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A Little White Powder
When we want our life to change in some way, every single one of us needs to first change the things that affect our thoughts.

A Vote for Broccoli
What really is the fundamental issue in all political arguments.

Adversity Before Prosperity
Prosperity is a product of adversity, and right-thinking about (and response to) the adversity. Discover how to view your challenges with optimism and gratitude so that you can succeed and truly enjoy uncommon freedom.

Are you more like a Radio or an IPOD?
The outer condition of our life is our broadcast. What station have we tuned into? Is it better to be like a radio or an IPOD, and why?

Finding Peace And Prosperity In The Storms Of Life
Tranquility comes through self mastery. SELF mastery. Not environment mastery. When we improve, the laws of success cause a response in the world around us, and our circumstances improve, too.

Goal Achievement as Easy as Breathing
The part of your mind that sets a goal and the part of your mind that controls the outcome are not the same parts. It's simple when you do it right.

Goal Achieving Strategy - Thinking Prosperity In Spite Of Appearances
the secret key for eliminating doubt, discouragement, and fear as you set goals to claim an abundance of time and money freedom for your family.

Goal For It! The Magic of Writing it Down
2 peculiar short stories about strange outcomes that came as a result of setting a goal.

Heavenly Help with Money ...Matters
God would like to bless you more than you are prepared to receive. Open the windows to His abundance by learning the laws that govern prosperity.

How to KNOW if You'll Reach the Goal
Setting and achieving a goal is as simple as placing an online order. If you perform each step in the order process, you can be certain that the thing you want is actually on its way.

Prosperity Tip - For Working Mothers Who Struggle With Guilt
The truth about ambitious women and motherhood, from an accomplished mother of seven young children. This article will help you feel GREAT!

Prosperity Tip - How Many Goals At A Time?
How many goals can and should you realistically have at a time? How do you prioritize all the things you want to accomplish? How can you have laser focus on multiple objectives?

Prosperity Tool - The Stickman Concept
How did a drawing of a stickperson triple the author's income in just a few months? Discover the Stickman Concept and experience a quantum leap toward greater prosperity for you and your family.

Success and Balance
How can a focus shift AWAY from business bring you MORE money?

The Parable of the Jackrabbit
Understand the message behind The Parable of the Jackrabbit before taking any advice to heart... including the advice in this article!

The Truth About Failure
When my daughter nearly drowned, I gained a suprising new insight on our financial setbacks

These Prosperity 'Laws' Aren't Working!
After discovering the law of attraction, what does it mean when your finances go down the tubes? Why does this happen just at the time that you feel you have discovered the answer?

Think 'Prosperity' But Behave Frugally
How can you think abundantly but behave frugally? How do you continue to spend responsibly if you believe in abundance beyond the visible supply?

Forced R & R Finding the good in something "bad"

To Debt or Not to Debt How to decide whether or not it is wise to put success training on a credit card.

Good Debt versus Bad Debt A reader's response to the previous article triggered this article, expounding on the topic further.

Pick Your Picnic Take these steps so you can be in tune with the voice on inspiration on your journey to a goal

It's Perfect: The Mindset that Fixes Everything While I intellectually relied on God to make it all 'okay', I couldn't seem to quiet my stressed-out, frantic heart... until I chose a mindset that fixes everything, including me at a time when I was NOT at peace.

Q and A with Leslie Householder This is a transcript of an interview Leslie did in March 2006.

Why Motivation Doesn't Last If you are one of those people who get discouraged about motivation that doesn't last, look at it this way: your LUNCH didn't last either. But you aren't going to quit eating just because one meal didn't nourish you for a lifetime. Should personal development have to be a life-long commitment?

Things Undone When there's 'stuff' from our past affects our self-confidence, sometimes it's better to process that first before launching a quest for creating wealth.

Don't Slow down, CALM down The activity is just an event. The anxiety is what YOU add to it. Understanding this is a key factor in applying the law of attraction successfully.

The Heart of the Matter I have to admit that when I walked in on the first day I remember thinking, '...these people are just way too happy...' and I was skeptical, even with more than a decade of experience as a 'self-help junkie'. Then the magic began. Personal development Extraordinaire.

