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		<title>Don&#8217;t Take Me Too Seriously&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/adventure-travel/doh-that-was-dumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bruce's thoughts on life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motorcycle Adventure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I did a really dumb thing last night, filmed it and found a way to squeeze a valuable lesson out of it&#8230; P.S. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you&#8217;re going to let go of as a result of watching the video. P.P.S. If you missed the incredibly valuable teleseminar [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, I did a really dumb thing last night, filmed it and found a way to squeeze a valuable lesson out of it&#8230;</p>
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<p><strong>P.S.</strong> Please leave me a comment and let me know what you&#8217;re going to let go of as a result of watching the video.</p>
<p><strong>P.P.S. </strong>If you missed the incredibly valuable teleseminar I recorded with Hannes Dreyer and Mike Handcock last week, make sure you <a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/free-business-coaching/">listen to it or download it here</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Cycles Of Your Business</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/the-cycles-of-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seminars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Creation / Financial Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rock your business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most entrepreneurs have no idea that there is a sequence of steps that their business must go through.

Do you know where your business is in the sequence?

In the video below, my good friend Mike Handcock explains the cycle of business. If you're an entrepreneur, I know you're going to find this valuable.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Do you know where your business is in its life cycle?</h3>
<p>Most entrepreneurs have no idea that there is a cycle of stages that their business will go through. When you know where your business is in the cycle, you&#8217;ll know what you need to do next.</p>
<p>In the video below, my good friend Mike Handcock explains the cycle of business. If you&#8217;re an entrepreneur, I know you&#8217;re going to find this valuable.<br />
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/admwhLLq07M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
If you live in South Africa, I&#8217;ll be a mentor on Mike&#8217;s <a href="http://bit.ly/fPSxgR">Rock Your Business training</a>. It&#8217;s an interactive, hands on 3 day event that will explode your business success.</p>
<p>Talk soon,</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/fPSxgR"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-117" title="Bruce Signature" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg" alt="Bruce" width="150" height="51" /></a></p>
<p>P.S. If you own a business, and want to get some incredible coaching from me and 3 other mentors, do yourself a favor and check out <a href="http://bit.ly/fPSxgR">Rock Your Business</a> here. See you there.</p>
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		<title>Your Systems Suck&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/your-system-sucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bruce's thoughts on life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Creation / Financial Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[system theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why you keep making the same mistakes over and over in life? Want to know what to do to STOP that toxic cycle? It's not your fault... It's your SYSTEM!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-971" title="system" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/system.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="162" /><br />
I was working next to my girlfriend on my laptop this morning when I heard her exclaim <em>“Oh crap!”</em></p>
<p><em>“What’s up, honey?”</em> I asked, sensing she was really upset?</p>
<p><em>“I just missed a Skype call with an important client,”</em> she confided.</p>
<p>Tears began to well up behind her eyes and I knew she was beating herself up for missing the call and probably thinking that she had potentially tarnished her professional reputation in the eyes of an important new client…</p>
<p><em>“What’s wrong with me that I can’t even make a simple call on time?”</em> she exclaimed in exasperation…</p>
<p>This was the second time in one day she had missed a scheduled call and she was understandably frustrated.</p>
<p>Here’s how I coached her back to the point where she was smiling and laughing again…</p>
<p><em>“Honey, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with you…</em></p>
<p><em>Instead of thinking about this as a problem with YOU, let’s approach it in terms of a problem with the SYSTEM you use to schedule calls across time zones&#8230;”</em></p>
<p>It was her 4th week traveling on the road with me and she was still not used to scheduling her business calls across multiple time zones.</p>
<p><em>“How come you missed the call, honey?”</em></p>
<p><em>“Well, he’s on Central Standard Time and I’m on South African time, so I proposed a time to him and then added on 7 hours to figure out the call time here in South Africa… except, I counted wrong and entered the wrong time into my calendar, and then missed the call… Dumb, dumb, dumb!”</em></p>
<h3>I suggested we leave ‘dumb’ out of the equation and just look at the system…</h3>
<p><em>“Where was the point of failure in your scheduling system?”</em></p>
<p><em>“In relying on my math to calculate the time difference between CST and South Africa time.”</em></p>
<p><em>“So, what could you do in future to ensure that you calculate the correct time?”</em> I asked.</p>
<p><em>“Well, I guess if I entered the time of the call into my Google calendar in Central Standard Time, Google can display it accurately in my local time zone and I won’t have to do the math…”</em></p>
<p><em>“Exactly!”</em> I shouted with delight.</p>
<p><em>“With that new SYSTEM for scheduling calls across different time zones, you’ll always know the right time for the call in your time zone…”</em></p>
<p>I could see the color returning to her face and she leaned over and hugged me (<strong>I like hugs</strong>).</p>
<p><em>“See how changing an element in the system is a more effective approach to fixing a problem than trying to fix yourself?”</em></p>
<p><em>“Yes!”</em> She exclaimed with a grin on her face, <em>“I feel soooo much better.”</em></p>
<h3>So, the moral of the story here is this:</h3>
<p>If <em>you</em> approach <em>your</em> everyday breakdowns in terms of a <strong>system failure</strong> instead of a <strong>personal failure</strong>, you not only bypass the bad feelings of beating yourself up, but can look at your problems objectively and create solutions that would never have <strong>emerged</strong> had you given in to the trap of trying to fix yourself.</p>
<p>Trying to fix yourself assumes that something is wrong with you… and nothing could be further from the truth.</p>
<p>Here’s the unconscious logic that occurs in your brain when you try to fix yourself:</p>
<ul>
<li>Something is wrong with me</li>
<li>If something is wrong with me, I must be broken.</li>
<li>If I’m broken, then nothing I try will ever work…</li>
<li>If nothing will ever work, I will always be a failure…</li>
<li>If I’ll always be a failure, <strong>then what’s the point in trying anything ever again…</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>THE RESULT:</strong> Endless self doubt, depression and no action – not exactly a recipe for success&#8230;</p>
<p>Sound familiar?</p>
<p>So, next time you think you’ve screwed something up, STOP – then approach the breakdown in terms of a system fault instead of a personal fault. See if you can fix the system, and then go reward yourself for being so smart!</p>
<p>That’s all for this week…</p>
<p>Your partner in success,</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-117" title="Bruce Muzik" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="51" /></p>
<p><strong>P.S.</strong> If you want to create a system for success in the area of money this year, make sure you <a href="http://bit.ly/eben-money-report" target="_blank">watch this video</a> about the SYSTEM OF MONEY from my mentor, Eben.</p>
<p><strong>P.P.S.</strong> Please leave a comment below and let me know what you learned from this article&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Bryan Franklin Reveals His $10m Secrets&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/10million-dollar-secrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Creation / Financial Freedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[REPLAY: I just did an action-packed teleseminar with possibly the highest paid executive coach in the world.
