Self Organization

STEPHEN RICHARDS SAYS GIVING YOURSELF TO OTHERS CAN BE PRICELESS

You cannot buy forgiveness with money, you cannot put right what you have done to yourself by throwing cash at it. This is so within Cosmic Ordering. Anyone can throw money about and look good, but when you are an unsung hero and give your time, then this is a priceless gift. By giving yourself to others and helping them it makes a difference, try it and see how rewarded you feel and see how much better you are within, and then try placing your Cosmic Order.

There is a man who I’d like to tell you about. His name is Sandy Greenberg. In his youth, Sandy was a very good student, but he came from a poor family. And so he went to Columbia University on a scholarship and there he met his roommate who also was receiving financial aid.

Now while he was a sophomore at Columbia University, Sandy contracted an eye disease that eventually proved to be glaucoma. But the trouble was, it wasn’t detected early enough, and as a result he became legally blind. I ask you all to imagine for a moment having been sighted all your life, and then all of a sudden being faced, in a very competitive school, with losing so much sight you could no longer read. This is what happened to Sandy Greenberg.

But something else happened to Sandy that may surprise you. Sandy said that when he lost his sight, his roommate would read his textbooks to him, every night.

If your roommate had a serious disability, would you take the time to read textbooks to him every night, knowing the more you spend time reading textbooks to your roommate, perhaps the less well you might do with your other activities? That’s not as easy a question as it first appears.

But luckily for Sandy, his roommate did help him. And as a result, Sandy went on to graduate with honours. He got a Fulbright Scholarship, and he went off to study at Oxford. He was still quite poor, but he said he had managed to save about five hundred dollars as he went along.

His roommate, meanwhile, also went on to graduate school. One day, Sandy got a call from him at Oxford. And his former roommate said, “Sandy I’m really unhappy. I really don’t like being in graduate school, and I don’t want to do this.”

So Sandy asked, “Well what do you want to do?”

And his roommate told him, “Sandy, I really love to sing. I have a high school friend who plays the guitar. And we would really like to try our hand in the music business. But we need to make a promo record, and in order to do that I need $500.”

So Sandy Greenberg told me he took all his life savings and sent it to his roommate. He told me, “You know, what else could I do? He made my life; I needed to help make his life.”

Each of you, in your own lives, will be faced with challenges, with roadblocks, with problems that you didn’t anticipate or expect. How you are able to deal with adversity will be influenced, to no small extent, by how you deal with others along the way. What you get will depend a lot on what you give.

You probably want to know who Sandy?s roommate was. I think you’ve heard of him. Sandy’s roommate was a fellow by the name of Art Garfunkel, and he teamed up with another musician by the name of Paul Simon. That $500 helped them cut a record that eventually became ?The Sounds of Silence.?

Copyright Stephen Richards

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Take passionate action towards living your life by design. Talk is cheap. Action = deposits in the bank of a passionately authentic future. Without it, passion is void.

This is a perfect example where dreams are made of where you start by tinkering with your mind, then with your hands. And if the idea weakens, you can always go back to it later until you finish it.

Commit to yourself as well as those you love to create powerfully a life you can love. Instead of reacting, commit to creating from your heart and soul, out of love rather than fear. The American Dream will always be there, but a dream will still be a dream without motion. Be amazed as the transformation begins.

Recognize and embrace the thought that each moment is perfect regardless of its outcome. Every time you hit on something that may appear too extreme, why not give it a shot and see if it will work. You will be surprised to see of there are other ways to get the task done in time. If you are not pleased with the outcome, decide to use that moment to learn from and make the appropriate shift.
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LAW OF ATTRACTION ?- STEPHEN RICHARDS SAYS, ?ALWAYS HAVE AN AIR OF EXPECTANCY?

