How to Accomplish Goals whether Financial, Personal or Career related

How to Accomplish Goals whether Financial, Personal or Career related

Do you have all the money that you’d like? Does it come to you easily?

But what is money exactly?

Money is a tool we use to measure the value of things.

The money you earn is a compensation for the value you provide.

If you trade your time for money, which is what we call a job, then the amount you earn is limited by your physical presence, the usefulness of your work, the ability to replace you, and the quality of your work.

Even if you are a lawyer who charges $1000 per hour, you are still limited by the number of hours in your week.

So the key to making a lot of money is somewhere else.

What you need to do in fact is to detach your income from your physical presence.

How do you do that? You create information product! It includes blogs like this one, songs, books and eBooks, online courses, reviews, etc.

Of course, this requires some upfront work. But once your product is recorded, it’s simply a matter of selling it. And if you created something of value, it will be no problem to find people to sell it for a percentage of the profits.

So again, just like your salary, it’s a matter of value. When you work at a job, you get paid for the value you provide in return of your time spent at work.

When you sell information products, you get paid for the value you provide to each individual who is interested by your product.

Makes sense?

But you don’t focus on making money, you focus on adding value. Put your attention on helping others. Ask yourself how you can help people doing what you love.

Of course, the main challenge will be to find the persistence to create a quality product.

This requires time and effort, so that’s when this course comes in!

It gives you the tools you need to stay focused and to bring your project to completion.

Another important aspect of earning money is to have the right mindset. As you will see in the course, what you believe is crucial in the determination of the outcome.

If you don’t believe that you can earn a lot of money, by creating an information product or by doing anything else, you won’t even AIM at making a lot of money.

So I hope that you dream requires a lot of money. Because if it does, and as you visualize it more and more, your requirement for more money will increase as well.

And when you have a need, you brain will automatically start looking for ways to fulfill that need.

Your mindset will gradually shift to welcome ideas of wealth.

And the ability to handle a lot of wealth is closely related to personal growth.

As T Harv Eker says it: if you work hard on your job, you make a living, but if you work hard on yourself, you make a fortune.

When you start working on yourself, through meditation and exercise, or by expanding your knowledge, you’ll naturally attract opportunities.

Focus on feeling worthy and you will become what you visualize.

Click here to get the first FREE lesson of the Winners Shine course on Reaching Your Goals.

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Personal Development Coach

I’m realizing more and more the importance of having a personal development coach to keep evolving. I just finished reading Who Are You Really and What Do You Want by Shad Helmstetter: a powerful book on self-talk and the importance of having a coach. Incidentally, I’m in the 5^th week of my coaching program with Peak Potentials. I had life coaches in the past, I didn’t really see the need to have one now, but boy oh boy is it catapulting me at exponential speed!

It started by a resistance of having to report daily. I find that I already report to myself enough and I didn’t need someone else to keep me in check. I feared that this would add to the pressure I’m already putting on myself to perform. When I openly admitted to my coach that I didn’t want to report on my daily activities, I also opened up to understanding a deeper meaning to this repulsion.

Not reporting to someone else was in fact a way to keep lying to myself into the belief that I was making a lot of effort. When I got that out of my system, I realized that I could ask a lot more of myself… and it didn’t feel demanding at all! In fact, it’s even fun and exciting to exceed the daily and weekly objectives that I set for myself! I’ve also introduced the concept of weekly rewards (I treat myself to a nice restaurant) but I feel that I don’t even need external rewards that much. The simple feeling of pride in beating my weekly goals is enough satisfaction to keep me going and constantly aim higher.

I feel that I’m redoing part of my education. Something went wrong in my initial programming regarding effort and rewards and I have to set that straight. This comparison might sound weird but it feels like training a dog. The reward or the punishment need to come right after the good or bad behaviour. Your window of opportunity to show a dog he did something right or wrong is very narrow. Well I’m applying a similar concept for my efforts. If I do something positive, such as an effort in the right direction of my personal development, I treat myself to something good. If I don’t do what I should be doing, then I don’t allow myself the reward.

