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The Law Of Resonance

2009-08-09T08:07:00.000-07:00

The Law of Resonance, like all other Universal Laws, once understood, will provide you with a greatly enhanced ability to begin "consciously", intentionally and consistently attracting and experiencing more of the desired outcomes that you desire to experience and envision for yourself.

Once this conscious awareness of The Law of Resonance is attained, it will enable you to clearly understand the importance and necessity of consciously directing and maintaining the kind and quality of the energy that you project through your thoughts, emotions and beliefs which in turn will enable you to begin attracting and experiencing the desired "tangible physical results" that you may currently be "unconsciously attracting" and that so many "perceive" to be random acts of nature that fall outside of their ability to consciously control.

Although a widely held belief...like many beliefs held today, as you'll discover, it is and can only continue to limit you if you choose to allow it to.

The Law of Resonance will enable you to break free from the mindset as well as the limitations that the vast majority place on themselves and enable you to begin experiencing a kind and quality of life that the majority "unconsciously" choose not to.

A deeper look into The Law Of Resonance will provide you with the "seemingly" hidden key of all the keys concerning the unwavering process of manifestation...meaning how each of the events, conditions and circumstances are drawn or attracted to you and created in every area of your life, whether physically, relationally, emotionally, financially or spiritually.

In fact ALL physical (or seen) as well as the unseen events, conditions and circumstances which make up your personal life experience as well as those which are continually being created in the entire Universe, are only possible and happen as a result of the Law of Resonance.

The Law of Resonance which is closely interconnected and works in harmony with the Law of Attraction is the Universal Law which determines precisely what it is that you will attract into your life based on the resonance or frequency of of the energy that you are projecting.

Although many have become aware of the Law of Attraction recently, many believe that it's the Law Of Attraction that's solely responsible for determining what is drawn into their life experiences in the physical world. Although to an extent that's true, The Law of Attraction is merely the perfectly constructed, immutable and unwavering law which makes certain that "something" is attracted and created based on individual choices that are made by you.

The Law of Resonance is the law which determines precisely WHAT IS attracted based on the resonance or the frequency of energy that is chosen by you through your emotional response system and as a result of that choice determines the kind and quality of the resonance or frequency projected which the Law of Attraction utilizes to determine precisely what IS attracted.

The simplest way to put it would be to say that The Law of Resonance is the law that assures that all energy continuously vibrates at a given frequency and depending on the vibratory output of this emitted frequency is what the Law of Attraction uses to determine what additional energies are attracted to one another which join together, resulting in a transmutation of the energy from the unseen or spiritual realm, producing outcomes in physical form.

To provide more clarity, the Law of Attraction will attract to you every event, condition and circumstance experienced in your life which is determined by the vibrational resonance created based on how you perceive what's going on around you.

The Law of Attraction makes no judgments, distinctions or determinations between what you might perceive to be good or bad, right or wrong, etc. and is TOTALLY unbiased in what is attracted to you. It only serves and acts as the delivery system, delivering to you precisely what you are asking for based on your resonance.

The Law of Resonance simply determines the vibrational intensity of what you choose to project which determines what you are asking for.

The Law of Attraction operates precisely the same without bias for EVERY person in precisely the same manner. It is an individuals resonance, the energy which is projected outward which determines exactly what those events, conditions and circumstances in each persons life consist of.

As we've covered in The Law of Vibration article everything which exists in the entire Universe, whether it be those things that can be experienced with your five physical senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing, as well as those which are above or below our ability to comprehend and experience with the physical senses, when broken down, studied and analyzed in their purest and most basic form (subatomic particles) exist as a result of energy or light.

In other words ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, whether physical objects, your body, sounds, colors, feelings, oxygen, thoughts, feelings, emotions etc. etc. exist as a result of energy or what science refers to as Quanta which exist as vibrating energy packets. The outcomes or effects of both the physical and the non physical are determined by and constructed of the varying vibrational output of these sub atomic particles.

In other words the only thing that determines the difference between let's say water and the chair you're sitting in is the varying vibrational intensity's of the energy which make them up.

At their core, they exist of the same energy, it's simply the vibrational output of the energy which makes them appear as different forms or physical manifestations.

In the same way, YOU determine what you'll experience in your life based on the resonance that you choose to project.

So what determines this resonance that you emit from your physical body? Your EMOTIONS. The emotions that you experience, as has been covered in the Power of Thoughts as well as the Power of Emotions articles creates a specific vibratory frequency or resonance which once created is projected outward which activates and enables the Law of Attraction to do it's job and with unwavering certainty creates what you experience in your life.

The result is that you begin attracting to you precisely what you are asking for based on the resonance or frequency of energy that you are projecting.

The job of the Law of Attraction is to attract to you and bring into your physical existence precisely what you are asking for as a result of that projected frequency or resonance which is created and projected as a result of the emotions that you choose to experience.

The Law of Resonance is quite literally the law that determines how ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is brought into (manifested in) your physical world.

If this seems a bit hard to grasp and If you haven't yet, it would be best to first develop a basic understanding of the Law of Vibration as well as The Law Of Attraction and it will all become crystal clear to you how it is that The Law Of Resonance operates. You might also find the Science of Success article to be of assistance as well which explains in simplified terms what Quantum Physicists have discovered with respect to how ALL things are brought from the unseen, metaphysical or spiritual realm into physical existence.

As it pertains to you personally, resonance is the outgoing frequency that you project based on the quality of your "consciousness" which determines what you will attract much like the outgoing frequency from a radio determines which radio station is picked up and heard through the speakers of that radio. It is the outbound frequency created by the radio which harmonizes and resonates with the frequency emitted from a radio tower which attracts and combines those frequencies and enables the sound to be heard.

So what do radio frequencies have to do with emotions and resonance?

Your quality of consciousness determines the quality or vibrational intensity of the energy emitted and projected which determines what is attracted to you.

Emotions of fear, apathy, grief, anger, and anxiety emit a much different resonance or vibrational output than those emotions of love, joy, gratitude etc. just as tuning to 96.9 FM emits and as a result attracts a different outcome or frequency than 104.7 FM on your radio dial.

Resonance is merely a process of initiating and amplifying a vibratory response (a link) in a receiving system that is attuned to or in vibrational resonance with an emitting system which creates an outcome.

Your individual thoughts, emotions and beliefs determines the vibrational intensity of this emitted frequency which in turn determines what you'll attract to you and experience in your life.

It is very important to understand that resonance starts only when the frequency of the two systems (the receiving and the emitting) are very close or identical in frequency and harmonize, which then determines what the Law of Attraction will draw to you.

In other words, you can't expect to send out a frequency of fear and expect to draw to you something that you love.

A frequency of fear and a frequency of love vary in vibrational intensity. A vibrational output of something feared can only resonate and draw to you a harmonious frequency which produces in your life more of what is feared.

A vibrational output of what is "loved" or "desired" can only resonate and draw to you a harmonious frequency resulting in a physical manifestation of the thing loved and desired.

In a nutshell the Law of Resonance determines the varying frequencies between these two predominant states of being whether it be fear or love.

Love emits and projects a much higher frequency than does fear and is far more powerful in attracting to you things that are loved or desired. Fear on the other hand although it does emit a vibrational frequency does not have the same attractive force as does the higher vibrational intensity of love which more easily attracts what is loved over what is feared.

Ok, now with that basic understanding what can be done to begin resonating at a frequency which attracts more of what it is that you love or desire to experience in the physical world?

Knowledge is the first step and once understood, grasped and internalized, the next step is beginning the process of consciously controlling the resonance that you project.

How exactly do you do that?

The first step in the process is becoming conscious of your thoughts. Through practice you will begin the process of achieving self mastery which enables and empowers you to allow yourself to only think thoughts and as a result of that choice only experience emotions that are in alignment with that which you choose to attract and manifest in the physical world.

Although there is some mental work and self discipline involved initially, as you'll soon discover based on what you begin attracting into your life, the long term rewards FAR outweigh the short term effort necessary to begin consciously and intentionally using the Law of Resonance yo your benefit.

While many believe that their emotions are uncontrollable, this is absolutely not true. Although it does take some self discipline initially and the developed ability to learn to consciously and consistently remain aware of the thought processes that regulate an individuals emotional response system, learning to consciously control emotions can be easily achieved once a basic understanding concerning how to achieve it is established.

One of the most powerful, practical and effective means that I have personally found for taking conscious control over your thoughts and emotions is best achieved through the art of meditation .

Meditation has been scientifically proven to change the resonance of the human physiology enabling those that choose to practice it to experience an overall sense of peace, calm and well being and as a result effortlessly and automatically changing the resonance or vibrational frequency which an individual projects thereby providing much more desirable results which manifest in physical form.

Meditation provides and produces an enhanced ability of the practitioner to enter into and remain in a state of resonance of their choosing enhancing their ability to consciously control the resonance projected by them which determines how the physical outcomes experienced in the various areas of their lives are determined.

Meditation also serves to balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain, initiating what is often referred to as whole brain thinking, dramatically reducing the physical activity of the brain, and as a result opens the door to higher awareness, dramatically enhanced intuition, a much deeper understanding of the unseen or spiritual, and numerous other benefits. (See the benefits of meditation) The fundamental and often implied "secret" to begin consciously creating desired results in life can be dramatically enhanced through consistent meditation practice enabling the practitioner to develop the ability to consciously create and maintain a desired frequency or resonance.

Although the actual experience of reaching a deep meditative state is difficult to explain with the limited scope of physical words, meditation, to put it simply, enables the practitioner to experience a profound sense of inner well being, joy, and what is referred to as Nirvana or experiencing a close personal interconnection with the Source, whatever you may perceive that Source to be.

Accelerate The L.O.A. Force In Your Life

2009-05-03T21:05:00.000-07:00

Uniting Your Conscious Desires And Subconscious Mind

by Ray Moore - Success Coach

Whatever it is you want to achieve in life, prosperity, abundance or the fulfillment of your dreams, you'll be glad to know that the attainment of these things are possible for those who learn how to apply the Universal Law of Attraction.

This law states that anything you want in life, you can have simply by choosing to deliberately change your thought patterns and constantly focus on the things you want in life and avoid thinking about the things you do not want.

Simply stated, the law of attraction manifests in your life the things you constantly think about and focus on.

The law of attraction has a powerful impact on the subconscious mind, because everything you think about and experience consciously is influencing your subconscious mind.

Does this mean that the law of attraction can work faster when the conscious and subconscious minds are at one with the desired intention?

Absolutely! When the conscious and subconscious minds are in unity this is called, "the whole mind". By studying the powers of the united conscious and subconscious minds, we come to the realization that by consistently entering the state of "whole mind" or "oneness" we have the power to solve any problem that may occur or manifest the necessary conditions through which we can solve the problems ourselves.

Our minds are actually made up of two distinct entities called the conscious and the subconscious minds. When we decide to focus our effort on creating unity between the two minds, we can achieve a greater sense of happiness and success in our lives.

What most people don't understand is that when your conscious and subconscious minds are working together you will naturally create good health, peace and harmony.

The more the conscious and subconscious minds are integrated and in sync with each other, the more effective the entire mind and body function as a whole. The conscious and subconscious minds have to work together in harmony to accomplish anything.

Great artists, poets, writers, scientists, inventors and discoverers have had a deep understanding of how their conscious and subconscious minds work together in order to work wonders in their lives. They understand that fusion of the conscious and subconscious minds creates powerfully FOCUSED THOUGHT that can produce tangible results from the formless substance.

You have at your command the same power that has created galaxies and nothing can stop you from having whatever it is you want in this life. You've had this power all along, but the difference now is you can consciously create by uniting the conscious and subconscious minds.

MONEY HARMONY

2009-03-12T05:58:00.000-07:00

How to Create a River of Abundance in Your Life Right Now
By Mike Adams

People always ask me about the secret to abundance. They say, "How can
you give away so much, Mike, and still attract so much abundance at the
same time?" Actually, that's the whole secret right there. Be a river,
not a dam, and abundance of all kinds (financial and otherwise) will
flow through you.
This article is a discussion about what I call "money harmony" or
"energy harmony". Being a river means being the kind of person who is a
conduit, who allows resources, including money, to flow through you
rather than being the kind of person who tries to dam up the flow of
energy and selfishly keep it all for yourself. This whole discussion
gets rather philosophical, but it's also quite practical as you'll soon see.
There is a system at work in the universe that distributes resources to
those who are the most responsible in putting them to good use. Of
course, there's a competing system at work, too. That is a system that
results in resources being collected in the hands of people who are
deceitful, who cheat others, who are dishonest, unethical and so on.
That system definitely works for some corporations and some individuals,
but the price they pay for that is much too high.

