How To Stay Positive, Even Your Inner Voice Is Trying To Sabotage You

I recently received an email from one of my readers asking me for advice on how to stay positive, so I decided to share what I replied to him.

What follows is my response in the form of a TOP 20 list of all the things I do on a day to day basis to stay positive,  keep myself inspired and make sure that little voice in my head tells me great things about myself and my future…

BE WARNED: This is not your traditional positive thinking crap. These are simple, yet profoundly effective tips for staying in a positive frame of mind.

Lastly, please forgive me for not always going into greater detail on each item on the list. It would take an entire book to do each one justice. However, the tips are self explanatory and you can use your common sense to apply them in your life.

My Top 20 Ways To Stay Positive:

The following is a list of things I do and think regularly (if not daily) to stay in a positive frame of mind. If any of these speak to you, use them and let me know your results… Of course, this list is far from complete, but it contains my personal favorite techniques…

Your Body:

Your state of mind is influenced by your energy levels. The following tips will help your body operate at peak performance and keep your head clear. When your body is running like a finely tuned machine, your mind follows suit.

• Exercise daily. This increases blood circulation to the brain, giving you more energy and keeping your mind clear. Make sure you choose exercise that is fun for you.
• Add lots of raw vegetables, nuts and fruits to your diet and stop eating crap. The quality of the food you eat will determine how you feel. How you feel will impact what you think.
  Crap food in = crap thoughts and feelings out…
• Eat a nutritious breakfast – it’s the most important meal of the day. I make a green smoothie every morning. Here is a link to a video a friend of mine made teaching how to make a green smoothie… http://www.theshawnstevensonmodel.com/green-warrior-shake/
• Take some time out every day to do an activity that is fun for you. This will release Serotonin in your brain and make you feel good, promoting a clear mind and good feelings.

Your People:

I’ve heard it said that our lives are the sum total of the 5 people we spend the most time with…

• Hang around with high quality people who support where you are going in life.
• Share yourself vulnerably with the people in your life. Vulnerable does not mean weak – in fact, it takes a lot of courage to be totally open and honest with people. Being this way regularly will grow relationships built on trust and honesty. These relationships are your support line when you’re not feeling great. Also, don’t pretend that everything is OK if it is not. Just sharing your challenges with another person you trust can get rid of a lot of the anxiety you may be feeling at the time.
• Contribute to the people around you regularly in whatever way you can. It will make you feel good about yourself. Also, what comes around tends to go around, so by contributing, you can be sure that you’ll be contributed to in some way in the future.
• Personally, I have made a commitment to myself not to withhold important communications from the people I love. When we don’t say something you know needs to be said, we bottle it up inside, and that pressure causes tension in our mind. This tension often manifests itself in the form of negative thoughts and low energy. So, say what needs to be said (with love of course) and most times you’ll immediately notice a sense of relief.
• I also have a commitment to love my family. I believe that our relationship to our parents is of FUNDAMENTAL importance to our happiness. Notice that I said our relationship to our parents and not with our parents. Even if your parents are no longer alive, you can still relate to them with love. If you know you are harboring resentment towards a parent, seek counseling or get the issue resolved. Whatever the case, LOVE your parents and you’ll love yourself. I wish I had the space to write more on this topic, but I’ll have to save it for a future post…

Your Thoughts And Feelings:

The way you see the world directly impacts the thoughts you think and how you respond to life. Here’s a list of ideas and beliefs I have. Try them on and see if they fit you…

• I have a commitment to myself not to judge anything as ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’. It is what it is…
• I have a commitment to myself to find the blessings in any circumstance. This way, I ALWAYS benefit, even when at first it appears as if life is throwing me a curve ball…
• I have a commitment to myself to feel grateful as much as possible and I focus on cultivating gratitude.
• I have learned to trust that the tough times always pass, and that I am always looked after by Life (or some higher power). I consciously cultivate this belief and look for evidence of it, so I see it every day. This is a VERY powerful belief to cultivate and can remove all future based fear.