Exposing Yourself to an Experience If you're always strapped for time or money, then you have a "program" to make sure that never changes. A new truth will never step in until your mind has been scanned for those kinds of 'viruses'. You've got to know they are there before you can delete them, upgrade them, or at least quarantine them.

Wealth Principles and Yard Sales Discover how the truly wealthy individuals on this earth feel about yard sales, and how adopting the same attitude can actually put you on a path to make money more effectively, and enjoy wealth in a big way. Discusses one of the sub-laws to the law of attraction, taking it one step further.

Your Eulogy Deciding what you'd like people to say about you at the end of your life can be a roadmap to help you create the life of your dreams.

About the Principles of Prosperity Seminar After all you've done to make a healthy living for your family, is it still just not enough? 3 days of training in the law of attraction and 7 other specific Universal Laws that govern prosperity, and your life will never be the same.

Deductive or Inductive Reasoning What is better and why: Deductive or Inductive Reasoning for Creating a Great Life? Make money and enjoy wealth using this strategy.

The THOUGHTS that count... How Leslie really became a best-selling author.

Team Time! If you have no time, you need a team. You can't create wealth on your own.

Box Fan Miracle Often the miracle we seek is waiting for us at the end of all WE can do. We must go as far as we can and expect to find what we need when we get there.

Parable of the Jackrabbit Before taking any kind of advice, be sure to understand the Parable of the Jackrabbit...

Strengthening the Pull of a Magnetic Personality One simple idea proves to be the unfaltering key to making friends and having confidence in the presence of strangers.

Getting Personal: The Young and the Thoughtless, chapter 1 Details on Leslie's own journey through this learning process. The first in a series, taken from the ThoughtsAlive Newsletter. Start getting your own newsletters delivered to your mailbox.

Could This be True? The Young and the Thoughtless, chapter 2 Our second part to the new series, "The Young and the Thoughtless" brought to you by selected ThoughtsAlive Newsletters archived here.

It Wasn't the Dream. The Young and the Thoughtless, chapter 3 Discusses motivation, and why having a dream or vision of prosperity we desire sometimes isn't enough to carry us through the challenges. Identifies a possible missing piece of the puzzle.

The Reality of Polarity. The Young and the Thoughtless, chapter 4 The worse it is, the better? There is an equal and opposite "good" in each and every "bad". Also, some thoughts on how to change the state of your health.

"How did I DO That?" The Young and the Thoughtless, chapter 5 Once I realized what I had done, and WHY it had made a difference, I began to experiment with what I had learned. We both did. And doggone it, if we didn�t triple our monthly income in less than four months.

Quick Tidbit on Getting out of Debt

Leslie in the News Read a few of the archived press releases about Leslie and her books.

Chat Transcripts

Leaning on the Lord in a Financial Crisis
Chat with Leslie Householder
As part of the SheLovesGod.com 3rd Annual Virtual Women's Conference
How can we really "let go and let God?" What do we do with fear? This discussion explains how God helps us solve our money making problems. We need to learn how God thinks so we can work together to conquer the impossible.Click here for a transcript of this chat.

The Law of Vibration and the Spirit of God
Chat with Leslie Householder
Unofficial follow-up after the SheLovesGod.com 5th Annual Virtual Women's Conference
What is the Law of Vibration, and how does it fit in with your beliefs about God? Click here for a transcript of this chat.

The Parable of the Jackrabbit
© Leslie Householder
Author of #5 National Best-seller, "The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can"
ThoughtsAlive.com

You have a certain goal, and you know someone that has already reached it. Maybe it is earning a certain degree, or opening a business and making it fly. Maybe it is a better family life, or a talent you�d like to master. Perhaps it is a highly developed relationship with your Father in Heaven. Before you try to duplicate what others have done to attain what they have, be sure of one thing. Understand the Parable of the Rabbit:

A man was on a journey and came to a field. In this field he observed a dog, jumping around, darting to and fro, disappearing in the long, long grass each time he landed. The man stayed back, fearing that the dog had a terrible disease that caused him to jerk wildly and bark incessantly. Cautiously, he passed along side the field on the well-paved path, keeping an eye on the ravenous dog to be sure it did not harm him. Coming to the end of the field, suddenly the dog appeared in front of him, holding a jackrabbit in its jaws. Placidly, the dog glanced at the man, and walked away.

