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You Don’t Have To Know How But You Must Know Why!

“The awareness that you don’t have to know ‘how’ in order to begin moving forward toward making your goal happen can be life changing. Once you know ‘how’ is not important, but the ‘why’ is then you know where to put your intention instead.

It is important to start wherever you are with whatever you have. The rest becomes evident, in its own time, along the journey. So journey well, celebrate, delight and enjoy! The ‘why’ is your reason you want something. This is important. Focus on the ‘why’ not how.

The why, your ‘BIG WHY’ motivates and drives you. You want to know WHY you want what you want. The why is the reward, the payoff, the reason you do what you do or go after what you go after. It answers why you are seeking this accomplishment in your life.

If You Want It Badly Enough You Will Always Find A Way

The ‘how’ is not necessary to begin. The Wright Brothers didn’t know how to fly an airplane UNTIL AFTER they flew it. Until then, they were experimenting and getting feedback. Edison didn’t know how to make a lightbulb UNTIL AFTER he made one that worked.

All great innovators know what drives them.  They don’t know how. They want to create, make something happen, change themselves or the world. They don’t know ‘how’ to do it, until they do it. They start where they are, with what they have, and gather more as they go on.

They don’t wait. They don’t procrastinate. They act. You can act too.! Act right away. Begin now. Act with faith and the universe will conspire with you to bring it about. Move in faith that you can do it and have everything you need in order to make it happen. Get it?

Action Is The Proper Fruit Of Knowledge – Skill Comes Of Doing

Keep moving in faith. Know anything else you require you will discover, and learn along the way, if you are open to it. When you discover it, immediately apply it. If it works great. If not you get feedback. Learn from feedback and keep going. Persist. Never give up! Be grateful.  Practice gratitude. Let go of the ‘how’, know the ‘why’ and celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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How You Deprive Yourself And Others!

“Do you shortchange yourself? Many do? You want something but decide you can’t afford it. Perhaps, you don’t have the money or you think it is wasteful, or you think you don’t deserve it? Do you stand back silently complaining while others grab hold of their dreams?

Some people make things happen. They take the initiative and move ahead. Others, sit back and wait. They wait for the right time, the right conditions, the right whatever. The ‘right’ never comes. It is never perfect. While these people wait for right, others act and win.

Have you ever done any of this? I sure have. I have waited on others, for others, and for things. I have hoped, and wished, and when nothing happened, settled. Eventually, I realized that didn’t work to get anything positive done. Perhaps, you have been in a similar place.

You Can’t Live A Positive Life Thinking Negative

I decided to stop thinking small. It didn’t seem easy at first that’s for sure. It got easier the more I did it. The more we do the more we become capable of doing. So I began to think differently. Believe me, if I can, anyone can! You can, if you don’t already. Think big! BIG!

Consider this quote from Nelson Mandela. ‘Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great’ It serves no one for you not to thrive. It doesn’t serve you or others. If you want to help others, help yourself. If you want to help yourself, help others.

Make whatever positive changes you need to. Take charge of your thinking. Start dreaming big. Make some large goals and decide to make them happen. Don’t wait. Begin today. Be glad you can if you want to. It is all up to you. You may never have up until now.

What You Think About Most Of The Time You Become

So, you have some new habits to make. If you made the old ones, you can make the new ones. Believe in yourself. Stop settling and start living. You can always make, or find, a positive way to accomplish what you want to accomplish. Be positive. Feel great. Be optimistic.

When you high vibe you can potentially attract others who may even assist you in your goal. Birds of a feather flock together. Like minded people can make things happen when they cooperate. Disguise the limit and fly free. You can do this. Don’t cheat the planet by playing tiny. Let the good times roll. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Your Vision Becomes Prophecy

“What more can be said. This quote I share says it all. The power you seek is within you. If you can imagine it you can make it happen. You have to initiate it. Most of us have been trained or conditioned out of it through social conditioning. Shed that. Live with the power!

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” James Allen

Settle for nothing less. Create what you want to create. Make good things happen and you will. Others have known this. Others are doing this purposefully or by accident. Isn’t it time you learned to create the life you want too? Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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What To Do When Things Go Rotten

“When things don’t work out as you hoped, remember,  what is is. Learn to go with the flow. Learn to celebrate everything. Stop trying to control. Learn to let go. Learn to surrender, Adjust and continue. KNOW all, ultimately will be well! Learn to trust. Keep the faith.

Think ‘thy will be done’. It doesn’t matter if you are spiritual or religious or not. It doesn’t matter which faith you live from. Consider that you don’t know what you don’t know.  Stop controlling. Live with the faith that it all can and will work out for the best. Relax!

Stop judging the situation. Be judgement free. Learn to be light hearted and carefree. Know all is well. Focus on what you want. Do not let the circumstances throw you. Don’t cast aside you trust. Know, ultimately, it will work out. So, there are turbulent waters?

