How To Achieve The Best Results With Affirmations
January 26, 2009 by DianeCorriette · 1 Comment
How To Achieve The Best Results With Affirmations
What did you do the last time you thought you had a bad habit? Nothing much, right? Perhaps just told yourself that you can’t continue like this. But telling yourself once can’t really fetch desired results. Repetitively uttering resolutions, instead, does the trick. So how do you go about it? Write down your resolution somewhere and go over it as many times as possible.
Repeating these affirmations day in day out ultimately makes you believe in them. Nowadays, affirmations are so popular that you can even buy them in the form of CD’s and cassettes. It’s great if you, too, want readymade affirmations for yourself. But it’s always better to create your own affirmations (since no one else understands your emotional needs better).
So what exactly should you remember while making your own affirmations? Go through the checklist below and find out-
1. The first thing that you need to remember is the final purpose of your affirmation. Any affirmation, no matter what purpose it is taken for, should make a person behave positively. For the same reason, the tone of your affirmation should not be negative. Do not use ‘do not’ in your affirmation even if it sounds perfectly correct. Instead, give your affirmation a positive tone. Consider this example- you have a habit of smoking and you create an affirmation that reads- ‘I don’t smoke cigarettes.’ Though the affirmation sounds grammatically right, your mind may take it otherwise. For some odd reason your mind might get stuck to the words ‘smoke cigarettes’ in isolation and you’ll fail to achieve positive results. So your affirmation should read something like this- ‘I should take care of my heart and lungs. Smoking won’t help’.
2. Next in line is how you make your mind take to the affirmation you have created. Perhaps your affirmation says ‘What I do now will affect my future’. If you actually want to believe in this you have to read it innumerable times. Remember, the biggest secret of making your affirmation work is repetition. But then repetition is not all. So what more do you need? You need to empower your mind so that it can linger over the true meaning of each word. The very first instance you can make your mind linger on ‘I’. Look within and decide whether what you’re doing will nurture your future or not. The very next instant you can focus on how your present actions can actually mould your life in future. Lastly, ask yourself how you’d like to see yourself in future. Repeating your affirmation singularly will not be as beneficial as when you combine that with inflection.
3. Thirdly and lastly, don’t pressurize yourself too much all at once. Going through an affirmation might seem to be the easiest thing but incorporating it can be really difficult. And this is precisely why you should not aim to improve a number of habits at a single instance- lose weight, improve punctuality, work harder etc. Remember the old saying ‘take one step at a time’ and move ahead to make a success of your affirmation.
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Attitude makes all the difference
January 26, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
Attitude makes all the difference by Zig Ziglar.
I love Zig Ziglar and everything he stands for. This video about attitude and how it makes all the difference to your life is really funny.
He makes a great point about most people not wanting to solve their problems. I remember doing my best to provide solutions for a friend who was constantly complaining about the fact that she couldn’t get out of the house because she was a single mom. She insisted on telling me that if it wasn’t for the fact that she was a single mother she would be out networking and really building her business.
Nothing I said helped her and I realized it was better not to say anything because she actually didn’t want my help, she just wanted to be able to moan about how unfair her life was raising children on her own. All she really wanted was the attention that telling her story was able to give her.
Are you looking for the attention that goes with your problems or are you truly ready to slove it?
It is easy to know the answer to that question because if all you want is continued attention you will do nothing but complain and never make any effort to change the way that thins are.
In the video I love when Zig Ziglar said “people who are the problem never recognise that they are”
My friend never recognized that it was her talking about the problem that made it a problem! She had family to look after her children, she could even afford to pay for a baby sitter if she wanted to do that but she choose not to and just continued to make her children the problem.
In the video Zig Ziglar provides a great exercise that will help you change the way you feel about your particular problem. He talks specifically about a woman who does not like her job and the people she works with but you can change the phrase “I love my job because….” and instead say “I love myself because….” and read out your list while standing in front of the mirror or you can say “I love my life because……”
Stinking thinking will kill your life but gratitude will always enlighten it 
I had an audio on attitude too so I have added that below.
