Good day and I hope you are having a great day. This week, I come back to a recurring topic
that relates to 100% personal responsibility.
I was reading the book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace
Wattles again, and a part of it made me think.
Since this book was written in 1917 or so, the author was explaining the
“certain way of thinking” where it pertains to earning income in terms of the
popular businesses of the time. He mentioned that you can achieve the income
that you like. “You may not be able to compete with the J.J. Hills or the like
in the rail road business…”. That really struck a chord with me. Let me explain.
Even personally I sometimes get stuck in the how
part of achieving a manifestation. Maybe
it is because I am a guy, or too anal.
Maybe it is just a part of what society has drilled into my head that
you have to figure it out. The point is that this is an “employee” thinking
mentality. Nothing wrong with it, but rarely
is a fortune (monetary) made thinking
like an employee. Think about it.
Employees are actually rewarded for thinking “independently” or “being self-managed”
but within the confines of a set of rules.
Both good qualities until you get stuck within the confines of “in the box thinking”.
The key to what Mr. Wattles was indicating and what The Law
of Attraction stresses is the fact that when you start desiring and visualizing
what you want you can really cut yourself off if you are fixated on a “particular
way of going about achieving things”.
This is where a little humility will go a long way. Remember you are being aided by a Source much
greater than you. I witness this on a smaller scale when I try to help my
little girls do their homework. They
want to go about doing the problems the only way they have been taught, or more
likely the newest way they have been taught when another path or technique
maybe much easier.
Take for example my desire to own a Porsche 911 Turbo
convertible. I may only see the result
coming from obtaining a monetary amount of $210,000 and in my narrow vision I
am concentrating on getting that amount of money, but I am now forgetting that
my actual desire was the car not the money.
That is why the first step is being very clear about exactly what it is
that you want. If it is money, what is it that you think that money will bring
for you. Is it just the number in the bank account, or is it a home, a car, a
life style? You want to concentrate on what the final outcome is that you are
looking for, and not how to get to the final outcome.
Don’t get me wrong, planning your ACTION is a key step in
reaching your goal, but the plan has to be fluid depending on the opportunities
that will open up to you. Let me give
you another example. Recently I thought
I wanted an Apple watch. For some reason
that was the new thing I wanted to have.
I did not really want to spend $400 or so on it, so I tried to see how I
could “win” one, or look on Groupon for it. It met with some success, as there
were adds with small discounts that suddenly rushed into my e-mail box. Yet when
I suddenly let go of the how, out of nowhere I was contacted by a customer that
needed one-on-one coaching for a few weeks. Now I don’t do personal coaching
unless the client is recommended by one of my personal clients, but something
about this person, and the amount of effort they had spent finding me hit home
and I agreed. Boom just like that the money for the Apple watch came in. I enjoyed the experience of helping the
client, and I made a good friend in the process.
None of that would have happened if I was fixated on a set
way of getting what I wanted. So please
note, there are many ways for you to get what you want. You just have to be
open so YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE OPPORTUNITIES, when they present themselves to
you. I hope this makes sense to you and
as always please feel free to share this with anyone who may benefit from it,
and comment on my Facebook page and Twitter feed. Till next week, to your success.