Joining
the Quest for the Three Alternatives
So many things entice us to devote
ourselves to the three deceivers. Advertising pushes them. Celebrities
celebrate them. They are so accepted, so honored, so idolized,
that it is hard to get away from them. But there are alternatives
— spiritual alternatives. It is a worthy cause to seek
those alternatives.
By Richard Eyre
The
Ultimate Method — A Gift, Not an Achievement
A more spiritual perspective cannot
be completely developed by mental means. A Godlike way of viewing
the world can only come as a gift from God.
By Richard Eyre
The
"Synergicity Bands" (Seeing God's Hand in Daily Life)
As Latter-day Saints, we should
follow Elder Eyring's advice to try to see God's hand in our
lives daily. But how do we get into that kind of habit, and
develop that kind of thinking? How do we "change our minds"
so that they work in a more spiritual plane?
By Richard Eyre
A
New Year's Resolution to Change Your Life
A twofold New Year's resolution
could change the way you look at life in the coming year. All
you'll need to unfold a whole new world to you are paper and
pen.
By Richard Eyre
Visualizing
the Greatest Story Ever Told
Imagine that you were casting
the movie that portrayed our earthly existence. How would you
go about finding a person who could play each of the seven pivotal
roles?
By Richard and Linda Eyre
The
"Stewardship Blanks"
There are so many "have-to-dos"
that they may keep us from doing the "choose-to-dos"
that make life worth living and that have real impact on our
true priorities. We may be so busy checking the "have-to-dos"
off our list that we really don't notice the people around us,
or the people (including ourselves) that we love most and have
the most responsibility for.
By Richard Eyre
The
"Serendipity Line"
A Hawaiian couple teaches the lesson
that a person's day is more than what he planned, or even dreamed
of it being. Detours are always beckoning the person who has
the courage to bend with curves in the road.
By Richard Eyre
Alternative-Based
Exercises
Here's something to add to your
daily regiment. These mental, emotional, and spiritual exercises
are designed to help us focus on the Serendipities, Stewardships
and Synergicities of life.
By Richard Eyre
Being
in the World but not of the World (Why Our Attitudes and Our
Thoughts are the Real Part of Life)
If we worry more about how our
children will be influenced by other kids than about how good
an "influencer" our child is, we are living a reactionary,
defensive life and encouraging our children to do the same.
We need to stand firm in what we know, and teach our children
to do likewise.
By Richard Eyre
The
Ultimate Paradigm Shift (and an Introduction to the "How
To" Part of the Process)
You
know almost everything there is to know about the Three Deceivers
and their replacements, the Three Alternatives. If you implement
that knowledge, you may be able to change your life. Here's
how.
By Richard
Eyre
Was
President Eyring's Talk about Synergicity?
The ability to notice and recognize
the hand (and guidance and inspiration and "nudges"....and
even the intervention) of the Lord in our everyday lives is
worth recording in our journals.
By Richard Eyre
Halloween
and the Magic of Synergicity
Why do we get back a hundredfold
for all that we give? Laws that we know can't explain it. So
for today, for Halloween, let’s call it magic.
By Richard Eyre
Service
as an Indispensable Part of Synergicity
Somehow the greatest gifts we
can give are magical in that the more we give of them, the more
we have left. It is true of love. It is true of joy. It is true
of peace and comfort and good cheer.
By Richard Eyre
Harnessing
and Using the Three Deceivers
Control, Ownership, and Independence
are a level of life, a level of thinking, and a level of responsibility,
that have to be learned and passed through if one is to reach
higher levels. This is why they are important.
By Richard Eyre
The
Genesis of SYNERGICITY
Achieving Synergicity can be boiled
down to a two-word list of instructions. If you do these two
things, you will recognize Synergicity in your life.
By Richard Eyre
The
Pursuit and Practice of Synergicity
Make a personal declaration of
interdependence with other people and a declaration
of divine dependence on God. Just acknowledging your
own lack of independence is a good first step.
By Richard Eyre
God's
Timing and the Interconnectedness of Everything
If we can learn to trust God's
timing, and to watch for and perceive His will, life becomes
so much more exciting and complete.
By Richard Eyre
The
"Synergy" Part of SYNERGICITY
Be more than what you can be, and
do more than what you can do. That may sound impossible, but
it can be done through spiritual synergy. Working with God,
and for God, and in harmony with His will and dependent on his
strength, people can literally do anything, and overcome everything.
