night from a business meeting and driving my son's (see his Brilliant Sports Commentary Blog) truck. The radio was tuned to a national talk show. The host was making the point that every day he talked about all the things in this country that were a problem:

The war in Iraq
Political wrangling
Environmental issues, controversies
Etc.

His point last night, though, was that he wanted to take some time to talk about and point out, with comments from the listeners, things that make this country unique and special. Here are a few that he came up with:

Improved longevity
Improved health care, in general, even for animals
The mindset of young people that anything can be done
Remote control, not just of TV, but of lights, fans, cars
Antibiotics, even though some of them are becoming ineffective
The Internet

In listening, I had to add my own to the list:

A natural formulation MORE effective than any antibiotic, proven, working against not only bacteria but also viruses and fungi
A technology that will scan a body and tell how much arterial occlusion is present. Then, take a supplement that is exceptionally effective at reversing the occlusion.
A fruit juice that is effective in causing positive effects on MANY dis-eases including

Fibromyalgia

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Diabetes

Cholesterol

Cardiac Disease

Arthritis

Crohn's

Alzheimer's

Gastric Reflux

Asthma/Allergies

ADD/ADHD

Herpes

Even Cancer

Since I was in a business meeting all day I also had to add some economic celebrations:

Every American has the opportunity to own and operate a small business. This allows him to benefit from all the tax advantages given to the wealthy
The number of businesses available to run are limitless, depending only on one's ambition and imagination
A mortgage payoff program that allows one to be free of mortgage and debt in 1/2 to 1/3 the time without altering spending habits or lifestyle, allowing financial freedom and providing a means to build real wealth

These are things which are available to us, NOW, NEVER before available in the history of the world!

I know, some of them sound too good to be true. Our old thinking kicks in and says it must be not true. But, guess what? These are true!

Why then are many of still dis-eased, still in debt over our ears?

Only one reason I can think of:

our inability to believe any of this can work;

our inability to get over our fear of stepping out of the cultural

"norm" or status quo;

our inability to believe that we are better, more powerful,

more deserving than we see ourselves right now.

In short, Our Thinking.

Let's go think bigger, grander, freeing, outside-the-box thoughts.

Until next time,

Blessings.

Dr Jon

P.S. If interested in any of these topics listed, contact me. And please add your comments/disagreements/salutations/benedictions to whatever I say!

Transforming Grace

2007-03-15T14:25:00.000-04:00

At our home we do a "movie night" monthly. First or second Saturday night, usually, depending on schedules. We learned from John Eldredge that kings of culture receive messages from God; prophets are required to interpret them. The kings of our culture are movie producers and directors. So we watch a movie, then discuss the real message behind it. Not just a film critique, we look at the grand themes like what does it tell us about God, about man, about woman, about an evil antagonist, etc. Very helpful, revealing!

Last Saturday we watched Les Miserables, the most recent version of Victor Hugo's novel with Liam Neeson playing Jean Valjean. If you have not seen this film, you absolutely MUST! There is SO MUCH in it of the power of Love and Grace, the destruction of unbridled law.

But what struck me occurred at the very beginning. Indeed, it was really on this that resulted in the events of the entire film and story. Valjean came to the Bishop's house looking for bread and something to steal. But he said:
"Give me a bed for the night and
IN THE MORNING I WILL BE A NEW MAN."

In the morning he stole the silver thinking that would give him the resources to become a new man. He was wrong. The Bishop, when queried, gave him forgiveness and even more silver, thus saving his life. Actually giving him new life. As a result, Valjean BECAME A NEW MAN!

While it is absolutely an example of a work of grace, our theology stops at that and makes that the theme. But let me take it one step further.

IT IS A WORK OF CHOOSING.

Grace was the means that worked out the transformation. Valjean's choice within himself, even though he had the completely wrong idea about how to do it and what it would look like, was the KEY that opened the door! How many other beggars had come by that same door asking for bread without expecting or thinking or believing that they could ever become a new man?

So, you see, though this is a fictional story, it makes the point:

It is our choosing that begins the change.

What will you choose to change today?
Your depression?
Your poverty?
Your selfishness?
Your thinking negatively about yourself?
Your ..............

Make the choice to change.

The grace will follow.

Talk to you soon.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Living Abundantly??

2007-03-07T13:10:00.000-05:00

First, I can't believe it has been nearly 6 weeks since the last post!! Time flies when you are having fun!

Been learning lots of new stuff recently and growing in many ways. Hardly know where to start.

Saw the movie "Facing the Giants" three times last weekend. Awesome. Go see it; buy it. Watch it once a week until you get it.
Coach was defeated, loser, failure, down and out. Began to change his thinking. Began to BELIEVE that Loving Father was FOR him. (I have come so that you might have life and have it ABUNDANTLY!!) Dare we think that could mean having enough money, winning football games, enjoying family relationships, reaching out to people in need and becoming influential in their lives?? Dare we say YES!!

