As you learned in the previous article, the most effective way to change your programming is to input new programs into your computer, which is your mind. Remember that these programs are stored in your subconscious mind and they were installed through repetition and usually accompanied by strong feeling or emotion whether it was positive or negative. They are running and producing results automatically every day of our lives.
What we need to do is use the same strategy only now on purpose using the same repetition accompanied by strong feeling to install new positive programs, thereby deleting the old limiting programs and replacing them with empowering new ones that automatically take us where we desire to be in life.
Every one of us is having conversations inside our heads non-stop but most of us are not aware of it. Recall that the average person has over 60,000 thoughts per day and that over 90% of them are the same thoughts day in and day out. Since most people are repeatedly having limiting, negative or self-deprecating thoughts these are a declaration of truth or an affirmation to the subconscious mind. Since this is an unconscious process, they are not aware of what they’re thinking, when they’re thinking it, or how often they’re thinking it but it is producing the exact results they are getting in their lives at every single moment.
If we begin by using a series of powerful affirmations to remind us of who we really are and the power that we have, then decide on purpose what our self-concept or identity will be, we can transform ourselves in a very short period of time. We can go from zero to hero almost overnight. Let me share with you a series of affirmations that I began using when I was broke, in debt, frustrated and unhappy. These affirmations helped me get to a six-figure income in less than two years and then a seven-figure income in five years.
I am a child of God.* God loves me. I am an individualization of God. God made me in his image and likeness. I am an extension of Divine Mind. God is my unlimited source and supply; therefore I am wealthy and always have a Divine Surplus. Infinite Intelligence lives in me and teaches me all things and guides me into all truth, therefore I have the wisdom of God. God is for me; God is in me now, who can be against me? I can do all things through Christ (my God-self), which is my power. Everything I do prospers because I’m an extension of God and with God all things are possible!
*If you’re not comfortable with the word “God” or “Christ” you can substitute Source Energy, Divine Mind, Spirit, Universe, Infinite Intelligence or whatever you’re comfortable with.
Charles Haanel, author of the Master Key System, which is the program Bill Gates is rumored to have read before creating Microsoft, used principle-based affirmations to help his students align their minds and create positive results. He taught that thoughts and words are creative energy, which automatically correlate with their object and manifest it because thought is spiritual energy. He said that prosperity was the result of right or creative thinking and poverty was the result of negative or destructive thinking.
Haanel gave people this affirmation and told them to say it first thing every morning and last thing before going to bed at night and as many times as possible throughout the day… “I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, prosperous and happy.” I have personally used this affirmation and it’s very powerful.
He said every negative thought or word is destructive and must not be allowed to enter your mind or be expressed in words. Every thought of weakness is opposed to strength and should be put out of mind by saying “I am strong and powerful” and every thought of disease or sickness is opposed to wholeness and perfection and should be eliminated by declaring “I am whole and perfect.” He declared that to know this law and live in harmony with it was to build prosperity on a rock-hard foundation, which nothing could destroy.
I use these affirmations to remind me of who I am and the unlimited potential that I have within me. They build my faith and give me strength to continually move forward towards my dreams because they are Universal Truth.
I will share a few more of these “Power Affirmations” with you so you can begin re-programming your subconscious to attract the positive results we all desire in our lives…
- “My good-will is a strong force field all around me. I now transmute all enemies into friends, all discord into harmony and all injustice into justice.”
- “The walls of lack and delay now crumble away and I enter my Promised Land under grace.”
- “I am expanding rapidly into the Divine Plan of my life where I enjoy perfect self-expression and all conditions are permanently perfect.”
- “God is unlimited source and supply. The Divine Plan for my life unfolds now and everything that is mine by Divine right comes to me easily under grace.”
- “The Lord (my God-Self) is my Light, my Strength, and my Salvation. Whom shall I fear?”
- “I expect the seemingly impossible and it happens NOW. My seemingly impossible good now comes to pass.”
- “Now is the appointed time, today is the day of my amazing good fortune.”
- “The long arm of God reaches out over people and conditions controlling this situation, protecting my interests and delivering me my highest good.”
- “I cast this burden of ____________ on my God-self within and I go free to enjoy the ____________ that is mine by Divine Right.”
In addition to these powerful affirmations I have also, over the last 20 years, developed an exercise to reshape my identity and that of my students in order to create an empowering self-concept. I will begin teaching you this incredible technique in my next article.
