I noticed freezing rain when I woke up this morning. It brought up cautious thoughts in my mind – walk cautiously, drive cautiously, etc. I even turned on the TV – a rarity in the morning for me. I noticed a bevy of school delays scrolling across the bottom of the screen due to the weather.

Then I put a little salt on the front steps and leashed up “Snuffy the Black Nosed Beagle” for our morning walk, uh slide.

You may say my focus was on the downside of the weather, and then it happened.

I was presented with a thing of beauty.

My neighbor’s leaf bare tree was covered in ice and it captured my full attention. It was a vision of beauty.

It got me to wondering, “Who recognized the beauty?”

My eyes certainly saw it. My intellect commented on it. I got a very special feeling about it, but the question remained, “Who recognized the beauty?”

The answer came a few steps later – The beauty in me.

The beauty in us has the power to break through our trance, stop our conditioned, message machine of a mind, and deliver an experience we can’t consciously create.

Who recognizes the beauty in others? – The beauty in you!

We have a tendency to give lip service to the concept that beauty is on the inside, without recognizing that it’s really the case.

Everyone has this inner beauty, but it’s iced over for most of us with layers of conditioning and pretense. Sometimes it takes a thing of beauty to remind us how beautiful we all are. And when we have that recognition, the ice begins to melt and fade away.

You couldn’t experience beauty without having your own beauty recognize it.

So, the next time you are stopped in your tracks by a thing of beauty, let it serve as a reminder of how beautiful you are, so that you can let that beauty show through more often.

All the best,

John

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I woke up tired. That sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s the best description I can offer.

There is a difference between physically tired and mentally tired and it’s helpful to notice which one you’re experiencing to get yourself to refreshed.

Physically tired is my favorite. You have done something that has put some exertion on your body and a natural rest easily follows. Reminds me of a story . . .

My father, a construction foreman, hired my brother and me as laborers in the summertime when we were in our late teens. It was the hardest work I have ever done. You just can’t imagine the joy of stacking 12 inch cinder blocks onto a scaffold at 7 in the morning, or loading and pushing wheelbarrows full of cement hour after hour. You pray for lunchtime.

The good news is, after getting home, taking a shower, and having something to eat, an easiness settled in and a natural tired feeling moved through my body. Getting in bed at night was such a comfortable, welcome experience.

Mentally tired is different for me. There is a lethargy that permeates my entire being. I don’t want to do anything but sleep. It’s not that my body hasn’t had enough rest to recharge itself. It has. This weariness has the weight of the world attached to it, and bed is more of a prescription than a comfort zone. It’s as though you’ve been drugged. This is a red flag.

The warning for me is that I’m not living in the present moment. My mind is busy constructing multiple scenarios that have nothing to do with what’s going on right now. I am mentally attempting to do many activities at once and it’s taxing my energy at warp speed.

This recognition of my mind running wild is my signal to throw in the clutch. When I notice this mental hopscotching, I take a deep breath, exhale slowly and begin to do my RELAX IN 2 MINUTES routine. It’s a relaxation/recharging exercise that came to me out of the blue one night after conducting my seminars in New York City.

If you’ve never been to New York, just walking down the street, you can witness peoples’ minds in overdrive. It got me curious as to how to help them calm down. It dawned on me that the mind burns energy quicker than the body. A person who is tired all the time, with no causative, physical ailment, is mentally tired.

Physical tiredness requires a physical rest in order to refresh. Mental tiredness requires a redistribution of energy from your mind into your body in order to recharge. This process allows you to refresh yourself in a matter of minutes.

If you find yourself wearily tired, throw in the clutch and do my exercise briefly outlined below. If you want formal instruction in this method, buy my RELAX IN 2 MINUTES CD at http://johnmorganseminars.com

Take a deep breath, exhale slowly and close your eyes.