Your Work:

Given that most of us spend about a third of our life at work, here are some basic, yet powerful tips for staying positive and focused while working:

• Take regular breaks and if you can, nap once a day for 20 minutes. A nap will recharge you and clear your mind of clutter.
• Focus on your strengths at work and if possible, delegate your weaknesses… If you’re an entrepreneur, go take the Wealth Dynamics test to find out your entrepreneurial strengths.
• Complete the tasks you set yourself. Set yourself one important primary priority task to achieve every day and get it done. It will give you a sense of satisfaction and help you experience making progress. Feeling like you are not making progress in life sucks (at least for me it does)!

Habits To Adopt:

Your results in life come from your habits. I have made many of the things on this list a habit, and do them daily. Try some of these out and watch how your state of mind improves magically.

• Before I go to sleep I run over my day and congratulate myself for everything I did well and let go of any judgment about the things I did not do well. This keeps me feeling like I am making progress and doing a great job in my life.
• When I’m feeling really low, I pull out a pen and pad and begin writing down my feelings and my thoughts. This helps me get clear on what I am really feeling and seeing it on paper helps me understand what is going on. I don’t stop writing until I feel better.
• Perhaps most profound for me, I have managed to ACCEPT my life just as it is and as it isn’t. As a result, I rarely get upset. Practice not resisting things the way they are.
• Perhaps the most powerful habit I have adopted is waking up and immediately visualizing my day going well. I do this to keep my focus on where I am going and why I am going there. It motivates me and keeps my mind in the space I need it to be in order to be successful in my life.  To help me visualize, I use the Relaxation For Manifestation audio program. It’s the best.

Print this list out and try out a different tip each day. Notice the results and keep doing what works for you.

VERY IMPORTANT: Smile, take a break and get outside today and always remember… You are amazing!

P.S. I’d love to hear your ideas to add to this list. Please leave them below. I read each one.

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In this video you’ll learn:

• Why being needy us the most common mistake people make with the Law Of Attraction
• THREE breakthrough tips to counteract being needy with Life
• How I used these tips to manifest winning an Apple iPad

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After receiving this question at least 20 times, I began looking for an answer…

What is the secret? Is it…

• Visualizing with more clarity?
• Goal setting more regularly?
• Creating a detailed plan of action?
• Letting go and surrendering?
• Taking massive action?
• Removing limiting beliefs?
• Installing positive beliefs
• etc…

Of course, all these things are beneficial, but I was searching for the ONE single thing that makes the BIGGEST difference – the high leverage action…

After some reflection I soon realized that there are definitely times in my life when it seems like everything I touch turns to gold – when golden opportunities abound – as well as times when nothing seems to happen at all…

So, What Do All The Golden Times Have In Common?

SUCCESS

Yip, as counter-intuitive as it sounds, the times when I experienced the most synchronicity and magic were the same times when I was creating the most SUCCESS in my life.

Ever heard, “Success breeds its own success” or “The rich get richer while the poor get poorer”?

Well, that’s exactly what I’m talking about here.

The More Success You Generate, The FASTER and More Powerfully You’ll Experience the Law Of Attraction In Your Life.

This principle of success generating its own success is known as MOMENTUM – a bit like the snowball gathering more snow the further it rolls down the mountain…

I had a direct experience of momentum last month.

A friend of mine invited me to go wake-surfing. Wake-surfing is when you take a surfboard and you surf on the actual wake of a large boat.

I noticed that as the boat gathered momentum, the wake grew bigger and bigger. Eventually, the momentum of the boat generated a wake that was big enough for me to surf without having to be towed along… It was a cool feeling being carried along by this powerful force!

