Choose Prosperity

Have you ever wondered why things happen, seemingly for no reason?

It may seem like that, but in reality you attract what you want into your life.

With all the hype about the worsening economy, you could quite easily fall into the trap of feeling as though there’s no hope of you ever achieving financial freedom.

But…instead of going along with the status quo, why not be an individual and show that any talk of recession won’t affect you. You do have choices and it’s up to you to choose the right one.

"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to
take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into
act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit." As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

If you want to believe that your financial future is doomed, then it will be. Why not think thoughts of prosperity and attract what you want into your life?

Only you can choose the way you think. Make sure they’re positive thoughts.

How To Be A Good Leader

When you are at work, do you get frustrated because things don’t seem to be happening the way they’re supposed to be? You see people milling around but nothing gets accomplished. And in the daily hustle and bustle, do you feel that your goals remain just that - goals? Then maybe it’s time for you to stand up and do something about it.

Most people are content just to stand around listening for orders. And it isn’t unusual to adopt a follow-the-leader mentality. But maybe, somewhere inside of you, you feel the desire to make things happen - to be the head, not the tail. Then maybe leadership just suits you fine.

Some people believe that great leaders are made, not born. Yes, it may be true that some people are born with natural talents. However, without practice, without drive, without enthusiasm, and without experience, there can be no true development in leadership.

You must also remember that good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their natural skills. This takes a commitment to constantly improve in whatever endeavor a person chooses.

First of all, let’s define leadership. To be a leader, one must be able to influence others to accomplish a goal, or an objective. He contributes to the organization and cohesion of a group.

Contrary to what most people believe, leadership is not about power. It is not about harassing people or driving them using fear. It is about encouraging others towards the goal of the organization. It is putting everyone on the same page and helping them see the big picture of the organization. You must be a leader not a boss.

People follow others when they see a clear sense of purpose. People will only follow you if they see that you know where you are going. Remember that bumper sticker? The one that says, don’t follow me, I’m lost too? The same holds true for leadership. If you yourself do not know where you’re headed to, chances are people will not follow you at all.

You yourself must know the vision of the organization. Having a clear sense of hierarchy, knowing who the bosses are, who to talk to, the organization’s goals and objectives, and how the organization works is the only way to show others you know what you are doing.

Being a leader is not about what you make others do. It’s about who you are, what you know, and what you do. You are a reflection of what you’re subordinates must be.

Communication is a very important key to good leadership. Without this you can not be a good leader. The knowledge and technical expertise you have must be clearly imparted to other people.

Leaders are not do-it-all heroes. You should not claim to know everything, and you should not rely upon your skills alone.

Remember being a leader takes a good deal of work and time. It is not learned overnight. Remember, also, that it is not about just you. It is about you and the people around you.

Your Thoughts Control Your Actions

The Law of Attraction works in mysterious ways.

It works just as easily on your negative thoughts as it does on your positive ones. This is why you have to monitor your thoughts and not put out any negative vibes.

If you look at the success of some of our top athletes you will find that every waking moment is spent focused on winning. They use visualization to show them the steps to get there. I can’t imagine any of them thinking that they’re not going to win, but come in second place!

I was watching the high jump at the recent Olympic Games in China, and each participant was rehearsing in their mind how they were going to jump over that bar. It was interesting watching their hand movements and the constant talking to themselves. This is a sign of a great athlete who puts their heart and soul into winning.

Those of us who are not athletes, but have a burning desire to win, can learn lessons from the preparations the athletes make. I believe that winning is at least 95% mental preparation and 5% action.

If you have a goal that you want to achieve, don’t bog yourself down with negative thoughts. Use your gift of visualization and see yourself already in possession of your goal. You’re the only one who can make it happen.

Don’t Hope….DECIDE!

"Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes". Oprah Winfrey.

Don’t we all go through phases in our lives when we want nothing other than to be wealthy? We don’t want our financial burdens weighing us down anymore.

We can go through with our lives "hoping" that some day we’ll make it and be financially independent for the rest of our lives. But hoping doesn’t get you anywhere until you "decide" you will be wealthy. Once you’ve made your decision, there’s a shift in your consciousness which will awaken your thoughts and ideas as to how you’re going to achieve your wealth. You’ll start attracting people into your life who will help you on your path to success.

Yes, you will have times where you feel you’ll never make it, but it’s at that point you must show perseverance.
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up". Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

Do you think Thomas Edison was just "hoping" he’d invent the first commercially practical incandescent light? I don’t think so. He’d made a decision that he was going to succeed and he never gave up, even though it’s claimed he had over 1,000 failures.

The difference between hoping and deciding is immense. It’s only when you decide to do something that action is taken and success is achieved.

 

Success Comes Naturally To Some

I was watching a story on TV the other day about Tiger Woods. Apparently he was shooting a commercial but in between breaks he was fiddling with a Rubik’s cube. He placed it on the ground, hit it, and it landed right in the hole! He was just as shocked as everyone else!

Tiger Woods is a person who oozes with success. It’s as if everything he does will be successful. There’s others out there like him as well.

