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Limitless Wealth Manual
Limitless Wealth Manual
By Keith Matthew
CONTENTS
FORWARD .............................................................................................................................................4
CHAPTER 1 Limitless Wealth and Success Begins For You Today .............................................. 6
The Secret Science of Manifesting What You Want
The Energy Behind Your Present Life Circumstances
How to Create and Attract Success Permanently
CHAPTER 5 The Inner Workings of Wealth and Success in Your Life .......................................25
The Law of Force vs. The Law of Harmonious Attraction
The Main Cause of Poverty Consciousness
Negative, Destructive Thoughts and How To Replace Them So You Can Accelerate Your Success
CHAPTER 6 The 3 Main Reasons Why Things Dont Go Your Way ...........................................31
What You Secretly Expect Tells the Real Story
Everything Is and Has Vibration
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CHAPTER 12 How To Double Your Income Again, and Again and Again..................................81
Creating and Adding Value
One Stream or Multiple Streams of Income?
Joint Venture Your Way to Success
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FORWARD
There are many books and personal development programs focused on the subject of Success. Just go to
Amazon.com or any local bookstore and youll find a whole slew of them. The challenge is, and has always
been the following: 1) to actually crack open the book or program and go through it; and 2) applying
knowledge gained so that you can see similar results in your own life. Most people that get to the point of
actually applying the information usually have some initial success but then after a while they find that
something is lacking; that what was working at first doesnt seem to work anymore.
In the business world it has always been considered that the salesperson who could sell a customer
something he did not want was the most talented. Men and women are taught Business Psychology,
learning the fine art of how to control another persons mind through the power of Mental suggestion and
various NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) techniques. The idea is to make the customer or prospect do
what you want.
This book teaches the true Law of Success, which is the Law of Harmonious Attraction. Under this Law,
things come to us because they want to come and not because we make them come; they remain with us
because they want to do so. Instead of working to control our neighbor or a potential customer, we learn to
control ourselves and become so strong, powerful and harmonious in our attractive power that the things we
want will want us so much that they just cant keep away from us.
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CHAPTER 1
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MAN POSSESSES WITHIN HIM ALL THE CREATIVE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE. This
may seem a wild claim to many, so if you experience resistance to it, thats ok. In time, the goal is to
help you develop your awareness and understanding to where you not only understand but you also
know this truth.
Everything youve ever had, everything you have now, everything you will ever have springs forth
from what youve created yourself. Now, most of us have done the larger part of our work of
creating unconsciously and ignorantly, and we havent stopped to see, study, and understand the
relationship between the use we made of this energy and the things it has created for us. Its so much
easier to explain our situations away to chance, accident, or luck.
Everyone can agree that if you take a knife and swipe it across your hand, youll need a bandage; but
what many have not learned yet is that when we think vicious thoughts of any kind fear, worry,
anger, hatred, resentment or resistance for example these thoughts generate an energy which
causes us to relate with the things on the objective plane that we dont want, whether it be in the
physical body or in our environment. Its this relationship of effect to cause which we must learn
before we can begin to permanently abolish poverty consciousness from our lives.
Now, it IS possible to abolish poverty consciousness temporarily, even for a lifetime in some
instances, without having a thorough understanding of the relationship of effect to cause in your life.
A select few people may be able to concentrate their entire creative power on the subject of money
and accumulate great wealth. These few people may even hold onto their great fortune during their
life in any incarnation and still think all these vicious thoughts and manifest them objectively. But
know this: the great Universal Law is always present, and whatsoever a man soweth that too shall he
reap. This person will reap the effects of the energy he has created, either in poverty, sickness, or
misery of some kind.
The objective here is to teach you how to create and attract success to you PERMANENTLY not
temporarily; how to get what you want, get it when you want it, and keep it as long as you want it.
When you know this Law, and it becomes such a fixed part of your life that it becomes second
nature to you, when you live it because you have developed the consciousness that you dont know
how to live any other way, only then will you truly know what Limitless Wealth and Success is.
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Summary
Everything begins and ends in consciousness. You are building your own world every moment of
your life. Once you start looking beyond the external and go deeper into the energy which produced
your present life conditions, youre going to learn that accidents, chance, luckthese are all actually
effects of our relating with natural Laws; Laws so simple and easy to understand that youll later
wonder why you didnt see this more clearly a long time ago!
Man possesses within him all the creative power of the universe. Every moment of our lives, with
every breath we draw, we are creating something. Even as you read this you are creating something.
Most of us have done the larger part of our work of creating unconsciously and ignorantly, and we
havent stopped to see, study, and understand the relationship between the use we made of this
energy and the things it has created for us. Its so much easier to explain our situations away to
chance, accident, or luck.
Your life today is the effect of these creations of your past. Success comes when you become
consciousness of the abundance of supply; it comes when you recognize your oneness with limitless
supply.
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Action Plan
Part A. In order to go deeper into the energy of your present life conditions, lets first list 3 areas of
your life youd like to improve (Examples might be a relationship, your finances, your career,
family-related, home environment or lifestyle):
1. ________________________________
____________________
2. ________________________________
____________________
3. ________________________________
____________________
Part B. Now, choose the description that BEST illustrates what youve experienced historically in
each of the above 3 areas of your life youre looking to improve:
a. The outcome never seems to change for me in this area. Ive had the same results these other
times too: 1)
2)
3)
b. I do the right thing but something always happens to get in the way of my success
c. People dont understand me and they dont see me the same way I see myself
d. I dont really have much luck in this area. I keep trying but I just might not be cut out for
this.
e. Other __________________
Part C. What is one action you can take or one attitude you can adopt for the rest of the week that is
different from what you normally choose?
_________________________________________
Practice choosing this new action or attitude and write down noticable changes in your results each
day (even subtle ones).
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CHAPTER 2
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Hearing lectures, reading books, visiting art galleries, going to theatres which produce plays that
inspire
When your Intellect permits you to revel in inspiring things, it raises your vibrations and makes you
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Summary
People are generally composed of five different states of consciousness, degrees of unfoldment, or
conditions of development: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Intuitional, and Spiritual.
Most people are overdeveloped in one of these states of consciousness and underdeveloped in the
others. This is why its often a CHALLENGE for us when it comes to seeing things from someone
elses perspective or viewpoint.
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People often unconsciously use their intellect to separate life into parts. They relate in their thought
world with the currents of lack, disease, fear, worry, anger, and hatred. They relate with the currents
of resentment, resistance, impatience, intolerance, and criticism. And the more a person relates with
these currents, the more hell attract it to himself, both in body and environment.
When your Intellect permits you to revel in inspiring things, it raises your vibrations and helps you
develop the ability to bridge the gaps created through religion, finance, relationship, politics and a
dozen other training grounds for personal growth.
Action Plan
Balancing The 5 Levels of Yourself to Attract Success
Take a moment to reflect and record (in order from most to least) which states of consciousness you
gravitate toward: Physical, Emotional, Mental, Intuitional, and Spiritual
Most 1)
2)
3)
4)
Least 5)
Knowing which state of consciousness makes up your reality will assist in creating a more
harmonious approach to embracing all states of consciousness, which is the art of attracting success
into your life.
If youre more of an emotional person, practice not reacting to things as they happen during the
day. Instead, shift your perspective and see if you can recognize the logic behind the experience or
witness things more from a 360 degree viewpoint (sometimes called view from the mountain top).
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CHAPTER 3
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Summary
Successful people definitely take risks. But the risks dont seem so large to them because they know
what they are capable of. Theyve proven it to themselves and theyve built up faith in their abilities.