BUT - as John Eldredge points out - there is an enemy focused on stealing, killing and destroying. We have to FIGHT to gain the victory and our abundance. Is fighting something you do? I haven't much till recently. Watch out. I'm a fighter now. Big time. Because my abundance, my dreams for what Father has for me, given me by him, are WAY TOO BIG and WAY TOO IMPORTANT for the rest of all of us not to be fulfilled. DO NOT tell me to sit down and shut up, that I can't do this or that. (You can tell me but I'm not listening!)

I CAN!

And YOU CAN, TOO!!!

Enter Psalm 2: Thou, O Lord are the shield about me...I will not be afraid.
There is the courage to do.

Enter Proverbs 2: I will
Listen with my ear (conscious mind)
Incline my heart (subsconscious mind)
Cry for discernment (add emotion) then
Wisdom in my heart (subconscious), Knowledge (conscious), Discretion (guided and guarded results) will
DELIVER ME FROM EVIL!
Where have you heard that before? Yeah, the Lord's Prayer.

So do we keep this in our head? NO

Let's speak our dreams, our abundance, so we know what it is.
Let's fight the enemy of doubt, discouragement, fear that kills us.
Let's act in the knowledge of Loving Father and for His Glory.

AND we WILL WIN the abundance promised!

Now that's what I'm talking about!!

Always CAN

2007-01-25T11:04:00.000-05:00

Have been basking in the words and energy of Joe Schroeder. Awesome stuff. Stirring. Life changing. Challenging. In-Your-Face.

Practical.

Here's an example.

When Joe got tired of being down and out he took control of his life. Decided to bury the words "I Can't" and live in the truth of "CAN DO". So he made a tombstone and wrote on it

R. I. P.

Here lies the words

"I Can't"

[Date]

Changed his life. So he is now challenging us to do the same.

I did it.

Already changing my life. Different outlook. Not just head knowledge. Down in the gut; into the part of me that actually makes the rest of me tick. Powerful stuff.

Bigger than I thought.

Always assumed it meant now I Can DO.

Uh-Uh.

Yesterday I realized it means I Can BE as well.

I'm BEING

How about you?

Blessings,

Dr Jon

P.S. Get more from and about Joe here.

New Snow

2007-01-21T16:45:00.000-05:00

It snowed last night here in St Louis.
White.
Bright.
Clear.
Crisp.

Went out early and just stood in it, enjoying the cleanness, the freshness.

Sort of like the New Year.
Fresh.
"New" which means a time to be done with the "Old".

Old thoughts.
Old habits.
Old ways of being and doing.

Was reading "hTe Alpha Code" yesterday by Joe Schroeder.
New thoughts.
New habits on the way.
New ways of being and doing!

Come join me and the others with me. We are going to new places, becoming new thinkers, breaking new ground.

Becoming the people "I" and "YOU" are meant to become!!

http://www.jonmoreshead.com

Blessings,

Dr Jon
CANDO man

Business is really business

2007-01-16T00:22:00.000-05:00

Yesterday a friend spent some time with me, being concerned and caring for me, presenting another business opportunity. For that I am very thankful, especially that he cares about me. Incidentally, the biz op would probably be a good one, a money saver and a potential money maker.

However, the experience taught me something I think profound; something that my friends in the STAR-LINK community probably long ago figured out.

Let's go back to business being business. We spent a couple of days talking about business plans. Let's take it a step further.

Most "real" businesses have two separate departments that get new business. One is called "Sales". The other is called "Marketing". They really are very different parts of the process. Marketing brings people into the "funnel" to use Joe Schroeder's term; Sales makes the close somewhere along the line.

You all are laughing that the "newbie" thinks that is profound when you knew it all along. Me too. I'm laughing to realize it took this long for me to figure it out. Have to thank Joe, though, that it came at all.

Here's the really profound part: I am going to call the business MLS or MultiLevel Selling. Network Sales. The presentation, very good though it be, was all about selling. Wasn't about marketing at all. Honestly, I got pretty uncomfortable - people don't want to be sold, remember? Me neither. I was ready to join up right up front when my friend was being my friend and before he went into selling mode.

We could talk hours about this, though I don't have to. Joe has done it already. (http://www.jonmoreshead.com for info and how to get it). But here's what I take away from this, for me:

Don't sell. Be a Network Marketer.

Be a FRIEND!!!!!!

Blessings,

Dr Jon
MD - Doctor-in-training of Marketing
Star-Link University
Currently enrolling - welcome to the class
http://www.yourgrowthmatters.com

Business Plan Part 2 or 3 Easy Steps to Rethinking the Plan

2007-01-14T15:14:00.000-05:00

We mentioned yesterday, rather pointedly perhaps, that you and I need a Business Plan to keep our business on focus, be it MLM or Internet Marketing or any "Brick and Mortar" business. Most of us, though, don't like doing the exercise of thinking (did I really say that??), or of thinking ahead, or of coming up with numbers and projections, or perhaps of "tooting our own horn" even.

Maybe I just gave you a full frontal picture of my brain and personality!

Regardless, here is what I did that made writing a plan a lot of fun.