That’s how it started at least. Because very quickly, I didn’t need to grant myself physical rewards and the simple pride of knowing that I am on the right track is enough to keep me going. I feel like I’m the parent of my inner child and I’m re-educating and re-programming him so that he enjoys making efforts in order to grow.

This is crucial in setting up passive income streams because it’s a lot of upfront work before results show. I believe that being able to discipline ourselves is crucial in succeeding a passive income project. Bob Proctor says it time and again: “Discipline is the ability to give yourself a command and follow it.” And I can now grasp the full extent of this quote as I am now starting to get scared to see less and less limits to where I can go!

If you want to learn more on building passive income stream, read my article Getting Started With Passive Income.

Money and Personality

Have you ever asked yourself how money and personality are linked together? Here are some thoughts on that:

Money is a measure for growth. In order to earn a lot of money, you need to have the mindset for it. And in order to have the required mindset, you need to grow. Depending on how you were programmed when you were young (what you were told and what you saw), you’ll need to observe these beliefs and change them for more prosperous ones. Having the personal discipline to decide which thoughts you allow in your mind or not is quite a challenge. But if you master this, you’ll slowly realize that you can achieve whatever you want and become whoever you desire.

Money is energy. You don’t focus on making money, you focus on adding value. Put your attention on helping others. Ask yourself how you can help people doing what you love. I suggest you read my article on Finding Your Life’s Purpose through Giving for more info on that. Once you’ve found what to give, ask yourself how you can help 10 times more people. Then always multiply that number. Providing service to the largest number of people will come back to you in greater wealth.

Make sure that you focus on growth, because whatever you focus on expands. If you get excited about your objective, you’ll reach it faster. And if you focus on your problems, you’ll worsen them by giving them extra energy. As I said, disciplining your mind is a challenge, but it’s important to choose our battles wisely. If you want to determine which battles you should fight and which not, picture yourself beyond the obstacle and ask yourself if, once the issue is resolved, the energy you spent was worth it.

An important aspect of accumulating wealth is to separate yourself from it. When you start taking action outside of your comfort zone, you are bond to make mistakes. That’s fine. That’s part of the learning process. But you need to realize that the amount you earn does not define who you are. Your self worth does not equal your net worth.

I talk a lot about increasing my wealth and I’d like to say why I believe this is so important. I heard from T Harv Eker that if you work hard on your job, you make a living, but if you work hard on yourself, you make a fortune. I’ve always been a great personal growth enthusiast, and now I realize that personal growth is tied to personal wealth. Read my article titled Fearless Millionaire which talks about the link between fear and wealth. When you start working on yourself, through meditation and exercise, or by expanding your knowledge, you’ll naturally attract opportunities. Focus on feeling worthy and you will become what you visualize.

Lastly, if you think you don’t have enough time to spend on creating wealth, I believe the opposite. Having passive income streams frees up your time to do anything you want and really enjoy life. Of course, the initial effort will require some time on your part. But what is it to invest a few hours to get things started and enjoy a permanent vacation afterwards? So it’s all a matter of setting your priorities right and recognizing that time invested now multiplies exponentially in the future.

You can watch my video on Changing Your Mindset to Become a Millionaire

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Increase Wealth and Success – Take More Risks

Increase Wealth and Success

Many people are impressed by the level of action that I take in my life. If I feel like doing something, I do it! It doesn’t matter if it involves selling my condo with all my belongings in it, moving to a different country, being unemployed for a while, or any other uncertainty. What I see as simply following my heart, others see as a risk they are not willing to take. The truth is that you shouldn’t afford NOT to take risks. In order to increase your wealth and success, you need to take more risks. If you remain along the shore, you will never discover the very best of you. If you believed that in order to live a better life, you had to make the sacrifice of being unemployed and studying for a few years, you must realize that you took the risk that things could have not worked out for you. Yet, you took the chance and you studied. You should also understand that in order to be wealthier, you need to find the time to study how wealth is acquired. It’s the same concept, it’s just that one is more popular than the other.

