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BELIEVING |
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| James (02/24/09 11:54:20) Tag: THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING | ||
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THE MAGIC IN YOUR MIND |
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| James (02/16/09 17:47:26) Tag: Self Awareness | |
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February 18, 2009 Today's thoughts are taken from "The Magic in Your Mind" by U.S. Andersen Many people think they want things, but simply do not have sufficient desire to maintain their mental image in the face of negative circumstances. One has to want something badly in order to persevere in the face of misfortune and defeat. No path is easy except one that leads downhill. If we aspire, we must climb, and climbing takes effort and sweat and a willingness to continue in the face of all difficulties.
February 16, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Power of Focus” by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Les Hewitt If you want to distance yourself from the masses and enjoy a unique lifestyle, understand this—your habits will determine your future. It’s that important. Remember, successful people don’t drift to the top. It takes focused action, personal discipline and lots of energy every day to make things happen. The habits you develop from this day forward will ultimately determine how your future works out. Rich or poor. Healthy or unhealthy. Fulfilled or unfulfilled. Happy or unhappy. It’s your choice so choose wisely. Freditorial: What are the masses doing these days? Talking fearfully about the economy? Complaining that past and prior administrations didn’t do enough to help their financial situation? Remaining stalled in life and doing nothing about it? Well, one of the great gifts we all have is CHOICE. You can choose to develop better thoughts. You can choose to shut the television off and put the newspaper down and focus on a better result than the one portrayed in the media. I may not know you personally, but I do know you can read this, you have access to a computer, you are looking for answers, and you have the power of choice. Which means, you are BLESSED! Positive and negative thoughts are doing battle in your mind right now begging for your attention. Do you know which one wins the battle? The one you feed!
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POWER THROUGH CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING |
| James (02/15/09 00:38:05) Tag: THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT |
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FEBRUARY 14,2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Power Through Constructive Thinking” by Emmet Fox Remember that you absolutely owe no loyalty whatever to anything or anyone but your own soul and to the furtherance of its spiritual development. Your most solemn duty is to make everything secondary to that. “To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not the n be false to any man.” -- Shakespeare Freditorial: You don’t merely have a soul, you ARE a soul. And you were created as a perfect expression of the Creator of the Universe. Get in touch with that perfection; see yourself being your best, doing your best work, impacting the world in a great way as only you can. And in the privacy of your own thoughts, when no one else is noticing, continue to hold thoughts of your Best Self. Be true to your inner voice; seek it, find it, BE it.
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THE POWER OF FOCUS |
| James (02/05/09 12:01:00) Tag: THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT |
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February 5, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Power of Focus” by Jack Canfield There’s a well-known Bible phrase that says, “Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” (Galatians 6:7). This is a fundamental truth. It seems if you hand out good things and you consistently sow well, your rewards are guaranteed. That’s a pretty good deal, isn’t it? Freditorial: I see generosity daily...in our charities, philanthropy, foreign aid, volunteer pr ograms, the pride, sacrifice, and valor demonstrated daily by the men and women serving in our military, and so on. Every day, I benefit from the generosity of others; from their time, talent, energy, and money.&nb sp; I have genuine gratitude for this generosity; it inspires me to make a conscious effort to “pay it forward.” Are you stuck with a problem? Is your business in the midst of a struggle? Are you looking for better results? If so, GET SOME GOOD SEED IN THE GROUND! Do something today to help another person: a random act of kindness, a prayer, a kind word, leave a bigger-than-usual tip for a waiter or waitress, refer some business to someone in your network, give some money to charity, volunteer your time to a worthy cause. And then watch your personal struggles morph into blessings. EXTRA Today’s thoughts are taken from “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude” by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone What, then, is a formula that can help you change your world? Memorize, understand, and repeat frequently throughout the day: What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with PMA (Positive Mental Attitude). It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher. Freditorial: Like it or not, your mind is at work 24 hours a day. For many, thoughts are recurring in an endless loop of negativity that we have unwittingly allowed to dominate us. Any time we try something new, the Thought Governor steps in and rejects the new idea because it’s not in harmony with old conditioning. Well, folks, it’s time to throw the Thought Governor out of office! I don’t care what the current economy looks like, I intend to AIM HIGHER than ever before and achieve UNPRECEDENTED success and prosperity! Care to join me? |
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THE MAGIC |
| James (01/30/09 17:56:34) Tag: THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING |
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January 30, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Magic of Believing” by Claude M. Bristol It is very important to remember that the subconscious will go into action at once under the impetus of the commands or suggestions it receives from the conscious mind. But it gets results quicker if the conscious mind accompanies its message with a mental picture of the desired goal. It may be faint, sketchy, or even unfinished, but even if only an outline, it will be enough for the subconscious to act upon. Freditorial: Your conscious mind is your thinking mind. It can accept or reject any idea. But your subconscious mind, which governs your behavior and controls the vibration you are in (and, consequently, what you attract), has no ability to reject. It must accept any idea that is presented to it. The problem many of us have is we are allowing an endless loop of negative self-images to flow continuously into our subconscious mind. As a result, we have formed self-images and habits that don’t serve our higher purpose. It’s time to impeach those old thoughts! Run them out of town. Tomorrow morning, as you prepare for the day, be sure to FLOSS YOUR MIND! Get any remnant of limiting thought out of your consciousness and form a new image of your ideal life. INTENTIONALLY and CONSCIOUSLY change your result by impressing new and improved thoughts onto the movie screen of your subconscious mind. Then take some action: write down 5 things you need to do today to move in the direction of your new image. Then do them, one by one, without hurry, confidently, effectively, in the BEST way you are capable of, as if performing the task for God Himself. LIVE ON PURPOSE TODAY! And as you do, invite the unprecedented success your new thoughts will attract. |
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Secret of the Ages |