People feel how much (or little) confidence you have in yourself . If you build more confidence in
yourself (not the egotistical kind), then they will notice it and want to do business with you more.
Intuition never has its origin from anything on the objective plane, it always comes from within.
Impressions on the other hand, have their origin solely in the objective side of life and are never
safe to blindly follow.
Action Plan
An Exercise For Increasing Self Confidence
Each morning, stand in front of a full length mirror and, imagining you are speaking to someone
who already excels in an area that youd like to be great in, say with feeling, [Role Model Name],
not only am I going to excel at [area], Im going to do it even better than you!
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The objects and circumstances that are materialized in your life have a particular
vibration. Learn to differentiate this vital substance into the things you DO want
by learning to change the vibration of your life!
When we understand this truth and use our Intuition to create as limitless a vision as we can of the
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Depending on what our lives are like, theres a lot of busy, noisy space, so even if you take 10 or 20
minutes at the beginning or end of your day to have this quiet space, you can go in to you and
work on your vision. This what all successful people do. Some of them may call it metaphysical. A
lot of them just call it getting it done.
Throughout our lives, our vibration changes. Everything has a vibration, and when you start
consciously working to increase it, then you can start matching your reality with what your goals
are. Sometimes we have goals, but our vibration doesnt match what the outer reality would look
like, therefore, we cant have it.
If you cant match your vibration to the thing you want, theres no resonance so it cant stay in your
life. One of the ways we do to raise our vibration is by creating foundation, another way is by
learning to recognize opportunity. Its doing the things in your life that you know are the right
things, the basics, that will help to clean up your act, so to speak.
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It will help you to refine and polish yourself more and help increase your vibration. There are more
direct ways. Some people work with sound since vibration has to do with sound. You can work with
different sounds and thats another way you can manipulate your vibration.
We have to go back to what our vision is. Thats why its so important to get your vision down on
paper and put out a strategy. If youre new at strategy, then just some basics like I want to get this
done, and what your goal is so you can keep referring back to it as your map or blueprint so you
dont get lost in your own universe.
Summary
What will you create for yourself? Are you ready to do what it takes to reach your goals or are you
just saying you are? Dont follow the masses because for the most part theyre on the slow path to
success. Model your life after successful people but even then remember to live your own life.
Otherwise, you could end up chasing gurus and continuing to live in a world of lack and scarcity!
Everywhere around you is vacant space: a live, vital, seething mass of energy, far more vital and
powerful than anything anyone has yet harnessed in material form, and you can go and draw from it
an eternal abundance of everything you want.
The objects and circumstances that are materialized in your life have a particular vibration. Learn to
differentiate this vital substance into the things you DO want by learning to change the vibration of
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Action Plan
Living by the Law of Harmonious Attraction rather than the Law of Force
Think of a time when you were controlling or manipulative about something and ultimately
benefited from it. Can you remember what events followed? It might not have been that day, but
the Law of Force would have it so that in some way that act of force caused you difficulty at some
point down the road.
If you want to attract success to you, live daily in accordance with the Law of Harmonious
Attraction. Everything you do will attract its like kind to you. Being generous, understanding and
pleasant will attract people or business situations in your life that are generous, understanding and
pleasant.
Practice this daily and see how you are able to attract more success into your life.
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CHAPTER 5
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developed minds and bodies but the true source of power, our inner selves, remains neglected and
unfulfilled.
Unintentionally and unconsciously we have used our Intellect to cover over and bury deeply the
Soul and Spiritual states of consciousness.
No one has ever enslaved us in any way but ourselves; no one ever set a cause in motion but
ourselves for which we are in any way responsible.
Its true: in this material world our responsibility begins and ends in the Intellect, the Mental plane
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Summary
As you move along in your personal unfoldment, you either learn how to remain harmonious in life
more often than not, or you end up instead setting negative, destructive causes in motion, through
misuse of your mental thoughts, which then separates you not only in consciousness but in the
objective world (your outer surroundings) from the abundance of supply.
Another occurrence is that some people who have experienced an overabundance of supply set
causes in motion which later relates them with extreme poverty.
Living in a state of balance doesnt necessarily mean living without conflict and change. It just
means being able to live under different circumstances while not forgetting your true nature and
purpose.
When we begin to know the kind of causes we set in motion the kind of energy we generate we
also know the kind of effects which will result. You are probably on a daily basis using the
Universal Energy destructively and you dont even realize it.
Start removing from your life everything that creates the energy that relates you with the Law of
Force. Practice what youre being taught here and give it a chance to take hold in your
consciousness! You must fill your thought world with the thought of the thing you want, displacing
again and again the thoughts which come to you of the thing you do not want. If you stay persistent
and keep doing this, youll eventually materialize the thing you do want.
How do you remove these negative energies from your life? By replacing them with kindness,
patience, tolerance, and love (not just personal love). By practicing being at peace, being poised,
and being in a state of harmony.
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Action Plan
List 5 of your strongest character traits. Throughout the day, see how these five traits attract
similar types of people and experiences back to you.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
List 5 of your weakest character traits. See how these also attract similar types of people and
experiences back to you.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Each day, keep your attention on one positive character trait and witness the principle of like
attracts like. This is so powerful. Jot down on a notepad or in a journal observations of how you
see like attracts like manifesting in your life. Working with this universal truth can help you to
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Reason #1: What You Secretly Expect Tells The Real Story
I traded stock options for 4 1/2 years. It wasn't just any four years though. I traded at the very peak
of the dotcom craze. That means I rode the whipsaw of a snake called the stock market right to the
very top and then sharply down.
One thing that became very apparent was that I had an uncanny knack for entering a position at the
worst possible time. I bought 'calls', I bought 'puts', (meaning I sometimes anticipated the market
dropping, and other times I thought it was going higher). Watching myself as I traded, a pattern
soon became apparent: I had an uncanny knack for entering a position at the most expensive price
Let me tell you: this is a formula for running out of money, and quickly too!
I knew it wasn't just 'bad luck' that I kept having losing trades. Something about my expectations or
beliefs was causing me to secretly choose failure.
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One great thing about children is their innocence...if they have something
on their mind, they're going to tell you about it.
To an extent, we appreciate the honesty and we excuse the inappropriate. they 'don't know any
better.' They're children.
But many of us 'grownups' are still trying to gain control of our own lives today. There's a saying
that goes something like this, One mans freedom ends where anothers begins.
Why am I saying all of this? Because if things don't seem to be going your way, and you're not
GETTING what you want in life, there's a good chance you are not GIVING what you want.
Take a look at the people in your life. The ones that may try to control you, or push all your buttons,
or prevent you from being happier.
Take a look at your present situation...if you can't find a better paying job or the right relationship or
surround yourself with people who appreciate you more.
Now take a look at yourself and how you've been approaching situations and the people in your
circle of influence.
Ask yourself this: have I been approaching life the way I'd like life to approach me?
When you try to control others or encroach on their freedom in some way, you're breaking natural
law. Just as in societal law, you're held accountable and have to 'pay the piper.' Sometimes paying a
speeding ticket is easier. Because you can break a natural law, not be aware of it, and still have the
effects reverberate back in your life.
Many people don't realize they're causing their own present situation. AND...by taking a deeper look
at your life, you definitely can become more aware of what's happening and why. In fact, after you
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Reason #3: Timing Is Everything (Aligning Yourself With What You Want)
Everything is and has vibration.
