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Perhaps the reason “one book” or “one seminar” or “one program” was a MAJOR turning point for one person, but nothing more than a stepping stone for another, is because…
…Achieving success is like opening a combination lock.
There are a finite number of discs that need to move into place before the lock will open.
Some people are raised in such a way, or have a natural-born inclination to live in harmony with the laws of success.
Sometimes those people have all but ONE of the discs already in place, so just one book or seminar or conversation with a mentor is all they needed to set them free and launch their lifestyle into the stratosphere.
Others have hundreds of discs that need to move into place.
But each time you increase your mental capital by learning more about how success really works, and by trying and failing and learning the lesson the experience contained, you allow yet another disc to rotate into place, and the good news is: that disc can stay in place for good.
One day, with just one more try, one more class, one more book, one more seminar, or one more conversation with a mentor, that FINAL disc will move into its proper position, and the lock WILL finally spring open.
You’ll probably tell everyone that that was THE BEST event or book or conversation there ever was… because it facilitated the most tangible results in your life.
The truth is, that each “aha” moment leading up to it was just as important and critical to your success as the last. If just ONE of the previous epiphanies had not happened, then that final event, book, or conversation would probably not have been the final disc.
So keep learning, keep seeking the next epiphany, because you never know… it just might be that final disc for you. If it isn’t, at LEAST there’s just one less disc to go.
Even if you’ve experienced a breakthrough before, taking it to the next level will always require the opening of another lock, sometimes just a little more complex than the one before.
But don’t worry, you’ll open them all, by just rotating one simple disc into place at a time.
Remember:
Your desire is simply a “possibility” seeking expression through you… honor your dream, don’t give up on it. One step, one rotated disc at a time and you’ll surely get there.
The FTMF program has the power to help you move HUNDREDS of discs into place in just 12 weeks, which is why the participants are experiencing quantum leaps in their lives.
The good news is that you’ll save hundreds of dollars if you get started during the month of July – but don’t procrastinate because:
The first 20 customers will receive a one-year complimentary basic enrollment in the online School of Life Mastery ($300 value!)
The FTMF Sale begins 7/1/09 at 12:01 am PST. (At the time I posted this article, it was NOT on sale yet)
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Goal achievement is like making a phone call. If you dial the numbers right, it works. Children who have never used a phone will probably have trouble making it work right for a while, just as we can have trouble making the laws of success work to achieve our goals.
It takes practice!
When a goal doesn’t happen the way you expected, it’s easy to get discouraged. Actually, that IS the COMMON thing to do. The uncommon thing to do is brush yourself off and ask the hard question:
“Where did I go wrong? What more do I need to know? In what way am I making this harder than it has to be?”
Common people may ask those questions, rhetorically, but not with a real intent of finding the answers. Actually, sometimes they don’t WANT the answer, because it’s just easier to say, “That law of attraction thing doesn’t work.” Truly, it’s easier to put the blame for failure on things outside of oneself.
**** OUCH! ****
(Now, if you’re offended, you may be surprised at the TURN this article takes next.)
On the other hand, UNCOMMON people ask the hard questions with a firm INTENT to find the answers. They SEEK for the answers, even if it means they have to admit that there may be more to learn.
Uncommon people will get uncommon results. Uncommon people will enjoy an uncommon lifestyle. If they DO ask the hard questions and find the answers, then the next time they pursue a goal, they can apply the new understanding, and can get better results.
Or not…
Here’s why: For me, this question / answer /new attempt process happened HUNDREDS of times before I actually saw it really work even ONCE. I know hundreds of ways it DOESN’T work. Each failed attempt showed me something else that I needed to tweak about my approach.
Think about it… The first time a kindergartner tries to use the telephone, chances are good that s/he will dial the number wrong. When that happens, it would be foolish to say, “This phone doesn’t work!” The PHONE works fine. The user just needs to be extra careful to dial ALL the right numbers, in the right order, with no extra numbers inserted along the way.
The law of attraction works FINE. You’ve just got to be careful to dial ALL the right numbers in the right order, and not insert any extra ones along the way. When you do it right, it unfailingly works the way it should.
And the good news is that when you see it work once, you gain confidence, and eventually realize that it can work for you EVERY time. In fact, it can become second-nature, just like using the phone. Then, after experiencing some success, you discover that it can even be easier than THAT… like discovering the redial button.