Success with the Law Of Attraction works in a similar way. The more momentum you create, the more you get ‘carried’ along by the wave…

I first heard about “attraction momentum” from Roger James Hamilton in his must-read business book “Your Life Your Legacy”. He writes, “When we are living with momentum, small obstacles disappear… and attraction appears all around us… and sweeps us along.” (BTW, you can get the book free when you buy a Wealth Dynamics test through this link).

So if momentum is the catalyst for Attraction, then the million dollar question must be, “How can we all create unstoppable momentum in our lives?”

How to Create Unstoppable Momentum

Well, in my experience, creating momentum starts simply with taking some action.

The action you take must a) be sustained over a period of time (enough time to generate some momentum) and b) sustained in the “proper” direction.

Let’s dig a little deeper into these distinctions.

1. Sustained Action

Imagine a candle… an innocent enough object. It provides us with light and warmth.

Now, imagine that this same candle is allowed to burn until it sets fire to a pile of logs… This little candle could be the beginning of a furnace that could cook you food and keep you warm for days… That is the power of sustained action in one direction.

You, my friend, have a candle in your hands that could light up the rest of your life if you allow it. Your candle is your ability to take action.

Are you allowing it to burn bright over time, or do you smother it at the first sign of stormy weather?

2. Action In The “Proper” Direction?

So how on earth are you supposed to know if you’re taking action in the “proper” direction anyways?

Obviously, I can’t know what the “proper” direction is for you, but I can share something I’ve learned from many years of traveling in the “wrong” direction.

The “proper” direction for you is most likely going to be discovered by you, not chosen by you.

Nine times out of 10, when you do achieve something great, it is not going to be the initial goal you set out to achieve – it’s going to be something you discovered along the path to achieving your initial goal.

I remember buying a ticket to a Landmark Education seminar (a personal development seminar) with the intention of finding out what was causing my depression at the time.

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As a result of that seminar, I ended up moving into a ghetto in South Africa and living there for 6 months as the only white man for miles around. My ‘move’ was a life defining experience for me and had me plastered all over the front page of the newspaper.

Could I have ever predicted that a seminar would lead to me moving to a ghetto which would lead to me being on the front page of a newspaper, which would lead to me inspiring a nation which would lead to my depression disappearing? NEVER in a million years!

So what is the trick for determining the appropriate action?

Feedback…

The trick is to continuously look for feedback from your actions. If something you are doing is not working, take note as to why, and then adjust what you are doing accordingly. Anything will usually work better than what is already not working.

BONUS: Bruce’s Big Balls Principle:

Here’s a principle I have proved to be true for me time and time again:

If taking an action requires Big Balls (i.e. the thought of taking it  scares the crap out of me) and excites me at the same time, it’s usually the proper action for me to take.

Nuff said…

So, we’ve covered a lot in a short space, so let’s sum it up and dumb it down.

1. More than anything else, attraction is a byproduct of MOMENTUM.
2. Momentum is a byproduct of sustained action in the “proper” direction.
3. People with big balls attract good stuff faster (whoever said that size doesn’t matter had no idea what they were talking about).

Til next time, think BIG.

P.S. A great way to get yourself inspired to take ‘proper’ action is to program your mind with your goal. Find out how to do it here.

P.P.S. Your comments are welcomed and appreciated. I read them all…

This is the first of a series of emails busting many of the most common myths around the Law Of Attraction.

Hold on tight, because it’s going to come at you fast and furiously.

MYTH: The Law Of Attraction is a LAW!

Everyone knows that the Law Of Attraction is a law, right?

Well let’s look at this pragmatically…

If the Law Of Attraction was a real law, it would have to be replicable again and again, each and every time it is applied.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I haven’t noticed that each and every time I think a thought that the Law Of Attraction makes it manifest into physical form.

In fact, I’m pretty darn pleased the Universe doesn’t work that way, because I think some pretty weird thoughts 

So what is the Law Of Attraction then?

The Law Of Attraction is a phenomenon – it’s a NAME given to a phenomenon that exists in the Universe.

