BROKEN AS GOLD

Good day and I hope you are having a great week.  Eckhart Tolle in his book The Power of Now states that if we were in Heaven, we would say after a while, this is great, but.  This is something that makes us who we are.  We are constantly looking for the next desire, and that is a great thing.  It is not a bad thing.  This is a bountiful Universe and we should be looking for our hearts content.  What does this have to with brokenness?

There is a Japanese art called Kintsugi or Kintsukuroi that is the art of repairing broken ceramic and china by filling and sticking the pieces together with a resin which has gold dust in it.  The moral of the story being that what is broken is actually more beautiful than the original.  As we dare to go after our desires instead of sitting back, we risk being broken.  We risk, to gain. We go beyond what is comfortable to gain new successes.  We push our boundaries, to experience the new opportunities.  This risk will come with stumbles, setbacks,  and what many may call “failure”.  In reality though has there been anything that we have achieved without failing and trying again? Imagine if you had stopped trying to walk because you fell down the first time you tried.  Ridiculous right?

There is a great beauty and I would go as far as saying power to someone who perseveres in the face of setbacks and prevails.  Many coaches will say “ you are not beaten until you quit”. Motivational speakers are fond of saying “you are the only one who can stop you”.  These are not just tweetable quotes, although feel free to tweet them. 

Do not hide behind your mistakes. Do not run from failure. Why do we let our failures and stumbles define our actions? It is called Shame.  Shame is different from guilt.  Guilt is an action that you did that was wrong. Shame is an identity; you believe there is something wrong with you.  There could not be anything further from the truth.  You recall Thomas Edison tried and failed 10,000 times to perfect the light bulb.  Do you think he was ashamed after each try.  Oh sure people were readily available to ridicule him, but imagine if he had stopped trying to invent his inventions.  

Remember people are always ready to bring you down. It is not always from a place of malice, it can actually be from a place of love.  Loved ones fear for your wounds.  When you experience brokenness, it hurts those who love you as well and they want to protect you from experiencing scars. Or it maybe they have experienced some brokenness and have not persevered to overcome and have not reached their goals.  Since this is a point of pain for them they “think” they can save you from experiencing the same results.  Success is not something we can want for others. You have to want it.  If you want it enough you will achieve it.  If your desires change then you can move on. In either case the brokenness or scars have taught you a valuable lesson that more than likely you will use and benefit from in the future.

I hope this makes sense. Please feel free to comment and ask questions on my Facebook Page and do not forget to tweet me and follow me onTweeter.  Until next week, to your continued success.  

IS LOA THE NEW COMMUNISM

Good day and I hope you are having a wonderful week.  Why doesn’t the concept of communism work in reality? Doesn’t believing in no scarcity, and everyone prospering as The Law  of Attraction (LOA) teaches the same as communism? These are the topics I want to discuss this week in this post. I hope it will clarify what LOA is and more importantly what it is not. 

The simple answer to the question, is LOA the new communism is no.  In fact it is exactly because of this Universal law called The Law of Attraction that communism does not work in reality.  In theory communism would be a society that works to help everyone achieve a certain equality in every aspects of their lives.  The caveat is that some people are more ambitious in different categories of their lives and some people are just lazy and don’t want to do anything but want to have all the benefits of those who are working. Some people like to accumulate more money.  Some people like to give more love. Some people are more of an intellectual.  Because of LOA when you start gravitating and releasing the vibration that gets you in tune with what you want, there will always be different levels of success in different categories of life, and hence no matter how much a governing authority tries to push down those who are successful in an attempt  to raise those who are not successful, the Universals laws will counter act that, and result in the failure of the concept as we have seen throughout the history of the world.  This in turn will just feed fuel to the belief that something is wrong with this system and the by The Law of Attraction more opportunities will manifest to prove what a failure the system is. It is law. It has to be that way.  You cannot help those who are not successful by taking away from those who are successful.  It just does not work in reality.  It is a pipe dream and frankly it is not fair.

What makes LOA different from communism is that The Law of Attraction is not something that can be forced on a society or people.  As you have seen me write in this blog post you CANNOT want it for someone else.  LOA is a personal choice and in that respect it also requires 100% personal responsibility.   No blaming your parents, the government, the economy, the media, the rich, the poor or whatever the fill in the blank. The underlying concept of LOA and law of  prosperity is that, Source does nothing with scarcity. Which means that if you actually follow the principles of the LOA, prosperity is your results.  What these principles dictate is that competition comes from a place of scarcity.  Everyone can have everything they want as long as they match their vibration to it.  How do you go about matching your vibration to something you want? You visualize it. You become extremely clear on exactly what it is that you want and then as opportunities are opened for you by the Universe, you take action on those.  These seems very simple in principle, but because by our innate nature human beings tend to concentrate on negativity and human beings are lazy, it make the practice of this law difficult but not impossible.  

