Success Principle #14 – Just Lean Into It

Oftentimes, success happens when you just lean into it – when you make yourself open to opportunities and are willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it further – without a contract, without a promise of success, without any expectation whatsoever. You just start. You lean into it. You see what it feels like [...]

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Success Principle #13 – Take Action

Take Action “The old axiom that states that ‘knowledge is power’ is flawed; knowledge is only potential power: Nothing happens in this world until you take action.  All power is from within and therefore under our control.  You must step up and take action for anything to change.” – T. Shea Ellison, author, speaker, philosopher [...]

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Success Principle #12 – Act As If

One of the greatest strategies for success is to act as if you are already where you want to be. This means thinking like, talking like, dressing like, acting like, and feeling like the person who has already achieved your goal.  Acting as if sends powerful commands to your subconscious mind to find creative ways [...]

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Success Principle #11 – See What You Want – Get What You See

Imagination is EVERYTHING. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. -Albert Einstein, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics Visualization – or the act of creating compelling and vivid pictures in your mind – may be the MOST under-utilized success tool you possess because it greatly accelerates the achievement of any success in three [...]

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Success Principle #10 – Release the Brakes

The reason why ‘change’ is difficult for most people is because ‘change’ requires you to leave your comfort zone. Your ‘comfort zone’ is made up of your habits – good or bad. Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone. The old axiom that the only things in life that are certain are [...]

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August 27th, 2010

Success Principle #14 – Just Lean Into It

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Oftentimes, success happens when you just lean into it –

when you make yourself open to opportunities and are willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it further – without a contract, without a promise of success, without any expectation whatsoever. You just start. You lean into it. You see what it feels like and you find out if you want to keep going – instead of sitting on the sidelines deliberating, reflecting, and contemplating.

LEANING INTO IT CREATES MOMENTUM

One of the most extraordinary benefits of just leaning into it is that you begin creating momentum – that unseen energy force that brings more opportunities, more resources, and more people who can help you into your life at seemingly just the right time for you to benefit the most from them.

Many of the best-known acting careers, entrepreneurial pursuits, philanthropic projects, and other “overnight successes” happened because someone responded favorably to the question “Have you ever considered…?” or “Could I convince you to…?” or “Would you be willing to take a look at…?” They leaned into it.

BE WILLING TO START WITHOUT SEEING THE WHOLE PATH

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Legendary Civil Rights Leader

Of course, just leaning into a project or opportunity also means you must be willing to start without necessarily seeing the entire pathway from the beginning. You must be willing to lean into it and see how it unfolds.

Often we have a dream and because we can’t see how we’re going to achieve it, we are afraid to start, afraid to commit ourselves because the path is unclear and the outcome is uncertain. But leaning into it requires that you be willing to explore – to enter unknown waters, trusting that a port will appear.

Simply start, then keep taking what feel like logical next steps, and the journey will ultimately take you to where you want to go – or even someplace better.

SOMETIMES, YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE TO HAVE A CLEAR DREAM

“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” – Mary Kay Ash, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

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August 26th, 2010

Success Principle #13 – Take Action

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“The old axiom that states that ‘knowledge is power’ is flawed; knowledge is only potential power: Nothing happens in this world until you take action.  All power is from within and therefore under our control.  You must step up and take action for anything to change.” – T. Shea Ellison, author, speaker, philosopher

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left behind by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.  The only consequence is what we do.” – John Ruskin, English author, art critic, and social commentator

The world doesn’t pay you for what you know; it pays you for what you do.  There’s an enduring axiom that says, “The universe rewards action.”  Yet as simple and true as this principle is, it’s surprising how many people get bogged down in analyzing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

When you take action, you trigger all sorts of things that will inevitably carry you to success.  You let those around you know that you are serious in your intention.  People wake up and start paying attention.  People with similar goals become aligned with you.  You begin to learn things from your experience that cannot be learned from listening to others for from reading or listening to audio books.  You begin to get feedback about how to do it better; more efficiently, and more quickly.  Things that once seemed confusing begin to become clear.  Things that once appeared difficult begin to become easier.  You begin to attract others who will support and encourage you.  All manner of good thing begin to flow in your direction once you begin to take action.

