Almost Famous Quotes by Craig Stellpflug
“I’m really not that original…Everything I know and say and do I have learned or borrowed from somewhere!”
Sage Advice
Many things happen in life that influence who you are, but you are ultimately the one to decide who you become.
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Reputation: What people who don’t know you personally think about you. Character: What people who do know you personally think about you.
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The choices you make today will always affect tomorrow.
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A tree cannot forever stay a graceful young sapling. With time it has to grow strong and gnarly to weather the many winters, droughts, firestorms and other hazards that will befall it through its life. But, oh what a majestic organism is produced with age! The very scars in the bark and twists in the limbs all tell an awesome tale of survival and perseverance. We are that tree…
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If you want to learn to love better, you should start with someone you hate.
Health
“The best time to seek your good health is while you’ve still got it!”
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Health is a spectrum. You go from good health to disease with a whole litany of subclinical things happening. By the time disease shows up it has been years in the making and you were not even aware of it. To think that a pill or surgery can magically replace disease with good health is bad thinking. You have to make lifestyle changes to rise above the disease state and migrate toward good health again.
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An unchallenged immune system is a weak one!
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Choices; make an informed one!
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If you sever a limb don't go crying to your massage therapist, run to the ER! If you are flusie, sad, preggo, hypertensive, obese or etc, run to find a good naturopath.
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Using chemo and surgery for cancer treatment is like hunting mice in the kitchen with hand grenades.
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Pharmaceutical drugs are poisons with effects. Some of them are desirable effects and some are undesirable. There is no such thing as "side effects"... they are ALL effects. That term "side effects" is double speak and lessens the reality of the consequences of manipulating things in the body.
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Did you know that 50% of all doctors graduated in the lower half of their class?
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You can force the body to do a lot of things but always with consequences. When you feed the pathways you reap benefits. When you treat the causes the symptoms go away.
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I wonder why we don't use medical doctors in pharmaceutical trials?
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“People ask God to heal their bodies ‘God heal my cancer, heal my cancer’ ‘God heal my diabetes’ ‘heal my arthritis’ but they won’t stop smoking, drinking and eating a trash diet! In other words they won’t stop sinning against their bodies but they still want forgiveness and healing!”
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“Cancer is not a disease but rather a symptom of something very wrong in the body!”
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“Medical science will never cure cancer!” “Remove the cause of the cancer and the body already knows how to cure cancer!”
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Every child’s development is limited by the opportunities afforded to that child!”
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The misguided trust is one of the most damaging distractions we will encounter. This is where we place critical trust in an expert or other person of influence, like for instance, our medical doctors, pediatricians, psychologists, teachers, politicians, and even our own relatives. This misguided trust allows someone else to control factors in our health that can cause catastrophic results.
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Your DNA is not the sequence of life or death but rather of genetic predispositions. It takes a precipitating factor to cause a predisposition to express in your body. For instance, you may be genetically predisposed to heart disease but if you eat right, exercise and take the supplements that are right for you, you can dramatically lessen the expression of that predisposition. Eat crap, become sedentary and avoid supplements and you will turn on the genetic predisposition.
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"Helping hurt kids become normal
and helping normal kids become exceptional"
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Mandatory vaccinations! They impose on our "right to bare or not to bare our arms". Last I knew this is still the land of the free... Choices; make an informed one!
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As a nation we are so distracted in the pursuit of neuro-molecular biology and how to manipulate the chemistry of the brain that we have forsaken the basics of sound nutrition and clean living. We are allowing our misguided trust to inject us with manipulative chemicals rather than feeding the natural pathways.
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Parenting
I always said I was going to be the father I always wanted, the boss I always wanted, the spouse... etc. I took the best of what my dad did and made it better while forgiving and avoiding the bad stuff he did. We all need to be the leaders that we want. Take the good and make it better but most importantly teach our children this principle.
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Love your child? If your child has ADHD the LAST place on earth you want to take them is to a medical doctor for drugs. Restrictive diet and child development is your problem to solve and there is no drug substitute for that one.
