Enjoy the Journey

Last night I was watching one of my favorite movies, "Dazed and Confused". I love this movie for so many reasons, from all the great cars in it, to the fact that at 16 my now husband and I watched this movie together at his house and I got grounded for coming home at 3am because of it.

Every time I watch it I notice something new. Well, last night, I am watching this awesome movie, and a scene, that I have seen 100's of times struck a new chord with me.

3 of the characters, Mike, Tony, and Cynthia, are driving to a beer bust. They are talking about life and what is going to happen after they graduate high school. Tony brings up that he feels like this time of his life is preparation. Cynthia asks what they are preparing for, and Mike says death.

Here is where something sparked for me. Cynthia then says that if we are preparing for death, then shouldn't we be enjoying our lives now and enjoying the present now. AHA!

Stop being one of those people that go through the motions to get to the next best thing. Enjoy the process, enjoy the journey and then when you get there relish the moment. Then continue your journey to the next destination.

Along the journey you will have several wins some small, some large, celebrate all of them! But if your whole life consists of arriving and never the journey, if you do arrive, is it going to be worth all the time and moments that you missed out on?

Motivate Yourself to Achieve Success

Napoleon Hill states, "The greatest reward success brings is self-satisfaction. True success is marked by the satisfaction of knowing you have done a job and done it well - that you have achieved the goal you set for yourself."

Think about something that you really wanted that you got. A car, a house, a watch, that new flat-screen TV. When you got the money to purchase it, did the money excite you or was it the excitement of what the money was going to buy you?

So many people try and say that money drives them. In reality, what drives us is what money can do for us. I talk to people every day that tell me that they are serious about creating multiple six-figure incomes from home.

I go through the qualifying questions to weed out the people that want from the people that do. When I ask someone how much they want to make in the next 12 months a lot of them say $100K. This used to be enough of a reason for me to put them on the business overview call. Then I would call them back to get them started and they would tell me that they see the opportunity but they just don't have the $2500 to get started.

It only took me a week or two to realize what I was doing wrong. In my years in business, I had always been trained to find out someone's why because that is what is going to motivate them. People, more often than not, take action on emotion, not logic. Who wouldn't want to make $100K in the first 6-12 months of business? That is not the real qualifying question. The qualifying question is, why do you want that $100K?

The businessman that tells me he wants $200K to quit his job, that is not good enough. I will tell him to call me back when he really has a burning desire. On the other hand, the single mom that wants to make $80K a year so that she can send her son to private school and quit her job to be home with him, that is a why.

Desire drives us, motivates us, gives us a reason not to quit when the going gets tough. I used to qualify people into my business solely based on their income goals. In reality, those who have strong whys will go further than those that just want a ton of money. Then on occasion, I do get those that have a strong why and want a ton of money.

If you really want to achieve true success, dig down deep and find your burning desire, something that you wish to have in order to reach a greater goal you have set for yourself. Get passionately involved with your desire, picture having it, really experience the emotion of having it. Your desire needs to be something that is easier to live with than to live without.

Decide that no matter what, you will have it. Write down your desire and commit it to memory. When you reach an obstacle just take yourself back to how it will feel when you reach this goal, and you will find you brush aside obstacles that seemed insurmountable before.

"All things are possible to the person who believes they are possible."


Taken from Napoleon Hill's A Year of Growing Rich 

No One Drifts To Success

"What is your one definite purpose in life and what plans have you made to attain it?"

This one simple question can tell you what someone's future is going to be. Out of 100 people, 98 of them will answer this question vaguely and unsure. The other 2 will have specific goals and desires, and exact road maps to attain them. Which group do you think is on the road to success? The 2 with the road map.

Success requires a decision, decide exactly what your goal is and layout the steps you will take to reach it. Those who act with purpose and a plan attract opportunities.

If you don't know what you want, how can you attract it? If you don't know where you are going, how can you get there? Only with an unwavering definiteness of purpose, will you overcome adversity, keep going when things get difficult, and persevere when faced with hardship.

Make today the day you get on course. Decide upon a specific and definite goal and commit it to paper and memory. Decide exactly how you plan to achieve it. Then immediately begin to put your plan into action.

"Your future is what you make it. Decide now what it shall be"

- From Napoleon Hill's book, "A Year of Growing Rich"

Book Review: "The Dynamic Laws Of Prosperity" by Catherine Ponder

This is quite possibly one of my favorite books of all time. When you look at it, it's a very plain-looking cover, the title in big red letters and thick....430 pages thick. It is split into two parts, and the individual chapter titles such as "There's Gold Dust In The Air For You!", "The Vacuum Law Of Prosperity", or " Your Special Powers For Prosperity", excite you from the get-go.

If you are not yet curious about this booklet I also say that this book was written by a minister and is based on the Christian religion and lessons found in the bible, and still one of my favorites even though I have been a practicing Pagan for 14 years now. So if a Pagan can sing the praises (no pun intended) of this book, that has to say something.

Now down to why I love it so much!

For one, even though it is very thick and does not have any pictures, it gives usable lessons that are simple to follow, easy to understand, and quick to get results. The stories of others that have used these methods are moving, and the way the book is set up, it appeals to people that learn from nuts and bolts, as well as people that learn from the experiences of others and learn from emotional lessons.

Many of the lessons in the book are probably things you have read in many other books, but Ponder elaborates on each subject in great detail and breaks it down in a way that is so straightforward and easy to put into action, that you can not help but get results. To me, this book is a road map to prosperous thinking and prosperity.

Ponder uses passages from the bible and simple statements of command to attract whatever it is you want. The law of attraction is put into a step-by-step plan.

The sections of this book that made the biggest difference in my life were actually things that most people don't group with money and prosperity. Ponder puts it best by stating that prosperity is more than just wealth, it is also, happiness, health, love, and peace of mind. Basically, true prosperity is overall balance, and if one area is out of balance everything is out of balance.

I have had great results financially in my life but there are definitely areas that I let slide and now looking back, I realize how true her thinking is. For example, a big issue for me was holding grudges and not forgiving people that had wronged me.

I had always looked at people that had hurt me or been unfair to me in such a bad way. Talking about what they had done to me, speaking ill of them, wishing ill on them. Until reading this book and really thinking about it, I never realized how much dwelling on negative people was affecting me. Essentially, they were hurting me after the fact because I would not let it go.

After reading the chapter on "The Prosperity Law Of Love And Good Will", I started to assess the biggest areas of trouble in my life, all of which I could track back to people that had in some way been unfair or cruel to me. I still held grudges and decided immediately to start putting into action the lessons in this chapter to let go of this negative energy.

I used a few different methods, affirmations both written and verbal, statements of command, writing a letter to their angel, mental imaging, and the simple act of saying "I Love You." Immediately I started to see results, in fact, an issue that had been ongoing for over 2 years, started to improve in less than a week.

The funny thing is that I always thought that by being the one to take the steps to forgive, I would be losing. As soon as I started to forgive and release, I actually felt better, like a weight had been lifted. I was losing for the entire time that I was harboring hateful negative thoughts.

Like I said earlier, my financial life was already prospering but as these other neglected areas started to improve, my finances grew even faster and even easier.

While this book does cost $25, it is one of the best investments you can make. Buy it, read it over and over, and immediately put these simple lessons into action. You will start seeing so many amazing results in your life. Remember there is more to being prosperous than just your bank balance.

To your prosperity!