Law of Attraction: What do you really, really want?

Your desire is what sets the universe in motion. So, it is important that you are absolutely clear about what you really, really want. Most people don’t create the kind of life they want because they haven’t clearly determined what they want to be, do, or have.

If you were driving from Florida to California one of your first steps would be to take a map and determine which highways you were going to take. You wouldn’t just get in your car and start driving or else you might end up in New York. Your desire is to get to California. Once you know that, you know the next step, and the next.

Successful people know where they want to go and visualize what it is going to look like when they get there.

Why is it that most New Year’s resolutions don’t work? It’s because they usually focus on what we don’t want:

• I am going to quit smoking


• I am going to stop overeating


• I am going to get out of debt

These types of intentions focus on what we don’t want rather than what we do want. They reflect a negative self-talk. All our subconscious mind hears is smoking, overeating, and debt. Since this is our focus, the Law of Attraction works perfectly to bring more smoking, overeating, and debt into our lives.

A better way is to focus on what you do want. For example:

• I want to live a smoke-free, healthy life


• I want to be healthy, fit, and full of energy.


• I want to be debt-free and have $25,000 in reserves.

Do you see the difference?

Tips:
1. Look at where you are in your life right now. Where you are today is where you want to be. After all you made the choices that got you here.

2. Is your life working the way you want it to? Are you where you want to be? Do you have the things you want to have? What do you really want to be, do, and have?

3. If time, money, health, etc., were no object, what would you do?

4. Write down your goals. The act of writing a goal down increases the odds of reaching it by 1000%.

5. Write down the benefits you will receive by reaching your goal. This will force you to understand WHY you want to accomplish this specific goal.

6. Ask, “What circumstances or conditions must I overcome to reach this goal?” Think through the obstacles and let your subconscious mind find the solutions.

7. Get started. You can change your mind later if you want to, but for the moment the most important thing is to take action right now!

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(My thoughts from reading Beyond Positive Thinking by Dr. Robert Anthony)

Law of Attraction: Being, Doing and Having. Most people have it backwards!

In his book, Beyond Positive Thinking, Dr. Robert Anthony writes about our innate desire to reach our potential. He identifies three beliefs that keep us from being happy and satisfied:

#1—What I don’t have is better than what I do have. (The grass is greener on the other side of the fence).

#2—Having more is better. (More money, more stuff, more love, etc.)

#3—When I get what I want, I will be happy. This is based on the idea that if we work hard and solve all of our problems, someday we will be happy.

The Law of Attraction says that whatever you think about becomes your reality. So, what do you think about most of the time? Most people think about their problems.

Dr. Anthony says, “We have been trained to think about what isn’t, what should be and what we don’t have, and then how we might remedy a situation, solve it or make it better, and so when you first awake, you focus automatically on all the problems that you must face that day.”

This backwards thinking has us believing that if we HAVE the things that happy people have, we will DO what happy people do, and then we will BE happy. The truth of the matter is that we are the most blessed and advanced society on earth, yet we are far from being happy.

Again, the Law of Attraction teaches us that life flows from BEING, to DOING, into HAVING. If you are BEING happy (from the inside out), you will start DOING what happy people do, and you will HAVE what happy people have.

This doesn’t mean you have to accept where you are now and what you have now, and give up any desire of something better. It simply means that at the BEING level you already have want you want. You are already, right now a SUCCESS.

Surround Yourself with “Can-Do” People

Take a good look at the people in your life who are telling you,
“It can’t be done,”
“There’s no way,”
“Your goal is unreasonable.”

Are you allowing others to set limits on whether you are capable or not? If you listen to the naysayer, you are giving them power over your life. Is that the way you want to live your life?

Do you surround yourself with people who tell you why things can’t be done, or with people who help you find solutions? Be careful of the kind of people with whom you surround yourself.

“We don’t have problems, just solutions.”

This was the motto of Rear Admiral Eugene Fluckey, the man responsible for destroying more tonnage of Japanese shipping than any other submarine commander during World War II.

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford lived next door to each other just a few miles from where I live in Florida. Along with tire maker, Harvey Firestone they fished together; camped together and entertained guests such as naturalist John Burroughs and Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. These great men surrounded themselves with other great men.

If you are serious about reaching your goals and attracting fabulous things into your life, surround yourself with “Can-Do” people.

You’ll See It When You Believe It

Most of us were taught “seeing is believing” as a child. We were taught to be realistic and logical. We learned to say, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” This type of thinking is exactly what holds us back from accomplishing our most cherished goals. It stifles the imagination.