But not all vibrations are the same; nor do they all go well together. For example, imagine if you
moved into a new home and all that you brought with you for the living room was a very old sofa one that had been passed on through the family for generations and had a lot of sentimental value.
Now imagine filling the rest of the room with brand new furniture. The sofa would stand out like a
sore thumb - because it has a different vibration.
So it also happens with people. Imagine someone harboring anger and negative thoughts stands
beside another person who has disciplined her mind to only think positive thoughts. They don't hit it
off, though they may not even realize why...it's because they carry different vibrations.
What does this have to do with aligning yourself with what you want?
Well, let's take a look at a definition for the word 'align' to learn more.
align - to bring into cooperation or agreement with a particular group, party, cause, etc.
If you're asking the universe for a type of experience or situation and it's not manifesting for you,
then try asking yourself the following:
Just like the old sofa along with the new furniture, we have to ask ourselves: are we in agreement
with what we want or does it only appear that way...
Of course it was 'bad timing'...of course it 'wasn't meant to be.' You hadn't matched your vibration to
the outcome or situation that you wanted. When you allow your vibration to come into agreement
with the vibration of what you want, it's only natural that it will be drawn to you and success will
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man or woman who longs for a partner that will blanket them with compliments and goodwill.
Am I aligned with what I want? If it came to me right now, would I be able and in
a position to accept and embrace itto make it my own?
If the person has low self esteem and has difficulty with accepting compliments, do you think they
will draw to them their perfect partner? Absolutely! But it won't be someone bearing roses and
poems...because that person's vibration doesn't match theirs (yet).
So for you to have what you want in life, you're going to have to do one of two things: 1) fall
backwards and accept the people and situations that matched you in the past...or 2) strive to become
the person that can easily accept the great things that await you in the future.
Practice aligning yourself with what you want and get ready to have some powerful, EXCITING
experiences in your relationships, in your career, and in your life.
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You first have to CREATE in your own thought world the money or the type of success you want.
Theres no reason why you shouldnt relate with and attract to yourself all that you want or need;
you certainly can have enough money to pay your billseven more than that, but you have to
create it for yourself inwardly before it can manifest outwardly.
FILL your imagination with the image, the thought, the idea, that you have thousands and thousands
of dollars NOW; that you have all the money NOW, and hold persistently to that image, thought and
idea. Every time the thought or image comes into your consciousness which contradicts your goal,
immediately displace it with the new image.
Summary
There are three reasons (or causes) as to why things don't go your way: 1) What you secretly expect
tells the REAL story; 2) You unknowingly are breaking natural law through the use of force or
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For most of the people who faithfully practice the techniques shared in this Success System who
work (not just a couple of days either!) and still dont experience any noticeable results, more often
than not I later find out that its because they were practiced under strain, they were anxious or tense
(rarely ever relaxed), and they generated inharmonious energy, constructed a wall of disharmony
around them in which they were enclosed like a shell; basically, they were preventing the things
that they had created from entering their atmosphere and materializing in form.
Dont be afraid to really believe in your own ability to create. I believe in you! Lets start making
Action Plan
Practice today having complete faith and belief toward a specific outcome
For starters, begin with smaller beliefs - like believing youll find a parking spot right in front of the
restaurant you have reservations ator believing that youll find something you lost recently,
instead of thinking you have lost it forever.
Eventually, you can graduate to working consciously with larger beliefs; such as landing a new job
with greater freedom, believing that you will own your dream car, or having all the money you and
your family will ever need.
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Summary
Many more people each day are admitting to themselves that they are NOT victims but rather are
powerful beings. People are waking to the fact that their financial situations exist because of the
thoughts they have been keeping over the years.
Before anything can be materialized in form it must first be created in consciousness.
Success and failure are both direct results of consciousness and mindset. So if you say I am success
NOW is a lie and leave it at that, then you are all but saying, I want to remain a failure. You
have to work with your consciousness and change the index cards you keep pulling from the file
cabinet of your mind.
The words I am success NOW repeated once or twice, or only a few times, do not affect us
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Action Plan
For the next week, please begin your day with an affirmation; either one you create or one from the
Bonus report provided with this book.
Write this affirmation on an index card and place it on the medicine cabinet in your bathroom. Put
one on the refrigerator in the kitchen, put one on your cars rear view mirror and another on your
desk at the office.
Repeat this affirmation over and over all day long, especially before retiring at night.
Each week, do the same exercise with a different affirmation. Week by week you are creating a new
consciousness and new reality.
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What we permit ourselves to think about a thing is what controls our attitude
toward it. Remember its never the thing we do but its the way we do it, the
consciousness back of the thing we do, that makes it constructive or destructive.
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Children in Consciousness
Many people are simply children in consciousness in their soul development and unfoldment.
While ignorance is certainly not a free pass to doing whatever you want, at least we can get a better
understanding as to why some people choose and behave the way they do. They are children in
consciousness.
Life, the Universal Law, can only repay people here on the objective plane (or the physical world)
through manipulating people and things, and so we learn to work out an understanding of the
relationship between cause and effect through having experiences with people and things.
How many times has someone: cut us off while driving, failed to even show up for an agreed upon
meeting, or taken advantage of our kindness? How do you react in those situations? Do you wish
they got theirs in the end? Do you raise your fist and say, Ill show them!
When you allow your consciousness to be filled with the desire to punish or get even with someone,
you put yourself in the negative destructive currents where life can then manipulate and use you as a
destructive instrument yourself! Then, you in turn set destructive causes in motion, the effects of
which you will have to reap later on, and someone else, through the manipulation of the Universal
Law, will be used as the destructive instrument to work out in your life the effects of what youve set
into motion.
The way to get around this is simple: if you want to stop having losses and to stop registering the
destructive effects of the negative energy you have created in the past, then STOP generating and
relating with the negative energy!
Ok, so what about this success consciousness as it relates to making money? Well, the first thing
is to realize that there is an abundance of money in the world NOW.
Case in point: Bill Gates ALONE could single-handedly wipe out the debt of an entire third world
country by himself. That is just one mans money in a world filled with billions of people.
Or take a stroll down 5th Avenue in New York City, visit with some of the fashionable hotels and
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Foundation is your place of power. It is where you go to retreat to revitalize yourself, to recharge
whenever something is going on in your life that is rattling to you. The strength of your foundation
is what sustains you through that challenge that you're going through.
My personal foundation, at least a very strong one, is my home. I go out into the world and I have
experiences. I meet people and have interactions. Good things happen, bad things happen. And I say
that loosely, good and bad, because really there is no good and bad. It's how you take it in and you
work with it, whatever is happening. You go throughout the day and you could really get worn
down. By the end of the day maybe you've developed some edge to your attitude because too many
people have bumped into you and rubbed you the wrong way. You've had some setbacks, maybe
financially or relationship-wise.
All these things come into play, life experience happens and then we get to what I call my seat of
power or my source of power. I really look forward to coming to my home and not having to defend
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I bring up the topic of foundation because your source of power or your foundation may not be so
sound. There may be some cracks in it. There may be some reasons why your outer world is not
taking shape the way you want it to. What do I mean by this? Well, if you have family in your
house, if you have a loved one or a spouse, my question is: are they supporting you in your goals, in
your dreams? Or are they shooting things down? For example, maybe youre a blue collar worker
and you want to become a white collar worker. Or maybe youre a banker and you really want to
become an artist. Whatever the situation, is your family behind you? Is your closest circle of people
supporting your dreams? Maybe so. But maybe there are times when they are not. And if there is
negativity in the home, this definitely directly affects your ability to manifest what you want in life.