I changed the name of it. As you know, words tell. I realized that the business plan really has three main sections:

What you want to do, the big picture (need, market, research, exit strategy)
How you are going to do it, pieces of the picture (tools, people specifics needed)
Steps along the way to get the pieces done (dollars, projections, balance sheet)

So, looking at that I realized those could be translated into:

Vision
Goals
Action Steps

Now I'm talking my language! I can think in terms of Vision:

I am helping other entrepreneurs build their business, or
I am helping other people to improve their health, physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially

All my mentors and the motivational speakers who speak into my life talk about goals and being specific:

I am generating $XX per month in my MLM business by 31 Mar 07
I am working through my Blackman leads each month
I am setting up a retail leg for my MLM business and selling XX units per week by 31 Jan 07
I am marketing to previous massage clients with new offers each month
etc. (the list can get pretty long)

Now I'm cookin'! This is getting fun.

Finally, action steps. What do I do every day to advance me along the path I have just laid out?

I am calling XX leads each and every day
I am writing X pages per day in my book
I am posting to my blog each day
I am sending a postcard to XX leads each day as a means of follow up to continue the relationship I am building with them
I am posting to safelists each day
I am writing a new ad/headline each day to use in various postings
I am talking to/writing to my mentor each day
I am listening to the great Joe Schroeder and other mentors each day
I am doing the necessary inner work, exercises, growing activities each day that help keep me on focus and committed
I am reading Think and Grow Rich each day
I am spending time in Scripture each day
etc.
etc. (again the list gets long)

May have to make some weekly or just focus on what can be done in the time available or.......
May have to allot more time to the business! (Less sleep, less TV - what? you're meddling again Doc)

Regardless, the action steps move me toward the goals previously written which in turn begin to complete the larger vision.

Will the bank give you money on this? Probably not. Wouldn't be too hard, though, to put some actual dollars into it. And you probably should. Know how much to spend on leads, on mailings, on copies, etc.

Will it keep you on your game? I think so.

Help me out.

Let me know.

Blessings,

Dr Jon
JUICEr
Join Us In Celebrating Excellence (a Schroederism)
http://www.jonmoreshead.com
http://www.beingwork.com

But Doc, I Can't Write a Business Plan!

2007-01-13T17:04:00.000-05:00

My older brother, the businessman of the family, has been after me for a couple of years to write a business plan. You see, my son Philip and I operate a lawn/landscaping service which began as his high school job and escalated into the family business. Because of its history and evolution, it has never had a proper foundation: no funding, no marketing, no advertising, so consistent sales (GREAT service, though) and - no surprise! - no money! So my brother's advice was to get it on its proper footing. Write the business plan, make yourself presentable, go through the hoops, run the business like it is supposed to be run.

Know what? That is GREAT advice. Just one problem. I hate the thought of writing a "Business Plan". Sounds like too much work, too much financial stuff. How can I know what my income MIGHT be two years from now?

So I haven't written it (until now!! Yeah!!). Just floundered along, scraping by, uncomfortable but not uncomfortable enough to do something better, to grow myself, to get real with myself. Hurting my son and my family by not doing well. Looking for other ways to generate an income, like MLM or Internet Marketing.

Question: is it wrong to do MLM or Internet Marketing?
Answer: NO, NO, and NO!
Better Answer: If you are going to do any business, MLM or otherwise, do it right! Write the business plan.

Now some of you in MLM already are likely to be thinking, as I, that you don't need a business plan. Just follow the directions your company tells you. Use their plan.

Wrong.

Their plan is to get unfocused people like you and me to join. They are following their plan. They just made us employees without any benefits. Worse than Wal-Mart. Am I upset at them? Yes and No. Yes, because they could do a better job at telling us what we really are. No, because where else can I "own" a company for a few hundred dollars that has the potential to earn me thousands and millions of dollars? Talk about ROI!

BUT... It will only do that if I make my business my BUSINESS. How do I do that? First, write a plan. Second, stick to it.

Tomorrow I'll show you how I wrote my plan. But here's a little preview and a hint (maybe with this hint you can figure out what I am going to say): don't call it a "business plan".

Blessings,

Dr Jon
Stay Ahead of the Curve - www.jonmoreshead.com

Being "__________" (You Fill in the Blank)

2007-01-10T07:28:00.000-05:00

Two events occurred yesterday that converged to NOW (early AM, Wed, 10 Jan 07) in my brain.

1) I received and started reading my copy of Warrior's Nest. This is the work of Joe Schroeder, a unique person who by the world's standards was going nowhere fast. He looked at life and began to think backwards and began to do everything backwards and has become the Teacher of Success to the success teachers. You MUST get a copy (here) and read it and DO what he recommends, begin to think the way he teaches you to think. He is the System Heretic. He is all about Community. Giving. Universal Law of Losing Your Life to Gain It. Providing Service. Awesome stuff.

He points out that he was blessed with a gift - ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) [thought to be "bad" in our world] - that actually allowed, conditioned, equipped him to see and do differently.

2) I got back into a chat room I like to join when possible. It had been nearly 4 months since last there since I teach massage school evenings in three month stretches on the same night. This is a "room", a community of regulars with lots of visitors, that prides themselves with caring and communicating, which they do. However, last night for some reason, after the initial "hi, Jon" upon checking in, my posting was completely ignored.