Science of Getting Rich Chapter 17
January 17, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
CHAPTER 17 A Summary of The Science of Getting Rich
THERE IS A THINKING STUFF FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
Science of Getting Rich Chapter 16
January 16, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
CHAPTER 16 Some Cautions and Concluding Observations
MANY PEOPLE WILL SCOFF AT THE IDEA that there is an exact science of getting rich.
Holding the impression that the supply of wealth is limited, they will insist that social and governmental institutions must be changed before even any considerable number of people can acquire a competence.
Science of Getting Rich Chapter 11
January 11, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
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The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
CHAPTER 11 Acting in The Certain Way
Science of Getting Rich Chapter 10
January 10, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
CHAPTER 10 Further Use of The Will
YOU CANNOT RETAIN A TRUE AND CLEAR VISION OF WEALTH if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.
Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have had them. Do not think of them at all. Do not tell of the poverty of your parents or the hardships of your early life.
To do any of these things is to mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it will certainly check the movement of things in your direction.
Put poverty and all things that pertain to poverty completely behind you.
You have accepted a certain theory of the universe as being correct, and are resting all your hopes of happiness on its being correct. What can you gain by giving heed to conflicting theories?
Do not read books which tell you that the world is soon coming to an end, and do not read the writing of muckrakers and pessimistic philosophers who tell you that it is going to the devil.
The world is not going to the devil; it is going to God. It is a wonderful becoming.
True, there may be a good many things in existing conditions that are disagreeable, but what is the use of studying them when they are certainly passing away and when the study of them only tends to slow their passing and keep them with us?
Why give time and attention to things that are being removed by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal only by promoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes?
No matter how horrible in seeming may be the conditions in certain countries, sections, or places, you waste your time and destroy your own chances by dwelling on them.
You should interest yourself in the world’s becoming rich. Think of the riches the world is coming into instead of the poverty it is growing out of, and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creative method, not the competitive one.
Give your attention wholly to riches. Do not focus on poverty. Whenever you think or speak of those who are poor, think and speak of them as those who are becoming rich, as those who are to be congratulated rather than pitied.
Then they and others will catch the inspiration, and begin to search for the way out. Because I say that you are to give your whole time and mind and thought to riches, it does not follow that you are to be sordid or mean.
To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for it includes everything else. On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over others, but when we come into the creative mind, all this is changed.
All that is possible in the way of greatness, of service and lofty endeavour, comes by way of getting rich, because all is made possible by the use of things. You can aim at nothing so great or noble, I repeat, as to become rich, and you must fix your attention upon your mental picture of wealth to the exclusion of all that may tend to dim or obscure the vision.
Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact that there is wealth for them, and these can best be taught by showing them the way to affluence in your own person and practice.
Others are poor because, while they feel that there is a way out, they are too intellectually indolent to put forth the mental effort necessary to find that way and travel it.
For these, the very best thing you can do is to arouse their desire by showing them the happiness that comes from being rightly rich.
Others still are poor because, while they have some notion of science, they have become so swamped and lost in the maze of theories that they do not know which road to take. They try a mixture of many systems and fail in all.
For these, again, the very best thing to do is to show the right way in your own person and practice. An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
You can serve God and humanity in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.
Another thing. We assert that this book gives in detail the principles of the science of getting rich, and if that is true, you do not need to read any other book upon the subject.
This may sound narrow and egotistical, but consider: There is no more scientific method of computation in mathematics than by addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; no other method is possible. There can be but one shortest distance between two points. There is only one way to think scientifically, and that is to think in the way that leads by the most direct and simple route to the goal.
No one has yet formulated a briefer or less complex “system” than the one set forth here. It has been stripped of all non-essentials. When you commence on this, lay all others aside. Put them out of your mind altogether. Read this book every day. Keep it with you. Commit it to memory, and do not think about other “systems” and theories. If you do, you will begin to have doubts and to be uncertain and wavering in your thought, and then you will begin to make failures.
After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems as much as you please. And read only the most optimistic comments on the world’s news — those in harmony with your picture.
