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I Love It When This Happens – Let Nothing Stop You!

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“Synchronicity. Is there such a thing? Perhaps, that is a term used by those whose think all events aren’t somehow related. It would seem inside a closed universe that everything is connected. We just may not yet, be able to see how. So, sometimes, we get a glimpse or a treat.

Even if one maintains it is all chaos that is essentially saying the same thing in a sort of dyslexic, reverse, fashion. If everything is unordered there is order in that. I jest, in some ways, posing paradox like, can god make a rock so big god can’t lift it?

Two  posts ago, the other morning, I posted about people who kept going and had great attitude and lives in spite of losing body parts or the ability to move. Some people have an attitude of ‘life is good’ regardless of what happens. There is so much beauty in this.

Coincidence Or Connection

I was going past a book shelf looking for something and inadvertently knocked a book out. It fell open on the floor. Of course, it would be Canfield and Hansen’s, ‘Chicken Soup For The Soul’. It fell open on the floor. Picking it up and turning it over at the place it had opened, the chapter title was ‘Yes, You Can’.

After the subheading quote by Aldous Huxley, ‘Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him’ : the first paragraph begins this way:

‘What if at 46 you burned beyond recognition in a terrible motorcycle accident, and then four years later, paralyzed from the waste down in an airplane crash?’ Coincidence? I think not.

What Would You Do?

A horrific question to consider for certain. I had just published my blog about how people see it through tough times. The paragraph continues:

‘Then, can you imagine yourself becoming a millionaire, a respected public speaker, a happy newlywed, and a successful business person? Can you see yourself going white water rafting? Sky diving? Running for political office?’ Then, ‘W Mitchell has done all these things and more…’

WOW, right! W. Mitchell is another example of someone who does not let what happened to him put him down and out or define him. Rather than letting circumstances define him he defines the circumstances! His story, is a powerful testament to the power of attitude and human will.

I think Canfield and Hansen too, put a little magic into the chapter they wrote when they asked ‘Can you imagine yourself becoming…’ because that is truly what it takes. The power of our imagination. If you can imagine it you can become it. You become what you think about.

What You Think About You Bring About

Napoleon Hill stated, much earlier, ‘If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it’. Those who do this have the power and ability to move forward no matter what. In the face of the most difficult circumstances they determine how things will be. They do not let the circumstances define them.

Those of us, some of whom may have suffered tremendous hardship, can use examples like W. Mitchell to inspire and motivate us. Others of us, who have had it comparatively easier by far, should stop with the excuses.

The message is clear. We can do anything we put our mind and heart into. We can go beyond anything we thought was possible and soar to greater heights. If we can dream it we can do it.

We can stop letting the world tell us who we are, what we can do and what we can have and we can start telling the world how it will be instead! We can live as victors and champions. We can win and live as winners. We decide! You and I determine, we chose, how we will live.

UNLESS, You Let Someone Else Dictate That

Who is in charge? Are you or are you going to let the world; the government; the economy; the difficulties; get the better of you? OR do you decide to get the better of them and make you and your life what you want it to be? Who is in charge of your life?

If people like W. Mitchell can triumph in spite of terrific loss, that would stop most people dead in their tracks, we should be able to do at least as much. If it is possible for one human it is possible for all humans. NEVER let a thought stop you from the positive good that can be yours!

See it in your mind! Claim it! Make it yours! Own it and transform your life. There are no accidents. There are only incidents that we can’t yet see how they are connected or what their purpose is. We can however, trust that ultimate good can come no matter what!

What You See Is What You Get

Celebrate and live life fully! Choose to make it wonderful! Is the universe orderly? It is if you say it is! You determine how you go through life and whether or not it is a wonderful and friendly world.

Our beliefs determine what we see and what we find. So if you have to think and believe anything about yourself and the world; you might as well believe the very best! As for me, I’m glad that book fell open.” Rex SIkes

Make your day wonderful!

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What To Do When Unexpected Challenges Arise And You Feel Fear

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“My blog today is in response to comment left yesterday. It is a piece of a puzzle. It is a first step in a journey. It is a morsel of food in the meal you eat. Without knowing specifics (this is not a request to know) the suggestions I have are general. Absolutely valuable and applicable anytime, but still general.

It may not be what the individual needs to read or hear at this time, and the person may be better served seeking answers elsewhere from someone in person.

Still, the principles are applicable to all of us in our quest for a more wonderful life so I wrote in reply, actually to all of us. Each of us face challenges, hopefully, this will encourage.

The reader commented, and I am always happy when readers comment. When someone reaches out, or shares insight, loves or hates something it is good to know. That is WHY there IS a comment section so you can LEAVE comments!

Here is the comment:

‘I’m facing an unexpected and very challenging situation. And I do feel fear. I agree with what you have written, but my path seems unclear to me. I want peace and a stable situation. (And I have re-written this 9 different ways)……Changing my thoughts will change my actions and change the situation.’

First,  I wish you the best. I am glad you commented. You are doing for yourself and working to make it work for you. That is excellent.

It is not uncommon to feel fear from an unexpected and challenging situation. That is quite normal. It is what we do as humans.

Getting clear about your path is what you do want to do.  When confronted with obstacles we may not know what to do or where to go. Still, in order to journey onward we first need to clarify where we want to end up. Otherwise, we may or may not make any progress.