So what do we do with this? Well, some people recognize that the relationship is not in their best
interest and they go and start a new one. For the most part I dont recommend doing this because its
very extreme. I do want you to look at what youve built in your life so far; can you strengthen it?
Can you strengthen and deepen your relationships with the people in your home, with your friends?
Can you get people to support your vision more? And if they can't, because everybody has a free
will, then can we protect our goals and dreams so that we are not affected by negativity around us?
The following exercise, although not directly related to relationships, is however related to
strengthening your foundation. We want to look at how many different ways we can get into the
structure of our lives, the foundation of what we build, and seal it - seal the cracks- and replace
things that aren't working.
So a great exercise for building foundation is to go through the things that you have in your house all of the papers, whatever you have in your house to go through - and do the spring cleaning that
everyone does. There is a reason why everyone does this: it's to get rid of the old so you can make
room for the new.
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How do you test this? Just because something is old does not mean you have to get rid of it. You
have to take a look at what is in your life and decide, 'Is it suiting my means, does it have a
supporting purpose to what my goals are?' For example, I was just the other day at my desk
preparing to hold a workshop by phone. Preparing for the call, I had a bunch of different papers, an
outline, and some resources that I was planning on sharing with listenersthings I thought would
help them along their road to success. I didnt even have enough room to lay out my resources. So I
said to myself, "Wow, this is an example in my life of where I need to create some more
foundation." And it's not difficult.
I just took everything off the desk and put it over to the side. And then, I put down the appropriate,
the current, the alive things on the desk - the techniques that I planned on teaching, part of the
outline, a resource I was going to recommend, things that are directly related and pertinent to my
success with attendees on the call.
Now, some people are pack rats so if you look in your apartment or your home and you see tons of
papers and you have boxes of this and that in your closet, this is not what we are doing right now. If
you want to clean out your entire house that's fine, that's huge garage sale type time. I'm talking
about finding something that's smaller, more relevant to your workspace or to your daily activity,
and working on that to improve the quality of your living. If there is a box that is in the back of your
closet that is totally useless - you have had it for five years or it has no purpose - leave that box there
and address that some other time. That is NOT what we are talking about right now and is actually
only going to be distracting and a form of procrastination because it's not directly related to your
immediate goals.
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The other type of foundation is internal. This is the part we sometimes have difficulty withour
belief system, for example. Our attitudes and the viewpoints we take in situations - these are what
make up our internal foundation.
One technique you can practice is the 'Cancel Technique' -- where every time you have a negative
thought, you first of all catch that youre doing it. This first step is an important one because
negativity may grab hold of your mind so subtly that you may not even realize it at the time.
I remember once saying to myself, "Oh, I'm a pretty positive person." I then practiced watching my
thoughts and I was really surprised at what I found. Id just witnessed a whole string of negative
thoughts going through my mind. I saw myself as a positive person but what my mind was doing
was something very different!
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Even so, I don't judge myself. If I have some negative thoughts it doesn't mean I'm a bad person (and
neither are you). It just means that we haven't been in control of our minds. And that is something
that definitely can be corrected with practice. So when we have these negative thoughts, its best to
just stop, look at them and say, "Oh, I just had a negative thought." Id better practice the Cancel
Technique.
Years ago, I was walking down a street in New York City. I saw this woman at a corner and
immediately my mind went 'fat', 'ugly', and I said, "What, what was that! I almost looked around as
though someone else had said it. It was my mind working without me - without me holding the reins.
What you can do when something like that happens is you say, "Cancel." So if you go, "Fat! Say
cancel! "I can't do this Cancel! "I'm not good enough to have double the income that I would like
to have Cancel! And then the next thing you do is you replace it. You replace it with the opposite
quality. 'I AM worthy of having double the income.' 'I AM adding value to society.' So you
canceland then you replace. And you keep doing this. If you do it and after five times you have a
sixth negative thought, you do it six times, seven times, eight times. You keep doing it because
eventually your mind is going to get tired, it's going to slow down. Then you are going to be able to
begin grabbing the reins on it. So that is one technique for working with negativity.
You don't have to work with strengthening your foundation only in huge, large-scale ways. You can
do it in small steps too. That's why I recommend taking the papers off your desk if youre
experiencing disorganization. It's a small step. It's very doable. Just as important as doing that
exercise is the establishing of a new habit. That's what we want to do. Look, it wont mean the end
of the world if you have extra papers on your desk. Taking them off isnt going to double your
income immediately either. But when you practice cleaning up your desk, youre establishing
success habits; habits of a person who has clarity; who has vision, not blurry vision; eagle-eyed
vision; one-pointedness.
Building foundation. We are not looking for overnight dramatic results, though you may have them.
For the most part, our goal is to create new habits and to start establishing a success path so that the
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If you have a personal passion or interest in spirituality or in nature, in something that's outside of
just ourselves and something that connects everyone together, then take a look at your practices.
Because what happens is, we get so busy in our lives, and it seems to me for years I've been getting
busier and busier, sometimes our solid foundational practices fall by the wayside. Or at least we cut
back on them a little too much.
That could be a great transformational experience for you, to get back to your basics. Get back to
whatever you were doing before that was producing results that you may have been distracted from
because of the business of life.
I was on the phone with the bank. They asked me for my federal tax ID number and I didn't have it
handy. Then I went to go look for it and, while I was on hold, I thought about it and I said: "You
know what? This is a foundational issue. If I have to go sort, and look, and sift through for this
number every single time I call the bank, what a waste of energy." So I took it and I wrote it on a
Post-it note and then I taped it on the wall next to my desk here. And that was my example of
creating a stronger foundation.
Really look at your life as a type of a laboratory, an experiment, an adventure. A lot of people are
just rolling through life -- I know I've done it for a number of years myself People are rolling
through life day to day and time doesn't stop, it just keeps on moving. But we're not lit with the fire
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There is opportunity all around us, constantly. We're just bombarded with opportunities. But we
have to take the time to become aware of it and to open up our creativity, so that we can start
connecting things together around us. In the next chapter, we'll cover creating opportunity and three
steps to attracting the 'gold' of the universe. And what I mean by "gold" is not just money. The 'gold'
can be anything that is valuable in your life.
Summary
There is only one sure, certain and never-failing way to build success consciousness: to live in and
affirm your oneness NOW with the success currents that lead to having greater wealth, happiness
and harmony.
Some things are more constructive in our lives than others, not because theyre necessarily any
better, but because it is easier for us to take a more harmonious attitude toward them.
Its the attitude you take toward a particular person or experience which brings you joy or sorrow,
success or failure.
We have choices we can make. We can decide that experiences like this mean our lives are filled
with sorrow, disappointment and failure, or we can decide to have an abundant, harmonious attitude.
Its never the thing we do but its the way we do it, the consciousness back of the thing we do, that
makes it constructive or destructive.
When you allow your consciousness to be filled with the desire to punish or get even with someone,
you put yourself in the negative destructive currents where life can then manipulate and use you as a
destructive instrument yourself!
People have lack because theyve recognized their separation from the abundance of supply.
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Action Plan
Where is your seat of power? (Write your answer below)
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One time each day, pick something that needs to be strengthened in your foundation and do that. It
can be big, it can be little. Write it down into either a journal or send an email to yourself. You can
make a folder in your email, call it "Limitless Wealth and Success", and then email yourself as you
make these recognitions, observations about results from doing the practices. Put them all into that
folder. If you're practicing these techniques, you're going to have changes happening in your life.
