We human beings have come a long way in understanding and using the powers of the mind in the past 50 years. For example, accomplishments in the medical field are staggering! Soon we will be able to identify and treat potential illnesses at the gene level, as each of us will have access to his or her own gene map.

There are estimates put the number of millionaires in the United States at over 1,000,000, most of whom attribute reaching this lofty status primarily to the positive use of mind power. Multi-billionaires are now commonplace and trillionaires are not very far in the future.

Yet only about 3% to 5% of the population is financially independent or rich. Some studies say that as many as 90% of all workers will retire to incomes that are 20% to 50% of their working income after struggling and straining to “make a decent living” for 35 to 45 years or more.

Why is that? How is that only 3% to 5% people become wealthy and live their dreams in the richest country the world has ever known? Why have you gotten what you’ve gotten in your life? Why have you not gotten more of the things, conditions and circumstances you have wished for?

It really has to do with whether you are mastering your mind power or whether your mind is mastering you and therefore weakening your power in terms of obtaining or achieving more of what you desire.

Essentially, your mind controls everything in your world, including health, happiness, and financial conditions. If you are not experiencing the money you’d like to have, the relationships you desire, or enjoying the social status you want, there is a strong probability that your mind power is not under your control.

Even though we normally speak of mind as if we have two minds, conscious and unconscious or subconscious, I will speak of one mind with two sections, and each of these two sections have separate and distinct functions.

The conscious portion is primarily a sensation filtering, classifying, recording, analyzing, and selecting mechanism. Even though it has no long term memory of its own, it is the gate keeper so to speak, that keeps incongruent thoughts, ideas, and images from entering the unconscious. Whenever new thoughts, images, or ideas seek entry into our minds, they must first past the scrutiny of the conscious mind.

According to U.S. Anderson, author of the book Three Magic Words, “It (the conscious portion of the mind) records sensations at the level of pain and pleasure; it analyzes this sensation according to the circumstances that caused it; and it files such sensation away under one of two main compartments headed ‘Recall about Pain’ and ‘Recall about Pleasure.’”

The unconscious mind is that portion of the mind below the level of conscious perception. Its memory is perfect, and it is the storehouse of every thought, idea, image, sensory perception, and emotion of the individual are indelibly recorded.

You are the most miraculous of all living beings on earth. You are the owner of a mind that is so stupendous, that as you truly begin mastering your mind power and consciously using it, there is no dream that you can dream that you cannot achieve.

Harold L Lowe retired at age 62 when his six-figure income position was eliminated. He is now studying The New Think And Grow Rich with the author, Ted Ciuba. Get access to the FREE Report – How To Access Your FREE MasterMind Training at http://www.masteringyourmindpower.com

Do you feel like you are spinning your wheels?
Do you have a business or personal goal that seems unreachable?
Is your life is way off kilter?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, here are few tips for you.

Spinning Your Wheels

If you are stuck in the muck of an ordinary life, do yourself a favor and come to terms with what is truly interesting and important to you. For me, it’s always a list. Then ask yourself how much time you’re spending doing the things that are no longer of any interest to you. Start eliminating the tasks, roles and events in your life that no longer fit. This process allows you to make time for the projects and hobbies you’ve missed due to your prior commitments. Spring is the perfect time for renewal.

Audacious Goals

Map out an outline to reach your seemingly unreachable goal. The only way to “eat an elephant” is one bite at a time. Consider reaching out to a trusted mentor who has already accomplished a similar plan. You might find working with a professional coach as an accountability partner helpful. One you’ve determined the steps you need to take to reach your goal, add a critical path time-line (start with your goal date and work backwards) to your calendar. These steps will help you become accountable for every bite. Before you know it, your audacious goal will start to materialize and PRESTO… Big Audacious goal accomplished.