Also, do not dabble in theosophy, spiritualism, or kindred studies. Perhaps the dead still live and are near, but if they are, let them alone; mind your own business. Wherever the spirits of the dead may be, they have their own work to do, and we have no right to interfere with them. We cannot help them, and it is very doubtful whether they can help us, or whether we have any right to trespass upon their time if they can. Let the dead and the hereafter alone, and solve your own problem: Get rich. If you begin to mix with the occult, you will start mental crosscurrents that will surely bring your hopes to shipwreck.
Now, this and the preceding chapters have brought us to the following statement of basic facts: There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, a person must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed PURPOSE to get what he wants, and the unwavering FAITH that he does get what he wants, closing his mind against all that may tend to shake his purpose, dim his vision, or quench his faith.
And in addition to all this, we shall now see that he must live and act in a certain way.
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Science of Getting Rich Chapter 9
January 9, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
CHAPTER 9 How To Use The Will
To set about getting rich in the certain way, you do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself. You have no right to do so, anyway.
It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women in order to get them to do what you wish done. It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power, as it is to coerce them by physical power.
If compelling people by physical force to do things for you reduces them to slavery, compelling them by mental means accomplishes exactly the same thing; the only difference is in methods.
If taking things from people by physical force is robbery, then taking things by mental force is robbery also.
There is no difference in principle.
You have no right to use your will power upon another person, even “for his own good,” for you do not know what is for his good.
The science of getting rich does not require you to apply power or force to any other person, in any way whatsoever.
There is not the slightest necessity for doing so. Indeed, any attempt to use your will upon others will only tend to defeat your purpose.
You do not need to apply your will to things in order to compel them to come to you. That would simply be trying to coerce God and would be foolish and useless
You do not have to try to compel God to give you good things, any more than you have to use your will power to make the sun rise.
You do not have to use your will power to conquer an unfriendly Deity, or to make stubborn and rebellious forces do your bidding. Substance is friendly to you, and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it.
To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself. When you know what to think and do, then you must use your will to compel yourself to think and do the right things. That is the legitimate use of the will in getting what you want — to use it in holding yourself to the right course.
Use your will to keep yourself thinking and acting in the certain way. Do not try to project your will, or your thoughts, or your mind out into space to “act” on things or people. Keep your mind at home.
It can accomplish more there than elsewhere. Use your mind to form a mental image of what you want and to hold that vision with faith and purpose. And use your will to keep your mind working in the right way.
The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get rich because you will make only POSITIVE impressions upon substance, and you will not neutralize or offset them by negative impressions.
The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by the formless, and permeates it to great distances — throughout the universe, for all we know.
As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward its realization.
Every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. All force begins to be exerted in that direction. All things begin to move toward you.
The minds of people everywhere are influenced toward doing the things necessary to the fulfilling of your desires, and they work for you, unconsciously.
But you can check all this by starting a negative impression in the formless substance. Doubt or unbelief is as certain to start a movement away from you, as faith and purpose are to start one toward you.
It is by not understanding this that most people make their failure. Every hour and moment you spend in giving heed to doubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which your soul is possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the whole domain of intelligent substance.
All the promises are unto them that believe, and unto them only. Since belief is all-important, it behoves you to guard your thoughts, and as your beliefs will be shaped to a very great extent by the things you observe and think about, it is important that you should carefully govern to what you give your attention.
And here the will comes into use, for it is by your will that you determine upon what things your attention shall be fixed.
If you want to become rich, you must not make a study of poverty. Things are not brought into being by thinking about their opposites. Health is never to be attained by studying disease and thinking about disease; righteousness is not to be promoted by studying sin and thinking about sin; and no one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.
Medicine as a science of disease has increased disease; religion as a science of sin has promoted sin, and economics as a study of poverty will fill the world with wretchedness and want.
Do not talk about poverty, do not investigate it, or concern yourself with it.
Never mind what its causes are; you have nothing to do with them. What concerns you is the cure.
