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The Never Failing Experiment

May 21, 2014 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

It is absolutely Flawless.

The Experiment never fails–Ever.

Dare to not only change your life, but your work, your leisure, your lifestyle, your relationships, your all encompassing E V E R Y T H I N G!

But, don’t let me tell you about The Experiment. Let me Show you…better still, YOU TRY IT!

Here’s how it works:

EVERYTHING YOU DO, DO AS AN EXPERIMENT!

Really, IT is THAT simple. There’s no special formula’s; no 1-2-3 steps to take, no special maps to follow, no A-B-C special procedural directions, no embarrassment, no, “I-told-you-so’s,” no hassle and no worry. . .Really!

This will work just as brilliantly at work as it will personally or at home.

Pick a problem to be solved. Go ahead, if you want, do what you use to do. Pro and Con it, list all the reasons For and Against, think In and Out and Around the Box; do what you do to come up with a most likely, probable, consensus decision and then apply it this way: AS AN EXPERIMENT.

By the very nature of any Experiment, it naturally calls for Trial and Error. It Expects to Fail as a means to Succeeding. Ask Mr. Edison how many successful ways he determined NOT to Invent a Light Bulb!

When you Experiment things, there’s no pressure, no winning or losing–just a faster track to Success or WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU OR THE SITUATION!

Under this guise, you can Experiment with an Exercise Program, a new Diet, a Short cut to work or another destination, a way to resolve a conflict at work, in a relationship, or between business partners or neighbors.

It’s NEVER FAILED.

Don’t believe me, though. Try it yourself. Mix a little of THIS will a little of THAT, shake gently and pour a drop at a time or as quickly as you dare in full measure…it won’t matter because IT IS AN EXPERIMENT.

The best part?

If IT doesn’t work, you can triumphantly shout, “N E X T”
and begin yet another Experiment again and again and again. . . .

One of my favorite Experiments is to have an Experiment inside of an Experiment–Try IT–There’s nothing more FREEING and NON-THREATENING and best of all:

E F F E C T I V E.

Falling UP

May 7, 2014 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

Oh yeah, it’s happened several times. At least a dozen times. But not as many times as it has happened WHEN I HAVE NOT BEEN RUNNING!

F A L L I N G

Ouch. We’ve all done it haven’t we.

I usually run/jog early in the morning, mostly even before the sun comes up. IF I fall…no one is usually up to see it.

Whenever I FALL by not keeping a promise, not caring more, being a huge jerk, having a short fuse, being hypocritical, missing a goal–badly, totally living a different scenario than ever dreamed, not just fighting but actually fighting dirty, seeing how I make a difference and absolutely-on-purpose-DON’T, I, I utterly, undeniably, unequivocally, overwhelmingly, uhhh. . .

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HEAVEN-less

March 26, 2014 By ChuckBehrens 2 Comments

You knew it was coming, didn’t you?

I mean, it’s the question we have to ask. . .answer, many different times in our lives, isn’t it?

So, do you?

Do you believe in, dare I ask, (yeah, I triple dog dare) H-E-A-V-E-N?

I don’t!

It’s not the first time this has happened, which is probably more affirming than anything.

More substantiating is that it’s happened to different types of people in different economic, religious, sexual orientation, gender, racial and generational realms.

It happened again this morning at a funeral I was conducting.

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Just Who Do You Think You Are?

February 3, 2014 By ChuckBehrens 2 Comments

Just who do you think you are?

It’s a question that was usually asked in anger, almost disbelief when I did something wrong as a kid.

Maybe I talked back to my parents (BIG MISTAKE)!

Maybe I talked back to my teachers (BIG MISTAKE–they were friends with my parents)!

Maybe I threw bubble gum out of the balcony at Church and it hit Peggy Young in the back of the head and stuck in her long hair (before they knew how to take it out with Peanut Butter) and she had to get a hair cut and Mr. Young called the house on a Sunday afternoon that quickly became BLACK SUNDAY before there ever was a Black Sunday.

Maybe it’a been asked of you?