How would we know if we were progressing if we don’t know where our destination is? Plus, it is important that we make certain we are focused on where we want to go to or end up.

Circumstances can be challenging and difficult, for certain. The learning we all need to acquire is to notice the circumstances but not focus on them. Stop giving the circumstances your attention and energy. Decide what you want instead, not what you do not want.

When you repeat,  ‘Changing my thoughts will change my actions and change the situation.’ while accurate notice what your attention is on. Change the situation. You want to change your thoughts and actions in order to change the situation.

How might you phrase your affirmation to put the emphasis on what you want instead of focusing on the situation? That is where you need to put you emphasis or focus. Think about what you want. Also affirm what you want to feel.

For example, ‘I am calm’; ‘I am confident’; ‘I am able to learn to do anything I put my mind to’; ‘I have peace of mind’; ‘I feel joy’. Whatever you want to think, feel and be. Simply put whatever you want to be after ‘I am’ or ‘I have’ or ‘I feel’. Present tense.

You might also ask Directed Questions™: ‘I wonder how soon I can discover myself easily find more peace and joy throughout today?’ In how many ways will I be delighted and amazed to feel my confidence growing in leaps and bounds?”

You can use what it is you don’t want to help you clarify what it is you do want. Make sure you know what you want and then imagine what you want fully. Whatever it is use your imagination and imagine all the positive good you want to have. Imagine it as though you already have it. It has happened. It is yours.

You want your energy to go where you want. That is why you place you attention on what you want. The work is to keep the attention on the good you want to create and positively have. It takes practice. It does take discipline but anyone can learn to do it in time.

The secret is keeping it there. Going back and forth from feeling positive and confident to doubtful and fearful is what keeps us stuck. We need to overwhelmingly feel positive and confident. We need our focus to be on the good most of the time. Of course, everyone has a negative thought.

As soon as you notice the negative thought or feeling steer it back to positive. Two things happen. One is this is the training we all need. The ability to control and steer our mind and get it to serve us instead of being out master is the skill we need to develop. Two it will make the difference. You will be more positive more of the time!

Make sure what you want is a win/win for you and everyone; wonderful and positive! Place your focus on this. You may not know how to bring it about yet but stay focused on what you want to create. The good you want to create is the good you focus on and imagine throughout the day. This is what you can create!

Feel the good feelings that come with the good you desire. If the world were perfect and your situation resolved and you were your ideal self, being, doing and having what you want how would you feel?

Those are the feelings you want to have more of. Those are the feeling you want to savor and bask in when you think about your destination.

Those are the feelings you want to spend time with. Day and night, and as often as you can, think of the good, see it in your mind’s eye and feel the marvelous feelings. As long as you win and others with there is no disharmony.

What we think about we bring about! If we concentrate on avoiding what we don’t want we just get more of the same. If we focus on what we DO want to create for ourselves we get more of that.

Even though you may not know how it will come about this is what you concentrate on. You think, have faith and affirm that everything will work out for good even though you don’t have any idea how. It is okay not to know how. It really is.

We all need to learn to do this. It is similar to planting a seed. It grows where we can’t see it grow at first, underground. The results of our decision, to focus on the good we want to create, is at first invisible.

We must keep the faith that ultimately everything will work out and that we will be able to behave resourcefully. It isn’t magic or wishing. It is the application of principles that changes the course of our future.

If you decide you want to take boat across the sea to a distant land you have to know where you are going. You determine where you want to end up and you go there. If storms come up along the way you have to navigate through, or around them and get back on course, to get to your destination.

When you focus and believe in yourself you marshall your inner resources. When challenged it is the opportunity to learn lessons and discover the very best within you. The key is to not give up or lose faith. Believe in yourself. Affirm you can do this!

In your present circumstances you may need to find someone who has already navigated the troubled waters, someone who can positively mentor you because they have been there and gone through that and come out the other side successfully. Someone in your area whom you can rely on, confide in and trust. If you need help or assistance reach out.

Inside you is an internal GPS. It knows all the routes and has all the answers you need to get where you want to go. You have the resources to make positive changes, even though you may not be aware that you do, and yet, that can being to easily clear up.

As you keep positive and keep faith in your own inner abilities you may find yourself discovering more of what you need to know in order to move ahead confidently and safely. Trust in yourself to make the wisest choices even though you don’t know what these are yet. Believe in you!

Attitude makes a big difference. This may be just what you look back on some day and are thankful for. If you can cultivate that attitude while going through it you are ahead of the game.

The opportunity to grow and develop comes from adversity. The statement, ‘the kite rises against the wind’ is applicable. Challenge will help you grow in the long run and you will learn a lot from the situation about yourself and your resourcefulness.

I hope, my words help. Understand I have little to go on and I can’t, no one can, solve anything for you. That is up to each individual to do for oneself. I hope, though, in some small way, I can encourage you to stay strong and take everything lightly.

Put into practice the principles you have been learning. Fill your mind each day with positive, inspirational material. Read and listen to positive books and audios. Fill your mind with ‘can do’ messages. Find positive people to encourage and support you.

Manage your self talk and speak only to bless, heal and prosper. Visualize what you want, as already discussed, and grow your faith in your ability to have a positive present and future. Find things to celebrate and appreciate in areas of life, even in the challenges.