As one of my private students advised me, in fact something that I had written in my first Cosmic Ordering book, ?Cosmic Ordering Guide?, that I should always have an air of expectancy! They fired that back in response to something I mentioned to them, and I must admit that for a little while I felt as if the student had become the master! So well done to them for reminding me of my very own teachings. This is something you MUST have about you if you are going to become a winner. Even in a situation where you are up against it, always have this air of expectancy, always know you are winner and you WILL be a winner.

READING MY WORDS WILL GUIDE YOU TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE

There once was a wise sage who wandered the countryside. One day, as he passed near a village, he was approached by a woman who told him of a sick child nearby. She beseeched him to help this child.

So the sage came to the village, and a crowd gathered around him, for such a man was a rare sight. One woman brought the sick child to him, and he said a prayer over her.

“Do you really think your prayer will help her, when medicine has failed?” yelled a man from the crowd.

“You know nothing of such things! You are a stupid fool!” said the sage to the man.

The man became very angry with these words and his face grew hot and red. He was about to say something, or perhaps strike out, when the sage walked over to him and said: “If one word has such power as to make you so angry and hot, may not another have the power to heal?”

And thus, the sage healed two people that day.

That is the power of words, never underestimate what words can do for you.

WORK WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF YOUR CAPABILITIES AND YOU WILL SOON AMASS YOUR DESIRES

As I say in my ?Cosmic Ordering Guide book?, work within your capabilities and build on this, do not go straight for lumps of gold and piles of cash. They will come your way, but not before you have applied yourself to the smaller Orders. This story epitomises what I mean.

Many years ago three soldiers, hungry and weary of battle, came upon a small village. The villagers, suffering a meagre harvest and the many years of war, quickly hid what little they had to eat and met the three at the village square, wringing their hands and bemoaning the lack of anything to eat.

The soldiers spoke quietly among themselves and the first soldier then turned to the village elders. “Your tired fields have left you nothing to share, so we will share what little we have: the secret of how to make soup from stones.”

Naturally the villagers were intrigued and soon a fire was put to the town’s greatest kettle as the soldiers dropped in three smooth stones. “Now this will be a fine soup”, said the second soldier; “but a pinch of salt and some parsley would make it wonderful!”

Up jumped a villager, crying “What luck! I’ve just remembered where some have been left!” And off she ran, returning with an apronful of parsley and a turnip. As the kettle boiled on, the memory of the village improved: soon barley, carrots, beef and cream had found their way into the great pot, and a cask of wine was rolled into the square as all sat down to feast.

They ate and danced and sang well into the night, refreshed by the feast and their newfound friends. In the morning the three soldiers awoke to find the entire village standing before them. At their feet lay a satchel of the village’s best breads and cheese. “You have given us the greatest of gifts: the secret of how to make soup from stones”, said an elder, “and we shall never forget.” The third soldier turned to the crowd, and said: “There is no secret, but this is certain: it is only by sharing that we may make a feast”. And off the soldiers wandered, down the road.

The soldiers just started out small, within the bounds of what they had. There was no shame in working with just a few basic things, but soon an abundance came their way, and that is how you must use Cosmic Ordering ?good luck.

Copyright Stephen Richards

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There is a big difference between scampering and running. Sure, they’re both actions designed to make person move fast, but the difference lies in goal setting. When a person scampers, it is without purpose. A person who is scampering moves to no purpose. It is an action performed instinctively. However, a person who runs does it to achieve a goal. Which one do you prefer to do?

No matter how much effort you make, if you do not have direction, you will be wasting your energy. How can one have direction without a goal? Goal setting is important because it is the first step towards a journey. People may think that we started out without having any real goals, but let us examine life for a moment: When a sperm is first released, it has a goal, does it not? It swims towards the egg. This goal gives it direction.

As we mature in life, our goals get bigger and more ambitious. However, we still set goals. Goal setting is an inherent part of life. It answers the question of purpose. It tells us why we have to live, if only until the next day.

As mentioned before, goal actually gives us direction. For without goals, where would we direct our efforts to? Goal setting is the key and essentially gives us the first step in our individual journeys.

