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Start Using This Little Known Secret To Make Your Life Everything You Want

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“Hello. How are you today? I hope well. Did you happen to read my post yesterday? If not I would like you to go read it. If you have please read it again. The reason for this is that it speaks volumes to most of the issues people have. People have difficulty managing their self-talk and their talk with others.

Everything one says after ‘I am’, or ‘I have’ is a declaration. You are declaring how things are or how they will be. For example, how much energy do you feel when you say, ‘I am exhausted.’? Probably, not much, right? You aren’t going to feel raring to get up and go as you make that statement.

Whatever Follows I Am And I Have Is What You Get

While it may be a point of fact. You feel tired. Emphasizing it, doesn’t make you feel any better. Declaring it doesn’t make it go away. You may think you are simply announcing it but you are confirming it. Yes, that may have its use but it does much more. It keeps you where you are. You affirmed you are exhausted.

It engages your mental pictures and your imagination. It engages your feelings and reinforces them. Everything works together to keep you exhausted. You paint a picture of you being tired. Do you think your subconscious mind means only for this instant? What if it took it to mean in general, or all the time? Hmmmm.

Do you think I am being overly cautious? Perhaps, but why not just say, ‘I am going to get some wonderful rest and wake up refreshed.’ Why not say what we prefer or what we want or intend to happen. Create what we want instead of what we don’t want. Why not? I think learning how to think and speak what we want is important.

What You Say Is What You Get

I have quoted in these pages, ‘Speak only to bless, heal and prosper’. I don’t know who the author of the original quote is or if there is one. I use this statement a lot as a reminder. State only what you intend. Conceive of only what you intend to make or have happen in the present and future.

What if, instead of, ‘I am exhausted’ you stated, ‘I am broke.’? What if you thought in pictures, sounds and feelings, ‘I am never going to be able to make ends meet.’? What if these mental movies accompanied by feelings were literal commands to your subconscious mind? IS this what you want to command it to do?

Napoleon Hill stated, ‘Whatever you can conceive and believe you can achieve.’ This is true and it is a good thing and typically meant to demonstrate the positive power of human thought to create results. What if it is also true about the negative?  Whatever you conceive you can achieve.

What You See Is What You Get

I’d want to be a lot more careful what I think, wouldn’t you? I’d ONLY want to conceive of that which does bless, heal and prosper my self and others. Wouldn’t you?It is,of course, absolutely true about both the positive and the negative! So let’s pretend something. Let’s pretend I am being cautious because I may be.

Wouldn’t you prefer to err on the side of caution and only state what you intend to create for yourself? Wouldn’t you prefer to aim your mind, you beliefs, your words, feelings and actions at what you want to make happen for yourself instead of what you don’t want. Even, just in case? It’s better to be safe than sorry, right?

The point is you can’t think two thoughts at the same time. You cannot think a negative thought and a positive thought simultaneously. You will think one and then perhaps the other. Perhaps, not the other right away since birds of a feather flock together. It is more likely you think one way for a time being.

What You Feel Is What You Get

Wouldn’t you prefer to think and feel the best you could? Why even take a chance at feeling crappy? Think, picture, visualize what you want and intend! Speak and only speak what you want and intend! Feel only what you want to feel and intend! Then what you conceive of has the good chance of coming to be even quicker.

If you think negative and then positive and then negative and then… that is a formula for staying stuck. If you think, ‘I am sick of this’ it is a great way of affirming more of what you don’t want. You are commanding your subconscious mind to give you more of WHAT?

Do you think you are commanding better health? What did you just think, declare, assert and affirm? Seriously, what if what you think and say has a greater affect or effect on you than you could ever imagine? What then?  What if there are literal consequences to how and what we think?

Repetition Is The Mother Of Habit

AND especially how and what we think repeatedly and for how long and how often? Do you think it is even useful to think or speak like that? The bottom line is to stop speaking and talking about things you don’t want in life. Stop reinforcing grievances and issues. Stop carrying around the crappy things that happen during the day.