Raise Your Awareness

In T Harv Eker’s interview with Keith Cunningham, Keith describes how he made – and lost – a fortune by taking risks. He says the key is developing the awareness of HOW to earn vast sums of money. Once you know how, even if you lose it, you will regain it easily because your mindset has expanded. Bob Proctor keeps saying that people don’t earn $50,000 a year because they want to, they earn that much because they’re not AWARE of how to earn $50,000 a MONTH! Keith also says that the lessons from losing money are incredible… and I believe him! I’ve learned a lot more in losing money than in earning it. It’s like learning anything: if you can get beyond the scare of making mistakes, then you can go forward. I wrote an article on “learning to do things badly” which you can read by following the link for Self-Help Perfectionism.

I also talk about the importance of taking action in my book on finding your life’s purpose, Grow With the Flow. Keith also says that: “One step in the right direction is worth a hundred years of thinking about it.” In my life, I never regretted anything. I believe regretting is a matter of choice and I choose to learn from my mistakes. Because the times when I lost a lot of money or spent more than I should have thought me a lot. I’m now unlikely to do the same errors again, or at the very least I will do much better next time. Willingness to make mistakes is a secret to wealth because it allows you to ACT.

Learn to Love Money

Now, take a few minutes to write down all your beliefs around money. Do you believe that earning money requires hard work? Do you believe that wealthy people are mean and greedy? Are these beliefs serving you well? All your beliefs, even though you don’t think about them consciously, play a huge role in shaping your daily actions and thoughts. If you don’t believe that you can earn a lot of money, you won’t even entertain thoughts that could make you earn a lot of money. Money is like a lover or health, you have to treat it right for it to stay with you. I used to trick myself into thinking that I was “ABOVE” money, while I subconsciously was enslaved by it. I desperately needed to have a lot of money and to be “generous” to show others how careless about material things I was. I was acting in the opposite way of what I was thinking deep down inside. Now that I’ve let this belief come to the surface, I’ve been able to let it go and truly reestablish a sane relationship towards owning money. I see money as it is: a tool that increases my comfort and allows me to provide service beyond my physical presence. Money is my measure for personal growth. The more I grow, the greater receptacle for money I become. I now see my fears as exciting challenges to overcome because I know that overcoming them will make me a better, freer and richer person.

Once you become aware of your negative beliefs around money, you need to let them go. Most people see this process as long and difficult, but it can also be very quick and easy. If you trusted someone for 30 years, but suddenly realized that they were screwing you, you would stop trusting them right away. You can go the same with your liming beliefs. You should read my article on the Sedona Method to learn a very simple and effective technique to let go.

What risks are you willing to take in your life to increase wealth and success? You can start small, but be aware that “Behind your greatest fear, lies your greatest gift.”

How to Cultivate a Wealth Mindset

My New Wealth Mindset

I am fascinated by the concept of becoming rich. What’s very intriguing is that the further I move towards my goal, the deeper my understanding of wealth gets, the more detached from the money I become. Instead, my mind is attracted by concepts of freedom, personal development, overcoming my fears and growing. Money is becoming a side benefit, a tool required for freedom instead of a main objective.

I am very attracted by T Harv Eker’s teachings. First, because his seminars and books are definitely centered on ACTION. I hear so many people who know exactly what to do but don’t do it. And most people who don’t know what to do are simply unaware that they pretending not to know, so they don’t feel the guilt of not acting.

Pay Attention to Your Environment

The five months I spent living in a rich neighbourhood in California were extremely insightful for me. These few months contributed to changing so many prejudices I had about rich people. First of all, most rich people are extremely nice and helpful: they want people around them to succeed! It makes a lot of sense: if they succeeded themselves, that’s because they were nice and other nice people helped them out! I used to see rich people as competitive and ruthless, only striving to make the most money. That’s because my OWN mindset was oriented that way.

T Harv also says that environment is stronger than willpower. That also makes a lot of sense! When I went to high school, I was in a stronger academic program. I did only one class with the regular students and I was so bored!! The pace of the class wasn’t fast enough so my grades went down! The power of our environment is very strong! Often more than we realize. I heard countless time that we earn the average salary of our 5 to 10 closest friends. So take ownership of your life and start hanging out with the people you admire!

