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Creating Bridges: The Spiritual & Philosophical :
The BUT Doctor
Healing America's Real Crack Problem One Person at a Time
A Prescription to Cure Shopping-BUTituse
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by Eddie Conner |
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Have your traditional Christmas carols disappeared into a lack luster heap in the garbage can along with grandma's fruit cake and instead started to sound more like this?
Jingle BUTS, Jingle BUTS
Jingle All the Way
Oh, what Hell it is to shop,
With my BUTitus today- Hey!
Wear an Attitude of GLAD-itude
For over 20 years I have worked in the retail industry during the holiday season. It goes without saying that I endured long hours, little pay and next-to-no appreciation from the upper management or from the endless line of customers that somehow feel they have the right to bark rude orders at you because after all, "that's what you're paid for." On more than one occasion I was the salesclerk who wanted to play Houdini and make a ten foot Christmas tree disappear into the customer standing in front of me, followed by the standard, "Have a nice day, next in line please," smiling all the while. Just the thought of that did help a little.
I've often felt that everyone should work full-time with the public for at least one holiday season. Whether as a sales clerk or waiting tables during this busiest time of the year, the experience would be enlightening. Then once we had earned our wings by doing time in retail Hell and restaurant Hades we could be honored with the luxury of becoming a customer. Armed with that experience you wouldn't be a normal, ordinary customer that walks into the gift department and screams, "Isn't anyone going to help me find the Chi, Chi, Chia-Pets®?" No Sir, instead you'd be an extraordinary, polite consumer whom salesclerks would fight-over just to wait on.
Through all of the spiritual teachings I've studied it is abundantly clear that our emotional beliefs create our physical lives. You've heard me say many times that we have two volumes of vibration that launch our beliefs. These two volumes are "Hi-Frequency and Lo-Frequency." When our thoughts and feelings are high, we attract good things and when our thoughts and feelings are low and lethargic we attract negative things.
The Dark Side of the Holidays
Not to worry, the dark side isn't about the Grinch's deviant little elves forcing a spiked Egg-Nog colonic on you or your great aunt Gertrude and her mustache, tongue kissing you. It's actually worse than that! If you're heading out to shop with Lo-Frequency emotions, then this is what you are exposing yourself too:
· No convenient or wide enough parking spaces
· Misinformed, inexperienced sales associates
· Long lines, crowded stores and rude customers that push and shove you
· Over priced merchandise
· Being at the wrong place at the wrong time
· And the customer right in front of you gets the very last latest, greatest toy that your kid just has to have.
I can guarantee something. If you leave home feeling crabby and arrive to the shopping mall crabby, you will attract every negative person within a ten-mile radius. The nonphysical Lo-Frequency signal that you sent prior to your shopping experience is now waiting for you to arrive so that it can magnetize you to other crabby, people with a similar Lo-Frequency! That four-year-old fruitcake sounds pretty good about right now, doesn't it?
Tips for Receiving Great Customer Service
· Stay home! Seriously, do not leave your home or office with an Attitude of CRAB-itude.
· Listen to cheerful music or eat a little piece of chocolate before going out
· Amplify your Attitude of GLAD-itude
· Focus on something that you are grateful for
· Put yourself in the sales clerks shoes and mentally send him or her patience and appreciation
Six BUT Free Shopping Cures
1. Get Excited First and Shop Second
2. Focus only on what you do want, instead of what you don't want. (Example: I want short lines, big discounts, extraordinary service and an overall pleasant time.)
3. The People assisting you have a name. If they're not wearing a name tag, ask - them what their name is and use it.
4. Wear a big radiant smile from the inside out and make eye contact, it shows respect.
5. Appreciate the clerks and servers assisting you this holiday season and let them know that you do.
6. Notice all things around you that make your life easier. (Example: store signage, discounts, free gift wrapping, baby sitting services, parking attendants, music, valet parking, policemen directing traffic, longer store hours for your convenience and the fact that stores put the Christmas merchandise out in October so that you can get a jump start) Celebrate the holidays with a BUT free abandon
Because of the retail horror stories I've lived through I can appreciate the art of being an extraordinary Hi-Frequency customer. This intention always brings me great customer service and amazing, polite sales people. I am grateful for the work the stores and restaurants put into making my shopping or dining experience pleasurable and with this Attitude of GLAD-itude I continue enjoying a BUT-Free Holiday. On the rare occasion that someone is grumpy with me instead of taking it personally I say something empathetic such as; "Long day?" Or something light-hearted such as: "I'll bet you'll be happy when this holiday season is over!"
The Light Side of the Holidays
Excitement and enthusiasm are Hi-Frequency attributes that design a happier destiny for you. Here are a few declarations of desire that you can print out and use before you hit the stores.
Universe: Please bring me glorious Rock Star Parking!
Universe: Put me in the right place at the right time for the best sales on the planet.
Universe: Please orchestrate helpful, informed sales people who love their jobs!
Universe: Help me find fabulous gifts for everyone on my list that will absolutely thrill and delight them.
Universe: Shower me with abundance, kindness, prosperity, love, ease, light and joy.
Happy Holidays to you and everyone you love. Blessings and Light Always,
Eddie Conner
The BUT Doctor
For more detailed tools to release your BIG BUT in the areas of Love, Money or Career, purchase Eddie's latest book, "Kicking the BIG BUT Syndrome" at www.EddieConner.com. What better gift to give your friends and family? Once they eliminate their own personal BIG BUT dramas, the more fun they will be to be around!
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Eddie Conner,
Author & Soul Intuitive
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Eddie Conner has achieved international acclaim as a Soul Intuitive, humorist, speaker and the author of The Big BUT Syndrome™.
To date Eddie has shared his metaphysical teachings on thousands of radio stations in the U.S. and is currently creating a show for national television syndication. Eddie is a contributing writer for The Power Agent and The Caster Magazines in Los Angeles.
He's the founder of the Spirit Light Expo ~ Merging Movies, Magic & Metaphysics™ and conducts tours to Peru and the Far East. Eddie and his teeny weenie BUT live in Los Angeles, California.
Soul Awareness with Eddie Conner (818) 734-9392
www.EddieConner.com
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