Talk is Cheap

Over the years of teaching and coaching people in my company and in my seminars, I have found that the one thing that seems to separate winners from losers more than anything else is that winners take action.  They simply get up and do what has to be done.  Once e they have developed a plan, they start.  They get into motion.  Even if they don’t start perfectly, they learn from their mistakes, make the necessary corrections, and keep taking action, all the time building momentum, until they finally produce the result they set out to produce… or something even better than they conceived of when they started.

To be successful, you have to do what successful people do, and successful people are highly action-oriented.  I have already covered how to create a vision, set goals, break them down into small steps, anticipate obstacles and plan how to deal with them, visualize and affirm your success, and believe in yourself and your dreams.  Now it’s time to take action.  Enroll in that course, get the necessary training, call the president, start writing that book, start writing that blog, start saving for the down payment on your home, join the health club, sign up for those piano lessons, or write that proposal. Implement this new knowledge. Integrate it into your daily activity. Just do it!

Nothing happens until you take action

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it. – Jonathan Winters, Grammy Award-winning comedian, actor, writer, and artist

 
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July 23rd, 2010

Success Principle #12 – Act As If

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One of the greatest strategies for success is to act as if you are already where you want to be.

This means thinking like, talking like, dressing like, acting like, and feeling like the person who has already achieved your goal.  Acting as if sends powerful commands to your subconscious mind to find creative ways to achieve your goals.  It programs the reticular activating system (RAS) in your brain to start noticing anything that will help you succeed, and it sends strong messages to the universe that this end goal is something you really want.

Start Acting As If

What do you want to do?  Where do you want to be?  Do you want to be a professional athlete?  Do you want to be the best teacher in your school, district, or state?  Do you want to be the president of your company?  Do you want to be a millionaire?  Whatever it is you want to be, study people who are already where you want to be and emulate what they do.

In my workshops we do an exercise called ‘The Millionaire Cocktail Party’.  Everyone stands up and socializes with the other participants as if they were all at an actual cocktail party.  However, everyone must Act As If they have already achieved all of their financial goals in life.  They are to Act As If they already have everything they want in life – their dream house, their vacation home, their dream car, their dream career – as well as if they have achieved any personal, professional, or philanthropic goals that are important to them.

Everyone suddenly becomes more animated, alive, enthusiastic, and outgoing.  People who seemed shy a few minutes earlier reach out and assertively introduce themselves to others.  The energy and volume level of the room soars.  People excitedly tell each other about their achievements, invite each other to their vacation homes in Hawaii, and the Bahamas, and discusss their recent safaris in Africa and their philanthropic missions to Third World Countries.

After about five minutes, I stop the exercise and ask people to share how they are feeling.  People report feeling excited, passionate, positive, supportive, generous, happy, self-confident, and content.

I then ask them to look at the fact that their inner feelings – both emotional and physiological – were different, even though in reality their outer circumstances were still the same.  They had not actually become millionaires in the material world, but they had begun to feel like millionaires simply by Acting As If they were.

BE, DO, AND HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT… STARTING NOW

You can begin right now to act as if you have already achieved any goal you desire, and that outer experience of Acting As If will create the inner experience – the millionaire mind-set, as it were – that will take you to the actual manifestation of that experience.

Once you choose what it is you want to be, do, or have, all you have to do is start acting as if you already are being, doing, or having it.  How would you act if you already were a straight-A student, top salesperson, highly paid consultant, rich entrepreneur, world-class athlete, best-selling author, internationally acclaimed artist, sought-after speaker, or celebrated actor or musician?  How would you think, talk, act, carry yourself, dress, treat other people, handle money, eat, live, travel, and so forth?

Once you have a crystal clear and vivid picture of that, start being it – now!

Successful people exude self-confidence, ask for what they want, and say what they don’t want.  They think anything is possible, take risks, and celebrate their successes.  They save a portion of their income and share a portion with others.  You can do all of those things now before you ever become rich and successful.  These things don’t cost money, just intention.  And as soon as you start acting as if, you will start drawing to you the very people and things that will help you achieve it in real life.

