Thank you for visiting Baloani, which I hope will prove to be a great point of reference for your personal philosophical
and spiritual journey.
My name is Paul Becque. When I first dated my wife, she called me Beqster, and the name has stuck! Now my friends and work colleagues use it too.
Since I was a child I wanted to know what life is all about. Consequently, I’ve studied many different beliefs and kept an open mind.
Buddhism and Taoism have been very inspirational for me. And, more recently, “The Secret” and our growing knowledge of quantum physics has taken me to an even deeper level of commitment to my discoveries. “Baloani” is simply a video diary of my journey and a reference point for anyone that resonates with my exploration.
Blog week 4 -
This week surprised me because the chapter was sooo short and there were no apparent life changing tasks to be completed. It was simple to read and simple to understand... “believe that you can achieve your dream life” and focus on it everyday.
Because this was such an easy week, and I’m really eager to make this project a success, proving that the “Law of Attraction” is a real force, I decided to work on some of the other areas of my life too (free time, health, relationships, finance, career, personal goals, community contribution), in an effort to keep everything well balanced.
So I spent a great deal of time with my kids, growing crystals, making recycled paper logs, going to the movies, playing computer games, teaching them how to use their video cameras properly, etc. I also “thought” about what I was eating and made a conscious effort not to nibble on biscuits or chocolate and break away from my bad habit of not eating in the mornings, and replaced it with cereal and smoothies! It was great timing, because I’d had flu the week before and this really helped me to recover.
This was the easiest
week so far, simply because there were no tasks set, with the exception of reading my personal mission statement and wish list on a daily basis, and then focusing on them. So I did some research on belief, and what it’s helped others to achieve.
One of the ways that Jack Canfield suggests to focus on your dream life and brining the vision into reality is meditation. It’s something I’ve always wanted to enjoy and have tried it on many occasions without great success. I’ve even bought special background music and cd’s of monks chanting, but it’s not really made a difference. So I just tried sitting in a comfortable chair and allowed my mind to be peaceful... not an art I can tell you’ve I’ve conquered!
So, after a few days I did some research, shopped around on the Internet and found
myself at Centerpointe, the home of Bill Harris. His life’s work is “Holosync”...
a sophisticated form of audio technology that induces the brain wave patterns of
deep meditation. The website suggests that it is the most powerful personal growth
and mind development tool on the planet and users experience all the benefits of
a traditional meditation practice, but in an accelerated time-
Hey, if this is an area that you’ve had significant success with, or you feel that you’ve got some tools or web sites that I should visit, please jump onto facebook and send me a message or email@baloani.com
Additionally, I took the opportunity to listen to Bob Proctor’s 11 Forgotten Laws which is a completely and utterly inspirational package, and I highly recommend it. Coincidentally, there were a large number of excellent examples of how people have been able to use the belief in their vision to achieve goals and lifetime ambitions.
Here are some that I personally enjoy.
Roger Banister -
For years it was widely “believed” to be impossible for a human to run a
mile in less than four minutes. In fact, it was believed that the four minute
mile was a “physical barrier” that no man could break without causing
significant damage to his health. The achievement of a four minute mile
seemed beyond human possibility, just like climbing Mount Everest or
Since 1945 the world record for running a mile was four minutes and 1.4 seconds, achieved by Sweden’s Gunder Haegg. It had been stuck there for nine years. However, in 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds and broke through the psychological barrier! Suddenly people “believed” it was possible to run a mile in less than four minutes.
John Landy, a great Australian runner of the day, had never beaten his personal best of four minutes and 1.5 seconds. But within 56 days of Roger Bannister’s breakthrough, he too ran the four minute mile in 3 minutes and 57.9 seconds. By the end of 1957, 16 other runners also cracked the four minute mile!
Neil Armstrong -
The likelihood of a man stepping on the moon was considered impossible by the vast majority of the world. And even today, there are numerous conspiracy theories... just Google it to see!
But in 1969, American Neil Armstrong become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at 02.56 GMT, nearly 20 minutes after first opening the hatch on the Eagle landing craft. Armstrong had earlier reported the lunar module's safe landing at 20.17 GMT with the words: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
As he put his left foot down first Armstrong declared: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He described the surface as being like powdered charcoal and the landing craft left a crater about a foot deep. The historic moments were captured on television cameras installed on the Eagle and turned on by Armstrong. Armstrong spent his first few minutes on the Moon taking photographs and soil samples in case the mission had to be aborted suddenly.
