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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.
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 - 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?
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.
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.
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...
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.
"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.
I hope we are all striving for something better in life, whether
it is better physical health, better financial health, or healthier
relationships. If we are not reaching for SOMEthing, our state
of growth turns rather into a state of decay.
However, sometimes we decide we want a better life and start
right where we are to begin the journey toward our goal. There's
nothing wrong with doing that, per se. However, if there's 'stuff'
from our past that has affected our self-confidence, it just might
be better to process that stuff first. It's like having rocks in our
backpack which make our journey more difficult.
I'm not going to define 'stuff'. If you have some, you probably
know what I mean. I'm not so much talking about situations where
we've been victims... that's not the kind of stuff I'm talking about,
although holding grudges can certainly count for some seriously
heavy rocks.
While that kind of stuff definitely needs processing, often the
solution to dealing with that kind of stuff lies in a redirection of focus
coupled with a different perspective on it. (The 'stickman' illustration
as described in our live or recorded Principles of Prosperity Intro at http://www.thoughtsalive.com/events.php can help you understand
how that works.)
Lest I get too far off on a tangent, I'm talking about the kind of stuff
that we have personally been responsible for. If we've done something
we regret, and have not 'taken care of it', then our self-confidence is
damaged and our ability to have faith in reaching our goals is adversely
affected, too.
You may or may not be a religious person, but I believe it is important to
get our hearts right with our Creator before we launch an all-out quest for
the abundant life. If there are 'things undone' in our life that need repair,
our conscience knows it, and it's such a wonderful thing to throw our energy
into making things right to the best of our ability first.
By doing so, we put our hearts in the right place, and we can be confident
that our purpose for seeking abundance is for a good and worthy reason.
As it says in Matthew 6:33: ' But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things (everything you are concerned about)
shall be added unto you.'
With this added confidence, your ability to hang on to a dream with faith
in yourself, and in God who helps you, will be stronger than ever.
I picked this topic today because of a great lesson I heard on Sunday. It
posed the question: when we make a mistake, do we try to excuse it and
cover it up? Or do we take responsibility, confess it completely to
whomever we must, and face the consequences?
Imagine this: if you have a pile of dirt, and you want to hide it, will covering
it up with more dirt take care of it? No. It only makes the pile bigger and
more conspicuous. While it appears you've successfully covered it up,
you've only made the problem bigger.
A wonderful speaker by the name of Richard G. Scott said it this way:
'Do not take comfort in the fact that your transgressions are not known
by others. That is like an ostrich with his head buried in the sand. He
sees only darkness and feels comfortably hidden. In reality he is
ridiculously conspicuous.' God knows, the ‘Universe’ knows, and YOU
know.
And, I will add that a person's self-esteem and confidence will be much
lower than if they seek the courage they need to face the music, make things
completely right as best they can, and restore their self-respect. Life on the
other side of it is full of light, it is free, it is liberating, and worth whatever
price it takes to finally do the 'things left undone'. It is worth risking one's
relationship with another human to make things right with one's Creator. In
fact, in reality, our relationships with those we love can actually be
strengthened in the long run when we do our best to put ourselves right with
God. After all, being in the right with God is the only thing that really matters
anyway. Another way to put it is: being true to your conscience.
I want you to succeed. I want you to experience abundance in all areas of
your life, including financiallly. I think many of my readers are Christian (not
all, but many), so I'm also going to include another passage that may help those
who are: 'And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if
ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good.' (Jacob 2:19)
Now, this is an unusual topic for my newsletter, I know. I also realize this
message isn't for everybody right now, but it may be for somebody. To embark
on a quest with a bakcpack full of stones can be exhausting and frustrating.
Let's keep our loads as light as we can along the way by identifying each stone
we carry, taking it out, putting it down, and leaving it behind.
Now, what if someone notices you have stones in your backpack? How
mortifying that could be!!! But realize this: everyone does at one time or
another in their life. And in truth there is more shame in carrying them around
in secret than there is to taking them out and putting them down, even if people
around us get a glimpse. In fact, it just might inspire someone else to have
enough courage to do the same.
There are amazing, wonderful, abundant blessings awaiting each of us. Let's
take care of things undone, so we can move forward and claim all there is to
enjoy out of life. If there’s fear associated with considering such a step,
understanding the “stickman” illustration can be VERY empowering. To
understand fear and how to deal with it, learn about the stickman through
one of our free intros. We even have a recording of one of our past events
available if you can’t attend a live event near you. Click Here for more info.