I realized that I also have a gift. It is the gift of a brain that can analyze (and over analyze and paralyze, too) and a parent/family that taught me to be different. Formerly this combination has been considered lethal to my successful existence. Now, upon the convergence of these two experiences, I realize that this gift is my Life Blood, my Direction, my Chief Purpose.

Joe's ADD, my Analytic Heretic, YOUR "________" (Fill in the unique gift that is YOU) is what makes us US. It is our USP (earlier post). It is what makes us special. It is what gives us a place in the grand Community where we help one another, give ourselves to one another, and grow one another in order to grow ourselves.

Most of us don't do it, don't become our unique US. As a result, we lack. We stay financially poor. Worse, we let others dictate our thoughts and behavior. We worry about what they might think. Stop it! Get real! Turn around. The Bible says to repent - same thing. Become who you ARE. Join the real community of beings who are Becoming Beings! Who are the Becomings. No more ignoring of yourself, or of others' uniqueness. Let's be, let's listen.

Two things converged in my Analytic Heretic brain. Two action steps diverge out of it:

1) As a massage therapist I have been looking for a term to describe what I do, what happens when you get on my table. "Massage" has too many connotations. "Therapy" is ok but sounds too sterile, like what doctors do. Here is my new label: Invitational Beingwork. Come get on my table and you are invited to work on your being, body-soul-spirit.

2) As a Community person I will start a new thread, a new chat room, actually a "listen room". Call it the Listening Post. A place* where we can listen to other people's comments, questions, desires, dreams, wisdom. Encourage each other as human beings to BECOME, to COME-BE.

BE today.

Blessings,

Dr Jon
http://www.jonmoreshead.com
http://www.goodheartgroupinc.com

*Such a place has begun. The Star-Link community. Directed towards business/marketing folk. Listen in, join in. Info here.

New Years Explosion

2007-01-01T17:30:00.000-05:00

Today ushers in a new year - 2007! Wow! The old adage is true: Time Flies.

We stayed home last night; no late night partying for us. Rather, we finished the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings on DVD. The family is big fans of the work, and message. We had started to do a 12 hour marathon on Friday evening. Got through two of the three movies (eight hours) but my wife and I faded in and out of the second, winding up at nearly 3AM, so decided to complete the set later. Later was last night. Awesome movies, awesome story. See it again for yourself, to be reminded.

Anyway, we didn't time it this way, but just as the ring got to the mountain and deposited into the fire and melted causing the evil empire to literally implode (towers falling, mountain exploding, fire balls flying everywhere, lava flowing, heroes being snatched from the jaws of death - all great stuff) our clock showed 12 Midnight! New Year. New Beginning. Old Evil, Stuck, Negative, Dark Forces gone. Destroyed.

Symbolic.

Bring on the new!

And a line in the film that fits. Elven lord Elron to the exiled, reticent king yet to be crowned, "Let go of the rage and become what you were born to be."
Publish
I am going to take that to heart. You can too.

Dr Jon

Are You Looking for Answers or Freedom?

2006-12-27T10:08:00.000-05:00

It's time for a quote - a long one. So bear with me, though I am positive you will enjoy this one. Well, maybe not "enjoy" until you realize the impact it will have, but certainly "appreciate" it. Be forewarned, though, it may upset your applecart to a point of no return.

This comes from a book of writings by John Eldredge called "the Ransomed Heart, a Collection of Devotional Readings." In this book there is an excerpt for each day of the year. This one comes from day/page 319 which is itself taken from John's book The Journey of Desire, pp. 38-40. Hold on, here goes:

You have your heads in your Bibles constantly because you think you'll find eternal life there. But you miss the forest for the trees. These Scriptures are all about me! And here I am, standing right before you, and you aren't willing to receive from me the life you say you want. (John 5:39-40 The Message)

The promise of life and the invitation to desire has again been lost beneath a pile of religious teachings that put the focus on knowledge and performance.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essentially concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally. (The Divine Conspiracy)

Thus Willard describes the gospels we have today as "gospels of sin management." Sin is the bottom line, and we have the cure. Typically, it is a system of knowledge or performance, or a mixture of both. Those in the knowledge camp put the emphasis on getting our doctrine in line. Right belief is seen as the means to life. Desire is irrelevant; content is what matters. But notice this -- the Pharisees knew more about the Bible than most of us ever will, and it hardened their hearts. Knowledge just isn't all it's cracked up to be. If you are familiar with the biblical narrative, you will remember that there were two special trees in Eden --the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. We got the wrong tree. We got knowledge, and it hasn't done us much good.

(You can find John and his writings and ministry at http://www.ransomedheart.com)

So, what do you think? Puts a different perspective on things, no? A bit heretical, even. We'll talk more of this in days to come, but this gives a good foundation for why I am the (Medical) Heretic!

Won't you come be a heretic with me? We will go find our hearts, and life, together!?

