Creating a Better Life

Free Ebook - The Rise of the Author by Mark Joyner

Boy, when it rains, it pours.

After yesterday’s post about getting a free copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People, I got an email that Mark Joyner has released a new free ebook, “The Rise of the Author.”

This one looks more permanent (if anything on the Internet can be called permanent), so I’ve added it to my listing of free ebooks.

It’s over a hundred pages long, but thankfully Mark has included an executive summary and action plan at the end of it for those of us who are already having trouble managing their information overload.

Enjoy!

New (and Free for Now) Blogging Course from Simpleology

Mark Joyner and Simpleology have finally joined us… the bloggers.

And he “half-wants” to know what you think about it.

He’s set up a new Simpleology Course - Blogging: Learn to Blog for Fun and Profit.

And (for now, at least), he’s giving it away in exchange for a link on your blog.

I know that many of my regular readers are bloggers, so I thought that they might like to take a look at the new course and evaluate it.

But I also know that I’ve got some readers who have expressed an interest in blogging, but haven’t taken the plunge yet.

The following is for you.

I’ll Help You Blog

There’s a bit of a catch-22 when it comes to getting this course and new bloggers.

You’ve gotta have a blog to post the link to get the free course that will help new bloggers.

So here’s what I came up with.

If you sign up for Simpleology 101 (or are already signed up), I’ll help you get a new blog started.

Then I’ll help you get the link up to the free course, so that you can start learning.

No other strings attached.

Let me just be clear on something… I only want to work with people who are really interested in blogging… not just setting up spam blogs that steal others content or who are only interested in making a quick buck.

And for full disclosure’s sake: I am a Simpleology Strategic Partner - while neither Simpleology 101 or the blogging course cost anything (for now), if you purchase one of the other courses offered by Simpleology, I will make a commission. I’ve purchased Simpleology 102 and Simpleology 103, and I’m very happy with the investment.

Here’s Exactly To Do

1. Sign up for Simpleology 101 (you can skip this step if you’re already a member.)
2. Contact me using this form, letting me know that you’ve signed up.
3. I’ll help you set up a free blog.
4. You write and publish an introductory post about what your new blog is about.
5. I’ll help you get the code on your new blog.
6. You start your new blogging adventure!

Please notice the word help in the above steps. I won’t do anything for you except walk you through the steps. If you want to hire me to set up a blog for you, you can use the same form to contact me regarding my rates.

Also, please note that this offer is only good for as long as Mark is offering the course for free.

Here’s to your new adventure in blogging!

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Subjective Reality Revisited

A belief is only a thought that we’ve had over and over and over again. They become our models of the world and how it works, and therefore affect the way we act, react, and interact with what’s around us.

Sometimes we take those repetitive thoughts, invest in them, repeat them to ourselves even more - and they become a rock solid fortress which we will defend to the death, even if we are faced with evidence that they may not be as absolute as we once thought.

One of the models of our world that I’ve taken on in the past is the idea of Subjective Reality - the belief that everything that happens to us on the outside comes from our insides. The most recent place that I heard it was in the James Ray video that I posted a couple of days ago.

At times in my life, this model of reality really worked well for me. It gave me a sense of power, a sense that I can do something - I’m not a victim in a random world.

Rick at Shards of Consciousness has a great episode of his weekly podcast that brought some new light to the subject for me, called Subjective Reality, False Reality

In it, Rick talks about how our maps are not the territory - just because we perceive something to be true, doesn’t make it so.

A podcast that has a great exploration of Subjective Reality from the other side of the fence comes from Steve Pavlina, which he calls The True Nature of Reality, in which Steve argues for the idea that there is only one consciousness - and it’s yours.

So who’s right?

They both are - depending on your current perspective.

In his podcast, Rick does say that if you are looking at things from the perspective of Source - then yes, everything comes from one consciousness.

But in the physical, 3 dimensional world that we spend most, if not all, of our time in, our consciousness is not that of Source. It’s of ego - the wave that appears on the ocean of that Source.

Maybe if you are Jesus or Buddha, all of your experience can be subjective.

But I’m neither. I’m Lyman.

So what’s a poor soul striving for enlightenment to do?

Enter Mark Joyer’s “Utilitarian Model Flexibility”, from his Simpleology book - the idea that we can adopt various models of reality much like we use the software that runs our computers.

Use whatever model works best for you - where you are - right now.

And to not get so caught up in one particular model that you become unable to let in any new information, especially when that model becomes useless (at best), or dangerous (at worst).

We may be spiritual beings having a human experience… but we are having a human experience.

It’s time we stopped fighting that.

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