Think of it: When you set a goal, you try to follow the most direct route towards it. So you take the first few steps towards achieving that goal. In setting a goal, you will always have the first step. However, in life, we encounter little detours. Sometimes, in order to reach our set goal, we must first accomplish another one.

Goal setting is the key to achieving success in life. If you set goals, you will be able to know which steps to take. Setting goals does not mean you make a list on what to do or what not to do. That would merely be the semblance of goal setting. True goal setting involves commitment.

In true goals setting you need to be able to put your heart into it and commit yourself to achieving that goal. From the moment you set a goal, every effort you make will be directed towards the achievement of that goal.

Goal setting is important in life because it allows you to measure yourself. Nobody knows why measuring one’s self is so important. Perhaps it has something to do with self-improvement. Sometimes it has something to do with the realization that you are doing something in life. However, goal setting will allow you to measure yourself by how close you are to achieving a goal. Through proper goal setting, you will be able to see just how far you’ve come and how far you will still be able to go.

Another importance of goal setting is that it allows you to know your purpose in life. Goal setting will prevent you from questioning your existence. Sure, some people find wisdom in questioning the meaning of life, but people who do not find answers to this question often end up in despair.

Goal setting gives you order.

If there is one thing that people seek in life more than food, clothing, or shelter, it would be order.

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PAGAN WHISPERS

Although I do not subscribe to Cosmic Ordering being some sort of mysterious system for invoking things to happen, I do feel that it has some tie-ins with other genres that I have worked with. I recently published a book by the author Carole Carlton called ?Mrs Darley?s Pagan Whispers? and I was prompted by Trace?s email to think of this book and the Pagan rituals and how they tied in with nature, as does Cosmic Ordering to some extent. This brought me on to thinking of some of the important days in the years.

SUMMER SOLSTICE

The longest day of the year is June 21st. It is the day when the sun is at its most northerly point and this is why it is ?the longest day?. On this day you can see a very old custom at Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, England. Every summer solstice hundreds of people go to Stonehenge to watch the sun rise.

The sun shines on one famous stone - the Heel stone. The Heel or Hele stone stands to the northeast of the Stonehenge circles. The name is probably derived from the Greek word for the sun (Helios). The Heel Stone is a stone which is not located in the main circle. The Heel Stone, formerly Friar?s Heel, is the Anglicized corruption of the ancient Welsh ?Freya Sul?. Sul (pronounced ?seal? in old and modern Welsh) means Sun Day, again, connected to the Greek word helios.

For the Druids this is a very important moment of the year. Druid celebrations also take place on Midsummer?s Eve, Bonfires are lit to show respect for the Sun God, whose power they say is greatest at the summer solstice. The fires also represent an attempt to ward off the coming winter. Practice of this ancient ritual, which also includes a summer solstice Circle Dance, is now mainly confined to Cornwall, the West Country, and London’s Hampstead Heath.

The Druids were the priests in Britain 2,000 years ago. They used the sun and the stones at Stonehenge to know the start of the months and seasons. There are Druids in Britain today too. This discovery has had tremendous impact on how Stonehenge has been interpreted.

In the first years of the 20th century, this alignment implied a ritualistic connection with sun worship and it was generally concluded that Stonehenge was constructed as a temple to the sun. More recently, though, the astronomer Gerald Hawkins has argued that Stonehenge is not merely aligned with solar and lunar astronomical events, but can be used to predict other events such as eclipses. In other words, Stonehenge was more than a temple, it was an astronomical calculator.

It was argued that the summer solstice alignment cannot be accidental. The sun rises in different directions in different geographical latitudes. For the alignment to be correct, it must have been calculated precisely for Stonehenge?s latitude of 51° 11′. The alignment, therefore, must have been fundamental to the design and placement of Stonehenge. As if corroborating the claims made by Hawkins for Stonehenge.

A professor of engineering and a mathematician, Alexander Thom, has shown that many other megalithic sites throughout Britain are also oriented towards the sun and the moon.