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Most people live life in various stages of frustration because they don’t feel they can be, do or have what they really want. The challenge comes from not having the right answers to questions because oftentimes we don’t even know the right questions to ask. We walk around in a state of doubt and confusion not realizing the huge potential we truly have.
The biggest problem we have, the big thing that keeps us from being all we can be and having everything we want, is the conditioning that we’re not good enough or are unworthy and don’t deserve the good things in life. This mindset is the greatest deterrent to living the good life we were meant to live by Divine Right.
As you learned in a previous post you came into this world as unlimited potential, like the most incredible supercomputer with a fantastic operating system, but no software. Then, people, conditions and circumstances began to program you.
Consequently, you and I have lived a life of limitation based on the programs that were installed in our minds. However, you still have unlimited potential inherent within you regardless of those programs.
The key to maximizing your potential lies in using your mental power purposely to achieve your desires.
Remember, you and I are individualizations (extensions or projections) of Infinite Intelligence. We are here to express increasingly greater levels of life, love and beauty. It is our right and obligation as children of the Infinite to demonstrate our power and produce success, wealth, health, love and harmonious conditions.
We can only do that through our continual expansion, by directing our own minds on purpose and choosing what we desire. To do this, we must realize that we still are and have unlimited potential within us, even if we are not demonstrating it at this very moment.
This means that we are worthy and deserving of every good thing, and that includes success, wealth, riches, perfect health, perfect body, fantastic relationships, beauty, love, happiness and all the joy that we could ever stand. We are supposed to have and enjoy these things. They are our birthright!
The key is to understand who we really are, the unlimited potential and power within us and the good things we absolutely deserve to have. Then and only then can we access that power to truly make of our lives the masterpiece that we came here to create.
Since the beginning of time, man has been asking: “Who am I?” and, “Why am I here?” When we answer these questions and know the truth behind them, life becomes the joyous adventure it was meant to be.
The most effective way to change your programming is to input new programs into your computer, which is your mind. As you learned previously, the programs stored in your subconscious were installed through repetition. They run and function automatically. By building our power of faith (by knowing who we really are and the power we really have) and utilizing repetition to install new positive programs, we can begin to delete some of the old limiting programs and replace them with empowering new ones.
One very powerful way to do this is through the use of affirmations or declarations. Psychologists say that the average person has over 60,000 thoughts per day and that over 90% of them are the same thoughts day in and day out.
What most people don’t understand is that a repeated thought becomes a declaration of truth to the subconscious mind. If it’s negative thought, it is a negative affirmation that must produce its material equivalent. That’s why some people claim affirmations don’t work for them—they’re actually repeating negative words and thoughts over and over. These are actually negative affirmations and they are unconsciously repeating them far more consistently than any positive ones they are trying to use.
Again, for most people, this is an unconscious process, and they simply are not aware of what they’re thinking, when they’re thinking it, or how often they’re thinking it.
When you use the Ultimate Success Formula, each powerful step in the formula works in concert with the other steps to create exponential positive results. Once you’ve committed to take full responsibility for your life the next step is… Know who you are at a very deep level, and I mean particularly from the spiritual and mental realm.
In the next article in our series we will learn some “Power Affirmations” that will help you overcome some of these limitations and get you on the road to achieving your dreams! Until then…
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This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - Shakespeare
Before you can start creating the life of your dreams you’re going to have to come to the realization that you are 100% responsible for what happens in your life. As we learned in previous lessons your thoughts have produced all the results in your life. Whether you created them purposely by directing your thoughts to your dreams and desires or unconsciously by worrying about or fearing what you did not want to occur, the bottom line is, we all have created everything in our lives.
W. Clement Stone, president of the Combined Insurance Company of America and editor of Success Magazine for many years taught his mentees that the principle of 100% responsibility was the first step in achieving their goals. Stone told them that being 100% responsible was “the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want. If you realize that you have created your current conditions, then you can un-create them and recreate them at will.”
When you really think about it, being 100% responsible is actually a very liberating as well as empowering thing. It puts you in complete control of your life. The problem is that we’ve been taught to believe that outside forces are responsible for our welfare or lack of it. We’ve been taught to blame others for our misfortune and lack of opportunity.
To take full responsibility is a scary thing for many people because then they have no one to blame for their poor results or misfortune. The truth of the matter is that those people have given their power away to others through their belief that they are not in charge of their own lives. They have in essence made an effect their cause (remember the Law of Cause and Effect) and the Law of Attraction is bringing them the precise results they believe in, thereby creating their unfortunate conditions!