Stop sharing them with others. LET THEM GO! Drop them for good. Shit happened so what? Move on! Get over it and get on with creating what you want instead. Don’t declare, don’t assert, don’t re-live repeatedly anything you do not want to have more of. ONLY declare, assert and re-live repeatedly that which you DO want more of.

You are a powerful creator! You may not even realize it fully, yet. BUT YOU ARE! YOU ARE A POWERFUL CREATOR! When you fully realize that everything you have or don’t have, is and has always been up to you, is when you will come into your power, your true power. Your full power!

Taking Responsibility Is You True Power

In that instant, when you take total acceptance of responsibility you will discover an entire new world open up to you. You will then decide to only conceive and believe and achieve what you intend to have in your life. You will begin to create an entire new positive and wonderful life.

You will stop engaging in activities that waste your time and zap your energy. You will stop creating more crap and start creating and accepting and having more positive wonderful moments. Life IS wonderful! We are so much more powerful than we have ever been taught to realize.

We put all the power outside of ourselves. We put it onto others and circumstances and think, ‘it’s not my fault’. It would be far more practical and beneficial to accept responsibility for it AND change it than to lay blame and accept it as a victim. Things will change when you do.

To Know And Not To Do Is Not To Know

Why do I say this is a little known secret? Because to know it and not do it is to not know it. If you know it and don’t implement it you never fully understood it. If you haven’t used it you can’t know its power! You only know about it. You can read of a far off country and know about it but never having visited there means you don’t actually know that country. To know and not to do is to not know.

If we want to ensure things remain the same then we remain the same. If you want to ensure life is more wonderful than you can even presently imagine then claim your power. Begin living from your power. Stop creating the crap and start creating the gold. Stop talking crap  and start talking blessings. You can do it. We all can. Life is grand when we make it that way. Do it today!” Rex Sikes

Radiate and illuminate today!

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Stop Describing Your Life As If You Are Talking To Tech Support

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“Yes, we will continue with how and why it is important to have and maintain good vibrations. This is a bit of a segue but in the same vein. It is important to staying happy, creating your dreams and attracting the future you desire to think positive and feel the best you are able to most of the time. The key to change IS in good feelings.

You want to feel good most of the time. You want the ratio of less than glorious to glorious to be predominantly on the side of glorious. This is the key to manifesting what you want more of. You want more good feelings so you start and maintain feeling good. Then you will get more of the same. Do you get it?

What You Think About You Bring About

So today, I had a tech issue on the computer and on my smart phone. I called tech support. Of course, they want to know what is wrong so that they can help correct it. I describe the problem I am having with book marks on one of my browsers. They state, yes, this is a common problem. It get’s fixed.

I state there is the problem I am having with my phone. They work to resolve it. As they do, what they do, fixes the problem I described but leaves me with another problem I discover moments after we hang up the phone. I go back through the web site, ask them to call me and they do and we begin again.

If You Always Do What You Always Did …

I describe the original problem that brought me there and that it was remedied only to discover another issue once we hang up. They work to resolve this and do but again create another issue which is larger than the previous one. I only discover this problem once we hang up.  I go back through the web site and the cycle begins again.

This went on, pretty much like this, all day long.

Each time I had to go back to the website get them to call me. Then I had to go through each of the issues and their remedies and the new problems created each time. This was repeated time and time again. During this time I had to go about business.

I left one meeting to go sit in the stair well to speak with them. At this point I was able to request call backs at certain times or whenever they finished helping someone else they would call me. So in my car en route to my computer. Later, they  called at the conclusion of another meeting I had.

…You’ll Always Get What What You Always Got

Then during a drive through while getting my son something to eat, Then back at home. The final call lasted 3 hours until my land line air phone died and the tech support person finished his 11.5 hour shift. AND get this!  The problem I dread most still looms for tomorrow . They scheduled an early AM technical support call.

