You're familiar with the question, "Are you a glass half empty or half full type of person?"

You undoubtedly understand the question is meant to determine whether you are a pessimist or an optimist.

So which are you?

Do you look for the sunny side of things? The silver lining?

Or are you the type always waiting for the other shoe to drop?

Are you a follower of Murphy and his law?

Why be half empty or half full?

Why not choose a glass totally full?

This way you can forget Murphy's law and follow the law of Attraction instead.

My favorite saying is, "What we focus on and believe in is true to us and it expands to attract even more of the same into our life".

So why not attract more of the good and lose some of the bad?

When your glass is full and you have the law of attraction working in your favor,

you will continue to attract and receive even more blessings and your glass will begin to overflow.

This is perfect. This is the way the universe or God had intended for us.

In this way we are forced to continue giving.

It's the ultimate Win Win. The more we receive the more we give and vice versa.

It sounds good but you don't know how to begin?

Start with a very small glass.

A shot glass or even a thimble to get started.

Have positive expectations but keep your needs small.

Live within your means and when your tiny glass is totally full, immediately and graciously begin to give away your excess.

This way you will always be content. You can always get a bigger glass, just make sure that

regardless of it's size, that it always remains overflowing.

www.StrokesSuck.com

ABCD of Success

ABCD OF SUCCESS is a dynamic system of personal self development that I have created and have been practicing for several years. It is also the title of the book that I am presently writing.

So what is it? The ABCD OF SUCCESS is a basic and balanced blueprint designed to help people develop their true best self.   Discovering your true self helps to lead you to self fulfillment and your life's purpose.

As the image shows, the process helps us to discover a balance in the important areas of our life.

Life can be so complicated but there really are only four major areas of our life that we need concern our self. Five if we count our spiritual self:

A-Mental/Emotional

B-Physical/our health and body

C-Our relationships with others

D-Finances

E-Spiritual

This process will help you simplify and prioritize your life in an easy to understand format.

The book is not finished and neither is the website but I am confident it will shortly with a little more discernment and evolution.

You will be included in mailing list however you will have the option to be removed while not affecting your subscription here on Strokes Suck.

In the meantime, please Like our page on facebook.

Bob's Blog

 

 

REMEMBER PAC-MAN?

What a great game.Is it still around? Pacman would travel through a maze gobbling up little dots that would accumulate points.
Sort of like our busy lives,running around doing things like working or making ends meet.
There were these 4 different colored monsters that would chase Pacman and try to eat him.
Just like our problems in life. If we just stand pat, something will come and attempt to bring grief into our life (We all have our own monsters)

In the maze there were little "power or energy dots" that when eaten by Pacman, it would enable him to turn the tables on the monsters and eat them.
This would give Pacman even more points. The problem was the power didn't last for long and the monsters would once again begin the assault when the power
wore off.
Another analogy to life, that's why we need to charge up our own lives every day. The food and rest we had yesterday only lasted us through yesterday.
Today is another day and we need to replenish our bodies so we can either eat the monsters or at least avoid being eaten.


What are your monsters? More importantly, what are your sources of energy besides food and sleep?

I only mentioned some basics here like food and rest. What about the other areas of our life?
 What about our mental/emotional state of mind?
 We eat every day but are you making sure your mind gets fed with the proper thoughts that will bring you closer to your goals or dreams?
 Are you feeding your mind every day with positive empowering thoughts or are the monsters running around in there spreading negative self defeatist thoughts?
Are you judging yourself based on someones opinions of you or from your early conditioning?

What about your relationships?

Are you judging others? We're not the only one's playing the game you know. We all have have game boards.
Some people have bigger monsters some may appear smaller but it's not for us to judge.
We can't control everything and we certainly control other people.

We can however provide the necessary energy pellets to our minds and bodies.
We can also help each other by becoming energy to our family, friends and to everyone we meet.
If we decided to never become a monster to another but to always provide energy to each other, imagine how much more fun our game will be for us.

Our finances and spiritual connection are personal and should also be a great source of energy if we know how to tap into these resources.

These energy resources are out there. Let's all help each other play the game. We can grow stronger together.
There is no competition. Give Help Inspire is a concept that empowers us exponentially.

Bob Miller

www.Strokessuck.com

www.BobMillerInsurance.com

Bob's Blog

 

 

Depending on which media outlet or friend's facebook wall you encounter, you will find no shortage of "judgements" about every conceivable topic. Politics, religion, sports, finances, health or personal choices. We all make judgments.

 

Wouldn't it be nice if we could listen to the viewpoints of others without the preconceived notions that "the other side" is ALWAYS WRONG?

 

More importantly what are the judgments that you have for yourself?