Listen to the recording below to learn:

    * Why trying to stay positive all the time will actually sabotage your success
    * The one thing you need to do to create an abundance mindset fast – and it’s NOT what you think it is – it’s worse!
    * The three essential areas you must master if you want to become successful in business

Listen all the way to the end because Bryan and I dig in with the callers and provide some really valuable coaching for anyone in business or thinking of starting one.]]></description>
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I just did an action-packed teleseminar with possibly the highest paid executive coach in the world. He has earned more than $10m coaching execs from Apple to Google to LinkedIn and lots more.</p>
<p><br />
<a href="http://www.designer-life.com/2audio/bryan-bruce-teleseminar.mp3">Download the call as an .mp3 file</a></p>
<p>Listen to the recording above to learn:</p>
<ul>
<li>Why trying to stay positive all the time will actually sabotage your success</li>
<li>The one thing you need to do to create an abundance mindset fast – and it’s NOT what you think it is – it’s worse!</li>
<li>The three essential areas you must master if you want to become successful in business</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Listen all the way to the end</strong> because Bryan and I dig in with  the callers and provide some really valuable coaching for anyone in  business or thinking of starting one.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bryanfranklin.com/freecall" target="_blank">Click here after the call</a> to register for your consultation session with Bryan and get your iPad.</p>
<p>Enjoy&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-117 alignnone" title="Bruce Muzik" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="51" /></p>
<p>P.S. Please leave your comments below and let me know what you learned form the call&#8230;</p>
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		<title>The 5 Chimps Report &#8211; FREE!</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/5-chimps-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Gifts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wished you had an influential mentor on speed dial for those moments when you get overwhelmed and don&#8217;t know what to do next? Well now you can&#8230; and it won&#8217;t cost a dime. http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/five-chimps-report I&#8217;ve written you a special report telling you exactly how I&#8217;ve enrolled world class leaders and celebrities to mentor and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wished you had an influential mentor on speed dial for those moments when you get overwhelmed and don&#8217;t know what to do next?</p>
<p>Well now you can&#8230; and it won&#8217;t cost a dime.<br />
      <a href="http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/five-chimps-report/">http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/<span id="editable-post-name" title="Click to edit this part of the permalink">five-chimps-report</span></a><span id="editable-post-name" title="Click to edit this part of the permalink"></p>
<p>      </span><a href="http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/five-chimps-report"><img src="http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cover-5chimps-380.jpg" alt="Download Your Special Report" width="380" height="277" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve written you a special report telling you exactly <span class="list"><strong>how I&#8217;ve enrolled world class leaders and celebrities </strong>to mentor and coach me, without paying them a dime! </span></p>
<p> It&#8217;s called the<strong> &quot;Five Chimps&quot;</strong> Special Report and in it, I reveal:
</p>
<ul>
<li class="list"><strong>How to accelerate your success</strong> by upgrading your troop of chimps and feasting on bananas&#8230;</li>
<li class="list"><strong><strong>Why learning to speak chimpanzee</strong></strong> is so important to your success&#8230; seriously!</li>
<li class="list"><strong>Three easy ways to assess </strong>any coach or mentor before you spend your hard earned bananas taking  advice from them&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p><span id="sample-permalink2"><a href="http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/five-chimps-report/">http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/<span id="editable-post-name2" title="Click to edit this part of the permalink">five-chimps-report</span></a><span id="editable-post-name2" title="Click to edit this part of the permalink"></span></span></p>
<p>Napoleon Hill in his classic book <em>&quot;Think And Grow Rich&quot;</em> discovered that the 500  wealthiest people in the world (at the time) all had trusted advisers  or mentors of some kind. Coincidence? I think not&#8230;</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t have a mentor or at least a few trusted chimps in your circle of influence, you&#8217;re flushing your chances of success down the toilet. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/five-chimps-report/">Read the special report now</a> and learn how. It&#8217;s awesome.