Be the victor of the circumstances. Decide to prevail against troubles and to create more love, joy and happiness for all. Determine to live as a champion and stay positive and confident. You will as you keep your focus on what you want to create! It works. It does work. It is YOU who makes it work!” Rex Sikes

PS I wrote this response, then just as I went to publish, it occurs to me that, perhaps, you weren’t looking for a reply. If I made an incorrect assumption I apologize. I say this because I realize that not everyone wants someone to reply, sometimes we just wish to be heard or listened to. Sometimes we just want a hug.

Have a wonderful day!

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If You Want To Be A Failure Just Say So – Otherwise – Do This!

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“How do you learn and remember things? Do you review? Do you imagine in your mind or say things over and over, repeating them to yourself? Do you re-live moments in your imagination?

The reason I ask is because it is how we use our minds that determines the results we get back.

I’ve been discussing the working of our Reticular Activating System (RAS) and it’s job to filter data and provide us the proof for our beliefs. It finds matches in the outer world for what we have going on in our inner world. You will recall this from previous posts.

If your inner world is drab, weak, stuck and broke, the RAS will work to confirm it. Your brain will work to keep you that way. If you make your inner world glorious and a celebration  the job of the RAS is to find opportunity and advantages. It confirms what already is!

You Are Where Your Thought Brought You

Thoughts precedes action. Thoughts come first and produce your feelings. What you and I think we become. What you focus on expands. Whether conscious or unconscious the predominant thoughts you think are driving how you feel. These run the show.

Your pictures, images, thoughts and words, combined with your feelings are powerful. These determine the quality of your life. What you see and what you say and what you feel is what you get. The results you get in the outer world are first determined by the quality of your inner world. It is not the other way around.

You manufacture it in your imagination, declare it and assert it by what you say and how much time you dwell on it, and lock it in with your feelings.  The results you get in the world start inside you. You are a dream or a nightmare factory.

You Will Be Where Your Thoughts Take You

Your feelings drive your subconscious and determine what you pay attention to in the real world. Your feelings determine what you create and attract. It is important to feel incredible. When you do you open the windows to all good.

If you think ‘I sabotage myself’ you will. If you think ‘I am a failure’ you will be. If you think ‘I am a gracious receiver’ you will be. If you think ‘all good things, expected and unexpected, come to me’ then that is what you will get. You determine the results you get back.

For far too many people the interior is dull and shabby so they get dull and shabby results. Once they get those dull and shabby results they react to them with less than glorious feelings thereby producing more of the same less than glorious feelings and results.

You Cannot Escape The Power Of Your Thoughts

It becomes a vicious cycle until we decide to change it. That decision can revolutionize our life! The instant you truly decide to change your life transformation has begun. In that moment you can begin to wake up to a new, different and better reality.

YOU determine your inner AND YOUR outer reality. YOU and you alone. If you think ‘I am a success’ you will be. It is what you imagine and declare yourself to be. You decide what is! You are the only one who makes that decision. YOU define you and your life.

Most people don’t want to hear this. They want to blame the economy, their parents, the government, their spouse or neighbors etc. They make others the culprits. We grew up hearing those around us blame others so it is natural but not correct.

You Can Control You Thoughts And Make Them Work For You

Nothing absolutely will change unless and until you do! Granted you, as some have, may get lucky. It is quite rare. So if you are willing to sit around wallowing and waiting until you do that is your choice. You’d be better off taking charge and control of your life.

Each instant you have a choice about what your life is going to be. Each moment you have a choice about who you are and what you can accomplish. You really do determine if your dreams or nightmares come true. It’s due to where you put your energy.

It is completely up to you. That is either good or bad news to you. If you want your life to change YOU and you alone MUST change things in your life. No one else can do it for you. Excuses and blaming won’t help. Only by taking responsibility for yourself will.

Place your attention on the one who makes the difference. YOU and evolve yourself into the kind of person who is able to make their goals and dreams come true. YOU can be, do and have anything in life! Dream big and make your big dreams come true.

Whatever You Do It Is Up To You – Decide

Inside these blog pages are so many tips and suggestions, secrets and golden nuggets for how you do this. Life can be so beautiful and so wonderful. You can enjoy and delight in so much. Don’t miss out claim it! Revel in all the abundant goodness there is.

If this blog serves to kick you in the butt to make your life more glorious  I am happy. That is what it is intended to be: a reminder of how great and powerful you truly are. So never live below your means when it comes to your authentic self.

You are powerful. You are either creating discord or bliss. Perhaps, a 50/50 mix of both. You deserve more bliss. We all do. Realize that if you can create discord you can create harmony. It takes as much effort and energy to be stuck, or negative as it does to move forward positively. Celebrate everything and live your truth.” Rex Sikes

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What is something new you can focus on today?

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You Don’t Have To Be Screwed If You Are Doing This!

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“Your career, finances, romance, family and life can be difficult but there is hope. You can make a difference. It need not stay the same nor does it need to be hopeless. Wouldn’t you like to discover how you can make it whatever you want it to be? Wouldn’t you like to make changes more easily?

If your answer is yes then you must learn to condition your mind to give you what you want. It will deliver reliably when you train and condition it. The same conditioning is required by your body. You must condition it to get certain results and physique. You must take in the proper nutrition, exercise and get the right amount of rest.

The Law Of Attraction is the same. You need a daily diet of inspirational, positive and motivational thoughts. You need to nourish and replenish. You need to keep focused. You need to stay on the positive. If you feel stuck you are not thinking and feeling positive.

