Transcend Fear...

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest
fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,
not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented
and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a
child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to
make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just
in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do
the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.”-Marrianne Williamson

In An Invitation to Personal Peace, We devote an entire chapter on how to work through fear instead of letting fear work on you.

Let me ask you a question: What dream has fear taken away from your life? How does that make you feel?

Some years ago, I noticed a certain fear confronting me whenever I started to write a book. The Inner voice would go something like this "You're getting to big for your britches!"

Can you guess what happened next?
Okay, I'll tell you.
Frustration with myself for giving in to a voice that kept me small in the world.

Frustration and Inner Peace aren't a great match.

This all changed when I changed my reaction to my fear.

Instead of giving into the fear I used thought and action to confront it.

I started saying " We'll I'm up to something big."(thought)

I then proceeded to write (action).

This led to me to Personal Peace.

If I listened to the voice that limited my spirit, An Invitation to Personal Peace may not have been born.

Use the 5 simple exercises today in An Invitation to Personal Peace to walk through fear with boldness and courage.

Your desires are waiting for you. Don't disappoint them.

Believe in yourself today.

Make your Destiny a masterpiece.

Your Destiny Doctor
Dr.Mike Davison

I have a dream...

I have a dream...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream.

You have a dream...

We all have dreams.

You know deep down that you have something extraordinary inside of you.

What is it?

What is that special contribution you will make to this world? What are you going to do to leave the world a better place?

Make a commitment to make 2008.

Make a commitment to unleash your dream.

Don't allow yourself to disconnect from your dream and settle for a routine life.

Make 2008 the year you reclaim your dreams, and recapture that sense of excitement and certainty that makes a good life great.

It is not as hard as you think.

Consider a simple exercise of creating a bucket list.

I have been inspired by the movie titled "The Bucket List" to create a blog site at bucketlistblog.com to inspire you to make your dreams a reality.

In Peace and Gratitude!

Dr. Mike Davison
"Your Destiny Doctor"
mike@PartnersInPurpose.com

P.S. If you would like additional information about my Life Design Coaching Program for 2008, let me know. Contact me at 847 490-7689 or mike@partnersinpurpose.com .

Help to create your ultimate bucket list

Creating your ultimate bucket list requires your willingness to self-reflect.

Here is a 45 minute audio about creating your ultimate bucket list.

http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/todaysguest/2008/01/15/Do-You-Have-a-Bucket-List

Below is the questions I make reference to in the audio.

Make 2008 Great!

Dr. Mike Davison
“Your Destiny Doctor”
mike@PartnersInPurpose.com

P.S. If you are looking to make 2008 great, consider hiring a coach.

P.S.S. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my life design coaching programs.

The power of quality questions to help you discover you life purpose and create your ultimate bucket list.

Starter Questions Why am I here?What are my gifts and talents?How can I use my gifts and talents to contribute to the world?When do I feel most blessed?When do I feel the most opportunity to love?When do I feel I am contributing most? Whose drum am I marching to?If I had unlimited money and time, what would I do?What do I most like to give?What am I most passionate about?What is my favorite hobby?What is my favorite book of all time?What deeply gladdens me?What is the world hungering for?When do I experience my greatest moments of fulfillment? How do I want to be remembered?What am I most proud of?

What increases my energy?

When do I feel most alive?What vitalizes me?What fires me up?What activities energize me even though I have exerted myself or worked at them?What drives me?What gets me out of bed in the morning?What keeps me up late?

What grabs my attention?

What holds me spellbound?What do I continue to return to when I have some time?What do I day dream about?What do I have an unquenchable sense of curiosity, awe and wonder about?

What upsets me?

What pisses me off about the world?If I had an hour of prime time television to influence people, what would I use the time to talk about?What I am I committed to changing in the world?What is the “cause” I am most committed to?

What’s my calling in life?