The phenomenon looks like this: sometimes mysterious things happen in our world that seem unexplainable and that are often thought to be beneficial to us.

Carl Jung, the famous psychologist called them synchronicity. The sceptics call these phenomena coincidences. The religious call them miracles. The more new-agey crowd call it the Law Of Attraction.

I often hear people saying things like, “I’m going to use the Law Of Attraction to get xyz…”. Even I have been guilty of saying this in the past.

Nothing wrong with saying that, but a flaw exists with this kind of thinking: You CAN’T actually use the Law Of Attraction to get anything.

How come?

Because the LOA is not a thing – it is a phenomenon.

Phenomena cannot be used because they are effects generated by a myriad of different, systemic causes.

So, if you can’t use the Law Of Attraction, what tools can you use to build a life filled with everything you desire?

Here’s a short (if incomplete) list off the top of my head:

1. You can use your imagination to program your mind to draw attention to opportunities that might bring you closer to your goals
2. You might also be able to use your mind to influence matter on a subatomic level (more on this often debated topic in a future article)
3. You can use your body to take actions that lead you closer to your goals
4. You can take actions that keep yourself in a state of FLOW – that mysterious state where good (sometimes even miraculous) sh#t just seems to happen all around you.

These are just a few of the many things you CAN do to create the phenomenon known as the Law Of Attraction.

One last thing…

It’s also important to note that the Law Of Attraction is NOT some external force outside of you.

Why is that important?

Because the minute you think that some external force outside of you is influencing your life, you just gave ALL your power away to that force, leaving you as a VICTIM to that force’s power and influence over you.

Here’s the deal…

You Are The Force!

Or more accurately put, YOU are a part of the Force, which is everywhere.

As Darth Vader tells Luke in the movie Star Wars, “The Force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet.”

The physics behind this are too complex to explain in this short article, but for now, just consider that YOU are the Law Of Attraction in Action and that YOU can have anything you want in your life if you use your mind and play with your imagination.

So, there you have it… Myth #1 busted!

I hope this distinction allows you to begin thinking about the Law Of Attraction in a new, more empowering way.

Til next time,

Have a miraculous day,

P.S. As always, I welcome your comments below (and read all of them).

P.P.S. A great tool for helping you play with your imagination  is my Relaxation For Manifestation recording. Check it out here: Relaxation For Manifestation

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 Emotional Clearing Techniques

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.

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.

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.

The windshield cleaner is a great metaphor for the Emotional Clearing Techniques I’m going to explain later on.

Have you ever wondered why the Law Of Attraction is not working for you like it could be?

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?

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.

Consider this…

When you were born, you came into this life with a blank canvas. Anything was possible for you. Your metaphorical motorcycle visor was spotless.

As you grew up, stuff happened to you and bugs collected on your visor.

• Perhaps you were teased or bullied at school and you decided that the world is not a safe place to be.
• Then your first love broke up with you and you decided that people can’t be trusted.
• 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’ ?

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.

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.

Instead, life became a prison sentence that you decided you have to survive.

Sound familiar?

The Cure For Your Prison Sentence…

When you don’t clear up the things in your past that are clouding your present, your future becomes clouded by the past

When this happens, we lose our vitality, feel lethargic, uninspired, purposeless, and passionless and our ability to manifest good things disappears.

Which Emotional Clearing Techniques Actually Work?

If so, you need to clean off those bugs and get yourself CLEAR again.

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.

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.

My TOP 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques:

Here are my TOP 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques for wiping the bugs off your visor quickly and a very brief description of each:

1. RESTORE YOUR INTEGRITY: 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.
2. FIND THE BLESSING: 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.
3. TAKE TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY: 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.
4. PRACTICE THE MIRACLE METHOD: 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 http://www.RelaxAndAttract.com and I’ll email you the Miracle Method in full detail in a few days…
5. RADICAL HONESTY: 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…

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.

