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The Purpose of this Page
The purpose of this page is to motivate, educate, and inspire all those who want to become and stay success conscious. It will consist of articles, quotes, and links to other great sites guaranteed to give you the mental cleanse that you need.
We live in a world that is bombarded with negativity and to be successful, our minds need to be washed of negative thoughts that produce negative emotions that give off negative vibrations. Once we are sending out negative vibration, we attract more of what we do not want into our lives.
The way to insure the outcomes that we want in your lives, we need to be filled with positive emotions. Positive emotions come from thoughts about want we really want in our lives. These thoughts come from the kind of words we speak and even think. To become a magnet of success we need to have positive self-talk that issues in positive thoughts. Positive thoughts give us great feelings and these great feelings give off vibrations that attract into our lives more of what we want and less of what we do not want.
Our emotionalized thoughts are like radio signals. If I wanted to pick-up music on 104.9FM, I would not dial into 610AM talk radio and expect to get the contemporary Christian music that the FM station offers. If we think (tune-in) about the things that we do not want, we cannot expect the things that we do want to show up in our lives. That is the purpose of this page and even the entire website. Our minds are both transmitters and receivers, so be careful about what you are letting you mind dwell on. MAKE SURE YOU SCROLL THIS ENTIRE PAGE FOR ITEMS OF INTEREST. I just received an email from a team member that was inspiring. It said that network marketing is like an aircraft taking off; it expends more energy during take off and its climb to reach cruising altitude than at any other time of the flight. This is true in MLM as well. To get YOUR business off the ground will take a lot of your time and energy in the beginning. But once you reach cruising altitude in your business, it gets much easier. From my experience this takes about two years or less. The question is; do you have what it takes to get to where you want to go? Most people just putz around hoping that they will get "lucky!" Forget about luck! The successful make their own "luck" by taking consistent action every single day. If you want to have success, get off the ground first! If you don't know how, contact me! I will help you build your business and provide the inspiration that you need to make your dreams come true. I don't care what business you are in, I will give you a helping hand anytime. When you start out in network marketing you are like a jet loaded with tons of cargo. That "cargo" wants to bog you down and keep you from taking off. The amount of "baggage" that you have will determine the amount of fuel and thrust that will be needed to take off! If you are like most folks, you have plenty of "baggage." This “baggage” shows up as doubt, fear, and procrastination. Where does the fuel and thrust come from? It comes from a burning desire. It comes for your "why." If your reason for being in network marketing is not strong enough to overcome procrastination, doubt and fear, you will crash and burn somewhere between take off and the cruising altitude. Most don’t even make it off the runway! You will also need a like-minded team to keep you fueled up and motivated to reach your goals. There is simply no other way. Your MLM plane never lands, you need in-flight fueling that comes from a team that helps feed your PMA (positive mental attitude) and cheers you on toward your goal(s). That's why I HATE the hype out there. The hypster's play into your desire to have something for nothing; they play into your fear of selling, meetings, time consumption, and need of contacting people. It’s in our nature to want to have things without effort. However just forget that junk! You have to work! You have to expend time and make contact with other people! You have to be involved with a team that will urge you on when things get tough! You have to have awesome consumable products that people will continue to want! Do not get involved with anyone or anything that promises the way of ease because you will end up being very disappointed! If you want to make it BIG, you CAN! It is up to YOU! However, if you don't know where to begin, let me know. Like I said, I am here to help and will plug you into resources that will help you grow YOUR business. And no, you don’t have to join mine! The MLM success secret of knowing that it is always harder in the beginning will help you understand that struggling is normal, but it will get easier and more rewarding as you work at getting your business off the ground. Just fuel up, get on the runway and give it all the thrust that you have. Get your MLM off the ground and keep applying the power until you reach your cruising altitude. When you do, you will look back and say, “WOW, is sure was worth it!”
