Kirk Nugent

No Need To Miss Your Flight (Part II)

Now let’s get back to the airport and the business of baggage. Usually when we take a trip, be it business or pleasure, our luggage is actually something that we want to take with us. Be it that favorite business suit, your most comfortable pair of slacks or your best pair of shoes. So for this analogy, let’s look at luggage in a more positive light. Let’s assume that the luggage that you wanted to take with you are your dreams, your goals, your ideals, in short your most intimate desires.

Prior to September 11th 2001 there were three questions that you had to answer correctly regarding your luggage (dreams) before you would be cleared to head to your destination.
If you answered the question incorrectly, you would be delayed and sometimes even denied. Question number one: Did you pack your luggage yourself?

In other words, are these your dreams? The place that you’re trying to get to, is that your vision or is this what society told you that you ought to be? Because if you didn’t pack your bags yourself, at some point you’ll open them up and find that this is not what you wanted to bring along. These shoes (career, relationship ect.) don’t fit. So now you have to re-pack and once again, you’re delayed and could quite possibly be denied. Are you in this relationship and planning to get married because this is what your heart and soul is telling you to do? Or are you trying to fulfill your parent’s dreams of having grand children before they die? Continue Reading »

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Forest Gump believed that Life is like a box of chocolates, because you never know what you will get. However Forest wasn’t the brightest bulb on the porch, his was a character that if you stood close to him, you could actually hear the ocean. Life is more like taking a trip on a commercial airline carrier. When you show up at the airport, in order to get to your destination you have to check in. Not only do you have to check in, you have to declare where you are going. If you don’t check in and make that declaration, even though you are at the airport, you don’t go anywhere.

Checking in and making your declaration is what you’re doing with your journal and scrap book. Most people spend all their lives at the airport, never checked in, then at sixty five they declare, “This is not where a wanted to be.” Checking in is simple and it’s easy, for God’s sake, better yet, for your sake, please check in. Continue Reading »

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You Will See It When You Believe It.

In the movie, ‘What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole’ a scientist stated that the brain process 400 billion bits of information per second, (Good God from Zion, that’s a lot!) but we are only aware of 2,000 bits. So the brain has to decide what is important, and allow that information to be filtered to the conscious mind. It also has to decide what is not really relevant and send that information to the sub-conscious mind.

How is the brain able to make such a distinction? Well, we tell it what’s important by our words and our beliefs. Here’s an interesting example, let’s assume that a woman grew up in an environment where her father was abusive to her mom. He was constantly unfaithful and made no attempts to hide his infidelity. Let’s further assume that this little girl would over hear her mom complaining to other women that men are basically no good and the other women would always validate her mom’s point. This young girl starts dating only to find that her boyfriend has been unfaithful, so she subconsciously develops a belief system that ALL men are dogs. Continue Reading »

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