Keep Moving Forward – Change The Circumstances – Take Charge

Navigate and go with the flow. Sometime adversity appears. You must stay the course even though it seems things have gone awry. Keep focused on what you want to create. Continue to expect it to work out. Celebrate even when life has thrown you a curve ball.

It is all part of the journey. It is all a blessing. Even when it does not appear as such. Learn to look for the lesson. Seek the opportunity. Discover how you can grow through the challenge. Stay positive. Keep on course. Be grateful for all of it. It will eventually change.

As long as you continue, as long as you don’t give up, you will get through it. Defeat is temporary as long as you don’t quit. Hurdlers place hurdles in their path. Realize you are blessed. Be grateful. Remember, energy flows where attention goes! Stay vibing high!

No Matter What Or Who Comes Your Way Keep Moving Forward

You get what you focus on most often. So be certain to focus on the good you want to create. Withdraw your attention and energy from the circumstances. Stay true to your goals and your dream. If you fall down GET back up! Remind yourself, you don’t know what you don’t know. Everything always works out. Continue to expect the best. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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The Number One Reason You Aren’t Happy Or Rich Yet

“Most people want a better life. I am sure you do. I do. You may want improved circumstances. You may desire strongly. You may have wanted it for years and years, more than anything, only to be frustrated, confused and upset that ‘it’ hasn’t happened. Right?

There is a reason why you aren’t getting what you want. Inner work is based on a few things. The first two are critical. Napoleon Hill said. ‘What you can conceive and believe you can achieve.’ He elaborated. You must know what you want and make it a white hot obsession.

You must passionately desire it more than anything. Perhaps, you already do. The second ingredient is MOST IMPORTANT. You must believe you will get it. You must expect to make it happen. You must know with certainty it is yours. Without expectation you won’t get it.

Whatever You Think About You Bring About – Focus Wisely

To wish and want but not to expect to get it, is how most live their lives. Instead on being certain it is coming, no matter what, people put their attention on the evidence they don’t have it yet. They complain and focus on current circumstances. They re-create this.

You must want it and know you will make it happen. Wanting is not enough! Expecting it, eagerly anticipating it, no matter what currently is going on, is THE inner work you need to get good at. You only receive what you expect. What you expect IS what you attract.

So, if you have missed this important point up to now, you need to learn how to make things happen! You need to learn how to better use your mind. You can’t keep doing what you have always done and think it will be different. It won’t! It will remain the same or worse.

What You Think About Most Of The Time You Become

Take charge. Invest in you. Stop creating what you do not want! Learn to direct your mind and your will to create and have what you want to be, do and have. Anything you can conceive and come to believe you can achieve. You will get it. You can have it. It is always completely up to you. So celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Why You Aren’t Getting What You Want And What You Must Do!

“Most people don’t realize we create the circumstances surrounding us. We’re responsible for our reality, shared or otherwise, because we each operate from our own internal maps, rules, filters, beliefs, values, perceptions and more etc. We create reality. We make it so.

We either are busy creating what we want, making good happen, OR we are busy blaming, complaining, whining, warring, struggling, fretting and making excuses. We make excuses but actually each individual is responsible for what s/he creates or participates in.

We perpetuate, far too frequently, what we do not want because we don’t take responsibility for creating it as otherwise. We spend too much time focused on what we don’t like and don’t want, or otherwise distracted. We perpetuate what we do not want in life.

Every Thought We Think And Word We Speak Creates Our Future

We do not spend enough time focused on good we want. Oh, yes, we wish and daydream but most don’t take active control and deliberately build what they want, in their mind, as an architect or engineer does. These people visualize what is to be and make plans.

Then they work the plans. From an idea they create the results. You must understand the world around us is THE EFFECTS of our cause. We are living and surrounded by the results of our thoughts, feelings and actions. The outer is the result of inner work. It begins within.

Whether you realize this or not makes a huge difference. We create the outer world FIRST in our inner experience. We perpetuate whatever we are experiencing in our inner experience by how we think, feel and act. The outer can be otherwise when you wake up.

Where And What We Focus On Is Where We Tend To Go

When the individual takes responsibility for creating positive good , while not complaining or blaming others or circumstances for what they are, then the individual begins to create and experience the desired results and effects. If it is to be it is up to me! Get it?

Stop creating what you don’t want. Stop! Withdraw your attention from the effects.  Be the cause for the good you desire. This is the beginning. Understand energy flows where attention goes. You create what you spend your most time focused on. Understand?

Put your attention of what you can be grateful for. Expand your attention to include more and more. Become more grateful, positive and optimistic. When you do you will begin to change your circumstances. You will cause different effects or results. In gratitude you will transform. So celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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You Need To Understand This Law Or You Won’t Change

“Awareness is the key to change. If you don’t recognize you need to change you will not. Acceptance is crucial because if you refuse to accept what it is you need to change, you never will. Not at least until you accept it. The Law Of Humility is one you must understand!