But I have some BAD NEWS…
The one element that does NOT go away, no matter how slick you are, or how smart you get, is the TEST to exercise faith when all appearances indicate impending disaster. Yes, no matter how good you get at the process, and no matter how much money you make, you’ll always get plenty of opportunity to exercise faith, make sacrifices, and stretch yourself OUT of the comfort zone to accomplish the next goal.
You just get to a point where you learn to accept the difficult nature of the process. I’m sorry to burst your bubble.
The knowledge I share here does not avert the challenges, it just gives you the power to overcome them when they show up… the power to achieve the goal in spite of difficulty… the power to have PEACE of MIND through the process.
And yes, you CAN HAVE your victory. You can have the MONEY you need. You can find the job, or succeed in business… You can have the FREEDOM you seek!
Just try again, and learn from your mistakes. That’s how you win.
Find out more you may need to know, so that you can achieve that oh-so-elusive goal. I want to help. Read the Jackrabbit Factor story free, so I can reveal the common mistakes people make with the law of attraction; or if you’re ready for more advanced answers, start the 8-week Jackrabbit Factor Ecourse. You can succeed!
I’ve recently been engrossed in learning some NEW (to me) principles that will help YOU learn how to “create money in the moment.”
I’m not talking about a money-making scheme, but PRINCIPLES that can be applied to any endeavor… principles I have not fully disclosed in any of my books or programs… yet.
Let me remind you: when you discover, and operate consistently by the right principles, you can be at peace, even in the face of catastrophe, knowing that you WILL ultimately succeed. Do you feel like something is still missing, even after all you’ve learned so far?
I’m not entirely prepared to release the information, but you can be sure it will be covered in The Jackrabbit Factor sequel (in progress), and it is also explained extensively as a follow-up course for FTMF graduates in the online School of Life Mastery.
It begins with discovering your sole – or soul – purpose, which is the fully expressed application of YOUR unique combination of talents, interests, experiences, and abilities.
Nobody else can quite do what YOU are here on this planet to do. The more you operate in your soul purpose, the more intelligent, the more productive, the more efficient, and the more profitable your labor will be.
As Garrett Gunderson (New York Times best selling author, and co-author of my upcoming Jackrabbit Factor sequel) explains, “Soul purpose is your ultimate tool of production — your ultimate tool for creating money in the moment.”
Imagine how it would feel to have no fear of worldwide or local economic disasters, because you know the value that YOU are perfectly equipped to add in any circumstance, and for which you can always receive compensation. That’s the power of finding and developing your Soul Purpose.
Stay tuned, and I’ll help you discover yours.
If you’re not actively pursuing a dream of your own, you may be a passenger in someone else’s boat, going to the destination of their choice.
Now, that can a great place to be, if you believe the captain knows what he’s doing, and if you trust that he’s taking you and the crew somewhere important and wonderful.
But you might determine that the boat you’re on isn’t taking you where you want to go financially.
You have options; there are other boats passing by, going to other destinations, but it isn’t always easy to find a vessel that has all of the benefits you’d like to enjoy, and which will welcome you aboard.
So, you might vessel-hop for a while, until you find one that seems perfect for you.
Maybe your “perfect” ship travels quickly, provides abundantly for all your wants and needs, and is so big that you can’t even feel the waves beating against it.
But there’s no guarantee that it won’t spring a leak, and that the captain won’t send you away in a little dinghy without long-term supplies. It’s even possible that you’ll just have to abandon ship altogether with not so much as a life vest. Maybe you end up just treading water, hoping for another ship to come along before you go under for good.
Have you ever felt that way?
For the entrepreneur at heart, it doesn’t matter how big, fast, and beautiful the boat is; traveling in someone else’s vessel will never completely fulfill his/her needs. There’s something inside that says, “I may be headed in the right direction on this vessel, but I won’t rest until I’m steering my own ship. I need the freedom to change course directions at will.”
Whether you leave the ship by choice or not, finding yourself in the water can be terrifying, especially if you never learned how to swim.
Think about it: what is the natural reaction of a non-swimmer who is thrown into deep waters?