Become aware of your background

Another very important step in the process of becoming wealthy is recognizing what background we come from in order to release ourselves from the influence it still exerts on us. Examine the beliefs your parents have around money and you probably also have 90% of them. That’s because we are mentally programmed at a very young age and in many ways we’re not aware. To know more about this, read my article on Subconscious Mind Childhood. You also need to be aware that what you were told might not be the only programming that got into your head. For instance, I was never told that money was scarce, but I could easily feel the anxiety around a potential lack that could happen at any time. I therefore registered that the flow of money can stop at any time, and that I should hide my fear that this possibility might occur.

Start Managing Your Wealth NOW!

An important point in accumulating wealth is to manage what we already have. As T Harv Eker says, it’s like claiming that we will exercise once we have lost 20 pounds! It’s obviously the other way around! We need to “exercise” our money management skills BEFORE we create wealth. I only recently understood that concept and it makes so much sense! A year ago, I had plenty of money and I thought that behaving like a rich person (according to my idea of what a rich person was back then!) would keep me rich. How wrong was I! Now that I am in debt, I understand the importance of managing everything, no matter how “small” the fortune. (I’m now kind of FORCED to do it anyway!) We obviously know that Oprah can pretty much afford anything she wants, but I also know that she loves discounts and she will only buy something if the price really corresponds to the value she is getting in return. Being rich, contrary to what I thought for a long time, does not mean spending carelessly.

Small Decisions Add Up!

We also need to understand the major impact that very small decisions have in the long run. For example, if you were to stop buying a $3.50 latte today and everyday, and you instead invested the money at an 8% interest rate, you would have… an astonishing $250,000 in 30 years!! Pretty incredible isn’t it? The problem is that our mind doesn’t add up the small details and doesn’t see how tiny actions, when added together over time, can yield humongous change! Think of it another way: if you were to fly from New York City to San Francisco, but the plane went just a few degrees to the left, you would end up in Mexico! When considered on large scales of time and distance, small differences end up changing results big time! So don’t underestimate the small changes you make in your life. I started this blog in October 2013 with the discipline of writing every 1 or 2 days and I am amazed at how much I have written! I wrote over 100 articles now, which is roughly 40,000 words! That’s the equivalent of a novel. There is no way I would have written than much by sitting down, 6 months ago, thinking that I had to write a novel. But by doing a little bit every day, I never even realize that I was writing so much! I kept it fun! I made sure every day was a great day, and I ended up living a great year! In the long run, I know this will add up to a great life!

And now, what about you? What are your big stumbling blocks around money? Are you aware of your programming and childhood beliefs? What are your next steps in acquiring wealth?

To learn more about T Harv Eker’s seminars, read my review of Millionaire Mind Intensive.

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

I’m surprised to see the enthusiasm that still lives around the book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. It was released in 2006 but still, 8 years after its publication, most of the comments I see about self-help books relate to this one. Even one of the comments on my own book is about the secret!

I must say that I got FAR MORE reactions from strangers while reading this book than any other ones! People rarely interrupt to comment or ask about what I am reading. But for The Secret, it was EVERYWHERE and ALL THE TIME!! I initially read it in 2007, one year after it’s release, but even when I reread it years later people would still react and tell me that it is “their favourite book” or that it “changed their lives”!

I’m not sure what kind of impact it had on me. After reading it, I bought an expensive suit and hoped that I would attract a lot of money that way. Unfortunately, I simply ended with an expensive suit and a hefty credit card charge! I reread the book once or twice but it’s only recently, almost a year ago now, that I had my big insight. It’s when I watched YouTube videos from Bob Proctor that the Law of Attraction truly started to resonate with me.

The Secret holds very precious concepts. But I find that putting them into practice is not sufficiently explained in the book. The major thing that needs to change is the mindset. And that’s a though one. The mindset only changes slowly and important and sustained effort is required to make that change last. I find that getting inspiration from people who have already succeeded is a better option.

Most of the rich and successful people are unaware of the concepts of the Law of Attraction. They simply worked hard, steadily, with excellent focus and a clear intention on where they wanted to go. These are the principles that will make you successful. The principles in The Secret make it sound like it requires no effort to attract what we want and that is not entirely true. There is no effort required in manifesting what we think about, but there is GREAT effort required to focus our attention! We are so used to being dissipated, bombarded by distractions all the time, that it is becoming harder and harder to focus on anything.