Well-Balanced Living

Part of being alive is wearing many hats. We are parents, spouses, friends, entrepreneurs, employees, siblings, sons and daughters. Discovering the right balance of family, work, spirituality, fitness, education and more can be daunting if you don’t know where to start. I’ve found the best way to tackle life balance is to be honest with yourself and identify the areas in your life that are suffering. One recommendation is taking time to assess your life. Make a list of all of the areas that make up your world, then rate each area on a scale of 1 to 10. The higher number reflecting the areas where you spend most of your time. In a matter of minutes you will discover the areas in your life that may be out of whack. Once you know where the deficits are you can start to rearrange your priorities. Once you’ve rearranged your priorities you are taking a big step on the path of true balance.

For 15 years Shann Vander Leek has inspired sales professionals and entrepreneurs. Telephone and email consultations make her accessible to clients all over the world. Visit Shann’s website at www.truebalancelifecoaching.com to subscribe to The Path of True Balance – E-Zine or to schedule your complimentary 30 minute discovery session.

Shann is the founder of True Balance Life Coaching and is accredited by the Coach Training Alliance.

If you knew you had one last talk to give, what would it be? Carnegie Mellon University hosts lecturers’ from around the world each year. The premise is, if you had one last lecture to give, what would it be? For Randy Pausch, it was very literal. He has pancreatic cancer and his doctors told him he only has 6 months left to live.

His last lecture focused on many things, but really on how you should live your life if you want to achieve your dreams and goals. There is a surprise ending and I will not ruin that for you here. You can watch the entire 76 minute talk or the condensed version on Oprah (only 10 minutes long).

You need to make time to watch this video. You will not be disappointed in the long version.

What would you talk about if you had one more talk to give? Have you lived a good life? Was it free of stress? Have you remained healthy? Have you reached your goals and have many of your dreams come true?

Did you use your unique gifts and talents to enrich the lives of others and make this world a better place, or did you wander through life while putting your time in at a job you hated, only to pay your bills?

Maybe it is time to step back from it all and put everything in perspective. Take a fresh look at your life and what you want to accomplish. Put forth a plan of action to make it happen. It is time to get off the sidelines and play!

Justin Lukasavige is a Personal and Business Coach and owner of Lukas Coaching. Visit www.lukascoaching.com/resources.htm for a ton of free tools to help you improve your health, finances, business, career and life!

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The power for success is – where?

“Don, can I find success in prophets writings or guru declarations?”

“Well Jon, Let’s face it; anyone, even God himself, can offer a formula for success. No matter if it has freed thousands, in all guarantees made, what would it be worth without your participation. That’s right, the main ingredient in any success formula is you. The burden is placed directly on you. Maybe you don’t want to hear that, but, like it or not, it is you who makes success happen and brings God’s promises into an experience.

“Bring God’s promises into an experience, what can that mean? Can you invoke God’s power for your benefit?”

“You better believe you can! All the power of the Universe is at your disposal.”

“Wow, wait a minute, that can’t be, God doesn’t allow man to create . . . does he?”

“The fact is, man was created in God’s own image and likeness, man is a creative being. Your quest for success is not done blindly for it is in faith that you forge ahead. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

“Wait a minute, If that’s true, why can’t I create my own environment?”

“You’ve clearly ignored the truth up tell now what makes you think you can handle the truth?” The truth is, you can, by simply using God’s laws.”

“How about success?”

Success is only a state of mind. What is success for one person may be failure to another, so success is what you believe it to be.”

“But Don, I have worked hard and God has not supplied me anything up to now. My family has lost faith in me, and even my church friends don’t seem to care”

“Jon, another eye-opening fact is, no one, not even God will make it happen for you and quite frankly no one on earth cares if you make or not. Look around, in most instances, people want to see you fail. Friends, family, associates, don’t want to see you doing better than them, I’m sorry to say, sad but true.”

“What can I put my trust in?”

“All events that affect you are actually controlled by you in other words, nothing is going to happen in your life without you accepting and allowing it happen. If you have a tyrant boss, don’t accept his/her conditions, find another job. One guarantee I can make, you won’t be successful if you don’t do any thing different than you did yesterday. If you accept the face of success, you are accepting God’s personal promise for your future. When all is said and done, success comes at a steep price, one you must pay to reap its benefits.”

