We wake up to peaceful gentle mornings and always look forward to the day. We always reach our goals and just when we wonder if life’s too easy; when we begin to miss the striving for a goal because the emanation from dream to reality has taken place, we envelope just enough fulfillment, and then, before us, comes the vision of yet another inspiring and much larger goal.
My purpose in the long run, is to bring children together, all over the United States, to teach other illiterate children to read. We do it at Superphonics every day. Kids that couldn’t learn to read at school, at home or with other programs, learn to read at Superphonics and then help other children to read with what they’ve learned. It’s really something to see.
Looking back on my life before applying Scientology technology, I remember having big goals and dreams. I remember telling family and friends how I was going to make a big difference and always having a new dream as the old one faded away. They didn’t come true you know.
Today, I don’t talk so much about all the things I’m going to do, I just do them. Now that I have such an abundance of knowledge about making things happen and so much understanding about others and life, I can just plan it out and get the job done. The problems I have are no longer unwelcome and overwhelming; they are not people problems, health problems or basic survival problems. Those are pretty much gone and when they arise, a little Scientology wisps them away, leaving me with good problems.
What are good problems? Well, I learned that from Mr. Hubbard too. A good problem is something like, ’We are growing so fast! We have to get more people trained up right away to take all these phone calls, and some trained Scientologists to deliver excellent results to all these new students!” Or, “Gees, somehow I’ve got to find time to ride the horses today! I know, I’ll bring them down for the students to ride with me!” Oh, problems - problems.
Life is quite different these days. I’m still not use to it; all the moving I’ve done in my adult life to escape my miseries! But they followed me! Every single time! I packed them up and brought them with me like little hidden cockroaches! No sooner did I unpack, and there they were; “Hello,” the old problems say - with a little variation, “You didn’t think you were going to leave without us, did you?”
And then about three years ago, a Scientologist by the name of Jennifer LaBaron sat me down with pure Scientology. It took about five hours with her personally, and a laborious forty-some additional hours on my part, and life began to mysteriously change. It’s not mysterious if you understand the bare simplicities, but it seems mysterious because life just doesn’t change for the better so quickly. I’ve seen it change for the worse almost overnight - too any times. But I hadn’t experienced this before. I could see so clearly that people responded to me differently. And I felt differently about them as well. I felt closer to people, undefensive and confident.
I could plan things in my life and make them happen. I mysteriously stopped getting tickets, into little fender bumpers and evicted from apartments for not making the rent. In the three short years after Jennifer sat me down, I’ve gone from dreaming to effortless action. Every change I made was upward. I got married to the nearly perfect man; my life long dream of again having a horse brought four horses to me; my longing to live in a peaceful valley with rolling hills and friendly neighbors came to be.
And I’ve always wanted my own little schoolhouse. When I moved here two years ago, I saw that vacant little schoolhouse and said, “someday it will be mine. We’ll have a quaint ’Superphonics Tutoring’ sign above the door, and wouldn’t it be perfect painted red? It will be filled with the sound of children and buzz with the quality of old-fashioned education. Even better, Hubbard Study Technology. Yep, that’s how it will be.”
And little things too! All the time. People who struggle with life are turning to me for help almost every day. And I can help them. My dream of having a piano, a country home, white ranch fencing, a good sized barn, good friends for country BBQs, tutoring staff, constant referrals, and strangely enough, people telling me ’yes’ rather than ’no,’ when I ask for their network, referral, or working support. I used to send articles to newspapers, call radio talk show hosts to get on as a guest speaker, write and call all kinds of opinion leaders and influential connections to get things going for me. But somehow, their response was so weak, I would withdraw and let it all dwindle to nowhere. But recently, I’ve been on local radio and they called me back and we’re doing it again. When I ask for referrals I get them. When I tell parents to tell others, they tell them. When I ask for changes and corrections from my staff, they deliver them. And above all, people are coming to me! They are just appearing. Just when I think, “I could use some domestic help around here,” a call comes in to see if I could use some help around here! And it all seems so natural, yet new.
Well, the next little section expounds on the Little Red SchoolHouse Tutorial Program for those of you who are waiting. For the rest of you, I’ll end off here with something I’ve come to be very certain of due to all the children and adults I have been able to help - including myself - and that is this: ’You are very able. No matter how life has kicked you around and tried to convince you that you’re not, you know yourself, that you are. That feeling you get about yourself; all the things you could do and have; all the love you hold inside to give; all the power that’s built up inside of you but always suddenly falls dormant, to rise and fade again and again... is not the idealistic the unreachable part of you. It is completely you. And there are reasons for life being good and there are reasons for life being less. Seek to understand those reasons and along with them, the truth and tools of life, and you will rise, despite what you’ve been told. You are able.
The Little Red schoolhouse Superphonics is now licensed by Applied Scholastics International. My own phonics technology is called ’Superphonics.’ I’ve been increasing the success of method tremendously over the past 23 years, but not it’s success as a business, until Jennifer helped me (with life), three years ago. My greatest achievement in teaching children to read and understand, has become a daily activity... to prove that a child’s inability to learn to read was the result of teaching and curriculum disability rather than the child’s - as psychological tests so often report. How do I prove this? Well, as Mr. Hubbard put it, I “Roll up your sleeves and teach". I teach them to read in record time. When a child is not making excellent progress, I never look for his disabilities, I look for what I’m not doing right, find it quickly, and begin doing it right again. A student’s slowed progress is a sign to be heeded right away. But how do I know what to do? Well, I just know. And for that, again, I have to thank L. Ron Hubbard.