      </p>
<p>Your partner in success,
      </p>
<p><img src="http://www.virtualonlinecoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/signature.jpg" alt="Bruce" width="241" height="60" /></p>
<p><strong>P.S. </strong>This report is my baby. It took me 2 weeks to write and it&#8217;s pure gold. Download it or you won&#8217;t get any bananas for dinner.</p>
<p><strong>P.P.S. </strong>Once you&#8217;ve read the report and you&#8217;ve have the aha, please let me know what you learned by leaving me a comment.</p>
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		<title>The Luck Factor: Is Luck By Chance?</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/luck-factor-is-luck-by-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Of Attraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luck by chance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[luck factor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Luck Factor: Is luck by chance or is there more to it? This video presents the basic 4 principles that Dr Richard Wiseman discovered in his research of lucky people.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re wondering if <strong>luck is by chance</strong>, then I can wholeheartedly recommend Dr Richard Wiseman&#8217;s research on <strong>luck </strong>in his book <strong>The Luck Factor</strong>. I took a few minutes to summarize what I learned from it for you&#8230;</p>
<p>In this uncut video you&#8217;ll learn:</p>
<ul>
<li>The 4 luck principles Dr Wiseman discovered lucky people have in common</li>
<li>That even lucky people like me can stumble my words and &#8220;Um&#8221; and &#8220;Uhh&#8221; all over the place!</li>
<li>How to <a title="The Luck Bundle" href="http://www.LuckBundle.com" target="_blank">get lucky</a> at the end&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>Enjoy watching&#8230;</p>
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<p><em>Can&#8217;t see the video playing? Watch it on <a title="The Luck Factor: Is Luck By Chance?" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrOgYTFIBow" target="_blank">&#8220;The Luck Factor: Is Luck By Chance?&#8221;</a> on YouTube.</em></p>
<p>You can get your lucky paws on one of the last<strong> &#8220;Luck Bundles&#8221;</strong> here. <strong><a title="The Luck Bundle" href="http://www.LuckBundle.com" target="_blank">www.LuckBundle.com</a></strong></p>
<p>You can listen to the full interview I did with Damien Senn on &#8220;<a title="How To Get Lucky interview" href="http://www.peopleyoushouldmeet.com/index.php/bruce-muzik5" target="_blank">How To Get Lucky</a>&#8221; here.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-117" title="Bruce Muzik" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="51" /></a></p>
<p>P.S. As always, I want to hear what you learned from this video. Please leave your comments below. I read them all.</p>
<p>P.P.S. As of typing this, there are only a few <a title="The Luck Bundle" href="http://www.LuckBundle.com" target="_blank">Luck Bundles</a> remaining with the amazing bonus I offered. Don&#8217;t miss out&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="The Luck Bundle" href="http://www.LuckBundle.com" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-921  aligncenter" title="luck-bundle-special-offer" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/luck-bundle-special-offer.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="247" /></a></p>
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		<title>The Forgiveness Myth &#8211; And How To Be Sexy!</title>
		<link>http://www.brucemuzik.com/blog/sexy-forgiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Educational Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever experienced the frustration of attracting the same negative experience into your life over and over again, and not knowing why or what to do about it? Perhaps you keep attracting romantic relationships that never turn out the way you’d hoped they would… or business partnerships that always seem to turn sour… Whatever [...]]]></description>
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<p>Have you ever experienced the frustration of attracting the same negative experience into your life over and over again, and not knowing why or what to do about it?</p>
<p>Perhaps you keep attracting romantic relationships that never turn out the way you’d hoped they would… or business partnerships that always seem to turn sour…</p>
<p>Whatever it is, the technique I’m going to share with you in this article will help you destroy your destructive patterns so they never haunt you again.</p>
<p><span id="more-870"></span>To make this article more valuable to you, stop reading for a moment and find yourself an example to work with.</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Close your eyes and think of an experience      you had recently where someone ‘wronged’ you and you still have not      forgiven them </em></li>
<li><em>When you’ve found one, think of at      least two more times when you experienced that same kind of situation      with someone else </em></li>
<li><em>Do this now and don’t read on until you      have completed this exercise</em></li>
</ul>
<p>If you did this work correctly, you’ll have just uncovered a PATTERN that you repeat in your life and probably have no idea what to do to stop repeating it. Well, I’m about to help you with that&#8230;</p>
<h3>Unfortunately, Forgiveness Rarely Makes A Difference</h3>
<p>In my experience, what usually ends up happening is once we forgive the person who ‘wronged’ us, another situation just like the first one appears and we find ourselves in the same place again &#8211; frustrated, upset and not knowing what we are doing to attract this negativity over and over again.</p>
<p>Sound familiar?</p>
<p><strong>I’ll share an example from my own life:</strong></p>
<p>For many years, I kept attracting business deals that would leave me feeling ‘screwed over’ by my business partners and contractors. The last time this happened was when I was getting my new company logo designed a few years ago.</p>
<p>A friend who owned a design company offered to do the job for me at a discounted rate. Long story short, 9 months later he had still not delivered. When I confronted him, he became defensive and the whole deal went south. I ended up losing my 50% deposit, one of my best friends and never received the logo.</p>
<p>Although I had forgiven all the people who had ‘screwed me over’ in the past, I was still attracting this frustrating circumstance.</p>
<p><strong>Forgiving someone may restore your relationship with that person, but it’s not going to stop you attracting similar circumstances again and again in the near future.</strong></p>
<p>So, how come FORGIVENESS (apparently one of the most highly ‘evolved’ things you can do) rarely makes a difference?</p>
<p>Because in order to forgive someone for something, you first need to RESIST what that person did and judge it as being wrong, and&#8230;</p>
<h3>What You Resist, Persists…</h3>
<p>So, whatever you are RESISTING in your life right now will have a nasty habit of coming back to haunt you – over and over again in the future.</p>
<p><strong>Why?</strong></p>
<p>Because, the things we resist are usually the same things we FEAR and because of the way the <strong>Law Of Attraction</strong> works, we always attract the things we FEAR into our lives.</p>