THINKING FAST...INVITATION OF CHANGE YOU WAY OF THINKING
Our thinking determines our life. Your life is the some total of your thoughts to this day. If you don't like what you see, I would like to invite you to a 40-fast. This is not a fast from food, but a fast from wrong thinking. This fast is Biblically based and is conducted by Gregory Dickow Ministries. Everyday, from the day you join (it's FREE), you will be sent an email from Gregory Dickow with a thought you need to change and with help on how to do so. This is a necessity for anyone wanting to have a mind that creates a life that is wanted. Take the challenge and join the revolution today. Click HERE to join for free.
It's Always Harder in the Beginning
What is Faith? Note: This article in intended to add hope and assurance to anyone who reads it. My goal is to augment to life of all those I come in contact with. I wrote this particularly for fellow network marketers who are struggling to make their businesses grow to achieve the financial and time freedom that we all desire. Faith plays a huge role in living a successful life. I hope that you will find this encouraging as you make your pilgrimage here on earth and do it with zest and thankfulness. Now let’s endeavor to answer the question, “What is faith?” The Bible (Hebrews 11:1) answers this question the best, “Now faith is the assurance of what is hoped for, the conviction of what is not seen.” Wow, is that a loaded statement! Faith is the assurance, the pledge, guarantee, and certainty of mind that what you do not see, IS! Faith is the conviction, the certainty of what is not seen as already existing. Faith is believing in something that you cannot see as already yours; you are just waiting for its manifestation. Another one of my favorite Bible passages is in the gospel of Mark and it says, “Have faith in God. I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you, all things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.” This is one of the most profound verses I have every read about faith. Faith is believing that you have RECEIVED, already, what you asked for. It is only when you believe is such a way that you will have what you want. Notice that there is also the matter of speaking involved. You also need to speak the things you want into being. You need to speak of what you want in such a way that you talk as though you already have it! Faith is an elusive thing and very hard to possess in a world where everything seems to go against it. We have a tendency to believe what we see, hear, feel, touch, and smell. Our five senses are so strong they can wipe out faith very easily. Our environment speaks doubt, fear, and unbelief into us and leaves us unable to possess the things in life we really want. People and circumstances around us destroy our faith and leave us like a ship without a rudder; tossed by the winds of life with little or no sense of direction. What do you really want? That is the first thing that you must focus on. Do not even think about what you do not want in life; pay attention to the things you want. Think about them, write them down, dream about them and speak of them as though you already possess them and you shall have them. Stay clear of negative people and news outlets. They will only detail your faith. There are several good illustrations of people who possessed outstanding faith, but my favorite is Thomas Edison. Here is a man who believed that he could harness to power of electricity to produce light. His dream was to produce the first incandescent light bulb. Here is a man that tried over 10,000 times to make his dream a reality. Think about what people said about him? He probably heard all kinds of discouraging things like: “That will never work!” or “When are you going to give up on that contraption?” or “You are crazy for wasting you time on something that clearly won’t work!” No doubt he heard it all, but that did not stop him. Why, you may ask? He never gave up because he believed that he already possessed the answer. His belief overcame the doubt and fear that sometimes passed through his mind. He stay focused and on course. He thought it impossible not to have what he set his mind on…and he was right! Thomas Edison became on of the top investors of all time because of his belief. Thomas Edison did something that 99% of the population would never do. He took action every single day until he received what he believed he already possessed. After over 10,000 attempts (some would call failures), Thomas Edison received the answer to his challenge while coming out of one of his infamous cat naps. If anything should encourage you to keep on keeping on, it should be the story of this man! You can have anything that you can imagine if you would only believe! If you believe you can, you will! What do you want? Have you reached the point that you feel that you have already obtained it? Do you feel that what you want is already yours? If you do, you will most assuredly acquire it! This is a law! As there is a law of gravity; there is the law of faith. The law of faith will work every time, without fail. How does one get such faith? Mainly by hearing and speaking. Give heed to what you hear. Surround yourself with positive speaking and speak to yourself positively. Ask yourself good questions, and answers will come. Speak of what you want. Surround yourself with C.D.’s, videos, and people that support you in your