Do not spend your time in so-called charitable work
Do some of these bold statements challenge or confuse you?
Get the insights and thoughts of other like-minded people in the charity movements; most charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate.
I do not say that you should be hard-hearted or unkind and refuse to hear the cry of need, but you must not try to eradicate poverty in any of the conventional ways.
Put poverty behind you, and put all that pertains to it behind you, and “make good.” Get rich. That is the best way you can help the poor. And you cannot hold the mental image that is to make you rich if you fill your mind with pictures of poverty and all its attendant ills.
Do not read books or papers which give circumstantial accounts of the wretchedness of the tenement dwellers, of the horrors of child labour, and so on.
Do not read anything that fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering. You cannot help the poor in the least by knowing about these things, and the widespread knowledge of them does not tend at all to do away with poverty.
What tends to do away with poverty is not the getting of pictures of poverty into your mind, but getting pictures of wealth, abundance, and possibility into the minds of the poor.
You are not deserting the poor in their misery when you refuse to allow your mind to be filled with pictures of that misery. Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well-to-do people who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people who purpose with faith to get rich.
The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment to make them forget for an hour or two.
But inspiration can cause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich.
Prove it by getting rich yourself. The only way in which poverty will ever be banished from this world is by getting a large and constantly increasing number of people to practice the teachings of this book.
People must be taught to become rich by creation, not by competition. Every person who becomes rich by competition knocks down the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down, but every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow — and inspires them to do so.
You are not showing hardness of heart or an unfeeling disposition when you refuse to pity poverty, see poverty, read about poverty, or think or talk about it, or to listen to those who do talk about it. Use your will power to keep your mind OFF the subject of poverty and to keep it fixed with faith and purpose ON the vision of what you want and are creating.
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[Free Personal Growth Audio] Science of Getting Rich Chapter 8
January 8, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
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Science of Getting Rich Chapter 7
January 7, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
CHAPTER 7 Gratitude
THE ILLUSTRATIONS GIVEN IN THE LAST CHAPTER will have conveyed to the reader the fact that the first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea of your wants to the formless substance.
[Free Personal Growth Audio] Science of Getting Rich Chapter 6
January 6, 2009 by DianeCorriette · Leave a Comment
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles
CHAPTER 6 How Riches Come To You
WHEN I SAY THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DRIVE SHARP BARGAINS, I do not mean that you do not have to drive any bargains at all or that you are above the necessity for having any dealings with your fellow men.
I mean that you will not need to deal with them unfairly. You do not have to get something for nothing, but can give to every person more than you take from him.
You cannot give everyone more in cash market value than you take from him, but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing you take from him.
The paper, ink, and other material in this book may not be worth the money you pay for it, but if the ideas suggested by it bring you thousands of dollars, those who sold it to you have not wronged you. They have given you a great use value for a small cash value.
Let us suppose that I own a picture by one of the great artists, which, in a developed society, is worth thousands of dollars. I take it toBaffin Bay
and by “salesmanship” induce a native dweller to give a bundle of furs worth $500 for it.
I have really wronged him, for he has no use for the picture. It has no use value to him; it will not add to his life. But suppose I give him a gun worth $50 for his furs. Then he has made a good bargain. He has use for the gun. It will get him many more furs and much food; it will add to his life in every way. It will make him rich.
When you rise from the competitive to the creative plane, you can scan your business transactions very strictly, and if you are selling any person anything which does not add more to his life than the thing he give you in exchange, you can afford to stop it.
You do not have to beat anybody in business. And if you are in a business, which does beat people, get out of it at once.
Give everyone more in use value than you take from him in cash value. Then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.
If you have people working for you, you must take from them more in cash value than you pay them in wages, but you can so organize your business that it will be filled with the principle of advancement, and so that each employee who wishes to do so may advance a little every day.
You can make your business do for your employees what this book is doing for you. You can so conduct your business that it will be a sort of ladder by which every employee who will take the trouble may climb to riches himself.
And given the opportunity, if he will not do so, it is not your fault.