I advocate a system that allows you to be rewarded for being a conduit
of responsible use of money and resources. *In this system, the universe
acts almost as if it were a conscious dispatcher of resources. This
consciousness takes a look at who is allowing resources to flow through
them, distributing them and putting them to good use. It then rewards or
replenishes that person with more resources, usually much more than what
they allow to flow through them. *So if you're the kind of person that
donates money or time to a constructive purpose, and you approach it
with the attitude of being a river and not a dam, you will be blessed
with far more wealth than you give to others.

HEALTH FLOWS

Let's return to the metaphor of being a river and not a dam. Healthy
rivers flow; water continues to move downstream and it gets replenished
from an upstream source. In that river you'll find all kinds of life:
fish, micro-algae and plants. But if you dam up that river, you cause
stagnation. You stop the flow.

This is what happens when people try to covet money. They try to collect
money and put it all in their pockets without sharing with anyone. They
become a collector or a dam rather than a conduit. What happens when
water starts collecting and it's not moving? It begins to stagnate; it
becomes brackish and the life in it dies. The energy becomes a negative
energy and it's not the kind of place that people want to be around.
This is also true with people. People who operate on greed and whose
main purpose is to try to collect and control resources, rather than
share them, are not well-liked by other people. They won't be successful
in any business endeavor, other than by using methods of deceit and
dishonesty. The dam model is the model of stagnation.

If you function as a dam in life you're typically espousing a philosophy
of scarcity. This is how a lot of people accidentally end up functioning
as dams. They approach life with a fear... a fear of not having enough.
They're afraid they won't have enough food or money. They contract and
stop the outflow of resources, thinking if they conserve more money, if
they try to keep everything for themselves, they will be better
protected. And in fact, that only creates a situation of stagnation.
On the other hand, a person who approaches life from a point of view of
abundance believes there is more than enough financial wealth for the
world and more than enough food. They say, "In my life, I am an abundant
person in everything I deal with," and they attract abundance and
wealth. That person is going to flow like a river and notice that, even
as they allow all of that water to flow downstream to other recipients
and provide life further down the line, they are always replenished with
new water coming from upstream. It is in fact the flow of that water
that keeps it healthy and full of life.

So remember, fear creates constriction or contraction, which leads to
stagnation, loss of life and negative energy. On the other hand, sharing
or opening up to others through generosity creates abundance; it brings
life and broadcasts a higher vibration that attracts people. People want
to be around you.

*I'm suggesting that you adopt the vibration of abundance, and you can
start by giving. It may sound counterintuitive if you're new to any of
this, but the best way to become wealthy, in terms of money,
friendships, wisdom and everything else that matters in life, is to
actually start giving away all of those things. *By that I mean, start
giving away some of your money. Find a good cause that you can donate
to. Start giving information to the people around you. Give the gift of
knowledge. Give the gift of time and effort or volunteer somewhere. Make
the effort to be part of something constructive.

As you start doing this, you may say, "Well, I was broke before I
started this. Now I'm giving away my money and my time, and I'm even
more broke." To that I would advise to look where you're coming from.
Once again, it's from a perspective of scarcity and fear of not having
enough. What if, instead, you started giving away time, financial
resources and gifts of knowledge and information, and told yourself that
this is an investment? Tell yourself, "I'm investing in others and in
the flow of the river, and I know that this investment will come back to
me. By taking these actions, I am in fact enhancing my wealth." What if
you said that? What would happen?

*Be an attractor of abundance*

You'll notice that I give away far more information than I charge for. I
give away 90 percent of what I write. That is intentional; that's my way
of sharing information and allowing the river to flow. A shrewd
businessperson who didn't understand this concept might say, "Mike, you
could make a lot more money if you stopped giving away all this stuff
and started charging people for it." I've heard that before, too. When
someone tells me that, however, it indicates they don't understand how
to be a river and not a dam.
They don't understand the power of being a river, because once you start
to flow, to allow resources to flow through you by helping others, the
universe will reward you. It's as if someone made a decision and noticed
that you are responsible and you are a good steward of financial
resources. You therefore are being granted a much larger collection of
those resources.

*You must unlearn false beliefs about money*

Most of us have been trained that we have to hold on to every single
dime and the only way to achieve long-term financial success is to cut
our costs and not give away anything that we don't have to give away.
Basically, we're taught to pinch pennies.

But I'm coming from a very different point of view, which holds that
pinching pennies is exactly the wrong attitude. You should not go around
wasting money on silly products you don't need; rather, put your money
to a good use. For example, I buy no jewelry. Buying jewelry does
nothing for me personally. I don't typically spend a lot of money on
clothing, either. I buy only enough clothing to look presentable at
board meetings. I dislike fancy cars, and I have no interest in a lot of
material stuff. I prefer comfortable clothes, such as hemp pants, silk
shirts and materials that feel good and are made from natural fibers. I
don't spend a lot of money on frivolous things.

However, I do spend money on good causes. I will send a few thousand
dollars worth of food supplies to a needy community, or I'll send
emergency preparedness supplies to the American Red Cross. I'll donate
money to earthquake victims, tsunami victims or people who are caught in
some kind of a natural disaster. I'll donate software to groups that are
doing good work and need some technology for their automation. Such acts
are more important to me than collecting a lot of consumer products or
things I don't really need.

*Heal yourself with flow*

In a nutshell, that is my own personal secret to abundance. From my
experience, this is what really works. You've got to give, have an open
heart and be willing to invest in others around you in order to attract
more abundance to yourself. Whether your goal is to have financial
success, meet new people or heal yourself, you'll find all of those
things happening when you're willing to give to others.
In fact, this is a very healing exercise to engage in. If you are
knowledgeable about chakras and the energy centers in the body, you are
most likely aware that simply giving actually opens up the flow of
energy through those chakras. Once again, that returns us to the
metaphor of the river: When you give, you flow. At an energetic level,
that is exactly what's happening. When you flow, you actually prevent
disease and you can start to reverse diseases.

Many diseases are energetically related to stagnation and lack of flow.
Heart disease is definitely one of them. It's no coincidence that
individuals who aren't willing to give to anyone are said to "have no
heart." That's technically quite true. They have no heart health, and
they tend to be struck down by heart attacks, strokes or other forms of
cardiovascular disease. That saying is part of our reality because it's
been based on observation over the years. People who don't give don't
flow, and people who don't flow tend to have heart attacks. So by
allowing yourself to flow by giving to others and being generous, you
will simultaneously attract health and heal yourself.
You will also attract financial abundance, and will meet new people who
can help you succeed in practically any endeavor. You will be able to
create every bit of the success you imagine (and most likely achieve
something far beyond that as well).

*With financial wealth comes responsibility*

Do you now have a sense for how incredibly powerful this can be in your
life? How healing is part of every step here? How healing others is also
healing you? All of this is absolutely true. When you heal others, you
become healed in the process. When you allow resources and money to flow
through you, you will be recognized and rewarded with more resources and
more abundance. You'll have so much financial abundance that you won't
know what to do with it.
At some point ¨C and it doesn't take very long to get there ¨C you'll
have more than you need to feed and clothe yourself and live
comfortably. Everything else, then, is excess money. Here's perhaps the
most important point of all: when you reach the point where you have
more money than you know what to do with, be a responsible host of that
money.
Let's say that you receive a nice fat raise to $250,000 / year in salary.
"Gee, I've made it. I'm going to have a quarter of a million dollars a year.
I've got a lot of money coming in. I'm going to blow it on a world
cruise, a brand new Jaguar and this $10,000 necklace I've been wanting."
You start loading up on all these luxury items that serve no one but you.
I guarantee the first thing that will happen is that the universe will
say, "This person doesn't need any more money, because they sure don't
know how to use it." You'll then find that that flow is going to stop.
That is the natural order of the universe; it's the way things work.
On the other hand, if you say, "I've got a couple hundred thousand
dollars here. I'm going to take 10 percent and donate that to some
important causes.

I'm going to take another 10 percent and buy some health products for
people who need them. I will also go to the nursing home here and work
with some patients as a volunteer."

When the universe sees that happening with you, it says, "This person is
a wonderful steward of financial abundance. This person knows how to
take care of money and put it to a good use. We're going to reward this
person with some more money." You'll then find even more abundance
headed your way. That's the magic of abundance.

*Remember to reward yourself, too*

One final thought on this. While this is going on, recognize that as
you're receiving financial abundance, you do have the right to spend
some of that money on yourself. As long as you are simultaneously
sharing and rewarding others around you, you deserve to reward yourself
as well.

I find too often that in the natural health industry, people feel guilty
spending even one dollar on themselves. That is ridiculous. There is a
time and a place to say, "I deserve to have some nice natural-fiber
clothes, or to upgrade my automobile to something that's more
comfortable and safer. We deserve a nice meal at a fine restaurant, or
we deserve to buy organic foods, and move to a better part of town, or
to a better part of the country." You deserve to be abundant. But it's
important to do these other things at the same time that you're
rewarding yourself. Don't feel guilty about spending money on yourself.
Just make sure that you are allowing the flow to others at the same time
that you are rewarding yourself.

Now, of course, the purists out there would say we don't need anything
material at all. The fewer attachments we have to material wealth, the
freer we are. I agree with that completely, but I also recognize that
for the vast majority of people in the western world, there's a certain
level of "stuff" that's necessary simply to operate in this society.
That's true for myself as well. I couldn't do this work without having
lots of computer equipment and a comfortable place to write. I couldn't
talk about nutrition and physical exercise if I didn't invest in
nutritional supplements and exercise equipment. So there's a certain
level of physical infrastructure that's necessary to even have a
conversation with those in the western world. But the key is to gather
what you need to do your job (and pursue your mission) without going
crazy on the accumulation of stuff.

There's a saying in the west: "He who dies with the most toys wins." And
actually, it's completely backwards. In reality, he who accumulates the
most toys dies while still alive, because he turns into a dam and
stagnates. The measure of a person is not how much she accumulates in
life, but how much she helps others.
Understanding this flow of energy is truly one of the secrets to
abundance. You can call it energetic, you can call it karma or you can
call it a spiritual approach. It doesn't matter what you call it; it's
the way the universe works. If you flow, you will be blessed with more
resources than you know what to do with.

It may be time to look at your life and be honest with yourself about
what you do with your money. Be honest about what you do with your time,
and what your reasons are for getting involved with any endeavor. If you
don't have the most altruistic reasons yet, or perhaps you don't have
any altruism at all, it may be time to redefine yourself.

*You can alter your flow in an instant*

We can choose to change at any time we want.
Even if we've never given a penny to anyone in our entire
lives, we can make a change right now, and make a donation today. We can
restructure the river inside of us right now. It only takes one decision
and one action. You can restructure your life from this moment forward;
you can create the flow even if you've never had it.
If you have a river that's dammed up and the water is stagnant, brackish
and lifeless, you can tear down that dam. The water will break through
and begin to flow downstream, and all that brackish water will empty out
and be replenished by new, fresh water. With that new, fresh water will
come new life, oxygen, plants, fish, living creatures and energies of
incredible joy and health. You can do that right now by making the
decision and breaking down any dams inside your own belief systems that
may have been stopping the flow of resources. You can create a river of
abundance in your own life right now.

-- Let us work together for unity and love --Johnny Lone-

Money Myths Of The Poor

2009-02-13T04:22:00.000-08:00

From tender age, we were exposed to myths about money and myths of being rich. Be it from our parents, brothers, sisters, relatives, or friends. The myths that we have determine our financial well being in our adult lives.

I call them myths because they are not true. Or, at least they are not giving you the complete picture.

We can't blame our parents for the myths in us. They already gave us the best they could. And don't forget that times change. Things were true then may not be true today.

If you want to move ahead financially, you have to be aware of the myths that you have about wealth and money. And do not let the myths stop you from living a wealthy life.

