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The Power of Making a Decision

I attended the morning meditation and prayer services this morning after almost a month. In reality, I should say two or three months, since it has been that long since I was regular about it. I had been *intending* to go for the last three weeks, and despite the fact that I had my alarm set to get up on time, and despite the fact that I had gotten up just before the alarm went off a few times, I hadn’t made it to the community center to attend the services.

Last night, as I lay me down to sleep, I made a decision, I am going to go to the services in the morning. It was not just an intention, it was a firm decision. Lo and behold, I was up 20 minutes before the alarm went off, and I was already in the car when it did go off. (my cell phone is my watch and my alarm clock as well)

As I drove to the community center, at 4 AM, I was reminded of the lectures I used to deliver some twenty years ago to our congregations about how to use visualization to get up and get to the meditation at 4AM. It never failed, that the very next morning someone will approach me after the services all excited that how it worked for them. There is something about a firm decision causes every cell in your being to act in congruence with that decision.

In my last post, I talked about the magic of making a commitment. A commitment is nothing more than a decision, backed by an intense desire and a will to follow through. But, it sets in motion the forces of Universe to do your bidding, to bring about circumstances, that at times, are mind boggling, to say the least.

After making the commitment to attending the workshop in Sedona,AZ, I have seen an influx of unexpected income, both from my regular work, and from sources unexpected. After realizing the power of decision making, I sent out a message to some close friends in my phone book, asking them if they would be interested in earning an extra $1,000 in the next 30 days.

Out of the 30+ messages that I sent, I received two “yes” answers, one “depends”, two “how”, one “I already know how and can do so whenever I want” and one “I’m afraid I’ll have to pass” answer. One person actually called to ask what was that all about.

The plan is to hold a telephone conference, and I am inviting the two *yes* people, one of the *how* people, who responded positively to my response to the how question, and the friend who actually called to learn more about it, to share my experience, and to encourage them to take the “what if failure was not an option” approach to generating extra income in a short period of time through creative thinking and using the existing resources. I fully believe that this will be a successful experiment, with all of them creating reasonable amount of additional income in the next 30 days. I am using this to set a track record, and to fine tune the idea as it is applied by many, and to learn from the experiment, and then offer it to others who are ready and determined to take a small step out of the comfort zone, as a paid service.

I would like to extend the same invitation to my readers to join me in this teleconference. Due to the nature of the task, I will not be able to extend this offer to more than three people. So, it is on a first come first served basis. Send me an email if you are interested.

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The Magic of Commitment

Lately, I have been going through another metamorphosis.

I am beginning to understand prosperity as a mindset, as opposed to a lifestyle, or at least the lifestyle promoted by the commercial media as prosperous.

As a matter of fact, I think most of what we see on the popular media as prosperity is based on lack thinking as opposed to prosperity thinking.

Prosperity thinking, as I understand it, means that there is ALWAYS enough in the world to meet everyone’s need and wants. There is never any lack of resources. If there is any lack, it is only perceived lack, and comes a s a result of that perception. That is not to deny that there are people living in this world who are living well below desirable conditions, but it is not because of any lack of resources.

All my life, I’ve always had everything I needed and more. There have been times when I’ve had what I wanted and there were other times when I didn’t have what I wanted, or so I thought. As I look back at my life, I realize that the times when I didn’t have what I wanted were the times I was wanting what others said I should have, not what I wanted.

Prosperity thinking has nothing to do with money. That is not to say that money is not important. It is very important, and essential, to life as it has evolved into today. But money is nothing more, or less than energy. It is the energy of exchange given a form that the society has mutually agreed upon. It is the tool that has evolved, as a medium of exchange, when bartering for products and services became an inefficient and impractical way of conducting trade.

Prosperity is the manifestation of desire to have a better quality of life. And a better quality of life is the one that brings joy and satisfaction.

A couple of weeks ago, I came across an invitation to a workshop that I was interested in. I was surprised that the $397 price tag didn’t phase me, as it would have in the not-so-distant past, and when I calculated all the related expenses, travel, hotel accommodations and the time missed from current work, I knew that I didn’t have the resources to make it to the 2-day workshop in Sedona, AZ. But I wanted to go.

Do not hesitate or waver for fear that when you come to any certain place you will fail for lack of ability. Keep right on, and when you come to that place, the ability will be furnished to you. ~ Wallace D Wattles, Science of Getting Rich

As if right on clue, I came across this wisdom from Barbara Winter.

Begin by refusing to ever, ever use  lack of money as an excuse.

I sat down to brainstorm, and wrote down all the ways I can think of to generate an additional $1500 in the next 60 days. As a result, in just the past two weeks, I have earned an additional $600 from opportunities that have appeared out of the thin air. (That’s another post). I know, that not only will I have the funds needed, but more importantly, it has switched my thinking into a prosperity mindset. I have already registered and paid for the workshop. Amazing things happen when you make a commitment.

Let me leave you with this challenge.

What could you do to generate an additional income of $1,000 in next 30 to 60 days, if you absolutely had to?

Let me know in the comments below.

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Self Development Is a Bitch

That may be true…

But it’s well worth the effort.


Enough Said

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