Your First THOT For Your Week in 2010, By Dr. Ogi Ressel
January 08 2010, 12:00 am
Warm wishes to each one of you for an abundant and incredible 2010!...... And the start
of a new decade!
Here's something to think about for your first week of the 2010 year:
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
- Joseph Campbell
Welcome to the University of Life.......
There are only two classes offered:
•1. Over the door of one classroom a sign reads:
"Seminar on Understanding and Applying the Principles and Mechanics
of the Analysis of the Ingredients of a Piece of Chocolate Cake and
the Results of the Psychoanalysis of the Cook"
.•2. Over the other door:
"Tasting the Cake".
So, here's the thing I want you to consider: Which class are you enrolled in? When tasting
a piece of chocolate cake, do you analyze the recipe and then psychoanalyze the cook?
Or do you simply taste it?
Do you analyze everything in your life before you experience it? Does everything need to
be clearly understood first? Is everything planned in your life, or do you welcome surprises,
opportunities, and risk?
Oh my!......Did I say RISK?
Oh..........Did you just say you wanted to changes classes? Wonderful!
You see....Every morning, each of us gets a wonderful opportunity - to choose the class
we'd like to enroll in. There will be pop quizzes and challenges in every class and no one
really knows when our final exam is really scheduled, but in the meantime, we are living a Life....
I thought that I'd start your 2010 year off with this THOT as there are so many doctors I talk
with that are simply paralyzed with inertia and fear.......and most of it has to do with what
they have been through in their past.........and the poor coaching they've received, or that
they just have "bad patients", or are in a bad neighborhood, or their patients are not paying
them, or everyone is always missing their appointments, or they are not referring, or that no
one in their town wants Chiropractic care, or they were simply born on the wrong side of the
tracks, or they are the middle child, or they are too short, or they failed before, or........
(you can fill in your own reason).
And of course, they blame their present state of Life on their past experiences and people
who have done this and that to them and caused their present state of being.
Dr. Wayne Dyer calls all of this "stuff", our "wake," and in a wonderful metaphor, he equates
Life to driving a boat.
Imagine for a moment that you are the captain of your boat which is cruising into the sunset
and you are standing at the stern. You look behind you and see this "thing" which laps the
shores as your boat cruises forward.
So....Let me ask you three really cool questions:
•1. What is the wake?
What is this "thing" that your boat leaves behind?
Well....The answer is that it is the wake, the trail, spent energy, expended effort, the leftovers
- which your boat leaves behind. It is a trail - nothing more.
•2. What is driving the boat then?
Well....It is the engine. It is your present-time effort, energy, consciousness, work ethic,
purpose, drive, etc.
....and here's the most important question;
•3. Is it possible for the wake to drive the boat?
Is it possible for the trail you leave behind in life, to propel your boat forward?
The answer is an emphatic NO! The trail you leave behind cannot determine your life - unless
you allow it.........and yet that is exactly what we do, isn't it?
We attempt to explain why our life isn't working the way we think it ought to in the present,
by leaning on what has happened to us in the past. And we make every conceivable excuse
to explain why we are not where we'd like to be with the exception of one - we never look in
the mirror!
And the reason is that it is never our fault. Of course not. It is always someone else's.
And of course, it is so much easier playing victim, isn't it?
Cerebral constipation comes to mind.
Nick Knolte in "The Peaceful Warrior" suggests that you "Take out the trash." In other words,
you need to empty your mind of that which has been keeping you where you are - at a standstill.
It is my sincere wish that you look at this New Year of 2010 as a renewal for you - as a
re-awakening of your spirit to choose the life and go after the dream you have always wanted.
Please allow me to help you in that quest, if you have not already. Join with me - I'll help you
have the practice you have always wanted to have - in an honest, sincere and honorable manner
- No BS, no salesmanship, no fear tactics, and with complete honor, clinical excellence, and total
integrity!
Please feel very welcome to write or call me anytime - it would be an honor to chat with you!
800-353-3082.
and if you have not done so, please complete the Practice Health Mini Check-Up on my website.
It is a practice diagnostic and I will help you understand why you may be stalled in life.....
My warmest wishes to all of you,
Dr. Ogi Ressel
Here is your affirmation for the start of your brand new year:
I am an amazing doctor
I am determined
I am on fire
I am unstoppable
