Attraction
Attraction is that state of being which allows good things to find us. We are like a magnet. We either attract godly things, or we attract ungodly things. It’s our choice. Attraction is our creation. We bring and attract all experiences to our lives.
Monthly Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
The First Law of Attraction
If you had a wishing well, what is one thing you would wish for? Is it wealth, fame, honor, or love? What one thing do you desire above everything else in life? Whatever it is, you can have it! The First Law of Attraction says, Whatever you desire whole heartily, with singleness of purpose you can have. First, you must know what that one thing is. Do you remember the character Curly in the movie City Slickers? He kept sticking one finger in Billy Crystal character’s face saying, “This is the secret to life.” When Crystal’s character asked him what the secret was, Curly said, “It’s for you to find out.” You have to find out what your heart’s desire is. Otherwise, all you will do is run around in circles and you won’t stand much chance of getting it.
You must be moving toward your desire all the time because what you are after is constantly moving. Standing still is really an illusion. You think you are not moving but since you’re standing on this planet Earth, you are rotating. Earth rotates one complete turn every 24 hours and it is traveling thousands of miles an hour as it rotates around the Sun once every 365 days. And the whole kit and caboodle is racing thousands of miles per hour through space. Don’t you think it would be a good idea to get off your butt and do something?
Most people just sit around waiting for something good to happen, and then they get angry when what they desire happens to someone else. If you are doing nothing, if there is no driving force; no sense of urgency, you can count upon it that you will have no results and no real future. The Bible says, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.” This passage is telling us that we must have a burning desire for what we want. The magic of doing something actually attracts your desire to you.
Lucky you, if you have what I call enthusiastic “discontentment”; if you are never satisfied, and always looking for a new height to scale; and you never settle for the crumbs of life.
Today’s Exercise: Take the first step in the direction toward that project you have been thinking about.
Affirmations: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: If you are doing nothing, if there is no driving force; no sense of urgency, you can count upon it that you will have no results and no real future.
Your Reservoir of Power
Your Subconscious Mind is a great storehouse of knowledge. Your mind is receiving millions of bits of information every day; yet, your Conscious Mind only retains a very small portion of this knowledge. The balance has sunk down into your subconscious storehouse, your reservoir of power. It is a creative force waiting to be retrieved. The person who has learned the secret of making the Subconscious Mind yield up its unlimited wealth is a genius.
What is the secret of reaching this reservoir of power and knowledge? How can we command this creative force in a masterly fashion? People who are considered to be geniuses access this force. Genius is the result of hard work. Genius is mind power turned into action. Oh, you thought there was some big mystical secret. No there is no big secret. You were born a genius and life slowly “de-geniused” you.
We are caught up in the crap of the world and the know-it-alls who tell us “You can’t do it. You’re too dumb; too small; the wrong color; the wrong sex,” etc. If you believe any of what the know-it-alls tell you, you are living in Hell. Break these bonds. Say no to the know-it-alls. Say yes to your Subconscious Mind. Say yes to the genius just below the surface, waiting for you to take action on the dreams God so blessed you with.
When I started to write this book, I had all these negative thoughts:
Hey, you never wrote anything in your life. What makes you think you can write? This is going to be something! You can’t spell worth a darn. Besides, your grammar is terrible. And your memory, you can’t remember what you ate for breakfast. Besides, you are seventy years old; it’s too late.
But, I picked up a pen and package of note pads and I started to put my ideas on paper. Noted authors first wrote most of these ideas, but I didn’t care. They needed to be said again, and again, until we get the message.
Today’s Exercise: Tell your Subconscious Mind you are ready to be the genius you know you are.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: Say, “Yes” to the genius just below the surface, waiting for you to take action on the dreams God so blessed you with.
Lead by Example
It’s funny how often the problem is you. Whenever you don’t get the results you want, you need to swallow your pride and look inward to see if you were part of the problem. Ask yourself these three questions:
1. Did I clearly articulate the goal?
2. Did I give myself enough time and resources to accomplish the goal?
3. Did I really believe I could do it?
Leaders need to understand how profoundly they affect those around them. Optimism and pessimism are equally infectious. You directly set the tone of everyone around you.
Successful people make time for those who answer to them. Unsuccessful or poor leaders treat their subordinates as necessary Evils. Mediocre leaders don’t even take the trouble to know their people. As a successful person you know that you don’t do it alone; you need to send a signal to people you work with that they are important. As a matter of fact, nothing else should be more important to you.