You Must Feed Your Body And Your Mind Well

You are thinking than glorious thoughts about what you don’t want, wish to avoid or hope doesn’t happen. That is why your feelings went south. If you think less than glorious thoughts you will feel less than glorious. SO our feelings are a great indicator as to what we are thinking at any given moment.

When you feel less than glorious it is the signal for you to change your thinking. Switch it back, as quickly as you are able, to positive thinking. Isn’t that cool. We have a built in signal device that let’s us know when we are off track. OF COURSE no one taught you that until now.

Imagine how life would be different if you knew that growing up. Our feelings would take on completely different meanings and instead of getting bent out of shape when feelings are less than glorious we would have understood them to be the resource they are. Oh well, better late than never.

Tiny Adjustments Applied Bring Great Change

You can train your mind AND YES YOU REALLY CAN train your mind. It is simple but not easy. You can train your mind and when you do then the law of attraction or the law of creation works as it is supposed to work. You have to accept responsibility. In this day and age few are willing to say I am responsible for everything.

Whether true or not if you begin with this premise, rather than blaming oneself, it provides a great wide latitude to create from. If everything good or bad is only up to you and no one and nothing else then you can change it from within. A complete new world will open up to you when YOU take full responsibility. This IS how it works.

You must do it. You can’t read about it and think everything will be better. You have to implement it and undergo a daily regime. Believe me, this is the area I had most difficulty with; ACTUALLY doing it. I’d try to understand it thinking if I understand it then it will work. Wrong. Doing it is what makes it work. I repeat, DOING IT makes it work! I must repeat this again. ONLY doing it makes it work!

What You Think  About You Bring About

YOU ARE ALREADY bringing about everything. That is why you must take responsibility. Realize this! It is not something you now suddenly begin. You have been doing it all the while you have been growing up. What you do begin now is to take control of the process and make it work for you instead of against you.

Claim your power. Put yourself in the driver seat! Steer your brain the way you want to. Stop letting it do whatever it has been doing and aim it intentionally. Deliberately determine what you pay attention to. YOU determine what you focus on BECAUSE what you focus on is what you get.

You don’t have to be screwed. One negative thought won’t harm you. It is the preponderance of what you think and how you feel that makes the difference. SO the goal is to think positively and feel your best MOST of the time.

Your Past Does Not Equal Your Future

The bad news is you have not been controlling your thinking it has been controlling you. You have been getting less than glorious results because of your lack of control. The good news is you can learn to control your thinking and get fabulous wonderfully positive results in your life and the real world.

Feelings are easier to notice than each individual thought. Whenever you feel down then notice what you are thinking and change it for the better. Do whatever you have to do to make yourself feel better.  (We discuss a little more next time).

As you do this you train yourself to return to the positive and good feelings whenever you go astray. If you’ll keep at it you’ll make it a habit. Along the way it gets easier and easier to stay focused on what you want. Soon it will become automatic. Eventually, it become natural and you live your life this way. That is great news.” Rex Sikes

How many different things can you discover today to celebrate?

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This Is Why You Are Screwed And This Is What You Can Do About It!

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“If you think you are you certainly are. It doesn’t matter if you don’t think you are because not believing doesn’t change anything. It is like gravity. Whether you accept it or not the result is the same.

If you fall from a tree branch you are going down. Gravity works whether you accept it or not.

This is why you are screwed.

Thoughts become things! Remember this! Keep it in mind. Anything that exists in human reality first existed as a thought. An idea in the imagination is what eventually translated into actual physical results.

Your Thoughts Become Your Reality

A spoon, an office building, the computer, the phone, the electronic device you are reading this on all began as thoughts. THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS!

The results we get are because of the thoughts we first think inside our head. From within to without.  Whether or not we believe it or even know about it. From the inside to the outside we are creating reality.

From the inside to the outside IS the natural order of creation in our human world. That is just the way it works. It is the way it has always worked. We get an idea and translate it into physical being. Our results are the result of our thoughts.

We become what we think about. What we focus on expands. What we think about we bring about. Thoughts become things. So here is why you are screwed.

What You Think About Mostly You Bring About Mostly

You want to manifest a better life. You determine you want wealth, for example, but you hate being poor. Each day bills arrive. Money is scarce. Where is your attention? What are you thinking about?

If you are thinking mostly about mounting debt, bills and scarcity and feeling poor guess what results you continue to get.

AND why not? If someone can think and translate an office building into being why is it difficult to imagine your thoughts are keeping you stuck right where you are at. They are! That is precisely what is occurring. Thoughts become things!

If you then think and feel ‘I am stuck’.  You are. You are going to be. If you think ‘nothing works’.  It doesn’t and it won’t. If you think ‘I have subconscious beliefs that sabotage me’ Then you do and you will continue to have. These thoughts ARE affirmations too!

When You Declare It You Command It – You Create It

Your results, your reality IS what you think it is. It IS what you affirm it to be. YOU are creating it moment to moment. What you see, say and feel most of the time is what you get. What you perpetually focus on expands. You declare it you command it. You create it!

That is why you must stop entertaining those thoughts and feelings! You must think about what you want instead. You must focus on the good you want in your life. You must put your energy into what you want and not be distracted by the rest.

You must not pay attention to circumstances. You must focus on the end goal. You manifest what you hold in your mind. If you go back and forth you get nowhere anytime fast. You remain stuck because you vacillate.

