Are You A Have Or A Have Not

O.K. now you have an inkling how to turn down the
volume on the negative in your life. Through
releasing, letting go, and forgiving you can fade out
the power of the things you don't want in your life.

I forgot to mention that includes being critical,
cynical and judgemental too. I'm too well
acquainted with that minefield myself. I've found
out though you can't release much of anything
when you are going around binding things up all
the time, in others or in yourself.

Next what you need is a reliable way to make the
good in your life multiply and prosper. If you can
shoot 67% at the freethrow line today, you want
to know how to shoot 77%. If you love someone,
you want to know how to make that love stronger.
If you are in school youwant to know how to get
better grades. If youhave a good business you
want it to grow. It's just natural.

You will have to believe what I tell you today, but
in the coming days I'll explain more about why I
think this all works. The key here is in first
recognizing the good you already have. Awareness
and paying attention are king. Then growth and
multiplication lie in a simple formula anyone can
practice. You might know it as gratitude,
thanksgiving, appreciation, or honoring.

When you appreciate the good in your life, you
prime the pump to receive more. If you take the
good for granted though it will diminish. Like how
you lose muscle tone when you don't exercise.

And if you ungratefully focus on what you lack or
need you will even multiply the lack in your life.
Sorry, not my rules. That's the way the universe
works.

So to be a success at anything you need to let go
of what you don't want, and be grateful for and
appreciate what you do. It's as simple as that.

Not easy to do. It takes awareness, practice, and
repetition. But it is simple.

Tomorrow I'll give you a scientific basis for how
this works if you're still a doubting Thomas. It
has to do with a little thing called resonance.

Shoot for the Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. In case you're wondering where the straight
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Make Every Shot Count

Do Thanksgiving Right

Have you read any of the Richard Marcinko Rogue
Warrior books? Marcinko is a tough-as-nails retired
Navy Seal team leader who writes semi-fictional
accounts of missions he and his teams could have
been involved in. I have no idea what is fiction and
what is real, but it sure makes an exciting read.

I was reading last night the Rogue Warrior's Ten
Commandments of Special Ops. And number six
goes like this:

"Thou hast not to like it - thou hast just to do it".

Happy Thanksgiving to those who live in the USA.
But everybody else doesn't have to get left out.
You too can be as happy as you want to be. All
you have to do is give thanks. You don't even
have to like it. You just have to do it, and if you
do you will find yourself growing more thankful
and even feeling more thankful.

I'm convinced happiness and thanksgiving are so
closely joined they can't be separated. Show me
an unhappy person, and I'll show you someone
who is also ungrateful. Someone who does not
count their blessings. Someone who doesn't
appreciate what they have.

Whether you're shooting hoops, building a
business, parenting a family, going to school or
even trying out for American Idol you are doing
it all because you believe it will make you happy.

Am I right?

Nothing wrong with that, but believe me when I
tell you - cultivating an attitude of thankfullness
and gratitude is the quickest way I've ever seen
to make yourself happy.

Today is a good day to start putting that into
practice. You could keep a gratitude journal and
write in it every night before going to sleep. Then
in the morning mentally run through a list of what
you are am grateful for.

Try it. You'll find a happy shooter is a better
shooter.

Shoot For The Stars,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. One of the things I'm most grateful for in
this life is the opportunity to touch your lives
through this e-letter and deandelker.com.

I hope you will find much to be thankful for as
you spend this day with your family and
friends.

Oh, by the way. Another gift I find myself
continually being thankful for is music. If
you've been the least bit curious about
classical music and the benefits it can have on
your body and soul my friend Tania Gabrielle
French wants to teach you and help you
experience a calming, uplifting musical
cleansing. It's good for what ails you, and it's
available today (and tomorrow after you've
recovered from your holiday) at:

http://www.deandelker.com/secret_power.html

And a big thanks to all of youl.

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