The theory in the book is very interesting and a good eye-opener on being careful about what we think about, but the true determinant in success is ACTION. I’m glad I read The Secret but most of my progress happened in live seminars and because of the daily routines I established to increase my perseverance. You can read about Self-Help Perseverance here.

I’m curious to know what you thought of the book and if you applied any of its theory into your life. Has it made a significant change for you?

Rich Thinking Poor Thinking

Rich Thinking Poor Thinking. I just finished reading Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T Harv Eker. It struck me to realize how rich thinking differs from poor thinking in so many ways! He says for instance that poor people focus on their salaries, while the rich on their net worth. That’s a major difference! Instead of focussing on how much you earn, you focus on how much you’re worth. When focusing on what you earn, if you do end up earning more, you will simply increase your spendings simultaneously and will only see little difference. But when you focus on what you accumulate, you have a real incentive to increase your wealth! And it is so important to do so! I used to think that wealthy people were mean and greedy, but I don’t believe that anymore. I heard many times that money doesn’t change you, it simply amplifies the person you already are. So if you are a nice person, and have a lot of money, you’ll have the opportunity to be even nicer!

Another important point in the book is the “both” and “either/or” mentality. Poor people think in “either/or”, which means that they need to sacrifice something in order to get something else. On the other hand, rich people think “both”, meaning that they think creatively to come up with alternatives that will allow them to get both options they desire. The belief that I cannot have everything is a strong one in me. I did a little research and I found out that I’m not alone! The saying: “You can’t eat your cake and have it too” exists in many other languages, in very interesting variations. In French, the expression is: “You can’t have the butter and the money for the butter” And I like the version of Venezuela which goes: “You cannot have the bottle full and the girl drunk.”

I find it very sad that we are so conditioned to play small and to satisfy ourselves with as little as possible. I have grand ambitions and I’m proud of them because they allow me to grow and to become a better person. I wrote in my article Fearless Millionaire that wealth and fear are closely related. Bob Proctor also says time and again that goals are not for getting: they are made for expansion. I realize now more than ever that this is true. And I see what Marianne Williamson meant when she wrote that “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.” The more I break through my fears, the more I regain my power and the more I see no limit to where I can go and to what I can do. When I started my Master’s Degree in International Relations, I laughed at people who said they wanted to “save the world!” Now I see that this is part of my desires and I want to acquire massive wealth to do my share in distributing it more evenly on earth. I see this as a very important role I have to play.

And you? What are your beliefs and desires around money? Can you easily picture yourself being wealthy?

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Making Money Online

Making money online. I found that there are two ways to do it: invest time or invest… money! I started this blog 4 months ago and so far I made an incredible…. Nothing! I have Amazon affiliate links set up, Clickbank links, and a few other programs that I promote but I’m able to generate nothing but a few clicks! We’re far from talking about sales! So I got into other programs such as My Online Business Empire (MOBE) and DotComSecretX which look a lot more profitable. And they are… but you also need to invest a LOT of money to get started! MOBE is $49 to start with but you need to buy a $2000 license at the end of the first 3 weeks. DotComSecret is only a $1 to start but you need to buy at least $1000 of traffic to generate your very first sale. So where do we go from there?

How long does it take to become profitable? How much does it cost to start?

I started a search online to see what could be some real expectations. When could I quit my job and live solely from my online income? The answer is… an average of 3 years! Not so bad! But it does require a LOT of perseverance. Most people who are on a quest to making money online want it fast! So PERSEVERANCE is the answer to your freedom. (Follow this link to read my article on increasing your perseverance) That’s why it’s so important to pick a niche that you LOVE and feel PASSIONATE about. Because before you can claim your perfect lifestyle you have to put in 1000 hours of volunteer work! (that’s 3 years at 1 hour/day) Are you still up to the challenge? Is your freedom worth it? Mine is! That’s for sure!