You are drifting and wishy washy. You are positive and sure one moment then the next moment negative and doubtful. You aren’t going anywhere when you do that. You create being stuck this way because you keep doing this same thing over and over.

Gravity Doesn’t Judge You – It Just Does What It Does

Here is the actual truth. The Law Of Attraction IS working. It is working perfectly well. It is doing just what it is supposed to. As sure as gravity does it’s job the Law Of Attraction is doing the job. It is applied equally to everyone, everything, all the time everywhere.

You are getting exactly the results you are creating and attracting. You are getting lackluster results. You are manifesting chaos and confusion. You are manifesting lack and sabotage. Sad but true. Face it. That may be the most difficult thing you have to do.

You get back the preponderance of your thinking and feeling. You get back whatever you put your energy into most. If you are mostly negative or focused on what you do not want that is what you predominantly get back in return.

You Reap What You Have Sown

If you don’t like the results you are getting YOU have to change what you are doing to get better results. You have to create and attract better results. You think the law of attraction isn’t working because life sucks but the truth is the Law works perfectly well.

You just suck at creating what you want. You keep creating what you don’t want. I KNOW I have done it too! I was incredible at creating what I didn’t want. It took me a long time to realize that, stop it and start creating what I did and do want. We are human.

It is okay. That is why the Law Of Attraction doesn’t work the way you think it should BECAUSE it isn’t a magic bullet or pill. It isn’t wishing and hoping for something better while concentrating on crap. It is based on returning to you what you predominantly focus on.

If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me – No One Else

It requires training and focus. YOU MUST train your brain to stay focused on what you want. You must condition your mind to give you what you want. It will deliver reliably when you train and condition it. That is the LAW!

Right now it is working whether you believe it or not and it delivering whatever you are mostly giving it. I repeat: It is already delivering reliably. Consider this: It is like you body in some ways. What you feed it determines what you get back.

If you give it excellent nutrition, rest and exercise you can have great health. If you give it junk food, no rest and no exercise you can have crappy health. Get it? Okay. More next post. For now, realize you have something you must do to make life better.

When You Declare It – You Command It – You Create It

You must change your focus and keep it on what you want. You must be positive and feel good most of the time. Once you condition yourself to be this way it is much easier because the habits of your conditioning take over. First, however, you must do the work.

That is where and why most people give up. They are not prepared to persist and keep going until they make it happen. They dabble, they dip their toe in the water. They ‘try’ and when the going gets tough they blame the Law Of Attraction.

If you commit and get tough when the going is rough you will win. You will succeed. You will reap great reward. You will do what few else do you will prevail! Stick with it and you will be amazed and delighted!” Rex Sikes

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Working Harder Doesn’t Make You Richer Or Happier BUT THIS DOES!

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“Napoleon Hill in his classic book ‘Think And Grow Rich’ stated the following when it came to the accumulation of wealth. He stated these same ‘money principles’ applied to  fulfilling any goal. Here is what Hill had to say:

‘The steps call for no “hard labor.” They call for no sacrifice. They do not require one to become ridiculous, or credulous. To apply them calls for no great amount of education.

But the successful application of these six steps does call for sufficient imagination to enable one to see, and to understand, that accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune, and luck.

You Must Get A White Hot Burning Desire

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes, first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, DESIRING, and PLANNING before they acquired money.

You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, UNLESS you can work yourself into a white heat of DESIRE for money, and actually BELIEVE you will possess it.’

Earlier, just prior to these words he states, ‘Money consciousness’ means that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one’s self already in possession of it.’

See Yourself Already In Possession Of It

There really isn’t much more to add. Hill points out that these principles came from Andrew Carnegie, a self made millionaire, at the time the world’s richest man, and from the study of over 500 hundred of the world’s richest and most successful.

I’d like to re-emphasize a few things. He states it is not about hard work or labor. If hard word and labor made people rich than many janitors, migrant workers and common laborers would be rich. It isn’t working harder it is thinking better that makes the difference.

He named his book THINK and Grow Rich because mindset, attitude, is one of the greatest determining factors for success in attaining any goal. Education was not a pre-requisite. Plenty of drop-outs have attained great wealth and accomplished great things.

Attitude Is Everything

So, in not education or hard work, what did he state was important. Imagination and desire. One had to be able to see the goal as already accomplished. One has to be able to see the good one wants as already theirs. One must believe it is theirs to have and to possess.

Attitude, the unwavering faith that one will succeed no matter what, is crucial. Persistence and planning accompany success. One must never give up if one wants to succeed.

These principles are simple to implement but not necessarily easy. If they were easy everyone would be rich. It requires daily commitment.

Give Up The Standard Excuses Everybody Uses

Too many quit too soon. They fail to realize their dreams when obstacles arise. You must not. You can’t give up and still win. You must persist and prevail. Learn from the obstacles. Adjust your plans, your route, but keep going towards it. Never quit. Commit!

Here is a very important point Napoleon Hill points out, as have other New Thought Leaders, and even ancient texts. You have to know what you want. You have to see the end result. The end result is the Burning Desire. It IS what keeps you motivated and inspired.

You must imagine it as if you already have it. BUT you DO NOT have to know how you got it. Never get hung up on how. The how will take care of itself as you move forward. Once the seed is planted in the mind it begins to grow. It grows in darkness.

