Technology Of Getting Prosperous

So said Brian Tracy.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative. When you are absolutely clear about what you want, you only need to copy others who have achieved it before you, and you will eventually get the same results that they have.

Sir Isaac Newton called it the third principle of motion. He said, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

For you and I, the most important expression of this universal law is that, “Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects.”

Put another way, “Thought is creative.” Your thoughts are the primary creative forces in your life. You create your entire world by the way you think. All the people and situations of your life have only the meaning you give them by the way you think about them. And when you change your thinking, you change your life, some times in seconds!

The most important principle of personal or business success is simply this: You become what you think about most of the time.

It is not what happens to you but how you think about what happens to you that determines how you feel and react. It is not the world outside of you that dictates your circumstances or conditions. It is the world inside you that creates the conditions of your life.

People always wonder what makes some people successful, while some are not. I came across this interesting article ‘Thoughts on Successful People’ by Chris Widener.

Some time ago, I was hired to do some training for a sales team from one of the largest companies in America. There were 16 people on this team. That year their sales (for the 16 of them) was 250 million - that’s right, a quarter of a billion - dollars! Needless to say, it was an excellent and fascinating time. I decided to learn a little bit myself so I watched them closely to see what kind of people they were and to see what common denominators they shared. Below is what I found. I think you will find the elements applicable to your own life.

The first thing I noticed about this successful sales team was that they had a sense of humor! They simply weren’t a terribly serious bunch of people. Instead, they saw that life was to be enjoyed and that means they were able to laugh a little bit. Sure, there were varying levels in this but they all had a sense of humor. They were able to laugh at circumstances, and they were able to laugh at themselves. It was quite refreshing and a core element of their success, I’m sure.

The second thing I found out about this group was that they did not achieve their success through pedigree, but through hard work. They didn’t come from families that gave them a free pass into the upper echelon of the corporate world and they didn’t get a head start from upper crust universities. What got them to where they are now? Hard work! That’s right, another example that if you put your mind to it, work hard and get in the right situation, you can achieve great things! These folks work long hours and are disciplined in the work they do. And it is paying off.

The third thing I noticed about this team is that they are learners. They were always engaged in the learning process. During my sessions they were engaged and listening. You could see their minds processing the information. They were asking questions and applying the material to their work and their lives. They wanted to improve in any way that they could. It was also interesting to watch them in their team meetings led by their sales manager. They were very interactive and were learning from one another. None of them was above learning from a peer.

What did I see in these successful people? The same things that can make you a success as you apply the principles to your own life: A sense of humor, hard work, and a desire to learn at every turn.

Chris Widener

I found this great Success Report full of excellent advice, and if it helps just one person, even in a small way, to take one-step closer to their dreams, then it will have been time incredibly well-spent.

We can learn all this and more at Success University.

Success breeds Success

“When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.” — Arland Gilbert

“Man never made any material as resilient as the human sprit.” — Bern Williams

“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.” — Percival

MODELING BEHAVIOR

“We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.” — Denis Waitley

“Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don’t have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.” — Greg Anderson

“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” — George W. Crane

“You can’t think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.” — Nido Qubein

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION

“Love is a better master than duty.” — Albert Einstein

“Motivation is said to be an inside job… actually it’s an inside career for very successful folks.” — Doug Firebaugh

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar

“Instinct is untaught ability.” — Alexander Bain

IMPROVING RESULTS

Conception, perception, and expectation must change in order to assure achievement of better results.

– Roice Krueger

DO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL!

The secret to having a beautiful life is to do something beautiful everyday.

- James Skinner

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

“Practice doesn’t make perfect; practice makes permanent!” — Denis Waitley

“The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, ‘If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.´ Now I say, ‘I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me.´” — Jim Rohn

“Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement — you are your most precious resource.” — Brian Tracy

“Make education a continuing, never-ending process.” — Nido Qubein

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” Charles Dickens

“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.” Herbert Hoover

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

“Refuse to make excuses or blame anyone for anything.” — Brian Tracy

“I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can’t do.” — Dean Graziosi

“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” — Robert M. Pirsig

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.” — Mark Twain

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY

“Always sit as far up front as you can.” — Denis Waitley

“Don’t borrow someone else’s plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.” — Jim Rohn

“Take your job seriously, BUT don’t take their complaints personally. If you take it personally you’ll get upset and lose your edge. If you take it too personally, you’ll lose your edge and your job. If you take it seriously — it’s you with them. If you take it personally, it’s you against them. What steps can you take to ensure keeping your cool?” — Jeffrey Gitomer

“A character is a completely fashioned will.” — Novalis

“The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.” Margaret Fontey

MIRACLES

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein

What you are about to see was seen at a Chinese modern dance competition
broadcast on one of China ’s TV stations. One couple won one of the top
prizes. The lady has one arm and the guy has one leg. They performed
gracefully and beautifully.