 

Do you have some programs running from your past conditioning that are keeping you in the "I'm not good enough" realm? example: "I'm not confident, I'm not good in relationships, I'm not good in..(fill in the blank)."

You get the picture

 

Just as bad and as damaging are "I am statements" when they are directed towards negative statements like "I'm an idiot, I'm too fat/skinny/ugly, etc. etc. 

 

Where did these come from? Were we born with these or did we pick them up somewhere along the way and made these false statements our reality?

 

Very few newborns are born with an "I'm stupid or worthless label".

Wherever they came from really isn't important because blame is another one of those negative statements that will not serve us.

 

Here is a great little exercise the next time you are tempted to pass judgment on anyone, anything and especially yourself. Ask yourself if the thoughts that you are thinking make you feel heavier or lighter.

If they make you feel heavier, they are adding stress and anxiety to your life which is one of the leading causes of sickness and disease.

Do you really want sickness or disease? Probably not.

 

If your thoughts and actions make you feel lighter, you are being directed towards love and and all that is good.

 

The truth always feels lighter

A lie will always make you feel heavier.

 

Armed with this information, if your thoughts about yourself make you feel anxious and heavier, than they are simply a lie and they will ultimately lead to more sickness, disease and unhappiness. So why go there? Just don't.

 

Choose different words. Your words become your thoughts.  Your thoughts become vibrations. Your vibrations attract more of the same into your life. If you are saying words of lack and unworthiness, you will surely receive more of the same.

 

Choose better "I am" words. "I am confident, I am worthy, I am healthy, I am abundant...."

Whatever it is that you want in life, say these words to yourself until they become habit and become deeply ingrained into your subconscious being.

 

Remember that little exercise about whether you are feeling heavier or lighter and it will help to keep you pointed in the direction towards your true self.

Bob Miller

www.StrokesSuck

www.BobMillerInsurance.com

This week Oct. 20, I celebrated my 5th re-birthday. This made a huge impact on me as I did a lot of soul searching and reflection. Paulo Coehlo the world famous author of The Alchemist, released his latest book Aleph in which he describes a story about the Chinese Bamboo tree. The Chinese Bamboo stays only a couple of inches tall for five years while growing it's massive root system under ground. One day after all this time the tree grows to a height over 90 feet within a six week period. The day before my fifth re-birthday I created the poster below because Ithat I and many of the people here who I know and even those I don't know yet can relate to this message. The actual amount of years is not as important as the concept.

To see this and other posters visit my poster page

and give Bob Miller Biz on facebook a Like

Bob Miller
Strokes Suck
ABCD of Success

WISDOM

Seek, get, grow in... wisdom. I found these terms in the Book of Proverbs, one of the books of the Old Testament of the Bible purportedly authored mainly by King Solomon some 800 years before the birth of Christ.

Growing up I was never accused as being wise or smart, nor was I encouraged to even believe that wisdom was obtainable for me. I am not bashing on my upbringing, I am simply pointing out that our early conditing most often leads to a lifetime of belief or disbelief, Depending on the words spoken to you and the one's you say to yourself over and over, this often determines where our mental/emotional internal thermostat is set in life.

How many of you have heard and believed statements like,"you're no good. you'll never amount to anything, you're ugly,too fat, too skinny, too stupid, why do you always... etc"

That's why I am so excited and happy to have discovered the Book of Proverbs as I near my 60th year on earth. I've read parts of the Bible before but it wasn't until recently that I was re-introduced to the Book of Proverbs. I loved reading the words instructing us to seek, get and grow in wisdom.

You mean to say I can become wise if I seek it, even though I never thought that would be possible for a dummy like myself? Especially now an old guy with brain damage?

But who am I to dispute the words of God as spoken by King Solomon.

 Here is an interesting short story about Henry Ford and wisdom during World War I.

 In an attempt to discredit him, Henry Ford was once accused in a court of law as being ignorant. He was riddled with a variety of questions such as, "Who was Bennedict Arnold?" hoping to prove his incompetence. After a particurally offensive question, he leaned over, pointed his finger at the lawyer who had asked the question and said,"if I should really want to answer the foolish question you just asked, or any other of the silly questions, let me remind you that I have a row of electric push buttons on my desk, and by pushing the right button, I can summon to my aid men who can answer any question I desire to ask concerning the business to which I am devoting most of my efforts. Now, will you kindly tell me why I should clutter up mind with useless general knowledge?

So my friends rejoice in the good news and seek wisdom, it is available to us all.

"Whether you think you can or can't, you're right"~ Henry Ford

Bob Miller

Strokes Suck

ABCD of Success

Create Your Personal Coaching Staff (Round Table)

In Napoleon Hill's classic book on how to succeed, Think and Grow Rich, he points out in the 13th chapter titled The Sixth Sense, how to employ some "invisible counselors."

