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May 28th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
Many of us do not consider the underlying belief system about money to be of any importance. You think it does not matter because what matters is what you do now—right at one level but not complete.
All ideas that we have learned about money in the past are coloring our actions today. These are ideas that you are unconsciously following because you are not aware of them.
It may be: “money is bad,” “there is never enough money,” “money does not grow on trees,” etc. The list is long and painful to read when you realize that this is actually a part of you.
I was thinking: How come these beliefs are so strong? Why am I blocking myself from financial freedom? I have been working on myself for six years now, and the beliefs are still there!
So, I went looking for answers in self-help books, personal development books, New Age books, and financial freedom articles, I have been talking to a lot of people. The answer that I come up with so far is that the underlying beliefs are coming in as all other conditioning: from our early years.
Some people also suggest that past life experiences can have an influence. Our childhood conditioning mainly comes from our parents as well as from the rest of our family and the environment around us.
If the idea in the place you grew up is that money is scarce, you can be sure that this idea sneaked into your mind somewhere along the line, and it is probably stuck there without you knowing it.
You are just wondering why there never seems to be enough money around. So, if you can now grasp the idea of negative thinking patterns about money, I will tell you to move on.
If it is difficult for you to accept this idea and you are now thinking that this does not count for you because you have learned positive thinking, that is great!
But look at the reality and do a little checkup: Is my positive thinking really working?
I am asking you to do this because my experience is that positive thinking and a YES! mentality is not always enough.
The negative thought patterns I am talking about are deep; you can call them “root thought” or “sponsoring thought”; they are thoughts that are lying underneath and behind your conscious thoughts that you are thinking on an everyday basis. They are very strong—and strong enough to sabotage your new way of thinking that may be very positive and good.
I point this out very strongly because it is important that you are willing to look at your own thoughts and to work on them to change them into healthy sponsoring thoughts that are healthy for you and will bring you abundance and wealth instead of struggle and suffering.
To change these thoughts, you have to be persistent; you will need a burning desire to train your mind into thinking differently.
You will have to do a little brainwash and afterwards a lot of relearning with your new and healthy thoughts. To train your mind, I will explain to you the concept “Act as if.”
“Act as if” works the other way around of the normal creation process, which goes like this: thought, word, deed (action). An idea comes into your mind as a thought and takes shape and becomes clear. That is the first step in creating.
Then comes the next step, which is the word. In the gospel of Saint John in the Bible: “In the beginning was only the word,” there is a great truth—only that in the very, very beginning, there was also a thought; an idea.
The word is spoken or written and makes the idea more strong; more solid. This is already a big accomplishment in the creation process, but the idea is still not physical reality.
This comes in the third step, “deed”—or the action that you do—to give your idea physical form. Take a look at this practical example: I had an idea a long time ago that it would be great to have a practical how-to guide on how to create financial freedom; initially, I had the idea because many of my friends and people I met were complaining about the lack of money to do what they want.
As I talked with them, it seemed that the reasons for these problems often were similar, and I had a feeling that there had to be a solution for this. I wanted to find the solutions (step one: ideas and thoughts); write them down and make them clear as well as easy to understand when spoken in a seminar or written down (step two: word); and then in the end to create this article and make it available for everyone who would be interested (step three: deed and action). As you are now reading this article, you can see the practical result of the thought-word-deed process unfolding straight in front of you! Going back to where we started, with the concept of “Act as if,” we have to look at why and how to do it.
Rich Blessing
Ettore
April 20th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
You Get What You Give
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay, “Compensation,” wrote that each person is compensated in like manner for that which he or she has contributed. The Law of Compensation is another restatement of the Law of Sowing and Reaping. It says that you will always be compensated for your efforts and for your contribution, whatever it is, however much or however little.
Increase Your Value
This Law of Compensation also says that you can never be compensated in the long term for more than you put in. The income you earn today is your compensation for what you have done in the past. If you want to increase your compensation, you must increase the value of your contribution.
Fill Your Mind With Success
Your mental attitude, your feelings of happiness and satisfaction, are also the result of the things that you have put into your own mind. If you fill your own mind with thoughts, visions and ideas of success, happiness and optimism, you will be compensated by those positive experiences in your daily activities.
Do More Than You’re Paid For
Another corollary of the Law of Sowing and Reaping is what is sometimes called the, “Law of Overcompensation.” This law says that great success comes from those who always make it a habit to put in more than they take out. They do more than they are paid for. They are always looking for opportunities to exceed expectations. And because they are always overcompensating, they are always being over rewarded with the esteem of their employers and customers and with the financial rewards that go along with their personal success.
