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Who knew that there were so many ‘Secrets’ in life?

Hardly a day goes by without another email arriving in my in-box offering me Wealth, Health, and Unlimited Abundance. Offering me the secrets of life, tempting me with long-lost, recently rediscovered, or even brand new universal laws and principles.  Many times these emails mention the law of attraction or the law of reciprocity or some other equally vague idea.

You probably get a few of those emails too.

One thing that they all have in common is that they are full of promises. Big promises! Huge promises! But are they real? Do they deliver?

All I have to do is take out my trusty credit card and the secrets of the universe will be mine. I’ll be happy, my love life will be red-hot, my bank account will be overflowing with riches, and I’ll be driving a hot sports car and living in a big white mansion.

All I have to do is get really clear about my desires and then sit back and allow the universe to deliver my stuff.

Big promises. But do they deliver?

In a word – NO.

Trust me on this one – there is no system out there that will allow you to magically transform your life while sitting on your comfy couch flipping the channels on your remote. It’s not going to happen.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m a firm believer in the principles behind the law of attraction, but I’m always frustrated by the lack of real guidance that these systems and programs provide.

I know that you can change your life. I know that you can improve your relationships, your bank account and your levels of peace and happiness.

But you are the only one that can do that. No one else can change your life.

You have to take an active role in your life and move toward those things that you want. You have to decide that your desires are worth going after.

You have to act!

You see, unless you step up and make a decision to change, nothing in your life will change. If you keep taking the same actions and thinking the same thoughts your life will remain pretty much the way it is right now. Except that you will become more frustrated than ever!

The truth is that you are the only person who knows what you want, and more importantly, you are the only person who can make your dreams a reality.

The trouble comes when you discover that in order to bring those wonderful new desires into your life that you have to change. That you have to give up something.

This is like a big, red stop sign that pops up in your path and brings you to a screeching halt.

After all, they promised you that you could ‘have it all’, right? But now you discover that you can’t keep your old ways and still bring in all that new stuff.

That doesn’t make any sense. Either you can have it all or you can’t have it all, which is it?

You can have it all.

Just not all at once, especially if you have conflicting goals. Too many times I see students or clients becoming frustrated because they want this terrific new life, but they are unwilling to give up their old ways. They are unwilling to change their habits, their thoughts, or their beliefs.

This frustration comes from not understanding the process of growth.

You see, there really is no secret to getting what you want. You make a decision to move in a certain direction and then you move in that direction.

Imagine that you are standing on a street corner and you desire to get to the other side of the road. Do you sit down and WISH that someone would come along and carry you across? Do you ASK the universe to magically transport you, Star Trek style, to the other side?

No, you put one foot in front of the other and begin walking across the road.

You begin taking the journey to the other side.

You might have to pause or speed up to avoid getting hit by oncoming traffic, but you begin the journey by taking one step, and then another, and then another, until finally you reach your destination.

Every single dream or desire you have is reached the same way.

You could put it like this:

Growth = Change

You can’t grow if you don’t change.

Every change you make in your life has an effect upon your results. NOT changing has an effect upon your results. You can’t escape this basic principle of life.

Start today.

No matter what you dreams are, no matter how far away they seem right now, the only way to begin moving towards them is to act.

Right now.

Sure you will have challenges along the way. That’s why I’m here. To help you understand and get through them. To bring you the knowledge you need to be able to begin making those changes.

Let me know how I can help you begin creating life on your terms, creating the life of your dreams.

You only get one shot at this life, one try, one attempt to get it right.

Don’t let another day go by that you simply wish life was better.

Make it better!

Get out there and claim your dream!

Peace,

p.s.  One of the law of attraction teachers that I respect is Bob Proctor, his knowledge of success and his clear way of communicating those ideas is amazing. You can get access to a special teleseminar with Bob Proctor by clicking here ==> Special Bob Proctor teleseminar access.

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Bee positive! You'll grow!

Today’s power affirmation is all about increasing abundance in your life. You want more abundance in your life, right? We all do. It’s only natural. Feeling abundant is a major part of feeling happy or peaceful, and happiness and peacefulness are two of the most sought after prizes in life. The key to unlocking your happiness or your inner peace is to learn to feel the abundance in your life.

How do you do that? How do you learn to ‘feel’ the abundance in your life?

By using power affirmations. Power affirmations can help you create the changes that you want to make within yourself.

By affirming and reaffirming your beliefs about abundance and about the inner qualities that you want to develop, you will see your life start to change.

Developing the qualities of an abundant person should be your first priority if you are serious about creating more abundance. Some of those qualities are:

• Gratitude – Abundant people are grateful for what they have now and for what they will have in the future. (I’ve written several posts about the things that I’m grateful for. What are you grateful for?)
• Open Mind – Abundant people are open to opportunity. They are willing to accept their desires when those desires appear from unexpected directions.
• Giving – Abundant people live right smack dab in the middle of the river of life and they allow abundance to flow through themselves rather than trying to contain it and hold it all in.
• Positive Thinker – Abundant people see the upside of every situation. They know that life is dualistic and that every negative event has a positive aspect to it.

