One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a
trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son
how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what
would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father asked his son,
“How was the trip?”
“It was great, Dad.”
“Did you see how poor people live?” the father asked.
“Oh yeah,” said the son.
So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?” asked the
father.
The son answered, “I saw that we have one dog and they
had four.
We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and
they have a creek that has no end.
We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the
stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and
they have the whole horizon.
We have a small piece of land to live on and they have
fields that go beyond our sight.
We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We
buy our food, but they grow theirs.
We have walls around our property to protect us; they have
friends to protect them.”
The boy’s father was speechless.
Then his son added, “Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor
we are.”
(author unknown)
Too many times, we forget what we have and concentrate on what we don’t have. What is one person’s worthless object is another person’s prize possession. And what is a prized possession may pale in comparison to true wealth. It is all based on one’s perspective.
Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for all the bounty we have instead of worrying about wanting more. Take joy and appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!
Abundance is there if we only notice it in our lives. Then slowly, we change our mindset from lack and limitation to unlimited.
We live in a very interesting time. Who would have imagined that some of the largest financial institutions in the United States would crash into bankruptcy? Who would have imagined that the proclaimed world super power would be so disliked, and in many countries, it would be blamed for all the financial transition occurring?
Much of the media is pumping fear and economic scare news into the airwaves daily. Likewise, I can only imagine those fond of mystical traditions and Mayan predictions are preparing for the end of the world.
These are definitely times of great change. Eric Hoffer stated, “In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to succeed in a world that no longer exists.”
A similar thought comes from a fairly well-known quote from Einstein, “The problems we face today cannot be solved from the same level of thinking that created them.”
Each of us, individually and collectively, stands on the precipice of great opportunity if we choose to seize it and take advantage of it. But to do that, we must learn from our past and think, feel and act differently as we move forward to create our future.
I promise you that while challenges and tough times may have an effect upon us, they do not control us. Unless of course you let them. You, like me, know that there are going to be those who barely survive in these times… And likewise, there are going to be those who thrive. Which one you’ll be is entirely up to the strategy you choose in times of stress and challenge.
Have you ever noticed that there are those unique few who seem to always succeed no matter what life throws their way? Well, I’d like to help you be one of them if you’ll let me.
Over the rest of the program, I’m going to be giving you some insider strategies and secrets to using the Laws of Attraction, as well as several of the other laws of the universe. And if you use them, I promise—in fact, I guarantee—you can make whatever challenges you may be having right now work to your advantage.
First thing you must realize is that it’s not about a lack of resources in our world… There are plenty of resources. It’s about resourcefulness. If you’re looking for outside situations to shift and save your day, then you’re looking in the wrong place. You can’t always control the waves in life… But you can learn to surf.
The first step is to take control of what I call your “3 for 3″ strategy… We’ll talk a lot about this one. Your thoughts, feelings and actions are what drive all behavior and results. And to create anything you desire in life, you must go “3 for 3.”
So it starts with being honest with yourself… really honest. If you’re listening to all the news right now and thinking and feeling fearful things… Those thoughts and fears are vibrations in your energy field that are causing you to act in fearful ways. If it doesn’t make you think and feel good, why are you watching it? You may think you need to be informed—maybe—but you certainly don’t have to be inundated.
As a first step to changing your results, you must change the input you’re placing into your mind and body on a regular and daily basis. Think about if you allowed garbage to stack up inside your home… How nice would it be in short order? Trash needs to be contained and taken out to the curb as soon as possible.
So make a commitment right now that you’re either going to eliminate or at least minimize the negativity coming into your body and home for the next week. And simultaneously, you’re going to take the same time you used to waste on fear media and replace it with something that makes you feel good. It can be a personal development book, a movie that makes you think and use your brainpower, even a comedy—but something that feels like a positive investment in your life.
It sounds so simple, but please remember, energy flows where attention goes. As you shift your attention, you’ll be amazed at how quickly your life begins to change. You’ll be glad you did.
To your continued wealth and happiness,
by James Arthur Ray
President/CEO
James Ray International
Success is something that you attract by becoming an attractive person!
In “Excelling in the New Millennium: Personal Development”, Jim Rohn shares his experience with personal development revealing valuable essentials to becoming wealthy in mind and body.
If you are wishing for more prosperity or desiring wealth, it requires attention and knowledge on multiple levels. There are three levels of consciousness to transform your relationship with money.
In the “real” external or outer world, we must gain and understand financial knowledge. We educate ourselves about income and expenses, investing, taxes, and the importance of savings. We read books, watch television programs, attend classes and learn about the stock market, planning for retirement, how to ask for a raise, how to cut our taxes, and managing money. Here is where we develop skills, acquire tools, and use our experience to make sound decisions. At this level, it is our lack of knowledge and skill most likely to trip us up.