Money Myth 1: Work hard and you'll be rich.
Many of us think that by having a job with a big company would ensure that we're on the path to financial freedom. With so many layoff announcements, we might be out of job anytime. I'm not saying that you'd be one of them but the fact is there is no job that is guaranteed.

Recently, my friend was laid off in less than a month in his new job. Having a job is merely helping you to cope with daily expenses, providing you shelter, food and clothing. Do not be misled that a job or your employer will turn you into a rich and wealthy person. No one cares more than you about your wealth.

Money Myth 2: Saving is good.
When I was small, I was told by my mother that I must learn to save. I thank my mother for inculcating the habit of saving in me. The habit of saving helps me to develop discipline. Many people think that when they save enough, one fine day they'll be rich.

But is saving alone enough to make you wealthy?

I came to realize that if I only depend on my savings to get rich, I'd have to wait for a long time. That's the problem with savings, it takes a long time for you to get rich. Saving alone is not enough. You have to learn to invest your money in other investment vehicles to grow your money faster.

Money Myth 3: Debt is evil.
The other common myth about money is debt is bad. Did your parents ever tell you that borrowing was bad? Mine did. Not all debt is bad, actually. It depends on how you spend your loans that you're getting. If you take a credit card loan to buy a flat plasma TV, it's a bad debt. On the other hand, if you take loans to start a business or invest in real estate, the debt is good.

If debt is bad, can you imagine what would happen to companies if they are not allowed to take loans from the banks? As a general rule, if you use debts to buy things that increase in value over time, they are good debts. You must know whether the debt you're taking is good or bad.

Money Myth 4: You need money to make money.
When I ask my friends what's stopping them from starting their own business, the common answer is "I don't have money. And it takes money to make money." I do agree that it takes money to make money. But does it really to be your own money?

Everybody has limited resources when it comes to achieving our financial goals. I do not expect you to have everything when you plan to build your own business. You might need financial backing, manpower, expertise, or a coach to guide you. If you lack resources in any areas, find the resources. Someone else will definitely have it. It does take money to make money, but you can use OPM - other people's money.

Money Myth 5: Investing is risky.
Many think that investing is risky because they lack education in investing. Investing itself is not risky if you know how to control the risks. Most of us invest based on a tip from a friend or broker without doing our own research. When you lose money, you say that investing is risky. And you tell yourself that you'll never invest again.

To be frank, everything we do has a risk in it. Learn to manage risks by educating yourself. You can educate yourself by attending seminars, reading books, or even from the Internet.

Money Myth 6: Wealth reflects in material possessions.
Material possessions reflect your level of wealth. This is a misleading measurement. Someone who is driving a Porsche might not be rich and he might highly in debt.

Wealth does not reflect in material possessions. Wealth is a state of mind. Wealth is how fast you can become rich if you're stripped of everything. As Henry Ford once said after he was asked what he would do if he lost all his fortunes, "I'll become a millionaire again within five years."

We possess one or more of the above myths, consciously or unconsciously. But what is more important is to be aware of the myths and replace the myths with facts. By doing this will tremendously improve your financial well being.

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1000 Ways to Make Money

2009-02-10T04:35:00.000-08:00

1. Produce Christmas cards which are printed on the front with, for example, "Happy Christmas from the Smith Family". Or, instead of the name 'Smith', pick one of the dozens of other popular surnames. Sell packs of these cards by direct mail to people listed in telephone directories.
2. Make money from renting out expensive children's toys. The toys you rent out will include remote controlled models and computerised games. Use a little van to deliver the toys to customers. Paint in toy town colour scheme. Call the van a toy mobile or similar suitable name.

3. Introduce to your region a service which mounts maps for businesses. Keep a stock of local, national and international maps. Mount these maps in a professional manner to suit the wall space available at offices. Send out leaflets about your services to office managers.

4. Bring out a regular publication for ambitious amateur musicians. This publication might include ads from : 1) Employers seeking musicians. 2) Retailers selling equipment accessories and supplies. 3) People selling used equipment. 4) Musicians seeking to make contact with other musicians. Also publish interesting editorials and letters.

5. Design and manufacture kits for making models with cocktail sticks, for example: model churches, castles, windmills, houses, etc. Buy the cocktail sticks in their unpacked state from the manufacturer. Sell your kits by mail order from ads in craft magazines or distribute to model shops.

6. Establish a directory of products no longer made. This directory might include sections on toys, novelties and household goods. Design the directory for business people and inventors who want to know both what has been made before and what ideas might be revived and/or modified.

7. Make cotton gloves especially designed for coin collectors. The gloves prevent the grease and moisture from fingers getting onto coins. Package the gloves and sell them from ads in coin collecting magazines or distribute to shops which sell collectible coins.

8. Bring out a correspondence course about how to write cookery books. The course might include information about: How to devise recipes, how to present them in written form and what makes a successful cookery book. Produce a prospectus and advertise in women's magazines.

9. Begin a business which rents out large and expensive astronomical telescopes to householders who want to develop their interest in astronomy. Publicise your service at the local astronomy society and use local advertising to attract clients.

10. Set up a company which produces a compendium of strip games, for example: Strip poker, strip snakes and ladders, strip lotto, strip snap, and strip ludo. Sell by mail order from adverts in X-rated magazines.

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10 Common Money And Success Myths - Part 3

2009-02-07T04:33:00.000-08:00

by Ian Canaway

Here we continue to discuss a few commonly held beliefs, or "myths," that hold many of us back from achieving success...

Myth 6: If you weren't born into money, you'll never be rich.

Fact: Millionaires are made every day. Many of them are self-made millionaires - people who started with nothing or close to nothing and amassed fortunes. Simply because they decided to and they didn't let anyone dissuade them from their goals.

If you believe that you have to be born into money to be rich, you're missing out on all the riches out there, waiting for you to claim.

Myth 7: If I win, someone else has to lose.

Fact: This is absolute, high-grade, premium quality nonsense. There is enough opportunity and enough money in this world to go around so that everyone can be a winner. In fact, there is more than enough to go around.

The only reason they're not winners is because they don't believe they can ethically and morally do so. (Remember "the earth is flat" story?) As soon as we get rid of that belief and take a step into the unknown, we begin to realize how much wealthier you can be. You also realize how your being a winner can only help others win as well!

You can become rich by using ethical and legal means - without having to cheat or hurt others. In fact, that's the only way I recommend that people do it.

The easiest way to become rich is to create value in other people's lives. There are no losers in that scenario.

Myth 8: Making a profit is a sin.

Fact: If you cheat or hurt others to make a profit, then yes, in that case, making a profit would be bad. But if you create value for others, then making a profit is always good. By creating more value for others, you're helping them live better lives. There is nothing sinful in helping others, doing a great job at it, and getting paid for it.

Money doesn't turn good people into bad people. Money simply magnifies the qualities that are already inherent within a person. If you're a good person, having more money will only allow you to do more good! If you're a bad person, having more money will allow you to do more bad.

And most of us really are good people. And we have a lot to offer others. And you can only do more good by having more money.

Myth 9: Having more money will mean that I'll have to work hard all day and not have time for my family, friends and leisure.

Fact: There's a huge difference between working hard and working smart. Successful people have learned to work smart! They have learned to find other successful people they can model after so they don't make the same mistakes other people did. And by doing so, you can save a lot of time, money, effort as well as some major headaches.

Getting your business started and running does require work. There's no way around that. But, you can still take time out for your loved ones and for your leisure. In fact, it's highly recommended that you do that. If you're spending all your time trying to keep your business afloat, you're either not going about things the right way or you're just in the wrong business.

Myth 10: If I have more money, people will judge me, and they will not like me very much.

Fact: People will judge you anyway. They are judging you right now! It's what they do, unfortunately. Most people don't know who you are anyway! They don't know the "real" you. They only know who they think you are, based on what little information they have about you. So, let them think or feel what they want. They don't know any better. And you really shouldn't be concerned about those people.

Remember, respect and friendship are earned. If they can't appreciate who you are, then they don't deserve your time, or your thoughts.

Many of these myths that have been floating around for hundreds of years and were typically conjured up by people who didn't know any better. Many of them got programmed into us when we were very young. But, we're adults now. We can think for ourselves. We can choose to adopt only those beliefs that benefit you and drop the ones that are no longer useful or empowering. It's all up to you.

Beliefs are very powerful indeed. They, for the most part, are what dictate the quality of your life. Change your beliefs and you change your life.

Free your mind, and success will follow!

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10 Common Money And Success Myths - Part 2

2009-02-05T04:32:00.000-08:00

by Ian Canaway

Here are a few commonly held beliefs, or "myths," that hold many of us back from achieving success...

Myth #1: I don't have what it takes to be successful and wealthy.

Fact: Successful people were not born that way. In fact, many of the most successful people today had very difficult lives. They were regular people who wished for more. And they decided to do something about it - to change their circumstances. Anyone can do the same, including you and I.

Myth 2: I don't have any experience or education in anything.

Fact: Many successful people started with no experience. Many of them also flunked high school and never had any college education.

The only way to get real education and experience in anything is by doing, by "starting." Once you start doing it, you learn very quickly.

Think of all the things that you know how to do. Driving a car, riding a bike, playing sports, reading, writing, speaking...even walking. All of these things have one thing in common: at one time in your life, you didn't know how to do any of them.

And despite how impossible it seemed at the time, you decided to do it anyway. It's the same with everything in life. You learn by doing. You get experience by doing something a few times. Get started. Do it once, twice, three times and you're already on your way to becoming an expert in no time!

Myth 3: To be successful, I have to start a business, and I'm just not cut out to be a businessperson. I don't have what it takes.

Fact: Listen...I know a few people who can barely read or write. Yet they're running their own businesses. It's scary, I know. But think about it...right now, at this moment, you're already several giant steps ahead of them.

The only difference between a person who's thinking about starting a business and another who is running a business is just that. One of them is doing what the other is only "thinking" of doing. They both had the same ideas and dreams. They both probably had the same doubts and fears as well. But one of them decided to start anyway, to take action despite the doubts and fears. One of them decided that if other people could do it, then he could as well.

Myth 4: Money isn't that important.

Fact: Tell that to the family who's starving right now, or to the family who needs money for serious medical help for a member of their family. They'll tell you how important money is.

We've been conditioned from Day 1 to believe that money is not important. We have been conditioned to believe that wanting money is wrong and unethical. And yet the entire world seems to run on money.

It is one of the biggest myths known to man. And it's one of the main reasons why the majority of the people are not wealthy.

Money is simply a way to measure the amount of value you create for others. If you have a lot of money, it means you have created a lot of value for other people. If you don't have the kind of money you'd like to have, that simply means that you just haven't yet found a way to produce the kind of value for others that you're capable of, or the value that you'd like to.

Just look around you at the countries or even cities that have lack of money. You'll find that in these same places, there are usually more crimes being committed, more people taking advantage of others, more diseases, more suffering, more deaths, and none or very little education.

Money may not be the most important thing in life, but let's face facts here... Money is pretty darned important in this day and age. It's how you support yourself! It's how you buy food, water, shelter, and clothing. It's how you pay the medical bills. It's how you help and support others around you, including your loved ones. And we both know that those are very important things.

And by the way, if you feel that it's more important to contribute to others than to be rich, well guess what, when you have more money, you can contribute more! You can do much more for others and you can help a lot more people when you have more money.

Only good things can come from having more money.

Myth 5: Money must be made slowly.

Fact: Nothing could be further from the truth. The only way to make money is to make it quickly! What good is money if you can't enjoy it right now instead of 20 years from now? What good is money if you can't contribute to others now as much as you'd like to, instead of 20 years from now?

The quicker you make money, the quicker you can change your life and the lives of those around you - for the better. There are no rules stating that money should be made slowly.

The only way to make money is to make it quickly! You will also find that the more money you make, the easier it becomes to make more because you begin to shift your focus from survival to abundance and contribution, in the process. And that shift in focus simply attracts more wealth to you.

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10 Common Money And Success Myths - Part 1

2009-02-04T04:25:00.000-08:00

by Ian Canaway

For the longest time, people believed that the earth was flat and that if you traveled all the way to the end, you would fall off! People were trapped; they were stuck in a world that reached out only as far as they could see - a world much, much smaller than the actual size of earth. They were stuck not because that was all that they had available to them, but because that's all they "believed" they had.