They panic, and thrash violently. They become consumed with the fear of, “What if I go under and can’t come back up?!” Full of adrenaline and in order to avoid the worst, they claw and pound the water, in a frantic effort to stay afloat.
Eventually, if they don’t get some help, they go under out of sheer exhaustion.
If you’ve had to abandon ship recently, leaving your regular source of income to go out on your own in search of another boat, you may feel like the non-swimmer, fully exposed to choppy waters, surrounded by the mysterious depths, and at risk of drowning in bills and other pressures.
The natural inclination is to panic, and work too hard frantically trying to stay afloat – ultimately wearing yourself out and sinking into despair.
The truth is, that the principles which keep a new swimmer afloat in the water are the same principles that keep you afloat financially… and here they are:
1) Take a deep breath,
2) Relax, and
3) Keep your chin up
That’s how you stay afloat in the water, and that’s how you stay afloat financially, too.
Financial freedom does not create peace of mind; financial freedom begins with peace of mind.
Only after you discover that you can float, will you be able to learn how to swim efficiently. People who enjoy financial freedom have learned to swim in choppy waters without being overcome by exhaustion.
And it only works when you stay calm. When you are calm, you float; not just in water, but with finances, too.
Discover the truth of this and you may also discover that swimming peacefully allows you to get where you want to go without a boat at all.
(The unseen current can take you farther than you ever thought possible, if you let it… if you don’t fight it.)
So, breathe… relax… keep your chin up… and trust the current to take you to the next boat or port on your journey to financial freedom.
How committed are you to your dream?
When it looks as though all opposition is stacked against you, do you decide that the dream is just too far out of reach?
One precarious step at a time, the climber who keeps putting one foot in front of the other will, in time, get to the top. It’s not a smooth, downhill journey to be sure.
Maybe you feel like it’s getting scarier, bumpier, and oftentimes darker than you thought it should be; but in spite of it all, so long as one more step can be taken, you have something to do. The way will be lighted as you keep taking yet another step of faith into the darkness.
I can hear you through cyberspace saying, “But you don’t know what I’m up against!”
That may be true. But what I do know is that there are principles of success that apply to everyone, in whatever situation they find themselves. Somewhere in the world is someone who is worse off than you, and still determined to achieve their dream, and still taking one more step no matter how weary they are, so I want you to hang in there, too.
Dreams worth living for are dreams worth fighting for. In fact, if they weren’t worth fighting for, they wouldn’t be worthy of you.
I received an email I want to share with you. Here is a man who is determined, against the odds.
I believe this man will ultimately succeed, because of the priority he places on gaining knowledge. While a bankruptcy may permanently kill the dreams of the average person, this man has taken the lessons he’s learned, is picking up the pieces, and starting the climb again with a deeper commitment to moving forward with more wisdom, more understanding, more maturity, and probably even more compassion for others who face similar difficulties.
See if you would think like this if you were in his shoes:
Hello Leslie & Trevan,I bought the FTMF course sometime early last year. I had a little resistance to writing stuff down, but wanted to make this a priority… until I had a major setback.
I took care of my elderly parents for 5 years and my mother lived to be 94. For the last 2 years she was alive, she couldn’t get out of bed without my help, so I became a full-time caregiver with no income, taking care of her 24 hours a day, living only on her social security and barely making the bills. At that time, I defaulted on a few credit cards.
In July of 2008, one of my creditors garnished my wages. They were taking 25% of my $10/hr salary, and I live alone. I didn’t want to declare bankruptcy, and I resisted it for 8 months while I was working as much overtime as possible, often working 12/13 hours a day, and barely able to meet my bills. Of course, I had eliminated as many bills as possible by discontinuing services such as television and long distance phone service, and moving out of a storage space. I had already stopped paying for house insurance.
I went without my car for 6 weeks because I didn’t have $300 for a car repair.
But I kept telling myself, there are a lot of people worse off than I am. I should be thankful for what I have. At least I have a job, even though I wasn’t able to take home my full salary.
In March, I was unable to pay my rent at the beginning of the month, in spite of all the overtime I was working. I pawned my mother’s diamond ring and paid a bankruptcy lawyer to put a stop to the garnishment. So by April 15th, I started getting my full salary again. On May 15th, I went to court for the meeting with the Trustee. All my papers were in order. It will be another few months before the bankruptcy is dismissed, but I have done my part.
