Randy Pausch Update

Here is the weekly update on Randy Pausch. We send you and your family love Randy. So many people visit this site and leave comments for Randy and his family. I would like to thank all the people who leave comments and stories about their lives and challenges. Randy Pausch gives courage and hope to people all over the world as he puts a different face on life’s hardships, encouraging everyone to live life to the fullest. Our heart are with you Randy.

June 26th, 2008: Slow, but continued recovery

I continue to slowly recover. Chemotherapy has a cumulative effect, so it takes longer to recover the deeper one gets into this. Our current thinking is that more chemotherapy may not be wise; at this point, almost all potential chemotherapies may potentially make me so weak/sick that even if they were to slow the tumor, it would not be clear it would be the right tradeoff. We are currently narrowing down some immunuotherapy-based apporaches that would presumably come with little or no side effects. More news as that proceeds.

Today’s box score:

Creatanine (kidney function): 2.2

CA19-9 (tumor marker): 1400

Blood Pressure: 120 / 70

Weight: 142

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Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture #1 Bestseller

April 18: I only cared about the first three copies…
	Hyperion sent me a nice plaque … apparently the book we did (for which the credit goes to Jeff Zaslow), has become a #1 best seller. Hyperion says they’re about to have two million copies in print, but all I cared about was the first 3 copies.

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Step 3 - Become a Doer

This is the step that most people don’t take, and that is doing something about it!
So many folk get motivated and talk about how they are going to change their lives for the better, but that’s all they do, talk about it.

Become a Doer. Use the motivation and passion you have within you to drive yourself to become successful in whatever it is you want to achieve. Use the motivation to learn about the things you need to discover to become successful. Read about how to be what you want to be, watch videos, go to classes, whatever you need to do to to reach your goals.

By taking this action and by taking it now you will become proficient at doing these tasks and by becoming proficient you will heighten your enjoyment of doing them, and guess what? When you enjoy doing what you are doing you increase your motivation.

The lesson you should take from step 3 is to become a Doer, start walking the walk instead of just talking the talk. Start taking action NOW to become the person you want to be. One of my mentors, Mike Litman has a great phrase he uses all of the time, “You don’t have to get it right, just get it started!” Believe me he is right, until I became a Doer I lived a life of stagnation, full of broken dreams and my motivation dwindled. None of us start out as experts but the resources are out there for you to be able to learn anything, absolutely anything.

Steve Tallamy
www.mind-developer.com

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Sean Swarner Climbs Mt. Everest

At 13 Sean Swarner was diagnosed with advanced stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a type of cancer. After grueling chemo and radiation treatments, he went into remission. By the time he was 15, Sean was diagnosed with Askins Carcinoma. There was a tumor the size of a golf ball on his right lung. This kind of cancer has a 6% survival rate. Sean was the only person in the world ever diagnosed with both types of cancer.

Sean was given 14 days to live. Day 15, 16 and 17 came and he survived, but the treatments were so harsh that he was put in a medical induced coma for 1 year. The doctors were afraid the treatments would kill him before the cancer could. Again he survived and went on to do things that require great courage, like climbing Mt. Everest.  For more information visit Sean’s website.

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10 Reasons Goals Fail

I found a great blog post on a website today titled 10 Reasons Goals Fail. I found # 9 to be something I can personally relate to. There are things in our life we have never attempted, because we thought we may fail. I now have the courage to try new things, as I hope you do. Here is a quote from the blog:

9. People quit to soon. How many things never happen because people quit. All of the successful people have had to persist far far longer than they wanted to. How would you get away without it? You will see tough times, but haven’t you already. Stay glued to information that can help you forge ahead.

Won’t you try something new today? Accelerate Your Success. Even if it is something simple, it will help you break out of old patterns or habits. If we don’t explore all that life has to offer, it can get boring and we get stuck. No one likes to be in a rut. The adventures in life are a lifeline that will pull you up and out of that rut and into a life well lived.

Here is to the adventurous soul in all of us. Life should be fun. Go out and have a great day.
Debra Oakland

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Step 2 - Be Passionate

Being passionate about what ever it is you want to do or achieve will ultimately lead to motivation and a successful outcome. Having a burning desire to do something and to do it to the best of you ability will give you the motivation you need to be successful at it.
But how do you know what it is you want to really be and do?
Ask your self the following questions and you will give yourself the answer.

• If you had financial freedom how would you spend the rest of your life?
• If you only did work that really motivated you and filled your life with joy what work would that be?
• If every job in the whole world was equally paid what job would you choose?
• If you had just 6 months to live what would you change in your life to enjoy your remaining days?

