The Master Stroke of the Master Key is saving the best for last.
This particular lesson is so loaded with insight and wisdom laying in plain sight it’s like a wonderful meal, steaming with aroma, plated and presented perfectly, challenging you to choose the first bite in the right order.
Now that we have arrived at Week 21, ideas such as #18 on how habits are formed, we simply look at it and say, “Yes, I know from experience. It’s not a concept or a theory. It’s not simply a good idea or a teaching. It’s how the human machine works!” (And, oh by the way, you should try it!) But don’t be fooled. It is no easy matter to change the mental attitude, but by persistent effort it CAN BE DONE!
Here’s another delicious bite. #6. Large ideas have a tendency to eliminate all smaller ideas so that it is well to hold ideas large enough to counteract and destroy all small or undesirable tendencies. This will remove innumerable petty and annoying obstacles from your path. You also become conscious of a larger world of thought, thereby increasing your mental capacity as well as placing yourself in position to accomplish something of value.
And here is a note of gentleness and patience; If we do fail now and then, we should by no means lose hope, for the law is absolute and invincible and gives us credit for every effort and every success, even though our efforts and successes are perhaps intermittent.
Finally, the level playing field; the part I adore most. The Divine Mind makes no exceptions, it plays no favorites. It is unconditional. Therefore, the more conscious we become of our unity with this mind, the less conscious we become of conditions and limitations, and as we become emancipated from conditions we come into a realization of the unconditional. We have become free!
I’ve lived most of my life in Oregon. Birth and the first ten years were in Nebraska, but my parents and eight kids jumped on the Oregon Trail and never looked back. I grew up skiing the volcanoes of the Cascade Mountain range; hiking and fishing the high lakes and endless rivers and streams, exploring the Oregon Coast, making hay in the summers and feeding it in the winters, riding horses, and building muscle cars. After high school I spent six years in the US Navy, which included extensive travels around Europe, Asia, and South America. I then spent four years in college, which included international study in Latin America (Ecuador and Peru.) My professional career started with a Fortune 50 company, which included a stint in London as a broker in Lloyd’s. College years re-connected me with my beautiful brown-eyed girl from a rural Oregon community where we met when we were ages 12 and 14; now married 28 years.
We’ve now lived 20 years in Lake Oswego, Oregon where we raised three crazy, wonderful, bright, beautiful kids, all of whom are scholar athletes. Our oldest daughter, an All-American track athlete, competed four years at Duke; the second, a D1 women’s soccer goalie at Butler University, was on the Big East Championship team, now pours her heart into Athletes in Action at Oregon State; and our son is presently a pole vaulter and graphic design major at Northwest Nazarene. What a trip!
I spend much of my time helping owners of well-established, thriving businesses plan and execute ownership transitions. There’s nothing better than keeping a good business in business, maintaining good jobs for great employees so they can raise kids, pay mortgages, and contribute to the whole incredible economic machine. I’m still happily growing and serving after all these years. God, I love it so!
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Thank you for pointing these out. I liked the analogy you began with too.
Traction Distraction 
Thank you for pointing these out. I liked the analogy you began with too.
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