Never Fear Water: (Unedited): 05 May 2015:

The fear of embarrassing ridicule can cause a person to never begin.

C.J.MacKechnie

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Fear we think of as those negative feelings that tend to prevent us from doing most anything. Putting our hands on the stove or sticking our tongues onto frozen poles up north or swimming with alligators in Florida. These seem like very reasonable fears of self protection and of course there are many many more.
BUT, There are those other fears which seem to be pressed onto us from society and from our peers. Your peers may not have the best regards for you and may only see your mistakes or accidents as instant sources for their own amusement. This very rude and selfish behavior can easily be seen in those YouTube videos where people go out and have those embarrassing accidents or do those things which were not thought out very well. In which you can hear their own so called friends in the back ground laughing while taking video of the stupidity. Any friend not even a good friend would stop another friend from doing any physically harming thing on purpose. I guess today in this modern world there are few friends while there are many who only associate with others who bring amusement and entertainment.
This same kind of attitudes can also prevent a person from ever beginning a thing. Even if that thing could be their thing of future perfection within their own lives.
To be laughed at no matter what the reason or cause. Seems to be more than enough to cause those delicate souls from ever taking that first step towards a wonderful dream or goal which can be manifested. I see this as one of the greatest thefts and cruelties in modern society today.
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I'm an INFJ. As an INFJ I'm not immune from ridicule from my peers as there are not many peers in my world or this world of 7.2 billion people. I'm not a very good writer and yet I still write. I would suppose if ridicule affected me to that degree of stopping I would have several thousand quotes ago. But, The message seems to be more important than proper writing style and you do have to really think about what you read from my uneducated writing style. Can you just get over how I do not use the word There, their or the other one incorrectly from time to time or is that most of the time. Because if you cant it's like staring at the finger and missing everything else. aha, Bruce Lee mix "Be water my friend".Yes copy and paste, go watch it.
https://youtu.be/pGFf3SRP1bE
Think about Bruce Lee. I do not know if he was an INFJ . But, he suffered ridicule and death threats from all of the Asian martial arts community. Yet, today his vision can be seen in the mixed martial arts which is very popular today. Except for the obvious absence of wisdom and understanding which has been associated with martial arts in their recent history. I guess that is a great sadness in martial arts. Where any person can achieve great skill and knowledge of any art and yet be so unaware of it's history, wisdom and understanding. This is emptiness or a cup with no water and you have an unquenchable thirst for something which seems to be that unknowing thing at the tip of your tongue.
We should all be like Bruce Lee and not like him at all. In other words be yourselves and be unyielding in your endeavors, even if you have not begun them yet or even have a clue as to what endeavor actually mean. Because , be water my friend.
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This isn't about fighting and yet it is. Can you fight with yourself?  Can you fight the Bruce and Chuck which is within each of us at once? We all do and we all must. Those who do find there thing in life. Had to fight many internal battles to get to where they are today and we each must fight many more unknown battles just to see tomorrow.
The statistical and logical conclusion of my childhood dictates. I should be dead more than once, I should be homeless, I should be incarcerated, I should be forgotten. This is my reasonable truth. This is not showing off or up for comparison of bragging rights. I'm pretty sure I may not have been able to survive the life you have lived. This is just a proof that we all must fight our own fights from within and from the outer world. Just the pressure from the outer world can be enough to keep you within your own inner world and that may in fact be a crime. Because, you may be that one person who changes the whole of the world. Can you see how you could be that water flow of change. The avoidance of stagnancy should be within us all and become our outward expression in this life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris
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To avert all of the coming bad and sad prophecies. We each must decide to do the following everyday, every hour, every minute and every second.

To Love one another.

To live in peace with everyone.

To exist in harmony with all.

To Cherish all life.

To be obedient to the Laws of God.

To become righteous and holy by the accepting eyes of God only.

All without any pride, ego, arrogance, supremacy and entitlements.
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Pain Depart: (Unedited): 16 March 2015:

That which causes you pain and suffering must depart from you. Before your own natural healing can begin. 