Do you make or break – yourself?
As you can see, Jon is in a quandary, be believes everyone has let him down and success is beyond his reach.

A startling fact is, in God’s creation nothing moves forward without some effort being made by the participant. Sometimes the effort is tremendous and almost beyond measure, sometimes it is small and accomplished with little sweat. Anytime a person toils and sews the seeds of success a harvest time will follow. It’s a matter of how much effort he/she is willing to expend as to how much bounty his/her harvest will be. This is no earth shaking revelation, everyone knows success is self made, or do they?

Make no mistake, God’s laws know no boundaries, they are the same for everyone, believers and non-believers alike. Don’t be so naive as to believe that just because you are a Christian, God’s laws are proprietary to you; they are not. God’s laws encompass the whole of mankind equally; they are cause and effect or the action in choice. There can be no beginning without an ending. It’s a matter of the course taken between the beginning and the ending that determines success.

Regrettably, statistics disclose most of the world’s greatest self-help and how-to publications published over the years are never read by most purchasers and the material contained within is in no way put into practice. So all the writing in the world is of no use if it is presented to the blind.

The greatest majority of people simply can not grasp the truths of success or self-disciplined themselves to implement or even partially learn the best of laid out instructional concepts. It is sad that the many efforts of learned people who toiled diligently to present success manuals go unheeded while most people can’t lend themselves to put them into practice in their lives. This is the very reason universities and colleges are so valuable and are able to charge so much; they prepare undisciplined people in how to arouse the inner self. They also teach people how to focus on the task at hand. I can’t stress enough, if you can not discipline yourself in this effort you too will fall to uncertainty and ultimately disappointment. What most people never learn is that to become great at anything, you must become single minded and task directed.

First law of success, “the force needed to move an object is in direct proportion to its resistance”.

Sound like a riddle? No, it simply means, “the harder you work the more you get.” But wait, there’s another rule that says, “work smarter not harder” which also applies. Also, “necessity is the mother of invention”. Man is the only creature within God’s creation that has the capacity to take an idea from conception to creation. Why? Because in conception lies possibilities in discovery and truth which is a God inherited trait. What is the Universe but a possibility, idea, conception taken to its highest limits?

Even though God provides abundance, it is still a test of your intent and willingness. Do you have the strength to complete the mission? What is success but a test of endurance, desire, and commitment? When courted success is an elusive mistress who always resist capture and when not minded, will seek a more apt suitor.

The fact is, the concept of personal accomplishment, and financial success may seem worthy but without a clearly defined plan of action, they are little more than pipe dreams that come and go in the mind and may never be realized. Concepts must be visualized in your mind first before they will become a reality, then they can become strategies of success. Success is closer than you think.

Happy Trails

Donald Yates, author, Former Director of Leadership and Development for First Baptist Church of Crossville, and Business Development coordinator for Imperial Research , is now retired but continues to engage life through self discovery. SAVE GAS!Run Your Car On WATER!Join Other Successful Women

Nothing that happens to us has any meaning at all-other than the meaning we give it, that is.

Think about it; if you were not there to interpret the event, to name it, to classify it, to give it meaning, then it would just be.

Let it be.

Let It Be
If you don’t like what it means, let it mean something different. You can find a superlative meaning in every experience.

The worst day of your life can be the best day of your life, if you decide that it has a special meaning to you, that it will lead you to a brighter future, that it is the foundation of your future success and ability to help others.

Abraham Lincoln said, “Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.”

Truer words were never spoken.

Jesus said it this way, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

Whatever meaning you attribute to the things that are happening right now is just a story you are telling yourself.

Tell a different story. Write a prequel, then a sequel. Give it a different ending, a different moral, a different meaning. Your life is your fairy tale for the making, the dreaming, the living, and the redeeming.

Get the Facts
Stop wallowing in negative opinions. Get the facts. What do you really know? What has actually happened?