<p>For example, if you fear your partner will cheat on you, you’re most likely going to attract partners that cheat. As long as you resist the experience of ‘cheating’, you’ll attract it.</p>
<p>In <em>my</em> example, I feared being ‘screwed over’ so much, that I attracted that experience – over and over again.</p>
<p>So, what can we do about this dilemma?  The solution is counter intuitive (as often the best solutions are).</p>
<h3>An Alternative To Forgiveness</h3>
<p>The best way to eliminate FEAR (and negative patterns) is to stop RESISTING your life the way that it currently is.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/paddling-upstream.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-872" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="paddling upstream" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/paddling-upstream-187x300.jpg" alt="" width="112" height="180" /></a>Resisting your life is like trying to paddle a canoe upstream, against the current. This requires a LOT more effort than padding the same canoe downstream – <em>using</em> the current instead of <em>resisting</em> the current.</p>
<p>So, instead of forgiving someone for ‘wronging’ you, change the way you see the thing they did and you won’t need to forgive them in the first place!</p>
<p>I’ll admit, this is an advanced concept and does take some practice initially, but it is 100% within your reach.</p>
<h3>From Fear To  Fun</h3>
<p>When you quit resisting your experience of the world and the people in it, most of your fears (if not all) will disappear – almost instantly. Then, the world becomes a much more FUN place to play in, people become a lot more interesting and you become a lot happier.</p>
<p>To stop resisting, you need to quit seeing your experiences as wrong or bad.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me just yet, humor me and try this idea on like  you&#8217;d try on some clothes in a department store. You don&#8217;t have to buy  them; you&#8217;re just trying them on. In the same way, I’m not asking you to  believe me, just to consider this as an idea.</p>
<p>Allow me to explain…</p>
<div id="attachment_871" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 202px"><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/duality.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-871" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="duality" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/duality.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="154" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Duality</p></div>
<p>Everything in the Universe has an equal and opposite charge. Black has white, day has night, up has down and the front of your hand has the back of your hand.</p>
<p>Are you still with me here?</p>
<p>This concept is often called the law of DUALITY. Isaac Newton described this phenomenon in his third law of motion as <em>“Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.”</em></p>
<p>What this means for you is that every <strong>problem</strong> you experience has an equal <strong>benefit</strong> to you. Problems <em>cannot </em>exist without their corresponding benefits, like up <em>cannot </em>exist without down.</p>
<p>Consider this: perhaps the reason you get upset is because you only see ONE side of the coin (the bad side) and don’t ever dig deep enough to discover the equal BENEFITS (the good side) that this problem brings to your life.</p>
<p>When you can authentically allow the BENEFITS you receive from your so called ‘negative’ experience to  inspire you, your jaw will drop with gratitude and you’ll stop resisting, allowing blessing and good times to flow to you.</p>
<h3>Stop Resisting It, Stop Attracting It</h3>
<p>When I first tried this with my logo &#8216;problem&#8217;, I was astounded to see that there actually were just as many benefits to not having gotten my logo from my friend, as there were drawbacks:<a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Designer-Life-Logo.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-873   alignright" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="Designer-Life-Logo" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Designer-Life-Logo-300x124.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="74" /></a></p>
<ol>
<li>I got a <em>better</em> logo elsewhere for      1/4 of the price</li>
<li>I learned to set      powerful boundaries with a very upset man</li>
<li>I gained a lot of      confidence in my ability to stand up for what I wanted</li>
<li>I discovered an      awesome new graphic designer that I am going to hire in the future and      save tons of money on my designs</li>
</ol>
<p>But my BIGGEST breakthrough happened when I realized that the VERY thing I was resisting (being screwed over), was what I was actually doing to others in business.</p>
<p>This was a bitter pill for me to swallow. I mean, I considered myself a fair and honest businessman. However, when I looked deeper, I realized that when I negotiated in business, I often negotiated to win, sometimes without concern for whether or not the other person won too.</p>
<p>All I was interested in was getting the best deal for me.</p>
<p>Upon reflection, I realized that I was doing the very thing I hated having done to me!</p>
<p>When I saw this, I was horrified and shocked…</p>
<p>So now, here is the toughest question:</p>
<p><em><strong>Where do you do the VERY EXACT same thing that the person you need to forgive has done to you? </strong></em></p>
<p>This question is incredibly important. Until you can accept a trait within yourself, you’ll never be able to accept it in another and you’ll continue resisting and attracting that same trait as an experience in your life.</p>
<p>I know this kind of thinking is challenging, but you can do it&#8230;</p>
<p>I’ve witnessed a rape victim uncover where she ‘raped’ other people metaphorically. When she saw how she was just like the rapist, she broke down in tears and let go the pain of being raped. Answering this question changed her life.</p>
<p>After I did this exercise, I made a promise to myself that from then on, I was only going to enter into win-win business agreements.</p>
<p>Since then, I never again experienced feeling screwed over, and have (finally) broken the pattern of attracting those kinds of people and experiences into my world.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/circle1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-877" title="circle" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/circle1.jpg" alt="" width="166" height="156" /></a>How To Break The Cycle Of Repeating Negative Patterns</h3>
<p>Use this technique to quit resisting when you next experience someone &#8216;wronging’ you.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>STEP 1:</strong> Write down exactly what happened and the      exact traits the other person displayed that upset you</li>
<li><strong>STEP 2:</strong> Write down where you have displayed      these exact same traits with someone else</li>
<li><strong>STEP 3:</strong> Write down the benefits you received      from having had the experience of being ‘wronged’</li>
<li><strong>STEP 4:</strong> Write down the opportunities you can create now that you&#8217;ve seen the benefits</li>
</ul>
<p>Take a moment now and complete this exercise.</p>
