Change Begins With Choice
“You cannot change your destination overnight,
but you CAN change your direction overnight.”
Jim Rohn
Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.
We can also do nothing.
We can pretend rather than perform.
And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause.
As Shakespeare uniquely observed, “The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves.” We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.
Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions. They need the truth. They need the whole truth. And they need nothing but the truth.
We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path. We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into our daily lives.
And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life – If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life – and it all begins with your very own power of choice.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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The Sly Guises of Opportunity By David Neagle
I wrote last week that when you tap into your true purpose, when you’re a unified force that’s willing to do whatever it takes to manifest your desire, and when all of that fuels your thoughts, goals and intentions ~ there is nothing that you can’t achieve.
Another aspect to that process has to do with opportunity. As Napoleon Hill writes in Think and Grow Rich, opportunity can be difficult to recognize. It often appears in a different form and from a different direction than we expect. It has a habit of slipping in the back door. It can come disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.
The Problem of Perception
One reason we fail to recognize opportunity is that we rely upon our perception. But that perception can be based on a pack of lies that people have told us.
When you try to navigate from that false perception, you’re like someone plopped into a strange land with a map but not told where he or she is on the map. You have no sound frame of reference. You grope about, hoping to bump into something familiar that will take you in the direction you want to go.
That familiar thing we’re all looking for, and that we reject on a consistent basis, is truth. Opportunity is always trying to help us see the truth, but we block it out.
That truth is not outside of you. It’s not something that someone else can give you. It is inside.
The Guise of Misfortune
Hill writes about opportunity appearing as misfortune or temporary defeat. We perceive the experience as bad or catastrophic, but it isn’t meant to be viewed that way.
The meaning of the misfortune has nothing to do with the surface experience of the situation. No matter how painful or horrific the circumstance appears to be, the truth is beneath it. There is a bigger message for you, a truth message that wants to point you in a different direction.
If you are in pain, you may blame the circumstance, person or action that you believe caused the pain. But that’s not the truth; that is a way for you to avoid being in pain.
The avoidance of pain does not lead to the truth. It leads into blaming and being a victim. You cannot get to the truth that way.
Difficult to Recognize
When an opportunity presents itself in a person’s life, it’s easy for someone else to recognize it. But when it’s your opportunity, it comes cloaked in your situation and circumstances, and is more difficult to see.
Years ago, I was ready to give my right hand to increase my income of $20,000. The opportunity for me to do that was around me for at least two years, but I didn’t recognize it. I literally saw the opportunity as unfortunate, something I wanted to avoid.
When opportunity shows up it will be a stretch. It will be uncomfortable. You can’t hold on to what’s comfortable and step into the opportunity at the same time. They’re not in harmony.
Show Me
When you follow the truth, things shift in a dramatic way. You instantly begin to manifest the way from within. Into play comes the Law of Polarity, which states that if you have the desire on the inside, it’s ready to manifest on the outside. It’s ready now, not in some distant future.
Desire and the physical equivalent go hand in hand. If you’re not manifesting your desire, it’s because you can’t see the opportunity. You’re mentally, psychologically, spiritually blind to it.
You will do yourself a great service if you put this into practice this week: Say to yourself, “Here’s what I want. Show me the opportunity.”
Then watch for the opportunities to appear. I guarantee that no matter what your desire is, the way to do it is already here. The opportunity to get you from where you are to where you want to be will manifest for you right now.
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David Neagle, Million Dollar Income Acceleration Coach, mentors entrepreneurs to quantum leap their current businesses past the 7-Figure income level in just 12 months. David invites you to download—as his GIFT to you—his legendary “Art of Success” 4-hour audio program. This audio series is a tremendously compelling and comprehensive program that demonstrates—once and for all—that Success has nothing to do with “getting” or “achieving”, and everything to do with WHO we must BE to manifest our hearts’ true desires. For an additional bonus, Text: success to the number: 85800
Mom Entrepreneur Success Strategies
Leave The Guilt Behind-say No!
How Mom Entrepreneurs Manage It All: Mommy’s become VERY guilty when trying to juggle a business and family.
All businesses are like children…they need attention too!
Mompreneurs move into Superwoman mode..saying ‘yes’ to all, accomplishing everything and pleasing everyone.