Why You Want It Is More Important Than The How 

People use ‘I don’t know what to do’ or ‘I don’t know how’ as an excuse to not act. You don’t have to know ‘how’ but you do have to know what you want. Keep your mind on your burning desire.  Stay focused as Hill prescribes. This is key to getting it. Don’t get distracted.

Your mind will work on it day and night and while you sleep to help you formulate the plans and the hows. That is the brains job. The plan you begin with will not be the plan that takes you across the finish line. Your plans will change. That is okay. Be flexible.

We only know ‘how’ after the fact. Edison didn’t know how to make a light bulb work until it worked. THEN he understood how. The Wright Brothers didn’t know how to fly until after they got airborne. Then they understood.

Hindsight is 20/20

Hindsight IS 20/20. We can see the path only after we arrived and look back. We can look back over our life and see how the decisions we made brought us to where we are today. After the fact we know and understand how, but never before. So don’t use that excuse.

Don’t think you can be lazy and succeed. That isn’t what Hill implies. What he emphasizes is that it is NOT what most people think it is (hard work, education, luck, upbringing, economy, politics, etc.) that determines success. It is not those things.

Most people use those as excuses for why they can’t or haven’t succeeded. Napoleon says the way to riches and success and happiness is clear. He modeled it and studied those who mastered it. Success comes to the prepared mind.  There is  a formula.

Read Think And Grow Rich

Remember, we become what we think about. What we think about expands. What we think about we bring about. Napoleon said, ‘What you can conceive and believe, you can achieve’. Don’t let excuses prevent you from going after what you want.

I leave you with this quote from Napoleon, ‘When you begin to THINK AND GROW RICH, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work. You, and every other person, ought to be interested in knowing how to acquire that state of mind which will attract riches.’

There Are 6 Steps To Get What You Want

Implement Napoleon Hill’s six steps for attaining your desires. Read and study them in Think And Grow Rich. This book has stood the test of time. Countless lives have been improved from having read this book. I know mine has. Yours can be too! It is powerful!

We could discuss Hills work for decades. It is so deep and layered. Study it! You will be glad you did. See you tomorrow.” Rex Sikes

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No One Can Live Your Dreams For You

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“How are you nourishing yourself? You eat three times a day for your body? What do you do for your mind and spirit? How do you stay healthy in mind and attitude? Here’s what you can do right now.

I’m an advocate of reading every day to fill your mind with positive inspirational material. Reading and re-reading and learning from books is a great way to stay on target and keep your attitude up.

Want Life To Change – Change Things In Your Life

Keeping a positivity and gratefulness journal is fantastic. Writing everyday about what you are grateful for and celebrate can make a huge difference in how you feel and what you accomplish.

Using the journal to write out how you fulfill your dreams to help you visualize better is an awesome assist. I mentioned this in my previous blog post. Works like a charm. Imagine ‘As If’ it is done!

Listening to inspiring and motivational speakers on audio is easy and you can do it while you drive. You can turn your drive time into learning time when you do this. This is so easy, no excuse not to.

If You Always Do What You Always Did You’ll Always Get What You Always Got

My daughter and I currently are attending a seminar. Not only is it great to be learning but learning with a family member is wonderful. We spend time together and are surrounded by positive people.

Hang out with people who are accomplishing what you want to accomplish or who are moving forward positively is important. Learn with them and celebrate with them success. Applaud them!

Put positive posters, or infographics up around where you live so what you see frequently are positive reminders for you. You can never get enough positive messages in a day. Practice positivity!

If You Hold It In Your Head You Can Hold It In Your Hand

Spend time visualizing your goals. I’ve described how best to do this. Manage your self talk. Ask Directed Questions™ and make affirmations as often as possible throughout each day. Stay focused.

Smile and laugh more. Use your body more. Dance or jump and get totally charged and energized. Learn how to relax, feel peaceful and let go. Both are important. Have fun! Be curious! Delight and enjoy!

There are many things you can do to stay on track with your positive purpose. How many of these can you incorporate? How many are you doing? We become what we think about most of the time!

The Brain Is As Strong As The Weakest Think

I really enjoy learning with my daughter. It is quality time spent with someone dear to me AND surrounded by positive others. We learn and can discuss what we learn. It is a sharing and bonding time.

Nothing beats having partners who encourage you and you them. A positivity accountability partner can help keep you positive, call you on your BS while encouraging you to keep going. It is wonderful!

There are many opportunities listed to help you focus on your success. There are many more to explore. If you haven’t already put some of these into practice begin now. Be of benefit to yourself!

The More You Do The More You Can Do

Make each day move you closer to the life you want. Drop by drop fills the tub. Each step you take moves you closer to accomplishing your goals. Be purposeful. Live with passion. Be persistent.

If you know what you want and you keep going no matter what you will succeed. Be unstoppable and you will get the prize. Too many give up when the faced with obstacles. If you keep going you’ll win.

Learn from challenges. Learn from opportunities. Take full and complete responsibility for everything instead of blaming or making excuses and you will find yourself more than half of the way there.

You Are Where Your Thoughts Take You

All of these steps are designed for one thing. You may think they are there to add to your knowledge and give you the edge. Sure, they are. These are to help you recognize the talent you already have.

Release the winner within you! You have everything it takes to succeed. You are champion material. You may have been told or conditioned otherwise so you don’t believe it. Learn to believe it!