<p>If you do the exercise completely, openly and with radical honesty, you’ll find yourself no longer resisting.</p>
<p>Better yet, you’ll no longer need to forgive the person, because you’ll no longer see their actions as bad.</p>
<p>Most importantly, you’ll stop attracting that type of experience into your life.</p>
<p>If you really want to lock in your personal transformation, you may even want to buy the other person a gift to thank them for bringing so many benefits into your life.</p>
<h3>Where Else You Can Use This</h3>
<p>This exercise is SO great because it quick and easy! With practice you’ll complete it in your head in a matter of seconds.</p>
<p>Use it when:</p>
<ul>
<li>You have an argument with your lover</li>
<li>Your boss or colleague annoys you at work</li>
<li>Somebody betrays your trust</li>
<li>Another driver cuts in front of you in a traffic jam</li>
<li>Anytime you feel bad</li>
</ul>
<p>Try this on authentically and with a commitment to making it work and I promise you a transformed life where your problems melt away and transform into gorgeous benefits.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/couple1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-889" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="couple" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/couple1.jpg" alt="" width="73" height="110" /></a>You’ll Be Sexier!</h3>
<p>Once you become proficient with this new mindset, you’ll notice a nice benefit: People will WANT to hang around you, do business with you and have sex with you (no kidding)!</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because EVERYONE loves being in the company of someone who does not resist them.</p>
<p>Having cultivated this quality in myself, I am often amazed at the incredibly powerful people who choose to hang out with me, not because of what I have accomplished or because I may be interesting to talk to, but because of the space I provide – a space where they are not blamed and can feel at home to be themselves.</p>
<p>Last but not least, if you&#8217;re willing to take this idea into every area of your life, you&#8217;ll begin attracting MAGIC like you will not believe&#8230;</p>
<h3>Let’s Sum It Up</h3>
<p>I know this is a radical concept that challenges conventional wisdom,  and I know  that if you read my blog regularly, you&#8217;re open enough to receive it.</p>
<p>I want to acknowledge you for reading this far and (hopefully) doing the exercise. It takes courage to look at yourself with such honesty. Well done!</p>
<p>So, let’s wrap up with a summary of what we have learned:</p>
<ul>
<li>We all have limiting patterns that we repeat in our lives over and over again</li>
<li>Forgiving someone is like a band aid – it’s a temporary fix, but does not stop these patterns repeating</li>
<li>What you resist – persists, because we attract the things we resist into our lives</li>
<li>We live in a world of duality and every problem or ‘negative’ experience contains a hidden benefit(s)</li>
<li>We get UPSET only because we don’t see both sides of the coin (good and bad)</li>
<li>People who see both sides of the coin are SEXY!</li>
</ul>
<p>Practice the 4-step exercise above and you&#8217;ll find yourself a much happier person who can attract a LOT more of what you do want into your life.</p>
<p>Last, but not least, if you&#8217;re willing to take this idea into every area of your life, you&#8217;ll begin attracting magic like you will not believe!</p>
<p>Please leave me a comment below and let me know what you learned from this article and doing the exercise.</p>
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<p>P.S. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Dr John DeMartini for teaching me this concept.</p>
<p>P.P.S. If you decide to purchase one of my <a href="http://www.designer-life.com/products/" target="_blank">transformational mind programming products</a>, I promise that I will not RESIST when you do so! <a href="http://www.designer-life.com/products/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see them all…</p>
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		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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In this article, I’m going to unravel why you’re not manifesting the kind of miracles that you know you’re capable of and how to use 5 <strong>Emotional Clearing Techniques</strong> </em><em>to do to make sure that you become a miracle magnet again.</em></p>
<p>One of my favorite things in the world to do is to take my motorcycle, pack a tent on the back and go on a two week adventure ride exploring places I’ve never seen before.</p>
<p>One of the problems I face on the way is that after a few hours of riding, my visor has collected so many dead bugs, that I can barely see the road and I’m forced to pull over at the nearest gas station and use the windshield cleaner on my helmet to clean off the road kill.</p>
<p>This got me thinking about how the bugs on my visor are a great metaphor for how we clog up our life with our personal baggage and then wonder why we can’t see the wood from the trees.</p>
<p>The windshield cleaner is a great metaphor for the <strong>Emotional Clearing Techniques</strong> I&#8217;m going to explain later on.</p>
<h3>Have you ever wondered why the Law Of Attraction is not working for you like it could be?</h3>
<p>Perhaps you’ve heard amazing stories of others who are manifesting miracles left, right and center, but the only thing you’re able to manifest is an empty parking space every now and again?</p>
<p>If you can relate to this, chances are that there is some area where your life is clogged up with dead bugs and you need to use some Emotional Clearing Techniques to clear them out.</p>
<h3>Consider this…</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/clear-helmet.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-772 alignright" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="Getting Clear" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/clear-helmet-300x225.jpg" alt="Getting Clear" width="251" height="188" /></a>When you were born, you came into this life with a blank canvas. Anything was possible for you. Your metaphorical motorcycle visor was spotless.</p>
<p>As you grew up, stuff happened to you and bugs collected on your visor.</p>
<ul>
<li>Perhaps you were teased or bullied at school and you decided that the world is not a safe place to be.</li>
<li>Then your first love broke up with you and you decided that people can’t be trusted.</li>
<li>Then you discovered that achieving success was not as easy as you hoped it was going to be and decided to put your dreams on ‘hold’ ?</li>
</ul>
<p>By the time you became an adult, you had so many bugs on your visor that you couldn’t even see where you were going anymore.<span id="more-771"></span></p>
<p>What’s worse is that looking at the world through a ‘dirty visor’ just became normal, so you kept on bumbling through life crashing into things and collecting even more bugs until your vision became so distorted, that life stopped being the fun place filled with possibility and magic.</p>
<p>Instead, life became a prison sentence that you decided you have to survive.</p>
<p>Sound familiar?</p>
<h3>The Cure For Your Prison Sentence&#8230;</h3>
<p>When you don’t clear up the things in your past that are clouding your present, your future becomes clouded by the past</p>