Remember, it’s your responsibility to get yourself clear, not the responsibility of any of the Emotional Clearing Techniques presented here.

Here’s an example of how getting myself clear caused a whole new friendship for me.

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.

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.

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!

Just the act of getting MYSELF CLEAR impacted her and inspired her to call me without even having read my email.

Coincidence? I think not.

Dr Joe Vitale And I

Earlier this year, I was having dinner with Dr Joe Vitale (one of the teachers in the movie The Secret)…

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 here.

In summary:

• As you go through life, you experience things that negatively cloud your perception.
• If you don’t keep yourself clear, you’ll never experience life as being magical or yourself as being a powerful creator.
• 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.

So, my challenge to you this week is to take one of the 5 Emotional Clearing Techniques listed above and CLEAN up some area of your life and let me know your results below.

Till next time, have a truly MIRACULOUS week.

P.S. Please leave a comment with your thoughts below…

P.P.S. If you’ve used any other emotional clearing techniques that actually produce results, please tell me about them and what results you got using it…

One of the most common mistakes I see entrepreneurs making is that they are trying to make money instead of focusing on creating wealth.

As I see it, there are TWO fundamental problems with trying to make money:

1. Money itself has no inherent value and it does not actually exist AND
2. Your brain struggles to visualize concepts like ‘money’

Lets delve a little deeper into these two problems…

PROBLEM #1: Money Has No Value And Does Not Exist

Money is a man made concept that we all use to measure value, but does not have any value itself. These days it’s even more intangible because money doesn’t even exist in reality – it only exists as numbers sitting in some computer system somewhere.

So trying to make money is as fruitless an activity as trying to see air. You can see the results of air moving as the trees sway in the breeze, but you can’t see the actual air itself.

By the same token, you can see the results of money flowing through our economy, but you can’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.

If you don’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?

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.

So, that is problem number 1. On to problem number 2…

PROBLEM #2: Your Brain Struggles To Visualize Concepts Like ‘Money’

There’s a saying in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming – the study of how the mind works) that human beings never do anything that they have not first seen themselves do in their imagination.

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.

The problem is that you brain cannot visualize money because money is not a thing – it’s a concept.

You can visualize having some paper in your wallet (what you and I call money), but that just attracts having more paper in your wallet – not more wealth.

Am I making sense here? Are some light bulbs flashing in your head? I hope so.

My point is: Trying to make money is never going to make you rich.

Unfortunately, if you’ve been learning about the Law Of Attraction from the hit movie, The Secret, they’ll tell you to focus on money. Good luck with that…

So how can you attract more money into your life?

The Real Difference Between Money And Wealth

My favorite definition of Wealth comes from Roger James Hamilton, the creator of Wealth Dynamics:
“Wealth is what you have left when you’ve lost all your money”

What he means is that your wealth consists of the things like your passions, your network, your track record, your access to resources and your knowledge of your industry.

Whereas money is intangible, wealth is tangible. Whereas money is impermanent, wealth is permanent.

If I were to hijack a wealthy person and dump them in a foreign land with no money, they’d soon be back on their feet again because although they might have had their money taken from them, they never lost their wealth.

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.

By contrast, somebody who has no wealth, but a lot of money, will soon find ways to lose their money.

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!

This is becasue although they have money, they are not wealthy, so their money goes away quickly.

This revelation was HUGE for me.

One Last Very Important Distinction…

Money is attracted to Wealth… it follows wealth, not the other way around.

If you shift your focus from making money to creating wealth, you’ll begin to see the world in a new light where opportunities to create wealth that attracts money are illuminated all around you.

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Talk soon,

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P.P.S. I’d appreciate your thoughts on this conversation. Please leave me a comment below.

> BEWARE:

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 opportunities to make 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.

I searched Google for “attract wealth” and here are some of the gems I found:

“Step into the flow of the Universe and ask for money help…”

At first glance, this looks like an innocent enough premise, but when we dig a little deeper you’ll discover that statements like this often leave us more confused that before we read them.