Look inside to your inner resources. Manage your thinking! Take charge of your thoughts and abilities. Discover the reason to have faith in YOU! Make it happen. Create what you want.

If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me

Don’t live excuses! Live your dreams! No one can live your dreams but you. Start living them now!Do whatever it takes to be, do and have everything you want. What you think about you bring about. Think the best and bring about the very best for you. Start today!” Rex Sikes

What will you do to make this day special?

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Want To Get Your Goals Faster? Do This Now!

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“Would you like to add some power to your ability to create what you want in your career and life? How would you like to make it easier? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to get on track and be congruent with your desires? Time to start getting the results you want.

Do the following and you can make a big difference in creating what you want. Visualize your goal as already accomplished. See yourself living the life you dreamed of right now. Don’t imagine it as something you will have some day. Imagine it as if you already have it and live it right now.

Stop putting it off. Make it NOW in your mental movie theater. Imagine your life as perfect right now. Imagine you have everything you wanted HOW does it feel? Feel it! Notice how good it feels. Notice where you feel it. How you feel it. Savor and enjoy these feelings.

It Is Now Not Off In The Future

Feel how good it feels to have made this come true! These feelings are the feelings you want to feel most of the time. When you fill most of your hours feeling these feelings you put yourself on the fast track for making it a reality. Celebrate and appreciate!

Sadly, most people put off feeling great in life until after they get what they want. They wait and wait and wait. HOW we make it happen is to feel what it is like to have it before it actually arrives. I know that seems weird but that is the secret to getting what you want. In your mind act as if you already have everything you want.

Enjoy these feelings. Celebrate having everything you dreamed of. Feel the feelings. Enjoy the life you are living in your imagination. Imagine you have everything you want. You made it happen! Isn’t that incredible? What are your thoughts and feelings about this?

Feel These Feelings Most Of The Time 

This is an important ingredient in creation. What are you thinking and feeling now that you have it. Believe me it would be different once it arrived than while waiting. What are you seeing, hearing and feeling now that it has arrived. What do you say to yourself?

LIVE in your mind in as much detail as you can everything that you’d be thinking, feeling and doing. It helps to write it in a journal. Do that and read it or write more about it each day. Make it vivid and real for yourself.

Imagine it is a week or two after you got it. It could even be a month or more. You have accepted it all as ‘WOW, it happened! This is my life from here on out!” You are enjoying it and secure in having it. For example, you moved into your dream house and now you have been there awhile. You know it well. It feels incredible!

Live It In Your Mental Movie Theater At Least 2 Times A Day

Imagine all the people who have come up to you and congratulated you and are excited for you during this time. From the moment your dreams came true people have been excited for you. Feel them shake your hand and hug you. Feel the celebration and gratitude!

Hear what they say. Here what you say in return. Some one comes up to you and sits you down and asks you how it feels? They ask, ‘what it is like? What did you do to make this all happen?’ Listen and learn from your answers. Listen from discussion that ensues as you describe what it is like to have made all your dreams a reality!” Rex Sikes

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What You Say Is What You Get!

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“Today’s blog is brief and to the point. Put a guard before your lips. Watch what you say. Speak only to bless, heal and prosper. Watch the water cooler talk and watch your self -talk. Do not speak about anything you would’t want to have happen.

Watch the whining and the blaming and the excuses. What you say is what you create. Anything that follows ‘I am’ is what you are. Consider this, you exclaim, ‘I am exhausted’. How do you feel?

Do you feel energized and ready to take on the world or tired and ready for bed? What you say is what you get! If you want energy it would be better to say ‘I am energy’ or ‘I am energized’ or ‘I am feeling great’ or ‘I am awake’ or ‘I am filled with passion’.

It may take a while for you to feel more awake if you are exhausted but it definitely works better to wake you up than stating, ‘I am exhausted, I need sleep. I am so tired. I can’t keep my eyes open. I have to rest. I am beat.’

Do you get it? Anything after I am is your declaration about yourself. It is your assertion. Who do you want to say you are. Many people call themselves losers. Do you want to do that? Then stop it. Watch what you say and only speak positive statements about yourself.

When you do your life will change. Especially, if you say them with passion and enthusiasm. Emotions drive these statements home to your subconscious. Feel the power when you declare ‘I am powerful!’

Do this as often as you can through the day. Be sure to do it when you arise and especially before you go to sleep. Your life will transform dynamically. It will happen as soon as it happens. Let go of when and consider it as planting seeds.

You will get a bountiful harvest. Make it a purposeful, powerful, positive, practice. Repeat it often for 30 or 60 or 90 days and you will have developed an incredible habit. You and your life will change. Do it! Pay close attention to what you say after ‘I am’.

Make it positive and say or speak ONLY what you want. Declare it! Assert it! Shout it! Live it! Be it! Imagine it in your mind and you will soon have it in your life. Everything starts with our thoughts. Speak only to Bless, Heal and Prosper! BECAUSE what you say IS what you get!” Rex Sikes

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Be Careful What You Ask For: How To Get The Results You Want!

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“Are you able to accept what is or do you struggle to be at ease? Are you able to easily live in the present? Many people struggle. Why do you suppose that is? Why do you struggle if you do? Think about a mild issue or problem you have. A MILD issue or problem.