Merely stating the facts can alleviate the burden of a problem, because we are speaking the truth, and the truth shall set us free.

The facts give us a dispassionate view, meaning they turn down the passion of negative feelings to allow an impassioned response.

Clarify what you value. What is the outcome that you really want?

Create a plan. Put it in your schedule. Then get on with it.

The Labyrinth Is Known
We are not the first to encounter problems, nor will we be the last. The labyrinth is known by those who have gone before, have suffered what we suffer, and have overcome what we must overcome.

Seek the counsel of wise, more-experienced people. To be wise, seek the counsel of the wise! Hear their words. Accept their comfort. Be inspired by their example.

Be humble enough to ask for help and assistance when your own wisdom is insufficient for the task and you will grow in wisdom and stature.

By consistently seeking the counsel of others you will earn your own seat in the council of the wise, and the day will come when you will find yourself speaking rather than seeking.

We have come to learn, and learn we must.

Roice Krueger was a co-founder of FranklinCovey, the world’s largest training and education company. Amazingly, Roice has consulted for 80% of the Fortune 500 companies. Those companies know that Roice delivers the goods, and they continue to beat a path to his door when they need help! Visit Roice’s 101 E-Book Library at http://www.IdeasThatCanChangeYourLife.com

In the speaking industry we have only one person who is a billionaire, Dr. Nido Qubein.

He came to America with no money. His focus was to learn English. He carried around little 3 x 5 cards and learned ten words every day until he mastered English. His English, I suggest, is better than that of almost anybody you know.

Nido Qubein attended High Point University in North Carolina and then started learning the business of business. He is now the President of High Point University. He is on the Executive Committee of Great Harvest Bread Company and serves on the Board of the 9th largest financial institution in the U. S.

When the president of High Point University died, Nido was unanimously voted president. He didn’t really want the job. He went to his wife, who said it was okay. He went to his clients and said, “I still have to talk 100 times a year in one of my other businesses.” They all said that was fine. Nido has raised over $100 million and is making High Point University the Harvard of the South. To do that, he decided to have a focus different from anyone else. He asked, “What are the ‘non-WOW’ factors in my university?” He pays one guy $100,000 a year to find out what a “non-WOW” is and pays another guy to tell him what a “WOW” is.

That means each of these guys has focus!

One of the WOWs is that when the parents visit the campus with their daughters, Nido says, “Every night after dark we drive your daughter home. So she is safer here at High Point than anywhere else.”

That’s a WOW!

“Every hot day we give free ice cream.” It costs $4 for each ice cream bar.

That’s a WOW!

Nido has 101 WOWs, which have completely transformed the university experience for his students.

I love this concept, because every person working in a business needs to be focused on a WOW over the course of the year.

Roice Krueger was a co-founder of FranklinCovey, the world’s largest training and education company. Amazingly, Roice has consulted for 80% of the Fortune 500 companies. Those companies know that Roice delivers the goods, and they continue to beat a path to his door when they need help! Visit Roice’s 101 E-Book Library at http://www.IdeasThatCanChangeYourLife.com

A couple of years ago, a phenomenon occurred globally, the likes of which may never have been witnessed before. A movie called The Secret was released introducing millions of people to the Law of Attraction. Not only did the DVD sell in the millions, countless more people downloaded the movie and watched it over the internet.

Oprah Winfrey featured The Secret on several of her television shows. A number of people even offered personal testimonies sharing with the world that because of the new knowledge they received from The Secret, they are now enjoying more of the lives they desire.

My guess is that millions of other people attempted to apply what they learned from the movie and many are probably still making an attempt attract more of what they desire. I imagine they were truly motivated by the information.

Since The Secret did not have detailed instructions for applying the information, each person was left to devise their own instructions or use instruction from another program, a book, an article, or to attempt to make up instructions on the fly.

I’m sure enthusiasm was high and definite goals were set. Affirmative visions danced in their minds as never before. Achieving success was sure.

