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© 2013 LifePower LLC
Carlos Marin | Empowering People
to Achieve Success and Freedom
Our buried emotions, fears, beliefs and programs are just energy infused with information. That’s what a thought is, a representation of an ideal or concept which is essentially energy infused with information.
A thought that you think many times becomes a belief and beliefs are causes. Beliefs put the Law of Attraction into operation, create our vibration, and therefore they are what create our success or failure, our wealth or lack, our happiness or sorrow. We need to really dig into this topic, so please pay close attention.
A belief is nothing more than a sense of certainty about what something means. It’s an idea that has so many references behind it that you feel certain it’s true.
The important thing is… It is not necessarily true. It could very easily be an absolute lie. It could go totally against the truth, but since we have the belief that it is true programmed, our subconscious (our inner power that is working all the time to produce results) will make it true for us in our experience!
Think of a belief as a table. The top of the table is an idea or a thought. The legs are the references, distinctions and concepts that, through repetition, have given you a sense of certainty regarding the idea or thought.
The table top without the legs would only be a flat piece of wood or glass or whatever material your table is made of. A belief without its legs (which are references and distinctions) is just an idea, which may or may not be true or even relevant in your life.
It is the legs holding up the flat piece of wood that make it a table. The idea or thought without the references would not be a belief, just an idea or thought. So it’s the references and the repetition of those references that create the sense of certainty that makes the idea a belief.
The Law of Life is the Law of Belief. Whatever you believe is true is the reality that you will create for yourself. Having beliefs that serve us and empower us to attract what we truly desire is the key to having riches in every area of life.
Sometimes our beliefs have absolutely nothing to do with our current reality. I know people who fight and act like children when they get around their siblings at holiday time and they are now in their 40s and 50s! It’s amazing how many of us are limited by traditions, which are just collective beliefs, and we never question them.
What would you have to do to take a belief you currently have that is limiting you and change it?
There are many ways to change beliefs and in this training program I’m going to teach you powerful technologies to do just that. One way to change beliefs is to question the validity of the references that uphold that belief or associate enough pain to the belief that it causes you to question the references. If you remove the validity of the references, you change the belief or remove it altogether.
Let’s start learning these strategies by using a very simple example. One of my old, limiting beliefs, a belief that kept me from a high level of success for a long time until I changed it was: “I don’t deserve success.”
I had that belief because I was in a hurry to grow up and was trying to bite off more than I could chew. My parents, grandparents and teachers were always telling me to “slow down, you’re still young, you still have a lot to learn and you have to pay the price for success.”
When I acted impulsively or missed the mark, they would say, “Remember, you’re still young and have a long way to go and a big price to pay before you are ready to achieve real success.” Consequently, I became really sensitive to the fact that I was too inexperienced and not good enough to attempt big things. The message I heard in my subconscious mind was “I don’t deserve success because I haven’t learned everything I need to or paid the price yet”
Later when I started working in sales and would call on people, they’d say, my gosh you’re so young to be a financial planner or insurance expert. Even when it was a compliment, I was so self-conscious that it set off an unconscious trigger to my feelings of being undeserving and the belief I had developed that, “I’m not good enough yet so I don’t deserve success.” As ridiculous as this may sound to you, this belief affected my level of confidence, self worth and my feeling of worthiness to attain high levels of success.
It wasn’t until I began questioning my beliefs that I realized that I could change this. And then I went and replaced that belief with a really strong and empowering one… “I am as successful as I decide to be.”
I began to realize that my success was a function of directing my mind towards my goals and maintaining a positive mental attitude, while executing my plan of action in the faith that it is already done.
I changed my references by realizing that my limiting belief had been formed when I was young and wasn’t even valid in the new context where it was affecting me, namely business success. I also realized that if I kept this belief, it would have very negative consequences in my life. It was keeping me broke!
I linked enough pain to the old belief and enough pleasure to the new one that once I came to this realization/revelation I turned it into an empowering belief. It’s really as simple as that in most cases, unless its something deep-seated from a very early age or something so painful that you’re suppressing it, but I’ll even show you how to dig those up.