As I said, the other option is to invest money. You must have heard that time is money, well in the case of online business, it definitely is. I still haven’t found a system where you don’t need to invest in purchasing traffic. And traffic, when you start off, is the most difficult thing to get! Even for a blog! Purchasing “clicks” for your ads or sales funnel is about $1 each. So for example, in the case of DotComSecretX, you need to buy 500 clicks at $350 to generate 20% opt-ins (people who give you their email addresses) and of those 100 people, an average of 1% will buy the product you sell. That means that the product you will sell needs to be priced at $700 if you earn a 50% commission and don’t want to lose money. Obviously, that is a very difficult challenge! If you repeat this process week after week and month after month, you will eventually start making more profit because you won’t be starting from an empty list anymore. But you want that list to expand so you need to buy even more clicks! In the end, it eventually becomes profitable and you can make a lot of money, but the initial investment – for the first year maybe! – is massive! No wonder all the internet gurus say that the money is in the list! It definitely is! A list is worth a lot of money and therefore costs a lot of money to build!

How do you start?

Still, I don’t want to discourage you from starting. There is definitely money to be made if you are willing to put in the efforts over the years to achieve your objective. I stared my blog early October 2013. I knew NOTHING about blogging and I was surprised to feel some resistance. I don’t usually get stopped by challenges like this but this time I felt like I was starting from so far behind and I had no clue about what I was getting into. I love human interaction and I didn’t see myself learning programming behind a computer screen for hours. I found John Chow’s course super easy to use and very very well documented. It’s a step-by-step process of 30 days which is simple and perfect for beginners like me. The first few days are spent on creating an identity and finding what we want to write about. I answered all those questions and started building my blog but I find it especially interesting to go back and read more about specific topics such as traffic, monetization, linking strategies, content creation, etc. I now like to use the course as a reference guide while I gain deeper understanding of what I am doing.

Blogging With John Chow

$37 course on how to setup a blog

This is the course I used to learn how to set up this blog! It’s a step by step plan to have everything up and ready in 30 days! The fee is a non-recurring $37. They will try to sell you other stuff like an already made blog in a profitable niche but I chose to do everything from scratch.

$97 course with VIDEOS on how to setup a blog

This is the same course but with VIDEO tutorials for $97. I have not tried this one as I thought the price difference wasn’t worth it but feel free to give it a try and let me know!

The next step: How do you get more traffic? … for free!

What is the solution? Well, I was lucky enough to stumble upon the blog of a Swedish guy – Henri Juntilla – who blogs at www.wakeupcloud.com. He describes in full length how he made his first money online and how it took him 3 years to earn $3000/month with his blog and websites and to finally live solely from that income. This guy really cares about his readers! Visit his blog, send him an email, or get one of his books! You can tell that he genuinely cares about helping others succeed! His books range from $3 to $7.

The best tip I learned from him is guest blogging. If your blog is new, it won’t drive a lot of traffic, so writing an article in the same niche but on a blog that has a larger audience will drive traffic to your site. Another good example is to post your articles to a directory. There are many directories out there so you have to test which ones work best for you and your niche. After testing several, here are my best 3:

Newsana > I post my articles on that site on a daily basis and that drives about 5 readers a day to my blog

StumbleUpon > I also post my blog on StumbleUpon and I get 10-15 extra daily readers!

Scoop.It! > I don’t get visits on my blog from this but I get links to boost my Alexa ranking

So that’s it! I hope that all this information is helpful to you! It sure would have been for me when I started!

Subconscious Programming Comes First

I discovered something very important in T Harv Eker’s book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: we cannot originate thoughts that our current subconscious programming doesn’t allow. With all my readings and work around the subconscious mind, I am now well aware that our thoughts are controlled by our subconscious mind, but I never expected that the desired “prosperity” thoughts couldn’t even form until the programming had been modified! I thought that “prosperity” thoughts were simply disregarded until the right subconscious programming was in place.