And finally, just because you are to cause the creation of your riches from formless substance which permeates all your environment, it does not follow that they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come into being before your eyes.
If you want a sewing machine, for instance, I do not mean to tell you that you are to impress the thought of a sewing machine on thinking substance until the machine is formed without hands, in the room where you sit or elsewhere.
But if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of it with the most positive certainty that it is being made or is on its way to you. After once forming the thought, have the most absolute and unquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming.
Never think of it or speak of it in any other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it as already yours. It will be brought to you by the power of the supreme intelligence, acting upon the minds of men.
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, it may be that a person will be brought fromTexas
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to engage in some transaction that will result in your getting what you want. If so, the whole matter will be as much to that person’s advantage as it is to yours.
Do not forget for a moment that the thinking substance is through all, in all, communicating with all, and can influence all.
The desire of thinking substance for fuller life and better living has caused the creation of all the sewing machines already made, and it can cause the creation of millions more — and will, whenever people set it in motion by desire and faith and by acting in a certain way.
You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house, and it is just as certain that you can have any other thing or things which you want and which you will use for the advancement of your own life and the lives of others. You need not hesitate about asking largely. “It is your Father’s pleasure to give you the kingdom,” said Jesus.
Original substance wants to live all that is possible in you, and wants you to have all that you can use and will use for the living of the most abundant life.
If you fix upon your consciousness the fact that your desire for the possession of riches is one with the desire of the supreme power for more complete expression, your faith becomes invincible.
Once I saw a little boy sitting at a piano, vainly trying to bring harmony out of the keys. I saw that he was grieved and provoked by his inability to play real music. I asked him the cause of his vexation, and he answered, “I can feel the music in me, but I can’t make my hands go right.” The music in him was the URGE of original substance, containing all the possibilities of all life. All that there is of music was seeking expression through the child.
God, the one substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. He is saying “I want hands to build wonderful structures, to play divine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures. I want feet to run my errands, eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marvellous songs,” and so on.
All that there is of possibility is seeking expression through people. God wants those who can play music to have pianos and every other instrument and to have the means to cultivate their talents to the fullest extent.
He wants those who can appreciate beauty to be able to surround themselves with beautiful things. He wants those who can discern truth to have every opportunity to travel and observe.
He wants those who can appreciate dress to be beautifully clothed, and those who can appreciate good food to be luxuriously fed. He wants all these things because it is himself that enjoys and appreciates them; they are his creation.
It is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaim truth, and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. “It is God that worketh in you to will and to do,” said the apostle Paul.
The desire you feel for riches is the infinite, seeking to express himself in you as he sought to find expression in the little boy at the piano. So you need not hesitate to ask largely. Your part is to focus on and express that desire to God.
This is a difficult point with most people. They retain something of the old idea that poverty and self-sacrifice are pleasing to God. They look upon poverty as a part of the plan, a necessity of nature. They have the idea that God has finished his work, and made all that he can make, and that the majority of people must stay poor because there is not enough to go around.
They hold to so much of this erroneous thought that they feel ashamed to ask for wealth. They try not to want more than a very modest competence, just enough to make them fairly comfortable.
I recall now the case of one student who was told that he must get in mind a clear picture of the things he desired, so that the creative thought of them might be impressed on formless substance. He was a very poor man, living in a rented house and having only what he earned from day to day, and he could not grasp the fact that all wealth was his.
So, after thinking the matter over, he decided that he might reasonably ask for a new rug for the floor of his best room and a coal stove to heat the house during the cold weather. Following the instructions given in this book, he obtained these things in a few months. And then it dawned upon him that he had not asked enough.
He went through the house in which he lived, and planned all the improvements he would like to make in it. He mentally added a bay window here and a room there until it was complete in his mind as his ideal home, and then he planned its furnishings.
Holding the whole picture in his mind, he began living in the certain way and moving toward what he wanted — and he owns the house now and is rebuilding it after the form of his mental image.
And now, with still larger faith, he is going on to get greater things. It has been unto him according to his faith, and so it is with you — and with all of us.
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