"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"
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Friday, October 3, 2008
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!
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!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
When Choosing Your Friends, Choose Wisely
Life is full of choices. What to eat, what to wear, where to live, who your friends are. The thing is, a lot of people aren't aware of the friends they are choosing and the people they are surrounding themselves with.
I have a lot of great friends. I also have a lot of people that I love to death but that I have to love from a distance. We email and chat on occasion but for the most part, we don't have a lot of contacts. Why?
Because I value the quality of my life too much to be around people that are not contributing to my personal growth and development. People that complain about their situation and do nothing about it. People let their circumstances control them instead of controlling their circumstances.
Over the years, I have had friends that I have had to cut out of my life. I know that I have been very lucky in having such amazing mentors and influences in my life and I enjoy being that to others. When I do have friends that are difficult to be around, I will help point them in the right direction, whether it is recommending a book to read or sharing a personal lesson with them.
What I have found is that the people that really value my friendship will either take my advice or they will refrain from being negative around me. Those that don't are people that truly deserve my friendship.
I have also found that those that do value my friendship and take my advice, end up improving their own lives profoundly, and then they rub off on their own friends. By looking out for your well-being and setting an example, you can help better the lives of those you care about.
So remember to choose your friends wisely and don't be afraid to love those that are bringing you down with them, from a distance. You aren't doing anyone any good, by joining the "poor me" club and while misery does love company, so does success!
BE the example!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Visualization
I have been a student of personal development since the age of 19 when I first started a home-based business. My company at the time would talk about dream boards, aka vision boards, attraction boxes, and attraction books. These are really just tools to help us with our visualization. Constantly seeing things we want and things that make us happy raises our energy level and also keeps our goals in front of us.
In the beginning, my biggest problem was that I wanted so many things, that I found it hard to focus on just one. I get a lot of people that ask me how to pick what to focus on first when I have a full list of dreams.
With 9 years of practice under my belt, it is probably a little easier for me to visualize and so now, I basically run a movie in my head that has most if not all the things I currently want in it. For example, waking up with the man of my dreams, taking the dogs out while we feed the horses and livestock on our ranch, then going in and doing a little work.....you get the picture. Basically running through a whole day in movie format, with all the things that I want to attract in that movie.
When I first started with visualization this was next to impossible for me. I would start to focus on something and then my focus would bounce around. So for me, and this is my way do what works for you, in the beginning, I would look at all the things I wanted to obtain or achieve and I would pick the one, that if I got it, would also allow me to accomplish the others. So I would have one major goal that I focused on and the others were more of a measurement of my progress.
In the beginning, I wanted a Dodge Ram, to live with my boyfriend, a ranch, livestock, and a place to work on my baby, a 1970 Dodge Challenger. My first step was to figure out which goal was the one to focus on which in this case, was the ranch. I searched and found the one I wanted and started visualizing living there. Three weeks later, my boyfriend and I moved into our 5 acre home in Southern California, which had a shop for me to work on my car, enough space for all the livestock we wanted, and my boyfriend had a Dodge Ram, the exact one I wanted which became ours.
As time has gone on my wants have gotten larger and more elaborate but my focus has gotten better. You really can have whatever you want as long as you are willing to do what it takes to attract it to you.
Visualization is amazing because it not only attracts what you want (and don't want) but when you really learn to use it, it can change your entire mood. Remember when you are happy, you attract more positives and when you are unhappy, nothing goes right. When you are feeling overwhelmed or down, just focus on what you want the outcome to be and really experience your "daydream." You'll change your vibration and change your mood.
A couple of last tips to remember. Visualization gets better with practice, so practice often. I visualize a few times throughout the day every day and now instead of leaving the tv on when I go to sleep, I enjoy falling asleep to my own movie. Also, don't worry about how you will get something or the details on how something will happen. Focus on the end result. I did not picture us going house hunting, opening escrow, and getting a loan for the house. I just pictured us happy and living there. The rest will fall into place, just know what you want and visualize like you already have it.
In the beginning, my biggest problem was that I wanted so many things, that I found it hard to focus on just one. I get a lot of people that ask me how to pick what to focus on first when I have a full list of dreams.
With 9 years of practice under my belt, it is probably a little easier for me to visualize and so now, I basically run a movie in my head that has most if not all the things I currently want in it. For example, waking up with the man of my dreams, taking the dogs out while we feed the horses and livestock on our ranch, then going in and doing a little work.....you get the picture. Basically running through a whole day in movie format, with all the things that I want to attract in that movie.
When I first started with visualization this was next to impossible for me. I would start to focus on something and then my focus would bounce around. So for me, and this is my way do what works for you, in the beginning, I would look at all the things I wanted to obtain or achieve and I would pick the one, that if I got it, would also allow me to accomplish the others. So I would have one major goal that I focused on and the others were more of a measurement of my progress.
In the beginning, I wanted a Dodge Ram, to live with my boyfriend, a ranch, livestock, and a place to work on my baby, a 1970 Dodge Challenger. My first step was to figure out which goal was the one to focus on which in this case, was the ranch. I searched and found the one I wanted and started visualizing living there. Three weeks later, my boyfriend and I moved into our 5 acre home in Southern California, which had a shop for me to work on my car, enough space for all the livestock we wanted, and my boyfriend had a Dodge Ram, the exact one I wanted which became ours.
As time has gone on my wants have gotten larger and more elaborate but my focus has gotten better. You really can have whatever you want as long as you are willing to do what it takes to attract it to you.
A couple of last tips to remember. Visualization gets better with practice, so practice often. I visualize a few times throughout the day every day and now instead of leaving the tv on when I go to sleep, I enjoy falling asleep to my own movie. Also, don't worry about how you will get something or the details on how something will happen. Focus on the end result. I did not picture us going house hunting, opening escrow, and getting a loan for the house. I just pictured us happy and living there. The rest will fall into place, just know what you want and visualize like you already have it.
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