My #1 tip. Just say no. It’s going to be hard sometimes.
Say NO to everyone and everything that does not fit in with valuable family time and does not fit in with your business vision.
You’ll sure be happier and will add a zero to your business in quick time.
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A Synopsis of Abraham-Hicks’ Teachings
(www.Abraham-Hicks.com)
1. You Are a Physical Extension of That Which is Non-physical.
2. You Are Here in This Body Because You Chose to Be Here.
3. The Basis of Your Life is Freedom; the Purpose of Your Life is Joy.
4. You Are a Creator; You Create With Your Every Thought.
5. Anything That You Can Imagine is Yours to Be or Do or Have.
6. As You Are Choosing Your Thoughts, Your Emotions Are Guiding You.
7. The Universe Adores You for it Knows Your Broadest Intentions.
8. Relax into Your Natural Well-Being. All is Well. (Really It Is!)
9. You Are a Creator of Thoughtways on Your Unique Path of Joy.
10. Actions to Be Taken and Possessions to Be Exchanged Are
11. You May Appropriately Depart Your Body Without Illness or Pain.
12. You Can Not Die; You Are Everlasting Life.
Accounting Blogsite
I just finished putting up my accounting blogsite located at http://accountant.sandrabaptist.com/ for my clients and my prospective clients.
I will be posting simple, short accounting tips as well as any accounting news, changes in tax laws and other exciting info.
Enjoy.
Why Money Is Good
There is a lack of the circulation of money right now and it’s important for money to move. Money is like water. If it doesn’t flow, then it becomes stagnant and no use to anyone.
I got this article from Brian Tracy in my inbox just this morning and decided to share it with you. Sign up for Brian’s newsletters. They are great and straight to the point. Enjoy!
Why Money Is Good
By: Brian Tracy
The way you think about money will determine how much of it you accumulate more than any other factor. Your attitude toward money affects your emotions and your motivations.
Do You Feel That You Have Enough?
In psychology, money is what is called a “deficiency need.” This means that it only motivates you when you feel deficient in it, when you don’t feel that you have enough. Above a certain level, when you feel that you have enough, it is no longer a motivator. Put another way, when you have enough money, you don’t think about it very much. But when you have too little, you think about it all the time.
Determine Your Attitude Toward Money
The effect money has on your emotional life depends on your attitude toward it. If you feel that you have too little, money can become an obsession for you. It can dominate your thinking, feelings and actions. Arguments over money are a major reason for marital breakdown. Problems with money are the primary reason for business failure, the ruination of friendships and psychosomatic illnesses of all kinds. It’s not uncommon for people to even kill themselves over money problems.
Practice the Reality Principle
The Reality Principle applies especially to matters of money. This principle states that, “You must deal with life as it is, not as you wish it were, or could be.” Most people live in a world of partial self-delusion, with regard to money. They wish, hope, and pray about their financial futures while at the same time, deep in their hearts, they know their dre ams will never mat erialize. In Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice in Won derland, one of the characters says quite happily that he is quite capable of believing several impossible things before breakfast each day. In the same way, many people believe quite impossible things about money and then they wonder why they are having so many financial problems.
Overcome Deep Sea ted Beliefs
One of the most common obstacles to achieving financial ind ependence is a deep-sea ted belief that somehow money is wrong and that people who have a lot of it are inherently evil. This belief is not based on any factual foundation. It goes back to early childhood conditioning when the growing child is often told this because of other people’s desire to rationalize away their own financial failures.
Money Is Good
The fact is that money is good. It takes money to buy homes, cars, clothes, food and most of the good things in life. Money has an energy of its own and it is largely attracted to people who treat it well. Money tends to flow toward those people who can use it in the most productive ways to produce valuable goods and services, and who can invest it to create emp loyment and opportunities that benefit others. At the same time, money flows away from those who use it poorly, or who spend it in non-productive ways.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do immediately to improve your attitude toward money:
First, be perfectly honest to yourself with regard to money and to the amount you want to acquire in life. Pretending that you don’t care about money when you really do will only make you unhappy.
Second, begin today to think about all the wonderful things that you could have in your life if you had more money. Then, begin to think of all the things that you could do to increase the amount you ear n and the amount you keep.
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