Lessons From A High School Dropout

Too often when we find ourselves stuck or in a quandary that is challenging us we feel a great sense of inadequacy. Yet, the very same problem can land on the desk of a co-worker or classmate who feels none of the feelings of inadequacy. Then you suddenly feel alone and even more ashamed or lost in the feelings of inadequacy.   This is where the curse of never being satisfied begins. As we look around the reason is often due to feelings of being insuficienct or inadequate.

As we look from the outside as Bobby Burns sees it, we should see ourselves as others see us.   We really have no reason to feel inferior at all, and we certainly have no business talking, thinking or feeling poorly about ourselves. God did not create your spirit with faults. You are created in the “image” of God.

You and I can’t see God and you and I cannot see the God part of ourselves. This matters because we certainly don’t always think like God, so why in God’s world would we always or even sometimes embrace a negative connotation towards any part of our physical body.   Our body is of this world while our true nature is not of this physical world. We basically are like fish out of water judging one another in spite of the fact we all l arrived here the very same way.

Many people who have far less talents, less abilities, less skills, less proficiencies, less going for them are getting along fine.   I would like to ask you a few questions you likely have never asked yourself.  Do you enjoy your own company?   Do you seem anywhere near as nice to yourself as you appear to me?

Do you look in a miror and experience a great sense of gratitude for the person you see in the mirror before you?  Can you praise that person, be thankful for that person and sometimes say nice things to that person, or is that kinda difficult to do?

If the answer is basically no to this then it’s very tragic, because the feelings that you have about yourself will certainly color and influence everything that happens in you, to you and around you and this will likely continue throughout all of your life.

Lessons From A High School Dropout Podcast is dedicated to all of our uniquely gifted minds who at some point felt sadly alone as they struggled with the challenge of learning or discouraged for holding the vision and dreams within their brilliant minds.

Lessons From A High School Dropout is here to support the spirit of the entrepreneur, the student, the employee and to help build these dreams upon the gifts each one of us are endowed with.

Maybe you were told you couldn’t do something and needed to choose another path. We all learn in our own special way, each with a unique desire for a sense of fulfillment in our journey. We affirm that with each lesson you will be more inspired to learn new things to help you with your walk in life.

A walk that will take you down the "Road Less Traveled". A walk where you will learn new things and allow your heart to be inspired with a new road map that can and will elevate you to a higher consciousness.

My hero’s in life began with guys like Elvis and Johnny Cash. My attraction to Elvis was the story of a poor kid rising to fame from very humble beginnings, his style, his music and how he held such a commanding presence inside every auditorium he ever stepped into. My admiration for Johnny Cash was from learning how during his early  years, he struggled with drugs and alcohol. Then went on to become an international inspiration to others as he shared his music that was instilled deep within his heart. I have always admired the guy or girl who battles demons, overcomes poverty, discover their gifts and move to fulfill their dreams, out of a somewhat hell many often create like myself.

Hero’s can often be excellent cooks! My mother is also on this list of hero’s as I refer back to the two books Lessons In Truth and Healing Letters which she intuitively mailed to me with an understanding that they could help me on my walk. As you read in chapter one how those books lifted my heart to an awakening, where I truly discovered I could read and with enough effort in pushing through I could  comprehend the meaning of a story if only I would keep reading it over and over again and again. More importantly those two books lead me to discover my spiritual walk that my soul recognized like I had known this all along. Finding our walk in life often comes through the little synchronicities of life. Passing these events off in our minds as a coincident with a hidden meaning like “as luck would have it” just doesn’t fly with me and never did.

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This is a story told by Buddha to his students studying to become Brahmans. A widower who loved his five year old son very much was away on business. A group of bandits came and burned down the entire village and took his son away. When the man returned he saw the ruins and he panicked. He took the chard corps of an infant  to be his child. He began to pull his hair and beat his chest crying uncontrollably.   He organized a cremation ceremony and collected the ashes and placed them into a beautiful velvet pouch.