We also must understand our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and values around money, prosperity, wealth, poverty, and all that entails. From early childhood we have absorbed lessons, true and untrue, and developed beliefs about money from parents, school, friends, the media, our religions and our cultures. Our values around money, wealth, work, poverty and other money-related issues were also formed early on. We are still absorbing messages about money, especially in the western cultures where money is “king”. Your unconscious beliefs or values can negatively or positively affect your ability to choose wisely. Making these beliefs conscious and determining whether they are still useful to you may enable you to make better choices and have what you desire. There are many tools and techniques available to bring these beliefs to light including simple ones like asking yourself questions about what you believe and why.
The last way we affect prosperity is through our spiritual practices and understanding. It helps to learn about the spiritual laws governing prosperity and abundance in our lives. These include having clear insight into who you are, and your place in the world. It includes understanding the interconnectedness of all living things and the planet. For many of us, having clarity and congruency, living an authentic life, understanding the laws of attraction, and being in touch with our inner spirit or self (sometimes called higher self are necessary steps in transforming our relationship with money. And most importantly, having intense gratitude for all we already have.
The Prosperity Game By Abraham-Hicks Ask and It Is Given
In this process, you will begin by establishing an imaginary checking account. In other words, there will be no actual bank involved, but you will make deposit entries and check withdrawals just as if it were an actual account. You could use an old checkbook system that is no longer in use, an accounting program in your computer, or you could even manufacture a complete system by using a notebook as your checkbook register and blank pieces of paper for your deposit slips and checks. It is of value to make this process feel as real to you as possible.
On the first day, deposit $1,000. And spend it. In other words, make a $1,000 deposit entry into your checkbook register, then write out checks to spend those dollars. You could spend your money all in one place, using one check, or your could spend it for several different things, using several different checks. The point of the game is to have fun thinking about what you would like to purchase, and to enjoy the process of actually writing out the checks.
Be descriptive on the memo portion of the check. For example: For a beautiful writing pen or Great running shoes or Membership at Gordon’s Health Spa. You can spend it all today, or save some of it for another day. However, we encourage you to do your best to spend it today, because tomorrow you will be making another wonderful deposit.
On the second day, deposit $2,000.
On the third day, deposit $3,000.
On the fourth day, deposit $4,000.
When you reach day 50, deposit $50,000. When you reach day 300, deposit $300,000. If you play this game every day for one year, you will have deposited and spent more than $66 million.
You will be benefiting by increasing your ability to imagine. In other words, you will discover, as you play the game for a few weeks, that it will begin to take real concentration to spend that much money. And so, your ability to imagine will expand tremendously.
Most of our physical friends really do not exercise their imagination very much. Most people offer their vibrations almost exclusively in response to what they are observing, but by playing this game, you will find yourself reaching for new ideas, and in time, you will feel the expansion of your own desire and expectation. In doing so, you will benefit by shifting your point of attraction.
You see, the Universe is responding to your vibrational offering, not to your current state of being. So, if you are giving your attention only to your current state of being, then your future evolves much the same. But if you are giving focused attention to these wonderful expanding ideas that this game evokes from you, the Universe now responds to the vibrations of those thoughts.
The Universe makes no distinction between the vibration you offer in response to what you are living and the vibration that you offer in response to what you are imagining, so this Prosperity Game Process is a powerful tool for shifting your vibrational point of attraction.
You can play the game for a short time, or you can play it for an entire year or more. Whatever you choose is appropriate. It may feel awkward in the beginning, but the longer you play the game, the more expansive your imagination will become. And as your imagination expands and you focus on the spirit of fun and expansion, your point of attraction will shift.
By writing the checks, using your imagination, writing the memos, focusing as you write, and feeling no resistance as you write the checks because there is no fear of overspending, you will achieve what is necessary in the achievement of anything: You will have made a statement of desire while you are in the state of non-resistance, or better said, in the state of allowing.
So, not only will you have the benefit of an expanded imagination, but your point of attraction will shift, and your life experience will then shift as well. Not only will your financial situation improve, but all manner of things that you have focused upon with pleasure will begin to flow into your experience.
You can start the game or stop it, and you can play it in any way you like. There are no rules; there is nothing that you should or should not do. In other words, pick it up and play with it. Spend as much as you want. But the important thing is: Do your best to exercise your imagination.
Joyously playing this Prosperity Game will not only improve your financial state of being, but every aspect of your life will improve as well. It will not only help you activate more vibrations around things that you want, but it will assist you in focusing, more of the time, in a way that allows the things that you want to flow into your experience.
Playing this game will cause you to offer a more expansive, expectant vibration. And it is our promise to you that manifestations will begin to arrive in response to your changed vibration.