The bottom line is that our beliefs can lead us to either create the life of our dreams or destroy our dreams and leave us with a life of misery and dullness.
In my next article we’re going to dig deeper into what is blocking you from having the things you really want and show you how to change your limiting beliefs into empowering ones, so until then…
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In my last article I asked you to really get honest with yourself and write down who you are right now, in other words your self-concept or Identity. This is who you really believe yourself to be right now based on your thoughts, beliefs and actions. Now, I want to take you through an exercise I call, The Future of Your Past Conditioning.
To get started, look at what you wrote down previously and now write down how the negative parts of your identity have affected you up to this moment in your life. To do this simply follow the guidelines by answering the pertinent questions below.
The Questions:
What has your identity, your belief about yourself cost you in terms of relationships with your loved ones?
What has it cost you in your relationship with yourself?
What has it cost you in your relationship with other people?
What has it cost you in terms of your physical body, your health, and your energy?
What has it cost you in your self-esteem, your self-worth, and your love for yourself?
What has it cost you in financial terms? How much money have you lost?
What has it cost you, this identity of yours, in terms of your career opportunities?
What has it cost you spiritually and emotionally in your level of happiness, joy and fulfillment?
What has it cost you in your relationship with your God?
Allow yourself to feel the pain, because the more you connect with it right now the better it will be.
Now I want you to focus on that pain and all of these feelings of inadequacy and think about how your life will be five years in the future if you don’t change and you keep being who you are right now with all of your shortcomings and failures. Stop reading for a minute and visualize that painful outcome and really connect with the pain.
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Now that you’ve experienced the pain of not changing and going forward in life with the same old identity, realize that none of this has happened yet, and you are in time to change your future. So stand up and shake out your body, dust yourself off as if you fell and landed in a pile of dirt so you get rid of the negative energy from that visualization… this is important.
This is just a picture of what could be if you don’t change. You’re on a course to somewhere, based upon who you are today. But if you change, that destination will be totally different.
Are you now motivated now to start designing who you really want to be? Who you really deserve to be?
Remember:
God doesn’t make losers; God doesn’t make average; God only makes great. We choose to lose or be average.
A Future Created On Purpose
You don’t have to choose to lose—you can choose to win. You don’t have to choose average—you can choose outstanding. So right now, with this level of motivation, let me ask you this, Who do you really want to be in every area of your life?
Who do you want to be spiritually… emotionally… physically… as a man or a woman… as a spouse… as a parent… as a friend… for yourself… as a businessperson… financially?
What do you want to do with your life?
What is the purpose and passion that you’re committed to living?
What legacy do you want to leave behind?
Take a few minutes right now and really get clear about who you are going to be as a person for the rest of your life. I mean, really get honest as to who you would be if you could be anyone you desire to be. Then we’ll come back and have some real fun.
Stop reading for a moment and write down who you want to be.
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Now that you’re clear on who you really want to be, let’s do an exercise that will help you to lock in your new vision and empower you to start living it daily. I call this one “Your Future Designed on Purpose.”
I want you to imagine that you are already the fantastic, successful, wealthy person you just finished describing. And, you have been living this way for five years.
How do you feel? What are you thinking?
How great is your life?
How great are your relationships?
How is your financial situation? Your career?
What emotional states do you live in regularly?
What kind of life have you created for yourself?
What vacations are you taking?
Where are you going? Who are you going with?
Where are you living?
What does your house look like?
Is it by the ocean, on a mountain, on a lake?
What do you do for fun?
What lifestyle do you have?
What abilities and skills do you have?
What do you do on a daily basis?
How have you positively affected your partner or spouse?
How of you positively affected your children?
How have you affected your important relationships?
How have you impacted the world positively?
What legacy are you creating?
Are you living your purpose?
How does it feel to live your passion?
How great is your life?
I want you to really feel those incredible emotions, the joy, the ecstasy, the passion, the success, the physical energy. How great do you feel? How much are you enjoying your life? What is it like?