In reality the entire Ultimate Success Formula that I will teach you is a principle-based pattern for taking full and complete responsibility for your life, success and future! Every exercise I will have you do is geared to help you gain clarity of thinking and generate the power to direct your mind and life on purpose. To do this you must stop blaming anyone (including yourself and your past), stop making excuses or looking for the cause of your failures anywhere other than your own thinking, belief system and mindset.
Now, I’m not saying blame your mindset, I’m saying discover the underlying limiting belief, thought or action that is producing the negative result and take responsibility by converting it to the correct belief, thought or action that will produce the result you desire.
The key is to realize and accept the fact that you are the one creating your life and results. Your current life is the result of your beliefs, past thoughts and actions. You are the one who controls what goes into your mind from TV, movies and Internet content to books and magazines to the people you associate with. Every thought, every feeling, every action is under your control. You are the only one who has the power to direct your own thinking and your mind 100% of the time. If you relinquish that right it is 100% your responsibility to experience the results of that choice good, bad or indifferent (and it’s usually not good).
In my opinion, it’s much easier to take full responsibility and become good at producing positive results than it is to let someone else or external conditions control your life. I know that, for myself, not being in control of my results ruins my chances for success and happiness. Through trial and error and the study of these Principles, I’ve learned that true success is dependent on my taking 100% responsibility.
In the next article we will focus on the very important topic of who we believe ourselves to be. Our self-concept is the single most powerful element in our mindset because it determines what we will allow in our lives and sets all boundaries as to what is possible in our present and future.
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People are always talking about success. How to be successful in business or have a successful relationship or marriage or succeeding at losing weight or being leaner or having financial success or even successfully managing our feelings and emotions. But have you ever thought about what success actually is?
Let’s start with… How would you define success? People define it many different ways. However, over the past 30 years, I have found this to be a very valuable definition as it relates to business, financial and personal success:
“Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile goals, ideals and objectives.”
I find it ironic that so many people have never taken the time to sit down and truly figure out what they want out of life. Those same people would never build a house without having an architect design it according to their likes and dislikes. They would spend months in the process of making changes until they got it exactly the way they wanted it. But, ask them to design their own life and they look at you like you’re crazy.
In the past you may have heard about a study done in one of the Ivy League Universities in the 1950s where a survey of the graduating class found that only 10% of the class had goals for the future and only 3% had them written down with a date for their achievement.
When they interviewed the graduates twenty years later, they found that the 3% with written goals were worth more than the other 97% combined!
Over 29 years ago I learned a simple formula that had helped many people achieve great levels of success. This formula was made up of four simple steps:
1. Define your dream
2. Get a vehicle
3. Make a plan of action
4. Take massive action
It took me a while to really apply it correctly of it, but in five years I had mastered the formula and was a millionaire. I had also overcome a lot of limiting beliefs and a poor self-image. Learning the formula was one thing, but mastering myself and my beliefs was the key ingredient in my success.
That was just the beginning. I took my frustration in learning and mastering the formula to dig deeper into the principles behind it so I could teach it to others. Through my studies and practical application I’ took the foundation and expanded and clarified it using Universal Principles to create a system so powerful, that if followed consistently is infallible and will produce whatever you desire in life!
Let me explain something that will help you to better understand and use this principle-based formula to produce real-world results.
We are all at a certain point in our lives today—let’s call it Point A. Now, most people are not totally satisfied where they are right now and some are downright disgusted. I’m not saying we are not grateful for the good things we have but everyone wants more, right?
So we’re at point A, but where do we want to be—lets just call it Point B.
The $24 million question is, how do we get from Point A, where we are now, to Point B where we’d really like to be?
I call it the Ultimate Success Formula.
In reality, anyone who has ever attained anything great in life has used a version of this formula knowingly or unknowingly because it is the key to accomplishing anything in your life from material success to creating the body you desire to finding your ideal mate.
Over the past thirty years as I’ve worked with people, I’ve tested and refined the four-step formula I originally learned and expanded it into an eight-step prescription for reaching your full potential. In order to become truly successful and achieve all the riches you desire in every area of life you must:
1. Own Your Life. Take 100% responsibility for your life and everything in it. Purposely decide who you’re committed to be in this world and create your own ideal self-concept or Identity.
2. Define Your Desires. Know exactly what it is that you want. In other words, clearly define your Point B.
3. Establish Your Intentions. Totally commit to achieving your dreams. Convert your desires into intentions.
4. Discover Your Blocks. What has, is or could be stopping you from having what you desire? Discover your negative programs, limiting beliefs, and negative memories.