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Parents are responsible for their child’s behavior. Not society, not the courts, and definitely not the teachers or school system!
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Our new distractions should be our health and the health of our children.
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Much like Thomas Jefferson cutting and pasting the bible to rearrange it, so are our views of history and the bible. It is taught through many translations and distorted by the opinions of the re-writers and skewed by the postures and attitudes of the teachers. But it is finally filtered by our private interpretation and then we then filter our opinions and bias to the next generation
Life
Life is still the perfect thing to pass the time away!
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An untried, unchallenged friendship is a weak friendship
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If you are in over your head it doesn't matter how deep the water is
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We have forsaken the wisdom of diet and exercise for the knowledge of the latest chemical and surgical breakthrough.
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People are to be loved, things are to be used! If you love things you will use people.
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We have forsaken wisdom for knowledge
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You cannot get organized function from a disorganized brain!
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"As bad as anyone may want to change something in their life, until an action is taken in a different direction, everything will stay the same."
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“The harder the soil… the hardier the plant!” (that’s what I say when things look tough and life gets hard!)
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“One of the reasons there is so doggone many lawyers in America today is because people do not take responsibility for their own actions!”
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”A new direction will break the dynamics of any cycle.”
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“If what you are doing today is not working… do something different tomorrow. If that doesn't work tomorrow, then try something else again the next day.”
Work
All work is honorable… We should work just as heartily for one dollar an hour as we would for one hundred.
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Funny
“We’re off like a herd of turtles!” “You’ve heard of turtles haven’t ya?”
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“This is an old, secret family recipe I just made up!”
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(On the early worm…)
“Before you get out of bed each day
I would check and see
If you are sporting feathered wings
or if the worm you be”
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(On dental hygiene)
“Only brush the ones you want to keep!”
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If they ever develop a spray for lawyers the population of Austin Texas would drop to 30,000 people!”
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Aren't those suicide bombers going to be surprised to find it is 70 angryVirginians and not 70 virgins!
Bible
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"A true friend will always be there for you and without fail will always take you back to the Word of God!"
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An untried fellowship with God is a weak one.
Money
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" If you are surrounded by debt, and that debt is growing, stop making debts!" “In other words, if you’re in a hole and it’s getting deeper, STOP DIGGING!”
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“When we borrow on tomorrow, we have to borrow again tomorrow against the next day because we already spent tomorrow’s earnings today!”
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“Why are you in the rat race if you’re not a rat?”
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Practical
"The effective event planner is not only the hardest and most versatile worker but is also one who can identify, attract, delegate to and lead the most talented people."
Communicating
The purpose of communicating is to convey ideas and meaning.
The art of communicating is to convey the heart behind the ideas and meaning.
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But, it is not enough to just convey ideas, meaning and the heart behind them because it must be a heart worth emulating.
Law of distraction radio show
A distraction by definition has to be something that would keep you from doing either what you were doing, should be doing or would rather be doing.
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I would say that there are harmless distractions and unfortunately, harmful distractions. A harmless distraction would be one that makes you choose between good, better and best and ultimately no overt harm is suffered.
A harmful distraction would allow you to choose between good and harmful.
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I would place distractions that come our way in one of four categories;
Convenience, Necessity, Desire, Misguided Trust
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Our distraction towards misguided trust has been exacerbated by our distraction for convenience. It is easier to and more convenient to stop by the burger barn for a quick fix than to shop organic and cook healthy. It is more convenient to rely on our pediatrician or psychologist for an ADHD drug than to ferret out the causes of the behavior and make the necessary corrections. It is easier and more convenient to pop an Advil for a headache than it is to drink more water, exercise or avoid an allergen.
Beer Drinking Advice
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If you are drinking beer and your feet are cold and wet, your glass is being held at an incorrect angle, rotate opening of glass towards cieling. If your feet are warm and wet, improper bladder control, stand near the dog and complain about house training.
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If the opposite wall has fluorescent lights you've fallen off the barstool. Have someone lash you to the bar!
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has some beer advice: If your beer is a little pale and lost its flavor the glass is empty and you need to get someone to buy you another one.