 

This is taken from his book:,"Long before I had ever written a line for publication or endeavor to deliver a speech in public, I followed the habit of reshaping my own character by trying to emulate the nine men whose lives and lifeworks had been most impressive to me.. these nine men were Emerson,Paine, Edison,Darwin,Lincoln,Burbank,Napoleon,Ford and Carnegie.

Every night, over a long period of years, I held an imaginary council meeting with this group whom I called my invisible counselors."

 

Years ago, I attempted a similar strategy but did it only part way, part time. In other words it was a half ass attempt. And you know the kind of results one can expect with that type of attitude, you're right, half ass results.

But it stuck with me and as I focus my energy more and more on the ABCDE framework of Success, I had begun to realize the value and power of implementing such a strategy.  

 

I now have a host of the highest paid personal development coaches as well as some great masters of history, now deceased as members of my personal "Round Table."

 

Using my ABCD blueprint, I have assigned some of these well respected leaders to assist me in each area of my life.  

The A represents our mental/emotional state of mind.

The B represents our physical body and our health.

The C represents our Caring and Concern for others-Social.

The D represents our Desire, our financial life

The E represents  our Eternal Energy, our spiritual connection.

 

Every morning before I see or talk to anyone else, I have a 5 minute meeting with my "Round Table". I do the same at night while retiring. I highly recommend this tool. It is amazing how you can even communicate to a lost loved one this way as well.
http://facebook.com/abcdofsuccess
http://abcdofsuccess.com

ABCD of Success

For years now I have been attempting to make sense of life and why certain things happen to us both good and bad.

The more I become aware and supposedly learned, the more I realize just how little I truly know. I have concluded that I will never have the answers in this lifetime.

My father used to respond when I would say that I was unaware or didn't know something that "they could fill a small book of the things that you don't know, Bob,"He of course was being super sarcastic, but think about the truth and profoundness of that statement. Our capacity for knowledge in even one field of study is miniscule. (At least that describes myself pretty good. )

It is for this reason that I created  a framework using acronym's to try and simplify the learning process for myself.
I wanted to create something that even I could understand and remember, so I used the first letters of the alphabet, ABCD and eventually added the letter E.

Each letter represents a section of our life. Each letter is of equal importance and each is dependent upon each other. When combined together they create a complete circle, much like a wheel or tire or even a pie.

Have you ever heard the expression "a well rounded individual?"

If even one section of the wheel were missing,it would be impossible for the wheel to roll properly.

This is what each letter represents:

A= Our Mental/Emotional state. Our Psychological self.
This is the starting point and without a proper mental attitude, it is impossible for us to achieve any measure of success or happiness, or even to know who we are or want to go or to be in life.

B=Our Bodies. our Physiological self.  We need our bodies to perform our daily tasks. We might be a complete physical wreck but there are steps to take for us to become healthier.

C=Our Caring for others, our  Social  skills. Our Personality or ability to persuade and relate to others. The first two are all about us. But we don't live in this world by our self.  We could have a sharp healthy mind and a healthy body but we still need to relate to others. The best way to do this is to truly care about others. People don't really care how much you know until they know how much you care. It might seem like it is all about us but we will go much further in this world when we put the needs of others first.

D=Our dollars, finances or resources. Whether you like to admit it or not, we need or resources in this world. Even if your income is limited like it is for most of us, there are strategies and resources available to help us cope better in our environment.

E= Our spiritual connection to the Eternal Energy that exists. This is also our essence connecting to our spirit. Some call this God, the universe, mother earth or the Tao. Either way there is an energy that exists, the same energy that turns Winter into Spring and night into day.  For me this is God, but it is not my intent to push upon anyone my religious or spiritual convictions.

 All this is just a very brief explanation of the ABCD of Success system.
I have been working on a book, a workbook and website on this  subject but for now I have created a facebook Page called:
  facebook.com/ABCDofSuccess

Are you living up to your potential?
Are you living a life on purpose?
Why are some people high performers and others not so much?

Does it seem like your life is out of control and that you are simply overwhelmed at times?

As stroke survivors there is a great chance that we lost a great deal in every section or letter.

On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the very best, where do you rate in each category?

Have you ever thought about breaking your life into easy to manage stages that you can take on step by step in an easy to do sort of way?

The good news though is that regardless of where we stand Mentally/emotionally, physically, socially, financially or spiritually, each one of us has the ability to improve even if it is just a little at a time.

How would your life be impacted if you could improve each section of your life by just 10%?