They firmly held on to this belief until one day someone proved them wrong by sailing around the world. And in doing so, he opened up a whole new world of possibilities and opportunities for everyone. The rest of earth became available to them.

Beliefs are funny creatures. You see, beliefs are not necessarily based on what's true or factual in the world. The power of each belief comes only from the believer of that belief; the strength of your belief depends on how strongly you believe it to be true.

That means that you can believe whatever you want to believe. Because, as long as you believe it to be true, it will be true in your life. Consequently, you will attract events, experiences and people into your life that will match your beliefs, which will in turn strengthen those beliefs further.

The level of success of a person depends greatly on his/her beliefs. It depends greatly on how s/he views the world, through those beliefs. For this reason, it is very, very crucial to adopt only the beliefs that serve you and to let go of those beliefs that limit you.

Because, we don't always see what is "real." We perceive the world based on our beliefs. As we walk through life, we begin to realize that a lot of what we learned growing up was not very useful, or even true. We begin to realize that life is really about "choices." That we can choose to believe whatever we want. And if a certain belief is not very useful, we can change it.

You have done it before. It takes courage to be willing to look at your current beliefs and then decide whether they serve you or sabotage you, whether to keep them or get rid of them. But you have that choice. You have the power to change your beliefs, and to change what is "real" to you.

Here are a few commonly held beliefs, or "myths," that hold many of us back from achieving success...

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10 Days to Making More Money

2009-02-03T04:27:00.000-08:00

by Lori Giovannoni

Most of us overcomplicate things. Selling is pretty simple. True we need systems in place, support materials and a contact manager, but when all is said and done what stops us from selling is usually in our head, not in our office.

There are 4 actions when taken everyday for 10 working days with unswerving commitment will increase your sales and put more money in your pocket. Guaranteed!

1 - Set Your Intention

There is absolutely no substitute for knowing what you're going after. Research clearly indicates when we set an intention or a goal we subconsciously as well as consciously align our actions and resources to attain that goal. What some folks find as lucky and coincidental is actually the power of intention at work. Few things are as powerful as our thoughts and if our thoughts are not aligned with our actions our thoughts always win. When you set a strong intention it gives your actions a path to follow instead of the other way around.

How many prospects will you contact each day? How many sales will you make? It is important to keep your intention clearly in front of you throughout the day. Don't worry how all the details will come together just keep focused on what you want to accomplish. Intention does not take the place of action, but action alone can often result in activity and no sales.

A tip, set your intention so it is a stretch but not impossible. If you are contacting one or two new prospects a day, set an intention for 4 prospects. Once you've become successful at 4 increase to 6 and so on.

2 - 10 Referrals In 10 Days

Each day call a current customer, someone who is willing to advocate on your behalf and ask them who they know that they would be willing to refer you to. This exercise is not an exercise in selling as much as an exercise in asking. The world of selling is made up of unlimited networks all of them crisscrossing and intersecting through relationships. Selling is mastering the art of relationships and learning to ask for an introduction to the right relationship(s). This exercise is an essential component of more sales and more success. If you are a master at asking for referrals then ask for really high-end referrals. If you are new at this, then simply learn to ask. The trick is to do this for 10 days without wavering. This is called 'Mastering the Ask'. Most people in sales think the most important ask is asking for the sale, it is not. The most important ask is asking for the referral. Master the Ask for just 10 days and watch your sales explode and your income grow.

3 - Work From the End Result Forward

Don't wait until you're successful to act successful. Act as though your success is actualized; you've accomplished what you've set out to accomplish. Place yourself in the future and work from a platform of success. Don't indulge self doubt nor your negative thinking habits. Your job is to live in a platform of success for 10 working days.

Whether on the phone, face to face or in the exchange of email you are to come from a place of pure and certain success. This is not arrogance and this is not pretending to be something you are not. This is setting your intention for success 10 working days in the future and moving your mind and your actions to that place. This will be by far the toughest part of your 10 Days. Remember 'actions follow thoughts and behaviors align with intention'..if you're living success you're thinking success and if you're thinking success it is in the bag.

10 working days of working from your end result: SUCCESS.

4 - Celebrate Every Chance You Get

Most of us are mesmerized by rejection (that's because it allows us evidence for the validity of our negative thinking). Give it up.

Celebrate every success large and small (especially small if you're just starting in this great business of sales). Celebrating all your successes trains the mind to allow success. Many folks fail in sales because they train their mind to look for evidence of failure.

With more failure there is greater resistance to selling and with resistance you'll talk yourself or worse work yourself right out of the greatest job on earth. For 10 working days celebrate every success that comes your way. Revel in the emotion of success, brag to your friends, send off emails to your coaches, and let yourself feel what it feels like to win.

Tip

It is important to do this for 10 working days, then adjust intentions.

10 days in enough to set a pattern, learn new behaviors without overwhelming yourself. Keep it fun, celebrate the success and find a partner to work with. We find in our coaching sessions that our clients do much better when they have a buddy.

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Money Mindset is the key to Financial Success?

2009-02-01T03:31:00.000-08:00

Executive summarize by Keith Londrie

Clear, precise, true belief about money will establish your wealth limit higher and higher. What were you taught about money as you were growing up? Something like "money doesn't grow on trees", or "money is the root of all evil", or maybe "all rich people are greedy"?

It was originally stated as "the love of money is the root of all evil". You can help people with money. You can stimulate the economy with money. Even the most kind-hearted spiritual person, who says they don't need money, can do more to make the world a better place with money than without money.
We all know that money is not static, money is a flow, coming and going out. Some of us have more out than in, some just enough money flow in and just enough money flow out. If we are decided to keep the money blocked, the flow is poor. If the money getting out is more important than the money getting in, we're blocked too. We must find the way to saving some money too, but this fact mustn't impede the money flow working in a significant way.

Feng Shui Tips to Attract Wealth

2008-11-22T13:52:00.000-08:00

by Kathleen Klein

As in matters of the heart, in feng shui, there are many shades of gray. It is possible that your desire for career, wealth, and fame overlap. On a bagua map, although the three cover distinct areas, your interpretation of feng shui and how it fits into your life will determine the specific “rules,” so to speak, that will work best for you.

1. For monetary wealth, you will likely want to focus on your southeast corner. The chi in this area is especially strong for building fortunes. According to Kirsten M. Lagatree in Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home to Change Your Life, it is commonly thought that “much of China’s trade occurred in southeastern coastal cities.”

2. Get some goldfish. Next time you’re in a Chinese restaurant, see if they have an aquarium as you walk in the door. Fish are believed to bring prosperity to a business. Keep your fish in quantities of three, preferably a total of nine. Keep them clean and happy and you may find that money seems to come to you when you least expect it. A koi pond in the SE corner of your garden will also contribute to the abundance in your life.

3. Keep a bamboo plant near your front door. Bamboo is a symbol of good luck. When you have bamboo near the entrance of your home, you will attract goodness within, part of that goodness being financial security. If you have a bamboo plant at work, the wealth it brings could be a raise or promotion.

4. Your wealth corner, or SE corner, is located between the wood element of the east and fire element of the south on the bagua map. For this reason, you must be careful about what type of cure you use when seeking an increase in wealth. For example, three pennies are frequently used to attract wealth, but in the SE, since they are metal, they could have an adverse effect.

5. Let there be light. Not an original thought, but fitting. A relaxing glow in your SE corner could be the right feng shui to lead abundance into your life. Overhead lighting in many instances can be overpowering (literally). Subtle (but substantial) can be the key to getting what you desire.

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The Ten Secrets to Attracting Money

2008-11-09T23:49:00.001-08:00

Are there really secrets to attracting and saving money that most people don't know? Probably not. When you get right down to it, most money management concepts are centuries old. But, sometimes it's worth our while to refresh our memory of what we already know to be true. So with that in mind, here are the ten secrets to attracting money.

Allergic to money. Some people act as if they're allergic to money. They wouldn't tell you that, but just look at how they act. No sooner do they get a raise or promotion than they find something to buy that will consume the extra income. The final car payment is a signal that the car is no longer any good and it's time to start shopping for a new one. Any inheritance or windfall will quickly disappear. No, they don't start sneezing or break out in rashes, but you can bet that they won't be around money too long.
The Devil made me do it. Who makes your buying decisions? If you ask some people why they bought a new TV or car, they'll tell you that when they saw the ad they just couldn't help themselves. Or perhaps that 'everyone else drives a Super Speedbump'. What they're really saying is that they don't have control over their credit cards. They lack the ability to decide NOT to buy an item. You receive hundreds of urgent 'buy' messages everyday. Are you big enough to say 'no' to all of them?
New and Improved. But is it really? Take your car as an example. What do you need it to do? It's supposed to get you and whatever you're carrying from one place to another safely and reliably. Just because a car is six or even twelve years old doesn't mean it can't accomplish the job. With a reasonable expenses for maintenance, most can. If you're buying because of styling changes, be honest with yourself. You might avoid car payments for a year or two.
You deserve a break today. Most of us work pretty hard. And it doesn't take much to convince us that we're worthy of a special treat. After all, I'm a special person! But, when we give ourselves treats on a regular basis, they no longer satisfy. They become a habit and lose their appeal. A better system is to reward yourself for reaching a goal. When you've saved $1,000, go out and purchase that $200 gadget. You'll be motivated to achieve more and the rewards will be that much sweeter.
Touchdown! We all cheer when our favorite team scores a touchdown. How do we know when to cheer? That's easy. They've crossed the goal line. The team knew where they wanted to go and headed in that direction. There's something almost magical about a goal. Researchers have discovered that your mind will subconsciously work on solving a problem while you do other things. You'll suddenly 'discover' ways to get closer to your objective. You'll also be alerted to actions that would push your goal further away. And, best of all, you don't need to buy goals, they're free!
I'll never be a millionaire. Oh, yeah? If you work a 40 hour week from the time you're twenty years old until you're sixty-five, you need a wage of $10.68 per hour to earn a million dollars in your lifetime. Of course, you'll spend most of that money. But, you need to recognize that you have the potential to accumulate significant savings. Saying that you can't do it is quitting without trying. It's easier, but guarantees defeat. Chances are you'll handle a million dollars during your life. Will you choose to take responsibility and control over that money?
It adds up. You can't do a whole lot in our economy with just one dollar. But, suppose you saved $1 a day. Maybe by bringing a thermos instead of buying your coffee at work. You'd have $260 in one year. After ten years the savings and earning would be worth $4,460. Is the inconvenience of carrying a thermos today worth the price of a down payment on a car in ten years? And just think of what would happen if you could save $2 every day!
Buy now for savings! That's what the salespeople will tell you. If you don't buy it now you'll lose all those savings. But will you really? Think about it. How many things that you buy will be worth more tomorrow than they are today? Not many. So what if the sale ends. You might have to go to another store, but it's unlikely that will be the very last time that the item will be sold at a price that low. Unless you're buying something that truly one of a kind, it's almost always better to wait. By waiting until tomorrow you might find a cheaper source or that you really don't need to buy it at all.
Wall Street Wizards. They come from fancy schools, wear fancy suits and use fast computers. Is it possible for us simple, poor people to manage our money? Sure, you can. The truth is, that wealth is created the same way today as it was a thousand years ago. You either own a business that creates a product or provides a service, own a natural resource or loan your money at interest. If you can follow a recipe or the instructions for a kid's toy, you can learn enough to manage you money. And if something is too complicated to understand, you don't want to invest in it. You won't know when to buy or sell it. And you just might avoid a scam.
A penny saved. Ben Franklin was wrong. A penny saved is NOT a penny earned. Think about it. To spend a penny you need to earn the penny plus your income tax rate plus the sales tax rate. In most states you probably need to earn about 1.3 pennies for every one you spend. And if you borrow the money for the purchase you'll need about 1.5 pennies to spend one. On the other hand, if you save a penny you'll have the penny plus the money it earns. So what's the big deal about a half a cent? Nothing. But, understanding and applying this principle can put you on the path to a significant net worth.