Maybe it needs to be!

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Rocks from Above

January 22, 2014 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

Classic Story for not so classic folks!

PREMISE: WHEN WE DO GOOD, GOOD HAPPENS TO US!

He worked overtime, but not for the overtime. He worked because his best friend, with terminal cancer couldn’t. His friend had tried his best, but his best was becoming more and more his worst. His friend wanted to maintain his life, just by working a few hours every day, he felt he could have some normalcy. His friend was wrong. He was becoming weaker, more sick day by day and now to keep up the pace, overtime had to be applied.

Hey, what are friends, true friends, truly for, if not to help out a sick friend?

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Cracked Pots

January 15, 2014 By ChuckBehrens 2 Comments

The Story’s been told many times, in many different ways. It still asks the same question, though:

ARE YOU A CRACKED POT?

Okay, you caught me. It’s an entirely rhetorical question and the answer is completely true:

YES!

The story is really simple but it’s moral is even more simple and engaging–if only recongized!

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Your Move

January 10, 2014 By ChuckBehrens 2 Comments

A Simple game, huh?

But why, why is it we take the Simple and make it so complicated?

To make it more important? For it to be taken seriously? To take it more seriously?

Would it make the Checkers Plan inconceivable?

The plan can be implemented in any area of your life, especially the most troublesome ones.

Hit the Rewind button and go back with me for a little bit. When, exactly, was the the last time you actually played a spirited game of Checkers?

Yesterday or yesteryear?

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The Candle Maker’s Pledge

January 3, 2014 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

Barely 50+ hours into the New Year. How’s it going?

Wait. . .Did you expect Resolutions Made = Resolutions Accomplished? It’ll take just a little bit more time, commitment and persistence.

Would it be alright if we took a Lesson from my book, The Candle Maker? For the next 28 days in the morning, afternoon and evening would you recite, out loud the Candle Maker’s Pledge?

Give this a try. You only need 95 seconds, three times a day; 4 minutes and five seconds total.

REPEAT:

With unlimited wick and wax, burnout is burnt out. . .so I will remain perpetual. I am not tired or tiring. I am potent and energizing. YES! I am extremely happy and joyous.

My face only know the contentment of a smile. My lips only know how to curve upwards. My nose only smells the fragrance of sweet success. My eyes only search out and expect to see good things.

I cannot be defeated today. I cannot be be let down or disappointed. It is utterly impossible for me to be all used up in this day no matter what happens to me or how often it happens. I am a cup that cannot be emptied, only over and ever flowing!

I intimately know the Candle Maker. I am privileged enough to be always where he stores wax and wick.

I can forever this day, burn profusely at both ends and especially in the middle of the candle without interruption or sputter because I am never without perpetual amounts of wax and wick.

Though others around me will tire and grow weary, I will only get stronger, brighter, more steady and intense as the day lightens into dusk, then a darkness for me to illuminate.

This day, I can neither be snuffed out or burnt up. I am already eternal. I will insure my immortality this day, and all others I am gifted to receive by glowing, guiding, and giving endlessly.

I will burn. YES! Give Light. YES! Provide warmth and all through the day and long into the darkening night. I will leave nothing that the day or night can offer. I have been supplied mightily. My wax and wick have no end. Because the source is so close, so all giving, and in so many locations, I am no match to any darkness this day or ever.

YES! My wax and wick are ceaseless and darkness knows me not!

Don’t Resolve. . .C O M M I T to the Candle Maker’s pledge for the next 28 days, 4 minutes a day.

You just may get a little bit brighter, warmer, illuminated and enlightened. . .and definitely not dimmer!

WHOLE BROKENNESS

December 25, 2013 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

Have you heard the story? Ok, maybe it’s more of a legend…but it’s really a timeless legend, now of OUR Time.

It was Christmas Eve 1818 and a small church in Austria had gathered together for their Candle light services. Tragedy struck. The organ was broken. It was discovered that, Church mice, literally had eaten through the bellows the organ and it was rendered useless.

No Music on Christmas Eve Candle light services?

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