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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.

'It's Perfect': The Mindset that fixes Everything
© Leslie Householder
Author of #5 National Best-seller, "The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can"
ThoughtsAlive.com

I had one week left to prepare for an important event where I would be presenting some critical information about a business deal to some very important people. A knot would tighten in my gut each time I thought about it, but I consciously did my best to breathe deeply and relax, knowing the best outcome would happen if I could only stay in a peaceful mindset.

The night before the presentation I wasn't quite prepared, and I knew it... not for lack of trying, but merely for a lack of time. I stayed up most of the night putting together the last of my research, trying to line it up to be a cohesive, logical persuasion for those who would be making a decision the next day. How well I did at the meeting could mean the difference between thousands of dollars down the tubes, or putting us potentially more than $100,000 ahead within 2 more months.

Not long before I was to speak at the meeting, I was given some new information about others who would be in the room who I had not expected... which added to my pressure. Besides allowing myself to become overly concerned with 'what should I wear?!' I also had to be concerned with whether or not my equipment would work properly with no time to test it thoroughly first.

As the meeting began, I knew I had done all I could possibly do to prepare. I had to trust that my best would be good enough, and that my faith in God would help make up for my human deficiencies. It would have to... there was nothing more I could do.

While I intellectually relied on God to make it all 'okay', I couldn't seem to quiet my stressed-out, frantic heart. I was flustered, lost my train of thought frequently, and basically 'blew it'. The opportunity to secure $100,000 slipped through my fingers as I pushed myself to just get through the meeting and finish saying what I went there to say.

I felt sick inside. What more could I have done? I had given it everything I had. I knew the principles... I knew that 'when something is really, really horrible, it is in actuality really, really phenomenal...' but no matter how hard I tried to think right, I couldn't seem to shake the feeling that it had been a disaster, and nothing more.

I tried to call my mentor to help me get my head back on straight, because I knew that was critical if I hoped to glean whatever benefit there was out of the situation. I HAD to think right, for I knew that my future beneficial circumstances depended on it. However, I couldn't get through, and my messages were never returned, as though they had never been left in the first place.

Finally, I thought of an old friend of mine who I knew would understand and could help. Why I didn't think of her first, I'm not sure. I gave her a call, and she laughed with me as I told her how pathetic the meeting had been, and after I had let it all out, she told me one thing that made all the difference.

She said, 'Leslie, the meeting was perfect. You did your best, and everything that needed to be said was said in just the right way. Those people heard just what they needed to hear, and anyway, who do you think YOU are to decide what should and shouldn't have been said?'

I knew she was right. I had done my best to prepare, and I had turned it over to God... and so who DID I think I was to pass judgement on what God made of it? Suddenly, I began to consider that maybe my mistakes were exactly what God knew would happen, and what He allowed to happen because He had some higher good in mind for me and the others involved.

Who am I to say that the deal should have happened the way I had wanted it to happen, anyway? One thing for sure, is that when something doesn't go the way I think it should have, it's generally because God has something even better in mind, and He is working to knock off my rough edges to prepare me to receive the very best He has to offer.

I choose to believe that.

There are a lot of things I may never know about what ripple effects came out of that meeting. I have since been made aware of some very important ones that did. But if nothing more, it has given me a new tool for the times I am struggling to feel better about a bad situation. I tell myself now, 'It's perfect' even when I don't see how it possibly could be.

Even the most painful, difficult circumstances in our lives are ultimately for our good. They give us experience, they teach us right from wrong, they help us grow toward our greatest potential if we don't fight it.

Okay, so I messed up a presentation. I don't really have it all that bad, do I? Worse things have happened, and besides, in some way, I know that it was all for my good. I came away a little tougher, a little more compassionate, a little more trusting in God.

Whatever seems horrible in your life right now, you can choose to trust... choose to believe that it's the perfect thing for your personal development right now. As you calm down and believe this, you'll find that it makes a huge difference in where your life goes from here.

To read other articles by Leslie Householder in our archives, visit http://www.thoughtsalive.com/articles.php

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