Working, sleeping or eating he always carried the bag of ashes with him. One day his real son escaped from the robbers and found his way home.   He arrived at his fathers new cottage at midnight and knocked at the door. You can imagine at that time the young father who was still carrying the bag of ashes and crying. He asked who is there and the child answered, it’s me Papa open the door it’s your son. In his agitated state of mind the father thought it was some mischievous boy that was making fun of him and he shouted at the child to go away and he continued to cry. The boy knocked again and again but the father refused to let him in. Some time passed and finally the child left and from that time on father and son never saw one another again. And after telling this story the Buddha said,  sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth, if you cling to it so much when the truth comes in person and knocks at your door, you will refuse to open it. It’s a powerful story for young students learning to be Brahmans and it’s a powerful story for each and everyone of us.

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Lessons From A High School Dropout Podcast is dedicated to all of our uniquely gifted minds who at some point felt sadly alone as they struggled with the challenge of learning or discouraged for holding the vision and dreams within their brilliant minds.   

Lessons From A High School Dropout is here to support the spirit of the entrepreneur, the student, the employee and to help build these dreams upon the gifts each one of us are endowed with. Maybe you were told you couldn’t do something and needed to choose another path. We all learn in our own special way, each with a unique desire for a sense of fulfillment in our journey. We affirm that with each lesson you will be more inspired to learn new things to help you with your walk in life. A walk that will take you down the "Road Less Traveled". 

A walk where you will learn new things and allow your heart to be inspired with a new road map that can and will elevate you to a higher consciousness.  

Thank you for taking time to listen to this podcast. Your attention to this lesson will bring you blessings in your life and I say this great certainty.

It has been proven through the ages and is not some stereotype label as new age thinking. This is ancient thinking of long long ago so just know those who will attempt to poison your knowledge of such teaching only want you to stay on their wayward walk of life.

If your consciousness feels slow to receive this information just do what this eighteen year old kid did in that jail I landed in with months after leaving high school. I sat and pondered for hour and read one paragraph for hours to absorb what the writer was saying. As I began to receive the words I began to sit up to read more.  

If you would like to learn more on this subject I suggest a few great minds of science and medicine that hold these truths and they demonstrate them in their lives every day.

You can find these brilliant minds Dr. Bruce Lipton and Dr. Joe Dispenza and Gregg Braden on YouTube with vast lessons on the body, mind connections.

Please share with all who you feel could benefit from these simple but necessary tested truths to move others into a consciousness of love and kindness. When we take time to express what we have learned it also allows us to deepen our understanding and brightens our delivery as we bring others to a higher walk in consciousness. These steps will bring our world to a greater consciousness for mankind. 

The dividends don't come from profit, they come from hard work of those who were seeking to better the world. Make a difference in the life as a seeker of knowledge.

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Our societies have indoctrinated people with the laws of our Newtonian World. Teaching our youth what goes up, must come down works best inside the mechanical confines of newtonian physics, therefore requiring a newtonian response. The Newtonian response then requires a physical action.   

On the other hand we have the Quantum World which works concurrently with the Newtonian Laws. The difference lies in how we as human beings choose to work within the laws of each governing system within space and time.  It's when we choose to look at each given response to any event in our lives and begin to question how we should choose to respond is when we begin to create a shift in consciousness. This shift over time will begin to resonate within your daily routine giving the result personal empowerment therefore creating a pathway of the least resistance as we live our lives.  

Creating a new response to life is like an adventure. Begin to see good in everything as we are all learning and growing together and when you see someone acting out in similar ways that you have chosen in the past embrace this change for yourself and then move to find a way to encourage those around us how to recognize these two powerful laws within our universe can be harnessed and use for the proper response to each situation.   

Recognizing how to respond to life always works easier when we choose the right tools within the mechanical laws. Newtonian Laws require a physical response and Quantum Laws require a not physical response.   It is when we embrace this energy within these two powerful laws, we move into the flow of the frequency of the field. 

This powerful shift in our conscious mind is where our personal empowerment begins to bring those wonderful synchronicities into our lives when we begin to "Feel It".  

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Troy Thomas Joseph Fitch

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Creating a resolution for change in your life takes the same effort as changing your habits, we are simply using different techniques to arrive at the state of change. It's a mental focus that allows us to recognize our thoughts. Ninety five percent of our thoughts are the very same thoughts as the day before. So if you believe that your thoughts are somehow connected  to your life, then the same thoughts always lead to the same choices. The same choices always lead to the same behaviors. The same behaviors create the same experiences and the same experiences produce the same emotions and those very same emotions drive the very same thoughts so your biology, your neurocircuitry, your neurochemistry, your neurohormones and even your genetic expression is equal to how you think, how you act and how you feel. So how you think and how you act is called your personality and your personality creates your personal reality.That it!

