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MKE Week 23 – The Experiment

There comes a time when learning new things that it is necessary to “put it to the test.” This week I took the opportunity to test a specific principle in the Master Key Part 22: Section

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Week 22a – Excited for What’s Next

As we approach the end of the official Master Key Experience (MKE) course, I find that instead of worrying, I am excited. I am excited to take the things I have learned and make them

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Week 22 – Master of My Emotions

Scroll VI in Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman is interesting. The predominant point is declaring that I will be master of my emotions. The interesting part is the acknowledgement of fluctuating emotions, not an attempt

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MKE Week 21 – The Truth Will Set You Free

For Week 21, this is the thinking exercise – meditate on Truth and think about the statement The Truth Will Set You Free. I have spent quite some time thinking about this statement. In fact,

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MKE Week 20 – Becoming Conscious of Power

Part 20 of The Master Key is…powerful. Pun intended. Throughout this lesson, Haanel repeatedly returns to the idea of power—not as something external or forceful, but as something that naturally results from right thinking. In

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MKE Week 19 – Focused on the Ideal

Clarity has come. In so many ways I feel like I am blazing a new path, not simply following the path before me. If you’ve ever been hiking, you know what I mean. The “blazed”

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MKE Week 18 – Awareness Grows

Describing the power of thought can feel like trying to explain the color red to someone who has never seen color. What would you say? How do you describe red without referencing another visual experience?

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MKE Week 17 HJ – The Heart of Desire

Week 17HJ webbie is so, so good. It’s a real opportunity to get face-to-face with myself and acknowledge my self-sabotaging tendencies for good. “What am I hanging on to so hard that I do not

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MKE Week 17 – The Power of Opportunities

This week the Og reading of Scroll IV impacted me in a dramatic way. I realized something I was doing toward my DMP goals needs some improvement and course correction. The correction is in the

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MKE Week 16 – Nature’s Greatest Miracle

I am nature’s greatest miracle. Boy, do I need this chapter this month! The repetition of reading daily, multiple times, allows me time to appreciate different statements each time I read. Today, this section on

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MKE Week 15 – Simple, but Not So Easy

This week’s blog is difficult to write, but I do find that expressing myself here helps somehow. I am growing more inconsistent with the exercises this past week, and no it wasn’t a break week.

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MKE Week 14 – Finding Harmony Within

A week off, multiple holidays and some external issues led to me completely forgetting to submit my blog this week. Whoops! Despite that forgetting, I have been consistent with many of my exercises, most importantly

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MKE Week 13 – Almost Unrecognizable

Here we are at the halfway point of the course and I sometimes think to myself, “who am I?” I am beginning to observe behaviors that have previously been foreign to me. To be clear,

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MKE Week 12 – I’m Amy Nelson and I Fly the Ship

Sometimes the timing of things can shock us into a new realization. This happened to me yesterday after the webinar. I don’t want to spoil the exercise for new people, but we spent a good

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Week 11 MKE – Like Attracts Like, Opposites Repel

As I read The Master Key part 11, a quote from the very first page resonated with me in a particular way. “We frequently hear it said, ‘A very distressing situation came into my life,

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MKE Week 10 – A New Persistence

As we entire Week 10, I am on a cruise – a 12-day cruise. This is not the first time I have had to travel while doing the Master Key Experience (MKE). But it is

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MKE Week 9 – How Lack of Perfection Has Helped Me

Perfection has not served me well. I find it very easy to obsess over small things, which cause endless delays and procrastination. For example, we can start with the Dream Board. I don’t usually consider

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MKE Week 8 – Knockdown

Today the cement landed a blow. Tomorrow I counterpunch. I thought I had a breakthrough last week. After a fierce battle with defeating thoughts like, “This is nuts… it’ll never work… who do you think

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About Me – Amy Nelson

Hi, I’m Amy Nelson—married to my best friend, Chip, who left corporate America four years ago to become the Vice President of International Solid Rock, a faith-based nonprofit. We live in West Palm Beach, Florida,

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MKE Week 7 – Do It Now

At first, repeating “Do it now” 25xs twice a day seemed exceedingly childish and weird, but since I committed 100% to this course I continued repeating every morning and afternoon while counting to 25 with

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MKE Week 6 – That Old Blueprint is Fighting Back

Recently I have noticed a strong resistance within. At first, it was not present. But now, I find it every time I read my DMP. It took many revisions to get the wording right and

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MKE Week 5 – Press Release – Amy Nelson

Press Release May 17, 2029 at The Gables Historic Inn & Restaurant in Beach Haven, NJ On a beautiful day in Long Beach Island, NJ at a quiet table in a stunning outdoor patio at

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MKE Week 4 – The Sit

The Sit Where do I begin to even try to describe the ridiculous number of times I have to reset and refocus during a 15-minute Sit. Sit still without moving for 15 minutes… no problem.

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MKE Week 3 – The Enemy

MKE Week 3 – The Enemy This week’s Master Key reading of Part 3 has my inner scientist particularly engaged. I have previously heard that the gut is the second brain, but I have not

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MKE Week 2 – Choice

Choice This powerful little word can be described and discussed in many ways, but placing the choice first? This is new for me. One of the things we are learning this week is the power

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MKE Week 1 – The Resistance

It’s Week 1 of The Master Key Experience. We were warned to watch for resistance — and boy, did it show up today. Honestly, it almost pulled me off track, but I recognized it for

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