The Law of Attraction is about a new awareness which can be described as, “You’ll see it when you believe it.” The fact that we can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there. We don’t see opportunities or solutions because we aren’t looking for them. We must first determine what we are looking for.

Rather than seeing first and then believing, we must first set our goal and then the universe will move to help us accomplish it.

You must first decide what you want before you can become aware of how to get it. Your brain acts like an email spam filter. It receives thousands of bits of information daily and filters out any information that is not important. If it didn’t work this way our nervous system would be overwhelmed. By deciding what you want, your brain knows what information is of value.

The normal response to setting a challenging goal is “I can’t see how I’ll accomplish this. I don’t know where the money is going to come from. Who is going to help me? I don’t have what I need” or “I don’t know what I need to know.”

The truth is this: You don’t need to know all those answers. What you need to know is, “What is the end result? Where do I want to end up? What do I want to create?” Determine the goal first and then all the necessary information will follow.

People who get things done, who achieve lofty goals, know this secret: You’ll see it when you believe it. You must believe in the goal first, and then you will see how to accomplish it. You will find a way to make it happen.

Success and the “Sure-Enough” Principle

What you expect of yourself, others, a day, or a situation, determines the outcome. Once you lock onto the idea of how you think things are going to work out, you then create the situation to make it a reality – and sure enough you get what you expect. It’s the Sure-Enough Principle.

Examples:
If you expect to fail at a certain task, sure enough, you will.
If you expect someone is going to disappoint you, sure enough, they will.
If you expect a day to go badly, sure enough, it will.


Mike Ferry says, “On both the good days and the bad days, the results are what you think about.”

Therefore, to get better results in life we must create better expectations. One way to do this is to visualize what you want and stop picturing, thinking, and talking about what you don’t want.
Successful people look at what they want and move toward the end result. It is as simple as keeping your mind off what you don’t want and on what you do want.

So, what do you want? What makes you happy? Why do you get up every day? Why do you go to work? Why do you associate with the people around you?

“When we are on purpose – doing what we love to do – we will attract the people and circumstances we need to accomplish our purpose.”

(Thoughts from my reading journal while reading, “Beyond Positive Thinking” by Dr. Robert Anthony)

You’ll Always Be a Failure in Someone’s Eyes

If you have been reading my posts you know that I am reading, studying, and applying the truths found in Beyond Positive Thinking by Dr. Robert Anthony. In chapter two he writes about the importance of understanding who you are. Here are a few of Dr. Anthony’s words and my thoughts.

“We literally act out the kind of person that we think that we are.” Think about it. If you think you are a failure, you probably will be. If you think you are fat, you probably will be. If you think that money is short, it probably will be. We create what we think. What we believe about ourselves, our world, and others is what we experience.

“We experience in life what we’re deeply convinced is so.” If your thought patterns say, “I can’t be, do, or have what I want; I don’t deserve this or that; I’m a bad person,” that will become your reality. We must be convinced that we can be, do, or have anything we want, really convinced.

“You’ll always be a failure in someone’s eyes.” No matter how hard you try, someone is going to say it’s not good enough and you’re not okay. You will never win the approval of everyone. Remember that what you do may succeed or fail, but YOU yourself are not a failure. Sure we all have things in our lives that we regret, but we must learn to move on. “We have to learn the lesson and throw away the experience.”

Dr. Anthony tells the story of great teacher who lived 700 years ago. As he lay dying his students asked if he was afraid to die. “Yes,” he replied, “I am afraid to meet my maker.” They were shocked, “How can that be? You have lived such a great life. You led us out of the wilderness like Moses. You have judged between us wisely like Solomon.” Softly he replied, “When I meet God, He will not ask, ‘Have you been like Moses or Solomon?’ He will ask, ‘Have you been yourself?’ Throughout time, people have struggled to be themselves.

You have been created in a marvelous, perfect way. It is not others that you need to please.

A few years ago the U.S. Army had a great slogan, “Be all that you can be.” Have you given life your best? That is the true test.

Are You Chained to Your Limiting Beliefs?

Remember going to the circus and seeing the great big elephants tied to a wooden stake with just a thin rope? The baby elephants on the other hand, had a big chain around their leg which was tied to a long metal stake. The baby elephant was chained this way so that it couldn’t escape.