You must not only understand it but apply it and live by it. It states that what you refuse to accept continues for you. If you are unaware of it, if you deny, or refuse you need to change, it will perpetuate. Get it? Many people refuse to look at themselves with an open mind.

Some are busy projecting onto and blaming others. Other people are busy making excuses. Whichever of these you’re doing, if you refuse to accept you need to change some things, you won’t change. If you don’t know you need to change, or what to change, you won’t.

Nothing Changes Until You Do – Accept And Transform

Failure is feedback. Take it. Learn the lessons from temporary defeat and adversity. Learn lessons from circumstances that boggle your mind and upset you. Learn from the difficult people in your life whom you can’t get along with. Stop projecting! Stop blaming!

If you’re focused on another person’s faults, or the problems in your circumstances, and blaming, accusing and complaining you’re missing it. You’re missing the lesson. You’re missing the opportunity to transform. You’re not focused on higher consciousness. Get it?

Seeing the faults of others IS projection. When you find negative examples in the outer world, stop and examine your thoughts and perceptions. Stop trying to change the others and circumstances.  Instead change yourself. Adjust. Continue. You’ll be better for it.

You Are The Key To Transformation – Be Open – Be Aware

Become flexible. Become less critical and judgmental of the outer world and the people in it. Become open, aware and willing to accept what you discover about yourself. Then be willing to change and transform it. Be willing to be different. Be glad for your discovery.

Be grateful for the opportunity. Fill yourself with gratitude and delight in all of it. Consider each person, and every circumstance, a blessing you you will live an incredible life. Adopt and apply The Law Of Humility. Work within the law. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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What To Do About Your Worst Fears

“Sometimes things turn sour and we handle it okay. Other times we go to extreme negative thinking. We think the worst case scenario over and over. We let it affect us and we spiral down. It is normal and natural for us to think this way. Most of us were conditioned to.

What we frequently find is after a day or two, weeks or longer what we feared most did not come to pass. The worst fears we lived over and over didn’t manifest as we expected. We feel relieved. We dodged a big one and we resume our lives. Whew! But then what?

It happens again another time. Over the same subject or another one. TWe repeat the worst case scenario lifestyle for awhile. We go dark. Again, it resolves. Usually, our worst fears NEVER come to pass. That’s the funny thing about it. Our fears don’t come about!

Don’t Let Fear About What Could Happen Make Nothing Happen

What we  did is get worked up, fearful, angry, depressed and worse. We spiraled into negativity, for a time being, only to discover things worked out better than we thought they would. Did we learn our lesson and decide never to do this in the future? Nope. Sadly, nope!

To enjoy enduring success, so the saying goes, one must travel a little in advance of the world. This means get out ahead of it. We can do that if we learn from our ‘worst fears’ example. Since our worst fears almost never, very rarely, ever come about, stop thinking they will!

Use your mind and energy differently! Stop repeating failure. Stop repeating negative thinking and begin to shift away from the worst case scenarios. Begin to think ‘things always work out’. ‘I don’t know how this will but I know it will work out for the best’. Get it? Do it!

There Is No Greater Illusion Than Fear – It’s Only A State Of Mind

Think and behave differently. Learn from your mistakes and move forward. If you don’t you are doomed to repeat. Stop it. Start doing something productive instead. Don’t just be relieved. Learn to live and respond differently to life, when it throws you a curve ball.

Enjoy life more. Stress out less. Learn to think positive instead of going to dark negative places. Shift away from your fears. Live with courage. Live lighthearted and carefree. Begin to express gratitude and delight. Be thankful for all. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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The Secret: Who You Are Determines What You Do And Have!

“The secret to getting everything you want is to create from, and for, the joy of creating and not from need or desperation! You attract what you are not what you want. You must understand this and transform yourself into someone who gets things easily.

When you master the basics of mind design and the law of attraction you transform into someone who has mastery of the process. You create and attract for the joy of it not because you want or need anything. When you are filled with gratitude you actually get more.

If you have nothing, if you are struggling then that is where most of your energy and effort and thinking resides. Energy flows where your attention goes. If it is on problems and lack that is what you end up with. If it is on being full, glad and grateful you get more of that.

Success Comes From A Few Simply Practices You Do Every Day

You need to become a joyous creator, a joyous giver, a joyous attractor. What you are determines what more you will become, do and have. From you abundance you generate more wealth. From your poverty you only generate more poverty. Do you get this?

You can’t travel uphill thinking downhill thoughts. You won’t live a positive life thinking negative. You must transform yourself. You can learn how and you can develop the habit of easily manifesting what you want. It is all up to you. It begins with gratitude. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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