Prosperity Tip: Friction or Traction?

Imagine life like a network of cogs and gears, like the inner workings of an old fashioned clock. Each person, each situation, is passing into and out of our lives as though they were fixed onto one of the gears rotating and making contact with our own.

The mechanism is so complex that we cannot diagram it, nor predict with certainty which gears and cogs are at play to effect the interactions we experience.

One thing I know is that each time we set an intention to accomplish something, the governing forces alter the timing and pathways of each of the gears in motion. Each gear is on a track that can be moved in and out of the pathways of other gears in motion.

At the center of your gear is the axis, upon which you rotate... sometimes smoothly, sometimes not. Things run well in the whole scheme of it all when you rotate freely with every engagement of oncoming, spinning gears.

Sometimes, however, after you set a goal, what shows up is a gear disguised as a challenge that appears to want to engage and then send you into a realm where you'd rather not go. So you tighten up your axis and refuse to spin with the oncoming gear.

This causes tremendous friction, and in reality can be much more painful in the long run than loosening the tension at your axis point, allowing the oncoming "challenge" gear to engage with your own, and see where it takes you. You'll often find that after it spins you in the opposite direction of your goal, it eventually helps you come around to exactly where you need to be in order to receive the goal gear that was set in motion toward you when you set the goal in the first place.

The destination resulting from engagement with the unexpected "challenge" or "adversity" gear is rarely apparent when you consent to engage with it. But you can trust that it will move you into position to receive the "goal" gear as it spins its way toward you.

Those who refuse to engage won't be where they need to be, when they need to be there. And then they wonder why their goals never come true.

If you refuse to relax in the face of adversity, not only will you feel the full force and heat of the friction, you'll eventually lose your ability to engage at all with any gear that comes along to take you there... because refusing to "go with it" strips your gear of the very teeth that allow you to engage even in the gears that appear desirable.

Every gear, apparently good or bad, has the potential to move you along to wherever you decide you want to be. Get a visual image of where you want to end up, and the right gears will come along to get you there. Keep your axis well-oiled, and you'll find the journey to be a joyful evolving.

It's only "hard" when you refuse to spin.

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Engage with it, and let it take you to greater success and peace of mind than perhaps you've ever felt, even in a bad economy. Not everyone will participate in the recession... join those who have determined to rise above it.

Even this economy is a gear in the machine of life, which will either cause you friction, or, if you choose, it can provide TRACTION to bring you to the success you seek.

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Prosperity Tip: Yeah-Buts or Rabbits?

Read The Jackrabbit Factor.  It's fun, it's free, and it's been responsible for helping thousands of people achieve their goals.  

If you've already read it, I suggest that you read it again. You're a different person today than you were the first time you read it.  You'll notice new things you didn't notice before, and you'll pick up on concepts that escaped you the first time.  It will help you get the next level.

Beyond that, pay attention to your thoughts as you consider setting your next goal.  As you consider it, are you seeing the rabbit (as described in The Jackrabbit Factor)?  Or, are you only seeing the obstacles, and listing all the reasons it won't work for you?  Do you see beyond the wall, knowing there's a way to the other side, or do you only see the wall?

Are you focused on the "rabbit", or do you find yourself saying, "yeah-but..."?

Share this concept of "yeah-buts vs. rabbits" with your friends, and invite them to call it to your attention when you're focused more on the "yeah-but" than the "rabbit"... and I hope you'll do the same for them.

Together, we can conquer the constant pull of mediocrity, overcome our challenges, find the benefit contained in every adversity, and ultimately reach our highest potential.  We all need friends who will hold us to our highest good.  

Hunting season is open: it's time to gather the rabbits and leave the "yeah-buts" alone.  

They're much too gamey, anyway.

Get community support on YOUR goals in our highly active forums, from like-minded people on the rabbit hunt as well.  Meet and get to know our mentors there!  You're never alone on this journey if you'll just reach out and get to know people in our community who also want to become the best person they can be... just like you.

A Dose of Prosperity: Those Meaningful Moments

Last weekend we conducted a Principles of Prosperity Workshop, and during one of the exercises, two of the participants had the unique privilege of witnessing a rare and meaningful moment in the life of a stranger on the street.

They were on assignment to spend some time in the community with one particular purpose in mind (which I will not disclose here), and as a result, they found themselves at a bus stop with a woman in her 50s or 60s who had a bag protectively at her side.

In visiting with her, she eventually explained with embarrassment that there was a teddy bear in her shopping bag. Then, she eventually felt safe enough to share the fact that the teddy bear was a brand new purchase, to replace her childhood bear which had been torn in two many decades ago.  Not only that, but she had just spent more than $200 for its long-overdue replacement.

How many emotions had stirred over the years to bring her to this point, so that she could finally find closure to something that had been so evidently painful from her childhood?

Here was a woman creating the change she needed, to overcome the pain of a memory that had been with her for so many years.

In that moment of self-designed healing, this woman chose prosperity. She was ready to move forward, and overcome the hindrances that had weighed her down all those years.  Why, I wonder, did she wait so long?  What joy she must feel, and what wonderful experiences await her now that she can look forward instead of being stuck in the past!

It was a beautiful thing, that the participants could witness such a pivotal moment in this stranger's life.  They may be the only people in the world with whom she felt safe enough to tell.

Now, there are two lessons to be learned from this story.

Lesson Number 1:

Every person you meet has a story. Everyone has heartaches, and burdens that they have carried, sometimes for a very long time. See people as people - not objects. Listen. Find out where they're coming from before imposing your agenda. Through listening first, see whether or not your offering even fits with their life concerns, dreams, and dilemmas.  If you put people first,  you'll prosper with an abundance of rich relationships... whether or not you end up doing business together.  That's prosperity.

Lesson Number 2:

What pivotal life-moment can YOU create for yourself right now? Transformations come from decisions. Action on those decisions create change. Do something different this week to heal an old hurt, or to allow yourself to move forward boldly, and courageously.

...And furthermore, have an added measure of respect for the favorite teddy bear in the life of a child.     :)