<p>When this happens, we lose our vitality, feel lethargic, uninspired, purposeless, and passionless and our ability to manifest good things disappears.</p>
<h3>Which Emotional Clearing Techniques Actually Work?</h3>
<p>If so, you need to clean off those bugs and get yourself CLEAR again.</p>
<p>Clearing techniques come in all shapes and sizes and I’ve personally tried every one I could get my hands on. Over the years, I’ve noted which ones work best for me and I’ll share them with you in a moment.</p>
<p>Before I do, I also noticed that the emotional clearing techniques that produce the best results are also the hardest to do. However, if you make a practice of them, you can look forward to a life filled with love and magic.</p>
<h3>My TOP 5 <strong>Emotional Clearing Techniques:</strong></h3>
<p>Here are my <strong>TOP 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques</strong> <strong> </strong>for wiping the bugs off your visor quickly and a very brief description of each:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>RESTORE YOUR INTEGRITY:</strong> Do what you say you are going to do, even when it’s difficult. If your life is not working as well as you want, look to see where you broke your word. Then, make it right with EVERY person affected by you not doing what you said you would do.</li>
<li><strong>FIND THE BLESSING:</strong> Find the positive benefits to your perceived negative situation. Keep writing them down until you are truly grateful and no longer perceive your situation as being negative, but as a blessing.</li>
<li><strong>TAKE TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY:</strong> Quit pointing fingers at anyone other than yourself for the situation you are currently in. Choose a situation in your life where you are experiencing being stuck. Take a pen and paper and write down every way in which you are responsible for creating that situation in your life. Until you can own creating it, you are powerless to un-create it.</li>
<li><strong>PRACTICE THE MIRACLE METHOD: </strong>A clearing technique I designed to be used to get yourself clear before each day begins. 1) Express your upset to someone 2) Count your blessings 3) Visualize your ideal situation 4) Release attachment to it. Sign up at <a href="http://www.relaxandattract.com/" target="_blank">http://www.RelaxAndAttract.com</a> and I&#8217;ll email you the Miracle Method in full detail in a few days&#8230;</li>
<li><strong>RADICAL HONESTY:</strong> Tell the dirty honest truth about where you lied, withheld the truth, cheated or stole, to the people who were affected by your lying, withholding, cheating and stealing. In my experience, this is by far the hardest (and most effective) clearing technique of all&#8230;</li>
</ol>
<p>Knowing these 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques will make absolutely ZERO difference to you unless you apply them immediately in your life. Also, you can’t expect any results unless you apply each one with 100% commitment to getting clear.</p>
<p>Remember, it&#8217;s <em>your </em>responsibility to get yourself clear, not the responsibility of any of the Emotional Clearing Techniques presented here.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s an example of how getting myself clear caused a whole new friendship for me.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/26094_best-friends.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-786" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="Best Friends" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/26094_best-friends-150x150.jpg" alt="Best Friends" width="150" height="150" /></a>Recently, one of my best friends decided to stop speaking to me after I commented that I thought she was irresponsible with the way she handled her finances.</p>
<p>A few days went by and I found myself not being able to remain centered knowing that someone I cared for was upset and making me wrong. So I decided to get myself clear using two of the Emotional Clearing Techniques above (Radical Honesty and Total Responsibility) and wrote an email to her expressing how I was feeling, how much I cared for her and taking responsibility for the impact of my words.</p>
<p>Within hours of hitting the SEND button, I received a call from her wanting to meet up with me. When I asked her what she thought of my email, she responded with, “What email?” She had not even read it yet!</p>
<p>Just the act of getting MYSELF CLEAR impacted her and inspired her to call me without even having read my email.</p>
<p>Coincidence? I think not.</p>
<div id="attachment_172" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/img_2743.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-172 " title="Joe Vitale And I" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/img_2743-150x150.jpg" alt="Joe Vitale And I" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dr Joe Vitale And I</p></div>
<p>Earlier this year, I was having dinner with <strong>Dr Joe Vitale</strong> (one of the teachers in the movie The Secret)&#8230;</p>
<p>Joe told me about a doctor (Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len) who healed an ENTIRE psychiatric ward without ever meeting any of his patients. He did it by seeing each patient’s illness as a reflection of some part of himself that he had not yet cleared. As he got himself clear, the patients healed one by one. Read more about it <a href="http://educate-yourself.org/zsl/hooponopono25jul06.shtml" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<h3>In summary:</h3>
<ul>
<li>As you go through life, you experience things that negatively cloud your perception.</li>
<li>If you don’t keep yourself clear, you’ll never experience life as being magical or yourself as being a powerful creator.</li>
<li>Use the 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques above to keep yourself clear. If you’re prepared to do it regularly, you’ll live a life filled with jaw-dropping synchronicity, magical meeting and all the abundance you could wish for.</li>
</ul>
<p>So, my challenge to you this week is to<strong> take one of the 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques</strong> listed above and CLEAN up some area of your life and let me know your results below.</p>
<p>Till next time, have a truly MIRACULOUS week.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-117" title="Bruce Muzik" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg" alt="Bruce Muzik" width="150" height="51" /></a></p>
<p>P.S. Please leave a comment with your thoughts below&#8230;</p>
<p>P.P.S. If you&#8217;ve used any other emotional clearing techniques that actually produce results, please tell me about them and what results you got using it&#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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One of the most common mistakes I see entrepreneurs making is that they are trying to make money instead of focusing on building wealth.]]></description>
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&gt;&gt;&gt; If you don&#8217;t know the million dollar difference between <strong>money </strong>and <strong>wealth</strong>, you&#8217;ll always struggle to have any of them. Read on to find out&#8230;</p>
<p>One of the most common mistakes I see entrepreneurs making is that they are trying to <strong>make money</strong> instead of focusing on <strong>creating wealth</strong>.</p>