If the chain is strong enough and the stake driven deep into the ground, the baby elephant can’t get away from its hold. Eventually the day comes when the baby elephant gives up trying to escape and accepts its bondage. It no longer struggles against the chain and stake.

At that point the metal stake and chain is replaced with the wooden stake and thin rope. The elephant has been conditioned to BELIEVE that it can’t get away. Because it believes this, it doesn’t even try.

We too are like that elephant when we allow our limiting beliefs to hold us back. We are chained to the past because we don’t know any better. We are limited not by reality, but by reality as we perceive it to be.

What kind of limiting beliefs hold people back?
I’m too old
I’m too young
I’m can’t afford it
I’m not smart enough
I tried it once and it didn’t work
Etc.

Phil Bilzon is a Personal Performance Coach and gives this exercise for overcoming limiting beliefs.


1. State a belief you have that stops you performing at your best (“I can’t call Expireds,” for instance).

2. Write down the self-talk that goes with this belief (“I am useless at this”).

3. Describe the comfort zone this places you in (“Calling Expireds fills me with fear so I don’t include it in my list of skills”).

4. State the opposite of your limiting belief (“I can call Expireds and feel positive about doing so”).

5. Write down the new and positive self-talk that goes with this belief (“Calling Expireds is something I can do”).

6. Describe the new and expanded comfort zone this places you in (“Calling Expireds fills me with excitement and anticipation”).

7. What is it like having this new belief? (“My business is growing because I’m good at calling Expireds.”)

8. Describe how you are behaving when you have this new belief (“I see myself picking up the phone and confidently dialing the number …”).

9. As someone with this new found belief, take a walk and act as if you are living this new belief; become your new belief.

What kind of life could you and I be living if we threw off the chains of limiting beliefs? What if we simply forgot the things that we can’t do and just did them?

(Thoughts from my reading journal while reading, “Beyond Positive Thinking” by Dr. Robert Anthony)

You Are Always "Right"

What part does the subconscious mind play in applying the Law of Attraction to our lives? Well, job number one of the subconscious mind is to follow the instructions of the conscious mind. It will effectively work to prove that the conscious mind is always “right.”

Remember Henry Ford said, “If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.”

If you consciously think and believe that you can’t be, do, or have what you want, the subconscious mind will create the circumstances to prove that you are “right.”

If you believe business is bad, it will be.

If you believe that relationships are a struggle, they will be.

If you believe that you must work hard for money, you will have to work hard.

What would happen is you began to consciously think more positively?

You see, the subconscious mind doesn’t really think for itself. It doesn’t know the difference between reality and imagination. That’s why when you have a nightmare you awaken in a sweat, with heart pounding. It wasn’t real, but your mind perceived it as real. And, the effects were obvious in your body.

You can train your mind to focus on believing that what you want to be, do, and have is quite possible. Everything you want can be created through your mind.

Napolean Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich” said, "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve."

You are always right.

(Thoughts from my reading journal while reading, “Beyond Positive Thinking” by Dr. Robert Anthony)

Positive Thinking – Negative Thinking – Right Thinking

One way to describe the Law of Attraction is that –my thoughts are created into my results. Like attracts like. My life manifests what I focus on consciously and subconsciously.

The truth is that we can be, do, and have anything we want if we’ll give up the belief we can’t be, do, or have it.

Negative Thinking

Negative Thinking is the result of focusing on my problems. It manifests itself in statements like, “life is hard,” “business is terrible,” “I’ll never reach my goals,” and “I’m a failure.”

Most people easily see that negative thinking is harmful. But admittedly, negative thinking is our biggest problem.

Positive Thinking

Some say the key to success and happiness is Positive Thinking. Positive thinking is simply taking our negative thoughts and transforming them into positive statements like, “life is easy,” “business is great,” “I always reach my goals,” and, “I’m a success.”

While positive thinking is certainly better than negative thinking, it doesn’t go far enough. Even if we think positively, without changing our inner beliefs, we will not get the results we desire.

Right Thinking

Right Thinking is based in Truth. We must stop kidding ourselves, stop blaming others, and stop avoiding tough decisions. We must face the truth that everything we experience in life we have invited, attracted, and created. Right Thinking comes from being aware of this truth.

(Thoughts from my reading journal while reading, “Beyond Positive Thinking” by Dr. Robert Anthony)

Today's Affirmation: I am totally worthy of abundance...

I am totally worthy of abundance in all areas of my life.