So there you have it. When you add them all together it's surprising how little difference there is between those who accumulate money and those who don't. Given the choice, I'd rather be among those who do save money!

by Gary Foreman

Spells to Attract Money

2008-11-02T08:48:00.000-08:00

by Terence P Ward

Spells to attract money come from many different time periods and cultures, reflecting our shared desire to have more wealth. The number of people that are still not extremely wealthy, however, suggests that these spells do not consistently work. Money spells focus on abundance, and are corrupted by the presence of scarcity. This may be a scarcity in intent, persistence, or even ethics, any of which may render a spell for wealth useless.

Use a Positive Intent to Attract Money

"Money is congealed energy," Joseph Campbell is frequently quoted as saying, "and releasing it releases life's possibilities." Using magic to obtain money utlizes the Law of Attraction (like attracts like), and the Law of Attraction can be dangerous. Worrying about a lack of money will sabotage a wealth spell. Refusing to be generous reinforces a scarcity mindset, leaving the erstwhile spellcaster with less and less money to be jealously guarded. As the ninth commandment states in the King James version of the Bible: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's."

Positive intent can be achieved in several ways:

* Thoughts about good deeds that could be done with greater wealth, such as easing the suffering of a sick relative, rescuing animals from shelters, buying and preserving land, providing good education to the family's children.
* Paying bills with an attitude of gratitude. The mortgage payment represents those good people at the bank who worked to complete the house purchase. The taxes are for all the snow plowing, mail delivery, crime prevention, and municipal services. The utilities are paid as thanks for a warm home with lights and water.
* Consider wealth to be stewarship of money, and identify a good steward to use as a role model. Ethical wealthy people use their congealed energy to improve many lives instead of flaunting it by doing nothing but spending it conspicuously on themselves.

Dwelling on making ends meet, jealousy over those who have more, and similar ideas lead to a scarcity of positive intent.
Persistence Pays off with Money Spells

Magic typically doesn't have an instantaneous effect and must be nurtured for a period of time. Wealth spells often must be repeated, or include steps that must be performed for days or even weeks. An abundance of persistence will increase the amount of money any spell attracts into the caster's life.

* Follow the spell's instructions carefully. No spell should be commenced if the caster is not prepared to complete all the steps.
* Act in accordance with the spell's intent. Casting a spell for wealth is much more likely to succeed for a person that actively seeks more money. Updating the resume, dressing for the desired job, being open to opportunities for new streams of income, and even buying the occasional lottery ticket can help.
* Give to receive! Tip waitresses well, drop coins in the Salvation Army buckets, and buy from kids' lemonade stands. These simple acts prime the pump for wealth.

Positive Ethics Yield Positive Cashflow

Greed and avarice may have worked for captains of industry, but magical money rituals are more successful with a solid ethical base. Spells driven by jealousy and competition won't attract money like those built upon love and a desire to help other people, because they represent a scarcity of ethics.

http://magick-voodoo.suite101.com/article.cfm/spells_to_attract_money

Strategies to Instantly Attract Money into Your Life

2008-10-31T22:55:00.000-07:00

by Roy Posner

Money is a force. It is a concentrated symbol of energy and power in life. Like all forces in the universe, money obeys certain universal laws or principles. By understanding those laws and acting appropriately, we gain a great power over money, enabling wealth and prosperity to come our way.

Most of us are aware of the importance of hard work, determination, and drive to attract money. However, there are also other, more hidden and subtle ways to attract money, wealth, and prosperity. When followed, these methods have a tendency to instantly attract money from seemingly out of nowhere, defying our normal notions of cause and effect, and what is logical and possible. Such sudden and abundant results are indications of the wondrous phenomenon of "life response" at work.

Attention
It is a basic law of life that everything -- whether it is a physical object or a human being -- responds to greater attention. Money is no exception. The best way to give attention to money is to account for it accurately and in a timely manner. Keeping precise and up-to-date accounts of money is a powerful mechanism for suddenly attracting more of it.

-One small business owner balanced eight months of back bank statements in a weekend, and received $5000 from nowhere the next day.

-An individual noticed that an idle machine had become run-down, so he decided to clean and fix it. Within a few days, a new work project suddenly sprung up where this very machine was required. The project, using that machine, became a huge new source of income for the business.

(for more on this topic click here)

Circulation
Like any force, money needs to move freely in order to sustain itself. Holding back on paying, or otherwise hoarding money, prevents the free flow of energy, and thus the free flow of money. For example, we have seen a number of instances where individuals were unwilling to pay the bills they owed until they first received payments of money due to them. Reversing such an attitude can bring a sudden abundant positive response from life.

A programmer, who had little cash on hand, was unwilling to write out checks for current bills due until he received money owed him from his clients. He had been waiting for a number of days for this payment to come in. He then reversed his attitude, and went ahead and wrote out the checks for the money he owed anyway. When he went to pick up his mail ten minutes later, he was surprised to discover the check he had yearned for in his mailbox.

We have also seen instances where individuals were unwilling to spend their current funds for important necessities. Even when they had plenty of cash on hand, they hoarded it, often because of some unfounded fear. When they reversed themselves, life responded in extraordinary ways.

-A web site owner was hesitant to upgrade to a better web site because of the added expense, even though he had the required funds. The web host provider had suggested the better site a number of times in the past. When the web site owner finally overcame his reluctance to spend, he discovered to his surprise that the web host provider had suddenly, the day before begun offering this better, higher-priced sit, at a cost virtually the same as his current site!

-There was a man who was hesitant to spend money on a deserving friend. When he changed his position and did so, he saw that money came back to him in the exact amount he had spent on his friend!
If you give up such attitudes and let money circulate, energy will flow, and life will reward you with good fortune, including the constant flow of money in your direction. This is proof of the subtle principle of "inner-outer correspondence"; i.e. life reflects on the outside your psychological condition inside within yourself. If you make your feelings or attitudes more positive, such as overcoming an unwillingness to pay a bill or the hoarding of money, life on the outside will respond positively to you in kind.

Long-term Debt Owed
Very often those who suffer from money problems have borrowed in the past and have forgotten to repay, even when they had the opportunity to do so.

One individual owed a friend money for over twenty years. An instance after he committed to paying off the old debt, he received news that he had been offered a better place to live, after having lived in the same cramped apartment for over twenty years! In addition, he experienced a sudden surge in his workload, which included higher-paying type work.

We see from this example how very important it is that you pay off old outstanding debts. Not doing so may very well prevent you from ever moving beyond your current situation.

Sums Owed to You
It is also important to collect all money owed to you, including the minutest of sums. If you do so, money will suddenly come to you from all directions.

-An individual understood that one should not neglect collecting even the smallest amount owed to one. He then decided to practice it CONSCIOUSLY, and see for himself what would happen. So he collected even the smallest amounts due to him from others (such as 10 cents and 20 cents!). After he successfully collected on these, in the following few days he received Rs.300,000 ($7,500) for various receipts coming from unexpected sources.

-An individual had exhausted his bank account. He was in desperate straits. He remembered that if you collect every penny still due to you, money can come. He then contacted the sole debt he had on his books, which went back nearly six years! He contacted that person to secure the payment. The next morning he received a most unexpected purchase and payment from another source that instantly resolved his quandary.

Taking Care of Neglected Duties
There are circumstances where money will not come your way until you take care of neglected areas of your life. Once you give those areas the attention they deserve, money or other good fortune can instantaneously come your way.

A payment for new services rendered was anticipated by a software company, but got delayed for various technical reasons. The individual in charge remembered that several older clients had still not sent their payment. He had neglected to stay on top of that matter. Now with the current situation of the new potential client, he felt there was a correlation between the receivables he neglected to keep up on and the new payment that was having technical problems coming in. Thus, he immediately contacted both of the older clients that owed receivables to find out their latest status. Instantly, thereafter (literally within seconds of hanging up on the phone with the older clients) the money for the new client properly cleared and came in.

Cleanliness, Orderliness
Perhaps the simplest and most dramatic way to attract money is to raise your level of physical cleanliness at home or at work. Many individuals and businesses have followed this practice, and seen money suddenly rush in from all sides, often from the most unlikely sources!

-An instructor had not been contacted for new work for weeks, and was in desperate straits. He decided to apply the principle of higher cleanliness. His apartment was normally clean, but he wanted to take cleanliness a step further. So he decided to clean his refrigerator; something he was ordinarily reluctant to do. At the exact moment he finished putting the foodstuffs back into the refrigerator after the cleaning, he heard a message on his answering machine from his training company offering him abundant new work. The response from life was instantaneous to the completion of the cleaning!

-A consultant suggested that before he made any business recommendations to his client that they immediately clean up their showroom and backyard area. Time passed. The next time the consultant visited the company, he learned that there had been an unexpected sudden surge in new orders. This came just after the company implemented the consultant's advice about cleanliness.

We recommend that anyone looking to attract more money take up this strategy immediately. There is no faster way to attract positive good fortune -- including fresh new sources of money -- than by raising the level of cleanliness and orderliness.

(for more on this topic click here)

Wasting, Squandering Funds
One of the best strategies for keeping a sure flow of funds is to avoid wasting money. Those who squander away funds or pay exorbitant amounts for things that can be purchased more cheaply will repel the arrival of more funds. However, if you discover what it is that you waste your money on, and overcome that habit life is likely to quickly respond with instances of good fortune.

Soft Speech
One surprising way to attract money is to control our speech. Speech is an expression of our life energy. Unfortunately, we expend a tremendous amount of nervous energy in our verbal communications; much more than is necessary to convey our thoughts. It turns out that one of the most powerful ways to attract wealth and prosperity is to reduce the volume of one's speech.

A 39-year-old wealthy American businessperson lost all 60 of his employees, and was prepared to file bankruptcy. At a relative's suggestion, he and his wife practiced the psychological and spiritual disciplines of greater attention to things, higher levels of cleanliness, bringing about greater higher harmony amongst the individuals, and soft speech. Two years later, he was in a financial position to retire for life.
When we follow the method of soft speech, or when we reduce the quantity of the words we express in our speech, we bring our own life energies under control, which create the condition for great fortune to come our way.

(for more on this and related topic click here)

Changing an Attitude
A feeling or attitude is also an expression of life energy. Positive attitudes attract energy and money; negative attitudes do the opposite. If you overcome a negative attitude -- such as an unwillingness or reluctance to do something, or the harboring of bad will towards another -- new, fresh energies are released, which subtly move out into the world, returning as positive good fortune, including attraction of money.

-The president of a software company was fretting about a contract he was negotiating with a client. He felt he was being pushed too hard, which raised negative feelings in him toward certain individuals at the client company. At one point, he realized that having this attitude was not helpful, so he immediately tried to block out these thoughts and feelings. Moments later, he received a check in the mail from another client for a large sum of money. It turned out to be a payment for invoice that was six months overdue; the longest overdue the company ever had.

-A man changed his attitude about working weekends at a computer store. During his employment at the store, he had been at the low end of sales amongst the dozen or two salesperson working at the mini-chain. After thinking about the situation, he changed his attitude, as he saw the benefit of working on weekends. When he opened the store that Saturday, a man walked in and made a huge purchase from the salesperson, enabling him to establish the highest one-month sales of anyone in the history of the four-store franchise. As a result, he also had the highest one-month income he ever had in his life.

(for more on this topic click here)

Dependence on Others
We always hold the power to determine our own destiny. Likewise, the real power to attract money comes from our own self-reliance, determination, and will; not from any dependence on another's help and support. The power to attract money comes from the psychological viewpoint that I am the ultimate determinant of my fate. If this is the case, then consider if you are dependent on others for funds, or similar forms of help, and change your position from one of dependence to self-dependency. Wealth and prosperity will move in your direction.

Generosity
Whenever you shift your perspective from yourself to others, energy increases, and conditions for success reveal themselves in the form of sudden and abundant positive life responses. This includes a movement on your part away from stinginess and tightfistedness, and towards generosity. Even the smallest movement in that direction can attract sudden good fortune coming your way, including the attraction of more money.

A somewhat tightfisted man decided to pay for the trip of his friend, who was in a little bit of financial straits. It was something he would not ordinarily do. The next day he received an unexpected payment for an invoice that he did not expect to arrive for quite a while.

(In this event, he perceived the correlation between the overcoming of his tightness and the corresponding positive response from life. In addition, he also noted the trend that the amount he would generously give another was almost precisely equal to the amount that suddenly came back to him thereafter!)