The lady in her 30s was a dancer and was trained as one since she was a
little girl. Later she got into some kind of accident and lost her entire
left arm. She was depressed for a few years. It seemed that someone asked
her to coach a Children’s dancing group. From that point on, she realized
she could not forget dancing. She still loved to dance. She wanted to
dance again. So she started to do some of her old routines. But by her
losing an arm, she also lost her balance. It took a while before she could
even making simple turns and spins without falling. Eventually she got it.

Then she heard some guy in his 20s had lost a leg in an accident. This guy
also fell into the usual denial, depression and anger type of emotional
roller coaster. She looked him up (seemingly he was from a different
Province) and persuaded him to dance with her. He had never danced. And
to dance with one leg? Are you joking with me? No way. But she didn’t give
up. He reluctantly agreed. ‘ I have nothing else to do anyway.’ She
started to teach him dancing 101. The two broke up a few times because the
guy had no concept of using muscle control, and a few other basic
things about dancing. When she became frustrated and lost patience with
him, he would walk out. Eventually they came back together and started
training. They hired a choreographer to design routines for them. She
would fly high (held by him) with both arms (a sleeve for an arm) flying in
the air. He could bend horizontally supported by one leg and she leaning on
him, etc. They danced beautifully and they legitimately beat others in the
competition.

Henry Ford said, “Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you’re right.”

Its true because it all boils down to our Beliefs.  Our Beliefs can be either empowering or they can be disempowering.   Our Beliefs are nothing but our Thoughts held to be true.  Our beliefs are not right or wrong; they are only opinions.  They are like filters we put on.

We don’t see the world as it is.  We see the world as we are.

We ACT according to our Beliefs, and our Actions create our Results.  So if we are not happy with our Results, we must CHANGE our Beliefs.

‘Understanding the 4 Steps to Change’ is a book by James Skinner, Roice Krueger, and Mark Victor Hansen.  Here’s a summary.

1.  Identify the Limiting Thoughts that are preventing us from getting what we want.  The Negative experiences from our pasts create limiting patterns of thought that cause us to focus on the past and interpret an event in a certain way.

Every change comes from a change of mind, a change of heart, and a change of thought.
2.  We must Find a big enough Reason to Change.  Our reason to change may be based on either pain or pleasure.

An example is the Story of Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Records.  He started at the age of 16 publishing a little magazine called ‘Student’, and today he is a billionaire who has built hundreds of companies.

Several years ago he had borrowed every cent he could - almost $1billion.  He needed to retrofit his airlines in Australia and put a TV in the back of every seat to stay competitive.  It was going to cost $8million, but he couldn’t borrow a nickel more.

If he didn’t find a way to get it done, he was going to lose his airline.  That is a big enough reason to give up all kinds of limiting thoughts.

He read that Boeing Airlines was about to go under and the head of Boeing was going to let go of 30,000 people.  Richard offered to buy 10 747s at full price on 2 conditions : that BA retrofit his airplanes in Australia with TV screens, and that he was only going to pay in 6 years time.

The BA head had either to go to his Board of Directors and say the Company was bankrupt or figure out how to make the plan work in 6 years.

He made a decision and Richard sent him the contract by e-mail, and they saved both companies.

Victor Franki said, “If you have a big enough why, you can deal with any how.”

3.  Create new alternatives.  Whenever we take a behaviour away, or take a belief away, whether from ourselves or from any other person or organisation, we have to have something to replace it with.

So, we must create new alternatives that are better than the old ones.

4.  Reward and Repetition.  To make your changes lasting and sustainable, it is essential that we reward ourselves for the change and repeat and rehearse our new patterns of behaviour until they become habits.