Check this out… Could you please tell me exactly WHERE I find this universal flow. Once I’ve found it, HOW do I step into it and HOW do I ask for money help? 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?

See what I mean? This is not actionable advice, so in my mind, it’s totally useless. Unfortunately, many of the “new-age” or “spiritual” teachings that are popular today, are filled with this useless crap.

Here’s another:

“Learn to vibrate at the frequency of money…”

This one cracks me up…

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’d also love to know HOW to vibrate myself at that frequency, so I can attract some of this money too.

I decided to try vibrating at the frequency of money just to see if it worked…

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…

Vibrating to attract money?

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.

Obviously, I’m just being facetious and having some fun, but there is a point to my banter:

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to attract money. The problem (as I see it) is that most of the people who talk about ‘attracting money’ come from a mindset of lack i.e. wanting to get something for nothing.

If you believe people who tell you that you can somehow magically ‘attract’ money by doing nothing other than ‘vibrating’ or ‘asking’, you’re never going to have any (or at least not for long).

Having a mindset that supports you taking action towards becoming financially free is essential, but that alone is never going to make you rich.

Go ask anyone on the Forbes Magazine “Rich List” how they created their wealth and they aren’t going to tell you that they sat around vibrating to the frequency of money.

So, how have wealthy people ATTRACTED their wealth?

Drum roll please…

The Only Way To Attract Wealth

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.

Read that sentence again, because it might be the most important sentence you read in your entire financial life.

If you provide lots of VALUE, you’ll easily attract OPPORTUNITIES to exchange it for MONEY.

NOTE: You can’t attract money itself (at least not from my experience), but you can attract opportunities (to exchange some form of value for money).

If you’re still focusing on attracting money, you’re probably broke. Focus on how you or your product or service can add value to others, and then watch the money flow in.

Here’s the equation:

GIVE NO VALUE = GET NO MONEY

GIVE  VALUE = GET OPPORTUNITIES (TO EXCHANGE VALUE FOR MONEY)

Got it?

If making money is that simple, then why is it that most people don’t succeed in becoming wealthy?

I believe it’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… Sound familiar?

So what’s the Secret to creating wealth?

In my opinion, the secret to wealth creation is discovering your unique VALUE that you can add to the world, and then spreading that value in a way that is enjoyable for you.

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’re probably struggling to exchange your potential value for MONEY.

The Good News Is…

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.

If you’re interested in learning your unique value, then check out this wealth creation article.

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.

To debunking myths and enjoying life,

P.S. 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’s always going to feel like hard work and be exhausting. Make sure you click this link to learn how you can find out the EASIEST way for you to exchange your value for money. I’ve created a stunning surprise for you at the end of the page.

P.P.S. I’d love to hear your thoughts once you’ve found your unique value… Please leave me a comment below.

It was dark and I was driving to the airport to collect two friends visiting me on the island. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a dog running across the freeway…

I slammed on my brakes, trying to keep the car from skidding out of control, but the dog kept running. Seconds later I felt a series of loud thuds followed by shrieks of terror and agony as the dog got dragged underneath my truck.

My heart started racing and time slowed down to a standstill as adrenaline pumped into my veins.

“Oh s#%t”, I thought to myself…

as I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the injured dog writhing in the middle of the freeway.

The dog’s agonized howls penetrated my car even though I had music playing, the windows were shut and I was 100 meters down the road.

I’m not proud to admit it, but my first thought was:

“There’s no way that this dog is going to be alive much longer… Another car will probably hit it again in a few seconds. I’m going to keep driving to the airport, pick up my friends and forget this ever happened…”

I kept driving for another 10 seconds, but the dog’s agonized howls haunted me like the sound of a baby crying for its mother.

I didn’t want to take responsibility for having hit the dog. By most people’s standards, the accident was the dog’s fault and that justifies leaving the dog to die on the side of the road.