It reminds me of the moment I started to think in English. My first language is French and until that point, I could only think about certain concepts that this language allows. But once you learn a second language and you start THINKING from it, then you can originate entirely new ideas and whole concepts that simply CANNOT exist in a different language. I think you need to have the capacity to think in a second language to understand what I am trying to express, but I’m still going to try an explanation. Let’s take the Italian expression “Dolce Vita”. First, the fact that we use in English a foreign language expression is usually a good sign that this concept doesn’t have it’s equivalent in the other language. Second, words can be translated, but not the true nature of the concept expressed. “Dolve Vita” literally translates to “sweet life” or “good life”, but if you ask an Italian to describe the concept, he will passionately tell you that it means to live carefree, lazily and devoid of moral principles. This is a concept that can be understood in a different language, but no real equivalent of the Dolce Vita concept exists elsewhere than in Italy.

I believe the same is true for wealth, abundance and many concepts related to the Law of Attraction. As we saw in a previous post, thoughts lead to actions, which lead to results. If we want to change our results, we therefore need to change our thoughts. But now, the new variable in the equation is the subconscious programming, which opens up the realm of possible thoughts as follows:

Subconscious Programming > Thoughts > Actions > Results

So as you can see, in order to even be able to originate a thought, it needs to be made possible by our subconscious programming in the first place. It’s the same to say that computers HAD to be invented before USB keys because nobody could have thought about inventing a USB key if there wasn’t a computer to make use of it first. So now, how do you alter your subconscious programming if it comes before your thoughts? Well, you can take example on others who have done it before you, and follow their advice and copy their actions. Or, and this one takes more courage, you can use your imagination to open up your mind to new thoughts. This is what visionaries do. The ones who imagine something that materializes afterwards are called geniuses, the ones that don’t and considered insane. But Neville insists a lot on the power of imagination in his book Awaked Imagination. He claims that this is the way to open your mind to new realms of thoughts and to experience Heaven on earth. This is how you create your own future and empower yourself to become the master of your own destiny.

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A Certain Way of Doing Things

If you’ve read The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles, you might be wondering what he means by a Certain Way of doing things. That part kept me puzzled for a while as I didn’t quite grasp what he meant by this expression. He refers to the “Certain Way” many times, but fails to really explain how things are done a “Certain Way”. Maybe it’s just something that cannot be explained I thought, maybe it’s a feeling that cannot be translated into words. Well, I gained a deeper understanding of the concept recently and I believe that I acted a “Certain Way” at the Science of Getting Rich seminar with Bob Proctor last weekend. One of the indicators is the readership of this website that skyrocketed like never before while I was at the seminar! I don’t think I did anything different, as I posted articles daily as usual, and didn’t advertise this site more, but I believe I did things in a “Certain Way”. I placed myself FROM the level of success that I am seeking and didn’t pursue my goals anymore, but rather felt that I had already achieved them! This is especially true as we did an exercise where we projected ourselves a year later and pretended we had already achieved all of our objectives. My energy level shifted considerably. I experienced a “Certain Way” of doing things without even realizing it. I simply noticed afterwards, when I looked at my website’s statistics and I sought an explanation for the rise in visitors. So as you can see, in order to act in a “Certain Way”, your actions don’t need to be different, but your MINDSET needs to be completely in the flow, and you need to be in a pure place of giving. Your objective needs to be already accomplished in your mind and you need to fully feel the satisfaction form that accomplishment. You must perform your tasks while being smothered in positive energy and you must have the complete trust that your goal will be reached.

When I look back, I realize that I experienced things in a “Certain Way” several times without even knowing. For example, when I did an art show with my boyfriend, his energy shifted and he started believing he was going to get a lot of contracts. And we did get several in the following days, but none of them came from the show! They all came from different channels that were previously established and had no relation to the art show! So simply by changing his mindset, he opened up the possibility of receiving new contracts, he truly believed it, and it happened!

Of course, in order to believe something, it’s easier to rely on the physical evidences. For example, if your goal is to get several contracts, you need to start acting as if you were at least getting a few. Once you get them the first few ones, it will become easier to keep acting that way until you reach the amount desired. I often read that the Universe doesn’t know the difference between manifesting $1 or $1000, one contract or one hundred contracts. But our conditioned minds do see a difference! To condition ourselves to a new reality, it’s easier to process incrementally. So start visualizing your goal and act in a “Certain Way”!

Leave a comment and let me know what you want to manifest or have already manifested with your Certain Way of doing things!