Do you feel worthy of success? Do you feel worthy of prosperity and wealth? Do you deserve happiness, love, great relationships, and a fantastic life?

Sometimes we don’t receive the good we desire because we don’t feel worthy. We may sabotage our success, our love life, our job, because we expect to fail.

The truth is that we don’t get what we “deserve.” We get what we expect. What we think we are going to get is what we get.

Instead of waiting until you feel worthy of success, health, wealth, and happiness, why not expect it with eager anticipation. The Universe (God) has all the success, health, wealth, and happiness you could ever handle. It’s yours for the asking and believing.

You are worthy.

So say it with feeling, “I am totally worthy of abundance in all areas of my life.”

Today's Affirmation: I am always patient, kind, caring, and gentle...

I am always patient, kind, caring, and gentle toward others.

I picked these words with great care because there was a time in my life that these qualities were missing.

I was impatient with others; always in a rush; always demanding that others be and do what I wanted them to be and do.

I was not very kind. I had been hurt by others and carried a chip on my shoulder. I was fed up with the way others had treated me and I wasn’t going to take it any longer.

I certainly wasn’t caring. I was wrapped up in my own feelings and ego. Others feelings just didn’t matter to me. I was selfish.

And, gentle? Not me. Oh, I wasn’t rude or crude toward others. But I was known to be grumpy and harsh.

It’s amazing that as I right down these words I realize even more how wrong I was.

BUT ALL OF THAT IS THE PAST. Thank God.

I have learned to be more patient. Life is less hectic and stressful. I am accepting of others. I no longer feel that I must prove that I am right and the other person is wrong.

I treat others with kindness. “Be kind to one another” is one of the shortest verses in the Bible, but it contains one of the biggest truths. The French essayist, Joseph Joubert wrote, “Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”

I am more caring. I now consider the feelings of others. I find ways to show that I really do care.

I am learning to be gentle with others. It has been said, “Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.”

I have a long ways to go, yet I have come so far already. By the time I leave this earth I trust that others will say, “I remember Dan as a patient, kind, caring, and gentle person.”

That has a nice ring to it.

Today's Affirmation: I daily review my goals and take action...

I daily review my goals and take action to achieve quantum leaps of success.

Do you set goals? Do you reach them? If not, why not?

Here’s a story that illustrates the importance of having clearly defined goals:

Mark McCormack in his book “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School” tells of a Harvard study conducted between 1979 and 1989. In 1979, the graduates of the MBA program at Harvard were asked, "Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?"

• It turned out that only three percent of the graduates had written goals and plans.


• Thirteen percent had goals, but there were not in writing.


• Fully eighty-four percent had no specific goals at all, aside from getting out of school and enjoying the summer.
  
  

Ten years later, in 1989, the researchers interviewed the members of that class again. They found that:

• The thirteen percent who had goals that were not in writing were earning, on average, twice as much as the eighty-four percent of students who had no goals at all.

• The three percent of graduates who had clear, written goals when they left Harvard were earning, on average, ten times as much as the other ninety-seven percent of graduates all together. The only difference between the groups was the clarity of the goals they had for themselves when they graduated.
  
  

I practice two steps that have been proven to help me accomplish my goals.

Step #1 – I review my goals daily. My goals are written down of course, and I take a few minutes to read over them. I focus on my top three be, do, and have goals. What do I want to be, do, and have? I close my eyes and visualize what it is like to reach these goals. I create the feelings of how I will feel when I reach my goals. I see myself having already achieved them.

Step #2 – Take action. By taking action I mean taking inspired action. I ask, “What must I do today to reach my goals?” The answer sometimes comes in gentle nudges and hunches that require action. I think of the little steps I can take each day to move me closer to my goals and I take them. I remind myself of the formula: thoughts lead to feelings; feelings lead to actions; and actions lead to results.

Now, begin.

What do you want to be? Write it down.

What do you want to do? Write it down.

What do you want to have? Write it down.

Spend a few minutes every day reviewing the goals you have written down. Then go out an take inspired action. It will be exciting!

Today's Affirmation: I easily attract money into my life...

I easily attract money into my life and have massive financial abundance... Because I deserve it!

Are you a money magnet? Most people think not (and they get what they think). Most people are not happy with the amount of money coming into their life. They struggle for it, work hard for it, even languish over it, only to consistently fall short.

How do we attract money and wealth? What is the secret?

The secret is to not need it!

Whenever you need something desperately, you actually repel it. When you want it, but don't need it, is when it comes easily.