Remember, the proper order of things is to start now and be who you want to be, then do the actions that go along with being that person, and soon you will find that you easily have everything you want in life – health, wealth, and fulfilling relationships.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

What would you do if you KNEW you could not fail?

What would you do if you KNEW you will succeed?

 
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July 14th, 2010

Success Principle #11 – See What You Want – Get What You See

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Imagination is EVERYTHING. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. -Albert Einstein, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Visualization – or the act of creating compelling and vivid pictures in your mind – may be the MOST under-utilized success tool you possess because it greatly accelerates the achievement of any success in three powerful ways.

  1. Visualization activate the creative powers of your subconscious mind.
  2. Visualization focuses your brain by programming its reticular activating system (RAS) to notice available resources that were always there but were previously unnoticed.
  3. Visualization magnetizes and attract to you the people, resources, and opportunities you need to achieve your goal.

When you perform any task in real life, researchers have found, your brain uses the same identical processes it would use if you were only vividly imagining that activity.  In other words, your brain and nervous system sees no difference whatsoever between visualizing something and actually doing it.

Visualization simply makes the brain achieve more.  And though none of us were ever taught this in school, sports psychologists, coaches, and peak performance experts have been popularizing the power of visualization since the 1960′s.  All professional and Olympic athletes now employ the power of visualization.

How Visualization Works to Enhance Performance

When you visualize your goals as already complete each and every day, it creates a conflict in your subconscious mind between what you are visualizing and what you currently have.  Your subconscious mind tries to resolve that conflict by turning your current reality into the new, more exciting vision.

This conflict, when intensified over time through constant visualization, actually causes three things to happen:

  1. It programs your brain’s RAS to start letting into your awareness anything that will help you achieve your goals.
  2. It activates your subconscious mind to create solutions for getting the goals you want.  You’ll start waking up in the morning with new ideas.  You’ll find yourself having new ideas in the shower, while you’re taking long walks, and while you’re driving.
  3. It creates new levels of motivation.  You’ll start to notice you are unexpectedly doing things that take you closer to your goal.  All of a sudden , you are raising your hand in class, volunteering to take on a new assignment at work, speaking out at staff meetings, asking more directly for what you want, saving money for the things that you want, paying down your credit card debt, or taking more risks in your personal life.
 
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July 9th, 2010

Success Principle #10 – Release the Brakes

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The reason why ‘change’ is difficult for most people is because ‘change’ requires you to leave your comfort zone. Your ‘comfort zone’ is made up of your habits – good or bad. Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone. The old axiom that the only things in life that are certain are ‘death and taxes’ is missing the most obvious part of life: CHANGE. Life is always changing. Successful people have learned to love change. -T. Shea Ellison

Have you ever been driving your car and suddenly realized you left the emergency brake on? Did you just push down on the accelerator to overcome the drag of the brake? “No, of course not”. You simply released the brake… and with no more effort you began to go faster.

Many people go through life with their psychological ‘emergency brake’ on.  They hold on to negative images about themselves or suffer the effects of strong negative beliefs they haven’t yet released.  They stay in a negative comfort zone entirely of their own making.  They hold on to inaccurate or false beliefs about reality or harbor guilt or self-doubt.  Therefore, when they try to achieve their goals, these negative images and preprogrammed comfort zones pull them back and always seem to cancel out their good intentions – no matter how hard they try.

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” -Frederich Wilhelm Nietzche

Successful people, on the other hand, have discovered that instead of attempting to increase their sheer willpower as the force to overcome the drag of False Evidence Appearing Real (FEAR), it’s simply easier to “release the brakes” by letting go of and replacing their limiting beliefs and changing their self-images.

It’s time to Get Out of your Comfort Zone!

Think of your comfort zone as a prison you live in – a largely self-created prison.  It consists of the collection of ‘can’ts’, ‘won’ts‘, ‘musts‘, ‘must nots, and other unfounded rules or beliefs you’ve formed from all the negative thoughts and decisions you have accumulated and reinforced over the course of your lifetime.  It’s quite likely you’ve actually been trained, conditioned or even hypnotized to limit yourself.  Sounds preposterous?