Goodwill and Generosity Too -- A related way to attract sudden good fortune is to feel goodwill and gratitude towards others. One individual inwardly sent goodwill and gratitude to various clients and friends. Soon thereafter, there was an avalanche of good news from them in terms of sales, money, and other forms of good fortune.

(for more on this and related topics click here)

Focusing on, Giving Attention to the Work at Hand
We have often seen that if you focus yourself on the work at hand, i.e. what life is presenting you, rather than on the work that you would like to be doing, additional work, including fresh sources of money will fly in your direction.

An instructor taught a wide variety of software applications in his classes. One day he decided to shift his attitude from indifference to one of real concern and interest in that day's database class. Soon into the session, he noticed that the class was very upbeat and vibrant, as students were fully engaged in all manner of discussions. Then after the class, he heard from a client whom he had not heard from in years. The client was interested in having him work on a database program, which involved the very same topic area as the day's class. The new work was potentially very lucrative.

(for more on this and related topics click here)

Follow the Process of Accomplishment to Rise to Higher Level in Life
A great way to attract more money is by developing a plan for improvement in your life. Decide what it is that you really want to achieve, organize the details of your vision, and carry it out with a positive attitude, and with great determination, commitment, and effort. If you follow this process, you are sure to reach your goal; i.e. success, wealth, and prosperity will come your way. Sometimes life will respond and bring you fast results even before you have made an effort. The mere decision to act can attract a response from life.

Following this process is an example of the self-conceptive power of Mind to lead our lives, rather than being led by the whims of Nature. To follow this self-directed method of improvement is to follow the fundamental process of growth and accomplishment in life. If having more money, wealth and prosperity is your goal, then following this process from beginning to end will be a full-proof method for achieving that aim.

(for more on this topic click here)

The Ultimate Solution: Using Spirit
The single most powerful way to attract more money in your life is to use the power of Spirit. If, for example, you open yourself to the Higher Power before commencing an important activity, substantial results -- including more wealth and prosperity -- are likely to quickly and abundantly come your way. Often the results are simply overwhelming!

A woman, who was developing a school for children, was considering the price she was willing to pay her friend to do the work. After a discussion, she secured the somewhat lower price that she had hoped for. She then paid that amount so the work could begin. However, shortly thereafter, she reconsidered, and decided to "offer" the entire situation to the Higher Power. A very short time later, the engineer -- out of gratitude for being able to build a school for children -- volunteered to return all of the money he charged!
If you open to the higher spiritual power before starting an event, or when in the midst of a situation, life will respond dramatically in kind. If you also overcome a wanting attitude, life can respond overwhelmingly.

(for more on this topic click here)

In summary, we can say that anything that we do that increases energy, attracts money; while anything that we do that depletes or squanders energy blocks money from coming our way.
Giving physical objects, systems, and people more attention, circulating money instead of squandering it, paying off current and old debts instead of ignoring them, focusing on the work at hand instead of the work you want to do, applying higher levels of cleanliness and orderliness in your home or work, changing a negative attitude towards others or towards life, using soft and reduced speech, being self-reliant and not depending on others for monetary help, moving towards generosity, goodness, and gratitude, and opening to spirit to consecrate an event are all powerful strategies for releasing energy, and attracting abundant money from life.

http://www.gurusoftware.com/gurunet/Personal/Topics/Money.htm

Attracting Money with Affirmations

2008-10-30T10:03:00.000-07:00

By Jeff Staniforth

Attracting money? Like with a magnet? Yes. We attract things to us based on what we believe ourselves to be. If we believe that money is evil then we'll never have much. If we believe that being successful requires that someone else be unsuccessful, then we won't be successful.

In this article Jeff is going to show us how to build on what we learned in the previous two articles to use out positive, daily affirmations to attract more good things, in this case it's money, into our lives.

So you desire to gain material things in life? Affirmations are usually effective in this respect - maybe even more so than with other desires because material desires often come with stronger emotional attachments.

You'll recall that in my previous article, "Why Do Some Affirmations *Work* - and Others Don't?" I emphasized that affirmations that are emotionally charged are the ones most likely to work. So when you are emotionally connected to your desire for material things, you can use the power of affirmations to see how quickly your need is manifested!

Power Affirmations for Attracting Money. If your desire is to have an abundance of money to fill your needs, practice this affirmation: "I always have an abundance of money to meet all my needs."

Repeat it several times, then stop affirming. Be silent while knowing, visualizing, and feeling how it is to already have the amount of money you desire. Feel as though it has already happened, and that all your needs are more than satisfied. While in this state, hold yourself open to all the ways and means by which you will have money flow into your life to meet your every need.

Following are other power affirmations for abundant supply. Choose the affirmations that feel appropriate to you --those that resonate with you, or strike an emotional chord.

It is important that the words feel comfortable to you and are in line with who you are. Feel free to create one for your specific need by substituting other words that have special meaning to you:

Affirmations of Abundant Supply:

* I am now open to receive.
* Life is easy, I have an abundance of whatever I need.
* I now have surplus, all my needs are being met.
* I have unlimited abundance.
* I now give and receive freely.
* This is a rich universe and there is plenty for all of us.
* I now live in a rich and loving universe.
* Money comes to me easily and effortlessly.
* I am always supplied with whatever I need.
* I move forward with an expectancy of my greatest good.
* I look for and receive a bountiful supply.
* My greatest good is coming to me NOW.

The last affirmation was a turning point for me personally.

I've since created about 20 variations of this affirmation, and created a screen saver I call "My Ideal Relationship With Money". And, for a limited time only, I am giving this "Invest in your future" screen saver away for Free when you purchase the Sculptor 3 program. For details, click here.

TIP: How to Maintain the Emotional Charge of Your Affirmations

Most people who practice affirmations experience the challenge of maintaining the emotional charge of their affirmations. That's because although the power of thought is amazingly strong, it remains strong for a short period of time. Its quality changes and tends to diminish with each repetition.

For example: Suppose you recite an affirmation such as: "All my needs are met instantaneously." The affirmation produces a feeling, and you understand and connect with the affirmation at a certain level. But when you continue repeating the affirmation, "All my needs are met instantaneously," again and again, the thought seldom maintains the same level of emotion previously achieved.

With each repetition, you tend to lose the mental picture of what the words mean, and they start to have less meaning.

Affirmations that are meaningless fail to reach deep enough to touch the limitless powers of your subconscious mind.

To prevent this from happening, I've developed the software program called Sculptor 3, which combines affirmations with 7 of the best results-amplifying technologies that are tested and proven to increase the power and speed of manifestation. Discover how to tap into the power of computerization to take the power of your affirmations to the highest level.

Join the millions of People Around the World Who Have Discovered the Power of Affirmations. Visit Jeff's site for your FREE subscription of "Affirmations For The Mind" Tips and Techniques Newsletter, the premier publication on self-improvement & personal growth. Each issue contains powerful sample affirmations that have been tested and proven to get results.

10 Ways to Save Time- Which Can Help You Save and Make Money

2008-10-29T10:59:00.000-07:00

There are never enough hours in the day, or at least that’s how the saying goes. I don’t know about you, but the older I get, it really does seem like time goes by faster as well. It seems like summer just started, and here we are at the beginning of fall.

The sad fact of the matter is, if we want more time in our day to devote to saving money by comparison shopping, looking for great deals, or even better, making more money, we have to get things done in a more efficient manner as well as eliminate some of the “time sucks” from our lives. I have been trying hard lately to free up more time to spend money wisely, make more money, and spend with my family. By getting things done, so to speak, in a timely fashion, i no longer have to sacrifice my family time, or resort to convenience shopping or purchases at the last minute. This applies to both work and chores or activities around the house, as well.

Here are some ways to free up more time out of your day as well as work more efficiently and effectively. Time is money, after all!

Create More Time

1. Turn off the television- I really used to enjoy “vegging out” in front of the TV at night after the kids go to bed. After all, everyone needs a little down time, right? Lately though, I have been doing writing for this blog, reading, and other activities.

2. Get your news on the go- I am a big fan of the newspaper, I have been a daily reader since i was a teenager and feel strange if I do not skim the whole paper on a daily basis. Do I learn anything new? Probably nothing I do not hear on the radio or read elsewhere on the internet. In fact, most of the news is probably
“yesterday’s news” by the time I read it in the paper. Lately, I have been skimmimg certain areas of the paper (mostly local info., and the money section, of course) and saving a little time by not reading the whole paper every day.

3. Listen to audio books/podcasts- Recently, due to receiving an MP3 player as a gift, I have begun to download podcasts to read while I am driving, waiting, or sometimes even while working. I have even experimented with a few audiobooks, and although the results are mixed as far as i am concerned.

4. Bring your lunch to work- Instead of taking an hour every day to go out to lunch, save time and money by bribnging your luch to work. It’s pretty east to eat in 15 to 20 minutes at your desk, and you can run errands or do other things (inxcluding work) with the remainder of your hour.

Manage your time more effectively

5. Time yourself- Learn to do things more efficiently. Time yourself, and give yourself “deadlines” to complete tasks. By setting time based goals, you will get things done quicker and more efficiently.

6. Create lists- While I am not a strict follower of the Getting Things Done system, a simple “To-Do List” created on your computer, a piece of paper, or a small notebook can help you keep track of things that need to be done, so you are not scrambling later.

7. Avoid time wasters- Everyone has there own “time wasters”, or things we do instead of doing something productive. Whether it is that morning lap around the office to chit chat with everyone at work, or things you do at home which have become a habit but aren’t really accomplishing anything, try to identify and eliminate them and get more meaningful things done. Time wasters can be people too. It could be a co-worker or even a neighbor. This doesn’t mean you have to be rude and short with them, just realize that they could be cutting in to time you could be doing other things.

8. Do the unpleasant or difficult tasks first- Get the one task you keep putting off on a daily basis or the most important task done first, and follow up with the easier ones after. This keeps you from doing a lot of inconsequential tasks that probably could be put off first, and having to steal time from elsewhere to get the important things done later.

9. Fight procrastination- When you find yourself drifting off or getting distracted, or you are procrastinating starting something, fight it and get started. The sooner you can get something started and eventually finished, the more free time you will end up having.

10. Schedule your day- While I am not super strict with my daily schedule, as my career progresses and I find my free time that is not consumed by meetings becoming less and less, I find scheduling my own time allows me to accomplish things in a timely fashion, allowing me more time when a “crisis” needs my attention.

http://www.thinkyourwaytowealth.com/

MAKING MONEY FROM BLOGS

2008-10-25T18:24:00.000-07:00

by Admin

A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that 'publishes' or features articles (which are called 'blog posts', 'posts', or 'entries'), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

· Straight texts
· Photographs or images (photoblog)
· Video (videoblog)
· Audio files (audioblog)
· Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

· Online journal or a web diary
· Content managament system
· Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

· Post date -the date and time of the blog entry

· Category - the category that the blog belongs to

· Title - the title of the blog

· Main body - the main content of the blog

· RSS and trackback - links the blog back from other sites

· Comments - commentaries that are added by readers

· Permalinks - the URL of the full article

· Other optional items - calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the 'stats' (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:

1. Political blog - on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).

2. Personal blog - also known as online diary that may include an individual's day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

3. Topical blog - with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.

4. Health blog - on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

5. Literary blog - also known as litblog.

6. Travel blog - with focus on a traveler's stories on a particular journey.

7. Research blog - on academic issues such as research notes.

8. Legal blog - on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as 'blawgs'.

9. Media blog - focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

10. Religious blog - on religious topics

11. Educational blog - on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

12. Collaborative or collective blog - a specific topic written by a group of people.

13. Directory blog - contains a collection of numerous web sites.

14. Business blog - used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

15. Personification blog - focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

16. Spam blogs - used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as 'splogs'.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term "blogging" refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term "blogger" refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

· Personal bloggers - people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.

· Business bloggers - people who focus on promoting products and services.

· Organizational bloggers - people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.