quest. Eventually you will build up such faith that, though you don’t actually possess what you want yet, you feel as though you already possess it…and guess what? You will possess that thing! Stay clear of negative people and environments that do not feed your belief. Don’t give any attention to them. Most people are just jealous and will hold you back if you are not careful. They will tell you that your dream is crazy and it won’t work. They will tell you to play it safe and don’t take risks. They will tell you to calm down and think about how stupid your dream is. I am telling you right now; don’t give those thoughts any attention! What I am writing is as certain as the sun rises in the east and settles in the west. You can have what you want if you take possession of your mind, focus on what you want, speak of what you want and allow faith to possess you and bring to you that very thing! There was a woman in the Bible that suffered from hemorrhaging for over 38 years. She spent all of her livelihood seeking medical help, but to no avail. She heard about Jesus and all the healings that he performed. That hearing caused faith to rise up in her heart. She eventually sought Jesus but could not get to him because of the crowds. So she thought to herself, “If I could only touch the fringe of his garment, I will be healed.” She took action and, I believe crawled to Him though the crowd and touch the hem of His garment and was immediately healed. Though many surrounded Jesus and were touching him, only one truly had faith and because of her faith Jesus perceived power going out of Him from her touch of faith. When Jesus perceived this, he said, “Who touched me?” His disciples said that everyone was touching Him, but he knew there was one who touched Him in faith. Eventually the woman rose up and confessed that it was her. Do you know what Jesus then said to her? “Your faith has healed you!” Who healed who? To the woman, Jesus healed her; but to the Master, the woman’s faith healed her. This is an important lesson. Your faith is powerful and God responds to it by manifesting what you believe. That’s why Jesus and the woman had the responses that they did. You do your part…believe--and God does His part—manifesting what you believe. It’s more up to you than Him. He has now problem, it’s you that need to develop the faith that makes dreams come true. Napoleon Hill called God, Infinite Intelligence. He did this as to not offend anyone regarding their particular belief in God. Personally, I believe in one unique God, the Creator of us all and Jesus Christ, the Saviour of all mankind. He is awesome and we are wonderfully made by Him. We were made to know Him and enjoy His creation and all the wonderful things that He provided for us. He gave us a mind, emotion and will to build successful lives on this earth. Don’t forfeit your right to have and be anything you want to be by not exercising the law of faith. What the mind can conceive and believe; it can achieve. So do what you can, feed your faith by positive thinking, hearing, and speaking. Before you know it, you too will develop unstoppable faith—the kind that moves mountains!
Faith Diversified by Doubt
We live by faith, or we do not live at all. Everything we do is an act of faith. When you get in your car to take a trip, you have faith that you will reach the destination. When you eat healthy food and exercise, you have faith that you will live at a ripe old age. Even many terminally ill people have faith that they will overcome their disease. When you invest in your 401K you have faith that it will grow into a large nest egg for your retirement. You get married by faith, raise your children by faith, pursue your education by faith and the list goes on. So you see, without some form of faith, you wouldn’t even get out of bed in the morning!
Someone said, we either venture or vegetate because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. Jesus said, by faith we can move mountains. I say that without faith you cannot even move an ant hill. I have learned, and am learning, that faith is not a steady thing. It ebbs and flows like an ocean current. We exchange a life of doubt diversified by faith for a life of faith diversified by doubt.
Yesterday you may have been filled with hope about your network marketing business after a positive conversation with a new prospect. Today that very prospect may have disappointed you by not calling you back as he or she said they would—thus doubt set in and discouragement ensued. In network marketing, or in anything for that matter, we need faith strong enough to overcome our doubts.
What would have happened if Thomas Edison let doubt overcome his faith? What would have happen if Mr. Edison, in doubt, gave up after 9,999 failed attempts to produce an incandescent lamp? How many of us have that kind of faith? What would have happened if the Wright Brother’s, Henry Ford, Napoleon Hill or myriads of others would have let doubt overcome their faith? The world that we live in would be a different place, wouldn’t it?
Who doesn’t get discouraged? Who doesn’t have doubts? My friend, it is the person who does not let their doubts overcome their faith, but rather overcomes their doubts by their faith that will experience outstanding success. Though faith and doubt exist; faith must overcome all doubt to have the success that you are seeking in network marketing or any other endeavor.