C.J.MacKechnie

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It does not matter what kind of pain you suffer from. Whether it be physical, mental or spiritual. You may even suffer from many pains and sufferings that involve many different parts of your whole being. 
Each and every thing which causes you pain must be removed from you before your natural healing can begin. Even if a body part has become to sick, to injured and to damaged. Then it must be removed so that you can return to good health.
That is key to good health. All that has ever harmed you or has caused you injury. Must be removed from you. This includes all mental and spiritual injuries. No matter how far back they occurred.All of those memories of your abuses and tortures must be released by you. You must let go of all of your old woes and ancient sufferings. Even if they only ended days, weeks or months ago.
For any of your mental and spiritual healing to begin. You must be in control of your own mind. You must not be intoxicated in any way. You must not be drugged up or medicated in any way. You must not even be medicated in any way with mind altering substances. This does include smoking. Smoking even cigarettes is an addictive mind altering substance.
In order for you to make any logical decision based in reason. You must be sober. Being better because of medications, cigarettes, smoking marijuana or having a few nightly drinks. Is not being completely healed or perfectly healthy. You must make that decision to be healed and to become healthy. This is what begins your journey to becoming mentally and spiritually healthy. It is the same with physical health. In order to be physically healthy. You must first remove that which is causing injury or sickness. Makes sense? yes.

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Achieving Drive: (Unedited): 07 Oct 2014:

Achieving is when you drive yourself and endure everything until the end of your defined challenge. Then you begin a new more challenging one. 

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It is not important what level in any particular thing you are. It only matters how much you learn and grow from the challenge. It doesn't matter if you ended up in last place. because, even in last place everyone can witness just how much heart and drive you have.
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Entertained Feasts: (Unedited): 27 Oct 2013:

The evildoers and deceivers become entertained when they can cause a good person to freely choose to walk out of the divine light and into their shadows. Their feast thus begins. 

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You can hear their mashing of teeth as they can easily see you from their darkness. It is not enough for these evildoers and deceivers to just rush into the light and then devour you. You must freely choose to walk out of the light and into their darkness. Thus, their meal becomes just that more tastier.
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Beware of the ploys from those wolves in sheep's clothing. Always,  Be aware of your own thoughts and emotions. If you begin to transition away from good and positive feelings into those thoughts and feelings of combat and wrongfulness. Then you are being drawn out of and away from the divine light and it is by your own free choice that you do so. Even if you are unaware. The spiritually weak and the weak minded are the unknowing prey of the evil predators.

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Unexpected Attitudes: (Unedited): 29 May 2013:

The aggressive management of unexpected attitudes can right your ship. C.J.MacKechnie

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As soon as you the leader or manager detect any down fall in morale or a souring of attitudes. You and the rest of the management/ownership team must find the fault within yourselves and correct it faster than quickly. It is better for you to stop all work without any cessation in pay to find the negative source and expel it than to just continue on into the unseen ice berg.

It is better to have time lost and payroll beyond expectations than to lose the ship all because of low morale un-mitigated and un-managed by the entire leadership team.
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All attitude problems and morale issues begin and end with the entire management team. Poor performance and worker misery is just a result of you the owners, leaders and managers.
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Self Control: (Unedited): 07 May 2013:

The control and authority you desire in life. Must first begin with the self. C.J.MacKechnie

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The control and authority you think you have in this life is an illusion. When you first think and believe you have control and authority in your life. This is an external illusion. Control and authority in your external life is based upon agreements, associations and relationships. All of which grants you the illusion of control and authority.

The control and authority of the self is first. Right? Think about this. You are a human animal defined as a bipedal mammal. As such your physical animal has certain requirements and desires which delve into the animalistic natures. If you allow the self to exert control and authority over the desires, needs and wants of the physical body. You will become stagnant in your life.
So, The lazy mind wants to make preparations for itself in order to survive and to become more comfortable. This is an evolution over the physical and animalistic domain. Until, such a time when the creative mind begins to discover crime, abuse, torture, cruelty, war, hatred, immorality, abandonment, and humanistic laws.
So, from the spirit being whom your true identity resides with is that which should have control and authority over your entire physical being. This is the governor, which can begin to bring about the revelation of enlightenment. Where love, peace, harmony and life can become the governing force in your life. So that happiness, joy and true satisfaction can be realized.
So, once you know there is a spirit world and that your spirit is just a small part of it all. There begins the search for God as HE/SHE is and always have been. So, where is control and authority supposed to be located?

New Identity: (Unedited): 12 Jan 2013:

Your new identity begins each and every time you conquer a fear. C.J.MacKechnie

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The fear you have is what is holding you back.
The fear you have is what is keeping you down.
The fear you have is what keeps you enslaved.
The fear you have is what keeps you uneducated and unskilled.
The fears you have causes you to believe in your own self created lies. Such as that your dumb, stupid, unworthy, wrong family, wrong social class, wrong race, your ugly, your not good enough, your undeserving and etc. These lies you must counter with positive thoughts and words about yourself continuously.