| James (01/21/09 20:27:29) Tag: THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT |
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January 26, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Secret of the Ages” by Robert Collier Certainly God never manifested anything but infinite abundance, infinite supply. If you are made in His image, there is no reason why you should lack for anything good. You can manifest abundance, too. Freditorial: Imagine this: you turn on the nightly news and the anchorperson leads off the broadcast by saying with a big smile, “Good evening. Tonight a breaking news story guaranteed to cause a positive ripple effect on our ailing economy. It has been determined that God created an infinite supply of abundance and blessings, so the U.S. government has called off the recession.” Obviously, that newscast will never take place. And obviously,20there are realistic concerns about the economy. But the fact continuously overlooked and ignored by the media is we are living in times where unprecedented opportunity exists for those willing to think and learn and dream. This may require change and growth, which will cause us to stretch and momentarily feel discomfort. But the world is changing, so like it or not, your best ideas are needed NOW! Those willing to embrace change and think outside the box will realize a whole new result in this economy or any other. As Eric Hoffer once said, “In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Jamuary 23, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Three Magic Words” by U.S. Andersen Chance has nothing to do with directing great ideas to the people who have them. The idea finds its owner because the owner attracts it. He attracts it by placing himself in a mental position where the idea must come to him. He does this by removing from his mind all barriers as to what can and can’t be done, all negative thoughts concerning limitation and lack, and he puts his trust in Universal Subconscious Mind, confident that it will deliver the answer if he has but the courage to pose the question. Freditorial: Louis Pasteur said: “Chance favors the prepared mind.” Yet many of us point our fingers at successful people and say, “They’re lucky,” or “they’re always in the right place at the right time.” The fact is: successful people EXPECT success. They wake up every day with gratitude and a positive attitude and they go about their day with confident expectancy and a willingness to GIVE of themselves: their time, talent, energy, or money. They don’t have all the answers but they know the answers exist, therefore they ask good questions and they trust the power of their minds and the power of prayer to attract the answer. And while they wait for the answer to come, they DO SOMETHING! As Abraham Lincoln once said: “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” January 22, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Psycho-Cybernetics” by Maxwell Maltz It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve—and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you don’t want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you don’t want is not rational. Freditorial: Many of us unintentionally sabotage our own success by giving focus and energy to our problems. For example, many people state: “My goal for 2009 is to eliminate all my credit card debt.” Others state: “My goal for this year is to lose 25pounds.” By setting such goals, we are consciously choosing to give our focus to debt or excess weight. As such, we are unwittingly giving energy and life to those things we DON’T want! Re-examine your goals today. If your goal is includes something you don’t want, re-state the goal. Any goal concerning debt should be re-stated to include prosperity instead. For instance: “My goal is to attract an additional $25,000 per month in net income.” For weight loss goals, state them positively as lifestyle enhancements: “My goal is to develop a lifestyle that supports health and wellness in all areas of my life and to joyfully release all excess weight.” Let’s get intentional in 2009 and let’s turn our focus to what we WANT! Goals should be things we ACCEPT with gratitude, not AVOID with fear. Don’t have any goals? GIVE ME A CALL! January 21, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Science of Being Great” by Wallace Wattles There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement and classification of all the facts and circumstances of your life. You are what you are because you think as you do; you are where you are because you think as you do. Freditorial: As a teenager, whenever someone said “you are what you eat,” I would respond, “That’s funny; I don’t feel like a large Italian hero.” Fortunately, I’ve matured since then! And with that maturity I’ve developed an awareness that I AM what I THINK. Whenever I’ve come up short in life, I realize I allowed self talk like “I’ll never be able to do this.” Eventually, I learned to replace that statement with, “Day by day, I am learning with joy and gratitude to overcome my ignorance of how to do this task, therefore I am realizing the full potential for which God created me.” Do you imagine the future result would be different for a person who repeatedly states the first statement as compared to the second? Thoughts will always precede the physical manifestation of a worthwhile goal. But first you must decide what you want and begin AT ONCE to do something that moves you in the direction of your goal. DECIDE AND ACT. To borrow a line from Microsoft, where do YOU want to go today? |
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The Power Of the Subconcious Mind |
| James (01/06/09 17:02:08) Tag: The Power Of the Subconcious Mind |
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Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Secret of the Ages” by Robert Collier It is your own belief in yourself that counts. It is the consciousness of dominant power within you that makes all things attainable. You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door to welfare. Keep it open—by expecting to attract everything that is right. Freditorial: Notice how Collier says “expect” to attract everything that is right. This implies a certain amount of FAITH in your power to manifest your desires. This point is critical to your success! The power of the mind is written about in virtually every chapter of Collier’s magnificent book. It is also featured in many installments of “Our Daily Fred.” The reason? It is the TRUTH! And the truth is worth repeating often and contemplated daily. Remember the words of Napoleon Hill: “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” I have FAITH in YOU. I believe YOU can do anything if you do it with faith and purpose! What do you think? January 16, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Three Magic Words” by U.S. Anderson When you have completely accepted the power greater than you are, when you know it will create in your experience that which you believe, you will also find that it will provide you with answers to your questions. You must do this by letting go of your problem. Once the basic elements of the problem are clearly defined in your Conscious Mind, and once your general objective is clearly defined in your Conscious Mind, let go. Forget the problem altogether. One morning while you are going about your daily tasks, you will find the answer. It will strike your consciousness with such impact as to remove all doubt but what it is truth. The answer will be crystal clear, of such simplicity that you will be amazed that it never occurred to you before or that you ever held any doubt about it. Freditorial: How do you deal with problems? Do you focus continually on the problem or do you imagine the perfect outcome? If you focus on the problem you are merely giving energy and strength to the problem. Do yourself a favor: FORGET the problem! Spend some time visualizing the ideal outcome, the perfect SOLUTION, nothing else. Get yourself, your fears, doubts, frustrations, your ego, and old thought habits out of the way and ALLOW the good to find you. If you are troubled by a persistent problem, focus on the perfect solution and LET THE PROBLEM GO! January 15, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Working With the Law” by Raymond Holliwell You can only get what you expect, for the unchanging Law is ever working to supply you. Prayer should not be one of supplication, pleading, begging, entreating, a sad state. It should be one of claiming, declaring, decreeing, praising and a joyful thanksgiving. Freditorial: When you pray, do you expect the prayer to be answered? When you’re done praying, do you resume your life with a heart filled with gratitude and joy? In order to live in harmony with your greatest goals, biggest desires, and most heartfelt prayers you need to live with confident expectancy of all the good that’s coming to you. Your life will move in the direction of your most predominant thought so keep them purposeful, positive, and focused; then take some positive action. 