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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

All life is impelled toward growth. You want to grow, and change, and improve a number of different aspects of your life. Would you like to know the real reason why it's so hard to make those changes happen?

Programs. We've been programmed to think a certain way. Our behaviors are automatic results of those programs, and if we want to change our behavior or circumstances, even if the circumstances 'appear' to be out of our control, then the change MUST begin with the way we think: our programs.

How can I know for sure what kind of programs are running my life? I'll give you something to chew on:

If I look at my mind as a marvelous computer, then perhaps I could consider the possibility that all of the results and circumstances in my life are a direct byproduct of the way my mind processes input, such as previous experiences. Data in...programs running...processed information based on those programs...automatic behaviors determined by the programs... perfectly predictable outcomes.

How can I say that? How can I say that the outcomes are perfectly predictable? Ask yourself this: how long have you been struggling with that relationship? How long have you dealt with those financial issues? How long have you been feeling that way about yourself and your physical condition?

Predictable.

Would you like something to change? I promise you this: when a new internal program has been uploaded, the results come naturally. You'll be astounded at how people's responses to you start to look different. Your improved health habits will feel like a natural part of you. The money will start to flow in faster than you spend it. It will happen naturally, and as a result of Universal Law which cannot err.

Are you 100% excited about your life just the way it is? If not... if there are some changes you'd like to see in your environment/relationships/ checkbook/health... there's no need to get frustrated about trying to make changes that just don't seem to stick. Your mind is the greatest computer ever created, and the only things that need to change are the programs you already have running.

So what programs are in there? If you're always strapped for time or money, then you have a program that is set up to make sure that never changes. That is your 'truth' about life. To you, that is just the way life is. 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.

I thought I had life pretty well figured out. I've been happy with my results, and felt like I had the understanding and tools I needed to make other changes as I continue to recognize areas where I can improve. However, through attending certain seminars, I discovered one major program that has been running my life that I had not noticed on anything more than a superficial level.

So, even though I've been pleased with my results, my mind opened up to see a way in which it can be infinitely better, as I consciously recognize the program, and take care of it just the way I was taught. As the old saying goes: Pigs don't know pigs stink. Sometimes we have to submit ourselves to an experience before we will recognize areas where we can improve; and the rewards for that kind of self-exploration are endlessly amazing.

The program costs $1000.

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Did you recognize any of your old programs firing away when you read that? Maybe they said, 'I can't afford that, no matter how good it is.' Or, 'What a scam.' Or, 'She's just trying to make a buck off of me.' Or, 'Pshh. That's a drop in the bucket.' Or, 'I'd have to go into debt for that.' Or, 'No seminar could be worth that kind of money.'

I challenge you to take a good look at how you respond to the simple data input: This hypothetical program costs $1000.

What has happened in your life to create the program which fired off when you read that? Do you remember what it was? If not, you'll probably find out if you start allowing yourself the experience of attending some life-changing seminars. Did you notice the one program listed above that said, 'Pshh. That's a drop in the bucket'? Did you know that there are truly people who will say that, and refuse to go because if it is that cheap, it must not be very valuable?

Interesting how one statement will trigger a different program in every individual who reads that. How do we know what kind of programs are in our minds? Whatever they are, they have dictated your behaviors, and your behaviors have brought you to the place you are right NOW.

A person with a healthy wealth-consciousness will naturally behave like a wealthy person, even if they are not wealthy yet. Those behaviors will put them in a state of being which, like a magnet, will attract to them every event, person, and circumstance they need for it to come true in real life.

So the changes you seek must begin with your thoughts. I challenge you to behave as THOUGH you already had the quality you want. If you want wealth, behave as though you were already wealthy. Do you think a wealthy person would react with 'I can't afford that, no matter how good it is'? No, and niether will a person who is developing wealth-consciousness. A person who is ready to experience a different kind of life will take a risk, and allow themselves to choose different thoughts than are comfortable. The risk lies in thinking differently than what feels comfortable. The risk doesn't lie in making the purchase. The only risk we face is allowing ourselves to think differently.

How is the purchase not a risk? The purchase is nothing more than an event. You color the 'event' with your personal perspective about it. Your perspective is determined by your programs, and your programs have put you where you are today.

So the only risk you face is the risk you take when you allow your programs to continue to run your life. When a person thinks, 'I can't afford that,' they have already shut the part of them down that picks up on ideas (which DO EXIST, by the way) which will allow you to invest in yourself without sacrificing other financial obligations that are important to you. THAT'S the risk: you risk shutting down the faculty of your mind that finds solutions to your most challenging problems. The purchase is not the risk. It's just an event.

If you are the kind of person whose program fired, 'I'd have to go into debt for that,' then although you may attend, you will predictably incur debt to do it. Did you know that it doesn't have to be that way? Don't tell me you're on a fixed income. That's an excuse. You can attend it, even if you don't have the money right now, and you can attend it by going into debt, but you don't have to. You can do this even without going into debt. Where will the money come from? Wherever it is now. Don't shut out the solution simply by deciding ahead of time that there isn't one!

Have you ever gone into your room to find your wallet when you are already late for work, and the more you freak out that you're late, the longer it takes for you to finally discover it? Have you stopped, taken a deep breath, and pictured yourself with it in your hands, rejoicing that it was finally found... and then within moments, you see it in plain sight where it had been all along? If you haven't tried that, do it. It works.

Now, apply it to the parts of your life you'd like to see change. Instead of freaking out that you don't have $1000 for a seminar that will create an atmosphere where you can finally change your life, take a deep breath and see yourself feeling the joy and experiencing some major breakthroughs, and you will put yourself in tune with the 'way' to get yourself there, which already exists in plain sight... if you'll relax and allow yourself to move forward 'as though'. Just like the wallet, your solutions already exist.

The person who hopes for, and expects to find a way is the one who finds the way. The person who allows the program 'I can't afford it' to determine their behavior is the person who remains trapped in life as they know it... and with an attitude of 'can't', his or her life is on a decline, because there is no such thing as remaining the same. We either grow or we decay, there is no status quo.

A seminar won't change your life. You will. But the seminar will provide you with an environment and the support to get it done.

Take the next step. There is so much abundance waiting for you to claim... in all of the areas of your life.

I recommend two sources in particular for seminars: ThoughtsAlive Events where I've pulled together and now present the best material I've found over the last 15 years, and The Heart of the Matter, another article which will lead you to an additional event resource outside of my organization. I receive no compensation for recommending this other source.








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