The alignment also made it clear that whoever built Stonehenge had precise astronomical knowledge of the path of the sun and, moreover, must have known before construction began precisely where the sun rose at dawn on midsummer’s morning while standing on the future site of the monument. It was the site, a particular place within the landscape, that was important; only later were these sites marked in some more permanent manner by the digging of ditches and banks and (or instead) the erection of wood or stone structures.

This particular spot in the landscape was so important that not only were ditches and banks dug and, later, stone circles and horseshoe arrangements constructed to mark it, but that some of the stones were deliberately transported there with considerable effort from a great distance away.

Contrary to expectations, the great stone circles and horseshoe arrangements for which Stonehenge is famous are later additions to the monument (mostly Stonehenge III) and are not essential to the lunar and solar calculations.

The megalithic ruin known as Stonehenge stands on the open downland of Salisbury Plain two miles (three kilometres) west of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, in Southern England. It is not a single structure but consists of a series of earth, timber, and stone structures that were revised and re-modelled over a period of more than 1400 years.

Unlike earlier stone circles oriented on natural features like prominent hills, Stonehenge aligns with no natural features all the alignments being man-made. The builders had to provide an outlier to mark the rising of the sun at midsummer as seen from the centre of the circle. This is the Heel Stone, located 60m from the centre of the circle. Note the barbed wire that has now been placed around the monument. It was put there to protect the site from large group that wanted to overrun the site for the summer solstice.

Mystery surrounds this 5,000 year old World Heritage Site. As old as the pyramids in Egypt, was Stonehenge designed as a place of sun worship, or as part of a huge astronomical calendar? Each monument was a circular structure, aligned with the rising sun at the solstice. Erected between 3,000 BC and 1,600 BC, the stones were carried hundreds of miles over land and sea, while antlers and bones were used to dig the pits that hold the stones. An awe-inspiring family visit, Stonehenge is a powerful reminder of the once-great Stone and Bronze Ages.

A 17th-century architect named Inigo Jones thought Stonehenge was a Roman temple. By the time the 18th and 19th centuries rolled along, popular opinion had changed - Stonehenge was thought to be a Druid temple for sun-worship. (The problem with this theory is that Stonehenge was finished 1,000 years before the Druids came to prominence.

British author John Mitchell has suggested that Stonehenge was ?a cosmic temple dedicated to all twelve gods of the zodiac. It represents the ideal cosmology, the perfect and complete image of the universe?.

And that seems as good an explanation as any for this feat of engineering and construction that continues to fascinate us to this day.

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Simplifying your life means a simpler, clutter free style of living.

When your home overflows with objects, it tends to distract you. And we all know what happens when there is too much distraction. It stops you from thinking and acting wisely, and therefore you procrastinate.

Go around your home and make a list of everything you don’t really need. For instance, do you really need two toasters in the kitchen? One hasn’t been working for months. You either dispose of it or repair it.

Ask your husband and children to do an inventory of clutter. Your husband can do the garage and the basement. Your kids can do their bedrooms. State that you need their lists in three days, no later. Explain to them why junk has to be eliminated from the house.

If you explain your intentions clearly, they will understand and would be more willing to cooperate. Tell
them that the house requires a much needed airing, and when all the junk disappears, so will the distractions.

Encourage them not to replace old junk with new junk
It can be a vicious cycle. Just as we manage to rid the home of unwanted bric-a-brac, in come new ones. Explain to your family that there was a specific reason for clearing clutter. Old clutter should not be replaced with new clutter. Encourage them to think carefully before purchasing additional material possessions. Examples:

• Will I consult this book more than once, or is it just for one school assignment? Maybe I can borrow it from the library instead?
• The hubby loves tools. He spends his weekly allowance on them. He just filled up an entire wall with all kinds of tools. Ask him which ones he hasn’t used for 6 months and ask him to throw them away.
• The clothes in your closet. Which of them have you not worn for six months? Call the Salvation Army or the recycling center.