20Be UNDETERRED by the swirl of negative news from the media. Turn inward and tap into the limitless reservoir of potential and talent you possess. ALWAYS strive to inspire the best in others and ALWAYS expect the best; even when negative things happen. In the words of Napoleon Hill: “Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” January 13, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Your Invisible Power” by Genevieve Behrend There is nothing unusual or mysterious in the idea of your pictured desire coming into material evidence. It is the working of a universal, natural Law. The world was projected by the self-contemplation of the Universal Mind, and this same action is taking place in its individualized branch which is the Mind of Man. Everything in the whole world, from the hat on your head to the boots on your feet, had its beginning in mind and comes into existence in exactly the same manner. Freditorial: Your mind thinks in picture. When I say, “think of your refrigerator” a picture of your refrigerator appears on the movie screen in your mind. But what picture appears when I say “picture your ideal life” or “think about your biggest dream” or “what is your number one goal?” Have you created an image of these things or are you willing to merely drift through life and accept whatever happens? You were born with a visualization faculty called imagination; USE IT! And then get busy and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! You are a creative being and your ideal existence, your biggest dream, and any goal you set for yourself begins as a seed of thought planted in your subconscious mind. Are you tired of the results you’re getting? GET INTENTIONAL and use your imagination to create a new picture! As Albert Einstein once said: “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” January 12, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Success Principles” by Jack Canfield One of the great strategies for success is to act as if you are already where you want to be. This means thinking like, talking like, dressing like, acting like, and feeling like the person who has already achieved your goal. The Law of Attraction simply states that like attracts like. The more you create the vibration—the mental and emotional states—of already having something, the faster you attract it to you. This is an immutable law of the universe and critical to accelerating your rate of success. Freditorial: How would you behave if you knew for certain that failure was not a possibility? Would you be setting bigger goals? Takin g more risks? Would you be living, thinking, and acting differently; perhaps EXPECTING good things to happen? Well, the only thing stopping you is your attitude; the composite of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Perhaps you have wrongly concluded that you are today all you ever will be. PERISH the thought! You are capable of ANYTHING. God’s gift to us is infinite potential; our gift to God is to use as much as that potential as we can during our short time here on earth. Do you want success never before realized in your life? Then get a clear picture of that success and start believing and acting as if it were impossible to fail! January 9, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Master Key System” by Charles Haanel The world within is governed by mind. When we discover this world we shall find the solution for every problem, the cause for every effect; and since the world within is subject to our control, all laws of power and possession are also within our control. Freditorial: What is governing your thought? Other people? Old thought habits? The media? Your favorite radio talk-show host? Whatever your current results are—good or bad—you attracted them with your thoughts, by the vibration you allowed yourself to get into. If you want to change those results for the better, you need to do something today: CHANGE YOUR MIND! Take control ove r your own destiny. Plant a good seed for the manifestation of your highest goals by performing a random act of kindness. The next time you go to a restaurant, leave a kind note along with the tip for your server. Find some good quality in one of your employees or co-workers and tell him/her how much you appreciate it. Smile at someone for no reason (I’m smiling at you right now)! What you observe in the world is EFFECTS for which we (humans) are collectively the CAUSE. So let’s all make like George Lucas and create some SPECIAL EFFECTS! January, 8, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Science of Being Great” by Wallace Wattles If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mind until it becomes a definite thought-form; and if your practices are not such as to separate you from God, the thing you want will come to you in material form. It must do so in obedience to the law by which the universe was created. Freditorial: Understand this: EVERYTHING you desire ALREADY EXISTS! You could not have the desire for anything unless you had inherent in your mind the power to attract that thing. The creative process is triggered by stating what you WANT. Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, many of us don’t get what we want; we get what we settle for. NO MORE! Get intentional! Write down your desires . Be specific and then impress that picture onto your subconscious mind DAILY. And once you’ve done that, take some action: make a vision board, schedule time to visualize, speak affirmations. And remember: the ideal life you have always been seeking has ALWAYS been seeking you in return. When do you suppose would be a good time for the two of you to meet?! January 6, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Power of the Subconscious Mind” by Dr. Joseph Murphy Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the best, and make sure the thoughts you habitually think are based on things that are lovely, true, just, and harmonious. Begin now to take care of your conscious mind, knowing in your heart and soul that your subconscious mind is always expressing, reproducing, and manifesting according to your habitual thinking. Freditorial: Do your habitual thoughts serve your highest purpose? If you frequently have thoughts that cause you fear, doubt, or worry then the answer to that question is an emphatic NO! The news media is full of stories that condition you to expect the worst and somehow many of us habitually embrace these stories as gospel truth. NO MORE! How about some REAL truth: your life is blossoming in total perfection! Divine order is established and maintained in your life NOW. These are just two of many affirmations I habitually speak aloud every day. Looking for some positive change? Change the way you think! Examine your habitual thought and REFUSE to ever again entertain ANY thought that begins with: I can’t, I don’t deserve, I’m not capable of, or any other lie. EXCPECT THE BEST ALWAYS; tune out the negative media and tune in to your highest ideals and biggest goals. There never has been nor will there ever be another person like you. You are one of a kind. YOU ARE GREAT; SO START EXPECTING GREAT THINGS! |
