by: Shauna Arthurs

Look around you…everything you are looking at is a result of your past thoughts and actions. You are looking at things you put into motion sometime before now, and thus what you are really looking at is your past.

Stay with me here, because this can mean a lot to you if you grasp and use this knowledge…if everything around you is essentially the residual result/s of your past thoughts and actions, then if you see this reality as THE reality, you are in essence keeping yourself in your exact circumstances. You can only react and cannot create.

If you feel depressed about your current surroundings or circumstances, then you are simply judging that which you have put into place in prior moments. Don’t like it? Change it. Sound difficult?…It’s impossible of you continue to think that what you are looking at is ‘how it is.’

What you can do is live into the future you want to create. If your thoughts of today create your world of tomorrow, then how could it possibly pay off to be miserable and whiny?…What if instead you think consistently about how you really want things to be, and hold that thought until your world conforms around you?…

This is the ONLY way to effect change. What makes it so seemingly difficult is the power of our present surroundings and how real it all seems. (My business partner Ophelia wrote an e-book that explains this in a fun and unique way – if you haven’t read it yet, you can get it for free from our Breathing Prosperity home page. Click here.)

This is also why we are each somewhat alone when it comes to creating, and why in places like our blog, our forum and many others like them, we can help each other remember what we want, and remind each other that what we are looking at has less power than we tend to give it.

Let’s all create amazing journeys and incredible stories…not for anyone else, but for ourselves. Because it’s fun, and because we CAN!

This is excerpted from the Breathing Prosperity blog – updated daily!

Article Courtesy of :

Steve Pohlit, Business Development
Consultant

by: Doreene Clement

From the dictionary:
cre?ating – To cause to exist; originate. To bring about; produce.
pros?per?i?ty – Financial success or well-being.
jour?nal – A daily record of occurrences or transactions…
Creating a personal prosperity journal will focus and empower your goals and the future, by recording and tracking what you want to create in life now and in the years to come.
A prosperity journal is an expression and testament, written proof, of how you define what you want from life. From that clear understanding, it also defines what you do not want from life.
Begin your prosperity journal by writing a concise description of what prosperity means to you. If you already keep a journal, keep a separate section for your prosperity journal. You can use a blank book, notebook or your computer to start a new journal. Blue-sky as you think about and answer these questions: What does prosperity look like? What does it feel like? Who is there with you, a partner, family, friends or co-workers? What do you look like? Are you heavier or lighter in weight? Are you smiling and happy? How are you dressed? What is your hair style?
Also ask yourself about your house. Ask about the car you are driving. Ask yourself where you live. What work to you do and what is your job title? How much money do you make? Do you love getting up in the morning? Do you love going to work? Do you do volunteer work? What makes you the happiest? Also, include any other questions that are specific to what is important to you, your life, and your desires.
Then ask yourself why you answered each of these questions as you did. Ask yourself why that certain car or house or how you look is important to you. Clearly defining and understanding what you value and want can clear the way for life to abundantly provide those very items for you. Plus, if you are clear about what and who you are looking for, you will recognize when it appears.
You can do this exercise every week, every month or every year. Be sure to date all your entries so you can compare what has worked in life and what has not.
Write it down, see it, feel it, visual, know yourself better through creating a prosperity journal.
Copyright 2006 OMDC, LLC

Article Courtesy of :

Steve Pohlit, Business Development
Consultant

by: Shauna Arthurs

There seems to be a lot of talk about religion surrounding the Law of Attraction, and it might be nice to put the focus back to where it belongs when working with this principle: on creating good feelings.

The truth is that whether we are talking about LOA or religion, it is of benefit to anyone to be able to feel good about themselves, and create good things in their lives.

If you google the words ‘happy’ and ‘money’ together, you may be amazed and saddened by all the search results just in the FIRST page that talk about money and happiness NOT being compatible.

Here is an example of the lack programming that gets fed to us, from none other than Ben Franklin:

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; “Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.”"

— Benjamin Franklin

Is it any wonder we sabotage ourselves unconsciously when it comes to money?

This is the type of thinking that keeps so many people in poverty, and can be dissolived and transformed with new beliefs about financial abundance.

Spirituality can be wonderful, and so too can financial abundance…If nothing else, think of the greater amount of good you could do with more money, if this is where you need to focus to get this point.

Of course money itself is not the goal: money is just paper and metal…dig deeper and really it’s just an IDEA that passes around in the ether these days, for the most part (that is a subject for another day!).

There is nothing wrong with wanting MORE, unless it becomes an endless obsession for some vacant promise in the ’someday’, which robs you of all joy in your NOW moments.

Passion for creating more abundance; for expressing our gifts and receiving return for them on a massive scale is no more and no less than an expression of our ever-expanding Universe in action.

Abundance and prosperity include money AND happiness. Please see our FAQ’s section on Breathing Prosperity for a further explanation of this.

For inspiration on how to expand your ‘Prosperity Consciousness’ click here…

Enjoy the ride – and direct it!

This is excerpted from the Breathing Prosperity blog.

Article Courtesy of :

Steve Pohlit, Business Development
Consultant