He was joined by colleague Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin at 03.15 GMT and the two collected data and performed various exercises, including jumping across the landscape, before planting the Stars and Stripes flag. They also unveiled a plaque bearing President Nixon's signature and an inscription reading: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind."
After filming their experience with a portable television camera the astronauts received a message from the US President. President Nixon, in the White House, spoke of the pride of the American people and said: "This certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made."
Thomas Edison -
Before you get upset, I know that Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb! It
was an English scientist named Humphry Davy who first invented the idea of a light
bulb in 1800. Sixty years later, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan devised a more practical,
longer lasting electric light using a carbon paper filament, but the filament burnt
up quickly, and only last for approximately 40 hours.
Thomas Edison is famous for
his persistence in discovering a more efficient way of making the light bulb last
longer, which he did by removing the oxygen from the light bulb and using a carbon
filament. He found that the bulb lasted a lot longer, around 1500 hours.
For for than fifty years it was “believed” that a viable incandescent light could not be manufactured, and others could not see the point when oil lamps and candles already generated light at night. Despite the efforts of numerous inventors and companies, the projects proved impossible to commercialise. But Thomas Edison constructed more than 3000 different theories regarding the electric light bulb, and he considered each one of these, NOT as a failure, but a step closer to the answer he was looking for! He persevered with his efforts until he arrived at the outcome he was looking for, which followed with global commercialisation.
Bill Gates -
Here’s a man who “believed” that the future of computers was in software, not in the hardware, at a time when IBM dominated the world of computers with machines the size of houses and when “apple” was something that grew on a tree!
During an interview once with USA talk show host Larry King he asked Bill Gates, the President and founder of Microsoft for his views on creating success. Bill Gates said that in his opinion there were three major factors:
Vision
Being in the right time at the right place
Taking massive immediate action
He said “All successful people have vision. They have the ability the ‘see’ clearly
what they want before it exists. In other words, they “believe” in something and
they can ‘see’ it being achieved.
Bill gates did not invent DOS, someone else did. However he had a vision that the
creator of DOS didn’t have and recognised that he was in the right place at the right
time with IBM and acquired DOS.
Whilst I agree that being in the right place at the right time is important, I think it’s fair to say that recognising you are in the right place comes from having a clear vision of what you really want in life. If you know what you want, then you'll recognise every opportunity that comes along that fits with your vision, and you'll be able to grab these opportunities with both hands... which is why it is so important to write out and define our personal mission statement and lifetime goals.
Is your vision clear enough, that you’d recognise
when you are in the right place at the right time?
The average person will try a new idea once or twice and if they don't get an immediate result. They give up. Thomas Edison is the perfect example of massive action. He took massive action on the challenge and after thousands of failed attempts, he finally solved the problem.
At first I wasn’t a huge fan of Jim Carrey... I couldn’t understand his humour. The first “Pet Detective” movie was too crazy for me. But as I’ve become accustomed to his style of work, and as he matures, I find myself thinking of him as a genius! If you haven’t seen “Yes Man” yet, it’s well worth a rental... I happened to see it this week, and I was crying with laughter. And I know it’s a comedy, but it really does illustrate how opening up your life, can “magnetise” results and opportunities into your life.
Around 1990, before he became successful in Hollywood, Jim Carrey said that he’d go to Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch out his arms, and say, “Everyone wants to work with me. I’m a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers.” and just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing himself that he had a couple of movies lined up. Then he’d drive down the hill, ready to take the world on, repeating to himself, “movie offers are out there for me, I just don’t hear them yet.”
Whilst dreaming of his future, he wrote himself a check for $10 million, dated it Thanksgiving 1995, and added “for acting services rendered”. From that day forward, he carried the check in his wallet. Carrey’s optimism and tenacity eventually paid off, and by 1995, after the huge box office success of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb & Dumber, his asking price had risen to $20 million per movie. When his father died in 1994, he placed the $10 million check into the coffin as a tribute to the man who had started and nurtured his dreams of being a star.
I could write a huge list of ideas and inventions that have changed the world and yet, years ago, not necessarily decades or centuries, they all seemed impossible! Just think about the wheel, the planet being round, telephones, mobile phones, flying, computers, the internet, building a city called “Las Vegas” in the desert, sailing the “Santa Maria” to the “New World”... all called impossible, but all achieved by people that “believed” it could be done!
That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.
the mind can achieve.
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