A Best Personal Development Strategy Using Love

How can love be a Personal Development strategy? You may have heard about how love can help create a spiritual connection, but personal development?

I greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures.”

— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, Scroll 2

Scroll 2 of Og Mandino The Greatest Salesman in the World, which we study as part of Master Key Experience invites us to Love.  Love is our spiritual connection to all that is.

“It’s a beautiful day to be alive.
If you have eternity, would you always be love?”

It’s the secret of success in everything.  Harnessing its power is how you develop, how you grow, how you learn to see it as a personal development strategy… and a gift.

Partway into the Master Key Experience course (MKE), there is a Kindness Week that we offer.  To me, it integrates all that is great in this world. The capacity of the participants skyrockets to the euphoria of kindness, happiness and living the concept “give more, get more.”  They learn to use love as a strategy for living.

For me, I found this such a breath of fresh air. Everyone was being kind and looking for kindness. The week’s exercise was a profound lesson in happiness because I was surrounding myself in such a good positive attitude, with love. I’m reiterating how the action of kindness is inspirational in and of itself, a selfless act of love.

The Physical Insights of Love

“If you have eternity, would you always be love?”

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones, yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart, yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due, but I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.”

–Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, Scroll 2.

After igniting real spiritual growth during this study of Master Key Experience, how can we continue to live as we lived before? The outcome can be such a healthy mindset.  Actually, a real cellular shift occurs on levels we weren’t always aware of.

The heart is the organ that drives our absolute existence by sending messages to the brain.  It instructs the systems in the body to respond.  That fact tells us all we need to know about the importance of the heart and the “heart-of-love,” which is our birthright, and the secret key to our personal development… a built-in strategy.

Throughout the course, I noticed a big shift in myself, partly due to the continued support and connection I had with the other participants and with the guides and staff.

I felt rejuvenated, motivated, even happy. Bouncing ideas and successes off each other is a great way to be invigorated.

As we experience life from birth onwards, our perception, insight and emotions are forged like steel or molded like concrete. We live based on all that we know. There’s an old saying, “You don’t know what you don’t know.”

That’s a very cerebral expression, however, how true is it in your experience? I began to just get a taste of what I didn’t know when I started the Master Key Experience. Until we are taught or learn about “that which is greater than our limitation,” we’re stuck in the same-old, same-old patterning.

Experiencing the Personal Development Strategy of Real Love

Do you remember when you fell in love with someone, or even with your pet?
How intense was that feeling of love?

How long did it last?
What caused it to change or lessen?
Did you eventually compromise?
Why was compromise required?

Compare those questions and your answers to how you can possibly love eternally, free from caveats and ultimatums.

“If you have eternity, would you always be love?”

Truth: Love is eternal. Love is all.

Why Does Love Fade

Love fades because we shroud it under emotions (cement). We create the condition of love in our lives.

“I will greet this day with Love in my heart. But how will I react to the actions of others? With love. For just as love is my weapon to open the hearts of men, love is also my shield to repulse the arrows of hate and the spears of anger.”

— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

The flip side to having our emotions and feelings programmed or derived from past experiences, is that they shape how we respond to any given moment.

If you’ve been hurt, you may distrust the world. If you’ve been appreciated and acknowledged, life looks and feels rosy and you feel a surge of energy coursing through your Being.

Our tendency to recoil from hurt and implode upon ourselves serves no one. Definitely not ourselves. How can that be changed?
Sure, therapy with a good therapist may help, but it doesn’t necessarily change you and empower you in a short period of time.

I know people who have been in therapy for the last 35 years and they still struggle with life. I wonder how that feels for them?

About time they participated in the Master Key Experience!!!

One big shift I learned from the class, and from Og Mandino’s book is the ability to practice,

“Each person I meet I say ‘I love you’ in my mind.” That has made such a huge difference in all my relationships.  It feeds my ability to love and strengthens my personal development through love.

Love in Action

As part of the Master Key Experience, we are given certain, cleverly conceived exercises that can change us at a cellular level.  It does require practicing the exercises and gaining the experiences from them. It’s putting the personal development strategy into action.

I have just been part of the last 6-month MKE course.

I met a participant who was homeless. He was so brave to even start the course. He was living in a hut with no roof on a derelict building site. Health was a challenge. Floods came and everything was washed away.