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CHAPTER 9
Get into the mindset of making sure that you get a return on your investment.
If its an investment of energy into a relationship, an investment of your time into a project, or your
money down on a personal development product, start expecting of yourself that youre going to get
a return on your investment. I went to a seminar and paid a couple thousand dollars just to get in.
That doesnt even take into account airfare, meals and all the other expenses incurred.
I formed new relationships with people that could be very beneficial to my business - to grow it.
When the seminar had ended, I returned home and the busyness of my life took over again. I have to
be here, I have this appointment, I have these clients to work withyou know how it is.
Two weeksthree weeksa month went by. The bottom line is: I put several thousand dollars
down as an investment in my business and in my position in my life, to better it, and I didnt take
ACTION on it, so I basically threw the money away. Make it a mantra that when you do something,
youre going to make a commitment and have the expectation that youre going to get a return on
your investment (ROI).
Going along with that idea, of course, youre going to have to take action and have a plan, so you
can make sure to have this ROI. It doesnt have to be money. If you have energy invested in a
relationship and youre not getting your ROI, you have to take a look at why. Is it because youre
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In talking about Creating and Recognizing Opportunity, how do we prepare for something like
this? We dont know where opportunity is, when its going to show up, or what is going to be
expected of you in order to take advantage of the opportunity. You dont know what the outcome is
going to be if you do jump on and take advantage of an opportunity.
You also dont know if its going to be worth your time or worth the risk involved, so there are a lot
of unknowns with opportunity. You cant even see it, let alone quantifying whether its going to be
worth it for you. Yet, finding opportunity in your life and around you is very vital to your success.
Its everywhere in your life right nowall over the place. Its incredible how much its in your life,
but most of the time we dont see it. Why do you think we dont see opportunity?
We each have a perspective on our lives. Whatever your perspective is, is pretty much consistent
from day to day because thats how your world is shaped, thats how you have shaped it. So we have
this perspective and we really have to work on changing it.
When you work on and start to be able to change your perspective, and you can see things in a
different light or from different angles, different viewpoints, then youre starting to get on the right
track to seeing opportunity. When you open up your mind and allow for these other possibilities, you
start to see that they are around you.
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10 10 11 = 10.50
Heres the challenge: I want you to add a line somewhere on this line. So like 10 10 11 = 10.50
thats a line. I want you to add a line somewhere on there so this makes the statement true. Youre
going to physically draw a line somewhere in relation to those numbers and make that statement
true.
Its a common viewpoint that we have throughout life. What I mean is, we have this viewpoint and
its common that we keep this viewpoint. The challenge is: Can you change the viewpoint? While
were doing this look at the goals that are in your life and the solutions youre trying to come up
with. Just keep this in mindis there another way to come up with the solutions?
Take your pen or pencil and draw a short, horizontal line above the second number one, in 10. So
youre basically crossing it, like crossing a T. So what do you read now?
10 T0 11 = 10.50
Ten to eleven is ten fifty, which is a time of day. Do you see how, by adding that line and seeing it
differently, the whole thing changes? We want to do some exercises like this, where we start getting
our perspective to change and opening up our minds more. Then youll start seeing opportunities
right in front of you that are already there; you just didnt notice them.
Take a sheet of paper and fold it into three columns. Or, if you want to just draw two lines vertically
on the page to divide it into three columns, thats fine. In the left column, at the top, write
OPPORTUNITY.
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So one is actually going and doing something, more male energy. The recognizing is more of a
female energy, where you allow yourself to see whats already there. So these are two ways of
working with this idea of opportunity. Were going to create this structure so you start seeing more
opportunities in your life.
In your business, if you want to start making more money and have more clients, or in handling your
day-to-day affairswhatever youre working onthis idea of opportunity is going to come in to
play. In the left-hand column, list the opportunities that you know are already happening or are
available in your life, even if you didnt act on them yet.
An example of an opportunity is, of course, a job, if somebody says, Id like to hire you, or if
someone is going to take a responsibility off your hands that will give you more time to do other
things. Just write down whatever you think of, as opportunities you already know of. Ill give you a
minute to do that.
The goal is to start recognizing opportunities that are there in your life, then through the process
were going through now, youre going to be able to start adding more opportunities on to your list
as we go through it. The next part of this, somewhere on the page, either further down or on the
back, is to make one more list.
This is a list of your present resources. Ill give you some examples of what I mean by that: people
you have relationships with (co-workers, associates, family members), money that you have
available to you (like credit), talents and skills. If youre good at playing piano, memorizing things,
playing a sport or making people laughwrite it down.
Another resource you might have available is materials. Maybe you have dozens of CD sets in
your car, not being used. I can tell you, from a product I created, I have probably 50 sets of product
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Working with the concept of Opportunity can totally blow open possibilities in your life and be a
really powerful thing for you. In fact, right now Im reminded of an experience that changed my life
completely. I used to sell books on Amazon. I sold a marketing book called The Robert Collier
Letter Book.
One day, I sold it to someone who is a motivational speaker and I recognized his name from seeing
him all over the Internet. It turned out he was only 12 blocks away from where I was working at the
time. I didnt have a company yet; I was working in the advertising department for a magazine.
I thought that I would love to bring the book down to him and hand it to him and meet him. Hes a
multi-millionaire, running a successful company and hes a very exciting motivational speaker.
I tried to take it down there and couldnt get past the person who was acting as gatekeeper.
They kept saying, Hes not here, call back at 5:00, and I would call back at 5:00 on the dot.
Finally I said, Im taking this book and walking it down there. I dont even know if the office is
open or closed. So I walked down there, went into the office and everybody on the sales floor was
looking at me. They were saying, Why is this guy standing in the doorway? I just walked in and
said, Im here to see him and I want to give him this book.
They let me in to meet with him. Let me tell you, when I walked out of that office, not only had I
given the book to this multi-millionaire, motivational speaker, and shook his hand, but I also walked
out with $6,000 less in my pocket because he had sold me coaching. So that book cost me $6,000.
When I came out of that office, I went to the corner payphone to call someone and tell them what
happened and I was in a complete daze. I didnt know what had hit me. Let me tell you, one thing
leads to another. Because of the opportunity of having sold the book to him, about a month and a
half later I received a call.
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I was at my desk and I was wearing three or four hats at the time in this advertising department. I
was doing my bosss work. I was supposed to have an assistant but they wouldnt hire anyone. I get
this call from him and he said, Im looking for someone to do marketing for me and I was
wondering if youd be interested. Are you happy with your job? I said, Ill be right there.
I just up and left. I didnt have a lunch break or anything set up, I just shot down there within about
10 minutes, and the next thing I knew, I was the marketing director of his department maybe a
month later. So this is how opportunity can show itself and it can totally explode your life in a way
that you have no idea at the time. By the way, I havent worked for anyone since then.
There are a lot of opportunities, and they can really accelerate your growth and whatever youre
focused on. An example is: I did an interview a week ago, and a few days ago, I was doing some
searching on the Web and went to a chat board and I get this instant message from someone through
the board. Its like a private message.
She said, I am the person that is transcribing the interview that you did last week. I just happened to
be on the board and saw that youre a member of this website, so I thought I would drop a message
to you and say hello. I happened to be sitting there within minutes of when she sent this, so the
timing was just perfect.
So I wrote her back and said, Thank you for the compliments. Im glad you enjoyed it. By the way,
you do transcribing and I asked, How much do you charge? Im looking for help with my
business. Do you see how an opportunity just shows itself? This happens all the time.