Now, it’s time to get back to my FTMF course. I did manage to send you the money for the FTMF CD’s in December. There was no way I was going to miss out on that.
I have really been enjoying them, but I have to go back and start from the beginning and write down the things I did not do the first time.
I want to concentrate on this, as I feel it is the key to my future. I still look at all of the opportunities out there, but I am aware that if I try to start or join some business with my previous mindset, I can expect the same results as I was getting before.
There is no need to jump into anything at this point. Except my FTMF manual!
I’m really excited about the School of Life Mastery. This is a way for you to open the FTMF program up to a lot of people who don’t think they can come up with the money for the regular manual (although I’m very glad I did.) There are so many people who need this!
C. J.
Now, did you notice how this reader, in spite of his difficulties, found something to be grateful for? We all have something for which we can be grateful, no matter how bad things may seem to be.
Finding gratitude shifts something in your mind and heart, and opens doors that help you see what your best next step should be.
That’s what I call initiating the Jackrabbit Factor in your life: setting a goal properly with the right mindset, and as a result, instinctively knowing what you should do next to achieve it.
Today’s economic conditions are causing a real “shake-up”. Some people will rise to the top, and some will stay buried. If you work on your mental buoyancy, you’ll rise to the top like a ping pong ball in a tumbler of sand. If you let yourself stay discouraged, you’ll sink to the bottom like a rock.
What happens to you in this economic shake-up will depend on how you choose to demonstrate your determination today. Keep learning, so that you’ll have the mental buoyancy to rise to the top.
If you’re subscribed to my newsletter, you’re probably someone who tries to live by faith – believing in something good that you can’t see. To prosper using the law of attraction and six other primary laws of success depends on it.
This question just came in from a Jackrabbit Factor Ecourse participant who was having a hard time answering one of the questions about the Law of Rhythm. It’s a great question, so let’s take a look. What does it mean to be past feeling, and how does it relate to the Law of Rhythm? To be “past feeling” means to be spiritually numb, and perhaps not even realize it. To be past feeling means to lose the ability to feel connected to God, sometimes because it has been replaced with louder, more exciting (but temporary) feelings. In short, to be past feeling means to lose connection with the divine influence that keeps you moving in the right direction. Okay, so how do you know if you’re already past feeling, or at risk of becoming that way? If you do not feel inner peace while actively pursuing a worthy goal, you may be at risk of becoming “past feeling”. To keep that hardly noticeable guidance engaged in your life, you must be at least trying to live in harmony with God’s universal law, and have a goal worth actively shooting for. Joy and progress comes through making positive changes. After shooting for a goal, take notice if you stop feeling the joy that came from the climb. If it’s gone, it’s time to reach a little higher. Stagnation is miserable because of the absence of progression. We’re all seeking to feel more alive, to feel more peace, and to feel more happiness. Sometimes people turn to enticing but destructive influences because they cause strong, but deceptive feelings. To surrender to these distractions can generate a powerful, but temporary imitation of true happiness. Such feelings are counterfeit and can leave a person craving more of the same until they become completely enslaved by the addiction, and completely unable to ‘hear’ or feel the quiet (but perfectly peaceful) influence authored by God. To experiment with seemingly harmless distractions can be enough to keep a person from having enough patience, diligence, and discipline to ever discover the simple, unglamorous, slow growing processes that lead to true and lasting success. It’s an act of faith to live by law when the reward isn’t immediate or obvious. The more past feeling we get, the harder it can be to be restored to the dependable influence that quietly shows us the way. Such natural consequences for our departure from the right path can be evidence alone that the thrill that caught our attention at one time was counterfeit to the more satisfying, longer lasting and genuine version God provides for those who pay the price to patiently and faithfully live by law. Through trial and error, paying close attention to the nature of your feelings along the way (and making course corrections as needed), you’ll find your way. Welcome all the feelings that come… even the sad, angry, and disappointed ones. Know that they’re temporary; the Law of Rhythm guarantees it. Feel them completely, and let the pain they inflict help you make a course correction or change of velocity, so that you can once again feel the joyful, victorious feelings we’d all rather have. For more on the Universal Laws of success, and for help “waking up” to a more fulfilling life, begin today with the complete 8 week Jackrabbit Factor Ecourse.