Provide the Causes, Enjoy The Effects
One of your main responsibilities in life is to align yourself and your activities with Law of Cause and Effect (and its corollaries), accepting that it is an inexorable law that always works, whether anyone is looking or not. Your job is to institute the causes that are consistent with the effects that you want to enjoy in your life. When you do, you will realize and enjoy the rewards you desire.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.
First, remind yourself regularly that your rewards will always be in direct proportion to your service to others. How could you increase the value of your services to your customers today?
Second, look for ways to go the extra mile, to use the Law of Overcompensation in everything you do. This is the great secret of success.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
March 20th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
What Is Money?
Most people don’t spend much time wondering what money is, their major concern is how much they have, and how to get more. Usually, the question of what money IS arises only when money ceases to function properly. In economics (properly understood), the answer to the question - what is money? - consists of three words:
Money is a “Medium Of Exchange”
That’s all. Yet the conception of a “Medium Of Exchange” ranks below only language (with its corollaries - speech and the written word) as the greatest intellectual discovery in history. Without language, the exchange of anything but the most rudimentary ideas is impossible. Without money, the production and exchange of anything but the most rudimentary goods and services is impossible. It is not difficult, or time consuming, or inefficient, it is IMPOSSIBLE!
Exchange
Animals don’t exchange (or trade) amongst one another. They are self-sufficient, or they take from each other, or they exercise the prerogative of superior strength and/or cunning. There are some human beings who get along in a very similar fashion, but the overwhelming majority recognise the benefits of voluntary exchange. Strictly speaking, the use of the word “voluntary” in this context is redundant. The phrase “your money or your life” is not the precursor to an exchange, whether the person uttering it brandishes a gun or a government identity card.
The first rule of any voluntary exchange is simplicity itself. If two people are willing to exchange, each must view the results of the exchange as being beneficial. If either of them is not of that view, the exchange will not take place.
Direct And Indirect Exchange
Direct exchange, or barter, is exactly that - my good or service for your good or service. The problem is that I might want what you have to offer, but you might not want what I offer in exchange. With no “medium” of exchange, there is no deal. Indirect exchange takes place when one party has a “medium” that is always acceptable, not for what it is, but for what can be done with it. If you offer me money, I will accept it, because I know that I can exchange it for what I want, whenever I want it.
Indirect exchange involves the use of MONEY - the “medium” of exchange. Money is the universal key, it fits all locks. And the world it has unlocked is the world we live in today. Money has made the division of labour possible. It has made specialisation possible. It has made the accumulation of wealth over periods which exceed a human lifetime possible. Perhaps most important of all, it has hugely advanced the potential for amicable interaction between people. To survive as such, and to prosper, a rational animal must exchange. He or she has language, to exchange ideas, and money, to exchange the fruits of ideas. From that foundation, everything else we see around us has been built.
What Should Be Used As Money?
What is money? It is a medium of exchange. What does it do? It ensures the success of exchange by being the one item on offer that is ALWAYS acceptable. Why is it necessary? Because human beings must exchange to live together in peace, and to prosper. How important was the discovery of the idea of money? Look around you.
That covers the concept or idea of money. But an idea, as such, does not exist as a physical entity. Money must be a physical entity. Neither the “electronic” money of today nor the notes and coin which circulate as cash has any official or legal connection with Gold and Silver. But they once did, and most people think that they still do. As long as that situation persists, the modern monetary system will function.
Now, how does one go about choosing what is to be used as money? Simple, one looks for the most tradeable good, the good which is in highest demand, the good that has begun to be accepted, not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. Money is the good that people do not want to consume, but want to use to make further exchanges easier.
Human beings have lived together for more than two million years. Money in its modern form - coin of fixed weight and denomination - came into use less than three thousand years ago. It took a long time to discover the physical good which best serves the purpose of a medium of exchange.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
March 19th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
The Laws of Earning Money By John Assaraf
“The Street Kid”
www.JohnAssaraf.com/blog
If you want one year of prosperity, grow seeds. If you want ten years of prosperity,
grow trees. If you want a lifetime of prosperity, grow your self-worth.
— Chinese proverb
What is money, really, and what are the laws of earning money?
This happens to be one of my favorite topics because money is easy to come by if you do a few things right, and it will forever elude you if you do a few things wrong.
Back in the old days, before money existed, people used a form of exchange
called bartering. Later, cattle and other livestock became the form of exchange. That worked well within small communities and cultures, but as society grew it became inconvenient to drive cattle and other animals across great distances. That’s when the smelting of metal began, and with it the production of coins. Coins were portable and, thanks to the gold rush, they were durable. Some of the earliest coins bore an image of a cow’s head.
In fact, the word capital comes from the Latin word kaput, which means “head.”