A good friend of mine, Nik Halik, can also be classed as a person who seems to attract success with everything he does. He started setting goals when he was a young boy and he’s almost achieved everything he wrote down and is known as the "Thrillionaire", however, success doesn’t happen without effort. To be successful at anything you have to be prepared to put in the time and have a "never give up" attitude.

"Passion for life and for our work is a critical element of success and abundance.
Passion is a virtually unstoppable, attitudinal force that generates energy, creativity and productivity.
When you love what you do, it’s difficult not to succeed" Richard Carlson.

If someone like Nik Halik can come from very humble beginnings and end up being a "Thrillionaire", then it shows that anyone can achieve success. It’s all in your attitude.

How Does The Law of Attraction Work?

I heard a story once about a farmer who was about to lose his farm, because of a continuing drought. They hadn’t had rain for over 2 years, so he was becoming desperate.

He decided as a last resort he’d kneel down and pray to God for rain which would save his livelihood. He said to God, "Please make it rain so that my crops will grow and I can sell them to the market and save my farm?"

God’s reply was, "Why would I make it rain? You haven’t dug the irrigation ditches yet, so you’re not expecting it to rain."

Don’t we all do this? We expect the Law of Attraction to work for us but we do nothing to make it happen. We’re really just "wishing" for something to happen.

To attract what you want in your life, you have to prepare the "ditches" first. No ditches, no rain. If you were going for a new job, would you turn up without a resume’? Of course you wouldn’t. You’d make sure your resume’ was up to date and professional, so that you had a good chance of securing the job.

The same goes for anything we want in life. For the Law of Attraction to work properly, you have to take the time and effort to know what you want and a plan of how you’re going to get it. Whatever it is you’re attracted to won’t just fall into your lap. It’s up to you to take all the steps necessary to achieve your goal.

Spring Has Sprung…Time To Get Fit and Healthy!

Now that Spring is here in Australia, it’s time to get fit and healthy for Summer. It’s time to get rid of those few extra kilos put on over Winter and start the Fit Yummy Mummy Program.

We spend our Winter months eating comfort foods like curries and casseroles, so as a result it’s only natural that we put on extra weight. I don’t know about you, but I always feel a bit "stodgy" once Winter is over and can’t wait to eat lots of salads again.

It’s also the time to exercise and tone our bodies up once again. I’m not one for going out much in the Winter to exercise. For a start I don’t like cold weather and I like staying in my bed where it’s cosy and warm! I live in Queensland which has a very temperate climate, but I still feel the cold even though it’s a whole lot warmer than in the south of the country.

Motivating yourself to get out and exercise can be very hard for some people, myself included. I’m either extremely busy or can’t be bothered. Do you know someone like that? With the Fit Yummy Mummy Program, you don’t even have to leave your house. You can sign up for the FREE eCourse by clicking HERE.

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Man’s Desire To Please Women!

An extract from Napoleon Hill’s "Think And Grow Rich"

Man’s greatest motivating force is his desire to please woman!

The hunter who excelled during prehistoric days, before the dawn of civilization, did so, because of his desire to appear great in the eyes of woman. Man’s nature has not changed in this respect. The "hunter" of today brings home no skins of wild animals, but he indicates his desire for her favor by supplying fine clothes, motor cars, and wealth.

Man has the same desire to please woman that he had before the dawn of civilization. The only thing that has changed, is his method of pleasing. Men who accumulate large fortunes, and attain to great heights of power and fame, do so, mainly, to satisfy their desire to please women.

Take women out of their lives, and great wealth would be useless to most men. It is this inherent desire of man to please woman, which gives woman the power to make or break a man.

The woman who understands man’s nature and tactfully caters to it, need have no fear of competition from other women. Men may be "giants" with indomitable will-power when dealing with other men, but they are easily managed by the women of their choice.

Most men will not admit that they are easily influenced by the women they prefer, because it is in the nature of the male to want to be recognized as the stronger of the species. Moreover, the intelligent woman recognizes this "manly trait" and very wisely makes no issue of it.

What Will Your Final Wish Be?

If you accumulated a substantial amount of wealth before you died, what would you want done with it once you’re gone?

There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife."

So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.

Well, one day he died. He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to her closest friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!" she had a shoe box with her, she came over with the box and placed it in the casket.

Then the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away.

Her friend said, "I hope you weren’t crazy enough to put all that money in the casket."

She said, "Yes, I promised. I’m a good christian, I can’t lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him."

"You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?"

"I sure did," said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check!"

Now I don’t think I’d go that far, but it does make you think about the disposal of your assets once you die. That is why it’s so important to have a will, especially if you are quite wealthy. It’s much easier to disperse your wealth accordingly if you have a plan set up.

Most families don’t have any problems after the death of a loved one, but, in the absence of a will, it’s more than likely that your family will squabble about their rights to your inheritance.

It would be a shame to put a blight on your memory just because you didn’t have a will. Do it now! Even if you’re in your early 20’s, you do need a will, and it is much more urgent if you are a young entrepreneur who’s going places.