So it is near the close of the day when it occurs to me that this is a great analogy for how many of us spend our days anyway. We describe the issues that bother us over and over again. Someone cuts us off on the free way while on the way to work. We get angry. Flip the other person off. Use a few choice expletives and drive on muttering about that SOB.

We mention it to the coffee barista. Once at work we complain to co-workers about the jerk on the road. During lunch we bring it up again. This continues on until we arrive home. We are asked about our day and we begin with the asshole on the highway. Only by now we have added a litany of other complaints that occurred during the day. We stock pile bad events. We pick them up like lint rollers.

If You Want Your Life To Change…

When we focus on our problems, even to solve them, we tend to get more problems. I am not suggesting we don’t fix wrongs but that we learn how to shift our attitude away from it being a problem and into how wonderful it is finding a solution. Our days are meant to be spent joyously not spent reciting lists of what went wrong.

Yet, sadly, that is what too many of us do. Why? My guess is we get caught up in it. That is one potential reason. We get snagged by it, hooked. I think we also do it because we are used to doing it. Our parents did it and we grew up doing it. It is mostly all we know. I think another reason is there is a reward in complaining.

Secretly, somehow we like the drama and the attention we get. We want to be the sad little puppy who has had it soooooo hard. Really, I do. Who doesn’t feel better feeling bad sometimes? Admit it, you like it. You do! The bottom line is it doesn’t matter much why we are the way we are. We won’t change even a little unless we do change.

…You Have To Change Things In Your LIfe

That is what we must remember. As long as we perpetuate the old way, the painful way. the negative way, the comfortable, old, wonderfully painful way that gets us attention and ‘bandaids on our boo boos’ we will remain stuck wallowing in endless lists of daytime wrongs.

Our life will remain essentially as it is. We will continue to complain about the bills, that no one listens, that we’re living in a loveless relationship, our job sucks but nobody cares, and how we wish it were better but it never really gets any better. Do you get it? If you want your life to change you must change things in your life.

You cannot go around listing problems as if you are speaking with technical support and expect your life to improve. For your life to improve you pretty much need to ignore the less than glorious circumstances and place your energy and your focus on what you can appreciate and feel gratitude for.

You Become What You Think About Most

You need to maintain your vision on your positive dreams and goals, the ones that haven’t really happened yet, and imagine them as if they are completed. You need to feel all the marvelous feelings most of your day, that you would feel if your life was perfect and all your dreams had already come true.

In order to experience the magic you have to place your attention and keep your attention on the invisible, that which hasn’t actually happened yet. AND you have to act and think as if it already has. The point of this is : if you want the good life you have to stay focused on the good life and not contaminate it with all that goes wrong in the meantime.

Fill your heart and mind with gratitude and joy. Feel thrilled that life is incredible. Live with enthusiasm, passion and joy. Be alive, totally alive. Have fun. Smile, laugh, sing, dance, love and celebrate. When you do you vibrate in that special creative way that helps you make everything you want come to be.

Speak Only To Bless, Heal And Prosper

You are a light unto the world and you radiate and attract the right people, events and circumstances into your life. Your brain works on finding opportunity and advantages, resources in the real world. You operate from such a place of optimism and power the game literally changes. You operate from being in charge and being in control

You are the captain of your fate and the master of your soul. You live as a champion instead of a whiner. You live as a victor and not as a victim. Start describing the things that go right in your life. Start talking about the things you want to say ‘YES” to.

Emphasize these! Repeat these again and again and feel blessed. Your mantra, your self talk should be positive. Speak to yourself and others only to bless, heal and prosper. Accentuate the positive and you will get more positive back. Thoughts are things. What we think about we bring about. What you focus on expands.

Radiate And Let Your Light Shine

Remember this! Keep it in mind. We become what we think about. Birds of a feather flock together. It is the flowers that attract the bees. Bears are attracted to the honey. Let your goodness flow like a river and all good things will flow to you. Stay positive! Be a light for others! Your life will wonderfully transform as you do!” Rex Sikes

Let your light shine today!