Stop trying to have what your neighbor has. Stop envying what others have in their relationships. Stop gossiping about where people go on their vacation or what they wear.  Be happy for people when you see them having what you want. Do you know why? Because when you envy, and gossip and are jealous you are sending the REQUEST to the UNIVERSE to bring you more and more opportunities to gossip, and envy and be jealous which does nothing to help you improve your situation.  When you are happy for people, guess what signal you are sending out? You are sending out the REQUEST to the UNIVERSE to bring you, yes, you got it, more opportunities to be happy which in turn means your situation has to have improved.   This is completely the opposite of take it from those who are happy and give it to those who are not to make them happy. What idiot came up with this stupid idea anyway.  I guess on paper it must have seemed great. NOT.

I am willing to bet in the next century, the LOA will be wide spread and routinely practiced.  It is exciting to see a new world where people are not trying to cheat each other out of a measly dollar.  It is exciting to see a future where animosity because so and so loved someone else is not an issue because everyone can attract the relationship that they desire.  We are not far from it.  As it is we are understanding why it is that some people are widely successful in their lives while others who seemingly should be successful are not. 

Let’s take money for example.  For the longest time it was believed that the higher you level of education, the more money you would make.  I am a great supporter of higher education so don’t mistake what I am trying to preach here, but there is a magic ceiling on top of that, and we notice people who are extremely successful in business usually come from very humble beginnings. The reason is that education is not everything.  As Napoleon Hill said, specialized knowledge is the cheapest form of commodity one can purchase.  If knowledge was power, then our academia would be the richest and most powerful segment of society.  Knowledge is great, but there is a behavior portion that comes with understanding how to use The Law of Attraction that will unleash the power within knowledge. 

Please start putting these concept into practice.  Start sharing your knowledge of the LOA with people because this is something that needs to be widespread.  This is something that needs to go viral.  The prosperity of our world depends on it. Even though we have come a long way from 2006 when the movie The Secret was released, there are so many misconception of what is and what is not considered The Law of Attraction.  Misconceptions turn people off and create stagnation in the propagation of this knowledge.  Spend time on this blog or others like it, and understand what exactly is the LOA. Understand how you can use it to your advantage, and then share those skills with others. 

I hope this post got you thinking. If you have any questions on this post please don’t forget to post it on our Facebook page or send me a tweet.  Until next week, as always to your success. 

WHY DO THE RIGHT THING?

Good day and I hope you are having a great week. This week I have a video blog for you. In this week's blog I make a reference to a previous blog post from last in which I explain that sometimes you actually think that negative actions are to your best interest. Here is the post http://successwithloa.blogspot.com/2014/07/cheating-law-of-attraction-is-it.html?_sm_au_=iVVjVsfvFjsv1Qrq




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DARKEST BEFORE DAWN

Good day and I hope you are having a great week. Often times I think about stuff that is happening around me in the present reality that I face as I travel through airports because even though I try to avoid the media news, it is all over the screens (that seem to be getting bigger and bigger) on airport monitors. These days airports have big screens that readily bring the chaos and negativity face to face to us.  Without exception these T.V screens are tuned to either CNN or Headline News, or Fox news or some station similar to them.  I have to remind myself that my world and my reality is not based on what I see right there and right now.  I have to remind myself that I have complete control to create the world as I want it.  I take a serene comfort in the fact that if people are afraid, and there is greater and greater chaos on this little blue planet, perhaps it is because we are on the verge of transcending into something even better and more magical.

I am not talking about some end of world crap either.  I am more practical and optimistic than that.  I am sure you have heard the saying that “it is darkest before dawn”. It is a scientific fact and it is often used to comfort people who are facing challenges.  I believe that humanity is on the verge of transcending the mere materialistic, and competitive nature that has brought so much chaos and at the same time comforts and technological advances that we could not have even dreamed of just a few decades ago.  I believe we are on the verge of truly Universal Love among all people. I believe we are on the verge of seeing a world where hate will be erased from our vocabulary.  Scarcity will be erased from our vocabulary.  The knowledge that the Universe is an abundant Universe is spreading.

More and more people are becoming conscious of the fact that we have complete control over our world and our reality.  More and more people are realizing that competition and scarcity are created by our own thoughts, hence can also be displaced and forgotten by changing our thought patterns. Competition is not the only way to achieve abundance and excellence. There are other ways. We just have to change what lies we have believed in thus far, and concentrate on the truth. The truth is that Universe does nothing with scarcity.

I want you to join me in thinking great thoughts.  Join me in believing the fact that humanity is taking a big step towards the better, instead of wallowing in our own pity that the world is in chaos and everything is going to hell in a hand basket.   After all this is not only a better thought and a better feeling, but if all of us start thinking that way, there is much more power to the vibration and it will exponentially manifest a world where everyone would love to live in.  We can do it.  Numerous studies have shown that even a small group of 100 to 300 people meditating in unison for common peace decreases crime and chaos in neighborhood and cities.  Imagine if we could do this throughout the world.  So the next time you are visualizing that thing that you want add a special visualization for a better, more loving world for yourself.  You cannot want it for anyone else, but you can create it for you.  It takes only you, and you, and you…

I don’t know how many people read this blog post, but please share this with your friends.  Do it for the betterment of our world. This is my plea to you this week. Thank you and until next week to your success.  Please follow me on Twitter, and make comments or questions on my Facebook page.