Do you have faith enough to carry you through your doubts? I believe that you do. When doubts arise, as they will, don’t let them get you down. Go beyond doubt, in faith that what you are seeking, you will find. When doubts arise, go ahead, take one more step in faith and just see what will happen. Look at what happened to the great ones I mentioned above. They were not unlike you, except maybe in one point; their faith was greater than their doubt and it was that faith that carried them through to victory. You can be just like them and you must to have the success you desire.
The MLM success secret of having more faith than you do doubt is critical to your network marketing success and success in all facets of life for that matter. Faith requires action. It is when you stop taking action that doubt will win. So get up and go and don’t stop taking steps of faith until doubts diminish and your dreams become a reality.
Control Your Focus Through Questions Do you want to gain control of your life and shape your own destiny? Do you want to rule over your feelings instead of being controlled by them? The answer is FOCUS. What you focus on controls the feelings that you have and the life that you live. This is especially important for us MLMer’s. It gets pretty discouraging sometimes in this business. You spend hours trying to build your business and it seems to just crawl along. The problem may not be your business; it may be what you are focusing on. The important thing is when you are not seeing the results that you want; try changing what you are focusing on. When you change your focus; your feelings and results will change as well. How do you change your focus? The key is asking questions. When conversing with others, the person asking the questions is controlling the conversation. They are actually determining the focus by their questions. Now if you want to change your focus, start asking yourself better questions. You may ask yourself this question, “Why I am failing in my business?” That is a bad question because it forces you to focus on your failure. A better question would be, “What can I do to make my business better?” By rephrasing the question you have changed your focus concerning your business and thus your feelings and life path have changed as well. Asking yourself good questions is important to keep growing and expanding your home-based business. “What can I do to better promote myself?” “Where is a better place to advertise?” These are good questions because they keep you focused on a positive outcome. When you are feeling bad, depressed, or discouraged, I would ask you to consider the questions that you have been asking yourself that got you into that state. Once you realize what questions got you there; change them into good questions that will give you the feelings and outcome that you desire. MLM is a great business. Don’t become a casualty by losing your focus. Stay focused by always asking yourself great questions. The best to all of you! Remember Thomas Edison? Mr. Edison had an idea that became an obsession. He wanted to develop an electric lamp. He had the firm belief that it could be done, but he wasn’t quite sure how to go about it. It didn’t seem to matter to him about not knowing how; he just knew that it could be done and went about experimenting. He tried over 10,000 times…beating his head against “the wall” for a breakthrough. Finally, during a little catnap, which Mr. Edison was often known to do, he had a dream that revealed to him the secret to making his dream come true. I will not get into the details here, but we all know the outcome—he invented the first incandescent light bulb! After over 10,000 seeming failures his dream became a reality. What was Mr. Edison’s secret? Was it is smarts? Was it his luck? I believe the secret was that he NEVER gave up. He KNEW that he would be successful and that it was just a matter of time. Because of his belief and persistence the very thing he strongly desired became his reality! After that experience, success came much easier for Mr. Edison. It’s almost like he paid his “dues” and after such determination subsequent successes just flowed to him. I have been to his summer home in Never giving up is a critical MLM success secret. Very few will ever have this kind of determination, but it is essential to the person who desires massive success. Most of the earth’s population does not understand this principle. Success eludes them because, when the going gets tough, they just give up! How many successes have been missed by an hour! Maybe one more hour, day, or month would have taken them from the poor house to a multi-millionaire status! There are many stories of people giving up too soon and others picking up where they left off only to strike it rich! If the quitter would have just hung in there a little longer it could have been theirs! What a difference a day can make! Just think what would had happened if Thomas Edison gave up at “failure” number 999? There seems to be a law that says you can never have what you are not willing to fight for. I don’t know what the name of this law should be, but I believe it exists. So, to all my fellow network marketers out there I say, take courage! Don’t ever give up on your dreams! When you don’t feel like spending an hour on your