Expectation of others and of yourself can literally ‘hypnotize’ anyone into believing something is true – whether or not it actually is.  When I was in junior high school, I took my first algebra class and didn’t do very well.  My teacher (the football coach) told my counselor that since I had barely passed his class, I probably shouldn’t plan to take trigonometry or calculus when I got to high school.  Therefore I was advised to take geometry in the 10th grade, which I did and through high expectation and excellent instruction from my teacher, I earned an ‘A’.  This success prompted me to go on and take the two courses previously not recommended, and with elevated expectations, great teachers, and hard work, I managed a ‘B’ in one and an ‘A’ in the other.  (Goes to show that perhaps the football coach should stick to football).

It is no exaggeration to say that all human beings are hypnotized to some extent, either by ideas they have uncritically accepted from others, or by ideas they have repeated to themselves or convinced themselves are true.  These negative ideas have exactly the same effect on our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

Stop re-creating the same experience over and over!  Change your behavior by changing your self-talk through affirmations.

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June 30th, 2010

Success Principle #9 – Success Leaves Clues

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One of the great things about living in today’s world of abundance and opportunity is that almost anything you may want to do has already been done by someone else.  Even if you want to do what nobody has ever done before, most likely, at least a portion of that – HAS already been done by someone else.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s losing weight, running a marathon, starting and building a thriving business, becoming financially independent, triumphing over cancer, or writing and marketing a best-selling book – someone has already done it and left clues in the form of books, blogs, manuals, audio or video programs, university classes, e-Learning courses, seminars, and workshops.  Register for The Success Principles Plus! Workshop Now

Who’s already done what you want to do?

If you want to become financially independent for instance, there are literally hundreds of books, ranging from The Automatic Millionaire to Start Late, Finish Rich, and Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, and workshops ranging from T. Harv Eker’s “Millionaire Mind” to Marshall Thurber and D.C. Cordova’s “Money and You”.

If you want to have a better relationship with your spouse, you can read John Gray’s Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, study Tony Robbins’ and Cloe Madanes “The Ultimate Relationship” program, or take Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks’ online course “The Conscious Relationship”.  Many of these are available through our ‘Reading List’ or ‘Resources’ page above.

Why don’t people seek out clues?

  • It never occurs to us.  We don’t see others using these resources, so we don’t do it either.
  • It’s inconvenient.  We’d have to go to the bookstore, or go to our ‘Reading List’ tab above.  We’d have to take time away from TV, family, or friends.
  • Asking others for advice or information pits us against our fear of rejection.
  • Connecting the dots in a new way would require us to change; and change, even when it’s in our best interest – is uncomfortable.
  • Change is hard work, and frankly, most people don’t want to work that hard.  (The strange thing is that struggling in your current path could actually be even harder).

Seek Out Clues

  1. Seek out a teacher, coach, mentor or any of the other resources mentioned above.
  2. Seek out someone who has already done what you want to do and ask them if you can interview him or her for a half hour on how you should best proceed.
  3. Ask someone if you can shadow them for a day and watch them work.  Offer to volunteer, be an assistant, or intern for someone you think you can learn from.
 
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June 22nd, 2010

Success Principle #8 – Chunk it Down

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The secret of getting started is breaking your long, complex, time-consuming, and overwhelming projects or objectives into small, manageable chunks or tasks that can be completed in less than a day, and then starting on the first one IMMEDIATELY.

Often many of our most important goals seem overwhelming.  We rarely see them as a series of many small, easily achievable tasks.  However, in reality – they are just that.  Breaking down a large project into smaller tasks – and then accomplishing each of them one-at-a-time – is exactly how any big goal gets accomplished.

So, after you have decided upon clearly what you want, set measurable goals with specific deadlines, the next step is to determine all of the individual action steps that must be taken to accomplish your goal.

So, exactly “How do you chunk it down?”

Actually, there are several ways to approach the situation.  One option would be to speak to others who have already done what you are wanting to do and find out what they learned in the process; what are their ‘best practices’.  What steps did they take?  What did they learn along the way that might help you avoid the mistakes they made while completing their goal.

Another way is to purchase a book, audio, DVD that outlines the process.