I’ll come back to my story in a moment, but before I do, I want to ask you an important question:

Have you ever hurt someone, lied to someone or stolen something and then didn’t own up and
take responsibility for it?

If your mind is telling you that you have never done a thing like that, it’s lying to you.

Think of that time when you hurt someone, lied to someone or stolen something and then didn’t own up and take responsibility for it…

Got it?

Remember the guilty feeling immediately after you did the ‘bad’ thing? You knew you’d done something wrong.

Perhaps the memory of that event gnaws at you the way I could hear the howling dog yelping and see it writhing in the rear view mirror.

Consider for a moment that your “Howling Dog” is your conscience…

It’s your heart trying to tell you to do the right thing, the scary thing, the terrifying act of taking responsibility for your actions.

Think back to your incident again…

Remember how quickly your mind kicked in to shut your Howling Dog up and justify why it was OK not to take responsibility? That’s what our minds do in an attempt to keep us ‘safe’ or out of trouble.

Here’s the problem 99.9% of people don’t admit to themselves:

Whenever you hear or see your Howling Dog and you ignore it, it haunts you unconsciously and slowly, but surely eats away at your aliveness.

First, the guilt makes you tired and lethargic…

Then, as time passes, you forget that the incident ever happened BUT it leaves behind a slow-release poison that begins killing you from the inside out.

You begin feeling emotionally dead inside…

After a while, feeling dead becomes normal and life stops being a fun, joyful experience.

You LOSE the ability to attract good things into your life.

It’s as if your attraction magnet breaks down…

I know that you know what I’m talking about…

After years of silencing or killing your Howling Dogs (i.e. not taking responsibility for your actions and ignoring your conscience)…they KILL YOU – from the inside.

This often manifests as disease in your body or an inability to attract ANYTHING good into your life. It’s as if your life has become poisoned.

If you can relate to this, there is only ONE thing you can do to save yourself.

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for your actions TODAY. Otherwise, you’ll wake up tomorrow forgetting you ever read this email and you life will remain DEADENED.

I’m not kidding!

I have a challenge for you today…

I challenge you to call the person you wronged and apologize to them and take responsibility for the impact of your actions.

I challenge you to own up to stealing, lying, cheating or whatever else you’ve done that you’re too scared to take responsibility for.

Start with just ONE thing. The BIGGEST thing. Clean that up first. You know exactly which one I’m talking about… It’s that BIG thing that you’re hiding, afraid someone might find out about.

Why would you want to do this?

Because it’s the only way to truly be FREE.

I fully expect that you won’t actually do what I suggest, because just the thought of it is going to scare the socks off you, BUT if you are up to the challenge then later on I will share a process you can use to clean up the mess seamlessly so you are free from all poisons in your life.

Here’s how I silenced my howling dog…

Somewhere in the middle of this, my heart managed to override my head and I turned the car around to go find the howling dog and take responsibility for hitting the poor little guy.

I was hoping that the dog would be dead by the time I arrived, because I had no idea what I’d do if it was still alive.

I had SO many thoughts, most of which were awful, wondering whether to leave it on the side of the road to die or not. I was so confused.

As I approached the place where I had hit the dog, I saw that the dog was still alive, panting with saliva running down its mouth and a trail of blood marking its agonizing journey dragging itself to the side of the road with its front paws only.

I jumped out of the car and slowly approached the now quiet dog, who looked at me with pleading eyes as if to say, “Please help me”. I could see it was probably a stray dog because it had no name tag.

I stroked its head to calm it down and then picked up the bloody dog in my arms and placed her gently in the back of the truck.

There was NO way in hell I was leaving her there and there was no turning back now.

This choice left me with two challenges:

1. I had no idea where to take a bleeding animal at 9pm on a tiny Caribbean Island and
2. my friends were still waiting outside the airport for me.

I had to act fast because the dog might not live much longer and I wanted to do everything I could to help it.

