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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.
"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires; and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own." ~James Allen, As A Man Thinketh.
Thoughts create feelings, and your feelings shape your circumstances.
Fear is natural, but conquerable. The feeling of fear can be dismissed. Do you fear bills? If you put too much emotional energy into that fear, you will attract more bills. They might come in the form of car repairs, medical bills, or increased debt... but no matter what the form, they will be drawn to you.
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"The Young and the Thoughtless!" ...It Wasn't the Dream
If you missed the first two parts to this new series, scroll up.
So now, I present you with Part 3 of the ongoing series, "The Young and the Thoughtless."
(From our last segment you read: "...We came home with a lighter attitude toward our struggles, and a firm resolve to never miss another opportunity like that for personal growth. The facts had not changed, and our income didn't change either, but our outlook definitely did. And that was only the beginning. Be sure to read [on]... to see how quickly we could regress.")
~~~ Brief disclaimer: I should explain something here... we had joined a network marketing program because we saw that if we could do what the leaders had done, we could enjoy the lifestyle they lived. We looked forward to enjoying a passive income. We looked forward to early retirement and lots of family time.
Please understand as I share our story that we are not discouraging NOR promoting any particular network marketing program.
We gained so much through the training we received, learning some life principles and people skills, and we count it as a positive experience. We are no longer actively involved in that program... but it indirectly led us to the information I share through my website. ~~~
We came home from that seminar weekend all charged up to build our business fast. We were working days at a home for the mentally handicapped and going to school part time, and each night we were out talking with people, promoting our business. Right up until the day I went into labor; in fact my first contractions were during a presentation with a new prospect.
Each month we attended a seminar for more tips and motivation. Each month we came away re-committed to succeeding.
After my first son was born I quit work. After all, we had long before decided I would stay home with the children once they were born. Never mind that we were strapped even before I quit... it just felt like the right thing to do. After a year of that, and going deeper and deeper into debt but hanging on tight to our business leaders and monthly seminars, my husband was laid off. All at once I had to put my son into day care and go to work through a temp agency. I remember dropping him off while it was dark in the morning and picking him up in the evening, again in the dark. It was a natural symbolic representation of how I felt inside. Trevan found work at a garage and then was finally re-hired at the gun-safe company. I found permanent part-time work at a junior high school, teaching math.
Through all of this we continued to work our business in the little spare time we had. We had been told that we should be able to create an income of $2000/month if we would give 15 presentations a month consistently. We felt awfully busy, but our productivity was very low. For some reason we just didn't maintain that kind of pace. We were giving 4 or 5 presentations each month and blamed our lack of success on our inability to show enough presentations.
We determined that if we were just excited enough, we'd be out doing presentations all the time! We remembered other things we had been excited about and accomplished in the past, and remembered that we hadn't needed to psyche ourselves out to get the job done. We didn't have to force ourselves to do anything, when we were in love with a dream we naturally did everything it took to make it happen!
Take courting your spouse for example... if you were like me, you didn't have to attend a monthly seminar on how to keep him (or her, if you are male) in your thoughts, and how to make time for him. You thought about him constantly, you slept less if it meant you could spend time with him, you were constantly thinking of things you could do to grow your relationship with him. You were happy and excited about being with him and the prospect that it might become permanent!
Well, how on earth do you develop that kind of passion for a business idea or lifestyle if you don't already have it? That was our dilemma. After three years of business (busy-ness, more accurately), I wrote in my journal the following:
June 14, 1995 I know that all it would take is for us both to get excited -naturally- the way we have been about other things. That's why we've been told to get a dream -a vivid one- else all the work is in vain. But it's been 3 years and we still haven't found whatever it would be to affect us the way our dreams of the past have. I'm sick and tired of trying to force a dream! Can we please be given a dream strong enough to make us effective? Something that will make us excited anytime we think about it. Something we can believe in consistently. Something right for us. Something that inspires us to go with little sleep and motivates us to become better people. We've tried to fake it and force it for so long.
I prayed for a dream, and by the end of another weekend seminar I had a vivid dream to make a bunch of money and contribute it to the Primary Children's Medical Center where my second son had recently undergone heart surgery at 4 days old. The thought burned within me and I knew that here was a dream with some power. One month later I wrote:
July 23, 1995 Why am I so weak. I don't know why it's so difficult for me to stay committed to a principle. I still believe in that goal but I've lost some belief in my ability to change my habits permanently. I'm happy in my soul when I set goals and accomplish them but I'm so fallible. I do good for a short time and then fall deeper and harder. I'm discouraged - I don't let myself think about my job in the fall, it's too easy to get depressed when I do. I want to excel...
As for the basic schedule I outlined a few pages ago? Well that lasted a week. Near the end of the week I had already forgotten why I thought it would be such a good idea. As for my dream to give the hospital a bunch of money, where is that dream's power now? Why don't I feel as strong about it now? The motivation has to be bigger than the obstacle, why do my puny obstacles seem so big? I used to take challenges and stay so focused on them until they were conquered. What drove me? Why do I feel so average now?
If only I knew then what I know now about the seven laws. I had an idea of what I needed but didn't know how to get it... the vision, the dream, the motivation. All I lacked was knowledge, but it took another five years before I gained that knowledge. I learned that for me, at least, I needed to know better how the universe operates. So that when I lost faith in myself, I could depend on universal laws. I am not constant, but the laws are. I needed something outside of myself to rely on. Yes I relied on God, but what does that mean if I don't understand the laws by which He operates? If I don't understand all of His laws, then I might find myself saying, "oh well, I guess God didn't want me to prosper anyway."
Once I decided that I was at the bottom with discouragement and had nowhere else to go but up, things began to change to lead us toward eventual relief. But the changes were in disguise. They seemed to get worse, but were actually the beginning of our deliverance. Stay tuned for our next segment of "The Young and The Thoughtless" to find out how something worse could actually be the best thing that could have happened to us.
The lessons minus the story, which took us 8 years to learn, is available in the book Hidden Treasures: Heaven's Astonishing Help with Your Money Matters". The first chapter is free, and the rest of it with the complete ecourse is only $127. I hope you can appreciate how inexpensive this information is. It cost us 8 years and somewhere around $40,000 in debt, not to mention income lost during that time that we might have enjoyed, had we learned it sooner. Save yourself some time and money by learning it now!
"THERE IS A SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are
certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by
anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty." ~Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich.
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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
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