<p>As I see it, there are TWO fundamental problems with trying to make money:</p>
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<li>Money itself has no inherent value and it does not actually exist AND</li>
<li>Your brain struggles to visualize concepts like &#8216;money&#8217;</li>
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<p>Lets delve a little deeper into these two problems&#8230;</p>
<h3>PROBLEM #1: Money Has No Value And Does Not Exist</h3>
<p>Money is a man made concept that we all use to measure value, but does not have any value itself. These days it&#8217;s even more intangible because money doesn&#8217;t even exist in reality &#8211; it only exists as numbers sitting in some computer system somewhere.</p>
<p>So trying to make money is as fruitless an activity as trying to see air. You can see the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">results</span> of air moving as the trees sway in the breeze, but you can&#8217;t see the actual air itself.<span id="more-747"></span></p>
<p>By the same token, you can see the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">results</span> of money flowing through our economy, but you can&#8217;t see the actual money itself because it is just a concept. You could argue that the paper notes in your wallet are money, but I assure you that they are not. They are just paper notes that have no value outside your economy.</p>
<p>I<a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/zim-dollars.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-760" title="The value of dollars" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/zim-dollars-300x206.jpg" alt="The value of dollars" width="300" height="206" /></a>f you don&#8217;t believe me, try taking 500 million Zimbabwean Dollars into your local grocery store and buy a loaf of bread with them. Your grocery store is going to laugh at you, right?</p>
<p>Why? Because your 500 million bucks has no inherent value of its own. You may as well use them to light a fire in your living room on a cold, rainy night.</p>
<p>So, that is problem number 1. On to problem number 2&#8230;</p>
<h3>PROBLEM #2: Your Brain Struggles To Visualize Concepts Like &#8216;Money&#8217;</h3>
<p>There&#8217;s a saying in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming &#8211; the study of how the mind works) that human beings never do anything that they have not first seen themselves do in their imagination.</p>
<p>What this means is that we always imagine doing something in our mind before we actually do it. This is why VISUALIZATION is such a useful tool. When you visualize something, you are far more likely to achieve it.</p>
<p>The problem is that you brain cannot visualize money because money is not a thing &#8211; it&#8217;s a concept.</p>
<p>Y<a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wallet.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-762" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="Wallet stuffed with money" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wallet-296x300.jpg" alt="Wallet stuffed with money" width="178" height="180" /></a>ou can visualize having some paper in your wallet (what you and I call money), but that just attracts having more paper in your wallet &#8211; not more wealth.</p>
<p>Am I making sense here? Are some light bulbs flashing in your head? I hope so.</p>
<p><strong>My point is: </strong>Trying to make money is never going to make you rich.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, if you&#8217;ve been learning about the Law Of Attraction from the hit movie, The Secret, they&#8217;ll tell you to focus on money. Good luck with that&#8230;</p>
<p>So how can you attract more money into your life?</p>
<h3>The Real Difference Between Money And Wealth</h3>
<p>My favorite <strong>definition of Wealth</strong> comes from Roger James Hamilton, the creator of Wealth Dynamics: <em><br />
&#8220;Wealth is what you have left when you&#8217;ve lost all your money&#8221;</em></p>
<p>What he means is that your wealth consists of the things like your <em>passions</em>, your <em>network</em>, your <em>track record</em>, your access to <em>resources </em>and your <em>knowledge </em>of your industry.</p>
<p>Whereas money is <em>intangible</em>, wealth is <em>tangible</em>. Whereas money is <em>impermanent</em>, wealth is <em>permanent</em>.</p>
<p>If I were to hijack a wealthy person and dump them in a foreign land with no money, they&#8217;d soon be back on their feet again because although they might have had their money taken from them, they never lost their wealth.</p>
<p>You often read about wealthy people who lose all their money and then make it back again. This is because they never lost their wealth.</p>
<p>By contrast, somebody who has no wealth, but a lot of money, will soon find ways to lose their money.</p>
<p>Lottery winners are a great example of this phenomenon. The US lottery statistics show that within only TWO years, 50% of all lottery winners are worse off than before they won the lottery!</p>
<p>This is becasue although they have money, they are not wealthy, so their money goes away quickly.</p>
<p>This revelation was HUGE for me.</p>
<h3>One Last Very Important Distinction&#8230;</h3>
<p><strong>Money </strong>is <em>attracted </em>to <strong>Wealth</strong>&#8230; it follows wealth, not the other way around.</p>
<p>If you shift your focus from making money to creating wealth, you&#8217;ll begin to see the world in a new light where opportunities to create wealth that attracts money are illuminated all around you.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wealth_dynamics2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-763" title="Wealth Dynamics" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/wealth_dynamics2-300x295.jpg" alt="Wealth Dynamics" width="180" height="177" /></a>The easiest way to find out how you can build wealth easily and naturally is to take your Wealth Dynamics Profile test.</p>
<p>Without knowing your Wealth Profile, you really are flying blind and leaving your success to chance.</p>
<p>20,000 entrepreneurs have already taken their test and have discovered their most natural path to wealth. If you also want to be wealthy and say goodbye to money struggles, I highly recommend that you do too:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.MyWealthDynamics.com">http://www.MyWealthDynamics.com</a></p>
<p>Talk soon,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-117" title="Bruce Muzik" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg" alt="Bruce Muzik" width="150" height="51" /></a></p>
<p>P.S. When you take your Wealth Dynamics test, you&#8217;re going to get a whole bunch of killer bonuses. Check them out here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mywealthdynamics.com/">http://www.MyWealthDynamics.com</a></p>
<p>P.P.S. I&#8217;d appreciate your thoughts on this conversation. Please leave me a comment below.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Bruce Muzik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[> BEWARE: If you’re a card carrying Law Of Attraction fan, then this article is going to shock and annoy you...
I’ve had enough!

I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with all the CRAP written on the internet about how to attract money using the Law Of Attraction.