By Richard Eyre
The
Everyday Power of The Three Alternatives
You may already have considered
how the Three Deceivers affect our lives, and how our lives
can be improved by the Three Alternatives. But these same principles
also apply to parenting techniques. By focusing on the Three
Alternatives, we give our children a perspective on the world
that makes them much more immune from the temptations they face
every day.
By Richard Eyre
Final
Remarks on Stewardship
A lesson taught by President Spencer
W. Kimball teaches a young mission president the value of stewardship.
By Richard Eyre
The
Three "Gs" of Stewardship
It is clear, even obvious, that
a steward must purge selfishness and develop generosity. It
is clear that the Master desires stewards to use what they are
given to serve, to give, to build, and to benefit others.
By Richard Eyre
Three
Keys to Developing a Stewardship Attitude
What does our commitment to consecration
mean? Does it mean we'll give up everything when the Church
asks us for it? Does it mean we'll pay tithing and fast offering
now as a sort of token of our willingness to give up everything
later? Or does it mean we have given up everything now —
no longer valuing what is not ours, and thinking of our selves
only as stewards?
By Richard Eyre
How
Stewardship Connects to Joy, Leadership, Balance, and Serendipity
The acknowledgment of our status
as stewards causes us to seek the very guidance that brings
about spiritual serendipity or the awareness of what God wants
us to do. And the consistent pursuit of guidance and of awareness
of the serendipitous directions God may have in mind for us
is the best way to become worthy and effective stewards.
By Richard Eyre
The
Power and Poetry of a STEWARDSHIP Attitude
The simple and powerful truth is
that God owns all. But to us, His children, He has given the
use of, the responsibility for, the stewardship over things,
talents, time, callings, physical bodies, and even over others
of His children.
By Richard Eyre
The
All-Important Second Alternative of STEWARDSHIP
Stewardship and ownership are not
just two way of dealing with material possessions. They are
two alternate ways of thinking about everything in life, from
our talents to our opportunities to our children.
By Richard Eyre
Two
Ways
to Increase Your “Incidents of Serendipity”
Don't just
sit around and wait for serendipity to happen. If you open yourself
to the possibility of unexpected good fortune, good things will
come to you more often. What's more, you'll recognize serendipity
when it happens to you.
By Richard Eyre
The
Higher Realm of Spiritual Serendipity, and How to Get There
In story and poetry,
Richard Eyre gives us a clearer vision of the concept of spiritual
serendiptiy. He also shows us how to reach that happy state
of being.
By Richard Eyre
Going
beyond "Regular Serendipity" to "Spiritual Serendipity"
Even
though it is best understood after understanding "regular"
serendipity, (and best applied by one who has learned to apply
regular serendipity) spiritual serendipity is something
completely different —
a separate and
higher form that is different not only in degree, but also in
kind.
By Richard Eyre
More
on the Trip to Serendip
Fun, says serendipity, is not something
you do after you've completed the requirements of "normal
life." Real fun and real joy are elements of the every
day and rewards for the observer who discovers them as he goes.
By Richard Eyre
Serendipity: A Deep Look at the Alternative
to the Paradigm of Control
A Serendipity attitude that looks for guidance is a
far better and happier way to approach life than a Control attitude
that tries to rely mostly on self.
By Richard Eyre
Top Three Reasons to Embrace the Three Alternatives
Here are three good reasons to motivate you to dump the deceivers
and acquire the alternatives!
By Richard Eyre
Review
of the Three Alternatives, and a Look Forward to Future Columns
Have you tried to apply one or
more of The Three Alternatives to a problem or worry you are
facing right now? Has it helped you to see anything more clearly
or to pray about something more effectively?
By Richard Eyre
The
Hardest Guess: Synergicity is the Alternative to Independence
The alternative to the Independence
deceiver was so elusive that Richard Eyre had to make up a word
to describe it. Read his explanation, and you'll wonder why
the word he created didn't already exist.
By Richard Eyre
The
Spiritual Paradigm of Stewardship
Imagine the
depth and meaning life would have if we saw everything
as a stewardship — our possessions, our children, our
bodies, our positions, our gifts and talents, everything!
The same humility and gratitude would flow as with the calling
and we would begin to see the world as God sees it.
By Richard Eyre
Announcing
(and Presenting and Defending) the Three Alternatives
What do three
11-letter words starting with S have in common? They
are the alternatives to Control, Ownership, and Independence.
By Richard Eyre