At least in my corner of the world, we’re experiencing springtime. It’s a season for new beginnings, new growth, and for witnessing the miracle in nature that what once looked dead, is finally reviving again. Sometimes finances, relationships, etc. to go through similar seasons.
For now, let’s talk about finances. Has your money tree seemed kind of dead?
As leafless and as dead as it may seem, it does still has living sap inside, ready to deliver nourishment to the tree limbs so that it will eventually bear fruit.
It’s just been waiting for things to warm up a bit, that’s all.
Well, things ARE warming up all around you, even financially. You can warm up too, bringing your own energized climate to your money tree.
How do you warm your climate? Begin a deeper study of the principles of success, and you’ll have renewed energy. That equals warmth. YOU are the lifeblood inside your money tree. So long as YOU are still alive, there’s still hope for the tree.
(I guess you could say you’re the SAP. Leslie is smiling, amused at the play on words. Tee hee…)
So, not only is it springtime, it’s time to SPRING.
Bounce back; wake up, so that you don’t miss the growing season! Plant the dream seed NOW, so that the harvest season will be abundant for YOU. Wait too long, and the ground may be frozen again. Take action today… do SOMEthing! Don’t wait through another four season cycle; it’s time to plant right now.
Join the conversation, lend and receive encouragement, meet like minded people, get ideas for your next step… at the Prosperity Forums!
If you’ve ever driven in snowy weather, you know that sometimes the car does not respond to the directions you give it through the steering wheel. Achieving a goal can give you a similar experience.
If you’ve set a goal, and you’re doing all you know to steer yourself toward it, then it can be unnerving to find yourself heading instead towards something else. It can be as frightening as driving on the freeway in winter weather at high speeds, and hitting a patch of black ice.
When we lived in Utah, I had that experience more than once. Gratefully, I had been taught that if your car begins to spin out of control, you’re supposed to momentarily turn the steering wheel into the direction of the swerve.
In other words, if I want to drive straight, but the back of my car is skidding to the left (causing me to be pointed to the right), that I should turn my steering wheel to the left, just long enough to regain traction with the road, and then I’ll be in control again to straighten out. It’s not an intuitive thing to do, when you’ve lost control of your car. The instinctive thing to do is to freeze and slam on your brakes. But doing that actually exacerbates the problem, and can accelerate the spin. Even putting on the gas can accelerate the out-of-control-ness.
You might be feeling like your financial life is spinning out of control, and instinct might tell you to just STOP everything (slam on the brakes). But giving up on your goals and ceasing to do the things that kept you going before will only compound the problem, causing your financial life to spin out of control even faster.
Likewise, you shouldn’t just put on the gas, barreling forward, without paying attention to the indicators around you that say “something isn’t quite right”. A person who is spinning out of control financially has to notice, so that the right response can be taken.
Steer into the swerve.
When your financial vehicle isn’t going in the direction you expect it to be going, don’t ignore it. Face it. To face it is to steer into it for a period of time, just long enough to regain traction and then you can take it where you want it to go. In real terms, to steer into the swerve means to regroup. Look at your inflows and outflows, and rein it in. Come to terms with your situation, but before you can do that, you have to get perfectly clear on what your situation is.
If things are tough, and your financial picture isn’t what you want it to be, you’re not alone. Here is an opportunity. Find out where you’re at, face it, let yourself feel disappointment, and always have an expectation that you’ll find a way to come out on top in the long run. Coming to terms with what is, and then allowing yourself to find gratitude in simple things, is what it means to steer into the swerve, just long enough to regain traction.
Once you have stopped your vehicle from spinning out of control, you can once again point it in the right direction, and press on. Re-establish those goals of yours. Maybe they have evolved over the years a bit. Maybe you’ve discovered that certain goals don’t have the same luster they once had. This is the perfect time to look deeply at the things that bring you the greatest joy and happiness, and set some goals to achieve greater success in those areas.
A patch of black ice can be one of the greatest things that has ever happened to you on your journey IF it helps you get more clear on what you intend to accomplish while you’re a resident here on planet Earth.
Did you have a breakthrough after applying a new understanding of the law of attraction, only to find out that as time went on, it became more and more difficult to duplicate your amazing results?
