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The Power of Intention

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Nobody tells us when we’re young that we have a purpose, partly because most people don’t even believe it in the first place. And even if they do believe it, a lot of people just don’t know how to live it and nurture it within themselves, let alone their kids.

It’s not necessarily something we learn in school, either. There’s this vague notion of “doing something with ourselves,” but not specifically being educated to live our individual mission.

We’re too busy learning the same things everybody else in the class is learning, doing the same homework, and anxious about passing the same tests.

As with many things in life, it usually takes some kind of pain or unpleasantness to jar us into new perspectives, new thoughts, and new possibilities. Thank the universe for adversity! Sometimes—heck, maybe most of the time—that’s what it takes to get us into action.

Only this time around, the action isn’t just our automatic responses to the programming we acted out for so long. We’re much keener to avoiding that pain or unpleasantness, so we start asking new questions, different questions, and better quality questions. In short, we start acting from whole new set of intentions.

We come up with better reasons to spend our time and energy in pursuit of what we say we want. It’s important to have goals, but you have to go further. The level of importance you place on your reasons is going to activate the power of intention. And intention is very, very powerful because it acts like a magnet.

When you have something out there that you want, it draws unto itself, so you need something that is really genericclomid.net going to ignite you to fulfill you, to get your passion up, to get your energy up.

Whatever your reason is for wanting more money, make sure it’s from a compelling inner truth. Even if it’s something like, “I want to buy a nicer car so I can feel better about myself,” if that’s true for you, then that’s your truth! There’s no one who can tell you you’re right or wrong. It’s yours!

People need more money to pay the bills, yes? Well, how motivating is that? ‘Boy, I really want go out there and work my butt off and have a new vision and do all this work and everything so I can pay the bills.’ I think not.

Know how I made an extra $150,000 in one month? I changed my priority of what the money was for. At first, I was looking for more money for more investments, but I already had some investments, and I did okay. And then I decided that I wanted to buy a condo.

And all of a sudden I noticed business miracles were starting to happen, money coming in from places we weren’t even thinking it could come from. Can I explain it? No. Why? Because it’s spiritually-based. You can’t explain those kinds of things.

Intention is focus internalized. Focus is the steering wheel; intention is the fuel that powers the vehicle. Don’t go for the regular. Go for the super-grade, the one that’s going to run your vehicle cleaner, stronger and longer.

We want to hear from you. Do you have any stories of how changing your intentions netted miracles, large or small?

The Truth Shall Set You Free

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A little while ago we touched on the idea of being so passionate about something that you’d shout it at the top of a mountain, and nothing or no one could stop you.

Well, that’s something we can feel with certainty in any given moment, but we also know the other reality—the one where doubt creeps in, or fear, or uncertainty. We’re only human after all, and those doubts can cause us to change course. What happens if you’re moving in a straight line and you move one milliliter to the right or left?

After a while, there’s a big difference between where you were originally heading and where you end up. That’s why it’s so important to live from the truth of who you really are and how your talents and gifts were intended to add value to others.

If you’re trying to become successful in an arena that is not your right livelihood—if you’re trying to become successful with that and you run into obstacles, what are you going to naturally do when things get tough? Look for a way out! Give up! Quit!

You are given a purpose. You’re also given challenges and issues in your life. Your purpose matches with somebody else’s challenge or issue, and their purpose matches with yours. Isn’t that beautiful? But if you don’t live your purpose, there’s somebody with a challenge or issue that doesn’t have a partner and is waiting for you. Multiply that, and that’s how much money is out there waiting for you.

Likewise, for every unique talent and way of expressing it in the world, there’s also unique needs and desires from someone else.

It’s not easy to know why you were created. It took many, many years, lots of mistakes, detours and successes to realize my mission is simply to educate and inspire people and help them enrich themselves to live in their higher self based in courage, purpose, and joy versus fear, need, and obligation.

The Gospel of Thomas isn’t included in the common Bible, but I love one of its quotes nonetheless: “That which is within you and expressed will set you free, and that which is within you and not expressed will eat you from the inside.” Relate this not only to purpose but to disease, sickness and the way of the universe.

Again, you cannot live a happy, fulfilled and successful life without living your purpose. If your vehicle is not rooted from within, and becomes a derivative of the true purpose of why you’re here, you will never find fulfillment, you will never find true happiness, and you will never find real success. Never!

The root of your vehicle must be in your purpose. How do I know that? Because I have lived the other way and it sucks in comparison. Know what I mean?

Now we want to hear from you! What are some profound quotes about living the truth of not only our personal existence, but of our collective existence as humans? Let’s take this opportunity to inspire each other and set each other free, financially and spiritually.

Giving It Back

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Nothing in nature is here without a reason. That includes us. That includes me. That includes you. We each have a reason for being alive at this place at this time, and that reason is called our personal purpose, or our mission.

Imagine life on earth as a pot luck dinner. What are you bringing to the table? There’s ‘that thing’ that happens. You know … “Oh, nobody told me I was supposed to bring something.” But there you are.

Do you feel like drinking something or grabbing something off the table to eat? Maybe, and who could blame you either way, but what if you do take something? You’ll feel guilty, like “I don’t deserve to take it.”

There’s only so long you can eat that without feeling guilty and undeserving. The same is true for our spiritual lives. In order to truly feel good about receiving, you have to feel good that you are giving. Yes or yes?

The purpose of our lives is to add value to other people; to help them, support them. That extends from your family to the greater human family—or as many people as you can possibly reach. The value you add is your personal way of doing it.

Unfortunately, there’s an element to our culture that encourages people to look out for themselves or only those that are like them. ‘Why should I be responsible for helping others? What are they doing for me? Why not just learn and grow and enjoy ourselves? How ‘bout that for purpose?’