Then a notice arrived announcing an upward adjustment in their adjustable interest rate, or a layoff notice showed up, along came a confrontation with one’s significant other, etc.

The old habitual thinking of the self image wasted little time re-asserting itself. Negative thoughts of fear, uncertainty, anger, self degradation, to name a few, quickly took or re-took center stage in their minds.

The enthusiasm, goals, and visions were then pushed into forgetfulness, becoming only fleeting memories as the self image firmly reminded them that those things were for other people and reassured them that they were safe once again in their old thought habits.

I would also guess that very few of them have ever heard of the self image and therefore do not understand the enormous power it exercises in shaping the experiences they have.

Now there is no way for me to know for sure, but I strongly suspect that the number of people whose financial lives were changed for the better because of The Secret is relatively small. If you consider the housing mortgage debacle that has gripped the United States, the billions of dollars in losses reported by financial institutions around the world, and the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their jobs because of it, my suspicions are somewhat confirmed.

Undoubtedly, every person that has seen The Secret wants better outcomes in their lives. They surely also recognize that something has to change for those realities to materialize.

This I know for sure. You are the most miraculous of all living beings on earth. You are the owner of a mind that is so stupendous, that as you truly begin mastering your mind power and consciously using it, there is no dream that you can dream that you cannot achieve.

Harold L Lowe retired at age 62 when his six-figure income position was eliminated. He now wishes to share some of what he has learned since then and some of his experiences as well through articles. He is now studying The New Think And Grow Rich with the author, Ted Ciuba, a founding member of the World Internet Summit. To Claim A FREE Copy Of The Book That Inspired The Movie/DVD/Book, The Secret, Go To: The Power of Your Mind

Fate favors the bold, the strong, insistent, consistent, and persistent person.

You may say, “Well, then, how does luck work?” Does it seem to you that there are people for whom everything just works out?

You might ask, “Why doesn’t that ever happen to me?” Then again, maybe it does and you just don’t notice.

As we look at all the luck that we have experienced in our lives, and remember all the lucky people that we have been privileged to associate with and learn from, it appears that there are some key principles used by all the lucky people we know.

Opportunity Must Show Up!
Some people say, “I need to have a great opportunity” or “That guy had a great opportunity show up.” But the fact of the matter is that opportunities are showing up all the time.

One of the other things I teach is that opportunity is the only thing that is unlimited in business.

Abraham Lincoln said, “If you prepare, opportunity must show up.”

Get the Skills
You’ve got to prepare for wealth, for happiness, for health, for friendship, for collegial relationships, and for your spiritual work. Whatever it is that you want to have in your life, you need to be prepared with skills.

It has to do with whether or not you are prepared, if you have the skills and the goals, and the dreams and aspirations. Then all the things that are necessary to make it happen show up.

We can really make our own fate by being bold. Boldness will create that fate, which will create that luck, if we are prepared, when we have that positive language, and if we associate with the right people.

Roice Krueger was a co-founder of FranklinCovey, the world’s largest training and education company. Amazingly, Roice has consulted for 80% of the Fortune 500 companies. Those companies know that Roice delivers the goods, and they continue to beat a path to his door when they need help! Visit Roice’s 101 E-Book Library at http://www.IdeasThatCanChangeYourLife.com

Motivation, why is it that regardless of the fact that we have read all the books, watched all the videos, and even dropped loads of money on that fire walking seminar that it still eludes us like a indoor cat that gotten out of the house. The problem is not that we do not know enough, it is that we have made motivation an essential part of who we are, rather made it more like an accessory. If you really want success with motivation then commit to not only learning these next steps but fusing them into who you are.

1. Success and Fear

It seems to me that one of the largest issues that will hold people back in their pursuit of happiness is fear. To be more specific it is the fear of failure, let’s face it no one wants to feel like a failure. So then why is it that some of us are willing to move toward that which may bring failure and some of us avoid it like the plague? It comes down to our evaluation of success and failure. Try looking at failure as a learning experience a way for you to gain more information and more power, and then be willing to take that new knowledge and power and use it in your next attempt. Imagine it like chipping away all the other possible realties other than success.