5. Get Clear and Re-Align. Identify and eliminate all counter intentions by releasing negative energy, memories and feelings and transmuting limiting beliefs.
6. Make a Plan of Action. Figure out what you have to do to get where you want and create a flexible plan of action.
7. Take inspired action. Take inspired action. If your plan isn’t working, adjust according to results. Plans change, dreams don’t!
8. Be It! Act as though you already are, have and do that which you previously desired.
The two Optional Steps (which to me are not really optional because you’d be foolish not to use them) are:
9. Get a Mentor. Find someone who has already achieved what you would like in your life and model them.
10. Use a System. Follow a pattern that breaks things down into chunks that you can learn and act upon more easily and you will succeed quicker.
In our next video we will actually get into putting the Formula to work to get what you desire in your life and make 2012 your best year ever! Until then…
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Most people are frustrated with the results they have in life. They are not satisfied where they are and want more but they don’t know how to go about getting it or changing their position in life. It can be a very challenging thing especially since we were not taught how to do it. The bottom line is that it’s not your fault but that still doesn’t make us feel any better because we still are not getting what we want.
If you’re not getting what you want in your life, the question you have to ask is, “How do I break out of that negative (or failure or mediocrity) cycle? How do I escape from that seemingly endless loop?”
You break out of it by becoming aware of what you are thinking. You become conscious of your thoughts and beliefs and the results they are producing in your life. If you are not achieving the results you desire you use that discomfort to make the decision to choose new thoughts and ideals. You become aware that some of your beliefs are not serving you, so you choose to change them. Even though there’s a cycle, once you become aware of it you can take charge of it and take control of your life.
Throughout my business career I’ve applied the success principles I’m sharing with you in my business and personal life and taught the principles to everyone in my marketing organization. What frustrated me was that some people used them immediately to create success, while others seemed to have not heard anything at all. I was determined to find out why and began to study people and what motivated them to think and act the way they did. I soon realized that the level of programming people had when they were very young created a series of beliefs, and these beliefs either empowered or limited them.
As we look at the two phases of our mind it’s important to understand how information passes from one facet to the other and is recorded as “truth”. Between the conscious and the subconscious, there is something called the “critical factor.” The critical factor is the “gatekeeper” between the conscious and the subconscious mind.
The formation of our beliefs lies in the fact that this part of your mind accepts certain information and excludes others. This is one of the keys to understanding how your mind got programmed in the first place.
Most of us have a fully developed critical factor at around six years of age, but until that age we do not have a way to filter out the “truthfulness” of the information presented to us. The subconscious has recorded every feeling and sensation from the moment of conception, including everything your mother felt.
Do you ever wonder why it seems so hard to get yourself to do the things you need to do to succeed? Or why it’s so hard to change a bad habit? It almost seems like there’s another one of “me” that wants to do things their way instead of doing what I want to do, right?
Today you hear a lot of talk about raising your consciousness in order to be more successful or peaceful or happy or joyful, but what does that really mean? What is consciousness anyway? It actually means to be aware of something, to understand it and to know it.
When I first started learning about Universal Law I was unconscious. I had a victim mentality and didn’t realize I was attracting unwanted experiences. As you’ll remember from a previous article what most people don’t understand is that every thing is really two things. It is the thing you desire and the absence or lack of it. In life you get what you think about and believe is yours consistently, not what you want (which implies lack of it). I was misusing the Law of Cause and Effect and suffering the consequences.
In late 1982 one of my mentors said he felt I was ready to read a very important book. It was Napoleon Hill’s classic, Think and Grow Rich. The first sentence in the book states, “Truly thoughts are things and powerful things at that when mixed with purpose, persistence and a burning desire for their translation into riches or other material objects.”
I remember when I first read that sentence; I was shocked and confused. I thought, “How could something I can’t see or touch be a thing?” I did not realize that energy, although invisible, was a physical thing, or that thought was energy injected with information that would solidify into material objects and conditions as we lived in and acted on the thought. As I continued to read the book, I began to apply its principles, even though I didn’t understand them all and seeming miracles started happening. I started realizing that thoughts were things and they eventually produce their physical equivalent.
The Operating Principle of the Universe, the Law that produces all physical things, is the Law of Cause and Effect, which states that every cause produces an effect and every effect has its cause. This means that everything you see is an effect, which was created by, thought (intelligent energy) which you cannot see and is a cause. Everything in the universe happens according to Law. Chance, luck or coincidence are only names we give to the results produced by Universal Laws that we don’t recognize or understand.
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