Those are just a few of the qualities of an abundant mindset that you might want to work into your own power affirmation to help you create your ultimate life.

Here is today’s power affirmation:

I am abundant. I am grateful for all of the abundance in my life right now and for all the wonderful ways that my life is becoming more and more abundant every day. I am always open to receiving more into my life and I look for, and expect, my desires to manifest into my reality. I am abundant in thought, word, and deed. I choose to always focus on the positive side of any situation, and I look for ways to allow more abundance into my life. I am a giver. I give what I can freely and without  hesitation. I am abundant!

Use this power affirmation on a consistent basis and you will begin changing not just the way you look at abundance, but the very levels of abundance in your life will increase as well!

Peace,

p.s. Learning to affirm your success is just one of the skills we cover in the Inner Circle of Success.  The Inner Circle is my members-only self improvement study group and we’d love to have you join us!

p.p.s. Are you using positive daily affirmations, or power affirmations as part of your routine? Why not share your efforts with your fellow readers by leaving a comment below? Thanks!

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Gratitude.

No fancy subtitles, no play on words, no keyword-stuffed headline for the search engines to latch onto…

Just a feeling of gratefulness, nothing more. s9wft5nyb3

A moment ago I sat down at my computer to do some work, and as I was settling into my chair I was overcome by a sensation of gratefulness, a gratefulness that I could literally feel flowing through my body like a soft, gentle ocean wave.  I closed my eyes and allowed myself to sink into the emotion that I was feeling. As I surrendered to this blissful experience, an image of my wife asleep in the other room appeared in my mind’s eye.

YES! I thought, I am so grateful for the love and support of my wife. I cherish her, and the truth is that her love is a huge part of the abundance that I am grateful for each and every day. She encourages me, she lifts me up, and she is pretty good at giving me a kick in the rear when I need it.

This got me to thinking about some of the other things that I’m grateful for, and I have to tell you, that between my wife and my daughter I have been blessed with more love than I sometimes feel I deserve.

But, and this is what I wanted to share with you, as I was sitting there letting my thoughts go from one thing to the next, I realized that I was grateful for feeling grateful. That’s right, I was grateful for feeling grateful.

Let me explain. When I allow myself to truly appreciate the good things in my life it is easy to move into that abundance mindset that energizes me and keeps me focused on creating the life that I desire. It is easier to avoid the distractions and temptations that could keep me from doing the important things that I have already decided are important. When I am feeling appreciative and grateful I feel abundant. I feel alive. I feel connected to my purpose and to my intentions.

As I was experiencing this wonderful feeling I knew that I had to share this important idea with you here. I know that you have probably read about gratitude before, but do you truly understand the importance it plays in your ability to create changes in your life? (By the way, click here and you can read some posts about gratitude on my old blog.)

Being grateful allows you to feel the abundance that you have in your life right now.

You might be like me and sometimes have a hard time constantly living in a mindset of abundance, especially if you are in the middle of trying to change or improve your life. The problem, and it is a common problem, is that you are approaching the process of change from a mindset of lack, rather than one of abundance. If you focus on the lack in your life, that will be all you see. If, instead, you choose to focus on those things that you are grateful for you will find yourself seeing all kinds of abundance in your life right now. Not only that, you will also begin seeing more opportunities for abundance to come into your life.

Why? Because that is what you focused on. Whether you ‘believe’ in the principles behind the law of attraction or not, I think you can see that unless you are focused on something that it won’t come into your life, right? I mean, you aren’t going to lose thirty pounds by accident, you aren’t going to get a big fat raise by accident, no one is going to leave a brand new sports car in your driveway by accident.

Focus on abundance and you will subconsciously be looking for more ways to bring the abundance you desire into your life. Focus on lack and you will subconsciously be looking for more ways to acknowledge the areas of your life that you feel are lacking in something. Which is a better way to spend your time and energy?

Expressing your gratitude is an excellent way to get in touch with your sense of abundance, and spending a moment or two each day writing down those things you are grateful for right now is a simple way to do just that. It’s an exercise I use in most of my workshops and is great for helping you focus on what is really important to you.

So today I thought I would use my blog to jot down a few things that I’m grateful and thankful for right now.

• My wife, Donna. I already mentioned how much her love and support mean to me.
• My daughter.  She brings a lot of joy into my life
• Princess, our cocker spaniel. I don’t have to look far to see an example of total and unconditional love.
• Finally, I am grateful for all of my new friends that I met this past weekend at jvAlert in Washington D.C.  Donna and I drove down for the weekend event and had a wonderful time and met some incredibly warm and giving people. It was our first time attending an internet marketing seminar and we had a lot of fun.

You see? Making a gratitude list is easy. In fact, you can do it right now! Just leave a comment below and share a couple of things that you are grateful for right now. Go ahead. It’s painless and it will help you get in touch with your true sense of abundance!

Peace,

p.s. Don’t forget to make gratitude a daily activity. Posting a comment here is great, but your real power comes from writing down those things you are grateful for on a regular basis.

p.p.s I’ll be talking about gratitude on this week’s radio show. You can listen to Growing Your SELF live Wednesday evening at 8pm eastern. Won’t you join me?