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Staying Positive And Happy May Not Be Easy But Neither Is The Other Way!

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“Here are some thoughts to entertain and reflect on during your day.

“The brain is a strong as the weakest think.” Eleanor Dean

“Skill to do comes of doing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The more we do the more we can do.” William Hazlitt

“I can’t help it.”  “That’s what we all say when we don’t want to exert ourselves.” Eva Lathbury

“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” Marcus Aurellius

“If you think you can or can’t do something you are right.” Henry Ford

“Staying positive and happy may not be easy but neither is living the other way.” Rex Sikes

“The common denominator of success — the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful — lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.” Albert E.N. Gray

Remember, what we think about we bring about. Thoughts are things. Our results in the outer world stem from what we first do in the inner world. Stay positive and productive. Fill your mind with the best, celebrate and be grateful. Feel joy and delight. You will transform your life. From within to without!” Rex Sikes

Another wonderful day to enjoy!

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How To Quickly Manifest What You Want

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“People often ask, ‘How do we create or manifest what we want?’ ‘Is there a way to attract to ourselves what we desire?’ They want to know if there are ways and how to work it all the more quickly. Can we reduce the time it takes to make things happen? What must we do?

The quickest way to become what you want to be in life is to say ‘I am’ that which you want to be. Declare it! ‘I am happy’; ‘I am successful’; ‘I am loving’; ‘I am healthy’.  What you think about you bring about. You can declare ‘I have health’; ‘I have wealth’; ‘I have everything I need to be happy and successful’. Affirm it!

‘I Am’ is creation. ‘I have’ is creation. You declare what you want as though you already have it. You imagine the good you desire in life and you affirm it. ‘I am’ is the spoken word you declare. ‘I am’ is the picture you seen in your mind. ‘I am’ is the feeling. Feel it fully!

Picture what you want as thought you already have it and savor the incredible feelings. Feeling are the key. Just repeating things endlessly makes no difference. You must see, say AND feel what it is like to already have that which you desire for the future.

Those feelings are the creative power. See it. Declare it done. Feel it fully. It is all three! It is the combination of all three,  pictures, your word, and feelings, that make your affirmations powerful. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is’.  Affirm what you want.

Declare what you want. Your affirmation is your mantra. Repeat it again and again. What you focus on expands. What you think about all day long you become! When you ‘act as if’ you already have you everything you desire and feel it fully your brain gets the message and works full steam to bring it about.

Then get out of the way and allow yourself to have it. You have to be able to receive without resistance. This is hard for many people. You have to believe it is on its way. If you get distracted and think about how your current circumstances are different from what you want you set up resistance. What you resist persists. Stop it!

If you want a new car declare it. Then accept it is on its way. If you do all the creating but then you keep complaining about the current car you are noticing the lack of the new car. Your focus is on what you don’t like and don’t enjoy.

If you knew you had a new car on order and that is is coming from the dealership you’d be eager for it. Without question. You would also know it was on its way without question. You wouldn’t doubt whether it was going to materialize. You know it is because you ordered it and the dealership is delivering it.

You’d feel great knowing you are the owner of this new car and excited about. If you won the lottery and you this for a fact. You’d be thrilled even though you haven’t received the money yet. You still know the money is yours because you won it. THIS FEELING of having it already is how we create what we want in life.

It is the steadfast focus on what you create and the wonderful feelings of possession that open the floodgates. The easiest way to get what you want is to simply feel the best you can most of the time. Live in celebration and gratitude. Love and enjoy everything. Then your mindset is incredibly positive and powerful.

You feel marvelous. If you feel marvelous most of the day, every day, whether or not you got your dreams everything would still be incredible. The secret is when you feel wonderful most of the time you are creating and inviting good things into your life. When you feel incredible life is incredible! This is the way to live!