Ask yourself, ‘What’s wrong? …  Why do I have this problem? … How does this problem make me feel? … How does having this problem limit me? … What does having this problem stop me from doing? … Whose fault is it that I have this problem?’

Ok, stop here! Did you actually ask the questions.  If not, go back and take a moment. Ask, notice how you feel. Analyze for a moment. Go beyond the quick answer and entertain it for a moment. Once you have actually thought about it, and reflected on it notice how you feel? HOW do you feel?

Use Your Mind For A Change

Okay stop. Take a deep breath. Take another one or two and shake that off. Get up walk around and come back and keep reading. Now ask these questions using the same mild issue or mild problem.

‘What do I want?  What would I like? If I could have that now how would I feel? How might that be different? If it is easier than I think it is to get it what can I do differently?’ NOW  Imagine that you already have all you want right NOW.

Ask, ‘How does this make me feel? In how many different ways might I easily enjoy feeling wonderful?’

Okay notice how you feel? Okay stop. Take a deep breath. Take another one or two. If you want shake that off. If it feels good keep it if you like. Get up walk around and come back and keep reading. Now ask these questions.

Which set of questions makes you feel better than the other? For most people it is the second set of questions. CAN you determine the difference between both sets of questions? Why do you suppose the second set helps most people feel better than the first?

Questions Direct Your Mind

Questions direct your mind. Where and what you direct your energy and attention to determines what you get back. Questions divide up your experience of the world. What you ask about is what you are paying attention to and determine what you feel.

It would be useful to monitor the kind of questions you routinely ask yourself. If they are less than glorious questions you may well find yourself feeling and thinking less than gloriously. You will want to change what you are doing if you want to have changes in your life.

You can use questions to gain insights and change behaviors. You can use questions to feel better and think better. Questions are a powerful tool. When you ask yourself better questions, ones that direct you in positive ways, your life will actually improve. Notice what you ask yourself in real time and change those.

Make it a point to think up some positive questions that direct your mind to positive aspects of your experience. Ask about the resources you already have and would like to utilize more of and to other resources you may wish to include. Focus your mind on what you want and enjoy!

Direct Your Mind Somewhere Useful

Direct your mind to what you can be, think, feel and do that is positive, easy, smooth, delightful and sooner rather than later. Entertain these questions for a while. Reflect on each. Stick with it. Discover the answers. Realize the quality of question you ask determines the quality of your life.

If you ask, ‘why is it difficult?’ What are you focused on? Difficulty! If you ask, ‘why is it easy?’ you are focused on ease. Keep this in mind as you ask questions. If you ask, ‘how long will it take?’ you may get the same answer as ‘how soon?’ but the feelings produced will be different. This is important. YOUR feelings are important!

Some people ask, ‘why me?’ or ‘how come nothing ever works out for me?’ Think on this for a moment. How does that direct your mind? How useful is it to ask that? It would be much more useful to ask, ‘how quickly can I discover that things always work out well for me?’ You want the result of your questioning to be good feelings!

You may not think ‘things always work out well for me’  is true yet. You may quickly answer, ‘well things have been tough.’ Consider this: they may be tough precisely because of what you are asking. You may not yet experience the power of ‘how quickly can I discover that things always work out well for me?” because you haven’t been asking that. Start asking it and discover the power.

You Always Already Are Directing Your Mind

Once you do and you start directing your mind to look for how things work out well you will start finding the many different ways. You see you are always directing your mind. Always! You either focus on the positive or the negative. The good or the bad. The increase or the decrease. What you have or what you don’t.

You either focus on abundance or lack. Power or weakness. I ask you, which do you want to focus on? What do you want? What would you like more of? Whatever you focus on is what you get? If you are asking yourself questions that direct you into feeling crappy you will feel more crappy. Be smart enough to stop that.

You are constantly creating your reality by how and where you put your attention. You want a better reality, you want better results you have to ask better questions. You have to affirm a different reality. Direct your mind where you want it to go!

Are You Directing Your Mind Where You Want It To Go

You already are sending it somewhere. Make sure where you send you mind is where you want it to go. Make certain it is what you are seeking to attain. Imagine yourself already having accomplished you goal, see it in your mind’s eye. Be it! Hold it in your mind and you will do it and have it.

Ask better, smarter, wiser questions of yourself. ‘In how many different ways can I discover that everything ultimately works out wonderfully for me?’ ‘How come I am so lucky?’ ‘How soon will I begin to notice even more fully how wonderful I am?’ Or how smart, or fortunate, or blessed, of beautiful, or confident. Anything.

Be sure that what you ask about is what you want to be! Make certain that anything that precedes of follows the ‘… I AM…’ is positive. ‘…how resourceful I am… how confident I am’ or ‘How in how many delightful ways can I discover I am truly blessed… or absolutely fortunate… or resourceful… or beautiful… or relaxed.’

Take Charge Of The Questions You Ask Yourself

Get it? This is the purpose of asking Directed Questions™. I called them this many decades ago when I discovered the power that questions had in creating our experience. You can find some of my other blog articles on Directed Questions right here in these pages.

Remember, we become what we think about. What get what we focus on.

Focus on the finest. Focus on the best. Focus on what you want. Focus on the positive. Focus on the wonderful. Focus on increase. The more you do the more you become it, do it and have it. Birds of a feather flock together. Be smart and be wise about it. Find out how much you have to celebrate and be grateful for.” Rex Sikes

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