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It’s the Roots that Create the Fruit

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Turn on the news and there are plenty of reasons not to be so optimistic about a lot of things. There is no denying the new realities we’re forced to reckon with as the world turns, but we have to keep in mind that we are part of a larger tapestry of cycles, both natural and man-made. There are always ups and downs as sure as there are seasons.

We’ve had severe economic recessions before. We’ve had whole world economies change before. Social and political controversy is nothing new. Yet, as wildly as the pendulum swings, the world always seems to also move back through stages of equilibrium.

No matter how bad things may seem, there will be an upswing at some point. Just because we can’t see it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t prepare for it. This isn’t mere “positive thinking.” If you’re not preparing for your eventual success and happiness, then what the heck are you doing?!

The fact is that most people don’t reach their full potential—even if the economy were booming—because most people operate on a very superficial level of life based only on what they can see in the visible world.

We need to connect our inner reality with the inevitabilities of universal reality. Most people never understand and/or utilize the fact that the results of interacting with physical, material world are nothing more than a print-out of our mental, emotional, and spiritual worlds; individually and collectively. Our results are the fruit, but there are roots that create the fruit.

So we take a look at the fruit of our lives—our results—and maybe we don’t like them. They don’t taste so good. There aren’t enough. They’re too small. But these strange fruit didn’t just come out of nowhere.

Who are you? How do you think? What are your beliefs? What are your habits? What are your traits? How do you really feel about yourself? How confident are you in yourself? How confident are you in others? What’s your ability to take action in spite of fear and worry? What’s your ability to take action in spite of inconvenience, discomfort, or when you’re not in the freaking mood?

There’s a saying: ‘It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.’

How do you know when the time is right? You don’t! That’s why it’s so important to be who or what you strive to be now! We do this because that’s what it means to show up in excellence even when you think there’s really nothing on the line. There’s always something on the line—you! Your principles. Your values. Your mindset. Your habits. Your actions. Your results. We constantly have to till our own soil no matter what. Only then will we be in a position to reap the rewards of the inevitable change of seasons.

Now it’s time to share your thoughts with the community. How are you showing up in these difficult times? How are you keeping your mental, emotional and spiritual center? What are some strategies or tricks you’ve employed to keep fear and anxiety at bay? We want to hear from you!

Greater Expectations

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A lot of people lower their expectations for fear of disappointment, yes? After all, if you don’t expect much, the worst that can happen is you won’t be too disillusioned when things don’t turn out the way you expect them to, and the best that can happen is you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

What if we were to apply that principle to business? There’s this so-called “conventional wisdom”: Under-promise and over-deliver. If your customer or client doesn’t expect much because you weren’t trying to sell them the moon, then they can only be satisfied with whatever you deliver that was expected, if not pleasantly surprised that you gave them more. That seems reasonable, right?

Wrong! When it comes to marketing your product or service, if you under-promise there won’t be anybody to deliver to! Who’d be interested? No one wants to hear, “What I have to offer is okay.” They want to hear, “This’ll knock your socks off!”

I’ve heard the typical response more times than I can count. ‘Well I don’t want to promise something I can’t deliver.’ Who said anything about over-promising? We’re talking about making a big promise. And when you do it, then yeah, it’d be a great idea to keep it, so make sure it’s something you can indeed deliver.

But people understate themselves because they don’t want to appear cocky, or conceded, or because they want to be “realistic.” A lot of the time, it’s just the usual suspect at play—fear. When you make a big promise, the pressure is on to come up with the goods at the highest level.

If you put a big promise out there, it’s going to put the pressure on you in a positive way to be your best.

Today’s reality is that consumers and the marketplace are changing at lightning speed. It doesn’t take much for a prospect’s attention to go elsewhere. If you don’t tell customers why they should buy from you, but your competitors do … then guess who gets the customers?

You start by examining why you’re starting your business to begin with (Focus!). What was missing in that market that you promised to fix? What’s your product or service’s single most important attribute? What makes it unique? What emotions do you want your customers to feel when they use your product?

We have to start with expecting more from ourselves. We can do more, be more, achieve more, even if we haven’t got all the answers now. We may have let someone or ourselves down at some point before. It’s okay. We know better now, yes?

File Under ‘Mixed Messages’

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In tough times like these, people are doing more than just making economic and lifestyle adjustments that aren’t always chosen or even wanted. People just do what they have to do.

With these outward changes, though, I believe it’s more important than ever to reexamine our attitudes and beliefs. For those who have been in the Millionaire Mind community for some time, you’re familiar with how blueprint impacts our mental, emotional lives, and economic lives.

We all have our own mental ‘File Box.’ It labels and stores information, yes? Certain ways of thinking and belief systems? The way you think can only come from the information in those files. If it’s not in the file box, you don’t think it.

Unfortunately most of us have file folders that have mixed messages in it. Mixed messages create mixed results. So if you believe that you don’t have the experience to start your own business even though you want to, you’ll act accordingly and never have the experience of starting your own business.  If you don’t believe that you have enough money to manage, you won’t manage your money, which means you’ll never have enough money to manage.

When you don’t periodically challenge your own beliefs, it’s kind of like driving with your foot on the gas pedal and on the brake at the same time. We’ve got mixed messages going out to the universe and to ourselves. We believe we want to get to where we say we want to go, yet some of our other beliefs hold us back.

We’ve got to revise some of those files or add some new ones so we can make new choices that seem perfectly logical and sensible toward what we want; files that support happiness and success versus those that don’t. We want to delete those files or at least neutralize them.