So if you wake up every morning, get out of bed on the same side, shut the alarm off with the very same finger, shuffle into the bathroom and use the toilet like you always do. Go and get a cup of coffee in your favorite mug and get in the shower and wash off in the same routine way. Drive to work, see the same people that push the same emotional buttons, do the same things that you have memorized and do so well. Then hurry up and go home and hurry up and check your emails, then hurry up and check your Facebook and watch your favorite TV show, then hurry up and go to bed. Here is my question, did your brain change at all that day?

So let’s get to the subject of learning. Now every time you learn something new you make new connections in your brain. That’s what learning is forming, new synaptic connections within the brain. That’s what learning is! Physical evidence as a result of your interaction in the environment and the footprints of consciousness is called learning, making new synaptic connections within the brain. The Nobel Prize Laureate Eric Kandell in the year 2000, found that when people learned one bit of information they doubled the number if connections in their brain from 1300 connections to 2600 connections, but if they didn’t review that information if they couldn’t repeat it, if they couldn’t remember it, those circuits pruned apart in hours or days. So if learning is making new synaptic connections, then remembering is maintaining and sustaining those connections.

Take time out of each day to ask yourself in the early part of your day what is the best version of myself I can be today? Take time to analyze and critique your thoughts and feelings to help you consciously create a new "state of being". A state of consciousness over time that will create new pathways in your thinking, your feelings and that is the foundation to a change in conscious.

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What you sow you reap!  

If every word that came out of your face was the framework of your future would you change your words or just the look on your face? I can read the look on your face like everyone else.   The Optimist Creed is something that should be taught in our schools, but that would require all participants in each classroom to practice optimism. If you ask what good would that do? 

Well for one starting with each educator they would have to swallow the creed so that every expression held optimism. That includes their words, their looks, their body language, absolutely everything. So give it a try each day then try a little harder, then a little harder until you begin to feel more optimistic until it comes more easily. Oh you may receive some strange responses, but that's nothing new! you were receiving them before you were just to self absorbed with your old ways thinking.  Please stop by Lessons From A High School Dropout for your free copy in PDF form on our website:  www.LessonsFromAHighSchoolDropout.com  The power of visualizing The Optimist Creed daily over time will begin to bring your mind to a new awareness that the sky isn't falling, that failure is an event not a person and it will build a belief within yourself.  If you struggle with believing in yourself I know that feeling and I encourage you take the time to believe in this exercise. This exercise does not require going to the gym. It does not require anyone else to be involved. It requires you to recite and hold the very feeling the words can express within our body.  Lastly, share this with others only when you personally feel good about you and how you are with your own sense of optimism.  The reason for this is few people will embrace this when we ourselves have not made improvements to the point we feel completely comfortable with the strange looks or comments.

The Optimist Creed I Promise Myself ~ To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.  

I Promise Myself ~ talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.  

I Promise Myself ~ make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.  

I Promise Myself ~ look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.   

I Promise Myself ~ think only the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best. 

I Promise Myself ~ be as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.  

I Promise Myself ~ make mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.  

I Promise Myself ~ wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet.  

I Promise Myself ~ give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others.  

I Promise Myself ~ be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.  I Promise Myself ~ think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds.  

I Promise Myself ~ live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is in me.  

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Welcome to Lessons From A High School Dropout!  

Today, I would like to share a short story on why most people get stuck in the turbulence of the wake.  

Your life is like an aircraft. Let’s say the aircraft is heading through the sky at say 240kts.   

Now while your aircraft is traveling through the air you are able to metaphorically stand up on the aft of the aircraft and look back into the trail called the wake.   

Now there goes your life in one direction and you are standing there looking back and you ask yourself these three questions.  

(1) What is the wake? Wake turbulence is turbulence that forms behind an aircraft as it passes through the air, causing wing-tip vortices. Wake vortices are formed any time an air foil is producing lift.   

(2) What’s driving the aircraft?  The present moment energy that’s being generated by the engine and nothing more!   That’s the only thing powering the aircraft.  Now metaphorically this means it’s the present moment thoughts that I have and how I am using them is driving our lives to move into different directions and nothing more.   