You could start from the end and look backwards.  You’d simply close your eyes and imagine “What was the last step you did to achieve your goal?”  Then you would imagine, what did you do before that, and the thing you did before that… and keep working backwards all the way back to where you started.

Remember that it’s okay not to know how to do something.  It’s okay to ask for guidance and advice from those who do know.  Sometimes you can get it free, and sometimes you have to pay for it.  Learn to get comfortable with asking “Can you tell me how I would go about…?” and “What would I have to do to…?” and “How did you…?”  Keep asking until you get a clear picture of just what you will have to do to put together a clear step-by-step plan to get you from where you are to where you want to be.

What will you need to do?  Who will you need to help you?  How long will it take?  How much money will you need?  What skills will you need to learn?  Who will you need to enlist in your vision?  What disciplines or habits will you need to establish?  A salient technique for creating an action plan to accomplish your goals known as

MIND MAPPING

.  See pages 63 – 66 in The Success Principles for more details.

 
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May 27th, 2010

Success Principle #7: Engage the Power of Goal-Setting

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Engage the power of goal-setting to Get Everything You Want – Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible!  Happiness requires goals.  Earl Nightingale once wrote, “Happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal or goal.”  The truth is, you feel happiest when you are making step-by-step progress toward something that is important to you.  Victor Frankl, the author of Man’s Search for Meaning, stated that the greatest need of human beings is for a sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Goals provide you with a sense of purpose and meaning – they give you a sense of direction.  As you move forward toward the completion of your goals you feel more competent and confident in yourself and your abilities.

Once you know your life’s purpose, formulate your vision, and clarify what your true wants, needs, and desires are, you have to convert them into specific, measurable goals and objectives and then act upon them with the certainty you will achieve them.  Humans are goal-seeking beings.  Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work continuously to achieve.

How Much, By When

One acronym you may be familiar with when it comes to goal-setting is the SMART goal formula.  It goes as follows:

  • Specific – your goals must be specific; you must describe your goal in such detail that an outsider who has no knowledge of your goal would know exactly what it was that you wanted with no chance of misunderstanding
  • Measurable – the completion of your goals must be measurable; this is the ‘When’; by when will your goal be completed?  Make it specific; i.e. 6:00 PM EDT, Monday May 31, 2010
  • Action-oriented – you must be able to take action on your goal and you must take some action immediately after setting your goal to begin to create momentum; nothing really happens until you take action!
  • Relevant – goals must be related to your purpose and vision; being clear about your purpose and holding your vision clearly in your mind, your goals must be relevant to this vision
  • Timely – related to ‘measurable’, your goals must move you closer to the completion of your vision; be sure to chunk your goals down into steps you can complete in a short period of time so you are making regular progress toward the completion of one of your larger goals

If you are missing any of these criteria, your desire becomes more of a ‘wish’, ‘preference’, or simply a ‘good idea’.  In order to fully engage your subconscious mind, your goal must fulfill all of the above criteria.  for example:

I want to make more money

GOOD IDEA GOOD GOAL
I want to make more money I earn $1000 per day by 6:00 PM EST, Saturday December 31, 2010
I need to lose some weight I weigh 128 lbs. by 9:00 AM PDT, Sunday May 31, 2011

If you examine the commonalities of all religions, philosophies, metaphysics, psychology, and success you’ll learn that all of them agree on this one truth: “You become what you think about most of the time”.  Your outer world ultimately becomes a reflection of your inner world, mirroring back to you what you think about.  Whatever you think about continuously over time emerges as your reality.

I want to make more money
 
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May 17th, 2010

The “F” Factor is Your Ultimate Resource…

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Did I get your attention?  What are you thinking might be your ultimate resource that begins with the letter “F”?  What I’m referring to is something so powerful most people take it for granted.  What would the “Ultimate Resource” be?  What is it we use when we find ourselves in a place where we just have to make things happen even when there’s nothing there to support us?   When we’re in a place where everything we’ve learned, all our skills, all our abilities don’t seem to be able to help us really turn things around or take us to the next level?  What is it we use to take our lives way beyond what we’ve ever done before to really make our lives work?  What I’m referring to is FAITH.  It is the power within us to create greater power, greater meaning, and greater results than we ever thought possible.