No matter what your current status is, start thinking of yourself as a leader. Leaders are not born; they are made. Lead by example. A leader is a person who continually looks for solutions to problems. Leaders know how to be held accountable. Leaders must acknowledge mistakes and take responsibility. It is far more important to correct the mistakes than to worry about making them.
Show me a person who doesn’t make mistakes and I’ll show you a person who doesn’t do anything. Mistakes are blessings in disguise. Mistakes account for many of the great discoveries of our time. Think of vulcanized rubber, Post-It notes, etc. Don’t ever stop trying.
Today’s Exercise: Make up your mind today that you are a leader.
Today’s Affirmations: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: Mistakes are blessings in disguise. It is far more important to correct the mistakes than to worry about making them.
The Journey to Nowhere
Many people spend their entire lives on an endless journey to nowhere. Mankind could not get to where we already are without the journey. For centuries, most religions have taught that this life is but a journey, a test to see if we qualify to enter Heaven to be with God. Yet, we need only to look into a mirror to see God. We need only to open our eyes to see Heaven. God is life and life is God. Heaven is all that God has created.
Can it be this simple? Many religions say no, we are separate from God and that God wants us to suffer and sacrifice this life so that we may be happy in the next life. These teachings are contrary to what God wants. God wants us to enjoy, to prosper, and to be happy in this little slice of eternity. The part that most spiritual practices can’t seem to get is humankind is God experiencing mortality.
Why do we question our oneness with God? Why, because in this unity, the human Ego is desperately afraid to lose its individuality. Humankind clings to its individuality, separating itself from each other, from all things in life, and thus from God. Religions have taught humans that humans must look to God for forgiveness, for peace when troubled or even vengeance when angry. Religions have placed God out of reach of you and me and given us a set of manmade rules, which religions have said are “The keys to the kingdom of God.” How silly they are to think that God would choose any religion that teaches a separation of God and his creations. Religions have failed miserably in their understanding of God and the meaning of life.
Now it is our turn to teach the religions of the world the truth so that that they may see the light so that humankind’s future generations will enjoy this life to the fullest and stop killing each other.
Today’s Exercise: Spread the word, this is Heaven.
Today’s Affirmations: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: We need only to look into a mirror to see God. We need only to open our eyes to see Heaven. God is life and life is God. Heaven is all that God has created.
Change the Way You See the World
They do me wrong who say I come no more
When once I knock and fail to find you in;
For every day I stand outside your door,
And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win.
Wail not for precious chances passed away,
Weep not for Golden Ages on the wane!
Each night I burn the records of the day –
At sunrise every soul is born again!
Walter Malone
In my humble opinion “a once in a lifetime opportunity” comes along about once in every fourteen minutes. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.
Everything in the universe is at your disposal. Back in the 60’s a man accessed his genius and invented the “pet rock.” What a simple, yet, ingenious idea. Why didn’t someone follow up on it and register names for your pet rock or make designer clothes for them? How about teaching your pet rock a foreign language; renting them out as babysitters, or my favorite, teach your pet rock to swim? This is kind of ridiculous right? Well, maybe not.
A rock is made of the same material as we are. Rocks are made of atoms. Everything in the universe has awareness. The only difference between you and a rock is the level of awareness. Some people say that thirty percent of the people in the world are smarter than a rock while seventy percent are dumber than a rock.
The Universal Superconscious Mind of God is in everything that God created. If you doubt it, ignore a potted plant and watch how fast it dies. Notice a vacant building and how in a few months it will start to fall apart. Ignore your lawn and the weeds will grow like crazy. Hate your car and the darn thing won’t start. Be in a hurry, and every light turns red just as you get to it. Complain about potholes and guess what, you hit every pothole. Complain about the weather and it rains every time you get dressed up. Be afraid of a horse or a dog and watch it turn on you.
Today’s Exercise: Change the way you see the world and the world you see will change.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: Everything in the universe has a level of awareness.
Prosperity
Wouldn’t it be great if you had unlimited prosperity in wealth, health, peace of mind, intelligence, and relationships? Well, you can; all you need to do is to turn your “I can’t” into “I can”.
Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? It can’t be that simple, can it? Yes, it can. You have the ability to change your life right now, right where you are, and it won’t cost you a dime. If it is so simple then why doesn’t everyone do it? First, because they don’t believe it. And, second, because we’ve been programmed since childhood; we are told, “don’t do this, don’t do that, you cannot have it”, etc. We are all guilty of this behavior and so are our parents, and so are our parent’s parents, way back to the so-called Garden of Eden.
