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Creative Thinking To Realize Your Visions

In my last newsletter I mentioned that my primary focus this quarter is on my Business and Career intentions:

I enjoy and deliver PROSPERITY
in all my businesses!
I transform millions of lives with my coaching, workshop/retreats, and inspirational products.

My vision of what that intention looks like is not yet where I am now … that’s why it’s a vision, right? In my vision, I’m financially sustaining my desired lifestyle by doing these businesses that I love: coaching, workshop/retreats, and selling inspirational products on the Internet. I am easily and relaxingly balancing my time between these three different approaches – from the very introverted product side, to the receptive and deep coaching work, to the extroverted and playful workshops and retreats. I am gardening regularly and enjoying time in nature to nourish me. I am attracting and connecting with the absolutely perfect people as my customers and as supporters of my life’s work. I am generating plenty of money to pay the bills for my current lifestyle and to enable expansion into travel retreats.

Can you see it? I sure can, and it feels really good when I connect with all the juicy details of my vision.

So I’m working full time on these three businesses, but they are not yet financially sustaining my desired lifestyle. As with most things money related, it’s easy to start thinking how and why questions to try to “fix it” and arrive at my desired end state more quickly. How can I make more money more quickly? Why isn’t this working yet? And then the dreaded “what if” questions pop up too … “what if I don’t make enough money to pay my bills?” This is where creative thinking helps me stay aligned with the good feelings of my vision, remain toward-motivated, and find even more opportunities that bring my vision closer to reality.

One of my favorite creative thoughts I had on this subject just a couple weeks ago: “I’m living the life of a millionaire.” I may not have the million dollars in my bank account, but I’m doing what I love to do every day. I am choosing my own delightful schedule, I’m doing work that feels purposeful and joyful to me – work that I want to do, not that I have to do, and I feel abundant in my home environment. Heck, I may be living an even better life than some millionaires – I’ve got great health (thanks to last quarter’s focus), a loving and supportive relationship, and wonderful connections with my friends and family. Even my garden is beginning to flourish. I truly am experiencing prosperity!

Now all those thoughts of how and why and the frustrations that I’ve not yet arrived melt away because I’m energized and focused on all the good feelings of my vision, I’m grateful for all the ways I’m already able to manifest my vision, and I’m open to whatever opportunities present themselves to further bring my vision into reality.

I know this creative thinking works because I’ve used it for many changes I’ve brought into my life. For example, when I was still a management consultant, working long hours at Microsoft and taking my coach training courses, I used creative thinking to start becoming a coach. Before I was “officially” coaching individuals in traditional, paid coach settings, I was interpreting most of my interactions with my co-workers as opportunities to provide good coaching. As I acted more and more like the coach I wanted to be, some of my co-workers started to have personal coaching conversations with me. By the time I left my role as a management consultant I think I was acting more like a coach to the team I worked with than a consultant. I had outgrown that job, that location and new opportunities opened up for me to step fully into the role I wanted to play. By then the “leap” into my vision wasn’t scary or far-fetched, it was simply the next obvious step.

So now it’s your turn to exercise your creativity and see the ways you can be who you want to be, where you are now.

If you want help getting creative, I’m only a phone call away – or post your comment here and see what this supportive community says. I am here to support you and your inspired visions.

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The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles

If you’ve seen or read The Secret, I’m confident you will enjoy reading this source book behind the Law of Attraction concepts. And if you haven’t seen or read The Secret, where have you been??

The Science of Getting Rich was originally published in 1910 when there was a flourish of New Thought activity. What I love about this book is that it’s a really simple, quick read that focuses your attention on how to use the Law of Attraction to create wealth.

Here are some of the key points that particularly struck home:

Keep your focus on that which you desire with gratitude and purpose to combat any fear or doubt.
It’s import to increase life for others – provide more usefulness than you receive in cash.
Do what you want to do because the desire gives you the power to do it, even if you don’t yet have all the skills.
Grow yourself where you are, rather than leaping into a new business if you still have doubts.

I also squirreled away some favorite quotes from the book:

“To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances. Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform.”

“To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things. … The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.”

“The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one’s own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith.”

“Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life, and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole; and then to impress this Whole Desire upon the Formless Substance [The Universe, God], which has the power and the will to bring you what you want. You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable PURPOSE to attain it, and with steadfast FAITH that you do attain it.”

“By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it.”

“You will get rich most easily in point of effort, if you do that for which you are best fitted; but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you want to do.”

“Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do, the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it.”

“If you feel that you are not in the right vocation, do not act too hastily in trying to get into another one. The best way, generally, to change business or environment is by growth.”

“There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and there is no lack of opportunity.”

“When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough; keep on, and a larger thing than you were seeking will certainly come to you.”

You can find ebook downloads of The Science of Getting Rich for dirt cheap, but if you’re like me and prefer a hard copy you can curl up with on the couch, I suggest you get the cheap online version from Amazon.

It’s worth having in your library for the larger perspective whenever you’re having doubts and for inspiration any old time. It’s in my library – and dog-eared too!

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The Prosperity Game

I’ve been “proving the pudding” of the Law of Attraction lately by playing my very own prosperity game.

Instead of a shopping list, I’ve created a prosperity list of absolutely everything I think of that I want. The key to my prosperity list is that next to each item I put my value of the item in terms of the good feelings it brings me and any other ways it helps.

Here are a couple of examples to give you a sense of how it works:

Dill plant: My favorite cooking herb, attracts butterflies

Digital recorder: Ability to get our message out to more people, feel impactful

Costa Rica Vacation: Adventure, connection with nature, fun photography

As I record my wish list I am automatically, unconsciously prioritizing what to actively go after next based on how good it feels compared to the other items on my list. I’m also attracting everything on the list because I’m focused on how good it feels and I know that I can have anything on the list in perfect timing. I’ve already had some items come into my life without any other effort than adding them to my list!

Creating this prosperity list has also made the “things” only as important as the feelings I get from them. And, when I’m conscious of the valuable feelings at the root of what I’m wanting, I start to attract even more opportunities to have those feelings – with and without the “things”.

Try it out. I’d love to hear what experiences your prosperity game creates for you.

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Creative Thinking To Realize Your Visions

The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D. Wattles

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