Believe me, we experienced the same thing and wondered why things stopped working that had worked before. Eventually it became clear to me… or more accurately, God placed in my path a person who had been there, and who had discovered the answer and could share it with me. Here’s what I learned, and I think (with the financial turmoil in the world today) now is a good time to share it with you:
We’re here to discover the path to true, lasting, and complete joy. It’s the path to God; to a personal, two-way, living relationship with our creator. We find it by discovering and abiding by His laws… the more precepts we learn to live by, the closer we approach that fulness of joy.
It’s like the children’s game of “hot and cold”. One child hides an object and the other goes to find it. When the second child is headed in the right direction, the first child says, “warmer…”, but when s/he starts heading in the wrong direction, the first child says, “colder…” until by constant course-correction, the object is found.
In life, when we are headed in the right direction, we feel warmth and enlightenment from God in our spirits. When we are headed in the wrong direction, the enlightenment is replaced with darkness and confusion. It says, “Colder…”
Proximity does not have the same effect on our joy as much as does our direction. Meaning, a person who is nearly right on top of the object might feel “colder” for being faced in the wrong direction, while someone clear across the room from it might feel “warmer” for being faced in the right direction, even though there is a much greater distance involved. That’s the paradox.
So here’s why our law of attraction experiences can become frustrating:
The law of attraction is a true principle, so the first time we learn about it, it fills our souls with light and understanding, and as we apply it, we’re often blessed to see amazing results. Then, after a degree of success, God wants us to know that there is something even better to learn, something even more powerful and wonderful to discover. When our results are not what we think they should be, or when doing the same things do not yield the same results, He is allowing us to grope around a little bit until we face an even better direction toward even greater joy and success than we have perhaps even conceived thus far.
Sometimes we grope until we feel that “warmer” indication that lets us identify a goal that is perhaps more worthy of our energy and commitment. Sometimes we grope until we recognize that something is amiss in our life and needs to be corrected. Sometimes we grope until we discover the blessing in our hardship, and come to peace with it, will a heart full of gratitude.
If we have not accomplished the ultimate goal of perfect oneness with God, then the game isn’t over, and we need to pay attention to those “warmer” and “colder” spiritual nudgings. There’s something new we’re supposed to find… a deeper understanding… a more perfect process of partnering with unseen help to accomplish even greater purposes than we can even comprehend.
It’s easy to get off course and not even realize it. When the drive for success begins to eat away at family relationships, for example, it’s time to get back to the basics and re-establish one’s footing on solid ground. When spending has become a little careless, it’s time to demonstrate greater respect for money and show gratitude for simpler things. When we’ve developed a habit of achieving goals that add to our personal comfort, it may be time to set goals for improving the condition of mankind at large.
Where ever we are, if we don’t fine-tune and continually improve our intentions along the way, what once felt warm will ultimately turn cold.
We are meant to learn principle upon principle, so holding tight to just one and never learning any more, will ultimately lead to some serious “coldness”.
Consider the following image. I’m grateful to Garrett White for pointing this out:
This illustration shows the path to a perfect fulness of joy, or what you might call a path back to your creator. When you do things that are within the influence of His power, you enjoy the warmth of his Spirit, enlightenment, and true success.
To begin with, at the left, our behaviors can be in the red zone, and as long as we’re within the range, we will experience these spiritual benefits. As time proceeds, and we move toward the right, our underdeveloped red-zone behaviors will not yield the same results. We must fine-tune our understanding and behave accordingly in order to remain within the influence of His power. We must eventually learn to live within the yellow zone to find our way to perfect happiness.
Outside of the dotted lines we feel “colder,” while inside the dotted lines we feel “warmer.” This is how we are led to all truth.
So don’t be discouraged if you have fallen out of the joy you once felt. It’s still there for you, and as you search for it by getting back to the basics, you will find it. It only takes a step in the right direction for you to finally feel that assurance that you’re getting “warmer”.
Even when we feel very far away, the assurance, joy, and newfound hope is ours the moment we discover the right direction. Need some financial peace of mind? Seek first to find joy in simply being headed in the right direction. With a resolved intention to find the right direction, you will be led to it. From there, the joy and peace of mind you seek will certainly follow.