Your Subconscious Mind will grant anything you ask of it, as long as you really desire it, and if it doesn’t hurt someone else. Your Subconscious Mind has been granting your wishes since you were born. When you say, “I can’t do that,” your Subconscious Mind says, “Okay; I will make sure you fail every time you try it.” If you say, “Every September I come down with a cold,” your Subconscious Mind says, “Okay, let me put that on my calendar.” How about I can’t roller skate? Your Subconscious Mind says, “Okay, I’ll make you fall just as soon as you put on the skates.” How about “I can’t quit smoking, besides it relaxes me?” Your Subconscious Mind says, “Fine, stay relaxed at least until it burns a hole in your lungs.” How about, “I can’t change; this is just the way I am?” Your Subconscious Mind loves this one. It says, “Okay you’re broke, unhappy, sickly, and unloved, this is the way I will keep you.”
Look at people who want to use their race or religion as an excuse for not succeeding. Folks, the statue of limitations has run out on those excuses. I was flipping through my four hundred channels the other day trying to find something to look at that wasn’t a waste of my time. I came across a George Lopez special and the first thing out of his mouth was, “We are MexiCANS, not MexiCAN’TS.” I wonder how many got the message. Bill Cosby was ridiculed by black leaders when he tried to get the same message across. The message is simple. Say, “No” to “I can’t.” Say, “No” to “it can’t be done.” Say, “No” to I can’t change.” Say, “No” to illness, hatred, poverty, prejudice.
Today’s Exercise: Eliminate the word “can’t” from your vocabulary.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: Your Subconscious Mind will grant you anything you ask.
What You See Is What You Get
Take a long look at this shape. Is it convex or concave? Some of you will say it’s convex, others it’s concave. The truth is you’re both right. It is both convex and concave depending how you look at it. If you focus to the left of the shape it will appear concave, if you focus to the right it will appear convex. However, it cannot be both at the same time.
When you focus one way the other becomes invisible to you. Think about that, and how it applies in your life and on your job. Does this mean that you are creating your reality from moment to moment by the choices and distinctions you make about the objects around you? I believe it does; I believe you play a very large part in creating the world you will live in by the way you decide to see it. We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
“Change the way you see things and the things you see will change.”
Today’s Exercise: Let your mind show you the world.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.
Change
In quantum physics, at the tiniest subatomic level, the actual act of observing a particle changes the particle.
Wow! You can change things by looking at them with a different outcome in mind? If you want more money in your life, then you cannot see money as something you don’t have.
I remember quite clearly about ten years ago, I would question, “How come money never sticks to my hands?” What do you think the message was that I was sending to my Subconscious Mind? Yeah, it was that money never sticks to my hands. Ten years ago, I was dead broke, frustrated, and confused. Then one day I heard a voice in my head say, “That’s stupid. You are broke, but you are not dead. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and do something.” And I did.
I started my debt management company, CRS with absolutely no money, no experience in debt management, and no idea how I was going to make it. But, I did have two things going for me: I had persistence and a wife who believed in me. I had something else but I didn’t know it at the time – my view of money. I changed the way I looked at money. I understood that money was just paper and there was paper all around me, and that prosperity was there waiting for me. It finally dawned on me, that the only people who make money are those who work in a mint. Money is a medium of exchange for service. I had to find a need.
I looked around I saw that just about everyone that I knew was up to their you-know-what in credit card debt. So, what I chose to do was help people get out of debt. Within the past ten years, we have helped over thirty thousand families get out from underneath this debt.
If just one person is living a better life, because I changed the way I looked at things, then my life means something. Do yourself a favor and change the way you see the world and your world will change.
Today’s Exercise: Stop worrying about money for twenty-four hours.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: In quantum physics, at the smallest subatomic level, the actual act of observing a particle changes the particle.
The Mask
Desire and destiny; thought and reality; mental and physical, are all one and the same. The answers to all questions are buried beneath the levels of our Conscious Mind. The answers are hidden so perfectly that the majority of humankind doesn’t even know they exist. Throughout history, the enlightened masters have told us it is so. Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, and Muhammad are a few of them. Yet, it is still unknown to the vast majority of humankind.
No person can truly know themselves by examining the surface of their mind. For this is our mask; the face we show to the world. This mask, this cloak, has been donned to hide our hurts, sufferings, shames, fears, and chastisements. To know yourself truly, you must first look at your life, objectively. Your worldly goods that you enjoy; your true beliefs; faith; family, and circumstances all have sprung forth from your Subconscious Mind’s desires. You can doubt this all you want, but it is so. If you’re unhappy, unloved, broke, in ill health, or any other undesirable trait, you need not go any further to find the cause. It is because you think this way. It will avail you nothing to protest that this is not so.