Beginning with your toes, take about 10 seconds just to focus your awareness on the feeling going on in your toes. You don’t have to do anything with your toes, only notice the sensation going on in them. Then shift your awareness to an adjacent body part for another 10 seconds, and then another, as you move your awareness through your body all the way up to your head. The objective is to feel what’s going on in each body part, not think about it. The more often you do this body awareness exercise, the better you get at it, and relaxation and recharging are the natural byproducts.

So if you wake up tired, before you reach for the coffee fix, take the time to give your mind a rest and focus on your body. It works wonders and creates energy.

All the best,

John

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Millions have enlisted and today is the first day of Dieting Boot Camp.

People will punish themselves and struggle to lose weight through some Spartan regime that is doomed to fail.

They convince themselves once again that the way to lose weight is to diet. Their logic isn’t wrong, it’s just logic. You didn’t gain weight logically and you won’t lose weight logically, at least not long-term. No one logically says to themselves, “I think I’ll go up 2, no, 3 pants sizes.”

Yet we convince ourselves that determination is the way to go, even though it has never worked before. The Grasshopper weighed in on this topic when he said:

“Your discipline wanes when your beliefs remain the same.”

There is no question that eating less and exercising more will make weight drop off. That’s a fact.

It’s also a fact that if your underlying beliefs remain the same about food consumption and exercise, you will pack back on the weight you lost. Don’t believe me, ask Oprah. She is a living testament that diets don’t work.

Diets get a lot of bad press and rightly so. Let me sneak in a good word about diets. I think they are a great way to lose weight for an event. If you have a class reunion, a wedding, or some special function, you want to look slinky and sexy for, go on a diet. Just don’t expect to keep that shape much past the event.

To lose weight long term, you have to reset your pounds thermostat.

Pretend for a moment that you have a thermostat in your mind that controls your weight. (You really do).

Now imagine that you have the thermostat set for 70 degrees. Now further imagine that you open the windows on a cold day to let some smoke out of the kitchen. That cold air will drop the temperature in the house down, maybe 5 degrees. The thermostat does not know you opened the windows. All it knows is that its job is to maintain a temperature of 70 degrees. It will struggle and do everything in its power to get the temperature back up to 70.

Now you can appreciate the dilemma of dieting. Your pounds thermostat has to be readjusted downward to get lasting results.

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All the best,

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Since I travel a lot in my seminar business, I have been to more states in the U.S. than most people. I make it a hobby to notice the local landmarks and regional differences.

For example, in eastern Wisconsin, they call traffic lights “Stop & Go” lights. In New England, if you order a regular coffee, it comes with cream and sugar – not black. The world’s largest buffalo lives in Jamestown, North Dakota, and the largest condom factory in America is in Dothan, Alabama. There are zillions more but these are enough to prime the pump for different states.

Sometimes we confuse states. When I tell people I live in Rhode Island, they say they’ve never been to New York. My guess is they are thinking of Long Island.

The Grasshopper offered this bit of Rand McNally wisdom:

“Happiness is a state of mind; peacefulness is a state of being.”

How often we get the two confused.

Happiness starts with a thought; serenity begins with a feeling.

We are looking for happiness; peacefulness is looking for us.

Things make us happy. There is no thing necessary to bring us peace.

Happiness is always contingent on something happening. Peacefulness doesn’t need outer circumstances to change in order for it to visit.

Happiness and peace are both wonderful states, but they are different. When you get to the border area of a state, there are many things that are similar to the neighboring state. The deeper you get into the state is when the differences become apparent.

It’s true that peacefulness can bring more happiness and happiness can bring peace. The difference is this: The peacefulness that happiness brings usually only lasts as long as the happy situation is in place. Peacefulness is more enduring and can cross state lines with ease.

I wouldn’t ask you to choose between the two – just notice the difference.

You will find more peace when you give up the thought that I need “this” to be happy. When you allow yourself the permission to let your thoughts calm down, peace finds you. Out of that peaceful state comes many road signs that can lead to happiness.

I wish you peace and happiness on your journey.

All the best,

John

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