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"If you can see it in your head, you can hold it in your hand." |
| James (01/05/09 18:04:15) Tag: THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT |
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Jan. 5, 2009 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Your Were Born Rich” by Bob Proctor Remember, if we are able to see ourselves doing, being, or having something on the screen of our conscious minds, then we are able to do, be, or have it, on the physical plane of life as well. You see, the adage is true: “What you see, is what you get.” Therefore, always look forward into the bright future which lies just ahead of where you currently are situated. Freditorial: Through our formal education years, we were taught very little about how to think. We were taught how to memorize, conjugate verbs in foreign languages, and read books about big white whales. But we were rarely encouraged to use our higher intellectual faculties: imagination, will, intuition. Most of us never heard the term: you think in pictures. But it’s true. If I ask you to think about your car, your home or apartment, what happens? A picture of those things appears on the movie screen in your mind. But when was the last time you allowed yourself to daydream? When is the last time you created a brand NEW picture, a picture of your ideal life or a big goal you truly desired? Do you realize that way before you create that new image in your mind, IT EXISTS! By INTENDING to attract the thing that you image, by acknowledging your desires, you are ALLOWING the Law of Attraction to work in your life. So by all means: INTEND SUCCESS! Hold that image in your subconscious mind with purpose and faith, EXPECT to receive the action steps to achieve the goal, and then get busy! As Genevieve Behrand once wrote: “If you can see it in your head you can hold it in your hand.” |
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SECRET OF THE AGES |
| James (01/03/09 12:03:50) Tag: VISION |
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Today’s thoughts are taken from “Secret of the Ages” by Robert Collier Ninety-five out of one hundred just do the tasks that are set them. They have no faith in themselves—no initiative—none of the courage that starts things. They are always directed or controlled by someone else. At sixty-five, where will you be? Dependent or independent? Struggling for a living—accepting charity from someone else—or at the top of the heap? “I am the Master of my fate.” Until you have learned that, you will never attain life’s full success. Your fate is in your own hands. You have the making of it. What you are going to be six months or a year from now depends upon what you think today. Freditorial: The person you are today is the result of all the thoughts you have in the past. In other words, the person you are today is the person you WERE. The mistake many people make is they base their future expectations on current results. They wrongly assume their current results are all they are capable of. But a new result is a thought away! You will never have today again; it is full of new opportunities and INFINITE possibilities. So spread your wings, let those bold dreams take root in your mind, and take action AT ONCE! The small action steps you take today will ultimately cause quantum leaps in your future results. Who is the master of YOUR fate? |
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THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT |
| James (12/11/08 15:40:56) Tag: THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT |
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Today’s thoughts are taken from “Beyond Positive Thinking” by Dr. Robert Anthony Simplified, we can boil it down to this: Choose what you want and believe you’re going to get it. Remember, your subconscious is hooked up to the main computer or the Universal Subconscious. So your mind is set up this way: Decide what you want and believe in your ability to get it, and your subconscious will take care of everything that needs to be done to make it happen. It’s as easy as that. The problem is that we are fooled by the simplicity of it. We are conditioned that life is more complicated than that. Again, the idea that it is difficult or complicated to create what you want is just another false belief system. Freditorial: Too often, we overcomplicate things and in so doing we prevent the creative process fro m taking root in our minds. The subconscious mind must accept every idea that is impressed on it; it has no ability to reject. Unfortunately, many of us continue to impress upon our subsconscious mind an image of lack or limitation based on our present results or the fear we get while watching one dire news story after another. Accordingly, we continue to attract lack and limitation. It’s NEVER too late to change your mind! Do you want to see better results one, two, or five years from now? Then shut off your television and create the new result in your mind NOW. Create a BIG image and KNOW you have the power in your mind to attract it. Be grateful the moment you ask your subconscious mind for the thing you desire because the moment you ask, that thing is yours. Ask, believe, receive (sound familar?). 12/11/2008 Today’s thoughts are taken from “The Science of Being Great” by Wallace Wattles Be free. You have perhaps formed some sensual habits of mind or body; abandon them. You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them. You still act selfishly in many ways and on many occasions; cease to do so. Abandon all these, and in place of them put the best actions you can form a conception of in your mind. If you desire to advance, and you are not doing so, remember that it can be only because your thought is better than your practice. You must do as well as you think. Freditorial:. When we engage our imagination, we create; we move beyond that which is physically observable. The new result, the goa l, the improved lifestyle is created first on the mental plane and whatever we create in our mind EXISTS the moment we visualize it. But in order to RECEIVE that which we’ve visualized, in order to transmute that visualized goal into its physical equivalent, we need to take action. If you set a goal that is huge and you have no idea how you’ll get there, that’s a good thing! Continue to impress the goal on your power center—your subconscious mind—and promise yourself to persist until the goal is achieved. Live ON PURPOSE! EXPECT to find the answers and BE GRATEFUL for the goal before it physically manifests. When you develop this attitude of confident expectancy and gratitude for that which you cannot physically observe, the action steps to reach your goal will be revealed to you. When that happens, TAKE ACTION, and do EVERYTHING in an excellent way. You will amaze yourself! |
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Visualize where you want to be |
| James (12/08/08 21:25:08) Tag: Self Awareness |