Whether you are naturally pessimistic or just facing uncertainty due to the current economic climate, develop the skill of challenging your negative, unconscious beliefs. However, instead of looking only at your beliefs, first look at your results and your ways of being! Look at your life and that will tell you what you MUST believe for those result to be there.

Describe your current life situation in the financial and work arena. Do you work for others, yourself, or not at all? Do you earn a lot of money, a little money, or a moderate amount of money? Where do you put your money if you have some? Are you a saver or a spender? Are you a risk taker or not? Do you love what you do or not?

Regardless of what you find, the truth is our lives are the way they are not just from circumstances we can’t control, but also because of that one area we can control though we don’t always take the time to do so: our belief system. We always act or not act in accordance with our beliefs. We co-share the results of this with the universe. Control what you can, and let the rest take care of itself.

Now it’s your turn. What are some of the things you’ve discovered about your belief system that may have surprised you? How long have you held on to these beliefs? How are you actively editing or deleting old, unsupportive beliefs? We want to hear from you!

Believe It or Not!

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You can join just about any random conversation and ask, “Can you believe some of the things people think these days?” Who wouldn’t agree with you? There’s always a reason for us to think some other people are crazy just because we all have our particular world view.

However, get a little bit more specific about your beliefs and things change. “I can’t believe people think …” XYZ. Some people might agree with you. Some might give you a horrified look and respond, “Well, actually, I can’t believe people think …” ABC. And then you’re either in for a lively debate or some seriously awkward moments.

We all believe in something, even if we’re not outwardly expressing it all the time. We’d like to think that we derive our beliefs based on “rational decisions.” That’s partly true, but the truth is that we still mostly act on what we believe rather than what we know. How long ago was it that people just “knew” the sun revolved around the earth?

Beliefs are only strong opinions at best. They color and filter our view of everything. The problem is we get used to these filters and forget that we have them on, then we believe that the way we see things is the way it is, which of course may not always be the case. Everybody’s got glasses on, yes? This game involves a bunch of people wearing glasses and making the whole thing up as we go.

In the end, our beliefs are neither true nor false—they can only be supportive or not supportive of our success and happiness. They can be empowering or non-empowering.

For example, how many times have you heard someone else or even caught yourself saying, “I have to work hard in order to earn a lot.” Not exactly the most motivating thought pattern, is it? While we rarely if ever get anywhere by being lazy, though, there are times when working smarter is better than pushing yourself to the brink of exhaustion.

Some of our beliefs get so iron-clad into our nervous system that they turn into inflexible conclusions about life, especially if they were unconsciously and often accidently imprinted into us as children, when we have far less experience to really draw educated distinctions between a temporary situation and something that seems permanent and irreversible. The problem is that most people never re-examine the map of life that they drew when they were children, or seek to revise it to reflect who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow.

If we’re making this all up as we go anyway, you might as well believe that you will get what you need to meet your goals, or that you will learn how. Then we go from feeling and thinking into doing, making mistakes, making adjustments, getting some successes and confidence, and then repeating the whole thing over and over.

Eventually, we move away from belief into full knowing—the knowing that comes from believing in something more than what may be evident on the surface, and the wisdom that comes from the experience of testing those beliefs in “the real world.”

Careful what you believe: it can do more than start a heated argument. It can stop you in your tracks before you’ve even started your journey.

How to Take the First Step and Get the Ball Rolling

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I believe we are spiritual beings living physical lives, and to make the most of this life we have to take care of, nurture, and more importantly listen to the clues that spirit gives us, mostly through gut intuition and feelings we have.

 

At some point, though, we have to honor the physical side of our lives as well, and that means taking action. To hell if conditions aren’t perfect, or if this circumstance isn’t quite ideal or that person isn’t following through the way they said they would. We’ve got to take all these spiritual principles and put them into action.

 

That’s exactly where a lot of people get stuck, even those with greater awareness and knowledge. You know you want to work out, need to get into better shape for the sake of generating more energy to work your mission. But what step is often the hardest to take? That first one.

 

Depending how long you had been in your last cycle, getting the ball rolling can feel like pushing a boulder uphill, metaphorically speaking. You need to build the next muscle and final spiritual muscle that separates the successful from those still waiting at the gate: momentum.

 

Momentum is that force that makes it easier for someone who’s successful to do what’s right than to do what’s wrong. Momentum is that process of getting that snowball moving. The hardest part about working out is getting to the gym.  Once you get there, it’s not that hard to do.

 

When you’re in motion, that’s when things begin to line up, not before (that goes for you perfectionist!). When in doubt, act. What did everyone else tell you? When in doubt, stop and think about it. No! That’s why I say thinking is dangerous to your wealth!

 

Most people who I know that got rich didn’t think too much. They saw a piece of property: ‘This looks good. Anything structurally wrong? Environmentally? No? Good, I’ll buy it.’ Twenty years later they’re very rich. They really planned that one out, huh?

 

Just as an aside, if you’re really “smart,” chances are you’re not going to be really rich. You’re going to get in your way, a real momentum killer. Those who aren’t too “smart” are open to knowing (A) They don’t know everything the need to know to be rich (B) Will learn how to be rich, even if it temporarily hurt’s their pride to know exactly how far off they were to begin with.

 

A body in motion will remain in motion and a body at rest will remain at rest. What do we want to do? Get into motion! Once you’re there, it gets easier. We already know that. Now we gotta just do it.

 

What in your life do you just need to get started and adjust as you go? What have you been waiting for? What’s the fear? Is that true or did you just make it up?

 

You will make it. Trust yourself. Love yourself and know that you make it all up. It’s your freaking story!

 

Now we want to hear from you! What are some positive momentum-changers that have worked for you?

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