Empower Your Pattern

It was September 1983 in my maternal grandfather started a front end and alarmed business   Is in a small gas station in Midland Texas.   He had just been laid off from a tar company that he had been working for for at least 6 years.  Now for the last 5 of the 6 years left in his life he grabbed his business repairing cars and is Carson making his customer smile.         One day when I was 13 or 14 he came to me and my Uncle Andy said he wanted Andy to someday eventually take over the business.   Andy who was the same age as I am told granddad that he would not take the business       I felt saddened and I told my granddad that if I could see I would take up upon me the slaughter family name and take over his business when he was one to retire.       The business went from a small 2 garage gas station to a large garage with an office and back.   In October 1988 granddad closed the doors on his...

    Good afternoon, I am so grateful to tell you what I have overcome.     I started feeling depressed one Sunday morning when a dark cloud seemed to cover over me. I tried to pretend for a day or so that it was nothing. But within 2 days thick loneliness gathered around me, and I felt that the only person I could turn to was my best friend across the street..  I had taken a break from podcasting, but even that seemed ridiculous. The next Sunday it happened all over again, the loneliness and lack of connection creeped over me.  There was a talk of a possible change of congregations.  I felt more and more unsure.  Before you know it, two days had past and I sunk into a sea of reacctivity.  Depression and anxiety dogged me so much that I missed last week’s meeting. Then things came to a head, despite the help of friends my bipolar depression got worse and worse.  Finally ast Friday, my aide and close friend came to my rescu...

    "Negative Thoughts suddenly come up when you least expect it." kurt Dunca.     "Sometimes we have to tell the critic inside us to shut up!" Les Brown.      One of the basis of Empower Your Pattern to build your signifficance and success is challenging negative thoughts.  And one of the elementary principles I use to challenge negative thoughts is what I call The CAP Method.  I will explain this thuroughly. 1.  Choices:  We cannot choose how adversity and negative thoughts come, but we do have control on how we preactively and proactively choose.  One of the things I do when I write down and chalenge my negative thoughts with logical reasoning, I also look at choices I can make to get those thoughts back to the positive.  The belief and freewill of choice is a key principle to challenging negative thoughts. ACT:  One of the best ways to challenge negative thoughts is to design proactive action.    Preside...

  Hello Citizens of Pattern Realm,      Today started reasonably well.  I did two podcast episodes for The Strenuous Life Radio and Empower Your Pattern 2.0.  Then I started 40 minutes of my Hour of Power which consisted of 20minutes of prayer and 20 minutes of reading.  I skipped the exercise which I regret doing.      Then at 5:30 AM, I attempted to become a faculty on Youdemy when for some reason the algorithm didn't recog3 weeks being derailed!  So what do you do?      Most motivational people believe in the philosophy of Eat the Frog.  That sounds well and good.  But what if the frog is eating you?!!      You're like, "Dang it!  I wanted this done today, and now it's all ruined!"  Listen to me, Rome wasn't built in a day.  Sometimes you have to do the simple things and build up.      It reminds me of the old song "One Day At a Time" sung by Christy Lane....