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12/10/2008 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting” by Lynn Grabhorn Stop being uptight over anything. Instead, tell yourself in all gentleness that however unpleasant the conditions may seem to you now, they are not going to control you, and that yes, you absolutely can find a way to open your valve in spite of what’s happening. And you will! Then your answers will come, opportunities will come, and you’ll soon find more ways to alter your situation than you can imagine. So bless rotten conditions if you can, for without them you could not possibly know what you don’t want. Cast your gaze to what can be rather than what is, and dive into all the wonderful feelings—not longings—of how fantastic it will be when you’re there. Then, what is there, comes here. Freditorial: Despite the challenging economic conditions, there is abundance in this world. And you have INFINITE potential to manifest your highest goals and your most passionate desires. You are NOT limited by present circumstances. Your best ideas are trying to find you. Take Lynn Grabhorn’s advice and ”open your valve” to the flow of positive energy and thought impulses trying to reach you daily. When a great idea finds you, get emotionally attached to it and feel the gratitude of having that thing you desire. IT’S UP TO YOU, PEOPLE! As James Allen once wrote: “You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.” 12/9/2008 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Psycho-Cybernetics” by Maxwell Maltz Rational thought, to be effective in changing belief and behavior, must be accompanied by deep feeling and desire. Picture to yourself what you would like to be and have, and assume for the moment that such things might be possible. Arouse a deep desire for these things. Become enthusiastic about them. Dwell upon them—and keep going over them in your mind. Your present negative beliefs were formed by thoughts plus feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling, and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out. Freditorial: Change is the one constant in our lives. External circumstances change, the stock market falls and rises, technology advances at light speed, and new opportunities pop up literally overnight. Yet many of us remain stagnant, bound by our own limiting thoughts. We shrink our dreams to fit our current income. FORGET THAT! THINK BIG! You have the ability to manifest your deepest desires. KNOW that you can attract everything you want and be thankful for that miracle. GRATITUDE will create an expectation of receiving the good that you desire and will trigger the Law of Attraction. Both positive and negative thoughts are fighting for your mind’s attention daily. Do you know which one wins the battle? It’s the one you FEED! 12/8/2008 Today’s thoughts are taken from “Psycho-Pictography” by Vernon Howard There are number of reasons why people fail to move over to their richer world. Mental idleness is one. Lack of persistence. Searching in the wrong places. Getting discouraged at the slightest setback. Fear of change. Let me give you a reason which people rarely suspect. They fear that fresh ideas will rob them of their habitual ways, of their settled comfort. They are afraid to reach for more for fear of losing what little they have. Here is where courage is needed. We must abandon the old before we can find the new. Freditorial: Zig Zigler once said: “Any goal that is casually set and loosely taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.” From time to time, many of us become tired of our current results and resolve to do something different, only to get derailed at the first sign of difficulty. Are you looking for a better result in some area of your life? GET INTENTIONAL about it! Write the goal down, create the desired image, then hold that image in your mind. The power of your mind is far more powerful than any external obstacle. Forget fear—it won’t help your dream! Persist—no one else can persist for you! Think—it is your greatest gift! Seek—and you shall FIND! |
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| James (07/07/08 19:23:43) Tag: Billboard Interview |
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June 24, 2008 Wes Orshoski In the spring of 2006, Neil Young was just a year removed from a near-fatal aneurysm when he became so enraged with the war in Iraq that he quickly wrote, recorded and released the protest album "Living With War." Not two months after its release, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young launched their Freedom of Speech tour, during which unwitting fans expecting the band's sweeter side were greeted instead with its serrated edge. During a three-hour-plus concert, the band played nearly all of "Living With War" and many of the political anthems on which its legend was built, like "Ohio," "Military Madness" and "Find the Cost of Freedom." Despite CSN&Y's anti-establishment roots, the move angered some fans, while inspiring others. The forthcoming documentary "CSNY: Deja Vu" charts that friction, portraying fans who saluted the group's efforts and those who felt betrayed by them, while also introducing viewers to Iraqi War vets who are now protesting the war as musicians, politicians and social workers. Directed by longtime film buff Young (who uses the alias/nickname Bernard Shakey) and due in theaters July 25, the doc blends concert and behind-the-scenes footage with short news features created by ABC correspondent Mike Cerre. Billboard caught up with the 62-year-old Young recently at a small, rustic restaurant south of San Francisco, in an area surrounded by redwood trees. Just a few minute's drive from the ranch he's lived on for more than 30 years, the restaurant would be familiar to hardcore fans, as it was featured in the "Unknown Legend" video and on the "Greendale" DVD. With his alternative-fuel equipped 1982 Mercedes parked in front, on this day Young was particularly excited, as Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced impeachment articles seeking the removal of President George Bush. Young spoke from behind a pair of dark sunglasses, the conversation often drifting toward his passion for finding alternatives to fossil fuels for automobiles, which, he notes, "is bigger than a song." It's pretty shocking midway through the movie when an irate Atlanta fan tells you to stick it up your ****, and another remarks that he wants to "knock your teeth out" for singing anti-war, anti-Bush songs. How did you react the first time you saw this footage? Well, we knew that it was happening. That wasn't the first time it happened. Before we even got to Atlanta, we'd experienced that. There were other places. The bull-ometer was pretty high in a couple of places, and I think Orange County was pretty good, Irvine. It was pretty strong there. We had some fights; everything was crazy there. They just went nuts. But they weren't real close to us. We could see them, and they were just going berserk. But Atlanta was very forceful. I mean, they are so passionate about what they felt, and how they feel about, you know, how we crossed over the line and intruded on something that they believed in so strongly. So you gotta respect people, even if they're losing their minds at that very moment, and not talking really eloquently. They have their deep beliefs. So we had to use it, because we're telling the story, and we're trying to tell the whole story. There was a journalistic responsibility involved. It definitely adds weight to the film. It does. Were there times while you were editing the film when you were worried that you weren't portraying things in a balanced fashion? Did you second-guess yourself at times? You know, I don't even know if it balanced. I just tried to use everything I could that showed both sides. And we gathered everything we had, and we used more negative stuff in comparison to positive stuff, in relation to the total amount of negative stuff and the total amount of positive stuff that we had. Like, in our articles [Young strings pieces of positive and negative reviews of the concerts throughout the film], the pros and cons of the press, the pros outweighed the cons by like two-and-a-half to one. But in the movie, it's pretty even. We tried to keep it even. I assume that's the right way to do it. But tilting the film toward the bleeding-heart liberal is the content of the songs, and that aspect, I can't help that -- that's me. That's how I feel. So I couldn't change that. That was the catalyst, the trigger for the reactions. So the reactions were fairly even, but the source of the trigger is a little bit slanted. When you watch this film and when you think back on the negative reactions in the audience, is there a face or a middle finger that vividly sticks out to you? I remember some faces. There's one guy I remember for sure, and he's not in the movie. But there are things that I remember from all tours. [This tour] was a harrowing experience at times, and it's not an experience that I would like to repeat. I think it was a one-off. Why's that? I think if I did this kind of thing for the rest of my life, I'd become