Where or what have I done that feels “just right”?What do I feel like I was born to do/be?What would I do for work if money didn’t matter?

Who are my heroes?

Whose work or life do I admire?Who inspires or moves me?What are others doing that I think I could also make a profound contribution doing?Who do I think has made the greatest mark in the world in my area of interest?What leaders do I admire?

Miracle Questions

If I was guaranteed success at one thing in life, what would that one thing be?If I was living the life of my dreams what would that look like? Who would I be? What would I do? What would I have?

An Expanded Bucket List: Creating a Purpose Statement

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens”. -Carl Jung

I strongly believe everyone has a purpose or reason they were placed on this planet. I personally have not reconciled the issue of whether one’s life purpose is divinely inspired or if it is of our own choosing. However, I am certain that through the process of self-reflection, contemplation, prayer and consultation with others we can discern how to live our lives in the most purposeful and meaningful way.

There is tremendous power in creating a written document that can be best thought of as a purpose statement. It is best to look at your purpose statement as a fluid and evolving document. Your life purpose is not fixed or static. We certainly are not fixed or static beings. A purpose statement simply documents your purpose in life and how you will play out your life’s purpose. Your purpose statement answers such questions as: Who am I? What are my values? How am I going to use my time in the service of my life’s purpose?

In the process of writing a purpose statement I have some ideas that have worked for me. One is to keep it brief. By this I mean a paragraph or two. I think it should be peppered with language that is inspiring to you. I also believe that it should include how living your most purposeful life will contribute to the lives of others. Living your life’s purpose involves connecting with something beyond you; something bigger than you.

Once you complete your purpose statement, you should refer to the statement on a regular basis, perhaps even daily. I also think you should consider revisions at least once a year. A purpose statement ultimately gives you a springboard to evaluate yourself to determine if you are on track in life. Your purpose statement allows you to create your short- and long-term goals. A purpose statement also helps you schedule your time each day in a way that is congruent with your highest personal priorities. This sort of alignment will allow you to feel a profound level of clarity, certainty, fulfillment, and inspiration. This will allow personal peace to more effortlessly unfold in your life.

Some simple exercises to create a purpose statement as part of your bucket list:

Get clear about the kind of person you want to be.

Get out some paper and write out your responses to the statements below to get clearer about their life’s purpose.

My life’s purpose is…

My empowering self-definition is…

I want my life to be an answer to what question?

My personal purpose statement is…

The sort of influence on others I’d like to be is…

My life is about…

What I stand for is…

Also identify what you are willing to do on the level of your behavior to have your life be consistent with your responses.

Please feel free to share your thoughts or relections to these questions.

To You Most Purposeful Life!

Dr. Mike Davison
“Your Destiny Doctor”
mike@PartnersInPurpose.com
847 490-7689

P.S. If you would like any additional information about creating your own bucket list, or living your best life, feel free to contact me about life design coaching.

P.S.S. Check out www.bucketlistblog.com to learn more about creating your own bucket list.

P.S.S.S. Remember, the best way to predict your future is to design it.

Dr. Mike Davison, Life Design Coach, Launches New Blog to Help People Create a Bucket List

Dr. Mike Davison has put together a new blog inspired by the movie 'The Bucket List' to encourage people to be more purposeful about living life.

Arlington Heights, IL (PRWEB) January 14, 2008 -- Dr. Mike Davison, life design coach, has put together a new blog inspired by the movie 'The Bucket List.' The site is intended to be a vehicle help people make and share a bucket list. The broader goal is to encourage people to be more purposeful and intentional about living life.

Dr. Davison believes that everyone has dreams -- people to meet, places to go, experiences to have. People do not have to wait until a terminal diagnosis to create a bucket list.

Dr. Mike Davison's philosophy is that the best way for an individual to predict the future is to design it.

The blog is fun, inspiring and motivating. It encourages people to be purposeful designing their life.