Having fear for a long period of time develops into the cancer APATHY. to have no care about anything, including for your own family or self. The cancer  APATHY grows into these things. You may still care for yourself and your children and your family and your friends. But, if you do not care about other things like your job or doing a good job. Then you have APATHY. If you don't care about being punctual or responsible for necessary things. Then you have APATHY. You must begin to care about everything that you touch, see, hear and walk on. To care keeps you as an evolving human. To have Apathy regresses you back to that of an insignificant animal.

For all of the fears we each have. All of our fears makes up our individual identity. When people see your face along with your name. They all see and know the history of all of your fears.

To change who you are, what you are and how you are currently identified. You must take the necessary action to confront and conquer all of your fears, one at a time. For every fear you conquer, you create for yourself a new identity. Think about your name, to be followed by conqueror.

Expectant Reply: (Unedited): 29 Dec 2012:

Your spiritual awakening begins. When you take the time to simply greet GOD and wait for an expectant reply. 

C.J.MacKechnie

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 It is not enough to only pray. To only say what you want to say to GOD and then end your communication with Amen Amen. I have met many Christians who have had no direct contact with GOD or any real knowing of any communication from GOD in any manor, for decades of being in the faith. Even with faithful daily prayers, meal prayers and group prayers.
 I ask you this and it is this simple. How do you greet your parent, sibling and/or friend? Assuming your relationships are healthy, with honor and with mutual respect. This is the same way you begin to speak with GOD. Just say hello and wait. Actively listen with a quiet mind. This is respect. The same kind of respect you give to your family member or friend when they are speaking to you. You don't think of other more important things like the sporting event or shopping or getting a hair cut or shoveling snow in Florida. OR DO YOU? (I'm still working on that one). If you disrespect your own family and friends in favor of the big game or any other trivial reason. Then you may already have your answer as to why you have had no real contact with GOD, No real direction from GOD, No real signs from GOD and no real miracles from GOD.
Prayer is you speaking to GOD.
Meditation is you listening to GOD.
This is critically important to understand. The entire Christian faith must fundamentally change in this regard. Because, Prayer without meditation is disrespectful just as you talking to your spouse and then refusing to take the time to listen to their response. Even if it is only a hello. 
A Christian is supposed to be like Jesus, walk like Jesus and perform miracles like Jesus. In today's world there is virtually none of it. Why? Well, It is the very first thing we all have been taught and it is prayer. But, We have only been taught a part of the communication process with GOD. Just as Jesus spoke directly with GOD. So can you when you become the son or daughter of GOD and brother or sister to Jesus. You do not need an intermediary. 
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:WARNING: If you begin a complete prayer life. You begin to learn how to silence your mind and patiently wait. You will have a knowing of GOD and everything else (scary part). Then the sins you enjoy in secret will become realized by you and that they were never ever secret. Including the sins of your own thinking.
:WARNING2: The gifts of Jesus will begin to manifest in you as intended by GOD and without warning. If you do not learn the disciplines necessary to work the gifts chosen for you. Then they will become like curses to you. Because, In the truth of the gifts. They are not meant for you. They are meant for those who are in need. You are just the holder of the gifts and are responsible for them, even though those gifts are NOT YOURS.
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Professional Advantage: (Unedited): 02 Dec 2012:

Professional advantage begins when you  study more than you(r) should (required). C.J.MacKechnie

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One of the major problems in every level of the American educational system. Is laziness.
The laziness of educators at every level. This is manifested in only being required to do half or less of the required book/study work. This should be directly compared with any athletic sport.
In any athletic sport. If you want to be competitive you must run all that you must run, You must swim all of your laps. There is no swimming only the odd number of laps. There is no working in teams when running. There is no use of AID devices/tools such as being pulled by a boat when swimming or taking the bus when running. (Reference to calculators and computers which can be used to do all of the work your supposed to do).
To have a possibility of attaining a professional level in that sport.  You must develop cross training disciplines, such as weight lifting, improving flexibility, biking,  running when your a swimmer and swimming when your a runner.You must do it all and you must seek a discipline of perfect form.
To become one of those spooky few who become artists and legends, you must love it all and do all that you need and should simply because you want to. Not because the evil task master is behind you whip the symbolic slaves whip.
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New Year: (Unedited): 01 Jan 2007:

Anytime you change something that is bad within yourself and you become a little bit more of a better human being. Thus, begins the true new year just for you. A new beginning, A new hope and a new you. C.J. MacKechnie

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Do not wait for an end of a calendar to begin a new thing, a new good habit, an end to bad habits or a new change. A true new years resolution always begins the day you put into action an improvement to your being.