like CNN and I don't really respect that very much. It's like the same thing on a loop. I don't see the need for that. I like to be a full-length program, not a repeating segment. Were there times on tour where you would confide in your wife, and say, "I can't believe what happened tonight?" There was never any sense of giving up or anything. We went from July 4th to September 10th in the tour, and I kind of remember feeling that I was really glad that we weren't playing on September 11th. I do remember that. I said, "Let's not do that." There were moments throughout it where you just shook your head and said, "God, what are we doing?" But the songs were there, the feeling was there, the audience was there, and we were doing it. We planned it. We executed it. I mean, we planned it -- the whole thing aimed at one thing. It was all focused on war and politics and that type of thing. Speaking of 9/11, you've said that Bush mishandled the empathy that many countries felt for America after the terrorist attacks. In your mind, how could have Bush capitalized on that empathy? What could he have done that would have taken things in a much more positive direction? Well, I think misleading the country into a war with Iraq by misrepresenting the facts, as the Senate committee has verified that he did, that was the wrong way to go about it. I think that he took a tremendous amount of good faith and good will from around the world and used it very poorly. It's not, "What could he have done," so much as it is, "Why did he do what he did?" I mean, it's just unfortunate that his feelings and convictions took him there, and we're the ones who suffer for it -- to a lesser degree us, and to a greater degree the Iraqis. And we're all suffering for it. And it's just very unfortunate. I just feel badly about it because [pauses] it's not because I hate Bush. I just think he's a strong leader that was going in the wrong direction. It's a bad combination. A liberal friend of mine in New York saw the Twin Towers fall while stuck in traffic on the Verrazano Bridge. She was so shook up, and remained so scared that in 2004 she voted for Bush, simply out of fright. Well, he used that. He played on people's fear, instead of people's faith and their real faith, real belief, their real human feelings. They used fear to get where they wanted to go, which is too bad. It's just unfortunate. You know, I empathize with her for voting for Bush and being so terrified that she had to do that. I feel sorry for her. But I think a lot of people probably did that, and it's too bad. And he needs to be impeached for what he did. I mean, the Senate has verified it. It needs to happen for history. It's like a dirty business. It needs to be taken care of. Nobody wants to be bothered, but it should happen, because do we want to let this go down in history? It's a cancer. It's a blight. It has to be eradicated. You have to look at this and go, "The president mislead the people into going to war, lost 5,000 troops, there's hundreds of thousands of people killed in Iraq, billions and billions of dollars were taken out of the economy for the war, and now we've discovered for sure -- the Senate committee has said, 'Yeah, he did. He lied.'" So what do you have to do to get impeached? What do you need to do? And who are we if we don't do it ... if we don't actually say, "Hey -- the law! You can't do that!" We place our trust in this guy, and this is what happens. I don't see how it plays out. We've been vindicated by the Senate, who spent a long time investigating it. Yet it's on the second page of the paper. Brian Williams talks about it and goes right on to the next story, and it's like it's 25 seconds. Give me a break! Why fall asleep? America's fallen asleep. America's sleeping through a moment in history that's going to affect us forever. It's gonna be, we're the country who had our Senate investigate and found out we went to war under false pretenses and we didn't do anything. We said, "That's okay. We'll just let that go because we're distracted by oil prices and a new presidential election." So we don't have time to take care of our dirty business. But, man, you got to take care of your house. You can't let that go. What if we have another guy like that, who turns out to be an idiot in 15 years, and he goes, "Well, George Bush did it." What's the precedent? Dennis Kucinich introduced impeachment articles today, and people think, "Ah, he's a kook," you know. It's like, when are people going to wake up? We shouldn't have big vehicles that use so much gas, but we keep making 'em. It's not, "Big is bad," it's "Gas is bad." Why don't we change that? There are a lot of things to do that we're not doing that kind of bothers me. There's a scene in the movie where Graham Nash talks about going to hear "Living With War" for the first time and deciding whether he wanted to suit up for this tour. I wonder if there were times when you felt like you were bringing David, Stephen and Graham into something that was ultimately harmful to their bottom line as Crosby, Stills and Nash? Obviously, you play to two different audiences, and touring with them is a lot less of a preaching-to-the-choir scenario. I guess so, 'cause they've been pretty mellow for a long time, and they haven't done anything. But if you look at the roots, if you look at the original music -- "For What It's Worth," "Ohio," "Military Madness," "Long Time Gone," "Deja Vu" and all these songs that were written back then -- "Immigration Man," "Teach Your Children" -- all that stuff is all rooted in the same message. This is just a different time. So they had a history of doing that, and I thought that was a good thing, because it reached way back for the roots. Of course, between then and now, they've been singing about things they've believed in, and also just singing a lot of love songs, and a lot of songs that people enjoy, so it could become kind of like date night going to see them. But I put out my record, I was in the band, my last record was called "Living With War," [and] it had "Let's Impeach the President" [on it]. It was on all the networks. [The audience members] had to know something about it. We called the tour the Freedom of Speech Tour. And we went out and did these songs. They had to know something was happening. But there was still an element of surprise, and you saw that in Atlanta, but a lot of people knew what was going on, too. You could see it -- they're talking about it before the show [in the movie]. It was just very complex. But those guys were into it 100 percent. I mean, Stephen does not like people to not like him, and I respect him for that. And he's a very sensitive guy, so I could understand that, but even with that he wanted to do it. He said, "Yeah, I'll do it," and he sang "For What It's Worth" every day and every night. He played his heart out. But he kept saying, "Well, it's like a political cartoon, you have to see it as that," and he was always trying to soften the blow a little, and that's the way he is, and that's cool. But I think he was with us, and he believed in what we were doing, or he wouldn't have been there. And Crosby and Nash were right there from the beginning, because they don't care so much how the reaction's gonna be. They're not as concerned with that as they are just with singing about stuff that matters to them. And they agreed with the songs, and they wanted to sing 'em. Continued, Page 2) The Billboard Q&A: Neil Young June 21, 2008 Wes Orshoski Over the past 10 years, we've seen a kindler, gentler Neil Young emerge. At Farm Aid a couple years ago, I was struck by how often you sincerely thanked the crowd, and, obviously, you look happier than ever onstage with your wife, Peggi. It just seems like you've lowered a wall of defense. Well, there's no pretense. I am who I am. They know who I am. I think the older you get, there is some mellowing that happens. But at Farm Aid, I feel like thanking people for being there and for giving their money for the cause. Seeing you performing with Peggi, it just seems like you're genuinely happier onstage than you've