To feel wonderful you must think wonderful. AND you must do those positive things that encourage positive feelings. Celebrate and be glad. When feeling down shift yourself out of it. Get yourself to feel at least a little bit better. Make yourself! Move toward delight until eventually you get there. Keep moving step by step. Bit by bit.

Dance, sing, play, laugh, skip, walk, do whatever you do to feel your best AND keep doing it. Enjoy life and everything about it! When you love it all you accept it all. You get out of the way so you can be gifted with all good things. You radiate, vibrate, magnetically attract and create because you are that kind of person. Life is grand!

You want to get the things you want as quick as possible? Stop focusing on lack. Stop being distracted with petty annoyances and daily frustrations that bring you down and tire you out. Live fully. Be alive. Have fun, feel good. Be of good cheer.

Be positive and thankful and everything will come your way most quickly. Live, love, laugh and celebrate everything! Live with passion and with zest and you can have everything you want!” Rex Sikes

Whose day will you brighten today?

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A Secret I Learned To Keep From Spiraling Down And Out During Tough Times

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“What do you do when things go awry? What do you do when the fan is hit hard? Times can get tough. There are obstacles and challenges. We all go through them. What can you do? How do you apply these principles to make a difference?

I can tell you what I do. I have been challenged recently in some big ways. Years ago it might have meant screeching to a halt or hitting the skids. Today, it is much, much different. It doesn’t mean challenges are less severe it means, sometimes, I handle them better.

I Take Control Of What I Imagine And What I Say To Myself

When I become aware that I am feeling down and out, or thinking negatively or beginning to wonder ‘why in the world am I going through this’ in that instant I realize I have a choice. I can continue to spiral down or to apply what I know works. I’m at a decision point.

When I am wise enough I apply what works. I give up. I accept that I have no clue what is going on. I let go as much as able and I remind myself ‘things always work out for the best for me.’ I know, it sounds trite but it is actually true. Things do work out for the best.

In the long run, that place far away that we can’t see yet, everything does seem to work out well.  I have written before that many times people look back at the ‘worst time’ in their life and state emphatically had it not been for that time they would not have and enjoy where they are right now.

What We Focus On Is What We Get

I know sometimes we have to really search to find the good or the lesson but it is hidden there as a seed. We just have to find it! When times are tough my mantra becomes ‘things always work out for the best’. I think ‘how come I am so lucky, so blessed and fortunate!’

I turn my attention to what I am grateful for and celebrate as much and as enthusiastically as I can. I make it a point to have faith that everything will resolve in a positive way even if I can’t see it or understand it. Somewhere, somehow, good will come of this.

Whether you believe it or not, whether it is accurate or not, really isn’t the point. It allows me to move through it faster and stay more resourceful. It helps me focus on  being productive and consider what I want and not spend time dwelling on what I don’t want.

Times can be very tough for any one of us. This is one of the best ways I know how to get through tough times. I know that every time times are tough I somehow manage better because between those times and during those times I apply these principles I am sharing as best I am able. Whew, did you get that?

Your Mind Is Obedient Once You Learn To Control It

This is one of the reasons I write so much about building positive habits because they will carry you  once established. There is strength in a strong foundation. It is also why I write about loving and praising yourself through difficult times or when mistakes are made. Criticism and self loathing doesn’t help any.

You know what? I don’t know why shit hits the fan. I don’t know why it rains on the rich and the poor or the good and the bad. I don’t! I know what I might believe about it. I know many different philosophic and scientific answers for why but I don’t know that any are true. I don’t think it really matters to know why.

I prefer to think somehow it is to wake us up. Whether by design or intelligence OR NOT, bad things happen and are opportunities to confront our programs and patterns and wake up to them. These events and circumstances challenge us to become aware and go beyond how we routinely react. So we can move into new ways of being.