Another opportunity we have is through taking the best practices from one industry and applying
them to the industry that youre in. An example of this in marketing is a procedure called split
testing. This is where you have two versions of something, usually a sales page or an opt-in page.
You create two versions of the same message, but youll change the headline or the copythe
appearance of it. You split test where you run a promotion or sell something on the Internet and
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You can see the results between A and B and see which one is stronger, so thats the one you go
with. You can also come up with a third version and compare that to the stronger one and so on.
Split testing is very important in Internet marketing, and in marketing in general. What I find, going
into this idea of best practices, is that you can take something and apply it somewhere else in lifeit
doesnt even have to be business.
Imagine if we took some part of our lives and started split-testing it, whether its
business-related, relationships, goal-related, or approach-related.
Imagine if we took some part of our lives and started split-testing it, whether its business-related,
relationships, goal-related, or approach-related. Imagine approaching people two different ways. The
first person you went up to, you shook their hand a certain way and the second person you went up
to, you shook their hand a different way and you consistently kept doing that.
You might find out that shaking somebodys hand a certain way produces better results for you.
Split-testing creates an opportunity for us in whatever were focused on. Look at what you want to
focus on and see if you can apply split-testing to it, to improve your position.
Heres another opportunity that a lot of people are really bad with. When you make contact with
someone and youre establishing rapport and relationshipyou may even know the person already,
it doesnt matter because the principle is the sameyou need to let the person talk. So much
opportunity is blown because we dont stop talking.
If you watch someone who talks a lot with someone who doesnt talk, youll see that its one-sided
and the person who is doing all the talking is all outflow and not receiving any new information
because they wont shut up. I saw this at a seminar. I was sitting at a table and I watched a multimillionaire with another person who came over to introduce himself.
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He did all the talking and the multi-millionaire just stood there for ten minutes polite, quiet,
listening. The young hotshot could have gotten so much information if he would have just stopped
talking. Thats the principle when gaining rapport and relationships with peopleco-workers,
business associates, your partner, your significant other.
Let them talk because they may be waiting to give you information that is very valuable to you in
creating opportunities if youll just listen.
Theres so much power in being around people. The CDs will take you just so
far and theyre an important part of the process, but the next stage is about
taking A-C-T-I-O-N.
If you want to see opportunity in your life, then you need to make sure that youre making yourself
available for the opportunity to present itself.
We do have to get around people. Its like there was this big, glass mirror, which is truth, and it was
shattered into all these little pieces which ended up inside of each one of us. When you meet
somebody, they have a piece of that mirror. When we meet a bunch of people, we get a larger part of
the truth through our experience.
Its really the fastest way I know to grow yourself getting around people. Its also the most
challenging because people arent always so cooperative. But thats the reason were here anyway.
What were looking to do is to make our minds more flexible and to shift perspectives. When we
start recognizing and taking advantage of these opportunities and we start seeing the world
differently, theyre going to show up everywhere.
People are giving out so much information, its almost hard to not give out information thats
important. If you want to start a business, get a handle on your debt, or grab some more clients and
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Were looking to make our minds more flexible and to shift perspectives
Say you have a prospect and you charge them $500. Theyre interested, but they dont have $500, so
they say to you, I want to be your client, and I dont have $500. What are you going to do with
them? Remember, were focusing on opportunity here. Do you let them go? Do you check back with
them in several months? What do you do?
When you have a dialogue with them, you may find out that they dont have the money because they
get paid on the 15th. The idea here is that things are not always what they seem because we dont
have enough information. We must be willing to get into a dialogue, to get creative and to change
our perspective.
The perspective is that you want $500, I dont have the $500, but in my mind its today. If we could
explore that, maybe we could say something like, Well, youre getting paid on the 15th. Now that I
know that, why dont you give me X dollars now and the rest later? Why dont we do it in three
payments? The prospect at that point isnt thinking about three payments; theyre just thinking,
You want $500 and I dont have it.
Theyre not out of that paradigm. We get stuck in the way we see things and we limit opportunity.
Dont be afraid to go outside of your comfort zone when youre creating opportunities because its
really not a big deal. When you take the steps to create the opportunity, whether its sitting down at
the table, introducing yourself, putting your foot in your mouth or whatever the deal is, just get in
the middle of life and participatebe active in it. Thats how you create things.
What happens when theres an opportunity and we miss it because we didnt see it and it passes?
What happens when we look back in the distance and say, Wow, that was a really big opportunity
and I just missed it?
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To strengthen ourselves, we can prepare for the next opportunity. One way of preparing is by taking
advantage of the opportunities that you see now. I have a pretty good-sized subscriber list and Im
always looking at ways that I can bring value to them. Im also looking at ways that I can grow my
business, and if its not business, its how to deepen relationships, like with your spouse.
A lot of times we miss out on all the resources available to us because were looking outside for new
things. If you just take the time to take stock of what you have around you, like what we did on that
list before, youll see that theres more than enough opportunity right where we are right now, and if
we pursue that, it tells life that were interested.
Its action and measurable. Its something that says, I have just taken an action, I am interested in
opportunity, and I want more, and then life will bring more. Its almost like being grateful for what
you have already creates more in your life. What are some areas in your life in which you can look
for an opportunity that you havent tapped in to?
Look at areas where youre spending your money. Thats one way of looking for opportunity. If
youre paying for things on a regular basis, or youve paid a large sum of money to someone, like
how I spent the $6,000 on the coaching. Thats the place where you look for opportunity to leverage
because youve already got rapport.
You can look at your bank, any mentors you might have gone to seminars and workshops with, your
vendors who help you on a regular basisStaples, for example. If you go to Staples and buy
supplies regularly, that would be someplace where you might be able to leverage opportunity. Your
family and friends, clubs and associations that you belong to
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I reached a point where I was sitting there at my desk one day, looking at all of the books I had on
how to succeed, how to get rich, how to do this, how to do that, and Im saying, How do I make
money? I dont know what to do. The books are staring me in the face and I dont know how to turn
them into money, success or prosperity, and I just sat there.
It was like banging my head against the wall. It was at that point that I started to realize that I needed
to awaken the creative force inside me. I started practicing. I would go to a fruit stand, in front of
apples and oranges, asking myself, What is this apple worth? They want 59 cents a pound. What is
it really worth? Is there any way that it could be worth more than that?
I started asking these questions of everything around me. What is your time worth? Is there a way
that I could leverage my time more and make it worth more and get paid more for it? The idea of
this exercise is asking yourself these questions because theyre like keys to doors that start opening.
What is the value of something? Where is the opportunity?
What can I do with this apple that no one else is doing with it that could make it worth 10 times what
its worth right now? If you took a bunch of apples, put them together and created something out of
apples, could you sell it for more than it was worth if you just sold apples? Those are some questions
you can ask.
I ask myself those questions, not just for a couple minutes, but constantly for a couple weeks.
It helps you to get into a creative mindset. Thats what youre looking for. Once you have a creative
mindset, everything opens up.
Its like, Wow! Everything around me is opportunity, and then you have to start discriminating
because theres so much opportunity that you start recognizing, you could be all over the place and
not focused or centered, which brings up another point. Its very important that we start having
strategy in our lives.
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If you have it, then youre probably doing very well. If you dont, then we have to start getting it
down because when you have a strategy and a blueprint laid out for yourself, you dont have to lay it
out for the next 20 years, but if you dont know what your goal is for the next 20 days, its going to
be a lot harder to recognize opportunity.