Now the third question is the most important and powerful question of the three questions.  

(3) Is it possible for the wake to power the aircraft? The answer to this question is simply no.   Now we have a propensity to look at our lives and explain it from the stand point of looking back at the wake of our lives and point to all turbulence inside the wake as to why we feel our life is not working the way we would like. 

Well, we are the captain of our ship! We make decisions to listen to others and often that is the distraction that we are not taking control over. 

Today, it's not just those around you in your space at work. It's the social media that so many people allow to drive their thoughts that are likely holding most people back each day. So take a look at what is holding your attention. Your attention is truly vital to your future.    

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It was the mentors that built this dropout. The mentors in my life didn't always know I was watching. I didn't always make it obvious but I was vigilant in seeking knowledge from the great minds of men that came across my walk in life.

Taking time to express interest in the younger minds can carry another man or woman to a better place or across the finish line.

The African Proverb "It takes a village to raise a child" speaks to mentorship.

When you receive a knock on your door, a phone call, email or a message through a social media app you might want to respond to what's coming to you.

It's not always appears to be what you might see. The lesson isn't always for the mentee, there are two sides to every coin. It was four years ago I met a young man at the gym. He had recently graduated from college and was seeking an opportunity in finance. We talked for a short time and I shared my card with him to reach out if he wanted to inquire about my career in the financial services industry. We communicated a few time in four years then the knock came again. I like knocks on the door because as a professional salesperson all my life I love the cold call. Nothing better than standing in front of someone who looks at you like boy you sure have nerve. I thrive on the hunt and the chase. I also thrive on watching the hunt and chase.

It is what great sales people do! They step out of their comfort zone into the uncomfortable and push to make it across the finish line. Next time you see a young hunter observe how they hunt, look for ways to learn from the hunter and discover how you too can become better too.

It's the seekers who can teach you, it's the hunters who gain respect! 

There are no free hand outs for those on the sidelines. The reward is in those who take action to be builders of men and women.

Take time to open the door, take one more phone call you think you shouldn't, and a respond to one more person who is simply asking for a minute of your time. That minute can and likely will pay off for all involved.

It the man or woman who gets this far in the text I truly appreciate. 

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Character is what wakes you up in the morning,  yet it’s not a signature like our fingerprint.  

It’s not passed down through our DNA or our ancestry.  

Character is a unique design created by our daily habits and actions.  

It defines us in a big way.   

Charisma is often mistaken to be similar by definition as character, but this not even close to being true.   

Today’s episode on Lessons From A High School Dropout I will share how Character not only gets you up in the morning, but how character sets you apart from others in a unique way and the power of character can have a lasting impact to build on how we are perceived in a positive or negative fashion.   It’s like you and I are ice sculpture’s on display and you can change the character very easily as you hold the chisel and your vision holds the design!   

Welcome to Lessons From a High School Dropout. My name is Troy Thomas Joseph Fitch. 

We thank you for tuning into our lesson today.  The inner resource we build for handling the more difficult times of our daily living are what deliver us to a higher level of consciousness or the opposite being a lower level of consciousness.  

I think the best example I can share most often is a personal experience where wisdom hit me over a phone call.  During my nine years as a commercial offset printing sales professional I found myself sharing a very heated conversation with my production manager for some large scale printing projects with my father.   As I was sharing in my very charismatic way I began to vent my anger and frustration.   

After a pause likely due to needing to breath my father gently said this to me.   

“Son if you want to see a man’s true character watch him under pressure.”  

My charismatic way was silenced and my eyes began to look within and digest what my father was saying. I didn’t feel that I liked what he said, but deep within the character of my core knew full well he was right.   

Another little story I would like to share is the conversation on a park bench outside a local library back in 2003.  I was once in a conversation with a homeless man on a bench outside a library where he spent countless hours each day reading.   

This homeless man was about the age of 48 and had been homeless since he was 24. At the time I was 36 years of age and really engaged in my very own personal development in my life and creating change in many ways for my future.   

David was his name and this is what he said and I wrote it down.  He said, “I may not always know the right thing to do but I always know the wrong thing to do.”  Character is what’s left after charisma is gone.  

You see character is what wakes you up in the morning, but it can also wake you up while we walk through life.   It’s up to us to make a choice to recognize when we need to look within under difficult challenges.