The World And Her People Hold Mirrors Up For Us To See

While I may not immediately recognize them as such, I reframe the tough times as gifts. Blessings to help me examine myself and become better. The challenge for me is to look inward and not outward for the solution or the cause. I want to learn to respond with awareness not blame or accuse others or events.

Gifts to become more aware. Gifts to become free. Seems sad sometimes that we wake up through loss and tragedy but perhaps there is no other way to get our own attention. If nothing shakes us up we just go on doing what we have been conditioned to. So I think of less than glorious circumstances as a necessary evil.

I may resist them. Fight them. BUT when I surrender to them I always learn something and grow more. It hurts to grow sometimes. There are growing pangs. AND I certainly haven’t all the answers. Actually, I have very few. What I can have is faith in myself.

Turn Resistance Into Assistance

I can have faith that everything always does work out for the best, somehow in the long run. Then I begin to look for the blessing s and opportunities hidden inside these situations. Whether right or wrong I get more done. I don’t feel so bad and I stay on track. It is helpful for me to consider it this way. Attitude is everything.

Life is a series of adjusting to stay on course. Just as when you drive your car down a straight lane. You are always adjusting left and right to stay within the lines. So why should it be any different in anything else. If I get negative I adjust back toward the positive. I feel better. The more I make the adjustments the easier the next adjustment becomes. This is how habits are formed through positive repetition.

So, celebration, gratitude, looking for blessings and finding them in the midst of trouble is a skill we can develop. This too can become a habit. As said before, habits may be difficult to initiate but once formed they are difficult to break and they will carry you. It is good to have positive habits. “everything always works out for the best!'”Rex Sikes

I hope your day today is amazing!

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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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What You See Is What You Get: How To See It!

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“How do you make changes and get what you want? That seems to be on a lot of minds? What do I do? How should I think about it? What if I don’t visualize well? Can you help me? These and other questions I get asked a lot by clients and at speaking events or workshops.

Yesterday, a client emailed me asking how to think about getting a new job. How should she create it in her mind or use the Law Of Attraction to land the kind of ideal job she wants. Should she use a vision board? What can she do?

She stated she doesn’t see her pictures. I thought I’d include the answer here as a sample of what you can do. I said, YES, a vision board can help. Absolutely, this is a great practice. Plus, she has had success using one in the past. SO that is good news.

Writing Helps You Visualize

I also suggested the person visualize what they wanted ‘as if’ they already had it all right now. Life is perfect and she is working the perfect job. Imagine what that is like in detail. Because she stated she didn’t see anything I suggested she write it in a journal. Not only once but write it down daily. This is an amazing practice.

Record what she experienced and how she feels when everything is perfect. Fully Imagine already having that perfect job. Describe it in detail. Write down what she does, who is around her, what it is like working there AND HOW IT FEELS!

I gave her some sample text instructing her to put it in her own words. After all, it is her perfect job, not mine. I suggested  she might write some things like this. ‘I love my co-workers they are so cool. I appreciate how we support each other and interact. I look forward each day to seeing them.’

‘I love going to work it makes me feel extra special. I smile as I approach the place because I know I will have a great day with great people doing work and helping others.’

It Is What You Are Feeling That Is Most Important

‘I love the money this new job pays me. I enjoy having money coming in. Imagine being able to do something I enjoy so much and make good money doing it. I am blessed.’

So each day write more about it. Each day write and feel wonderful for five minutes or more. The more the better. As long as you feel the wonderful feelings while you are doing it. It is all about the feelings you have.

I explained that you write to help yourself visualize what you want and to feel all the incredible feelings you would feel as you live this reality. Remember, you are answering the question, ‘if life were perfect how would you feel?’ What are you doing and what are you grateful for?

We Are Always Using Affirmations 

I then suggested she use ‘I am’ and ‘I have’ statements to continue to create what she wants. Anything that follows ‘I am’ or ‘I have’ is what we experience. Unfortunately, too many people make horribly negative ‘I am’ and ‘I have’ statements.