· Professional bloggers - people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

· Advertising programs
· RSS advertising
· Sponsorship
· Affiliate Programs
· Digital assets
· Blog network writing gigs
· Business blog writing gigs
· Non blogging writing gigs
· Donations
· Flipping blogs
· Merchandising
· Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. Be an 'expert'. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the "go-to" blogger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

The Secret to Money: Gratitude and Thankfulness

2008-10-25T09:19:00.000-07:00

by Nina

Recently, I’ve been jazzed about The Secret. I suspect a lot of you are saying, “Oh, jeez!” But hear me out. I haven’t read the book or seen the movie but I downloaded the audio version from iTunes about a month ago and it has made my morning run more enjoyable. I’m training for a half marathon in October, so it feels like I’m running a lot these days and the ideas that make up The Secret have been motivating me along the way. Some people are spurred on by music. As Elizabeth noted in her roundup below, I gravitate to podcasts and audiobooks on iTunes U.

The Secret isn’t really a secret. It’s an anecdotal book blending self-help, pop psychology and motivational theory. The secret is “The Law of Attraction” and the author and her “experts” believe that what we think creates what we feel. If our feelings are positive, then positive energy and experiences flow back to us. Like attracts like. We are our thoughts.

There certainly are plenty of skeptics. At the other extreme, there are die-hard devotees. I’m somewhere in the middle. I regard the principles metaphorically, not literally… much in the same way that I’d choose to appreciate the Bible or other sacred texts. Does it really matter if it’s nothing more than pseudo-scientific twaddle? Can’t I glean a few truths about positive thinking and goal setting and call it a day. For me personally, I find this to be motivating. I find it inspiring. And listening to it makes six miles feel like three. I’m hoping in another month it will make 13 miles feel like 6.

How does this apply to money? The Secret to Money isn’t really any different than Napoleon Hill’s Think & Grow Rich where he explains how riches are the offspring of thought. But is wealth really a mindset as so many people claim?

I believe most things begin with changing your thinking. Lana recently wrote an excellent series at Queercents about building wealth consciousness from within… it’s worth reading (purchase the eBook here) especially if you struggle with negative thought patterns when it comes to money.

I consider myself a happy and positive person, but I’d probably never use the word grateful to describe me. To be honest, I never really understood the concept of gratitude and thankfulness until I started listening to The Secret. What’s the magic with these concepts? And what’s the difference between the two?

“Gratefulness is full awareness; thankfulness is thoughtfulness.”

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk and the person behind Gratefulness.org, explains the difference in this column on Beliefnet:

Do you remember a night when you stood outdoors looking up at the stars, countless in the high, silent dome of the sky, and saw them as if for the first time? What happened?

Eugene O’Neill described his experience this way: “For a moment I lost myself–actually lost my life. I was set free! I dissolved in the…high dim-starred sky! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life…to Life itself! To God, if you want to put it that way.” [You may have good reasons for not putting it that way, for not using the G-word, but in any case you have caught a glimpse of “something greater” than your limited self.] “For a second you see–and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning!”

In the second that follows, you may hear your heart calling out, “Thank you, thank you!” – “to God, if you want to put it that way,” or to no one in particular. But let us steady our focus on the second of gratefulness before thankfulness. Why do I call that wild joy of belonging “gratefulness?” Because it is our full appreciation of something altogether undeserved, utterly gratuitous–life, existence, ultimate belonging–and this is the literal meaning of grate-full-ness. In a moment of gratefulness, you do not discriminate. You fully accept the whole of this given universe, as you are fully one with the whole.

In the very next moment, when the fullness of gratitude overflows into thanksgiving, the oneness you were experiencing breaks up. Now you are beginning to think in terms of giver, gift, and receiver. Gratefulness turns into thankfulness. This is a different fullness. A moment ago you were fully aware; now you are thoughtful. Gratefulness is full awareness; thankfulness is thoughtfulness.

I remember as a born-again, Christ-like teenager, I never quite understood the concept of prayer. Prayer would have made a lot more sense if someone had explained it to me in terms of gratitude and thankfulness. In The Secret, Rhonda Byrne writes:

“With all that I have read and all that I have experienced in my own life using The Secret, the power of gratitude stands above everything else. If you do only one thing with the knowledge of The Secret, use gratitude until it becomes your way of life.”

With money, it begins with being content with what we have instead of focusing on what we don’t have. Leo Babauta at ZenHabits writes:

The reason we get into financial trouble, oftentimes, is that we buy more than we can afford. And the root of that buying is buying things we want instead of only things we need, and the root of that is not being content with what we already have.

Finding contentment with the stuff you have and with a simpler life can lead to buying less, to buying things we need instead of want, and to only spending what we can afford. I know this first-hand, as uncontrolled spending led to debt for me, and contentedness led to me getting out of debt.

Gratitude, thankfulness and contentment are the foundation for a rich life and I believe, when coupled with sound financial decisions; we realize wealth. What do you think?

The Secret to Making Lots of Money

2008-10-25T09:13:00.000-07:00

Why does one person succeed wildly while another equally capable (and seemingly deserving) person does not? Some say the difference maker is luck. They are probably right. But it goes deeper than that.

There are two kinds of good luck. One kind of luck wins lotteries. I don’t pay much attention to that kind. That luck is too unpredictable, too undependable, and much too rare.

I like the kind of luck that is predictable and can be structured so that it is an expected component of daily life. This kind of luck I call support of Nature and it is a necessary ingredient to becoming successful and generating wealth.

To understand how to gain this support, we first must be clear on what we have control over and what we do not.

We have control over our actions.

We do not have control over the fruits of our actions. The fruits of an action are Nature’s domain, not ours.

It is vital to understand this so we know where and how to put our attention, and where not to.

Here is why it is relevant.

Everyone wants money. That’s a given. Money, however, is a fruit of an action. There are lots of possible fruits of an action and money happens to be just one of them. Other fruits may be materiel, people, circumstances, opportunities, recognition, etc. We have no control over what fruits or how much fruit comes from an action. That is Nature’s domain. We only have control over our action.

With this in mind, it then makes sense to perform action that gets Nature to shower us with fruit. In other words, we have to perform action that attracts Nature as an ally. When our activity is in harmony with Nature’s purpose, we gain her invaluable support and anything can be achieved. But it cuts both ways. When we irritate Mother Nature, in other words when we violate her laws, we get punished. Nature is perfectly, impartially just – generous when we’re good and harsh when we are not.

For example, if we eat, drink, and inhale junk, poison, and empty calories, Nature doesn’t mess around. We will first get dull and then we get increasingly sick until hopefully we mend our ways.

Monitoring the support we get from Nature is a wonderful way of gauging the correctness of our course of action.

Now here is the problem with focusing on money.

When we focus on money, no matter how much we think we need it or want it, it is an empty focus. We are focusing on a fruit we have no control over. In fact, focusing intently on money (or any fruit) is a retarding focus because it drains us of our power. When our focus is on the fruits, Nature isn’t impressed, isn’t amused, and isn’t inspired to be generous. As a result, any fruit that comes will be pedestrian and/or incomplete.

If, however, we want the whole package, it is vastly more intelligent to focus on our activity exclusively. If fruits of our action show up then we know we are on the right path. That is when we know our activity is in tune with Nature. If no support of Nature comes, we know we need to make a course correction.

Here is what impresses Nature – enthusiasm, love, giving, developing our unique gifts and qualities, doing stuff that promotes health, clarity, and creativity. Nature has endowed each of us with a marvelous array of talents. She is delighted when we use them and share them with others. And when we do she rejoices and supports our activity.

The key to knowing if we are utilizing her gifts is when we love something deeply. Then an amazingly cool thing happens. When we love something, Nature rewards us with a deeper insight. We begin to appreciate subtler values of that which we love and because subtle is more powerful, we begin to see ways to harness that subtle. The result is we do less and accomplish more. And if we accomplish more, we make more money.

Of course, there are some folks who have painted themselves in a corner due to bad choices and other violations of Natural Law. Those folks have obviously got to let the paint dry before they can venture forth with complete freedom. But what hastens the drying process is focusing on that which pleases Nature. And what pleases Nature is developing and sharing the gifts/talents/good qualities she endowed us with.

Simply put, when we are doing things we love, we are true to ourselves and are in harmony with Nature. Nature will reward and encourage that direction with fruit. It is a win-win-win if there ever was one.

http://lazyway.blogs.com/lazy_way/2006/07/the_secret_to_m.html

The Secret of Warren Buffet : Manage your Emotions !

2008-10-25T09:04:00.000-07:00

by Michel de Guilhermier

Buffett has said that his great success comes not because he has a talent for interpreting financial statements or identifying competitive advantages, nor because he can meet with management teams.

Rather, he claims the key to turning $10,000 into $50 billion, as he has done in
his investment career, has been managing his emotions !!

I have many times insisted on this blog that stock market investing has little to do with analytical skills but lots to do with guts !

http://micheldeguilhermier.typepad.com/mdegblog/2008/05/the-secret-of-w.html

The Secret - Revealed

2008-10-23T08:44:00.001-07:00

By Scott Davis

If you haven't heard of The Secret, you're missing out. It's something to be shared. Something to be experienced. Something to be studied. Something to change the world.

It's magic and I've seen it work!

When Oprah did a show on The Secret this February, it was one of her most popular episodes ever. It got so much attention that she did it again a week later. I had already seen the film and passed it on to friends. A friend who has YET to learn about it (ya hear me, Cat?).

But I figured if it's good enough for Oprah, it's good enough for my newscast. My dear psychic friend Sunny Johnston actually teaches classes on The Secret so I asked if we could bring a camera. Sunny's never been a shy creature, so there we were in her class full of people who are on the verge of changing their lives forever. Two students really stood out, so I asked them for interviews.

All of this is in the story we aired - You can see it here. Suffice to say, though, that those two people interviewed had used The Secret and made their deepest wish come true.

What is The Secret? It's the law of attraction. As Sunny put it: "Your thoughts and your feelings create your reality." BELIEVE in what you want and it will happen. But of course it's not enough to just say the words. You have to believe it.

My wife is a big skeptic. Well, she USED to be a skeptic. We had many conversations on how The Secret works and one night she said, "Ok. Tomorrow I'm going to have fun at the nursing conference and someone's going to give me a free Diet Coke." Start simple, right? So the next day came and went. We were chatting before bed and she commented that she did indeed have fun at the conference with her friend, but she didn't get the drink. Well no sooner were those words out of her mouth when her eyes bulged out, her jaw dropped and she sat straight up. "WAIT!" she nearly screamed. "When we were at lunch at Chili's, the waiter didn't charge us for our drinks!"

I smiled sweetly and said, "Told you so." Then she continued. "Ok, tomorrow....... someone's going to give me a free book!" Wanna guess what happened the next day? She called me at work to say that not only had a friend brought her a book at work, but another friend brought her three!

She's still in awe and I've told her not to abuse the power.

It's like Sunny says: "It can change the world. Really, I believe that. "If mainstream USA starts learning how powerful their thoughts are- even if it's a possibility- even if it's just one little thing, that cup of coffee from a neighbor or whatever, everything will change from that point on."

Now I know there are people who won't believe The Secret can work like that. That's okay. People who say "it's not that easy." That's okay too. Again I turn to Sunny for her simply perfect way of answering spiritual questions. In this case, Sunny says you're right. "Because if you believe that way, you're right. If you believe that it's hard, it is. If you believe it's going to be a challenge, it will be. If you believe that MAYBE it MIGHT work then you'll start to see changes. So how do you make it happen? You believe it!"

She's right. My wife was right. You are right. Your thoughts become reality.

My thoughts become blogs! Respond here and let others know how it works for you.

How to Eliminate the Possibility of Failure and Make All the Money You Want

2008-09-14T05:06:00.000-07:00

by Tony Papajohn

Do you know the surest way to eliminate the possibility of failure?

It’s not:

Careful planning.
Attention to detail.
Minimizing risk.
Maximizing strengths.

Of course, these are important.

And they go a long way towards turning any project into success and money.

However, here are two steps that make the previous list work:

Build confidence.
Neutralize anything that might cause you to doubt yourself.

Taken together, foresight and an empowered mind will virtually reduce the probability of failure to zero.

Why?

You are ready for anything, expected or otherwise.
You will execute your plans with maximum poise, flair, and sense of purpose.

On the other hand, suppose you:

Plan carefully.
Pay attention to the necessary details.
Minimize risk.
Maximize your strengths.

These steps:

Are a great start.
Show a lot of foresight.

However, what happens if you:

Are struggling with self-doubt?
Second-guessing yourself?
Tentative in executing your plan?

Then all your careful preparation might turn out for naught even though it:

Minimizes your chances of failure.
Maximizes your chances of success.