business, at least spend 5 minutes. Do something every single day. Pray, visualize, talk about and study your business. And as sure as the sun rises from the east and sets in the west; your dreams will come true if you only believe and never give up! Develop Your Faith A few weeks ago, I gave a message to a church I visited about faith. Faith is an interesting thing. Faith brings the invisible things that we hope for into the visible world. In the congregation there was a young man and I asked him: “If you could have any car that you wanted, what would that be?” He replied without hesitation, “A Hummer!” I then asked, “What color would that Hummer be?” He replied quickly, “Black!” I then told him, “What would you think if I pulled a Title out of my pocket, right now, with your name on it saying that you owned a 2008 Hummer?” He stated that it would indicate that he owned the Hummer. I then told him, “That is faith!” Though he did not “see” the actual Hummer, he could believe that he owned one because of a piece of paper called a Title Deed. Faith is a Title Deed of the things we hope for. Though we may not see the actual thing we hope for, we KNOW that we have it because of faith. If you held a Title Deed to a home that you never saw, you would believe that you owned that home, though you had never seen it. If you held a winning lottery ticket and the number on it indicated that you won 20 million dollars you would believe it, even though you have not seen the actual 20 million dollars yet. This is what faith is; it is believing that you possess what you cannot see. If you are in a network marketing business or MLM what you need to bring the success you hope for into reality is faith. You need faith that you will succeed and your dreams will come true. But where does faith come from? It comes from hearing. What you hear will determine your faith. If you hear all kinds of negative junk over and over, you will eventually believe what you hear and that will form your belief. If you hear all kinds of positive things over and over; you will believe them and your faith will increase. Therefore take heed as to what you hear! In network marketing (MLM), to develop your faith, it is essential that you get on your company calls. Get with your team members and talk about possibilities. Listen over and over to the success stories of others in your company. Talk to those who have had success and let their stories fill you with faith! Get with your sponsor on a weekly if not daily basis. Don’t try to build a business on your own. If you are like 97% of the population, your day is filled with negativity. You need to hear the possibilities. You need to dream big. Have pictures of what you want all around you. Develop a goal and desire statement. Read it over and over again…out loud. Speak your desire statement into a recorder and play it over and over so you can hear it and watch your faith grow! All things are possible to he or she who believes. So don’t hang around negative faithless people who are going nowhere. To develop your faith, stick with your sponsor and your upline. They will keep you encouraged and on track for success. If your sponsor has or is failing to help you, find someone who can. And whatever you do, don’t give up. Keep the faith! Limiting Beliefs Will Steal Your Dreams It is said that when an elephant is young it is tied to a huge post; one much bigger than necessary to keep the animal from breaking free. As the elephant tries and tries to break free day after day it finally gives up. The elephant is conditioned to believe it cannot escape. As it grows, the post it is tied to becomes no match for the elephant’s mighty strength, however because of its conditioning it doesn’t even try to break free. The second story was told by Zig Ziglar. I heard it years ago, so Zig, don’t take offense if I don’t tell it exactly right. In an experiment, fleas were placed in a jar with cellophane placed over its mouth. An air supply was provided. When first placed in the jar, the fleas jump and jumped hitting the cellophane at the mouth of the jar. They tried and tried until one day they no longer jumped that high. I guess they were getting tired of hitting there heads against the cellophane! Do fleas have heads? Eventually the cellophane was taken away and not one of the fleas tried to escape. Why? They gave up because they were conditioned to believe that they could not get out. We also, since our birth, were conditioned and this conditioning formed beliefs within us. And many of these beliefs are LIMITING! Let’s say you came from a family with below average income. You saw your father and mother struggle from pay check to pay check to make ends meet. Over time you may have formed a belief that everyone in your family has to live this way because no one in your family tree ever became rich. Then one day you had a dream of having your own network marketing company and becoming a millionaire. The dream is real and wonderful, but for some reason you go from program to program failing time and time again. You blame everyone and everything. However, the problem may be your limiting beliefs. You may say, I believe I can be a millionaire! But inwardly, deep down, there is the hidden limiting belief that says you can’t. What we want to believe and our limiting beliefs