Not because I don’t think it’s possible to attract money, but because most of the information is just plain USELESS! By useless, I mean that it is not actionable and you can’t do anything with it.]]></description>
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&gt; BEWARE: </strong><em>If you’re a card carrying <strong>Law Of Attraction</strong> fan, then this article is going to shock and annoy you&#8230;<br />
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<h3>I’ve had enough!</h3>
<p>I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with all the CRAP written on the internet about how to <strong>attract money</strong> using the Law Of Attraction.</p>
<p>Not because I don’t think it’s possible to <strong>attract opportunities to make money</strong>, but because most of the information is just plain USELESS! By useless, I mean that it is not actionable and you can’t do anything with it.</p>
<p>I searched Google for <strong>“attract wealth”</strong> and here are some of the gems I found:</p>
<p><strong><em>“Step into the flow of the Universe and ask for money help&#8230;”</em></strong></p>
<p>At first glance, this looks like an innocent enough premise, but when we dig a little deeper you&#8217;ll discover that statements like this often leave us more confused that before we read them.</p>
<p>Check this out&#8230; Could you please tell me exactly WHERE I find this universal flow. Once I&#8217;ve found it, HOW do I step into it and HOW do I ask for money help? <span id="more-679"></span>Do I go looking for a universal river at full moon and then bathe in it?  Do I howl into the night sky “I need money help!” and hope the Universe is listening to me?</p>
<p>See what I mean? This is not actionable advice, so in my mind, it&#8217;s totally useless. Unfortunately, many of the &#8220;new-age&#8221; or &#8220;spiritual&#8221; teachings that are popular today, are filled with this useless crap.</p>
<p>Here’s another:</p>
<p><strong><em>“Learn to vibrate at the frequency of money&#8230;”</em></strong></p>
<p>This one cracks me up&#8230; <img src='http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I may not be the smartest guy on the planet, but could someone please tell me exactly how many Hertz (cycles per second) money vibrates at? I&#8217;d also love to know HOW to vibrate myself at that frequency, so I can attract some of this money too.</p>
<h3>I decided to try vibrating at the frequency of money just to see if it worked…</h3>
<p>In my gym, I have this cool fitness gadget called a Power Plate. You stand on it and it vibrates your body like a jack hammer. I kid you not. I stood on it this morning and set it to HIGH, hoping that it could vibrate me to the frequency of money&#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_687" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 169px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-687 " style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;" title="money-vibration" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/money-vibration-199x300.jpg" alt="Vibrating to attract money?" width="159" height="240" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Vibrating to attract money?</p></div>
<p>Unfortunately no money fell from the sky. However, I did make a few sales from my website, but I doubt that was from vibrating for 5 minutes. Maybe if I can get Power Plate to add a MONEY switch in addition to the HIGH/LOW switch, I’ll be able to attract some more money.</p>
<p>Obviously, I’m just being facetious and having some fun, but there is a point to my banter:</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with wanting to attract money. The problem (as I see it) is that most of the people who talk about &#8216;attracting money&#8217; come from a mindset of lack i.e. wanting to get something for nothing.</p>
<p><strong> </strong>If you believe people who tell you that you can somehow magically &#8216;attract&#8217; money by doing nothing other than &#8216;vibrating&#8217; or &#8216;asking&#8217;, you’re <em>never </em>going to have any (or at least not for long).</p>
<p>Having a mindset that supports you taking action towards becoming financially free is essential, but that alone is never going to make you rich.</p>
<p>Go ask anyone on the <strong>Forbes Magazine &#8220;Rich List&#8221;</strong> how they created their wealth and they aren&#8217;t going to tell you that they sat around vibrating to the frequency of money.</p>
<p>So, how have wealthy people ATTRACTED their wealth?</p>
<p>Drum roll please&#8230;</p>
<h3>The Only Way To Attract Wealth</h3>
<p>The way that EVERY wealth creator in history has made their money is by providing or creating some kind of VALUE that people are willing to pay money for.</p>
<p>Read that sentence again, because it might be the most important sentence you read in your entire financial life.</p>
<p>If you provide lots of VALUE, you&#8217;ll easily attract OPPORTUNITIES to exchange it for MONEY.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/money-magnet.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-689 alignright" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="money-magnet" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/money-magnet-300x168.jpg" alt="money-magnet" width="180" height="101" /></a></h3>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOTE</span>:</strong> You <em>can&#8217;t</em> attract money itself (at least not from my experience), but you <em>can </em>attract <span style="text-decoration: underline;">opportunities</span> (to exchange some form of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">value </span>for money).</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re still focusing on attracting money, you&#8217;re probably broke. Focus on how you or your product or service can add value to others, and then watch the money flow in.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the equation:</p>
<p><strong>GIVE NO VALUE = GET NO MONEY</strong></p>
<p><strong>GIVE  VALUE = <strong>GET </strong></strong><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">OPPORTUNITIES</span> </span>(TO EXCHANGE VALUE FOR MONEY)</strong></p>
<p>Got it?</p>
<p>If making money is that simple, then why is it that most people don&#8217;t succeed in becoming wealthy?</p>
<p>I believe it&#8217;s because most people have NO IDEA what kind of value they should be adding, so they end up paralyzed by confusion (not knowing how to move forward) or beating the same old financial freedom drum over and over again doing the same thing (even if it is not working) until they give up or burn out&#8230; Sound familiar?</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the Secret to creating wealth?</p>
<p>In my opinion, the secret to wealth creation is discovering <em>your </em>unique VALUE that you can add to the world, and then spreading that value in a way that is enjoyable for you.</p>
<p>If you’re like most people (including me a few years ago), then you probably have no clue where your unique VALUE lies or how to share it with the world, so you&#8217;re probably struggling to exchange your potential value for MONEY.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">The Good News Is…</h3>
<p>There is a way to determine what your unique VALUE is use it to create enormous amounts of wealth, without having to howl at the moon or figure out how to vibrate at the frequency of money.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning your unique value, then check out this <a href="http://www.mywealthdynamics.com">wealth creation article</a>.</p>
<p>While this article is somewhat tongue in cheek and I am guilty of laughing hysterically while writing it, the concept of exchanging VALUE for MONEY is at the heart of all successful wealth creators. Ignore it at your peril.</p>
<p>To debunking myths and enjoying life,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-117" title="Bruce Muzik" src="http://www.designer-life.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/signature.jpg" alt="Bruce Muzik" width="150" height="51" /></a></p>
<p><strong>P.S. </strong>If you don’t know how to deliver your value to the world in a way that is natural for you, you’re pretty much screwed when it comes to creating wealth. It&#8217;s always going to feel like hard work and be exhausting. Make sure you <a href="http://mywealthdynamics.com" target="_blank">click this link</a> to learn how you can find out the EASIEST way for you to exchange your <a title="wealth Dynamics Profile Test" href="http://www.mywealthdynamics.com" target="_blank"><em>value </em>for <em>money</em></a>. I&#8217;ve created a stunning surprise for you at the end of the page.</p>
<p><strong>P.P.S. </strong>I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts once you&#8217;ve found your unique value&#8230; Please leave me a comment below.</p>
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