I have written before of the negative beliefs about money which I had to overcome. My upbringing left me with the idea that I didn't deserve wealth and abundance. Wealthy people were to be mistrusted. Their riches were ill gained.

I have replaced those negative beliefs with new beliefs like these:

• Money comes to me easily, frequently, and consistently


• I always surpass my money goals


• I have massive financial abundance


• I am destined for great wealth


• I am totally worthy of wealth and abundance in all areas of my life

You deserve abundance. Go for it!

Today's Affirmation: I always offer words of encouragement...

It’s time for a little confession. I have not always been kind and encouraging toward others. My perfectionist personality has a dark side which often revealed itself in criticism and judgment. I was hard on myself when I failed to live up to my expectations. I was hard on others when they failed to live up to my expectations. I spent a lot of time and effort trying to always be right.

But I have been working on that.

Today’s affirmation reminds me that it is important to encourage and praise others. Goethe said, “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” I have seen encouragement and praise bring a smile to the face of others. I have seen it lift up a depressed spirit. I have offered encouragement and praise to others only to see it bounce back to me with warmth and gratitude.

William Arthur Ward said, “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”

Encourage someone today, and they will not forget you.

Today's Affirmation: I eat right and exercise regularly...

I eat right and exercise regularly to keep my body healthy, fit, and trim, AND to create personal power in my life.

One of the most popular goals shared among Americans is the desire to lose weight. In fact, the weight loss business is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Raise your hand if you'd like to lose a few pounds.

I decided to give up trying to attain a certain weight and instead to focus on being healthy, fit, and trim. The first two ideas of being healthy and fit is far more important than attaining a number on a scale.

I exercise 4-5 times a week, watch what I eat, and enjoy the personal power of self-control. That's really what it is all about --personal power.

Saying this affirmation reminds me that I am in control and helps me focus on good health.

Today's Affirmation: Prosperity and success is mine...

Prosperity and success is mine! I believe I can do it; I believe I deserve it; I believe it is mine for the having.

Almost everyone wants to be wealthy. It seems to be an almost universal goal. Of course, what we really want is what we think wealth will give us. We want freedom and happiness.

Why are so many people disappointed with their income? Why are so many people’s lives in financial disarray? I think that most of our money problems stem from our negative beliefs about money.

Remember the traveling circus? A baby elephant would have a chain around one back leg fastened to a stake in the ground. He wasn’t strong enough to pull up the stake. But, even has he grew into a monstrous size, the little stake held him fast. Why? Because he believed he couldn’t break free. As an adult elephant he had massive strength, but he was bound by his limiting belief.

There was a time in my life when my limiting beliefs about money held me back. Then I learned the secret to letting go of negative beliefs and replacing them with positive beliefs.

My old negative beliefs about money:

• I have to work hard to have money


• I always fall short of my money goal


• My financial life is a struggle


• I am always in need of more money


• Wealth is elusive

My new positive beliefs about money:

• Money comes to me easily, frequently, and consistently


• I always surpass my money goals


• My financial life is exciting, fun and abundant


• I have massive financial abundance


• I am destined for great wealth
  

Join the Experiment: Today I will focus only on the positive.

Please read the previous post about my affirmation: I am happy, optimistic, and upbeat. People enjoy being around me.

On Wednesday mornings I meet a neighbor friend of mine at a local café for breakfast. I have noticed that lately we seem to talk about how bad business is, how bad the local economy is, the sad state of politics, and other negative things. I have left our meetings feeling depressed.

I now realize what’s been happening. These encounters were leaving me depressed because they were pulling me away from my goal of being a happy, optimistic, upbeat person.

Since I have been focusing on this goal I notice that I no longer want to read the newspaper or listen to the cable T.V. news shows that I used to enjoy. The newspaper is full of negative news. The cable news shows bombard my mind with bad news. The talk shows are full of people arguing and fighting.

THE EXPERIMENT: I challenge myself and you to only be happy, optimistic, and upbeat today.

Here are some ways I will do that today:

• I will not read the newspaper today


• I will not turn on the T.V. today (unless it is a happy, upbeat program)


• When I meet others today I will announce me experiment to focus only on that which is happy, optimistic, and upbeat. I will ask them to join me.


• The conversations I join in today must be in alignment with this experiment


• If I find myself around others who are not in alignment with this goal, I will politely excuse myself.


• I will write my affirmation on a 3X5 card and carry it with me today and look at it often. (I just stopped writing this post and created my 3X5 card.)
  