Dr. Mike Davison is author of "An Invitation to Personal Peace" and a Clinical Psychologist and life design coach. The busy and successful use his life design coaching programs to be more intentional about how they live their lives.

Learn more about Dr. Mike Davison at http://www.bucketlistblog.com or http://www.partnersinpurpose.com

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Do you have a bucket list?

We all have dreams.

We all have those things we want to do, people we want to meet, experiences we want to have.

What are those things for you?

Do you have a bucket list?

While I have not yet seen the new movie Bucket List, I can't wait to see it.

It has already helped me.

I have already started putting together my bucket list.

Here is a partial list of what I have so far.

Meet Oprah.

Take my wife and kids on 2 week Hawaii vacation.

Have a nationally syndicated radio show.

Write a screenplay.

I encourage you to create a bucket list.

That is why I created a new blog at www.bucketlistblog.com

To encourage others to make and share their bucket list.

Please share what is on your bucket list.

It is fun.

It is inspiring.

It is motivating.

and...

It encourages other people to expand their sense of what is possible.

To Your Best Life!

Dr. Mike Davison
"Your Destiny Doctor"
mike@PartnersInPurpose.com

P.S. I beleive that the best way to predict your future is to design it! Start to design yours. Create and share your bucket list at www.bucketlistblog.com

The cure for negativity

While reading Think and Grow Rich today, I was moved by the following passage. It reminded me how easy it is to be influenced by the company we keep into the trap of negativity.

If you have a burning desire to achieve a vision that benefits others and brings joy to you, it is your divine right to go for it. Let the Nay Sayers be left in the dust of conformity. Often times the burning desire given to you is a treasure to be nurtured and acted upon despite the blindness of others. Believe that you can conceive the idea with divine guidance and give birth to brilliance.

Men with negative minds tried to convince Thomas A. Edison that he could not build a machine that would record and reproduce the human voice, "because" they said, "no one else had ever produced such a machine." Edison did not believe them. He knew that the mind could produce ANYTHING THE MIND COULD CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, and that knowledge was the thing that lifted the great Edison above the common herd.

Men with negative minds told F. W. Woolworth, he would go "broke" trying to run a store on five and ten cent sales. He did not believe them. He knew that he could do anything, within reason, if he backed his plans with faith. Exercising his right to keep other men's negative suggestions out of his

mind, he piled up a fortune of more than a hundred million dollars.

Men with negative minds told George Washington he could not hope to win against the vastly superior forces of the British, but he exercised his Divine right to BELIEVE, therefore this book was published under the protection of the Stars and Stripes, while the name of Lord Cornwallis has been all but forgotten.

Doubting Thomases scoffed scornfully when Henry Ford tried out his first crudely built automobile on the streets of Detroit. Some said the thing never would become practical. Others said no one would pay money for such a contraption. FORD SAID, "I'LL BELT THE EARTH WITH DEPENDABLE MOTOR CARS," AND HE DID! His decision to trust his own judgment has already piled up a fortune far greater than the next five generations of his descendants can squander. For the benefit of those seeking vast riches, let it be remembered that practically the sole difference between Henry Ford and a majority of the more than one hundred thousand men who work for him, is this--FORD HAS A MIND AND CONTROLS IT, THE OTHERS HAVE MINDS WHICH THEY DO NOT TRY TO CONTROL.

Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish. His record knocks the foundation from under that time-worn alibi, "I never had a chance." Ford never had a chance, either, but he CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY AND BACKED IT WITH PERSISTENCE UNTIL IT MADE HIM RICHER THAN CROESUS- (From Think and Grow Rich)

(Croesus is the guy below with the crown)- Must have been one rich dude!

If you've fallen victim to the influence of negativity, take heart.

Here's the Cure:

That's right. There's about 5 chapters dedicated to Removing Blocks to Personal Peace. This will be your Kryptonite to Any Forces that try to squelch your fire.