Uncloak the mask and face this irrevocable fact. It will require humility and considerable emotional suffering, but face it, you must if you are to change your subconscious desires.
There will continue to be wars, hatred, violence, and negativity, but you will no longer be adversely affected. On the contrary you will bring peace, love, and kindness to everyone you come in contact with. If enough of us do this, there will be no wars, hatred, violence, or negativity. The time is coming; no longer can humankind blame lack of knowledge or religious zealots for all our problems. Each man, woman, and child must remove their own mask.
Today’s Exercise: Let’s start with you and me; remove the mask, and see the world as God intended.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: No one can truly see themselves by examining the surface of their mind.
Dream Big Dreams
We grow great by dreams. All great people are dreamers. They see greatness in everything: the sunset; the ocean at 6:00 in the morning; the birds chirping in the back yard; the smile of a child, and the devotion of a pet; well, dogs anyway, cats have their own agenda.
What separates the great dreamers from the common daydreamers? Successful people take those vivid, compelling, exciting dreams and back them up with specific plans and goals.
“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Either control your own destiny, or someone else will.”
Jack Welch
Let me make it simple. You need to have a clear idea of what you want to achieve; you must have vision.” Clarity of vision gives you focus of effort. Focus of effort gives you an intended outcome.
I’ll make it even simpler:
Dream Big!
Focus on one goal at a time.
Have faith that success is yours.
Today’s Exercise: Daydream for a half of an hour.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.
Your Impact on the Consciousness of Humanity
In the book, Power vs. Force, by Dr. David Hawkins, he writes, “In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.” Thus, as you read this keep in mind that what you think and do affects everyone. This is an eye opening revelation. It means we are responsible for every action we take or think.
Dr. Hawkins backs up his remarks and conclusions with twenty-nine years of hard research. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me. In essence, every single person, as well as large groups of people can be calibrated for their energy level. Generally speaking, low-energy people cannot distinguish truth from falsehood. They can be told how to think; whom to hate; whom to kill, and they can be herded into a group. Their mentality is based on such trivial details such as: what side of the river they were born on; what their parents and grandparents believed, or what color of skin a person has. Look at the Middle East, today. Look at the South during the Civil War. Look at Nazi, Germany, from 1930 to 1945 and perhaps beyond.
Hawkins tells us that eighty-seven percent of humanity calibrates at a collective energy level that has weakened them. The higher up the ladder of frequency vibration, the fewer number of people there are. The good news is this: One of the most fascinating aspects of this line of research is the idea of counterbalancing. High-energy people counterbalance the negative flow of low energy people.
One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of optimism, willingness, and non-judgmental of others, will counterbalance the negativity of 90,000 people who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.
Today’s Exercise: Why not try being optimistic and have a non-judgmental attitude, and counterbalance ninety thousand negative thinkers. That would be a good start.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.
The Law of Mental Attraction
You create your environment, conditions, circumstances, events, assistance, and your means to an end by mental power operating with the Law of Mental Attraction. Mental attraction, like all forms or phases of mental power, is the transformation of the subjective ideal into objective reality. It is a scientific fact that thought takes form in action, and the mental form takes on objective materiality and substance. As you read this, you are probably saying to yourself, does he really believe that? Who knows? Smarter men than me have said it is so.
Today is September 1, 2004; at this very moment, Hurricane Frances is bearing down on Florida with 140 mile per hour winds. The Weather Channel says it is heading right for me, here in Boca Raton. Everyone is asking me what I’m doing about the hurricane and I say, “Nothing, I’m just willing it to go somewhere else.” Can I do it? Would it be just a coincidence if it happened or is the pending hurricane going to clobber us? I say, “Nay, go away Frances. We have better things to do!”
It is now September 9, 2004. Ivan has grown to a category five hurricane, with sustaining winds exceeding 150 miles per hour. Everyone is nervous. I’m still trying to send this guy to Mexico. Hopefully, it will loose all its power, but it’s not coming here.
Now we have Jeanne bearing down on us. Well, I’ve got news for Jeanne. I’m sending her out to the Atlantic to die.
Florida was hit with four hurricanes in the span of three weeks. I suffered no damage to my home, never lost electricity, nor did I lose my cable. How do you figure this, a coincidence or faith? You decide.
When you change the way you look at things, your world changes.
Today’s Exercise: Move a mountain or change the weather.
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: All formed or phases of mental power is the transformation of the subjective ideal into the objective reality.
Life After This One
Going with the concept that we are infinite and that our death is not the end but the closing of a chapter, it stands to reason that we are coming back. The big question is what kind of a world will we be coming back to?