As wealth increased, coins became inefficient and too heavy for horses and buggies, so paper was added. Soon there were also letters of credit, which appeared on the scene to represent large amounts of money. As more people
started traveling, credit cards came into play, with the advantage of being lighter than cash and more secure. Most recently we’ve seen incredible developments with electronic and Internet banking, where we can move vast amounts of money around the world at the push of a button.
So, what exactly is money? It’s an idea, and ideas are nothing more than
electromagnetic energy. And as you should know by now, if you understand the laws of attraction, you can understand the laws for attracting money.
OPTIONS FOR MAKING MONEY
There are five options when it comes to making money.
1. Win it. In any given year, about 25 people out of 250 million will win a big
lottery. I don’t recommend banking your financial career on hitting the winning number. Statistics show that eighty-five percent of people who win the lottery quickly lose all the money.
2. Steal it. Of course, the price is quite expensive because you end up going to jail if you’re caught, and there’s a very big chance that you will get caught. So stealing money not an option.
3. Find it. Id’ be willing to bet that the odds on this one are just as high as
winning the lottery.
4. Inherit it. I don’t know about your family, but in my family, this option isn’t
worth holding my breath for. Which means the only option left for me, and I would imagine for you, too, is to earn it. And that means it’s really important to understand the laws of earning money.
VALUING YOURSELF
The first question to ask yourself is, Do I feel that I deserve to earn a lot of
money? I can honestly tell you that the people I know who make a lot of money
absolutely, unequivocally, without a doubt feel that they deserve it.
If you don’t believe you deserve to earn money, you must raise what I call your
deserving level and lower your excuses level. By “excuses level,” I mean all your excuses about why you can’t earn money or haven’t earned money. It’s time to stop telling yourself that you aren’t smart enough or good enough or that you don’t know enough and you start putting a value on yourself. If you don’t value yourself, money will never, ever be attracted to you. You will repel it as fast as you can imagine it, and others will not value you, either.
In my companies, we don’t offer a lot of free things because we believe that free attracts freeloaders. If I don’t value the amount of work and time I’ve put into becoming an expert in my vocation or field, then how will anyone else value it? If I don’t vibrate and oscillate at that level, why would my customers?
I have personally invested over half a million dollars in my education in the last
twenty-five years. I’ve hired consultants, read books, and traveled all over the world to educate myself about making and keeping money, the laws of the universe, the brain, and more. I’ve spent an inordinate amount of money to become outstanding, so I put a lot of value on my time: I value it at fifteen hundred dollars per hour. Some people might say that’s absolutely ridiculous. I say, “Well, I’ve made more than that.” I’ve made from fifty thousand to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in one hour of speaking, so obviously
somebody somewhere believes that my time is worth that amount.
In our universe, money has something we call species recognition. The term
simply means that people who value your information, product, and services will pay greatly for them if they are worth it to them.
YOUR FINANCIAL PERSONA
Every one of us has a persona, a term that comes from a Greek word meaning
“mask.” We wear masks about all sorts of different things: we have our money face or our game face on. To attract more money, you must alter your financial persona immediately. Start thinking, acting, and behaving like the people who are already earning the income you want.
Think of Donald Trump. I don’t know of anyone who interests me as much as he
does from one perspective only: his brilliance for coming back from devastation. Trump was $900 million in debt and he kept his game face on as if nothing was wrong. Although he was probably getting irate phone calls and visits from his creditors, Trump kept his persona in line with that of a billionaire. While things were crumbling around his world, his mask stayed on. For those who didn’t know the exact truth, that mask created a certain air of arrogance and a certainty that made people want to do business with him.
One of the best ways to alter your financial persona is to believe a certain thing that’s a lie right now. You learned in the earlier chapters about the brain that if you impress a new persona upon your non-conscious mind, that persona will take hold and take flight. The outside world will match the inside image.
Here’s a little formula for attracting and earning more money:
1. Get the vibration (the self-worth persona) in harmony immediately.
2. Increase your deserving level through your new self-worth vibration.
3. Alter your financial persona immediately. Start walking, talking, and behaving like a person who is already earning the level of income you want to earn. This may feel awkward at first. About twenty-five years ago, I heard a speaker by the name of Tommy Hopkins say, “Fake it till you make it.” I didn’t really understand what he meant until I started studying the brain. Hopkins meant that your subconscious doesn’t know the difference, so if you fake it long enough, you become it.
You’ll probably find some resistance from your own internal dialogue. That small voice inside your head will argue, “But you’re not a multimillionaire. You’re not making this amount of money. Why do you keep telling yourself that? Why do you walk this way?”