cannot dwell together. They create conflict. In order for a new belief to take hold, we must dig up the limiting belief, feel its pain and let go of it! One way to do this is to write it out on a piece of paper. Make sure you feel the pain of the limiting belief that is holding you back. Then write out the new belief on a separate piece of paper; one that empowers and excites you…then burn the paper with the old limiting belief. Get rid of it. Even if you have to put it through the shredder! Take the new belief and read it aloud daily. Feel the excitement and pleasure it brings you. The key word is to feel it. These rich feelings will draw the things you desire into your life, now that the conflict is gone. Once we recognize and deal with our limiting beliefs we can form new ones that will help bring the things we truly want into our lives. I will give you one of my famous Bible stories… There was a woman, who according to the Bible, had an issue of blood for 38 years. She went from doctor to doctor and not one could cure her of her hemorrhaging. She had a belief that only doctors could help her. Well, eventually she spent all she had to no avail. She was desperate and helpless. One day she heard about a man named Jesus who was healing all manner of sicknesses. She abandoned her old limiting belief that only doctors could save her and formed a new one, “If only I could touch the hem of His garment I will be healed.” The crowds were pressing Jesus, but that did not deter this woman’s acting according to her new belief. She crawled on the ground until she reached Jesus and touched His garment. At once she was healed and at the same time Jesus perceived power had gone out from Him. When Jesus perceived the power released from Him, He asked, “Who touched Me?” The disciples basically said, “Are you nuts; the crowds are pressing against you!” But Jesus replied, “No, someone touched me.” At once the woman rose up and admitted that she was the one who touched him. Jesus said to her, “Your faith has made you well.” Her new belief brought her the healing she craved. Friend, if something is stopping you from achieving your dreams, you can be sure that there is a limiting belief lurking in the depths of your being that is keeping you from reaching those dreams. Maybe it’s been there for 38 years like the hemorrhaging woman. To dig it out you may need some coaching. If you are in a good program, your sponsor should be able to help you through the use of questions. If not, contact me and let’s see what we can do to expose those limiting beliefs and deal with them so you can attract to the things you truly want in your life. Guard Your Mind Look around you. Who you are and what you have is the result to how you have been thinking. If you want to change the outcome of your life, simply change the income your mind! God, in his infinite wisdom, gave us a will, whereby we can harness and control what comes and goes from our mind. How do you control your mind? This is accomplished by the exercise the will. I believe that this is the main function of the will. When your mind begins to think negative thoughts simply change those thoughts to something positive by using your will. It is that simple. Are you depressed? Use your will to focus your mind away from what is depressing you. Take your focus off of what you do not want and put it on what you DO want. Don’t use lame excuses for letting your mind go wild. A mind that is not controlled is wasted and will only produce a life that is aimless and void of direction and purpose. But a mind focused on what you want, through the use of the will, will produce a life full of purpose and meaning. Think about it; you can have any life you chose if you would just focus your mind on the things you want and get it off of the things that you don’t want. Another important part of our makeup is the emotion. Our emotion is like an alarm system. Let me explain. If you are thinking negative thoughts and heading down a road that is not where you want to go, you will feel bad. You will feel depressed. You will feel hopeless. But if your thinking is positive, you will feel great! You will feel free! You will feel hopeful! The emotions (feelings) will let you know if you are on track according your goals or allowing junky thoughts to come into your mind to take you off course. Therefore, do not take your feelings for granted. They are indicators to how you are thinking. Your feelings will let you know if there is a need to change your mind to get the desired results from your life. A good question to often ask yourself is, "How do I feel?" Your mind is so important that we have been given a will to control it and feelings to help determine whether our thoughts are positive or negative. Whatever state our mind is in will determine the outcome of our minutes, days, weeks, months, and years. So take heed and guard your mind with all diligence! The Power of Words Have you ever thought about the power of words? Words are more powerful than any known substance on the earth. It is with words that we create the life that we want or create the very life we do not want. Words have started wars, brought about peace; initiated romances, and killed marriages. According to the Bible, God created the universe by speaking it into existence; and it