2. Forget the list

How familiar does this sound; it is New Years Eve and everyone is running around being jolly, stuffed with a little too much turkey and eggnog. You sit down at the end of the night and decided GAD NAB IT!! This is going to be the year that things change. So what do you do? You set a goal! Then because you read in some trashy magazine that you should make a list of all the benefits you’re goal will bring, you do you make a list that is two miles long. The trouble tends to be that the list is made up of logical items. Human beings as much as we may not like to admit are not logical, we are emotional. The solution? When you are examining the benefits of you’re goal make totally sure that they draw from you a deep emotional feeling. This will guarantee some extra fire in your engine!

3. Negative is not bad

When you are collecting your thoughts and stacking the deeply emotional benefits of your goal do not to forget to ad in the deeply emotional negative consequence that you will face if you do not go along with or stick to your goal. You would not believe the amount of motivation you can have by creating a crisp clear image of what it would feel like to fall short of you’re goals. To miss out on all the glory that comes with attaining them. So get out there and think negative! (But do it with passion!)

4. The View from Above

Another habit we often carry with us that can keep us from our motivation is our vision. I am not talking about literal vision, rather our ability to see the future. It becomes extremely difficult if not impossible to become motivated if we do not have a crisp clear picture of what our life will be like once this goal is ours. We tend to be very moment oriented; don’t you find this to be true? We generally are more interested in what will make us happy in this moment and not what will make us happy a week, a month, a year from now and sadly far too often we pay the price because of it. When getting motivated use your natural gift of imagination to draw a clear and vivid picture of what your new future will be like, choose not to be satisfied with the moment and you will have constant and never ending improvement!

5. Act for the Sake of Action

There will be a time when you use all these tools and ideas, and even start to make them become a part of who you are and still will see your motivation shrinking. Now this is when you’re personal power matters more than ever. It is at this moment when you are really making an effort to improve and you are on the edge of break through that your old lazy self will fight with all it’s got to ensure things do not change. So what do you do? You do what any person who has something to fight for does; you fight back with all of your soul, all of your heart, and all of your might. When you feel like you just can not take another step or get out of that bed when the alarm goes off that is the exact moment whether you want to or not that you must act. You must trump you’re your negative thoughts with positive action. Just do it, do not think just make your body do what you know it needs to. Do this and soon you will completely own your new habit and motivation will seep from your pores.

Do not forget Rome was not built in a day. But if you are willing to use these steps and commit to owning them and not just using them then I can say with certainty that you’re life will improve. Thanks for reading and always remember to live like a champion!

Shannon Graham is a professional life coach that works with people to help them reach higher levels of confidence and empowerment. At only 25 years old he has been studying success principles and personal improvement strategies for over a decade. For more information visit: http://www.success4rlife.com

Powerful forces at work
The concept of building a powerful self-image is a dynamic force and is vital in your quest for personal development and releasing for complete freedom. You must first gain an insight into who you are before you can identify what you are. Then you can take the next step into developing the person you aspire to be. Remember always, even though people are not capable of total self-evaluation, you must be honest and embrace the real you, don’t try to be someone else. As you delve deeper into your soul (inner person) you will evolve into your true self. Your whole outlook will become more positive and central. You will come to a realization that you are indeed created in God’s own image and as such have the potential for greatness. Greatness is begotten from the father and born of the child. If this were not so He would have told us differently. Soon you, in God’s image as a regenerated person, will come forward and the old suppressed person will simply melt away into a harmless memory of the past. In humans, transformation of mind comes with a deeper understanding of self and a closer relationship with God.

Can create sickness
Many people, as perhaps you are, inflicted with a degenerative disease that permeates your total being. Since birth countless influences and pressures of your environment have controlled your true self. Your have become a product of your upbringing. In order to escape, you must gain the cooperation of those around you for support. Let them know you how important it is for you to change and you will no longer be the person you once were.