In a sense, even your most careful plans are only as good as your mental and emotional wherewithal about carrying then out.

So here is how to use your careful planning to maximum advantage.

Suppose you have maximized your chances of success in a given money-making project. This project can be as grand as making $1,000,000 in a year or bite-size as making your next trade a successful one.

Let’s say you:

Do the necessary homework.
Devise a good plan.
See to any and all necessary details.
Have a good idea of what might go wrong and how you will respond.
Arrange your activities so that you can take advantage of your greatest strengths.

Here’s what to do:

Take a deep breath.
Elevate your gaze as if you are looking at an imaginary point just above a distant horizon.
Call to mind a time when you felt a great sense of poise and radiant confidence.
Let your imagination form a picture of this wonderful experience.
See this scene as if through your own eyes.
Make this image bright and colorful.
Make the details clear and crisp.
See the image get larger as if you moved from the back row of a movie theater to the front row.
Set the image in motion as if seeing a movie.
Let your imagination fill in the sounds, sensations, thoughts, and feelings that you would expect if the event was happening in real time.
Feel that wonderful sense of confidence that you felt in that moment.

Even if this powerful memory and the confidence it generates has nothing to do with money, you can:

Apply this confidence to your money-making activity.
Mentally practice executing your plan with that same confidence.

Now see yourself dealing with expected and unexpected challenges without a trace of doubt, apprehension, or misgiving.

Sense how this great faith in yourself virtually assures a successful outcome and a big payday.

Therefore, although you can do many things to make success as certain as possible, the most important thing you can do is:

Build confidence.
Neutralize anything that might cause you to doubt yourself.

It’s the surest way to:

Eliminate the possibility of failure.
Make all the money you want.

Ayn Rand on money

2008-07-20T05:27:00.000-07:00

From ATLAS SHRUGGED:

Rearden heard Bertram Scudder, outside the group, say to a girl who made some sound of indignation, "Don't let him disturb you. You know, money is the root of all evil—and he's the typical product of money."

Rearden did not think that Francisco could have heard it, but he saw Francisco turning to them with a gravely courteous smile.

"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Aconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

"When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor— your claim upon the energy of the men who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money. Is this what you consider evil?

"Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions—and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

"But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is MADE—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

"To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except by the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss—the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery—that you must offer them values, not wounds—that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of GOODS. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best your money can find. And when men live by trade—with reason, not force, as their final arbiter—it is the best product that wins, the best performance, then man of best judgment and highest ability—and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?

"But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality—the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.

"Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants; money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth—the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money? Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve that mind that cannot match it. Is this the reason why you call it evil?

"Money is your means of survival. The verdict which you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?

"Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit. Is this the root of your hatred of money?

"Or did you say it's the LOVE of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is the loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money—and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it."

"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

"But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride, or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich—will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt—and of his life, as he deserves.

"Then you will see the rise of the double standard—the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money—the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law—men who use force to seize the wealth of DISARMED victims—then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.

"Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it becomes, marked: 'Account overdrawn.'

"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are.

"You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it's crumbling around you, while your damning its life-blood—money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men's history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves—slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody's mind and left unimproved for centuries. So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer. Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers—as industrialists.

"To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a COUNTRY OF MONEY—and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man's mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being—the self-made man—the American industrialist.

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to MAKE money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity—to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted, or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.

"Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters' continents. Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide-as, I think, he will.

"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns—or dollars. Take your choice—there is no other—and your time is running out."

Seven Ways to Attract More Money

2008-06-22T09:19:00.000-07:00

by Dr. Joe Vitale
www.MrFire.com

Want to attract more money?

Wondering why you haven't attracted it when you've done everything you thought you needed to do?

What really works when it comes to attracting more money, anyway?

I've been studying the Law of Attraction for more than three decades. I've written several books about it, including The Attractor Factor and The Key. That's why I ended up in the movie The Secret, and then on Larry King and Donny Deutsch's televison shows, among others. I know how the Law of Attraction works, and I know why so many people don't clearly understand it.

When it comes to the Law of Attraction, most people want to learn how to use it to attract more money first. After that, they'll wonder how to attract romance, cars, homes, happiness, and everything else. But money is the starting place for most people.

So, how do you attract more money?

When it comes to attracting anything -- and money in particular -- there are seven ways to do it right. Here they are:

Give Money Away

It sounds counter-intuitive but the more you give, the more you will receive (unless you block the receiving, which ties into the next step). Give openly and freely to wherever you received spiritual nourishment. Give on a regular basis, too. The rule of thumb is to give 10% of whatever you receive, but it's also smart to give more when you feel inspired to do so.
Remember, give to the person, place, or group that has kept your spirit alive. Just ask "Where was I most inspired this past week?" and give to that source. And ask the question daily or weekly as the source will often change.
Here's an inside tip: When most people give money, they do it with a tight fist. They don't give much. Why not? Because they're afraid. They're holding on. Well, the energy of fear will attract more things to fear. Instead, give money with an open heart and an expectation of return. Give in love.
Get Clear

Most people push money away with their hidden limiting beliefs, such as "money is bad" or "rich people are evil." Those are beliefs, not facts. Get clear of them and money will come to you (as long as you also do the next step).
Getting clear is truly "The Missing Secret" to making the Law of Attraction work for you all the time. After all, it isn't your conscious intentions that are being manifested in your life, it is your un-conscious counter-intentions.
For example, when you set a goal on New Year's day to stop smoking or date more, what happened the next week? You gave up your conscious goal for your un-conscious belief that you couldn't do it. You weren't in alignment with your intention. You werent' "clear."
Most likely in your unconscious mind you have limiting beliefs about money, such as -
a.. "Money is evil."
b.. "Money will attract problems."
c.. "Money will make me a selfish person."
d.. "Wanting money is greedy."
e.. "Rich people are snobs."

If you have one or more of those limiting beliefs within you, do you really think you'll attract any money? In truth, you'll attract NOT having money.
Why? Because your unconscious counter-intention ("Money is bad") will veto your conscious intention ("I now attract more money into my life").
Is it any wonder some people say the movie The Secret or the Law of Attraction doesn't work? Obviously, once you clear those hidden blocks/beliefs to your success, your success has nothing in the way of happening. The roadblocks are gone.
I talk about ways to get clear in my new audioprogram, "The Missing Secret." One thing you can do right now is to simply question your beliefs. Become a belief detective and look for those limiting beliefs about money. When you release your inner blocks, you will attract more money.
Take Action

Too many people sit and wait for money to materialize in front of them. I believe in magic and miracles, but I also believe that your role in the process of attracting money is to actually do something to bring it your way. Act on your ideas. Now. "Money likes speed" is my favorite mantra.
If you don't act now, you'll see your idea manifested in a store some day and somebody else will be attracting money from it. What can you do right now, today, to move toward creating something that will attract more money? Whatever it is, do it.
When you doubt and second-guess yourself instead of taking action, you are demonstrating that you aren't yet clear (see second tip above) about money and your right to attract it. Act now and get rich.
Support a Cause

Most people push money away because they don't feel they deserve it. One way around this (while you still work on getting clear inside yourself) is to want money for a larger purpose. I created Operation YES to end homelessness. Raising hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more) for that cause will remove any remaining prosperity limitations within me. While I won't receive a dime from Operation YES, my working on its behalf will attract money to me in other ways, such as the contacts and goodwill I'll create.
In short, want money for a larger reason than your own ego. This is a beautiful way to attract more money without wanting it only for yourself. Realize that when you are wealthy, you are better able to help family, friends, your community, and even the world. A good reason to attract more money is for all the good it can do for others, not just you. Ask yourself what cause would you support (or even create) once you attracted more money?
Get Support

One of the wisest things you can do to achieve any goal is create or join a master mind group devoted to it. I co-authored Meet and Grow Rich with Bill Hibbler for this reason: to teach you how to create a support group.
The idea is to be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.
This support can also come in the way of audiotapes, books, and other learning tools. I've been buying audios from Nightingale-Conant for more than thirty years for just that reason: it helps me stay focused on constantly growing and improving. Even when I was struggling, I went to the library and borrowed books and tapes to keep me informed and inspired. Today I can afford to buy my own materials, but it's only because I invested in my education every step along the way.
I created "The Missing Secret" audio set to help people understand the practical use of the Law of Attraction. Again, all of this is support in helping you attract more money.
Be Grateful

This is huge. Be thankful for the money you have - which is probably considered true wealth by people starving in third world countries - and you'll begin to attract more money. Gratitude sends off a signal of appreciation, which brings to you more to be thankful for. Begin with whatever is in this moment that you can be sincerely grateful for.
After I was homeless and while I was still experiencing poverty, I began this exercise by holding a pencil and being grateful for it. Once I truly experienced gratitude, it shifted my energy vibe so I could then experience more to be grateful for. Today I have much to be thankful for - from houses to cars to collectible guitars -- but it all began with a pencil.
Look around and ask yourself what you are grateful for right now. Then get into that feeling.
Do what you Love

There's no sense in working at something you hate. If you are currently at a job you don't like, find a way to enjoy it for the time you are there while working towards doing your passion. Following your passion is the greatest secret of all when it comes to attracting wealth.
Everyone from Donny Deutsch to Donald Trump to Bill Gates to little ole me agree that passion (combined with the other steps above) is your ticket to financial freedom. Even when I worked for oil companies back in Houston and didn't like my work, I found ways to do what I loved. I wrote my first book on my lunch hours. I spoke on weekends and sold my book in the back of the room. Over time, doing what I love became my life. And today it's my moment by moment wonder.
Ask yourself what you would do even if you were never paid. That's a clue to what you should be doing and of course finding a way to be paid for it. You can attract more money from love.
Finally, expect success.
The mindset of expectation - expecting that you are now attracting money and playfully looking around, asking "I wonder how big money will come to me today?" - will keep your brain turned on to seek and find opportunities. You of course then have to take fearless action when you see them.

Go for it!

Dr. Joe Vitale
www.MiraclesCoaching.com

Subconscious Mind Power Techniques - 3 Effective Subconscious Mind Power Techniques

2008-06-21T03:08:00.000-07:00

By Greg Frost

The brain is a complex entity. This also gives the reason for use to make full use of this complexity to maximize the potential of our brain - From using short term to long-term memory and from using the conscious mind to the subconscious mind. Our human brain contains all these special components but surprisingly, according the Einstein the man himself, we only use 10% of our brain most of the time. So what ever happens to the other 90%? To make full use of the human brain as a whole, we will definitely need to figure out for ourselves some of the mind exercises and subconscious mind power techniques that would help you to maximize the usage of the brain.

Many people have yet to realize that the subconscious mind plays an important role in determining the success or fall of a person. While there might be other factors, the ability to develop a strong and healthy subconscious mind will help the person to achieve greater things in life. Check out these 3 simple steps on how to use your subconscious mind power effectively:

#1 Meditation

Meditation is said to be a form of communication with your subconscious mind. Try to do this is in a peaceful and quiet environment so that you are able to relax and focus entirely on communicating with the subconscious mind. During this meditation, you are encouraged to repeat positive affirmations. You can also do this before you go to sleep so as to allow the subconscious mind to work through the positive affirmations while you have your night's rest.

#2 Visualize

Visualization is a good way of enhancing your positive affirmations. By visualizing, you are allowing yourself to get into reality. Try to imagine each affirmation as though it is really happening to you. This will definitely increase the reliability of positive affirmations. Alternatively, you can try using your vision, and write them in places where you can see it. Over time, you conscious mind might get immune to the existence of these messages. However, you subconscious mind will continue to read this messages and will eventually tune your brain to work towards the positive affirmation. So place messages at your desk, fridge and even bedroom and make sure that these messages are noticeable.

#3 Use positive words

This is harder than what it might sound to you. These positive words are slightly different from positive affirmations. Using positive words would require you to discipline yourself to continue using positive words regardless of the situation that you are in. This is definitely a good practice as these positive words will allow the subconscious mind to act on the positive affirmations faster and hence it will shed more positive light on you. Words like "might" will definitely make you feel more motivated and positive, as compared to "will".

Do try these techniques today and develop a healthy and happy mind that will help to boost your way up the ladder of success. At the same time, do look out for other techniques that will help you to develop your subconscious mind and boost your mind power!

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