is upheld this to very day by “the word of His power” (Genesis 1; Hebrews 1:3 of the Bible). We were made in God’s image and after His likeness and we have the God-given ability to create our life according to the words that we speak. Your life today expresses what you have been speaking over the past years, months, days, and even minutes. When you say “That makes me mad!” what state do you end up in? I can assure you that you are mad. If you say, “I am so happy!” guess what, you are happy. Our speaking promotes different states of mind. These “mind sets” send us off in that direction until our speaking changes. What we say to our self, our “self talk” controls how we feel at any given moment. Our words not only control our lives, but they can control others as well. If you tell someone that he is ugly, what do you think happens? Before you told him how ugly he was, he was happy. But after you said, “Man, are you ugly” his whole demeanor changed. How did you do that? You did it by the power of your words. If you constantly tell your kids they are stupid, they will believe it and “be” stupid. They are not stupid because of something they did; they are stupid because of what you said, and kept saying. Through your constant speaking of how stupid they are, they believe you and now manifest stupidity. If you have a headache and tell everyone how bad it is—it gets worse and hangs on all the longer. Stop talking about your ailments to others. Stop talking about your ailments to yourself. Start speaking health and health will come. Start speaking wealth, and wealth will come. Speaking of wealth; have you ever complained about your bills? Have you ever told others that you do not have enough money? If so, it is time to stop! If you keep talking about bills and lack of money, more of the same will come. Rather, be thankful for what you have. Start speaking of the abundance you have and not the lack you feel. I can assure you, things will begin to change. This is not some kind of magic; it is the power of words at work. The power of words is a God-given law, the same as is gravity. Few ever come to know this law and thus end up violating it by speaking disease, poverty, lack, hatred, and all other unwanted happenings into their lives. And yes, there are those who understand the power of words and use them to create the life that they want and desire. Start speaking with thankfulness. Start thanking God for all the good things that you have and stop complaining about the things that you don’t possess. Thank God that you are alive and start itemizing, with thanksgiving, the things good in your life. I can assure you that when you start speaking in this way, you will be blessed. All kinds of serendipitous happenings will show up in your life. Helpful people and awesome opportunities will start coming your way. Not because of some new age magic—but because of your obedience to the God-given universal law of words. Words are powerful. So take heed how you use them. Use them to bring blessings upon others and yourself. Don’t be unwise by speaking evil and hateful things to, and about others. When I go to work each morning, the first thing I try to do is to speak something positive when I enter the door. Each time I do this, I get positive feedback. What I speak to others will determine the feedback I get. I had a boss that came in very often and said, “It’s a great day to serve the corp.” Those words sent a positive response back to him from me and others in the office. Use your words to change your entire home or work environment. Do you want to get promoted at work? Start speaking words of favor to those at your place of employment. Do you want a better home life? Start speaking words that build up the family and its individual members. It is not easy to control the tongue. The Epistle of James (again in the Bible) said that the tongue is an unruly member and that it is hard to bridle (James 3:1-12). From experience, I know that this is true. However, through exercise and discipline you can control your tongue and create the life that you want. It takes practice and you have to work at it daily. But if you do harness your tongue, you will be blessed beyond measure. • The initial stage The initial stage begins with a dream; a desire or goal for something more. It’s something that occupies our thoughts and puts excitement in our lives. Children are often like this. They are filled with dreams and believe that they can achieve them until those dreams are dashed by the negativity of those around them and unbelief that “seems” to come with age. Our society is geared toward negativity and if we believe only in what we see and hear, we give up on our dreams and begin to follow the pack. It is no wonder that Jesus said that unless one becomes like a little child, he cannot enter the The majority of people (some 90% or more) are like ships without a rudder. They travel though life aimlessly under the dictates of the blowing winds or their environment and “so called” luck. Thy have no major goals. They just drift to their graves with little to show for their lives. Most only care for their little world and never realize the unlimited possibilities untapped and waiting to be discovered. Once a clear major goal is decided, the journey must begin to achieve it. Thus we