Dedicated to giving you back control of your destiny,

Your Destiny Doctor,

Dr. Mike Davison

Inside the mind of Britney Spears

"Accurate self-examination is an important part of one’s personal
growth. It is so easy to fall into self-deception. If you are not honest with yourself
about certain matters, then doubts and fears will haunt you.
You cannot develop a healthy sense of self when you
have a self-serving and false appraisal of yourself."

Transcending Self-Delusions, Chapter 10 An Invitation to Personal Peace

What is Self-Delusion?
Great Question!

According to SELF-DECEPTION, SELF-DELUSION and SELF-DENIAL: And How to Act from What You Know to be True,When we deceive, delude or deny to our self, we mislead our self, we misrepresent or disown what we know to be true, we lie to our self, we refuse to acknowledge that which we know.

Why would we lie to ourselves?
In a book called Vital Lies, Simple Truths, Daniel Goleman notes that we do not see what it is that we do not see, because:

The mind can protect itself against anxiety by diminishing awareness. This mechanism produces a blind spot: a zone of blocked attention and self-deception. Such blind spots occur at each major level of behavior from the psychological to the social. (p. 22)

Well, I'm glad that cleared everything up!

Basically, it's a protective behavior that keeps the person from experiencing or facing the consequences of reality. Eventually the truth wins. Sometimes in a very public way! For Example:

Then:Britney Says in May 2007
"I used to be angry at the tabloids for printing horrible things about me, but now I try to just be numb to what I see."

Now: Britney Says June 20,2007
"Spears Angered By Shaved Head Ads
Britney Spears has admitted to having some problems, but she's drawing the line at a "nut job."

I guess being numb didn't work.

Again from Britney:

"It is so sad, because if anyone is a family person...it is me."

"I feel like some of the people in my life made more of some issues than was necessary."








"I also feel like they knew I was beginning to use my brain for a change and cut some ties, so they wanted to be in more control of my life than me."

Britney, I'll even sign the book for you!

Now why didn't I think of that before. That'll convince her!

Bottom Line: Self Delusions can't hide from reality forever. As you can see they surface sooner or later.

Why not Grab a copy of an Invitation to Personal Peace to avoid this happening to you? Make sure you do the daily practice on day 4 in Chapter 10 that could instantly give you guidance and comfort on your journey to inner peace.

What are you waiting for? The only time you have promised to you is the present. Let this be a gift to you of powerful transformation and bliss.

Your Destiny Doctor
Dr.Mike Davison

Britney Spears needs some Personal Peace.

Please Don't Try this at home.

Cultivating a sense of Personal Peace in your life doesn't have to come down to this.

According to my close sources ( MSN News web site), Lynne Spears says her daughter Britney, whose public meltdown included shearing off her own locks, is

"just figuring things out."

Britney all you had to do was ask.

I could've given you a much simpler way to figure things out.


SOFTCOVER

Since Britney took a different route, allow me to share a powerful tool you can use today to invite more peace in your life.

Materials Needed: Pen and Notebook- no shears involved

From the chapter Exercise Your Write:

"Writing is a powerful personal development and spiritual
tool. Writing can help you explore your self, your desires and
intentions, and the reasons why you do the things you do."

- (page 36) An Invitation to Personal Peace

Try “free writing” or writing down
whatever comes to mind, without judgment.

You don’t have
to share it with anyone.

Isn't it amazing that a simple exercise while so small is so powerful.

And we're just getting started!

An Invitation to Personal Peace reveals the hidden secrets on using journals

to relieve depression, stress, and anxiety among a host of other things.

We give you step by step activities that will infuse peace in your day

instead of disturb it with one more to-do task.

Your body will thank you.

Wait a minute,

You do have the book right?

If not, I'll make it real easy for you to order. Just Click the book below .

How's that for peaceful?

SOFTCOVER

Until next time,
This is your Destiny Doc Signing off.
Dr.Mike Davison

Wishing you peace in everything you do!