When you have it laid out in front of you for the next 20 days or two months, I want to
accomplish but want is a tricky word. My goal is that Im going to have three speaking
engagements, or, Im going to make 10 sales on the Internet, or, Im going to knock my debt
down by $5,000 in the next month or two.
You create, in your reality, the opportunities that match your goals because you have whats called a
reticular activating system (RAS). Thats a part of your brain that acts as a filter. This filter is what
defines the type of information that comes through into your consciousness from the world.
When you set these goals and start working with this, your RAS will open up and allow through the
filter, the opportunities around you so you can see them and have help to reach your goals. So get
the strategy down, even if its really basic. In the next two months, my goal is this Ten thousand
more subscribers or three speaking engagements, to say I love you to my wife or my husband X
number of times over the next month.
Summary
Working with the concept of Opportunity can totally blow open possibilities in your life and be a
really powerful thing for you.
If you want to see opportunity in your life, then you need to make sure that youre making yourself
available for the opportunity to present itself.
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Action Plan
Create an Opportunity Journal
Start an Opportunity Journal. Record in it all the opportunites you create and/or recognize as you
go through each day this week. Write briefly why you feel its an opportunity. Youd be surprised
how many opportunities youll start recognizing. Youll be surprised how many youll completely
forget you ever saw too so write them down!
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CHAPTER 10
Thats why building foundation as weve already covered, is so important because you dont want
to create momentum only to later find out that youre propelling yourself like a blazing locomotive
toward failure and disappointment.
But back up for a moment. Creating momentum can be a real challenge in the beginning. How about
the person who studies in college for four years out of their life, they then go job hunting and find
out that they dont have enough experience? Come back when you have some experience. But
how do you get experience when no one will hire you without it?
Creating momentum can be a real challenge in the beginning.
Theres a reason why 9 out of 10 businesses fail in the first 5 years. Its because the owners are
trying to gain traction for their business simultaneously while needing to generate income.
Lets take a look at two of Isaac Newtons three laws of motion and see how to use this information
to create and maintain momentum in our own lives.
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If youre not doing certain things on a regular basis that you know you should be doing, then youre
operating under the Law of Inertia. Look around you! Look at the room youre inthe income level
your at (are you making $20k, $50k, $150k a year?)the relationships youre having (are the people
closest to you treating you well? Do you have quality time together? Is there intimacy?) How much
work you have on your plate and how much free time you have?
Take a good look.because 5 years from now, if you dont have a firm understanding of creating
and recognizing momentum, youre going to still be in a very similar position in life. Maybe things
arent so bad for youmaybe youre not struggling to add people to your downline..maybe you
have some money in the bank. By the way, it only takes one curve ball from life to knock out
whatever small savings we may have accumulated. Either way: do you really want to be in the same
station in life 5 years from now? I dont.
An object stays at rest until acted upon by an outside force. Sometimes that outside force is losing
your job, winning the lottery, having a death in the family, or meeting a new partner.
I call all of these shock points. You may know them as pattern interrupts. Either way, their
main purpose is to either change our momentum or move us from a state of inertia to a state of
change or movement.
If you have momentum right now but its not leading you in the right direction, then the first thing
you have to do is STOP your present momentum. One way to do this is by introducing a pattern
interrupt. Have you ever seen two people have a disagreement? It often starts out with a few words
back and forth. They realize they dont see eye-to-eye and moment to moment, it slowly escalates.
The conflict becomes like a small snowball headed downhill. After a while, the disagreement has
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Momentum. Were creating it but we have to start creating it in the right direction.
I practice creating momentum when I go to the park and shoot around the basketball. Sometimes,
when I first get there, I cant hit a basket to save my life. After 7, 8 misses, I realize that I have what
could be the beginning of negative momentum. I might become frustrated, irritated, disappointed
all sorts of negative feelings are possible. So instead I do a pattern interrupt on myself. I move up
until Im only a few feet away from the basket and I shoot a baby shot. Ill even shoot it several
times from very close. When I hit 3 or 4 in a row, I take a few steps further out. If I miss, I move
back in and take more baby shots. Im working with the principle of creating momentum. Minutes
later, its like a different person has shown up to shoot the basketball. Now instead of feeling
frustrated, Im hitting baskets from all over the court and having a great time.
Momentum. You can interrupt it, replace it, and create it. It builds on itself and creates power.
Realize this though: with momentum comes change. If you want to move from point A to point B,
you have to be willing to change. Lets look at how we can manage our relationship to change and
still maintain the momentum we need to have limitless wealth and success.
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If you want to reach your goals, if you want to increase your income, if you want to have deeper
love with the people who are close to you, if you want to advance your career, if you want to have
some more joy in your life than you have right now, then it's going to mean experiencing change and
recreating your image of yourself.
Change can be scary because the ego feels like it's dying. That's tied to identity. We're afraid of our
identity dying away because then, where will we be? But that's not who we really are. We're not tied
only to our ego and identity. We're much more than that. Once we start becoming comfortable with
this idea that we are much more than ego and identity, then our mind actually starts to come to terms
with it as well and relax a bit. We know that we're going to be OK no matter what happens.
So what are you working on right now that's scary for you? What kind of goals are you hoping to set
and to reach? Maybe you're only half sure you can do it. Maybe you're reaching and it seems like
you're reaching too high. Think about these things that you're looking at and feel inside yourself.
"When I think about them, is it a distant reality - is it kind of a pipe dream? Or do I know that I can
reach it?" If it's distant and far away, you can't even imagine the type of person you'd need to be to
create that type of reality.
So if you're goals are to be a billionaire, and it freaks you out when you think about it, you might
want to set smaller goals. You don't have to let that goal go. You can write it down and put it away
somewhere because, the fact is, you're not going to be a billionaire until you're a millionaire. You
can't be a millionaire until you have $100,000, and so forth down to your next ten bucks.
Same thing for a career: if you're a manager and you want to be a director, or if you're a director and
you want to own your own company altogether, it's all going to go in stages. Take it apart. Break it
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This is an amazing thing to do with anything if you have a huge problem in your life, a life
experience problem, like "they're trying to foreclose on my house" or "I can't get along with my
mother-in-law" or whatever it is. It can also be a work related problem where 'I have this project that
I'm working on, and I can't figure out how to resolve it. I keep trying different things, but I'm not
getting to where I need to get to with it.' Well, if you take it and break it down into smaller pieces,
you can solve just about anything.
If youre looking to create momentum in your life, the key is to keep doing the right thing in small
ways. Do everything that supports reaching a single goal. This way, your choices and actions will
move you forward in a single direction. As momentum starts to build, youll find yourself actually
starting to be propelled toward success. People are calling you out of the blue to do business with
you, opportunities are showing up at your doorstep, and youre starting to find your groove.
Lets now take a look at Newtons 2nd law of motion the law of acceleration:
momentum for you but you can also really accelerate your progress by learning to take a certain type
of action throughout the day. I call them hammer moves. Unlike the small moment to moment
moves youve been taking to create momentum, hammer moves are larger and impacting moves.
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Here are a few examples of Tap vs. Hammer moves: A Tap move might be to clear off your
desk while a Hammer move would be to hire a Vice President for your company. A Tap move
might be to call someone up and ask them if you could contribute a bonus to the campaign theyre
presently running. A Hammer move would be to ask them if they want to form a 4-way joint
partnership with yourself and two other leaders in the industry.