As soon as the closet is just half-full, and you can finally see the wall of your closet, you’ll be inspired to re-organize your whole bedroom: dressers, and night table drawers – shoe racks too!

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Budgeting for house expenses is a task people put off indefinitely. They know something is wrong with the budget; bills mount up and remain unpaid for weeks, and the only time you jolt out of your complacency is when the utility company calls to advise you that power will be cut off in a week if you don’t settle your bill.

It’s not because you need to earn more; it’s because your budget needs fixing. Nurse it back to health. Procrastinating will only make the problem worse. If it’s easy for governments to get into a deficit, it’s even easier for individuals to fall in the same trap.

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Cosmic Ordering and Old Time Justice

A man in the Old West was being tried for stealing a horse. You need to remember that stealing a horse in the Old West was a very grave and serious offence. A person could be hanged if found guilty of such a deed.

It so happened that the man whose horse had been stolen had always made it a point to get the best of any person with whom he had any dealings. He had never tried to do anything good for anyone other than himself. Consequently, the man whose horse had been stolen didn’t have a single friend in the entire town. The case was tried and presented to the jury. The evidence against the accused man was pretty strong. After about thirty minutes of deliberation, the jury returned to the court chambers. “Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?” The judge asked. The chairman of the jury stood up. “Yes we have, your honour,” he replied.

“What is your verdict?” inquired the judge.

“We find the defendant not guilty if he will return the horse.”

After the judge had silenced the laughter in the courtroom, he admonished the jury. “I cannot accept that verdict. You will have to retire until you reach another verdict,” said the judge. The jury went back into their room to deliberate toward another verdict. No member of the jury had any particular liking for the man whose horse had been stolen. They took their place in the jury box and the courtroom grew silent.

“Gentlemen of the jury,” began the judge, “have you reached a verdict?” The chairman of the jury stood up.

“Yes we have, your honour,” he replied. “What is your verdict?” asked the judge.

The courtroom was totally silent. You could have heard a pin drop. Everyone eagerly awaited the verdict. The chairman read the decision reached by the twelve good men, tried and true.

“We find the defendant not guilty, and he can keep the horse!” The courtroom burst into laughter!

Moral of the story: If you spend your life trying to take advantage of others, never caring about them in any way except what you can get from them or what they can do for you, you will end up a loser, like the man who lost his horse.

If you desire a friend, then be a friend. If you desire for other people to help you, then help other people.

A CAVEAT

Don?t look at everyone you meet as a ?meal ticket? out of your present existence or a money making machine. All what I am saying is that the opportunity is out there and you DO need other people in order to make things work. Think about where different situations could take you, and most of all, never expect something for nothing.

EACH STAGE IS IMPORTANT

Rather than go for something big straightway, use something which I have called a ?step order?.

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Our self confidence has an important role in the way we live our lives. If we are not confident about ourselves, we can not be successful in our undertakings and we will feel left out most of the time. Having a high self esteem is a prerequisite to achieving happiness in life so how can you ever survive without confidence in yourself?

If you give enough time and effort to improve the self confidence that you already have, then that confidence will just increase naturally and eventually, you will be a renewed person. There are a lot of ways to achieve high self esteem and one of which is by self esteem hypnosis.

What Is Self Esteem Hypnosis?

Self esteem hypnosis is just similar to meditation. It is not only easy to do but it is a fun and natural experience as well. It is considered as one of the most powerful tools that help you improve your self esteem. It is a good guide for you in terms of the kind of behavior that you are expected to have when faced with really negative situations.

How To Do Self Esteem Hypnosis?

By self esteem hypnosis, you are in a relaxed state and then you start to ponder on positive ideas and visualize it. Then you start to think on how you are going to react in certain scenarios which you fear most.

When you are doing self esteem hypnosis, you focus on replacing your negative emotions to positive ones by changing your thoughts as well as your feelings in a given situation. The hypnosis process will only persuade you as to how you should act differently in a particular circumstance. By doing this technique, you learn to become totally in control of yourself and you begin to choose the things that you want to change in yourself and for yourself thus a good sign of improving your self esteem.