I am not suggesting that I have any answers, on the contrary, what works for me in any of those fields might be totally foreign to you and vice versa, The ABCD of Success is simply a framework that I have developed after years of studying personal growth. This is something I work on each and every day.

Becoming my best self and helping and sharing what I learn has become my purpose and passion in life as I know it is for many of my dear Facebook friends.


This facebook Page ABCDOfSuccess will be where I will add, edit ,create and hopefully discover all the material for this continuing project. Please feel free to join, add and share.

Bob Miller San Diego
Strokes Suck
Bob Miller Insurance

Not Your Typical Insurance
 
Certainly I am not your typical insurance agent either.

I re-entered the industry when I learned that there was a company that would grant a person who had a stroke. heart disease, cancer or some other tragic event up to 91% of their death benefit BEFORE THEY DIE if they become unable to work.

 

Imagine the reduced stress many of us would have had if we received a check for a couple hundred thousand.

 

7 out of 10 people alive will suffer either or/and heart attack, cancer or stroke before age 65

 

The average age of onset is 43

The average age of bankruptcy is 44

(See a correlation here?)

 

62% of bankruptcies are caused because of medical events.

78% of these people had health insurance.

 

Why did they go bankrupt?

Why did I go bankrupt?

Why can't I make the Cane Burning Event?

Loss of income, pure and simple.

 

It's too late for us but it doesn't have to be for our loved ones.

 

 

This is why I am so passionate to save as many people as possible BEFORE something bad happens.  

 

Us stroke survivors are not eligible for this coverage because the underwriting is tougher than usual.

 

You might qualify if your stroke was over 5 years ago and you are healthy.

 

But we all know someone who is currently wasting money on the old fashioned insurance, the kind you have to DIE TO COLLECT.

 

Wouldn't it make sense to tell them about this game changing new form of life insurance while they are still healthy?  

 

 

 

 

 
Not Your Typical Insurance
New Life Insurance
Not Your Typical Insurance
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Certainly I am not your typical insurance agent either.

I re-entered the industry when I learned that there was a company that would grant a person who had a stroke. heart disease, cancer or some other tragic event up to 91% of their death benefit BEFORE THEY DIE if they become unable to work.

 

Imagine the reduced stress many of us would have had if we received a check for a couple hundred thousand.

 

7 out of 10 people alive will suffer either or/and heart attack, cancer or stroke before age 65

 

The average age of onset is 43

The average age of bankruptcy is 44

(See a correlation here?)

 

62% of bankruptcies are caused because of medical events.

78% of these people had health insurance.

 

Why did they go bankrupt?

Why did I go bankrupt?

Why can't I make the Cane Burning Event?

Loss of income, pure and simple.

 

It's too late for us but it doesn't have to be for our loved ones.

 

 

This is why I am so passionate to save as many people as possible BEFORE something bad happens.  

 

Us stroke survivors are not eligible for this coverage because the underwriting is tougher than usual.

 

You might qualify if your stroke was over 5 years ago and you are healthy.

 

But we all know someone who is currently wasting money on the old fashioned insurance, the kind you have to DIE TO COLLECT.

 

Wouldn't it make sense to tell them about this game changing new form of life insurance while they are still healthy?  
Bob MillerHttp://BobMillerinsurance.com
Http://BobMillerinsurance.com
http://facebook.com/TheNewLifeInsurance
http://StrokesSuck.com

Are You a Handle or a Hole?

Think of your life, your family, community, friends and everyone that is in your life as a bucket.

Your whole life neatly or not so neatly contained in one large container.

You do not control everything in this bucket but you do exert an enormous amount of influence as you yourself are part of the contents.
You have a choice of how you want to interact with the bucket and it's inhabitants.

You basically have three choices:
You can be a handle and help to carry the bucket, giving support and helping all the others who are trying to make life easier for others.

You can blend in with the others and just kind of go where the bucket goes. This is  where the vast majority of the population resides and there is nothing wrong with this option.

We may have even been a handle but now find ourselves being carried around. Things happen, circumstances change.

Or you can be a hole in the bucket like the old nursery rhyme. There's a hole in my bucket dear Lisa, dear Lisa.
The hole is something that requires others to put more in because the hole is emptying the contents  and needs constant refilling.The hole acts like a drain and we can do that by making life difficult for others by complaining, being angry and basically choosing to exercise emotions that are on the bottom of the ledger.

I think in our life at some point we may have been all three.
 Hopefully if you are not yet in the position to be a handle, you are at least  not (an) A- hole.

So which are you? Which do you aspire to be?
The choice is yours dear Henry, dear Henry.

Bob Miller
Strokes Suck
ABCD of Success
Give Help Inspire
Bob Miller Insurance
The New Life Insurance