There are more questions you could ask but I think these will do for now to get you thinking about what it is you really want to do and could get motivated enough to be successful at. The way I keep my self focused and motivated to achieve my life’s ambitions is to use hypnotic sessions where I visualize myself achieving and doing all of the things I desire to be and do.

By turning your dreams into hypnotic suggestions you can heighten your desire, increase your motivation and drive up your chances of being successful. Passion is a motivating emotion that drives you to achieve your greatest desires, you know I am sure how great it is to feel passionately about something, and wouldn’t it be great to be able to hang onto that feeling for the rest of your life?
So find what it is you really want to do and who you really want to be, get focussed upon it, get passionate about it and the motivation will come naturally.

Steve Tallamy
www.mind-developer.com

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Integrity & Honor Questions

~~ What are your code of ethics?

~~ Have you done an examination of where you live your life from?

~~ What is your philosophy?

~~ Do you live a full life, where at the end of that life there are no regrets?

~~ Are you in integrity and honor with yourself?

~~ Are you supporting something in another person that does not come from integrity?

~~ Do you realize that when a person does not act out of honor or integrity, this can set into motion the same energy in another persons life?

~~ Do people add so much baggage to their lives because they are not living in integrity or honor, with not only themselves, but the people around them?

~~ What are the silent forces in your life that impact your reality experience?

~~ Do you stretch you code of ethics where they are not honoring or creating integrity, sending mixed messages that come back as limitation in your life?

~~ What energy and feelings are you setting into motion that comes back to you as something you don’t recognize or want? Are you willing to look at that and change your old habits and patterns that don’t work for you?

~~ How expanded is your consciousness? Are you willing to expand yourself? Is there something in you that supports doubt and fear? Fear of success, fear of failure?

~~ Are you coming from a place you choose? If not, are willing to ask for help? Are you willing to listen?

You get to choose. Ask these 2 most important questions, What and Why. What are you doing. Why are you doing it. Listen and allow a flood of thoughts to bring you awareness.

Grab that torch of Liberty and Authority that comes with your life. Be the Force.

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In Courage - Debra Oakland

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Randy Pausch Update - June 2008

June 21: The Congressional Record

Back in the fall when I testified before Congress, representative Roybal-Allard hosted me,and she was also kind enough to have this very flattering entry put into the congressional record… Health-wise, I continue to regain strength in the hopes of trying another treatment once I’m strong enough.

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Step 1 Giving Away – To Receive Motivation

We are forever being told that we shouldn’t give to receive – Why Not!

In an article by my Hypnosis mentor, Adam Eason, he says that Steve Chandler writes in his book ‘101 Ways To Motivate Yourself’ that to “give away some power” is an exceptional method for producing motivation. He continues by quoting Steve again, “Motivate yourself by giving someone else the ideas necessary for self-motivation” and “You can have any experience you want in life simply by giving that experience away to someone else.”

That’s why when people ask me, Steve, why are you always helping and giving yourself away to others? I say “Simple, it makes me feel good and when I feel good that feeling fills me with motivation and the more motivated I feel the more I want to give.” This article is a prime example of what I mean. Why should I bother to sit down at my laptop and write articles and take the time to submit them to article sites and share information with you? Because it makes me feel good and the more I feel good, that’s right, the more motivated I become and the more successful I become at writing articles and the more I want to share/give away.

You know I am sure that you know just how good it feels when you give someone something, whether it is a physical thing like a present on their birthday, or a mental gift of sharing an idea or giving some useful advice or information. You get the feel good factor, a warm feeling inside of you that makes you glow – that’s the motivation, and if you take that feeling and build on it you can turn it into a hypnotic feeling which you can turn on at any time you wish.

Now, that’s a powerful tool to be able to carry around with you. Being able to feel motivated whenever you want to. Just by using this one step and combining it with the power of hypnosis you will have all the motivation you need to move on to the next 6 steps for even more success.

So the lesson here is to give, give and then to give some more and your motivation scorecard will soar to heights you never thought possible.

Steve Tallamy
www.mind-developer.com

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Motivation - 7 Easy Steps To Success

How you can motivate your way to success?

You cannot achieve anything in life without motivation. These 7 easy steps, each of which if taken by themselves will assist in your success. But if combine all 7 they will become an even more powerful tool to heighten your motivation scorecard.

Over the next several weeks, we will be giving steps 1 through 7 from Steve Tallamy’s 7 Easy Steps to Success. Steve is a friend of mine and I hope you enjoy these 7 steps. You will find all steps archived in the motivation category of this website.

Look for Step #1 on June 21st.  Enjoy

Debra

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