Fast Train to Nowhere

By Tricia Duffy

Time does seem to be moving faster these days, leaving many people feeling overwhelmed and stressed. By learning how to make better decisions about how you control your time, you can gain a sense of clarity and hope for the future. Taking back control of your days can be a calming, inspirational, and transformational experience.

The bad news is that, for a million reasons, we choose to create illusions every day that distract us, slow us down, and stress us out. But the good news is that we can also choose to create better concepts and belief systems to replace the old. Do you have the courage to step out of your comfort zone? Could you step off the edge of the known world? By learning how to conquer time, you can also learn how to conquer fearand therein lies the path to happiness. Fear is the greatest obstacle to achieving our dreams and desires

To capture this power, you need to enlarge and redefine your concept of time. Our language and outlook have made us the prisoner of time, but our minds can set us free. We have the power to step forward and control time. We can expand time during the day, in order to accomplish more tasks without the accompanying feelings of stress and pressure

The choice is ours. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to move forward into a new and expanded vibration of time

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: May 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781452505275

Tricia Duffy

Tricia Duffy is a retired teacher from Brisbane, Australia. She lives an adventurous life that has included touching a live shark while scuba diving and jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane (on a skydiving jaunt). She enjoys playing with her seven grandchildren, drinking coffee, playing bridge and calls a spade a spade.

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Fast Train 

 to Nowhere

Tricia Duffy

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Copyright © 2012 Tricia Duffy

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Balboa Press rev. date: 05/19/2012

Contents

Chapter One :   Predicting the Future

Chapter Two :   Challenging Fear

Chapter Three :   The Toowoomba Floods

Chapter Four :   Purple Widgets

Chapter Five :   The Ticking of the Clock

Chapter Six :   Occam’s Rule

Chapter Seven :   The Lighthouse

Chapter Eight :   Penguins at Sea World

Chapter Nine :   A Man, Some Muscles, and a Truck

Chapter Ten :   Vivienne’s Choice

Chapter Eleven :   Everyone Has a Jeeves

Chapter Twelve :   Being Dealt the Best Cards in the Pack

Chapter Thirteen :   Finally…

To my darling husband, John, who has made so much possible

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Chapter One

Predicting the Future

Imagine that your life is like sitting in a train. You know that you are moving. The roof, walls, and floor are constants, but you cannot see out the windows, so this limits your knowledge of what is happening outside the train.

Occasionally, there is a person who is actually able to put her head out the window of the train and see what is up ahead. She reports back to the other people, If we keep going at this speed, if we keep heading in the direction we are going now and if nothing changes on the train tracks, then we are heading for disaster. There is a huge rock blocking our path and if we keep going the way we are now, the train will crash!

However—and this is a big however—things can change. What this person sees ahead is only a probability and a possibility. Yes, if we keep doing the same thing, yes, if we do nothing to change things, then disaster of a particular kind is imminent and probable.

We have the power to change the future. We could, for instance, when we come