People affirm what they don’t want all the time. They say things such as, ‘I am broke.’ ‘I have no money.’ ‘I have too many bills.’ ‘I am stupid’ or ‘Why am I so stupid?’ the sad list goes on and on. It is no wonder they keep getting more of the same. Birds of a feather flock together.

I suggested these statements as example. ‘I am happy in my job. I have lots of happy experiences because of the people I am interacting with. I am contributing and adding value to my employers. This always makes me feel wonderful.’

Learn To Use Affirmations To Get What You Want

‘I have all the right talents to work in this arena. I am confident and happy. I love and appreciate everything this job brings me. I attract the right people to me. I am surrounded by good friends. I am brave and confident.’

‘I can control my thoughts. I am in charge. I can learn to do anything I put my mind to. I am resourceful. I have all the money I need and more keeps coming to me. I feel secure. I am creative. I am peaceful and relaxed.’

I told her you can do this! Watch your thoughts and feelings. Whenever you are feeling less than glorious change what you are thinking about to something positive. Stop the negativity. Rephrase whatever you are thinking about into the positive.

Learn to Use ‘As If’ To Create The Results You Want

Your feelings are a great indicator of your thoughts. Your feelings let you know, whether you feel good or not, whether you are thinking positive or not. Less than good means less than positive. Stop, take a breath and change it.

Ask positive Directed Questions™ which lead your mind where you want it to go. If at first, you have difficulty accepting or believing the other powerful affirmations use questions.  ‘How soon can I enjoy discovering how truly resourceful I am?’

‘In how many ways can I find myself feeling blessed and excited?’ “How quickly will I amaze myself to find many different things I feel truly grateful for?’ ‘As I go through my day I wonder how surprised I might be to discover how much fun I can have that puts a smile on my face and a song in my heart?’

Use Intentional Thinking Don’t Be Haphazard

Count your blessings and feel blessed. Take my examples and come up with your own. Watch what you think and say to yourself.  If it is less than glorious or what you DO NOT WANT change it.  Be in charge of your own mind. Think positive and keep thinking positive. Make it a habit by repeating it again and again.

You can do this! Drop by drop fills the tub. Think all blessings! Celebrate and enjoy! You will be amazed at how quickly you can create or attract and live the kind of life you want to live. When you aim your mind positively your mind finds opportunity and advantages in the outer world you would have otherwise missed.

Get your mind working for you. Program it to work for you. Write in your journal. Make positive affirmations and questions emphatically with positive emotion and enthusiasm. Once a habit it will continue to work for you automatically. Great News! DO IT!!!” Rex Sikes

What grand things will you discover today?

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This Is Why You Are Getting What You Do Not Want!

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“Are you getting what you don’t want more of the time? It seems like you struggle or try to do everything right but it is difficult getting ahead. You want more of the good life but it just is not happening as you hope it would. Perhaps, you get some good results but not consistently and you would like to. Is this you?

Would you like to learn how to make work? You may not like what you learn. However, if you take the following information to heart and apply it appropriately you can make incredible changes and advances. You can make your career, your life, your everything so much better. Would you like that? Then, please pay attention.

You Are Already Doing It Whether You Know It Or Not

Affirmations and autosuggestion are working all the time. Whether you practice them or not they are working. You realize this don’t you? Affirmations and autosuggestion are not things you do but rather things you use and direct. They are always ongoing no matter what.

Affirmations are statements. We affirm whatever is. We can say, ‘I like it’; or ‘I hate it’. ‘I want it’; or ‘I don’t want it’. ‘I am rich’; or ‘I am broke’. ‘I am healthy’; or ‘I am sick’. Affirmations are whatever we declare, good or bad, wanted or unwanted. What are you declaring?

Autosuggestion is the process of repeating an affirmation coupled with strong emotion. If we are happy or confident or enthused and we repeatedly think or see inside our mind and/or exclaim to ourself (self-talk) or out loud, ‘I like it’; or ‘I want it’; or I am rich’; or I am healthy’, that is what we are suggesting to ourselves.