Blessings,

Dr Jon
http://www.goodheartgroupinc.com

5 Requirements to Accomplish any Goal

2006-12-24T11:35:00.000-05:00

To DO anything in life (assume the goal is already in place) there are certain things that must be in place. This is true whether you are "doing" (or attempting to do):

network (MLM) marketing
internet marketing
a trade
a job
a "regular" business of your own
climbing mountains
athletics
marriage
parenting
ANYTHING at all

First and foremost you must give yourself permission to do this thing. At the deepest level of your existence, in your personal belief system, it must be OK to do. Spiritually, morally, ethically, culturally, politically, financially, emotionally, physically, at EVERY level and in every aspect of who you are and what YOU believe, it must be an acceptable endeavor.
Unfortunately, most of us don't know clearly what we believe at most of these levels. Most of our beliefs came to us early and by default and we have never articulated them to ourselves. We start a project or business and soon run into some unknown block in one or more of these areas. Not realizing there is a deep-seated betrayal of our belief system, we wonder why the project gets derailed and sabotaged.

Second, having given yourself permission to do something, your must be absolutely convinced that you have the energy and the power within yourself to accomplish it. This must come from within, not from someone or somewhere outside yourself. It is fine and right to ask for and accept encouragement, but the basic driving force must be yours.

Third, you must receive proper and adequate training. It will take a minimum to get started and an ongoing learning process to keep the project on track.

Fourth, you must have a coach, a mentor, a teacher, a friend. While the energy comes from within, this person (or persons - more than one is usually even better) will provide encouragement, direction, critique, perspective, brainstorming. This person forces you to get outside of your own limitations.

Fifth, you must be open to change. At each and every step along the process of your chosen project, evaluate, test, "check in" to see how you are doing with each of these four requirements. Is it still OK to do? Do you have the energy, the drive? Are you getting more and adequate training? Do yo have a special (or enough) teacher/mentor/friend? Make the adjustments to properly answer the questions in the affirmative and you continue on your way.

What if there is a negative at any point or what if you look at your life as it is right now and see a negative at one or more of these points? Then, as you know and can feel, your train is at risk of derailing. Get it back on track or find another train and track. Just be sure that whatever choice you make these requirements are in place.

Wishing you a Blessed Christmas and Holiday Season,

Dr Jon

What is a USP?

2006-12-18T19:12:00.000-05:00

Been doing some training in the area of Marketing lately. If you would like to do the same, drop me a line; couple of guys out there really worth your time, energy and dollars. Anyway, the idea of a "USP" always comes up. First thing. Right off the bat. Before anything else.

USP stands for Unique Selling Proposition.

It is what makes you different. Answers the question: If someone were to ask me why they should purchase my product or service over my competition, what would I tell them? The marketers say that if we can not give a good answer we have no business being in business. Ouch.

But let's move out of the business realm for a minute and broaden it out. "Unique" means "one-of-a-kind", special, owned by no other.

That sounds like each one of us. We are all unique, special. No two of us has the same DNA. Maybe the occasional twin, but even they have a unique experience and perspective. NO ONE can look at life from inside your head! You are unique!

Do you believe that? Have you found out what makes you unique yet? Will you dare? Will you live in that? Flesh it out? Stand up and be somebody that lives outside the crowd?

Until next time, this is the Unique Heretic.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Recovering One's Identity

2006-12-11T22:59:00.000-05:00

In this day and age the term "Identity Theft" is all too common and avoidance of it takes up a lot of our time and attention. But many of our identities have been stolen long ago, many times before they really had a chance to become ours.

Have been reading a new book the last few days, the latest in the series of books from John Eldredge (Journey of Desire, Wild at Heart, Waking the Dead). This latest is called The Way of the Wild at Heart and it is a treatise on what John calls the "Masculine Journey." As he says, it is about fatherlessness, unfinished men, stolen identities, often before they were even formed. I can honestly say he is talking about me. Just turned 56 and finally beginning to get a handle on my own identity. Been hiding behind a lot of other people's wishes and thoughts for me, failures to step up and get real for myself, fear of success even.

Kind of scary, but feels really good to finally become some body.

John, of course, will tell us that God the Loving Father is the One to whom we need to go to get the fathering we so desperately need; and he is right. I've been doing that recently, apart from church or doctrine or other people's wishes for me. Reading through the Scripture, seeing it as other men's stories, like me and my story. Just God and myself; talking; listening to each other.

Neat.

Highly recommended.

Great Fun!

2006-12-09T15:22:00.000-05:00

You have got to love the Internet, Computers, and "all that jazz!"

In the ongoing, never-ending search for streams of income, I recently downloaded a document that points one to the wonders of blogging, and generating some money from it. Now that is a marvelous combination. For blogging, as you well know, is perhaps the ultimate personal stage before the world. Where else can you bare your soul, share your thoughts, and let people know you are here, you have something to say, and here it is! It's safe; no one is sitting on your shoulder telling you how bad you write, how wrong your ideas are, how awful it is to be using those dangling participles. On the other hand, there is opportunity to get into major discussions with the comment feature and go back and forth to one's delight. Amazing stuff.