Stand on your own two feet
Your sincerity and determination will see you through. God wants you to stand on your own two feet and be an example of certainty on His behalf. You have to “kick the habit” so to speak. Life is indeed an implementation of habits. It’s easy to fall into the jaws of compliancy and spiral into mediocrity. You find yourself fighting for life as you drown in a pool of hopelessness. Life as it was meant to be, will escape you because you never heard her call for transformation. You must be reborn, with a new set of values and new outlook on life.

Do not compromise
Most people fail because this is a developmental process that takes a lot of effort. As you begin to experience success; the more successes you have the higher the perception of yourself will become and the more you will crave the enriching feeling of self-completion. In time your horizons will expand like never before. You will see things in a new and exciting light. Obstructions that have hampered your life will melt and disappear in time. Soon your success drive will be a natural function that will operate at optimum efficiency. Failure is not part of the human spirit; it is a false concept that keeps people in bondage to the captivating merchants of the material world. If a person believes he/she can’t be successful, then he/she will rely on worldly things to comfort or suppress the success drive.

“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is experiencing success. Advance I say, do not fear resistance for it is only thorns in the path and the blood they draw is minuscule and corrupt.”

Stay focused on God
Stay focused on God and build your self-image around that viewpoint. You’re your new self-image illuminate God? What is self-image? It is simply the capacity to merge into Jesus’ mannerisms and convert them to yourself, with the realization of knowing you are in control of your destiny. While God gives you destiny, He allows you control over it. Your ability to achieve and develop is a control process that you must master. The gift may come from God, but the implementation is ultimately up to you. God supplies the tools and knowledge but He won’t do it for you. In fact, no one will do it for you, nor will they care if you fail.

The fact is, it’s not who you are that holds you back it’s who you think you’re not.

And Success will be yours
You are not only created in God’s own image, you are created in his likeness; this is an extremely powerful physical force that has the ability to overcome all obstacles in conceiving plans that become realities of expression. Every possible element within God’s creation is available for your use in your quest for success. Success is God directed and expected of His Children. All the ingredients, physical and mental are supplied for your use. It’s up to you to sort out what to use and what not to use. Neither God nor any one else will do it for you. When you go to a library or log onto the Internet, all the information is there but you must sort through it and put it into use. It’s like baking a cake. First, you must have the desire to bake a cake. Second, you must have a game plan, or recipe. Third, you must follow directions, and fourth, complete the process. The best-laid plans are of no account without these ingredients for action.

As a child of God, you are constantly setting an example for others, in one form or another. You are continually moving going toward something, either success or failure. In everyday life all people experience successions of failure and successes. They are called, ups and downs, or valleys and plateaus. In one thing you may excel while in another you may struggle. This is because in the material world, external forces are exerted on you from all directions. In the spirit realm, everything leans toward success, while the material world leans toward failure. Overcoming the resistance of the material world is a matter of realizing where the resistance is coming from and neutralizing it.

Welcome to a sensational world
Everything on earth, action or visualization, influences or exerts force on something else. You must find out what is influencing you in making clear choices. Is it a person, old failures, or skepticism? Never forget who you are; a creation of God made in His image and His likeness. Armed with this knowledge, nothing can stand in your way. You have the power to overcome, achieve, if you can conceive it, and believe it, then you can achieve it. Do not allow someone or something hold you back from your aspirations. Old failures are dead; don’t carry around that which is dead. They are rotting, smelling, revolting, in your mind’s eye. You must awaken to follow your dreams, it’s what God wants and expects of you. Use God’s abundance, tools and knowledge, it’s unlimited and free for His Children. If you’re a person of God, you will understand if you are not it doesn’t matter, the same rules apply.

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Donald Yates, author, Former Director of Leadership and Development for First Baptist Church of Crossville, and Business Development coordinator for Imperial Research , is now retired but continues to engage life through self discovery. SAVE GAS!Run Your Car On WATER!, Join Other Successful Women