ever been. Well, we were having fun. We had a good time. We had a great Farm Aid in Chicago a couple years ago. It was unbelievable. It was just after I shot "Prairie Wind." It was in September of the year Katrina hit, and we played Farm Aid, and I had the choir with me from the "Heart of Gold" movie, and Wayne Jackson and the Memphis Horns. That was a great Farm Aid. Anyway, I digress. There's a moment in the film where Stephen tumbles over a light onstage. It was surely hugely embarrassing for him. Did you hesitate to include the footage? Well, I showed it to him. I wondered, "What's he going to do. Is he gonna like it or is he not going to like it?" But we were all who we were, and it's a movie. The more uncool we are, the more real it is. These things happen. We certainly didn't plan on that happening [laughs]. In terms of planning out the film, did you sit down and draw out an outline? Did you say, "I want to get X, Y and Z in this film, I want these people in the film?" No. I met Mike Cerre, who was a correspondent who had been to Iraq and Afghanistan five times. I said, "Embed in this tour and do what you do -- travel in one of the buses, come with us everywhere, and do whatever you want to do, and cut together 10 episodes, like you were cutting together episodes for CNN or MSNBC, and give 'em to me, and that's it. I'm gonna do whatever I want with them. They're mine from that point on. You do what you do, give 'em to me, and I'll do what I do." And that was my direction. I just went for the people, the humanity of the people. Your publicist told me that you called the film's soundtrack the greatest CSNY record ever yet. It is. Why? Because it's CSNY. Because it really is CSNY. It's not overdubbed. There's no fixes. It's straight from the board. Every once in a while, we make something a little louder, maybe a little bit of bass here and there. But the basic mixes are the mixes that people heard when we were playing it. So it's got rough spots all the way through it, which I think it refreshing, especially considering the subject matter. Why should we polish? Why polish this? Who gives a **** whether it's polished or not? It is what it is, and that's the message of the music. It's what we're doing. If you don't like, you don't like it. If you like it, you like it. But it is what it is. Chroming it is not going to help it. The more raw, the better, the more exciting. I think so, and nobody's heard that from CSN. In the late 1990s, you began singing the song "Buffalo Springfield Again," which seemed like an open letter to your former bandmates in the Springfield. When it was released on then "Silver and Gold" album, it seemed like something of a message to those guys that you were interested in reforming. But, instead, CSNY reformed, and has been an on-again, off-again entity for nearly a decade? Will we ever see a Buffalo Springfield reunion? I just wrote the song one afternoon sitting in the garden, I guess, somewhere up by my house. No, I don't know, I don't think there ever will be a Buffalo Springfield reunion. There may be for us, but I don't think there will be for anybody else. But, you know, never is a huge word. You're nearing the long-anticipated release of the first volume in your "Archives" project. What took so long? Has it just been exhausting finishing this first edition? It has taken a long time. But we had to build a platform for it, because it's a new way of listening and looking at things. We had to build the whole program that it sits on, and that took a long time. We conceived that in the '90s, and we worked on it right until the technology was available to do it. And we couldn't have done it without Blu-ray. I've already started work on the second volume. Do you have any sense of when that second volume will be released? No, but it won't take nearly as long, because we have the platform, so now we just tag things and drop them in and they show up in the right place, and the whole thing's organized. We had to build this thing. It took a long time to build it. In the liner notes to "Living With War," you thank Bob Dylan for inspiration. Did you give him the album? Has he heard it? I don't think so. I know I didn't give it to him. I imagine he may have heard part of it. He may have heard all of it. I really don't know. I talked to him a couple years ago, maybe a year-and-a-half ago. He really liked a performance that I did of "Walking to New Orleans" on TV. He saw it and he called me to tell me that he liked it. I call him to tell him when he's great, when I see him being great. I like to call him and tell him: "You're fuckin' great. You're still rockin'. You fuckin' really got it." Ya know, somebody's got to tell him. And he is great. You may think that everybody is telling him all the time how great he is, but I don't know about that. Coming from me, I just wanted him to know how I felt, because I love the guy. I think he's a great artist. So I want to be supportive, whenever I see him really step up. So he returned a favor to me. We have a friendship. I still listen to the Bob Dylan 30th anniversary tribute live record, on which you appear. It's one of my favorite discs. Is "Tom Thumb's Blues" on that one? Yeah, and your version of "All Along the Watchtower" as well. I'm doing those two songs on this tour in Europe. I'm opening with "Watchtower" and I'm doing "Tom Thumb" in there somewhere. So many musicians say that what they are doing now is a reaction to their previous project. Obviously, you released "Chrome Dreams II" since the Freedom of Speech tour, and you've been working on "Archives." I'm guessing you want to leave politics alone right now. Well, I'm not really focused on the music right now, as far as new music. I have a couple songs in the back of my head, and if they come to the front of my head, I'll write 'em. When they arrive, I'll deal with them and drop everything else. But I'm not focused on [it]. I'm not looking for anything. I'm just kind of here, musically speaking. But as far as my life goes, I'm totally focused on my car, building a car that ... Our goal is to eliminate roadside refueling, with a big car, not some little rinky-dinky thing. Something that a big guy like you could get and drive a couple hundred miles. An American car that doesn't need oil, that doesn't need gasoline. Doesn't pollute, doesn't need gas stations. That's what I would like to make. Is this something you will patent yourself? There's a Web site called linkvolt.com and it tells the story of the car and what the mission is, what we're trying to do. There's a lot of interesting scientific stuff in there about ways to do things that are unconventional power sources. We're really into onboard fuel creation -- you make fuel as you go. And we're into the people's fuel, something everybody can get that we can use as fuel. So that eliminates a lot of things, but that does leave air and water, so those are big, good things. I figure using dead stuff is not working anymore. We're paying the price for using dead stuff and we can't use any more dead stuff. It pollutes, it's ruining our environment and we're fighting over it now. It's killing everything. So we have to get by it. My focus is eliminating roadside refueling. That's the goal of the project. Will I ever get there? I don't know. But I'm aiming at it and that's what we're shooting for, that's our goal. The closer we get to it, the happier we are. If we actually get there, we'll go down in history, but if we don't get there we'll go down trying. Somebody's got to do it. We've gotta get by this. We can't do this anymore. I mean, we have wars being fought all the time. It's an endless damn war over energy. You take away oil, and what do you have to fight about? People are so addicted and reliant on it. We think we have to have it to maintain our lifestyle. Are we that stupid? I mean, it's the 21st century. What happened to ingenuity? What happened to the first ideas? What we were doing before gasoline came along? We used electricity. We used that, and it was working great. We were using ethanol and electricity. We were growing the fuel and