Now, imagine that you could actually earn an income from just being! That goes against the grain, is thought way outside the box! Earning money for doing nothing? Heresy. Talk about medical heretic, that is economic heretic as well! But here we are. Exactly there.

So this afternoon I spent the time (not really for nothing, but pretty minimal) redoing the blog. New colors, new template, added the picture, changed the profile, put on the ads top and along the side (the revenue generators). Really cool stuff. If you haven't already, you got to try it. Is very simple. Give me a buzz if you don't know how; the blog site has helps that walk you through it as well.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Are You Truman's Neighbor?

2006-11-01T09:08:00.000-05:00

Been doing lots of reading recently which is all pointing in the same direction:
I/We live in a bubble.
Watched "The Truman Show" this weekend and that made it prety plain. Fascinating movie. If you haven't seen it or haven't seen it in a while, it is worth reviewing.

Quantum mechanics tells us that what we call life is really Truman's bubble. Reality is outside the bubble. We let ourselves be caught in this trap because
---we don't know there is more "out there"
---we are afraid to go outside our comfortable fantasy
---?????

Here's another way to look at it all that might interest some of you:

Busting Loose from the Money Game by Robert Schienfeld. Way more about life than about money, though he makes application there as well. Available online at Amazon.com here:
Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can't Win

Read the book, watch the movie again; let's dialogue.

Looking outside the bubble,
Dr Jon

What I Find Helpful to Manage My Time

2006-04-01T15:34:00.000-04:00

My "partner" and "marketing guru" John DiLemme (http://www.findyourwhy.com) makes a point on one of his CDs about the need for an entrepreneur to totally, appropriately manage his time.

Make a schedule.

Keep on schedule.

Avoid distractions.

The big question is HOW?

There are several tools out there to help. Of course, the biggest tool is between our ears. However, to help me stay focused I have found this resource to be very helpful:

Simpleology 101

What in the world, you say, is "Simpleology"? Go here to learn more. The learning and the tool are free!

http://drjon.simpleology.com/

Frustrated Marketer

2006-04-01T15:27:00.000-04:00

Do you ever wonder what it takes to do something you know you should be able to do but somehow just never get there?

That is the way I am with marketing. Running my own business, providing services and products for people that will help them advance. But I run right up against this whole marketing thing. I am a smart enough guy, somehow it just doesn't seem to click. Need to change my thoughts about it somehow.

To help me celebrate new achievements in this department that are coming down the pike (I WILL GET GOOD AT THIS!) here's something to take a look at, especially if you are also into marketing:

http://www.goodheartgroupinc.com/downloads/ViralMedia-DrJon.zip

More No Brainers

2006-04-01T15:15:00.000-04:00

Continuing our theme from last time, I thought of a couple more...

No Brainer #5
KEEP LEARNING

Takes two things to do this:

One has to maintain a teachable mindset - maybe the

hardest part.

One needs a teacher. Now the teacher can be a

person, or books, or other media, just

something wiser, different from what is

already known.

No-Brainers

2006-03-30T16:37:00.000-04:00

Life can get complicated or can be kept pretty simple. There is something about the former that attracts me - maybe it makes me feel important or something. However, I'm starting to focus in on things better and the emphasis is now on the latter. Here are some thoughts that would help keep things simple for me. I call them no-brainers; things I don't have to think about doing; they just make sense and just need to be done.

No-Brainer#1
BELIEVE IN JESUS

Forget all the "religious right" negativism, "churchianity" perceptions. No other book (Bible) tells about a person resurrecting, claiming to be God. There are two choices:
(a)Believe in His desire to love and redeem you or Not. If all this is true, to believe would provide life, blessing, grace, redemption, release, truth, friendship with the Father;
(b)not to believe would be uncertainty, striving, self-reliance.

No-Brainer#2
OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS
Benefits include tax advantages, using money to work for you, sense of control over your life and possible eventual financial freedom; will work harder and longer.
The alternative is "slave camp." You do what you are told by the business owner.

No-Brainer#3
BECOME A NETWORK MARKETER
When you understand the business, that it is the largest industry in the US today, that it is simple if not necessarily easy, that it gives you all the benefits of #2 above, and that it can provide you financial freedom when done right, it has to be on this list.
The alternative is a JOB, an acronym for Just Over Broke, and another word for "slave camp."

No-Brainer#4
TAKE A NUTRITIONAL PRODUCT THAT WILL MAKE AND KEEP YOU HEALTHY
We like to make this choice real complicated. Don't. Find one that works for people that makes basic science sense and just take it. If that one doesn't work for you forget it and find onte that does. If you can find one that also fits #1 & #2 above, so much the better.
The alternative is staying sick, fatigued, sore, in pain, at risk for serious dis-ease.

I am looking at some possibilities right now; stay tuned.

Dr Jon

Getting on Track

2006-03-30T16:27:00.000-04:00

Blogs are great. You can write what you want and dialogue to people. Some of us have a hard time being consistent about using them. Count me in that group!
I have found a wonderful motivational speaker - John DiLemme. Others I have been reading or listening to include Jack Canfield and Zig Ziglar. Really good stuff.
One thing John is really big on is the idea of Daily Habits to build Success. I have done pretty well for a while now with some basic habits. Writing in the blog is a habit on my list which I have not done.
Now is time to get and be consistent with it. Join me, won't you? Leave comments, start your own blog. hare your successes!