If you are willing to join me, please leave a comment to that effect.

--To your success!

Today's Affirmation: I am happy, optimistic, and upbeat...

I am happy, optimistic, and upbeat. People enjoy being around me.

What type of people do you enjoy being around? Do you enjoy the company of unhappy, pessimistic, discouraged people? Wouldn’t you rather be around someone who is smiling happily, optimistic about life and the future, and generally upbeat?

Now ask yourself the question, “Which kind of person am I?”

They say that everyone brightens up the room. Some when they enter. Some when they leave. I choose to become like the first. I choose optimism over pessimism. I choose happiness over sadness. I choose the positive over the negative.

We are constantly bombarded by negativity and bad news. The newspapers are filled with it. The news channels focus on everything that’s wrong with the world and horrific events. Our mind is pummeled with negativity. It’s no wonder that we tend to focus on the negative.

THE EXPERIMENT: Today I will focus only on the positive. I challenge myself and you to only be happy, optimistic, and upbeat today. Please read my next post if you think you are up to the challenge.

Today's Affirmation: I continually establish habits of success...

I continually establish habits of success. I practice good habits and positive behaviors that guarantee my success.

All of us have habits. As defined in the dictionary a habit is "a recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition."

We tend to have the same thoughts over and over again. We behave the same way day after day. We perform the same activities over and over. We relate to others in consistent ways. And, we constantly get the same results.

Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Success is elusive to many because they have bad habits that sabatoge their success.

The pathway to success is paved with good habits. Make a list of your bad habits that hold you back and choose to eliminate them. Then make a list of good habits and positive behaviours that you seek to practice. Then practice them.

Even better, just pick ONE bad habit to eliminate and ONE new habit to practice. Start today. Be consistent. Tackle your goal until you succeed. It takes weeks to change a habit. Once you succeed, pick a new habit to eliminate and a new one to incorporate into your life.

--To your succes!

Today's Affirmation: I am always doing the most productive thing possible...

I am always doing the most PRODUCTIVE thing possible at any given moment.

Time is our most precious gift. We can waste it; we can spend it frivolously, and have nothing to show for it. Or, we can use it wisely and productively to achieve happiness and great things in life.

Each of us has 24 hours in our day. We have all been given the same gift. The past is gone forever, it is time spent. The future never arrives; it is time we hope we have, but we never know for sure. The present is the only time we really, really have.

Doing the most productive thing possible means using the present for its maximum potential to produce joy, happiness, fulfillment, and abundance.

Today's Affirmation: I am worthy of success and wealth...

I am worthy of success and wealth since I render the best possible service to my fellow man.

Limiting beliefs and feelings of unworthiness hold many back from achieving success. Understanding that you ARE worthy of success and wealth is the key to prosperity.

Who has the right to tell you that you are unworthy? No one. Who has the right to tell you that you ARE worthy? You do. You have been created in the image of God...totally worthy.

Marianne Williamson said in her book, a Return to Love, wrote:

"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."

Amanda Goldston, Abundance Coach, writes about the Top 11 Limiting Beliefs in a blog post.

1. Fear of our GREATNESS

2. Fear of Not being (good) ENOUGH

3. Fear of NOT being LOVED

4. Fear of REJECTION

5. Fear of FAILURE

6. Fear of SUCCESS

7. I don't DESERVE/ I am not WORTHY of SUCCESS

8. Rich People are all mean, selfish, arrogant, unspiritual crooks who have made their money by cheating others

9. I have LAYERS of deep rooted beliefs that hold me back

10. I have to WORK LONG and HARD for my money

11. You need money to be able to make money, and I don't have any!

Her post is worth reading in its entirety.

To your success. --Dan

Today's Affirmation: I live my dreams now...

I live my dreams now. I pursue my dreams and desires everyday. I eliminate procrastination. I do it now.

Dreams are wonderful things. You can make them whatever you want them to be. The problem is that most people never take the time to figure out what it is they really want.

Ask yourself the question, “What do I want?” The answer should be immediate, clear, and easily stated. If not, you probably haven’t devoted enough attention to discovering whatever it is that you truly want.

I have created what I call a dream book. It contains pictures, images, and statements that help me focus on what I really want to be, do and have. The Law of Attraction reveals that what we focus on, we attract into our lives.

What do you want to be?

What do you want to do?

What do you want to have?

Figure out whatever it is that you really, really want. Write it down. Focus on it every day. Live your dream now.