Affirmations And Autosuggestions Are Always Ongoing

Unfortunately, many people see what they don’t want, or what is bad in their lives and affirm these coupled with strong negative emotions. Intense emotions signal the subconscious mind to pay attention and produce more of the same. It doesn’t care whether it is good or bad it just knows to bring on more.

If we regularly do this, if we repeatedly think to ourselves, ‘I am broke’; ‘I have too much debt’; ‘I’ll never get out from under this’; we are suggestion to ourselves the very things we prefer to avoid. We are creating more of everything we don’t want because coupled with our affirmations are the strong signal emotions.

It is autosuggestion. It is the process of suggesting to ourselves what we are, what we do or what we want OR what we don’t want. ‘I am broke’; ‘I am sick’ etc.  If you routinely think and say and feel these things you make them a habit. You are auto-matically suggesting these to yourself. Get it? You are using autosuggestion to affirm.

It Is Not If But When

What are you regularly repeating to yourself with strong emotion? Whatever it is IS habit. You become what you think about most! What you focus on expands! Birds of a feather flock together. What you think about you bring about. It doesn’t matter whether what you think about is positive or negative you bring it about. Get it?

Let me repeat, because this is important. It is not whether you use affirmations because you already are. It is  HOW you use affirmations that makes all the difference in the world. You can’t not use them. It is not whether you autosuggest or you don’t. You are always autosuggesting. The questions is what are you suggesting?

You can’t stop these processes! You can not stop these but you can direct them. Don’t you think it is time you learned how to direct and use these for your benefit? You can make changes immediately. You can change your life right this moment by changing what you focus on and how you direct your mind.

Whatever You Think About Most Is What You Get

If, like most people, you think about your life situation and imagine it and feel really bad you are producing more of the very thing you do not want. If you think,  ‘I don’t want to be broke’ while picturing being broke and feeling awful about it your brain doesn’t pay attention to the ‘don’t’ part of the message.

The brain only gets the images of being broke coupled with the strong feelings. Do you understand? It is what you routinely and regularly and habitually send to your brain in the form of emotional messages that the brain reproduces. You create your reality by what you tell your brain to do. What you see is what you get!

If you act broke, you think broke, you say you are broke, you imagine the consequences of being broke and in debt, you feel broke and you hate it intensely you will stay broke. You can hope all the while expecting something better to happen for you but you will remain broke. What you say is what you get! What you feel is what you get!

You Can’t Get Uphill Thinking Downhill Thoughts

How can it be any different when everything you do supports staying in the very place you don’t want to be in.  Everything you are doing is focused on being broke. You are affirming being and staying broke.  You are autosuggesting staying broke. That is the powerful message your brain is getting most of the time. Get it?

So the brain produces more of the same. It doesn’t know that consciously you don’t want that. It just sees the image and knows there are strong feelings attached to it. The more you repeat this, worrying about bills or being poor the more you reinforce it. It is negative autosuggestion and negative affirmations. AND it works!

People are strongly affirming what they don’t want all the time. They are getting getting what they don’t want. Feelings run the show and make affirmations work. The stronger the feelings the better they work.  This is what IS going on!  So how do you make your life better?

Increase Or Decrease – Positive Or Negative – You Decide

You now know. You must affirm what you do want. You must affirm the positive positively and feel good while doing it.  You must stay focused on what you do want and the good feelings more of the time than otherwise. Is it work? Yes. Is it easy? Not so much BUT it is very simple. If you want it strongly enough you will do it.

If it is important to you to be, do and have whatever you want you will do what is necessary to bring it about. OR you will keep on doing the negative autosuggestion until life sucks so much that out of desperation you finally make the changes. Either way, the process is available for you to direct whenever you are ready to. I hope it’s soon!” Rex Sikes

Have a delightful day!

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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

Have a marvelous day!

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