That depends on what kind of world we make while we are here in this journey. This life is just a chapter in the evolvement of awareness. We have a model to follow, when Jesus said, “What I am, you can be,” he gave us the challenge to make every day count to achieve a level of consciousness that will allow us to create miracles, to heal the sick and to bring peace to the world.
Maybe we will not achieve this in this lifetime, maybe it will take one hundred life times, but we must go forward, never looking back.
Like a sword that is heated and tempered many times to make unbreakable, our spirit must go through the same process. Each journey we take we must learn and each lesson we learn, we must teach and the world will change.
I have a perfect example of this, not too many years ago Communism spread through Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall separated the “Haves” from the “Have Nots.” The Cold War was at its peak and the world lived in terror of an atomic war. Then Sweden and Finland started smuggling VCRs into the Soviet Union and East Berlin. When the people saw how life without Communism was and how the people on the other side of the wall lived, they wanted their share of the good life. In less than ten years the Berlin Wall came down and Communist USSR ceased to exist.
The power of what you believe, you create and this will make a better world.
Today’s Exercise: Make a conscious effort to see only prosperity and peace.
Today’s Affirmations: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: The power of what you believe you create and this will make a better world.
What You Believe, You Create
Most people do not realize the creative power that they posses and so the masses create a world of scarcity. Not enough money, or love, or food or peace or happiness. So we see an abundance of scarcity and we create more scarcity and say I told you so. This viscous cycle must come to a halt. It starts with you and me, we create more love, more happiness, more prosperity, more kindness and then someone comes along, sees our prosperity and says, “Yes, this too I am worthy of,” and more prosperity is created so that more people’s eyes are open and they too create more prosperity.
A tug-of-war begins. Those seeing only a world of violence, war, poverty, and desperation living right along side of those who see the world as God has created it to be. Who will win?
The Age of Enlightenment is now, television and modernization are bringing the message to all corners of the globe and the masses will soon say, “Why not me? I am worthy. I am using the same power of the Universal Superconscious Mind (God).”
By teaching, we become the student to learn more of the truth. This truth will overcome the petty jealousy of power seekers who will try to keep us servant to ancient fables and misconceptions. But we will know in our hearts; and the walls of Hell will come down as fast as the Berlin Wall came down.
Today’s Exercise: Take one step forward to teach what you know.
Today’s Affirmations: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: Jesus said, “What I am, you can be.”
Creativity
Did you ever hear people say, “I’m not very creative”? Perhaps you have said it yourself. What you are really saying is, “I don’t believe that I am part of God.” You believe that you are separate from all living things and look at God’s prosperity of infinity every day and don’t see it. You know that people die, but you live your life as if death will never happen to you. You believe in a Heaven or Hell but cannot describe what it would be like in either place. Try it right now.
If you go to Heaven, what do you do all day? Do you have a specific job like helping Saint Peter? Do you staff the Pearly Gates? Maybe you’re the harp tuner or an angel in training. What do the angels do all day? Do you get to sit down with Michelangelo and discuss the art of painting a ceiling while lying on your back? Do you get wings, and if so what do you do with them? I mean, where do you need to fly?
What about Hell? They say, “It’s down there.” Down where? Is it in the center of the Earth, or maybe it’s on the sun? That would make it pretty hot. What do you do there all day? Shovel coal on the fire. Nah, that’s stupid. It’s as stupid as saying, “I’m not very creative.”
You are creative because you think. You think because you are connected to the Universal Superconscious Mind of God. Your Heaven or Hell is the acceptance of this truth.
Today’s Exercise: Ask yourself this question: Am I living in Heaven or Hell right now?
Today’s Affirmation: I attract success and happiness into my life every day.
Points to Ponder: You are creative because you think. You think because you are connected to the Universal Superconscious Mind of God.
Lucky or Unlucky
The vast majority of people on this planet consider themselves as either lucky or unlucky. They are wrong. They are neither lucky nor unlucky; they are exactly what they think about all day long.
A study by Doctor J.B. Rhine of Duke University proved that the mind of humans has the power to effect inert matter. In other words, we control our luck one way or the other. Want proof? Watch The World Championship of Poker, the biggest rage on TV, and the Internet. The winners are always those who think they are going to win. I would love to know how many actually willed the winning card to show up on the “River” card.
Thus, Dr. Rhine feels that the mind is independent of the boundaries of space and time. Does his theory prove that survival of some kind exists after death? Dr. Rhine’s research conducted at Duke University, one of the finest universities in the world, under the surveillance of the most knowledgeable scientists on the powers of the mind proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the greatest power in all creation exists within the mind of human beings.