Taking Action - The Dale Method...

03/24/2008

The following is an e-mail I got from my buddy Dale.  Dale is one of the most brilliant people I know.  I love his philosophy of life and his ability to see and capture the big picture.  This man is not afraid to share his thoughts and feelings with anyone…he is the ultimate giver, never asking for a thing in return, and I love him for the man he is, and he is the best Life Coach I know.

Just below the e-mail Dale sent a group of people is the Thank You he talks about in the e-mail.
I am posting this because it makes so much sense.  Many of us sit around and bitch about stuff, but never take any action to correct it.  Dale has laid out a path.  Read and do it, or read it and don’t do it.  Your results will still be your results.

From Dale:

Here is a LONG email.  Find a quiet time to open it. It may piss you off, and if it does, consider that may the value of it. If it doesn’t, there may be a lot yet to do to ‘be’.

Are you still seeking more information on ways to get past being ‘stuck’ on the success plateau where you see yourself?
The power in your life is to take action. With clear action you will move out into the leveraged income and full life you are certain is to be yours ‘someday.’

‘All you have to do is know where you’re going.
The answers will come to you of their own accord.’

This is an opportunity to shift.

So, my hope for you at this Easter Season (a time of renewal and change) is that you will make the effort to put down everything you are doing. Lay aside all of the materials that you have researched. Stop anticipating the answer is somewhere other than inside of yourself.  I hope you will take a lined ruled pad, a pencil and go sit quietly beside some noisy running water in a solitary, uninterrupted place. (I will explain this noisy running waters importance at the end of this letter to you) No music, traffic sounds, cell phone, TV, radio, Ipod, audio tapes (CD’s), videos (DVD’s), books, people, NERD, drugs, alcohol, food distractions, or external influences except your mind. Then, sit until you are just listening to your heart. NOT your nerd, or mind. When you get a message that resonates, take positive action: 1. Write the idea down.2. Outline at least a half dozen SMALL separate steps you have never before taken for anything to further this idea, I call these ideas ‘resonance’. 3. Prioritize these steps in the order for them to flow from one to the next. 4. Study what you have now in front of you. Does it still resonate? Does it depend on action? Does it depend on ONLY you, and no one else? If it does ALL of these things, follow your heart.

When I do this, I often have a list of resonances. I list them, and list a few steps for each. When I have more than one going on in my heart, I usually see one of them rise to the top at a higher resonance than the others. This becomes my focus, until it becomes a learning experience. Than I regroup and go back to my list and work at one of the other resonances until it becomes a learning experience and so on, until it crashes. Then I go back to my list and see what I’ve learned about my list and the steps I’ve outlined for all those resonances I had while sitting beside that noisy running water. It is amazing how many of those resonances seem clearer after running one of them down to the learning experience I needed for the next one to seem clearer and more possible.

This has been my method to finding the successful seasons, reasons and life events (all are resonances) that have made me the happiest in my heart.  The ‘Thank You’ message also applies to taking care of business. Taking care of business IS taking action on heart felt self dependent ideas. If you will just add self reliance to what you know, look inside, trust yourself, not depend on a break, or participation of others, you will blast through and above the plateau you are on. The action of and for the self is critical to learn. It requires finding something that is of heartfelt personal resonance that you can succeed at without anyone else making or breaking the success that will set you free.

For me the first one I remember in my life was in 1954. I drove my Grandparents from California to Minnesota towing a house trailer. I was 12 years old. Success? Absolute.

Now then: I assume if you have read this far, you deserve to know the significance of the NOISY RUNNING WATER.
I attended a self focused training in 1984 lead by Robert Kiosaki (Google him). At one point, he sat at a table and said to all of the trainees: ‘When you know your internal fire, come sit at the table with me’. It took hours and hours for me to ‘get it.’ At the table where he was sitting, was a radio playing an audio cassette of the sounds of a loudly flowing river, or pictures or signs or something indicating a river of abundance.
The message was to eliminate all distractions from your track and the ‘River of Abundance’ will always be there for you.
After a few years it seems now, I discovered that I could actually go to a place where there was loudly flowing water (This was easy in Alaska) and recreate the experience ‘in the room’ with Robert. This has been the key to my finding:
Judy, happiness, Curves, Millennium 3, LP, Amy, David, Eddie, Danielle, Sylvester, Debra, and confidence.

I send this with the seasons fullest wishes for you,

Dale
loving powerful free
‘Only when I am willing to go too far will I know how far I can go’ WDH 2004

Here is the Thank You message my friend Dale speaks off:
You never know when your guardian angel will be there for you so I have to try...I am sending this to you to see how many actually read their e-mail.  Your response will be interesting. Pay attention to what you read.
After you have finished reading it, you will know the reason it was sent to you.

Here goes:

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.  They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are They are there for the reason you need them to be.  Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.  Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.  Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.  What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.  The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.  They may teach you something you have never done.  They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.  Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.  Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Send this to every friend that you have on-line, including the person who sent it to you.

0 Replies - you may need to work on your ‘people skills’
2 Replies - you are nice but probably need to be more outgoing
4 Replies - you have picked your friends well!
6 Replies - you are downright popular
8 Replies or More - you are totally awesome
(and that’s probably why you’re on MY list)

I wonder what mine will be.

GUARDIAN ANGEL
Forward this message the same day you received it . It may sound ridiculous, but it is right on time. We believe that something is about to happen. Angels exist, only sometimes they haven’t got wings and we call them friends; you are one of them. Something wonderful is about to happen to you and your friends. Tomorrow at 11:04 somebody will address you and tell you something you have been waiting to hear Please do not break it. Send it to at least 7 of your friends.