This man was hungry. Thinking about the dog, he decided it would sure be nice if he could have a rabbit to eat, too. So he turned around, retraced his steps along the path for a time, and entered the grassy field. "Well, here I go," he said, and he began to jump and dart, growl and bark. Up and down, back and forth, trying to duplicate all of the crazy movements he had seen by the dog, believing this would somehow produce a rabbit. All day long he did this, and at the end of the day, he was still hungry, and very very tired.

Disappointed, he returned to the well-paved path. He said to himself, "This is a well-paved path, many people have traveled this way before. I guess I just need to stay on it, and eat whatever I find along the way."

Isn't it interesting that not only did duplicating the dog NOT produce a rabbit, but it probably kept them very far away?

During all those "starving student" days, I remember buying in to a handful of home-based business ideas. Making beaded jewelry from home was one of them. I also remember getting very frustrated because my results were not amounting to all of their advertised testimonials of big success. Now, I understand that I was jumping and growling, expecting a rabbit to appear. I had no expectation or vision of living the success they promised. I couldn't even picture what it would be like to have abundance. All I knew was that there was never enough money, and in reality, that scenario was all I expected. It would have been very different if I had a vivid picture in my mind of living abundantly, so that when a vehicle to get me there came along, my results would have surely been much different. I have only seen a significant change in my financial picture since finding a rabbit that I could chase and capture. There are many legitimate business oppportunities out there that get written off when they "don't work". What is really going on, is that the subscribers just don't see a rabbit. The activity becomes nothing more than jumping and barking at empty fields.

This brings up 2 points. First, the man was right in leaving the path in search of the rabbit. I heard a very wise person once say, "If you want to do the right thing, look around at the people in the world, see what they are doing and where they are going, and you will do well to do just the opposite." Doing what everyone else is doing is often the absolute WRONG thing to do. �Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,� Matthew 7:13-14. Remember, any rabbit worth catching doesn't sit around on well paved paths, there is a price to be paid, a seeking is required.

So if you want a rabbit, you may need to leave the well-paved path, but before you start jumping and barking, make sure you have your eyes FIXED TIGHT on a rabbit. This is the second point: All of the madness will be fruitless if you don't see your rabbit. Going through the motions without a clear goal in mind is energy wasted. You would burn out before attaining the degree. You would become impatient with the members of your family when things get rough. You would tire of the practice required to master a talent. Your efforts to grow closer to the Lord would too easily be thwarted without a burning desire to know Him. Satan has no power over a determined seeker.

So, to duplicate the movements of the dog, without chasing a rabbit too, will NOT get you a rabbit. Identify your dream, visualize it, make it real in your mind, get excited about it, and chase it hard! Daydream about what it will feel like to have that degree, that business, that kind of family life, that talent, that relationship with God. Others will look at you and the choices you make and they might even think you are crazy. They just don't see your rabbit. But God does, and He will help you catch every worthy and righteous one that you have your eyes on. He can see where it goes when it disappears out of your vision, and He will prompt you by the Holy Spirit, which way you should go. Practice listening to those quiet promptings, and practice obeying them. Your dreams will return to your view and sooner or later become your reality. �Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths,� Proverbs 3:5-6

This analogy has now been turned into a #5 National Best-selling paperback book of more than 200 pages! If you appreciate Jack Canfield's latest book, "Success Principles" but don't have time or the attention span to get through the whole massive thing, you might want to start here. It's a short two-or-three-hour read, and you'll feel like you're watching TV instead of studying something terribly deep. And yet, you'll come away from the experience a changed person. Click here to get yours, or just read an excerpt!

Remember: If you want something to change, something's got to change.

YOU are the only thing you really CAN change. As you do... as you learn to think according to the Principles of Prosperity... everything else will begin to fall into place just as it should. ~ Leslie Householder