Doesn’t it feel wonderful to decide who you are and create your own destiny? Stop reading for a couple of minutes, close your eyes and see, hear and feel what it’s like to be this new “Super You” with your new Identity. Really enjoy the feeling!
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I want you to understand that if you can imagine it, you can attain it. The more you imagine it and feel yourself living that life and having that future, the easier it is to create it automatically.
Your assignment now is to take the exercise that you’ve done and write a statement of your new Identity, describing exactly the person that you now are with this new, chosen identity.
Write it in the first person permissive: “I allow myself to be…” or “I choose to be…” I teach it this way so there is no conflict with your subconscious mind saying “hey, this is b.s., it’s not true,” as you find yourself psychologically reversed again. By writing it this way you are choosing or allowing yourself to already be that person as you lovingly suggest to your subconscious mind to make it real.
Read this statement every morning upon arising and every evening before you go to bed. Remember, as you keep your attention focused on that which you choose or allow, you create it and make it part of your reality.
In the next article in our series we will learn how to begin to design your life on purpose to get more of what you want in life and achieving your dreams! Until then…
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and get free in 2012! God bless and live your passion…
In the past 30 years working with people I have seen a repetitive phenomenon that occurs in the life of every single person on the planet. This is nothing more than the way each one of us views our self, our talents, skills, capabilities and potential. There is nothing more powerful than changing your self-concept. The difference between a wealthy man and a poor man, a healthy person and a sickly person, or a successful person and a mediocre one boils down to the beliefs they have about who they are. This is their self-concept, or what I call identity. A change in identity will change your entire life instantly!
One of the biggest epiphanies I’ve ever had was when I started learning about my identity. Up until that point I had studied about self-image but believed it was really a mask worn to show people who we want them to think we are. Identity, however, is your self-concept, who you believe you are when you’re alone and naked inside your own mind.
When I realized that by understanding who I was currently, and then deciding who I was committed to be, I could purposely change my own identity, it transformed my life. I went from doing well financially to having a spectacular life-style. Plus, I increased my marketing organization from 10,000 entrepreneurs to over 400,000 in four years!
Your Identity determines what you dare to desire, what you believe and what you’ll do in your life. It defines the realm of the possible and the impossible to you and your world.
For most of us, our concept of who we are was created haphazardly, almost by accident, the result of random events and stimuli, past experiences and emotional states, and the pain or pleasure we felt when they occurred.
Numerous studies have been done with school children whose teachers were told that one group of children was special and gifted and another group were slow learners, when in fact, they were all at the same level.
At the end of several months, the “special” children exhibited tremendous learning capabilities while the slow learners learned slowly. The only difference was the teacher’s expectations of the children’s abilities.
In my years in network marketing, I witnessed thousands of identity transformations as I brought in successful entrepreneurs to share their success stories with my organizations in seminars and conventions. They spoke about their personal struggles, where they were when they started in business, and their financial, emotional and relationship challenges.
There were gut-wrenching stories, but when they told how they overcame the challenges and struggles, people related and identified and said YEAH! If they can do it, I can do it.
Today, I understand that the real power behind it was that all along people’s identities were changing and expanding. They saw that real people like themselves, not movie stars or sports figures, but normal people, could overcome bad relationships, unhappy childhoods, poor self-images, past failures and negative conditioning and win big in life.
This very same process is the one I went through in my own life. Due to past conditioning, I had to overcome fear of failure and fear of rejection, which resulted in procrastination and lack of consistent action.
The first time I went through the process I’m going to teach you in the next several articles, I quadrupled my income in less than a year and within two years was earning ten times as much. And that was only the beginning.
Watch for the following article where I’ll show you some things that’ll really open your eyes and help you jump to a new and better place in life really fast! Until then…
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and get free in 2012! God bless and live your passion…
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…
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and get free in 2012! God bless and live your passion…
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. Until then Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and get free in 2012! God bless and live your passion
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.
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