Yeah, that’s great for the ego self, but it’s not how spirit works. Spirit works based on the fact that you’re here for a reason and that you have a place here, and that the world needs you.

Too esoteric? How about this for reason, then? If we go back to the Rule of Opposites, we understand that focusing on how to add value to others—and in that way serving a greater good—can, uh … make you rich!!! The richer you are, the more value you’re adding in some kind of way. That value may be subjective and even distasteful to some, but it’s still there.

There’s the money and success part of it, but what about happiness? It seems counter-intuitive that I can be happy by focusing on how to add values to others. Seems like it becomes about them and not me!

Fulfillment comes in many forms; from material, tactile goodies to reading a great book, but the highest form of fulfillment comes in fulfilling your duty, your dharma, why you were created. You can feel other things, but you cannot feel real fulfillment unless you fulfill your purpose.

All those other things; the money, the toys, the material joys—those follow purpose, not precede it in wanting. Want to add value, and you will reap the rewards.

How have you added value to someone in some kind of way—from saying something kind to an innovative idea you’ve implemented in business? How has the Law of Giving come back to benefit you? There are all kinds of stories about the power of giving. We want to hear yours!

Stay Away from the Poopy Party

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One of the funniest yet profound stories I’ve ever heard was about the young monk who goes into a monastery where you can only say two words a year.

He goes through that first year doing all the things he’s supposed to do. At the end of the year the head monk gives the young monk a chance to say his two words. “Bed hard,” he says.

Another year of painstaking work happens, better than any other monk. At the end of the year the head monk asks for the young monk’s two words. “Food bad,” he says. Another year, same thing, only this third time the young monk says, “I quit.” The head monk replies, “I’m not surprised. All you ever did was complain.”

Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success. How so?

First of all, when you complain to people 80% of them don’t really care, and the other 20% are kind of happy it’s happening to you. It makes them feel a lot better about their lives. Also, the ‘poor me’ victim role may have gotten you some sympathy or attention from your parents or from certain people, but successful people will not want to be around you.

We’re going to need successful people to help us get more successful, yes or yes?

The truth is nobody wants to be around a party-pooper, and complainers are the worst of them all. I get it all the time—people who love what we do at Peak Potentials, want to work with us, etc., but the way they approach me is to complain about something. Maybe they’re a sound person and they say the music was too loud at one of my programs.

They didn’t frame the approach in a positive way, like saying, “Here’s something that we can look at,” or “Here’s something you might be able to try.” All I need to hear is one complaint out of somebody and I’m like, “Back off, man! Get your own victim!”

Words have power. They are declarations to the universe. What you complain about becomes your focus and your intention, and it expands for you just like it’s suppose to. So go ahead and complain … or maybe not. You’ve got to catch yourself because no one’s going to do it for you, probably because they’re doing it, too.

Misery loves company, and those who don’t aren’t interested in the pity party. You think they’re interested because they asked you, “Hey, how’s it going,” and you start launching into, “Well, I can’t believe what so and so said and did and …” You know who’s interested? The other soap opera derby people you hang out with, not successful or even happy people.

It can be hard to change your peer group, or even dealing with loved ones who can be negative. What are some ways you’ve found to maintain a positive focus in spite of the complainers in your life? How do you care for, love and honor them while protecting yourself as well? We want to hear from you!

It’s a Zen Thing, Baby

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Last week we took a look at the power of positive focus. So easy to know, yes? Yet most people do the opposite—they focus on the negative. We’ve done it too, so we can’t be too hard on anyone. But we can’t just let this slip into one of those concepts we take for granted, either. This is extremely important.

It’s one of the greatest secrets to both happiness and success. You’ve heard it 100 times; you just have to do it. If you have to read it a thousand times a day as a reminder, so be it. Eventually it’s got to get into you naturally and effortlessly.

Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.

Most people spend most of their day thinking about, talking about, and being about what they don’t want. ‘I don’t like this. This isn’t going right. This is a problem.’ Well, guess what? You just got more of it. What you focus on expands! Your attention has created your reality. Reality really is what you make it.

If you want more money, don’t focus on what you don’t have because that gives you that focus on the lack in your life. That’s a lack of consciousness, and you get more lack. Focus on earning and accumulating more money for your reason. If you want to create a great new business opportunity, don’t focus on how much you hate what you’re doing now. Focus on discovering a great opportunity. Focus on the solution.

Remember, I’m talking about positive focus, not positive thinking.  What’s the difference?

Positive thinking doesn’t acknowledge “negative” reality. It kind of glosses over things. You can focus on finding more opportunities to make more money, but that doesn’t change the fact that you have to eat now. You don’t change a car accident by thinking, “If I drive away, maybe nobody will notice.” Positive thinking doesn’t always account for personal responsibility.

Positive focus means looking at the now, getting the most out of now, which will affect a later future. It acknowledges the law of duality; that there must be both a positive and a negative side to everything.

Then we are just being aware that we simply are choosing to put our attention on and accentuate the positive because we know that’s what will expand for us. We know that’s what supports us; we know that’s what will make for a happier, more successful life.

It’s a Zen difference—knowing that as we paint it, we make it something, and it’s going to be empowering for us to think and focus on the positive. That’s why we do it, not because it’s true! The positive and the negative are both true!

We choose our thoughts not based on true or false. We choose them based on whether they support us or not. The mind is limited in its conscious attention. You can only entertain one thought at a time. Make sure it’s got a positive focus.

What do you think? What are your thoughts on the differences between positive thinking and positive focus? Are there any times when “positive thinking” is appropriate? We want to hear from you on this Zen-logical mind-twister!

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