Heres a personal example too: A few months ago I was building momentum and had plans to
contact a particular multi-millionaire to see if hed promote my product to his list of subscribers. I
was too busy building foundation for a new company Id just formed so I didnt get around to
contacting him. Several months later, Id built momentum and was starting to make these Hammer
moves were talking about. The result? I ended up promoting his products to my subscribers 3
times, he interviewed me one time, I interviewed him another time, and I asked him if I could have
an opportunity to speak at his upcoming seminar. He gave me a 90 minute speaking slot and who
knows what else will happen next.
Use Tap moves to build self confidence and momentum. Use Hammer moves to accelerate your
momentum.
Summary
Creating momentum can be a real challenge in the beginning. Theres a reason why 9 out of 10
businesses fail in the first 5 years. Its because the owners are trying to gain traction for their
business simultaneously while needing to generate income.
If youre not doing certain things on a regular basis that you know you should be doing, then youre
operating under the Law of Inertia.
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I call all of these shock points. You may know them as pattern interrupts. Either way, their
main purpose is to either change our momentum or move us from a state of inertia to a state of
change or movement. If you have momentum right now but its not leading you in the right
direction, then the first thing you have to do is STOP your present momentum.
This is that "success secret," that a great symphony can be broken down into much smaller pieces and our lives are great symphonies. We can break any situations and challenges down into smaller
components until they're more manageable.
If youre looking to create momentum in your life, they key is to keep doing the right thing in small
ways. Do everything that supports reaching a single goal. Unlike the small moment to moment
moves youve been taking to create momentum, hammer moves are larger, impacting moves. Use
Hammer moves to accelerate your momentum.
Action Plan
Exercise to Create Momentum For Yourself
Each morning, go to your Opportunities Journal and choose one opportunity you will take action on
for the day. Make sure it is very reasonable for you to accomplish in a single day. With this exercise
we are focusing on creating greater self confidence and momentum through making Tap moves.
Tap move to act on today: ___________________________________________________
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CHAPTER 11
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Summary
Becoming ONE with the abundance of supply, we make ourselves a magnet through which we relate
with the harmonious and constructive currents and attract to us people and situations of a higher
vibration. Many times we have an image of success when someone dear to us gives to us an image
of doubt or failure and we unconsciously recognize it, instead of our own image of success, and of
course we find failure. Why not image the good things in life? Such as happiness, success, joy and
contentment?
The Greatest Secret in Life is RECOGNITION!
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Action Plan
Choose one of the following destructive emotions and commit to replacing it with the harmonious
and constructive counterpart each time it shows up in your life:
Fear Worry Anger Hatred Resentment Resistence Impatience Intolerance
Envy Jealousy Criticism Rigidness
The constructive qualities have been listed to match up with each negative emotion but you can
choose whichever constructive quality you most want to work with. The idea is this: any time youre
choosing harmonious qualities, youre bound to improve the quality of your life.
Note: did you see how Love showed up several times? In reality, we can ultimately simplify the
above list until theres only one negative emotion and its counterpart: Fearand Love.
Do this as an exercise on a daily basis and watch amazing things take place in your world!
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CHAPTER 12
The following are two ways you can create or increase value: 1) Create something from scratch
(this is sometimes called innovation) and 2) Add something to an existing product or service that
increases perceived value. This brings up a very important conceptPERCEIVED Value. You
may not even have to add anything on in order to create value. You might have a product or service
that people are currently UNDERVALUEING. So here, youre not even trying to increase value as
much as youre looking to just educate the end user so that they understand the true value of what
youre offering. Perceived Value is the place where supply and demand meet.
You may be
presenting a network marketing opportunity to someone and, if they dont perceive the value of what
youre offering? What do you think theyre going to do? Theyll hang up on you, tell you theyre
not interestedat the very least theyre not going to buy from you or join your downline.
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Someone else sold me whats called private label rights to their product for only $37. Private label
rights essentially means I can do just about anything I want to with the material: put my name on it,
edit the content, repackage it and of course sell it. Ive already made thousands of dollars in profit
from that $37 investment and theres still more to come!
Adding value to an existing product or service not everyone want to create a product from scratch.
Thats ok because there are so many different ways to make money you can find the one that suits
you best. Another way to go is through adding value to an existing product or service.
I used to go to Wendys and order a chocolate frosty which is an ice cream shake. Then Id go
down the block, buy a small pack of Oreo cookies, smash them into little pieces, and mix them in
with the frosty. I did this for years. Then, months ago, I walked into a Wendys store and they asked
me if I wanted chocolate crumbs with my frosty (for an extra 50 cents of course).
Heres another example of adding value to an existing product that is sheer genius. Instead of selling
CDs by Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy and Napoleon Hill separately, package all three together and call
it The Self Improvement Mega Transformation Kit. Youll be surprised how many Tony Robbins
enthusiasts never heard of Brian Tracy and vice versa. In fact, by bundling products together, youre
essentially choosing the prospects self improvement training for them and saving them time having
to go figure out which sets to buy or not buy. If you create perceived value sufficiently, youll even
be able to sell the package for more than what each individual component sells for.
Add value to an existing product or service.
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This brings me to the next powerful way to double your income again and again.
Joint Ventures
Last year, I did a joint venture with someone in the personal development field and made more
money in one month than I had in the previous THREE MONTHS COMBINED!
Joint ventures are a POWERFUL way to double your income again and again and again.
Now, you might consider a joint venture to be in a sense like gaining a client or a new buyer of your
product or service. This is a one-to-one type setup which doesnt double our overall income. You
contribute something to this temporary partnership, they contribute something, and then its over
after a certain amount of time and then you move on.
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I did a joint venture with someone which tripled my income for that month.
The joint venture led to another joint venture where I made more money, was interviewed (which
gives me additional expert status in my field) which led to my befriending a new audio transcriber.
Those transcribed audios are now becoming part of my speech that Ill be giving at future seminars
Im invited to speak at. When I speak at those seminars, I will without a doubt become friends with
some of the other speakers which will open up even larger doors for me to race through.
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If you havent already, I urge you to go back through it several times and take notes. And be sure to
practice the exercises Ive developed for you which go along with the end of each chapter.
Limitless Wealth and Success CAN be yours. As you now know, everything begins and ends in
consciousness...in the thought worldand in the imagination.
What type of life will you create for yourself today? What will you imagine or image into existence?
You have all the creative power and ability of your vast universe waiting to be shaped. Learn to
shape a world of harmonious attraction for yourself and you will become an unstoppable magnet for
success. I believe in you and I know you will create a wonderful life for yourself and your loved
ones.
Thank you for sharing this part of the journey with me. If you havent already, remember to go get
your free gifts online at www.selfmasterysecrets.com/freegifts.html
Summary
Do not let any person or any thing disturb your harmony. The moment you recognize that youre
becoming inharmonious, immediately change your attitude and get back under the Law of Harmony.
Some people will accomplish this with more ease than others. Not necessarily because they are more
spiritual or advanced (though this may actually be the case), but because theyve spent more time
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Action Plan
Create a Double Your Income Fund
Open a separate bank account or even just get an envelope you can sock money away into. Put
something in thereanywhere from $1 to $10,000 or even more.
Rule: you cannot touch that money for any reason other than to work toward doubling it.
You cant pay your bills with ityou cant use it for emergenciesyou cant go out dancing with it.
This is your Double Your Income kitty. Successful people know how to create, recognize and act
on opportunities. And they also manage their risk. If you have $100 in that envelope or bank
account, only use half of it in the next opportunity. If an opportunity appears to take your $100 and
turn it into $200stay disciplined..stay focused, and pass on it. The idea here is if things dont work
out, you still have another chance to increase it without having first wiped out the entire Double
Your Income fund.
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