we were using science, and physics, physicists, scientists and farmers, and it was working, and we weren't polluting. So, you know, we're a lot smarter now. We have computers, we can track people around the world, we can track environmental things, and we can track science projects, physics projects around the world. There are French people doing experiments and putting them on YouTube. There are so many things like that out there by guys working in the garages and physicists working in labs at night, and making their own things on their own dime. We don't have to listen to Ford and GM and Mercedes and go, "Well, these engineers that work for them, that's not the Holy Grail." So what is the Holy Grail? I mean, there must be a Holy Grail. We've got to have somewhere to go. We've got to have a way out of this. Having a way out of this is not fighting. It's not trying to work out the politics of who's right or wrong, red or blue. That's all bullshit. That's all a waste of time. It's like chemotherapy. You're not focused on the problem. The problem is, where the hell is the cancer coming from, and how do you stop it before it starts? What can you do? What can we replace whatever it is that's causing it? What is it? So this is the problem with oil. How do we deal with it, how do we get rid of it? How do we eliminate the tentacles of power that come in and touch us at every gas station, where we make our contact with our biggest enemy? Not that they are our enemy on that, on one level, but on another level, they're the biggest threat to our existence. We're feeding it. We go up and down the road, we go from here and there, we stop off, we pay 'em some money, get more of the stuff, and get another jolt, and away we go. It's terrible. We can eliminate roadside refueling and we can change the world. That's bigger than a song. That's what the deal is. I'm 62 years old, and I've got nothing else to do but something like that. That catches my fascination. And there's so many smart people around, and so many intelligent people in the country. There's laws being ready to be broken everywhere in physics, science, everything -- or bent, maybe not broken, but bent, or reinterpreted, re-understood. There's always something new being found that people thought wasn't there. That's where things come from. So that's my request. There's a lot going on. I can smell it. It's close. We're close to having a solution, or getting close to a solution. We're moving in the right direction. This is the age of innovation. There's no way that we're not going to figure out a much better way of doing it. Continued, Page 3) The Billboard Q&A: Neil Young June 21, 2008 Wes Orshoski Wow. That should have been on CNN, unedited. But it would have been chopped up into four different segments. Yeah [laughs], and they would play it over and over again. And somebody would come on and say, "What bullshit! That's ridiculous. You can't tell me we don't need oil. That's just not realistic." No, you need oil, I don't need it. That's why you feel that way [laughs]. What are you hoping to gain from the release of the film, and the DVD that will follow it? Discussion. Debate. Open forums. And it does do that to people. You'll see what happens when this film comes out on the Internet. You'll see people talking. It'll be interesting. It'll open up a thing, and that's what it does. That's what the music did. That's what happens. It happens in the audiences. I saw families fighting within the families, the kids wanting to stay and the parents going, "No, we've got to get out of here. This is no good." The parents dragging the kid out, and the kid looking back. And we're not talking a 10-year-old, here. We're talking college kids being driven out by just straight-laced fathers, the classic father image of strength. Not much compassion, but a lot of strength. Is there a certain amount of disappointment you have in your own generation? Was that one of the reasons for doing the Freedom of Speech tour? Actually, I'm encouraged by my own generation, because they still remember enough. They're the ones that are trying to move forward. The youngsters today, the ones in school, the college kids, they're not threatened like my generation was when they were in college. They're not threatened with going to war, the imminent draft, that they're going, that they're going to be in the lottery, that they're gonna go, and maybe die. Kids today are thinking, "Will I work for Google? Am I going to be lucky enough to work for Google? Or whom I'm going to be working for? Am I gonna get a dotcom job? Maybe I'll be working in an environmental company. Maybe I'll get some cool job. Maybe I want to be a designer, maybe fashion. What am I gonna be doing with my life?" They're not going, "I don't want to go to Vietnam. I don't want to go to Afghanistan. I don't want to go Pakistan." There's no threat so there's protest. So our generation, my generation, still remembers what we went through, and they still have the fire. They're making a lot of noise about Bush. When I see them out in the crowd, I'm not disappointed. I'm proud of them, because they're still there. Because they remember what it's like. The only difference is that this president and this vice president were smart enough to realize that Nixon's **** up was the draft. What undid that whole thing was the draft. So they didn't have a draft, and they disguised it as a lean and mean army, and they reinforced it with mercenaries and Blackwater, but they didn't talk about that. So they kept 100,000 guys going back and forth, some five and six times, ruining their lives. Many of them are never going to live a good life again because of this, if they live. And their families are broken. Everything's broken. But they let that happen, so that they would not lose their jobs, and their influence, and their power. That's the difference. That's why this generation is not challenging this administration, because this administration has not challenged this generation, like in the old days, like they did. They didn't tell this generation it had to go to war. They told this generation to go to college, go to school and do whatever you want to do. Only 140,000 people that we enlisted at shopping centers are gonna go. In the movie, you talk about not singing the song "Ohio" for years, because you didn't want to capitalize... I thought that right at the beginning. That's what bothered me about the song in the first place, and that's why I rarely sang it. But in this tour, it took on a context of being part of history, so we played it again. But I did many tours with CSNY where I would hardly ever do that song. If you saw us do it, you saw us on a rare occasion. Crosby loves to do the song. He just wants to do it every night. And I just can't do it. It's too personal, it's too real. It's about people who actually died that we feel were our audience. They could have been in the first row at our shows. These were students. That's who we played for. That's why I didn't want the cameras at Woodstock, because they were in between us and our crowd. This is the way it started. It started with a total connection. There was no fa�ade, there was no style, there was no posing. It was a real deal happening. And it had so much energy that people are still living off of it today. They're still building off of it. A family member sent me an email recently entitled "How Long Does the American Empire Have?," which noted that each of the world's great dynasties have crumbled eventually. Are we nearing an end to the American dynasty? No, I don't think so. I think potentially we're going to lead the world through innovation. We're going to solve the problem of consumption that we created. That's what the whole thing is about. That's the goal. Not everybody knows it. But that's what's happening, in the back rooms, in the labs and the garages, in the physics clubs, and the science labs around the country and around the world. That's the real thing. That's what's really happening. All this other **** is just window dressing. |
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