Are You Truman's Neighbor?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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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

"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

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

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

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.

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