I’m writing about this to demonstrate how living the MKE exercises and being supported by the ‘Tribe’ we create with a Certified Guide to give one-on-one attention to each person, is the demonstration of Love.

This person was supported every moment of the way to succeed, grow and to change.
The goal? To be relieved of the dire circumstances he was experiencing and return to living life as he was meant to.

I now have the pleasure of announcing this person has received Love and is now giving Love by entering the Guide Training Course as a self-directed thinker, strong and harmonious. It’s a gift to see him using love as a personal development strategy.

This is amazing. This is a testimonial in itself of the capacity of MKE and the human desire for change, with Love as its basis.

I applaud his strength, determination and success.  I hope his story will inspire you to live with more love.

The power of Love can change everything for anyone.

“I will greet this day with love in my heart. And most of all I will love myself. For when I do, I will zealously inspect all things which enter my body my mind, my soul and my heart. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh; rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation. Never will I allow my mind to be attracted to evil and despair, rather I will uplift it with the knowledge and wisdom of the ages. Never will I allow my soul to become complacent and satisfied, rather I will feed it with meditation and prayer. Never will I allow my heart to become small and bitter, rather I will share it and it will grow and warm the Earth.”

— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, Scroll 2

Once you have lifted your vibration to positivity… love can change everything. It becomes an effortless personal development strategy.

Your inner world is reflected by your outer world in ways of manifestation. Here are some examples to look forward to:

• The success you’ve always wanted
• The promotion
• The dream car
• The person you desire
• The intimacy you’ve always wished for
• The holiday you’ve been craving
• The feeling of Liberation and Personal freedom
• The better health and fitness and the body you dream of

The list goes on! There is no limitation to what you can achieve once you have released your blockages and wounds, once you realize you own a great personal development strategy. There is so much power in Love!

Love as a Virtue

How about taking a period of time to discover and live each day with the virtues of humankind?  This is a great way to grow love to

We in Master Key Experience refer to the Franklin Makeover as a discovery tool. In this exercise, we follow Benjamin Franklin’s advice on how to develop virtues and character. By following this simple exercise you are not only taking self-action by participating in the virtues, you are also spotting others display the virtues too. This is an instant reflection just for you!

Think of virtues like kindness, courage, self-control, persistence, imagination, to name a few.  Include love. Start now to see it wherever and whenever it shows up.  Watch it grow.

Self-Love

This recognition is a reflection of Self-love. When you love yourself, it makes loving others easier. This is an accelerated way to grow and have a healthy mindset.

Of course, it takes practice and that’s why MKE is so successful. The tools and exercises accelerate your growth into a healthy mindset in multiple ways.

One of those is practicing a healthy self-love. Another great personal development strategy. The course instructors and guides encourage you to finally identify what you truly want and go after it.  Strategies are shared.  Better, successes are shared and celebrated.

Caring and compassion can be learnt. One needs to be in the right environment and circumstances. Remember that moment where you looked into the eyes of a loved one and really felt love and nothing else in the whole world mattered?

How can that moment be so different to how we feel love each day with everything else?  How does that play out when you look in the mirror?

In essence, what is the difference? Love is Love, isn’t it?

Ahhh that’s right, love is also perceived as emotional!

Love can be conditional for some people. Do you have levels of love? Love is love, isn’t it? Why is it so variable and conditional? It doesn’t have to be, nor should it be.

Our subconscious mind remembers all the times we may have been betrayed or hurt or “fell out of love”.

It created a neural pathway in our brain. If it was uncomfortable, we don’t want to feel that discomfort again, so we protect ourselves. We create ‘a cement’ around our feelings and emotions.

In doing so, we can lose integrity, clarity and balance around these matters of love. Not helpful!!

When you learn in the Master Key Experience how to change these triggers, life can be unconditional love. We no longer wear our heart on our sleeve. We can have a mature and harmonious relationship to love itself, to ourselves and then to others and to all that we do.

Are you in?

“I will greet this day with love in my heart. Henceforth will I love all mankind. From this moment all hate is let from my veins for I have not time to hate, only time to love.”

— Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World, Scroll 2

Learning to love yourself as well as certain personality traits comes easier with the Master Key Experience guidance.

You are not wedded to life as it was.
You are capable of so much more!
Set your soul on fire.
Take yourself higher… higher into the qualities of success, joy and eternal love… living on the basis of harmony and peace.

Let us show you how.
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