I was 3 minutes from the airport, so I decided to collect my friends first and figure out what to do with the dog as I drove… Along the way I, called around and found a number of a vet on the island.

Arriving at the airport, I hugged Michelle and Schalk hello and welcomed them to the island, and explained that they needed to sit with their luggage on their laps because there was an animal in the back which needed our help.

15 minutes later we were pulling into the drive of the vet’s surgery.

The vet pinched the dog’s paws and to my surprise, she stayed calm and didn’t make a noise. I thought of how brave she was, only to have my illusion shattered when the vet told me that she was probably paralyzed and that’s why she didn’t react.

He told me he would give the dog painkillers for the night and talk to me in the morning. We agreed that if an owner did not claim the dog by the end of the next day, we would put the dog down.

I was all shaken up and it took me a few hours to calm down and relax after all the adrenaline. I felt sad about the dog, but peaceful about doing the right thing.

The vet called me the next morning and told me nobody had claimed the dog. After much deliberation we agreed that the best thing for her was for her to die peacefully and to put her down. I felt sad for her but knew that it was the right thing for her.

A $500 vet bill (reduced to $250 by the kind receptionist) and a huge learning later, my conscience is now completely clear.

I took responsibility for my part in the accident and now I’m free to return to my life full of joy and free from guilt and remorse.

As I walked along the beach this morning, I thought of her and said a little prayer to thank her for the valuable beautiful lesson she taught me. I wished her well in “Doggie Heaven”, imagined her eating loads of big bones and running around freely on good legs and felt a sense of freedom again.

I’ll never forget the sound of that Howling Dog and it will always be reminding me to listen to my conscience, take responsibility for my actions and keep living the best life I can.

I hope you choose to take me up on my challenge and take responsibility for something in your life that is eating at you. Be FREE from your howling dogs and experience peace and joy in your life.

The Howling Dog Challenge

Here is a process you can use for cleaning up ANY of your Howling Dogs in your life:

1. Grab a pen and write a list of all the crap you’re avoiding dealing with in your life.
2. Next to each item, write down how what you did (or didn’t do) impacted the person you did it to. Don’t stop until you are truly present to how your actions impacted the other person. If no other person was impacted (this is rare), write down how it impacted you.
3. Have a conversation with the person(s) involved and apologize for what you did. You may want to ask them, “What can I do to make this right for you?”
4. Now here is the most important step. Do whatever needs to be done to make it right for the other person.
5. Now, notice how good you feel and how a weight has been lifted from your shoulders. You have taken responsibility for your actions and are free.

Taking responsibility takes courage and I fully expect that you WILL NOT take responsibility for your action you identified above.

I expect your mind is already talking to you telling you why I’m an idiot for suggesting this and why you are better off keeping quiet etc etc blah blah fish paste…

I dare you…

I dare you to take up the Howling Dog Challenge and then leave a comment below this article and let me know what you took responsibility for, what happened and how you feel afterward.

Your friends,

and  Sammy (the name I gave my brave Howling Dog)

P.S. I want to acknowledge Werner Erhard, Brad Blanton and my Howling Dog for inspiring this article.

P.P.S. Take the Howling Dog challenge. It will set you free and allow you to attract BIG things into your life again.

To some degree, we all do… If you want to manifest your dream life, you’ll need to make sure that you are not subconsciously sabotaging your success.

Watch this video below and find out:

• How your subconscious mind might be sabotaging your dreams and why it doesn’t want you to succeed…
• The only two reasons (other than dying) why you might fail. Most people make both of these…
• The 7 most common traps that stop you achieving success and what you can do to make sure you don’t get caught out by them…

Let me know what you thought of the video by leaving me a comment below…

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P.S. If you’ve not yet seen the other videos in this series, watch this one first and then click the links below to watch those… 
How to Manifest Your Dream Life – Part 1
How to Manifest Your Dream Life – Part 2
How to Manifest Your Dream Life – Part 3