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I Am continued...

‘I’. ‘I’ brings back the memory of my wedding vows some 25 plus years back now. “I”, (state name) do take thee…” ‘I’ was committing to ‘We’. I was far from having my ‘I’ figured out. Once I ‘got it’, my ‘I’, everything else started to fall in place. Unfortunately, it was about 8 years into my marriage before I would start to actively pursue becoming all the man and husband that my wife expected and deserved. I hope you enjoyed the last chapter on ‘I’ and I hope the lesson helped you find your ‘I’ as easy and profoundly as it did for me. Isn’t it such a revelation? Taking complete ownership of ‘I’ puts you in control. No pointing fingers, no excuses, no passing the buck. Shoot, you DO want the buck to stop at you! Are you kidding me? With your list from the last chapter you will now be able to easily double your letter count and double your vision! We now take a little step from ‘I’ to ‘I Am’. Take an incident from memory, say over the last couple of days where maybe you got into a little tizzy (your kid is talking back to you) or had a little pity party about something (someone else got the parking spot or table or promotion). Maybe it was while you were driving, or at the office, or at the house and something or someone got under your skin. It could be an ongoing aggravation or something out of the blue. The next thing you know we’re pointing out who was at fault, almost by second nature blaming someone else, “I have burdens of my own, I’m pushing this one off on them, this is their fault and their problem!” Hey, we’re all guilty of that, it’s just deciding when you’re going to address the ‘lack of value’ in those efforts and do something to rid yourself of poisonous reactions. Our reactions come from everything that is wound up in us at any given time. With ‘I Am’ we are going active! We are actively pursuing! You should be energized by those words. Actively pursuing! Sounds interesting. Sounds purposeful. Sounds motivated. Sounds bold and dramatic. Depth and mystery. Compare that to, “Well, I’m getting by I guess.” Now state this, “I Am actively pursuing life!” You will be literally jazzed after this chapter. Take your list and in the first blank, all the way down the page write in ‘Am’. So on my list I would have now have ‘I Am’ in front of son, brother, fighter, lover, etc… down my list. ‘Am’ is defined by Meriam-Webster as: present 1st singular of BE. ‘Be’ is defined as: -used to indicate the identity of a person - used to describe the qualities of a person, - used to indicate the condition of a person. Boom, breakthrough. Our ‘I Am’ is: Your identity, your qualities and your condition. We covered our identity in the last chapter and now we will get into an inventory check on our qualities. Go to the back of the book for the worksheet.