Dr Jon

Internet Christmas Gifts

2005-12-11T23:14:00.000-04:00

Does anyone like to play with the computer? Make web pages? Trying to make some money online?

Internet marketer Mark Hendricks is doing his yearly "12 Days of Christmas" where he has hitched up with lots of other internet marketers and is offering LOTS of software, ebooks, etc. just for signing up to his ezine list. Pick and choose what looks useful for you, take it all. Neat stuff.

Just one word of warning. There is SO MUCH stuff you can get overwhelmed and get off track from your other internet based goals. Put everything in a separate spot and just get to it when you need it!

To get to his stuff, go here:

http://www.hunteridge.com/12days/in/drjon.htm

Enjoy,

Dr Jon

Concerning Success, Jim Rohn points out that it follows the law of sowing and reaping. In that context he says we have to be good at one of two things:
Sowing in the spring
or
Begging in the fall.

Hello Again

2005-12-06T10:24:00.000-04:00

Wow! It's been almost a year since the last posting. Time flies.
Lots has happened. Purchased and moved into a new house. My Dad got sick and passed away resulting in trips to Florida twice and Maine once. Son Philip graduated from college. It's been a full year.

The best part, though, is the gaining of some clarity about, of all things, LIFE!

Been meeting with a couple of men weekly to share and discuss our lives and our relationships with God and spouses and families and church. Awesome. John Eldredge calls it a "Band of Brothers" after the wartime stories of the book by that name. Every man needs that kind of group with whom he can let his hair down and get "naked" emotionally (and physically??) and be encouraged to find and follow his heart. It has been transformational for me.

Have known for years that I have struggles with finances and money - my bank account tells me that pretty quickly!! A book I came across this year has opened my eyes on this issue. It is T. Harv Eker's "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind". Every one needs to read it and get to his seminar. Hear a sample here:

http://www.secretsofthemillionairemind.com/a/gain_lasting_health?page=/preview/tele

or get the book here

http://www.secretsofthemillionairemind.com/a/gain_lasting_health

Another big thing this year was the beginning of my Health Newsletter. Remember we talked about just doing something? Well I finally did something.
Subscribe by sending an email to

goodheartgroup@sbcglobal.net

or see past issues here:

http://www.goodheartgroupinc.com/news/archive.html

(Copy and paste the links into your browser)

Have a Great Full Day,

Dr Jon

just small steps

2005-01-15T11:26:00.000-04:00

It doesn't seem possible that just over a month has passed since last posting. Could give myself lots of excuses, like Christmas holidays got in the way, son Philip was home from college and just enjoyed the time with him, or the server won't ever remember my password so it is a hassle getting into it to post, or.........

But I won't go there. Suffice it so say - here we go again! WooHoo!

********

The last four days I've done something I swore never to do again: running as a form of exercise! There are bad memories and worse emotions about running that I did in college (way many) years ago. Just refused to go there again. However, for a while now it has been obvious that exercise needed to be added to my life, on a regular basis. Just couldn't seem to get over the hump and go do it. But in the process of making changes and growing I decided to just do it! Four days ago was a beautiful spring morning in the mid of winter so on went the shorts and sweatshirt and sneakers and away we went. Started small, only a couple of (long!) blocks one way and back again. Felt great! Could feel good about myself again, in a small way.

Today was day number 4. Day two it was raining when I went out and 5 minutes later was sleeting and snowing. Day three was about 10 degrees. Today was 20 couple. So the weather seduced me on day one. The last three days my legs have been screaming at me every time I've taken a step or stood up. You know what, though? It doesn't matter. Now it is not about the weather or pain. It is about feeling good about myself and setting and meeting a goal. Just a small one, but successful just the same.

In that context a small but major revelation came today. Maybe I'll call it a "Concrete Vision". As I was running and thinking about how much farther I had to go (I had the "big picture" in focus), I looked down at the concrete under my feet. I saw the cracks and the periodic dividing lines. And it hit me: I only had to take the next step. I only had to get to the next dividing line. I can do that, no problem. And if I could do that one more time, and one more time, and one more time, before I knew it I would be at the end of my goal for the day.

It became clear to me that all of my life I have had the big picture, the final goal. And that is a blessing. "Without vision the people perish" the Bible says. How true. However, I have been caught up in looking so far down the road I have been unable to see or take the first step. I have failed to see that getting to the goal is done by taking the next step and the next and the next.

Today I got to the end of my set distance and looking at that next line in the concrete ------ I kept going!

This is your day to take the next small step.

Dr Jon

We did something today

2004-12-11T00:34:00.000-04:00

"Practicing what I am preaching" my family and I really stepped out and did something today.

First, you have to have some history. We moved to Missouri about 8 years ago and for most of that time worked for a church. Salary included housing so when we left that to become massage therapists and follow our passions to help people find health and healing, we had no resources/equity in houses with which to purchase our own home.