come to the progressive stage. This is the hard part because the path to success is fraught with “seeming” failure, doubt, and obstacles. Why is this? I believe it is because every person who desires to reach there goals and obtain their dreams must be tested. How bad do you want to reach your goal(s)? What kind of price are you willing to pay? Can you take disappointment? Can you get back up when you are knocked down? All this will determine your level of success. I also think that the trials along the way only make it sweeter when the destination is reached. The key to this stage is not to give up too soon. Don’t be like the gold miner that started to dig for gold and got discouraged and gave up too soon. In his disappointment he sold his land and equipment to someone else who only had to dig another foot to find the richest vein of gold ever discovered! You never know how far you are from reaching your goal. It only takes one circumstance or person to drastically change everything for the good! One moment of favor outweighs an entire lifetime of labor and you never know when favor will appear in your life. To get from where you are today to where you want to be you will be faced with giants. The first giant you will face is doubt. The big bully of doubt comes in all forms. He could come as a relative saying, “Are you nuts; that won’t work! Why are you wasting your time?” Your spouse may say, “You’ve tried things like this before and failed; quite wasting our money.” Others will say, “That seems too risky, you better be safe rather than sorry.” The next giant you will face is fear (doubt and fear are buddies). You may experience the “allusion” of the fear of loss, the fear of failure and defeat or the fear of rejection and humiliation. These fears come out of nowhere and “appear” very real. But remember, they are only appearances. After all, fear in 90% of the cases is just False Evidence Appearing Real. All types of things may happen, but do not lose hope. It is imperative that you stay the course because, remember, that you are being tested for the right of passage to your major goal. Once you pass the test, your dream will, without a doubt, become reality. What an exciting day when you have obtained your goal. You have become successful! What a joy to say that you made it! Think about how Thomas Edison must have felt after over 10,000 seeming “failures” he finally developed the incandescent light bulb that changed the world forever! You too will experience that joy if you just hang in there. Keep your mind set on the things your want and use your will and passion (emotion) to keep your mind focused. Hang on to your dream(s); fight for your goal(s) and before you know it you will reach them, only to begin again to pursue better and bigger dreams, which, by the way, seem easier to obtain after passing down the road to success the first time. You can do it. You can be in the top 10% who live a successful life. Go for it! Make your dreams come true. The Strangest Secret
If you want to be a truly successful human being you have to control your life. Too many people on this earth are out of control. That is why so many are on drugs; to help bring order into their lives…so they think. Drugs only cover the symptoms. The real problem, in most cases, is focus. What you focus on usually determines how you live. Most people focus on their problems and guess what; more problems appear. Others focus on debt or sickness, and more debt and sickness appear. The successful focus on wealth, health, or abundance, and that becomes their reality. They are the thankful and know HOW to focus on what they want in life.
Don't Ever Give Up on Your Dreams!
Owning your own homed-based business can be discouraging at times. You work hard and do all the right things, but you seem to keep banging your head against a brick wall. If you are feeling like that, I have a word of advice—NEVER give up!
Years ago I heard two stories that have and are having a profound effect on my life. Both are related to training and both are pictures of how limiting beliefs can stop us of achieving greatness.
The more I consider the power of thought, the more amazed I become. God has given us a powerful tool to shape our destiny and this tool is our mind. To me, it is sad that most people do not have a clue as to how to use it. They simply let the stimuli of the environment dictate what happens in their lives. In other words, their environment controls what they think. And what they think is manifested by how they live.
The Path of Success
Success is something everyone desires, but few are willing to pay the price to obtain. Success is a process and the stages of this process are:
• The progressive stage
• The achievement stage
Earl Nightingale's recordings started me on my path to success back in 1991. I was like a ship without a rudder until I heard Mr. Nightingale's recording called "Lead the Field." I listened to it over an over and it changed my life. Now I would like to present another recording that Earl Nightingale was famous for: THE STRANGEST SECRET. Please take the time to listen to this wonderful recording. It's truth is timeless! Go HERE to download your free copy of this recording. Success is within you! The answer to all the things that you desire rests between your ears...enjoy!