Rather than me going on in text format here, I want to share a message from one of my long-time mentors as he share tremendous insight into what faith is exactly and how we can employ it to shift our lives to an entirely new level.  So, click on the following link and listen to one of the most powerful presentations on the power of faith.  This clip was recorded in late 2001 or early 2002 but the principles are timeless – thus why I feel they are important to share with you now.

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May 5th, 2010

Success Principle #6: Become an Inverse Paranoid – Believe in Serendipity and Synchronicity

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I’ve adopted the belief that this is a friendly universe and that everyone and everything is trying to help me succeed. Unfortunately, too many people think just the opposite; they are paranoid and think everyone is out to do them harm. If you understand the power of intention, you’ll clearly see how I am expecting good things to happen to me, and they usually do. Where if you expect bad things to happen to you, you’ll rarely be disappointed – so to speak.

Imagine how much easier it will be to succeed in life if you were constantly expecting the world to support you and bring you opportunity. Successful people do just that. In fact, I have a sign above my desk that says: “Today the world is plotting to do me good. I can’t wait to see what’s next!” Serendipity – the faculty of fortunate discoveries coming into your awareness – intersecting your consciousness is real. When you are on purpose in your life, when you are projecting intention to serve the greater good, the people, resources, and opportunities just show up in your life. It’s a beautiful universe.

Synchronicity occurs when you are in just the right place at precisely the right time. “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”. Again, when you are acting with intention – you have positive expectancy and are crystal clear about what you want, the universe responds by providing it to you. Some say it is coincidence, but when it occurs on a regular basis – it’s beyond coincidence. There is a higher power flowing throughout the universe. As I have said before, we live in an energy universe. Everything is energy including you and me and all of our thoughts, feelings, emotions – EVERYTHING is a form of energy. Love is the highest form of energy. In fact, that was the real message from Jesus over 2000 years ago, ‘Love yourself, Love your neighbor, Love everything in creation’.

When you have this attitude (and attitude is everything), suddenly obstacles and challenges are not seen as just another instance of “the world is conspiring against me”, but as an opportunity to grow and change – and succeed. If you’re a woman and your car suddenly breaks down on the side of the highway, rather than imagining that the person who stops to help you is a serial rapist, rather you imagine that the man who does actually stop to help you is the man you end up falling in love with and marrying! Or if your company downsizes you out of your job, suddenly the chances are good you’ll find your dream job with more opportunities and at much better pay. If you develop some type of cancer, the possibility exists that in the process of prioritizing your life to effect a cure, you’ll create a healthier and more balanced life and discover what is truly most important to you.

Think about it… has there ever been a time in your life when something awful happened that later became a blessing in disguise?

“Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill, Author of the all-time success classic
Think and Grow Rich

I’m sure you can think back in your life when something happened – you flunked a class, perhaps you even failed a grade, you were fired from your job, got divorced, experienced the death of a friend, were injured in a car or motorcycle accident, you suffered the failure of a business, you had to file bankruptcy, had a catastrophic illness or medical condition, your house burned down – and later, perhaps years later, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The secret is to realize that no matter what is going on in your life right now, if it’s not what you wanted or had hoped for, just know it is going to turn out better in the future. So expect the lemons in your life today to be transformed into lemonade tomorrow. The more you look for the good in life, the sooner and more often it will show up. So, if you take the attitude that it’s coming, the less upset and discourage you will be while you’re waiting for it.

Look for the opportunity in everything. What if you were to greet every interaction in your life with the question “What’s the potential opportunity here?”

The reality is that the truly super-successful people in the world don’t see problems, they see the opportunity in every conversation, in every interaction and they know something good will come of it. And by the Law of Attraction, they know what they expect and seek, they will find. If you take the approach that there are no accidents – that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason and a purpose and it serves you.

 
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    Sure, people have used the Law of Attraction to help them in many areas of life, from love and relationships to career to health. But wealth seems to be the area of priority for most people, and ironically, it also seems to be the area most people find least success in. It almost feels like there’s a correlation…

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