Articles about Prosperity and Personal Development. Use the Law of Attraction and Other Success Principles to Enjoy Wealth. Stick around and READ ALL ABOUT IT!

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

This is the final Chapter (for now) in this series. For those who have missed the first three chapters, I'll begin with a recap:

Have you ever felt down because you were too stressed to spend time with your kids or too busy just trying to pay the bills? I have. For years I wished that I could just relax and be like my mom. At the critical times in my life, she’d been there for me. She brought me snacks while I did homework. She stayed up late with me and laughed at my jokes.

Well, as much as I wanted to be that kind of mother, there I was, too stressed over finances to do little more than force a smile at the end of a harried day. No matter if a mom works part-time or full-time, she’ll regularly be at her wits end. Am I right? And to the fathers: sometimes it’s hard to relax because of work concerns, isn’t it?

For many years, my husband and I frantically raced around collecting paychecks, regularly begging the bank to reverse overdraft fees, or apologizing to our creditors that our payment hadn’t quite shown up on time.

Do you realize how much time and money goes into fixing financial messes that never would have needed fixing if a person had had enough in the first place?

We knew there HAD to be a way SOMEHOW to keep our financial promises, AND develop a healthy savings for emergencies, AND raise our kids with focus. Couldn’t I just put all those worries aside and simply be MOM?

In our efforts, we read countless books on success, and attended nearly a hundred seminars all over the country, for we knew that we couldn’t keep DOING the same things expecting DIFFERENT results. Something had to change.

But what we NEEDED to change wasn’t what we thought.

Among other things, we did learn that a positive attitude was critical to financial success. But as hard as we tried, we couldn’t seem to MAINTAIN one while being beat down by setback after setback, from car troubles to medical problems. Besides, when we DID have a positive attitude, it didn’t ever seem to change our finances; it only helped us be happier in our prison. The thing is, we wanted OUT of financial prison. Was that so wrong?

I slipped into depression. We moved out of state to start a window-cleaning business. It didn’t work out like we wanted, so my husband picked up two jobs, and I stayed home with my two preschoolers. But even though I was home, my children hardly had a mother. I was angry and short-tempered, even to the point that I called the cops on a neighbor boy who had snapped my broom in half. I didn’t have $7 for a new broom, and the thought of not being ABLE to clean the floor even if I FELT like it was enough to send me over the edge.

I resorted to an escapist mentality and decided to go to bed, not caring if I ever got up again. Then, of course, I berated myself for not being able to cope. “Dream big!” “Picture what you want!” The things we’d heard over and over again in seminars taunted me, and, in my bitterness I was angry at the speakers who got our money in exchange for what I thought were cheesy, empty clichés.

“Alright then, FINE! I will!” Out of spite I closed my eyes and decided that since life was miserable anyway, I was simply going to escape into a dream world where I could pretend I was living the life I really wanted. I pictured owning a home for the first time, and having a yard, and though I felt guilty for evading reality, and certain I was mentally ill beyond help, it was the only place I could go to feel joy. I could experience the dream life it as though it was real and never wanted to open my eyes again.

One year later, we had a starter home with a yard... just like I had dreamed. My husband had a better job with benefits. But we were still stressed and strapped and I was still sour and ill-tempered. We still had more debt than we could handle. It took me about three more years and dragging myself to a few more seminars before I realized that the relative upturn in our circumstances actually had their root in the fantasy world which I had conjured in my head that day.

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. (How much would three times YOUR income be?) It was as though the blinders dropped from our minds and we finally understood how it’s actually possible to take control of our life simply by controlling our thoughts. Yes, “have a positive attitude” is key; but the notion had never held any power for me until I was given the WHOLE picture. So WHY does it work? And what HAD I done, anyway?

Oh, there’re thousands of books on the market that teach it. I know, because I had (and still have) a library full of them. But none of them had empowered me enough to effect PERMANENT changes. I decided that I needed to share what I had learned from my own every-day-person-and-mother-of-six perspective. I needed to write a STORY which held within it the power to change a person’s life forever. The result? “The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can.”

Is it any good? Hyrum Smith, co-founder of Franklin Covey and CEO of Galileo Initiative thought it was... and Bob Proctor, best-selling author and founder of LifeSuccess Productions did too. You’ll have a chance to see their comments on another page but I want you to know what people like you and me have had to say about it:

"I just devoured your book... I am sitting here in tears because you cannot understand what a blessing and inspiration you have been...I was really moved by the story of Richard and his family and you don't know how many times I have asked the same questions that Richard asks himself...and tried to lever myself out of the hole that I have been in. I have always believed that positive thought and faith have helped me to stay strong and persevere but after reading your book I realize that maybe it is time that I can do more than just get by." ~ Wendy Valentine, single mother of three. "I am actually at a loss for words after reading your manuscript. Kind of almost shook a little bit if that makes sense..." ~Fred Schofield, Independent IT Consultant

In a form, it is OUR story. The details aren’t quite the same, but the journey to discovery is there. I want it to get out there quickly to rescue other marriages like ours, and give kids their parents back. I want you to know what I know.

If you'll go to our Jackrabbit Factor page, you'll find a box that will let you read the first chapter for free. Or, go ahead and read the whole thing today... it's a fun, easy read. Enjoy!








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