We must Celebrate our Successes wildly and instantly.

We must Create a new incantation or affirmation that we can repeat to ourselves over and over again.  We must Paste it on our bathroom mirror and say it to ourselves every morning and every night.

Engage in repetition until the behaviour is automatic.

Take immediate action on our decisions to give ourselves momentum.

Visualize.  See yourself in the future in a situation where you are now doing the new behaviour.

Anything we repeat often enough will become a habit!

The Millionaire Mind Intensive by T. Harv Eker in Singapore from 23 to 25 Nov 2007 was simply mind-blowing.

What an explosive weekend to discover my Financial Blueprint and set it for Success. It was also an opportunity to discover and Unlearn my old thoughts and beliefs and throw the non-supportive ones out from my Mind Files. And in the process add many new supportive beliefs into my Mind Files.

I was totally blown away by the step-by-step process of the training. Truly T. Harv Eker is a Master Trainer.

These same million-dollar ideas are reflected in the book “Starting Poor, Getting Rich” co-authored by James Skinner, Roice Krueger, and Mark Victor Hansen.

Wealth is ultimately cultivated in the mind.

Our thoughts are what we become, our thoughts are what we do, and our thoughts are what we create in life.

We have to think rich, we have to think wealth, and we have to change our thought patterns to move to higher dimensions of wealth and abundance.

We must educate our mind so we can create more and more value for other people, because that is where true wealth begins.

The authors themselves started out without money. They had to work at an early age.

We can learn from the rich. There is nothing that cannot be learned. We only have to emulate the rich and follow successful ways to be successful.

We must aspire to be wealthy in the highest ways possible - with dignity, class, style, panache, not just in money.

Being dignified, having class, having style, doesn’t have anything to do with how much money we have in our pocket. Its how other people see us.

Its what others see, hear, and feel. Its how we speak to them, how we treat them, and how we hold ourselves. Its the respect they see we give to ourselves. This is where true dignity comes from.

I’m on the road to more education for my soul, my spirit, my mind, and my thoughts.

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Cheers, Jasmin

“Starting Poor, Getting Rich” is a book co-authored by James Skinner, Roice Krueger, and Mark Victor Hansen.

This is a very interesting book reminding us that we are our greatest asset. There is no limit to how far we can go!

We are all born the same: naked, helpless, and ignorant. We all have the same start and its up to us where we want to end up.

The first principle the book teaches us is that WE ARE OUR GREATEST ASSET.

Would we give up a limb, an eye, or our hearing for a million dollars? Certainly not! The fact is that we have millions of dollars of intrinsic resources to us.

We must understand that our wealth is merely a reflection of our ability to create value and help meet the needs of others. All our money and possessions are just a mirror of ourselves.

That’s why we have to understand that when the mirror breaks and when we think we have lost everything, we merely have to stand before another mirror and see that its still the same us. We have not actually lost anything because we still possess the same ability to create value.

We still have that same ability to help others in need and identify opportunities and respond to them as before.

How powerful indeed to understand that we are our greatest asset. Our wealth is our mind, our heart, our spirit, our ability to help others, and to add value to other people.

We have libraries which allow us to access the accumulated knowledge and wealth of information and thinking of all the greatest minds who ever lived; of all mankind and cultures.

We must do something about it. We must decide in advance that we are going to be millionaires, or multimillionaires.

All the success coaches say that it is vital to write down our goals and action plans. So let’s write right now “I am so happy I am becoming a millionaire.”

Our state of mind will create our state of result.

Wealth is ultimately created in our mind. We become our thoughts. Our thoughts are what we do and what we create in life.

The power of THOUGHT is simply amazing!

We must think RICH and we must think WEALTH. We must change our THOUGHT patterns. To that end, we must always educate ourselves.

Educating ourselves means we are educating our minds so that we can create more and more value for other people.

We must believe this and never forget or lose hope.

Another thing is that we must always speak well of others. We must speak well of those who are wealthy. Yes, oft times there are those of us who say that the wealthy have acquired their wealth dishonestly or unfairly. That is not acceptable.

Would we want to be wealthy if that is how we think of wealthy people? I’m sure not. Wealth is after all not just about money, but also about class, style, and dignity. It is about self-respect.

So how do we add value?

The authors suggest some simple ways.