I don’t suggest that you go out and spend that way just yet, but I do recommend that you try something that actors Jim Carrey and Barbra Streisand did, and that I have done as well. Three years from now, I want my equity in my new company to be worth $100 million, so I carry a check in my pocket written out to myself for that amount. Every time I put my hand in my pocket, I’m sending an electrical message to my brain. So my persona, the time I invest, the way I carry myself, and the way I research and study all match up and are in line.
In the marketplace, once you have the right vibration, the right persona, and the belief that you deserve to earn more money—and you understand that you’re not going to get it by inheriting, finding, stealing, or winning it—the question is, What are the laws of earning it? There have to be laws. If everybody else is making money, how do you put yourself in harmony and develop the skill set you need to earn more money?
LAWS OF EARNING MONEY
At the beginning of this chapter you learned that money is an idea. Now let’s take that concept one step further and add this corollary: You get paid in direct proportion to the service and value you bring to the marketplace. If you can determine how to bring more service and more value to more people, they will exchange with you that little green paper with ink on it called money.
To start earning more money, you must ask yourself three questions.
1. Is there a need in the marketplace for your product or service? I’ll give you two products to think about: hula hoops and pet rocks. In case you’re too young to remember, a hula hoop was something you put around your waist, then you moved your hips a little and it swirled around and around. A pet rock was literally a rock in a box that someone packaged nicely, marketed brilliantly, and sold by the millions. Was there a need for hula hoops and pet rocks? Of course not. But if there’s a need for your product or service, move on to question number two.
2. How good is your product or service and how unique is it? Compared to
other people offering the same or similar product or service, how good is yours from a quality perspective, and how unique is it? If it’s absolutely unique, rare, and of high quality, its value goes up. That’s why a specialty service provider like a skilled brain surgeon can demand a lot more money: there are few people who have this skill and become extremely good at it.
3. How good is your ability to market and sell your product or service? Your
ability to market and sell your product or service to generate revenue at a local, regional, national, or international level is the most vital part of the equation. To earn more money, you have to become a marketing and selling master or have one on your team.
If you have an average product or service and average marketing and selling
skills, you will earn an average or just below average income because ninety-five percent of your competitors are also average. That group will share fifteen to twenty percent of all the revenues for that product or service category. The remaining five percent of the competition—the ones who understand the laws of earning money—will rake in all the rest.
Please note that you do not personally have to be the expert in sales or marketing for your company, but you do have to build a team around you that has those skill sets.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
March 19th, 2009 | Posted in Blog | No Comments
Quantum physics provides the ultimate insight into the study of law of attraction and intentional manifestation. This relatively new science has proven that conscious observation of potential energy is what causes matter to emerge into existence.
Simply put, human beings are actively and continuously bringing reality forth from pure potential by observing, or intending. When we look at the world around us, i.e. into the quantum or superstring field of unformed energy, we manifest the objects, events, and experiences that make up our world.
By extrapolating on what quantum physics teaches us about life at the most basic levels, we can see clearly how the law of attraction is the most practical model for personal development and contribution to society.
Also interesting is the fact that science has been unable to prove the existence of any reality outside of the human brain. Thought vibrations and brain waves can be measured as responses and transmissions but it’s beyond the scope of any experiment to actually prove that anything outside of the brain is causing these waves and vibrations.
Therefore researchers can’t say with any degree of certainty that an outside world really exists. For all intents and purposes life could be a giant shared hologram that each of us helps to broadcast.
While radical, the implications of this are simple: Whether we look at existence from the universe in, or from our brains outward, the result is the same.
Everything is created from pure energy by waves of thought. This is true of all that has ever been, all that currently exists, and anything with the potential of existing in the future.
While this can be a little mind-boggling, it doesn’t have to be. In fact there is no real need to try and understand any of this; you only need to grasp the abstract notion that you create your life experiences and the world around you in every passing moment.
And you create all this by simply observing and believing in what you intend to see, feel, touch, or otherwise experience. From this perspective, can you see how what you believe has a powerful impact on the way your life unfolds?
What might your life look like if you were able to believe with every fiber of your being in an ideal vision? If you remove doubt or questioning and just decide to transition into a state of absolute belief, the events and circumstances you prefer will rapidly manifest into being.
You will effortlessly take possession of your ideal life experience once you stop trying and begin believing. The only work involved is in moving from a state of having faith to a state of knowing/believing without question.
While there are multiple techniques designed to assist you with this process, I urge you to simplify and just start accepting your preferred reality as the absolute truth. As soon as you wake up in the morning, before your mind slips back into the state of mundane acceptance, close your eyes for a few minutes and see your life as you would have it in every way.
Leave nothing out. See every detail and accept this image with faith beyond reproach.
Do this each morning for a month and I guarantee you’ll see change. Combine this exercise with daily affirmations, meditation, and other intentional manifestation practices and you’ll create miraculous results.
Rich Blessings
Ettore
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