Other Applications Of Self Esteem Hypnosis

Not only is self hypnosis for those who have low self esteem, self hypnosis is also good for other types of attitude issues that require change in the overall personality.

There are also vices that can be stopped because of self hypnosis such as smoking, drinking and the like. When you gain the positive attitude, you realize that these vices are not a means of hideout.

Self esteem hypnosis is indeed a helpful technique to achieve that high regard for yourself. Without high self esteem, it would be hard to interact with other people because you feel unimportant to them and if this is the case, it would be difficult for you to really survive the demands of life.

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It was only two generations ago that TV, billboard, racing circuits, snooker sponsorship and cinema commercials advertised that cigarette smoking was good for you, that it made you sophisticated, successful, popular. Now that belief has changed. We are left with a nation of nicotine addicts wanting to kick the habit. They want to do that more than land a parcel of cash?and that is something Cosmic Ordering can help with.

At the same time, consuming alcohol in large quantities was considered a challenge of the macho brigade, a way of life for the winners, the upwardly mobile, and the successful. Many have asked about how to obtain Cosmic help in kicking the alcohol habit.

Personal habits such as smoking and drinking can be curbed significantly, all with the correct ?clean? language used in your Order. Those other things that disturb us so much can also be changed too.

For those with children, it is about what they want for their futures: better health, education, careers and home lives and being taught to cope with its ups and downs.

Meanwhile, we also want to make improvements that will begin to take effect within our lifetimes.

You don?t have to be a university scholar or a politician to say what you mean, what you stand for, what you believe is good and right. You will likely find your situation in here. You will see how much we all have in common. Most of us have serious concerns about the world we live in. In some cases, fear and worry play a significant role in our lives. Conditions in our communities seem so much beyond our understanding that they seem to be out of control. Changes could make the quality of our lives better. We want change, but feel helpless to control it.

Helplessness is a perception, a widespread belief. But it is not reality. We look for short-term solutions rather than long-term cures. Something can be done.

This book will illuminate the path that can be followed. We will consider what can be done, the objectives, goals and steps in the process toward improvement.

Most of us know at least one person whose life has been profoundly affected by something violent, something invasive, something that changed that person?s life forever. Personal violence is a problem that upsets many of us deeply. Lately, even invasion of privacy by computer hackers has risen as a form of personal psychological violence.

Cosmic Ordering can be used to abate your fears; once you have made your connection, then you can run your Order through your mind, by naturalistic means. Hear yourself say the words, as per the Order that applies to your situation.

I am not saying that you should tailor any particular Order just for the sake of it: if you do not find what you are looking for, find an Order that is as close to your situation as you can, then start using the positives from it and apply them to your own Order.

Clean language is the key to making it work for you. For instance, don?t fall into the trap of saying, ?My life is rubbish, I can?t make things happen. Nothing good happens to me, always the bad things of life come my way. I want to change all of that, please help me make those things happen.?

Look at the negative words (highlighted) used in that Order:

Rubbish
Can?t
Nothing
Bad

Rephrased, replacing negative words with positive words, as follows: ?My life is becoming better. I can have good things happen. The good things of life come my way. I want to allow that to continue to happen, as appropriate. Please make those things happen from now onwards.?

Some of the neutral words I have listed below, so use as appropriate to your situation:

Make
Happen
Please

Let me rephrase the following with some neutrals removed or made more positive: ?My life is rubbish, I can?t make things happen. Nothing good happens to me, always the bad things of life come my way. I want to change all of that, please help me make those things happen.?

Revised Order using positive words, as follows: ?Day by day, my life is improving. Good things happen. Good things come my way. Allow that to continue, as appropriate. I can continue making those things happen.?

Note the phrase: continue making those things happen. See how it actually gives an Order within the Order. You will find plenty of that in the 101 Orders within this book. Look out for them and incorporate such phraseology into your own Order(s).

