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Learning from mistakes

Embrace the Impossible

March 13, 2016 by Mark Shepard

Today I’m sharing a Transformation Tune that I will actually be singing today at the New Thought church called Unity in Albany NY.

Because it’s a “gig” day, (a rehearsal, 2 services in the morning and a rehearsal and Kirtan service in the evening, AND it’s “Spring Forward”, I don’t have a ton of time to share a Mind Mastery Moment with you…

No Assignment.

Just this song. From my heart to yours.

Enjoy.

– Mark

p.s. it’s actually one of my most hypnotic songs. May it take you to a new level of awareness!

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

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Filed Under: Articles, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Empowerment Songs, Flow States, Hypnosis for Life Purpose, Learning from mistakes, Overcoming Obstacles, Transformation, Transformation Songs

FRUSTRATION

March 8, 2016 by Mark Shepard

How To Use FRUSTRATION To Move Forward

Depending on your own level of frustration, you might want to play the transformation tune first today and then read the post… or maybe the other way around… :o)

I don’t know about you but I have a fairly low threshold for tolerating frustration.

Think of frustration

as an energy block.

It’s not something someone is doing to you. You and I no longer have the luxury of playing the “victim role” in the adventure story of our lives…

But the “thing” that is causing frustration won’t just go away because you wish it to. It is something that needs to be dealt with… consciously and lovingly.

Frustration in our own lives with jobs and co-workers, loved ones and situations that seem “unchangeable” can either drive us crazy or inspire and motivate us to take action.

Frustration calls for reflection, “getting the lesson” and then intelligent sustainable action.

The first thing we have to remember (and I am writing this for ME as well as YOU :o), is that the obstacles, blocks, “dead-ends” and annoying “stuck-ness” feelings are PERFECT.

We are being CHALLENGED to up our game.

The question is How Deep are you willing to Go in working on it?

  • Gandhi’s frustration led him to invent a whole new way of creating change in South African and India Non-Violent Protest. His frustration eventually led to MASSIVE action and a change of ideas that is still rocking this world and influencing leaders such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mendala.
  • Benjamin Franklin’s frustration with the postal system caused him to develop the first dependable postal service between the original 13 colonies, and it was his connections and travels between the colonies that helped him do his part in uniting them. His frustration with other aspects of colonial living caused him to organize the first volunteer fire department, lighted streets, lending libraries, and something we today call “the master mind” principle. Thank god for old Benjy’s frustration!

Frustration is the mother of all invention.

There have been some things that have frustrated me for 40 years. Forty damn years!

I started writing songs in 1976. They were so good that people would be stunned and astonished that this 16 year old kid was writing stuff that seemed way beyond his years. Whatever.

My songwriting came out of my own personal frustration at not being able to say out loud in words to other people what I was really feeling and thinking. I turned all the stuff inward and somehow I was able to turn all the crap I was feeling into lyrics and music that metaphorically expressed the inexpressible…

And then year after year I couldn’t for the life of me perform that damn things or “get them out in the world where they could do some good”….

FRUSTRATION!

Because I couldn’t perform them, I began to attempt to find ways to just record and preserve them. Which cost money. So I began to learn how to make money. And in that arena I crashed and burned more times than I care to admit. At one point I bought 4 houses for nothing down at the top of the 1980’s real estate bubble. That bubble BURST and I lost everything (and not for the last time!).

Eventually I surrendered to a higher power… and started working on my own “stuff” as if my life depended upon it (which is kind of did when you think about the alternative to actually doing the work).

Remember “stuff?”

We all have “stuff”. The “stuff” that gets triggered unconsciously and leaves us feeling shame, anger, fear, guilt, sadness without any logical or reasonable reason. The “Stuff” that drives us crazy and makes us MISERABLE.

“STUFF” = A technical term.

But I contend with all my heart and all my soul that our “stuff” is the greatest gift we have. Without it’s uncomfortable nudging, (or SHOVING) we would stay complacently satisfied with whatever small little box we have managed to build for ourselves.

AND IT’S TIME TO BREAK DOWN THE WALLS OF THE BOX.

It’s freedom time people.

It’s action time. More on this soon.

Now about the “Transformation Tune of the Day”,  Song #58 Visions of You (I Wreck My Soul)

I wrote it while I was at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1982… I was 22 How old were you?
Make sure you listen to the end for the “shift” moment. :o)

Instead of wishing you “peace” today, I lovingly wish you “FRUSTRATION” of the best kind.

May you be motivated to know

  1. You are not alone.
  2. Your frustration is a gift and a challenge
  3. You can do this.
  4. Together We CAN Change The World
  5. Changing the world starts INSIDE.

And I will see YOU on the INSIDE!
– Mark

p.s. along the way my frustration caused me to be motivated to learn how to change my own mind and body to support my big dream of making a positive difference in the world through my word and music. The result is a growing body of personal transformation tools and programs that people all over the world are finding helpful in their own transformational journeys.

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

Click the link below to:

  • Review my hypnosis video programs
  • Contact me today

Or just leave a comment below 🙂

Filed Under: Articles, Creating Change, Daily Mind Mastery Tip, Empowerment Songs, Frustration, Learning from mistakes, Mental Toughness Training, Overcoming Obstacles, Self Hypnosis, Self Improvement, Transformation, Transformation Songs

Why You Will Fail to Have A Great Career

June 22, 2015 by Mark Shepard

I came across this fabulous “rant” by Larry Smith, University of Waterloo Economics Professor. Over the years he saw countless college students abandon their quest for a “great career” and settle for “safe”, “practical”, “reasonable”, “acceptable” choices that doomed them to lives of passionless drudgery.

Ultimately his TED talk is a call to “cowabungah”.

Pay attention. There will be a test…

If you have any thoughts or questions or subjects you would like me to reflect upon in future videos, click the button below and contact me today.

Let’s talk…

Filed Under: Dreams, Goal Setting, Hero Story, Keys To Cowabungah, Learning from mistakes, Overcoming Obstacles, Path with Heart - Massive Throbbing Vision

There Are No Mistakes?

June 18, 2015 by Mark Shepard

Hey guys, I have to “fess” up today. I really screwed up on something… Just plain old made an old fashioned “mistake.”

In the past I would be crazy mad and angry, FURIOUS, at myself right now.

But I’m not.

I learned a valuable lesson that I will remember for the rest of my life. And sometimes that is worth an infinite amount… Yes. It’s “Another opportunity to LEARN”. So in keeping with the previous post about anger management, we have to stop being angry at ourselves so much. A lot of us find it easier to forgive someone else for their human frailties than we can forgive ourselves.

My Cowabungah Key today is that I STILL had a great day DESPITE totally screwing something up. And I know tomorrow it will all work out…

Better than I can possibly imagine.

Here’s the video.

Let me know what you think.

If you have any thoughts or questions or subjects you would like me to reflect upon in future videos, click the button below and contact me today.

Let’s talk…

Filed Under: Anger Management, Failure Into Feedback, Keys To Cowabungah, Learning from mistakes

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