We can make an effort everyday to look for instances where we can help others. Perhaps its something that they need to be done, or perhaps its something that is useful for them.

Another way is to choose our jobs well. That is choose those jobs which challenge us to think, to learn, to grow, to develop and fully mature at our best; where there is no ceiling on us, no limits.

Being cheerful about our jobs is also vital. When we do the jobs others don’t want to do, we will be rewarded.

To be continued……….
Cheers, Jasmin

Paving the Road to Your Success

This is the title of a book co-authored by Mark Victor Hansen, James Skinner, and Roice Krueger.

In this book Mark Victor Hansen writes that on one of his trips to China, he was asked to talk about billionaire traits.

Mark found that when he had asked billionaires what they would do with $1 Billion dollars, these were some of the answers :

“I’d be comfortable and secure with all my basic needs met, so I could focus on peace among various religions and cultures. All the while I’d have beautiful houses across the world to stay in.”

“I want to be a philanthropist. I want to give away my money.”

I want to teach others how to be billionaires, contribute to society, help eliminate poverty, and save the environment.”

“I would like to provide housing for the poor.”

He found that they all had one thing in common.

They never said anything selfish.

“Billionaires thoughts are never selfish!”

Their thoughts are all noble, empowering and uplifting.

“Anything that you hold for yourself alone becomes a liability!”

Isn’t that interesting? He cites the example of knowledge. He says that’s why we share our knowledge. When knowledge sits in our brain space, it is a liability until we share it with someone else, thus converting it into an asset.

“Wealth is the result of sharing your assets with others!”

He says that wealth building is unselfish. The process of becoming wealthy is the least-selfish process.

That’s something for us to reflect upon.

He says that whenever we hold something for ourselves, it becomes a liability and starts sucking out our cash.

But when we start to open it up for others to use, it becomes an asset.

“Make everything you are, have, or own available to other people!”

We need to start thinking of ways to make everything we are, have, or own available to others.

And if we want this asset to become an even greater asset, we have to share it with more people in more impactful ways.

He asks us to consider this question: What makes something an asset, and what makes it a liability?

Is our car an asset or a liability? To the taxi driver, his car is an asset because it generates cash for him all day long. And how he does this is by making it available for anyone who wants a ride to use it.

Opening up our assets for the use and benefit of others will provide us the opportunities and the cash flow streams to come to us naturally.

It’s a mindset and Wealth is a mindset.

Once we have this mindset we’ll see that when we give, we will create a vacuum effect which will naturally fill up.

So the more that we give, the more we will receive.

We just have to look at the wealthiest people to know where wealth flowed to.

It flowed to Rockefeller who gave it away before he died.

Carnegie also gave it away.

Bill Gates is giving it away.

Warren Buffet is giving it away.

“Wealth flows to the givers!”

“All of us together can create a better world!”

Our minds are assets and more of us need to use our minds as assets.

“Giving it away does not make it less for you!”

What he says we have to understand, is that we need to share everything that we have so that it grows.

When we give it away, it just doesn’t grow; it multiplies!

How powerful indeed!

In summary, we cannot give wealth away because it keeps coming back. So his advice to us is to start giving.

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Cheers, Jasmin

How the Secret of Asking Can Get You Everything Your Heart Desires!

In the book ‘The Magic Lamp’ co-authored by James Skinner, Mark Victor Hansen, and Roice Krueger, the authors reminded us of Aladdin and The Magic Lamp. Do you remember the story of Aladdin rubbing the Magic Lamp and the Genie granting him 3 wishes? Well that story is relevant today too. However, the funny thing is that the Genie is now too old and his Maths is a little rusty!

The Genie forgets how many wishes he has granted you - that means he will continuously grant you your wishes. All you have to do is ASK!

Its as simple as making a fist with one hand and rubbing the fist with the other. Just rub and ask.

Stephen Covey in his book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ said we should write a Mission Statement: what do you really want from Life?

What should we ask for? However, we cannot ask for the solution, we cannot ask how to get ‘there’ if we ourselves don’t know how.

What we should ask for is help; we should ask for assistance; we should ask for inspiration.

We must believe this: “The Whole World Wants to Help You”.

There are people and opportunities out there to help you, and in return we have to repay them in some way.

That’s the way it is!

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Cheers, Jasmin