I am sure you get the idea, and I am sure you could improve the way you phrase your Order(s) by use of clean language.

If you do not use clean language in the Order, the negative words can be literally taken as part of the Order, and then you wonder why your Order has gone adrift.

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Have you heard someone saying this…

“If it’s so darn easy like what the personal self improvement books and seminars taught, how come I’m not a millionaire?”

I don’t have the answer.

But I do know how I became wealthy.

I was struggling at first until I realized the potential of what I’m about to share with you…

Belief in yourself.

Believe it or not, the limitations we experience in life are often the result of our own mental limitations.

Consider for a moment the hoopla surrounding Roger Bannister when he broke the four-minute mile. Previous to him setting this record, most people considered it impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.

In fact, I dare to bet that there were people in Bannister’s time who were physically capable of running a four minute mile, but were held back by their mental limitation that said it was impossible to do so simply because no one have done yet.

Once Bannister did it, however, many people followed. And thus, the record has been broken since by almost 17 seconds.

All it took was for people to change their mindset and believe they could do it. Once they believed it, they did it (provided of course they had the physical skills to match).

The same is true if you want to be a millionaire today, my friend.

Do you believe you can make one hundred dollars for a start?

Do you believe you can make one thousand dollars then?

Do you believe you can make six figures?

How about seven figures?

Chances are, you already hold some sort of limitation in your mind– an amount that you believe you can make.

I know because I always have.

We can be motivated thinkers but the problem is, we’re somehow programmed not to think big in our society of living.

But you don’t have to bow down to your mind’s limits. Instead, be open and be free. Choose to make more. Believe that you can. Make it so. All you need to do is free your mind.

I mean, who’s going to sue you if you think big? No one.

So it’s to your own advantage to think big than small, isn’t it? You have nothing to lose.

A few years ago I experienced first-hand the limitations I allowed my mind to put on my activities. Let me explain…

Previously, I organized and marketed personal self improvement workshops as a business.

The crowd was never more than 30 people per intake.

I don’t know why but I could not figure out why I can’t get 100 in my room.

Then one day, I realized what was going on.

I was ‘blocking’ myself to the possibility of having more participants because I’ve been programmed that if I can get 50 for such type of workshop, I’m already doing a great job.

So my brain wasn’t trained to get more.

But one day, the speaker told me that I could get more. That’s all it takes. One voice changed my view and thinking pattern. The rest is history now.

It’s very interesting how our brain is receptive towards advice from an authority figure.

This leads me to another lesson learned from my life’s experience–

If you want to soar with the eagles, don’t hang around with ducks or chickens.

Let’s suppose you are making $100 a month from a business of yours, but you want to get to the $10,000 a month level.

The truth is if you can make $100, then you can make $10,000… after all, it’s just a matter of replicating what works, leveraging your previous success to snowball it into more success, and so on.

But of course many people don’t shoot from $100 to $10,000 overnight. Their mind needs to adjust to the idea. If they could free their mind, they could meet their income goals– quicker.

Hence the big question: how can you ever get to a higher level if your mind isn’t ready?

The answer is to start taking smaller steps.

You see, many people do it the other way. When they decide they want something, they take big steps to get what they want. For example, if they want to make $10,000 a month, they roll out big plans for big businesses.

But if their mind isn’t ready for this type of success, they won’t get there. Maybe they’ll sabotage themselves by doing something like choosing bad business partners or making other poor decisions.

Forget about those big steps. If your mind isn’t ready, it won’t work.

Instead, take small steps to begin building bridges between what you know you can do and what you want to do.

In a nutshell, you likely already know HOW to be wealthy. Now you just need to free your mind to believe that you can do it. Once you truly and fully accept that you can do it, you WILL do it.

Successful people know that training their mind to accept success is a very important task. Actually, it’s probably more important than knowing everything else in the world about becoming wealthy but doesn’t believe in himself.

Patric Chan

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