For two years now we have been looking for houses, knowing what we want/need to fulfill our vision/dreams to be a place of healing and respite for folk. But with no resources we have been stymied and paralyzed at every turn. It got to the point that we were just speaking lots of negative thoughts into our lives; was difficult to trust that Loving Father even cared even more.

Finally, recently, we realized it was time to change that and really get back to believing in our Father, and in ourselves; time to believe that we really have what it takes and that we can have what is in our dreams.

So, with that background, we have been looking the last couple of weeks. Saw a house last week that would work in terms of function but needed work and was in the wrong location. Scheduled today to see some more and decided last night that if we saw nothing today that work we would go for the one last week. Even if the location wasn't just right at least it would get us out of the paralyzed mode. We just needed to DO SOMETHING!

Today we went looking, walked into the first house, one for which we had the least expectations and wouldn't you know? It was the perfect house for us! Better than we could have imagined, perfect for the "haven" which we want to be available to people who need our services and information.

AND - get this - we put a contract on the house! We DID SOMETHING! Hallelujah!

And you know what else - even better than that? YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TOO! Whatever it is, take the first step.

Tell us about it!

Dr Jon

Just DO SOMETHING

2004-12-05T00:38:00.000-04:00

Have been listening, reading, educating myself for some time now in the world of business and the world of "home business" to be specific.

First, you have to realize they are different animals.
"Business" is what you see on Main Street, USA, at the mall, etc. The usual. They start with a business plan, raise money, provide some service or product and many are gone in 2 years.
"Home Business" is the fantasy that most of us have that we can do something from home to make extra money. This includes the millions(?) of Multi Level Marketing programs, envelope stuffing, etc., etc. Usually start with no business plan, no start up funding and usually never go anywhere. (I'm talking about myself here, as well as most of us who dream of bigger and better things).

Time to get real. Time to quit dreaming and thinking and hoping and actually DO SOMETHING!

That will be my new motto: DO SOMETHING!

Don't worry about failing; of course we will. But we will get up again and succeed, you and I.

Don't worry about not knowing enough; of course we don't know enough. But we will learn as we do.

Let me know what you did today, and tomorrow......

One last reminder for the day:

JUST DO SOMETHING

Definite Chief Aim

2004-12-03T11:36:00.000-04:00

Every once in a while (hopefully often) do you have one of those "Ah-ha" kind of moments? When a revelation or epiphany occurs and things start to make sense? You all get them, I'm sure, and are excited and thankful when they happen, right?

I had one of those moments yesterday. Everything I have been reading and listening to lately about "Success" have all said the same thing (you no doubt have heard it before):
Discover your main purpose, chief aim, "mission" in life. Until you do that, no real success can or will come.

I have struggled for some time now trying to figure out what my mission is. Yesterday the light went on! Do you really want to know what it is - for me? Here it is:
My mission in life is to be an entrepreneur so that I can help people along their journey of becoming who they can become.

Big deal, you say. Yeah, for me it really is. Here's why:

First, I have always hated working for somebody else, but always considered myself a "terrible" businessman. Probably I am not so good, yet, but knowing that to be my mission puts a whole different spin on it and changes the way I think about business and about me.

Second, I have always put the order wrong. I have spent my life trying to help people. That's why I went to med school, why I do basically everything I do (see www.goodheartgroupinc.com as a great example of how much I try to bring and how unfocused it all is). Now I can begin to get the order right. Entrepreneur, successful businessman, generating an income, FIRST so that THEN I can have the resources to REALLY help people, not just tilt at windmills.

So it is a big deal. Puts life in order. Focuses. Energizes. Wonderful feeling!

Trust you will have a "lights on" day today as well. Let me know.

Dr Jon
12/3/04

About GoodHeart Group and Dr Jon

2004-11-30T14:56:00.000-04:00

GoodHeart Group, Inc. is the vision of Jon A Moreshead, MD, LMT, a trained Family Physician. Soon after entering private practice in Harrisonburg, VA in 1983 Jon became interested in "alternative medicine" - chiropractic, nutrition, herbs, homeopathy, electrical acupuncture, etc. His eventual re-formed views of health and healing led to the discontinuation of conventional medicine in 1990. Most recently he became certified as a Licensed Massage Therapist, along with his nurse-wife, Susan. Besides teaching Anatomy and Physiology at The Healing Arts Center in St Louis, MO, he also maintains a web presence for multiple ventures GoodHeart Group, Inc. and helps his older son, Philip, with a growing lawn service.

Susan is an RN and a Licensed Massage Therapist as well. She spends a lot of her time being a homeschooling Mom of David, still at home. She is involved with the senior group at our church, New City Fellowship of St. Louis, and helps her parents as needed. She loves candles and candle-related crafts.

Son Philip is a senior at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR, majoring in communication. His intent is to be a radio sports broadcaster (the new Jack Buck). He also is the in absentia manager of B & M Lawn Service.

Son David is a High School student, both homeschooled and attending a learning academy here in St Louis. His interests are drama, piano, and real estate.

Contact Dr Jon